Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2111
Publisher
Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date
1876-02-19
Place published
New York (N.Y.)
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'59 *- " r - i PIROGr-ZRIESSI FI5{;l33E TEIOUG-HT! TJNTRAh£hl:B3LED IJ]:.V'1flE33 BREAI{ING THE TWAY FOR FUTURE GENERl£l1lIOi‘.2E§. Vol. XI.-—No. 12.—Wl;ole No. 272.- NEVV .YORK, FEB. 19, 1876. PRICE TEN CENTS. The truth shall make you free.-—Jesus. . In the clay/s of the voice of the seventh angel, the $.11/stery of God shall be jinvis/zecl.-—~St. John the 1v1ne. ‘ ‘ . Whe7'eof I was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the I)6((/'l'7?/I’l?'i7”tg of the world hath been hid in Gael.-—Paul. ~—~——4~+——%—-— _ “ WHAT SHALL I DO TO BE SAVED?” BY NELLIE L. DAVIS. A very pertinent question; for salvation is no myth, although it is not found in the orthodox fashion, nor yet is it found in any sense of the word until it is fairly earned. As uncompromising as the Abolitionists who refused to call this a free country, while the manacles clanked upon the limbs of one negro, so do we refuse a system of salvati... Show more'59 *- " r - i PIROGr-ZRIESSI FI5{;l33E TEIOUG-HT! TJNTRAh£hl:B3LED IJ]:.V'1flE33 BREAI{ING THE TWAY FOR FUTURE GENERl£l1lIOi‘.2E§. Vol. XI.-—No. 12.—Wl;ole No. 272.- NEVV .YORK, FEB. 19, 1876. PRICE TEN CENTS. The truth shall make you free.-—Jesus. . In the clay/s of the voice of the seventh angel, the $.11/stery of God shall be jinvis/zecl.-—~St. John the 1v1ne. ‘ ‘ . Whe7'eof I was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the I)6((/'l'7?/I’l?'i7”tg of the world hath been hid in Gael.-—Paul. ~—~——4~+——%—-— _ “ WHAT SHALL I DO TO BE SAVED?” BY NELLIE L. DAVIS. A very pertinent question; for salvation is no myth, although it is not found in the orthodox fashion, nor yet is it found in any sense of the word until it is fairly earned. As uncompromising as the Abolitionists who refused to call this a free country, while the manacles clanked upon the limbs of one negro, so do we refuse a system of salvation which is incapable of ministering to the needs of every soul. The life which enfolds us physically may be properly termed the foundation of all life. Of the building erected thereon the superstructure is the intellect; the dome which crowns the whole is spiritual growth and perceptivity. Materialism compasses the needs of foundation and super- structure. Spiritualism en-wraps, the whole, from «dome to lowest foundation stone. Spiritualism is materialism, with the addition of a soul; it is Pygmalion waking to life his statue in the earthly clods insensate. Man in his threefold life, as a physical, intellectual, and spiritual being, has need of a threefold religious and social Culture. To ignore the one department of his existence for the other, is_the fatal mistake committed by most systems of religion. Materialism is the reaction of the perverted Spiritualism in the religious code of the middle and early centuries. The mediseval saint ignored his physical inheritance. His body was a huge excresence on his soul, to be burned, scourged, and fasted away in an earthly Valhalla of self- denial. To be a fleshless unincorporate soul was the very acme of existence. To be imprisoned in a body which knows hunger, thirst, disease, amative impulse, and death’s corruption, fretted the would-be saint with dire impatience of earth, its contingen- cies and associations. He answered the query: “ What shall I do to be saved?” throughshameful neglect and crucifixion of the basic principle of his being. The foundation being omitted, the intellectual and spiritual man was a starveling, where his physical imbecility was a success; where not, he was a hypocrite. _ _ By so much as he ignored the materialism of life, by so much was he incapacitated from prescribing a safe and speedy process of salvation from the sin of ignorance. V The theologic» plan of salvation says: “Take care of the soul and let the body take care of itself.” ' Materialistic salvation says. “Take care of the body and let the soul take care of itself ”——a decided improvement upon the old plan, but not covering the entire ground by any means. These systems are only twofold——the body expunged from the one, the soul from the other. The Spiritualistic salvation is threefold, and the one for which our organizations clamor the loudest, and will not be educated properly in all departments without. _ ‘ The law and order of salvation consists in the evolution from the scientific knowledge of the present, of a system of physical and spiritual growth that shall ripen every faculty of our-‘beings; that shall evolve perfect bodies f_or the ten- antry of pure souls; that shall redeem manhood, woman- hood and childhood from all abuses of the holy temple of God—the human body—by gross self-indulgence, by pamper- ing abnormal appetites until the lamp of life burns so low that it cannot longer resist these fitful gusts of morbid pas- sion, flickers a brief uncertain moment, then goes out for- ever, leaving the soul barren of rich results—-the carefully garnered wealth of a life well lived and replete with pure thoughts. puredeeds, pure loves. ’ Such is the salvation we all also for, but so many of us have weighed anchor on the sea of eternity fora life voy- age in such unwieldy, decayed and worthless vessels, that a wreck or premature termination of the voyage on the shoals or reefs of inherited disease, and mad passion, are the inevit. able I'6Bi1.1t5 Of. a large proportion of the voyages of life. ' ' -2s2.1r.A4~" v.<‘-:-;..-'_, " -;§so'u..;- . grade the sexual function; for he liveth poorly who loveth illy, a.-s.smum..,.- .'_,._,,.,«.»..-,,-_...,,,,,*,,.s .. ,.« » . Look to Jesus for your salvation, says the theologian. We have contemplated the cross for centuries; how much better are we, physically, because of such contemplation? Cross contemplation has afforded a leaning post for every morbid sluggard. Because one man has died for a truth, is no good and sufficient reason why we should die in him to any in dividual work for ourselves. - VVhen we trace the need of salvation back to its source, we find that the transgression of an inquisitive Adam and Eve’ has nought to do with its necessity, and that the crucifixion of the Jewish philanthropist is of no more avail to stem the tide of our ignorance, than is a child’s hand to stay the rush- ing torrent of Niagara. . Humanity has a chronic distaste for home truths, and the preacher has been popular in proportion as he steered clear of all unpleasant allusions, and confined himself to the story of salvation by the cross, omitting to mention thatthe cross has no remedial power for those who fail to work as well as 5 pray; popular so long as he did not urge brain and stomach salvation, and laid not a finger upon the veil shrouding the iniquitics of social life, and pretended not to see the grinning skeleton of excess peeping from the eye, seeking expression from the tongue, shadowing the life; popular so long as he did our thinking for us, and told us that ’twas good to be good for Jesus’ sake! As if, our lives were going to benefit a. man who has been dead for centuries, and who has left earthly things so far behind him that they-have become more motes in his memory, “and wl1o cares not a rush whether A eats meat or fish Friday, whether B keeps Saturday or Sun- day, or C believes or disbelieves the story of the immaculate conception! Clearly, salvation in its threefold character comes not by contemp lation of the cross. The most that has resulted from such contemplation is found in these enormous churches, useless six days out of seven, occupying the most elligible building sites, exempted from taxation, while rum shops, brothels, and the poverty- stricken but welltaxed homes of the laborers multiply so rapidly that crime and its parent poverty fill our prisons and almshouses to overflowing, and our highways and by- ways with predatory bands of tramps. If these churches could be used as reformatory insti- tutions to investigate the cause and cure of crime, they would be pre-eminently useful in abating hell upon earth, into which humanity ‘is plunged through its ignorance of this most important, but least understood, of all questions- sexual holiness, perfection of the human body, the living temple of God. We want a salvation that will offer a road out of all this misery and darkness that rivets closer the chains of earth’s famishing millions, and curses society with the fruits of debauched passion whose highest sentiment is selfish grati- fication. “ He prayeth best who loveth best; and_ he liveth well who loveth well,” are two axiomatic truths, whereby hangs the law of life. ‘ - To save ourselves from ourselves we must elevate, not de- and he. who degrades the coronal of being into animalism, commits the unpardonable sin, and while cursing posterity is eternally cursed himself by the recoil of his act. Phallic worship was the embodiment of an idea of physical per- fection and freedom from pruriency, toward the attain- ment of which we are struggling to-day. This idea, with us, will assume a diflerent expression than in its old time rendi-. tion, in accordance with the enlightenment and scientific research of the age. ’ We are jealous of our prerogatives as human beings above the brutes, and have not made good our claim by using those intellectual and moral‘ perceptions which have supplanted the fixed unreasoning instinct of the brute, to win salvation, and attain, at least, as healthy bodies and normal functions through intellect as the brute owes to instinct. At birth we are nothing, save in possibility Thus, we are left in a measure, free. As animals alone, we are inferior, because our instincts as animal, and our attributes as human, become so confused and untrustworthy, that to save our- selves from becoming the meanest objects on the face of God's footstool. we need to supplant them with something higher; ‘and we find that our only chance of gaining a useful and immortal existence consists in developing our- selves up to‘ that point for which we were designed-—-from ani- malism where we do not belong, up to Spiritualism, where we do belong. ’ ‘ _$/ Sexual salvation for the race is found in redeeming woman from centuries of serfdom, and selfish, woful subjection to tyrannous lusts; found in purifying our bodies; found in gaining a knowledge of our physical functions, their uses and the penalty of ‘their abuses; found in a heaven of freedom where each individual owns himself, and is not