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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 09, no. 08 (January 23, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2055
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-01-23
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: 7 T’ .4} , vv EKL I PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES! 2 - E BREAKING THE "WAY, FOR FUTURE eENERATIoNs. ,Vo1. IX.—-No. 8. -—VVl;ole No. 216. NEW YORK, JAN. 23, 1875. _g._. PRICE "res cums. BY AND BY: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE on THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND. B 0 O K I V . _ Cnsrrnn IV.——C’ontmue.d. “ And what do you want me to do?” “It occurred to me that, before the ﬁnal rupture takes ’ place, you might get her here, and show her, by your own example, what an affectionate wife should be to a man.” “ To a man who doesn’t love her?” . “He does love her, utterly; only she is so full of life and health, that he cannot live at the same pace. You could teach her to hold herself in.” Nannie shook her head. “ He loves her so well,” pursued Oriss, “that he is ready,“ out of regard for her happiness, to sacriﬁce his own and re- linquish her. _ You would have been touched by the tone of distress in which he told me how deeply he felt his own un- worthiness and inability proper...
Show more7 T’ .4} , vv EKL I PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES! 2 - E BREAKING THE "WAY, FOR FUTURE eENERATIoNs. ,Vo1. IX.—-No. 8. -—VVl;ole No. 216. NEW YORK, JAN. 23, 1875. _g._. PRICE "res cums. BY AND BY: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE on THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND. B 0 O K I V . _ Cnsrrnn IV.——C’ontmue.d. “ And what do you want me to do?” “It occurred to me that, before the ﬁnal rupture takes ’ place, you might get her here, and show her, by your own example, what an affectionate wife should be to a man.” “ To a man who doesn’t love her?” . “He does love her, utterly; only she is so full of life and health, that he cannot live at the same pace. You could teach her to hold herself in.” Nannie shook her head. “ He loves her so well,” pursued Oriss, “that he is ready,“ out of regard for her happiness, to sacriﬁce his own and re- linquish her. _ You would have been touched by the tone of distress in which he told me how deeply he felt his own un- worthiness and inability properly to fulﬁll the position he held toward her. But he counted his happiness as nothing in comparison to hers.” “Have they any children?” asked Nannie. “ Only one; a girl.” . “And what becomes of it if they separate?” “ If they separate for incompatibility merely, it will spend half its time with each parent alternately. Where there is a serious defect of character or conduct on one side, the law assigns the sole charge of the child to the otlier.” “It is just as I said,” she exclaimed, after a brief pause. “ He does not love her, or he would not give her up for any- thing. He isn’t a man, and she isn't a woman: at least, not what I call a woman. If she was a woman, she would make him love her just as she wished, in spite of everything. I would, if it was me. I dare say she is not worth troubling about. What makes you take such an interest in her? Isn’t . one woman enough for you to be concerned with?" " Too much, Nannie, if she requires me to abandon or neglect the friends of a life.” . “ If you were properly in love you would have no room for friends.” ‘ “ Were I to be indifferent to the welfare of those who have always befriended me, I should be a base wretch, and un- worthy of love. You don’t mean what your words imply, Nannie darling. I should be cruelly distressed if I thought you did. I should be forced to think you did not love me, or else that you were not worth loving, if I thought you did not care for my character, my honor, or my happiness.” “What do you want, then, with any woman besides me?" “ Have I not explained? Do you not understand the mean- ing of words ?” , , “ I understand What you mean by friends, and I won’t have it. I don’t want any friends. Why should you ?” “ Well, Nannie, I will. say good-morning to you for the present. I trust I shall ﬁnd you in a different mood on my return. It was a great mistake of mine to appeal to your consideration for another when you have none for me.” She was silent until he reached and opened the door, and then she exclaimed- “There’s a man! pretends to love me, and goes away with- out a kiss!” ~ For the first time this appeal failed to arrest him. She darted after him, crying-— , ‘E Criss! - Criss! how can you be so cruel to your poor Nannie, who loves you so?” “NanIli6." he Said 001513’; “I want to be loved in deeds as well as in words. If this passes your power, pray tell me so plainly.” Throwing her arms round him, and (31111 her whole lithe form, he exclaimed-— . “ Why, how can I better show that I love you than by being jealous of you. ' Making no response to her pressure, but speaking still in the same measured tone, he replied- “Love and jealousy are two things wide asunder as the poles. Love, means conﬁdence, devotion, trust. Jealousy means self-love, and its indulgence is the worst form of selﬁshness; for it is a selﬁshness that takes the most pains to make others miserable.” “I am sure you are not miserable with me,” she sa1d_,1n sing to him with one of her most winning ways. “No one ever said I was selﬁsh before.” * “ Then do not force me to say it now. But endeavor, while I am gone, to think over -the cause you have given me for pain, and resolveto be what I wish you in future.” “ It's no use. I can’t think of anything “when you are away from me, besides youmand those women! Oh! I will be revenged on them!” she added, with a dangerous gleam in her eyes. With a quick movement, and before she was aware of his intention, Oriss had carried her back into the room, and de- posited her on a sofa. Then, ringing the bell violently, he summoned a servant, and bade him hasten with all speed for the doctor. He then ﬂung himself into a chair at a distance from her, and, with knotted veins and heavy breathing, sat motionless, awaiting the doctor's arrival. I Nannie lay so still for several moments as to surprise him. Her hand was over her face. Presently he caught sight of her eyes glancing at him between her ﬁngers. Seeing he was watching her, she said—— . “ Why have you sent for the doctor? Are you ill ?” The evidently affected unconsciousness of her tone gave Oriss a keener pang than he had yet felt. Could it‘ bethat she was utterly heartless? He would ascertain by letting her suppose by his silence that he was ill. ‘- Failing to obtain an answer, she began to cry. “ She does -not care whether I am ill or not. She is think- ing only of herself,” was his inward commentary on this new phase. So he remained mute and took no notice of her tears. ~ During this interval he changed his design. He had sent for the doctor, believing that Nannie’s conduct could only be attributable to some temporary excitement of brain, which required to be allayed by medicine. Seeing that she was deliberately acting a part, he resolved on another ex- pedient. Nannie, on her part, ﬁnding her tears unneeded, judged it time to try some other means of attracting his attention. “Criss! Criss!” she almost screamed, “I am crying, and you don’t come to comfort me!” Still no response. “'(Jriss! Oriss! what do you want with the doctor? If it is for me, I won’t see him! I don’t want him to know how cruelly you treat me;” and then, seeing him still unmoved, she added-— “ Or how naughty I have been.” The expression of pain on his face did not relax one jot, although Criss was beginning to suspect that her conduct was simply the result of a. determination to make herself completely his master. He had commenced to give her a lesson for her good, and would not ﬂinch from carrying it out, cost him what it might. V His prolonged silence was beginning really to alarm her when the doctor entered. Wondering what was coming, Nannie shrank into a corner of her sofa. Criss rose, and having greeted the doctor with grave courtesy, said in a low and anxious tone, as if in the room of one stricken with alarming illness—— I “ I wish, Dr..Markwell, to consult you respecting the eﬁect likely to be produced on a child, by the mother’s giving way during the period antecedent to its birth to violent and un- reasonable tempers. Is its health of mind or body in any way dependent on her conduct? I wish you to speak with- out reserve, as 1 have the most serious motive for asking.” Looking from one to the other, and divining the situation, the doctor said that the effect would depend in a great measure upon the period concerned; and then in a 1ow;tone he put sundry questions to Criss. Having got his answer, he looked very grave, and said aloud-— “It is the most sacred of a mother’s duty to repress, not merely all violence of demeanor, and everything that may excite her" during the period in question; but also every thought and disposition which she does not wish to see shared by her offspring. A neglect of duty in regard to the former may result in the production of idiots or cripples. But even this is not the greatest misfortune which can befall a"fami1y. The worst unhappiness comes from the depraved and ungoverned characters which are apt to be engendered by a neglect of the latter duty.” ‘ A “Have you anything in the shape of a sedative that you can recommend to my wife? She has become liable of late to accessions of excitement, which cause me much anxiety both for her own health and that of her unborn child.” I/" “ Doctor!” cried Nannie from her hiding—place in the sofa cushions. “ I won’t take anything but poison. Send me some poison, and I shall be grateful to you. Oh, my father! my father! why did you give me such a wicked disposition!” “ You see, doctor, that she needs your care, and that more have a proposition to make to, or; rather a favor to ask of you} I am obliged, much against my wish, to be absent from home for a space of probably three or four weeks. Will you either allow my wife to dwell with you, under the care of ‘yourself and Mrs. Markwell, orwill you transport yourself and your whole family hither, and take care of Nannie during my absence?” . This speech brought Nannie into full possession of her faculties. * It was the ﬁrst time that Oriss had spoken Of 1118 absence as an event near at hand. She sat up and gazed wildly at him with an expression full of agony and appro- hension. " I This demeanor was not lost upon Criss. Regarding it as one of the artiﬁces by which she sought to establish her sway over him, and convinced of the absolute necessity, if they were ever to be happy together," of exhibiting the futility of her endeavor, he continued his address to the doctor. , “ I am sanguine, doctor, of the good results which will ﬂow from my temporary absence. The paroxysms which cause me so much anxiety and alarm have steadily increased in frequency,» duration and intensity, until they threaten per- manently to impair her constitution, physical as well as sence have no good effect, it at least can do no harm. I need not tell you how great will be my gratitude should the kind care and professional skill of yourself and your wife be the means of restoring to my beloved wife the health, and to both of us the happiness, which this terrible malady has so wofully impaired.” And Criss’s voice faltered as he spoke. The doctor began saying that he and his wife would gladly do all in their power to bring about so desirable aresult,_and he would leaveit to her and Mrs.Carol to decide which of the two plans proposed would be the most convenient and agree- able. But Nannie interrupted him, declaring that she would have nothing of the kind; that she hated medical women, who knew all a woman’s little weaknesses by their own; and low him. She knew by her own experience how ready he was-to pick up women and carry them about in his Ariel; and she was not going to give him the chance of doing so while she was his wife. Oriss could not help feeling a certain sensation of amuse- ment at the unexpected and ingenious perversity of this new attack. But he said to the doctor— “ “You see. doctor, fo1‘*}’ou1'self what a task you will be undertaking. It is clear that it will never do for you to have her in your own house. These high walls are the only safe asylum. I intend, when you have transferred your family hither, to instruct my servants to take their orders from you alone. You will thus be able to control the movements of your patient.” ’ -v “ It shall be as you wish. May I ask when you propose to take your departure?” sideration for my wife, already delayed it too long. The sooner I go, the sooner I shall return. ’I wish to spend the last month before her conﬁnement with her. Of course, if you report her state to be such that my presencewill be preju- dicial, I will delay my return.” “You call yourselves men,” exclaimed Nannie, “and you conspire to drive a poor woman mad.” “On the contrary,” said Criss, “ we conspire-=—-do we not, doctor?——te keep a poor woman sane, who by yielding to wanton tempers is driving herself mad. We conspire, too, on behalf of the unborn, as well as of the living.” The renewal of this suggestion made Nannie once more hide her face in the cushions, and sob. Presently a.’ voice came from the depths, saying, in a subdued tone-— '7 “Tell me when the doctor is gone. I want to speak to you‘?! / Crisswhispered a few sentences to the doctor and dis... missed him. He then seated himself beside Nannie on the sofa, and awaited her pleasure. . Presently she looked up, and ﬁnding herself alone with Oriss, said—— i \ g A “ You don’t know how to treat a woman. ' You will never conquer me in that way. Such a fuss to make about my than is possible while you are under diiferent roofs. Now I! mental. So bad have they become that even should my ab- ~ that if Criss chose to go away and leave her, she would 101,- " “So soon as you are installed here. I have, out of con- “”‘§n~.4o;»<,, 7’/Z-2 ‘T I J ‘ ‘: \..~t‘-.:—)\,J\-.__j %*O’5Oi)H‘i:II.L a oéhsriiinis WlJEK’LYf'_.; 0 Jan. 23*, ms. loving you well enough to be jealous of you, and not like your leaving me! Why, I have done nothing, absolutely nothing. Mattie, my sister, was ten times worse than ever I have been. I have seen her strike him, and pull his hair out by handfuls. An.d Frank didn’t make half the fuss you have made over a few words said by poor little me.” “Poor Frank, what a happy release the plague must have brought to him.” 1 I “ Not abit of it. He was very happy with Mattie.” “There is no accounting for tastes. He must have been very differently constituted from me.” “ He understood women-———” , ' “ Women! yes. But not furies and maniacs.” “ Women who are not logs, like the tame creatures who pass for women here. Poor Frank! he loved Mattie prop- erly, and was-very happy with her in consequence.” “ I wish I knew his prescription.” “ It was a very__simple one.” I W.“ Tell me.” , . “ It cut all her naughtiness short, and -made her good for a long time together.” I . “What was it?” “ I-—I—-can’t tell you.” 66 D0.” Nannie covered her face "with her plump white arm, and bending her head a little downward, looked with coy shy- ness at Criss through the angle of her elbow. Presently the magic words came falteringly forth, and she said, speaking in the smallest of voices—— I ' “He beat her!” Criss turned away with the impatient air of one who has been tricked; but Nannie exc1aimed—- “He did; I assure you he did. It is the only way with women like us. We mu st fear the man we love to be good to him. If he had not beat her she would have made him as unhappy as—-as I have made you. And she was the happier for it too I” - “Am I to infer, then, that you wish me to follow his example ?” \\ O “I often think I should behave better if you were to beat me, and make me afraid to be naughty. Not with the ﬁst or a stick, you know, but a little thin whip, or switch, which only hurts without doing any injury. Oh, I have often and often seen Frank trying to kiss away the red wales from Mattie’s lovely skin, while the tears were running down both their faces. Oh, they never were so happy as then.” “ I expect my wife to be areasonable being, and inﬂuenced by other considerations than those of bodily ohastisement Has affection no inﬂuence upon you? ’Are you not amena- ble to a fear of unhappiness, as well as of physical pain- my unhappiness as well as your own?” “ You speak to a woman as if she were aman, and open to reason! I tell you a woman who loves is not a reasonable being, and you must not deal with her as one.” “A man who loves shrinks from making her he loves un- happy.” “Then why do you make me so?” “I do not ‘make you so. You make yourself‘ so by in- dulging baseless fancies.” » “ Baseless! when you speak to other women!” “Well, we will see what our medical friends can do for your disease. I give it up.” V “Oh, don’t let them come and live here. If you must go away, let me stay here by myself. I will try to be good-1; will indeed. And you mustn’t be angry with your Nannie for loving you too well.” a [To be continued] ,4; 4 ‘wr soomrh FREEDOM. 'WHA’l‘~I’I‘S ENEMIES SAY IT Is AND WHAT WE slur 1T Ia — ’ BY WARREN CHASE. Sermons, pamphlets and newspaper articles constantly, grossly, willfully and maliciously misrepresent social free- dom and its advocates, and try to convince the ‘people that we advocate the very evils we are trying to remove, and they support. Mrs. Woodhull is persecuted with all the malignity of devils for exposing the wicked and corrupt practices of certain prominent advocates of Christian virtue, and for showing the cause of social evil to be in our institution as upheld by Church and State: and whenever any ‘of us point C out the source of social evil and moral corruption, as it many exists in our legal and religious institutions, We are at once pounced upon by the cormorants that -fatten on the corrup- ! tion, or live on the institutions, as advocates and defenders‘ of the very evils we would cure and remove. We are trying to rescue the oppressed and downtrodden victims of our social institutions from the tyranny that made them such and are compelled to oppose the institutions, and, of course, expect to meet their power in resistance and misrepresenta: tion; but it is a singular position to ﬁnd ourselves accused of advocating what they support and we oppose-licentiousness None of the advocates of social freedom are the patrons of housesof ill-fame; but its enemies are their main Support They would cease to exist under social freedom, while our present Amarriage laws sustain them. There never can be social and sexual purity until there is social and sexua1 justice, and that never can be under our present marria e laws, which are only the remains of a system of complegte ownership and slavery of one sex bythe other. Even now in some instances the female is not consulted, but sold to the man who wants her, to use as he would a horse or a pump and her sexual functions are no longer her own but his whip; he has no such power over him. She has nothing to say about the use of her body ;he can use it when he pleases without her consent or against her protest, and even at the risk of her health and life, and such tyrants often do by such abuse send two, three or more victims to untimely graves to make way for more. Some ﬂee to houses of vice where they have, at least, partial control over their bodies, but more die in the bondage respectably. Both these evils of prostitution in and out of marriage, can only be cured by social freedom: own person, and be legally,,morally, socially, politically, re- her half of the property, her half of the control of all affairs in society and life, and, as fully as man has, the control of her own person. Thengparties can make their own marriage contracts and annul them, and both themselves. and the public be protected by the record. ’ The public, through religious teachings, are greatly alarmed about the encroachments ofindividuals, and are always ham- pering individual action to protect the great body of the people. her husband. Some have good masters and some bad ones. Those who have good ones would remain, and both would i be satisﬁed with equality and equal rights in social free- dom; and those who have bad masters should not be com- pelled to remain slaves. Free them, andlet them make new terms of partnership in equality, or separate it they prefer, and warn all otherwomen against the tyrant that abused a woman because --he could under the old law. The slaves that had good masters remained and worked the plantations after they were free, while the cruel masters could neither keep the old slaves nor get new ones. Some people think social freedom would drive the licentious men, who could not get wivesiand kill them as they now do, to houses of prostitution, and that they ought to be restrained by the marriage laws——allowed to kill their victims. They would ﬁnd no such houses nor victims. Females do not go from choice nor by attraction to that kind of life, but from the in- justice and cruelty of our present institutions. Our laws of inequality and injustice to woman are the main cause of our social depravity and moral corruption, and not the nature of man, which the Christian says is totally depraved. The ballot is only one step toward social freedom” and equal justice, and nothing can restbre us to a sound system of morals but complete equality in social freedom. Woman is far more virtuous than manfand hence the licentious sex has put her into subjection and prostituted her virtue to his own lusts under the sanction of Church and State. Robbed of her property and’ her political, civil and personal rights, it was then easy to rob her of her virtue and her purity. It is as vain to plead for justice for woman now, asit was thirty years ago to plead for justice for the slave. Her day has not come, but it is as sure to come as was the day of emancipa- tion for the negro slave; and, if we can hasten it, it is our duty to do so. . AT HOME, Christmas, 1874. Dear WeeZcly——There is a certain editor not a thousand miles away who is most unmerciful toward Parson Beecher, and who has a great deal of ﬁne-spun talk about “virtue ” and “ chastity,” and the opinion that all “ good and true people” must have of Henry Ward. “Now, I’m anxiously on the watch in the columns of his gossipy and popular little sheet for “ mud-ﬂinging” at the WEEKLY and Victoria Woodhull. As long as the would-be- thought immaculate editor conﬁnes his virtuous ( !) wrath to Beecher, I shall let him alone; but just so sure as he touches Victoria and her dear cause, I shall send him a gentle re- minder that “people who live in glass houses should never throw stones ;” for I happen to be informed, that though the editor in question may not be an advocate of “free love,” he has been, and most like_still is, an earnest follower of the doctrine in the commonly understood lustful sense of the term. ‘ ’ Now, this may seem to all the editors hereabout like black- mail, since I do not at present care to mention names, and editors are so especially shaky on this point. But I assure them all I don’t expect to make a cent by this operation, onlythere is an editor “ round’ these parts ” who would not enjoy being -shown up to the public in his house of glass, especially after all his pretty talk about “ outragedyirtue ” and the “interests of morality ” and the “ good of society,” the “ chastity of our women,” the “ corruption of our young men” and the like. 0! the amount of whitewash used by worn-out old sinners to make the social. sepulchre look clean! I know a man, not an editor, who has completely run the gauntlet’ of social evil, and is now in that state of accepted virtuousness which utter sexual impotency entails, who cannot ﬁnd language to ex- press his detestation of Victoria Woodhull and her “foul teachings.” He is after a wife to “ amuse him at table and comfort his bed,” and smooth the pathway of his declining years, which his past indiscretions and utter ignoring of all sexual principles have rendered unpleasant to his feet. He talks loud and well of the “ decencies ” and “ social ob- ligations.” , / l 0! the troops and troops of men and women that go up and down in the land whom I see, “in my mind’s eye,” with a pail of whitewash in one hand and a brush in the other! They all kneel before Mrs. Grundy and kiss her great toe, modern society, the odor of whose oﬁ'ense riseth to heaven, while they mutter prayers for its preservation and the con- founding of Victoria and all her followers; and then, that tribute paid, they commence daubing on the whitewash, till a superﬁcial locker-on would suppose there never was aught so clean before. But to one who has had the password behind the scenes on the great -stage of human life and motive, what a set of poor. fools and hypocrites the whitewashers all appear! And to one who has had grace given the soul to come out of the 1m- cleanness and proclaim the redeeming faith inabsolute per-. sonal freedom, the wallowing of the swine in the social mire forms such a contrast to the sweet airs we breathe on the delectable heights of liberty. Let there be no turning back because of ignorance and persecutions. — HELEN NASH. CHRISTMAS DAY, 1874. Mus. Vrcroam WOODHULL: Dear Madam-This comes from one who is personally to you an utter stranger but spiritually, and as Ibelieve, men- Every wife is_ legally a slave, andpartly or W.hol1y.owned.by. in, which woman will be fully protected in the control of her , ligiously and ﬁnancially the equal of man. She must have \ and then fall’ prostrate before the great foul sepulchre of ‘ i tally, a sister. For two years I have been an interested (and _I confess, until lately, a surreptitious) reader of your paper. Last evening, however, Itook it with me into a public parlor, wherein were a number, of ladies(?), and held , it up, with the title page openlydisplayed, so that all might easily see the nature of my reading, for I am a truly consci- entious woman, and once convinced, fearless. andbrave, (like yourself) in the defense of right; and so this Christmas Day I havedetermined to,make a poor present, to the good cause, of mind and heart. and energies. I have lately delivered several lectures on love and marriage, at a considerable expense to my husband and my- -self, denouncing legal marriages and advocating the cause of true love, which is of course, from its very existence, free. I» had fancied that the many who are so venomously bitter to yourself,.might swallow the self-same pills or principles if , they were sugar-coated, and I was right. I was applauded again and again in one of the most Puritanical and hypocriti- cal districts. of- Connecticut, during and. at the close of. a lecture after your own heart. When I look around me on the so-calledrespectable society, my very soul sickens and grows » faint atthe sight of the scarcelyvailed objects of. prostitu- tion who are called wives, and of the degraded brutality and licentiousness of the professed husbands. Women at the head of families of children, who are altogether unﬁt to rear and educate, properly, kittens, let alone immortal souls and bodies who are each to have a sphere and inﬂuence of their own. I gave vent to a prolonged “ Oh, my!” when my husband brought home your paper out down in size. I want it back to its original dimensions, with a still greater number of talented men and women contributing to its columns. I. think it scandalous that the only truthful free paper in the country should be swamped for want of support. Grant, for argum-ent’s sake, that it is all its worst enemies call it; it is even then inﬁnitely purer than the Herald, and not to be mentioned in the same breath with the Sunday Mercury. I think I can do something and I will try, and if you are well ‘ enough to see a sincere friend who is ready to help you to the utmost of her every power, send a note to Mus. S. H.,LE FEVRE‘. LOVE EXPRESSED. The sweetest notes among the human heartstrings Are dull with rust; The sweetest chords adjusted by the angels Are clogged with dust; We pipe and pipe again our dreary music Upon the self-same strains, While sounds of crime and fear and desolation Come back in sad refrains. On through the world we go, an army marching, With listening ears, Each longing, sighing for the heavenly music He never hears; Each longing, sighing for a word of comfort—- A word of tender praise—- A word of love to cheer the endless journey Of earth’s hard, busy days. They love us, and we know it; this suffices For reason’s share; Why should they pause to give that love expression With gentle care? Why should they pause? But still our hearts are aching With the? gnawing pain Of hungry love that longs to hear the music, And longs and longs in vain. We love them, and they know it; if we falter, With ﬁngers numb, * Among the unused strings of 1ove’s expression, The notes are dumb. We shrink within ourselves in voiceless sorrow, Leaving the words unsaid , And, side by side with those we love the dearest, In silence on we tread. Thus on we tread, and thus each heart in silence Its fate fulﬁlls—— Waiting and hoping for the heavenly music Beyond the distant hills. The only diﬁerence of the love in heaven From love on earth below \ Is: Here we love and know not how to tell it, And there we all shall know. —-Exchange. “ TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION ” - “ SECTARIAN STRATAGEM ”--GOVERNMEN T OF THE DISTRICT. ‘ Such are the titles of two articles and the subject of another in the WEEKLY of January 2, on which I desire to offer a few brief comments, regretting that the necessity for “ half size” involves only references where the case demands ex- planations. ~ Mary E. Tillotson complains of taxation of women without representation. Does she know that under the present elec- toral system the majority of voters (to say nothing of minor- ities) are not and cannot be represented, and that voting, representation and rule are three distinct» things, though commonly confounded? Voting is of no value unless it leads to representation, and one might as well put his (or her) bal- lot into the stove as in the ballot box, unless itaids to elect representatives. Men have had the shadow——which is voting ~—-for some generations, now women are as earnestly de- manding it as if it was the substance. But it is time for all adults to demand not only the right to vote, but the right to be represented, which, under existing systems, is exceptional even to voters. ‘ ‘ I can prove, and have proved, that under the method of répresenting by localities, a small fraction of voters can elect a so-called representative, while the larger portion are as practically disfranchised as if’ they could not come within a — thousand miles of the ballot-box. But “why is this thus?” Simply from the indisputable numerical truth that a majority of a majority may be, and most_1req,uént1yis,a minority-:-woven as two-thirds o1_Itwo- ; ;- __.<___.m .1. m_I_,n _m.-.._m,._,__.._nn_nm_,-_: . ‘7 5 ., E 4? ;l....;_- Jan. 23, 1875. I’ wo“onHULL as CLAFLlN’S WEEKLY’! ca. ‘ 3 thirds is less than half. Here, for instance, are two parties, one of which comprises two-thirds of the voters; two-thirds of that party want A to represent them, the other third want ?, but prefer A somewhat to C; then it is clear that A is only wanted by four-ninths of his constituency, even where the party line is strictly drawn and his party in a large majority. But suppose parties are, as now, all in confusion, platforms Babylonish as insigniﬁcant, and the majority of no party at all, where is your representation? Then, again, it is not only a fact, but an unavoidable fact, that party candidates are virtually nominated not by a majority of the party, but by the strikers and professional politicians. I aﬁirm, but have no space to demonstrate, that this is unavoidable, and not merely incidental, to the system of electing by parties and iocal subdivisions. Then, agai, who knows not that the best men and women do not and cannot work in the “harness ” (that is what the ‘friends of the present system call it) of party organizations? What thinking individual, desiring the public welfare, is willing to make an agreement beforehand to_vote for and work for any scoundrel, tool or fool that may succeed in ob- ‘staivning a party nomination? A “ faithful” party man must ‘shut his eyes and then open his mouth in favor of the nom- inee, regardless of his individual views. How can we do better? / Simplify. Ignore ‘location of candidates or voters, if both are within the municipality, ‘state or county. Divide the number of votes cast by the number of candidates to be elected; the quotient forms the quota. All candidates receiv- ing this number are at once elected; all receiving more must . transfer their surplus to other candidates. Transferred votes count as original; all receiving less, and not elected by trans’- ferred votes, may transfer to other candidates similarly. If the number of candidates thus elected is not equal to the number of representatives allowed, then “elect the remainder at large; but this latter contingency would rarely occur. This method demolishes at “ one fell swoop” caucuses, rings, parties, and all abuses there arising. But were women to vote at the very next election, while legislation would be largely improved in many important items, the general corrup- tion and ineﬁiciency would be, I think, about the same; the root of the evil would remain; and those who call themselves radicals should not be satisﬁed with merely lopping off the branches, when it is as easy to root up the whole thing; and it soon must come to_ “ root hog or die.” Adult suffrage with ‘representation of all is as easy attainable as adult suﬁrage with only representation of cliques and rings. But, says Ed.. “be brief, I’m sick.” Now comes the Jew- ish Times unearthing an Index czvpurgatorious for railroads and steamers, approved by the President. The scheme is clearly at war with justice and the U. S. Consiﬁtution; but what care legislators? As elected they cannot open their lips on the subject, because in a legislative district a candidate -succeeds in proportion as he can make persons of every sect I and opinion believe that he is with them, or at least will not oppose them. A representative of a district cannot risk the; ‘displeasure of even a small fraction of his voters for fearé it may unseat him next term. “ The successful man must be‘ the nominee of some party, and he must be such that no sec- tion of that party shall fall away from him. He must be ob- scure enough for all.” But if the two or three million earnest diberal thinkers in the .U. S. were represented in Congress and the State legislatures by liberal thinkers, as such, while ’ determined sectarians were even less in number, it would not be diiﬁcult with the aid of those less pronounced, to enact a law placing all publishers, books and papers on an equal foot- , in.g in public conveyances. Now, about suﬁrage in the District of Columbia. Only one of the branches of its late Legislature was elected, and it was powerless». They voted, as well as Congress, to tax church property, but it has been appraised at less than a tenth of its value, and one who claims to know says, even that tax will mover be paid. But even this one branch of the Legislature was -not representative, for reasons hereinbefore stated, while there, as elsewhere, the proportion of non-voting voters, many or whom staid away from the polls because they could not be represented, was 20 to 25 per cent of the Whole. The rascali- ‘ties of the “ Ring” were however perpetrated, and are sub- stantially continued, by appointed, not by elected persons. Universal suifrage is not, therefore, a failure in Washington, and would be a very decided success, if any one thousand voters, irrespective of the portions of the District in which they reside, could send a member to an elective house, and the principle of transfer of votes was applied to the election of ‘the executive officers, as it readily could be. An Upper House is either a superﬂuity or a nuisance. If «one house represents electors, that is all that is required; and two houses that don’t represent them will not be practically «equivalent to one that does. ALFRED CRIDGE, THE BARNES. WILL CASE. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 2, 1875. EDITORS or THE WEEKLY: ‘ I ﬁnd in your issue of Dec. 26a communication signed by Emory Fletcher Boyd, pertaining to the Barnes Will case, and addressed to me as‘ Secretary of the Indiana,State Asso- aciaticn of Spiritualists, which, if unanswered, might tend to injure the cause for which the writer professes to have such “‘ profound interest,” hence I ask space for reply. Mr. Boyd’s letter contains one point of just criticism, '-which I will acknowledge in its proper place as I proceed; 301117, taken as 3 Whole. the communication is not a favorable exhibit for a cool-head ed worker in the humanitarian ﬁeld. ,Pull off your coat, brother, and put your shoulder t,(‘;._1-jhe :wheel. The persons who are actively engaged in ‘sustaining the Barnes Will also have a “ profound interest ” in thecase, and, like Mr. B., they are poor, or only in moderate circum- stances, and ﬁnd it hard work» to ﬁght, almost unaided, .a8£a«iDSt tW0 millions of. money, which one ofthe heirs alone can control and is using freely, A few “trustees” thus Situated Should not be ezpectesto “save this bequest with- 0W5 13119 aid 03 0‘0h01‘§-” And those who are looking on with ﬁoldeg arms show? he 931937111 how they bh;l‘0W!.imP§diments in the way of the faithful few_ wy aredoing the very best they can. Critics should become posted before they strike too hard, lest they strike amiss. Dr. Allen C. Hallock, of Evansville, is chairman of the committee appointed to prose. cute the will case. No one can doubt the doctor’s honesty and earnestness in the matter. If he errs in the case, it is from the head and not the heart. He was a warm friend of Mr. Barnes. The will was placed in his hands, and, asa precautionary measure, a copy was taken and properly wit- nessed. Owing to the supposed convalescence of the testator the will was recalled. After therelap so which followed, the" doctor was again sent for to receive the will, but before his arrival it had been stolen from underneath the pillow of Mr. Barnes, who was among the ﬁrst to discover the loss, but, owing to his extreme weakness, the friends present thought it inadvisable to attempt getting anotherhvill. They, as well as Mr. Barnes, thought they would be able to probate the copy (about which there would have been no trouble had it been in the interests of Christianity). Dr. Hallock has his whole soul in this case; it forms a large part of his thoughts by day and dreams by night. He has given money beyond his ability, traveled in its interests, and written over. one hundred appeals and letters giving information, and still "stands ready to write to all who desire it; but all his efforts have brought but meagre results by way of aid from others. If the doctor was a man of wealth, you‘"would hear of no more begging to get afew dollars reluctantly given. Well may Mr. Boyd say‘, “ It is a disgrace to the whole body of Spiritualists, and must become a standing reproach to the boasted intelligence and probity of American liberalism.” But that disgrace will rest on “ the whole body ” who are lockers-on, and not on those who are toiling with the load. But, laying aside generalities, I will notice the particular points in Mr. B,oyd’s communication. The charge of allow- ing the “ will to be spirited away” I have already answered. The new evidence in proof of the stealing is very strong, but I will not relate it here; perhaps Mr. Hallock may do so privately. The next charge is: “ When they needed counsel they kept mum.” Attorneys engaged in the case advised (whether properly or not) that but little publicity should be given, from fear of attracting more opposition than aid; and later experience shows they were, to somegextent, justiﬁed in their fears, only a large part of that opposition comes from professed friend. Some think we would succeed better by taking a bold stand in denouncing Mrs. Woodhull; while others think a milder opposition toward the prevailing churches would do more in our favor. And others still have their plans to propose. We will try and proﬁt by the advice of each, but a little money to help defray expenses would be acceptable also. In Mr. Boyd’s next charge I think he is correct; hence I will mark 1 in his favor. He says we have placed a limited construction upon the will which its language will not jus- tify. I plead guilty of lack of care in writing my appeal, and in following the frequently.-expressed language of others in that particular, rather than going to the will itself for a "guide. The institute, or school, or home to be founded has been called an “ orphans’ school,” more from the well-known fact that Mr. Barnes made the Girard will the basis for his, and that is an “ orphans’ college” or institute. I acknowl- edge that we were in error in this particular. In answer to Mr. Boyd’s queries,'I will say that Samuel Orr and David Mackey, named in the will, are supposed to be the same as those given in the attorney’s compromise list; but the will not being established, they have no legal responsibility com- pelling them to defend it. . Mr. Orr, I believe, was appointed by the Court as‘adminis- trator of the estate in the interests of the heirs; hence had to be made a defendant. The reason why the attorneys “are not prosecuted ” is that one suit is as much as we can shoul- der without more aid; hence will a few liberals, who have a “profound interest” in the matter, give some little assist- ance. It is no small matter to prosecute successfully nine inﬂuential attorneys, even if the State was made plaintiﬁ’. In regard to “ reporting” and “appealing” to the Legisla- ture, Mr. Boyd entirely fails to comprehend the difference between legislative and judicial powers and duties: it be- longs to courts exclusively to decide as to rights of property. Whenever the courts decide that Mr. Barnes left a valid will, then the association has certain duties to perform under it, and among these that of reporting to the Legislature; but the court has not so decided as yet, nor can the Legislature change the judicial decisionvwhen made ﬁnal. Neither is the Legislature compelled to pay attention to any reports which we might make, and might lay them on the table indeﬁnii ely, ‘although that would ‘not exonerate the association from any duty imposed by the will. The Legislature, if appealed to, could appropriate money to prosecute the suit (and some of the board have thought of thus appealing), but do Spiritual- ists or Liberalists generally think that such an appeal would be successful at this time? Neither is our Legislature (which is biennial); in session. That the lawyers at Evansville tried to sell us out no one questions, but the trustees are not to blame, and should receive more aid on account of the fact. We-“have employed other lawyers (and we believe true ones), among’ them Ernest Dale Owen, who is working faith”- fully in the interests of the Will. I trust the foregoing is suﬁicient to satisfy Mr. Boyd as well as all other real or professed liberalists, that the cause is theirs as well as ours, and that each one should do some- thing, however small. Yours truly, J .R. BUELL, " Seo’y Ind. State Ass’n of Spiritualists. ; GOSSIP. ‘ Under the heading of ‘.‘ Talks About New Books,” the New York Herald thus critijcizes the romance called “ Broken Chains.” Considering the position it holds as the champion of the daily press of the United States, we feel that we can congratulate the American public on the advance made toward our position in the dl_S§3ll§Sl0Il of the Subject of (legal) marriages; -v 95 ‘Broken Chains’ is too passionate a novel for my taste,” Popular Novels upon the table at her side. “ Still there is a great deal that is good in the story, and I enjoyed it very much. I detest such men as Reinhold, and do not think they have any right to marry. Men whose souls are too high for this world are very uncomfortable sort of people to live with; they are not madegfor everyday life, and should retire from the world at once.” _ “ I do not blame him for leaving his wife and going off with Beatrice, the opera singer,” said Miss Hamilton, a young lady friend of Felicia’s, who had dropped in to spend the evening. “ Reinhold was a great musician and a genius, while his wife was as commonplace as a woman could well be. As he said, Beatrice answered the requirements of his soul, and of «his deeply passionate nature. She appreciated his musical crea- tions, while his wife had no sympathy with. them; and then, again, he did not marry Ella because he loved her, but simply because her parents decreed it from the day he was born. He was chained to a woman he could never love, and although he is not such a iman as I admire, I think he was not so dreadful as far as his elopement is concerned. He talked to his wife brutally on the night he left her; for that there is no excuse.” “ Reinhoid was a weak, selﬁsh man,” said Fred, joining in the conversation; “he had no business to desert his wife; she was a magniﬁcent creature, too good for him by far.” “You forget that she developed into what she was after Reinhold left her,” said Felicia. “At the time they lived together she was only a weak, loving woman, who appeared to care for nothing beyond household duties. If she had always been what she at last became her husband would never have left her.” Fie, Miss Hamilton, to talk about “not blaming” a singer; don’t you know it was his bounden duty to stay with his wife and make her miserable until he had killed her or she had poisoned him ?- And then think ‘of that monstrous statement of Fe1icia’s, that, after her husband left her, “she developed into a magniﬁcent creature.” « Oh, Felicia, naughty Felicia, do you know that such an observa- tion is quite inconsistent with our present style of “ social order” and the ordainments of society. Really, neighbor Herald, had we published the above spirited conversation in the WEEKLY, we should have expected to have been called to account by conservative Spiritualists for so doing; but we return thanks to you for taking up our role, notwithstanding. A PHYSICIAN ’S VOICE. MARKESAN, Wis., Dec. 4., 1874.. ,EDITORS WOODHULL AND CLAELIN’s WEEKLY: Please ﬁnd inclosed post-oﬂice money order to renew my subscription. I cannot do without the WEEKLY. I hope you will keep ,the ball rolling until, like the stone cut out of the mountain, it shall ﬁll the whole world with a better knowl- edge of ourselves and of our relations to each other. Speak on until the world shall not be afraid of the knowledge of all things, and until parents are not afraid to teach their children what they know. . The Nazarene said, “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” An an- cient prophet said, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” I say give the people knowledge—all kinds of knowledge, . IRA N. Mason, M. D. A list of renewals from Clyde, 0., comes with the follow- "ig-’ ‘ CLYDE, Dec. 14, 1874. Dear Weekly——W'e send you joyous greeting that she, thy guardian, aye! thy mother, still is spared to you and us. You are both very dear to us, because you have sown the seeds of justice, wisdom and truth broadcast over the land. This noble work you are constantly doing to better the con- ditions of all classes; but these repay you chieﬂy by heaping curses on your devoted heads, and by striving in every possi- ble way to prevent you from the work of purifying the social misery to earth’s benighted children, when it should be a fount of joyand life eternal. Each week we watch and wait thy coming, eager to feast upon the thought—gems that crowd thy pages. Many grand ideas do we gather from thy band of noble contributors; but the master mind that searches for truth and justice, with the clearest, keencst scent, no matter though led into that deadly conflict with the powers that be, is she to whom more than to all others you owe your power for good; she who now a second time has been stricken almost to death for her ﬁdelity to truth and right, and her persistence in ad- vocating the cause of the oppressed and downtrodden every- where. I L We wish every person could be induced to read and weigh the vast and varied questions so ably discussed in thy columns. I would appeal especially to every workingman and woman to lay aside their bigotry and superstition and meet all questions squarely. ‘Among all papers of the day, WOODHULL 8:3 CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY is pre-eminently the friend and champion of the working classes. Yours for the revolution, ‘S. A. B., et col. —j—_. THE PRESENT A PERIOD CRISIS. To every thoughtful mindthe passing time is of supreme interest. Human life seems stirred to its profoundest depths, and all things portend change. Forces are abroad every- where, latent or cognizable, which have a potent bearing upon individual and social destinies. Beliefs, usages, laws, institutions—nay, even the character and organism of whole peoples are undergoing transformation, thus preparing the way for a new order of affairs on earth. Believe as we may in the desirableness of all this, we shall probably have to accept the situation and make the most of it, for nothing seems more certain than that the forms of thought and life which have answered our purpose will not do for the coming man or woman. ' The aspirations of the mind for knowledge, purity, free- dom, are a prophecy of better things to come. . And it seems to be now a prevailing hope among the oppressed of all nations, that here, in America—here. under the light and in- spiration of comparatively free institutions, the new social order shall ﬁrst appear. Here, on our favored soil, uncursed fense of our children’s children_fo,r manygenerations. I-Iere shall be wrought out in practical forms of _life the grand problem. heretofore dimly outlined in our political constitu- seiﬁs Miss Bessel; as the iris driest es J» Ossoee $6 0982-. mm, of eq al rights for all cl‘asses,—r.’l‘he Intesttgatofy Boston, Mass. ‘ ‘ I ’ ‘ ’ . married man for running away from his wife with an opera ‘ atmosphere that brings little else but sickness, crime and ‘ by any ancient despotisms, shall the foundations ofthe new. political ediﬁce be laid, which shall be for the honor and de- __ 4 ~ i , WooDHo;LL s o1.AFL1N's’WE:r:kLY ‘.“ «- Jan. 23, 1875. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE ‘IN ADVANCE. 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Its motto is, “ Everything for the cause.” It only claims to be the medium—-the reflector--of the desires and determinations of good-willing women and men for the advancement of the general welfare of the human family. That it suffers and must suffer for so doing is appar- ent. Those who sustain it are a handful of brave men and women battling against a world. It may be compared to the mast of a vessel, which alone is but a simple stick of wood, ,but which, braced and strengthened by the shrouds, its sub- seribers and supporters/, becomes able to brave all the fury of the winds and to ride in triumph over an angry ocean. During the past three years all know that the WEEKLY and its proprietors have seen stormy times, butf let us trust the skies are lifting in the west, and that a brighter day is about to dawn for humanity. Would that it may be so; but, at present, all who believein the necessity for the reforms ‘de- manded by the WEELKY must “rally round the ﬂag.” I Much has been done, but, alas! more remains to be done.- Let all who love the cause, act; and act promptly; for, as the adage says, “He gives twice, who gives quickly.” .———~———->—<o MRS. WOODHULUS LECTURE AT NEWBURGH, NEW YORK. ‘ (From the Telegraph, N ewburgh, N. Y., Jan. 9, 1875.) If there is a woman in this country who has been better abused than Victoria 0. Woodhull, the social agitator of the period, we would like to see her. She arrived in this city yesterday and gave a matinee lecture to women’ only. In the evening she lectured to all, Without distinction of sex. There was a prelude to the lecture-—a reading by Miss Tennie Claﬂin of a poem written in memory of Tom Paine. Miss Claﬂin is a blonde of about twenty-eight years of age, and is a reader of merit. Her pose on the stage is very good. Mrs. Woodhull was received with marked applause. She began her lecture by reading from manuscript, but gradually warming with her subject she placed the manuscript on the table,-and spoke as she felt, citingnumerous dramatic in- cidents in her extended career since she began the “Social Crusade,” as proofs of the peculiar views she holds, and at times rose to enthusiasm in her denunciations of the “ rotten- ness and hypocrisy ‘of society as at present constituted.” , Her audience manifested their appreciation of some local hits, and approval" of telling points, by frequent and up- roarious applause. ’Whatever they say of Mrs. Woodhull,- they cannot deny her sincerity, and a power of oratory pos- sessed by but very few men‘ or women. There is an earnest- ness in her speechtfitand something a_5b0I,1,t the Woman that isabove ssnsstionalism. ~ - ‘ _ THE NEW RELIGION—UNIVERSAL JUSTICE. No. XII. There has been a great mistake made in the legislation of this country. Almost all of the laws that are on the statute books are for the protection of property rights, which are not even referred to in the preamble to _the Constitution in which the purposes for which it was framed are set forth, and all the laws that are not for this purpose were enacted to, and do, abridge if not destroy those rights which were de- clared to be inalienable by the Fathers of the Republic. Wipe from the statute books these two kinds of laws, and there would be nonp left. This reveals the fact that the pur- ' poses for which the Constitution was framed have never been attained. Take statutesafter statute——law after law—— until all statutory provisions shall be consumed, and try and they wouldall go down condemned, and we should be left with the Constitution standing alone as the supreme and only law. Practically, then, we have no Constitution; we have such laws only as usurping men have, from time to time, seen fit to make. A One of two things, then, must be true. We either have no rightful laws, or else the purposes for which the -government was instituted are nothing more than words, used without meaning. Laws that can be rightly framed, and work in unison with individual rights, are such, and only such, as will secure to each person’ the full and free right to the full and free exer- cise of every natural and inherited personal capacity; while the exercise of these capacities would guarantee to every one the needed means to meet the demands of the other part of man. Not any law has rightful force that limits or abridges‘ or destroys the rightlwhich all possess of seeking their own happiness as best they may, and when and how they choose. If self-promoted to the place of power, the men may vote the exercise of: any right conferred by God, then they may limit each or all to any space they please. So far as natural right is clear, no jot of difference can be found among the several parts’ of man by which a portion shall appear to be above another part. A man perfected in his form and mind embraces all that goes to make up man. If even but a single power be deemed accursed by law, be singled out as lower than the rest, and is restrained from what its genius claimsi, then there is legal wrong enforced and individual rights abridged tyrannically. What is man that he should set himself to say that he is wiser than his God by crushing out the life that He has given! that he should cast a hampering chain, of whatsoever stuff, about His gifts to other men, and say that “ there” they cease! If man is rightly seized of all the gifts he holds——if he has robbed no other man of them——then how shall other men have power to place them under ban of law? If they may say that love of any sort is blind, then they may also say that love of drink, of food, of sights sublime, of blended sounds is also blind and needs their guiding hand; but if they fain admit that this is free, is best enjoyed for self and all the rest by being free, then they must also say, if they would keep their logic sound, that love of sex as well as love of life is best when free from their control and man- aged by the one on whom that blessing was conferred by God. ' Thus in the coming time when that which is, shall be replaced by that which is to come, these rights, in whatso- ever form they are possessed, in whatsoever grade of growth they are bestowed, must to man be secured inalienably. Each individual of the growing race by God endowed,:must have his right to work his way to God, by naught entan- gled, by naught restrained, but aided on by every kind ad- vice that brother man can give; by every added’ light to those we now enjoy; but never be compelled to travel o'er a road which is to him unplcasant—is uninviting to his sight and mind, and which no promise makes to his desires of happy termination for his toil. There is no sacred law, no creed from ‘nature gained that would compel the world to worship God or toll for man in any single way, but each is rather told to say his prayers and wend his way along the road of life guided by the monitor within and such exterior aid as seems acceptable. N 0 one of ﬁrm and earnest mind, of individual merits strong, can by another’s light be led. He must follow the rays that, from his own lamp pierce the dark before him, lightingup the way. A brilliant light from other sources, by intermediate things reflected, may lead him on the shoals where he may strand forever, when had he followed the dim rays, perhaps ,of his own small light, as step bystep they showed the way,‘he had made less but safer progress onward. What is light to one is darkness to another; so every one by that he hath must be inclined, from time to time amending by what is gained from others in kindly way, as weihave said before. Hence, when the race shall start again to climb the steeps of time which lie before, it must be sure that nothing of the old shall cling around to shackle the ascent that must be made. Each individual has a right to say thatenaught shall enter into law or form, or statute ever be framed, that shall one limitation place upon a single aspiration of the soul, or shall shadows cast to damp the hopes that ﬂutter forth from whatsoever source. The distinctions that exist between the diﬁerent grades of men must have their recognitions, and each must give to all the rights that each inherits from his late; 110;’. .1165 the least among the whole he wrongly dis-. them by the fundamental rules laid down in the preamble, I - possessed of even thesmallest of his smaller powers, or the meanest of his meaner qualities denied their exercise. In this way only can the race together live; in this way only may the different grades of souls unite to swell the anthem of the common human family. The great melodious‘ strains that the Creator had in view when forth from chaos he did wake a sleeping world, must ﬁnd a chord in every human heart before their consummation comes. Indeed, each heart must add its strain, or else the concord will be marred and harshly sound upon the ear of him who fashioned it to be performed by all his children, of every sort and grade combined, to swell the harmony divine. Until such concert is attained, t’is human music only we shall hear. The great and crowning melody must have a strain from every human soul into its measure blended in perfect harmony; and then shall come the end, when heaven and earth in sweetest concert meet to usher in the glorious day since earliest time foreshadowed; when all the earth and all the sky shall know that prophets old and poets sweet and sing that this should come to be creation’s crown of joy and bliss forever hence. ___:Q 4 w THE DRAMA. There has never been a time in the recollection of the “oldest inhabitant” when the drama was generally sup- ported so niggardly throughout the country as it is now. Every week a half-dozen or more troupes that have traveled fdr years return to the metropolis for want of support, while in the city itself only one or two of the theatres are “paying.” ’I‘h'is falling off is by some attributed to the dullness of the times, and undoubtedly to some extent this is true; but it is also true, especially in cities, that when the ﬁnancial pressure is ..the strongest, the most embarrassed people seek amusements to blunt the keenness of their troubles. There is another and more vital reason for the falling off of the receipts for amusements. For a number of years sensationalism has ruled the stage. If a play were not sensational, it was good for nothing. But this has had its run. Peopleare/sick of mere sensation that appeals to the sight and ear without reaching the soul through sentiment or principle. If sensation were based upon some new and grand principle, or truth, the people would rush en masse to see it. Besides, the people of this country have had a greater real sensation during the last year than any that any manager has ever dared to present upon the stage. Compared with this real sensation playing is tame and no longer attracts the people. Their tastes having been satiated by the greater, ﬁnd no pleasure in the less. Moreover, this real sens- ation has introduceda new subject into the public thought which appeals more directly and forcibly to the hearts of the people than any subject that they had previously enter- tained. Before the drama will be again popular, it will have to be based upon, and made to appeal to, and meet the demands of, this new subject that has been developed in the public mind. -4‘: 4 V w BIDDY’S PARADISE. In the leading article of Harper’s Baear of Jan. 9, under the heading of “The Deity‘ of the Kitchen,” we ﬁnd the following verdant but refreshing statement: The youngest peasant who engages service here knows that the sentence which declares that all “are born free and equal” isone of the “jewels ﬁve words long” which, like the precious stones beneath the foundation of the City of God in the apostle’s vision, are at the foundation of our government, no mere idle letter of the law, but an actual fact in the new civilization.” This is “soothering Biddy” with a vengeance, but the conclusion of the sentence is rather humiliating: She knows, too, that if she does not earn ihéney enough to go home and live as she likes, she will marry here a man whose vote is as powerful. as his master’s, and who will ﬁnd every avenue open to honest and intelligent and persistent effort. “Master” is a word not often used by Americans. The song said that, during the War of the Rebellion, “ He took his hat and he lei’ berry sudden, And-I tink he ran away.” From the above extract we may presume that he has re- turned and taken possession of Messrs. Harper Brother’s establishment. However, we are glad to note that every avenue is open to the man who has a “master,” and that Biddy may revel in the reﬂected light of his glorious liberty, if by her charms she can attain to the noble position of being the helpmate of the deputy’s deputy. Now, let us ask our contemporary the following reason- able questions: Why shouldnot every woman ﬁnd every. avenue open to her honest, intelligent and persistent efforts as well as every man? _ Or why should Biddy be counseled by the Baea/r to hang on to Patrick’s coat-tail? We sorrow- fully admit that, under present circumstances, such advice is sound, but we object to the circumstances that make it so, and are trying to improve them. But Biddy is not alone for masters as well as poor Biddy; but we forbear to name what such foolish women are. If Gail Hamilton is right, some of them do not get too well rewarded for their syco- phancy; for that writer tells us in another article in the same paper that the English Daily Telegraph reports eight cases of wife-beating, three of them fatal, andljlog/d’8 Weekly thirteen. ‘ were not beside themselves with wine when they did say‘ in her glory. There are millions of women who are looking )--“ w Jan. 23, 1875. woonnunn n CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Y A _ Y5 ' _ i {run RIGHTS or CHILDREN. The ﬁrst of these in a civilized community is a right to a civilized existence. As this right commences with birth, it necessitates the demand for the same right for all mothers at the periods of parturition and gestation. The second right of children is partially adniitted——it is their right to education. But we do not restrict this to book learning only, as is .. the case at present. Technical education is quite as much a necessity of existence as intellectual edu- cation, and nations who do not wish to take a back seat will do well to institute it forthwith. A, right to moral (but not religious) instruction is also asserted for all children. Hold- ing, as we do, that children are not to be punished for the sins or omissions of their parents, we put in a third demand, viz.: that they should all have, as far as lies in communal power, an equal chance in the race of life; and that our present system is barbarous which condemns from birth the many, for no fault" of their own, to be and remain the servants of the few. Without attacking parental claims, therefore, we assert, for all such children as may need com- munal care, their just right to the same, and declare that such demand is consistent with the soundest economy and the highest civilization. — , At present there are three parties who claim -power over children—the community, the parents and the churches. Inthe passage of the “Compulsory Education” law, the State of New York has indorsed the superior right. of the ﬁrst-mentioned in this particular. As regards parental power, we think it is well to ignore it when it conﬂicts with the physical, intellectual or moral well-being of the children. When the churches have agreed as to which of them shall be intrusted in the matter, we will look into its claim, but not till then. For these reasons we are glad to reprint the following remarks on the subject which were published in the Golden Age and reproduced without comment in the New York Journal and Educational News. They will not be at all new to the readers of the WEEKLY, and we merely submit them as marks of the progress of public thought on the question of the rights of children: Laws for the enforcement of universal education have already passed the Legislatures of nine States, and a half- dozen other States have such laws under consideration. They indicate a long and important stride in the develop- ment of public sentiment and the true social idea. Accord- ing to the old notion the child was the exclusive property of his parents, who could do quite as they pleased with their own. It was the old Roman idea of absolute ownership, and the parent could deprive his child of any privilege, require him to do any Work, or beat or starve him almost at pleasure. This idea has lapped over the centuries and civilizations, and has been reproduced in the papers of this city within a twelvemonth as an argument against the measure under consideration. But modern culture has taught us that the child belongs primarily to himself, and from the momenthe enters into life begins to live on his own account, developing a responsibility he cannot shake oﬂ‘ or divide, entering on a career which involves his own well-being and destiny; and neither parent nor guardian has the right to deprive him of a single advantage that mayaccrue to his welfare. or inﬂict a single penalty that may injure his faculties or embitter his experience. His parents are not his owners, but merely older friends, bound to him by the tenderest and holiest ties of affection only to serve him the more and the better. He is a moral and accountable being, and to injure him in any way is to mar his manhood and insult his Maker. But the second idea involv:.=d in this measure is "quite as important in itself and still more far-reaching in its conse- quences. It is the interest and property society has in every human child. For human beings belong to others quite as much as to themselves, and the well-being of society requires the best possible nurture and trainingof every child born into it. Seventy—ﬁve years ago a pauper girl was thrown adrift on the world in one of our upper counties, and over two hundred criminals in our prisons and penitentiaries have descended from this wretched waif, preying on society in every possible way. Statistics show that illiterate persons roduce thirty times as many paupers as the educated classes. very child suffered to grow up in ignorance and vice be- comes a trained enemy of society to recruit the dangerous classes which make war on property, and treat life as a play- thing when it crosses the track of their greed or lust. The peril of modern society is at its bottom. not at its top(?) Society can protect itself against its worst foes only by en.- forcing education on all children alike. The property- holders, who are taxed for the support of public schools, have a right to require that the costly privileges they furnish shall be utilized. But in order to make this wise law avail- ing, public sentiment must back its provisions and require their enforcement:-Golden Age. Thus our original doctrines of children’s rights and the primal claims of communities over children are marching forward to victory. lVe do not care where we meet our own mental babies, nor heed much in what new dresses they may be attired. We object, however, to the sexual limitation in the above article. SLAVES OF CUSTOM. Theslavery of custom is in some respects more galling than the slavery of law. In this Republic chattel slaves had a deﬁned position, which is an advantage not yet possessed by the women of the United States as regards their political condition. There is no Congressional or Constitutional edict forbidding woman from exercising what we believe to Y ' be “her right to” the franchise, nor any law authorizing any one to forbid her from depositing her ticket in the bal- lot-box. This is a sad omission, for custom places woman under the foot of every petty official who pleases to tyran- nize over her, and debars her from any means of redress for injuries so committed. We present this view of the subject at the present time, because the New York Sun of January 8th instructs us that I The women suffrage seekerswaded through the slush under the pouring rain “last evening to their monthly meeting at Mrs. Dr. Lozier’s, in thirty-fourth street. They elected as delegates to the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Society, to meet in Washiiigton next week. Mrs. bozier, Dean of the H.om9e0p,athic Medieael Qollegei Mrs» L 5 .D. Blake, author of “Fettered for Life‘;” Mrs. .a friend, East Cleveland, _Hal1ock, an able speaker; Mrs. H. Cooke, author of “Goldthread;” ’ and Mrs. E. H. Kane. In the opinion of the WEEKLY the best method of pro- cedure would be to solicit from Congress a law deﬁning the present position of the women of the Republic in the matter. If they are to remain “political slaves,” they have a right to demand such a national exposition from their ‘ political masters. It has been proved to the satisfaction of a considerable minority of our present legislators, that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution do not forbid the “right of suffrage” to woman; and there are many who believe with the WEEKLY that both of those great state papers intrinsically authorize and sanction it. Under such doubtful circumstances, the delegates appointed by the National Suffrage Association cannot do better than demand from Congress an explicit law on the subject, for if they are to. be ruled as the political inferiors of men, the slavery of absolute law is preferable to the more undeﬁned slavery of custom. During the past decade Congress armed millions of yesterday’s male slaves with_the ballot; now let it pass a law authorizing woman’s present degradation, ex- hibiting her inferiority to her negro rulers, and ‘proving that mothers, wives, sisters and daughters are not virtuous enough or sensible enough to be intrusted with similar po-“Y litical power. We do not believe that it can do so without insulting the common sense of the nation and of the civil- ized world. ‘ - _ ‘ map 4 cm PERSONAL LIBERTY. If there be any especially’ sacred right of property it is that of personal ownership. Any restriction of that right by another party is thequintessence of insolence on the part of the person or persons so interfering; and submission to such inﬂuence constitutes on the part of the sufferer the quintessence of slavery. Notwithstanding this, the mean- est man knows and feels that he is in power over all wo- men in this particular, the latter holding no corresponding authority over him. Objecting, as we do, to such a one- sided arrangement, we are glad to learn from the Rochester Devnoemt and Chronicle that there is such a body in our Re- public, as is mentioned in the following item: _A meeting of the society for the “ Protection of Personal Liberty ” will take place at three o’clock to-morrow after- noon, at the hall of the society. Business of importance to be transacted. If, in good faith, the members of the above society mean business, we would advise all the women in the nation to join it; for heaven knows, that what with ecclesiastical and legal interference, with absolute political slavery, and ‘with the stern and steady tyrannies of society and fashion, the women of our Republic are pretty roughly used in themat- terof their personal liberty. As we look at their condition now they appear to be handed over collectively, and very often individually, to insolent male rule, and that their per- sonal liberties are, in consequence, most grievously abridged and trampled upon. O ‘ POST~OFFICE ESPIONAGE. The great dailies of New York that ignored our sufferings for the maintenance of the sanctity of the public mail and the freedom of the press, are beginning now to feel con- cerned about those matters. In evidence, we reprint the following leader from the N. Y. Sun of January 12: OBSCENE MATTER-—A. CHANCE’ FOR COMSTOCK. If the man named Comstock, who preserves the public morals by prying into the mails to prevent the transmission of obscene matter, will walk into the General Post Office any morning this week, he will not have to pry a great way or a greatiwhile to ﬁnd a plenty of matter answering to that de- scription- For what are the full reports in the great dailies of the Tilton-Beecher suit but obscene matter? . What will Comstock do about it? Will he suppress all the leading papers? Will he suppress the leading daily papers, and send their publishers and proprietors to the penitentiary for circulating obscene matter through the mails? Or will he go a step further back and suppress Plymouth Church that gives rise to such scandals? — , These queries raise the points of Comstock’s authority, and of the practicability and expediency of enforcing the statute under which he acts, and they are now presented in a highly interesting aspect. The public morals should be preserved; but how far it is the business of the United States Government to undertake the preservation of them through Comstock, and to pry into the mails for that purpose, quere. Yes, there was something more involved in the Woodhull ’ & Claﬂin persecutions, which ranged over a period of two years, than the simple oppression and destruction of the Proprietors of the WEEKLY. They were venomous assaults upon the most ualuable of your public liberties and public rights——the liberty of free discussion, and the right to the untramrneled use of the Post.Oﬂ:ice. The religious and com- n1ercial.espiona.ge that we already have, which is daily be- ing more and more augmented, has annihilated honesty both in our churches and on our mai-ts of traﬁic; and we com- mend the N. Y. Sun for its opposition to the further ex- tension of a system so subversive to the best interests of our Republic. mi; 4 V V V DONATIONS. J. P. L., Terre Haute, lnd., $1; a friend,1',Ayer, Mass., $1; Ohio, $5; .a friend, Louisville, Ky., $10; G. K. , San Bernardino Cal, $1; W. B. H., West- ﬁeld, N. Y., $2; N. F. R., Aurora, Ill., $5; H. H. &W. E. R. S., Chardon, Ohio, $5; Mrs. N. J. L., Columbus, Ohio, $1; B. T., Port Huron, Mich., $1; J. S. C., Eureka, Mich. $2; J. B. M., South Chelmsford, Mass, $1; Friends, Putnam, Con-11., $3; I). E., Bloomﬁeld, $50; L. S. 0., Wes Potsdam, N, 13., $2-, a friend, $1,. Total fortbe week, $91t. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. J. C’. D., Boonscille, Kentueley.—-You are correct. The most conservative Spiritualists in their talk are usually the least conservative in their conduct. Burns lashed their Scotch Presbyterian counterparts well in the following lines, taken from his address to Gavin Hamilton: “ Steal through a window from a W-—-e, But point the rogue that takes the door; Be to the poor like any whunstane, And hand their noses to the grunstane; Ply every art 0’ legal thieving; No matter-—stick to sound believing. Grunt up a solemn lengthened groan, And damn all parties but your own; I’ll warrant, then, ye’re na deceiver, A steady, sturdy, staunch believer!” Hard Money, Memphis, Tenn.——The Supreme Court has al- ready given two different rulings affecting the legal tender clause on the greenbacks. It will have to revert to its former position. We do not know how it is to be manip- ulated. W. S. T., Paterson, N. J.—-The stoppage of labor, which now occurs annually in our cities, is one of the effects of a false money system, which by it is “ killing the goose that_ lays the golden eggs.” The disease is becoming chronic here as it is in England, where every twenty-third human being is a branded and incarcerated pauper- Spirmst, Paris, Franee.—-There are many who believe, with Hugh Miller, that a new wave from the ocean of the ages is about to roll over our planet, and that -we, who are now on earth, are but the debris of the last great formation which culminated in the mammal man. ’ ‘From the broken and debauched condition of our race, which, in many civilized countries, is now commencing to retrograde, such opinion is not unwarranted. B. B., Houston, Texus.—No laws, either ecclesiastical or civil, can alter the sexual status of any human being. They can and do manufacture liars and hypocrites wholesale» but that is all they can accomplish. In demanding social freedom for all, the VVEEKLY does not propose to make human beings celibates, monogamists, polygamists, or polyandrists, but to make them honest; for that end it seeks the abrogation of absurd edicts, under the operation - of which they are now compulsorily demoralized. Subscriber, Oliieago, I ll. ——It is easy to say “ increase the cir- culation of the WEEKLY,” and it could, probably, be accomplished at the cost of principle. In newspapers “made to sell,” which treat on the questions of the age, itis as requisite to know what to withhold as what to publish. The great dailies give the public as much truth as is consistent with the advancement of their circulations. Before more can be given it is necessary to instruct the “public will” to demand more. That is the rule of the WEEKLY, and at present it performs its duty at the cost of a limited circulation. Tom Paine, Cincinnati, 0ln"o.--It is believed that there are a few Catholics foolish enough to aid the Protestant Y. M. ' C. A. Inquisition in inserting its idols in the Constitution. Should their many-headed foes succeed in the infamous attempt, they will get Protestant Catechisms as well as -Protestant Bibles into the public schools, and,’ in the near future, forbid the Catholic priesthood to holdland, or to solemnize marriages. J J. W. W, Austin, Te:vas.—i-The cause depends on the quality of the subscribers to the WEEKLY more than on their - present numbers. It is safe to assert that no other periodi- cal ever published in the ‘United States could (alas com- pulsorily) reduce its size one-half without loss of (or even complaint from) one sub scriber. Enquirer, Huore de Grace, ]l[ol.——The passage of a Civil Rights Bill is needed for the unity of the nation, and the dignity of American citizenship. It is a bitter pill for Southerners, and it is apparentlyleft to them to choose whether they will munch it in small pieces or bolt it ntire. I C R. P. L., E. Saginaw, Mlcla, takes us to task because we criticized the “bestial Christianity, which established a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to (other) Animals before it had organized one for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. We do not stand corrected, but submit the case to our readers. We do not complain of Mr. Bergh for what he has done for the brute creation, but only assert that a similar duty for his own species should have pre ceded it. ‘ ‘ H. A. Beaver, Pa., considers the demand of the New York Herald for information from the spirits, with regard to the child Charlie Ross, as pertinent and proper. If it be so, we claim in reply that the questions we put to the Gods of the Christians in answer to the same are equally pertinent and proper. Or, if H. A. pleases, equally pre- sumptuous and impertinent. When we l1-ave solved the mystery of the intelligent answers of the rappers, we have a right to demand further instruction, but not till then. —-——————->—+o+—<- BOOK NOTICES. OUGHT CHRISTIANS rro DEBA.'rE? A pamphlet, 24 pp., pub- lished and written by W. F. J amieson, No. 9 Montgomery place, Boston. The above is a. well-‘written lecture, inviting orthodox Christians to attend to their platform duties. In it the writer answers the question in the aiﬁrmative, and the design of the work appears to be to instill the same ideainto the minds of his orthodox opponents. As he proves the truth of his pow 51131.‘-is from the Bible, the tiers: Will ieithsr have to deny ‘ 6 . twoonnuti. & 0LAI4‘LIN’S IWEEKLY. that authority or meet their questioner in the argumentative ﬁeld,of battle. Should such a result be attained, believing that he advocates the cause of truth, we wish him success in the encounter. ‘ THE Room or THE MATTER. Samson, a myth story of the Sun.‘ A pamphlet: pp. 33. Colby 8t Rich, 9 Montgomery place, Boston. This work may be looked upon as an astronomical key to the Jewish legend of Samson. lt is written in verse, and will amply repay a careful perusal. Those who believe that Christianity and Judaism emanated from the star-worship of the Chaldeans ought to purchase the above, for they will ﬁnd in it plenty of reasons given in support of that view of the subject. ““ C 4 INCIDENTS OF THE BEECHER—'I‘lLTON TRIAL. (From the N. Y. Sun.) ’ THE PUBLIC ALL RIGHT. The other side brought out the fact that therewas a Mr.’ Dutcher connected with the Continental Insurance Com- pany, and inferentially that Mr. Mackey had simply been mistaken. At this there was a burst of applause, conﬁned to the gallery, but very loud and continuous. This unexpected demonstration, only to be construed as expressive of favor toward Mr. Tilion, was so sudden and so enthusiastic as to astonish everybody. Judge N eilson looked up at the oﬂend- ers against decorum with a scowl of displeasure. _ “ This is astounding,” he said, rapping vigorously with the gavel. “If there is a repetition of this offense the gallery will be cleared.” , No woMEN ADMITTED. The eating-houses in the neighborhood of the Court House got the patronage of threeor four hundred hungry people. ‘The blue-vailed woman was among the first to return after the irftermi.ssion. She had forced herself past the oﬂicers at the‘ door, and had started for her old seat, when Judge Neil- son, who had just returned to the bench, saw her. “ No ladies are to be admitted,” he said, with stern dignity. A Thus encouraged in their duty, the oﬂicers faced the woman with the manner of desperate courage, and, with lofty dis- dain, expressed in every ﬂushed feature, she fell back before superior numbers. Her voice was heard for a moment in the hall in angry expostulation, and that was the last of her effort to hear the trial. ‘ I As somewhat connected with the same, we also insert the following two items from the N. Y. Sun. The first is its heading of the prayer mass-meeting held at Talmage’s Tabernacle on Sunday, Jan. 10, . at which, it is stated, 1,500 persons attended: \ The Preachers Trying to Resist the Inﬂuences of Many Scandals-—Music by the Inimitable Arbuckle and his Attrac- tive Cornet. COMMENTS. The idea of uniting in prayer the clergy of Brooklyn for the above purpose is good; but, to our thinking, the band is incomplete without a ﬁddler. The text selected by H. W. Beecher for the subject of his Sunday evenings discourse, just previous to the commence- ment of the Beecher-Tilton law suit, was as follows: “ Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey ’ with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and lo, I must die.” ;~ LITTE SINS. From this text Mr. Beecher delivered one of his hour talks, in which his audience were continually drawn toward him by the old bond of sympathy. His subject was “ Little Sins,” and J onathan’s sin in eating the honey was used as an ex- ample from which to draw lessons of wisdom. * * * Mr. Beecher next touched upon the little sins that so often mar and often break up marriages. “ Oh,”_said he, *‘ if men and women lived after marriage as they did before it, what gardens of Eden would ‘be united along our streets! But men worship before marriage and they want to rule after it. Theygive everything before, and want to be paid allthe rest of their lives by receiving everything. Their little sins of temper and of judgment are continually blighting men and women. No man can tell what a priceless treasure is lost when two natures that have rung together like sweet chimes are torn apart by these harsh_ attritions. I It is the neglect of little things that results in this evil. Oh,_the friendships that have been severed by the constant gnawing, gnawing," gnaw- ing of little faults! Beware, beware, my hearers, of little sins! Let us pray.” COMMENTS. , As regards the text selected, while some may look upon it as ominous, we consider it as singularly felicitous and ap- propriate. In regard to theconcluding paragraph, we would ask, What but the wretched ecclesiastical and legal chains, with which foolish mortals have so long vainly striven to bind this most ethereal of spirits, are the cause of the neglects and sins of omission which are so much complained of by the Plymouth pastor? Fiirthermore, does not that alone justify the hostility of the WEEKKY to our present system of marriage? LAST week Judge Neilson sternlyl ordered a woman to be put out of his court who came to hear and see the Beecher- Tilton trial. Yesterday (Monday, Jan. 11) Mrs. Beecher at- tended, in company with her husband. To-day the 12th, we are informed Mrs. Tilton was also admitted. Has Judge Neilson changed his mind, ordoes he also consider both these ladies contraband of war? The trial has not progressed be- yond the opening address of Mr. Tilton’s Counsel. ’BUELING'roN, Iowa. While reading with mingled feelings of sorrow and disgust the opinions of James I. Ferron, as ventilated in last week’s. WEEKLY, I found Mrs. Brow-ning’s lines, “yet love’s pro- faned and souls are dammed,” so persistently coursing through my brain that I cannot resist the impulse to reply, though airing my thoughts through the press is out of my line, and I generally prefer being taught to teaching, I am a reader of the WEEKLY, an admirer of Victoria, and gap, gen srally indgosse the sditsrisls and nest 9%’ the contributions, but my whole soul rebels at the sensualist who speaks of love and sexual gratiﬁcation as one, or aﬂirms that love is neces- sarily included in the act even though both parties pave desire. The’only sentiment worthy the name love, Mr. F. has well described as, “' a general glow which springs from the heart.” I If this is not true of man he has no right to profess the name of love to one who understands by the word only her experiences, and these higher experiences (as much above desire, as heaven is above the orthodox hell) are not the oﬂ- spring, of a touch or kiss even, and I cannot imagine that the young man who allows “the attitude of the loved one” to excite “desire for sexual relief,” can be capable of any sen- timent that does not profane the name of love. the legitimate results of love for the cause, or calling it love’s own name, seems to me a growing error in reform writers. If we are to accept this, we have in the future a reign when every fair ﬂower of sentiment shall be crushed under the heel of brutal sexuality: heaven save us from such reform! But when Mr. F. would have us go farther and teach the children that the pleasure of the society of the opposite sex may and of right ought to be, supplemented by sexual union, my whole soul cries, God forbid. It has been a thought of agony to many a wife that the power to give sexual pleasure was the only gift that made her society attractive to her husband: shall we teach our children that in their intercourse this is to be the grand ulti. matum ? So much for the sentimental side of the question. I accept the similie of the tree, as the best to illustrate the fallacy of the assumption that sexual union promotes either mental or physical growth, when indulged before maturity. He (Mr. F.) says of the tree, “there is no damming up of ﬂuids here,” and Lwould add, no sapping at the roots, if you would have luxurant ,',foliage, full growth, and perfect fruits in their time. 3 0* It is known to every observer that indulgence increases spermatic secretion, and our best medical authorities affirm that with “damming gup” as Mr. F. puts it, deathldoes not begin but that nature} takes care of her own, and by reab- sorbing this most vital of all ﬂuids builds with it brain, bone and muscle. ',_, ' " Again, the spermatic ‘ﬂuid being composed of nearly the same elements as the brain, can we expect nature to keep up full brain power, develop bone, muscle and strength of nerve to complete from your boy in his teens a man up to the stature and standard of what a man should be, after tap- ping the tree at the roots? Look about you, Mr. Ferron, at the precocious sexualy-developed boys of your acquaintance, let observation tell you if she does or no. See the narrow heads, leaden eyes, thick sensual lips, shrunken muscles and diminutive stature; then be careful where you ride your hobby-horse——sexuality. AFFIA BURNS, M. D. [It seems to us that our correspondent’s ideas of sexuality are based too much upon the supposed fact that it is brutal; we do not so regard it. If it’ is not brutal, then her argu- ment falls with the brutality. This question, however, is the next one that will come up for discussion after freedom is thoroughly settled, and we hope our correspondent will discuss it from the standpoint of reason and common sense, and not from that of prejudice or of time-honored, but base- less ideas.-ED.] ’ . AURORA, J an. 6, 1875. . Dear Victoria,-—I am working hard for the WEEKLY. My plan is to induce those who are able and love social freedom and like to read the WEEKLY, to give you $5 for its support. There are a few WEEKLIES sold at the news-rooms to those who have had the reading of my paper for nothing for a long time; but those readers will ﬁnd no peace until they send you $5. It is a shame that this live paper be allowed to die, be- cause over-work has nearly killed you. Iweep when I think of you and the cause you have so nobly served; weep to think that you must work and suffer while others, slumber, when if they would take some of the load there would be less for you to carry. I ambound to you by a thousand ties; yea, all thoseties that bind you to the WEEKLY. You are embalmed in my memory. The world. the church and the money power have tested you, and you have come out of a furnace white, pure, spotless, as I have known no other wo- man in America; for you have stood for truth at all hazards, held up false conditions irrespective of consequences; attack- ed popular hypocrites; built a ﬁrm foundation on which the ’masses can stand; thus showing you a ﬁt pioneer in the cause of social freedom. All will eventuglly rally under its ﬂag, for the decaying of the present institutions shows the dawn of a better day, Yours lovingly, R, M, EAST CLEVEALND, Jan. 3, 1875. Sister Vz'ctom'a—1t makes me feel all is not quite right when the WEEKLY makes its ‘appearance one—half ‘its usual size. Must it be thus? I see many propositions to help it out, but fear too many like myself delay hoping the way may be opened for a more liberal donation, not thinking, perhaps. it is the rills that make the brook, the brook the river, etc. The Bro. M..D., atBelpre, makes aﬁrst-rate proposition, and to my -mindlacks butone thing. 75. e. : How are the thousands who are willing to give the interest of the $100 loaned, get the $100 to loan? Now, I was thinking, would the good brother loan the WEEKLY the $100 I would be so happy to paya biggerinterest than he could get for it way down in Belpre, and thus enjoy the luxury of giving my interest without hav- ing the $100 to loan. A As it will take some time to make thearrangement, I here- with make my ﬁrst installment of interest to you in advance, trusting there will be no trouble in our perfecting anar- rangement in its application. Sister, may the power of the Highest rest upon and abide with you, and restore you tojhealth. The world is not ready to Spare YOU. for there is yet a vast work for you to do. Go: 011! Fear not; those for you are more than those against you: God are the angels 199; with you. A. Esters. This putting . ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER, of Hartford, is President of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association for the coming year, and among the Vice-Presidents are Congressman Starkweather, of Norwich; Mayor Waller, of New London; and President Cummings, of "Wesleyan University, at Mid- Abby—H. Smith, of Glastonbury, and Jim Gallagher, of New Haven, are on the Executive Committee. la. 4 WW * BUSINESS EDITORIALS. THE Sun, formerly published in Toledo, Ohio, has been removed to Berlin Heights, 0., where it will soon be reg- ularly issued again. Some racy contributions from Geo. Francis Train may be expected in its columns. MRS. F. A. LOGAN and her brother are holding a series of Spiritualist-ic meetings in Charter Oak Hall, Market st..,_ San Francisco, Cal., every Tuesday evening. WARREN CHASE lectures in Oceola, Iowa, January 10; in Wiiiterset, Jan. 16 and 17, at quarterly convention of Iowa State Association; at Cambridge, Iowa, Jan. 24; at Union, Iowa, Jan. 31. Address Colfax, Iowa, till further notice. ‘ PRor.LIs'rEE, the astrologist, can be consulted at his rooms No. 329, Sixth avenue. Address by letter, P. O. Box 4829. . Mus. NELLIE L. DAVIS may be addressed at 235- Washing- ton St., Salem, Mass. E. J. WITHEFORD, trance and physical medium. Public seances Thursdays and Sundays at 8 P. M., at 409 W. Madison street, Chicago, 111. W. F. JAMIETSON ‘is speaking during the Sundays of this month in Loomis Temple of Music, New Haven, Conn. He would prefer calls for February and March, in New York State. Address at New Haven, Conn. D. S. CADWALLADER will answer calls to deliver his pro- phetic lecture, entitled, "Monarchy, the Road to a Freer Republican Government,” before any of the liberal societies North and East; also, if desired, “The Downfall of Chris- tianity,” and “From Mormonism to Shakerism.” Please address him, 525 West Seventh street, Wilmington, Del. DR. L.K. CooNLEY has removed from Vineland to Newark N. J. Ofﬁce and residence No. 53 Academy street, where he will treat the sick daily and receive applications to lec- ture Sundays in New Jersey, New York or elsewhere in the vicinity. _ Dr. Slade, the eminent Test Medium, may be found at his oﬁce, No. 25 East Twenty-first street near Broadway CHAS. H. Fosrnn, the renowned Test Medium, can be found at No. 14 West Twenty-fourth street, New York City, AMMI BROWN, D. D. S.—Specialty, operative dentitry and the care of Children’s teeth. 145 West 44th st. 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. REMEMBER that it is by the Erie, Great Western of Canada and the Michigan\Central Railroads that the most elegant, commodious and comfortable Pullman Palace Cars are run through between New York and Chicago—the broad gauge trucks of the Erie being changed at Suspension Bridge for narrow ones, and vice ccrsci, both carrying the wide coaches of the Erie road. These coaches leave New York from de- pots foot of Chambers and 23d streets at 7 o’clock, P. M., daily; and Chicago from the Michigan Central depot at 5‘ o’clock, P. M., daily. Passengers by this route who are going still further,West arrive in Chicago in the depot of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, the most popular and best patronized of all the routes leading westward from Chicago. Those who travel this route once will always use it when convenient, and avoid the transfer discomforts and annoyances of other less desirable and badly equipped‘ routes. . ' THE Iowx STATE ASSOCIATION or ‘SPIRITUALISTS will hold their first quarterly convention for 1875 at the Court. House, in Winterset, commencing Saturday, January 16, at 10 o’clock A. M., and continue over Sunday. Warren Chase, Mrs. H. Morse, Capt. H. H. Brown and other speakers will be present. Friends coming from a distance will be provided for as far as possible, and a cordial invitation is extended to all. EDWIN CATE, President. ' MRS. J. SWAIN, Secretary‘ ‘ The Books and Speeches of Victoria C. Woodhull"'and Tennic C. Claﬂin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, ~ at the following liberal prices : The Principles of Government, by Victoria C. Wood- hull .-.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O0 ‘Constitutional Equality, by Tennis 0. 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The increasing number of letters in respect to. the nature, purposes and prospects of the 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 ﬁrst touching social difficulties, 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 (adnttttlng 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 post~al_ 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. N ewspapersinserting this circular, can avail themselves of the aid of the Bureau without charge. 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. 54th St., New York. PROSPECTUS. A WOODHULL St 0LArLIN’s WEEKLY. It advocates a new government in which the people will be their own legislators, and the oﬂicials the executors of their will. It advocates, as parts of the new govern- ment— A 1. A new political system in which all per- sons of adult age will participate. ' 2. Anew 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 which the government, will be the source, custodian and -transmitter of money, and in which usury will have no place. 6. A new sexual system, in which mutual consent, entirely free from money or any 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, mental and moral cul- ture, and thus be equally prepared at ma- turity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. - All of which will constitute thevarious parts of 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. 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MADOX, of Maine, the eloquent and logical radical, and editor of the Internafrlonal, after many solicitations has consented to take the lecture ﬁeld, and now holds himself ready to speak on the following questions--viz. :]“ How to Feed, Clothe and Shelter the Idle Wealth Producers of our Country;’’ “Money, What is it? and its Functions;” “ The Currency of our Country, and who should Vitalize it;’-’ “ Our Cities, States and National Debts; How to Pay them, or shall we Repudiate ?” Ad- dress Madox, of Maine, 29 Broadway, New York city. WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. PARTURITION ZYTTITHOUT PAIN; A JUST OUT. THE MARTYRDOM OF MAN: By WINWOOD READE. Full 12mo. Cloth. 645 pp. Price, post paid, $3. “ It is a splendid book. You may depend upon it.’ —Chas. 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BY CHARLES BRADLAUGH. .4 1 Vol. Extra Cloth. $1 50. “Quite an interesting au—t‘oblography of Charles Bradlaugh forms the introduction.”-—o’unday Journal-. “In a handsome volume before us, Charles Brad- laug has ‘A Few Words’ to say ‘About the Devil.’ Mr. Bradlaugh has a right to his Few Words, and the devil will, we presume. at no very distant day. have a ‘ few words ’ to say to Mr. Bradlaugh, and will doubt- less get the best of the argument.”— Chicago Interior (Dr. Patton’s). _ “His Atheism is, after all, very much akin to the views put forth by Huxley and Tyndall and by Prof. John W Draper.”—-Dally Graphic. “His position herein is deﬁned and defended in a spirit of reverence for the truth.”——C’hlcag0 Evening Journal. A ,_ “-To those, however, who can enjoy a vigorous presentation of the arguments against those beliefs termed orthodox, we commend Mr. Bi-adlaugljjs Essays. ’ ’——Morm'ng Democrat. “ We Should insist, were we in any way connected with the government of theological schools, on their perusal of this work by the youth ﬁtting under our charge for the duties and responsibilities of the pulpit. They will ﬁnd Mr. Bradlaugh no common man, and they will be introduced by him to persons and thoughts which cannot fail to be of use in their pro- fessional studics.”—-New Haven Palladium. “Displays much learning and research.”—The Democrat. “In ﬁne there is much that is noble The Advance. “We have only to urge that the religious press should meet him squarely and discuss the positions taken upon their merits.”-— Uhécago Evening Journal. CHARLES P. SOMERBY, SUCCESSOR TO A. K. BUTTS & C0., PUBLISHERS, 36. DEY STREET, NEW YORK. . VALUABLE Dl_S_COVERY.——Dr. J. P. 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EIASIEELL, 60 STATE STREET, — 5 woo1)”HULi.f&: CLAF‘L'IN’S WEEKLY- GREAT CENTRAL RCUTE. ‘HORT AND FAST LINE ACROSS THE CONTINENI‘ BY THE OLD ESTAB- lzshed and Popular Route via The ERIE RAILWAY to SUSPENSION BRIDGE ; The GREAT_WESTERN OFCANADA to Detroit; The MICHIGAN CF.l\ TRAL to Chicago; The CHICAGO, BURLINGTON and QUINCY to Kansas City, St. Joseph, Lincoln, Omaha and to all points in the great North and Southwest. ‘ ' Through without change of cars. from New York to Chicago. 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 transferrix by passengers by this route to get theia_ mea1s—an advantage over all other routes which deserv it the most popular and the best patronized line of travel across the Continent. lg from depot to depot. is saved edly makes THROUGH TICKETS to all important towns, ail general information may be obtained at the Company’s miles, 349 Broadway (corner of Leonard street), New Y ork. Condensed Time Table. WESTWARD FROM NEW, YORK, Via Erie & Mich. Central & Great Western R, _R’s STATIONS: F/repress. W2; is’ STATIONS. Empress. L 23d St eet N. Y. . . . . .. 8.30 A. M. 10.45 A. M. Lv 236. Street, N. Y . . . . . . .. 6.45 P. M. 6*? Chamliershtreet . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.40 “ 10.45 “ “ Chambers street . . . . . . . .. .00 ‘ Q “ Jersey City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. e1T1e1'B0YuC11’ﬁ’1 . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ ' ............. .. . . orne sv e . . . . . . . . . . .. . “ ............. .. 12.05 A. M 3.10 “ “ BufEalo._. ............. .. 11.45 “ Ewmfi. Lv Suspension Bridge. 1.10 A2‘ 1.35 1:.‘ M. Lv Suspension Bridge . . . . .. 1.35 “ 9,50 p_ 11. Au Hamilton ............ .. 2.45 “ 2.55 “ Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 11.20 “ 1‘ London ................... .. 5.35 “ 5.55 “ London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.55 ‘ 235 a, m_ “ Detroit......... . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.40 10.00 “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ 7,00 1 “ Jackson . . . . . . . 12.15 P2‘)! 1.00 A M 2 Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 A. M 1:30 4‘ “ Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 8.00 Chicago . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. 8.00 “ 8,45 p, m; Ar Milwaukee . . . . . . . . . . . . .... .. A_._ M. 11.50 A M. Ar Milwaukee. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.50 A M 5.30 a. in. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . . . . . . .. ’8a_55 1». M. Ar Prairie du Chein . . . . . 8.55 p. in. Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.50 P. M. 7.05 A M. Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . 7,05 A M. 7.05 a, m, 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 PXM. , Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.40 P. M. Ar Sedalia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A. 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Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-01-23_09_08
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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 09, no. 09 (January 30, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2056
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-01-30
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED IlI“V"ES!‘ ‘—_.'“"'-5 -A BREAKING- THE war FOR FUTURE Gr*hNEaATIoNs. Vol. IX.—-No. 9.-V\7l;ole N o. 217. BY AND BY: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE or THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND. B O O K I V . CHAPTER V. The vast works in progress in Soudan were exciting wide- spread attention and interest. Already had the‘Empire of the African Plateau made such an advance in importance and civilation, that the probability of its early admission into the Confederacy of Nations was everywhere allowed. Such promotion as this was far beyond the dreams of the previous sovereigns of Soudan, and the people were elated beyond measure at the prospect. Not onlvswould such admission he a recognition of their claim to rank among civilized commu- nities, but it would be worth a large percentage in the money markets of the world. Could Criss and the Emperor secure this admission, they would gain for the country an advan- tage greater than that which they had in v...
Show morePROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED IlI“V"ES!‘ ‘—_.'“"'-5 -A BREAKING- THE war FOR FUTURE Gr*hNEaATIoNs. Vol. IX.—-No. 9.-V\7l;ole N o. 217. BY AND BY: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE or THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND. B O O K I V . CHAPTER V. The vast works in progress in Soudan were exciting wide- spread attention and interest. Already had the‘Empire of the African Plateau made such an advance in importance and civilation, that the probability of its early admission into the Confederacy of Nations was everywhere allowed. Such promotion as this was far beyond the dreams of the previous sovereigns of Soudan, and the people were elated beyond measure at the prospect. Not onlvswould such admission he a recognition of their claim to rank among civilized commu- nities, but it would be worth a large percentage in the money markets of the world. Could Criss and the Emperor secure this admission, they would gain for the country an advan- tage greater than that which they had in vain sought from the Stock Exchange of Jerusalem. Even the people of Sou- dan now saw the impolicy of their once proposed repudia- tion. , Of course, as in every partially civilized community, there were people whose vested interests were opposed to the new state of things, and who thought that their interests ought to be paramount. In order to be recognized as sufficiently civ- ilized to be admitted to the Confederation, it is indispensa- ble that the candidate-nation prove itself amenable to the ordinary processes of reason in its various public depart- ments, and. that all parts of its system be consistent with each other. Thus, there is no chance of entrance for a people I whose institutions rest avowedly on a basis of mere tradition. For the civilized world has learned by experience..that expe- rience is the only trustworthy basis of stability, whether in public policy, religion or morals. For instance, to have a national church, or not to have one, is, in the view of the Elective Council of the Confederati_on,_a matter of indiffer- ence; but the; existence of a church, or of any other public I institution, resting avowedly upon a traditional or dogmatic basis, is fatal to the chances of the claimant. Not only was Soudan at this time inadmissible on the ground of its having anational church of this kind, but it carried its deﬁance of logic and consistency to so incredible , an extent as to maintain two national institutions, directly opposed to each other, both in principle and in practice. For, in its national schools, which were derived from the Moham- medan period of the country, it gave an education which consisted, as with us, in the cultivation of the intelligence and moral sense of the children é while in its National Church, which dated from the change to Christianity, and owed its existence to the personal inﬂuence of the royal house of Abyssinia, it denounced the human mind and conscience as delusive and pernicious, and claimed the assent of all to a theory of the universe and system of theology which failed utterly to commend themselves to those faculties. Thus, at this time Soudan was in the category of what the Council is accustomed to schedule as Lunatic Nations, inasmuch as it had no settled principle of action, and pulled down on one side all that is upheld on the other. * A Enlightened by Criss; it was now the Emperor’s ambition to remove this stigma, by placing the_ national preacherin accord with the national schoolmaster. His pride revolted against the notion of his being regarded by the highest civili- zations in the world as but a sovereign of fools. And pride, Criss found to his regret, was the leading motive to which his cousin was amenable. Next to pride and obstinacy on behalf of his own way, came the sentiment of affection for his cousin. In the conﬂict between these feelings, Criss not unfrequently found himself compelled to appeal to his pride, in order to turn the balance in the desired direction. It was by acting on this motivethat the native combativeness of the young ruler had ﬁnally been enlisted on behalf of radical reform. Having once resolved to win the approbation of Europe by abolishing the absurd incongruity between the ‘ 7 preacher and the teacher, the very hostility of the vested in- terests, which fattened upon the existing system, served to strengthen his purpose. To this end he listened eagerly to all that his cousin had to say on the subject. ‘ Educated under the, impression that the priest was the natural and indispensable sustainer of the crown, he was NEVV YORK, JAN. 80, 1875. surprised as well as delighted at the array of incontroverti- ble evidences whereby Criss showed him that the priest has never supported anything save for his own ends, and that the whole history of priesthoods, of whatever age, country or religion, shows those bodies to be, by their very nature and constitution, utterly and irredeemably selﬁsh, making their own aggrandisement, individually or corporatel y, the one object and aim of their policy. Jriss wound up his homily on this occasion by saying: “Ah, if they had only striven for mania regeneration here, with but a. fraction of the persistency with which they have invoked the hereafter! But, as it is, there is no cruel orde- grading superstition, from the belief in demons and witch- craft, to that in human sacriﬁces and eternal torture, that they have not fostered and turned to their own account. 1 repeat but a trite historical truth when I say that the priest, as priest, is both enemy of man and libeller of God; and that the throne which has such a foundation can only be that of a tyrant. This, so far as the people are concerned. VVith regard to the ruler, it is the least secure of bases. For the very theory of ecclesiasticism is subversive of all civil gov-' ernment. In order to be the ruler and redeemer of your people, you must begin by elfacing every vestige of s_aceI'do- talism from the public institutions of the country. Of coursd, privately, people may hold and teach what they please. _ But the State can recognize and supportonly what is consistent with the equal liberty of all and its own supremacy; and no ecclesiastical system is that.,” i ‘ . ‘, “But my own throne,” interrupted the Emperor, “ what becomes then of my divine right? They have always upheld that.” , " “ Divine right,” replied Criss, “ is but a dogma. Real right has no need of dogma. If use and experience do not justify your throne"s existence, no authority of dogma will do so, and the sooner it is subverted the better. But the fact is, where a church is supreme, neither sovereign nor people can be free. It is nevercontent until it has subj ugated the souls and bodies of men. Such is the nature, avowed or conceal- ed, of all priesthoods.” “When you urge me to take up a position in antagonism to the priesthood, do you not mean the church?” “That is the very confusion that nearly cost England her own church. No, the priest is but an oiﬁcial of the church, and like any other ofﬁcial, is apt to forget that he exists, not for his own beneﬁt, but as servant of the whole body. Keep the official under as strict control as may be necessary to secure the efficiency of his department. But the department itself, that is the church, must neither be destroyed nor cast adrift from the State. In the ﬁrst place, it has a vitality that makes its destruction impossible, for it has its roots originally in the aspirations of human nature toward a higher life than that of the ﬁeld, the factory and the laboratory. In the sec- ond place, if cast adrift from the tempering inﬂuences of the State and the lay power, it will grow up in the hands of its oiﬁcials to be a very upas to the State. A free church in a free State is an impossibility, especially where the church is possessed of overwhelming. wealth, prestige and power. You might as well try to imagine a free army in a free State. N 0, the State alone can make and keep the church free from any servitude to which it is really liable, namely, that which arises from the dominion of dogma or the arrogance of an hierarchy. We have proved all this long ago in England, so that your task is a simple one. You have but to make your church in reality what it is in name—National. And this you can only do by releasing it from all limitations upon opinion and expression, and allowing any man of proved education and capacity to minister in it, unfettered by tra- dition. Your church will then be the ﬁtting crown to your schools and universities; and the whole’ national part of the educational apparatus of the country will be of a piece throughout, for it will have its basis in the human mind and conscience and its apex in the sky, with God and idealize humanity.” “But what,” asked the_ Emperor, “am I to reply to my clergy when they make reproachful appeal to me to know what will become of the tr uths of religion when their teach- ing is no longer compulsory?” — ‘5 Say,” replied Criss, “ precisely what becomes of the truths of science when unshackled by foregone conclusions. They will have free course and be gloriﬁed._ Religion will cease to be a worship of the dead and become the apotheosis ofthe living, the actual. Whatever is good anduseful aud neces- PRICE TEN CENTS._' _,.. sary, can be shown to be so by evidence, without aid from dogma. We want no authority beyond that of evidence to make us hold that the earth goes round the sun. Indeed, until men abandoned authoritative tradition on that sub- ject, they believed a falsehood. No, the.basis of that which is good, useful and true, must be. perpetually veriﬁable, oth- erwise it ceases to be good, useful and true.” “ But surely a national church implies a national religion ?”' “ By no means. There can be no such-thing as a national religion any more than a national set of truths‘ or facts, or a national system. of medicine, science or art. There may, and should be, a national institution for educating the faculties which are devoted to such ends, and for extending such edu- cation, as only a national institution can do, to every corner of the land; but the phrase ‘national religion’ involves as j great an absurdity as the phrase ‘ national God.’ ” “My clergy will have a good deal to unlearn,” remarked the Emperor. A A A “ So had ours. humanity and truth will not mind that.” The Emperor shook his head. “Vested interests are strong and selﬁsh,” he said. “I can do a good deal to make it worth their while, but I shall have a. nest of hornets about me.” QHAPTEE VI. It was mainly the activity of the “ nest of hornets” alluded to by the Emperor, that made Criss’ presence in Soudan in- dispensable. , The physical curse of the country might be dealt with by deputy. Its moral curse must be dealt with in person. The superstition of its people rendered the pro- longed absence of their sovereigns gocd genius, as Criss was popularly called, a hindrance to the designs in progress for their own beneﬁt. The clergy, seeing their cherished system of thought, or rather no thought, menaced, denounced the physical improvements, commenced or projected, as consti- tuting an impious interference with the Divine Will. Such a notion could be met only by the diffusion of a. knowledge of sound reasoning. In conjunction with some of the more advanced citizens, Criss set to work to found a propagandist agency for this purpose. Taking for its motto “ Free In-’ quiry and Free Expression,” this institution had for its func- tion the publication and distribution of myriads of short, pithy papers,~exposing the absurdities of the popular supersti- tions. I happen to have the originals of some of these papers by me, in Criss’s own handwriting. It may not _be amiss to reproduce one or two of them here, if only to illustrate the mental condition of a people placed by the, Confederate Council in the schedule of Lunacy. Tneifollowing seems to have been levelled at the objection just referred to as raised by the priests: ’ ~ “THE DIVINE WILL: According to the priests of Soudan, a will that «San be thwarted by man. According to common-sense and the dic- tionaries, the Supreme Will. People of Soudan, require of your priests that they be careful of their deﬁnitions.” Another, also in his own hand, was in answer to the re. proach of Atheism brought against the new school.. It ran. thus: “PEOPLE or SOUDAN—- Be not frightened by names. There is no Atheist, save he who disbelieves in cause and effect. To believe in a cause of all things,‘is to believe in a God. Respecting the nature of that cause, it is not only lawful but necessary to differ until determined by positive evidence derived from a due comprehension of its eﬁects, that is, of Nature. The real Atheists nowadays are those who would banish God”fro1n the living present to a dead past.” I And this, also: “SCIENCE; WHAT Is IT? “Sound knowledge, obtained by accurate observatiouof carefully ascertained facts. To reject the scientiﬁc method for any other is to reject fact for fancy, truth for falsehood.” T Hunting up the records of our own country at a corre- sponding period of its history, Criss founded also an agency, called The Church of Soudan Nationalization Society, in ex- act imitation of the famous organization which played so im- portant a partin promoting the Emancipation. In the pros- ‘pectus which he wrote for the chief organ of this society, a. high-class weekly, also. named. after _its British prototype, Criss» showed the,Soudanese howalone they could emulate Yet they did it. But those who care for * /z ».»........,/.,..7,//%/ ,2 4’ 5” / b.,‘):”h I WOODHULL dz 0l.AF’E/l‘i:""‘d ‘WEEKLY ,, Jan. 30, 1875. the ‘example of the England they so greatly admired. “ The course of ‘all modern civilization,” he said in this manifesto, “is from a point at which human life is entirely subordinated to tradition and authority derived from a remote past, to a A point at which the sole appeal is to the cultivated intelligence and moral sense of the living generations of men. Desirous of traversing that course, as England has done, let us not be discouraged by its difficulties. It is true it took England several centuries to make the journey. But then she had to do it by herself and in faith, for she had no example before . her to encourage her. It is not so with us. The whole civil- ized world, backed by the experience of the ages, is on our side. The Reformation, the name whereby this course was known, released England from the domination of that an- cient enemy of human freedom, Rome, some four hundred years before she detached herself from the domination of dogma, which was of Rome- This achieved, the glorious Reformation bloomed and bore its fruits in the more glori- ous Emancipation. The path has been shown us; we need not be long in traversing it.” [To be continued] lA.ml ' W7 V “AFTERWARD.” TO mus. NELLIE J. r. BRIGHAM. Darkness for a brief space; While the earth is dumb and cold, The burthened brow of night Doth her crown of sorrows hold. For a brief space—the night, “Afterward ”—the light. A little while, the germ .. Must slumber ’neath the ground, Hiding its prophecies, With chains of darkness bound. v A little while—sad hour, “Afterward ”-—the ﬂower. Patience, oh brooding bird-- Sheltered beneath thy breast, Folding their hidden wings, The sleeping Warblers rest. Patience, oh mother bird, The wings come—“afterward.” Dark on the nations falls The night of war and wrong; The Truth lies faint and pale, While Error waxeth strong. For the present—the ﬁght, “Afterward ”—the right. Oh! unborn, sleeping souls, Within the womb of time, Ye hold the prophecies ’ v Of a message all sublime; Ye slumber—for a span, “Afterward ”—the man. We clasp our loved an hour ‘ In passionate embrace; We look, and-only see . The beautiful, dead face. United here-——a day, “Afterward”—alway. I C L V D = ORA . . AN1ELs. SAVE OUR LIBERTIES. A New York correspondent of the Crtttc, published at ' Burlington, Iowa, contrasts the alarm of our patriots (?) over the Louisiana matter, with their indifference at the illegal action of the United States authorities of this city in their efforts to vindicate the reputation of a revered citizen in November, 1872, in the following letter: * “ NEW Yonx, Jan. 8, 1875. “Dear Crtttc-—0ur aristocracy propose an. indignation meeting on Monday, the 11th, at Cooper Institute, to snub the Administration for sending a loyal general to Louisiana. Thiscall for a gathering of the old Bourbons is headed with the pompous title of a ‘non-partisan indignation meeting,’ and is signed by about a hundred sham-democrats, the leaders and wheel-horses, the same who dragged ‘Little , Mac ’ from obscurity to the James river, and ﬁnally left him in thelurch as manager or engineer of docks and piers in this city’; a corps of ‘ high-toned.’ ‘ anti-war,’ pig-headed, bun- combe patriots, who deny heaven to black men unless by the back-door. ‘ . . “These are the so-called ‘representative’ men who fear Grant_ and Sheridan will rob the people of their liherties. Phil. Sheridan never could have contemplated raising the bristles on old hides like those of Belmont, Bill Duncan, Sam ' Barlow, Wickham, Manton Marble, Whitey Reid and Charley Dana; ‘ no, niverl’ Sheridan proposes that Congress shall outlaw as. vile a pack of murderers as ever disgraced any country; fellows too cowardly for consideration, masked murderers, who outwit the blacks and kill them for pastime, and the Bourbons howl: ‘Let us save our liberties 1’ “Why were none of these Bourbons exercised when two women were deprived of their liberty and treated abomina- bly by United States oﬂicials, merely to gratify the Y. M. C. A. Where did we hear of ‘ outrage,’ ‘ destruction of liberty,’ with twenty-ﬁve policeman at the Cooper Institute to arrest one woman for telling the truth? I do not think we blue- blooded Yankees have any very clearconception of liberty in its true sense. ‘ . - " When that case came to trial, and the agent of the Y. M. C. A. had- been examined, the U. S. Judge in reply to the U. S. District Attorney, when that worthy proposed a not proseqml, refused, saying that the defendants were entitled to and must have an acquittal by the jury, after eight months of virtual imprisonment. And again I ask, where then were that noble army of martyrs, the ‘ press gang ”-—Manton Marble, Charles‘ A. Dana; Parke Godwin, Wm. 0. Bryant? .How did it happen they were not scared then? Grant was President, and the obnoxious woman told the assembled ’multitude- how blind they were, how they would suffer for permitting this usurpation; she told them a revolution was _ '- pending; she gave them in advance all that has’ happened 0 since,» and they cruciﬁed her. The Y. M. C. A. said, this woman has spoken of things which should not be made public; she has attacked privileged persons, such as Grant, Beecher and Mrs. Grundy; out with her. And the Press spake no word against these infamous wrongs. “ I have already made this letter longer than it should be, but these sham democrats had the impudence to call their gathering ‘ non-partisan !’ “ Yours savagely, ABRAHAM.” ‘ AT HOME, Dec. 27, 1874. Dear Weekly—~I clip the inclosed from the editorial columns of the Cincinnati Enquirer of recent date, as it is worthy of consideration in the columns of the WEEKLY; being “heavy on Beecher,” and showing the way the wind of contempt sets in view of Beecher’s dastardly attempt to “throw the blame” on Mrs. Tilton. - We have a well—grounded suspicion that Rev. Dr. Fiske, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a true Christian. He had been a preacher of the word for some time, and he was accused of Beechery. Unlike his illustrious compeer he publicly con- fessed. Certainly Brother Fiske is not a hypocrite. Nor is he so ungallant and unmanly as to lay the mutual sin at the door of his partner in the bewitching guilt. Dr. Fiske did not assert that he was seduced by the fair one with whom he fell from grace. Beecher says that Mrs. Till-on forced her love upon him, and that he resisted it. Dr. Fiske says: “ I frankly confess to the fearful sin of which I am charged, and will not be cowardly enough to lie or seek a palliation of my weakness and guilt. I can only crave the pity and com- passion of the world I have offended, and the forgiveness which my sincere and profound repentance before God and man calls for. I have returned my letter of fellowship to the denomination I have so grievously stricken, and abandoned the profession which I have so deplorably shamed. May God and man pity and forgive me, and aid me to do some humble work in life yet for the good of society. I am not a coward or a sneak to make Adam’s plea that ‘ a woman did it.’ It was my own weak and unguarded soul that, in a moment of frenzy, wrought my downfall. In penitence and unuterable sorrow, ; [Signed] ‘ “R. FISKE, JUN.” We confess that, as among sinners, Dr. Fiske is worthy of no small amount of charitablemonsideration. He who is still loving, even in illicit love, deserves more charity than the man who is selﬁsh and hypocritical in his sinning. If Dr. Fiske was a representative of the orthodox sinners they would, as a class, belifted by his confession partly out of the contempt of men. Dr. Fiske seems to be a phenomenon. Sometimes men of the world, who have less to lose than the men of God by violating the Commandments, are magnani- mous enough to shield the Mademoiselle or the Madam and shoulder the guilt. But the preachers generally deny it, or say that they were seduced. Dr. Fiske mixes some loving and genuine manliness with his confession of sinning, and his example is to be commended to the preachers generally. We mean his example in confessing, and not in sinning, for Heaven forbid that we should unnecessarily exhort. But the ambassador of the Most High who deliberately adds hypoc- risy, and selﬁshness‘, and untender and unmanly treatment of her to that sin which is the foremost foe of civilized soczety, is not entitled to the enthusiastic admiration of proper men. The Dr. Fiske style of ministerial sinners, comparatively, de- serves to be commended. I’m heartily glad “ Dr.” Fiske is a member of a liberal de- nomination, for his example is worthy of emulation, and shines a light in the religious (?) ﬁrmament to guide more orthodox sinners (?) of the same stamp. But if the “Rev.” gentleman had had suﬁicient moral courage'to have asserted and maintained his right to act his own pleasure with his own nature and desire, only begging pardon for deceit and hypocrisy toward his church and people, methinks his manhood would have remained more luminous and he still have retained the “deepest respect” of the CincinnaWEnqutrcr. HELEN NASH. IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS ON THE SCIENCE OF LIFE. If we have a just conception of the primitive condition of man in regard to his physical, mental, moral and spiritual nature, what he was, what he now is, and comprehend the laws which control him, we may by analogy know what he will be thousands of years.to come. The laws of being and the science of life operate with a mathematical precision, and adherence to their demands is imperative. It is neces- sary for the rising generation to comprehend more of the im- ponderable forces of nature which are so potential in the realm of life and which control all physical forms. It should be remembered that all power is invisible, and it is necessary for intelligent beings to become acquainted with those subtle agencies whose manifestations are everywhere apparent. Unless there are means devised to change the current of thought and ‘action the present unhappy conditions will con- tinue for: thousands of years to come. ‘ Men have lacked judgment in grasping immutable and eternal principles. The world is overburdened with knowl- edge, but very deﬁcient in wisdom. The writer would pro- pose as one of the principal means of reform the placing of woman in her true position. I have not yet seen any one who has fully comprehended the powers which lie slumber- ing within the female portion ofthe race. The power of a mother over her offspring is wonderful. She can daguer— reotype herself in her children an.d furnish the world with angels in human form or monsters to prey on humanity. A woman elevated to the true standard of womanhood and educated in all the faculties of her being will be an object to love and to venerate. What the world now needs are men and women whose natures are in unison with the spirit of God. who can comprehend all the legitimate needs of humanity in their several departments. Schools should be based on principles different from any yet recognized. The moral deﬁciencies of the world are presumptive evidence that something more is needed to afford a salutary inﬂuence to future generations. The people seem to be ignorant on all subjects in regard to the true conditions of life. Marriage and maternity are among the most holy themes; yet they have, with few exceptions, been left to the domain of ignor- ance, and by a never failing law like begets like. The writer would have children educated so as to shun all vices as readily as they do the devouring elements. We at- tach too great importance to the education of the intellect, which is but one of the innate faculties. I would educate children so as to establish an equilibriumbetween thebody and the soul, and by this harmonic relation men and women would become a. law unto themselves. With such an educa' tion the coming generations could not tolerate dishonesty These principles, in all their practical details, are the only meansto refoim the world. Our country is ruled by coer- cion, but coercion is not reformation. Untold millions of dollars are annually spent, but our conditions are not improv-~ ing. If Congress should be petitioned for $2,000,000 to estab- lish improved educational institutions to redeem humanity‘ from its vices and physical diseases the appeal would proba- bly meet with a general opposition. If there are any philan-- thropists who can comprehend the importance of such thorough change as would promote the health and virtue of? humanity, and have the means and a disposition to embark: in an enterprise having that end in view, the writer would. like an interview with suoh.——-A. Johnson, tn the N. Y.» Ifcralds A « LOVE AND MARRIAGE. Extracts from a lecture delivered at Harrisburgh, Pa.,j on November 7, 1874, by Mary E. Le Fevre. We call special attention to the same, because, for the right arrangement of the new social polity, we have far greater faith in the "com- ing woman” than in the coming man. To those who peruse these extracts it will be needless to state that Mary E. Le Fevre is a. lady of culture and re- ﬁnement, and that the views (many of them original) she gives us on the above subjects are well worthy of careful at- tention. In presenting the matter of the lecture, we are only sorry that we cannot also depict the manner in which the same was delivered, for, we are informed, that also received the highest enconiums of the press.——EDs. Mrs. Grundy has so severely punished the few who have dared to touch the sore‘_ place or probe the festering wound of society, that others are content to remain silent in oppo-4 sition to their private convictions, or prefer to join in the hue and cry against the more venturesome; and so no lessons are learned from the scandals of the day; the ﬁnger of reason is pointed in vain, no one wants to see it. The law of " progression which is so universally manifest in every other- department of life, and which in this new world is so full and; powerful, must make our social ties the exception, it must. pass by and leave us where people were in the time of Poti- phar. We don’t want to progress in this respect. Pass on. thou grand and mighty tide of human progress, evitate and.- reﬁne all things else, sweep our old and useless usages and: customs away, but leave us to our married lives, they are so.- universally harmonious, our system works so beautifully.. What! shall we sit with. folded hands and silent lips, quietly contented with the immoralities of the times? Shall we, Who> have the responsibilities of the lives of others, the children; who are growing up about our knees, ‘the people of the fu- ture, have no more elevated ideas of love and marriage than the men and women of the present day? I fear not; the evils of which I speak are growing more numerous every day, as every observant mind must see. Seriously, are there no lessons to be learned from these relations of unhappiness and disgrace? Can it be possible that these things are to pass unheeded, save for the amusement they afford? It is high time for people to think for themselves; let every one reﬂect that all reform must be individual, and as it is palpable that immediate reformation is necessary, let us each think for ourselves and act. The future gener- ation of Americans will be, I doubt not, the leaders of the universe, for already the old world is taking pattern of the new. True, we receive from Europe the fashion and frivoli- ties, but the solid material for the necessaries of life are sup- plied from here—the food for mind and body, the enterprise and energy of modern civilization are cradled here beneath these Western skies, nursed in these Western forests. Let Americans show that their moral capacities are as great as. as their intellectual. The criminal records will show that. more than sixty per cent. of all the crimes committedl in the State of New York, proceed from and are the imme- diate effect of unhappy marriages. A happy marriage is the exception, not the rule. Many‘ persons are ashamed of their criminal infelicity and keep it. hidden from the world as long as possible. one who has moral courage enough to own they are mis- mated. They want you to think they are united to the very’ dearest‘ angel. Do not be too credulous of that, wait: a little and you will very likely hear another scandal. Go: dine incidentally with a friend. The lady is all smiles and ’ alfability, agreeable, amusing, charming; the husband ten- derly thoughtful and attentive to her every little necessity,and when you have spent a pleasant evening you leave their ’ abode with regret, and retire to your bachelor quarters envy- - ing._him his domestic b1iss,‘and picture to yourself, as you drop off to sleep, a similar establishment for your own, and think how much more charming even Araminta would look with yourself for a We a We ; and while you are drawing the pictures of bliss and domestic comfort copied from your friends, the unfortunate benedict is sitting alone, where you have left him, wondering whether his better half is asleep yet, or if it is safe now to venture up—stairs without risk of a supplementary lecture on bringing home friends todine. ‘ And he is thinking too he will go and take lunch to-morrow at a certain favorite restaurant, where he is to meet Tottie that dearlittle creature, whose acquaintance he made a few months ago, and who by her smiles and winning little ways is already beginning to stir up a feeling of interest in his married bosom—merely interest and quite platonic, of course, but causing him, nevertheless, to draw comparisons very unfavorable to the lady up-stairs, who is sleeping on the brink of a dangerous volcano; and if she only knew it shewould hesitate to be so capricious and exacting, but she'does not know it unfortunately, and so she is just as ill- tempered and dominant as she pleases, because she has him by the nose. The legal contract has been drawn up and signed, so she feels herself to be under no obligations to be pleasing to him, unless,'indeed, she has some new whim to gratify, some freshfextravagance in view; then, perhaps, she stoops to conquer. Leave her to her slumbers for the present, the awakening may be terrible, while“ he who is. 310m down,-stairs is’ meditating treachery, and a cold shiver gr , It is not every; ::u..;- . Llan. 30, 1875. creeps over him as he pictures to himself the consequneces should she, by any unhappy accident, chance to discover his intended festivity on the morrow. Oh, heedless, unthinking, foolish wife, relying on the legal vows which bind him to you, instead of the fond and en- dearing smiles with which you ﬁrst won him to your side. A man’s love is, perhaps, easily won by the natural beauties and pleasing little coquetries of the woman’s self. After marriage the love is often’ lost, for the natural beauties are a matter of everyday life, seen at breakfast,- dinner and supper, and the little coquetries, the blushing smiles, and oftentimes the very neatness of her appearance, is aban- doned. ‘ i ‘Trace to its true source the thousand and one miseries from which civilized humanity is suffering to-day, and you will ﬁnd that ninety out of every hundred are the result of Eiegal marriages where there is not true love; this is nearly, if not quite, acorrect estimate. 1 have studied the subject :and made my observations personally, in England, France, ‘Germany and Italy; in Hindostan, in China and Japan; in ‘Cuba and in North America; and I have observed that in ithose countries where the law has little or no authority over 7-the married state the domestic lives of the inhabitants are 5-’-the most peaceful and happy. Why should the terms be used, “catching a beau,” “ se- ‘curing a husband.” It should be the other way. A girl ‘who is in every way ﬁtted to be a good wife is a prize “which every man must try to catch, must seek to secure, ‘must elevate his own moral character in order to win, must purify his soul, his mind and heart in order to be worthy of. If none but such men were sought after for husbands; if riches and business qualiﬁcations were thought less of, and moral integrity we_re the standard of eligibility, there would be no scandals. The fault lies here: a girl is taught to look to marriage as the chief end of woman; the aim for which she dresses, sings, plays the piano -and takes pains to be pleasing is a good marriage. If she does not receive these elementary instructions from her mother’s lips, she does it at a very tender age, from hearing older girls talk of what a splendid match some acquaintance has made; of the trousseau the bridal wreath and vail, the visiting toilets; of the pres- ents received, and of the lovely house of which she is to be mistress; of the servants and carriages, etc., which Miss .“So—and-so has purchased by being pretty and fascinating, :and,naturally enough, she strives for the same end. The man khimself is never spoken of, unless it is as being worth so many thousand dollars; he, himself, is a mere item in the ialfair. No; I believe I have heard the man spoken of, too, -as being “ real handsome,” or “ awfully homely,” perhaps; ‘Tout the interior man, the nature which is to become one ‘with hers, I have never heard mentioned; that part of the "bargain which is to make her a happy, useful woman, bene- ﬁting the little world wherein she moves .the instructress of future generations, or ablighted, disappointed, miserable woman, presiding over a household of discontent, under whose inﬂuence the sons will seek for amusement in dissipa- tion and the. daughters marry ineligibly as fast as they can. That department of his being is not considered; it is only the urface of things——the tangible luxuries of life, which represent just so much cash——which girls and parents think of and seek for ma husband. Pope says: “ The old have ever interest in their eye.” The man is dead, and is not permitted .to revise his words to suit the times; if he were, methinks he would include the young, nowadays. And many a man who, after years of hard ﬁght- iing With the World, has acquired these things necessary to satisfy a girl’s cupidity and ambition, thinks he has se- rcured a living haven of rest and comfort to himself, a com- xpanion for life in whose society he may satisfy the unspeak- iable longing of his soul for rest and love, and when the year ‘of excitement has waned, the novelty of the situation some- what passed away, he will look for that rest and sympathy in that society from which he hopes to receive so much. Do you think he will ﬁnd it? He will be met with a description of some new and__gorgeous apparel which Mrs. Fastlife has purchased, and a demand for funds with which to match or outvie it. But, however much he may feel disappointed, orwdisgusted, he cannot say, Madame we are unsuited to each other; pray amuse yourself in your way and I will do the same in mine. The aﬁ‘air is a matterof law, and they have to face the mis- eries of uncongenial society, morning, noon and night, until death does them part. , What but inﬁdelity can spring from such miserable unions? It is not for a month or 2. year, but for life. It would be a -‘miracle, something contrary to the law of nature, if there was happiness or even content. These things call aloud for investigation.‘ Until people fare morally elevated to make conscientious matches, based on love, until they are mated mentally, spiritually and or- ganically, it isquite useless and ridiculous, nay more, it is downright wicked for them to marry. For nothing but scandals and wretchedness can be the result of such unions. Come, let us seek to put out from our midst t hese. public degradations and private perﬁdies. Every man and woman with whom I have conversed in this country pride themselves most particularly upon the liberties here enjoyed. That boasted freedom was purchased with the life-blood of brave, true men, and with the tears of noble, self-sacriﬁcing women. It was given to their posterity to be .a brilliant example to the rest of the world, by that brave and immortal band of statesmen with Washington at their-head, never to be forgotten, but to live forever on the tongues and in the hearts of mankind. . And of the many blessings which their efforts secured to their country, the ﬁrst and best, the greatest boon, is h uman liberty. ’ Let us cling fast to that inherited right, whatever else we may ﬁnd ourselves called upon to relinquish. It is our right; liberty of person, of thought and of creed. May I add, with- out turning the tide of public feeling against myself, liberty in love, liberty even in marriage. Remember, I am talking of _ love; do not confound it with lust. WOODHULL & OLAFLIN’S WEEKLY‘? To my mind there is no question of liberty with regard to love. Love to exist at all, must be free. Is human love the growth of human will? N 0! ‘You can neither prevent your- self from loving a’ person. nor can-you create love in your heart for an unlovely subject. Love is always free and spon- taneous. Franklin, might catch the subtile element and turn it to his will, but no human law was ever known to con- trol the affections of the heart. ‘ Love is a principle diversiﬁed according to the capacities of individuals. As a man’s organic structure is, so is his love; it is not given to the leopard to change his spots, neither is it within the range of possibility for an animal organism to en- tertain a purely‘ spiritual, soul-felt love. Who shall dare to judge of love? The youth who saves his pennies in order to treat his girl to candy or ice cream is quite as much in ear- nest as the one who brings her a damask rose. One studies her from his own alimentary tastes, and the other fancies that in her acceptation of the ﬂower, he will ﬁnd a response to his own poetical and sentimental sighs. A utilitarian and industriously inclined youth may purchase for his lady- love a thimble, and she may put it away as a gage dwtmour, a sort of article to be admired, and wear her stockings full of holes. This is the way people get mixed up and married, without one iota of_ reciprocated feeling between them. I knew of a gentleman, a colonel in the British army, stationed in India, who was in all things the picture of neatness and precision. He married a lovely girl who used sometimes to tie up her under sleeves with a piece of twine, or anything which came handy. I never; saw them together in society ‘afterward, without seeing looks of annoyance on his face and pettish- ness and impatience on hers. It is absurd for any ‘one to promise to love another till their life’s end! Who can control the spontaneous love of the heart? It is good for nothing if it is a love which can be ruled and weighed and divided. Oh, it is a fearful sight to me to see two persons, full of hope, young and bright, ac- tuated, as they suppose, by love, standing before a priest, and sealing the death warrant, perhaps, of all their brightest, fondest hopes and aspirations, their usefulness ended, their happiness dead. Oftentimes those vows of love are made by one or the other with a full interior conciousness that they never can be fulﬁlled. We often hear of marrying for spite, because an old love has proved unworthy. Here the love and cherishing is due somewhere else, and is often paid somewhere else. Love and marriage are generally supposed by young people to be identical. Alas, older ones know better. They should be one and the same, but all things are not as they should be. That love which is true is marriage; it is the natural aiﬁnity of two human halves comprising a perfect whole. The mar- riage where this entire unity is missing is a more commercial contract, by which a woman is degraded to the level of one who sells her person for a consideration; no matter what the consideration may be, an honorable name, or a ﬁne position, wealth, or talent, it is still a consideration, and it makes the marriage a simple barter. Some husbands and wives live along knowing this perfectly. Many a man knows very well that his wife cares not one rush for him personally, and simply married him for his name andposition; and many a foolish girl knew at the time that it was her money not her he sought. They do not, perhaps, confess it in so many words, but they know it, and they go on in misery and wretchedness, debarred from another chance in the lottery of life, for the consideration, the dollars and the pride of station, or whatever it may be. I look with contempt upon such a creature. I would not associate with such a woman. In the ﬁrst place, they are charmed and their vanity ﬁat- tered by receiving conspicuous attention from a man, par- ticularly if he be tall and handsome, especially with broad, manly-looking shoulders, a ﬁne mustache and wears nice clothes. The little soul ﬂutters to receive a glance of open admiration, or some particular and delicate attention. Con- versations full of small talk and compliments follow, visits are received, and the bosom heaves and is stirred by the ﬁrst magnetic caress. V _ Alone in the solitude of her night room, when every one else is sound asleep, this girl longs for a repetition. of this new-found sweetness which has dawned "upon her life, and takes it for granted sheis in love. A proposal is soon made, and accepted, often in opposition to the judgment of older and wiser heads; but their young and ardent love is pleaded. And oh, how delicious the child ﬁnds it to be digniﬁed by an openly acknowledged engagement; to be the envied of all her associates! How entrancing it is to be alone with him in the moonlight, to lean her head on those shoulders, and to have that divine mustache right there, ready on the smallest, provocation to bestow another and another of those magnetic kisses! Oh, she has not a doubt but the feelings which these pleasant things produce is love! The event of her life, so long anticipated, has come at last. How often she has dreamed of this sweet reality! The heart beats quickly at his approach; she is proud for her sisters and associates to see how he obeys her slightest command, and the air of pro- prietorship with which she takes his arm. The excitement over the wedding dress is something awful. It is ﬁnished at last; the robe of spotless white enfolds this innocent child, the bells ring out a merry peal, and the law says she belongs to this man, whom she thinks she loves, for life. Alas! it is a long, long time. I A year has only passed when that peculiar thrill, from which she derived such ecstacy, and from which she felt so sure of her love, seems, somehow, to have melted “into thin air,” to have worn away. - She supposes it is be- cause she is so accustomed now to that divine mustache, and there is nothing romantic in the masculine strength of those broad shoulders. She sees them too often now, an deshabille. Then again, he does not tell her so‘, often that she is pretty; comes home tired from business, and says very little, except that ,“his dinner is not as he likes.” After it he generally goes to sleep reading the newspaper, or steps out on business for an hour or two. She has the moonlight all to herself now, and the romance of her life is over. no more, because it was romance, not reality. Had that love been built upon the moral worth, the high "appreciation of The old sweetness comes Q ‘Sig his manlimess and integrity, the bliss of married life would be new only beginning; and yet this girl is blameless, he is simply untaugbt. Happy is it for her if she have children upon whom to lavish the wealth of her love. She may then go through the long years which are to be lived, a blameless wife, a fond, true, exemplary mother. There are many such women, whose whole souis are‘ devoted entirely to their children; who only keep house for their husbands; women in whom love is otherwise dead. The marriage of the pastages was suited for the times, but the present state of society shows unmistakably that some- thing higher than mere law is needed in this progressive age. It was the matrons in old Rome who led the aspiring hearts of the youth, and it is to the mothers of our day that the greatest amount of inﬂuence ;belongs. The higher the standard of purity and morality of women, the greater will be the amount of integrity evinced by the men both of the present and the future. I would teach our children and young people to love purely; teach them to distinguish between mere attraction and the love which is to be depended on, which springs from moral. appreciation. _ I would instill into the minds of the young :1. perfect horror of the terrors of marriage, unless it be from motives of the purest love; and then I would have the obli- gation a moral and a social (not a legal) one. I do not advo- cateian impossibility. If two persons entertain for each other a love which is of the soul, each deriving increased purity and elevation of character from the society of the other—true, pure, unselﬁsh, looking to the life beyond for unalloyed and uninterrupted bliss in the companionship of the other——I think it is safe for them to take upon them- , selves the risk of a legal tie, although altogether unnecessary, for they are already united by the highest law—-that law which there is no evading, that law from which there is no escape. . Life to them will be one continuous stream of well-doing. Happiness, like the measles, is contagious; a happy, joyous, light-hearted person comes to visit us in our sad moments, and before we know it we are actually smiling, and our trouble seems lightened, to have melted somehow, from a heavy weight of care to a little cloud which already seems passing away. They will shed around them the radiance of the light within them, and all who come within their sphere are beneﬁted. ' . In their household every thing seems to go smoothly, for the demon of discontent has there no place; troubles are shared and thus lessened, not augmented by reproach and blame, for God, which is love, married them. If we educated our daughters to love purely and marry conscientiously, teaching them to select companions ﬁtted for them, the law would not be_ needed to fasten the bond. To the pure-, all things are pure. » Is the law of marriage intended to bind together two per- sons who love purely and faithfully? Methinks it is well enough, but unnecessary. Is it to bind those who quarrel and fight from year to year, and live in perpetual inharmony? Then it is wrong; such people should not be bound. I have known cases where the people had no hope of comfort, not to mention happiness, save by the death of the oth er. Charming people to live with! N o, the social miseries pro- ceed from this fact, that people marry without a proper and necessary knowledge of the character of each other, and having made a mistake of such vital importance to the whole tenure of their lives, the law holds them to their bargain. Think of the crime which is the result of these households of discontent. The man, and very often the wife, secretly takes to timulants; these heat the blood, and excite the brain to still greater animosity, and the consequences of this are often bloys and death, at least a life of degradation. They can only get a divorce at the price of more disgrace, and this purchases freedom only for one. Even then society will shake her head, and draw her skirts delicately away from even the innocent one. ' A _ Many go on enduring a life more bitter than death itself, because they are afraid of publicity, and what the world will say. Does the world feed and clothe us? Does it save our souls? Does society give anything for nothing? Why should we shrink and cringe before Madame Rumor? So despotic has she become of late years that she orders our dinners, and buys our clothes, whether we can afford them or not. Our servants are our masters, because they will talk, and give our most private affairs as the property of society. “ Love is love for evermore, . Coeval with life, why does it need law ” Let people marry by mutual consent and the consent of friends, making any civil agreement they see ﬁt. If they can- \ not trust to the good faith of each other they are better apart. The law was made to restrict the bad, but we don’t want bad husbands and wives; we want good, trustworthy ones, who are a law unto themselves by divine right. I claim to be a true wife. but -it is not the law which married me that makes me faithful until death. It is here in my heart and in my brain which binds me with bonds of adamant, by the eternal law of love. lf it were not so I would free myself instantly. I would not live a lie. N 0 Woman has a right to stain her soul with hypocrisy. Men very seldom do. They generally walk themselvesioff to ﬁelds afresh and pastures new. They are not so much afraid of society; not because they are more brave than’ women, but because society is to them more lenient. Come,let us think of these things. Let us purge our marriages of the evils which are polluting so many homes. Let us cease to blame those /who strive to free ,themselves.__' from unhappy ties, and help them to form new and nobleii-7‘ ones. Let us teach the young that marriage means love, and: neither lustnor money. ' A ‘ Now, thanking you for the indulgent ears with which you have listened, to me. I beg you to forgive me if Iphavevsaid: aught to wound or oﬁend the delicacy ohanyvonne. lam fear- creatures, and with sorrow fo2_;;.,the mistakes which aﬂlict, them. I shall feel reward.ed3 if, you will only think more; seriously on the true merging. ofglpve and,marriage., ' ‘ ’ fully in earnest, my soul is ﬁlled with lovefor my fellow,» ’ ‘ tention of the public. 4 - i V WOODH-_ULL dt CLAFLiN’S WEEKLY Jan. 30, 1875. i“1€F:I‘~3iS as suesciurjrioiv. FAYA,lSLIl2 IN ADVANCE. one copy for onc"ye'ar', - - $3 00 ' one copy for six months, - - -' - ~ -- 1 50 Single copies, - - - - - - ~ 3.0 CLUB RATES. Egﬁiye copies for one year, - » - - $12 00 ’E_en copies for one year, - - .- - - 22 00 Twenty copies (or more at same rate), - - - 40 00 Six months, - '- - - - - One—half these rates. All communications, business or editorial, must be addressed FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTION OANHBE Manure THE AGENCY on THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPAEY, LON- VA ‘DON, ENGLAND. Oiiecopy for one year, - - - $4 00 One copyforsix months, , - - - - 2 00 RATES OF ADVERTISING. 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There seems to be a persistent effort on the part of the en- emies of the,WEEKLY to prevent its circulation through the newsdealers of the country, and these eﬁbrts have prevailed to such an extent that we are constrained to ask the help of our friends in counteracting ‘them; and therefore we request that they will personally call upon the newsmen in their re- spective places, and induce them to again place the WEEKLY on their counters for sale. We would also like them to as- certain from dealers who it is that suggests their refusing to keep the WEEKLY, and why they do it. Any information of this kind will be gratefully received, and will enable us to take measures to prevent further injuries from that source. . The papers are returnable, and newsmen run no risk in ordering copies for their stands. _._A. 4 «r we NOTICE. After returning grateful thanks for the generous aid that has already been so freely given in order to sustain the‘ WEEKLY, we are constrained to ask of our good friends not to relax their efforts because Victoria C. Woodhull has so -far recovered as to be able again to attend to her duties on the rostrum as a fearless promulgator of the great reforms so much needed, and now, we trust we can add, so rapidly advancing. Although, as before, the proprietor of this pa- per is ever willing to sustain it in every way to the full ex- tent of her means and abilities, in these times, the returns from the platform are a Mvery doubtful reliance. All other l'ecturers"have failed more or less this season; and, it may be, that the cause dear to all our hearts and so necessary to the improvement of our race, may fail to command the at- VV’e, however,/ti*List that the great heart of the people will respond as before to all truthful ap- peals ongthe living issues of the age. Meantime, however, We are constrained to request of our subscribers not to ﬂag in their well doing, as we really are in need of their assist- ance. The present necessary limitation of the paper ‘T is as painful to us as it is to them; for we are compelled to shelve every week able contributions from well-wishers of mankind, which ought to be laid before the public. Once more, then, dear friends, tothe work. Let not the enemy rejoice over our discomﬁture 1 "Your good-will has made the WEEKLY the banner of the Truths of this era, and it must not be sur- rendered. It is not and never has been a money speculation, and those who serveit do not serve it solely, or even prim-’ arily, for gain. Give, then, and give freely to support the cause that is your own, on which depends not only‘ your own liberties, but the general advancement of our race I '---~—~>—-+O+—-+~————--— DONATIONS. O W. C. M., Cutchogue, N. Y., 351; D. A., N. Y. City, $2; J. T., Benton Harbor, Mich., 951; J. M., San Bernardino, Cal., $5; J. D. R., St. Johns, Mich., $1; C. G., ‘v/Villoughby, 0., $1; J. P., Davenport, Iowa $1; Mr. G., Davenport, Iowa, $1 50 ;,Mr. E., Davenport, Iowa, $2 50; A Eriend, Newport, R. I.,$1; C. S., Rome Centre, Mich., $2; A Friend, Qhapinj Home, $1; G, G, _B., Davisville, $19, ; other Protestant institutions. -i>ENNY—wIsE CHRISTIANITY. Protestantism, to use an Irish proverb, “has its heart in the pinny.” - All its churches ‘measure their charitable as well as their ﬁnancial operations by strict money laws. To it we are indebted for the pew system, which was unknown to the Catholic churches previous to what is called the Refor- mation. The idea of placing a money value on a seat in a temple dedicated to a God, would make an ancient Pagan sick at such human depravity, and give a modern Moham- medan a ﬁt of the cholic. But, deprive Protestantism of its glory, the pew system, and you take away the measure by which it gauges its usefulness to the community. It is easy to prove this statement, nor have we to go far for a case in point. Every one knows that Plymouth Church has lately been under a cloud. Presses all over the Union have pointed at it, and many have condemned its pastor in no measured terms. What is its answer‘? An appeal to the auction block, which instructs us that in holiness, -in charity and in abounding grace, it is richer by twelve thousand dol lars than it was last year. As with Plymouth, so with all The price of souls, from those of African savages to those of , civilized Jews, are scheduled and ﬁxed. Genuine Cannibals are rare, but they may be ob- tained as converts at about $65 per head. Hindoos are more scarce; they cost at least $250 a piece. As the Chinese and Japanese become acquainted with Christian nations, their conversions become scarcer, and naturally rise in money value. But the dearest of converts is the Jew. It has been estimatedthat-it costs €tE6,’754 93 and ﬁve mills to pervert one of these from the faith of his fathers. - He naturally looks upon Christianity as an unruly boy that oughtto be spanked and circumcised fortliwith, and we -have been particular . in stating the exact iinoney value of his perversion, because we know with whom we are dealing, and are consequently fearful of standing c’o1'rected. It is no wonder that Protestantism is so ruled by its sub- serviency to money.'.__ The ﬁrst grand movement it instituted after it was established in England was the legalization of usury in 1545. The only text which can be said to sanction this fearful oppression, which, in three centuries, has suc- ceeded in crushing labor into the dust of the earth, is to be found in the parable of the unjust -steward. It is—“ Thou shouldest have sent my money to the exchangers, and then I should have received mine own with usury.” But Catholi- cism does not sanction this rendering, for, in the notes to the same in the Douay Bible, we are told—— “ That Jesus said this ironically to the "rich Pharisees who heard him, who were guilty of the practice, which conflicted with the Mosaic law. Admitting that the J ewhas a right also to be heard on this question, we fearlessly assert that no Rabbi will justify a Jew in taking interest of his brother Jew, appealing to the Jewish Times to correct us if in error. This being so, we claim to have proved that the base of our present rotten ﬁnancial system rests on either the sanction or the criminal silence of‘ the Protestant churches regarding the “legalization” of usury. - T The above remarks are not irrelevant; for in exhibiting the subserviency of Protestantism to Mammon, we show the cause why true charity has almost departed from us. In old England, where money has so long ruled, we are told by her economists that her paupers are supported at less cost per head than her criminals. Mercy forbids us to ask how such a saving could. be accomplished. In some sections of New England, until lately, the aged poor have been farmed out to the lowest bidder, by which arrangement those who gave the least food and demanded the most labor obtained the largest returns. As regards children, Dickens—in Dom- bey & Son—exposed to scorn the “ Charitable Grinder” sys- tem that defaces most of the parish churches of London. The dot-and—carry-one philanthropic establishments of our cities are not very dissimilar, and consequently are frequent- ly found to be miserable frauds and failures. Many of their sl1o1‘t5omings have latterly been exposed by the press; but we cannot hope for any permanent improvement upon the present methods of almsgiving (not charity), until we do away with the accursed rule—and-measure system that has de- throned and usurped the place of individual beneﬁcence and communal aﬂcction. _ e In the opinion of the WEEKLY organized almsgiving (mis- Vcallcd charity) is an economical error, and is one of the greatest curses of the modern world. Under its operations, every twenty-third human being in England is an incarce- rated pauper. If we follow in the footsteps of that nation it will soon become so here, at least in our populous cities. The more police, the more criminals; the more (as they are termed) charitable institutions, the more ‘need of them. They generate the evils they are invented to remove. No better deﬁnition of the spirit in which true charity should act (more especially in this inclement season) can be given than Jesus gave -“ When thou doest thine alms, let not thy right hand know what thy left doethi” It is an act in which calculation cannot enter without destroying its value‘. It is as reciprocal as true love, and any sum freely given from one warm human heart to another, confers ' as much beneﬁt on the donor as it does on the receiver. ships‘ attendant upon the isolated condition of those who live by labor on theland. Co-operative manufacturing com- panies a are reinonstrance against the one-man tyranny and robbery of the British factory system ; co-operative building societies an answer to the grasping avarice of greedy land- lords, and cooperative stores a deﬁance to the rapacity’ of of the thievish and mercenary trafﬁckers to which the inter- ests of producers are generally so mercilessly sacriﬁced. In the ﬁrst ‘bf the above instances, viz : Co-operation in the working of mines, factories and other labor operations, there is reason to hope and believe that it will eventually achieve an entire success. It is much more democratic, and consequently more reasonable, that the masses of the people who unite their labors to produce given results should dictate the terms of the division of the proﬁts resulting therefrom, than one or half a dozen despots, which is the method or- dained by Great Britain in her systemof industrial bondage, and which is also the rule, alas! too commonly obtaining here in the Unit_ed States. Of course when the toilers own an interest in the plant as well as in the labor, the present iniquitous absorption of the gains of such enterprizes will be condemned and discontinued. But with regard to Co-operative Building Societies the case is different. Great success in these would beneﬁt‘ only a minute fraction of the laboring classes in any coun- try. Before workers generally own their own homes as they ought to do, the money and land systems must be re- modelled. With regard to Co-operative Stores, it has been said ,, and justly, that the conversion of wealth—producers into wealth-distributors, as in the case of the Rochdale weavers, may be a good to the co—operators but it is an evil to the community. It needs more skill to make cloth than to sell it, and it is questionable whether the weaver ought not to be better remunerated for his services to the world than the draper. There are those who believe that the dis- tributor, whether by wholesale or retail, ought to be sim- ply regarded as an adjunct to the producer, and his gains, as are those of other public functionaries, regulated by law, at somewhat less than those of the direct wealth producer whose agent he is. Co-operative Stores will not effect this change, which can only be brought about by a revolution. Until it is effected, however, and the wealth creator estab- lished in his proper position, the producer must expect to be continually ﬂeeced, as he is now, by the trafﬁcker. —r%Q>—<— SUNDAY MUSIN GS. “ Congress shall mak_e no law respecting the establish- ment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” is the ﬁrst clause of the article of the amendment to the Con- stitution of the United States. In this clause all the religious liberty of our people, which is greater than that of any other nation, is contained, and it alone was cheaply pur- chased for humanity by all the blood shed in our Revolu- tionary war. , Tonguey lawyers, who have so long and so successfully defaced the Constitution, may contend that though the power to make a law touching the establishment of religion was forbidden to Congress, the right to do so was reserved to the States. If this be so, then was the statement of George Washington mendacious, who asserted, in the Tripolitan treaty, that as a people we acknowledge no special religion. That there is a necessity now to call the careful attention of all the people of our country to the above subject, may be seen from the following statement, taken from a leader in the N. Y. He7*aZd.' I ‘ The law regulates the duty of the citizen on Sunday, and, so far as the law goes, the courts will enforce it. Beyond this neither Mr. Talmage nor the law can go. Under a gov- ernment wl-.i-ch prescribes no or»;-ed and no religion for the people. it is impossible to enforce the Sabbath brought over in the Mayﬂower. The law cannot command it as part of the prescribe that he shall follow no business avocation on a particular day of the week, but it cannot make a Jewish or a Puritan Sabbath. - , That there are grievous errors in the positions taken in the above extract we will endeavor to prove. In reply to the ﬁrst sentence, we fearlessly“assert that, though the law regu- lates the duty of the citizen on Sunday, it has no right to discriminate that special day by special laws; and, further- more, we claim that the second sentence in the above makes good our argument, viz., that—“ Under a government that prescribes no creed and no religion, it is impossible to en- force the Sabbath ;” unless the States separately have power to invalidate the Constitution of the United States in that particular, which is, denied. But the most reprehensible statement in the above extract is the last therein. After admitting that the law cannot command any citizen to attend “ church,” the Herald asserts that——“It may prescribe that heshall follow no business avocation on a particular day of the week.” If this be so, which we dispute, presidents and governors can be author- ized to command the public to pay such respect to our only national holiday—Thankgiving Day——wl1ich, we believe, is more than any potentate among us has ventured to do yet. To set apart or to commend a particular day to special -public attention is a very different'thing from “command- AA 7 vw>%4: PRODUCER vs. TRAFFICKER. The latest practical development of the force of the pro- duccrs, has been exhibited in the Granges and has taken the form of co-operation. It is certain that, in many instances, it has proved its power and ame1ioi'atetl A some of the l£ta1,‘d..- I ing ” the people sotto observe it. To a cosmopolitan nation as we are, submission to such a ruling would be inﬁnitely moredegrading than the groggy edicts of Nebuchadnezzar were to the people of Babylon. And’ although the orders of the latter potentate were somewhat erratic on the subject of religion, the president’s zigzag movements on the legal tender clause warn us that he may probably equal 1.1i.m.i.n citizen's duty that he shall go to church on Sunday. It may . that is proven by the testimony of Mr. Moulton. Jan. 30,1875. woonnULL J5 cLArLiN°s WEEKLY. A 5 the above respect also, by setting up for our people a. brazen image in the Yosemite Valley, and commanding us all, on a given day, to throng thither to do it honor; then, after- ward, like his great predecessor, compel us to worship the God of Brigham Young, or Frothingham, or H. W. Beecher or Archbishop McCloskey, or some other spiritual potentate who may happen at that time to be in favor at the White , .a House in Washington. V ._j___ RED AND BLACK.’ There are two kinds of communism——the red and the black. The Catholic Church has long established the latter in her monasteries and nunneries; the proletarians of Paris have more than- once attempted to inaugurate the former, but the people of that country were not enlightened enough to accept it. Of course, communism, in some shape or form, is destined speedily to supersede our present industrial and ﬁnancial systems, which are now simply worse than useless oppressions. When the workers are ‘robbed to sustain the idlers in the community, it is manifest that some alteration is needed. We, therefore, do not agree with the Italian min- ister who deplores the coming change in the following com- munication: L Judging by the following extract from Signor Sella’s recent speech in the Italian Parliament, that minister does not en- tertain any great conﬁdence in the much-talked about “ glo- rious future of Italy.” “ Two frmidable parties have arisen in this country, one to destroy the bases of society, the other, modern civilization. You know that I mean by these two parties the Red and Black Internationalists, or, in other words, the communists and priests. The Blacks have a be- nign exterior, but they are far more dangerous than the Reds. They wish to destroy liberty and civilization, and to do this they are sharpening the swords of the foreign powers, and trying to provoke ill feeling between us and our neigh- O , bors. The Reds wish to upset everything at home, and I do not hide from you that I dread both these parties ex- tremely.” .. . If Signor Sella would look at the question rightly, he would soon perceive that both the above-mentioned parties are moving in one line. Justice must be done to the pro ducer, and it is becoming a question as to whether he is to receive it from the church or the world. The declaration of the infallibility of the Pope has. sundered all the ties be- ‘ tween the papacy and the governments of Europe, and it is now a necessity for her to advocate the‘ cause of the peoples. Every year she will have to take bolder ground in-so doing, and in the near future, we prophecy that the Biblical doc- trine “neither said any man that the things he possessed were his own, but they had all things common,” will be, with her, the order of the day, not only in monasteries and nunneries, but in the world without the walls of those insti- tutions. ' STORMING THE PRESS. The WEEKLY asserts itself as the proclaimer and defender of the great truths’ that are now agitating humanity, not only here but in all civilized nations. It is the advocate of four necessary revolutions, which are rapidly advancing, and which are manifestly destined to overthrow all existing systems. It is the pioneer corps of the great radical host that is now closely following its footprints. The doctrines it promulgates on the social and sexual question are now not mi; 7 1 unheard of in‘the pulpit nor unpracticed by the clergy of all denominations; they are the staple goods of the theatres, the standard themes of our lighter literature, and are very frequently to be met with, elaborated and complimented in the most important and most popular organs of the press. In proof of the truth of this latter statement, we reprint elsewhere a valuable letter from the New York Herald, con- taining “ Important ‘suggestions on the science of life.” To our readers many of the doctrines in it will be familiar, but we republish it for the purpose of exhibiting the advance of the mind of the general public on such questions, and we modestly claim our share in the same, for had there been no WEEKLY there would hardly have been any such epistle tol- erated in the pages of tl1e_HemZd. Setting aside the writer’s familiarity with the Deity (of whom we know nothing) the statements in it are such as we can commend to the notice of our readers. In it stirpiculture,_by means of right educa- tion, and the sovereignty of woman in the domain of the affections, are asserted and demanded. We, however, more especially note it as indicating by its position the great progress already made on social and sexual matters; for, if such food were not demanded by a discerning public will, it would never have been supplied or even permitted in the columns of the best patronized paper in the Union. _..EA ,4 V w*** THOSE CHICKEN S. During the past week the bell has rung, the curtain has been drawn up and the play has commenced. Time will tell whether it is to beva comedy, a tragedy, orpa farce. The Tilton-Beecher trial must eventuate either in an acquittal, an admission of guilt, or a disagreement of the jury. In either case the November number of the WEEKLY will be exonerated from all blame. The world now knows that what was stated in it was not without foundation. Already When published, our readers will remember some disputed its state ments." Few had memories. Now, however, the case seems togbe different. Memory has returned, aad alas for those who dared to deny our statementsw-they will assuredly ﬁnd that their ill.-omened chickens will come home to roost. ‘ ‘ A Nothing is more certain than that the only weakness of the case against the pastor of Plymouth will be found in those denials, which will assuredly go far to invalidate all the evidence (save his own) that can be brought against him. VVe can afford -to say this, for our readers know that the WEEKLY differs from the world as regards the criminality that may attach to the affair. We claim now, as ever, that all women and all men have personal rights, and it is simply impertinent in outsiders to inquire into sexual transactions that are freely entered into. What Henry Ward Beecher may please to do with himself is no business of ours, and we should not be justiﬁed in inquiring into the matter, had he not set up a rule for himself and‘ others in that particiilar. But having done so,we in “common with society have a claim to demand that he shall abide by the rules he himself has set up. Whether he has done so or not, in the present instance, _ let the jury instruct us. But there is another on trial as well as the pastor of Ply- mouth. Alas! what can have induced her to appear in court,’ like a captive at the heels of the conqueror? What unhallowed pressure has been brought to bear upon her to make her countenance with her presence an inqnisition into matters, which, whether she be innocent or guilty, is an in- sult to her womanhood; for, in the domain of the affections. woman is and ought to be queen, and man should never approach her there as her master but always asher servant. Surely no woman is justiﬁed in gracing a one-sexed court with her attendance, unless dragged thither by compulsion! We honor Cleopatra for her sturdy reply to the Roman eon- queror, a.nd her stern refusal to honor his triumph: “ Shall they hoist me up And show me to the shouting varletry Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt Be gentle grave to me. Rather on Nilus mud Lay me stark naked, and let water-ﬂies Blow me into abhorringl Rather make My country‘s highest pyramid my gibbet, And hang me up in chains!” That has in it the true womanly deﬁance of the arrogance of man, and was worthy of the occasion. But there is a better answer to be made in cases like the one on which we have been descanting——it is that of contemptuous silence. Such a reply from woman would always be pertinent, be- cause man has no right to sit in judgment upon her in a case of the kind under any circumstances. Such is the opin- ion of thetd/VEEKLY; it may be erroneous; but, as Benedict says in the play of Twelfth Night, “ We will die for it at the stake.” A __4Q. 4 V wr V. MRS. WOODHULUS LECTURES, Mrs. l/Voodhull has so far recovered her health as to at- tempt to resume her labors in the lecture ﬁeld, and left this city on the 17th inst. for tliat purpose. 1 Her route will include, as at present arranged, the follow- ing places, at or about the dates given: Bloomington, Ill., .lan.19; Champaign, Ill., Jan. 21;Pekin, Ill., Jan. 22; Peoria, Ill., Jan. 23; Galesburg, Ill., ‘Jan. 25; Topeka, Kas., Jan. 28; Leavenworth, Kas., Jan. 30; St. Joseph,Mo., Feb. 1; Nebraska City, Neb., Feb. 3; Lincoln, _Neb.,, Feb. 4;. Omaha, Feb. (5; Council Bluffs, Feb. 8; Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 9; Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 12; Grand Rapids, Feb. 13. The above dates may be changed in some instances; if so, they will be duly published in the local press. Friends living in the vicinity of these places desirousof attending the lectures, will do well to watch their local papers for the exact dates, and give as wide publicity to the announce- ment as possible. .- ——————————->——40>—4——-—-——————-— 1 MRS. WOODHULL’S AT WASHINGTON. Demosthenes delivered his sentiments on the “ Destiny of the Republic” at Lincoln Hall last evening, through the per- son of the renowned Victoria C. Woodhull. The old Athenian orator has chosena ﬁtting representative in Mrs.'W., and had he been speaking through his own organism could scarcely have done better. The audience was large consider- ingythe inclemency of the weather, and quite respectable, though it was pretty well sprinkled with members of Con- gress. Mrs. Woodhull thinks the Republic is in a very bad way; that politically it is rotten to the core, and. in fact, is no Republic at all so long as the women are denied the right to vote, hold oﬂice and receive the same pay for the same work as men do. That women shall be educated to work and made ﬁnancially equal with men she considerswill solve- many of the problems which now vex our reformers and philanthropists, and rid the Republic of most of the blunders under which it now staggers. Do this, she says, and the gal- lows and the penitentiary will no longer ﬂing their black shadows over the land, for woman, enfranchised and free, will form only -‘harmonious unions, by which a better race will beldeveloped, and not, as now, seek uncongenial mar- riages, often as a home in which unbalanced children are conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity. The devotion of woman will be “the elevation of man; man cannot deny justice and equality towoman and do justice to himself.‘ All good and elevating inﬂuences brought to. bear on Woman will show themselves in her children, reforining them in their mother’s womb. Every bad man is only just what his mother made him. A considerable portion of her lecture was in re- lation to the Constitutional right of woman to vote, and was read from manuscript. She considers the terms of the” Con- stitution plain on this point. Despotism she considers the ‘same’, whether exercised by the Czar, as in Russia, the Queen and Parliament, as in England, or by one half the people over the other, as in this eountryﬁ The preachers and yen. gionists, on the principle of saving at the spigot while leaking 93.5 131.10 bung—h9ie, are trying to save a few souls from the mass of misbegotten humanity, but her idea was to save bodies, and the souls would take care of themselves. Gen- erate children right and there will be no necessity of regen_ crating them. We see great attention paid to raising vege- tables, and have our agricultural fairs at which the breeding of stock is thoroughly discussed, but no scientist has yet be en bold enough to hint that a like improvement can be made in the human species. Her lecture lasted an hour and ahalf, and was listened to with profound attention. Mrs. Woodhull is a rapid speaker, and when not reading from her’ manuscript, she frequently seemed inspired, and at such times she scaled‘the'1oftiest height of eloquence. Unlike most of the lecturers nowadays, Mrs.W. is te'rri,_bly in earnest, and, like Demosthenes himself, she evidently means busi- ness.