the bond slave of anothers’ will or whim. Womanhood fettered to the lowest, excluded from the highest, is the curse of the world, arousing the just anger of nature, from which, cross contemplation can never redeem us. For woman the three- fold salvation tarries and waits for its divine consummation in humanity, through the mothers of the race. Woman’s kingdom is the human heart, and she prayeth, ruleth and loveth well, when she has purified her kingdom of selfishness and lust by her determination to quell sexual impurity in lieu of pandering to its larger growth, by abdication of her rightful throne and relinquishment of her sceptre of power. The keynote of woman’s salvation as a physical, intellectual and spiritual being, is struck when she becomes a selfhood with a distinct identity from man, yielding allegiance, not to her husband, but unto her conscience and her God. Woman then becomes, not the reflex of man, but an individualized half of the basic principle of the unive1'se—-sex—each com— plete through thejnon-encroachment of the one upon the sphere of the other. Then human life shall attain its dl'\VlllQ perfection, crime and injustice shall disappear, and the Uni- versal Republic shall take the place of the corrupt demagog- ism that new rules thecountry to its ruin. . Man’s physical salvation is secured through woman's eman- cipation ; the degradation of the mother is the degradation of the children she bears. Take heed that the spring of life be pure, for if the fountain head bepoisoned, coming genera- tions bear the cross and mount the Calvary that lies in the pathway of violated physical and moral law. Spiritual salvation aims to strike at the cause; theology aims to strike at client. One tries to heal over the bites of the old serpent of ignorance; thenother tries to remove the serpent that no more may be bitten. VVe do not want to outwit hell and the devil by hiding be- hind a cross; for how well is the world healed to—day after a treatment upon this plan of nearly nineteen centuries! ‘ When a. person gets far enough along on the road of free in- quiry to ask why God don’t kill the devil, be sure he is on the high road to true salvation, for he will speedily find that the devil is his own ignorance, and that God intends that we shall slay our devils by educating ourselves into a knowledge and obedience of law, so that we may send forth no more half—made-up children that are no better than rabid dogs, to curse society, and make up our army of criminals, drunk- ards, prostitutes, paupers, imbeciles, tramps, and lunatics. Here are your devils: the abominations of ignorance. Slay them with the weapons of knowledge. Here is need of salvation; provide it from healthier bodies, better~balan,ced heads and riper souls. Exalt your physical functions above the slough of centuries of ignorant degradation and besotted passsion. Hold high the standard for manhood and Wtilllétll.- hood . Arise ye emancipated souls, and welcome the gist: new, era of a world’s redemption by the perfected typeof hu- manity, through the amalgamation of, and elimination from, the races, of the attributes and characteristics of each worth preserving and repeatin g. j ‘ The Millennial day draweth nigh; and how beautiful the thought that so many faces shall yet greet us through the salvation of "divine knowledge typified in the pictured divinity of face and form, the outcome of the purified and redeemed soul within. V Then, as on their natal day, shall the spheres chant the praise of the advent of 7a new race. Earth shall smile with a new gladness, and heaven will be found with gates wide open, not without, but within, the purified and redeemed soul of man. THAT “FINAL RECONCILIATION.” There certainly is to be a “finalreconciliation of all things” in spite of the quackeries, which in these latter days, have clustered around this phrase. The lion and the lamb shall lie down together; the Bismarcks, and the Pius Ninths and the Henri Delescluzes, shall meet in fraternal embrace. On the one hand,,there shall he the swords beaten into plow- shares. and the spears into pruning hooks; and on the other hand, the myriad seemingly contradictory doctrines that now divide men, hopelessly as one would say, shall have their u_n_-s WOODIIULL & CLAFLIN’B WEEKLY. Feb. 19, 1876. derlylng truths brought out into the clear day light, and be just so reconciled. On the one side, the “conservative spirit- ualism,” (whatever that may mean), with its “capital, la- bor’s best and only"friend,” its “superior sagacity,”t_aking “advantage of opportunities,” its “sweet by and by,” with its “millionnaire * * accounted as the benefactor of the race” ; on the other side, the “sell all that thou hast and give to the poor,” “that terrible‘camel’ business,” that “whip of ‘small cords,” with Dives roaring in hell and Lazarus sweetly reposing in Abraham’s bosom; and both sides having the truth,’the one side just as indispensable as the other. And yet, after all, truth is one; error, or What is the same thing, partial and one-sided truth, is alone divergent and contradic- tory. But no error was ever yet enunciated by human lips that had not a truth underlying it. ' How to eliminate the underlying truth. and so accomplish , that “ final reconciliation of all things,” for which all noble hearts, and synthetic minds have ever been longing, and striving, is of course just the question, To attain this un- ' derlying truth is simple, the same thing as to arrive at the genuine “universolgy,” or, to coin a better word for. the ‘hence, “pantology”—neither word, by the by, having any fur- ther utility when once the thing itself is attained. From that moment, the word "science”vserves amply; for the uni- versal doctrine resulting from the application to all possible categoriesof thought, of that method of positive demonstra- tion which finally solves every problem, solves it past all pos- sible recall, putting an end, at once for all, to doubt and un- certainty, in spite of all the “free thought” in the world; is thatwhich will most assuredly constitute the universal faith of the future, leading up the now scattered and mutually hostile races of men to the normal, oneness of humanity. But then we are met here, flnally by another divergence, another seeming hostility, one that looks at the first blush more profound then any above indicated. On one side stands inspiration; on the other side,science, or rather the sciences, the strange new gospel of dispersed specialism, the Spencer- Darwin—Tyndall-Huxley—Draper N ihilism, with the elec- tric telegraph flashing across an ocean and two continents its daily batch of lies, as a most fit symbol of its sovoreiguty! these two social forces—for such indeed they are, notwith- standing the anti——social propensities of the latter——are evi- dently now gathering themselves up for a final and decisive death struggle, the by-standers all feeling sure that one or the other must speedily succumb, be finally and definitively squelchcd, and to be no m ore heard of forever, save in the pages of curious history. And seeing that supernaturalism, from the very birth of science two thousand years ago in that little greek peninsula, destined to give intellectual light to a whole world, has been at every point, sooner or later- yes even when for special purposes it could secure itself a respite of a thousand years—forced to give way, and recog- nize the supremacy, in the sphere of pure intellect, of pos- itive demons_tration——these by-standers, Ii. (5. the freethinkers really free, come naturally enough to the seemingly unan- imous conclusion, that it is inspiration which has to go under, to pass away utterly and forever from among men. Only the very rare, really integral, minds, minds that can look at both sides and all sides of a great question, and not take for granted that the one side of the post facing the spot where they happen to stand is the whole post, can see-——and they will succeed, too, in finally demonstrating to to all mankind, along with the rest of normal universal doc- trine—that while supernaturalism has doubtless to give way to the all-conquering genius of positive science, that he in no way deprives inspiration of her own sphere. The conception of inspiration, like all other human conceptions, has doubt- less to undergo the transformation indicated in the law of the three states, the great universal law of progress. But it re- mains inspiration still. It is subject doubtless to immutable natural laws, which science,—the regenerated and unified science—has had to discover. But it is inspiration still, having its own function within its own sphere that can never be taken away. True enough the relations between science and inspiration are widely different from those that would be imagined by the pure inspirationist. But those who would pretend to systematize science while ignoring al- together the role of inspiration are clearly only quacks. A pretty science of history that would be, truly, that could not divulge the natural laws of a social force that has played such a part in the progressive development of our" race as has been played by inspiration! The play of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out would be consistency itself in comparison. RAMSHORN. AUDI ALTER AM PARTEM. NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 1876. Editors W eekZy~—-‘Having recently observed, by chance, N o. 10 of a published’ series of communications by one of our municipal Tax Commissioners on the subject of taxing church property, and as I consider your journal independent, and‘ not under any subsidizing influence, I would beg leave chiefly to note through its columns some of the remarks and proposi- tions of this wiseacre on church assessment or taxation. He begins by quoting Lord Chesterfield, who said: “A tax implies a license granted for the use of that which is taxed to all who would be willing to pay it.” Now, the matter of church taxation, in order to a proper understanding of it, does not require any Chesterfieldian authorities, but rests solely on the basis of common sense and reason. Our pilgrim progenitors came to this country to escape from the tyranny of an ecclesiastical government; their descendants,‘ the patriots of the Revolution, fought and bled to rid themselves of it, and the framers of our Constitution in that American Magna Oharta, knowing the consequent mischief and curse of such a mixture, very wisely inhibited all connections and en- tangling alliances between Church and State. This correspondent then goes on to state