-Ev.ent'ng Ma/il, Washington. D. 0., J an. 14, 1875. o OUR PETITION. We learn from the published proceedings of Congress, that a petition in our behalf was introduced in the Senate by Senator Spencer, of Alabama,’on the 15th inst.. and referred to the Committee on Claims. The Nattortal Republican, of ‘Washington, publishes the text of the petition, which we here reproduce from its columns: , ' The petition of Victoria C. Woodhull, Tennie C. Claﬂin and James H. Blood. To the Iionomble, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Um'ted_ States in Congress assembled: Your petitioners respectfully represent: That on November 2, 1872, they were doing a general stock and gold-brokerage business at No. 48 Broad street, in the City of New York, the proﬁts from which, for the six months previous to the above date, not being less than a thousand dollars per month; and that the same promised not only to continue but to increase. V That the ﬁrst two mentioned petitioners were also engaged tin’ publishing a newspaper, entitled VVOODIIULL AND CLAELIN’s WEEKLY; that in this paper of the above date, but issued from the press previously, there was published the original statement of the Beecher-Tilton scandal; that the excitement growing out of that publication caused an un- precented demand for the paper from all parts of the country; immense orders for which were ﬂowing in from all quarters; that at this juncture, on the day above stated, your petitioners were arrested upon processes issued by the United States, and chargedvwith sending obscene literature through the mails, the literature complained of being the said number of, thesaid paper; that having been taken be- fore United States Commissioner Osborn, a preliminary ex- amination was set down for Monday, November 4; that they were held to bail, as they believe for the purpose of prevent- ing them from obtaining it, in the excessive sum of $8,000 ea-ch—a much larger sum. as they are credibly informed, than was ever before or since exacted in a similar case; that upon from arrest as they intended to show that there was no law upon which such an arrest could properly be predicated: that they were denied this opportunity by the interposition of an indictment which was obtained in the unprecedented P. M., and Monday, November 4, at 10-o"clock A. M.; that, as they believe, this indictment was obtained with this great dispatch purposely to prevent an examination into the case and an exposition of the real animus; that this animus was discovered to them by the District Attorney of the United, States, when he said to the Commissioner that your peti- tioners “had been guilty of uttering an atrocious libel against a revered citizen, whose reputation it was well worth the while of the United States to vindicate,” which was equal to saying that these proceedings had been instituted to accomplish that vindication by making it a,pp(3a,r to the public that your petitioners were guilty of a disgusting crime instead of that of libel; that for the space of ‘thirty-one mained in conﬁnement in Ludlow street jail. _ Your petitioners also further represent that they were arrested a second time upon the charge on the 9th of January, 1873, and, as they believe, this time to prevent the delivery of a lecture by Mrs. Woodhull, advertised at Cooper Institute for that night, when it was generally believed, from the title of the address——“ The Naked Truth ”——that she would make further revelations about the scandal. Although Cooper Institute was surrounded and occupied by United States marshals she evaded them, and, in disguise, got upon the platform and began her speech before they were aware of arrested and conﬁned again in Ludlow street jail, whereher companions had already been conveyed. ‘ Your petitioners further respectfully represent that, on account of the disgrace and obloquy cast upon them by the in many ways; that among these they enumerate the follow- ing palpable losses, to wit: That during their conﬁnement’ all their brokerage accounts were closed out, on account of these acts of the United States, and that the revenue from this source was completely dc- stroyed; that the American News Company, wholhad al- ways been the general agents for WOODHULL 8;; CLAFLm‘s WEEKLY, refused, on account of these acts of the United S'tat.es,»to act longer in that. capacity, orders to the amount of more than forty thousand copies per week being unﬁlled in their ofﬁce, and their correspondents throughout the country given to understand that the Woodhull St Claﬂin newspaper was an unsafe publication in which to deal, thus casting a. cloud upon it from which it has never recovered; that the said issue of November 2,1872, promised to reach a circulation of two million copies, but was cut off at one hundred and ﬁfty thousand by these acts of the "United States, resulting in a net loss to your petitioners in this one item, of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and for subsequent editions of as much more, besides utterly ruin- ing the paper as a journalistic enterprise; that the public; press all over the goountry repeated in their golgmng thegg appearing for examination they expected to be discharged’ time intervening between Saturday, November 2, at 3 o’clock ' days they were unable to obtain the required bail, and re- her presence. After the conclusion of the address she was fact of having been charged by the United States with a dis— ‘ gusting crime, they have suffered unjustly and unmeritedly - ‘ reduced from comparative aﬁluence and comfort to poverty ' your petitioners have been subjected were caused and brought deliver long sermons.” .63 disgusting charges, made by and uponthe authority of the United States against your petitioners, and that their names have thus been made a by-word and a term of reproach every- where. That Mrs. Woodhull, as a professional lecturer, was, on account of these acts of the United States, shut out of many of the best halls in the country, some of which remain closed against her to this day. That on account of the as jauntily as though he thought their accusation was a trifle, general impression caused in the minds of the people by these and the trial in which he is the defendant only a pleasing charges preferred by the United States thousands of persons sort of farce.” ’ have been deterred from attending her lectures, where she has been permitted the use of the public halls, and that her losses upon these counts are beyond computation. That on account of these losses and of the expenses to which they were subjected to defend themselves in the courts against these charges of the United States, your petitioners have been and to this end all were busy in heaping up against him and bringing home to him the evidence of crimes which must crush him in this world and expose him to damnation in the world to come, and yet he coolly goes up to them, attempts to joke with them, compels the most unwilling of them to speak to him, and plays through his little comedy with them The evidence of Mr. Moulton was ﬁnished on Monday, the 18th Jan., but his cross-examination is not yet concluded. All admit that his statements have been made with telling effect, and that, for perfect coolness and se1f—possession he is more than a match for the quartette of H. W. Beecher’§ lawyers. ‘No new facts, however, have been elicited. Two or three more lady deﬁers of Judge Neilson’s dictum have made their appearance, the last being the redoubt-able Miss Bessy Turner, who has graciously condescended to honor the upon them bythese acts of the United States, and that all court with her presence. ~ these acts were unjust and unlawful, and when brought to ’"w‘'' trial in the United States District Court (Judge Blatchford L013 WAISBROOKER AND HER PA3’iPHLET- presiding) were dismissed as having no foundation in law. - In Dear Weeklg/—It; was my good fortune to meet that earnest, view, th6I'€f01‘ea Of 311 these fahisa Which y0111‘ P6i?iti0D€I‘E{ capable, as well as bold free lover, Lois Waisbrooker, at have endeavored justly to set before you, and in view also of Newark, N, J_, 19,31; sunday, where 1 went; to 13,11; to 3, few the f111‘th<3I" T3-013 that T»h9y haye h8Tei?0i0I'6 refrained f1'0IYl governmental innovators upon the science of democratic making ahy 00mDiiiihi'» Of theﬁee actﬁ Of the Uﬂiiied States, government. She is evidently a woman acquainted with h0Pii1g‘a but in Vain 6IICie3V01‘ihg~ 10 1”€00V€1‘ i»h€D3S9iV6S i1‘0hl hardship, endured in the school of radical reform. She put their eﬁeﬁtsa thhy BOW 003119 h0i0T9 y011i' h0D01‘ﬂbi6 b0Cii6Ss in my -hands, after announcing that she was a free lover, her and ask for some indemniﬁcation for the disasters -brought pampmet upon “The sexum Question and the Monay 11P0h them by these 3053 Of the UIlit9Ci States; and 1°01‘ iiheir Power,” with the request that I should read it carefully and imprisonment, virtually, during the period of seven months, write for your independent paper my views of it and its in which they were held in $13,000 bail to answer to these phﬂ0S0phy_ Charges Of the United S'°‘3«h9S- As I am not a book reviewer, I can only say that I listened Y0111‘ P0i’«ii3i0H61'S 1‘9SP30i7i11iiy 1‘9P1'€Sent that no ‘Sum 0f to its reading last evening with much pleasure as well as in- money that might be paid to them could ever be c0mpensa- struction; and while I indorse all that she puts forth as cor- tion for the disgrace and distresses from which they have rest in philosophy and fact, I would pursue a somewhat suffe1‘6<1 and are Suffering 011 3000111113 Of 1331889 30“? Of the different» road to accomplish the same result. She clearly United States. 50 Say h0thiDg ah011,i? U16 actual Pecuniary proves that money is the;’god,and man being in possession 105863 Which they ha“? Sustained: which they haye 110 doubt of this god, woman sells her sexuality for its possession, thus were, and they so represent them as being, not less than corrupting the 0ﬁ“sp1A-ing, whether in the 1ega10rj11ega1 pro- $500.00“ - Your Pei3iti0h61'5 (30 11013 €Xl3€0t 01‘ 33k ‘#0 be Why duction, and to prevent this corruption she would place the remunerated even for their actual losses, or repaid for their money god -in WQn3a,n’s hands, am}, thus make her master gf 811ff61“i'DgS and diﬁgracei but they (30 ask 10 he 1"9ii6V€d by the situation. She very urgently appeals to the radical world the United States, thmilgh the 30ii0h Oi y0i1-1‘ hohorahie to come to the rescue—if not to labor, at least to sustain bodies. in the sum of $100,000, which will enable them to re- those who d0_ ‘ gain some of the comforts of life of which they have been My remedy for the corruption of offspring is short and d9PTiV9<i by these acts Of the United St3~i79S Of "Which they effect-ive—Viz., destroy in toto the money god from the face have herein made complaint. of the earth, and make only the producer the master of the Aﬂliyhiil‘ P6i7iti0he1‘Sa relying UPOD y011i‘ 861159 Of justice to situation. Then, if woman produces and can possess what grant their Pei/iiii0Da Wiii GVBI‘ P1‘ay- 1 she produces, she can snap her ﬁngers in the face of man, for — ‘%~‘ she is self-sustaining, and need not sell her body nor soul for ]NC.1DENrpS OF THE T1LTQN_BEEQHER CASE money and its concomitants. How shall we destroy the TUESDAY JAN 11_ money god is the question of the age, rather than who shall At one 070106]; recess was tiakeu for an hour when Mrs_ have the possession of the money god. I have but one answer . d ,0}; MIN Fi Id’ ———viz., destroy all interest of all kind and shape. Make it iifgglllfj ,;,viﬁ]::di::::;_eaén;iV’hSfgiiflgi 6151,a(?O:1CK1iV'e tmzugheit punishable with death to take interest, and enforce the law . , . Both ladies s-milingly assented, when Mr. Beecher came ,up $01218 lfttelge TEVuific¥1h?sr:n:VO:1_1l2gerggeﬁﬁggggsgfaafiafale an: also shook hands with them, and turning to Mrs. Field, Wzulegge Ifsugeii to go to W011 and gimduce, or he would hi Sal :“ . . - - time “ eat his own head off ” as does an idle horse. “ I h?sp:1’;1::rgst'/hilsllgg Otlllltaf, you Wm see that this little But without elaborating iny method, I am happy to recom- woman ‘ - . * - To this Fie1d.rev1ied as the W2?“ d0 her her ,, iiﬁiiiésaiiiiifioiiﬂir33$.3? aiZ§.,°$‘.‘£lZi. "..‘?.‘..’i§..‘§‘.‘ 1.2: Tummg Mi Mi‘s' Tlmm’.he mqurlredi D0 you Sleep Well? only novel but instructive, utilizing that much-abused and aslihotﬁlgh ta:/]1:1li;ge:h.eainEi§?1.§ biexhausted by loss Qf Swap" misrepresented phrase, “free love,” for the beneﬁt of the “iiﬂslrsezl brage in you to bZhere_,,__N. Y. Teleg,mm_ oppressed and suffering mothers of the race. It would be . COMMENT’ sexes we should at last ﬁnd the germ of true salvation. Mrs. . Son-[.16 would term thlstgallanfﬂyihothers’ humgmg .The.re Waisbrooker evidently has found a key to knowledge, and is a. dlﬁereilce betwmzn P13 laveilmg t e :or1.d agll defymg Its thence to blessings for the race; and if we all could come up umuet ruimgs" Thu hm Bess ls never espma 6' even to her standard, we should soon ﬁnd another door open- 1NTERMISsI0N_WEDNESDAY’ JAN‘ 1:3‘ ing for "us, even into deeper mysteries of the wonderful links Mr‘ Beecher’ with a g°0d'nai’ured smile and his usual genial that this same sex-relation holds for our progression toward manner, left his own counsel and stepped across the room to the inﬁnite Order of truth and right; K the table at wh1ch Mr. T1lton’s counsel sat, and reaching Therefore I Say read it; read it, and you will be Wiser and across it, saluted Mr. Beach, and then shook his hand. better for so doing Price 150_ per copy_ “If,” said Mr. Beecher to Judge Beach, laughingly, “if I get out from between the paws of two such lions as you and Fullerton, -I’l1 believe I am innocent, and that is what I, ’ to ﬁnd out.” \ Ga‘Ii1Y<})11(ir(f5orget,” said Mr. Beach, pointing to Mr. Evarts, , SAN FRANCISCO’ Jan‘ 8’ 1875' ‘ ‘ the Daniel standing among the lions and closing their ' WOODHULI‘ 8‘ OLAFLIN S WEEKLY‘ ' ,, ‘ I am unable to learn by your paper the present whereabouts mi\)Iu1-thgeecher placed one hand on Mr, Shearmanas shoulder of Mrs. Woodhull. It was stated that she had again gone to d 'th other on Mr_ Evans: and remarked in a J-Ocular Europe. Is this so? There are many here who would like an ,, ii 1. I, harmfess animals 97 Then turnin _ to express their personal sympathy with her, as sister to sis- xaiir Moyrrignijzzifle. y i ’ g ter and friend to friend. For myself, I never can forget how cs Lét me prgsent myself to you, Judge MOI.1.is_n dieply ‘she interested me pers'onally—-apart from her. heroic The eX_judge Very coldly replied, .. ML Beechenn enorts in her great cause—dur1ng her brlef stay in this city. The pastor of Plymouth Church was not to be Iepulged in Her sad, beautiful face———certa1nly one of the sweetest faces this way, and continued: _ in the world—-is a perpetual memory to me; 1t haunts me I“ I notice that you lawyers’ like preachers’ know how to mi: Ii)::li::,das:::: <1)? :Ei1I‘eOsf:[>:l(<:AItii11e(iIIi_i;L71sStery of life that every There was a slight tinge of ‘sarcasm in Mr. Morris’s tones as great Soul has its Gethsemane’ and that tile worldis path to t d . st Yes sir . I Had a long story to ten.» freedom lies always over the crushed bodies of her saviors. heretor 6 .' ’ h’ - t ‘f 1 1 h M B h It ‘will not be, therefore, I fear, in the life-time of Victoria Mir. ia\fiO(I'I1"gssS:r3sI10ii111ii 6 pom O eav Hg, W en ru 6% er Woodhull that justice will be done her. Yet, why look for 3%? fudge Morris, you should have come to me fora point or justlilciima worltd where the whole order of things is manifest- tWO' I could have ‘ Pit you up i to Sgirge thibngs which/would lyltleisi tiiislligrliisvgiiong-suﬁering woman ﬁnd what compensa- hage mffe Xoulzsgzeflo aféiiar 263$ Mrerr?_1]:1t.()n for the ﬁrst tion she can in having added one more to the long list of the timgshoiiraflsuick glance, in ywhioh mingled hate and Scorn noble army of ’martyrs of whom the world is not worthy. I d at the Speaker._N. Y. SW_ Mrs. Woodhull s theory may be 1n.advance of the times-for were expresse ’ ' at best we are, most of us, but semi-barbarians; but the times GOMMENT' will assuredly grow upito it, and in a purer and better age W611 may the P30Pi0i 011 reading this interlude in the P133’ than this is her memory will be revered andhonored in pro- of the m0d81'I1'“ 3011001 f0I‘ Scandal ” iI1fl11i1‘9 With Shy 100k: portion to the injustice and obloquy heaped upon it. In spite “ Is thisthe law ?” C /of persecution and intolerance the march of humanity must and well may the N. Y_ Sm, read H_ w_ B; the following be onward. We shall eventually cast off our present shackles, lecture on the frigh‘tfu1fo11y of such apmceeding on his part; and, in the natural evolution of things,.will emerge at last into “ Here were three men, his antagonist’s counsel, who were the 1100i1‘iay Oi P0I‘S0I1a1 freedom and 1_I1<iiVid11a1 S0V61‘6igi1ty~ an intensely engaged in the Work of proviﬁg Henry ward I trust your readers will take the hint of a correspondent Beecher a seducer, an adulterer, a thousand~fold liar and per- 3115» each M01059 3 5-01131‘ ff)? 3» New Y9a1"S Oiferihg 00 the juror, afalse friend, and a foreswoim, hypocritical minister, WhE‘1$LY.~ 1495 11° 011° hesitate b°°a“-5° i7h—° Sum 1-5 Small" and distress. That all these losses and distresses to which . MADOX, of Maine. 29 BROADWAY, New York, Jan. 13, 1875. WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. strange, indeed, if out of this long-despised relation of the ’ Jan. 30, 18.75. Thousands read your paper, and if each will promptly remit a dollar, it will count up in the aggregate. Many are no doubt, already acting on this wellntimed suggestion. The personal friends of Mrs. Woodhull in this city, are I know, movixxgfin this direction, and I trust it will ere long be fol-\ lowed by substantial results. , ' M. L. WHY THEY WANT OFFICE.-—“ The concealed frauds which have been practiced for a long term of years in our alms house,” said Mrs. Pearce of Jersey City to the Women’s So- cial Education Society yesterday afternoon, “surpass the ras- calities of New York Ringism.”_ The Rev. Phoebe Hanaford said ditto, and the whole caucus of ladies—Mrs. Gabriel Kent, Mrs. Bronson (the elocutionist), Mrs. Shepherd (the journal- ist), and Mrs. Cooke (the poet)—added that to ferret out, publish and prevent fraud, cruelty and bad management in the public institution for paupers and criminals, women must be elected with men as Overseers of the Poor. Mrss SARAH ANN CoLLINs is the young lady who became famous last spring in the stigmata sensation in San Francisco. She pricked her hands'and feet so that they bled, and the de- ception was regarded as miraculous by many until the ex- posure came. Miss Collins was married the other day to a wealthy merchant who formed her acquaintance during her‘ mock phenomena. 0 BUSINESS ED1ToR1ALs*. DR. C. ,WINTEBBURN, No. 101 East Fourth street, gives remarkable astrological readings. Consult him upon any subject. ‘ ‘ , WARREN CHASE lectures in Oceola, Iowa, January 10; in Winterset, Jan. 16 and 17, at quarterly convention of Iowa State Association; at Cambridge, Iowa, Jan. 24; at Union, Iowa, Jan. 31. Address Colfax, Iowa, till further notice. PROF. LISTER, the astrologist, can be consulted at his rooms No. 329, Sixth avenue. Address by letter, P. O. Box 4829. MRS. NELLIE L. DAVIS may be addressed at 235 Washing-_ ton St., Salem, Mass. A ‘ E. J. WITHEFOBD, trance and physical medium. Public seances Thursdays and Sundays at 8 P. M., at 409 W. Madison street, Chicago, 111. W. F. JAMIn:s0N is speaking during the Sundays of this month in Loomis Temple of Music, New Haven, Conn. He would prefer calls for February and March, in New York State. Address at New Haven, Conn. ‘ D. S. 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A new educational system, in which all children born shallhave the same advantages of physical, industrial, mental and moral cul- ture, and thus be equally prepared at ma- turity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. ’ All of which will constitute the various parts of 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; $61.50 six months; or 10c. single copy, to be had of any N ewsdealer in the world. who can order it from the following General Agents: The American News Co., New York City; The New York News Co., New York City; The National News Co., New York City; The New England News Co., Boston, Mass. ; ‘The Central News Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; The Western News Co., Chicago, Ill. 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The ERIE RAILWAY to SUSPENSION BRIDGE: The GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA to Detroit; The MICHIGAN Cl1ll‘Nl‘RA.L to Chicago: The C BIOAGO, BURLINGTON and QUINCY to Kansas City, St. Joseph, Lincoln, Omaha and to all points in the great North and Southwest. r ‘ _ , of , f om New ,York to Chicago. One change to Omaha, and that in the Dep'd‘t1'.1 Ililltdhoigdncgziigfal inC(%lll1Eicai1;o,'f1*om which the C., B. and Q. departs. The hours’ time consumed by travelers by o’her routes to Chicago from the East or West in transferring from depot to depot, is Saved 5 ~ 10 th' ut A to get their meals—an advantage over all other routes which deservedly makes Itythgsiihegsﬁeddpiflar 1aSn1d)th: besst patronized line of travel across the Continent. THROUGH TicKETs to all important towns, a.i 1 general information may be obtained at the Company’s office 349 Broadway (corner of Leonard street), New York. 7 9-IE‘ Condensed Time Table. WESTWARD FROM NEW YGHK, Via Erie & Mich. Central& Great. Western R, R’s‘ an BTATIOL-5_ Express. Eféggfss STATIONS. Etcpress.” . Y ......... .. 8.30 A M. 10.45 A. M. Lv 23d Street, N. Y ...... .. 6.45 P M L‘? ?jEl;l[}i.l§1tg‘gIE‘§;;’Sge8l3 . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.40 “ 10.45 “ :‘ Chambers street . . . . . . . .. ‘.00 Q .. Jepgev Cit_v...... ..... .. 9.15 :* 11.15 3 5 Jersey city ....... 7.20 3 “ Hornéllsville . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.30 ‘ 1,50 “ “ Hornellsville . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.40 “ Express. csB11ﬁ{a10,,....... 1¥.(1)(E';A M. L ]gu1:a(l30._....].3.._a . . . . . . .. ‘ ‘gm ‘.B'd . . AM. . PM. v up_ns1on rige . . . . .. .5 ‘ .,.p_n, 1§1diEii)iIR>Sd(.). . . . . . . 2.45 “ 2.55 “ Hamilton . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2.55 “ 11,20 “ London ................ .. . 5.35 1: 5.55 :: “ London ................ .. 5.55 3 2,35 3, m_ .5 Detroit _ _ _ , , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.40 10.00 “ Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 7,00 1 “ Jackson . . . . . . . . ....... _. 12.15 P M 1.00 E M “ Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 A‘. M 1~._:3o st 4.: Chicago _ _ _ , _ _ , _ , . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 ‘ 00 Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 ‘ 8,45 p_ m, ,‘-‘#30 A M 11.50 A. M, Ar Milwaukee ............ .. 11.50 A M 5T0 ,T‘”", m_ ls—55 1- M Ar Prairie du Chcin . . . . . . .. 8.55 p. m. 1.50 r M. 7.05 A. M. Ar La Crosse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.05 A. M. 7,05 9,, m, 6.15 1» M Ar St. Paul ...... ..... .. 7.00 A. M. ' 8.15 A M Ar St. Louis..... ......... .. 8.15 1-. M. 5,40 1» M . Ar Sedalia ............... .. 6.50 A. M. ,. 1%}. . . . . . . . . . .. .00 “' Denison . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.00 “ “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10-45 “ . “ Ga1V0S'ﬁ0n - - - - - - -- 10.00 “ 11.00 P M. Ar Bismarck . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.01 P M . Ad ,§’,§§",’ff,‘{,‘f,.,‘j,'_ 5.00 A M. “ Columbus ........ 6.30 “ as Lime R0ck____ 7.30 P M. “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . .. - ' t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8.50 A M- Ar Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 P M. A3 l03§,’,1,§‘,,,“°f _______________ ._ 11.00 1- M- “ Omaha ................ .. 7.45 A. M. . u Cheyenne _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ “ Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . .. 12.50 P M. ~‘ 0 den ................... .. .“ Ogden--.._ ........... .. 5.30 “ .. “ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. “ San FI‘&I1C1SCO ....... . . 8.30 “ . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 0.40 A M Ar Galesburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4.45 P M ,, A3 ‘.‘:l.‘:‘:‘.‘;“."%‘. ......... ...... .. 11.15 ‘ “ Quincey . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9.45 -‘ . 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Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-01-30_09_09
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 09, no. 10 (February 6, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2057
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-02-06
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: ,.MT PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT: UNTEAMMELED LIVES! ‘E BREAKING THE WAY\\ FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. IX.—No. 10.—Wl;ole No. 218.; i NEW /YORK, FEB. e, 1875. m..._... PRICE TEN CENTS. 1 BY AND BY: , AN HISTORICAL ROMANGE or THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND . B O O K I V . CHAPTER Vl.—Continued. The clergy of Soudan, in their alarm at the new movement, sought to strike at its promoters through the neighboring peoples. Divining that the Emperor’s design of regenerat- ing the plateau involved the redemption of the Sahara, they set to work to stir up the desert tribes, the people of Fezzen, and those bordering on the Mediterranean, by asserting that it was the intention of the Emperor, under European inﬂu- ence, to destroy their commerce and power by bringing in the sea to drown them out. ’l‘he trigonometrical survey they denounced as the invention of the Evil One, and liable to be visited with a retribution such as that which had followed the census of David; and Africa was still so dark a ...
Show more,.MT PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT: UNTEAMMELED LIVES! ‘E BREAKING THE WAY\\ FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. IX.—No. 10.—Wl;ole No. 218.; i NEW /YORK, FEB. e, 1875. m..._... PRICE TEN CENTS. 1 BY AND BY: , AN HISTORICAL ROMANGE or THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND . B O O K I V . CHAPTER Vl.—Continued. The clergy of Soudan, in their alarm at the new movement, sought to strike at its promoters through the neighboring peoples. Divining that the Emperor’s design of regenerat- ing the plateau involved the redemption of the Sahara, they set to work to stir up the desert tribes, the people of Fezzen, and those bordering on the Mediterranean, by asserting that it was the intention of the Emperor, under European inﬂu- ence, to destroy their commerce and power by bringing in the sea to drown them out. ’l‘he trigonometrical survey they denounced as the invention of the Evil One, and liable to be visited with a retribution such as that which had followed the census of David; and Africa was still so dark a continent, intellectually. despite its superabundance of physical sun- light, as to make the idea terrible to the multitude. Such was the position when Criss tore himself from N annie,‘ whom he had in vain endeavored to interest in his work, to make his first’ post-nuptial visit to Africa. One portion of Criss’ work consisted in the construction of pictorial repre- sentations of the Africa of the future——Africa as he hoped to make it—no longer blasted and crushed by its sunshine, but with its Sahara turned into a smiling garden or a. summer sea. Criss’ pictorial designs had already done .wonders, and _ it now remained only to conciliate the dwellers in the Oases, the most superstitiously attached of mortals, to their green. homes. Sooner, it was said, would an Arab give up his hope of heaven, than part with his beloved oasis, the birth-place, dwelling-place and ﬁnal resting-place, alike of himselfand his ancestors. Egypt would not hear of such an experiment. She not only placed her veto upon it, but stirred up the limbs lnha-biting the Libyan Oases, the most depressed por- 310113 Of the Sahara, to resist -it with all their might. As the vast design gotwind, all Europe and Asia Minor be- came interested in ‘it, and the students of science eagerly :;:;g:td0ver the conﬂicting theories respecting the probabili- tl ' n consequences of success. The Geologists, whatever ieir theories on these points, were to a man enthusiastic on Eshalf 9f the 9XP6l‘1ri1ent. They even afforded useful aid to 9 P¥'°-33°13 by exhlblblng to the astonished Arabs the fossil ¥'°mamE' 0f ﬁshes: Which they found in Sahara, proving that it was the sea-bed of an evaporated ocean of the Tertiary period, and therefore possibly designed by Providence again to become a sea. The Geologists did service also by suggest- mg the Probability of there being under—ground reservoirs of $9‘ Water Dermeating the lime-stone bed of the Sahara. « here else could all the water which annually inundated the Plateau go to? And if this-was the case, doubtless it was f3I];:i:]1 this illgexhaustible source that the Oases were fed. What tures 3:211 letbe easiefr tor better than to enlarge the aper- Indeed it mi Iilgtﬁ 0 his water flow through the surface? S , 8‘ us be a fresh instead of a salt sea, that the ahara would become, vertical borin i l7w::ls1pr0b'ab1e, that on makmg an extensive be he h 3 If 0 0 S-'=:J1aPa.the firstflow of water would 5 , and might continue so for some time. But that ultimately, the sea which was at present kept out by the frag}; water,would ﬁll in the limestone cavities and ﬂow through in sufficient quantity to counteract the loss by evaporation, the problem of turning the desert into a. sea would be solved, and that without cutting a canal. They communicated the notion to the Emperor who was hereditary chief over a small oasis, which lay close below the plateau, considerably to the east of Lake Tchad, and there- fore far toward Egypt. He caught at the suggestion, and having purchased the rightis of all the dwellers on the oasis, and removed them to an estate at a distance, he sent a strong force of laborers, with powerful excavating machinery, and set them to work at bore for water on a large scale. The result of the experiment was satisfactory beyond ex- pectation, considering that the spot selected was by no means one of the lowest parts of the desert. The water, thus far per- fectly fresh‘ and pure, came through in such abundance, that the whole basis was ﬂooded, andcontinued to be so, as well as the surrounding desert afor considerable distance un- til the sands and the sun prevailed to prevent its further spread. , , Students of science, other than geologists, concerned them- selves with the doings in the Sahara. These were the Meteor- ologists ; especially the Meteorologists of Switzerland. “ In the glacial period,” said they, “ Switzerland was an ice- berg. From the summit of the Alps to beyond the Jura, “it was buried beneath the chilling pressure of an enormous mass of ice, bearing on its surface giant rocks. The great ‘desert of the Sahara was still overﬂowed by the waves of the sea; its burning. sands not yet exposed so as to produce that glowing wind Which, nowadays, after traversing the Mediter- ranean,/ melts away the winter snows on the Alps, as if by magic, and converts Switzerland into a blooming _country:” “ To restore the sea to the Sahara,” exclaimed the savants, “is to bring back the glacial period to Switzerland. It is to ruin the climate of Europe.” The question was an immense one. ‘With the climate of Europe would go the civilization of Europe. The world would have existed in vain. Every scientiﬁc coterie on the face of the globe was absorbed in the problem. It was one of the ‘.‘ long results of time,” that International politics be- came a question of Meteorology. This was something gained in the long and weary pilgrimage of humanity. But what would’Alexander, Julius Caesar or’Napoleon Bonaparte have thought of such a controversy betweeii nations? Criss, as was his wont, had recourse to Avenil. Avenil had enjoyed the discussion, but held the -fears to be groundless. “ In the ﬁrst place,” said he, “the sea will be very shallow and a very "warm one, and the bed has been raised so high, that probably one-half will not be submerged. Of this, however, we shall be better able tojudge when the survey is completed. But there is another reason. The greatest cold of Europe comes with the N orth—e-ast Trades from Polar Russia. These winds are aggravated, if'*1“h‘ot entirely caused, by the heat of North Africa. Cool Africa, and you mitigatg, not increase, the rigor of the climate of Eurcpeﬂv’ The States bordering on the Sahara took another View of the question. “ What,” they asked, “is the climate of Eu- rope to us! We have a right to escape from being roasted in our own country, if we can.” The determination taken by Criss was to make the experi- ment, as an experiment to be abandoned in the event or success proving pernicious. There would be no diﬁiculty about this. A In spite of the opposition of Egypt——--an opposition offered on purely selﬁsh grounds——Criss succeeded in purchasing the most eligible portion of the country bordering on the Medi- terranean for his purpose. It lay between Tripoli and Egypt, and contained a region depressed nearly two hundred feet below the sea. The spot where the excavation was to commence was from one to two hundred miles inland. Here, and at numerous points along the route, was collected an army of laborers, with excavating machinery of gigantic power and a vast ar- ray of appliances for the task. The plan was to cut a deep, broad channel in the solid limestone bed of the desert to the sea, maintaining the same depth throughout, so as to make way for an enormous body of water to enter at once. Thus only, it was held, would the loss by evaporation be supplied. Notwithstanding the efforts brought to bear upon it, the works would occupy several years. I , “ i To Criss’ perplexity, the Emperor did not enter so heartily into this portion of the scheme. Taking a line of his own, he pretended that he disliked the idea of an open junctions with the Mediterranean, by which hostile and rival trading vessels would be enabled to traverse the inland sea up to the very borders of his country. He might be a match, he said, for his African rivals, but could not compete with the whole world. Rather than have an open channel, he would prefer to bring the sea in through a series of enormous siphons. It was only that he might conciliate the nations of the Confederacy, and secure his own admission into it, that he would consent to Criss’ scheme. Criss felt that the Emperor had not given the real grounds of his objection, and urged him further. The Emperor then said that he was convinced that no sin- gle channel could supply the" Sahara, and that he thought that tunnels might be driven with advantage, and at far less cost, into the sea at various points round the coast, so as to make sure of the water reaching any isolated portion of the J,/.. lowlands. He proposed to attach in this way both the At- lantic and the Red Sea. A tunnel through the limestone ranges of Abyssinia would not only bring in water from a greater height than at any other‘peint—for the earth’s con- ﬁguration and motion, and the inﬂuence of the winds and tides, were such as to keep the Red Sea at a higher level than any other on the African coast——-but it would afforda cheap and convenient mode of transit for heavy produce to an Abyssinian port. At any rate, he had set his heart upon mak- ing the attempt, and should do his best "to carry out the lat- ter portion of the project at once, whilst Criss was operating in the direction of the Mediterranean. He had already con- sulted with his ministers, as_ well as with the savants and im- perial engineers, and their report had secured the oo4opera- tion of the principal capitalists of Soudan. He concluded by challenging Criss to a race, to see who would ﬂrst bring the water in, himself from the Red Sea or Criss from the Mediterranean. I ' CHAPTER VII. Criss’ life was indeed a full one. While engaged in the regeneration. moral and physical, of a continent, his own heart was perpetually torn asunder between the two charac- ters alternately enacted by his wife. Two characters, different as those of two women. The one, so inel"f-ably lovely and loving, winning and kind, in the ecstasy of her ardent nature abandoning herself whollyto her love, and in the perfection of her adaptation making Criss feel, indeed, that if ever woman was made for man, Nannie must have been made expressly for him. The other, the result of abandonment, not to love, but to feelings which converted love itself into a curse. Nannie knew and felt that Crissloved her wholly, solely and truly; but, unaccustomed as she had ever been to exercise the slightest control over herself, she now gave herself up to the dominion of her fancies, until, although knowing, and in her calmer moments admitting them to be but fancies, they be--* came for her more than all facts; more even than all convic- tions, which to the female mind are too apt to be far more than facts. , ' . , These fancies all took one shape. V She understood love only as a monopoly. Her" lover was unfaithful to her if he had friendships, interests, thoughts, occupations, in which she was not all in all. So far from her love leading her to take I an interest in whatever interested him, it led her at ﬁrst to exhibit indifference to, and then vehemently abuse, every ob- ject, event or person unconnected with her, that he chanced to mention. Slowly and sadly he found himself driven to a resolution never to allude in her presence to any subject whatever, save herself. Even his own life-long friends were not spared, though she was never tired of vaunting her own early associations. ‘ . Criss alone saw her under the inﬂuence of this side of her character. In society her brightness and vivacity won im... inense admiration, and admiration was a thing which she loved too dearly to forfeit by an exhibition of ill-temper. While the self-control thus manifested abroad led Criss to hope the best for her sanity, he found no consolation in as- cribing her -outrageous conduct at home to a deliberate disregard for him and his happiness. One of the traits which struck him, as most curious, was the utter indifference she showed to her promises of reformation, and this only a little. while after she had uttered them with suchexhibition of deep repentant sorrow as to win his forgiveness, and make him hope that this was really the last time. A But though none of his friends as yet were cognizant of his domestic history, they could not fail to remark that he with- drew moreand more from their society, and that when he did appear, he had little of the serenity and cheerfulness which had been wont to characterize him. Criss had a good, and tried friend in his neighbor, Dr. Markwell, a physician of high repute, and married to amedical lady whom also he highly esteemed. Butit was only by stealth and rarely that l he ventured to consult them. He feared to excite N annie’s suspiciousness andvjealousy against even her physician. For _ the doctor to be able to inﬂuence her, he must retain her conﬁdence. It was thus that when they met in N annie’s preg- ence, he affected to give but a qualiﬁed assent to whatever Criss said. ' _ . An astute investigator of the maladies of mankind. Dr. Markwell, while assuring Nannie that it lay with herself to determine her own fate, whether for weal or woe, inasmuch 2* I .! I , woopnunr. so oi‘.-.s.ri.irvs.w1:EKI.Y ’ as it is to a very great extent in the power of an individual to promote or resist insanity; while, too, he gave Criss hope that her mind might be beneﬁcially distracted from its fatal preoccupation by the advent of offspring, yet in his own mind feared the worst. He did not, however, consider it his duty altogether to con- ceal from Criss the nature of his fears. Having had much ex- perience in prisons, and observed the effect produced upon the female constitution by the absence of a habit of control whether by self or by another, he told Criss how that when once ayoung Woman has discovered herpower to produce an hysterical paroxysm at will, she is liable to exercise it for her own gratiﬁcation, without regard to the distress she may cause to others; and that, the habit once induced‘, her own mental and moral nature is at the mercy of it, and madness .~..in one of its many forms frequently supervenes. ‘ [To be continued] UP THE OHIO RIVER, Jan. 12, 1875. .-‘ . “~ Dear Weelcly——The other day I started with my mother to visit Indianapolis, and on the little journey from Cincinnati took an observation on the social problem——in fact I took more than one, in short, a number. And to a “ locker on in Venice,” who keeps both eyes wide open, and constantly travels. the glimpses into our disgusting social sepulchre are many, a« .d to the point. But the particular “ observation ”“that I mean to mention here 'vas a “sanctified family ” of seven souls, and one “pre- cious little immortal” on the way to these social shores from "‘ heaven’s gate,” made in the image of God or its sanctiﬁed daddy, which is the same thing. There were the father and mother, and ﬁve little ones, all aliveand kicking, the oldest not over nine years, with a sickly, prematurely old and care- worn look, and the nursing babe for the youngest, whose pinchedand defrauded nose wasso soon to be broken by the advent of another “little stranger.” The father of these “ immortal souls ” was——well, he was a‘ “mutton head.” He never shut his wide-open mouth, nor hardly winked his great, staring, expressionless eyes for the entire trip. How he managed to hold’ on to that huge quid of tobacco, and to spit the juice of it on the stove at regular intervals was to me a puzzle. The mother of the “sacred little brood of gods and god-.4 desses" was, perhaps, just one degree. lirore inte]ligen.t than her " lord and master.” inasmuch as she chewed orange-peel all the way instead of tobacco, and admhistered the same suculent digestive to her numerous progeny, even to the baby till he choked, and to all the rest till there was no more to deal out. Her husbancl’s tobacco didn’t give out though. I took the measure of this happy family before the train left the‘ station in Cincinnati, and my mother liked to have taken a fit when that precious baby choked on that chunk of orange--peel, and she came near ﬂying out of her cuticle when that poor, ignorant mother opened the car window to cool offher fever-strinsh child I I said, “ Let them alone, mother, the world were better rid of such, ‘ cumberers of the ground,’ and if that open window proves the death of that child, there will he one less noodle-head. in the world, and one more little . cherub (l) to ‘ climb the golden stair.’ ” » She thought me heartless, whil.e all the while my soul was wrung at that distressful result of ages upon ages of enslav- ins of Wornanhood, and submitting of wives unto their hus- lsands, and to think their name was legion! Why,»l took tea at Clapham. Common, while in London, with a most reﬁned and intelligent Unitarian family where there were six chil- dren, the ohzlest not nine years, the youngest not on its feet, and in three weeks from the time of my visit there was an- other chiid born in that home! And there were no twins either! There were ﬁve servants in that house, and an in- telligence at the helm, while the poor mother with her almost six little ones on that train had no help, not even from that disgusting brute of a husband. Her two impotent hands must do for them all, besides keep the “hearth cheerful at home_:” and as for her husband—what’s in a name ?——she must perform her “ clear wifely duty,” and “ amuse him at ‘table, and comfort his bed.;” in short, she must submit her- selfunto him as unto the Lord! Out upon the infallibility of a book that has fostered such a monstrous wrong for ages! Before our train left the depot a young man had asked permission to occupy half my seat, and as he seemed inclined to converse, I was inclined to humor him; for my mother was in front to protect me! Presently the young man said, locking across at that “ sacred familyz” “ Those people are rich in offspring, if not in worldly goods.” Ireplied: “It _may be rich for them, but hardly for the unfortunate chil- dren ” The ice was broken and we boldly waded in, and kept up the talk till the young man got off the train. I judged he was a member of the Y. M. C. A. from his admis- sions; but I found him apt, and, to an extent, posted as to the shams of our modern society. If he never met a woman that dared talk truth to him before, I must say he bore it like a major, and was neither shocked nor presuming. If the average “younglady” of the period could have heard his opinion of her, she would hide her head for shame and go and learn a little common sense. And if Mrs. Grundy could have he.‘»trd,my‘conversation with that young man, she, in her mawkishness. would have turned black and blue. Isincerely trust the status of the Y. M. C. A. was not de- graded in his estimation by his contactlwith a “strongx. minded woman.” Here I am reminded that in a certain depot not far off, as one ascends the stairs from the lower regions where the trains‘ enter, one sees a large placard of the Y. M. C. A., and in close proximity——in fact, in actual brotherhood-——is another glaring placard, ,“Beware of pick- pockets I” Perhaps it would be as well to change the 1-eﬂgc_ lilulr and put it to that innocent fraternity, “Beware of ',Sf.l‘()?l minded women!” _ “ _ Even a. uglember of the Y. M. C. A., however, cannothelp seeing. the truth when it is presented in the shape of ﬁve miserable little children, with a male and female ignoramus for a father and a mother. and a dozen or ﬁfteen years still left such a couple in which to breed a dozen more immortal J \ "understand how it is that a principle is to become subser- sinners. And wherever opportunity occurs, let us never fail to shed the light of truth, though some pearls be cast before swine. We shall be rent in spite of the truth and trodden under the hoofs of insensible cattle,’ and blessed are they who can earnestly pray, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!” — HELEN N ASH. §,WHAT IS THE SOUL. GRAND ‘RAPIDS, Nov. 3, 1874'. Editors WeekZy———l havejust been reading Mr. E. Wheeler’s article in the WEEKLY,‘ headed, “What is the Signiﬁcance of an Abstract Moral Law?” In reading the article I find thebrother has used the word soul twelve times in a triﬂe over a two column article, and applied it in several bearings. I would like to askhim what the soul is. Iwould like to vient to matter, or, in other words, which is the greater-——prin- ciple or matter. I hope that Brother Wheeler will deﬁne the soul so one of the ignorant class may know what it is. I. D. SEELY. WHAT THE SOUL Is. AUBURN, N. Y., November 23, 1874. Editors Wee.kly——I thankyou for the privilege of reading a pencil criticism on my article, headed “ What is the signiﬁ~ cance of an abstract, moral law?” I am only sorry that the writer had not tested my remarks all through that article, by an experience that would have demonstrated that he had made it the most important business of his life to’have found the entire harmonies of his own being. When every person does this, they will, if patient and persevering, ﬁnd out what ails them, and get at the signiﬁcance of anything which claims a greater_right to them than themselves dare to claim. This is just the attitude of what we call the moral code, which points woutlwith impertinent audacity the path of life to man; then with mock importance assumes most gravely to damn the derelict for non—compliance. And this monstrous stride in blasphemy to man is set down as de- noting a greatness; and man has become so degraded by its inﬂuence on him, that he scarcely dares to pretend to be honorable without. carrying in his pocket a certiﬁcate of character, and that, too, from some one whom he has con- sented to honor with a parchment importance. And this moral code has gone farther, for we do not believe each other except as we are under oath. Sweet-hearts and lovers will, under the inﬂuence it has on society. throw awry all that ever made them dear to each other, and put up with a heartless, stupid pledge in lieu, which either are as powerless to keep as to tether a streak of lightning with a tow string; for all that gave them power or interest with each other was that which possessed them without pledges. Neither faces or the souls they represent are worth anything; oaths and abstract laws only are of Value. It is not a wonder that honorable manhood is out of sight. But parvlon me, I ﬁnd I am Wandering from my design in writing this article, but when I begin to look upon any one of the thousands of in- famies that abuse glorious man, I become soqcharged with feelings of indignation that so utterly refuse a compromise, that I can scarcely keep track of my subject. But to the point: I may, in the ﬁrst place, plead guilty to a charge of repetition in the use of terms; and, too, I may not be ex- actly consistent with myself in using the term “soul,” for instead of its being some part of the man, or something originally distinct from him and infused into him or grafted upon him, it is the sum, substance and the inseparable all of the spirit man, yet used by myself in its accepted sense as contradistinguishing the spirit nature, in its spirit‘ and sovereignty, from the outcroppings of this manifestation on a material plane of being, where we see men and women (the same soul) acting in a subsidized, subservient condition. The term soul has never had a very accurate signiﬁcance applied to it, for in speaking and reading it has ever been employed as denoting a something conferred upon, and su- perior to, and more enduring than the man himself, as in the fabled representation of the ﬁrst creation it was set down as the breath of a God. In the phrase, “ If a man shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul,” the man is set forth as being a somebody, and the soul a something of more im- portance in his possession- Your Querist says, “I would like to ask him what the soul is; I would like to understand how a principle is to become subservient to matter, or, in other words, which is the greater-—the principle or the matter?” This cropping out of his perplexity puzzles me, simply that I do not know which he means to call the soul, “the principle or the matter?” But he may somehow ﬁnd my answer in the remarks that follow. In an article pub- lished some few years ago on “the methods of creation”—— which I could wish republished, as now in my possession re- written and farther elucidated.——some of the remarks that here follow are drawn out at length. ~ The ﬁrst sensible question for man (any one) to ask himself (for if he only knew it, he can ask nobody else as intelligent), is “ What am I?” For the first knowledge we ever have is the consciousness of our own existence.’ When the conscious soul, or being, or man, is comprehended intelligently by the personal proprietor, he holds the key that unlocks (for him- self), the secrets of a universe. Hence the propriety, and importance of the question, “What am I?” Not my ideas, my notions, or my belief, for no sensible mind should care for these; but my substantial being--myself as a palpable creation——a constitutional and organic substance—a thinking, feeling, 1oving,iintelligent and sensing existence; not a con- struction of art, puffed into motion by a breath of air, and mistaken for a conundrum to be guessed at; but areal growth, with every right in being that anything, or any other existence has, and as explainable as any problem in mathematics. This is the question divested of its fog and mist, as placing itself before every manand woman in their own special interest_ We 6-0 I105 think; We only speculate, upon the importance of those straws that are artfully thrown before us to ensnare " our attention. But “ What am I? ” My answer to, and for, myself is, in my essential being, an indestruc tible unity, yet Feb, 6, 1375. point of observation. First ‘the soul, or the indestructible personality, “ I.” Second, the interior spirit-form of this soul, or its body, as related to another mode of being.‘ And third, my material form or outer casket, through which I am seen at present by individuals like myself. What then is this soul, or this indestructible personality “ I?” It is substance as certainly as anything else in being, yet drawn out, or ex- tended to its last degree of attenuation, wherein toughness, tenacity, endurance, sus’ceptibilit.y, and -every other quality or property of matter, is manifest, that can in“'ainy way con- tribute to render me an eternal permanence, and is effectual- ly secured. There is no use in talking if the facts of being are not within itself, since the hunt to ﬁnd them would certainly be bootless. But the soul is substance, and its interior form is substance; still both intangible to our present methods of cognition, and so alike in quality of material, and so desir- able, and so reciprocally of interest, that they never part com- pany. This soul, or personality “ I” is only recognized by itself through the medium of consciousness. For we only know our own existence by being cons‘c'1'ous of the fact. It is only through this personality “ I” that anything in being has any signiﬁcance to me. Talk of the importance of being, of principles of reforms, there are no such things only in the ratio of man’s ﬁrst being important to himself, for to me, there isno such thing as existence unless I exist. He fools his time away who undertakes to demonstrate his own being by the absurdities of theories; as well attempt to explain the growth of a cucumber by a treatise on mechanics. Man’s being in its three fold condition, is somewhat analo- gous to the common white walnut, which has the outer green shell through which it is attached to the parent tree, then the inner white shell, through which it exists independent of the tree; then the kernel, or meat, which is all there is of value to the walnut, giving life to, and using both its forms for its own convenience. Do not question this because the kernel is not ﬁrst discovered. In its potential germ is all the future walnut’s signiﬁcance. And the human soul is all there is of man that has a meaning, snce it, only, is thinking, feeling, sensing, loving, knowing and appreciating; ‘then the spirit form of this soul, applicable to an unseen mode of being, as is the outer tangible form to this mode. What We call death, is but the simple sloughing off of this outer form, sever- ing only the tie that conﬁnes the soul locally to this material plane of existence. All real ‘life and intelligence belongs to the soul, not its covering: for that we see as lifeless and senseless as a log of wood the moment the conscious soul throws it oﬁ’. That it throws it off, just note its ef1"orts, shad- owed in the struggles we perceive. to free itself. What, there- fore, we term death, is no extinguisher of life; but simply a change in its mode, and in no respect an interrupter of the personality of the individual, but purely an amendment in its way of life, from a clumsy compound to an active simple_ It will be seen, looking from my stand-point, that the soul is not a principle, nor a simple divine part of man, but the in- destructible entirety of all that constitutes the man, and im- mortal in form only, because of the imperishable nature of the properties that compose it, and of the unimprovable rela- tions these properties, or elements, hold to each other. « ' E. WHEELER. BIRD MUSIC. (Addressed to the Daughters and Sons of Toil,) BY R. W. HUME. Oh! mourn not the days that are past, The little birds whistled to me; The present’s the time for the wise, The future no mortal can see. The night is the herald of morn, The winter will change into spring; So, don’t be down-cast and forlorn, While the little birds merrily sing, My friends, And the groves with their melodies ring. What, though in the pride of his power, (Old Mammon unfurls his red rag; ' ’Tis coming, right quickly, the hour When Labor shall capture his ﬂag; Shall break down the magic of gold, Bring-the brokers and bankersto bay; Teach the “Bears” how to pull down the woods, And the “ Bulls ” how to toss up the hay, . My friends, \ ' While the summer sun o’er them shines gay. Though knavery now wins the game In the market, the church, and the street; And “ the love of one’s neighbor” be changed . To “the love of one’s neighbor to cheat;” Though poisons be sold to us now, In measures oft lawless and base; When “ our agent” the trafficker ’s ruled, Why that will soon alter the case, ,. My friends, And save us from all such disgrace. Though the spade be divorced from the land By the impious ﬁat of man, ‘ They shall soon be united again; ’Tis apart of the laborer’s plan. I When the soil is as free as the air, Then blessings shall hallow our store Then the sower shall garner the crop, And landlords shall tax us no more, My friends, Those scourges and pests of the poor. Might soon shall be conquered by right, The little birds whistled to me; Unite, then, and win the good ﬁght, ’And woman and man shall be free. , So cheerfully bend to the work, And the winter shall change into -spring; With the bass let the treble keep tune, While the little birds merrily sing, y friends, 3» kind of threefold existence, seen from my present stand- And. the Woods with their melodies ring. ,' 5 ._*+.. “THE OLD, OLD STORY.” Not of Jesus, but of love. If man love not woman whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? “Love one another.” “Love is the fulﬁlling of the law.” The utter promiscuity of the Jesus teaching of love is mani- fest in this, “ Love your enemies.” Can the man who loves his enemies be indifferent to the attractions of a woman and a friend? R. W. Emerson, who is regarded by some as a teacher greater than Jesus, may be quoted as in favor of the variety phase of love. Of the love of the mate he says: “And so is the one beautiful soul only the door through which he enters to the society of all true and pure souls.” “ Even love, which is the deiﬁcation of persons, must become more and more impersonal every day.”, “ N ot always can ﬂower, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even a home in another heart content the awful soulthat dwells in clay.” “ We are often made to feel that our affections are but tents of anight.” Others, and notably, Immanuel Sweedenborg and A. J. Davis, limit the inner line and deiﬂc ‘side of love to the one true and soul mate. However this may be, a world of. unhappiness may be avoided, and many sunny days be assured by an appreciation of the beautiful and good which we see about us in all of human kind. Let us be constant to love, if not to the one beloved. Part with the day not sadly, for the morrow ma.y be more beautiful than the yesterday. Beauty should not leave our world with a person;'if one leaves another will come with greater blessing. A network of love encircles the world, the prayer of the soul goes out upon these electric chords to the uttermost distances; if we trust, the best one is drawn to us for our beloved. Let the day or the hour of love be so full of unsullied beauty that if it returns not again its remembrance shall be never forgotten, and an ever blessed picture of immortal beauty.“ My rose is beautiful; it is delicious, tender, fragrant with the dews, and blushing in the sunlight of heaven; but there are millions more just as pure and sweet and good. If one fades or goes to other bands why should I repine, I shall have mine own. If I grasp it, and choose to hold, it will ﬂy away; but if I am content to wait, the beautiful one will come to the open arms. . . The soul is always beautiful, and, as we love with a love that permeates the whole being, and approaches the soul, we are beautiﬁed, and the object of our devotion becomes divine. He sees God in woman.‘ She sees God in man. Freedom is the messenger, and love the personality of God. Can the good and true and the pure desecrate freedom or love? The free-lover is honest, intelligent and true. ln legal marriage sexual passional indulgence is habitual, usually for the sensual gratiﬁcation of the man only, and in- volving the woman with undesired children. Can a man. force undesired children upon a woman that he loves in freedom, or hold a relation that may lead to undesired chil- dren? Cannot_a love of adaptation, intellect and affection be substituted for mere passional indulgence, conducive to healthful conditions alike of mind and body? Intelligent design has improved all plants, fruits, ﬂowers and animals below man. Children by design is at the very basis of stirpi— culture, and if the sexual relation, passional, is always to be held without regard to the result, there can be but little im- provement of our race. . We do not lose if we part with a lower form of love and ’ pleasure for a higher. Love hath her immeasurable delights. In the advance of truth, and in the integrity of our own being, we but part with one pleasure for another, and that more exquisite. The electric touch, embrace and kiss of honest lovers does more to give a bounding joyous health, and the genial glow of life than any more passional expres- sion, however legal, however respectable. Give us illegal love rather that legal lust, and the world will be the better. L. K. J OSLIN. COBDEN, Jan. 13, 1875. Enrrons WOODHULL St GLAELIN’s WEEKLY: I was exceedingly sorry to see the pages of our organ les- sened. After reading of the peril of the WEEKLY, occasioned by your sickness, I started out, taking three or. four papers as samples, to see if I could not procure at least one new sub- scriber. They wanted time to peruse them and consider. Of all the plans proposed, I think the one for each old subscriber to pledge one new one is the best. That will be gaining both ways. I will pledge myself for one new subscriber. I cannot forbear a few words of comment upon the decis- ion of one of your correspondents in the issue “of “December :26. Mrs. E. V., Milford, writes: “I believe woman is des- tined ‘to reform society, and I indorse many of the great truths advocated in the WEEKLY. but my husband has per- suaded himself that you are unsettling familycrelations, and I feel compelled for the sake of peace to give up the paper.” Now, I want to ask what kind of a peace she has secured‘ by that course, and how long it will take women to reform -society if they all follow her example? I wonder if she real- zizes what elseishe gave up when she gave up the WEEKLY, as she says, “for the sake of peace?” It seems to me that .:she gave up her individuality, her selfhood; gave up her -.(}o'di-given right to read and judge for herself upon all mat- "tors concerning her. own welfare and the good of society. We women have had it so thoroughly preached into our heads that self—abnegati'on and self-sacriﬁce become us, that many have come to consider them the highest of feminine virtues, when the fact is that the imperative duty of the hour on the part of woman is self—assertion. We must not only know our rights but must “dare maintain them.” This is our only hope. The spirit of truth is saying to us now, as plainly as ever before, “He or she that would lose their life for my sake shall ﬁnd it.” I do hope that lady will recon- sider her decision and not give up the WEEKLY, until she is convinced that it is doing harm instead of good. Yours for the right, H. A. RIoHARDsoN. GARMENT SUSPENSION. Receiving many inquiries as to the best discovered method of suspending clothing from the shoulders, I seek a public iuecliuzn of reply. that with these many ptherg not yet put forth in phrase may be answered. Am so glad to see these I signs of improvement, that my word of help is most cheer- fully and promptly given. - ‘ The “ Boston Flynt Patent” is complicated and unhy- gienic, no better for being of elastic material, and expressly injurious in hanging on a narrow*band at the shoulder-joint to favor low-necked dresses. Had it been broad-shouldered, like the vest, and commendably simple, it would still have a general objection in its patent. I The “ Vineland Duffey Chemiloon ” is an awkward combi- nation of shirt and drawers. Similar efforts at ‘combining have been experimented with from time to time, and always abandoned as inconvenient to put on and off‘, and quite so to I wash and iron. I have used the elastic and non-elastic straps, but long ago discarded all narrow supports’; have found nothing equal to the simple vest, lying easily on the whole width of the shoulder without touching the joint. When this is made of ﬁne cambric for summer, I stitch a stay an inch or more wide over the middle of the shoulder, bringing it down in back and front to stay the buttons for suspending drawers and trousers. I put two buttons, one an inch and a half above the other, that the bands may not all be in one place. In cold weather each one may hold two or more gar- ments. The vest should be well-ﬁtted to the form, yet so loose that the lungs fully expand and the body easily turns in it—inside of it. It should ﬂare over the hips and fall three or more inches below the upper button. For “slim” persons these four points of support are sufficient; thick ones can put buttons on the side seams. Bands on the lower garments should be also loose, or they will press the body and not be suspended at last. Remember this, you-who are now suffer- ing the compression of bands, gathers and plaits, enough to disable you even after the fettering petticoat is severed from your abused limbs. ” In this connection let me say to those who are yearning for relief from the bondage of skirts, yet hesitating to deliver themselves, fearing they will long stand nearly alone, that I public sentiment already sustains them, and only a surface show of squeamishness, mostly affected, disparages rapid and radical dress reform. These scientiﬁc times, proliﬁc in the favor of the useful, will ﬂash out such light one of these mornings that the McElimsies, for very shame, will spring to the exercise of courage long‘igno1'ed, and lack an apology for not possessing it when it was so stylish to be submissive and non-assertive. Those who have noticed the doings of the two congresses of city women have seen that the issues of all their deliberations hinged on woman’s power to sus- tain and govern themselves, and brought the question 6f practicality directly to dress reform, as the only means of retrieving adequate ability. If they further noted that these dainty reformers, who are so fearful of shocking those who are already secretly laughing at their timidity, and in their souls commending us who dare do right and only fear the wrong, that these admit all we claim of the necessity of dis- carding skirts and robing the dual locomotive organs in dual raiment, they will see tlsat all reasonix:g on the topic of wo- Inan’s ﬁtness forany elevated sphere results in the concession that the ground we take is the onlyconsistent one, and must be acted upon. Izilence let all cherish their courage, and fast as any are able to set liberated feet on_nature’s basis,..let them call to us Who are holding out ﬁrm hands for the aid of theirs in redeeming one half of the world from a thralldom so stultifying as to threaten the extinction of the Anglo—Sax- on race. , MARY E. TrLLorsoN. VINELAND, Dec. 10, 1874. THE GOLDEN SIDE. There is many a rest on the road of life, If we only would stop to take it; And many a tone from the better land, If the querulous heart would wake it. To the sunny soul that is full of hope, And whose beautiful 1rustne’er fadeth, The grass is green and the ﬂowers are bright, " Though the wintry storm prevaileth. ‘ Better to hope, though the clouds hang low, And to keep the eyes still lifted; For the sweet blue sky will soon peep through, When the ominous clouds are lifted. There was never a night withom a day, Nor an evening without a morning; And the darkest hour, the proverb goes, Is the hour before the dawning. There is many a gem in the path of life, Which we pass in our idle pleasure, That is richer far than the jeweled crown Or the miser’s hoarded treasure; It may be the love of a little child, Ora mother’s prayer to heaven, Or only a beggar’s grateful thanks For a cup of Wﬁter given. ,. Better to weave in the web of life A bright and golden ﬁlling, ’ And to do Gcd’s will with a ready heart, And hands that are swift and Willing, * Than to snap the delicate silver threads Of our curious lives asunder; And then blame heaven for the tangled ends And sit to grieve and wonder. WINoosKI, Vermont, Jan. 14, 1875. Enrrons WOODHULL AND CLAELIN’s WEEKLY: I herewith inclose you a copy of our new circular.’ Will you have the kindness to insertgit in your paper. We are working for a practical exempliﬁcation of the principles that you have advocated in your WEEKLY. If We succeed, it will be a practical veriﬁcation of the truths you have taught. We have cut out the pontoon. bridges behind us, and are going to die here or win the victory. Kind words by the liberal press and the pecuniary aid of reformers throughout the land will, inside in two years. give evidences of the HELL & CLLIN’S WEll3KI.Y! as 3 .. v-w .-. truths of social freedom such as can be obtained in no other way. Yours for the cause of humanity, JOHN WILLCOX. DAWN VALCOUR COMMUNITY- LETTER or APPEAL, NO. 2. To Brothers and Sisters, G’reeting-—-VVe take the liberty to make this special appeal to you in behalf of this movement, which some of the well-wishers of humanity are endeavoring to put into successful operation here. We expect nothing at the hands of those who do not comprehend our principles. But you have manifested an interest in our enterprise. and we write to you in hopesthat you may be moved to assist a cause that is to do so much for future generations, and in the belief that you will be faithful to the duties the age demands of every’ reformer. We are determined to succeed at /any cost of personal sacriﬁce that we, as members, may be required to make. Within a brief period the unparalleled corruptions and discords that have developed themselves in this nation will cause a revolution that will culminate in an e.ntire change of our social system. We believe that the principles upon which our community is founded will be the ethics of the future social science of this nation, and that Dawn Valcour Community will‘ itself be the prelude to the formation of similar movements in every State of this Union- Permit us to ask you what you can do to aid this movement? Are you ready to stand by us in this great work for human- ity? It is an honest and practical effort to inaugurate a, happy home, where we can enjoy every God—giyen right, and transmit to the generations that are to follow us an heritage that will live through futurity, until that day dawns when ideal human angels shall people the most remote parts of this earth. We believe that you are interested in community, and cannot therefore enjoy the cruelties and barbarities that are multiplying in isolated life about you. We are de'sirous~ to pay the last dollar due on this estate by the coming spring, and secure means and members suﬂicient to start our diversiﬁed industries, and commence the erection of buildings. » \ Will you be one amon g us in this noble work‘? If so, tell us how much means you can bring to our aid? If you have the means and cannot come immediately, please send us the amount necessary to secure a membership; or if you have property to invest, please state the particulars in regard to the same. All investments of any considerable amount will be secured by mortgage on the property of Community. Hoping that you will not delay in responding to our appeal. We remain, yours fraternally, .. , DAWN VALCOITR COMMUNITY. Address, Box 13, Winooski, Vt. STODDARD Co}, 1810., Dec. 19, I874. Dear Weeklg/—I have been destitute of money since you made known your wants until now, when Ihave just ﬁnished my four months’ s chool, for which I receive $80, clear of ex- penses. I hasten to divide this sum with you, inclosing money order for $50. which, please, use as you deem "best for the cause. . I rejoice that I have this much to give, and only regret that I have not enough to enable you to ride ‘the ﬁnancial storm triumphantly; but money is extremely scarce here, and all I can get is by teaching a few months in the year, and in the summer I can only get a small subscription school, which sometimes no more than pays expenses. The I prejudice is very strong here against female teachers, and their pay is much less than 'men’s; and I am additionally ostracized on account of my political, religious and social principles, though these, with my aversion to swine’s ﬂesh and the fumes of the tobacco pipe, are all the accusations‘ my enemies can bring against me, and these always behind my back. " Y I should regard the suspension of the WEEKLY as an irre- parable loss to humanity in general and myself in particular. It is my dearly beloved companion and instructor“; and I be- lieve it will, with the indefatigable labors of its chief editor in the lecture ﬁeld, and the assistance of the noble and heroic souls of botlisexes who stand by it, be able, after long. siege, perhaps, steady perseverance and well-directed effort, to batter down thewalls of ignorance, Superstition, bigotry and prejudice behind which are intrenched all the hypocrisy, tyranny, poverty, prostitution and wretchedness existing among our brethren of the human race. If the siege can be, supported with the all-important ﬁnancial resources by those who have an appreciation of the cause, the detestable fortress will soon crumble to the gfrox-1.i1'.l and let in the millennial light of truth and purity to liberate and make happy the race. I have rejoiced in reading of Vietoria’s triumphs in the lecture ﬁeld. I grieve for her personal sufferings, and sym- pathize with her in her solicitude for the continuance of the WEEKLY. I was not aware that she was struggling for the redemption of humanity at so great a cost, and I tenderly appreciate her delicacy of feeling in withholding this from ‘the public; but new that the friends of the cause are aware of the situation, it will be to their eternal shame and dis- grace if they do not rally and relieve. her from all further pecuniary anxiety. It makes me sorrowful to see so little assistance is rendered by those who ought to be friends and /can realize that it is their own battle she is ﬁghting at such‘ unparalleled sacriﬁces; but such malformations are the logical results of the present social system, and we mustex-I pect them until generation shall only result from free men and free women, drawn together by the mutual inspiration of free love. It rejoices me, however, to see that a few have given you something besides words of cheer to help you’ and our cause along, and I feel a deep sense of gratitude to them for it. They must have been generated under better con- ditions than the majority of our unfortunate. sisters and brothers. Your ardent friend and well-wisher, DALINDA. I 7AMIssoURJ; woman, who applied for a situation as can. driver, being asked if she could manage mules, scoruflilly replied: ** or sense 1: can. We had We 1ivslsa.ti<lsa”‘ ._....A& ""\-a-.:;.¢_v§... , _ .1 1 , i, - . at-reet, New York. woonuuLL.- Feb. 6, 1875. Q. 4 . M3, A 7 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIGN. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. One copy for one year, - $3 00 One copy for six months, - - - : . ~ ; 1 50 V Single copies, - - - - ~ - 10 1 CLUB RATES. ’ -Ewe copies for one year, 1- -\ ~ -. $1‘? 30 'Ri3n copiesfor one year. - - - - - 22 00 Twenty copies (or more at same rate), - - - 4.0 00 six months,’ . - - - — - One-hall’ these rates. All communications, business or editorial, must be addressed FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTION cm 31: MADE To THE AGENCY on THE AMERICAN Enws coiirasr, LON. non, ENGLAND. One copy for one year, - ' $4 00 One copy for six months, - - - * - "- 00 Advertisers bills willbe collected from the oﬂice of this journal, and must inall cases, bear the signature of Woonnnm. cit CLAFLIN. Specimen copies sent free. Newsdealers supplied by the American News Company, No. 121 Nassau Woodhull & otafttws Weerczy, - p . ’ - Box 3791, New Yon; City. Oﬂice, 111 Nassau Street, Room 9. , s, w . ‘mm c E NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEB. 6, 1875.. mi in u A, REQUEST. There seems to be a persistent effort on the part of the en- emies of the WEEKLY to prevent its circulation through the newsdealers of the country, and these efforts have prevailed to such an extent that we are constrained to ask the help of our friends in counteracting them; and therefore we request that they wi.ll personally call upon the newsmen in their.re- spective places, and induce them to again place the WEEKLY on their counters for sale. We would also like them to as certain from dealers who it is that suggests their refusing to keep the WEEKLY, and why they do it. Any information of this kind will be gratefully received, and will enable us to take measures to prevent further injuries from that source. The papers are returnable, and newsmen run no risk in ordering copies for their stands. O L ————————+——+o ‘TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. We send bills with this number of the WEEKLY to those whose subscriptions have expired, or will expire within a few weeks, requesting a prompt renewal from those who do- sire its continuance. Those who do not care for the WEEKLY longer will please notify us by postal card, or request their postmaster to do so. , I - Remittances should be made in drafts, money orders or registered letters, and the drafts and money orders should in all cases be made payable to Woodliull & Claﬂin. Will our friends please note this, and act upon it, for we are daily losing remitt_ances sent without these precautions? 4:4. f wr"—* WOODHU‘LL’S MOVEMENTS. Duringthe past week Mrs. Woodhull has delivered two lectures in Bloomington, Ill., one at Champaign, Ill., and probably one each at Pekin and Peoria, as announced in our last. Our latest advices, dated Jan. 21, located her at Galesburg, Ill. She will doubtless continue her route as laid down in last week’s issue, viz.: Topeka, Kas, Jan. 28; Leavenworth, Kas., Jan. 30; St. Joseph, Mo, Feb. 1; ;Nebraska City, Neb., Feb. 3; Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 4; Omaha, Feb. 6, Council‘Bluffs, Feb. 8; Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 9; Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 12; Grand Rapids, Feb. 18; The above dates may be changed in some instances; if so, they will be duly published in the local press. HYPOCRISY. Y _ \ There is more Phariseeism here now than ever there was ' _ _ ’ as (a logical necessity, that each and every person is entitled in J udea at the time of the Nazarene. The fact is, as Dickens tells us in the “Mutual Friend,” veneering is the specialty of the age, and what the painters call “putty” is in con- stant use and demand. The WEEKLY, however, will con- tinue to preach and to honor truth wherever it ﬁnds it, and takes especial pleasure in adverting to it in the following in- stance, which is taken from the columns of the New York The Bishop of Lincoln lately and publicly ‘rebuked a Rev. Mr. King for horse-racing. King had a runner named Apology, but the bishop wou1dn’t accept it, and rebuked him again. King has now named another horse Hypocrisy- which nobody can charge him with, as he is very frank about his turf sports. _ By all accounts, Apologyﬁran well the past season, win- ning, we believe, some heavy stakes; biit, as the world now" is, we strongly suspect that Hypocrisy will show better . time than has ever. before been exhibited. If it answers as well among quadrupcds as it does among bipeds, nothing a we should deem that there would be only one thing needed ‘ to secure Hypocrisy’s success on the turf--namely, that he ‘should be jockied by either a person or a politician. ,. _ up. 4' C?‘ THE NEW RE_LIGION——UNIVERSAL "JUSTICE. No. ‘XIII. Before entering upon the constructive part of our subject we must brieﬂy review what has already been considered, so that we may see exactly to what -point or position, or rather condition, we have arrived. It was found, in the first place, that, compared with*the demands of universal -justice——that which all people profess to desire to have instituted among men———every department of life, and every administration of its rights and possibilities is unjust; that all the natural gifts and wealth of earth belong of right to all alike, and that no part of all can gather up the whole," and deal it out for gain to others whom they have out.stripped in greed for wealth ; that whatsoever the earth yields is commonly bestowed by God without distinction. Thus the earth stands free and equal to all mankind alike. 1 Coming down, or rather up, to man to ﬁnd where justice lies between each different one and different grade, it was found that each and every one produced so much—compell ed the mother earth to yield so muchto him or her—-as each and every one has strength of will and muscle to command, and that measure of this strength was made by powers out- side. the individual choice. In short, that every person is what and only what the circumstances of his birth and growth have made him, and, therefore, that no part of man can claim‘ to be superior to the other parts by personal merit, and that the diﬁerence which exists between the sev- eral individuals Off, the race is ‘due to natural law, and not to a special cause within the control of any; and, therefore, all that are by naturalﬁi law more highly endowed, must bestow upon the rest, wliq are not so largely bleseed by the same natural law, as themselves, a portion of the fruits their la- bors gathered from the common ﬁeld. Hence, all should labor commonly together, each as his or her endowments‘ make it possible, and gather ‘up the fruits in acommon gar- ner, each from the general whole in equal right enjoying that which meets his needs and wants, and ministers to his comforts and delights. So, whether one has large or small measures bestowed upon him, he has an equal right in all that goes, and is,_to make life pleasant and enjoyable with every other man, and yet no greater right or better claim what- ever his. contributions to the whole have been, whether above or beneath the medium. So in this way alone can God give his blessings in equal measure to his children -——can make the sun to shine and rain to fall on all alike, to bless each one impartially—-that the common race of man, G-od’s great human family, each man and woman as well as every child forming a constituent part to the whole, blended in common interests, must live, and not that each and every family, pay, that each and every individual of every family, now so called, should be in constant strife and competition for’ the gifts of life; and that the love can be exempliﬁed that the great “Master” taught, commanding all to live in peace together, having, as his disciples had in the olden time, all things incommon. ’Tis true that so- called Christians of these-latter days refuse to recognize these teachings of their Lord; but those who have a real right to claim discipleship to him will yield their personal self-suﬁicicncy to a common brotherhood to aid the Christ- like plan, and thus become entitled to this right, and let the self-styled Christians plod along their backward way, until compelled to join the common throng in this the last grand movement of the world, as they from time to time have been compelled to join in lesser things. And rising from material things to those which appertain to intellect and morals, it was also found that the same rule belongs to these that governs in the base on which they stand; that whether in the worldly way they be good or bad, that they are as the powers created them, and therefore not to be adjudged by arbitrary standards made by man, but by the law of universal justice, which goes behind the facts and ﬁnds the causes that produced them, and then, as they are high or low in evolution’s stage, commands that help be given or otherwise received-to make them equal here, as well as in the outward sense, as has been seen they ought to be. _ From these foundations laid in man and law, it followed, tothe use (and unabridged) of every faculty possessed, each in his different way; and that no part of men haverightful power to say that this may be enjoyed and that shall not, on the part of other men. Each one receiving, as he has from God and by the common law, the several different gifts and methods for his use and for his happiness, must be the judge himself of what he most needs, and how he shau pursue his joys, and how his sorrows meet and pass. Thus, in the argument that is made, the point is reached where, in chaotic mass, each individual, in his and her own right possessed of what they have, must seek to organize the human family; and from the inharmonious parts form a common union, so that the body of the humanrace shall be as perfect as a Whole as the individual body now is perfect as a part——an union in which the body cannot be the head, nor- yet the hands nor the feet, but every indi- , vidual member in his place performing all his functions, all will come near Mr. .King’s horse. Were he in this country, 1 his work. ‘ ‘No conrnonisnie. - The truth cannot be compromised, for any compromise whatever more or less invalidates its integrity and deprives it of its right to that title. As a nation we have purchased this knowledge by experience. The compromises in the matter of slavery nearly ruined us. They commenced with the consolidation of our H Union, and some are still to be found in the Constitution of the United States. Of course they are now useless and inoperative, but our legislators permit them to remain there, probably as warnings to forbid us from sinning again in a similar manner. But, evil as they proved themselves to the State, the mischiefs they thus created bear no comparison to the frightful eﬁfects they pro- duced upon the most popular churches. From 1776 to 1860 the histories of the Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches are pictures of national morality in a rapid decline..~ They gagged the Catholic Church and kept a colored cler- gyman of the Episcopal Church, hot with the apostolic bene- diction of_ its bishops, for eleven years waiting for a seat amongthis brethren. They eventually compelled most of the popular Protestant churches to lie in Latin, by making them declare that slavery was not malumi in se. Such have been the deleterious effects of the compromises of the past in the single matter of American Slavery. It will be perceived that, bad as were the mundane effects of compromise, they were not comparable to-its spiritual debaucheries. This is not to be wondered at, for the soul is superior to the body, and like the soul the religious idea has, during the long past, been the animating spirit ruling the material world. All the greater Asiatic movements have been religious movements, and in Africa and Europe Mo- hammedanism and Christianity have for more than a decade bloody wars. These have all unquestionably been more or less the results of spiritual compromises, necessitated by the tianity, either here or in Europe, in absolute power, it would use that power as mercilessly as ever the Catholics did in Spain in the past. Indeed, we have reason to fear that the ﬁve great Protestant sects among us," who cannot _work to- gether for good, have already succeeded in gauging together for the evil purpose of destroying that religious liberty which is our inheritance, and which is the noblest legacy left to us by our revolutionary forefathers. . It is thereforehighly important in all who aim to develop the spiritual idea of humanity, to be careful never to admit est honest prayer that ever a savage made is elevating, but thehighest aspiration of a spiritual despot who is a hypo- crite, is only degrading. The world has a right to demand of all who would instruct it in spiritualjmatters absolute,di- rectness and absolute simplicity, and more particularly that they withhold no part of the price (like Ananias and Sa- phira) from those who listen to their doctrines. This being our opinion, we take issue with thegfollowing paragraph which lately appeared in an article purporting to give “ The General Views of the Believers in Spiritualism,” which appeared in the New York Evening Telegram on January 20, over the signature of S. B. Brittan: Jesus of Nazareth is, perhaps, most generally regarded as a natural, spiritual and d1v1ne man—more natural than other men because His constitution and His life may have been more in harmony with nature, more spiritual than they, inas- much as the powers of the interior nature (latent in most men) were in His case developed into beautiful proportions and harmonic activity, and with more of divinity than His brethren, in the high degree that He exempliﬁed the beauty and glory of the divine nature, thus demonstrating what hu- manity may become when redeemed from its manifold errors and corruptions, and the lmeaments of the God-image, now vailed and invisible, are brought_ out and made manifest in human nature and the common life of the world. Spiritual- ists very naturally regard'Jesus as the Savior of as many as are led by His precepts and H18 example to reform their lives. We~object to the above statements, because we believe that they are calculated to mislead our Christian; brothers and sisters with regard to the positions generally held by Spiritualists on the subjects treated of, for the following reasons: 1. We fearlessly assert that the great majority of Spiritu- alists do not hold Jesus of Nazareth to be in a special sense a more divine man than any of his brethren, the difference between him and others being not in quality but only in degree. Some Spiritualists dispute even that, holding him to be not superior to Confucius, Zoroaster, Socrates or Mohammed. . V 2. We object to the statement—~his life “ may have been,” etc., as treacherous and noncommittal, but have no desire to deal with the suppositions that follow it. 3. The use——or rather misuse-—-of the word “redeemed” is likely to deceive many. The meaning of that word being “repurchased or bought back” IS rightly used by Chris- tians, who believe in the fall of mankind and in eternal punishment for sins. Spiritualists believe in neither; they of universal progression. V 4. As to what “ the God image, now vailed and invisible,” may be, lies between S. B. Brittan and Moses. As a rule modern Spiritualists . are iconoclasts, and stout objectors against all the “ God images” in the world. , ' But the last sentence of the above eXtract appears to us to be the most reprehensible. We fearlessly assert that very few,'if any, Spiritualists believe in vicarious atonement, and of centuries kept the peoples of those continents involved in A dreadful uncertainties of the credal religions of the age.‘ There can be no doubt that were any one section of Chris-_ the word “compromise” into their dictionaries. The mean- - deny that any human being is lost, and assert the doctrine 1 ‘I - up , . --.;.:_..;..:..:..:-_~.v..-..__:~ - - _..- -.3». _ --_:".4.,.....-_-Linn.“ ;}I;,,=.: ;‘ ‘ ‘ A ..._.',.'.—.-_«n....,-, - ; -:y:.. ~ Feb. 6, 1375. J Woo:oHiULI. 35 cLAEL1N*s WEEKLY. S is consequently do not regard Jesus as a Savior; for in that . sense alone is the use of the word justiﬁable in the passage referred to. The doctrine of the Spiritualists is, that each human being must ‘develop himself or herself, as the case may be, and does not depend an the excellencies of another or others for advancement. ~ True Spiritualism cannot afford to hide its teachings, or compromise, by clothing its truths in doubtful language. Those who are what is called “ Conservative Spiritualists ” Would do well to remember that they can commit no greater offense against the churblies than they have already done in demanding to superintend the spiritual instruction of their children. This, in the eyes of the clergy, is a crime of so grave a nature that it cannot and never will be by them for- given. Such being the case, it is not only unwise, but use- less, to seek to mitigate the grand divergences Spiritualists must maintain against all credal religions. Former diﬂerences have been changes of faith, but Spiritualism is a new develop- ment, and as such will be established. Although it wars with no creed, itis certain to undermine and overthrow all creeds, while the reforms it has already propagated are des- tined, in the near future, to improve the race, and. advance the Welfare of mankind, both here and hereafter. ' THE CIRCLE . In the ranks of Spiritualism every man is naturally a priest and every woman a priestess, and we hold that for the doctrines they teach they are only amenable to the gen- eral public. Of course among them are to be found in- structors of all grades, who furnish mental food to the peo- ple. In our opinion the world knows what it wants, and is zealous-and hungry for the truth, the whole truth, and noth- ing but the truth. All are satiated with wishy-washy talkers, those who want-glory for themselves, and neither desire nor care for the good of the community. Well, they cannot _ obtain it, for Spiritualism is celestial democracy, as the fol- owing item testifies: Spiritualists are slow to unlearn the lessons of the past. They expect to conduct their meetings on the plan of either the church or the lecture-room. Both methods are false and fatal when applied to communion with spirits. When will we learn that the Circle is the only true_ spiritual institution, and that if we would meet our spirit friends and have them meet us, we must supply the necessary spiritual conditions. —Banner of Light. Yes, give us the circle, the mass. Unite the positive and negative forces of the same to build a J acob’s ladder from spirits in the form to spirits out of the form. We want no sanhedrims of priests and praters, and will submit to none of their ridiculous impositions, whether they hold their con- claves in Chicago or Boston. People have not yet, in our opinion, begun to appreciatethe vast changes that lie under the Spiritualistlc development, of which the phenomenal wonders of the present era are simply the base; It is not ‘ too much topassert that the changes already demanded by it as necessary to the advancement of true civilization and the improvement of our race, will overthrow all of the most important of the systems of the past and remodel the face of creation. - Or-4 ODIUM THILCLOGICUM. _ The New York Imlependent may be termed a religious press. It serves its God-—-with reservations. Great grace is often exhibited in its leading articles, but the ancient I Nicholas sometimes appears to be in power in the adver- tising department. Sometimes delicate traces of his cloven hoof may be seen elsewhere, one of which we lately exposed in regard to the WEEKLY. Here is another which has con- siderableof the brimstone smell about it. It is taken from its issue of Jan. 14: The 1ately“Hon. Thomas Kinsella, the editor of the Brook- lyn Eagle, has been convicted of a nameless crime against the household of a highly respectable gentleman, who had .. been his friend, and has been sentenced “therefor to pay damages amounting “to ﬁfteen thousand dollars. There was no attempt to deny the charge, and it was agreedbeforehand that the referee should allow at least this much of damages. It is not, however, to be expected that this unfortunate event will endanger in any degree the inﬂuence of Mr. Kinsella as a teacher of morality in Brooklyn. The facts of this case and the general character of_the man have long been well known; yet the journal of which he is the editor is received into not. a few reputable families in the City of Churches, and claims the right to put itself forward as the exponent of Brooklyn seiitinient and as the censor of Brooklyn morals. What secret forces, what privity, it may be, of similar lapses of his friends retain its editor his politi- cal and journalistic inﬂuence the public may one day know. Meanwhile we congratulate Mr. Kinsella upon his attached constituency, and his readers upon the reputation of the man whom they have chosen to be their chief counselor in matters of local morality. , . We believe that it must have taken more than one D. D. to concoct the above article. There is enough genuine spite, malice and all uncharitableness in it to have exhaust- ed the wits of any one parson, were he the redoubted Dr. Leonard Bacon himself. We consequently hold’ it to be the concentrated essence of the malignity of a round robin of reverends. * Furthermore, we maintain that all who were engaged in the production of the game, ought to be en- titled from this time to rank as “bishops in partibus,” and to be admitted freely as life members of the Young Men’s Christian Association. . ——————~-—<o~—<——————- * FACTS FOR WEALTH PRODUCERS. JUSTICE is all that the WEEKLY asks for those who toil. It demands that the weaver who weaves a yard of cloth in Massachusetts, and the agriculturist who raises a bushel of I rice in South Carolina shall receive the full value thereof, less theiminimum cost of distribution, in exchange. It believes, with all political economists, that they do not now receive one-half of that to which they are justly entitled. If workers secure all they produce, on what do those large and increasing classes subsist who do not labor? Or those whose labors produce no tangible returns‘? WORKERS generally are physically and consequently morally superior to the non-toilers in our community. When Benedict, the hump~backed tailor, fell among the Y Brownies, we are told that they would have torn him in pieces, but one of them spying a sickle (an emblem of labor) in his hand, exclaimed: “No! no! The sickle pro- tects him; we must let him alone!” It is so with workers, both male and female. The good gifts we have claimed for them are not awarded to them because they are naturally better than their idler neighbors, but because the‘ sickle “Labor ” has protected them from resorting to those mean‘ vices which degrade and deteriorate humanity, and are the disgraces of the age. I , UNION or LABOR. There has been war for the past thousands of years be- tween agricultural and mechanical labor. When that war terminates, wealth-producers will be in power. They are e by far the greater poll, and when undivided and not pitted against one another by scheming politicians, can readily dictate the law. In the past, our ﬁelds havebeen largely cultivated both here and in Europe and Asia by slave labor, and artizans and mechanics in our cities and villages have refused to co-operate with agriculturists. But the mechanic stands on the soil-tiller, and not the soil—tiller on the mechanic. The agriculturist, the stone so long rejected by the builders, must and will yet be recognized as theuhead of the corner in the new Temple of Labor. I FREEDOM on THE LAND. . The workers who raise the grain and the cotton, who mine the metals and the coal, will never obtain the full re- turns of their labors, so long as artiﬁcial values are placed by man on what ought to be held, as they are, the free gifts of nature. W en mechanics and agriculturists establish the freedom of the soil, as they can easily do in this country, by union, perseverance and the ballot, righteous competi- tion among increased numbers of soil-tillers will reduce-the price of the loaf of bread one half, while the fall in the ﬁctitious money values of all produgts now existing would enable all to unite in the general rejoicing, and live far better with less labor than they have to perform for their existences at the presentﬂtime. INCONSISTENCY. 4A4 W The sole strength of the many shams which pass under the name of Christian Churches lies in their weakness. It is in vain that the stout old Boston Irwesngator brings up the artillery of its unanswerable logic against them, for they abandon their positions as readily as they take them. The WEEKLY, knowing that fact, has long decided. to waste no shots at such miserable and fleshless phantoms that are here, there, and everywhere at an instant. In proof that what we have stated is not strained, we lay before our readers the following item which is taken from the N Y.‘ Sum of the 15th inst. The representative of the “world ” naturally is shocked at the free and easy manner in which the most popular expounder of the Gospel looks upon the subject of admission to the celestial regions, and the calm authority with which (with an arrogance greater than was ever claim- ed by any representative of St. Peter) he assigns a place there to his self-styled “ heathen” friend: i ' Is it not a singular thing that a clergyman of the Con- gregational Church who professedly teaches that through Christ is the only way of salvation, should have written to his friend who had said, “_I am not a Christian but a heathen,” such words as these: “ On! my beloved Frank,’ I shall know you there, and forever hold fellowship with you, and look back and smile at the past. V , While we admire the liberality of the freereligionists of the age, we cannot help smiling at their inconsistency. We respect a good, Christian or a good Mohammedan, and do not believe that either of them will be dammed for being honest; but we despise a Mussulman who condemns his Koran, and scorn a Christian who sneers_ at his Bible. If “he that believeth not shall be damned”——as stated in’ the Scriptures—be a fact, Mr. Moulton is in a bad ﬁx; and his friend the Pastor of Plymouth ought to have told him so, that is, if he believes that statement to be inspired. Ever- lasting punishment is admitted in the creed compiled for his church by H. VV. Beecher, and it is no light thing to be dammed for ever. V‘ PRESS NOTICES. The Critic, Burlington, Ia. Strayed from the WEEKLY an original article in poetrysheaded, “Mary Magdalen.” If our able and witty contemporary knows of the whereabouts of “ the same, it will please notify us through its columns. The Sun, New York. Compliments of the WEEKLY for its reprint on Jan. 19, of the pleasant conversation between Victoria C. VVoodhull,,-and the reporter of the Washington Ncmbnal Republican, on the Tilton-Beecher embroglio. ,VVe very sincerely trust that the notorious Comstock will not purchase the paper, order it to be posted, and throw the Ed- itor of the Sun into prison for passing it through‘ the public mail at his request, hedid (witli.oi1t law) the Editors of the WEEKLY. I Hurrah for Torquemada, and down with the Y.—M. C. A. American Inquisition. . Harp er’s Weekly, N. Y. Congratulations on the liberality which induced it to embellish its issue of Jan. 23 witha a very ﬁne likeness of the rich and renowned Isabella of Spain, of mixed memory. Setting aside her queenship, she is good enough for us, and we are glad to note from her commanding position on the frontispiece of Earpefs Weelsle , that she is considered good enough for our orthodox neigh- bor. New York Ilemld. Your leader on “ Ancient and Mod- ern Pytlionesses” of Jan. -13, is timely, but we do not agree with its conclusions. We claim that the ancient Greeks were not less intelligent, and not less virtuous, than any modern nation; that they were more likely to obtain a genuine article of pure inspiration from the young women they termed “ Pythonesses,” than we receive from snuffy old stagers We. term “Divines;” half of whom are (and we fear that the world will soon add all of whom ought to be) celibates. YVe. are fortiﬁed also in our opinion by the elucidation of the dream of the image of a man as seen by Nebuchadnezzar, resented Babylonia, and was of gold; the breast, ‘which rep resented Media, of silver; the belly and thighs, which repre- sented Grecia, of brass; the legs, which represented Rome, of iron-, and the feet,*which all commentators agree repre- sent the present time, of iron and clay. The WEEKLY as- sumes, from the present debauched and disordered condition of society that we are about finishing the toes of the above image, and are ‘of clay, and very poor clay at that. Kingdom of Ilecmen, Boston, Mass. The polite invitation in your January number, couched in the following Words—— “Why in hell don’t you come into the Kingdom of Heaven on earth?” is respectfully declined. Still, we trust we are on the road to Zion, but our Zion is——“ a celestial republic.” _________,._.4Q ‘ MRS. WOODHULL AT KBLOOMINGTON, ILL. “"i'rIn.s'r LECTURE. ‘ Victoria C. Woodhull arrived in this city yesterday after- noon, on the Denver express, from Chicago, to fulﬁll her engagement to lecture here. The Opera Housew-as well ﬁlled. Mrs. Woodhull appeared , dressed very plainly yet extremely neatly and modestly. She promptly began upon the work in hand, and from the ﬁrst held her audience deeply interested. As one listens to Mrs. Woodhull no doubt can be enter- tained of a supreme belief on her part of the efficacy of her theories, and that she is sincere and honest in their advocacy; but, whatever may be said of them, nobody can deny that she stands with but few peers upon the rostrum. She pos- sesses every quality that is required to form the orator. When under the ﬁre of her own eloquence, her face lights up with a beauty of the sptrttuelle order, which seems to place its subject above the capacity for much that has been said, apout her in the press in connection with the Beecher scandal. Her language is chaste, and her sentences well formed, and they pour forth as if they came from an inexc haustible fountain. _ The first thought that comes to the observer when she ap. proaches the footlights is that of a graceful woman,_whose every motion is poetic. Her countenance is open and frank, and her features are clearly deﬁned, and bear unmistakably the stamp of intelligence and perfect self-possession. - But this is the prelude merely. She begins her speech in a common-place way, and sticks to her notes until her feel- -ings come into sympathy with her subject, then the divinely gifted powers of oratory burst forth in all their splendor, as she treads the platform with all the fury of an enraged tigress that has lost her young, hurling deﬁance at their captors and challenging them to the contest. Her words are barbed arrows. that go home with uner-ring aim ;i and when the strain closes, the audience bursts forth in applause. As if. appeased by the offering, she becomes transformed, and now she pleads in tones and words for her scheme for the better conditions for the people, that are irresistible. And then, from this, at a single leap, she goes to ridicule or sar- casm, presenting her picture in such style that roars of laughter follow. And what makes this all the more effective, is that it seems to flow without the least efforton her part. She makes her audience believe what she believes, feel what, In these regards she seems to‘ she feels, see what she sees. be unapproachable.——Pantagmph,, Blooméngton, I LL, J cm. :30, 1875. V . SECOND LECTURE. Last evening Victoria C. Woodhull appeared in her second lecture in Schroderfsl Opera House. She was elegantly dress- ed in black. The theme cf her discourse was the prophecy of St. Paul, “ The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” a . ~ _ » She conﬁned herself more strictly to her notes than upon the previous evening, and spoke for over an hour in a manner that riveted the attention of her auditors to her.thoughts and utterances. The solution of the prophecy, she thinks, will be brought about by the observance of the laws of sexual relation which she has so long. advocated, and of which she , is perhaps the most clearly deﬁned exponent at the present day. She once more gave her views on the social and sexual discussing the delicate topic. not as though she relished the but as though she felt it her duty to speak as sheldid. No one can deny that a very large per cent. of all she said last evening was trut,h—startling, appalling, terrible truth; but as to the remedy we must all take the license that Victoria allows, and think just as we please. Before entering upon the discourse of the evening, Mrs. Woodhull read some selections from Macbeth in a manner that won for her well deserved applause, and proved that she and narrated by Daniel in the bible, the head of which rep- S problem in her characteristically fearless and candid manner, , task or admired the expression which the theme demanded, _ 6 is the possessor of great histrionic ability.-Bloomvlrigton Pomtagraph, Jan. 21, 1875. ’ INCIDENTS OF THE TILTON—BEECHER TRIAL. MR.‘ MOULTON UNDER oaoss-EXAMINATION. _ In an exciting branch of Judge Porter’s examinatioii, the voices of the lawyer and of the witness would rise together /' with each successive answer, until the climax was in tone quite disputative. Then they would begin a new topic at a quiet pitch. St-iil later Mr. Moulton steadied down into perfect equanimity, answering with studiously respectful composure and easy self-possession. ,As to results, the cross- examination yielded nothing, and may be regarded simply as a preface to the continuation of the trial.—N. Y. Sun, Jan. 20. V On the next day, Mr. Evarts stated that Judge Porter was unwell, and Mr. Tracy continued the‘ cross-examination of Mr. Moulton. In the evening the following letter appeared in the New York Daily News, of Jan. 21. 7 “ To the Editor of the News—By a statement inlast night’s News I see that the cross-examination of Moulton by Judge Porter had; been transferred to Gen. Tracy, on account of Mr. Porte'r’s illness. I saw the latter walk by the Astor House yesterday afternoon, and he looked as healthy as any , gentleman on-= Broadway. “ PLYM.” This is the second sick lawyer on the Beecher side. The New York Graphic, under the heading of.“;The Siege of Moulton,” refers to this change in the “ order of battle” as follows: V I’ The attack upon Moulton was begun by Judge Porter. After two days he was withdrawn. » How was it the reports of gun—trials used to read? “ After ﬁring one hundred and ﬁfty rounds the gun showed signs of weakness, and the ﬁring was discontinued.” Gen. Tracy was then put forward, and for four successive days he has bombarded Moulton with every species of ~ missile. MR. ERANK MOULTON ON THE DOCTRINE oE CONEESSION. “I left my house on the night of the 31st, after seven o’clock, to go to Mr. Beecherls; I found Mr. Beecher that evening; he was not at home when I called, but when I re- turned he was waiting for me; I believe we had our inter- view in a bedroom on the second story; I said to him that I thought he should consider the subject of that rather strange interview, and I recalled something of the conversation of the previous evening to him, and Isaid to him, ‘You got (Theodore’s permission last night to go down and see his wife, and you procured from her a retraction of her confession, and you procured what I must term a lie, and I think you were guilty of great meanness in doing that; I think you wereg’ I told him ihatlhad received a note from Theodore int-he morning, asking back the confession of his wife, and that I had seen Theodore and he was very angry about his conduct; and I said, ‘ Mr. Beecher, I did not see much of the guidance-of God in what you did, but at the same time there may be aProvidence in it, after all; Ihave come for that retraction; I think you had better give it up to me; Iwill burn both the confession and the retraction in your presence if you choose, or I will hold both;’ and I read. to him the letter which Elizabeth Tilton had either sent or given to me, and I read also a letter which Theodore Tilton had given to, me, dated midnight, in which his wife informs him of the recantation; and he said to me that this recantaiion would be the only defense of’ his family-V-1 am giving his language as nearly as I can recollect it—in case he was attacked, and I Said to him, ‘ Mr. Beecher, you have had criminal connection with Mrs. Tilton, and you go down and get that paper. I don’t see how you could perform two such acts. Mr. Tilton’s disposition last night was absolute. He said that no matter what might come to himself, he would protect his wife and family; he intended to do that.’ And Mr. Beecher then said to me, with great sorrow, weeping, that he ‘had loved Elizabeth Tilton very much; that through his love for her, if he hadfallen at all, he had fallen; that the expression, the sexual expression of that love, was just as natural in his opinion, he had thought, as the language he had used to her; that if he had fallen at all he had fallen through that way, through love and not through lust, or words to that effect; and he said, ‘ This would be my defense,» my only defense, in easel was attacked, but with you, I throw myself upon your friendship and upon what I believe to be your desire to do the best for all parties ;’ and as I was leaving him he said, as nearly as I ca.n recollect (that part of the language made a great impression upon me), he felt that he was upon the brink of a moral Niagara with no power to save himself, and that was the substance of the interview. He gave me back the retraction.”——N. Y. Herald, Jan. 21. I FRienAY, JAN. 22. MR. EVARTS’ TRIBUTETO V?l[CTORIA C. wooi)HULL. “ Mr‘. Evarts—My learned friends have forgotten also that they put in evidence the card of Mrs. Woodhull, dated May 20, 1871, in the World, in which she states, and states with eloquence and with force, and without disguise, the doctrines on this subject of free love between the sexes; that she regards as important for the welfare of society, and as des- tined to overthrow the corrupting inﬂuences of marriage. “ Mr. Fullerton——She gives a deﬁnition of the doctrines. “ Mr. Evarts—She does, and she has done it with eloquence . and with force, and those are the doctrines that this witness has testiﬁed she avowedlin the lecture, and which he says are what the public regard as the doctrines of “ free love.” Now, the philosophy, the morality, the utility and the promise of improvement of society in respect to those doctrines or their opposite we do not at present discuss.”——N. Y. Herald. The WEEKLY accepts this testimony of the very able lawyer as to the manner in which the Proprietor of this paper dis- cussed the question of “ free love” in the paper referredto, . with thanks for the courtesy exhibited. . / There has been but little disclosed by the trial thus far with which the public were not previously familiar. The follow- ing letter, however, may be new to some of our readers. It was referred to by Judge Morris in his opening‘ address, as follows: I ’ I . Mar 13. 1$;7a§.=..-=-E9 the Trustees of Plymouth Queen: I tells , W0OD.HULL,.s QLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. der herewith my resignation of the sacred ministry of Ply- mouth Church. For two years I have stood with great sorrow among you. in Order to shield from shame a certain house-A .h01d._ but a recfrlt publicationmakes this no longer possible. I T381311 my m1I11St1'y. HENRY WARD BEECHER. It is stated that Mr. Tilton threatened violence if Mr. Beecher resigned in this manner, and Mr. Moulton prevailed Upon the pastor to withhold the letter. The original docu- ment has not been produced, we believe. Another fact, not generallyknown, was brought out on the 20th in Mr. Moulton’s cross—'examination, in relation to his two published statements. He testiﬁed that they were both prepared by General Butler; that he gave him the papers and the General made out the statements himself, one at Bayview and the other at Lowell. TO THE RESCUE. I have been thinking of plans for the aid of the WEEKLY. I read the plan of Mrs. Severance, ﬁve dollars a month each for one hundred. I read also the plan of B. P. Leonard, of Belpre Centre, Ohio-—“ I propose to be one of a thousand ” sounds like something efficient and I seize upon. it at once, but the interest of one hundred, paid half yearly, would amount to very little to sustain the WEEKLY, for socialists and free lovers are not as plenty as blackbirds in corn plan- ting time. Could not something be given by that one thou- sand that would be efficient’ aid through the present year, when the WEEKLY so needs. Dr. Leonard says his experience leads him to think the world does not deserve such eﬂ’orts, etc., but for those who wish to be saved, he is Willing to do his part. Might it not be that if we do not succeedlliu taking the light to the people, the darkness will settle down over the land and the light will be put out, and we ourselves will not have a chance to be saved? Is it not really, to a very great extent, pump or drown? If one thousand would give one dollar, to be paid quarterly, I will be one, doing all I can here; and ~if Dr. Leonard and others everywhere, will join with me the needed help can be called fonth. If so much could not be attained, one thousand might: pay five hundred dollars half yearly, that would be an extension of Mrs. Severance’s plan,with the payments at diiferentktimes and in different quantities. The WEEKLY, as an agitator, is certainly doing great good; then let us keep its light burning through its present crisis. Some one else might suggest a good way to carry the plan into execution. If anybody can offer a better plan, I will join in it. It seems heartless to let Mrs. Woodhull be compelled to go West on a lecture tour -this winter. She needs rest, and the biting winds can be of no beneﬁt to one who has so recently suffered from so severe an attack of congestion of the lungs. ANNIE E. HIGBY. NEW BRIGHTON, Pa., January 13, 1875. GRIDDLING IA GAZETTE. The article below is from the ably conducted Critic of Bnr- lington, Ia., in answer to this from the Gazette: When any woman compromises her self-respect, and puts at naught the pride of her sex so completely as to don male attire, and promenade the principal streets in broad daylight, call at public resorts and inquire for gentlemen, it is high time the authorities should take the matter in hand, and deal with the offender as the law provides. Our attention has just been called to such acase, but we forbear mention- ing names on ‘account of the social standing of the party. This is disgraceful in the extreme, and arepetition will war- rant a publication of names. We neither know nor care who that female criminal was , but sympathize with the Gazette man in his indignation. On these matters the law, orits oﬁicers, are getting to b terri- bly lax, and the present generation has disgracefully fallen away from the ideas, manners and customs of our revered forefathers. A hundred years ago a woman, depraved enough to put on her brother's clothes, would have been whipped or burnt at the stake, or something of the sort, and served her, right. A woman has no right to put on‘ com- fortable clothes, even if made at Raab’s in the latest and most distinguished style. If she is permitted to sweep A the sidewalk for us with her trail, sheought to be content! A wheel-barrow full, of hair and things on top of her head, and a discarded army hat ,on top of that is a great deal more becoming to her than alow-crown felt on the brow; and without a panier under her skirts “ she loses all our self- respect,” as a distinguished Burlingtonian once remarked. Afew more bold. and daring writers, like that Gazette man, ready and willing, at all times, to write and ﬁght for the “rights of man,” and to point his ﬁnger of scorn (washed or unwashed) at every woman who, whether ‘in a frolic or in downright earnest, tresspasses on the prerogatives of I man. would greatly assist in resurrecting such good old laws as, for instance, the following, dated Boston, July ‘I’, 1639: No garment shall be made with short sleeves, whereby the nakedness of the arm may be discovered in the wearing there- of ; and such as have garments already made with short sleeves shall not hereafter wear the same, unless they cover their arm with linen or otherwise; and that hereafter no person whatever shall make any garment for women with sleeves 'more than half an ell wide in the widest part thereof, and so proportioned for bigger or smaller persons. That’s-’ the way to talk to women. They are having too much their own way, altogether, in the matter of dress. The length of the trails, the color of the hair, the shape and size of all the frills and puffs ought to be regulated by law, and the use by women, of broad-cloth, buttons, jackets, or any other of men’s specialities, should be peremptorilyi forbidden.- The Critic, Burltngton, Ia. ' __4Q r~ '7 BUSINESS EDITORIALS. a A A. S. BURROWS, magnetic and hygienic physician, Bloom- ington, Ill. Office,‘ room No. 5, over the Post Oﬂice. Re- sidence at Magnetic and Hygienic Intitute (formerly Major College building). Patients can board and be treated on reasonable terms at the Institute. All kinds of acute and chronic diseases are treated without any kind of drugs or medicine whatever on the hygienic principles. Air, exercise, food, water and magnetism is all that is reguired by the Feb. 6, 187.-s_. human system to keep it in good health or to restore it to that condition when out of, order. He treats patients at their homes or at the institute. Will take a limited number of , "families by the year; the advantages of that way of treating are: First, it always secures the call of the physician when the first symptom of disease makes its appearancq; secondly, when a person knows that it will not cost any more to get a doctor at the first stages of disease than to wait a few days,‘ they will not wait but send immediately. One treatment in time saves nine in cases when sent for immediately. Cures have been made in two or three treatments where if the case had been delayed it would have taken ten or ﬁfteen. The best way in this mode of treatment is to send for the physi- cian immediately and before the disease becomes settled. Fever can most always be broken in one or two treatments when taken«. at ﬁrst. Y SAMSON: A MYTH STORY or THE SUN; showing that Sam- son——in the Bible story—-is synonymous with Hercules, the “Shining One,” performing the labors of the Ancient of Days. In verse, 32 pp., paper covers. Price 25 cents, postage paid. Orders solicited and ﬁlled by Woodhull 5; Claﬂin, P. 0. Box 3,791.New York City. DR. 0. WINTERBURN, No. 101 East Fourth street, gives remarkable astrological readings.‘ Consult him upon any subject. . WARREN CHASE lectures at Cambridge, Iowa, Jan. 24; at Union, Iowa, Jan. 31. Address Colfax, Iowa, till further notice. ' PROE. LISTER, the astrologist, can be consulted at his rooms A No. 329, Sixth avenue. . Address by letter, P. O. Box 4829. MRS. NELLIE L. DAVIS may be addressed at 235 Washing- ton St., Salem, Mass. W. F. JAMIESON is speaking during the Sundays of this month in Loomis Temple of Music, New Haven, Conn. He would prefer calls for February and March, in New York State. Address at New Haven, Conn. phetic lecture, entitled, “Monarchy, the Road to a Freer Republican Government,” before any of the liberal societies North and East; also, if desired, “The Downfall of Chris- tianity,” and “From Mormonism to Shakerism.” Please address him, 525 West Seventh street, Wilmington, Del. @"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. L.K. COONLEY has removed from Vineland to Newark N. J. Oﬂice and residence No. 53 Academy street, where he will treat the sick daily and receive applications to lec- ture Sundays in New Jersey, New York or elsewhere in the vicinity. Dr. Slade, the eminent Test Medium,‘ may be found at his ofﬁce, No. 25 East Twenty-ﬁrst street near Broadway CHAS. H. FOSTER, the renowned Test Medium, can be found at No. 14 West Twenty-fourth street, New York City, AMMI BROWN, D. D. S.—Specialty, operative dentistry and the care of ’Children’s teeth. 145 West 44th st. 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. ’ REMEMBER that it is by the Erie, Great Western of Canada and the Michigan Central Railroads that the most elegant, through between New York and Chicago—-the broad gauge trucks of the Erie being‘ changed at Suspension Bridge for narrow ones, and mice cersa, both carrying the wide coaches of the Erie road.’ These coaches leave New York from de- pots foot of Chambers and 236. streets at 7 o’clock, P. M. , daily; and Chicago from the Michigan Central depot at 5 o’clock, P. M., daily. Passengers by thisroute who are going still further West arrive in Chicago in the depot of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, the most popular and best patronized of all the .routes leading westward from Chicago. Those who travel this route once will always use it when convenient, and avoid. the transfer discomforts and annoyances of other less desirable and badly equipped routes. ' ' I The Books and Speeches of Victoria 0. 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M. the fon0WmgNiWht Express from ersey City (daily), with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to ‘But’ by Austin H°13’,°"‘.ke-. -------------- --I 5 For Lambertvme and Flemmgton’ 9:30 A‘ M" and 4 7520 P. Myth‘ tgchan e arriving t ere at 8.00 a. m., giving passengers ample time for breakfast and take 21- Defense of Secmar P “M19133: by Chas“ P‘ M‘ . . - Chicago W1 0“. g 1 - , west Northwest and southwest, ; Watts .................................. .. 5 J3‘orPh11hpsburg and Be1v1dere.9:30 A. M., 2 and 4 he morning Wms ‘° 31 Wm 5 ’ 22. IS the Bible Reliable? by Chas. Watts .... .. 5 P. M. , ’ 33. Ellie (1}h‘rri1S1tian;fl)tc2hity],3_li)yi C11i)as.CV1?1Vatt%V. .t. . . .. 5 9 §602Bﬁrd§g3t§>87v§. i3I:r1;gsat£>&17agdl(gamden. 7:20 and . .ora aueo eie .' t... 51 --.i 1 - - 25. Free Thought and Moder}i1 P?:(B)gl‘e:S, Bby For Freehold, 37:20 A M., 2 and 4:10 P. M. CONNECTIONS OF ERIE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES or Chas. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-02-06_09_10
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-02-06_09_10
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 09, no. 11 (February 13, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2058
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-02-13
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES! BREAKING TI-Ill.‘ war FOR FUTURE GENIERATIONS". I E ii. V01. IX.—No. 11.———VVi‘_ole N0. 219.’ NEW YORK, FEB. 13, 1875. PRICE -TENN CENTS. BY AND BY: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE OF THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND. BOOK IV. CHAPTER VII.——()ontinued. “It was precisely such a condition of mental intoxication,” he continued, " that in. former times it was the ambition of the religious fanatics of various countriesto produce in them- selves or their converts. From the ecstatic utterances of a Pagan sibyl, to the hysterical convulsions of a Christian re- vivalist, the condition and its character were the same. It was only when the law sternly forbade fanatics, who mis- took their own ignorance of physiology for inspiration, to propagate madness—as it before ihad‘forbidden pretended sorcerers to trade upon credulity—that our own country was ﬁnally freed from the disgrace of such scenes. Woman’s nature, however, remains the same. lts emotional si...
Show morePROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES! BREAKING TI-Ill.‘ war FOR FUTURE GENIERATIONS". I E ii. V01. IX.—No. 11.———VVi‘_ole N0. 219.’ NEW YORK, FEB. 13, 1875. PRICE -TENN CENTS. BY AND BY: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE OF THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND. BOOK IV. CHAPTER VII.——()ontinued. “It was precisely such a condition of mental intoxication,” he continued, " that in. former times it was the ambition of the religious fanatics of various countriesto produce in them- selves or their converts. From the ecstatic utterances of a Pagan sibyl, to the hysterical convulsions of a Christian re- vivalist, the condition and its character were the same. It was only when the law sternly forbade fanatics, who mis- took their own ignorance of physiology for inspiration, to propagate madness—as it before ihad‘forbidden pretended sorcerers to trade upon credulity—that our own country was ﬁnally freed from the disgrace of such scenes. Woman’s nature, however, remains the same. lts emotional side re- quires to be counterbalanced by the most carefully developed V reason,—reason of her own, or reason of man. I If it is not good for man to be alone, ten thousand times less is it good for woman to be alone, or uncontrolled by a strong hand. There are cases in which kindness to her is but unkindness; ——in which the sense of duty needs the dtimulus of fear to keep it up to the mark.” ’ _This last observation reminded Griss of N annie’s strange utterances respecting her sister, and the regime of physical correction on which she insisted. He mentioned it, and, in reply to the doctor’s commentary, said, smiling sadly,-- “ Well, doctor, if my wife does not mend until I beat her, I fear she must continue to behave ill until the endlof the chapter.” “ Ah, that is because you have a theory which bears no re- lation to experience,” returned the doctor. “ Forgive me for saying it, but it seems tome self-evident that if, in order to spare your own feelings, or in deference to a supposed prin- ciple, you abstain from the course best calculated to beneﬁt her, you are acting selﬁshly instead of benevolently, and fol- lowing dogma rather than experience.” “ How like a speech of Avenil’s !” exclaimed Criss. “ You must understand,” continued the doctor, “that there is among women of undeveloped intellect, when they have done wrong, a certain craving for chastisement, grow- ing out of a rudimentary sense of justice. When a man sees that he has made a mistake, he manifests his repentance by resolving not to repeat it. N ct so awoman. Half the power of priests over women in old times consisted in their habit of hearing their confessions and imposing penances. The husband is the successor of the priest. He must listen sym- pathetically to his wife’s confessions, and assign the appro- priate penance, or inﬂict the appropriate penalty. The less she is able to govern herself, the more he must govern her. For lack of the husband, it should be the doctor. But I really consider that the man who compels himself to be harsh to the woman he loves, solely for her own good, performs the loftiest act of self-renunciation possible to a ﬁnite being. Of course, I do not prescribe extreme measures at the very outset. I mean only that, kindness having failed, the treat- ment must be changed for one of apparent harshness. Your wife, for instance, declares that she goes wild with misery the moment you go out of her sight. ’Suppose, then, that you exercise her in the art of self-control by allowancing her, and making the amount of time you pass with her dependent on her success in repressing that feeling. She might be ‘in- duced to cut a paroxysm short if she knew that her indul- gence in it would deprive her of your society for the next four-and-twenty hours or more.” “Are the constitutional differences between the sexes so radical and extreme?” asked Criss. ‘ “They are, indeed. I- do not mean to say, however, that man is never as foolish and irrational as ever woman can be. It is possible that at times he can beat her in that, as in most other things; but when a man is so, it‘is_in spite of his sex, and when a woman is so, it is owing to her sex——-” “A11 1318- more cause for extra tenderness and patience, then,” interrupted Criss; but the doctor went on without heeding. I » « - _ . “ The history of woman's eﬂorts to reverse Nature’s decree Is one of the most curious in the World. Ridiculed by Arig. tophanes, there are not wanting some to return to the charge even now, that is, in less advanced countries. Here, our women have long ago learned to recognize the fact, and to make the best of it without striving to alter it. But it was only after the men had consented to their making the at- tempt, and so demonstrating their limitations by experience, that they settled ﬁnally into their own place. I confess, as a medical man, I cannot see how any woman that was wife and mother, ever so mistook her own nature.” _ In one respect Criss followed the doctor’s advice. I-Ie ceased to go through the form of consulting or affecting to please Nannie in any arrangements he was obliged tokmake. He simply said “Nannie, I shall be absent for so many hours, or days.” And when she broke into angry reproaches,——— “ Nannie, you are takingthe very means to lengthen my ab- sence. I have not now for the ﬁrst time to assure you that the more you keep this temper under, the more I shall be . with you, and the happier we shall be.” The birth of a ‘child served to restore hope and happiness to both husband and wife. Oriss had looked forward to this event with intense eagerness, believing that all depended upon it. With such a fact ever present to her, Nannie surely would not now indulge in fancies. quite reconciled to her being called Zoe, after the mother whom Oriss had never seen. It made her jealous of that mother. . . ~ I Nannie had borne Criss’_ absence in Africa far better than thevscene at his departure had suffered him to hope. Doc- tress Markwell had read her rightly when she said to Criss.- “ Take courage. Without you at hand to be distressed at I fancies, she will not care to indulge them. She has not reached the stage at which she would take delight in torment- ing herself without your being a sharer. I hope she never may.” ‘ It took some time after his return for the old fancies to show themselves. And then Zoe arrived opportunely to allay Criss’s reviving anxiety. With the child came all joy and forgetfulness of past troubles,—-such utter forgetfulness on N annie’s part of her own extravagances of behavior as to kindle in Criss a new apprehension. But, refusing to enter- tain it, he gave himself up to the delights of A the situation. This new idea was that Nannie, though" supremely endowed as awoman, was devoid of that essential elementof humanity, recognized by him under the name of Soul. He could not otherwise account for her utter lack of self-consciousness or sense of responsibility for past conduct. The child bid fair to resemble its mother, save in one respect. It had its father’s eyes. Surely, then, his Zoe at least would have a soul! Nannie made an admirable mother, ‘as she had always boasted she would. The pride she took in her infant, and consequent eagerness to exhibit it to visitors, led Criss to hope that she had got the better of another weakness,-— namely, her aversion to all society save that of himself. In short, so conformable was Nannie to all requirements of propriety, health and motherly perfection, that Criss began to think that the painful scenes of altercation and violence which had made him so wretched must have been but an ugly dream, or at worst but a spasmodic three of nature over the production of a ﬁrst-born. The doctor owned himself surprised at the completeness of the change; but he was too well habituated to note the dis- tinction between the functional and the radical to express himself sanguinely about its permanence. He knew the in- stinctive liability of young mothers to use their infants as a weapon of coercion against the timid and doting father. “ Thwart and irritate me, and your child suﬁ’ers in con- . sequence,” was a dictum he had too often known uttered or signiﬁed in pursuance of an utterly irrational demand. Fully impressed with the belief that N annie’s malady had resulted from physical causes, Oriss trusted, by keeping her beyond the inﬂuence of those causes, to prevent a recurrence of the malady. He was so happy now inhis own and Nannie’s happiness in the society of their infant, that it seemed to him an act of wantonness to do aught that might endanger its continuance. ' _ Nannie thought diﬂerently. She longed to multiply her triumphs in the newly-won domain of maternity, and scoffed at the notion of her being less robust in constitution than any other of her sex. She even ascribed to coldness and in- difference to her pleasure the tender, self-denying care with which Criss sought to shield her from aught that might ex- It was a girl-—-as Nannie ardently desired-—but she was not ‘ cite and injure her. In short she manifested all the symp- toms of a relapse into the‘ old sad state. _ Entreating her to be calm, he sought, by pleading the danger to their child and their own happiness, to win her consent to a regime that might prevent a return of the illness which had already caused them so much misery. “ Illness! .What illness?” she asked. “ You know all that we went through together, darling, before our little one was born,” he said. “Well, that was entirely the result of your delicacy of constitution. I love this present happiness too well to risk a return of that evil time.” “ I.don’t know what you are talking about,” she returned. “I was not ill. I was only jealous, as I had a right to be; and as I shall be again unless—unless— Oh, dear Cries! you must not say or imagine such things. Think what will be- come of baby, if you upset me, and make me ill with such talk!” ' “ Ah, if you knew how terrible has been my anxiety, you would not urge me to act against my better judgment.” . “ A ﬁg for better judgment! You mean that you no longer care for me, or you would let me have my own way in every« thing.” ’ “ Why, Nannie, what an actress you would have made. You said and looked that speech to perfection.” “ Iwas not acting; I meant it.” ._ “ Well, do not excite yourself, I entreat. Trust to me to do what is best. My precious wife does not know everything that is in the world, or even in her own constitution, though I acknowledge her to be a wonderful ‘little woman. Some day, perhaps, when you are quite, quite strong, and I have talked to doctor, and you to Doctress Markwell, we can do numbers of things which would be dangerous to you new. Ilove my Nannie far too well to run the chance of losing her, especially by an imprudence that can so easily be avoided.” “ I know best, without consulting any doctors,” she ex- claimed. “ I believe you are in league with them against me. They always say just what you want them to." And she broke into a fit’ of that hysterical sobbing of which Criss had. so lively a recollection and dread. He had learned by experience that to attempt to coax. her out of those ﬁts by soft speeches, was as great a mistake as to seek to appease a_ spoilt child by giving it everything it cries for. Resuming, therefore, once again the stern tone and aspect which he had hoped were done with for ever, he said : “ Very well, Nannie; if you can act thus now, it is ample proof that you areiunﬁt for the liberty which you desire. I intend to regard your power of self-control as my index to the state of your health.” “ I ca.re for nothing of that sort! I am master nowl Look here,” she cried excitedly, and holding the child aloft in her arms; “ do you see this? This makes me master: and I mean to have myown way in everything, or you and your child will be the worse.” And she glared almost maniacally upon. him. By a movement too sudden" for her to thwart, he snatched the child from her, for he really feared for its safety. Then summoning the nurse, he said,—- . “Take the child into your own room, and do your best with it there until the arrival of the wet-nurse, who will be here to-morrow.” And he placed his arm around Nannie, to keep her fromrushing after the child. ‘ After two or three vain attempts to escape. She Sank back into her sofa, moaning and sobbing. When they were alone he said,-—~ . « “Now take this sedative, and sleep yourself good again. ,And whenever you ﬁnd the naughty ﬁt coming over-» you, re- member that even with the child I am still master, and in- tend to be so.” “ I want_my child,” she moaned, piteously. “ Not because you love it,” returned Criss. , “ I do love it. It is the only thing I love, now that I hate . cu.” . Y And is it because you love it, that you insist upon making yourself so ill that you could not nurse it without making it ill likewise? Ah, Nannie, dear, you have yetito learn what real love Ameans,—-/even the love of a mother for her infant;’’ - — — He prevailed at last, and she took the draught, declaring that she only did so on condition that she should have the child back in the morning, He did not accedete the con- ditio‘n,—but the night’s resttcok such good eﬂ*‘ect, that the if. .*,.__ . 1 all - WOOBH:‘*Ui’..i.§:;& cthrmnvs WEEKLY ‘ Feb. 13, 1875. doctor found no reason to forbid the child returning to her. He complimented Criss on the wet-nurse, saying it was a master-stroke, and would doubtless bear repetition if neces- sary. As for Nannie, she was so terriﬁed by it, that several days passed before she again ventured to assert her own will in opposition to Criss’. Her ﬂrst utterance to him in respect to the occurrence of that night was,- “It ought to show you how perfect a woman you have got for a wife, when I gave up my own will for the sake of my child.” ’ » ' Criss was not aware that she had done so, but thought it was rather for her own sake; but he did not care to contra- dict her on a mere matter of opinion. And happiness was restored, for she forebore for the present to renew the con- troversy which had caused the interruption to it. S CHAPTER VIII. Cries endeavored to compensate for his absence from the scene of his operations in Africa by the constancy of his in-‘ tercourse by telegraph. One room in his house was set apart as his study, and one part of his study was occupied by a tele- graphic apparatus, pndiwires which communicated with all the principal centre; of his interest. Thus, he had hi own private wire to Avenil’s study; another to Bertie’s cottage; one to the Triangle; another to his banker’s; and he had also ‘engaged the exclusive useof one to Africa, with branches to Bornou and the works in the desert. In this room he sat, and conducted his various correspondence, arrangements being made to give notice, by. means of signals. in other parts of the house, when his attention was required in the tele- graph room. As his library was also here, and the walls were covered with maps and drawings, and the shelves with books» Criss, as he sat there, was surrounded by the whole world of the past and pre‘sent,iwhile he busied himself about that of the future. [To be continued] w—==m- . .AT HOME, Jan. 20, 1875. Dear Weekly-Yesterday on my arrival home I took up the WEEKLY for the 23d, and in looking its columns through, came across the letter from Burlington, signed Afﬁa Burns, M. D., and animadverting upon an article from the pen of James Ferron, which related to the sexual question. I had not read two lines of Dr. Burns’ letter ere I said to myself, “ Well, here we have another woman ‘ disgusted ’ with sexuality! I wonder what sort of a sexual experience has turned her stomach and embittered all the sweet sources of her womanliness ?” for, as far as an extended observation goes as evidence, all “ disgusted ” women are totally deaf, dumb, blind, and utterly senseless to any sexual animation; a state which the most of them take a forlorn pride in assum- ing to be the summit of chastity and the height of virtuous- ness. ' I do not wish to be personal, but I do desire to emphasize that when I ﬁnd a woman expressing disgust of sexuality, I feel as sorrowful quite as Aiﬁa Burns felt over Mr. Ferron’s ably~written article, which I read with proﬁt not long since. I would beg of all women of intelligence, such as Affia Burns seems to possess, to lay hold and drag a sacred theme up and out of the impurities that ages upon ages of perver- sions have steeped it in, and then look at it in a clearer light from a higher standpoint. Let not that woman who is capa- ble of being a light unto the feet of many, regard a funda- mental law of being fro”m the vulgar standpoint to which it has been debased by false conceptions and misapplications. It seems to me impossible for men or women of individual?- ized intelligence to look upon the sexual nature of men and women with disgust, unless their own sexual status has been, _ through no fault of theirs perhaps, perverted. Withthe new light given me and the reverence with which it has clothed my spirit concerning natural laws, the “beauty of holiness" with which it has surrounded my ideal of sexu- ality, I say it pains me to the soul to know that such count- less ‘numbers of women are absolutely dead, sexually, conse- quently “ disgusted”——for a festering corpse in the soul must create disgust-=-and that such armies of men are so miserably debauched by satiety as only to regard impotency as the highest chastity, when of a truth it is the most deplorable condition humanity can arrive at. Were I to look at sexuality from its common results, I too should turn sick at its mention, and go scourge myself till the last redeeming sign of womanhood were subdued within me. But I have scaled the heights of a purer and better mo- rality than that in which the world rules _ and ruins to-day," breeding myriads of sinners. And when I ﬁnd a sister wo- man, capable of leading her sex to a better life, using her inﬂuence to damn up the clear springs of human existence with common falacies, I feel like warning her to look higher than miserable results for her evidences of the purity hf a principle. ' ‘ Doubtless the female phy sician has ample range to observe the dire effects of our present social and sexual government, the death in life of so many women, and the utterly de- bauched condition of so many men. And she-, of all other women, should consider it the most vital part of her mission to inquire into the cause of such effects, and not become “disgusted” with an inherent principle, and sweepingly condemn all who take a high and pure interest to its discus- sion. That there has been a social evil ever since icing before Joseph lost his ,coat—tail or David put Uriah in «the front ranks of the battle, and still walked with God, a man “ after God’s own heart,” we need no ghost come from the grave to tell us. And it may seem to some spirits, not gifted with inﬁnite patience, that it is high time we were all of us getting disgusted with the whole thing. Wessee now, as a result of sexual bondage for ages, the so- v cial evil rampant wherever men and women live and breathe, till such a thing as sexual purity does not exist. This is a broad assertion, but results prove it true, for sexual perver- sion is of so long standing that an immaculate conception after pa/rfcctl natural law is not possible. Sexuality pervertediat conception, stamped with transmitted sins of the fathers, who wonders that enlightened minds feel contempt and pity for the vain assumptions of superior virtue and chastlty, which means, in the majority of cases, self-abuse, when it is not a false and fatal suppression of all natural impulse. A child born of a merely submissive mother-—because, forscothl the blind and ignorant law has made a virtue of her entire unsexing—-is notan inheritor of its birthright; can- not be sexually pure nor reproduce sexually pure offspring, because the first, but not the only condition of perfect offspring, is undoubtedly mutual impulse. And what a wholesale ignoring of the primal principle does the submis- sion of wives unto their husbands necessitate, and, worse still, what “ disgusted” women such a state creates l We condemn the ignorance that we have left behind us, and we pity it. We know that all, or most a1l——for rare are they who are inspired of truth-must come by knowledge step by step. Therefore we know that, in viewing this ques- tion of sexuality, a man or woman must be conﬁned to his or her horizon, be it broad or narrow. Just as it is impossible to have a God greater or grander than our highest ideal, un- less we accept the cut and dried monstrosity, of the creeds, which is not worthy the ideal of a savage———just so it; is impossible to have a sexual ideal above our possibilities. If we are sexually depraved we shall be sexually “disgusted,” or debauched, even as we may be sexually dead or over- stimulated. ' J ' ’Tis not for us to become sensitive at the misconceptions of our ideals by those whose theory and practice are both of low conception. But_ they, by dragging our ideal down to their level and measuring us in their small measure, will in time discover the pearls we have cast before swine, and then the hog will look up to him who threshes down the acorns instead of turning again to rend us. Let me here beg of all women, if they possess not the virtue of sexuality, to assume it, for they know not how‘ disgusting they appear to those initiated in principles when they mani- fest sexual disgust. '..__Since there can be no sexual purity unimpaired under present social rule, a small «modicum, even an undue measure, of the grand life principle is far better than none at all. And to profess to have some left in her composition, even after the insane suppressions before and the suicidal indulgence after marriage, argues that a we- man is not lost to a realizing sense of womanhood’s most vital principle. I utter the above fearlessly, unmindful of the strictures of the ignorant or debauched, the “ disgusted” or unsexed, for my sexual ideal is higher than I hope to attain in this sphere, higher than any soul here has ever attained, save, perhaps, Jesus of Nazareth, and he did not see ﬁt to develop His ideal. Therefore, I know that those who throw stones, besides living in a glass house, fail to see as I do. HELEN Nasn. WHO OWNETH AMERICA’S SOIL? BY A. J. H. DUGANNE. Who owneth America’s soil? Is it he who graspeth the hard red gold; / Whose glittering gains are by millions told; Who bindeth his slaves to the woof and loom , And chaineth their souls in a living tcmb,— The‘ tomb of hopeless toil? 7 Not he, not he—by Heaven! Who shieldeth America’s land? _ Is it he who counteth his ships by scores; , Who plucketh his gains from a thousand shores; Who buyeth and selleth, and W01-keth not, And holdeth in pride what by fraud he got, With hard and griping hand? Not he, not he—by Heaven! Who guardeth America’s right? Is it he who eateth the orphans’ bread, And crusheth the poor with his grinding tread; Who ﬂingeth his bank-note lies abroad, And buildeth to worship 9. golden god, A shrine to Mam_mon’s might? Not he, not he—by Heaven! Not these, not these——by Heaven! But to those who labor for God and man; Who work their part in the World’s great plan; Who plant good seed in the desert’s dearth, Who bring forth treasures from brave old Earth; To these the soil is given; To these, to these—by Heaven! To these must the soil belong: To the men of all climes whose souls are true- Or Pagan, or Christian, or Turk, or Jew; To the men who will hallow our glorious soil-- The millions who hope and the millions who toil For the right against the wrong; To these shall the soil be given-— To these, to these—-by Heaven! [Industrial Age. ,\WHO ARE THE SUPPORTERS OF PUBLIC MORALS. BY WARREN CHASE. , We know one of the most violent enemies of Mrs. Wood- hull and social freedom, and one of" the greatest sticklers for the marriage institution, who many years ago married a ﬁne, healthy and highly-intelligent young lady who endured his sexual abuse a few years, and ﬁnally when it became utterly unbearable and he had secured another female to share regu- larly his sexual intimacy, asked and readily obtained a di- V.ore; when he at once took the other by marriage and she endured his abuse a few years and died, when he-in a few weeks engagedjanother, and only waited for decency’s sake a few months, before the third marriage was consumated. This man is loud and strong in his advocacy of public virtue, so- cial purity and the morale of the community, and is horri- ﬁed at the't,errible doctrine of social-freedom, and yet has been known for years to have held constant intimacy with what_ the church calls the abandoned and prostituted women, and to have even practiced what is too horrible to be published in any book except the Bible, or any paper except by permis- 8i011 0f 3 0011117. audits reports, ’ We know scores of such cases in various degrees of the same kind of depravity, and the parties to them are opposed to Mrs. Woodhull and ‘,social-freedom as of course they should be. It is these leeches and vampires that we are after, and such is the corruption the present system fosters and keeps up, which we would remedy and remove. We would rescue the victims and turn such vile creatures out to reform‘ or burn out their own; sensual natures, or at least keep them in company like themselve, and not allow them to allure and‘ I seduce into marriage and thence into slavery and death the innocent and ignorant victims as they do under our present’ system. We could furnish scores of these cases, many of‘ them worse than slavery in its tyran ny.and abuse... wlsnmemos, D. 0., Jan. 17, 1875. - My dear Vz'ctort'a.———I seat myself this Sabbath evening to write you a report of the annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association, which met at Lincoln Hall, on the 14th and 15th insts. There were present on the platform, E. C. Stanton, S. B. Anthony, Belva A. Lockwood, Phebe Cozzens, Lillie Deve- reux Blake, Lavinia C. Dundore, Marilla Ricker, Mrs. Lozier, M. D., Carrie Burnham, Caroline Stebbins, Maggie E. Saxton, and other well-known advocates of the suffrage movement. The convention was called to order by Mrs. Stanton. After alluding in feeling terms to Mrs. Martha C. Wright, the Presi- dent of the Association,who has passed into the Spirit world, Mrs. Stanton proceeded to deliver the annual address, and said: “This is the seventh annual convention we have held in. Washington to discuss the right of self-government for one- half of the people. moment, when the entire nation is wide awake to the great- principle of American independence. Self-government is: now the great subject that occupies the press and the people, speeches and debates in Congress and State Legislatures. Democrats and Liberal Republicans alike are proclaiming the inalienable rights of the people. At such acrisis it would seem that liberty-loving statesmen might be easily converted to woman suffrage. They need adopt no new principle, only extend the rights they now demand for Louisiana, to women. If the Democrats and Liberal Redublicans are in earnest in defending this principle in Louisiana, they should not be in- consistent by denying to woman a voice in the laws which govern us, in the right of trial by jury, and representation ‘ while taxed to support the State.” Mrs. Stanton spoke several times during the convention. Her speeches were full of wisdom, and were delivered in 5. forcible and digniﬁed manner, always commanding the most respectful attention. The indomitable Susan B. Anthony read a lengthy report of the doings of the convention, and the action of the United States Senate showing that during the past seven years their friends in that body had increased from 9 to 21. Susan made demands on the large ‘audiences for funds to pay the ex- penses of the convention. Her requests were liberally responded to. She is a born ﬁnancier. I hope to live to see? her Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake is a good oﬁ"-hand speaker. Mrs. Dr. Lozier made a ﬁne speech, full of vim. She rapped. the churches severely for their injustice to women. Miss Carrie Burnham, of Philadelphia, made the most. learned argument of the convention. She traced in a mas- terly manner the wrongs which women have suffered at the hands of the Church and State. Miss Phebe Cozzens, of St. Louis, spoke several times. She is a good speak er, and is deeply in earnest. Mrs. Marilla Ricker of N. 11., who has just returned from‘ an extensive tour in Europe, gave a short speech, in whidlr she cited the condition of woman in the Old World. She was listened to with the closest attention, and loudly applauded. She is a ﬁne-looking lady, and was greatly admired. " One of the new converts to the cause is Mrs.;Mary E. Le F evre, of New York. This lady is English, but has come to reside in the “land of the free (?) and the home of the brave.” She iswealthy, beautiful and highly-cultured. In her speech she referred to Victoria C. ‘Woodhull in terms of affection, and regretted the absence of that powerful woman, as the cause needs her help. Her remarks were received with genuine applause. - And now, my dear Victoria, this ~-convention has, in my humble opinion, done some good. The audiencesrwere com- posed mostly of women, who listened attentively and gave vent to their admiration by cheering much and often. It is a gratifying fact to every soul in hearty unison on this sub- ject of the advancement of woman in all the relations of life to study the vast crowds of women that throng to’ our con- ventions, and to note their interested faces. The women of this country are beginning to think, and ere long a majority of them will ask, in tones not to be misunderstood, a practical recognition of their social and political rights. Hundreds who attended the convention expected to hear you, and members on the platform received notes expressing a desire to hear you speak. I saw one which was written by a prohi- nent citizen of Washington, in which he stated that he never heard or read so powerful an argument on behalf of woman as fell from your lips‘ on Wednesday evening, the 13th inst., and, while he could not indorse everything you said, he could not help admitting that you are one of the most re- markable women this nation has produced. Let us hope ere another year has run its course that all the societies workinglin the interests of woman will unite. Womenimust work together. The time has come for the ad- vocates of the cause to cast all personal jealousies and petty spites aside and come to the front in solid phalanx to secure all our rights. May God spare you for many years; and I pray that you may have physical strength to traverse thi country from Maine to Texas to spread the “ Gospel of Truth.” Ever yours in love, MAGGIE. This meeting comes at a most auspiciousg her is . ‘A "Feb. 13, 1875. A WARNING TO HUSBANDS. WQODHULL 85 CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY" Q 3 The Pall Mall Gazette says: “ The observations made by Mr. Justice Brett the other day at Chester, when addressing a woman named Mary Lancaster, found guilty of the man- slaughter of her husband, will be read with deep interest in many a family circle where the poker on the domestic hearth is used by the head of the household for the double purpose of stirring the ﬁre and battering the skull of his wife. The prisoner in the ‘dock had been a good and industrious wife, but had been cruelly ill-treated’ by her husband. On Sep- tember 13 he came home drunk, and kicked over the meat she was preparing for his dinner. He then thrashed her, :and, in a moment of passion, she threw at him a sharpening steel, which caused his death. It can hardly be said that Mr. dlancaster was any great loss to society. Indeed, Mr. Justice :’Brett remarked that he had seldom heard of ‘ a greater brute ’ than the prisoner’s husband. ‘All the real right in this case,’ said the judge to the prisoner, ‘ was on your side, all the real wrong on your husband’s, and God forbid that I «should punish you. I will be no party to it. I will not even make the judgment complete. I will not allow it to be said «by anybody that you are a convicted felon, for a O0IlVlOiiOD is not complete until a sentence is passed, and I mean to _;pass no sentence at all.’ (Here there was loud cheering in ‘the court, which the oﬁicials, as usual. ‘ vainly endeavored to =:su‘ppress.’) The judge continued, ‘ I shall merely ask you to enter into your own recognizance to come up for judgment» it called upon, and nobody in the world will ever call upon you-"-God forbid they ever should.’ Here there was renewed cheering, and amidst a burst of applause the prisonerxleft the dock. This is very disagreeable for irritable husban s, who, when thrashing their wives, will run frightful risks of injury unless protected by the law.” GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 24, 1875. Dear Weekly--If those who “ know the truth ” would place themselves on record as its suppcgters, it seems to me the cause of social freedom would be thereby greatly strength- ened and upheld. Those long known as lovers of justice- persons of purity and integrity—are not without inﬂuence, and if they would commit themselves by even_ so little as a “ God bless you, Victoria!” in your columns over their own signatures, honest persons who differ would pause to think and investigate; this would bring them to the truth and ﬁnally make them free. N 0 time in the world’s progress has truth needed support as now—no time in the battle theo- logical, when to be radical required the nerve which must now be possessed in the battle social. Truth’s enemies are within our own ranks now as well as without. If parties cannot go so far as to live it, let them preach it, or at least place themselves before the public as itssupporters. The last ,sericus matter as it may be, is a little thing to. do com- pared with what Mrs. ‘vifoodhull, in her self—sacriﬁce, has done. Let every friend she has always maintain this truth against falsehood: that, using the word prostitution as mean- ing the selling the sexual. use of one’s body of either sex for money or its equivalent for a longer or a shorter time, her present life-work is a protest against that terrible sin and crime; and also, that no one of her legion of opposers, how- ever honest or dishonest he or she may be, but must neces- sarily -be its supporter in some form or in some way. H. W. BoozER. GLEN BEULAH, Wis., Jan. ‘18, 1875. VICTORIA G. WOODHULL: I ' Dewr Fm'end——~I have felt like penning a few words to you, but have waited and waited to see if I could accompany the missive with substantial evidence of good-will in the form of money to help in the social revolution, but shall have to hope for that chance soon, while I say from the heart, press for- ward! Your friends are numerous and will never permit the ‘WEEKLY to fail in this hour of ﬁnancial depression. Society cannot aﬁord the loss of this faithful exponent of radical reform. None of us can afford it. diﬁer as some of us may as to the practical application of some of its extreme ideas, for such are needed to shock community into an investiga- tion of the anointed evils that desolate the high places of” social respectability. So you are coming V\’est again. Do not anticipate largely on ﬁnances from this section to sustain the work. Every- body is hard pressed, while there is the willing ear to catch the brave testimony of a woman who has oﬁ'ered her all to the cause amid the howlings and persecutions of men in authority. How well are we learning the lesson over again that free- dom—is purchased at dear costs; but how blessed is the rest of compensation coming, when the emancipated shall hallow the memories of the martyrs. Your friend, J. O. BARRETT. UNION LAKE. Minn., Jan. 14, 1875. Dear friends and pioneer reformers of our eventful age- to all a “ God bless you,” and may the good and mighty angels cheer and sustain you. . On “New Year’s ” we——myself and wife—-werecalled to attend a gathering of Spiritualists in Faribault. Mrs. S. gave a most excellent lecture, after which Mr. -Birdsall, of said place, introduced the R. P. J. as the journal of all the most deserving in his estimation, and solicited subscribers, where- upon I immediately made an offset to it by urging the claims of the WEEKLY as from any and every consideration the most deserving. The result was that the WEEKLY came out ahead, and Mr. B. /obtained nothing. Please send the WEEKLY to the addresses given, and ﬁnd inclosed P. 0. order for the same. ‘ Believe me your sympathising brother and co-worker, N. SWAIN. [We commend the example of Brother Swain to our read- ers and friends for their emulation. If they have the courage to bravely and properly present the claims of the WEEKLY at their gatherings, we are confident their efforts will meet with s ii3:.~:c :?:'svo.x:si:le response. Try it and see.-}i3.i::s.] IN CIDEN TS OF THE BEECHER TftIAL. MONDAY, JAN. 25. COMPLIMENTS ALL ROUND. The J udge‘s nephewwas on the bench while Shearman was reading from Woodhu-l1’s paper, and the Judge addressed this young man, sotto’ voce: , “ I am sorry your visit here has been so inopportune, to hear the remarks read of a wild, crazy woman. Shearman also attempted to supp_ress Fullerton, saying: "Judge Fullerton’s remarks are said to be brilliant. I don’t see any wit in that.” 1 “ Sorry for your stupidity," said Fullerton.