that the General Government, after imposing certain duties on all articles of luxury, has gone so far as distinctly to recognize the value of religious teaching by exempting from taxation and placing upon the free list, according to oificial interpretation, Bibles and other books i_mported in good faith for the use of Sunday schools in the United States, on adequate proof; and then asks what sense ‘there would be in exempting books used in such schools from duty and imposing a tax on buildings erected for the fostering of them.” According to such logic, if the existence of one thing be wrong then another wrong should of course be inflicted to make it sensible and just. While a Sunday school or a church may be a desirable insti- tution, per se, and productive of great good, it is not the province or duty of ou‘r”G-overnment to foster or aid either in any way, and the act, as the national records will undoubtedly show, was not voluntary on the part of the Government, nor by the expressed wish or will of the people, but “through petitions of those more immediately interested or concerned in the matter. And if our more modern law-makers preferred to stultify themselves by practising this little amenity ‘toward the Sunday schools it does not follow that a still further mix- ing—up of such things should be indulged in by compelling people of all beliefs a11d of no belief to contribute to the sup- port of the many and various religious and sectarian interests throughout the land to the amount of over $200,000,000. He admits that secular properties. to the amount of $2,500,000,000, are exempted by the United States Government. Well, one would’ naturally infer that this amount alone was about sufficient for tax—payers to look upon acquiescently without bearing additional burdens through any outside or extraneous causes. Then he says: “ The enormous amount of securities exempted by the General-Government owe their origin to war, and if Congress should enforce upon the States the tax- ation of buildings for public worship, great wonder would be expressed that, while such enormous sacrifice by exemption is offered to the Moloch of war, so small an cblation to the God of peace should be withheld.” The question: “ Who pays the taxes?” has time and -again been propounded and discussed, and the inevitable and correct answer has always been: “The poor man.” Yet, supposing this not to be the case, and the burden fell on all alike, for what purpose is it done by_any citizen but to support the Government under which he lives, and its established institutions? But is a church an established institution of our Government? By no means. How, then, would the whole people grudge an oblation to the God of peace by refusing to pay for the sup- port of a church, while they might be obliged by a natural law of self—protection to offer an enormous-sacrifice to the Moloch of war? The fact is, some people out—Christianize Christianity in their pretended religious enthusiasm. Then, too, there is so great a diversity of sects and denominations, how is "a disinterested citizen to know which one among them all is right? And what assurance has he that the sums which he thus pays, directly or indirectly, in the form of a tax, will be appropriated to a good and useful purpose? If there be any thing right about them it must be in some one of them. Christ’s body was not divided into so many parcels. Such divisions and subdivisions are all the result of priestcraft—— the work of doctors of ideas. True and unfeigned religion may be found in an open boat at sea, or in a wilderness, as well as in a grand and costly cathedral. It is not at all depend- ant on church conventionals. Indeed, in this age of corrupt and apostate christendom the real saints, compared with pharisees and hypocrites who make a trade of religion, and “ steal the livery of heaven " to gain an undue advantage of their fellow-beings, are like sparsely-scattered grains of wheat in a. mingled mass of chaff and rubbish. A man now- 'a—days may inwardly worship a golden god, with his heart and affections centered in worldly interests, and if he will say but Lord, Lo—r—d, and subscribe $100,000 to the erection of a costly Christian church, he will be supposed to have secured a through ticket to heaven in a palace-car. But God is not propitiated by any such works, the humblest hall or chapel being as acceptable in His sight as the most grand and gorgeous structure. A . When He said to His people, “Ye are the temple of the living God,” He didn’t have much reference to anything fashioned or finished with their hands. And when people think to be doing God service by selecting for church cere- monies or service, called worship, the most valuable plots of ground, and erecting thereon large and imposing edifices, gorgeously decorated and furnished to suit the fine apparel in which they are arrayed, they fall far short of the wisdom and comprehension of King Solomon, when, in his dedication of of the Temple, he exclaimed: “ The Heavenof Heavens can- not contain Thee, how much less this house which I have built! ” When in those days of types and symbols of the future, that temple of costly magnificence and grandeur was erected for sacred use, it was not intended by him, who designed it, to be a pattern of houses for the same purpose in subsequent times, but merely as a symbol of the beauty and purity that should characterize those living temples in which he would ever delight to dwell. Christ’s kingdom is not of this world; neither are his people. And a church body or ‘assembly that is truly devout and pious will not lack for anything essential tolits ,existence. But if it be chiefly made up _of those who have not sufficient faith, that He whosustains the universe will also not let them fall to the ground, and look to the world and the goverments of the world for protection and aid, they simply show that they are but sounding brass, and have only the form of godliness, without the power thereof. But there are plenty \such. When, therefore, Mr. Andrews denies that exemption of buildings for public worship is a concession, and insists that it is a right inherent in the conditions and uses of the prop- erty, he proposes what in the form of reason is the merest sophistry, and in the way of simple assertion, is nothing more than the sheerest and shallowest nonsense. His fitness. for beings. tax commissioner must, indeed, be surprising. Unscrupulous and persistent beggars for church privileges in the form of donations, exemptions, etc.,whether Protestant or Papal, are among the mostdangerous of frauds. Though possessing millions, their constant cry to the outside world is give; and they seldom. if ever say, hold, enough. It is such fanatical pharisees who are most opposed to taxation; most clamorous for an ecclesiastical government, or whatever may tend to a union of Church and State, and are ever acclaim- ing for the embodiment of the word God in the national Constitution. They make frequent and long prayers in pub- lic. and have always the words God and the Lordpin their months. If they would try to have more of such things in their hearts, without regard to the Constitution, they would, perhaps, find it ultimately much better for themselves, and not much, if any worse, for the Constitution, or for the people for whom it was framed.’ _ - I TAX Payne. REAPING. “Though the vision seems to tarry, Yet it surely will transpire; Though the battle seems eternal, And forever bums the lire, Suffer on, 0 ye faithful, For the end will surely come, And the fruits of all your labors, You will harvest to their home. In the yonder stormless regions, With an ever balmy sky, You shall soon receive a glory, Which can never, never die. Thenlet heaven kindly lead you, Through the river Jordan deep; And with calmness bear all chaslenin g, On this holy way to keep.” EI.i.rAn llirnrciai. Editors W echly :——The Jan. 22d number of your paper, con- taining the conclusion of an article under the caption, “A Critic Criticised,” has been received, but the previous paper containing the beginning of that article I have not seen. I perceive that you have been using me and an unfortunate article printed in my paper a short time since, as “shoulders” over which to Whip a great many people, and for that use no apology on your part is necessary. I am only too glad to have been of some possible good to the world. even in this way, and more for the purpose of giving you still further op- portunity to express your views by making myself a target to be shot at, than with the hope of advancing any new or important ideas, I take occasion to reply, promising, for your readers’ sakes, to be as briefas possible. Now, I admit that if society were so perfected in its parts and organization that the weak as well as the strong could feel sure of protection; if composed of members possessed of sufficient intelligence to comprehend the meaning of justice, and capable of reasoning correctly from causes to efiects; in short, a state of society in which it would be possible to live up to the precepts of the Golden Rule——then woman, in com- mon with all of the physically weaker portion of mankind, might freely trust in the wisdom. honorand generosity of man, or her fellows, to secure to her justice; and your the- oriesof freedom might be put in practical operation to great advantage. But such is not the case to~day. "He who holds the purse does hold the power, whatever other “ prize ” woman may have to sell, and to be sought for. Money is one of the prime necessities of our existence. It may be ranked next to air, since air is about the only desirable thing that can be had without it. Of course the possessors of it are, more or less, the autocrats of the world, and especially of the little domestic worlds that fill the world. You assert, and defy contradiction, that “ financial independence is impossi- ble for woman ” so long as a competitive system of industry prevails. This is my position exactly. Now, under existing cannot conceive of any independence worthy to be called‘ such, outside of financial independence; and as woman can- not have that, therefore, freedom for her is out of the ques- tion, since she cannot be free and at the same time depen- dent. Therefore, he who holds the purse holds the power. For this reason, it seems to me that a system of marriage by contract, which may be dissolved at any time by either party, is one which favors the man who “holds the purse ” very much more than it does the woman who is dependent upon that purse. He satisfies his desires, base or otherwise, and is at liberty to seek “fresh fields and pastures green.” She is faded and dispirited, cursed with physical diseases peculiar to her sex, which are augmented, perhaps. by_i1l— usage, and as a consequence——being a financial dependent and the weaker party in making the original marriage contract- there are no “fresh fields” for her. A beautiful flower, plucked and fondled, and, withering, she is thrown aside for another. In common with a worldful just like her, she must eat and drink and be clothed and housed. She has her free“- dom, however, and if she can find “the man to her liking,” she is free to form a matrimonial copartnership with him- providing he is willing. If she possess health, she has free- dom to commit suicide by the slow but sure process of drudgery, devised by the purse—holders for the extermination of both her body and soul. Hood"s “Song of the Shirt” illustrates’ this. She has jumped out of the frying~pan fairly into hell, but she has her freedom. Nor it does not mend the matter that old marriage contracts (“for better and for worse ”) would not be annulled by the new order of things, because the parties to the new contract come there under consideration, with woman at the usual disadvantage. Be it remembered that I am reasoning from the stand- point of the world, its men and its morals as it is, not as it might be or will be. Nor do I overlook the fact that agitation is necessary before purification, and that your ideas. which seem to me at present impractical, maybe the necessary forerunner of a better tlme to come. Indeed it is not difli- pated woman may be queen over herself, and bless the world by the use and exhibition of her full and developed capabil- ities, now scarcely known to ns;. but one glance out of the window at the. passers-byis -sufflcient to shatter all such heavenly dreams of bliss, and bring back all the dread reali- ties of the world as it is, with the discouraging multitude of reforms that mast precede, and wondrous growths that laws and customs, which must exist for a long time yet, I ' cult to imagine a social heaven-on-earth, in which emanci— . .. - = ~;~—- 1 I l ‘A ---la--.—-..... .- .——-..+-.'.- -.«,-....,.-«-4--—-—-~ {. —..~~<-~*—:'.i‘.‘;T'.f.’.T‘“'‘‘_~:~;;:; A . ._ _..-..-as ;=-..::-:~=;::~:-'.-1:. , . 2 . ,H\_ ,- 5.; - .,,.-_._-.- Feb. 19, 1876. WOODHULL & CLAF=~IiIN’S WEEKLY. must take place, before we can welcome in the grand eman- cipation day of woman and give to her that freedom which is her right. » I I seek the use of the Vl7EEKL‘Y' rather than my own paper for this, because it will reach a greater number who have read‘ your article; and while I do not pretend to have an- swered your arguments i_n full, I think this will relieve me from the imputation which you unintentionally cast upon me, of being of that numerous class of editors who thought- lessly malign you and the cause you are so ably defending. Very respectfully yours, LUCIEN V. PINNEY, WINSTED. CoNN., Jan. 14, 1876. Editor Wiinsteal Press. [We will not break the force of this graceful complimen by any attempt to reply to its arguments. _We will only refer our friendly editor to what we said, in the first article which he had not seen _when he wrote. We said if all women would rise together and throw off the yoke of sexual servitude, and hold out a month, that they could make any terms that they should demand, with their former masters, and hence it fol- lows that he who holds the purse, “ does not necessarily hold the pOwer;” he only holds it, because women will not together exercise the power which God -has given them for their defense against the opprcssors of their personal rights .] FLORENCE HEIGHTS, N. J ., Jan. 8. - Dear W eel.-ly-—A few lines to let you know I am buckling on the armor to prepare more vigorously for the fight. I am at Dr. Trall’s, attending lectures with my husband and child- ren. Cannot say too much of the system ; of Dr.9Trall him- self as an earnest, honest truth-seeker, and a daring teacher of the same. His Hygienic Home, on the banks of the Dela- ware,‘ twenty miles from Philadelphia, is a beautiful location. Here we are taught that to be true to one’s self is to be true to God; to be a Christian is to be a humanitarian; to take the world as our church and Nature for our creed is the highest ‘religion. Here we are taught. if we would be happy, we must be well, and if we would be well, we must obey the laws of health. Dr. Trall has long been condemned and scornedlb37Th73 _ medical faculty for his radical views on health reform. but his theories and principles will live long after he has passed from earth, because they are founded on the immovable laws of G-—od—Nature. Your readers may be desirous of knowing some of his eccentricities. His many valuable books explain much, ‘and they should be more widely known. He holds disease as a remedial effort, and as such should never be cured. Assist nature’ to its normal condition through the physiological agencies of air, exercise, water, magnetism, diet, etc., and she will restore herself. We here have two meals a day. Meats, salts, as well as all other condiments and spices. are excluded. A strict fruit and vegetable diet is required. We have two——sometimes three——daily lectures, two lyceums, and a dance weekly; gymnastics daily. Dr. Trall fears not to call things by their right names, and place people in their right pews. Six male prostitutes to one female, was the assertion made yesterday. He fully agrees with you that the blood flow in menstruation is disease. The ovum should ripen and (pass without pain, and not only con- clusively proves it by nature (as he does every statement), but we see it demonstrated here by women ‘coming and living strictly hygienic. The flow entirely ceases, and they improve in health. Just now the doctor is giving us some extra lectures, by request. His views on theology—-rich, deep and abiding. God bless Dr. Trail, with you, dear Victoria, and many more of our modern Savlours, till they see the fruits of their labor Let me, too, offer aword of cheer to Mattie Strickland. GO on brave girl; be true to self and you can but be true to God. I wept over your sorrow, but rejoiced over your noble test of womanhood. Would there were more possessing your courage. C ANNA ATWATER. [Dr. Trail is the author of a work on “Sexual Physi(- logy,” which we will send post-paid to any address, on re- ceipt of $2. Eds. WEEl{LY.] . C A I h . NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 1876. Editor Woodhull and Olafl'in’s Weekly: , I think Mrs. Woodhul1’s lectures are practically true, and go to the bottom of the evils of society. The church, as at present constituted, is lopping off the branches of the great tree of evil, while Mrs. Woodhull is going down to the foundation, and digging up the tap roots. I can see no reason why society has not as good a. right to prevent criminals,lpaupers and lunatics from propagating as society has to support and take charge of them after they are propagated. ' In my view no criminal, diseased person, lunatic, idiot, or pauper ought to be permitted to propagate their species. The course which society pursues in this respect is a disgrace to the race, and an outrage upon the.Divine Being. If the true history of all the idiots and deformed children could be correctly ascertained, it would be found that one or both ofthe parents was directly responsible for these diffiul- culties. Many children are made idiotic and permanently deformed by the efl"ort,s of the mother to destroy them in em- bryo. The fearful question of foeticide is taking hold of the minds of the people, and it will have to be met squarely be- fore long. , ‘We want the facts laid bare in these cases, so that the pub- lic can see who is responsible. I It should be-considered a reproach to a woman to have a deformed child. A healthy sentiment of this description would have a tendency to stem the tide of degradation which is nowcarrying the race toward the quicksands of total ex- tinctioii. The people wantichristianity made practical. Theology is alfltheoretical. Christ healed, the bodily infirmities of all whose sins He forgave. The most important part of the mission of the Apostles was to heal the sick. A Salvation of the body was what Christ principally taught. All His teachings go to show that He came that we might have life, and that whosoever believed in Him should not perish. I believe in Christ as a physical Saviour. “ Ithink the time is not far distant when the great mass of the world will believe in this idea of salvation. ' — ' ' I can only bid you God speedin the work you‘are doing. Yours truly, E. P. MILLER. AN INQUISITOR AT NEW HAVEN. 7. .Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britten, who is lecturing in this city before the Free Lecture Association, took occasion. in reply to a question, to pay her complimentsto Mrs. Woodhull and to that large and increasingclass Of thinkers who agree with her on the social question. She said ‘_‘ it was the dis- grace of the age that speakers should be permitted to travel through the country and teach such abominable doctrines”- meaning, of course, the doctrines of Mrs. Woodhull-at which a crowd in the back part of the hall, which had several times interrupted the meeting, stamped and applauded, the Spirit- ualists and Liberalists present preserving an ominous silence. ‘We cannot imagine a better co-adjutor of Comstock, the Y. M. C. A., and the hosts of bigotry, than Mrs‘. Britten. She denounced atheists, she sneered at “reason,” she quoted judging from her remarks, the social reformers would be arrested, and all free speech on the most momentous ques- tions of the hour stifled. What a liberal is this Mrs. Britten who can talk transcendental vagaries for two hours without hardly taking breath,’ and who would prevent, by force, a noble and glorious woman from declaring the grandest truths that were ever uttered by human lips! - I Be assured, Mrs. Britten, and all would-be liberal popes and spiritualistic inquisitors, that you will not succeed. Spiritualism will have no pontiifs, either in pantaloons or petticoats, to dictate beliefs and crush out freedom of con- science and speech. BRUNO. A PETITION FOR GREENBACKS. Eclilors Wee7ély:—The workingmen of this city have pre- pared the following Petition to Congress. Please to publish it and request all those who are friendly to copy it, or some- thing similar. obtain all the signatures they can, and send the petition to Hon. Peter Cooper (Cooper Union, New York City), for presentation to Congress. What we want is that our friends should get up petitions for legal tender money, to be issued by the Government-‘V sufficient) quantities for the needs of the people. WM. A. A. CARSEY, 402 W. 51st st., City. THE PET1TION_OF THOSE WHO LIVE BY HONEST LABOR. To the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress As- sembled. - Your petitioners respectfully represent-—— ~ 1. That they believe that a large part of the suffering which prevails among the industrial classes, by reason of their non- employment, has been caused by a mistaken financial policy of the Government; , e 2. That two kinds of currency for any nation are incom- patible with the public interest, and are a certain cause-of misfortune; — ‘ 3. That the circumstances that seemed to make it neces- sary to authorize National Banks under the present system passed away with the war; 4.. That the National Bank currency is a costly currency to the people, inasmuch as it ensures the banks two interests; first, on their bonds, and second, on their currency which they receive for their bonds while deposited with the Gov- ernment; 5. That the currency best adapted to the interests of in- dustry, is that issued by the Government, which should be made receivable for all dues. — We therefore respectfully ask that your honorable bodies will pass a law providing for the retirement of the National Bank currency, and for the issue of United States Treasury Notes to take its place,:and for this we will ever pray. A 4 f 'wr'—* MRS. WOODHULL IN THE FIELD. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. (From the Tribune, J ohnstown, Pa. J an 22, 18.76.) The lecture delivered by Mrs. Woodhull in the Opera House last night was thoroughly. enjoyed by the ladies and gentlemen present. She is a rapid, yet clear and distinct talker,'and possesses a richly—modulated voice, which is ex- ceedingly pleasing to the listener. There were many home truths spoken last evening by this lady in such an impres- sive manner as to touch the hearts of her audience, and the close attention with _which her discourse of an hour and a- quarter was received showed that it was highly appreciated by all present. . (From the Democrai, Johnston, Pa. Jan 22, I878.) <VICTORIA C. WOODHULL delivered her lecture on the “True and False, Socially,” in the Opera House on Friday evening last. There was not a great crowd out to hear her, but what it lacked in numbers it made up in li‘igh—tOned, appreciative listeners. Mrs. Woodhull, in personal appear— ance, is far handsomer than any other lady we have ever heard onlthe rostrum—gracefu1 and feminine in all her move- voice and gestures. but everything denotes the sweet—voiced, cultivated lady. She spoke, about one hour and a quarter, and the very close attention given her by the audience was an evidence that she was interesting and entertaining. The lec- ture surpassed the expectations of the public and was a rare treat, being one of the most elegantly delivered lectures ever heard in our town." (From the Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, [Mo.] Feb. 21876.) THE OVATION LAsT EVENING AT ARMORY HALL. If among the large audience who were present at Armory Hall last evening to hear Victoria C. Woodhull lecture, any went with the expectation of hearing anything advanced by that lady that was either immodest or licentious. they must have left the hall disappointed in that respect, but much bet- Jesus like a first-class orthodox ranter. Had she her way, A faith in the old motto, Verltas prevvalebit. ments and positions‘ There is nothing masculine about her ter imformed on some matters than they were before they entered it." Mrs. Woodhull appeared upon the platform attired in a very plain, darlc-colored dress, and spoke with great animation for about two hours. Her utterance is very rapid, but dis- tinct: her language forcible, and her gestures appropriate and effective. Everything she does. both, in utterance and action, seems to be spontaneous. She never hesitates for a word, and her strong, vigorous thoughts are clothed in the most appropriate language. Unlike most fluent speakers she deals but little in imagery, and her efforts have no at: tempt at rhetorical embellishment. and yet she is an orator of great ability. In the treatment of her subject, she goes straight to the point under consideration for the time, and says what she has to say, in vigorous Saxon, and then passes On. Her strength as a‘ speaker ~ is in her earnestness. Her audience at once become en rapport with her, for they feel that they have before them awoman who is in “dead earnest,” and that the wOrds,which are falling from her lips are not the mere coinage of a mental process but they are thoughts coming straight from her heart, earn: estly uttered. because earnestly felt. -The lecture was listened to by the large audience, a large proportion of whom wcreladies, with rapt attention, and the speaker was frquentiy interrupted by loud applause. While Mrs. Woodhull. in dealing with a. subject which jg generally ignored in_ the pulpit and on the platform, calls a spade a spade, there was nothing that fell from her lips which could justly shock the sensibilities of the most refined . On the contrary, there was around it an elevated, moral and even religious tone. The subject is one that is demanding the attention of all who are interested in social ethics, and who is there that is not interested in a matter that so vitally — affects the general welfare of humanity? Her‘ views are in advance of the day in which she lives, but there were but few if any present last evening who could differ from her and even if they did,‘;they derived an intellectual pleasure 1;; listening to the keen, clear, earnest thinker. who thoroughly) believes in the mission she is advocating. They heard some plain truths, it is true, some of whichcame «home to mam but they were told by a fearless woman, who has an abiding (From the St. Louis, [Mo.] Journal, Feb. 2, I876, Victoria C. _WOodhull lectured last evening in Armory Hall upon “The True and False. Socially". A large audience was present representing in character the best element of the St. Louis social world, a large proportion being imam- gent ladies; proving that the strictures of the press through- out the country on this irrepressible and unconquerabia woman have had the effect to enhance the public interest; in the social theories she advances. Mrs. Woodhull has a fine stage presence, in most excellent taste. She were last eveni broadcloth, with demi—train, elaborately tri silk. Mrs. Woodhull’s elocution is almost faultless hm. voice at times ringing out full and clear as she promulgates some grand idea, and again sinking into a whisper. every syllable distinct ‘and clear as if it were a thing hewn out of marble. Her manner upon the rostrum is. quick, nervous and excited, and yet her gestures are always well-timed. She has a not unpleasant peculiarity of walking rapidly from one side of the platform to the other, and again, when in. tensely engrossed in her subject, of pressing her hand to her forehead and weeping back her luxuriant hair. At the conclusion of her lecture Mrs. Woodhull held an in- formal reception in the room adjoining the hall, and a ‘large number of ladies and gentlemen shook hands with and con- gratulated the great social reformer. and she dresses ns =1 heavy blue mined with black (From the St. Louis. [Z110-] lRe.publt’can, Feb. 2l,m1l876.l)l'7 I « Victoria C. Woodhull’s lecture d Armogy halllaistbnight. A woman attire in an e a crate toilet ulled far back. i - her throat and a New Testarngnt in one hand. i‘3Iietihl]egtS;::-egg at length made her appearance on the stage, where she im- mediately became very much at home. Opening the book she read the subject of her discourse from I. Corinthians ° chapter 3; verses 16 and 17‘: " “Know ye not that ye are the tem 1c of God a SP'}rIi1t of God dwéalléalth ihn You.” P ’ nd that the * ‘ any man e e t e temple of God, him sha - stroy; for the temple of God is holy, which templlel $602.36» Mrs. Woodhull gave a vivid description of her sufferings and feelings while in durance vile, and asked thepeople that had helped gmacadamize such a pathway for herself and sister to strew a few flowers in their way now. I [Each of the above St. Louis, Papers also ‘contain a lengthy digest of the lecture.] row a large audience at L in. .4 run ~ BUSINESS EDITORIALS. WARREN CHAsE will lectureiin Otumwa, Iowa, March 2, 3, .4 and 5. Address for February, Independence, Iowa; and first week in March, Otumwa, Iowa. . —_..=_=.—. 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Y. 0flice.1ll Nassau Street, Room 9. \ \ ‘- nrrs . . lfiflflllniiauu If a man lceepeth my saying he shall never see death.——"Jesus. - ‘ To him that ooercometh, I willyioe to eat of the hidden 77’tCt7’l7lCl-.-=—Sl3. John the Divine. That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their l?_I/2e- time subject to Zzoiidag/e.——Paul. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without pacrtiality and without hy- poc7°isy._—-James, iii. , 1 7. And these. signs shall follow them .' In my name ; shall they cast out devils; they shall take up serpents; and they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them ,' they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recoue7'.—Jesus. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEB. 19, 1876. I: ,_._.. WE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets ’ of the first series of Bible Articles consisting of fifteen num- bers of the VVEEKLY, for one dollar, postage paid. Our friends should lose no opportunity to bring these articles to the attention of those whom they can interest. A careful study of all of them is necessary to a complete understand-_ ing of the great and all-important truth that is yet to be re- vealed; which must be carefully and judiciously brought be- fore the world, as the sun comes upon it, bringing first the break-of—day, next its dawn, and afterward its full meridian splendor. THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; on, THE SIX-POINTED srnn IN THE EAST. For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship -lmfsr. MA'r'rnEw, ii., 2. \ . 3.‘ /1 ' \ / ' ’ \\ I This figure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition Of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been c1earlY shown in our present S€1‘l.E_S of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabltants of the ,»earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been introduced, but which, defined in.a few Words is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself. We adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future work A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING‘, ETC. For as he thinketh in his heart, so is l1e.