-N. Y. Sun. COMMENT. ' The..above is the only uncharitable remark made by Judge N eilson during the trial. MCULTCN EXCITED. Frank Moulton got in a leading answer at half—past three on the subject of threatening Augustus Storrs. It was one unbroken, complete and eﬂective sentence, so cogently ex- pressed that nobody could get an interruption in on it. For the first time the witness was warmed up. - ‘ Asked afterward if he had not called Beecher a damned libertine and sneak, Moulton replied: “ I don’t know whether I used the Word ‘ damned ;’ I may have said he was a liber- tine and sneak, as he is!” MOULTON CN THE CHARGES IN THE “,WEEKLY.” Q. Did you have any conversation with him (J. 0. Jacobs) touching the Woodhull scandal? A. Yes, sir. Q. When was it ? A. On ’Change; somewhere in the neighborhood of the publication. ’ . Q. What did you say to him about it? A. I don’t recollect the precise language. » Q. Did you say to him that Beecher was not guilty of the charge made against him in the Woodhull publication? A. No; I was pressed pretty close and I think I told Baxter that Beecher was a pure man-——something of that sort. / TUESDAY, JAN. 26. I I DEATH or MRS. MOULTON, SR. Tuesday was one of the most eventful days which has come in the course of a. trial of the magnitude of the Brooklyn suit. While the two contestants were wrestling—-the leading witness and his lawyers with the opposite counsel—and the long "grip of many days was about releasing its throttle upon Frank Moulton, the apparition of death strode into the court. The witness was motherless, and had not even heard that his mother was ill. A BLOW UNDER THE EIETH RIB. Q. Who did General Tracy represent? Mr. Evarts was rising and in the act of putting in an objec- tion, when crimson face he had had for several days, was looking up to ' the topof one of the tall windows. He kept that position. His wife was by his side and his palm rested upon her shoulder. N ext to her sat Edward Beecher, with a bereaved appearance, because he had no umbrella. An umbrella more than an alibi would seem ﬁtting for Edward. eoMMENT. , The great dramatist used the word once, but he put it in the mouth ofvthe snarling buifocn Thersites, and branded with it the man Patroclus. ,To apply it to women is another im- provement on Shakspeare, though not unwarranted in the Bible. But its use ought to be restricted to the clergy. THURSDAY, JAN. 28. GENERAL TRACY oN LYING. Mr. Woodruﬁ‘, recalled, continued his direct examination, being questioned by Judge Fullerton ;-—-I called at Mr. Tracy’s oﬂice with Mr. Moulton, at half-past eight o’clock in the morning, for the purpose of hearing Mr. Moulton relate to M:-. Tracy the history of these scandal matters; Mr. Moulton proceeded to tell Mr. Tracy all the points about the Woodhull scandal; he told him what he had done in regard to the mat- ter and what Mr. Beecher had done; he told General Tracy that the essential points of this Woodhull story as published in the paper were true; that Mr. Beecher went to his house. and that Mrs. Tilton had written a confession and afterward a retraction, and he told General Tracy that he had striven to keep this story covered up so far as he could do it; but new the story was published; he told Tracy he had been asked to deny the story in a public card; I protested against it; I was not willing he should do it. General Tracy said in reply to that 2- Mr. Evarts then objected to what General Tracy had said being repeated by the witness, and the Judge ruled the state- ' ments of the witness must be admitted. it; as a partner of mine I wouldn’t allow him; Tracy said he didn’t uphold lying, but he thought there were some cases, ' and in this case particularly, that a man would be justiﬁed in denying sucha statement; I replied that I wasn’t willing that a partner of mine should deny a statement that he knew to be true; Tracy said, Couldn”t Tilton and Moulton take a trip to Europe? I said no, that it could’t be done; then Moulton said he .had observed silence in the matter all along, and I agreed with that aud'Tracy said silence was the best thing for both parties. for all parties interested; then we called at Moulton’s house-—it was Sunday evening—and had this conversation by appointment; Tilton was there, Moulton was there, I was there and General Tracy came there, and we all went up into Moulton’s study, in the top story of the house; and then Mr. Moulton and Mr. Tilton had a. conversation with Mr. Moulton, with the rapidity of lightning, popped out the answer. He said he represented Mr. Beecher. (Great laughter.) Mr. Evarts (deploringly)——There now, your honor. The J udge———I will let it stand. ' Witness-—It was at the request of General Tracy that I withheld the papers. That was one of the reasons why I with- held the papers; I can give the balance of the reasons if you like. ........n. MR. MOULToN’s WEAK SPOT. Q. What object had you in replying to those people in the Produce Exchange who accosted or questioned you in respect to this scandal? A. To give Mr. Beecher a character for purity. Q. What passed between you and Mr. Beecher in regard to people who questioned you on that subject? Objected to. ' A. Beecher replied to this: “ If you lie at all it is better to lie sublimely.” \ So said Moulton, and Mrs. Beecher looked up into her husband’s impassive face and smiled. He made no response, but sat very gravely, the rich peach bloom overspreading his cheeks and he looked both discouraged and tired. - COMMENT. V. Here, according to the evidence, the Brooklyn Pastor im- proves upon Shakespeare by adding to the lie with circum- stance, and the lie direct another, viz. : The lie sublime! ‘WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27. Mr. Moulton’s evidence concluded. Mr. Bradshaw, and afterward Mr. William F. West was called to the stand. Before Mr. Moulton left the stand the followingpassage of arms occurred between him and General Tracy: GENERAL TRACY NoNPLUssED. Q. Now, sir, as far as you know, do you know that I had any knowledge of what your action was to be that afternoon -—whether for presenting or withholding that report? A. I did think you knew what the ﬁnal action was to be. I knew what you wanted it to be. (Laughter.) Mr. Tracy objected to the last remark. His Honor—Stenograp'ner, strike out that last remark. Mr. Tracy—Can it not be, your Honor, with an admonition to the witness? ‘ His Honor——No. The witness has been here these six, eight or ten days, and has been tortured by both sides; there- fore I will not admonish him. COMMENT. The Hemld’s report states that “the J udge’s reply made a sensation in the court-room,” and “ was a quietus for the ex-United States District Attorney.” — A PAROXYSMAL WORD. Q. What did you say to Mr. Beecher in regard to what‘Mr. Halliday had communicated to the committee ?" A. That the church was suffering from the scandal, and that the commit- tee ought to hold its meetings at once in reference to the scandal; this conversation took place in Mr. Beecher’s study; then we went into the parlor, where Mr. Beecher resumed the conversation by saying that this whole story rested on the assertion or two w-==-s. ‘ When Mr. West used the bad word which Beecher had ‘ﬁm-¥19y5d»: that clergyman: wearing the very red, almost -the Stuarts, that law was repealed. General Tracy about the case,;in addition to what Mr. Moul- ton had said; but Mr. Tilt-on expressed an unwillingness to have General Tracy brought into the case; he said to General Tracy, “ If Beecher and I should ever go to law or into the courts in regard to this matter, could you or would you ever be council in this suit?” General Tracy said, “ No, I could not and would not.” I If Mr. Woodruff’s testimony be correct, as General Tracy is one of H. W. Beecher"s counsel, this last statement may be -10.0k8£l.=§i1p0X1 as a specimen brick. FRIDAY, JAN. 29. The legal contest for the admission of Theodore Tilton’s evidence occupied the whole day. Messrs. Pryor and Beach in favor; Mr. Evarts against. Judge N eilson reserved his decision. From ,Mr. Pryor’s able argument we clip the fol- lowing extract: ‘ “ By the Levitical law, as your Honor is aware, both hus- band and wife were denounced to death for the act of adultery, which law, though severe, must be commended for its impartiality, in view of the tendency and disposition of modern civilization, which is rather to applaud the man for his exploits of gallantry and to heap the load of ignominy on the wretched and unhappy woman. So in 1650, when principlesof Parliament, borrowed from the Mosaic super- stition, were predominant in the government of Great Britain, these bigoted _fanatics passed a law denouncing death against adultery. But upon the return of reason and It never was the law in New York, it never was a portion of the common law of England that adultery was a crime. The common law left adultery to the cognizance of ecclesiastical law_, who chas- tised it through “ salute anime,” as they expressed it. Adul- tery is not a crime to~day with us. It is regarded as a civil wrong, exposing the “tort feasors” to a civil action for damages, but it never was considered a. penal oifense, mak- ing him obnoxious to criminal prosecution” We hold with the law in this matter, that adultery, freely enteredinto, is not a criminal offense, and we are condemned by foolish people for so saying. We also call attention to the difference of pains and penalties awarded by modern civilization or society to male and female offenders. ‘When noted, all wise women, as Capt. Cuttle would remark, had best “ make a note of it;” but they need not ask the WEEKLY the reason why, for we candidly confess we cannot enlighten them on that, to them, highly important subject. MONDAY, FEB. 1. Judge Neilson decided that Mr. Tilton could testify in his munications. The whole of Monday was occupied by the direct examination of Mr. Tilton, which will not be com- pleted for some days. Nothing was elicited that was not contained in Tilton’s statements of last summer. “ Do they play in heaven?” asked a little girl of her Suns day-school teacher. “ No, they do not play there.” “ What do they do ?” “They sing and are good.” “Are there no toys there?” “ No, not any.” . i‘ No dolls, nor balls, nor Noalrs arks ?” % ‘fh’.i7fi§€:;;1,i’ said the little see? “ 5? shsil take my deity so .:e‘e-."i V . y ”H he Mr. Woodruﬁ? then continued :—l said I protested against own behalf, but that he must not give any conﬁdentiaI*com= . ’ WOODHULL e CLAFLlN’S W.EE'KI.Y’ Feb. 13, 1875. 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Will our friends please note this, and act ‘upon it, for we are daily losing remittances sent without these precautions? ’ I THE‘ NEW RELIGION—*UNIVERSAL JUSTICE. . No. XIV. There are two methods by which advances in all things may be made-——one, by the gradual progress, the develop- ment theory, and the other, by sudden and violent transi- tions. It is not our sphere at this stage of the consideration to conjecture by which methodzthe changes that must be made to transform society from its present chaotic condition to one of harmony and unity will be made. We are now only to consider of the conditions that must exist after the change is accomplished, letting methods alone until another time, but indulging in the hope that wisdom may predomi- nate so far among those who now seemingly control social‘ movements, that—they may accept the former method and not invite the latter by refusing to listen to thedemands of justice and right that are being made upon them. We are aware that a perfect social order is deemed an im- practicability, even by many who admit the truth of the principles upon which it must be based. So have all the , diﬁusive steps of government, from the sovereignty of one ‘over the whole down to present things, been deemed im- practicable. All new things are impracticable until tried and established. Progress is the watchword of the universe, and it is always at work. i Society can no more stop where it is than it could. stay where it was a century ago. At that time. the things that are to-day were impracticable, and things that are impracticable now will be accomplished facts in a hundred years. There are a great many things that, when considered in their relation to general progress, indicate the near approach of the possibility of a completeunity of interests for all the people. The most striking of these are the railroad and telegraph systems. They mark an era in progress as the indices of the future too distinctly to be ignored,’ and with numerous other facts, show that the real unity of the people ‘is more nearly accomplished than the people themselves That is, the real advancement is greater than its The people, intheir social organization, are perceive. recognition. far behind the rnethods that they have already provided to maltc such organization possible. It is but a step beyond the present.— systems of intercommunication to a complete unity of interests in this direction. a v * If _all the systems of society were operated by the public for the public, then would the goal be attained, it is not diﬁicult to imagine this condition attained. It is practically attained now in the post-oﬂice system and in that of public schools. It is true that in the former the rates of postage nearly support the system; but consider this abandoned and the entire expense paid by the public, as the deﬁciencies are now, and in this there would be the perfect communal in- terest. Perhaps the public highways are the best illustra- tion we now have of a community of interests. It was im- possible to conduct this system upon any other theory than that the highways should be common to all, no matter who or what part of the all should bear their expense or do the work. The fact of this impossibility—the fact that the only practical way to reach an absolute necessity is upon the communal plan--is direct evidence that this plan is the method that -must ﬁnally be adopted for all systems. If the methods adopted of necessity for the physical communica- tions of the people are communal, why should not the rea- sons for which the communications are maintained, also be communal. A common system to maintain a competitive industry is a contradiction, and makes the weak in every sense the victim of the strong in every sphere. This is prac- tically prolonging the rule of the brute, where the strong conquer or destroy the weak with impunity. It is even more inhuman than this. The strong in the human sphere do not kill their weak victims outright, and end their misery at once; -but they torture them for years in various exquisite ways, which are more cruel than actual death at the begin- ning would be. We have glimpses, therefore, at least, at three diﬁerent necessities ofgsocial organization, which show conclusively that society itself is rapidly adopting the principles of com- munism. Every combination of individuals is a movement toward a community of interests, while these large com- binations are ;'‘virtually its attainment, in so far, at least, as they constitute a part of the social organization. The Post Olﬁce system is an invention made to meet a public necessity. _ Who would advocate a return to the individual method in vogue a half century ago?_ And so also of the railroads and schools. The principal opposition to the nationalization of these great public necessities is that it would deprive indi- viduals of the immense proﬁts that they now realize from the privilege of transporting the public and its merchandize, and of charging almost their own prices for doing it; and also of the means which railroad stocks aiford to a large class of men to speculate. The abolition of this single matter by the nationalizationfof the railroad system would save hun- dreds of millions of dollars to the industries of the country annually. . . ’ T Those who have not studied the question of common in- terests for industries, pretend to, and probably do,‘ think that a transition from present conditions to them is impos- sible, except through violent disruption; but, to show the fallacy of this idea, we have but to consider that the only practical difference between that and "now would be in the manner by which the people should live. Now they labor and receive arbitrary wages, with which they procure neces- sities; then they would labor and receive in kind all that their requirements should dmand. Now the results of indus- tries are aggregated in the hands of a’ few individuals who render to those who produce them what barely sustains life, without any of its comforts and luxuries; then the products of all labor would be aggregated in a common storehouse, and be dispensed among all the people as each should have need, and exchanged with other nations for things which they produce. This, we say, would be the practical diiference; but there would be a thousand changes in the various details of life. Fully one-half of all existing things would be necessarily abolished, and those who now consume their time with them would be added to the immense army of producers, whereas they are now consumers only. One of the first results would be the destruction of the present system of middle-men, or merchandlzing, by which a large portion of the net results of laborare legally ﬂlched from producers, and ‘the exchanges of the various products of different parts of the country would be eﬁected by the agents of the people through a vast. systenrof public warehouses. This can be easily conceived of by considering what the commissary and quartermaster’s departments of a large army are. They are administered to provide for the necessities of the armyin the ﬁeld. At times in the late war as many as two millions of people were subsisted in this way. — If that number have been subsisted, it is easy to imagine that twenty times that number may also be subsisted through a similar system. It must ndt be supposed, however, that the system which .must be inaugurated will be limited to the uses to which the army systems were reduced. On the contrary, it will be constructed to provide not only for the necessities, but for all the physical wants of the people. In the combined sys- tem of industries, all persons may have all the luxuries that the few only now enjoy. It has been calculated that, under all the advantages of co-operation, when immense labor- saving machinery will be introduced to do much of the work that is now performed by hand, two hours -in twenty- fourwill produce fully as much as is now produced in the ten to twenty hours during which the people severally labor. In this department alone there would be an immense economy introduced. To administer thesystem perfectly would require nd more than one fourth, perhaps one—tenth,, of the number who are now engaged in exchanging the products of industry between producer and consumer. Look at our eitiesl §hopkeepers everywhere, until it seems as f I and apply the likeness to all our other wants. every other house were a shop of some kind where trade is carried on. The ultimate result of this system cannot be better described than to illustrate it by our best hotel tables, There a per- son enters and orders what he desires, and it is provided. So it will be in other things as well as with eating, when the proper system shall be constructed. - A 4; 4' pr wr—~ INDIGl\TANT VIRTUE. i During the past years two social questions have mightily agitated the public of Brooklyn. The one is known as the Tilton-Beecher case, the other has received attention as the Field—Kinsella aflair. Of the parties accused, both are ed- itors, the one of the C’lw'islian Union, and the other of the almost equally Christian Eagle. We believe that both of them have expressed the greatest horror of Free—love doc- trines, although some think that their actions have been somewhat inconsistent with such a ruling. Nothing, how- ever, is more certain than that they utterly abominate those who maintain the personal sovereignty of woman, except, possibly, in very special instances. If Mr. William West is to be credited, the former, the Plymouth pastor, made use of a very ugly word to exhibit his animosity to those who defend Social Freedom in the WEEKLY; and the latter, whose name is to descend to posterity as the contributor of the Kinsella fund,would seem, in words,_to emulate the imma- . culate purity and modesty of his more celebrated neighbor. In fact the charity of both these worthies, which, however, is in no wise needed by the WEEKLY or its partisans, appears to be of the “ sounding brass and tinkling cymbal” order, and not that species which “ suﬁereth long and is kind.” \ In the former case, many will admit the justice of the above assertion; and in th@ latter, we put forward the following item from the Brooklyn Eagle, of January 25, in proof that such is not without warrant when applied to the editor of that paper. Commenting on the Tilton—Beecher trial, it says: The parts of the Woodhull story, as far as read. kindled the interest of the audience in the resolution of the Board of Supervisors last week. “ authorizing the employment of an extra woman to clean the court—house,” the resolution being introduced at the request of Justice N eilson. The “extra woman’s ” broom could have been used to sweep the Wood- hull ﬁlth out of court. Last week, under the heading of “ Odium Theologicum,” we endeavored to defend Mr. Kinsella from a violent and malicious attack made upon him by the Independent. The above extract goes far to prove that we were right in so do- ing. We trust that the animus exhibited in the above ex- tract will calm the fears of the Independent, and prove to the pious periodical owned by Henry C. Bowen, that the Eagle will not neglect its duty in guarding carefully all the morali- ity that is yet left in the City of Churches, alias Brooklyn. As to the WEEKLY, it is well aware that its doctrines do not obtain (and cannot expect) any mercy at the hands of either women or men of what society calls “easy virtue.” Free love, rightly ,. established, will destroy all the illusions of liaisons, and tend to annihilate prostitution. It is vain for such parties to aim to drag pure free lovers under the lash of the old Mosaic laws, as the Pharisees did the woman (but not the man) detected in the act of adultery. But, alas! unlike their ante-types the Pharisees, they have now no modesty whatever, and are apt to throw stones at their bet- ters on every occasion. As to the indignant virtue (or its semblance) expressed in the above quotation, when we con- sider the source from whence it emanates, its force seems to us to be simply terriﬁc. It deserves a place with the “ slop- pail” fancy of the pastor of Plymouth. N 0 one can have read either of the above items, without feeling that-the ele- _ gant apostrophe of Edmund Burke on the chivalry of the past, -is not applicable to the chivalry of ,,the present, as exhibited by the above magnates of Brooklyn. For it is quite evident, that even under the distressing circumstances surrounding them, they have both preserved “ a chastity of honor that feels a stain like a wound,” that is whenever they think they can detect the same on the garments of their neighbors; and, therefore, sinners though they may be, they may be said to be trying, by their extra vigilance, to condone their crimes in the courts celestial, and to be already half way again on the road to Zion. lg,‘ V v UTTER BARBARISM. The barbarisms of savage life bear no comparison to the barbarisms generated in our cities by the processes of modern civilization. It is the recorded opinion of Coroner Lankester, of London, that, in that city, twelve thousand mothers annually murder their offspring. A writer in the World newspaper more than doubled than number in esti- mating the foetus andchild-murders of New York. Tens of thousands of human beings in St. Giles’ in London, and in Murderers’ Block and other localities in New York, are reared in schools of vice and brutality. Creedal religions prove no bar whatever against the extension of these miseries of (what is called) civilization. Far better the free, forest life and the “liberty of’ will” enjoyed by the savage, than the regulated and enforced demoralization and the chicanery of the “liberty of edicts,” for they do not generally merit the name of laws, which have been instituted in the place of the former. Believing these to be sorrowful facts, we do not hesitate to indorse the statement of the London Tele- graph, as we ﬁnd it reproduced in the New York Sun, of January 29 ;_ Y \ ‘ V\\\.~/‘’\,\ Feb. 13, 1875. WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. 5 The London Telegraph compliments its countrymen by L saying, “ The most brutal. the most cowardly, the most piti- less, the most barbarous deeds done in the world are perpe- trated by the lower classes of English people. - It was but yesterday the public there were shocked by the account of a brutal fight between a bulldog and a dwarf-— A not one of chance, but a regular set battle, instituted for the sport of the lower order of English Christians. Another case of a similar character was lately presented from one of the mining districts, in which it was proved that a man beat his wife for feeding his family with mutton which he had purchased specially for his ﬁghting dogs. Still another we V present in this paper, in which all just magistrate refuses to punish an ill-used wife for having caused the death of a brute of a husband. These, however, are only isolated items, but they exhibit the true state of a large class of the people in Great Britain. We claim that such truly repre- sent the conditions of hundreds, if not thousands, in our cities as well as those of Europe, and we assert that the degeneracy exhibited is the natural result of the false sys- tems of industrial, ﬁnancial and social economy instituted by Great Britain and, alas! too generally followed, in the United States. - ' ANOTHER VICTIM. There appears to be a contest between the public and the clergy, not on the subject of the rights of women, but rather on the claims of the clergy with regard to women. In this war it seems evident that ministers are determined not to submit to be defeated. No sooner is one scandal of the kind disposed of, but another is immediately instituted. The pastors stand like men in a free ﬁght-—it is one down, another come on! Each ecclesiastic as he rushes into the . battle appears to be animated with the words with which Henry of England (not of Brooklyn) encouraged his soldiers at the siege of Harfleur, in France—— “ Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once rnore’!” and it must be confessed, that, as yet, no poltroonery has been exhibited. The last case is reported by the Logans- port (Indiana) Star, and is as follows: For a considerable time past rumors have been aﬂoat re- garding the erratic wanderings of the Rev. J. R. Stilwell, of the West Side Tabernacle, among the ﬂock over which he has so long been the controlling power. It was considered best for all parties concerned not to make public anything in regard to the matter until such time as an investigation could be had, and determine just how far Mr. Stilwell had gone in his nefarious conduct. The charges made against him were for improper liberties taken with several lady members of thcchurcli, but the one upon which the investi- gation was made”was improper advances made toward a lady who was not a member of the church over which Mr. Stilwell presided. A meeting of the oﬂicial members of the Taber- nacle was held, and updn the allegations being made known, Mr. Stilwell made a statement confessing that he had been guilty of these indiscretions, but pleading extenuating circumstances, and resigned his pastorate on the spot. Of course this settled the matter. This revelation is sad indeed, coming as it does just in the midst of a most successful revival. in which many accessions were being made to the society, but it is sincerely hoped that it will not cast a damper upon the good work, but only stimulate those interested to greater efforts toward building up the church in that locality. It will be seen from the above, that the Rev. J. R. Stil- well is charged with wandering away from his congrega- tion. It is questionable whether the sheep of his own fold have not a right to be indignant in such a case, but it is also questionable whether they have a right to arraign him for so acting. We are sorry to hear that the expose occurred during a revival, but, having some recollections of John Maﬁit, do not wonder at it. Statistics teach us that in such hea.rt-opening times, mundane as well as celestial unions are apttc occur. The year after the great Protestant revi- val in Ireland, it is said that, in the town of Belfast, the illegitimate births advanced 200 per cent. We do not think, however, that the revival Mr, Stilwell was conducting should be permitted to languish. Of course his services must be lost to it, but this need not overthrow it. N 0, every mem- ber of a church ought to be expected to do his duty in such a case, and the loss of a minister, however capable, ought not to be permitted to check Christian sympathy, and pre- vent the spreading of the gospel. ‘ MODERN RESPECTABILITY. Fifty years ago, when murders were not every—day occur- rences, a gambler named Thurtell was tried in London, G. B., for the murder of another gambler named Weare. In the course of the trial, one of the witnesses, on being asked -whether a certain man was a “respectable” man, replied “ certainly, he keeps a gig.” This to us does not appear to be a bad deﬁnition of modern respectability. The “gig business” has held a similar sway with us in regard to posi- tion in society. Inthe anti-slavery times Frederick Douglas is reported to have said—-“ Show me a negro with a million of dollars and I will show you a white nigger.” Believing this to be a correct observation, it is clear that the possession of money, in other words, “the keeping of a gig,” goes yet a long way toward obtaining for its owner “ a character for respectability.” '_ But, in our cities, at least, there is another agency not less potent than that of money that often confers what is called “ respectability” on its votaries. It is "the agency of the churches. Either money or religion can grant the distinc- tion treated of, and it is getting to be diﬁicult to say which of them is the most powerful; but, manipulated by the Y- M. C. A., the latter is most to be dreaded. Suﬁiice it that un- der the two systems networks of espionage are spread. all over the Union, which are imore despotic in their rulings than the tyrannies of Bomba of Naples, or Nero of Rome. The only resources‘ for those poor mortals who stand outside of these systems, is to become Masons or Odd Fellows in- stantcr, otherwise, in no sense of the word, may they ever hope to be deemed “respectable.” -Character in old times was a something which had to be earned. The conduct of a man once determined his position among his fellows. It is hardly so now. If you are wealthy, by what means your riches have been accumulated will rare-. ly be inquired into; and, if nefarious, still more rarely con- demned. Plymouth Church will accept the money of the oppressor for a pew therein, as readily as that of the philan- thropist-—it smells not of the way in which it was accumu- lated. ' . As regards “character,” that is now an idle word, having no meaning, except when conferred by either of the agencies mentioned in the previous paragraph. To show how slight a hold it has upon the general public, we reprint the follow- ing from a leader of the Hemld, to prove the truth of that statement: . The Tilton-Beecher trial is an extraordinary comment on the state of society and religion in Brooklyn. There is no knowing how it will end. We have seen nothing in the evi- dence of Mr. Moulton to prevent his resuming the relations he once held toward Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton. These gentlemen are altogether of so emotional a character, are cast in so exalted a mould that it would not surprise us to learn any morning that the case had ﬁnally come to an end, that tearful letters had been interchanged between the con- tending parties. that Mr. Beecher had exonerated Mr. Tilton and Mr. Tilton Mr. Beecher, that the plaintiff had resumed the editorship of the Independent, while the defendant had continued his ‘ministrations in Plymouth church; for this is a case in which any result is possible. - The public, generally, know that one of these parties has charged the other. with being a black-mailer, and the other has retorted by asserting that his accuser was a liar and a hypocrite; yet they both move in the highest circles of society, and, in the opinion of the foremost daily, there is nothing to prevent their resuming their former friendship, and holding their positions in society. After this, let us ask our readers the question, what has character to do with “ modern re- spectability.” . - Yet this wretched phantom, so powerless with the men of the world, appears to be all potent over women. Alas, in all social cases, woman is almost inevitably the victim. Why is this? Because her respectability in the eyes of a foolish world rests solely upon her sexual status. It would seem that, in her case, the penalty of being “ disrespectable” falls not only upon herself, but on her relatives. Let the follow- ing item from the Boston Globe, show the correctness of that assertion: A tale of sorrow was ended Saturday afternoon. when a young girl, whose name is not divulged, died at the City Hos- pital. On Wednesday afternoon last, Mr: Haskell, of Engine 7, found a young girl sitting in the snow in Tufts street, with a very young child in her arms, and, attracted by her forlorn condition, took measures for her relief, which ended in her being sent to the City Hospital by order of Dr. Foye. Death came on Saturday afternoon, and released her from her friendless condition in this world. It seems that her father, on ﬁn-ding that his daughter was a mother and not a wife, had turnedher out of doors, and that in her critical condition she had wandered about until dis- covered by Mr. Haskell and removed to acomfortable place. Her father is said to have expressed his indifference at the poor-,gir1’s fate, and has refused even to bury her——a remark- able exhibition of oﬁended virtue. What could have induced a father so to act toward his daughter? Why that which indirectly caused the death of Alice Bowlsby, of Mary Pomeroy, and of untold hundreds if not thousands of similar cases; no punishment by a deity -for incontinence, but a hard and cruel edict of man’s in re- turn for favors received. That one-sided ruling which always ‘strikes the weak and generally spares the strong——“ modern respectablity.” .__________,._.4_,,.4____.......__ NOT FAR ENOUGH. Our public school system is based on communism. It recognizes theintellectual rights of all children. Last year the State of New York improved it by passing a law making education compulsory on all children under its control. The difficulties that would attend the enforcement of such a law were pointed out by the WEEKLY at the time of its passage. These have arisen, not because such a‘ law is not needed, but because until the State is willing to admit and attend to’ its whole duty with regard to its little ones, and to stand fully and lovingly in loco parentis over all such needing its aid, physically as well as intellectually, it is not rightfully in power to assume the position ithas taken. A leader in the N. Y. Trvibune of Jan. 6 proves that we did not err in making the above demand, for it says: The Compulsory Education Law is most excellent in theory, but in practice two or three grave diﬁiculties threaten it. Unless something like the Ragged School system can be introduced, there are many pupils who will be forced into the public schools at the sacriﬁce of their own self-respect if not also to the injury of present pupils. There are likewise many cases of destitution in which a lad of twelve or thir- teen may be found to be the sole support of a widowed mother or_ family. On the one hand it is deplorable that he should grow up without education, but on the other it seems cruel to deprive the family of the support he gives in order that he may be driven to school. Other practical difficulties arise, and the experience of the next few months will be watched with careful interest by practical educators, who would be glad to see compulsory education, but are in doubt as to the means by which it is to be safely attained. We object to the introduction of the Ragged School sys- tem, and propose a State annihilation of “ ragged children” instead. We do not, however, suggest the destruction of the little ones. but ‘the—d@s1;1Fu.9ti0¥i 9f the ‘-‘rags-.” These children who are not presentable ought to be made so. Let us level up, neighbor, not level down. Of course it is wrong to rob families of their support, which the children are used to supply, by the strong arm of authority, without tendering an equivalent for the same. But the child has a right to be educated, says the law, so which we reply,“ Yes, and also a right to be housed, fed and clothed.” The Tribune seems to be beginning to appreciate this fact, for in a later article, in its issue of Jan. 25 we ﬁnd it has come to the following conclusions : We suggest that at this time instead of later our State Legislatures should examine into the system of industrial schools, which have met with such exceptional success in Great Britain and France. In them the “ truant ” who will not voluntarily attend school is taught not only the rudi- ments of a sound English education, but a trade, by which he is qualiﬁed on dismissal to earn his livelihood honestly. These schools are either maintained wholly by the Govern- ment, or if they are under church or private control, receive , a subsidy from the public treasury. When necessary the children are fed, lodged and clothed. The industrial and training schools of this city were formed on this model; the technical school of Hoe 8:: Co. takes rank as of the same kind, but of high degree. Compulsory education is assuredly to be commended, as far as it goes; the only objection to it is that it does not go far enough. If the Christianity of the age was not a very diﬁercnt article from that taught by the Nazarene, it would not be necessary for a Spiritualist paper to recall it to its duties in the matter. The conditions under which thousands of chil- dren exist in our cities are simply awful. They are publicly’ ‘ as well as privately disgraceful. But, disgraceful as they are to parents, and more disgraceful to the community, the acme of degradation is not reached until we_,come to the churches. When we look at the forlorn, miserable (and of necessity vicious) conditions under which masses of little ones are reared, right under the shadows of what the Friends call the steeple-houses, without any earnest remonstrances against such a state of th ngs by our modern clerics, we feel justified in anathematizing modern Christianity, and to assert that in its duties to children, it, as well as the State, “ does not go ‘far enough.” i _.n fish” DONATIONS. e H. F., Burr Oak, Mich., $1; Wm. H., Sturgis, M1$i;., $1, N. F. s., Toledo, Ohio, $4; P. o. L., Unionville, oi.i,2'i-,.$2; R. M. H. and R. M., Los Angelos, Cal., 9.32, A. B., sv$‘éEies- boro, N. J., 351; M. M. F., Berlin Heights, Ohio. $1; H. oi’ G., do., $1; J. C., do., 3,81; J. W., do., $2; M. B., Weare, N. H, $1; M. F.,East Shelby, N. Y., $2; G. W. W., Springﬁeld, Mass., $2; H. R., Clyde, Ohio, $5. ~———-————-—>—-41:»--+—————————._. MRS. WOODHULL AT ST. JOSEPH, MO. [From the Daily Herald, St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 29, 1875.] [EDITORIAL] VICTORIA WooDHULL’s LEo'rURn.——lf Victoria 0. Wood- hull did not lodge a few telling shots into the rickety bulk of fogyism last night, then we do not know what sharp sho5t- ing is. Some of the people present believed that in some of her remarks she intended to make a distant allusion to the editor of the Gazette for his editorial concerning her, but we did not so regard the matter. The lecture was a ﬁerce onslaught upon the lamentable ignorance which prevails in every household upon the laws of life and the governingprinciples of our most vital func- tions. She told the truth, and every man and woman pres- ent knew and felt that her words were true. When she de- claimed against the prudery and false modesty which control the wives and mothers of to-day, her dramatic action and vehement, impassioned oratory roused the audience to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. The modest and sanctimonious portion of the community lifts its hands in holy horrorat the mere thought of a woman appearing before an. audience in behalf of her sex; but these very self-same Pharisees feel in their hearts that there is need of exactly the social refor- mation which she’ demands. Every lady in St. Joseph will be very anxious to learn this morning the exact words of Mrs. Woodhull. Those who permitted their husbands -;o A attend the lecture have found out all about it before this. _ _ [THE REPoRr.] , Victoria 0, Woodhull’3 Lectttrc—- What I she Said and How she said 't't——A Great Omtor, a. Great Actor——Her Daughtefsl Juliet. A large, intelligent and enthusiastic audience assembled in the Opera House last night to listen to the most remarkable woman of the age—-one who has caused more commotion, called forth more criticism, excited more thought on vital 1'0 . . matters, who has had more inveterate enemies, and been more widely and badly abused, and had more enthusiastic friends, and honest, though ﬂattering encomiums in the same space of time than almost any other person, man or woman, who has ever lived. As an crater she stands unquestioned, even. by her enemies, as the “ Queen of the Rostrum;” her brilliant pererations enforcing her most radical utterances, and uttered in the most highly dramatic and ﬁnely impas- sioned manner and rich-toned voice, fairly entrance the audience and carry conviction almost whether they will or no. As an actress she would prove a remarkable success. Her dramatic and tragic talent are irresistible. She stands before her hearers a veritable impersonation of the‘words she utters. Nobody who sees her can doubt that she is not only earnest but honest in all she says; indeed, her purposes seem to be based upon a deep-seated religious enthusiasm. No doubt Theodore Tilton was right when he said in her biography that “ she has the most devoutly religious nature that I ever knew.” When to all this is added that she is an editorof a widely circulated paper, and an author of well- -known reputation, her title as “ The most remarkable person fthe age,” is fully established... A little more than three years ago the dashed. upon the country. and her work that * Macbeth in a manner that showed that she has apcrfect Pare almost a necessary adjunct to the highest degree of talent visited the Opera House and listened to the lecture of Vic- .6 has done all to which we have alluded has been performed in this brief «time. Her most successful movement was probably the publica- tion to the world of the Beecher-Tilton scandal. On the Wings of this her name an_d theories, though misunderstood, have been wafted over the inhabited world, and of the pro- ceedings now going on in Brooklyn they form no inconsider- able part. As a strategic move to advance her peculiar ideas and secure the public car, for which it was professedly done, this one stands before the world a masterpiece, marking her administrative capacity as of the ﬁrst order; while her use of the persecution which the publication evoked, stamps her executive ability as not a whit behind. A mind endowed by extraordinary talent in so many directions is a rare occur- rence in the history of the world, and if she lives she will doubtless leave an impress upon the race which, in extent at least, will compare favorably with that of any who have lived before her. , . We say this of Victoria Woodhull as journalists, without regard to any‘ of her theories. They may or may not be true in whole or in part. That many of her citations to prove their truth and utility are true none can deny, but whether their relevancy as she uses them is fully established it is not our province to state. It is for us to faithfully report her theories and arguments, and the capacities which she exhibits in their advancement, seeking to apologize for nothing said and maliciously representing nothing—just the same as We should do were we reporting any other person against whom there is no special prejudice existing. We believe that honest journalism requires this, and that to proceed upon a diﬂerent theory, to cater to a supposed adverse public sentiment, is an abuse of the Press, which is against the spiritiof our institu- tions. If Mrs. Woodhull’s theories are false and bad, the best way to insure their destruction is to give them complete publicity. Truth is always safe when left free to combat error. ' [Here follows a full two column review of the lecture.] Such was the general tenor of the lecture of Victoria Wood- hull; but besides this, she rendered the letter scene from conception of that strange and diﬂficult character; while her daughter’s rendition of the poison scene from Romeo and J ulict, was something wonderful for a more girl of fourteen years. That she has dramatic and tragic talent which, if trained, will make her prominent among the great actresses, no one who saw her last night can doubt; and she possesses those personal charms of beauty of form and feature which to make its possessor successful before the public. THE BANQUET—A FEAST or GOOD THINGS. Last evening the members of the Joint Asylum Committee toria C. Woodhull, after which they repaired to the Ladies Ordinary of the Paciﬁc, where a splendid banquet was ten- dered them by Senator Young and Representative Bittinger. Several citizens were also present by invitation, among whom we recognized Mayor Hosea, Judge Grubb, Col. James N. Burnes, Caivin F. Burnes, Col. Koch, Major Hartwig, F. M. Tufts, James N. Barnes. .Ir., E. W. Fox, Mr. McG innis, Dr. Catlett, C. B. Wilkinson. A novel feature of theentertainment was the sitting at the table beside the President—-—Col. James N. Burnes——Vic- toria C. Woodhull, who was specially invited by the manag- ers and again sent for by the assembled company. After a most sumptuous repast, the cloth was removed and speeches were made, in response to calls and sentimentsyfrom the Chairman, by Senator Mclntyre, Chairman of the Senate twoonnntt a oLAELIN*s WEEKLY. , WILMINGTON, De1., December 24, 1874. Editors of the I/Veekly——-Friends of humanity: all hail to the beneﬁcent light which is and has been so nobly streaming through the columns of your ably-conducted journal, to feed the famishing souls of AmericaI—a light born of justice and enshrined in freedom——a dawning light of better. days to come. In it we behold the germ of a true greatness and a grand destiny for humanity. Its mission———an exposition of radical ,truths——is not merely the work of to-day, but the sounding notes of incoming generations‘! Blest will be the sustainers of a paper that so fearlessly advocates the truthful but as yet unpopular and unwelcome tidings from the inte- rior depths of human conception. The merits of such a journal cannot be measured by the ordinary methods of judgment. A highdegree of inspiration is the life of it, of which the masses are ignorant‘. Its aim is the establishment of justice—-a principle in its broadest sense, foreign to the overwhelming majority of minds. You are the pioneers in a grand work of reform, that cannot be lost, for it has as its basis——eternal truth——nor can it, from our standpoint, be even seriously impeded in its progress, short of the bayonets of disroyal republicans—the demoral- ized and proﬂigate sons of American 1-epublicanismmwho will dare to sacriﬁce the republic in the interestsof absolut- ism. The country is in danger; its liberties are imperilled; its life-forces are stagnating; and soon it will be at the mercy of a despot. The same causes that produce a national ruin will of course carry everything, of a liberal character with it. An evil prescience overhangs the country. The eagle eyes of tyranny are upon you, and soon its talons will be lacerating your ﬂesh. Apostacy will he demanded of you by the new powers of darkness; and you, still led on by the intrepid Victoria-—the noble heroine of many a well-fought battle on the plains of truth, canopied by the broad and un- furled banner of social freedom—-will ask no quarter, but die ﬁghting for the consummation of freedom’s holiest cause, the annihilation of sex outside of its popular domain and the uplifting of humanity, in its entirety. The true and bravefdefenders of the ark of freedom will, and must "of necessity, see the setting sun of this Republic go down behind the dark clouds of monarchism, only again to rise regenerated arid puriﬁed. It will be a fearful work of blood, an era of Armageddeon might, when the minions of political despotism, the servile tools of Christianism, the vassals of fashion, the sycophants of wealth and the de- bauchees of a vitiated social system will coalesce in military ardor to destroy the beautiful, heroic and unyielding form of Freedom as she once more advances to the front to battle for her rights. The horoscope of this nation’s eventful career is already cast by that most unerring of all astrologers —Fate! i Fight on, brave defenders of the eternal truth! Your ban- ners will yet be raised anew With the inscriptive motto, “Peace, Fraternity, Equality.” It may be that the causes threatening your ruin as journalists are inevitable, not limited by ﬁnite action, but the work of the unknown, the irresistible, the controling element of destiny; but the life of your editor-in-chief is safe. Her life is yet to unfold with still greater capacities and the attainment of more glorious results. Honored be her name among the constellation of true human greatness. Great national events now await ,us —are even at the door. Thousands feel the exigencies of the time, but only a few realize their full import. Trust the in- dwelling and impelling spirit of humanity, and your lives will remain sacred to the cause of freedom in its holiest sense. A ’ Yours, fraternally, for the truth, Committee; Representative Jones, Chairman of the House Committee; Hon. John I. Martin, Speaker, pro tem, of the House; Mayor Hosea, Judge Grrubb, F. M. Tufts, Hon. E. W. Fox, Senators Ladue and Wyatt, C. B. Wilkinson, Col. Koch and Major Hartwig. At the close, Col. Burnes paid an eloquent and glowing tribute to Pluck, saying that we all ad- mire that quality in man and woman, whether we fully agree with its possessor or not. He ‘then directed his remarks to the lady present and paid her a compliment which only he can pay any man or woman, for the exhibition of this virtue in so remarkable a degree as to draw the intense ﬁres of the ﬁercest opposition ever en- countered by a woman. At the close of his remarks Mrs- Woodhull was loudly called upon from all parts of» the hall, and she ‘arose and delivered a ﬁfteen-minute speech full of ﬁre, eloquence, pathos and argument. She thanked the gal-+2 lant presiding oﬁicer for daring to say, by his invitation to her, that woman was entitled to sit at the. councils of men; she was proud of the privilege of listening to the speeches of men sent out by the State to investigate the results of those fearful evils whose causes she’ had been depicting publicly, and so earnestly endeavoring to cure. Her speech was the most keen, cutting, touching and fascinating argument in favor of her side of the question which she spoke to, we have ever heard. ‘ Maj or Bittinger‘ was called upon to close the exercises, which he did in a brief speech of welcome to the city and its hospitalities, and- expressing the hope that his colleagues on "the committee had enjoyed themselves, and pledging his own efforts and the eﬁbrts of our citizens to make their stay agreeable on this, or any future occassion, of their visit to St, Joseph. And then, at one A. M., the party retired. ITEMS FROM SAME PAPER. MRS. WOODHULI. was evidently a’ little vexed last night about the Gazette’s strictures against her, and -some of those who were there say that she mentioned the matter casually. MRS. WOODHULL takes the ground that no one can know, certainly, of another’s adultery without being particeps crim- inis, and she clears the editor of the Gazette of knowing any- thing about her although he positively insists that she. is “ a thoroughly bad and corrupt femaleﬁ’ VIcToRIA. C. WOODHULL has. to a certain extent, been socially cstracised,’ but she certainly has a high rank: intel- v ice-tually, and her posthumous fence will not go outlike s. snuﬁed candle, ’ V I” D. S. CAD WALLADER. THE SOVEREIGNS or INDUSTRY.—-Philadelphia, Jan. 15.— The National Council is in full blast. Thirteen State Councils are represented. This is considered somewhat remarkable, as the Order of Sovereigns of Industry is only one year old. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-02-13_09_11
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-02-13_09_11
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 09, no. 12 (February 20, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2059
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-02-20
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: 1' I ' - I. v'.. « PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMYMELED LIVES 2 E e : I I BREAKING THE WAY FOR* FUTURE G-ENERATIONS, Vol. IX.-——No. 12.——VV};ole No. 220. NEVV YORK, FEB. 20, 1875. PRICE TEN GEN TS. T BY AND BY: ‘7 AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE on THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND. B 0 O K . I V 4. CHAPTER VII I.—Oontinued. In his care for the remote, whether in time or in space, the near was not forgotten, and poverty and sickness, which, in spite of all the advances made by civilization, will still occa- sionally thrust their ugly heads into view, found in him an ever ready and sympathetic alleviator. In the early days of his married life he had hoped to interest Nannie in some of his local charities, but had been compelled to give up the idea. Shecould scold people for being bad managers, and, by something more direct than implication, praise herself; but her sympathies seemed incapable of the extension neces- sary to constitute charity. As she could not with any ad- vantage a...
Show more1' I ' - I. v'.. « PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMYMELED LIVES 2 E e : I I BREAKING THE WAY FOR* FUTURE G-ENERATIONS, Vol. IX.-——No. 12.——VV};ole No. 220. NEVV YORK, FEB. 20, 1875. PRICE TEN GEN TS. T BY AND BY: ‘7 AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE on THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND. B 0 O K . I V 4. CHAPTER VII I.—Oontinued. In his care for the remote, whether in time or in space, the near was not forgotten, and poverty and sickness, which, in spite of all the advances made by civilization, will still occa- sionally thrust their ugly heads into view, found in him an ever ready and sympathetic alleviator. In the early days of his married life he had hoped to interest Nannie in some of his local charities, but had been compelled to give up the idea. Shecould scold people for being bad managers, and, by something more direct than implication, praise herself; but her sympathies seemed incapable of the extension neces- sary to constitute charity. As she could not with any ad- vantage accompany Criss on his rounds, and resented his absences, he had gradually withdrawn in a great measure from making them, leaving his work to be done by deputy—— an office gladly undertaken by the benevolent Bertie. Of Criss’ wealth and the employment it gave him, Nannie had long been jealous; but now her jealousy extended itself to his home occupations, which he carried on in his study. . Not that she was excluded, from this department, for Criss delighted in being able to glance from his work to her, as she sat on the soft carpet playing with the little Zoe; but, unluckily, it occurred to her one day that‘ he could not be thinking entirely of her while occupied about other matters. “Please explain, Nannie,” he said, one day, on her per- slsting in reproaching him for his engrossment. “ Please explain exactly what it is you wish of me; for I am really at my wits’ end to understand. Is it that you wish me to cease to be a man, engaged in work worthy of a man, and to be- come a woman, with thoughts for nothing but love?” “Yes,” said Nannie, stoutly. “I want you to think of nothing but me——and little Zoe; but not much of her, or you -will make me jealous of my own child.” “ Nannie, there was once a poet who wrote to his lady- love: . v “ ‘I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.’ What do you think of the sentiment?” “I should have been jealous of ‘ honor.’ ” “ You mean for honor, for his honor.” “ No, I don’t. I mean what I said.” “ There was another poet, who described a wife of whom her husbandwas so fond that he could not tear himself from her side to fulﬁll the duties to which he was in honor bound. One night he awoke from his sleep to ﬁnd her sitting up and “wmurmuriing, as she reﬂected over the career and character he was losing for her sake: I “ ‘Ah me, I fear me I am no true wife.’ Would you like to be regarded by your husband as being ‘no ‘true wife,’ when you seek to detain him from his duties?” “ I should have liked that man,” she said. “ Heloved his wife as a woman ought to be loved. He would have owned me to be true Woman, if not true wife.” ’ At this moment Criss’ attention was called off by the sounding of the telegraph signal. Before he was aware what she was about. Nannie had snatched a heavy ruler from the table, and rushing to the apparatus, with a tremendous blow smashed it to pieces. “ There!” she exclaimed, to Criss. “You may think your- self fortunate it ‘mas not your head. It may come to that yet, for your treatment of me.” Criss had learned the futility of bandying words with her when such a mood was on her. . Fearing for the safety of the child, he placed himself between her and it, and summoned the nurse. “ G0 at once to Dr. Markwell’s,” he said, when the nurse arrived, “and give my complinients to him and Mrs. Mark- well, and say that I shall be much obliged by their allowing you and the child to stay there until some other arrangement can be made.” "And when am I to see it again?” asked Nannie, as the nurse disappeared, and Criss closed the door after her. “ Well,” he said, with simulated indifference, “ I should i think a week or two will probably see you over this attack. It will be time enough to think about it then.” And he set himself to examine the mischief done to his apparaus. ~ “I shall go after my child,” exclaimed Nannie, darting toward the door. ‘ “ You cannot leave theroom. fastened the door as I let the nurse out. Your violence suggested the precaution.” “ I won’t stay in the house to be outraged.” “N 0 one wishes you to do so.’, But you do not leave it until you are in your right mind, "and then desire to do so. It depends entirely on yourself when that may be.” “ Do you consider me mad, then?” “ Youforce me to wish sometimes that I did.” " To wish that I was mad?” “ Yes; I should then be able to account for your behavior. I would rather have you mad than bad, heart-broken as it would make me.” . “ What does the doctor say about me?” “ He thinks that whatever you may be at present, you are endeavoring to drive yourself into insanity.” “ Isthat Mrs. MarkWell’s opinion, too ?” “ Slag. says you are no more mad than she is.” " What, then, does she ascribe my conduct to ?” “ Uncontrolled willfulness and inordinate vanity.” “ Nothing else?” “ Not that I knew of.” ‘K, ‘ “ She is right, so far; but she'omits the principal cause.” “ May I know it?” “You do know it. I have told you often.” “ Tell me again.” “ Love for you.” , “Love for me makes you pain and distress me by such conduct!” “I can’t help it.” “ Nannie, answer truly. Dy you try?” “I have no time when my feelings move me. You don’t know_what it is to have feelings.” “ I know what it is to have feelings for others. You make me fear that yours are only for yourself. Are you the hap- pier when you have given way to what you call your feelings, and made me wretched, and yourself ill and ugly with pas- sion, and driven your child away—” “Ugly! me ugly!” And she ran to a mirror and took a rapid look at herself; and then, ﬁnding the survey satisfac- tory, she rushed close up to Criss, and gazed with the most exquisite, winning look imaginable into his face, and in a pleading tone asked: ' “Am I really ugly, Criss dear? I don’t think I am. Do you?” and putting her arms round him, she clasped him tightly to her. “ Is it, then, because you believe no man can resist you, that you act in such a way ?” he inquired. “ Believe me, Nannie, even you may try your power too far. You have- done much to prove to me that even my, patience is limited.” “ Why, what would you do ?" .“Set you and myself free from a tie that has become a bondage-” , . “ Yes, I know that is what you want. But I won’t let you. I would murderlher and you, and myself, too.” “ Her! your child?” “ No, no, the woman you want to get free from me for.” “ Oh, I see. You prefer that we should continue to be miserable together than be happy apart.’ ’ “You don’t deny, then, that there is a woman for whom you wish to give me up. I thought you had some motive for trying to kill me by your unkindness.” “ Why should you give me credit for acting from motives when you deny doing so yourself 2" “ Why should you care about other women when you have me ?” “ It seems to give you great pleasure to think that I do so.” “I thi’nk it because you can’t help liking women. You like me too well not to like women.” “ Oh; and so you would behave better to me if I was less agreeable to you as a husband!” _ “Yes; it comes so natural to you to be nice with me, that I cannot help thinking you must have learned it with others.” i “I see. I shall have to imitate the example of the knight ,. who always clad himself in his armor before caressing his wife, for fear she should ﬁnd the process too agreeable.” “ I know what men are. You don’t deceive me when you pretend to be thinking only of- my good; You will send me out of my mind by it, and then you will be sorry.” And she began to cry. “ There is one thing, Nannie, that you have never yet got properly into your understanding——tha.t I took you to be, not my master, but my mistress. So long as you strive to be "both, you shall be neither. That is positive and certain. You have but to choose.” “ May I choose now?” “ If you please.” “ I-——don’t—-—want—to be your—master.” “ You declare it faithfully, and will not try in future?” “ Yes,” she said, in a low, penitent voice, gazing down while she spoke, and taking the measure of her own exquisite little foot, as, protruded from beneath her dress, it lay clos alongside of his. ' He was silent awhile, pondering the propriety of giving her another trial, but feeling that she had not yet really repented of her recent outrageous behavior. Finding that he did not speak, she said, coaxingly: “And you will let baby come back?” “Certainly, the moment you give me reason to feel sure you will continue to be good.” “ I am good now.” “ For how long?” A “ Until I am provoked again.” “That won’t do. The child shall stay away altogether, rather than grow up to have its character ruined by witness- ing an evil example set it by its mother.” “ You will not rob my child of its mother!” she exclaimed, wildly. “ On the contrary. I wish to save you to your child.” “ Are my promises nothing?” she inquired. I “You are as well able to judge of that as I am. . How have you kept them hitherto?” ‘ She hung her head, conscious that she had used words as counters, to be put aside as worthless as soon as her game was played. “ I shan’t know what to do all day without my baby,” she murmured. “ Yes, we shall miss it dreadfully,” he remarked. “ You won’t care,” returned Nannie. “Well, not so much as you, because I can go and see it; occasionally.” ~ “ So can I,” said Nannie; “ 1 shall go now.” I “That is quite out of the question.” (6 ?77 “ Because I have given orders to the contrary.” “ What do you mean '2” “Nannie, I had a most terrible shock one day not long ago. I overheard, when "out walking, some people talking about I us. One said to the other, ‘ Howls it one sees Mr. Carol about so little now?’ I dread to tell you the answer; but it may do you good to know the impression you have produced in the neighborhood.” “ I am not afraid. What was it I?” “ ‘ Oh, poor fellow, he is afraid to leave his mad wife.” “I don’t believe aword of it,” said Nannie. “ It is nothing but a story you have made up to excuse yourself for going; about without me.” “‘ “ So far from that being the case, it is the greatest disapa pointment to me to ﬁnd you object so/to everything I have to do and every person I have to see, that I am compelled to leave you at home. But where do you imagine that I want to go without you?” ' “ I know.” “Will you not enlighten me! Of course, I should not have told you of that conversation if I considered you mad.” “It is no matter what you consider me. You likethe I society of other people. That is enough for me.” “But not in the same way that I like your society. Life has many kinks of pleasures and engrossments besides love, which, by operating as distractions, serve to perpetuate and intensify love. Foremost among them are the charities and amenities of social intercourse, friendship and intellectual converse. I take as much delight in these as ever; but I have withdrawn from them all in the interests of your hap- piness.” “ And quite right, too. It only makes /you despise me \ \ _ OVGI‘ WOIIIELD. \ WOODHULL eh CLAFLlN’S wnnxnr Feb. 20, 1375. my ignorance when you go among what you call intellectual people. As for friends, I don't see what you want with them when you have got a wife.” " [To be continued] _._4._. r vwy ~ LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 31, 1875. 13 car Weekly——I am constantly coming across long, eulogis- tic. leading editorials in the newspapers over the country, - concerning Dr. E. H. C1arke’s late ebulitions on “Sex and Education’’‘ and “The Building of the Brain.” The said leading editorials never fail to lean toward the learned doc- tor’s side of the question, and to point prophetic ﬁnger to the good time coming when women will settle down to the truth (?) of his theory, that God Almighty originally in- tended to draw a radical line of inferiority «between the sexes, and that inferiority to be all on the feminine side. There is nothing so tickles the self-esteem of the average man as to have good a_uthority—Dr. Edward H. Clarke, for instance—for believing in and asserting his superiority Dr. Clarke -is the right man in the right place for the average masculine tdpin his faith to, and his dogged persistence in his exploded theory is commendable. There is nothing like knowing you are right and then going ahead. And there is no doubt the erudite and philosophic and scientiﬁc masculine Clarke has amost frigthful list of “ female complaints ” to build his ticklish theory out of. I have no objection to any man dealing mercilessly with the results of our pernicious social system and holding up the de- teriorated female of the present to the just criticism, not to say ridicule, that her dilapidated and forlorn state merits; but Ida most heartily object to the presumption on the part of any man that, because nine-tenths of my sex are hopelessly and repulsively depleted. and exhausted physi- cally, as the result of ages of stupid misapplication of natural laws and persistence in suicidal customs, women are conse- quently incapacitated to compete with men. Fatal results should lead a thinking mind in search of fatal causes. If there is aught of sufficient potency to wake the average female up to a knowledge of herself and functions, it is the bombastic assumption of such men as Dr. Clarke to ﬁx her in a cramped and uncomfortable “spear,” according to their :idea of her needs and capacities. But I’m about hopeless as to the average woman of to-day, and am well nigh at the conclusion that she is not worth saving. Were it not for the helpless unborn, the powerless victims of the "average wo- man’s stupid and wicked indifference, I’d never again lift my voice in protest against the shams and abuses of modern so- ciety of which woman is the chief victim, and through her the entire race. Dr. Clarke persists that “ there are times ” when girls are too sick to study. There’s no use mincing the matter, we ail knowwhat he means. Reasoning from tl e wretched re- sults. ’tis the greatest wonder in the world that a girl is ever fit for any sort of effort, mental or physical. The disadvan- tage she labors under from tl1e moment her mother makes‘ the fataldiscovery she has given birth to a woman child, from th_e—I had almost said. devil instead of Lord, for the uséleviiltseems to preside over female evolution—are such that, were she not originally created with a constitution ‘flike a horse,” she would not now be ﬁt even for the “ chief end of woman ”—-marriage and maternity. What a, joke she is on maternity! A ghastly, grim, gaunt and hideous joke on the sweet and sacred oﬁce of motherhood! And when men gush so bravely and slop over so ﬂuently about woman in her sphere as wife and mother, they simply don’t know what they are talking about; they have only in view a faithful, patient, self-sacriﬁcing, devoted minister to their lowest needs, and the majority of them that are husbands are ready to curse the ease with which their wives slip into their sacred (l) 9*‘ crown of maternity.” They would like their wives to min- ister unto them without burdening them so often with con- sequences. And what specimens of a natural (‘?) consequence the average “true woman” produces? I don’t wonder Dr. Clarke thinks we are all too sick to study? Now, if he would only be consistent and say the average womanhood of the day is not fit to pave that place “ where the ﬁre is not quenched and the worm dieth not” With infant slkulls, in _ short, that the best use she can put herself to is to go hang herself, While he himself puzzles his great brain it little as to why these things are thus, methlnkﬁ 116 Would be doing, the world a service. This may seem bitter, especially. to the “ so-called delicate and reﬁned” of my sex. Well, I am bitter! It is quite enough to make a woman-loving woman bitter to look around on the heaped-up female weakness and impotence, and, knowing the cause of all, to contemplate her sex’s utter indifference and persistent idiocy, and then stumble in the 1 dark against a man like Dr. Clarke who asserts that we are -periodical invalids, when he should know that ’tis abuse of her nature alone that has turned woman’s periods, like the ,point of a knife, against her health and happiness. Let Dr. Clarke be entirely consistent and teach husbands and fathers that there is one week in every four‘ when their ~wives and daughters need absolute rest and freedom from care, and see how soon he would have any practical masculine j followers. ’Tis only because he ﬂatters man’s assumption. that he is the especial obj ectfof J ehovah’s partia1it_y,without in the least interfering with his demands on woman (for Dr. C. only insists that we are too sick once a month to study) that the learned savant has so many noble tobacco consuming and whisky absorbing editors on his side, with their double ' leaded editorials. Any woman of average health, all her functions in as healthy tone as possible under our false system, knows that Dr. Clark, don’t know what he is talking about when he makes his assertions. Give giris the same early start on the road to health and happiness that boys have ; quit the ever. lasting, infernal, murderous nonsense about -ia,dy.=_1,i,ke pro- priety, womanly modesty and feminine gentleness and delicacy, at least until such time as those terms are not an- .other name for supreme’ stiipidity, superlative ignorance and mawkishness, and all sorts of female pomplaints generally; start a girl out on a righteous, royal road to a knowledge of herself and her functions; then give her freedom to hold herself sacred unto her highest knowledge, and not impose upon her a cursed submission of herself unto an exacting, domineering, ignorant. lustful man; let her be impressed from the crown of her head to the sole ‘of her foot that health ——perfect, unbounded, oveﬂowing healt-h——is the chiefest charm of womanhood, the truest image of God——in short, that a woman without health is a disgrace to her sex ; ﬁll her devo- tional soul with a realization of that canon from the Most High, that ’tis the worst of crimes to become a wife and mother without health for her marriage portion and knowl- edge of herself for her safeguard» against the furious license of the marriage relation; then take our present false, fatal, demoralizing social system, turn it, wrong side out that she may see the inmost part of its uncleanness, its wrongs, its shams and abuses, its womanly sacriﬁces on respectable, sanctiﬁed altars of damned custom; women laced, trailed, braided, pinned, puckered, powdered, puffed, ﬂounced, but- toned, stuﬁed and legislated to death, after a miserable life of periodical invalidism ;~—then, from these premises, let her A reason out a girl’s salvation in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Boys could not live in the cramped and stiﬂed atmosphere that girls breathe‘; ’tis olnly superior stamina that has enabled womanhood so long to overcome the inroads of cruel customs. Put boys under the physical restraints that girls are under, and they would require a stronger rejuvenator than periodicity to keep them in health and spirits. Let Dr. Clarke cease to look for his examples of ‘womanhood and evidences of feminine capacity in a social hot-bed of a fashionable boarding—scho0l for “ young ladies,” and put his laboring brain to a better use, getting at the unstable founda- tion of all the ills female ﬂesh is heir to; let him take the woman of average health (for, as the world goes, the best of us are nothing but “ poor critters,”-—’tis the divinel y possible woman I have in my“.mind’s eye, not the wretched, fashion- ridden abortions of this day and generation——and the worst of it is the most of them are utterly powerless to help them- selves, or reproduce a superior type, which makes the stupid assertion of bombastic donkeys all the more unendurable).-——I say, let our Dr. take his samples of endurance from the ranks of average healthy women and girls, and then see if period- icity sets them back in the race for brains alongside of boys and men. Even ‘under all the physical drawbacks, the average healthy girl or woman is scarce, disturbed in her nature by its monthly revolution which regulates her tem- perament. How much about ourselves could we tell Dr. Edward H. Clarke that he has never dreamed of 1 And the main point to make with him is, that we are no more inclined to be sick once a month than he is inclined to be just in his conclusions. Just as abuses of their manhood, from age to age, have operated to make men sexual monstcrs.,,so abuses have rendered woman’s functional nature all out of tune. Women do not need Dr. Clarke to tell them what ails them anymore than men need Dr. Mary Walker to tell them what is the matter with their manhood, or why they leave so many suspicious-looking ‘empty bottles of peculiar medicine in‘ bureau drawers, at hotels all over the couhtry. Come right down to the matter of transmitted disease, and the “ sins of the parents,” the average girl will hold her own beside the average boy; and her brain not suffer more if she studies during her periods than does the brain of a boy after his periods of unnatural excitement and abuse. A girl has a natural outlet for the pent-up, suppressed sins of her parents in those very periods, while a boy, under the inﬂuence of his abnormal nature and the restraints of our sacred (1) social system, must crucify nature for relief. Let Dr. Clarke seek for the causes of all our miseries, in- stead of building an insane theory of masculine superiority out of a conglomerated mass of “ female complaints,” result- ing from male and female stupidity for ages. HELEN NASH. 348 FOURTH ST. (Room 6), San Francisco, Ca]. Dear V'ict0rz'a—I am informed that since my departure for this coast, some persons have been ﬁlling your ears with assertions of my enmity toward you, and that you now re- gard me as “ the secret head of the conspiracy to injure you.” It is certainly very strange that when I left New York for Detroit last fall, as soon as my back was fairly turned, the miserable hounds, who are always ready to bark at the heels of a. supposed foe, instantly began to howl against me; and now I no sooner leave for this coast than the same is repeated. Deeds I have thought spoke louder than words. I have‘ never besmeared you with ﬂattery, or acted the part of a, toady, but I have always ranked among the boldest, and most outspoken of the defenders, not only of the principles we hold in common, but of yourself, as their most prominent ad- vocate. Witness my lecture in Boston; indeed, everywhere that I have been called to speak, and your enemies have never even looked to me for recognition, but, on the con- trary, when ——-—-- was mailing his ﬁlthy pamphlet by the dozen to others, none were sent to me save the solitary “specimen number;” and when was in Boston he coupled my name with yours, associating us with every vile insinuation,and the “ champion of humanity” people have gone out of their way to cover me with their foul-mouthed slander. ‘Yet it seems this is not enough, and you must turn and question a friendship I had deemed fully and truly proved. The revelation of your sentiments reached me at a time of severe trial and affliction, and added the last sting to the agony I endured. I can only say in conclusion that nothing you could do or say could make me your enemy in thought, word or deed. We are both ﬁghting against dread- ful odds, with blsegiing hearts, «impaired health, with, in short, nothing left us but a grand cause and an indomitable will. I would not be your enemy, for I am like yourself, a mother; the work you have done for woman down-trodden and enslaved, the toy of lust, the jest of the depraved, de- mands from earngst co-operation and commands my gratitude. Victoria, let your thoughts turn backward to the 5 old days of trial, to the night we spent together, you and I watching '1‘e_nnie while she slept, and questioning what doom the future had in store for the Colonel in his gloomy prison, for you, for us; ask yourself could I be true to you then, in‘ the darkest hour, to be false now, when the“'promise of the dawn illumines the social ﬁrmament.‘ On minor points it is impossible for individualized and strongly marked characters always to agree, but rest assured, where the “ forlorn hope ” is needed, I shall be there,’loyal in act, undaunted in will. Yours always, ’ LAURA Curry Smcnn. A STERLING OLD POEM. Who shalrjndge a man from his manners? Who shall know him by his dress? Paupers may be ﬁt for princes, Princes ﬁt for something less. Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket May beclothe the golden ore ‘of the deepest thought and feeling- Satin vests can do no more. There are streams of crystal nectar Ever ﬂowing out of stone; There are purple beds and golden, _ Hidden, crushed and overthrown. God, who counts by souls, not dresses, Loves and prospers you and me; While he values thrones the highest But as pebbles in the sea. Man upraised above his fellows, Oft forgets his fellows then. Masters—-rulers—lords, remember That your meanest hinds are men; Men of labor, men of feeling, Men of thought and men of fame, Claiming equal rights to sunshine In manhood’s ennobling name. There are foam-embroidered oceans, There are little wood-clad rills; There are feeble, inch-high saplings, There are cedars on the hills. God, who counts by souls, not stations, Loves and prospers you and me; For to Him all vain distinctions Are as pebbles in the sea. Toiling hands alone are builders Of a nation’s wealth and fame; Titled laziness is pensioned, Fed and fattened on the same. By the sweat of others’ foreheads, Living only to rejoice; While the poor man’s outraged freedom Vainly lifts its feeble voice. ’ Truth and justice are eternal, Born with loveliness and light; Secret wrongs shall never prosper While there is a sunny right. God, whose world-wide voice is singing _g_ Boundless love to you and me, Links oppression with its triﬁes But as pebbles in the sea. - -mlndustréal Age. APHRA BE:uN’s RETREAT, } Jan. 13, 26th year of Hydeville Revelation. -Dear Vt’ctom'a——A spirit, assuming the female form, was rehabilitated upon this planet at San Francisco on the fourth of January, 1875, through the parental mediation of James and Anna Richardson, living together as avowed free lovers. In the notice of this birth, published in Common Sense, the Spiritual journal of this coast, are these words: “ This child was desired and was deliberately begotten in deﬁance of established usagesz” Persons of notable spiritual worth are the particular parents of this, to them, new-comer. (I desig- nate them “the particular parents,” to distinguish them ’ from -the general parentage constituted by humanity). Suav- ity and amenity mark the gentle beauty of Anna’s counte- nance. .Her eyes, large and violet in hue, are replete with ingenuous expression. «This plastic negativity of character is pregnant, however, with a religious ﬁrmness that impels her to the life of a radical reformer, and inspires the uncom- promising assertion of her iconoclastic opinions. I have had, in her presence, clairvoyance of psychic imagery of engross- ing interest. When within the sphere of her magnetism, panoramic visions of scenes in the French Revolution have been disclosed to me. I have seen about her, as she entered my chamber, such spirits as Buzot, Petion, Vergniaud, Bar- ba-roux, Louvet; have heard ringing shouts of the stirring triad—-Liberty, Equality, Fraternity-—and have beheld the presentment of that procession wherein a ﬂeshly and breath- ing goddess of reason is borne aloft, while religious symbols, grown vapid and meaningless, are trampled under foot. In her peculiar psychometric inﬂuences upon me, Anna, with outstretched ﬁnger, seems to be sternly pointing to these pictured memories of this great proletarian eﬂort; not solely, as it were, to remind me of the. awful history, but as if re- verting to her own personal past; as if her inner nature bore the indelible imprint of a. conspicuous part enacted then. I have been deeply impressed that a spirit whose valiant action in this contest against the aristocracy of church and state, made her “ greater than Brutus,?’ the divine Charlotte Cor- day animates to-day the physical frame of Anna. Should this be so, the returning spirit has marked its carnal investi- ture of this century with the characteristic individuality of its former existence. Not only in mental and moral attri- butes, but in physiognomy and person, Anna strikingly resembles the portraits that we have of this heroine. Her present love-mate, James Richardson, is of a sensitively poetic and artistic temperament, recalling that Andre Che- nier who sang so thrillingly of Charlotte’s heroism, and «fol- lowed her, after the lapse of a year, to the guillotine. May it not well be that two such earnest spirits are re-in- carnated in these typical individuals, to love and work to- gether for the same great purposes for which they lived and died in other days. The deadly blow aimed at tyranny, in the person of Marat by Charlotte Corday, was prompted. by ' Feb; 20, the_same spiritual impulse that now instigates the public enunciation of free-love principles by Anna Richardson, and incites in her a life of open protest against the errors of society. A * Anna’s ﬁrst sexual experience was legally sanctioned by marriage, but inharmony supervening, she left her lawful master for the more congenial companionship of her present lover. The spontaneous satisfac tive affection of these two is an inspiriting witness to the power of freedom in promoting love, though they are not of that school which believes that lovers should be wholly absorbed in one another. These great souls have not hesitated to mark their thorough adherence to their principles by the public announcement’ of the coming of this tangible result of their free-love contact; and have heartily consented to my wish to promulgate, through your columns, this signiﬁcant event to sympathetic thinkers. I . 1 know of many of my sex, claiming a theoretical interest in free love, and prone to enjoy secretly whatever experience ‘it may bring them, who would not dare to admit publicly that they permit their liberality of sentiment to determine their action. I am proud to avow myself a practical free lover. I believe that the truest life is that which illustrates in the overt actual, the invisible perfection of the ideal. By that which is true to me in thought, I regulate my exter- nal conduct. This inconsonance of mental persuasion and outward behavior, an interior homage to truth, and an exoterlo conformity to social superstition, was exempliﬁed _ in the life of that talented but inconsistent reformer, Madam Tencin. It is one of the inexplicable anomalies of 1 human character that this woman, a worshiper of liberty and ~ one of the originators in France of republican ideas in the age of Louis XV., while practicing free-love privately, should not have recognized, like N inon do l’Enclos or Anna Richardson, the nobleness of boldly leading a‘ life of social freedom. Through one of her sexual alliances, Madame Tencin gave birth to D’Alembert, the French Socrates. Afraid of public opinion. she caused the infant to be placed upon the steps of a church, where he was found by a gl‘azier’s wife who reared him. Afterward D’Alcmbert, one of the greatest intellects, and celebrated, for the constant practice of the noblest virtues, boasted that he was a child of nature, born outside of marriage and society, and happy to continue there, beyond the sphere of its corruption. Anna Richardson, in the very opposite spirit to that of Madam Tencin, proudly heralds to the world the coming of this babe of dissent. This is a noticeable incident in this period, when womanhood is in the birth-throes of a new civilization. Let us hope for this infant that she may be- come an exceptional and representative woman, who, un- contaminated by the world’s bigotries, will gratefully recall the propitious circumstances attending her birth, and with more reason than D’Alembert, exult that she was begotten under the inspiration of free thought. I, too, born out of the pale of marriage, -and glorying in my illegitimacy, am gratulant in annunciating the advent of this messenger of love and freedom. ‘ ' FRANCES ROsE_MAoKINLEY. OUR DOOTRINES IN ENGLAND. The most popular of the satires published in "England as Christmas books is one styled “ The Coming King,” which treats of the movements of the present Prince of _Wales. it the Proprietor of the WEEKLY is thus alluded to: “ Whene'er a rumor rose against her Grace, Touching her love for cigarettes and cups; When it was whispered she did not eschew The doctrines that Miss-Woodhull had proclaimed In Jim Fisk’s city, in debased New York.” The New York Herald, of Jan. 25, instructs us that the above brochure was rapidly bought up; and, though issued at one shilling, some of the copies were purchased at the rate of two gulneas each. In ——.-.-__—. A VOICE FROM ENGLIND. DECEMBER 29, 1874. Dear Mrs. Woodhull—I feel sure you would be pleased‘ to hear from one of your devoted adherents here that there are a few congenial souls who truly sympathize with you in your noble and God-like work—viz., to eﬂectually reform our present state of society, both morally and physically. I have, through the kindness of a Spiritualist, an old friend of mine, carefully‘ read some half-dozen copies of your valuable paper, and am satisﬁed that it is the only organ, either in this country or America, which fairly and logically discusses that falsely-called indelicate though all-important subject, “ our sexual relations.” . For the last eight years I have seen quite suﬁcient to prove to a demonstration that our present so-called marriage sys- tem is hollow and a sham; _in fact, nothing more nor less than “legal prostitution.” Iiam quite aware that some of the most advanced minds of America oppose the doctrines of free love, making that and the term free lust to convey the same idea. Now, I ﬁrmly maintain against all opponents that “free love” and “ free lust ” are not one‘and the same thing; but that, on the con- trary, they are diametrically opposed to each other. I was much disappointed to ﬁnd a charming writer on natural theology quoting from one of your speeches with the express intention of confounding you “out of your own mouth.” He, in substance, writes as follows: “Even Mrs. Woodhull will allow that a large majority of those who have been married in the orthodox churches, both in this, country and America, have no wish whatever gto separate, but are mutually and lovingly attached to each other.” Now, Ifully and freely admit that it is quite possible that this may be true, although, for myself, I am strongly inclined to dispute it; but-whether it is so or not, I maintain that instead of that being an argument for upholding our present social system, it undeniably proves that all those ‘cases which he refers to are living evidences of the uselessness of our legal, and of the glorious eifects of a “free love ” marriage. By far the largest number of our opponents, are quite 11;- I WOODHULL a GI.AFLIN’S WEEKLY’ competent to give us any information on the subject, for .many of them profess to be too much disgusted to even pol- lute their mouths by mentioning the subject. Those people, by the way, have the unblushing assurance to call themselves followers of that divine man, Jesus Christ, who said to the self-righteous Pharisees who desired that the woman taken in adultery, in the very act, should be stoned, “He that is without sin among you, let him cast the ﬁrst stone.” Then it is said again :- “Let us have true love between the sexes, not free love!” How absurd; as if it were possible to conceive of love being true unless it is also free. Shakes-L peare, that great painter of human nature, beautifully ex- presses the , “love marriage ” thus: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit im pediment.”-——Sonnet, N O. 95. Swedenborg, also, in his beautiful treatise on “ Conjugal Love,” clearly shows that only when the aﬁections of the sexes are mutually reciprocated have they a right to sexual intercourse. I am satisﬁed in my own mind that our-detest~ able priest-made marriage law is the cause of such alarge number of falsely-called married men, preferring the society of other women to that of their wives, or, to write more correctly, their concubines. Who, I ask, can wonder that so large a portion of our mothers should give birth to children physically and mentally deformed——children conceived not in love but in hate. Oh, it is a sad thing _to know that so many “ undesired” children are born. Now, all this might be prevented if sexual impregnation never took place ‘except at the consent and desire of the female; because if the male, through any means, compels the woman to submit against her desire, then I say that he has committed a rape, not- withstanding that the parsons, “by their oiﬁce,” have through a bit of legerdemain made them “ one ﬂesh.” Dear Mrs. Woodhull, you will, I am sure, believe me when I inform you that both myself and friends are rejoiced to know that you are in a fair way of recovering from your late sickness. May the great Father of the universe send you angel friends to comfort and support you in your great and noble work. Should you ever be led to visit England, I hope to have the pleasure of hearing one of your charming ad- dresses. There are a good number of Spiritualists and Secularists here, but although they for the most part are free from the pernicious effects of priestcraft, they seem to lack sufﬁcient manliness to break away from the conventionalitles of society. They are fearful of offending that hydra-headed monster, “public opinion.” The people have been too long led by the nose. Why longer pay men to do our thinking for us ? Let us act, act in the living present, fearing the anathema of neither bibles nor priests. I have read with much pleasure an able article on free love by that great writer and thinker, Robert Dale Owen, in your issue of November 28, and thoroughly indorse it. on your valuable space, believe me, Yours fraternally, OHN WATSON. The following men ‘and women (I don’t like the terms ladies and gentlemen) have kindly added their names as a testimony of their appreciation of your great services to mankind: Bessie Williams, Aaron Franklin, Sophia Frank- lin, J. W. Chamberlin. "“ I" ' CLYDE, Ohio, J an‘ 20, 1875. Dear Wealth/—Please accept my tardy mite. How I wish I could increase it a. thousand-fold! It is said, “ Those whom the gods love, die young.” I’m sure they must love you, dear WEEKLY; yet I pray that you may not die, or not, at least, until you have fully accomplished your grand and glorious mission. But I do not ‘know that my prayers will be of any avail, as “the prayers of the wicked availeth nothing;” and I am very, very wicked, dear WEEKLY——so wicked that pure and virtuous( ?) Madam Grundyfsometimes almost has spasms when I come in contact with her, especially if I oifer her my hand. Now,_ 1 do not blame the oldlady at all for putting on that “ I am holier than thou” air; for I think she has just as good a right to view me from her stand»-point as I have to view her from mine. Yet, with all my deep sinfulness, I intend to pray with all my might for her and her family (for she is intensely “ married” and has a large family, and there is something “queer ” about the whole family, for when they are not married they want to be, and when they are they want to be divorced). ~ I intend to pray that the beauti- fulchild, “ Freedom,” may yet be born in their souls. But, poor child, I sometimes tremble for it, for fear it might be strangled in its birth. Yet will I hope and pray; and if the beauteous child ever does ﬁnd a, birth-place in their souls, Iknow that ’they——even they who now affect to scorn and despise——will then smile upon me as “ radiantly as a May morning.” ' I have been unable, as yet, to obtain any new subscribers for you, but my heart is not utterly sick with “hope de- ferred.” Some of the excuses for not aiding you in this your hour of need are ludicrous, some disgusting; but the saddest and most sickening of them all is, Victoriaﬁs extravagance! Don’t you think the dear soul is’ actually accused of “ putting up at ﬁrst-class hotels!” just as though ﬁrst-class women shouldn’t put up at ﬁrst-class hotels. Oh, Shame, where is thy blush? Now, dear WEEKLY, don’t you think it would be advisable for Victoria to adopt the “ Uriah Heep ” policy _._be very “ ’umble,” and put up at third or fourth rate hotels? It would be such a nice thing for her enemies to make capital of. The highest honora grateful people could confer has twice been given to U. S. Grant——and even a “third term” talked of—for the brave (?) battles he has fought, the noble (?)‘ victories he has won. But his extrava- gance is not even thought of by his friends and supporters; while our brave and beloved Victoria, who has dared to come out and stand alone———all alOne——fOr the truth’s sake, who has suffered and sacriﬁced so much, and who has already fought a grander battle than U. S. Grant has ever even dreamed of, must be denounced for “putting up at ﬁrst-class hotels.” Again would I ask: Oh, Sh H116, where is thy blush? Just as though earth itself, much less ﬁrst-class hotels, afforded any- " thing too good for one who has done so much for poor V humanity‘, especially when she earns it herself, and at so Apologizing for trespassing so much I i dear a rate, and pays her own bills! Such complaints from Victoria’s avowed enemies would not be surprising; but reading of*her paper and the falling of truth-pearls from her very.lips, I must sayI am sorry and surprised that they have read andheard to so little purpose. The out-look is fearful, as our good brother, D. M. Allen, says, when we see the vast amount of pretension, ignorance and prejudice to be met and overcome. Yet I am sure we shall win; for does‘ not Victoria lead the way? and have we not that grand old warrior, staunch and true, Parker Pillsbury, with us? Then have we not that true friend of woman, that brave and per- sistent battler for her emancipation, Warren Chase, to ask questions—-questions that they dare not attempt to answer, because they well know they cannot, without giving up all their claims. Thenthere is that glorious Helen Nash, with many, many others. Yet it is not upon one or all of these that we, should depend, so much as upon the principle of freedom itself. ;Oh, I am not at all discouraged; and as “Helen” says, let there be no turning back because of ig- norance and persecutions. . 1 Yours, to battle to the best of my ability for the privilege of blowing my own nose, for the privilege of using every organ and faculty of my being as seemeth to me best; ﬁnally, yours for all natural rights, Without the interference of Mother Grundy, Church or State. ‘ HERMIA RUSSELL. » THE Spiritualists of -West Winﬁeld. N. Y., and vicinity held a two-days’ meeting in Music Hall, on Saturday and Sunday, January 2 and 3, 1875. Dr. E. F. Beals called the meeting to order, and announced the platform free for the discussion ofspiritualism, humanity and reform. The speak- ers were, Dr. H. P. Fairﬁeld, of Lynn, Mass., and Prof. C. D. Farlin, of Watertown, N. Y., and Mrs. S. A. N. Kimball, of Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y., a clairvoyant and test medium. The "sessions were well attended, and thespeakers listened! to with marked attention, showing an appreciative and thoughtful audience. The fact that the meetings have caused considerable talk here shows that good seeds were sown, which we hope will yield abundant harvest. The conference meetings were entertaining, and the music good; and, notwithstanding the .i.nclemency of the weather, the meeting was a success. 8 A clergyman who was present volunteered to tell what he knew about spiritualism (two weeks later), but chose to do so in his own pulpit. Dr. Fairﬁeld challenged him to an open discussion of the subject, which he positively refused to accept, but invited all to come and hear him. , ‘We conclude from this that the. leaven is working in the hearts of the people; yea, even in the hearts of the clergy. AN ATTENDANT. UNCOMMON GOOD SENSE. The following notice of abirth appearsjin No. 34: of Common Sense, of San Francisco, California. Both the inserters and publishers of the same deserve to be commended for their bravery; for more knowledge can be gained from one proven fact in social and sexual matters, than from a dozen theories. This is the notice: “ Born in San Francisco, Jan. 4, 1875, a daughter to James and Anna-Richardson. During a wedded life of four years, Mrs. Richardson (then Anna Smith) being in _ delicate health, lost two young babes, which experience, with other considerations, induced her to become again mistress of her- self, as she was prior to marriage. This child, which was de- sired, and was deliberately begotten in deﬁance of estab- lishedsasages, bids fair to live and to be a blessing and a beneﬁt to its pa-rents.”—-Common Sense, San Francisco, Cal. THE MARRIAGE BOND. “What God hath joined together let no man put asunder.” This is a Christian bible injunction. If it is of binding force, ought not its converse to be equally binding ?——viz., hat God hath put asunder let no man join together. I hold that love, andlove alone, constitutes marriage; that marriage ;” and universal Christendom, virtually, though unwittingly, subscribes to this truth, inasmuch as all cere- monies Or laws for the solemnization and legalizing of mar- riage are never applied before, but subsequent to the ex- pressed wish of parties between whom it is understood that this marriage of love already exists- Again, “ God is love.” monials. If so, then the existence of mutual love constitutes the God-joining,while its absence is equal proof of the lack of such joining. If it is a crime to put asunder those who are thus joined of God, can it be less a crime to join or hold together those who, from lack of mutual love, are God-sun- dered or not joined of God? If, then, the love, or godliness, forsake the parties, what becomes of the bond? Are they then ‘joined of this God of love when there is no love to con- stitute “ the fulﬁlling of the law?” If in this latter case the are we not justiﬁed in suggesting that they “ beware lest haply they be found ﬁghting against God,” oragainst love, which is God, and also the only fulﬁlling of the law i.c., the higher law of love. , . - What less than an act of presumptive ignorance is it to re- quire ﬁnite, changeable beings, such as we are, to promise that which, from our very nature, we cannot be sure that we can possibly fulﬁll? Every separation—except by death- protest to and against this manifest stupidity! Certainly it would seem to be time that we began, at least to suspect that love is not a thing to be commanded, bought, sold or re- tained bypromises; but depends on qualities possessed by those we love, by which oiir senses are addressed, and over whichwe positively have no control. T. LEONARD. GRAFTON, Mass., _J anuary 15. 1875. - DENMARK is going to abolish the rights of primogeniture Land all titles to nobility. ' when they come from those who have claimed to enjoy the . this marriage of love “makes the bond, not the bond the, and also “Love is the fulﬁlling of the law”——Bible testi- , mundane powers that be assume to continue the legal bond, * and every application for a divorce, is but a standing, solemn 4 I A ‘WOODHULI. 4. OLAFI.lN’S WEEKLY Feb. 20, 1875. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. 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Woodhull oﬁ 0lafl<£n’s Weekly, . Box 3791, New York City. i‘ . Omce, 111 Nassau Street, Room 9. S NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEB. 20, 1875. EXPLANATION. It is due to friends in the West to explain why Mrs. Woodhull did not ﬁll her engagements at Lincoln, Nebraska City, Omaha, Council Bluffs and Des Moines. She lectured in the Opera House at Topeka, Kansas, on the evening of Feb. 1. The hall was very cold which so affected her still weak lungs that she came nearly breaking down several times during the evening, and only concluded her address by the greatest effort which left her prostrated. The fol- lowing day a terrible storm arose and prevailed all the next night, the temperature continually growing colder. When we arrived at Omaha on the morning of the 3d, on our way to Lincoln, the thermometer indicated twenty degrees_below zero, the windlblowing a perfect gale. This stinging at1nos- phere she could not endure a monent; to take it into her lungs was to strangle her. It would have been madness for her to have attempted to lecture anywhere, so she wisely concluded to give up the trip and hasten to a more genial clime, and wait until the cold spell should break. She will ﬁll her engagements in Michigan as advertised elsewhere. . - A‘ A w 17% TO ALL RADICAL REFORMERS. The readers of the WEEKLY. are aware. that, under the pressure of the exigency and contrary to medical advice, Victoria C. Woodh.ull, about a fortnight since, again essayed to continue her public ministration on the all-important reforms demanded by this paper, in the lecture ﬁeld of the West. We are sorry—-very sorry—to add, that she has again returned to the city, having been unable to endure the terri- bly cold spell that has prevailed all over the country since the first of February. Under these circumstances, we ap- peal again to the generosity of the friends of true reform, to not withhold any pecuniary aid that they can consistently I extend us in this crisis. Those who are posted on the sub- ject believe that in a very short period, a path will soon be opened for the WEEKLY which will make it an established success. It would be so now, if its so—called Christian foes did not resort to the most vile and underhand means to cur- tail its sales in the larger cities of the Union. But, we trust, in a short time to be able to expose their methods of opera- A tion,,and we feel sure that the exposition will be sufficient to terminate all that species of warfare. The time has been, when the proprietors of this paper had other methods by which to obtain the funds necessary to sustain the WEEKLY than by lecturin-g, but of those means they have been cruelly deprived by the unjust rendering of the laws of the United States. Our readers know that a petition I is now before Congress setting forth the same, and asking a recompense therefor. In early times, although the WEEKLY ‘“ has rarely paid its expenses, the generosity of our subscribers was never appealed to-. Not only the paper but costly books on the various reforms were then distributed to reformers as free almost as air. Neither do we appeal now for aid to the - WEEKLY as a paper, but as a most needed instrument to, carry forward the good cause that is dear to all our hearts. Knowing’ this to be the case,we feel no hesitation in address- ing all true reformers on the subject, and impressing again upon them the necessity and duty of lending once more their cheerful, earnest and generous efforts to keep the ﬂag of all the great reforms of the age ﬂoating, as ever, foremost in the ﬁght for the rights of woman, and for the Qollsequent advancement of all the human race. JUST OR UNJUST? We have never objected to, or avoided, but have rather courted criticism about any act with which we have been connected. We have a right, however, to insist that a true basis for criticism be had, and proper use made of all_the facts that go to make up a case that is criticized. Wewere recently called before the courts as defendants in a case, where the judge ruled that a proposed witness for the plain- tiff was disqualiﬁed because the person was an Atheist; and we have been severely taken to task for permitting it to be done. It is set down against us as abetting the abridgment of free speech and individual rights. Now, this must be fair or unfair according to the circum- stances under which it occurred. We shall not attempt to decide the question, but we will present the facts upon which the decision ought to be based, and let our readers and others interested judge for themselves, merely request- ing that each of our critics consider and answer this ques- tion’ before deciding himself or herself competent to criticize us: Suppose that you were unjustly accused of murder, and that your vindication or conviction depended upon the testi- mony of a person whom you had good reason to suppose would testify falsely, and whom you knew would testify against you, would you not make use of any technical legal points that the law might offer to exclude the testimony of such a witness? If you, each and all, say that you would make no attempt at defense by excluding such testimony, when the lawtgave the right, then you become competent critics of us in the case at issue. The principle involved is the same, although‘ whatever this person might have testified to could not have affected the pointi, at issue in our case, since every incident relating to it had transpired long before this individual knew any of the parties to the case. It was impossible that he could have known anything about the factsupon which the case rested. The desire that prompted this person to go upon the witness -’-‘stand was not to testify to any pertinent fact, but to vomit another mess of ﬁlth upon the community ' similar to that upon which he has expended a year’s time in gathering and vending——libels foul and villainous, many of which he knew had been denied by the very persons whom he quoted as his authorities, who, if put upon the stand to testify, would utterly repudiate and deny all connection with the allegations. But the allegations have nevertheless been, with this knowledge in his possession, persistently repeated, just as if their authority had not been denied by the alleged authors themselves. A person who will malici- ously do such an infamy (a clearer case of malice could not be thought of), which is so much more infamous than a false oath could be conceived to be, would not hesitate to testify to anything that might be necessary to make a case against parties toward wllom lie might be maliciously in- clined. Suppose this party had been permitted to testify without the usual formula, and he had done so falsely, is it not clear that there would have been no recourse for us? He could not have been proceeded against for perjury, because he would not have been under oath, and perjury in the eyes of the law is testifying falsely under oath, and this person was fully aware of all this, and, as we believe, would have used it to have given vent to his malice against us. Hence we feel entirely justiﬁcd in not having permitted this in_ dividual to testify upon such unequal conditions as these, the opinions of our critics to the contrary notwithstanding- But to the case. The complaint, in this instance, alleged that Woodhull, Claflin & Co., in May, 1871, received from plaintiff four hundred dollars for investment; but that,» in- stead of investing the sum, it was fraudulently converted to their own use. Upon this complaint the Court granted or- ders of arrest. In the trial the Court held that, as the case was brought in this way, upon orders of arrest, it had to be decided upon the truth or falsity of the alleged facts upon which the arrest was asked for. In other words, if the jury found from the evidence that the money was invested, and that there was no fraudulent appropriation, then their verdict must be for the defendants. The defendants proved that the money was invested and lost, and they proved by complain- ant’s own witnessesthat she had been so notiﬁed at the time of the loss. As there was no evidence to offset this, of course the jury found for the defendants. It is, therefore, established, that we were falsely arrested and held to bail, and put to any amount of inconvenience and expense without a shadow of law—just the same as any malicious person might go and make a similar complaint against our critics and have them imprisoned and put to the same inconveniences,illegally. But now mark the connection between this case and this would-have-been witness. In his foul printed libels, he re- fers to a case which is cited as one among many, where it is alleged that “she” (Mrs. Woodhull) “ swindles women,” thus: “ and any number of »New York lawyers have been studying how to collect $400 for another.” Had the case been a just one, would it have puzzled New York lawyers to have taken legal steps for its collection? Every one must see the inconsistency of an afﬁrmative answer. But a Rhode Island lawyer was hunted out who did study up a way in which he thought he could collect it. It was thus: He learned that we contemplated going to Europe, alsothe steamer, day and hour upon which we proposed to sail. He then had his client make the necessary aﬂidavit lalleging fraud, and obtained the orders of arrest. These, the oﬂicer’s were instructed to hold until we were all on board the ship and it was about to sail, when they were to appear on the ship and arrest us, and in the evept of our refusing to pay the demand, then raised to $535, to take us off the ship and to jail. He probably thought that, rather than be thus deprived of the voyage and lose our passage, we would pay the demand whether right or wrong. But he reckoned without his host. We obtained news of his intentions and . and defeated them in time to make our voyage as pro- posed. And this is the case about which ..:our critics are interest- ing themselves, because we, being illegally assailed,,saw ﬁt to use legal means of defense. We can assure them that when- ever we are illegally assailed through the processes of law, obtained by improper methods and afﬁdavits, we shall take whatever means the law offers for defense. Upon principle we defend the proposition that every per- son has a right to give testimony, but we also defend the proposition of the right of any necessary means of defense against persons who are known to have discarded all princi- ples, or what amounts to the same, to have sacriﬁced them all to further their malicious designs against those who are defending themselves. The right of self-protection lies at the base of all other rights, and so long as we are put upon the defense in such ways as we have been, we shall not sur- render it, nor ignore any rights that the law may give us to defeat the malice of our enemies. Let it be remembered that the evidence excluded in this case could not by any possibilily have affected the verdict. It was sought to be given with the hope that some foundation could be estab- lished for vending malicious libels in a more public manner than had been previously possible; it was not to better the case for the plaintiff, but to blacken, if possible, the names and characters of the defendants. So far as the law is con- cerned, under which the evidence was excluded, we are utterly opposed to it, and will do whatever we can to have it repealed; but we are equally opposed to the law that makes it possible for one person, by making a false affidavit, to maliciously obtain the arrest and imprisonment of another; but we are no more opposed to either of these laws than we are to that made for the collection of debts, which ‘attempts, by legal methods, to regulate what should be left to the individuals concerned. We hope and trust that all these remnants of the ‘barbarous ages may soon go down together into a common oblivion, and the honor and self- respect of the people be permitted to become their own vindication in all the affairs of life. Then there will be no oaths required of Atheists or others, nor will there be any loose laws that will permit those who are willing to swear falsely to vent their spleen by illegally resorting to arrests and imprisonments to enforce the payment of unjust or trumped-up claims. __ 4‘. 4 %Vwv'*V THE BROOKLYN BATTLE. In reply to the many who are somewhat acquainted with the basis of the facts regarding the relations that existed ‘be- tween Mr. Tilton and myself, and who are insisting that I shall not rest another moment under the insinuations cast upon me by him in his evidence of Tuesday of last week, I ask them to be patient; I am_the one more deeply in- terested than anybody else, and. if I can afford to wait for my justiﬁcation, others can-surely afford to do so with me. I am aware how indignant many of my friends feel on ac- count of the slurs cast upon me, and through me upon the cause of social freedom by Mr. ‘Tilton. But I have learned that the laws of immutable justice always eventually bring the truth and the right uppermost; and I can better afford to let them run their course than to possibly abort their purposes by attempting to interfere to forestall their judgment. I decided before the trial began to not interfere in any manner with its progress. If Mr. Tilton thinks that, with the rendering of the verdict, this case will be concluded he will learn his error possibly too late to avert the doom that he is inviting upon his head. The inﬁnitely greater and more important part of this case will be undecided when this trial shall have closed. It is in the verdict that shall follow the one which this court will render that I am chieﬂy concerned. The mere present is nothing when compared with the inﬁnite future. He may struggle now to make the shadows he has cast upon my name and fame heavier and . darker; but when he shall stand unvailed, as stand he shall, he will blusn as deeply for his present efforts as he now pretends to for what has passed. After this trial is closed, I shall have a plain, simple state- ment of facts to make, in which there is set forth the truth in detail about all that has occurred since the 22d day of May, 1871, in which any of the parties to this scandal were involved. That statement will be all that is required to conﬁrm the truth or expose the falsity of Mr. Tilton’s testimony regarding his relationship with -me. Wait pa- tiently for it as I shall wait to give it. ‘ VICTORIA C. WOODHULL. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL’S APPOINTMENTS IN - MICHIGAN. Kalamazoo, Feb. 12; Grand Rapids, 13th; Big Rapids, 15th- Greenville, 16th ; Ionia, 17th; Lansing, 18th ; Bay City ’19u1-, East Saginaw, 20th; Flint, 22d; Port Huron, 23d,’ Ypsilanti, 24:11; Battle Creek, 25:11, Jackson, 26th; Adrian, 27th ; Hillsdale, March 1 ; C01dWater,2d ; Elkhart (Ind), 3d ; South Bend (Ind), 4th. "-3-... 4 Feb. 20, 1875. WOODHULL as cLAFLiNrs WEEKLY. 5 WHAT IS TRUTH ? This is the well-known question that Pilate put to Jesus, and we are not told that the latter answered it. Yet it is ' the question of questions, of all peoples and of all ages. When men can fully solve it they will be Gods. But though in its fullness it is to us unanswerable we can essay partially to elucidate it. Two presses during the past week have en-V deavored so to do. The one aﬂirmatively the other nega- tively. They are the New York Herald and the Ohristioin “Union. After we have quoted their remarks pertaining to the subject, the WEEKLY will discuss the same from the standpoint of Spiritualism. Our readers must not expect, however, to be very much en- lightened upon the abovesubject, for from time immemorial, men have had, and we suppose will have, very superﬁcial viewsof the matter. The consequence has been and is, that they have returned, and probably will return, different an- swers every time the question is asked. But what they lack in knowledge they make up in obstinacy and bigotry, so that at no time and in no civilized (or even savage) com- munity will the inquirer fail to receive hundreds of absolute and varying replies to the question. The best of these are ambiguous if not contradictory, like the deﬁnition of God by the wise ancients, Plato, of Athens, and Archimedes, of 4, Syracuse; the former of whom declared the Deity was “ A Being whose substance is truth, and whose shadow is light;” while the latter, being a mathematician, asserted that “ God is a circle, whose centre is ;everywhere, and whose circum-_ ference is nowhere.” We do not believe that the moderns have much improved upon these deﬁnitions of the Deity, although there is a grand mistiness in both answers, which in either is not a blemish but a beauty. Neither do we think our contemporary, the New York Herald, has much advanced human knowledge upon the subject of absolute truth, although we admire the liberality with which it has presented it to the notice of the American public. We ﬁnd under the heading of “ Pulpit Topics for Today” (Jan. 31) the following passage, to which we refer: . Somewhat akin to the ﬁrst-named topic (“_Limitations of spiritual Knowledge,” by Dr. Moran) is an inquiry by Dr. Porteous as to “What is truth, and who possess it ?”_ We don’t believe that any doctor in the church or out of it can answer that inquiry except by the monosyllable God. Truth is too broad, and deep and high to be possessed absolutely by any man or any set of men, and the most that any of us can obtain is a small slice of the great loaf. _ There you have it, gentle readers. It is not very satisfac- tory. But, after reading it, /we can say of it what the Scotch sailor “ Sandie” said of the owl which he palmed off on his sweetheart “ Jennie” in lieu of a parrot. She complained that it was not one of the pretty painted birds she expected from the East Indies, ‘and her lover replied: “ Why, Jennie, lass, ye say true, he’s no very beautiful, but look at his een! see what a power of thocht there is in ’em!” So say we of the Herald’s deﬁnition; it is not very diffuse, but there is a power of thought in it. . _ . The second attempt at elucidating what is truth we ﬁnd in a letter in the same paper, over the signature of “ William Coventry H. Waddellff It may be termed an attempt to answer the question I16gatiV91Ya 50 that by reducing its dimensions and proving what is not, we may eventually arrive at a just conclusion as to what is--truth! Here is the statement ;of the Christian Union as to “ What is not Truth!” - A Oh '. tiam. Union. H6313,’ Ward Beecher editor-in-chief h3:1s‘ti?aba7;:'f1oned ” the doctrine of endless pupishment, be: cause enlightened Christian feeling declared that it could not be true,” and that the time can hardly be distant when it (the church) willwholly reject the doctrine. But the ad- missions are accompanied by the still more startling exp;-es- Sions that U: although enlightened Christian feeling ” has risen to this exalted truth—v_iz., that_ everlasting punishment .. could not be 1;rue;” that this truth is not in accord with the letter of Scripture; thus: The ‘appeal from the enlightened reason and moral sense of mankind to the letter of Scripture has never been successful, and never can be. From this we have a right to infer that, in the opinion of the Christian Union, the Scriptures, or those portions of them that assert the doctrine of eternal punishment, “could not be true,” and, consequently, are not the truth. N ow, if an other credal religions will put what they call “their sacred Wﬁtingsn on the same pile. and the world would burn them" as the housekeeper and the bachelor Samson Carasco did Don Quixotes’ books on chivalry,‘ we believegthat we should narrow down considerably the dimensions of the question, is What is truth ?” Probably; however, it would be as well not to destroy them, for the Bible, the Veda’s, the Koran, and all works of similar character, ‘doubtless contain among their errors many excellencies, which have been, and may yet be of great beneﬁt to mankind. ) , o v Now for the WEEKLY s deﬁnition ;‘ and we mean to come at it with a, circumbendibus. What is Truth ? Well, in the first pmce, we do not believe that the truth is an article that has ever been monopolized. Unless the truth be u money,” we do not believe that it has ever been restricted to the.“ seed of Abraham.” To the honest Chinaman it is Buddha, ; to the honest Hindoo it is Chrishna ; to the honest Turk it is A1131; ; and to the honest J esusite it is J esus, To the honest Pagan itwas Jupiter, who was a very good God in his day ; and ‘to every man—-everywhere-—it is the highest aspiration ‘of his highest development-—that, to him, is truth. 0 Oh! when will mankind attend to their earthly duties, and leave the dwellers in the heavens to form their own family arrangements, and take care of themselves. Had our forefathers but done this, what mountains of misery, what seas of human gore would have been spared to humanity. But we did not make and do not rule the world. All hu- man excellencies have been obtained by suffering. This ever has been the case, and is the case now. Socrates must drink the hemlock, and J esus‘ must be cruciﬁed for the ad-._ vancement of our race now as of yore. The ignorant may still cry against those who would take oﬁ‘ them the chains of the past——-“ Crucify them! Crucify them!”-—-and prefer the scoﬁer Aristophanes and the robber Barrabas to the real benefactors of mankind. “DRAT THAT BOY, BAILEY!” ’ The above exclamation can be found in Dickens’ “ Mar- tin Chuzzlewit.” Bailey, an errand boy mentioned therein, was noted for his impudence. On one occasion, the writer tells us, he swaggered into Poll Sweedlepipes’, the barbers, and throwing himself into a chair commanded the astonish- ed tonsoi‘ to shave him. Although Bailey had no beard—— not even down on his chin-poor Poll obeyed with fear and trembling; and Sairey Gamp, the nurse, when she heardjof the occurrence, uttered the exclamation with which we have headed this article, viz. 2 “ Drat that boy, Bailey.” The above scene returned vividly to our memory on read- ing certain portions of the testimony of Theodore Tilton in the trial between him and H. W. Beecher. We especially refer to that memorable picture drawn by Mr. Tilton of his interview with Henry Ward Beecher, in which he says he charged the latter with having seduced Mrs. Tilton; and, more especially, to the concluding part of the same, in which, according to the Herald, Mr. Tilton asserts that the Plymouth pastor asked him the following question: ' M1zliyI go once again, and for the last time, and see Eliza- bet Under the circumstances, if they be correctly related, we think that our readers will agree with us that this was about the “steepest” question that ever was asked; but it is more than matched by an action attributed to H. W. Beecher by Mr. Tilton, which obcurred some time after at Mr. Moul- ton’s house, and we preface it by saying that Mr. Moulton was very sick at the time, and not expected to live: I (Theodore Tilton) went to his (Mr. Moulton’s house) one day and a servant girl came to the door and told me that Mr. Beecher was up-stairs ; while she was talking Mr.Beecher came down~stairs and met me in the parlor; he told me that_Frank was lying at the edge of the grave; he_said, ‘_‘ Frank is very sick, and I am afraid he will die, and if_ he dies, Theodore, what will then become of your case and mine? He said to me, with tears in his eyes, “ Theodore,_ Frank has saved my life, and I would willingly give my life to save Fra_nk’s;” and he then put his arms about my shoulders and kissed me on the forehead; he then departed hastily. If such a kiss could ever have occurred, for the life of us-we could not determine how to catalogue.it. ,Was it a pastoral- salute, or afraternal, or the kiss of “peace. It could not possibly be a paroxysmal kiss! The only place in which it would seem right to place it would be to range it with the lie chronicled by Mr. Moulton, and call it the “kiss sublimet” But the effort to schedule it is too great for our feeble pow- ers, we cannot do justice to it. We, therefore, mentally retreat from the too vast undertaking, and again re-enter the barber-shop of ‘P011 Sweedlepipes; hide our shortcom- ings by re-echoing the words of the immortal Sairey Gamp, and conclude with saying “Drat that boy, Bailey!” ;.44 A r ‘WT THAT CHALLENGE. Every one admired the bold challenge of the Brooklyn" Pastor to all people to bring forward all that‘each and every one of them knew that militated against his character; but, if the following extract, taken from the Hamid of Jan. 30, be correct, “ a change has come over the spirit of his dream.” We do not assert . this to be the case ourselves, but present to our readers the testimony we have quoted on the subject : ‘ The Brooklyn public has been partly aware of Mr. Beech- er’s desire, through his counsel, to keep Tilton_ off the stand. There was no opinion in favor of Tilton testifying or going to the wall. A great many people thought he ought to speak, because the issue was between himself and one other person. Even Mr. Beecher’s partisans wondered what reason or pol- icy existed in favor of Theodore’s enforced silence. .- Henry Ward Beecher may well ﬁnd from the comments of the Herald and Sun, and other important dailies, that something more will be required in his case than merely an adroitly won legal acquittal. If the statements of Messrs. Moulton and Tilton be false and slanderous they must be proved to be so to the satisfaction of the public; if, on the contrary, they be proved truthful and correct, a simple liai- son will be but one in along list of crimes charged against H. W. Beecher. It is our belief that the ‘public is deter- mined to know the truth of the affair which has so long agi- tated society. It will not submit to be hoodwinked by any subterfuges, legal or otherwise, and any compromising will condemn all parties concerned. —-———-———>-—+o>-<———-—-— INFALLIBILITY. The New York Herald, of Jan. 30, contains a special tele- gram giving a synopsis of the pamphlet of 100 pages just is- sued by Archbishop Manning in reply to Mr. Gladstone on the subject of papal infallibility. It commences. with the statement that——- ‘ He [Archbishop Manning] maintains that the Vatican de-V crees have not changed the conditions of civil allegiance. The allegiance of Catholics is as undivided as that of any, other Christians. Questions of conscience alone coulddivide iftbpghe recent decrees have not extended the power of the From this we learn that “ questions of conscience” can divide allegiance. It is important to potentates, then, to inquire who is to decide as to what are “questions of con- science.” The WEEKLY maintains that, of late, the Pope has rendered opinions on such subjects freely ; and further- more, that to Catholics, there is no appeal from his decisions. We are next told that-— The Ecumenical Council in no way touched the relations of Church and State. Its decrees merely declared doctrines ‘Which were already matters of faith. ' Infallibility might have been previously a matter of faith, now, however, it is likely to become a matter of practice, which to temporal rulers is objectionable. V The Pope cannot, therefore, either by virtue of these de- crees or his supreme authority. make any claim upon his adherents of a nature to impair the integrity of their civil allegiance. To impair civil allegiance’ would be contrary to that law. The spiritualauthority of the Church was indirect in its operation on temporal affairs. A Q Where does Archbishop Manning obtain authorityto limit the power of an infallible Pope, as he does in the first sentence? What Catholic could rebuke the head of his * church should he do an act contrary to divine law. Inter- dicts have impaired and would impair civil allegiance, and yet they have been freely used by many Popes, and are not indirect in their operations. But, to continue- It [spiritual authority] indirectly condemns and declares not binding such temporal laws as deviate from the lawof God, and therefore impede the attainments of salvation. In regard to the supposition advanced in an argument, that the Pope might attempt to depose the Queen of England, the writer remarks that, as the Queen is wholly withdrawn from the Catholic Church, every condition is wanting which would render such deposition justiﬁable. Here again the Pope claims power to judge what temporal laws deviate from the law of God, and he exercised that power in the matter of our Public Schools. As regards the Queen question, policy at present may dictate forbearance ; but, if policy dictated otherwise,‘how then ? Again, The Archbishop declares that the European Powers have entered into a systematic conspiracy againstthe Church, and warns them that they are thereby wrecking themselves. This we believe, andit inaugurates in Europe the religious revolution treated of by the WEEKLY. The clay pots refuse, and wisely, to keep company with the iron pot. A fallible Monarch can hardly be expected to welcome an infallible Pope in his dominions. We assert it is good for the peoples that the old ﬁrm of “king and priest” are not likely to dis- solve partnership without ﬁghting, and that out of their dis- sensions will arise bothitemporal and spiritual liberty for the masses of Europe. In conclusion, he says Mr. Gladstone’s pamphlet invites Catholics to rebel against divine authority and “encourage "schism, heresy and deadly sin.” In these days the words———“ schism, heresy, and deadly. sin ’,’—frighten none but weak minds. The Church of Rome has shown of late no courtesy to the Anglican Church. Ac- cording’ to the latter, Archbishop Manning himself is a criminal, and is guilty of the spiritual “act of adultery ” in introducing himself in the diocese of the Anglican Bishop of London. Other Catholic noblemen of England, as well as Lord Acton, will have to choose sides in the matter, for a, mixed allegiance must be offensive both to the Queen and the Pope. - _iA... ﬁIrr—~ ANSWERS TO OORRESPONDENTS. 18., Toronto, 0anctdci.——We are not certain who was the author of the poem you allude to, but think that it was A the production of Herrick. B. T., Brooklyn, N. Y_.—We cannot instruct you as to H. W. Beecher’s present position with regard to eternal punish- ment. His creedfwritten, it is said, by himself, affirms it, but his paper, the Uliristicin Union, denies it, as you will perceive by an extract given in one of this week’s leaders. U . R-. E, Galveston, Texas.‘—-To loan money at any interest whatever was held to be a crime, and was punishable both by ecclesiastical and civil law in every nation in Europe until the sixteenth century. Our present money system, which is based on the legalization of usury, is but little more than three centuries old. . T M, 6’. W.—The conversation you allude to took place be- tween the two poets Sylvester and rare Ben Jonson in the time-of Elizabeth. They challenged each other to ‘ make rhymes to their own names, and the former began thus: A ' I, Sylvester, M Kissed your sister ! T To which the latter, not admiring the statement, replied: I, Ben Jonson, ‘ Kissed your wife! “That doesn’t rhyme,” said Sylvester; “I know it,” re- A plied rare Ben, “but it’s quite true, __nevertheless, and truth is better than poetry.” 8. .31., Cincinnati, 07iio.——We teach our young men how to bear arms, and how to use them. He who thinks that the dumb tools they misuse will not demand living food in the’ To cultivate the spirit of war is .to near future is a fool. breed war. . «- Spiritualist, Jersey Oitg/, N. J.-—The phenomena, which are”. .~ the base of the new development, are needed; the rain. 6 which is already arising out _of the same will remodel the civilized world. S M. R. 8., 0ht'eago,,1Zt.—-—The revolutions demanded by the people of all classes are marching together, both here and in Europe; industrial, ﬁnancial, religious and social. They are all component parts of one grand whole. Jerry Thompson, N. Y.—-We cannottell you by what‘au- ' thority the ton of coal has been shortened 224 lbs. in weight. The constitution Says: “Congress shall ﬁx the standard of weights and measures;” and, in our opinion, it is the duty of the Attorney General to See that you are not defrauded in measure. H. R. M, Paterson, N. J."-—Chastity has long been com- plimented by the poets. Shakespeare treats of it in Coriolanus. That hero terms Valeria. ‘ The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome. Chaste as the icicle, That’s curded by the frostgfrom purest snow, And hangs on Dian’s temple! But some think, to use a French proverb, “the game is not worth the candle.” The only men who have the right to honor chastity in women are Catholic priests and shaking Quakers. Economist, Sctrcttoga, N. Y.—The moral condition of the city of New York is exhibited in the list of births and deaths, published weekly by the Herald. The latter ’ always far outnumber the former, proving that the city is naturally damned. 5 ‘ WOODHULL a. OLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. concerning the formation of a committee; that Mrs. Tilton had gone down to the committee at Mr. Ovington’s house; that previous to the assembling of the committee he (Gen. Tracy) had instructed her what to say and how to say it; put the questions to her that she might make no blunder in answering them; that when she came before the committee she astonished and impressed all of them with her eloquent allusions to her pastor and to her husband; that she had denied everything, that there had been any wrong between herself and Mr. Beecher, or that there had been any proposal of wrong by him toward her, or that there was any ground for the scandal. And Gen. Tracy, in making the narration, wept. [Laughter.] 'He said he never had witnessed such a spectacle in his life. “Now,” said he, “if you take the right advantage of‘ Mrs. Tilton’s appearance before this committee, and of the tender hearts of those gentlemen toward all the parties in the case, and particularly toward you,” meaning myself, “ now is an opportunity to suppress the scandal for- ever. It is the woman’s right to deny it; let her deny it and stand on her denial now. Co-operate with that denial, it can be made a success.” Gen. Tracy’s representations to me made a great impression on my mind. I said if there is any chance to save Elizabeth’s name and fame and blot out the scandal, heaven knows I shall be glad to co-operate with it. ‘ -—N. Y. Sun. COMMENTS. . This is hard on General Tracy. Both Mr. Moulton and Mr. Tilton have paid their compliments to him. Consider- ing his position as Mr. Beecher’s counsel, it looks as if the sheep weregworrying the dog. [From the Brooklyn Argus.]_ THURSDAY, FEB. 4. REMINISCENCES 013' MR. TILTON. Mr. Sherman here read two articles in question, from the Golden Age. The ﬁrst article was taken from the Hearth and Home. and referred to Mr. Tilton. commencing with a reference to him as a. young man of golden hair, who sprang Hopeful, Toronto, C’otnada.———You must not judge the WEEKLY - by the number of its subscribers. When Gideon went forth against the Midianites he commanded 32,000 men. He reduced it to 300, keeping only those in it who lapped the water in drinking. It is so with the WEEKLY; it has had a larger number of subscribers, but those it has now will never turn their backs. They will die before they will surrender. We believe they are all lappers, men and women, and that there is not one poltroon among tli’em. B. W. R., San Francisco, 0al.—‘We do not take any stock in the millennium. Establish one, and in a century the world would putrefy with rottenness. The troubling of the waters has ever been necessary to its health, is now, and, in our opinion, ever will be. I J. 12., Los Angelos, 0ctl.—The Senate resolution against the naturalization of Chinamen was an unmitigated villainy, falsifying our contract in thetreaty we had just previously ’ concluded with China, and contrary to the genius of our Republic. Inquirer, Detroit, Mich.--The Civil Rights bill must be made a law; until it is established, the republicanism, or, if you please, democracy of the Union, is the greatest farce the world ever saw. — S V “ Q, INCID ENTS OF THE TILTON-BEEOHER TRIAL. ' MONDAY, FEB. 1, 1875. , — Some of the New York dailies will kill Henry Ward Beecher before the termination of the trial, that is, if it be possible to slay him with printer’s ink. According to the Evening Telegram, this is the last report of his state of health: 1* “ The appearance of Beecher’s face was a study as Tilton cured out the full story of his wife’s connection with eecher. All round his neck and behind his ears was the blood red glow of apoplexy. His lips were pale and his eyes were a strong, unearthly look.’’ I We, however, warn our readers that he has been reported , to be in a similar condition for some time; but he turns up at Plymouth Church every Sunday with the regularity of a ‘t ”H llclock. . f 5 A ’ O1 y-. el _ TUESDAY,_FEB._ 2. . TILToN’s GENEALOGICAL, RESEARCHES. (From the N. Y. Sun.) , _ Q.‘ State what occurred at that interview. A. Mr. Beecher came. to my house one morning," about the ﬁrst or second ,week,_yes, certainly, the second week in February, 1871. He had come in pursuance of a request which*I had sent to him through Mr. Moulton. I had told Mr. Moulton that I wanted to see Mr. Beecher at my house. Mr. Beecher came in the morning while I was at breakfast. I rose from the table, (met him in the parlor, and told him to go up stairs into. my study. He immediately -went up and I followed him. closed the door behind me, and after he took his seat I said . to him, “ 1 have called you hither, sir, in order_ that you may remove, if you can, a shadow from the future life of the little boy Ralph.‘ His mother has assigned to me a date at which your criminal intimacy with her began. This little boy was born a. few months after that. If the date which his mother has given is correct, it will save a dishonor attaching to his name. I want you to tell me, as before God, whether or not that date is right. I want, if possible, to shield‘ him, but I want more than that to know the truth-tell me the truth. He -told me on his word of honor as before God that the date which «Mrs. Tilton had assigned was the correct date. At that moment Mrs. Tilton herself, who had followed me up- stairs, came into the room, and when I stated to her the point of conversation, she burst into tears, and asseverated, as she had onceor twice done before, that the date which she had given was correct. Q. State whether in that conversation that morning in your study, the date was named, and if so, who named it? A. Mr. Beecher asked me what date Elizabeth had named. I told him that Elizabeth had named as the date at which ‘ their criminal intimacy began Oct. 10, 1868. He replied that he hadtno faculty for dates, and had made no record, but he believed in his soul that she had_ told me the truth. He said a few other things on that occasion which I trust I shall not be requested to reproduce here, since. a proper delicacy would forbid their utterance. COMMENTS. C,» into early favor, writing double-leaded leaders, and singing songs and uttering sparkling wit; as one who succeeded to the vacant chair of Mr. Beecher, and who, in his opinion,‘ more than ﬁlled it, and as being a man of more than ordinary abilities to please children.. In connection with this thought, Mr. Shearman here read Mr. Tilton’s Poem, which com- mences “ Baby by, here’s a ﬂy; let us catch him, you and I,” 856., very much to the amusement of those in the courtroom. He also read Mr. Tilton’s production entitled “ The Lay- man’s Confession of Faith.” Mr. Tilton’s reply to the article from the‘ Hearth and Home characterized it as a satire speaking -of him as one dead. — His opinion on marriage and divorce were the same as when he ﬁrst formed them in college days. He concluded he had a right to vindicate Mrs. Woodhull’s right to express her opinions in a free land, and accepts that right with pride. He was acquainted with a number of eminent men and women, noted for their liberality of sentiment. Among them, Lucretia Mott, Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner, Laura Curtis Bullard, and he considered Victoria Woodhull the peer of any one among them. He was called a Spiritualist. Well, so was President Lincoln. There are more Spiritual- ists than Methodists, and he considered that he had suﬂicient skill to write; a life of Bishop Simpson from a Methodist point of view, or a life of Elder Evans from a Shaker point of view, just as well as he had written a life of Victoria C. Woodhull from a spiritualistic point of view. He acknowl- edges that he is 93 Communist, but is a Communist in the best sense of the word. The atrocities in Paris were not the fault of the Commune, but the fault of Versailles. He says: “ In conclusion, let me add that I have never been a con- tributor to Hearth and Home, but if you will give a letter from me room in your columns, I will gladly write y u one, and give a. full and explicit exposition of my view on the sub- jects spoken of. Very truly yours, THEODORE TILTON. Friday was consumed in reading the letters of Mr. and Mrs. Tilton to each other, prior to 1871. MRS. WOODHULL IN KANSAS. [From the Leavenworth Commercial, J an. 31, 1875.] “ THE DESTINY on THE RE1=URITIo.” Last night Mrs. Victoria Woodhull spoke at the Opera House, to a good audience-—a gathering of intelligent people who wanted to hear what the woman had to say and how she said it. In the dress circle we noticed a large number of. ladies who were intensely interested in what the speaker had to offer. For an hour the audience were held by the eloquent words, eloquently spoken. Mrs. Woodhull was evidently in point. (From the Commonwealth, Topeka, Kane. Feb. 2, 1875.) VICTORIA C. WOODHULI4-HER LECTURE AT THE OPERA HOUSE LAST NIGHT. Amuch larger audience greeted this famous social icono- clast at her second appearance last evening than on the occa- sion of her ﬁrst coming a year ago. Whatever may be said of this woman, her rhetorical talents are unquestioned, and she certainly does not permit any one in her audience to doze. The lecture was preceded by readings from Macbeth. Her remedy for crime and her method of abolishing physi- cians and legislators‘ at one fell blow may be comprehended in the word stirpiculture: the improvement of the race by the application of the doctrine of natural selection to the human family. She repudiated the notion that free love, as she advocated it, meant promiscuity, and maintained that the inevitable result would be to prevent promiscuity, which was the curse of society now. She was for free love, as dis- tinguished from enforced lust, maintaining that, in it was only to be found the true dignity of a matrimony whose only basis was, or could be, love. ~ All this was illustrated and enforced by eloquence and earnestness, and many apt and telling hits. The verdict of the audience was that, manger her rather embarrassing candor, her discourse contained many unpalatable but none the less forcible truths, and that she’s a mighty bright woman albeit she may be under bonds to Sathanus. -'--—---—-—>-40>--4-—-—---——— BUSINESS EDITORIALS. This meeting was a greater dishonor to the child than ever his paternity could be. Set aside the savage idea of the claiming inheritance, which ought not to exist in well- ordered communities, and the question of paternity need not have been enquired into. ‘ I WEDNESDAY, FER. 3D. ' ‘ll’,-‘Tilton, Gen. Tracy told me that I need have no anxiety W. F. 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The increasing number of letters in respect to the nature, purposes and prospects of the‘ 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 first touching social diﬁiculties, 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 wndertake 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 aireply 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. 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Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-02-20_09_12
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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 09, no. 13 (February 27, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2060
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-02-27
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: ‘ter that seemed determined to baﬂie him. PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNT:13AMM:e3LED LIVES: , BREAKING THE WAY FOR-FUTURE GENERATIONS- Vol. IX.—No. l3.—VVl:ole No. 221.! NEW YORK, FEB. 27, 1875. PRICE TEN CENTS. V BY AND BY: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE on THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND. B O O K I V . CHAPTER VII I.—Uontinued. “Nannie, I expected to ﬁnd you untaught, but I did not expect to ﬁnd you unteachable.” “Then you are disappointed in me?” “ It is in your power to prevent my being so.” “ If you loved me as you ought you would think me perfect. But you can’t when you are always thinking of some other—— some inte1lectual—woman.” (She uttered the word with a sneering emphasis). “ Oh, you need not deny it; you won’t convince me. I know it is true becausel dreamed it! Don’t laugh at me! I won’t be laughed at by you. Oh, you cruel, cruel man!” she added, on seeing the smile evoked by her last speech. “Why, Nannie, it is the greatest compliment one can pay to a comedian when he has uttered a ...
Show more‘ter that seemed determined to baﬂie him. PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNT:13AMM:e3LED LIVES: , BREAKING THE WAY FOR-FUTURE GENERATIONS- Vol. IX.—No. l3.—VVl:ole No. 221.! NEW YORK, FEB. 27, 1875. PRICE TEN CENTS. V BY AND BY: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE on THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND. B O O K I V . CHAPTER VII I.—Uontinued. “Nannie, I expected to ﬁnd you untaught, but I did not expect to ﬁnd you unteachable.” “Then you are disappointed in me?” “ It is in your power to prevent my being so.” “ If you loved me as you ought you would think me perfect. But you can’t when you are always thinking of some other—— some inte1lectual—woman.” (She uttered the word with a sneering emphasis). “ Oh, you need not deny it; you won’t convince me. I know it is true becausel dreamed it! Don’t laugh at me! I won’t be laughed at by you. Oh, you cruel, cruel man!” she added, on seeing the smile evoked by her last speech. “Why, Nannie, it is the greatest compliment one can pay to a comedian when he has uttered a good thing well to laugh heartily. I shall make a note of that—‘ I know it is true be- cause I dreamed it,’ and get some dramatic friend to put it into a play. An actress who can say it exactly as you did will be sure to bring the house down. But I really must bring this conversation to an end for the present, as I must go and see how pc.or Bertie is.” “ Bertie! what is the matter with him?” “ He was taken very ill in the night, and had to send for a doctor.” “ Why don’t you telegraph instead of going?” “ You have put it out of my power.” “ How ?” “I had already been conversing with him about himself by telegraph. It was the sounding of his signal that excited you to destroy the apparatus. By my not replying he will be thinking that I have gone out, probably to see him.” “ Is this true?" she exclaimed.‘ “ I know you have never understood my character,” he re- plied, “ but I did not think you had so utterly misunderstood it as to suppose me capable offalsehood.” “ I know what I know,” she said, with a menacing air that was anything but reassuring to Criss. And then, with a sudden change of demeanor, added, “ But Crlss, dear, I must go and nurse dear Bertie; I can be such a good nurse. You will be so proud of your little wife when you see her in a sick-room. Why did you not tell me at once, and then all this trouble would have been saved?” “ I was about to tell you when it occurred, in the hope that you would make the proposal you have just made.” “ Well, then, come quick and let us go to him at once. Shall I ring for the carriage?” “ I will do that while you are putting something on,” re- plied Criss, utterly at a loss to ﬁnd the key-note to a charac- He could liken Nannie only to a musical instrument that is perfect in all respects, save for one note which obstinately refuses to be tuned into harmony, but so jars whenever and however it is touched, as to produce the most frightful discord. Only in Nannie’s case, unhappily, the false note seemed to have the faculty of spontaneous utterance, so that it was impoggime to avoid being tortured by it. CHAPTER IX. Bertie's illness was sharp, but by the evening the symptoms were so much alleviated that there was no excuse for Criss and Nannie to remain with him through the night. In her conduct in the sick-room, Nannie had shown a tact and readiness which delighted Criss, and on their way home he spoke in such a way as to show her that he was pleased, but without implying that he was surprised. Nannie’s demeanor during the drive each way, caused‘him some perplexity. On the way to Bertie’s her lips were set, as if under the inﬂu- ence of alarm and apprehension. On her return she spoke only in monosyllables, as if his remarks interrupted a train of thoughts altogether unconnected with their recent expe-' rience. On reaching home she ran into the house without a word and hurried up-stairs, evidently longing to indulge her feelings by herself.- Anxiously watching, Crissheard a scream, which, however, did not sound to him like one 6: distress. In another mg. ,i.. . - lieve your story about his being ill, ment Nannie had run down to him with the baby in her arms, exclaiming, triumphantly—— . “ I have got her back! I have "got her back!” ‘ “ Yes, so I see. Can you explain it ?” he asked, with a smile. “ No,” she said, and her face fell, as if feeling less sure that she had cause for exultation. V “ Bring baby into the study and I will tell you.” “No. no, not in that room, I can’t go in there. In here.” “ Nannie, darling, I was so pleased by your readiness to go and nurse Bertie, that I sent for the child back to meet you on your return as a reward.” For a moment Nannie looked as if she was on the point of bursting into tears. Then, with a manifest effort, she re- strained them, and after two or three ﬂuctuations of resolve, said. as if to herself :_ “No, _I won’t; I won’t be so weak; he shan’t- think he has 1 conquered me. Oriss, you were taken in. It wasn’t good- ness a bit that made me want to go to Bertie. I didn’t be- I thought it was an ex- cuse to go and see some woman. I determined to outwit you by going with you. And now I have got my child back with- out being good.” And she laughed a wild hysterical laugh. “ Well, Nannie,” he said, soothingly, “now that you see for yourself how groundless your fancies are, I hope’ we shall have an easy time of it for the future.” But Nannie had made up her mind not to come round just yet. So she busied herself about the child, tossing and sing- ing to it, and took no notice of his remarks. , Before he could speak again, the telegraph signal in the adjoining room uttered its alarm. On hearing it, Nannie turned very red, and the more so because she ' felt that Criss saw the change in her color. With a faltering voice, she said: “ I thought it was broken?” ‘ “ It has been repaired in our absence,” said Criss. “ There are too many poor fellows depending for their bread on my punctuality for that to be left broken.” And he went to see what messages had arrived while he was out, leaving Nannie with the child to recover at leisure. Before retiring for the night, N annie sat beside Cries on a sofa, her equanimity perfectly restored. _ “I wish,” she said, as she played with his hand, twisting her lovely hair around it, “ I wish you did not expect me to be so good. I am sure I should be better if I wasn’t expected to be so. It wouldn’t make you bad, being expected to be bad; why then should I be made good by being expected?” “ Perhaps it would help you to be good if I were to break out occasionally into a ﬁt like one of yours.’-’ I “ Oh, yes, that it would. Do! do do it!” “ Well, it did occur to me to-day that it was a good oppor- tunity to- follow the example of a person I once heard of, who went to take charge of a lunatic. The patient was subject to attacks of violence, in which he would ﬂing about the room and smash whatever was handy to him. Well, the first time he did this before his new keeper, who was a woman of great nerve and resolution, she at once seized sundry articles of furniture and dashed them to the ground with precisely the same outcries and gesticulations which he had used.” Nannie laughed gleefully. “ Oh, how I should like to have seen that!” she cried. “ But what did he do then?” “ He gazed at her in astonishment, and at length asked her what she did that for. She replied that, seeing him do it, she supposed it was the way of the place, and the right thing for her to do. The story goes that he thereupon looked ex- ceedingly foolish,,and never_ after broke out so again.” “ And why didn’t you smash the things in your study this morning, too, if you thought it Would cure me ?” “ I believe my principal reason was that it was my study. Had it been one of your rooms now, with all your pretty things about it, I probably should have done a little smashing.” _ - ' . After a pause, she said: “I am thinking, Criss, dear, that you ought never to have married at all.” ' “ Well, Nannie, we live and learn.” “ I mean that you are too perfect by half in yourself. N 3 woman can put up with absolute goodness. There is not suiﬁcient of the machine about us. Our feelings can’t stand it; they will have relaxation. It is as bad for us to live with a person who is perfect, as for a child to live only with grown- up folks. I should be sorry if little Zoe has no one beside you and Inc to play We shall be quite old then, and she .7‘ will want the companionship of other children. They learn so much from each other that all the schools and grown-up people in the world can’t teach them. She is almost six sister for a companion.” And the sad prospect wrung a little sob from N annie’s affectionate heart. Her melancholy forebodings were happily doomed to dis- appointment. Zoe was scarcely eighteen months old when the desired playfellow made its appearance in the form of a ‘little boy. ‘ ! CHAPTER X. work, the gigantic operations which Oriss was carrying on in the desert proceeded rapidly and steadily, without requiring more than an occasional brief visit from him. In the same way. the work of freeing thought throughout Soudan from "the chains of superstition, made progress in spite of the vested interests. When the Emperor had come thoroughly to comprehend the real signiﬁcance of the claim set up by the priesthood to be superior to the civil government, he had given his countenance to the societies which ,Criss had! created for the spread of popular enlightenment. The battle; was virtually won when once the people comprehended that. whatever the object of inquiiy, there is but one method-——the= scientiﬁc; inasmuch as it signiﬁes merely accuracy both in observation of facts and deduction. of inferences; so that to» reject the scientiﬁc for any other method is simply to reject accuracy for inaccuracy. It was thus that the ﬁctions of so-called history, and the inventions of superstitions gradually lost all importance in their eyes, and became but as certain fossil specimens to the geologist, tokens of a lower stage in the earth’s development. Students and curiosity-mongers may concern themselves about such things, but they enter not into the lives of those who judge all matters by the criterion of the present. Talking over these things one day, the Emperor expressed to Criss his surprise that with all his zeal for the enlighten- ment of the people, he had not attacked the divinity of the sacred talisman. “Surely,” said the young monarch, “if I am to.be a reforming king, and, to use your own phrase, ‘ of‘ a piece throughout,’ I ought openly to discard a superstitious- basis for the crown which now affects to justify its existence. by use.” » . Criss acknowledged that he had thought much on this very point,‘ and believing that the symptoms would disappear as the disease was cured, had judged it best to commence at the other end. “ Let us,” he said, “ be content with ‘gradually developing the intelligence of the people, and they will of themselves, then, successively shed one superstition after another. Knowledge is the sole proper distributor of faith. No use to extinguish the candle before letting in the sun- shine. When once they have knowledge they will perceive of their own accord that the sacred talisman derives all its real value from its intrinsic worth and beauty, and that any mystic addition serves to diminish rather than enhance its lustre.” . It was thus that the spirit of emancipated Europe crossed the Sahara into Soudan and conquered the chief, if not the last, stronghold of superstition remaining in the world. The people and their sovereign understood each other and the unity of their interests, and thenceforth all opposition was vain. The national school, national universities andinatlonal church of Soudan, became the three steps in the ladder of the national development; the appeal in all being to man’s< present and mature, instead of to his past and rudimentary.. Thus, too, did Europe repay to Africathe debt owed for Africa’s contribution to the early civilization of the world ;; and the greater debt owed for the world’s after treatment. oﬁ was now free in mind as well as in body, and its very soil was being redeemed as from an hereditary curse. clare, morally insolvent, and capable: of rehabilitation only by a vast act of grace, it was now proving, by its conduct. in Africa, that it had only suspended payment, not become utterly bankrupt; that give it time and it would pay all. This last was a, train of thought which had been communi- cated t,0_ Qﬁgg’ mind during one of those ﬂights into the Em- pyrean which had made the chief delight of his life as a ‘bachelor. It is only because man is impatient with God’s slow“ niethodof working that he denounces. Nature as a months old now. She will be so dull without any brother or Thanks to a careful selection of agents and organization of ‘ Africa. Once a slave-hunting ground for all men, Africa. If ever the earth had been, as theologians. were wont to dc-I ,./* ‘oi ’7/721:/§%ﬁﬂ‘" W '3u~‘.' . 2 I ” WOODHULL .2 CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY '9 Feb. 27, 1875. bankrupt who has failed to fulﬁll his proper engagements to the great Creditor, and thus fallen short of the end of his being. We. who can contemplate such lives as some which have sprung from the earth——yea, even such a life as this I am now too imperfectly narrating—may well, hold that were thereno other like it, no other approaching it for purity, goodness and usefulness, one such life is suflicient to redeem the earth from the charge of being utterly reprobate and fallen, from the condemnation of having existed in vain and incurred a sentence of wrath for having failed to fulﬁll the end of its being; sufficient, therefore, to reconcile its Maker to it-—just as one magniﬁcent blossom suffices to redeem the plant that lives a hundred years and ﬂowers but once, from the charge of having wasted its existence. Even if the ex- perience of all past ages of apparent aimlessnessand sterility afford no plea in justiﬁcation of existence, the "one fact that there is room for hope in the future may well suﬁice to avert the sentence men are too apt to pronounce-—thatall is vanity and vexation, and that the tree of humanity is" ﬁt only to be cut down, that it cumber the ground no longer. [To be continued] COSHOCTON, Ohio, Feb. 8, 1875. Dear Weekly—Among all the other ills that ﬂesh is heir to, and that I get a sniﬁ’ of in my peregrinations up and down, modern young ladyism gives me perhaps a deal more anxious solicitude than all the rest put together; for are not the “ young ladies ” of to-day the prospective mothers of to- morrow, at least such proportion of them, considering the feminine overplus, as stands a fair chance under our wise and beneﬁcient and sanctiﬁed social legislation? Considering the possibility of the prospective motherhood, and judging from the samples of the raw material, are we not safe in setting it down, that not one girl in a hundred is ﬁtted, morally, mentally and physically, to assume the great responsibility: in short, that not one in a hundred escapes committing, unconsciously to a large degree, a great crime against nature when she becomes a mother? I must confess, at the imminent risk of incurring the vengeance of all the “ girls” of the present generation, that ’I have no feelings in common with Olive Logan, when I see a bevy of girls let loose from all restraint, “going it alone” with ten chances to one of “ getting euchred.” I never feel as Olive! says she does under such circumstances—namely, like taking those “ sweet girls ” all in my arms and kissing them--though it is my private opinion Olive was only throw- ing a sop to Cerberus when she promulgated that sentiment. On the contrary, whenever I see the most approved pattern of the modern young lady I’m seized with an almost uncon- trollable impulse to shake her up; put a little wholesome.re- straint upon her decidedly loose actions, which she evidently thinks so charming and artless; make her see herself as others see her; out her corset lacings;_c1ip her dirty, dis- ' gusting trail; relieve her foolish head of surplus false hair and “ things ;” clothe her from head to foot in healthful, easy garments, and set her wayward feet in the path of knowledge and true happiness. But your modern girl is the most incorrigible animal pos- sible to scare up. From my experience with, and observation of, the species, I had as§lief undertake to develop a jackass as a f11ll»ﬁedged society graduate—an “ accomplished and charming and amiable young lady”—got up and decorated for the social sacriﬁce. _ The modern girl——I beg all pardon-—-young lady, has no re- spect for superior years and understanding. She thinks she knows it all, and there’s no use your telling her you have been a silly girl yourself, and in the mirror she herself holds up you are heartily ashamed of the reﬂection; because with added years has come goodtaste, a developed womanly in- stinct——I don’t mean mam kishness—and some appreciation of the eternal ﬁtness of things, so that your judgment and example are ﬁt to shine a beacon on a hill to a young girl; nevertheless, for those same reasons she sets you down as .old maidish and old fogyish, prefers to turn her weak nose up at you, and go on in her ruinous course until broken health, shattered hopes, and early decline set her thinking upon her hopeless case. And if, in the meantime, she has be-— come a. mother, she sees her own girls coming up about her in her own tracks, and she too weak and powerless to control _ the continued destruction. No wonder girls have no respect for thier mothers nowa- days, for your modern mother is fully as incorrigible as her daughters, who cannot fail to see what a nonentity their mother is; that she is not capable of commanding obedience in simplest things, to say nothing of reverence for her judg- ment and opinions; and were it not that she ministers so in- dulgently and so unwisely to all their foolish whims, they would not even feel affection for her. And as the mother is so the girl will be, unless, as in rare cases, a law of nature has been stumbled upon in procreation- for few and far between are the blessed children of desire and design. , _ As seen in the light of the present,what is a modern young lady but an inharmonious conglomeration of ignorance, mis- named innocence; affection, misnamed accomplishment ; impudence, mistaken for ease and grace; and disease, con- strued as feminine delicacy? One need not go on a hunt for specimens, for they are everywhere present, with nothing else to do but to keep their social estimate at par and themselves conspicuously in the market, displaying, as Charles Dickens said of the modern young man, various varieties of puppyism-—female puppyism -—-and stupidity; amusing all sensible people near them with their folly and conceit, and happily thinking themselves the objects of general admiration. For instance: a short time since I was waiting in a hotel parlor for my room to be got ready. I was passing the time A" over the Beecher trial, till two most perfect and elaborate specimens of modern young ladyhood entered the room, cre- atingdisturbance enough fora dozen. They were amply gotten up in all theparaphernalia’appropriate totheir sex and .leom1ltl0n-- ‘ “Ribbons, fringes, buttons, bows, ’broidery and lace, Tassels, gloves, powder, paint, mingled with a grace; , Flounces, plaits and frills and hems, full and deep and ‘wide- E’en their pretty little feet tapped with conscious pride.” The day was sloppy, muddy and rainy, consequently their trails were in what seemed the last stage of hopelessness, quite on the “sharp and ragged edge of despair” as far as any restoration to cleanliness and decency were concerned; and their thin cloth gaiters were in a state to cause no. end of “ female weakness ” to the wearers. A - No use my trying to read——those considerate and modest, loud-mouthed and rattle-brai_ned young ladies had no idea there was any soul in existence besides their sovereign selves. As their conversation (?) furnishes excellent example of the general chatter of their class, I will reproduce it here. The ﬁrst thing, however, was a prolonged and impudent stare at me, which I tried to bear with the grace of a martyr. They took me all in at a glance, evidently coming to the con- clusion I didn’t amount to much—I was too old—for,_ in the estimation of a girl inher teens, a woman in thethirties is old enough to die and be buried deep out of sight; for she has no idea she will ever live to be so old herself, or if she does, she hopes and prays she will be married, because she thinks she couldn’t possibly survive being thirty and still single. I’ve been there myself and know just what stupid ideas Mrs. Grundy puts into silly girls’ heads. But to the conversation of the above-mentioned “gay girls.” “ Oh, Mat, I’m so tired! ain’t you ?” “Yes, Lou, I’m just tired to death waiting. I do so hate to be on the eve of going anywhere! don’t you?” “Indeed I do! I think it is so tedious to wait, and wait, and wait.” “I should say it is. I do wonder how much longer we have got to wait here?” “ Oh, dear me! there’s no telling. Good gracious, Mat, just look at my skirts! ain’t they a sight?” And Miss Lou sails to the window in the last stage of discontent, just as her damp clothes had begun to steam nicely. “ 0, Mat! j ust come here; there goes George Staples. What is he doing here? I wonder if he has come to the wedding ?” “I guess net; not likely he would go to the wedding of a girl he tried tofget himself. And between you and me, Lou, if he had had‘as much money as Will Evans, I think he would have had Alice Freeman, for I am Sure 8116 liked him.” “ Now, Mat, you just bet Alice Freeman knows her business; her thirty thousand, along with Will Evans’ fifty thousand, is a nice little sum to set up with.” “ 0, Lou! there goes Albert Barnes. I do think he is the best dancer in ourclub. I would rather waltz with him than eat! wouldn’t you ?” “ Yes, he’s a mighty ﬁne waltzer, but I guess he’s got to stop it if he leaves our church and joins the Methodist, just to please Minnie Sherman, the affected thing! pretends to be so awful pious! I wouldn’t join a church where I I couldn’t dance! would you, Lou?” "No, indeed! But don’t Albert Barnes ﬁx his hair pretty? I think he is the best dressed young man in town. 0, Mat! I’m so tired! ain’t you ?” “ Dear me! yes, Lou, I wish I had the last Ledger to read.” “ Now, Mat, why don’t you take the Waverly Maga- zine. I think it is a heap more interesting than the Ledger; it’s so much more literary than the Ledger.” . “ O. I d011’t know, Lou! What do you suppose Alice’s bridesmaids will wear to-night? Alice is going to wear white satin.” “ How many bridesmaids is she going to have, Mat?” “ Six! And I think they ought to wear white tarletan, don’t you? 0, Lou, I’m so tired!” And so it continued for the space of half an hour, till those two fair specimens of “ budding womanhood” were called to fresh scenes, leaving that hotel parlor to silence and to me, and no doubt ﬂattering themselves they had quite over- whelmed that “ dowdy old woman” with their “ style.” - “ 0, would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as ithers see us.” Only two days after receiving the impression of those two maidens, I met another of their class in a depot waiting- reom. She was dressed in the deepest possible mourning. Her crape vail was long enough, and the black border on her handkerchief was deep enough for her mother-in-1aw’s funeral. N _ She had a terrible cold on her lungs. I said to her: “This is a miserable day for you to be out with that cold.” She replied: “ Yes, indeed, it is. I caught the cold at a ball last week dressing low-neck and short sleeves, and then riding seven miles in a hack, with the window open; and to-night I am going to Louisville to attend a wedding.” “ And I sup- pose you will again dress low-neck and short sleeves?” said I. “ Yes; I suppose so,” said she. “ Well,” I replied. “ P61‘- haps it will not be long before you are dressed thinner yet-— in the last dress you will ever wear.” She laughed, drew her sable habiliments about her, and got -on the train for Louisville, and perhaps for “ that bourne whence no traveler returns,” to help swell the angelic bands that sit naked, as Don Piatt once said, on the edge of a damp cloud, picking a harp by moonlight.