-—PROVERBS xxiii, *7. For one believeth that he may eat all things; another who is weak, eateth herbs. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. I know, and am fully persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself ; but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. ‘ It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy "brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is Weak.——R0mans xiv. 2, 5, 14, ,15and2l. . .’“ And the voice spake unto him again the second time. What God hath cleansed, that call then not common. . But God hath showedvme that I should not call any man common of unclean. E 01’ a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.——THE Acrs x-15, 28, 34 and 35. ‘ For.I delight in the law of God, after the inward man; but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.——Romans, vii~22 and 23. The universe exists, and is in constant motion; andthe motion produces as constant change. It is impossible that there should be motion of any kind in any part of anything that goes to make up the universe, without the effects of that motion being communicated to every other thing. Every movement in the atmosphere by what we call “ the winc ” is proof positive that every other portion of the atmosphere is moved to restore or keep the equilibrium ; in fact “the wind” is the means by which the equilibrium is maintained. Wlrenever there is a contraction of the volume of the atmosphere in any part of the world, caused by cold, the warmer pprtions vfromi all surrounding quarters «rush in to reestablish the balance; or when any part of it becomes expanded by heat, it rushes outward in all direc- tions, the violence qr rapidity of the movement, in either case, being in proportion to the suddenness and degree of the change in the temperature. ~ There is no division any- where in the atmosphere. It is all one; but there are all varieties of movements going on within it all the while. And what is true of the atmosphere is also true of the earth. There arerno absolute divisions in the matter of which the body of the earth is composed. As with the atmosphere so it is with the earth; as its different conditions in various places, depend upon the different motions that are set up within itself as a whole, do the various conditions of the earth depend upon the motions that have been made in the original matter as a whole; and there are no exceptions to this rule, even up to and including man. From the time that the first combination of two different elements (accord- ing to the elemental theory); or from the time that two atoms combined together (according to the atomic theory) up to the highest, most perfect, and most complex organic structure that there is existing, there is one continued line of change caused by motion in the matter that has been thus evolved. And it must‘ be remembered that each new combination which has been effected, has been a result of those which have gone before it. Nothing, at any time, has ever been interpolated into creation that had no previous cause. Thus creation is one continuous line of change on change, of growth on growth, from the beginning till now, and ever will be. The evolution of the material universe, it should be re- membered also, has not carried all the matter contained within it forward with equal rapidity. The primeval rocks from which the sands and soils have been decomposed, still comprise a very large portion of the solid body of the earth. There was a time, however, when there was nothing higher in the scale of organized matter than the rocks. These are, as it were, the foundation upon which creation is built; and upon which layer upon layer, story upon story, has been erected. It is even questionable whether the highest addi- tion that now exists could stand, should the foundation rocks by some processbe removed. May it not be possible, nay, is it not certain, that the foundations of creation are as necessary to the “upper works” as is the foundation of a building to its continuance as a structure. And yet the vegetable world is a higher order of creation than the rocks; and the reptile and fowl still higher orders than the veget- able; and the animal a further-on development still. The human animal, man, standing on the apex of creation, looks backward down the ascent that has been made and sees himself the culmination of all this mighty work carried on through all these mighty rounds of ages. Witli man, however, the old order of growth culminated. Hitherto the progress had been in complexity of organic form. Each new order of creation possessed some new function or organ, or some new functional or organic capacity. All of these new additions to the complexity of organic structure may be clearly traced, and the line of evolution formulated, from the first structural cell upward and forward until it ends in the delicately formed" and beautifully arranged and adapted hands and feet and fingers and toes of the human body. But all the matter of which the universe is com- posed has not been raised into human bodies. There are still existing, with some possible exceptions, all the links that comprise the chain of development reaching from mat- ter “without form and void” to man. In other words, there is still a place for everything, and may it not be also added that everything is in its place, while the rounds of growth continue to make their mighty circuits, every year adding th the mass of matter that has become imbued with human life, by having been passed through the human body. Standing on the apex of creation, all below and around man is becoming permeated with a new power by reason of his existence; and nature is constantly receiving her recom- pense for having in her economy developed him. Man produces a modifying, an elevating effect upon everything which comes within the circle of his influence. The very air he breathes becomes possessed of a new power because it has been in his body. All this we have frequently men- tioned before, but we wish distinctly to call attention to it here and now, because it furnishes a view of evolution that few have ever given its proper weight in the divine econ- omy. It is not generally recognized that the whole -mass of matter of which the earth is composed, and all of creation below man into which matter enters, is gradually becoming humanized. Not only is man discharging himself into the amosphere by each exhaling breath, but in the insensible perspiration, and in all his bodily secretions and cxcretions there goes a principle to enrich and lift the world to higher possibilities. Of course, this action is not to be perceived in the individual man to any considerable extent, but there is, nevertheless, a constant flux and reflux between organic and inorganic matter by which the latter is charged with the highest powers of the former. Indeed this is the method by which God is reconciling the world unto Him- self; that is, is making all matter capable, gradually, of ministering to the highest needs of man, with and in Whom He is eventually to dwell. ' We have been thus explicit in pointing out the methods by which matter is being fitted to be subservient to the highest needs that it is to fill in the divine economy of the future, so that we may teach a lesson by analogy further on that might not be recognized unless it had an illustration by which it could be enforced. The same law of evolution of relation and economy, prevails in all departments of na-’ ture. This law of reciprocal action and reaction is not con- fined to the material universe. It enters into the new order of growth that was set up in man, when he appeared, It is plainly to be seen that nothing in the material universe can stand alone. All the surroundings, all the antecedents and consequents, are necessary to each distinct creation and to all the individualities of each, as well. All former crea- tions had to exist before the later could exist; and the 1ater are dependent upon the former to maintain their existence. So there runs a line of interdependence through the whole circuit of creation. No part can say to any o.the1-, *4 I have no need of thee,” for all are parts of a united, common whole, which wouldlnot be a whole if any part were miss- ing or even were misplaced. Before leaving this part of the subject, it should be noted that so long as anything remains in the economy of nature, it remains to do a needed work, and if it disappear, it is because that work is done. The time, no doubt, will come, when it will be impossible to find the material out of which to construct a tiger with his ferocious disposition. For the character of the tiger depends upon the organism through which its life finds its expression. N 0 other form of animal can be made to imitate the tiger; and what is true of this variety is true of every other. Each forms a connecting link in evolution which, when it shall lift what is behind it, to its level, or to its place, and connect it with that which is before it, it will drop out and leave the new connec- tion to do its further work. The species of animals, rep- tiles, etc., that have become extinct, are illustrations of what we mean. They became extinct because there was no further use for them to serve in the economy of nature; and being none they disappeared. The same as We lay aside a thing that has served its purpose, so has God laid aside the things which He has made which have served His, purpose; and so will He continue to do, until the world shall be reponciled unto Him. We can now rise into the domain of man ; into the new order of development that was set up by his advent on the earth. It may be diflicult to draw the line in creation and say, here the animal ceases and there the man begins. Originally man was nothing that he is now, save in form, and even that has changed materially in someimportant parts. The shape of the -heads of the people of enlightened nations is widely difi'erent-from that of original tribes. But here, even, the original is found to reach down to the pres- ent in exceptional cases even among the most advanced classes. Generally speaking, however, the shape of the heads of the people generally has changed as the people have advanced intellectually and spiritually. There can be no doubt that