‘ And any girl that goes to balls with low neck and short sleeves deserves to pick harps, sitting naked on the edge of damp clouds, to all eternity. What a healthy set of young angels modern girls would make! 0, for the tongues of men and of angels to make girls hear! Yet they would not be convinced, though one rose from the dead! A What shall we do to be saved? ‘ ’ HELEN N ASH. CHICAGO, January 7, 1875. - Victoria. 0. Woodhull: Thou, the American Cruciﬁcd of to-day I Just now looking over some old manuscrips of mine, I ﬁnd a letter of May, 1872, written for, but accidentally not trans- mitted to, our noble friend, Laura Cuppy Smith, to which I still subscribe with all my heart, and from which I take plea- sure in extracting, and the liberty of transmitting to you, the following: _ “ While for years—I cannot say how many—-my course, mentally, has been directed over the social high seas, hither and thither, in search of an unobstructed passage for outraged humanity into the land of real warmth, justice, freedom and right, I have ‘hailed with anilexpectantns joy, any, even the smallest speck of promise on the horizon--thatwoodhull-Olaf lin craft, the WEEKLY, heaving in sight, manned with a crew from among the truly noblest and foremost women and men in the'land—allgifted with ‘the. sword of the spirit ’—and sending from its grand and mighty _armament the solid balls for freedom, justice, truth and right all over the social seas, in thunder tones, some day to be echoed from all points of the compass,-that momentousWEEKLY movement made this your sailor, in the glow of admiration and gratitude, bare his aged head; his tarpaulin reverently went down, down to his deck; and when again he stood erect, with ‘hat in hand,’ that aged Simon came before him and quoted scrip- ture, thus: ‘N ow let Thy servant go hence in peace; for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation’s day ! ’ “ Aye, we harbor now no doubt that God will bless, even unto the end, these very efforts of His hosts in behalf of all His children, and that the day is surely soon to break over Humanity’s sky. So, let us, shout ‘ Hallelujah’ and sing ‘ Glory to God in the highest!’ ' And soon, even the Judas Church and the Judas State, and the Judas Press,—who have not ‘gone through the gates ;’ who have not ‘prepared the way for the people;’ who have not ‘cast up a highway;’ who have not ‘ gathered out the stones ;’ who have not ‘lifted up a standard for the people’ (Isaiah lxii., 10); but, who have brought unto Humanity oppression and wrong instead of justice, slavery instead of freedom, enmity instead of amity, degradation instead of elevation, obstructions instead of a cleared track, a cross, forsooth, instead of life,-——soon, even they will deem it politic to echo it, though their master, their Trinity of Lust, Position and Mammon, may stand aghast; thereby.” * * * And now, let me prophetically add, that--aged, though I be—I shall not “go hence ” before, Victoria, thy victory is gained; that the darkness of this hour announces but the breaking of the day, the breaking of the new era; and that in spite of base and bitter efforts of aristocratic would- be—leaders—a grateful posterity, i the blessings of thy vic- tory, shall rear from out its heart a lofty and beautiful In Memoriam over the tomb that is to enhrine thy ashes. Then let the blood-hounds rally and bound; let the wolves howl and the foxes bark; Let the birds of pray Look about and scream, And the long-ears bray And kick the lion whom dying they deem; let the free-lust devotees of our fast crumbling social dis- pensation swear and curse. and its enervated foster-mother, that so misnamed “ Christian Church” hatefully damn ;. let spiritualists respectably cross themselves, self satisﬁedly, ' from their individual, imaginary, ornamental loftiness, or from behind their phenomenal rte plus ultra; let;compromise—— traitorous marauders in league, covet thy ﬁeld, to destroy the hopes for the future of the many; and let penny-a-liners scribble with venom, for this hour is theirs. But the day, Victoria,with its victory, and the incoming era, is Humanity’s and thine ! Oh, for the power of magnetically voioin g, now, all over the land: To the front, ye men and women who have at heart “in spirit and in truth” the welfare of Humanity on earth‘ and of Humanity in heaven,—-To the front! Heaven is at work: “ To thy tents, O Israel” of to—day ! Yours, in the cause of Humanity, N. H. J ORGENSEN. BOSTON, 32 Woodbine street, Jan. 31, "75. My Noble Fr'£end—-Something says, write Victoria. I will attempt it, although I have but a. few words to-day, for I know that you have no time, and perhaps little disposition to receive a long epistle from me. I was reading your “ Elixir of Life” when the impression came to me to write. Never before have I so enjoyed that most valuable production. It contains more important mat- ter for the good, the highest good, of the race, than can be found in all the libraries and encyclopedias of earth. Extrav- agant though this may seem, even to you, yet before high heaven I believe it, and the older I grow, and the more I learn of myself and the needs of humanity, the stronger is this belief. I see, too, more and more the part, the important mission, which is yours._ The world don’t comprehend you yet—-—no, it cannot. Coming generations only will be able to do this. Thank God! my sight, yes, my spirit vision, is so unfolded that I can see what the vast multitude of ignorant men and women cannot. I am having an illumination and an insight into spirit things, and such peace, harmony and rest as I never before conceived of. Years ago, through that remarkable communicator of “The Spirit Congress,” J. M. Spear, I was told to read the book of Job. I often did so. They told me that his expe- riences would be mine. They have been to the letter. N ow ' they inform me that the reverse side is to be mine. I am now enjoying it, and my very soul is ﬁlled with gratitude and love; it goes out to you and your noble companion. God bless you both,‘ and enable you, for many years yet to come, “to awaken the sleepers, and to call such as are in their graves to a new, vitaland active life.” That remarkable reading of your character and ‘mission by Mr. Spear in 1871, is still in my hands, and in due time, at the prime‘, proper time, Ishall be inspired to give it to the World. Rest assured on this point. ' I am devoting all myctime, mind and body, and means, to the actualizing of “The Union Movement.” “ The signs in the heavens are big with promises.” My faith fails not, my heart grows not cold, and although comparatively, and to all externalvision, alone, yet I am not alone. I faint not, and, I trust, shall not, while life and health arespared me. I should . love, dearly love, to see you; but in due time we shall meet. Have not means at present to aid you. This one movement demands all I have. If I could I. wouldlaid you again in the publication of the WEnKIn;._ ‘I like the .abriclge_ment;; eight pagesare enough. With love and respect, J. M. Scrnntme.‘ ._g/‘ J‘ ‘ Q " kl «. 7 Feb. 27, 1875. ‘TRUE MOMOGAMY. ‘ l . A GRAFTON, Jan. 24., .1875. It may be laid down as an axiomatic truth that, all possible consequence considered and provided for, there can be no more harm in men and women cohabiting together temper- ately as they may be attracted mutually, than there is in their temperately satisfying themselves with such food as produces the best relish. And that the former comes no more under the legitimate control of law than the latter, but should equally be left to the choice and judgment of the parties concerned. Nevertheless it may safely be assumed that where the .-attraction is mutual and equal, with suﬂicient congeniality to satisfy their mental, social and sexual proclivities and tastes; or, in other words, when each ﬁnd in the other all that their natures reasonably demand, there need be little fear that either will be seeking abroad the satisfaction they so readily and fully ﬁnd at home, and which constitutes the true monogamic marriage. '1‘. LEONARD. WHAT IS IN A KISS. V BY WARREN CHASE. A sensual man who never kissed a child, nor a woman ex- cept as an expression of sexual passion or lust, knows noth- ing of the sacred purity of this gentle exhibition of loving friendship, knows nothing of the pure greeting which soul gives to soul in this salutation between meeting and parting friends of opposite sexes, nor of the holy kiss of a mother or father when given to a child, or near and dear young friend. Such persons when they own wives never kiss them except in sexual passion, and if any other man should kiss them at meeting or parting they are outraged with the most violent anger at the wife, and hatred ever after of the man. Such persons know nothing of love except its expression in lust'or sexual passion, and know little of friendship in the higher relations of purity. We have known many such men in our travels, but never knew one that varied from the above des- cription. We have also known hundreds of men whose souls rise above the sensual, and see in a kiss the holiest tie of pure - and sacred friendship, and who would see only an expression of such pure friendship in the greeting and parting with friends, male or female; and such we know to be the most pure, and best husbands. Knowing their own objects, feel- ings and motives in such cases, they judge others by them- selves.‘ No outawrd sign gives us a better evidence of purity in man or woman than the easy and familiar greeting of inti- mate friends of the opposite sex with a kiss. We often see thi in the cars and public places, and, so far as we have ever been able to learn, these are the pure and affectionate, and not the sensual and licentious who hide their expression of lust in stolen kisses in the dark, and out of sight of other parties. ‘SELECTED AND ORIGINAL FOR THE WEEKLY. BY “OLD SLABSIDES.” Truth is never slander, although it may be very unwel- come.—Burnett. On rumor’s tongue continual slanders ride.--Shakespeare. Soft-buzzing slander: silky moths that eat an honest ‘name. —Thomson. ; ‘ Slander is the solace of malignity.-—.Tou.bert. Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense.——J'ohnson. Where it concerns himself, who is angry at a slander makes it true.-Ben. Jonson. There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.—-Bishop Hall. There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do noth- ing but rai1.—Shahespeare. If slander be a snake, it is a winged one. It ﬂies as well as creeps»-Douglas Jerrold. The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of ot-hers.-—-Fr'eld'lng. Calumny would soon starve and die of itself, if nobody took it in and gave it lodging.—Le'i-ghton. Life would be a perpetual ﬂea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveraclties, insinuations and -suspicions which are uttering against him.——Beecher. A new light in social freedom may be found if you take Henry Ward Beecher’s candle.—Burn-it. LOVE OF GOD IN MILAN, OHIO. The Rev. Mr. Wells, Secretary of the Ohio State Y.M.C.A., made the statement on the evening of the 11th inst., to an audience of several hundred people, that “the time is com- ing when Christians will love God so intensely that they will put to death even their own children who may be found hold- ing and teaching heretical opinions.” Has the doctrine of the “ Vicarious Atonement ” begun to bear such fruit as this, in’ these latter days of “ boasted civilization?” L. M. H. s. [From the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 13.] A FUNERAL WHERE THE MOURNERS WERE- HAPPY. V ‘ A The remains of T. L. Johns, editor of the Figaro, were buried yesterday afternoon from Paciﬁc Hall, with simple but interesting ceremonies. The obsequies were in charge , of the Bohemian Club, which was represented by many of its members. The coffin was brought into‘ the hall a few minutes after 2 o’clock, P. M., and placed in front of the preacher’s desk. The music was by a quintette choir, which 83118 the Sacred 30118» ‘.‘ Reﬁt» Spirit, Rest,?’ as the procession entered the church. T. J. Vivian then made a ‘few appro-. priate remar1ss.oomp1imen.ta,rytq the deceased, The choir sang the tenor and exquisite melody, *‘Qoo;_;e page 1%,’? fret} ‘“l‘hEjM@E8i%hs" Themes tfewsemh made a speech. which side: theses it see, see egeesg esiesses; es the WO0DHU_LL & CLAFLIN?S WEEKLY afternoon. It was full of gentle appreciation of the dead journalist. Mr. Newcomb was followed by Laura Cuppy Smith, the Spiritualist, who has been for the last few months in San Francisco. She spoke with head uncovered, standing at the head of the coﬂin. She fully concurred in the words that had been spoken by those who had been fellow journal- ists with him who was gone,iand excused her verbal tribute by saying that he had been a true friend to woman, and it was highly becoming thatja wife and a mother should speak at his funeral. Mrs. Johns arose,~and with great emotion, said that for the last eighteen months her husband had lived a tragedy, and death came to {him simply as a release. J. G. Russell sang the beautiful air, "‘ Flee as a Bird to the Moun- tains.” Those present took a last look at the remains, which were soon after removed.and accompanied to the cemetery by relatives and intimate friends. - ‘ x The funeral was in many respects peculiar. Except for the class of music sung, which was religious in the conventional sense, the exercises were entirely secular. N o priest offi- ciated, no prayers "were uttered, nothing of a devotional nature occurred. That which was said was not inappropriate, and much deep feeling was manifested. Many journalists and members of the theatrical profession were present. [For Woodhull and Claﬂin’s Weekly.] WOMAN’S‘ COMING POWER. Br rnor. J. E. cook. 0, glorious day! 0, happy hour! When woman, conscious of her power, Shall make her selﬁsh tyrants cower. From slavery’s long and cheerless night She ushers forth in‘ freedom’s light To preach and plead for truth and right. Inspired by spirits from above, As well as her own faith and love, Man’s full compeer she’ll surely prove. By her heart-felt and loving words Of truth, which soul and body gird, At last the nations shall be stirred. With “ thoughts that breathe and words that burn,” She melts the obdurate and stern, And makes the stupid to discern. The reign of that infernal Ring, Of which Old Alcohol is King, Woman’s power to nought shall bring. And every Ring of Church or State, Devoid of love and full of hate, Through wom.i.n’s power shall meet its fate. The truth, that by her now is spread, “ Shall bruise the serpent’s hydra-head,”' And man by it be upward led. O, selﬁsh man, you yet shall see I’ Woman’s “ Individual Sovereignty,” And let her be healthy, happy, free. 0, woman, assume thine own high place As mother, saviour of our race; Then will the world progress apace. (From the Commonwealth, Boston, Mass.) PARKER PILLSBURY. The hour for the anti-slavery lecture arrives, and you ob- serve a man of medium height, squarely built, and of a some- what swarthy complexion, enter the hall. He sets his foot “ Men never know God’s messengers; ’tis well—«- The thoughts that in their kindling bosoms dwell , Roll sea—like through the world. They only know That they are trumpets that God’s lips do blow. They come and go, as night comes, bearing stars Dark in themsels es, shining through dungeon bars. They whisper, and their utterance grows more loud, Until dead nations hear it through their shroud Of ignorance and fear. A They never die, But rise love-animate to regions high Of deathless wonder. Few and dark their years; ‘ Mighty their sorrows; bitter cold their tears; Keener their anguish than a mother’s pain. Freed from earth, in emerald spheres they gain A vernal youth, a spring-tide of heart-rest, And unto God’s own heart in tenderest l.ove are pressed." B. J. B, COMMUNICATION THROUGH MRS. J. BURTON. NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 2, 1874.. To MRS. H. BEACH: My Dear Frz'end—The spheres are resplendent with glory; lights of various colors scintillate continually, and the rariﬁed atmosphere looks like a kaleidiscope of magniﬁed rays. The music is not wearing, but from its great variety is suited to each one's taste. It is a day of rejoicing, and every happy heart is mellow with enjoyment; each home is deco- rated with such fair ﬂowers as suit the pleasure of its occu- pants, and the love of the Father is manifest in every radiating prism that decks the sky. « I feel God in. the .motion of my feet, in the sound of my voice, in the touch of a friend's hand; all things breathe inspiration and point to Divinity; in my pulses I feel His pulse, and I am all aglow with love for Him, for you, for all. Yet there is a reversed side; for the lower spheres are dark and gloomy, and ﬁlled with inconsolable spirits who have wandered around for scores of years undeveloped; some who died drunk, or insane, or vile with murderous deeds, who cannot arouse themselves from a stupor which oppresses them even to the bitterness of a living death; mothers who gave themselves to infamy, and have the marks of infan- ticide attached to their garments, cry for help; and to them I and manyothers go carrying the love of God in our hands and hearts, and meeting it also even there; and we encour- age, teach and develop thousands by gradual degrees to enlightenment, self-respect and hope, and they attain at last a fair status, from which they have all eternity to work in. I am a busy woman; ever since I left you all upon earth, it has been my mission to develop hopeless souls. CORA. This woman had wonderful sight; was known as Mrs. Cora Seaman; died about the year 1855, in this city. I feel this communication should be given to the world. I consulted her in life, and her predictions have been fulﬁlled almost without exception. She was of Indian birth, and is a strong aid to assist me yet, and says she _is still developing her clairvoyant and astrological powers.—H. Beach. ANOTHER CLERICAL SCANDAL. PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 19, 1875. As though the Beecher scandal wits not enough to inﬂict on the country, since that became a topic of discussion, we have had several of the same sort in various parts of the land. Rhode Island has not escaped; it has had its scandal in the alleged improper conduct_ of the Rev. A. B. Burdick, of Wes- terly, a member of the Seventh Day Baptist communion. The matter was brought before the public in the Sun 9’.ay‘D£s- patch some six weeks ago, the charge being that the rover- ﬂatly upon the ﬂoor, his head droops forward as if partly concealed between his shoulders, and his general aspect is that of a plain,_. unvarnished brother of the great human family of whom he is neither king nor vassal. To a super- ﬁcial audience, even after Parker Pillsbury has reached the platform and been for some time speaking, he affords a very uncertain assurance of that moral power, keen satire, or mar- velous sublimity, with which he at length inspires his ap- preciative hearers. But to the physilogist, that square and ponderous brain, so near the large and vital heart and lungs, is at once pronounced a magazine of power. There resides in that frontal lobe a capacity for thought, as well as moral feeling, which, if brought into constant use, must tend to shatter even a naturally energetic physical frame. Such, in fact, if we mistake not, has been the mental and physical experience of Mr. Pillsbury for years. His vital power, to- day, is muchreduced. Hence you see this radical abolitionist slowly rising to speak, and almost awkwardly creeping for- ward to the stand, like a soldier, bruised and maimed, and already exhausted by the heat of battle. But when he un- seals his prophetic lips, and the internal altar-ﬁres begin to glow, he seems like an increasing giant, lifting and steadily poising the immense burden that weighs upon hissoul, until, from the cloudless realm of Eternal Justice, he feels the pulse, and dictates the cure, of amighty nation prostrate and delirious with the wine of oppression. The unpretending speaker, suffering from disease, who began with faint and almost breathless utterance, is now transﬁgured into the likeness of an Isaiah hurling the divine judgments upon the mightiest heads of his own degenerate Israel. The gilded mantles of the false prophets, and the silken logic of political and diplomatic patriotism, melt in the focal ﬂame of his inspiration like glittering gauze in the mouth of the iron furnace. A , Mr. Pillsbury has been thought to draw too gloomy and dark pictures of the moral sky ‘of the government and the nation/. Perhaps the ill-health and the somewhat bilious temperament of Mr. Pillsbury may sometimes unduly tinge his lectures with the hue of melancholy. At the same time they may serve-to anoint those ample eyeballs with a clearer vision, and unseal those inspired lips with words of more momentpgs import than the surface-thinkers or babbling political doctors of his own generation will ever know. At any rate, let his more sanguine critics remember that “ a Dtsphet gg sadder than other men":-sadcler, because of all sites men he looks farthest into the euE'ri.tt*esﬁes§§¥.i,ef his ceasing; wages. is sienna? geese es it is st zeal end gentleman stopped at a hotel in Pawtucket a Saturday night in July last with a woman not his wife. The charge excited much comment, and the press called upon the alleged culprit to vindicate himself. During the week subsequent to the publication of the charge, Elder Burdick published in each of the daily papers in Providence a card declaring his innocence and promising to clear up his character. This he has not done yet, and the Dispatch has fortiﬁed its original statement by facts which have an ominous signiﬁcance, and are probably the reason why the promised vindication is not forthcoming. Only the conclusion is admissible that the Elder is unable to meet the case and clear his skirts. The public mind seems to be settling down upon a verdict of guilty. Elder Burdick has been one of the unctious sort. who could wrestle with the Lord in prayer like a grizzly or hurl the thunderbolts of hell at sinners as a Paixham hurls shot. He was a year or so since city missionary for the Young Men’s Christian Association, and more recently a State constable, resigning a few days before the scandal was publicly-disclosed. The case is suggestive, but as the WEEKLY. I is pressed for room I‘ reserve comments which are pressing not only on this but kindred cases. which are so numerous as to indicate that the army of the Lord is sadly demoralized. ’ WILLIAM FOSTER, J R. NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 1875. Enrrons WOODHULL AND CLAELIN’s WEEKLY: The public generally have admired the manner in which Judge Neilson presides, at the Tilton and Beecher trial His ruling as to the admission of Mr. Tilton’s testimony,with the exclusion “of any conﬁdential communications,” has also been applauded by many. But, Mr..Editor, I, for one, am sorry to perceive that it is not carried out; at the very commencementof Mr. Tilton’s testimony occ rs the follow- ing passage; “ My wife is forty-one;” and then, as if to add insult to injury, it is followed with “between one and two years older than myself.” If the ﬁrst of the above state- ments can be looked upon by any lady who has arrived at the years of discretion in any other light than as a most con-= ﬁdential communication, your correspondent is grievously ‘ mistaken Where was Mr. Evarts when the above Was 1113-- tered that he ‘did not interpose one of his everlasting objec- tions; and why did not Judge Neilson maintain his r}11i.ng 011 that occasion. I do not know“ how other ladies feel in the mgtter, but as for me. I trust I may never be defended the see tried iii‘ 53% 95335? €25’ W29 Eli??? hdigitii bl?“ i-W‘ 4 WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY Feb. 27, 1875. 3' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.‘ ‘ A PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. 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Woodhull do C'laﬂin’s Weekly, Box 3791, New York City. Oﬂice, 111 Nassau Street, Room 9. al- “ The diseases of society can, no more than cor poreal maladies, be prevented or cared without being spoken about in plain Zanguage.”——JoHN STUART MILL. -.4-f NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEB. 27, 1875. ,, __ REVOLUTION. Europe is armed to the teeth. The German system of civ- ilization rests upon the sword. With it the soldier is ﬁrst, the citizen subordinate. Germany is a band of armed ban- ditti ready to sally forth in quest -of booty. Of course under such ‘circumstances all other Europeans must arm likewise. The Prussian system cannot sustain itself save by preda- tory excursions upon its‘ neighbors. It needs rich foes, and b it can carve its way to their strong boxes with the sword. The first Napoleon estimated that one soldier with his nr.ces~ sary paraphernalia, devoured the labors of three toilers. There are now, it is estimated, ﬁve II1llllOl1S of these red locusts in Europe. is it any wonder, then, that the laborers there are trodden down into the dust of the earth? Certainly not. We speak of ancient Rome as the great military nation of antiquity. So it was. Yet Augustus Caesar held all Europe; the ngrth of Africa and the west of Asia, with 189,000 men, or less than one twentieth of the number of soldiers that are now in Europe. Workers had-a chance to obtain a decent existence in those days, now they have not. But there are reasons for all this arming. Since the des- truction of slavery and serfdom, the politico-economical base of the world has been removed. They were the foun- dations of the "present industrial system, and with their fall the oppressions of the laborer in all their forms, must soon become things of the past. Under the new system, now already foreshadowed, those ancient foes, the agriculturist and the mechanichuvc happily concluded to join their forces, and when united, both here and eventually in Europe, they will be able to dictate better laws than we have at present. Under them distributors and ﬁnanciers will be ruled as their agents, and not be, as now, their rulers. The Catholic Church sees the coming change and is preparing to assist it. The millions of women workers in schools and factories are linking it to a social change also, ‘while the ﬁnancier, under whose ruling peoplefare starving in our cities in the midst of plenty, must expect to have his theories overhauled, and changes introduce of the most momentous consequences. ‘ It will be seen that the industrial revolution of which we have spoken cannot be eifected without a ﬁnancial boulevessment which also is rapidly advancing upon the world. ’ The right of money to compete with the laborer by the legﬂization of usury is denied. That is the foun- dation of the wOrld’s money system, though it is condemned ' by Moses, Aristotle, Mahommed, and also by the Catholic Church. Protestantism is too much dominated by money to speak out upon the question. Our present ﬁnancial system is being destroyed from within, it has eaten itself out in three hundred years. It is now like a heap of ma-‘ nure on ﬁre wit its own rottenness. All civilized nations now are sta.<rgering, under national debts the interest of which half of them are unable to meet. With us States, cities, towns and villages are general'y in like manner’ en- cumbered. The Wise money provisions of the Constitution are setrat —li'c1llglll., The oracle of the Supreme C.O11.I‘t, nia- .nil>u12ite<i by the power of the mosey-change1°s.’aciing, some think, through the executive, “ Mammonizes.” Al- ready the nation, reeling under a money delirium tremens, has had two appoplectic ﬁts, the third will be fat-al to the system. It needs no outward attack, its innate rot- tenness will destroy it. VVith it will fall a deadly oppressor, which has long sucked the life out of the toilers, both male and fenialo, which has prevented_increase, and ”which has subsidized the presses, the platfo rms, and the churches of mankind. Marching on, with‘ an equal step, the religious revolution is pressing forward also. New religions are being generated everywhere. With such the claimed inspiration of the Bible is generally considered a thing of the past. The most popular pulpit Orators manufacture their creeds as they go, when’ they want a new doctrine they improvise it. That many headed hydra, protestantism, is beginning to feel the neces- sity of uniting its hundreds of sects, but cannot perform the Operation. The Y. M. C. A. is trying the same game ; it uses the clergy but virtually ignores them, by repudiating their dissensions. The Catholic ‘Church, since its declara- tion of the infallibility of the Pope, has fallen from inon-, archial grace, and consequently has found it necessary to put the barque of St. Peter on a new tack. The peoples are displacing their rulers in its affections. It feels itself now, with its two hundred millions of adherents, like an ele- phant, with kings for its keepers. It has the power, but it cannot Organize it, and governments will take care that it shall not. Undermining all, the new development, Spi- ritualism, is rapidly working its way. With it the im- provement of our race is everything, its manufactured gods . nothing. Ramifying already everywhere, it is displacing Buddha, Brahma, ';_Allah and Jehovah, and soon all those potentates will keep company in_ the distance with the Jupiter of the Pagans. Why it should thus increase in power is palpablef The people under its doctrines recog- nize the fact that the dreadful persecutions of the past can never be repeated, because, leaving the God-dreams of past ages, it simply demands of all its followers to develop their own souls by faithfully performing their duties to all their brothers and sisters in the world. Thus, of necessity, it unites itself with all the reforms demanded by the age; for they are the instruments by which alone it can perform its grand work of human improvement and regeneration. Last, but not least, comes the social revolutiOn——in other words, the rightful claim," growing out of our advanced civilization, for personal sovereignty. The world has ad- vanced to it by regular gradations. Woman, during the long past, has been a slave——ﬁrst, in savage life, to the in- dividual man; s_ince, through priesthoods or civil laws, to communities; but under the latter arrangements, the bar- barism of the ancient individual savage rule has been and is maintained. Through it she has been and is generally debarred from her personal right to choose the father of her child. This is the first and grandest of natural rights——One without which we cannot hope for the improvement of the race of man. What woman will do with her liberty, when it is admitted, is a question man has no right to ask. But, if she be less promiscuous and more monogamic than her mate, she will then be in power to establish for herself that system which she prefers. But before this grandest of all the revolutions can be accomplished, it is manifest that her industrial rights must be established ; that her ﬁnancial position must be changed; that the religious and civil laws which have so long oppressed her must be annihilated; that old things must pass away and all become new. We have thus sketched the four grand movements of the present age, and have endeavored to show how they are all parts of one magniﬁcent whole. We do not claim that they have been devised or hardly promoted by human agencies; they are a growth. It is not to be expected that they will be established without great sufferings; but they will be established. Geologists have proved the regular gradation of the changes of the natural world, and the changes in the moral world are as regular and as inevitable as those ‘of the physical. The earth never retraces its orbit,‘ and the car of the ages never rolls back. All that the WEEKLY claims is that it has seen in the distance the changes now rapidly ap- proaching, and that it has warned mankind to prepare to meet them, and to proﬁt by them. m_4A_4_ WT CRUELTY TO CHILDREN. One would think that, in a civilized country, this is the last thing that ought to be permitted; but any one who walks through the streets of any of our populous cities willﬁnd that the suppression of it is the last thing that communities (call- ing themselves Christian) attend to. In fact, although for years there has been a potent and ﬂourishing society estab- lished for the protection of inferior animals in New‘,York, it is only within the past three months that a society of a similar character has been instituted for the protection of children. Our readers well know that for a long time the. WEEKLY has tried to infuse a littleiiumanity into our ortho-, dox brethren and sisters in that particular, and asserted and defended the rights of all little ones to full communal care, both as regards their physical and moral, as well as their intellectual requirements, which latter are now, we are glad to add, by the passage of the “ Compulsory Education ” law, fully admitted. V ‘ I - We claim both of the above advances as the fruits of the labors of the . truthful and out-spoken coadjutors of the there is even now a bitter ﬁght ‘over both of the above efforts,‘ for, at present, the “ Compulsory Education Bill” is not, and cannot be, carried into effect, because, as the Tribunetadmits, it does not go far enough, being limited solely to the intellectual needs of children and omitting to provide ﬁrst for their physical necessities. With regard to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, un- der the indomitable Mr. Bergh, it is now applying to the Legislature at Albany for a law giving it power to act in certain cases; and this is the way in which our Grecian con- temporary, the New York Worid, treats his application, or rather himself: It is obviously scandalous that a person who is capable of playing the fantastic tricks before,hig_h heaven with other lpeopée s feelings and other people s rights in which Be_rgh as or now oo many years been persistently indulging, should be clothed, as_ by a _bill now pending at Albany it is proposed to clothe him, with a sort of general unlimited ]11I‘lS.d1Cl}10n‘ Over all the valuable live stock of the com- munity, extending to thepraotical conﬁscation of all four- footed animals, as to the true uses and services of which there may any _dispute_ar1se between their lawful ‘owners and this se1f—appo1nted dictator of -the highways and the byways of New York. It is impossible that such a bill should have been born of anything but impudeiit persistency on the part of Bergh, and thoughtless sentimentalism on the part of other people. Bergh is past cure. But if the people whose votes are necessary to inﬂict this new dispencsation of Bergh upon us have any concern about their own iuture they will do well to think twice before they leap once at the crack of this ’p1‘1?p(j)ES:léee1‘rOl.ilS person s pestiferous whip. We have had enoug o g . so far as we know, that have thus endeavored to belittle his services to the brute creation. Probably remembering the position taken by the World in the cause of slavery in the war of the rebellion, it would be just to look upon its asper- sions as complimentary to the great humanitarian. Witliout disguisingthe magnitude of his vast undertaking, which we believe he well appreciates, we wish him hearty success in his new department, resting assured that the full com- munal care Over all little ones who need State aid, which ought to be cheerfully rendered, will very soon, after it has been established, commend itself to the good will of the public and immortalize the agent or agents by whom it is consummated. The WEEKLY does not look upon public aid as a gift, but asa right to which all children are born in communities hundreds of thousands of children in our cities is a disgrace to us as a people. Furthermore, their right to every Care that can be bestowed on them, is backed by every considera. tion worthy of public attention. Every starving or ragged child among us is an insult to all our religions, exposing their shortcomings in the most fearful manner. But alas! already what is called Christianity essays to block the way of this great and needed reform. Already the bugle has sounded, calling up the legions for the old Catholic and Protestant ﬁght Over these wretched, ragged and neglected little Ones. Here it is, inan extract from the Sunday Demo- crat of January 31: But as the bill stands, it empowers the corporators and their agents to seize Catholic children, to bring them before some complacent Justice, and then to consign them to a Pro- testant reformatory. The members _of New York should look after this ‘bill, and have a clause inserted that the chil. dren of Catholic parents should be sent to a Catholic reform- atory, while the children of Protestant parents should be of the State. If the rich Catholic and Protestant church es did their duty there would be no neglected children; that they are as they are is the fault of both churches. As in the case of the public schools, all the people have to ask of religionists is to stand aside and let the public car roll On. It is melan- choly to perceive that no good can be devised for our commu- nity without raising a faction ﬁght among creedal religionists. One would think if there be any subject on which all ought to cheerfully lend their aid, it is to be found in the protec. tion of the neglected children of our community. A decent regard for the public good ought to stiﬁe the mean amosi- ties of interested religionists, and a proper respect for the Constitution of the United States ought to save us from the public catering to any religious system, which appears to be the cause of contention. But we trust that the good sense Of» the people will not permit their creedal animosities to rob them of the great good that all must admit will eventuate from the bill under consideration. Self-interest alone ought to secure its passage, for every economist knows how to compute the diﬁ’ei'ence between the value of workers and idlers in a community, and also: that cheerful retreats could to-day be established and sustained for these forlorn little waifs of 11umanity—these poor Joe All-alone’s of our cities ——at half the cost of the prisons which must be provided for the same parties to-morrow, if we neglect or ignore our pres- ent pressing duty to tllein. mm; 4_ ‘V - UNDEVELOPED HUMANITY. “ Things bad begun, make themselves strong by ill.”—Sha7cespeare. The New York’ World, in its issue of Feb. 14, devotes a short leader to the subject of children. It is a melancholy admission of the present sad condition of infaniile humanity. We believe that our neighbor-’s_remarks on the above theme are pertinent and too truthful, and, therefore, re-publish them: ' Dr. Johnson declares that children are naturally cruel. ‘condensed and arranged the same ‘in our columns. But C It is due to Mr. Bergh to state that there are few presses, worthy to be termed civilized. The present condition of . sent to Protestant reformatoriés, all, of course, at the expense . _ , _ , Thackeray says they are naturally hypocritical. Mrs. Mont-= I WEEKLY, only claiming for ourselves the merit of having l gomery contends that they are not naturally truthful. . 5’ 3». - . rs... , #4 A 1‘ ..,\ 3.75» I ,4 ’_ ‘A. Feb. 27, 1875. ‘wooi)HnLL as CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. 5 And now Theodore Tilton swears they are naturally crafty. To cap or bottom all. Wordsworth sings, as everybody knows: ‘-‘ The child is father of the man.” - Such being the case, we do not see that anybody could reason- ably expect the world to be better than it is. Nay, -we are bound to infer that it is worse than it seems.‘ The stream cannot rise above its source, and its apparent _meanderings on a higher level, if perceived, must be an illusion. Beyond doubt, if these great moral teachers are not mistaken. we are all congenitally a bad lot together, and might bis well resign ourselves to the fact. VVhy kick against the pr1ck_s of innate depravity? Why try, spasmodically or otherwise, to_ lift ourselves up by our waistbands? The best we can do is to add a sense of shame to the cruelty, hypocrisy. untruthful- ness, craftiness and general “ cussedness” with which we are dowered at birth. Let us blush, and be hopeless. The senti- ment is not a cheerful one, yet the time, it must be owned, would seem to give it proof. ’ At present, it may be said, children, in what are called civilized communities, are artiﬁcially rather than naturally begotten. The services of priests or magistrates are gene- rally called into aid parents previous to the act of reproduc-_ tion. Under men’s rule, the rights of women vanish, prac- tically annihilated by the operation. That is why the WEEKLY objects to legal marriages. They seal women, as the Mormons call it, to certain men. If either of the parties are unworthy or unﬁt, no matter, they cannot recede and try again for a more desirable conjunction. VVe believe that inharmonious conditions exist in fully half of the mar- ried couples in the Union, and from such what can be ex- pected but undeveloped children. Under these circumstances we do not hold it wise to join in the wail with which our contemporary terminates its ar- ticle. We will not “blush and be hopeless,” but will do our best to exhibit to all of our brethren and sisters a more excellent way. We will hold up before them the idea of“ “free love,” and maintain it in opposition to “slavish law.” We will set up in all aifectional matters “ woman’s rights” against “man’s usurpations,” although the latter may have ' been sanctioned from time immemorial by all the legislatures, and all the priesthoods that the World has ever seen. Fur- thermore, we do not, cannot look for much improvement in the human stock until we have succeeded in our efforts, which end, we trust, is not far off, for when people are will- ing to acknowledge an evil, it is manifestly their duty, if they are Wise, to look for and speedily apply a ﬁtting remedy. ~49 VVOMAN AT RETAIL. The curse of modern civilizazion, based on a false, system of political economy, is, that in effect it schedules man under, instead of over, property. With it money is every- thing, man, nothing. -Every thinking human being knows that what our cities need in order to improve the social order of the people, is space, air and light. They cannot have_ these requisites of healthy existence, because the “ claims of property” block the way. In the war, Congress assessed the money value of man wholesale, here is one who proposes to perform the same operation in retail. In a lvashington paper is printed the following .'-—-Wanted --The front teeth of a girl fourteen years of age. VVill pay liberally and replace artiﬁcially.—New Y ark Sun. If it were a custom with African savages to extract the teeth of their young women, what a howl would be very properly raised against it by the religious bodies among us. Yet here is an offer advertised and looked upon as a simple business-operation, without shocking the moral sense of the community. It is the opinion of the WEEKLY that the barba- risms of modern civilization, of which the above proposal is a specimen, far surpass those which are to be found among savage peoples. In fact, the WEEKLY feels constrained in the present instance, to apologize to all Bushmen, Caribs, Hot- tentots, et hoe genus omne, for having dared to suppose, that, as human beings, they might be guilty of a similar atrocity. >-<Q9—< LEVELING DOIV N. Of late years many corporations and many presses have considered the masses of the working classes as unﬁt to be permitted to use public conveyances. We believe that New York is the only city (either here or in Europe) where public carriers under a contract with the State, are permitted to break their contract for the accommodation of parties who deem themselves too good to ride with their neighbors." We allude tothe corporation controlling the public, or what ought to be the public, cars on‘ the Third Avenue, and to what are termed the Palace cars onthat line. The rate charged on them, is, we believe, ten cents, the extra four cents being levied on passengers by what Theodore Parker used to call—“the rule of thumb.” It is kind, doubtless, to gentlemen and ladies, for the Third Avenue corporation thus _to nullify their contract, but we believe that ‘ the people have rights in the matter which ought to be respected. But lately, the New York Herald ‘demanded “special streetcars for ladies” also, for the following reasons: ‘ The inadequate accommodations furnished by our city railroad companies to meet public wants at certain hoursof the day, when the commencement and close of business in- crease passenger traffic on every line, are especially disagree- able to ladies. To be compelled to breathean unwholsome atmosphere for a half hour or so, in which the unwelcome odors of strange dinner cans, outer garments fresh from a sewer, pipes of uncertain origin and breaths of every descrip- tion of alcoholic vileness mingle together. and to stand on Wearied limbs while stalwart lords of creation ensconce them- selves comfortably in corners, scowling, perchance, when the slight arm clinging to the strap obscures the dim light of the ill—smelling lamp, is no pleasant ordeal for a lady. The city railroad companies can readily aﬁord a concession to . their too indulgent patrons, to make some special provision for ladies during such hours when the cars are overcrowded. When poor working girls are obligedto. shiver on a bleak platform or be jostled by unfeeling persons who claim the right-of way by reason of their superior strength there is cer- tainly a just cause to demand of the companies special cars for the weaker sex. Frequent‘: y ladies ﬁnd it a task of extreme diﬂiculty’ to obtain even ordinary standing room on a car in the morning and evening. Each company should, there- fore, reserve a certain number of cars for the exclusive accommodation of ladies during those hours of the day when the throng of passengers is greatest. Corporations that make so much money should be compelled to consult the interests of the public. . While we do not desire to defend the arrogance of the corporations that cram the cars in a way unknown to other civilized nations, and would be glad to see them restricted to, allow sixteen inches of seat room to each passenger, as is the case in London, and we believe in Paris and Vienna; and the enforcement of that restriction to be placed in the hands of the police authorities and not left solely to be enforced by wronged citizens, we are glad to congratulate them on not having introduced a sexual discrimination in their cars like the one suggested by the Herald. As to the “ working girls” mentioned in the same, we think they were introduced merely as an afterthought, for we feel assured that they would make no objection to riding with working men. We pity those who suffer from the obscene smell of the dinners that toilets are compelled to eat, and wish the food was of a better quality. As to the sewer builders, who do their dirty, barbarous and uneconomical work for the ac- commodation of the gentry, we do not think the unsavoriness of their labors should be made a charge against them by the .He7'aZcZ. Instead of complaining of them, we think our con- temporary would do better by striving to ameliorate the harshness and nauseousness of their life labors, and not to endeavor to make an invidious distinction between them and others who are less useful and less necessary members of sf)- is a --much better, and far more republican method of pro- cedure, than that of copying the absurd classifying system of our English progenitors, which has generally been, and is now, that of leveling down. g+—4——% WHAT OF THE NIGHT? Nearly one hundred years have passed since ourfathers met in council in Philadelphia to concert measures for securing the liberties of the people of this country. Nearly a century has gone by since, appealing their cause to eternal justice, they deemed it their duty, in the Declaration of Independ- ence, after enumerating the reasons which justiﬁed such action, to hurl their deﬁance at the most wealthy and potent nation’ then existing on the face of the globe. But, before arriving at such conclusion, they found it necessary to sketch, for their guidance, the proper duties of a government. These they declared were three in number, viz. : “ To secure to the people the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The “ rights of property,”’which latterly seem to have usurped almost all the attention of our National, State and Municipal legislation, were not enumer- ated, save incidentally, perhaps, under the last of these speciﬁcations. , V The first question we shall ask is, Has our government done its duty in regard to this matter of the security of hu- man life? Will our records of criminal and accidental de- struction of human life compare favorably with those of other nations of our standing and enlightenment? It is be- lievedithat they will not. Nor are our municipal authorities less negligent of their duties in this particular. It is com- puted that in the city of New York alone, during the sum- mer months, the deaths of not less than one hundred chil- dren per week are due to circumstances over which the city authorities have power, but fail to exercise it. It is not too much to assert that the meanest shanty here is more care- fully guarded by our rulers than the lives of a hetacomb of the children of our working classes. ' The second right which our fathers instruct us a just gov- ernment-should secure, is that of “liberty.” So caijeful were they of this sacred right, that, though by the cupidity of Great Britain slavery existed among them, they utterly refused to nationally legalize it. They decreed a large terri- tory, the Northwest, to liberty. They declined to insert even the word “servitude” in the Constitution, because it sug- gested slavery, and user “ service” instead.‘ They decreed the destruction of the slave» trade after a short term of years, and set an example to other nations by branding it as .“ piracy.” A I . It is manifest that if the people, or even the popular churches, had maintained the ground taken against slavery in the Revolutionary era, it would soon have withered and died out in the land, and we should have been spared the long and bloody period of the War of the Rebellion. But they did not. The later parties both Whig and Democratic, Trial by Jury, and S. A. Douglas, at its behest, annihilated the Missouri compromise. We are not indebted for its de- struction either to the piety of the churches or the honesty of governments, but to the general and spontaneous indig- nation of the people. I Under these circumstances, it is sub- mitted that we are not indebted to our rulers for the care they have taken in securing and establishing the liberty of the people of the Republic. The third and last-mentioned duty of a government is to secure us in the right to the “pursuit of happiness.” We are a Republic and are justiﬁed in claiming that the happiness‘ 1'efe1'i'edto shculdbe general. Probably we can yet @931. ciety. By so doing, it would in our opinion, level up, which bent before the power of slavery. Webster sacriﬁced to it. pare favorably with other _,nations’ in this matter, but how is it as regards ourselves? During thepast half century homi- cides have increased in New York City from four to four- at a fearfully accelerated speed, until now in the winter season the recipients of public charity number about one-tenth of the population. It is no answer to this sad statement, to seek to balance it by pointing to the increase of property in the community. Such advance is a proof of the industry of the people, and does not justify the extension of pauperism among them. We ﬁnd the causes of the fearful degeneracy of which we complain in the operation of the evil land and money laws, which alas! we have inherited from our aristo- cratic British progenitors, and which are at war with the political institutions we have inherited from our forefathers. The codes of law which have governed mankind are few in number, and, like the religions of mankind, their bases are very similar. Ideas now rule the world far more than parchments. In this country there is possibly no law so much infracted as the Constitution itself. The freedom of con- science, ordained by that instrument is broken by Congress itself in the appointment of paid chaplains, while nothing can be farther than our present money system from the hard money limitation of the power of Congress in that instru- ment. All the efforts of the WEEKLY have been directed to force the democratic idea into our social, ﬁnancial and in- dustrial economy, so as to bring them in harmony with our religious and political freedom. The latter also we aim to develop by demanding the extension of the same civil and political rights to all women that are claimed and can be ex- ercised by all men in our Republic; for, in the admission of the personal sovereignty of woman all these reforms] culmi- nate and until that is accomplished, in our opinion the present chaotic condition of society must continue to exist among us. » __.4Q 4 r wr*~ ‘MALE OWNERSHIP OF WOMEN. Property in woman appears to us to be the ban of our present sexual system. The World’s ecclesiastical and lega systems assume it to be right, nd coansequently in the opinion of the WEEKLY are not in harmony with justice and natural law. Outside of that ownership woman is looked upon usually with contempt. An old bachelor may be honored and respected, but an old maid is generally held up to public contempt. There are exceptions, of course, but they are few and far between. So strong in man is the feeling of propertyin a wife, that in it all the personal rights of the latter appear to be absorbed. Let a woman marry a scoundrel, a ‘drunkard, or a semi,-imbecile, it is ex- pected of her to" abide by her bargain. Of course, in some instances, she disobeys such a cruel ruling, and consequently suffers for her virtue in so doing. In the Tilton-Beecher case, some men may pity Theodore Tilton, but only women feel the sorrows of Mrs. Tilton. In the present trial the law itself appears to ignore her existence, and to treat her with absolute contempt. There _are no damages for her to come out of the affair. It is not likely that even her testi- mony will be taken, although in the verdict she certainly has more at stake than either H. W. Beecher or her husband, Under the law the portion of woman is to suffer. Should the verdict indirectly inculpate her, it isquestionable whether she could maintain possession of her own children. Yet, Mr. Pryor tells us, that, in the eye of the law, adultery is not a crime. How is this ? The deprivation of a mother of her little ones savors a little of punishment. It is cer- tainly not just ; but it is consistent with the idea of property which runsthrough the whole of the sexual and social tyranny (established by the ecclesiastical and civil laws) through which man yet retains his ancient "savage power over his helpmate woman. Q->——-4- BOOK NOTICES. THE CULTIVATION or ART AND ITS RELATIONS TO RELi.. GIOUS PURITANISM AND MONEY-GETTING. A ‘pamphlet, ' 36 Dey street, New York. A timely work, well worthy of the patronage of the public. have done yet. We are practical and energetic, but not aesthetic. The best way’ to reduce crimes and to remove barbarisms is by the introduction of harmony and beauty amongst us. Education enters at eye-gate more than at car- children. "For the above reasons, we hold that if A, R_ Cooper’s Work be not properly appreciated the loss will ‘fall not only upon the publisher, but upon the people of the Union. . , Anrronrrr or Cnnrsrmmzrr. 1 A pamphlet, by John A1- l8)tpIi;g;r,1E1>_g;v6§.[0Ili3{ublished by Charles P. Somerby,’k36 Day This work, which appears to be a condensation and 1-3.. arrangement of Taylor.-’s Diegesis, is divided into save}; fathers of the Christian Church. 2; The progress of Christianity. 3. The philosophies of the ancient Greeks, 4. Hindoo, Persian and Scandinavian mythologies. 5. A comparison-of Christian and Pagan mythology. 6. The world’s saviors of all creeds and peoples. '7.-Human sacri. ﬁces, demons, hells, etc. 'In this collation and comparison of the world’s creeds, there is much‘ matter for reﬂection_ on the eve of occurring, and that consequently it is wellfor us all to be posted as to the faiths of the past, in order to be pm. pared to assist in shaping the development. of the future, We wish the work every success, ‘ ' ‘ teen hundred per annum, While pauperism increases annually by A. R. Cooper, pp. 48. Published by,Charles P. Samerby, As a people we need to give more attention to art than we- gate, and adults need instruction in art quite as much as ' chapters. The first gives usfthe.testimonies of the earlier 4 Nothing is more certain than that vast religious changes are , s b " WOODHULL J5 cLAEi.iN's WEEKLY. Feb. 27, 1875. » INCIDENTS OF THE TILTON-BEECHER TRIAL. A MONIDAM,’ 'FEB." STE. I «- THEODORE TIL'.I‘ON"Si CROSS.—EXAMINATION. Q.-—Was not enough said there to make you understand that the stories related to immorality or proﬂigacy with wo- smen? A.—Stories concerning my relations with women and 'i my drinking and my brutality and other things, a dreadful volume, all that went to make Mr. Bowen’s avalanche. He told me that they came to him from all quarters of the world, all of a sudden. [Laughter.] Q.——Did he suggest in any way, or did it come to be a mat- ter considered there that if these stories were true you would have to leave his employment? A”.-—No, sir, he said if those stories were true I ought not to live a day longer, and I agreed with him in that sentiment. V Y Q. Did you understand that the reason of your seeing Mr. Bowen or your friend Mr. Johnson thinking it proper for you to see Mr. Bowen, was that the stories that had been told him concerning you were such as would not tolerate your continuing in his employment? A. Not at all; for Mr. Bowen had for ﬁfteen years retailed himself just such stories con- cerning Mr. Beecher, and he had all of that time been Mr. Beecher’s chief pewholder, and Mr. Beecher his chief writer, and no such stories would have aifected any man in his em-. ploy whether as minister or editor. [Laughton] Q. He was above prejudices of that kind? A. Yes, sir, en- tirely so; he abolished them all in the house of God. [Laugh- ter.]—N, Y. Sun. - COMM ENT. i There is a volume in the above answers. They expose a sea of hypocrisy and canting villainv, and well exhibit the char- acter of Plymouth Church piety. Here is a sketch of one of the prominent characters in the aﬂfair. Q. Who is Oliver Johnson, and what relations had he to you in business,.or personal intimacy, or family friendship? A. Oliver Johnson is an old gentleman, living in New York. He used to be editor of the Anti-Slavery Standard, and after- ward became my associate editor in the Independent, and » whom I afterward put into the Christian Union, to help Mr. Beecher carry his case so that the public eye should not see it‘ ‘I Mm answer more accurately by giving you 3’ Written love her because she embodies the grandest truths that ever biography ofhim which he has prepared for me to use to print after his death. [Laughter.]—N. Y. Sun. S WEDNESDAY, FER. 9TH. Q. Now, as you didn’t suspect Mr. Beecher or Mr. Moulton of having informed Mrs. Woodhull, how did you imagine she got her information? A. Through the open gate of the lips of Mrs. Nathan B. Morse. Q. That was your theory? A. Yes, sir; not that it went from Mrs. Morse to Mrs. Woodhull, but that it went through many mouths; Mrs. Morse was in the habit of saying that I made such and such charges, and they got to Mrs.Woodhull’s ears. Q. Well, I have not asked you a word about that; you sus- pected, then, wh at Mrs. Morse had publicly said? A. Pri- vate, sir. Q. Well, private with publicity; you don’t mean that she whispered it in Mrs. Woodhull’s car? A. N 0; she didn’t whisper it in anybody’s ear, but spoke it out loud. [Laugh- ter.]——N. Y. Herald. COMMENTS. The above statement is Theodore Tilton’s version as to how the facts of the case came to the proprietor of the WEEKLY. It is not complimentary to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Morse. 'WEDNEsDAY, FER. 10TH. On this day the following extract exhibits a singular phase of the socIAL AND SEXUAL QUESTION. It is taken from the Brooklyn Argus: Q. Mr. Tilton, upon the occasion of your attendance and hearing and answering questions before the Committee of the Church, please say if this occurred. Did you, upon being asked this question, “ You say, Mr. Tilton, that Mrs. Tilton insisted to you that she had not violated her marriage vow.” In answer to that, did you say, “ Yes,.Elizabeth was in a sort of vaporous cloud between light and dark. She could not see this wrong. ‘She maintained to her mother, in my presence that she had not done wrong. She cannot bear to do wrong; a sense of having done wrong is enough to crush her. She neverwould have had these relations if she had supposed at the time they were wrong?’ ‘ Q. Did you say that? Q. Did you say that. in answer to a question that was read? A. I said something like that. . Q. Substantially, did you say that? A. Yes, sir; she’ thought‘ that she had not; she did not insist that she had 2 note; the substance of that statement is very true; if you will let me look at it, I will read it over again, and say whether it is correct or not. Q. I will ask you another question ﬁrst: On this answer being made to you, were you then asked this question, and did you then make the answer which follows :’ “, Q. Did you say that she did or did not insist that she had‘ ‘ violated her marriage vows? A. She always was saying that ‘it never seemed to her wrong;’ and, ‘Theodore, I do not now see that I have wronged you.’ ” V A. She frequently said that during the year. L Q. Did you make that answer? A. Something like. that; I don’t remember exactly the words; if you will let me look ‘ it over I can tell you whether—-— a "Q. Well, that is suﬂicient. . » ooMMENTs. The WEEKLY claims to have laid the stone of personal sovereignty for the foundation of the new temple of social ‘order. Much. more is yet to be done before the ediﬁce is ' complete. In the case before us———'we, at 1east—were Theo- ’ dore Tilton’s testimony correct——judge not! I ’ THURSDAY, FEB. 11TH. I " - , Mr. Tilton had testiﬁedlthat what is known, as “ [The True Story ”e-a document written by him after the Woodhull publication and shown to the Rev. Dr. Storrs and others»: was not in his possession, excepting a few of the last leaves. isis nits ass ﬁshes the rest sissy. site has as site that had destroyed it. Before the recess Mr. Evarts had requested DR. R. P. FELLOWS, the distinguished "Magnetic Physician,~ him to bring these leaves with him, and upon resuming his stands to-day one of_ the most successful spiritual physicians seat he took them out of his pocket. Then everybody was of the age. astonished to see Mr. Evarts stand up with a bunch of fools- State in the Union by his Magnetized Powder with a success cap sheets in his hands and say, “Mr. Tilton, please listen to which is truly remarkable. Mrs. M. Heasley, of Wheeling, what I shall now read, and say whether you recognize it as West Va., writing to the doctor, says: “The powder that ‘ The True Story?’ ” This turned out to be a copy, with you sent me is all taken, and I am happy to say to you I now many mistakes and omissions, of the original document. can hear the clock strike and tick distinctly. I have not. How it was obtained the lawyers for the defense refuse to heard it strike téefore for almost three years.” What better- tell. The probability seems to be that somebody with whom evidence is needed to demonstrate its wonderful power. $1 Mr. Tilton left it for perusal copied it hurried1y,~and "has per box. Address.Vineland, N. J . furnished it for use in the trial,-N. Y. Sun. , This is about the only original matter that has been intro- duced as yet in the trial. Our readers will perceive that there is already a kink in this so-called “ true story,” which can only be unraveled by Mrs. Tilton, who, according to thee above statement, informed Theodore Tilton that “ she had destroyed it.” On Friday, in consequence of the ice blockade, which pre- vented the attendance of one of the jurynien, the case was adjourned until Monday, Feb. 15. _ ' _ _ BOARD AND TREATMENT FOR INvALIDs.—No. 53 Academy OUR ANGEL OF DELIVERANCE. street, Newark, N. J .—Dr. L. K. Coonley, clairvoyant, with Let me 5a to my brother who of late Sent me for emsal long experience in all kinds of diseases, warrants satisfaction. the oration if Mrs ‘VO0dh1’m,s ,’, Tried '18 b Fire ” 01; ‘V, The -Uses medicines, plain and homo-electricity, and magnetism. T d F 1 V S‘ , H .” th ’ _ ‘ I Y t ’ ,t _ Solicits correspondence. Sends medicines by express. Has 1:116 _an 3‘ 5° 0°13 y’ at, one mg,“ 8?", ence 1 con good accommodation for boarding patients on liberal terms. tains is marked by me as the most Christ-like words ever - spoken on this planet! They are these: “ If there is any X sister in this place so low that no other woman will visit her, MRS- NELLIE 11- DAVIS may be addressed at 235 Wa8hlﬁg- tell me, there will my feet wend their way. If there is any l50Il St") Salem. M388- child so wretched that none will care for it, there will my . motherys heart Wandenn . WARREN CHASE permanent address is Colfax, Iowa. ' He Whatis all the rest to me ifthis be the Welling-up of her soul? Will Spend the Summer mostly in New England» and next Must I, as a woman partaking of the very qualities, liable to Winter in California’ “ if the Lord is Wining-” the same wretchedness, under the same conditions, and the same depravity with other women if surrounded by the same circumstances, gather up own skirts and shun others be- cause they are more unhappy than myself? Who, what, am I, that I should prate of my own immaculatenes? My love glows toward a soul so beau_~’t‘iful as this one seems to me! I Dr. Slade, the eminent Test Medium, may be found at his oﬁce, No. 25 East Twenty-ﬁrst street near Broadway " 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. SOCIAL FREEDOM CoNvENTIoN.——'l‘he friends of social freedom, and all interested in any side of the various issues covered by the words, “social reform,” “social freedom,” ‘‘ free love,” etc., are invited to meet in convention at Paine Memorial Hall at 10 o’clock A. M., on Sunday, Feb. 28, and, if thought best, continue two days, to investigate and agitate came down out of heaven to bless woman’s life. social reform, and probably to organize a plan for more ef- This is the period of woman’s growth and emancipation. fectual work. All shades of opinion are invited to represent Out of sexualty per se are the issues of life, and she has be- themselves in this convention. The platform shall be abso- come the angel of the new covenant whereby men I and lutely free, the speakers being limited only as to time. Come women are t6 enter the arena of life together, and /strike one, come all; come prepared to give in the most concise hands to overthrow the false gods which we have set up in manner your best thoughts. _ our households. Has my mother’s heart no answer to this Moses Hull, George L. Barker, beautiful, thrilling sentence, when my own blue-eyed dar- Mattie Sawyer, D." W. Hull, Prescott Robinson, Charlotte lings are clinging around my neck, and I know full well what Barber, Rachel Campbell, Etta Bullock, John Hardy, Mary the world has for them if they are thrust out in it without a Stearns, Boston ; J . M. Sterling, Kiantone, New York ; mother? She is hounded and abused by gentlemen and L. K. Joslyn, Providence; E. H. Heywood, and Angela T. ladies whom Iknow, who often revile her on this account, for Heywood, Princeton; J . H. W. Toohey and Isabel Smith, befriending“ har1ots.” She is a friend to those whom the Chelsea; Anthony Higgins, Jr., Salem; M. S. Townsend, same people in turn use, then abuse and denounce as “ out- Bridgewater, Conn.; J . J . Gurney, Littleton, Mass.; Joseph casts." She takes them by the hand; she is not fearful of Buxton and Maria Buxton, Milford, Mass.; B. B. Hill, Mrs. contamination. The evil is the fruit of other evils, and in Nellie Hill. F. R. Ladd, and C. Leonard, Springﬁeld. high places too, from our -legislative halls down "to a con- Jfemptibl-e class styled “the °1€3rgy’”Wh(,)1 keep among "h°’.“ A coNvENTIoN of the “ American Free Dress League” 11.1 “.16 8201:: f°1‘?,““.‘§1 :1? gmg 0:: e chﬁfgle .:hatti£e1: will be held in Horticultural Hall, Worcester, Mass., Thurs- 25 and light up these caves of despair! I ask, in God’s name, 1% sions daily, at 10 A. M., and 2 and’? P. M. Believing friendly _ , - , discussion on sub_]ects of human improvement productive of It Is any too soon? CHARLOTTE BARBER practical goodness, this meeting invites friends of physical and spiritual liberty, of hygienic usages and general wel- fare to unite in its deliberations. That woman’s prevailing costume, in debilitating the body, disqualiﬁes mental facul- ties—in unduly consuming time, strength, thought, toil and means, abridges the elevation and independence of both sexes, and is basic among causes of poverty, inequality, and all the vexed evils aﬁlicting the world-—is acknowledged by LEDRU ROLLIN, the great Communist, is dead and buried He was a kind of free-thinker. No prayers were said over his grave, but one hundred thousand of the workers of Paris paid tribute to his memory. Their cry was ominous for France, for as the cofﬁn of M. Ledru Rollin was lowered into the grave the hundred thousand voices sang out, “ Vive le suffrage universel 1” “ Viva la Republique !”——-Sunday Demo- crat‘ together on the present phase of the case and its reformation. THE contest of Tyndall and the religionists is not over God Good speakers are invited and expected. Those from a dis- and no God, but over a God who works by invariable tance wishing most reasonable board and attention while in methods, and executes his will by systematic means, as op- W01'0BBl361‘ 3139 00ll1l119l1d9d to the HOHY Tree 11111» Pleasant posed to a God of shifts and devices, who can be diverted street. The public are 001'dl311Y ll1Vll76d t0 3l7l36Ild- P3961‘ from his purpose by prayers, and prevailed upon to change friendly to the cause please copy. his plans by urgent entreaty.—N. Y. Sun. “ Tm: religion of a nation ought to be the embodiment of REMEMBER that it is by the Erie. Great Western of Canada its highest intelligence in the most solemn moments of that and the Michigan Central Railroads that the most elegant, intelligence.” But that is not the fact to-day in any commodious and comfortable Pullman Palace Cars are run country.-—Shaker and Shalceress. ' through between New York and Chicago-—-the broad gauge E- - trucks of the Erie being changed at Suspension Bridge for A I - narrow ones, and vice versa, both carrying the wide coaches EDITORIALS- of the Erie road. These coaches leave New York from de- -——— pots foot of Chambers and 23d streets at 7 o’clock, P. M., THE FIRsT QUARTER CoNvENTIoN for 1875 of the New daily: and Cl1l0ag0 from the Michigan Central depot at 5 Jersey State Association of Spiritualists and Friends of 'o’clock.lP- M-a daily. Passengers bythis route who are going Progress, will be held in Library Hall, Market street, New- still further West arrive in Chicago in the depot of the ark, on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, February 20th, 21st Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, the most popular and 22d, three sessions each day, commencing at 10 A. M., to and best patronized of all the routes leading westward from ~c1ose with a grand sociable on the evening of the 22d. Chicago. Those who travel this route once will always use , Many women delegates and others on their way to the it when convenient, and avoid the transfer discomforts and Wm-caster, Mass., meeting, will take part in our delibera- annoyances of other less desirable and badly equipped tions, and suggest that we devote some time to habits, labor, P0111765- wages and fashions, with reference to the needs of reforms. All are invited to a good time. ‘ For ‘further information address either ‘ D. J. STANSBERY, Sec’y, or L. K. COONLEY, Pres’t, Newark, N. J . The Books and Speeches of Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claﬂin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices : . The Principles of Government, by Victoria C. Wood- hull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00 Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. Claﬂin. . . . . . . . 2 00 The Principles of Social Freedom. . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . 25 PROE. LISTER, the astrologist, can be consulted athis rooms Ref01‘I113«ti0I1 01‘ ReV0111tl0Il. Whlch 5’ - - - - - - - -= e - - - - - - - 25 No 329 Sixth avenue. Address by letter, P. 0. Box 4829. The Elixir of Life; Or, Why do We Die ?. - - -- - - -- 25 ' ’ The Scare-Crows of Sexual Slavery . Tried as by Fire; or the True and the False Socially, 25 CHAs. H. FosTER, the renowned Test Medium, can be Ethics of Sexual Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._ . . . . . 25 found at No. 12 West Twenty-fourth street, New York City, Photographs of V. C. Woodhiill, Tennie C. Claﬂin and , ' ‘ ' ‘ ‘ Col. Blood, 500. each, or three for . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 1 00 Three of any of the Speeches 509., or seven for. . . . 1 00 Azzifei Beams. D» Q. :s.-specialty. operative dentistry sad Qse copy each, of Becks, speeches and [Photographs tor t ()9 as sets at séissls tassel, West as st. 5, ibsisl diseases is these ssstiigr is sell ages. He is now treating the sick in almost every .. the ablest reasoners and scientists of the age. Let us counsel , . J . 2 1 i I L 2 3 Feb. 27, 1875. BUREAU OF CORRESPONDENCE .OF THE PANTARCHY. The increasing number of letters in respect to the nature, purposes and prospects of the 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 first 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 OE I 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. 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. 54th St., New York. PROSPECTUS. WOODHULL St CLAELIN’s WEEKLY. It advocates a new government in which the people will be their own legislators, and the oﬂicials 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 which the government will be the source, custodian and transmitter of money, and in which usury will have no place. ‘ 6. A new sexual system, in which mutual consent, entirely free from money or any 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 fall, shall be responsible for the proper rearing of children. . '7. A new educational system, in which all children born shallhave the same advantages of physical, industrial, mental and moral cul- ture, and thus be equally prepared at ma- turity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. - All of which will constitute the various parts of a new social order, in which all the human rights of the individual will beas- 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 objectiozns specially invited. The WEEIEY is issued every Saturday. Subscription price, $3 per year; $1.50 six months; or 100. 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; i The.New England News Co., Boston, Mass. ; The Central News Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; - The Western News Co., Chicago, Ill. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1875-02-27_09_13
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1875-02-27_09_13
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 09, no. 14 (March 6, 1875)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2061
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1875-03-06
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: 3 PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT ! UNTRAMMELED LIVESi BREAKING. THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. IX.—No. 14.——Wl;ole No. 222. NEW YORK, MARCH 6, 1875 . PRICE TEN CENT? ‘ BY AND BY: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE on THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND. B O O K I V . THAPTER X.——(}ontinued. > With the intellectual emancipation of Soudan, the need of social regeneration became apparent. Here, however, Criss fo-und less readiness to follow an. European lead than in other respects. Neither the women were eager to demand, nor the men ready to concede a change in the relations of the sexes, little content though they both were with the existing state of things. A little inquiry showed him that they had never yet learned to see the essential distinction between social and political equality. The women, too, had been taught, by a comparatively recent event in a neighboring State, to see the absurdity of their claiming to be legislators at all, when they could be so only upon suﬁerance, and must at all time...
Show more3 PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT ! UNTRAMMELED LIVESi BREAKING. THE WAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. Vol. IX.—No. 14.——Wl;ole No. 222. NEW YORK, MARCH 6, 1875 . PRICE TEN CENT? ‘ BY AND BY: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE on THE FUTURE. BY EDWARD MAITLAND. B O O K I V . THAPTER X.——(}ontinued. > With the intellectual emancipation of Soudan, the need of social regeneration became apparent. Here, however, Criss fo-und less readiness to follow an. European lead than in other respects. Neither the women were eager to demand, nor the men ready to concede a change in the relations of the sexes, little content though they both were with the existing state of things. A little inquiry showed him that they had never yet learned to see the essential distinction between social and political equality. The women, too, had been taught, by a comparatively recent event in a neighboring State, to see the absurdity of their claiming to be legislators at all, when they could be so only upon suﬁerance, and must at all times be in- capable of enforcing their decrees. And the men had taken advantage of the occurrence to laugh to scorn all demands for a change which seemed to involve anything approaching to identity of function in public more than in domestic life. The occurrence in question was as follows: Several generations ago, a large district on the west coast of Africa was governed bya succession of despotic sovereigns, whose sole idea of religion and political economy was to ap- pease the gods, and keep down the surplus population, by the periodical celebration of human sacriﬁces on an enormous scale. For along time the victims of these Kings of Dahomey (an appellation apparently derived from the Latin Lia homines, “ give me men,” supposed to be addressed to the king by his god) were selected by the merest caprice. But, as civilization extended to those regions, and the sentiments of men there became softened by the study of philanthropy and art, un- , meaning caprice gave place to a system of natural selection, whereby all the crippled and imperfect specimens of the population were periodically chosen to be offered up. The effect of this weeding out of the inferior types was to produce a race of men and women as superior to ordinary folks as the “ pedigree ” cereals, for which the hills of our own marine southern suburb were once- so famous, were superior to ordi- nary produce. The men and women were all beautiful, good, and clever; and never had been known such handsome negroes and negresses. But as man improved, the gods became worse off; and the priests complained that, owing to there being no imperfect specimens left, the supply of victims for their sacriﬁces was running short. There was danger, they declared, of some terrible judgment befalling the nation, through the neglect of the public ordinances of religion. I Upon hearing this the King, after holdingbonsultation with the priests, determined upon making a new ecclesiastical canon. By this it was ordered that the selections for sacriﬁce should be made among the shortest of his subjects, male and female. He trusted thereby both to satisfy the gods, and raise the average stature of his people. " The people, however, after the ﬁrst sacriﬁce or two, deter- mined no longer to submit to such a state of things. were wearied of the exactions of the priests, and disposed to think that a deity who could derive gratiﬁcation from human sacriﬁces, could not be of much account anyhow. They had also imbibed certain revolutionary notions unfavorable to monarchy. So one day they rose in a mass, abolished the dynasty, disendowed the church, and established a republic. So high was the standard of female excellence, that there was no question about women having, under the new regime, an equal share of political power with men. They had it as a matter of course, and with laudable assiduity did they apply themselves to the practice of parliamentary and forens1ce'lo- quence. So earnest were they in the discharge of their public duties, that the men gradually withdrew from public _life altogether, as a thing best adaped to women, and occupied themselves with ordinary affairs in the ﬁeld, the factory, the market, and the home; until every public office was held by women, even the police and the army consisting exclusively of that sex. . ' Things went along smoothly and well until certain states- women of Dahomey, smitten by propagandist zeal, endea- vored to undermine the institutions of their neighbors, on the ground of their unwomanly character. The Emperor of Soudan, whose dominions reached from the Red Sea to the They , Niger, had long been anxious to extend his rule to the Atlan- tic sea-board. The main obstacle to his ambition was the prosperous and easy-going community of Dahomey. The intrigues of its stateswomen among his own people supplied him with a pretext for invading it; while the knowledge that it was defended only by an army of women, made it seem to him as inviting an attack. He determined therefore to reduce it to submission, and compel it to acknowledge the authority which, in virtue of his well-known descent from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, he claimed over all the adjacent regions. On the approach of the Imperial army, the women of Daho- mey prepared to march out to battle. at the idea of danger to their women, offered to go in their places, saying that whatever legislation and police might be, ﬁghting a foreign foe who was really in earnest, was a serious matter. _ But the women scornfullyrejectedtheir proffered aid, bade them stay at home and look after their children and business, and then marched boldly forth to meet the enemy. No sooner had they departed than the men met in council. They knew how it would be and that no time must be lost. It was necessary, however, that their women should receive a lesson. A battle, and therefore a reverse, could not take place for a day or two. So, having armed and formed themselves into divisions, they started after it was dark to occupy the hills which overlooked the plain where the battle was ex- pccted to take place, keeping their movements absolutely secret from the army of women. On the enemy coming insight, the women with much show of determination, and really making a most gallant appear- ance, advanced to meet him. The combat was short and san- guinary, that is, to one side, the side of the unhappy Dahomey damsels. Their courage, unsuported by strength, proved to belvain. The Imperial levies, though consisting of a race far inferior in physique, were yet men. They, therefore, could not, under any circumstances, suﬂer themselves to be de- feated by women; while the women felt, though they did not own until afterward, already half beaten through the inﬂu- ence of their own hereditarily-acquired impressions of man’s prowess. They were soon in full ﬂight over the plain; and as they ﬂed, the visions of their homes, containing their chil- dren and the husbands they had left to tend them, rose before them; and with the army beaten and the enemy advancing. they saw nothing but ruin and slavery for all they loved, or... ought to love. A " I 5 The unhappy fugitives were not suffered long to indulge these bitter reﬂections. The sounds of battle were renewed. The tramp of a host came near. Whither now shall they ﬂee? Home! How can they face their homes, thus humiliated after all their vauntings? “What is this? No enemy! but our own-=-dear—menl ! Oh, save us! save and forgive!” _ “ All right, all right, lassies ”—-(they had a few Scotch words in their vernacular. Many of them were literally “Bonny lassies,” for they belonged to the province of Bonny, a little to the eastward of their great river; and were not the Cama- roon mountains, towering thirteen thousand feet high, almost in sight, a name palpably of Scotch origin ?)——“ all right, lassies,” exclaimed thousands of manly voices, as thousands of muscular arms were clasped round thousands of delicate ebony necks. “ We knew how it would be and took precau- tions accordingly. You would go; but we determined you should not be beaten too badly. So we placed ourselves where we could see the battle, and directly you ran away and the enemy gave chase, we pounced upon him and cut him to pieces. So now you can come home, and resume your func- tions, legislative and protective, without fear of further moles- tation. The women were glad enough to go home, but from that day forward they steadily declined to undertake functions which, through lack of physical strength, they could only fulﬁl by suiferance. It was the remembrance of this incident that mainly operated to retard the introduction of the European system into Central Africa. America, too, had contributed an example in dissuasion. For the women bf the province of New England, in an access of religious fervor, had taken advan- tage of their being in a majority at the polls, to create a Pope- dom of Boston, and elected one of their own sex to the office, and in virtue of the ancient and intellectual supremacy of The men, concerned _ their city, claimed for her spiritual supremacy over the whole" continent. It was only by taking possession of the polls by 2. force and reversing the decree, that the men put an end to the absurdity. Thenceforth they have restricted the suffrage to themselves. . ~ Thus, in addition to Criss’ other labors on behalf of his African proteges, he undertook to make them comprehend the” natural law which seems to assign to men a monopoly of the sphere of politics and legislation, and to restrict women to the social and industrial sphere; inasmuch as the former is based on force, and the latter on couvenience——a difference ‘of function for which nature, and not man, is responsible. CHAPTER XI. Since his marriage Criss had held no intercourse with his spiritual friends. The tenor of his life was inconsistent with reverie. His mind was too much engrossed by his labors or his troubles. On his journeys, which were made with the utmost rapidity, he had things concrete to occupy his thoughts; and ascents for more abstract contemplation were apt to excite‘Nannie’s jealousy. She was jealous even of the angels, and without waiting for cause given, was ever ready to utter the imperious prohibition, “ Thou shalt have no other goddess but me.” ' Hovering one day in the Ariel over his garden, Criss could see as he gazed downward, the smooth green-sward and embowering trees, and the fair dwelling, and Nannie, the embodiment of all his dreams of loveliness, and Zoe, the fruit of his love for her; the whole forming together a scene of exquisite delight. But, the joy with which he contemplated -_ it was instantly dashedby the thought of the serpent which had thrown its coils around it, and converted what should be his home of happiness into his place of torture. Then recurred to him the vision of his friend, the tall angel, and the sweet bride-angel, N annie’s prototype; and he won. dered whether their experiences had any counterpart in his own; and, if not, in what consisted the secret of their happi- ness. And as he thus pondered, by a scarcely conscious im- pulse he drove his car with rapid motion far up into his old ground, the Empyrean. “ Tell me, tell me,” his heart cried as he ascended, “ oh ye blessed ones of the skies, what is the secret of your bliss?” It was not long before his yearning evoked a reply. The old ecstatic condition in which thought became transfused into realities, came back upon him with undiminished intensity- and, presently, to his spiritual vision became revealedthe well-remembered noble form and serene countenance, and with it the sweet and sunny face of the fair bride, looking, oh, so like Nannie, but Nannie in her softest moods, that Criss could not forbear exclaiming-— “ “ Soul of my Nannie! canst thou not shed upon her while on earth someof the sweet repose and conﬁdence which thou enjoyest in heaven? Ye look on me with the same joyous aspect as of old. Surely ye cannot be aware of the sadness which darkens my life?” “ We know all,” replied the tall angel, “ and knowing all, we are glad, even though thou sorrowest. Thy struggles and thy patience are not without their reward, even though they continue to the end. harder than any that is given to us. This is thy badge of honor. It is for thee to prove thyself worthy of it. Listen to the revelation of the mystery. Thou and she are products of the same earth, but of different stages in that earth’s develop- ment, thou of/the later and highest, she of the earlier and lowest. The inherent force of attraction which pervades all matter, organic and inorganic, and constitutes love, has with you proceeded to the advanced stage, at which love means sympathy and self-devotion. She to whom you are wedded is still in that primitive stage in which attraction is mechani- cal rather than moral, is of body rather than of soul—the blind attraction of otherwise inert masses, like the orbs of heaven and the constituents of the earth—and is but the basis of love, rather than the love which later comes. Only con- tinue to have patience, and your inﬂuence will yet permeate the system which has hitherto rejected it. The love that is not self-love ultimately conquers all things. I It is the sole universal solvent. It may be in time, or it may be in eter- nity.” - “ The hope may enable me to endure to the end,” replied Criss; “ but it has no potency to charm her whom I love and would save. Can ye not give me aught that I may_bear.back to her? Sweet face! loving heart!” he exclaimed, address- ing himself to the bride-angel, who, he now observed, carried in her arms that which showed him that she too had become #2. Know that the task before thee is ‘ "‘*""'\..... ...,_ 1' 1 mi. ,. & 33 '3‘ ii 2 WOODHULL dz CLAFLII~T’S wnnxrr March 6, 1875. a mother, even a mother of angels; “hast thou no wonder- ’ working word of admonition which I may carry back with me ?” , The young matron-angel.kissed her child, and then bent her head over against that _of her spouse, and after a brief conference with him, said-— - “It is permitted me to impart to thee the secret of all hap- piness, whether in heaven or elsewhere : the secret that would convert even the dread regions of the lost to a scene of bliss, had those regions not long ago been for ever utterly abolished. Know, then, that the resolve, persistently maintained, to make the best of that which we have and are, would make of ‘hell itself a heaven; and how much more of earth! While, ever to make the worst of things would turn heaven itself into a hell. The mind is its own bliss or woe. , [To be continued.] _ .4...‘ r jw MURAT HALSTEAITS “SPOOK ” THEORY OF BEECI-IER’S INN OCENCE. . OIL RneIoNs, February, 1875. Dear Weekly—-I suppose it is pretty well known that the Cincinnati Commercial publishes the proceedings of the Beecher-Tilton trial in full. From the tone of its leaders and items, taken in conjunction with /the sanctum talk of Mr. Halstead himself, as reported from time to time, I had supposed there was little doubt in the material mind of that most material gentleman of _Beecher’s material guiltiness of the crime of material adultery. But wonders will never cease; though it would never occur to one that so matter-of-fact a mind as that of Mr. H. could grind out a theory of anything not explainable upon known, tried, tested and approved principles, subject to not the slightest stretch of imagination, poetic fancy, ideal con- struction or spookishness. ’ Ever since the decided course of the Commercial concern- ing the Katie King business, the public mind has rested in perfect faith in M. H.’s absolute reasonableness and tena- bility of base. Never any fear of M. H. mistaking a pretty, plump widow for a “spook,” especially if M. H. were so supremely favored as to get his material arm around the little creature’s waist! . N o editor in all the land has sent forth sharper, cuter, funnier, worldlier editorials on the spook business, and the “superlative nonsense” of spirit materialization and the “ credulity of weak minds” than M. H. Consequently, “ materialization stock ” has gone down a hundred per cent. in the market of popularity, for M-. H. is an inﬂuential man, and colors a great deal of worldly public sentiment. / There is no doubt M. H. is the right man in the right place when he sticks closely to his worldliness, his materiality and the independence of his excellent journal. But he puts his foot in it completely when he attempts to rein his material pegassus to aerial ﬂights of impalpability, and plume his worldly-weighted spirit in ideal regions of immaterial specu- tion; in other words, when he comes out in a double-leaded column and a half editorial, explanatory of how, in M. H’s estimation, Beecher can be innocent on the theory of spiritual adultery! Oh, M. H., what a peice of work was that leading editorial, that however much your consistent admirers tried to turn it into a burlesque, a la Katie King, to save your consistent bacon, they nevertheless couldn’t make it go. There stood that conspicuous leader in all its assumption of so phistical plausibility and editorial dignity; an attempt to shield H. W. B. from the consequences of his acts on‘ the purest of spook «principles! It will never do in future, M. H., with that sublime leader in memory, for you to set the keen and shining lance of your wit in rest in a tilt against the credulity of Robert Dale Owen or Don Piatt. “ Spiritual adultery ” and “ material- ized Katie Kings” are both chicks of one hen’s laying, and a warm and thrilling kiss and embrace is as reasonable to ex- pect from the latter as an immaculate conception from the former. , Henceforth, 0, sweet Katie King, wing thy materialized plumpnessstraight into the very sanctum sanctorum of the redoubtable M. H. himself; for whether thou art spook or arrant humbng, he will never ﬁnd out the difference now, since he is fain to believe in spiritual adultery unmaterial- ized. Let him tumble to the dull earth with his for once unrestrained fancy, and withdraw that double-leaded leader, or forever after hold his peace concerning the " far-fetched speculations” and “weak credulity” of more imaginative , and ideal souls. N, BURLINGTON, Iowa, Feb. 17, 18’2’5. One of the most refreshing condiments with .your break- fast is the so-called “respectable” morning paper. While you are sipping your coffee its ﬂavor is so much enhanced by those chaste headings to the telegraphic and other news, and the thoughtfulness of the editorials, that really breakfast would be an insipid meal without the “respectable ” morn- ing paper. The masculine and vigorous editorial columns add crispness to your butter, and their exquisite sense of truth and justice help your di'gestion._ Its local columns sparkle with a ﬁne appreciation of the demands of good society and a brilliant—almost too brilliant—-wit. Then, too, it is so comforting to have events which otherwise might puzzle you and make you swallow the coffee grounds, satis- factorily explained to-you in your “respectable” morning ‘journal. When, for instance, we notice the steady advance 0f H18 Price Of g01d, ands judging from past experience, we attribute the same to rebel victories, or to those threats from all quarters of hard money resumption and kindred causes, it isso consoling to have your eloquent newspaper explain. To be sure, our guntutored mind does not fully grasp the breadth and depth of the argument. The “ balance of trade” and the “movement of bullion ” "leave a sort of vacuum in your understanding; but there the explanation is, anyhow, and clinched, too, by such soothing words as: “The rise in -gold, therefore, is of little intrinsic value, except as it be- — «comes-a‘di’sturberVof prices.”-<si*What if our “respectable” journal does contradict itself frequently within the self- same editorial, still we are bound to breathe more freely; and down goes the last gulp of our coffee without an effort. Another beauty in your “ respectable ” paper is its strict observance of the proprieties—pour, angsy deer, as the French say. That is one of the peculiar earlnarlss of your truly “good” paper, and accounts for that unanimous indorse- ment and support which it enjoys from thelupper circles of society. It has, and on every opportunity shows, a correct and thorough contempt for that inferior being——woman; and especially so if she has brains. Vilith that manly severity and bitter sarcasm peculiar to the truly good paper,’ it scourges that villainous Woodhull woman with all the wea- pons within its reach; and it- is diﬂicult to decide which is the most pond.erous——the sweet-scented, names it throws at her head, or the jolly big whoppers it tells about her. It studies and knows the demands of “ our best people;” and therefore when a Woman’s Suffrage Association quietly holds a meeting somewhere, it heads the report, “The Shrieking Sisterhood.” On the same grounds, it was consistent with our truly good journal, when, during the late “crusade,” our Western towns looked like asylums for religious female lunatics. to report the ravings of those “ladies ” with equanimity blended with enthusiasm. But where our truly good and respectable paper shows to its greatest advantage, is when it gives us the latest telegraphic report of the Beecher trial, under those reﬁned and chaste headings in display type. N o wonder our best society loves and reveres our “ respect- able paper, and cannot eat its breakfast without it. We all read it; not all through at once, but we pick out the choice bits ﬁrst, meditate upon them, con over familiar ﬂings and lies, and pounce upon any fresh beauties or vast and won- derful thoughts that may be bubbling up in its ever-fresh columns. Yours, fervidly,"; W. B. WA,-§N'rs or SPIRITUALISM. nxrnaors FROM LAURA CUPPY SMITH’S LECTURE As RE- POBTED IN if‘ ooMMoN SENSE,” SAN FRANCISCO. What spiritualism wants to-day is love of truth, and those who do not stand up for truth, will in the end see recorded against them “ mene mene tekel upharsin.” I do not regret the division in the Spiritualists’ ranks. It is better even for a few to remain steadfast to the right than that all surrender to the demands of a time-serving, popularity-seeking class. Peiilous times are coming to us as a nation, and the people will learn that justice is not dead; God rules, and the right will ﬁnally prevail. The oppressions of the rich, the out- rages on the unprotected, the~miseries of the destitute—~a1l these cannot endure for ever. Spiritualists should unite against oppression in every form—political, religious, social— they should seek for the truth, and ask not that respect- ability may be retained, but that humanity may be lifted up. Spiritualists are in danger of becoming as narrow and creed-bound as the churches: seeking for popularity, instead of holding to principle, will kill all that is of any practical value in spiritualism. The time was when “ Spiritualist” was a term of reproach, but they held together then better than now, when so many are trying to make spiritualism conform to public sentiment, instead of endeavoring to lift public opinion up to the level of high spiritual requirements. Some scientists are becoming Spiritualists now——some of the nobility of England and a few Congressmen in this country, and Spiritualists are fearful these new converts will be driven away by our advocacy of radical ideas! We must not give the truth too freely for fear of shocking these people! Most of those who are convinced of the truths of spiritualism keep aloof from our organizations! We are not yet popular, and it is to make ready for this class that we are asked to sacriﬁce truth, to put on an appearance of conservatism, and to play the hypocrite generally! An effort must be made to bring the rich and the “ respectable ” within our ranks! True spiritualism knows no difference in men—it embraces all of humanity; it distinguishes not between the rich and the poor—it looks steadfastly to the worth of every immortal soul. We are one great brotherhood; we have no ministers ordained of . God; every one who works for the good of humanity is a “ man of God,” and is worthy to be our teacher and exemplar. If spiritualism is a truth it does not need such careful nursing and jealous guardianship. It will sur- vive all assaults, and in rising to its full strength will lift humanity with it. If it is based on principle all the adverse powers cannot overturn it; and if it has not truth and prin- ciple for its foundation we do not want it. For myself I ask nothing; for me death has lost all its terrors. I only ask your co-operation in the cause of truth and humanity. Let us stand together and do our duty. Spiritualism is being weighed in the balance, and it will either pass away, its mis- sion ended, to give place to something better, or it will bo- come the grand gospel of humanity. . ._.__....... WHAT MY THOUGHT TELLS ME. _ AUBURN, Jan 15, 1875. It tells me that there can be no such existence as an in- ﬁnite overruling power, since any power outside of and dis- tinct from being itself, and that is in no sense a part of it which did not ﬁnda resistance equal to itself, would be a crushing and not a ruling power. Nor can there be one universal inner ruling power except as it is simply cosmopo- litan, or everywhere at home in proportion to the importance that every speciﬁc existence holds in the scale ‘of relations; and in this sense each atom has its proportion of protective and distributive power. Ihear people talk of an inﬁnite God, and am as much puzzled to know what they mean as them- selves are, for my thought tells me that there can be no such existence as an inﬁnite personality. since to be inﬁnite it must embrace everything that is, without count or limit, and such a personality would leave no/roomfor any other per. sonality. Hence, the fact thatI exist as a personality is positive proof that this does not. As, there can be but one inﬁnite it must be the sum of all ﬁnites without limit. My thought tells me that all the shoreless realm of] being is bu“ j one simple equilibrium, wherein each atom, each world, and each system of worlds are as little dependent on their several surroundings for the preservation of an equipoise, as are their several surroundings on them. ‘ That these correlative bearings, or apparent dependencies, are in the ﬁtness of things the foundation support of each, for each in reciprocal uses. And my thought tells me that creation, properly understood, is not the augmentation of one particle of matter to being in the aggregate; but that it is the ever changing methods of matter. That the fruit, ﬂower, vegetable and cereal grown or developed the past season has not added an ;item to the inﬁnite sum of matter, but has simply localized properties and elements in their composition into forms that they have never before reached. That through the medium of unuttered millions of germs, centres or focaliza-I tions these have wedded together as ﬁtnesses from a pre- existence in other forms, for the unfoldment of these various products in the chemical labratory of being. And when these are consumed, or, as we term it, decayed, nothing but their several forms is lost, while their disintegrated and diversiﬁed properties part company, and again unite with new similarities to make other forms wherein a new set of crucibles tone them down for yet rarer separations, .throw- ing forward the ﬁner qualities, and casting back the less sub- limated, each in adaptation to those suitabi.lities that pre- serve with such peculiar ease the essential equipoise through- out N ature’s artless methods of creation. My thought tells me that these almost endless varieties in germs, or centres, are real collections of associate facts in matter, consorting (touse a phrase) for a speciﬁc end, with and around which other properties unite and pursue existence to its utmost limit in such form, when they again divide off, and subdivide in reaching other forms; the more refined properties and elements ascending in the scale of relations, while the less sublimated fall into other channels, and develop other varie- ties in form and quality. In Nature’s methods, in crea- tion, completeness, not haste, is the rule. My thought tells me that it is just as diﬁficult to conceive of an eternal self- existent deity as it is of an eternal self-existent atom, for self-existence must have self-sufficiency, or perfect self- balance in all respects for its basis. And so sure as there is more than one particle of matter in existence, so certain it is that these particles hold correlative relations in proportion to their values and proximity to each other. When seeking to solve what he pleases to call the mys- terious web of being, man has always adopted a greater puzzle for his rule than the one he proposed to solve; for to assume or accept the idea of an inﬁnite Creator, then go into tricks of legerdemain to get up the fathomless inﬁniiude of being, is taking a stride in assumptions uncalled for, be- sides, triﬂing most shamefully with ourselves when we ac- cept nothing as the material out of which all being is made. When the ancients placed the world upon the back of a great turtle to answer the question as upon what it stood (for it was then accepted that this world was a local ﬁxture), they seemed not to perceive that the question they supposed solved was yet more inquisitive in demanding what the turtle could stand upon. So when we go back to an inﬁnite God as the origin of all things, we seem to take it for granted that we canaccount for the God more satisfactorily than we can for an illimitable existence without such an assumption. Hence the question is an open one—viz., “ What and how is being, God and all ?” Begging a point, then predicating re- sults upon it, satisﬁes nobody. My thought tells me that there can be but one inﬁnite—that there can be nothing out- side of it or distinct from it; for so sure as there is one par- ticle not included in it, inﬁnity will eternally lack this par- ticle of being inﬁnite. Or if there has been at any one period" in the nameless past, or if there shall be in the eternal out- teeming future one particle or property added to the sum of being in the aggregate, the term inﬁnite will be “ very un- certain,” as the Indian said of the white man. And if in traveling with the "velocity of thought in any one direction, we shall, after millions of ages with this more than electric ﬂight, come to a condition where absolute nothing limits ab-» solute something as forming the boundaries of existence, inﬁnity will, at this point, make months at us; for that only is inﬁnite that can have no limit—where the centre and cir- cumference are always equal, and where at any point, how- ever distant the one from the other, we are ever at the centre. The talk of an inﬁnite God and the explanation of a variety of inﬁnite attributes, as inﬁnite power, inﬁnite love, inﬁnite" goodness, inﬁnite wisdom, etc., as if inﬁnity could be scored off into a half-dozen inﬁnities, each the equal of the whole, or in no possible sense iuﬁnite—is a folly, or Munchausenism, that will ere long part company with man, 01 he part company with his brains or their uses. To my know what they mean when they speak of an inﬁnite God". then go on plastering it over as if it were real. Then they act in reference to it as if an inﬁnite, intelligent God could be in ﬁdgets to be praised, petted, puffed, ﬂattered and gloriﬁed. Why, the very conception throws all manner of vanity and weakness into its gigantic shadow. It would be an unpardonabie slander were there any such existence to feel its jibes. I am not so dumb as to dispute the fact, that there has always been a pretention, or power, working away at man from the unseen, taxing his exertion, claiming his attention, and demanding .his homage, under the pretense of some grave necessity. My point is, that I deny the good intentions of any such power. scolding, threatening, etc., nor do they deal in enigmas, and mysticisms; but they are simple, plain, open, frank and familiar, and by no necessity misunderstood. The reputed God never treated man as if he was deserving anything, but to be damned; nor have the Theodore Parkers and other cheap blazanries of spiritualism done any better. My thought tells me, that all the pretentious to a personal Grodhood, in religion, or to elevated spirits, in spiritualism, have been played oif upon the race by a class of abandoned spirits, who, to get and keep the advantage of O a better class mind, the most sensible conclusion is. that people do not ‘ They seem to have imagined some great touch-me-not,» :‘su4i' Good intentions do not demonstrate themselves in fretting,‘ ’J ‘,5 \ .,-..,.__‘_,. fiwoni v;...‘.,._._.....» .‘.,\q__,, »~.,.x.. . , . ,9-A-_...)-/“‘ aMarch 6, 1875. of spirits, have resorted to every imaginable invention to keep man in the dirt, and in ignorance oieverything really loveable in the unseen; the sole object.being to prevent so desirable a conjunction as the human heart, and the laughing truth. To prevent this is to perpetuatejthe style of ignorance that sustains their power over man. In the early period of my investigations of spirit manifestations, I had the assu- rance of becoming a kind ofsuperﬁcial greatness——“ a bright and shining light in the world.” Such a conception had as little application to my wants as would the delicate intima- tion that I should yet be an adroit highwayman, and be able to cut throats with a kind of chef d’mum~e that would successfully avoid detection. I wanted something that should say, satisﬁed, within me; I did not court distinctions; I have no ambition in such direction; I utterly refuse to be patronized by any power; I would cut the acquaintance of my father (a. man for whom I never had to blush), if he presumed (even in the spirit world) on an advantage that prompted him to look down on me. While I assume to be the equal of the best intelligence that ever had birth on this planet, I claim no advantages in my necessary being over the most unfortunate. While none mean to be bad, few know how to be good. To the baleful conditions that curse life here, and the inﬂuences that beget them, I charge all the wrongs that abuse mistaken man. E. WHEELER. THE TESTIMONY. BY WARREN CHASE. The living witnesses can be counted by mil1ions——-and the dead far outnumber them———who can swear that they know our present marriage system is sexual slavery and destruc- tive to the ﬁnest, holiest and purest feelings of the human soul, destroying them in woman and sinking them in man below the average sexual brutality of domesticated animals; and yet, when we propose to remedy this, and remove the evil by social freedom and sexual equality, in and out of marriage, by making the institution practically a civil con- tract, to be regulated and controlled by the parties, under the individual protection of the general laws for civil contract, and the repeal of all especial laws, on the subject, which are a nuisance and the cause of the misery and suﬁering—we are met with the holy horror of the church whose sacred institu- tion is in danger and from which it derives a large revenue and especial privileges, and also, by the vulgar oaths from the ﬁlthy lips of every sensual,whiskey-bloated, tobacco—polluted supporter of the holy religion and its sacred marriage law, which enables him to hold a female slave or run at large him- self among those whom .the institution has made into out- casts, and suﬁering mendicants that subsist on the meagre pickings of these enemies of social reform. Never was there a plainer case of correspondence to the chattel code of slavery that has now become so obnoxious to the American public.‘ Both hold property in their victims; both give control to the man over the woman, by which she can be prostituted to destruction. The wife has no more power to protect her person from hateful abuse than the slave had, and no more right to resist maternity orliability to- it. Her feelings are seldom consulted and the ﬁtness of her condition for enjoyment as rarely considered as that of a nurse by his rider. Hundreds of thousands of wives in America can to-day testify that they have never enjoyed a moment’s pleasure or satisfaction, sexually, since the honey- moon ended, and many not even then, and yet their husbands hold and use them as they would a beast of burden, having destroyed all that could have made married life happy and pleasurable. Occasionally one rises from this Sodom of ashes and blighted hopes, and by some change attains a natural and healthy condition and ﬁnds a few years of enjoyment before death, but by far the larger part go drooping to the grave and to spirit life with the effects of blighted hopes stamped on every lineament and feature of the form. ‘Where are the men and women hold enough to speak against this wicked, crushing andpolluting. system as Garrison did against the equally popular, equally just and equally holy in- stitution of chattel-slavery? One feeble, delicate, sensitive and soul-inspired woman stepped to the front as Joan of Arc did in the French army, and called for help, and the sachems of the press and pulpit, whose idolswere exposed, set their shaggy tribe of reporters, drunken and licentious scribblers and bloated officials of the law on her track, with plenty of money and all the power of church and public -opinion to persecute her to the bitter end in death; but the «spirits rescued her, and she is still with us, with the bless- ings of many a heart that never saw her, but which brightens with a momentary glow of hope every time her name is seen or heard, as did the old abolitionist and the slave at the name of Garrison. If she can only live to see the triumph of her great work as he has, it shall be glory enough, if not, she shall look from a higher sphere and see it triumph, and jus- tice be done to woman. ‘ Soon or late it shall come: it must come. Not forever shall half the children be generated against the protest of the mother, to gratify the uncontrolled and un- restrained passions of man. Not forever shall every noble sexual impulse of the female soul be crushed by the slavery of the marriage-bed where reckless passion tortures its vic- time even unto death. lt is vain to cry, these are exceptions. WOODHULL 82; CLAFLIN’S WEEKLYi man to protect her sexual functions against sale or abuse for money or other favors. And this is SooIAL FREEDOM. MOTEIERLAND. Daughters of the nation listen! / Liberty to you appeals! Tearful eyes around you glistcn, While she supplicating kneels. To their homes your fathers brought her Through the ﬂood and ﬁre of war; Through the thunderstorm and slaughter Rolled her fair triumphal car. And they said, “ All men are equal, With inalienable rights;” Little dreaming of the sequel That has ﬁlled the land with blights. For a while their sons defended That great heritage with power; Sought the good that was intended, For the country’s lasting dower. But the demon, slavery, ﬂourished; Half approved and half ignored; At her founts his life was nourish’d, ~. Till he grew to be her lord. Boldly took not heavy duty On such articles as tea; His, not taxes, but rich booty; Even pearls of liberty. Then a lofty manhood crumbled, Like a soulless mass of clay; L For its spirit had been humbled, And its honor swept away. _Droop’d the ﬂag, the stars were broken As by clouds of inky hue! And the stripes disclosed in token Blood and tears that bondage drew. When, at length, its folds were lifted By the soldier‘s dying breath-, Was the nation’s harvest sifted From the bitter seeds of death? Do not intrigue, sloth and plunder Still destroy her ripening grain, While the world is struck with wonder At her turmoil, loss and pain? Is there yet no hope for nations? Must all constitutions fail, And the heart’s uplifted patience, Sink and let despair prevail? Safe between two vailing oceans, . God had kept a land to show When the Church and State commotions Blacken’d earth with crushing woe, When the hells that priests created Lit the inquisition’s flame, And the ﬂesh was satiated In the H oly Spirit’s name. From Republican Genoa To the tortured Spanish land Came a man, impress’d like Noah, With the rescue God had plan’cl. Europe had no aid to furnish: Tyrants heard no pleading tone; They had thrones and arms to burnish, Schemes for prowess, all their own. But a woman heard the story ‘ Of a land beyond the sea; And bright visions of its glory Gifted were her eyes to see; f , She the jewel treasure oifer’d That adorned her as a queen; And the gems thus freely pro1fer’d Bridged the waves to shores unseen, Where shall be a declaration That will make all women free ! Where our eyes shall see a nation That is ﬁt for liberty ! Where the rights, divine and human, Shall forever be secure In the land ﬁrst bought by woman And by her made good and pure. For a government parental Soon will bring true order forth—— Place whate’er is accidental, Build “ new heaven and new earth." Heavy is the task before us, But it takes no winding coursc; Cloudless light is shining;o’er us In this day of vital force. ‘ ——Shcker and Shdkeress, N. I’. SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 14, 1875. Dear Weehly——Within a month I have received letters from three diﬁerent women, in which was written the following in substance: “I hate men. They are all, without exception, selﬁsh, cowardly and false. I cannot see how you, with your knowledge of and experience with" men, can longer trust or place any conﬁdence in them.” Now, while there is a large measure of truth in the above accusation, as applied to men ‘generally, it is after all a very unj ustand exaggerated one. I would not distrust all of man- They have become nearer the rule, and happiness the ex- ’ ception, as divorces, untimely deaths, and living forms with cruciﬁed affections prove.‘ The terrible cruelty depicted by abolitionists was said to be the rare exception to the blessings of slavery, but it was enough. This is ten times more and as far worse as the sensitive nature of such minds is above the ‘negro slaves, or their brutal husbands. ‘Ne have traveled many years and been all the time a stu- dent of social life and the relations of the sexes, and made it and the sexual nature of man an especial study, and we « speak with knowledge on this subject when we say that atl this time our marriage system creates more misery, more i wickedness, more crime than any if not all other causes in the country; and we know there is no remedy but the legal and social equality of the sexes, with personal liberty for each to protect and control his or or her own body, and powerin wo- kind because of individual falthlessness, any more than I would lose faith in my own sex, because a few or many women prove faithless to truth and duty. But there is a deep signiﬁcance in the words, “I hate men.” when uttered by a woman whom we know to possess a large en- endowment of love and sympathy; they contain alife his- tory within themselves; they tell a tale of repeated wrongs and outrages by man against woman; they speak the fact of the betrayal of woman’s love and conﬁdence. I am familiar with the history of the different women who penned those words to me. They have indeed been wronged, deceived and defrauded by men, not only in business transac- tions, but in the deeper, more vital affairs of the affections. They have been the victims of loveless, uncongenial mar- riages; and, worse still, have been sexually enslaved, and the bitterness of their experiences still rankles in their hearts, corroding the fountain-springs of human love and joy. / 3 In this connection a leaf from my own history may not be out of place. Though my own marriage experience was not a happy one, from causes not relevant to this statement, yet » in justice to the man whose name I bear and who is the father of mylittle ones, I must give testimony to the fact that I was never a victim of sexual abuse. Right royally did he respect the sovereignty and sacredness of my sexhood; and for this reverence of my womanhood my heart ever has and ever will bless him. It is a {joy to me to know that the sexual func- tions of my being have suffered no profanation of their holi- est uses by any act of his. And when there is a proper en- lightenment upon all that is involved in this sexual problem, and man and woman live naturally, all sexual antagonisms and dissatisfactions will have an end. * .As for myself I would not for anything lose faith in man- hood, and though I ﬁnd myself deceived, my conﬁdence be- trayed once, twice or thrice, I shall still hold fast to my faith, shall still take them to my heart as a friend, brother or lover, and believe them to be good, noble and true, until their con- duct compels me to renounce such conﬁdence; but all the while would I strive to hold myself so self-sustained and free of all bonds that bind too closely, that if the trusted and loved prove false and recreant, I shall not be dragged down from life’s calm height nor be discrowned of my womanly self-poise and dignity. ,_ ‘ No, I cannot “hate Amen,” nor put out of my heart the beautiful ideal of love’s own divine creation, but ever with "extended hand I greet the touch and clasp the palm of noble manhood. And yet no woman utters stronger or more in- dignant protest against all the wrongs which woman suffers at the hands of man; against whatever there is in established laws and customs that gives man authority or dictatorship over woman, but not because I believe all men tyrants nor all women slaves. The great need of the hour is enlighten- ment regarding the laws of being, and of sexuality most of all. An intelligent understanding of the laws of sex and an open and digniﬁed discussion of these by men and women, to the end of evolving‘a true social and sexual science, will do more to advance the well-being of humanity and a true appreciation of manhood and womanhood,each for the other, than all the pious homilies that were ever written regarding the duties of husbands and wives. And then the experiences of _woman will not be of a nature to embitter all the heart- springs of her life, and cause her lips to speak with all the impassioned earnestness of an outraged soul, “ I hate men ;” but, as my own heart does to—day, woman would everywhere invoke brightest blessings and sweetest benedictions upon the heads of the noble men of this age and of all time——upon royal manhood, clothed in the strength, dignity and sweet- ness of honor, truthfulness and spirituality. In the love of ‘ justice to both men and women, I am, fraternally, ELVIRA WHEELOC K RUGGLES. KEEP OLD FRIENDs.—-Why have we cutters and grinders in our mouths? That our food may be thoroughly chewed. To keep these teeth, then, is a prime necessity, and nothing is better for this purpose than Brown’s Oamphorated Sapon- aceous Dentifrice,which cleanses the mouth, strengthens the teeth and preserves them. MRS. WOODHULL IN MICHIGAN. [From the Daily Times, Grand Rapids, Feb. 14.-, 1875.] Victoria 0. Woodhull gave a splendid lecture before a large audience at the Opera House last evening. The subject was “ The Destiny of the Republic,” and was handled with rare eloquence. [From the Democrat, Grand Rapids, 1l[z'ch., Feb. 14, 1875.] Last evening, até the Opera House, Victoria 0. Woodhull gave her famous lecture, “The Destiny of the Republic.” The audience was as large as has greeted any lecturer this season. Previous to opening her lecture she gave a reading from Macbeth in a way that showed that she might have made a good reputationas an actress. {Mrs Woodhull’s man- nor: on the stage is graceful and her enunciation clear and distinct, and her lecture abounded in striking dramatic eﬂ"ects.§ O PRESS PIE. A NATURAL INTERPRETATIoN.—Sunday schocl teacher-a “What do you understand by ‘suﬁering for righteousness sake?’ ’j Boy (promptly)—“ Practisin’ hymns in the mornin’, teacher, and Sunday school in the afternoon, and Bible class in the evenin’.”—N. Y. Sun. A MONTANA paper thinks there is an awful fuss being made over the Beecher trial. “ Why,” it says, “ right out here is Bill Casey. He went into a family, married one girl, spoiled ’nother, and has run away with the third; and yet there is with a riﬂe looking around after Bill.” ’ THERE is a. clergyman in ‘Worcester, Mass, whose name is Parry, and a committee of his church have requested the Worcester Press to stop reporting his pulpit discourses. The Press agrees to this petition. “ While the Beecher-Tilton trial continues ”—such is the judgment of the editor-—“ there is no need of publishing Mr. Parry’s sermons.”——N. Y. Sun. AUSTRIA seems to lead the world in recognirjmg the rights of women. The employment of women in the Austrian tele- graph service having given satisfactory results, the Minister of Commerce has adopted thesystem in the Post-Office, and the railway.boards have been asked to report on its extension to railways. _ ELLEN B. KINGSLEY, of Olathe, Kan., has been invited to address the Legislature of» that State on the industrial educa- tion of women.——N. Y. I/Vorld. ' ’ THE American Free Dress League will hold a convention at Worcester, -Mass., on February 25 and 26. What the League is after is a better way to dress women.~——N. Y. Sun. Mas. LYDIA BRADLEY, a wealthy widow of Peoria, Ill., and a large stockholder of the Eirst National Bank of that place, has just been elected ﬁrst director of the bank. no trial, no statements, no nothing, only" just the old man I 4 I WOODHULL a,cLArL1n's WEEKLY 5 March 6, 1875. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYABLE IN AnvANcu. One copy for one year, . $3 00 One copy for six months, - - - - - - 1 50 Single copies, - - - - - - I 10 CLUB RATES. Five copies for one year, - - - . $12 00 '.R”en copies for one year. - - - - - 22 00 Twenty copies (or more at same rate), - - «’ - 40 00 Six months. ' ' ' ‘ - - One-half these rates. 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THE TRIAL. - The WEEKLY, in its issue of Sept. 12, 1874, asserted that in the Beecher—Tilton case not only was the Pastor of Ply- mouth on trial, but“ society and religion. Many believed, at that time, that the position taken by us was somewhat strained; but it appears we did not go far enough. The fol- lowing extract from the leading article of the New York Herald, of February 20, shows that the law itself and its operations must be added to the list of the, culprits now ar- raigned before the bar of the public press: Another discovery is that it is possible, upon a simple action involving an issue that could be decided in a day, for the law to run into an endless waste of time. Any dozen shrewd, common-sense, business men, with the machinery of. the law at their command, could take Mr. Beecher, Mr. Tilton and the two or three essential witnesses into a room, and in a day ascertain the truth or falsehood of this charge. But by the operation of our law weeks pass on. and no one can say what real progress has been made toward the truth. This is not justice. Suppose the Judge or one of the jury- men should die? Su ppose, as many observers contend, the jury should disagree? How could Mr. Tilton sustain a new trial? How could the attorneys go through with it? Any process of justice which requires weeks to examine two wit- nesses is false. Still another theory worthy of note is the averment of Mr. Tilton that a wife can be disloyal to her husband, and at the same time “ pure ” and " white—souled.” This dogma is more dangerous to the peace of society than any propounded by Mrs. Woodhull, and can never be accept- ed. It is as fantastic as Mr. Tilton’s somewhat celebrated theory that Mrs. Woodhull used to sit on the roof of a Murray Hill house and allow the spirit of Demosthenes to speak through her. ‘It is a. sad comment upon the state of morals engendered by Plymouth church. When Napoleon the First was at St. Helena, {he asked Gen- erals Bertrand and Montholon on what his fame would be likely" to rest. His friends gave differing answers, but both were based on some of his numerous military achievements. To them he replied: “ N o, gentlemen, I shall go down to posterity with my Code in my hand. I have simpliﬁed the laws of France, so that the people there can obtain sure and speedy justice.” It was known that Sir Robert Peel, the greatest by far of modern English statesmen, who remodeled the money system of Great Britain, was revolving the intro. duction of a simpliﬁcation of the legal system of his "country also, at the period of his untimely death. For ourselves, we can. only speak of the law as a merciless oppressor, which has grievously injured us beyond reparation, although we hope the justice of our legislators at Washington will be speedily .moved to a partial removal of the wrongs we have suffered. But until a woman sits on the bench as well as a man to try cases affecting woman, and until women are represented in the jury box as well as on the bench,‘ we fear that ourselves and our sisters must continue to suffer under the inﬂiction of male injustice. As the New» York Herald appears to admit the truth of this last assertion in the case Of M1'S- Tl1t0I1. We quote from two of its leaders published during the last Week. The first is on the subject of calling on Mrs. Tilton for her rebutting evidence in the case: A Western” newspaper says that the attorneys of Mr. Tilton will oppose Mrs. Tilton as a witness. This would‘ jar every sentiment of fair play. There can be no fair inquiry which does not embrace the evidence of Mrs. Tilton. For, although only a woman after all, she has some rights, a name to vindi- cute, and, we should think, a story to tell. Somehow neither plaintiﬁ nor defendant l as cared much about the woman, who has only come into the case to be trodden under foot. ‘ This is strong testimony. It is hard to be "‘ troddcn un- der foot” in a court of law, but that is the measure of man’s justice in the case of woman. The second extract is still more to the purpose, justifying, in our opinion, all the an- imadversions of the VVEEKLY upon the subject: The most striking discovery is the relation between hus- band and wife. If anything has been clear to our minds it is that the marriage condition is one of sacred conﬁdence. Blessed by God, it is the holiest of human associations. No statute can interfere with it. This is as it should be. But the Brooklyn trial makes another precedent. According to this the husband may go upon the stand and swear his wife intd infamy. Her letters and communications become a part of his attack. But the wife can say nothing. In other words, any husband can testify to his fears and his suspicions, to statements. confessions and narratives going to show that he had been wronged. The wife, who knows in her heart whether she is guilty or innocent, can say nothing. ‘We con- fess we can see no justice in this law unless we accept the theory that a. woman is a bit of property who fulﬁlls certain dependent oﬂices in the marriage relation, whose honor may be sworn away when it pleases her husband without any op- portunity of vindicating herself. Who knows better than Mrs. Tilton whether she is guilty or innocent? Who has more at stake in this issue? Who has as much? Her name, her woman’s honor, and the happiness of ‘her children are in peril. Mr. Beecher, if he is convicted, loses his place as a Christian minister, while Mr. Tilton becomes “rehabiltated,” and Mr. Moulton is “rehabilitated.” If acquitted, then we learn that Mr. Tilton has all this time been under an hallu- cination. The issue is. therefore, whether Mr. Beecher shall be degraded and Mr. Tilton “rehabilitated” and made the same Theodore that he was before Mr. Beecher drove him into biographical literature. But the woman——what is to become of her? She can say nothing. She must lie down and be trampled in the dust, that her husband or her pastor may be freed from stain. , In commenting: upon the above extract we would say that we agree withithe Herald I that when natural and not merely legal, the rrionogamic relation is worthy of all honor; but, if people whi) have entered into it are not naturally monogamic, no law, either ecclesiastical or civil, can bind them to their coiitr-act, and we question the right of either churches, societies, or legislatures to aim to compel or enforce obedience to their dictates, for nature will assert herself abovefall their rulings, and all that laws can do in such cases is to add to inconstancy—lying, knavery, and hypocrisy. Our War is not against life-long unions of affec- tion between men and women, but against the vain effort to construct such unions by man-made laws. lVhere love exists between the parties such bonds are unnecessary; where it does not, such ligaments are useless and will be as easily and as surely broken as the threads of tow were by Samson the Israelite. And when broken—-what then ? What right have churches or societies or legislatures to legislate on the sub- ject ‘E The right of all human beings to personal sovereign- ty, wc hold, can only be limited or interfered with when the abuse of that power conflicts with the same right in another or others. But we fearlessly as sert that man claims and exercises this right in the majority of instances. In the case before us, should the pastor of Plymouth be found guilty, it is very questionable whether his congrega- tion will desert him. No l the real penalty will fall upon the “bit of property”——the- woman. When we consider the penalty inflicted by society we question whether any consideration would justify a man in surrendering a woman to its merciless and barbarous tortures. The man is to be respected as things are now, who would sacriﬁce truth, justice, and honor for her protection, inasmuch as it would be a greater infamy in him to abandon his mate to the scorn and contempt of the W0lld,,_i.h8.I1 to bear, for a season, a far lesser infliction himself? But in the meantime we commend to the notice of the women of the Republic the fearful admissions of our con- temporary, viz. : Somehow neither plaintiﬁ nor defendant has cared much about the woman, who has only come into the case to be trodden under foot. Which statement is further enforced by the close of the second extract, viz. : ’ She must lie down and be trampled in the dust, in order that her husband or her pastor may be free from stain. We conclude with declaring that the mission of the WEEK- LY will not be fulﬁlled until woman shall be recognized an independent unit in all relations of life, as round and full as her mate; and furthermore, until she wrests this status from the tyranny of man, she must of necessity submit to the inﬂictions so ably treated of by the New York Herald. 1‘ 4 V 17* A VOICE FROM THE SUMMER—LAND. From a jelly dot to a mollusk, from a mollusk to a ﬁsh, from a ﬁsh to a reptile, from a repti_le toa mammal, such, it is plain, has been the order of march of the natural world. Geologists also tells us that these successive waves of for- mation have a sort of double motion, that in each separate advance the magnates of the incoming procession enter ﬁrst; then follows an age of quiescence, to be succeeded by a period of disintegration and decay, terminating with the rise of another grand entrance of a new development of animal creation. In the moral world the changes have been similar. From vegetable to animal life, from animal life to instinct, from instinct to reason, so has the march of mind kept pace with that of matter. To us there appears to have been no pause in either; the progress of both _has been steady throughout. - It is believed by many that we are now entering upon another advance, which may be termed the commingling of the spheres. All the great sacred books of the world have long foreshadowed this change, and none more so than the Bible. From ﬁrst to last that book treats of the subject of spiritual manifestations, and in it we are assured by the great Nazarene that such shall continue. “And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues ; ’ v “ They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” e . As with Christianity, so with Mohammedanism, Brah- minism and Buddhism ; they all claim to be based on what we term manifestations, but they deem miracles. Probably no change of man’s religious belief has ever occurred that has not claimed more or less of such accompaniments. As Spiritualists we are free to confess that we see no reason to disputethe truth of many of their statements, believing that human beings, in a high degree of purity, are in a ﬁt state to be able to receive them. For this reason we respect the manifestations and materialization that are now constantly occurring here and in; other countries, deeming that they herald the grandest advance that has ever been made by human beings. It is with these feelings that we respectfully call to the notice of our readers an elucidation of the social question published in the Banner of Light, and purporting to come from the good reformer, Theodore Parker: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Q.———Something like the following was said by Theodore Parker: “ The laws regulating marriage should be more stringent than they are now.” Would he tell us in what re- spect the law should be more stringent, and at the same time give an outline or the form of such a law? A.—In speaking of law, with reference to the marriage question, I did not intend to convey the idea that I had ref- erence to any civil law—to any law made by humans, but to that divine law that binds soul and soul together when they are truly wedded. Now. then, I believe that no two can be happily, permanently, or divinely married unless they have been brought under the action and continue under the action of this divine law. When once it ceases to act in their case, they are no longer wedded. But if two persons come to- gether in the marriage relation with a proper understanding of each other, there need not be, in myopinion. so many mar- riages that come to grief in so short a time. Indeed, where- as they are now but temporal. they would then be eternal. I have never yet met with any spirit, or class of spirits, who have ever pretended to know what kind of a code of laws could be gotten up by humans that would perfectly answer the demands of the marriage state; but, on the contrary, all intelligent and advanced spirits declare that as marringe is of God, it is therefore divine, and cannot be brought under the action of any civil or human law with good results. The law should go back of the marriage ceremony, and should say unto parties contemplating marriage: “ You must be ed- ucated with reference to yourselves and life, ere you can enter this solemn, this holy realm. Having done that—-hav- ing enforced the law upon the two with reference to educa- tion, it is contended by intelligent spirits that human. law can carry them no further, and has no business with the marriage relation. After that it is a mere farce, a ceremony like that of baptism, like that of shaking hands. A civil con- tract you say it is. Well, unhappily it too often proves very uncivil, and why? Because of your ign‘orance——because the law has not demanded that you should be educated with reference to this most important step ‘in life. I say again that the law governing in this respect should be far more stringent than,that under which it now ﬁnds expression, and by which it is so poorly protected; but since I ﬁnd nothing stringent enough in the human code of morals or justice, I must look to divine law, and so far as marriage is concerned as an entity, it must be bound by the law of heaven, which is the action of divine forces, and not by any civil code. By- and—by, when the planet has grown a little older——when in- telligence has risen a little higher, because the planet has been enabled to give birth to higher forms of life, higher con- ditions of being, then this thing will regulate itself, as all other conditions in life have and will. That there was a ne- cessity for human law in the past, and tnat it exists in the . present, I with others ﬁrmly believe; but I also believe that the necessity exists per virtue of your ignorance, and not because marriage calls for the exercise of human law to sanc- tion its manifestations. to this great question, and doubtless much will be said; but, after all, nature in her own quiet and divine way will settle the thing amicably for you. There is nothing in the above statement which does not agree with the teachings of the WEEKLY. If all human beings were naturally monogamic, it would be all that need to be said upon the subject. The deﬁnition of true mar- riage, its time of dissolution, the folly of human law upon the subject, the grave necessity for the full physiological education of children, all these are consistent with our de- mands. But while the rights of women on aifectional ques- tions are trampled under foot by man’s laws, we hold it to be our duty to do our best to assist mankind in coming to better conclusions than at present exist in the civilized world. 4;. 4 7 ‘yr ULTIMA SUSPIRO DEL MORO. The last sigh of the Moor I So the Spaniards still term the hill from which Boabdil el Chico took his farewell look at Spain. We have selected its name for a heading, though really what we intend it to introduce in our columns might better be termed “The last sigh of the Caucasian I ” * Some fortnight since Mayor Wickham, of New York, re- fused point-blank to marry a mulatto and a white woman who desired his services. On this the Dag/’s.Doin,r/s says: “Mr. Wickhain knew that‘ there is a high unwritten law which girds society and is the bulwark, not perhaps of our political liberties, but of those more sacred rights which belong to us from the mere fact that we are of the Cauca- sian race, the highest type of humanity. To enjoy these rights we pay in duty a fealty to that race. A negro is a free agent to vote, so is a white man. We deny that either is, in the sense in which we take it when the question touches miscegenation. The operation is an insult to civili- zation, to every White man and woman, and should be Much has been said with reference we / ‘x. r "'52 / ‘N. T March 6, 1875. frowned upon by all who love their race and desire to pre- serve it in its purity.” The WEEKLY agrees with the Days Doings, that there is a high unwritten law in aﬁectional matters far above and entirely independent of all the ecclesiastical or civil laws of humanity. As to its “ girding society,” that we dispute, although we believe it ought to do so. The mere fact that Mayor Wickham is of the Caucasian race does not em- power him to annul the personal rights of another person of that or any other race, more especially when there is no law authorizing such action on his part. A negro or a inulatto is by law a citizen of the United States, and unless citizen- ship be a farce, holds all the rights pertaining to other citizens. He is a free agent to vote and a free agent to choose his mate. The question is not a matter of taste but a matter of right. If United States’ citizens may not inter- marry, the law should so direct, but it does not, and there- fore the inference is, that the nation will not..stultify itself in the matter of annihilating the most sacred right of citizen- ship. As to whether “ the operation is an insult to civiliza- tion,” we answer, that it is not so considered outside of the Union, and that the observation would not now be sanc- tioned by any ecclesiastical body within it. In our opinion the action of Mayor Wickham was an in- sult to our national law and a dereliction of duty. “Then men and women are reduced to consult the taste of officials before they mate, they are social slaves. Whether it is wise for the races to unite is one question, whether they have the right so to do is another. We hold the latter position, and should do so if tons of man—made laws stood in the way. At present, however, there are none. And we have a right to object to any individual improvising edicts upon the mat- .ter to suit his taste or inclination, and by so doing overriding the most sacred of all the rights of his fellow—citizens. 4‘ 4 V wﬁ A cool) OMEN. The following signiﬁcant heading appeared on the ﬁf- teenth page of the New York Herald, on Sunday, Februar 14. 'We give it as printed in that paper: - RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. MINISTERIAL AND CHURCH MovEMENTs. DECLINE or EPISCOPACY. UNIVERSALISM AND SPIRITUALISM TO THE FRONT. This, in the most popular and important press in the country, proves the advance of Spiritualism and speaks volumes to the wise. man 4 f yrﬁ PRURIENT PURITY. The poet Burns dedicated one of his lyrics “ To the unco’ guid, and the rigidly righteous,”—people Who are so good themselves, So pious and so holy, They’ve nothing left to do but tell , Their neighbor’s faults and folly- and pilloried in the same the canting Christians of Scotland. We are sorry to have to state that we have many of the breed here, though they may be better deﬁned as semi- I Christians and Americans. The same animus, however, is visible in them also, proving that both parties are lineal de- scendents of the ancient Pharisees of J udea. It is a melan- choly fact that there are a few of the kind who usurp the name of Spiritualists, though such bigotry and charlatanry are certainly totally inconsistent with the freedom claimed by the majority of S piritualists. Our higlily-respected contem- porary, Common Sense, of San Francisco, Cal., presents us, in its thirty-ninth number, with the following case in point: Emma Hardinge Britten declares herself still a spiritualist and a. medium, but she is so much opposed to “ social free- dom ” that she will neither speak from a free platform nor write for a free-thought paper. She uses other words to ex- press this fact, but this is what she means. We do not care to deﬁle the columns of Common Sense with the epithets some extra pure people apply to social reformers. It is quite prob- able that if we had the same vile thing in our minds when We speak of “social freedom ” that they have, we should denounce it also, though, we trust, in gentler language; but the truth is that the very terms Which, to their minds, seem to call up so much that is detestable, suggest to our own only ideas of purity. Word~s seem to have lost their meaning of late when applied to the relations of the sexes. To the pure, all things are pure. The fable instructs us that a spider will suck poison from ﬂowers, where the bee obtains only honey. 1t is because the establishment of the doctrine of the personal sovereignty of woman would origi- nate greater purity in the sexual relations that it meets with the hatred of a debauched society, and the opposition of the lecherous therein. The _WEEKLY accepts as compliments the maledictions of a corrupt world anda still more corrupt priesthood. It will live to remodel the one and annihilate the other. In the meantime, it admits their wisdom in re- sorting to vituperation when they cannot enforce silence. They have no case against the WEEKLY, and, in consequence, are in a measure justiﬁed in refusing to argue the merits of the question; in this they follow the advice of the old law- yer, whose custom was, when he found himself in a similar situation, to waste no time in discussion, but to revile and abuse his opponent’s counsellors. ’ ' JAM‘? r TW WHOLESALE DIVORCE. The propriety of occasionally loosening the bonds of mat- rimony is pithily sketched in the following proposition of a member of the Idaho Legislature, and is a good precursor of that better order of social aifairs—that good time coming —-—when men and women will have:suﬁicient conﬁdence in one another’s aﬁections to dispense entirely with the services either of priests or magistrates. The item is taken from the New York Sun : So many applications for divorce have been made to the Idaho Legislature, that Mr. Paddock has introduced a bill divorcing all the married people in the Territory and placing them in statu qua ante matrimonium. This, he says,will save time, and those who wish can be remarried. Of course it will be to the interest of the lawyers there to prevent the above bill from becoming a law. But it would certainly, not only there but elsewhere, save time, trouble, and expense to the community. It would not injure those who are really married and desirous of remaining so, whilst it would greatly beneﬁt those of a contrary opinion. Oh, when will the time arrive when children will be begotten in liberty! Not until then can we hope to see human beings really fit for freedom. ' mag 4 7 yr COMMUNISTIC SOCIETIES . Mr. N ordhoif has done the world a service in publishing his able and temperate description and view of the Com- munistic Societies of the'United States. »After this, we trust, we shall hear no more of the Podsnappian pooh! pooh! with which the subject has been treated of late by the tinselled ignoramuses of society. The conditions under which the members of such associations exists, are well summed up in the following statements of Mr. Nordhoff, for a knowledge of which we are indebted to the Oneida 03"7°cuZar.' “Nothing surprises me more, in my investigations of the communistic societies, than to discover—- 1st. The amount and variety of business and mechanical skill which is found in every Commune, no matter what is the character or intelligence of its members; and 2d. The ease and certainty with which the brains come to the top. Of course this last is a transcendent merit in any system of government. The fundamental principle of Communal life is the subordi- nation of _the individual’s will to the general interest or the general will: practically, this takes the shape of unquestion- ing obedience by the members toward the leaders, elders, or. chiefs of their society. But as the leaders take no important step without the un- animous consent of the membership; and as it is apart of the Communal policy to set each member to that work which he can do best, and so far as possible to please all; and as the Communist takes life easily, and does not toil as severely as the individualist——so, given a general assent to the principle of obedience, and practically little hardship occurs. The political system of the lcarians appears to me the worst, or most faulty, and that of the Shakers, Rappists and Amana Communists, the best and most successful, among all the societies. In a Commune no member is a servant; if any servants are kept, they are hired from among the world’s people. When the Kentucky Shakers organized, they not only liber- ated their slaves, but such of them as became Shakers were established in an independent Commune or family by their former masters. They “ ceased to be servants, and became brethren in the Lord.” Any one who has felt the oppressive burden of even the highest and best-paid kinds of service will see that indepen- dence and equality are great boons, for which many a man willingly sacrifices much else. Moreover, the security against want and misfortune, the sure provision for old age and inability, which the com- munal system offers-—is no doubt an inducement with a great many to whom the struggle for existence appears difﬁcult and beset by terrible chances. ’ Communism was instituted by the immediate followers of Jesus, absolute communism; nor is there any account in the Bible of its ever having been condemned by them. By our present system, each distributor is a sort of a legal robber on his own account, and makes his living by preying on his neighbors. There is no reason why a city like New York should not purchase - its coal, I grain, ﬂour, dry goods, &c., wholesale; collecting and distributing the necessaries of life for itself. If one dry goods dealer can save one hundred millions of dollars in a generation, it is certain that a well organized system of purchase and distribution could save four times that sum in the same space of time for the beneﬁt of the whole of the inhabitants of New York. There is no just reason’ why a man who pur- chases for cash in small quantities should be victimized as he is now, and a provident city would protect its humbler in- habitants against such injustice. We are glad to note that the Granges are rising to protect their members in such par- ticulars: they are learning to dispense with idle middlemen, and to dealen masse for such articles as they need. While on the subject of Communism, we take the liberty of making an extract from the cross-examination of Theodore Tilton, ' in which he defends the late Communists of Paris, with in- tent of making an amendment thereto: Q.——What do you understand by the Commune of France? A.—-After the fall of the empire, France was agitated with the question: What should be the new government? Those of her citizens who love America and American liberty said, “ Let us have a government such as they have in the United States—a government of representation.” And the .Com- munists, so—called, are those people in France who believe in governing Paris by precisely the same system of government under which we live in Brooklyn. For instance, what would be thought if the Mayor of this city should insist upon ap- pointing all the aldermen of all the wards, and denying to the people of the wards the right to elect their aldermen? It would be a revolutionary proceeding. We hold to the op- posite view. Every ward in this city elects its aldermen, and the Mayor has no right to interfere. Now the Com- _, munists in Paris insisted that in the formation of the new government every ward of the city——in other Words, every commune—should elect its representative, and the Mayor‘ should not appoint their representatives. In other words, communism in Paris is local self—government, as we practise it in every American city- On the other hand. that which is called republicanism in France is that which if it was brought to this country would be denominated despotism, and we would not permit it for an hour. Every democratic citizen of Brooklyn, if he lived in Paris, would, by virtue of his American antecedents and the principles of Thomas Jef- ferson. be a. communist, and nothing else. There was a deeper grievance of which the people of Paris WOODHULL 8; CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. 5 had just cause to complain; it was this: The Assembly at Versailles passed a bill authorizing the people of the cities. to elect their own Mayors. President Thiers refused to sign it; he declared that he would surrender the presidency sooner than do so. He was willing that towns and cities. having twenty thousand inhabitants and under should elect. such officers; but claimed that in all the larger cities the mayors should be appointed by the government. We sub.- mit that this is an important addition to the above. __i_. 4 r wvs ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. S. W. B., Broolclyn.-—Your EPlymouth Church motto is. good. Luther,writing to Melancthon, says: “ Sin boldly, but let your faith be greater than your sin. Sin will not destroy in us the name of the Lamb, though we were to commit murder or fornication a thousand times a day,”- Labor, Detroit, Jlfrlch.-—There is as much domineering in the workshop as outside of it. When workers cease to desire to rule over each other, none will be able to tyrannize over them. lows: True love’s the gift that God hath given To man alone beneath the heaven; It is not fantasy’s hot ﬂame, Whose wishes, soon as granted; ﬂy; It liveth not in ﬁerce desire, With dead desire it cloth not die. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which, heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind. S. S. Lcunbertcz'lle, Pct.-—When Cleopatras or Katharines rule, promiseuity is the order of the day. Such women occupy their full share in the history of the wdrld. Modern so- ciety rarely considers “rich incontinence ” a crime, but always treats “poor continence” as an unmitigated atrocity. As Evelyn says, in the play of “ Money”: “ The crime does not lie in the gambling, but in the losing ”—-in the poverty, not in the incontinence. John Williams, Cincinnati, 0.-There is no law in‘ the United States Constitution or elsewhere forbidding women to 7 vote; and Congress is ashamed to institute legally what; it is not ashamed to permit underhandedly—viz., the refusal of the electoral franchise to women. Music, Detroit, M£c7t.—Song has conquered armies. Fer. dinand, of Spain, forbade any Spanish soldier to sing the “Moorish Wail for the Loss of A1hama” under pain of death; and “We Wait beneath the Furnace Blast” the Hutchinson family were forbidden to sing within the lines of the Army of the Potomac, at the commencement of the War of the Rebellion. Dr. Syntax, Troy. N. Y.—Rich people generally send their children away frornhome to be educated, and they act; wisely in so doing. Mothers are poor educators for girls, and far worse for boys—-at least, that is our opinion. X., Zconescille, .0.——All history proves that successful soldiers play the devil with republics. It is easy to get a mili- tary officer into a President’s chair, but it is not so easy to get him out of it. Contraband, N. Y.—-As you say, Mayor Wickham refused to marry a couple who presented themselves before hing. the one being a spruce, well-dressed colored man; the other, a pretty white woman--for-which he merits the compliments of the WEEKLY. We do not think the. parties left‘ singing paeans to the liberty vouchsafed them in this Republic. The Bible says: “ God made of one blood all the dwellers upon earth,” but probably the Mayor is a Darwinian. He, says: “ It can’t be done.” Plcnndealer, Newctrlc, N. J.——To use the words of Wendell Phillips: “All that the laborer asks is justice, not charity; all woman asks is justice, not pity; all the negro asks is justice, not humanity.” Our motto isathat of the ancient Roman: “Feet jestitia, ruat ccelmn.” S. M, Quebec, O'co.—-Doctors differ respecting vaccination. We hold that people are right who refuse to submit to the operation, but cannot here give space for the reasons .which warrant such conclusion. In England lately some persons were imprisoned for refusing to be vaccinated, but were honored by a torchlight procession when they regained their liberty. Amerzeus, Pltiladclphze, Pct.—-We hold that only the lan- guage of the country should be taught in the public schools. The best bend a nation can have is unity of lan- guage. To introduce another or others is a misuse of the public money for the evil purpose of weakening the nation by instituting Babel. L- Skeptic, Alteona, Pa.-—Thomas Paine said that “to do good” was his religion. The New York Herald, of Feb, 14, indorses that statement in the following item: “ What is the useof going to church to-day unless you do some good to your unfortunate neighbor? Do you suppose your solicitude for your own soul will compensate for . your neglect of somebody else’s body?” These questions have the hang of good spiritualism, for Spiritualists know that the best means of developing their own souls is by doing their duty toward the physical, intellectual and moral development of those of their neighbors. M. W., Peorze, Ill.-——Love is deﬁned by Walter Scott as fol- \-;’_.~.._.x;'.;s'.-J..;. .- ‘L- . 35» _ went into the dining room for a glass of water. Bessie Turner. WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. March 6, 1875. . INCIDENTS OF THE TlLTON—BEECHER TRIAL. - "MONDAY, FEB. 15TH. : — I * ‘ After a recess of three days, Mr. Evarts again continued liislcross-examination of Theodore Tilton, which, when con- cluded, was followed by a re-direct examination by Mr. Ful- lerton. In the course of the latter, Mr. Tilton thus stated his present position in regard to free love: ‘ Q. Have, you ever advocated this doctrine of free love? A. I have never; and all my writings contain repeated evi- dence of condemnation, long before I had occasion to ﬁnd ' that there had been free love in my own house, and that my . family had been destroyed thereby. Q. Your doctrine is that the civil law should regulate marriage? A. Yes, sir; I regarded marriage as a contract, and I wanted the civil law to regard that contract liberally. —-N. Y. Sun. i ' COMMENTS. The last remark is well put. Liberally, very liberally, most liberally, and marriage looked upon by law as any other partnership, that is the true doctrine. ’If nature does not bind men and women, the law cannot. I Q. When. you wrote the letter to Dr. Bacon, what had oc- curred in reference to the scandal" so-called, that induced you to write that letter? A. There had occurred a series of measures in Plymouth Church detrimental to me. There had occurred a council growing out of those measures, wherein Plymouth Church was arraigned. and there had occurred a defense on the part of Plymouth Church to that council which represented me as having brought dishonor on the Christian name, whereas it was another man who had brought such dishonor. And there had occurred a public lecture by Dr. Bacon, the moderator of that council, who went home after the council was adjourned, and said publicly in New Haven, summing up the results of the council, that Iwas a knave and a dog, and Mr. Beecher the most magnanimous man. And there had occurred also after that a series of articles in the lndependciiit, by Dr. Bacon, ﬁve or six in number, em- phasizing that idea. There had occurred also a public insult to Mrs. Tilton and me by Mr. Thomas G. Shearman, clerk of Plymouth Church. ‘ _ TUESDAY, FEB. 13TH. On this day, a new witness, Mrs. Kate Carey, who had been employed as a wet-nurse by Mrs. Tilton, gave the fol- lowing highly important evidence: A Q. Where did you seehim? A. I saw him going into Mrs. Tilton’s room several times before we went to the country, shutting the door after him, but I didn’t notice or hear any talk. . ' Q. What room was it that he went in? A. In her own bedroom, right over the hall as you come in; there are four rooms on one floor; it is a small frame cottage house; I was in the next room when he went in her bedroom; there are folding doors between; I could see him go in. _ Q. Did you say the doors were locked? A. No; the doors were open, and Mrs. Tilton got up and shut the folding doors. Q. Where was your room with reference to theirs? A. My room, when I went there, was next to ,Mrs. Tilton’s; I had a lounge to sleep on. Q. Was this before she went to Monticello or after her re- turn? A. Before. ‘ Q. Did you see anything else before the family went to Monticello? A. No, sir; I did not. Q.'Did you see anything after their return? A. I did; I saw her in the back parlor sitting on Mr. Beecher’s knee. 1 I came from my nursery up-stairs. Q. What part of the parlor were they sitting in? A. In the corner off the dining room. What time of day was this? A. It was getting on to dusk; in the evening. _ Q. Where were you when you saw them thus sitting? A. I was going around to the dining-room table to. get a glass of water. Q. Did you see them distinctly? A. I did. Q. What kind of doors were there between you and them? A. Folding doors. ‘ Q. Were they open? A. Yes, sir; they were very little apart, but you could see. Did you see anything else after their return? A. I saw her hand on his shoulder, and he says, “How do you feel, Elizabeth?” “ Dear father,” she said, “ I feel so, so.” [Laugh- ter.] She was then sitting on his lap. ‘ I Q21 Did you hear distinctly the words, “dear father?” A. di sir. “ Did you see anything else? A. N o, sir, I did not. I went with my glass of water to the nursery and I said nothing to nobody. Q. How long was this after the return from Monticello? A. To my recollection, I think it was about three weeks. Q. How often, if at all, beyond the time that you speak of, did Mr. Beecher call at the house while you were there ? A. Well, he called several times: he called, I think, four or ﬁve ‘ times before she got out of her bed to go to Monticello. After her return I don’t know how frequently he called. The notes and letters would come, up to the waiter-girl _to. bring the message down, but she would always go down in the parlor and entertain him. I never carried any notes for Mrs. Til- ton. I left her employ in the fall. I can’t recollect what time I left, but the difficulty I had for leaving her was through We had a few words. This closed Mrs. Cary’s testimony on the direct examina- tion. Neither Mr. Moulton nor Mr. Tilton‘ had as witnesses at any time held their, auditors to such ﬁxed advertence. The Plymouth lawyers and attendants had not missed a word of the unexpected recital, and at its close they had nothing to say to” each other. Even Brother Halliday had forgotten to appear indifferent. Mr. Shearman had made his memoranda as fast as he could scribble and handed them to Mr. Evarts _ Ancient Pistol modiﬁes the word “ thieve ” by saying “Convey, the wise it call.’’ In the opinion of the‘ WEEKLY the word “impropriety,” as used in the above quotation, is an improvement upon the same in the matter of delicacy. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17. This day was occupied by the re-direct examination of Mr. Tilton by Mr. Fullerton. From it, in the absence of the pro- prietor and Chief Editor of the WEEKLY, the Associate Editor deems it ﬁtting to make the following extract, rather for the information of the general public than the instruction of our readers: ' Q. You have spoken of several visits which you made to Mrs. Woodhull at her residence in the city of New York. I wish to ask you whether, at the time these visits were respec- tively made, her husband was at home? A. Yes, sir, I think he was in‘ every instance. I don’t think I was ever at the house when he was not there. ~ Q. What was Mrs. Woodhu11’s demeanor in your presence while you were at the house? A. She always acted like a perfect lady. ' I never saw anything amiss in her, and her husband always acted like a perfect gentleman.—N_. Y. Sun. THURSDAY, FEB. 18. « The N. Y. Herald terms this “ A Day of Surprises.” Four new witnesses were called, Mr. Bell, Mr. Richards, Mr. Robinson and Mr. Brasher. Mr. Bell's testimony appears to be unimportant; but In the afternoon Mrs. Tilton’s own bijother (Mr. Richards) testiﬁecl to descending suddenly one foreiioon into his sister’s parlor and disturbing there Mrs. Tilton and Mr. Beecher sitting on a sofa. and his sister, with a gesture of haste and fright and ﬂushed face, motioned Mr. Beecher in such a way as to make a painful and lasting impression upon the witness, Joseph Richards. He told his wife that night, and would have explained himself further to the jury, but Mr. Evarts cut him up harshly. This was a painful and powerful piece of testimony from such a source, and it thrilled the court- room. Mrs. Tilton heard it sitting‘; back in her chair, with her eye on her brother. They looked very much alike. He was cool and impassive; so was she. It is not a family to droop in public. . Then came Mr. Robinson, the uncle of Mrs. Moulton, who testiﬁed that Mr. Beecher said to him about the time of the church investigation last‘ July, “ Frank is as good a friend as’ God ever raised up to a man. But for him I don’t believe I would now be alive.” '_' Finally came a Mr. Brasher, Mr. Tilton’s neighbor, who had seen Mr. Beecher at all kinds of hours on Mr. Tilton’s steps and near his door, and once so early in the fall of the year, that it made an “indelible impression ” upon Mr. Brasher.- N. Y. Herald. COMMENT. i If the words, “early in the fall of the year” had been “ early in the morning of the day,” the statement would be more pertinent. Here is an extract from the evidence of Mr. Brasher: Q. State the number of times you have seen him (Mr. Beecher) entering and coming out of Mr. Tilton’s house? A. I cannot recollect the number of times. ' Q. About how early an hour in the morning was it that you saw Mr. Beecher standing on the stoop_? A. I never recol- lected but once that it made an impression on my mind, and that was early in the morning; it struck me on that occasion as being a very early hour for a gentleman to visit.—N. Y. Herald. FRIDAY, FEB. 19. Mrs. Frank Moulton’s testimony was given to-day. All of it is very important, but we have room only for the follow- ing extracts: I said :i “ Mr. Beecher, there is something better for you to do than that; I think that would be a very cowardly thing for you to do. Go down to your church and confess your crime: they will forgive you.” He said: “No, I can’t do that for the sake of the woman who has given me her love; for my children, for my family, for the church, for my inﬂu- ence throughout the whole world. That I can never do; I will die before I will confess it.” And I said: “ Mr. Beecher, sooner or laterthe truth in this case will come out; it is much better that you should take your cause in your own hands and state it to your church; give to them a confession such as you could make to them. I am sure they would for- give you.” He said: “No, that I cannot do; my children would despise me; I couldn’t go back to my home, and my church would not forgive me; they would not _deal with me as you have done; there would be nothing left for me to do; my work would be ﬁnished; it would be better that I should go out of life than to remain any longer in it.” And I said: “You could write for your paper; you could go up to your farm and write.” He said: “ No, if they would not listen to hear me preach they certainly would not read anything I should write; besides, my position in life is that of a spiritual and moral teacher. If I can no longer hold that position, then there is nothing left for me, and I have resolved to take my life. I have a powder at home on my library table which I shall take and sink quietly off as if going to sleep, without a struggle. Ihaven’t any desire to live. I have nothing to live for; in fact, I pray for death as a happy release from all my trials and troubles, and I feel that if I publish any card in the Eagle it will only be temporary relief; that Mr. Til ton is likely to break out again at any other time, and I feel that physically and mentally I am unable any longer to bear this strain, and I probably shall never come to see you again.” I felt very much grieved at it. I begged him to go down to the church. 1 said to him : “Mr. Moulton will still stand by you, and no matter what comes to you I will always be your for use in the cross—examination.———N. Y. Sun. In the cross-examination of Mrs. Kate Cary by Mr. Evarts, we learn how the woman became a witness. ‘Q. When did you first mention to anybody that you had observed anything of the matters that you have now testiﬁed to? A. Last Friday, sir, for the ﬁrstltime, to Mrs. Lyons,who visits Bellevue Hospital t_o see the sick. Q. A.charitable lady, who visits there for that purpose? A. Yes, sir. _ Q. . Did you of your own accord mention this to the lady? A. No, sir; she told me if Iwas ﬁt she could get me an ele- gant place in Brooklyn. I told her I had lived in Brooklyn before,-and I told her all the parties I had lived with, and that I had lived with Mrs. Theodore Tilton and wet-nursed a baby for her; and she asked me questions, and she asked me what did I think of such a thing. I said I didn’t know. She asked me what I had seen and heard, and of course I told her, Q. And that’s the way you came to be a witness? A. Yes, sir.-—N. Y. Sun. . COMMENTC Feeling inadequate to the task of doing justice to Mrs. Kate Cary’s testimony,we called to our aid the New York Herald, ' merely remarking that “blessed are the merciful.” THE BEECHER CAsE.—-A new feature was introduced into ' the Beecher trial yesterday—the production of a witness who testified to having seen what may be considered impropriety between the defendant and Mrs. Tilton. The rest of the day was occupied in the Icross-examination of the paintiff.-N. Y. Herald. , . . trouble for you is by telling the truth.” friend; but I am convinced that the only way out of this He said that he would come to see me on the day following, that he had some gifts which he wished to dispose of, some little mementoes for different people, and that there was something that he wanted me to bear to Elizabeth, and something for different friends, with messages which he wanted me to bear to them, and he would come on the day following to see me. It was a long interview; Mr. Beecher was very much excited; he told Mrs. Tilton. She said that she felt very sorry for me, even more sympathy for me than for herself, because that I had’ lost faith in Mr. Beecher. because I was unable any longer to attend the church. She begged me to go back to the church, to believe in Mr. Beecher, and I said, “ Elizabeth, how can you ask me to go back to the church, how can you ask me t_o take the communion from his hands, knowing what I do of his life?” And she said, “ I want you to believe in him. He is a good man; it was not his fault. He is not responsible for the crime. I am the one that is to blame. I invited it.” And I said, “ I think that I might hear Mr. Beecher preach, , and perhaps derive some beneﬁt from his sermons, but I can never go back to the church with the same faith that I had ' in him years ago.” 5%. dyou report this conversation to Mr. Beecher? . 1 . Q. How soon after the conversation occurred? A. Perhaps a day or two after. I don’t exactly remember how soon. Q. Had you any further conversation with Elizabeth that you reported to Mr. Beecher? A. I had. Ithink it was at the time that Mr. Tilton appeared down at the church that I called to see Elizabeth, and I said: “ If you are called before the church, what are you going to do? to save Mr. Beecher?” She said : “I shall sacriﬁce my husband and deny everything.” I said: “ Will you allow your husband to go down with the truth?” She said: ‘_‘ I think I should? be justified in stating falsely under the circumstances. I think, for the sake of Mr. Beecher, for the sake of the inﬂuence on the world, for my own position, for my children, I think it is my duty to deny it. ’ Q. Did you report this to Mr. Beecher? A. I did. Q. What reply, if any, did he make? A. He said: “Poor child, she is trying to repair the wrong she has done in con- feising it, in confessing her sin ; but it is too late.”——N.Y.Sun. From the above extracts our readers will perceive that the new testimony elicited during the past week has been of the highest importance. .4; 4 *wr—* BUSINESS EDITORIALS. PROF. LISTER, the astrologist, can be consulted at his rooms No. 329, Sixth avenue. Address by letter, P. 0. Box 4829. CHAS. H. FOSTER, the renowned Test Medium, can be found at No. 12 West Twenty-fourth street, New York City, the care of Children’s teeth. 145 West 441.11 st. DR. R. P. FELLOWS, the distinguished Magnetic Physician, stands to-day one of the most successful spiritual physicians of the age. He is now treating the sick in almost every State in the Union by his Magnetized Powder with a success which is truly remarkable: Mrs. M. Heasley, of Wheeling, West Va., writing, to the doctor, says: “The powder that you sent me is all taken, and I am happv to say to you I now can hear the clock strike and tick distinctly. I have not heard» it strike before for almost three years.” VVhat better evidence is needed to demonstrate its wonderful power. $1 per box. Address Vineland, N. J. SOCIAL FREEDOM CONVENTION.—The friends of social freedom, and all interested in any side of the various issues covered by the words, “social reform,” “social freedom,” “free love,” etc., are invited to meet in Boston, Mass.,at Paine Memorial Hall at 10 o’clock A. M., on Sunday, Feb. 28, and, if thought best, continue two days, to investigate and agitate social reform, and probably to organize a plan for more ef- fectual work. All shades of opinion are invited to represent_ themselves in this convention. The platform shall be abso- lutely free, the speakers being limited only as to time. Come one, come all; come prepared to give in the most concise manner your best thoughts. This call is signed by Moses Hull, George L. Barker, Mattie Sawyer, D. W. Hull, Prescott Robinson, Charlotte Barber, Rachel Campbell, Etta Bullock, John Hardy, Mary Stearns, Boston ; J. M. Sterling, Kiantone, New York ; L. K. Joslyn, Providence; E. H. Heywood, and Angela T. Heywood, Princeton; J. H. W. Toohey and Isabel Smith, Chelsea; Anthony Higgins, J r., Salem; M. S. Townsend, Bridgewater, Conn.; J. J. Gurney, Littleton, Mass.; Joseph Buxton and Maria Buxton, Milford, Mass. ; B. B. Hill, Mrs. Nellie Hill, F. R. Ladd, and C. P. Leonard, Springﬁeld. A CONVENTION of the “ American Free Dress League ” will be held in Horticultural Hall, Worcester, Mass., Thurs- day and Friday, February 25 and 26, 1875, holding three ses- sions daily, at 10 A. M., and 2 and 7 P. M. Believing friendly discussion on subjects of human improvement productive of practical goodness, this meeting invites friends of physical and spiritual liberty, of hygienic usages and general wel- fare to unite in its deliberations. That woman’s prevailing costume, in debilitating the body, disqualiﬁes mental facul- ties—in unduly consuming time, strength, thought, toil and means, abridges‘ the elevation and independence of both sexes, and is basic among causes of poverty, inequality, and all the vexed evils afﬁicting the world-is acknowledged by the ablest reasoners and scientists of the age. Let us counsel together on the present phase of the case and its reformation. Good speakers are invited and expected. Those from a dis- tance wishing most reasonable board and attention while in Worcester are commended to the Holly Tree Inn, Pleasant street. The public are cordially invited to attend. Papers me with tears streaming down his face of what he had suf- fered; that he had suffered the tortures of the damned; that he was obliged to go home and wear a cheerful smile; that when he appeared in his church he must appear at his best: that the slightest indication of weakness was a confession on his part, so that really I was the only person to whom he could come and act his natural self; to whom he could un- burden his whole heart’s troubles.—N. Y. Sun. . Here is also Mrs. Moulton’s report of Mrs. Tilton’s confes- sion and determination: Q. Did he ever speak to you in regard to Mrs. Tilton? A. Yes, sir. \ _ _ Q. State what he said in regard to her at any time? A. He nearly always spoke to me of Elizabeth, of his great love for her. I-1e wanted me to respect her and to have re- gard for her, go and see her, try and comfort her, console her, see if there was anything that I could do for her, if she was in need of anything; that I, a woman, knew what women needed and wanted most. Q. Did you ever take a messages from him to her, and from her to him? If so, state what those messages were? A. Yes, sir; I repeated to Mr. Beechera conversation that I had with friendly tosthe cause please copy. I REMEMBER that it is by the Erie, Great Western of Canada and the Michigan Central Railroads that the‘ most elegant, commodious and comfortable Pullman Palace Cars are run through between New York and Chicago——the broad gauge trucks of the Erie being changed at Suspension Bridge for narrow ones, and/vice cersa, both carrying the wide’ coaches of the Erie road. These coaches leave New York from de- pots foot of Chambers and 23d streets at 7 o’clock, P. M., daily; and Chicago from the Michigan Central depot at 5 o’clock, P. 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