the evenly balanced head; the head with the animal, social, intellectual and spiritual faculties evenly de- veloped, is the most perfect bead; is the better head to have than one in which either of these departments is below the average of the others. ~ The development, therefore, in man has been in brain power; in intellectual and spiritual direc- tions, this growth causing a change in the conformation of the head, to meet the needs of the enlarged organs that it contains. Now it will be observed that those people wlxosh-E52753 are nearest perfectly developed, whose heads are rounded out and full instead of sharp and angular, have the most evenly balanced characters. And what is true specifically of the head, is true in a more general sense of the body as a whole —~the bodies that approach nearest to perfection of outline and of general form, providing other things are equal, con- tain the nearest approach to perfect characters. No one can conceive of Christ as any more deformed or imperfect in His body thanln mind and spirit. Therefore it seems that l ‘ \ “'» 4, “'--~G 3-qb"". =- ~Feb. 19,1876. A it must be that the degree of perfection or imperfection that is indicated by the acts of individuals, is determined by the perfection or imperfection of their forms, through which they are made manifest. It is impossible for some to steal, while others have no power to refrain from stealing. It is impossible for many to be driven to a condition in which they could take the life of another, while there are a few among the whole who place no value at all on human life. But the many have no right to complain of the few, further than to provide protection for themselves against the defects in their organizations which make them dangerous. The person who cannot keep from stealing is more to be pitied than is he from whom he steals ; and certainly thesame, in a’ still higher degree, is true of him who by reason of the sins of his parents is made liable at any time to be provoked to murder, than is he who falls beneath his fury. All these evidences of imperfection in human character—all these evidences that the blood—thirstiness of the tiger is not yet burned out of matter, or that the secretiveness of the fox will manifest itself in man when the fox is made the basis of his character—go to show how careful all should be who assume the responsibility of adding to the population of the world. It is not true, however, that parents are wholly responsible for the defects of character with which children are en- dowed. Save as between the two they are only indirectly responsible. No person living can stand up amid the people and say I am alone responsible for what I do, and say it truely. No one can be so completely divorced from things around, assto make this possible. In the first place every one is a natural result of the conditions in which he or she was pro- duced, and in the second place this aggregate of results is open to the influence of everything by which it is surrounded, and is made to act in given directions, in proportion as these influences are strong or weak in.those directions. N 0 one is his own master or her own mistress, but, on the con- trary, persons are the slaves of the influences in which they live, conjoined with their inherited tendencies. In all com’- munities there will be individuals both above and below the average of goodness of the larger majority, but the degree of goodness which the general average of the whole of any community represents, depends not upon any individual of the community, but upon the community as a whole, and the general progress which any community makes does not depend absolutely upon any of the individuals who may seem to do most to cause it toevolve in goodness, but upon the commonlaw of evolution, working upon general princi- ples which lie behind all men and all communities, ofwhich all men and communities are the agents only. As in the abso- lute sense there can be no such thing as personal responsi- bility, so in the same sense there can be no such thing as personal merit. True, man -may perform a part in some grand cause that may prevail, but, after all, it is because he was prepared to do so, and because the work was ready to be done. He neither makes himself, nor yet the material with which the work is to be performed. But there is a modifying power in man that seems to go beyond the limitsof adherance to evolutionary law, and to act independently of it, and this fact has led men to adopt the idea of personal responsibility. Everybody is conscious of a power within that says to the inclination: “ This is wrong. See thou do it not,” or, “ This is right. See thou do it.” But in recognizing this power a collateral fact is overlooked, and this is, that the degree of the restraint from ,,doing the wrong, or constraint to do the right, depends wholly upon the conditions of which we have been speaking, and vet undoubtedly the progress that man has made in the line of evolution, of which he is the speciahreprescntative, has been so made by virtue of this thing that stands behind the inclinations and tendencies of his animal economy as monitor and umpire—-as the judge ; and this is the contest between the devil and God——the good and evil-—the carnal and the spiritual-—in man. ‘He is the field in which the con- test wages; in which it has waged since this the voice of God began to speak in man. There are no evidences that this still small voice finds utterance in any form below the form of man. The beast pursues the bent of his own nature, and he is contented or uneasy as this bent finds satisfaction or is deprived of it. No one considers it a crime for a tiger to devour a man. It is his nature thus to-do, and God hath made him so. How much more a crime is it in the man who is a human tiger-—who has no voice of God within him to re- » strain him from the crime? But it must not be forgotten that the standards of right and wrong, change to keep pace with the development of this power over human action. “That is right and proper in one age of the world comes to be wrong and improper in a succeeding age. Neither should it be forgotten that, while there is seemingly a common standard of right and wrong, which finds expression in the laws and customsof a people at any given time, that this is only seeming, for behind this external standard every individual has one of his own by which he directs his life. Now, here is the disputed ground between those who contend for the written law, and. those who contend for the-. higher law. V The higher law to anyone is the law within him which tells him that this is right and that is wrong; let the written law be what it may, whether really a higher standard or a lower than the one existing in the indi- vidual. It is he who acts always nearest to the dictates of the lawwithin him, whether it be in accord with the law without or not, who obeys the law of God. For he who acts ‘fully up to the law he finds within him, lives the life that is natural to his degree of -evolution. “ Let every one be fully persuaded inhis own mind,” said the profound St. Paul, ‘ And if anyone being fully persuaded in his own mind that a certain thing is right for him to do, no matter if the whole world be against him and call it wrong, it is right for him. Then here we find the rule that should govern life; here we find the rule that would govern life if all arbitrary and external influences were removed. If a man do what a law or custom requires which is in opposition to this judge within, he will be damned; he is condemned; and p it is this inexorable judge‘——this God within—that passes sentence. ' In presenting this we must not'be understood to say that any given act which may be done with the approvalof this judge, must be the highest. N ot by any means. There is a highest standard and a lowest, and there are standards all the way between the two, and those who live by the highest are the nearest to perfection. But this does not alter the former proposition. Degrees of goodness are a necessary accompaniment of the law of growth. All people do not grow alike, and, consequently, all cannot think and act: alike, and think and act rightly. Everything is true, or should be, to the standard which its actual development represents, and there are as many different standards as there are degrees of growth between the starting point and the highest yet attained. So it comes about that “what one thinketh so he is,” and so also that what one is “ fully per- suaded in his own mind” is the best thing for him to do; is the best life for him to lead, really is the best for his pres- ent condition, and without doubt, most prcmotive of fur- ther-on development, For, if one attempt to live a life that some one wants him, to, which is above his natural standard, such an one is liable, aye, is almost certain to back—slide, because the seeds of the old life still remain in him, and will spring up and grow as soon as the pressure that carried him upward is removed. Whe1'eas,. had he been ‘left to exhaust the conditions of.the lower, and to be guided by the judge within, instead of one without, he would have developed regularly instead of spasmodically, to fall again. When applying this rule of life to social things, it must be held that whatever one is fully persuaded in his or her own mind is best; is the most in accord with nature; is the highest, that life is the best for him or her, and if led, will not only contribute most to present happiness, but also to the most rapid growth. For all growth must be of the in- dividual. N 0 one can grow for another, save in this way, if it be an exception: every one has an influence on all by whom surrounded, and those who really, in the absolute sense, oecupy the most advanced positions in real goodness," purity and morals, both by word and deed, disseminate their goodness, purity and morality everywhere, and by so doing enrich the soil beneath; by so doing sow the seed of their own standard in lower grounds; inoculate their good- ness in the life of those who are fully justified’ in their own lives upon a lower plane, and thus, unconsciously to them, lift them higher. What is needed now is freedom for these forces to act; emancipation for the people so that they can thus act. Truth never ‘need ‘fear error if left free to combat it; nor need the higher ever fear that the lower will triumph, if each be free to grapple with the other. Evolution and not retrogression is the law of nature; and when nature is left free to act her part, the movement will be always up and never down. People might as well legislate that the weeds shall not grow in the garden as to do the same about the weeds in the higher garden of the human body. The true way is to cultivate the good seed, not by compulsion, but by attraction; by love, which is another name for attraction. In this way the higher will always draw the lower to it by the natural ‘power of which it is possessed; by virtue of its being the higher, while every form of force serves only to break this magic influence. Let every one be “fully persuaded in his own mind” how he should, live, and then adhere to it, in spite of all external influence; and let this cover the whole range of life. Who- ever does this not only will have the approval of his judge, which is the God within, but will make the most rapid general progress, because he who lives such a life as this ensures; is always ready to learn and adopt the better way; is never bound by any external thing to any idol; and, finally, because such a one is honest; is not a hypocrite, and has no need to/seem to be other than he is. 44- A fiwvw WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH LABOR? , Probably at no time since the establishment of this country was there so much unemployed labor as there is now. One person in every eight in all the large cities with nothing to do, and consequently with nothing to eat; and the same is true, to a greater or less degree, of all the country. It is a disgrace to civilization, that, in a country which can be made to yield even treble the crops of breadstuifs that it does there should be a million people suffering for the want of a. loaf, each, of bread a day. That the resources of the country are ample to feed ten times its own population, and at the same time that there are immense numbers of men, and es- specially women and children suffering for bread, discloses the fact, as it was never before disclosed, that there is -some- thing wrong somewhere. Of course, there is a great deal of talk among the “ wise,” and especially do the finance tink- erers talk earnestly of the evil whichithis or that amend- ment to our currency, will effect. But in spite of all this frfotli, there are causes behind it all out of which it rises, woonnunr. & GLAFL-IN’S WEEKLY. , is which are scarcely recognized by these doctors of finance. It is true that a thousand things which these tinkers may do, may aggravate or mitigate the symptoms of the disease, but they are tinkers merely Logically, the question of equity in industry, and of a. proper medium for efiecting its exchanges, have no relation to each other. If a man, or a body of men, set down anywhere in this country, is permitted to make free use of that by which they may find himself surrounded, he will not only be able to provide himself with food and raiment, but his family also. The reason then that thousands cannot do this, is be- cause there are some kind of improper restrictions exercised somewhere, that destroy the natural right possessed by every man. If it be true, that a man by exercising his natural right to lab or, can provide himself and family with enough to meet their needs, then a body of men can do the same; and if abody, then the whole, if they are properly organized . These are self-evident propositions. It follows then since many men cannot do this under present conditions, that the fault lies with the system of organization under which the industries are conducted. And no tinkering with the finances, nor any strikes for wages, or. for hours of labor,- can ever settle this. Alleviation in securing better wages or better hours, may assuage‘ the symptoms, and put oil the day of the final overthrow, as all compromises with wrong serve to do, and to retain the real oppressors longer in their power, but they can never remove or touch the real causes of the misery that need to be abated. It seems to us that there is one cause of present stagnation that hasbeen quite overlooked. Take the world as a whole, there are not so many more people in it than there were a a hundred years ago, as may at first be supposed. Nor do these same people consume so muchsmore than they did then as‘ might be supposed. They require just about the same quantities of food that they did formerly; and wear about the same amount of clothes. But now look upon the other side, and see how large the increase in production has been, both in food and manufactured goods. The same number of laborers working the same number of hours now, by the aid of labor-saving inventions, produce sometimes ‘a hundred fold more than they formerly could have done without the aid of machinery. Whatever may have been the increase in consumption, the increase in production has been ten times as large, at least. All of this increase over consumption, has been accumulating in the markets of the world, until large amounts of capital_ are swallowed up in them, and as as the capital is all invested in these surplus stocks. This fact may be seen‘ probably more clearly, if the illus- trations be made of agricultural products. If the agricultu- ral industries of the world produce yearly double what is re- quired“ to feed all her people, it is clear that such overt pro- duction could go on only until the merchants should find themselves with all their capital invested in produce, , for which there were no consumers. Then they would cease to purchase of the producer, and he would be left with his crops on his hands. Much the same condition of things as this would be, exists regarding manufactured goods. In fact, the condition is largely true regarding the direct products of the soil. With the increased facilities of production, there should have been a proportionate decrease of the -hours of labor, but no reduction in the wages of labor. ‘The a family than that of a hundred years «agolwlould produce, and yet a day’s labor produces sometimes a hundred times more than it did at that time. From year to year, merely, this increased production is not felt; and it has not been largely feltttill now, because the increased‘ methods of commercial intercommunication with various parts of the world, have distributed this over-production among the nations which have not been blessed by increased facilities for production. Butnow these new sources of demand have all been opened up, and their present requirements filled. Their marketsare overloaded, and the reaction of all this, to be severely felt, for almost the first time. The conse- quence is that the merchants have got all theproducts of the labor of years on their hands, while the laborer, now idle, has nothing with which to purchase. Now the solution of this whole problem is patent on its face. If these people who have succeeded in smug- gling the products of labor into"'their hands, were the agents merely of the producers, and'not the owner of their products, then labor when unemployed by reason of prdduction over consumption could be maintained during such reactionary periods, whereas now they must be subsisted if they are permitted to subsist at all, by the charitable bestowment upon them of the very things which their labor orig'inal‘ly produced. For such injustice as this there can be found of the vexed question of finance, wages, or hoursof labor. The cause lies deeper than they can reach. What the world needs to secure is the greatest good and greatest number merely, '_but for all. e ‘The policy of self-aggrandisement has been pursued until one-half the worldis starvingand naked, while the other half has got an immense accumulation of goods upon its hands with which it does _not know what to do; or, in its"own»language, “We cannot purchase any further because there is no market for what we have.” iThisltells the whole story, the real seat of the disease they can never reach, because ‘ a consequence the manufacturers cannot goon producing, price of a day’s labor willnot produce any more support for I upon the producing centers of civilization, is now beginning‘ no remedy in any solution that may be made or attempted , the greatest degree of happiness and comfort, notifor the ~ 6 p Z‘ , woonnunna cr.A1vL1N*sswEEKLv. G N ow, what is wanted in place of the present system of in- dustries is a system which will leave the producers in pos- session of their products, so that in any event of failure to produce, or from temporary reaction caused by over-produc- ii tion, they may not be left to subsist from charities, in which system all the classes who are now the rulers of the producer, inasmuch as it is they who say we will or we will not pur- chase your products, will become their servants or agents i to effect the exchanges between the several branches of industry. In such a system there would be no Stewarts, with millions of the products of labor stored in their immense warehouses, which no laborer could obtain without payinga price. We then should have Stewarts to oversee the accumu- lated products of labor, and, in times like these, to deal them out to those who otherwise would suffer. In place of the spirit of selfish greed, we need that of the “ Good- Samaritan,” by Whom Jesus attempted to teach his pro- fessed followers a lesson that they will not learn. Ln 4 V 17* ARE THEIR EYES OPENED? The Y. M. C. A. have heretofore never had any difiiculty in getting Congress to pass any bill that they have asked for, to assist them in the so-called “ suppression of vice and crime.” All they have had to do was to send their suppliant agent to Washington with a box of the latest seizures of obscene pictures or books, and a prepared bill, and the job was done. Probably there were not a dozen Congressmen who would ever hear such a bill, sought to be passed read. They simply didn’t care anything, about it. They knew that a. powerful Christian Association asked that it be done, and they have done it without a question. They did not perceive in the artfully drawn law how they were being entrapped into trampling upon the Constitution ; or rather into‘ passing a law, that, while it did not in specific language, infringe upon the Constitutional rights of the freedom of the press, was nevertheless intended by its pro- moters to be interpreted so to do, and to be used for that purpose. When this same suppliant agent had us arrested, there was no language in the law, which he knew as well as any- body‘ else, that’ could be construed by any twisting into a justification of proceeding against us, even had the paper of which he complained been obscene in law, which it . was not. But he, or those behind him, relied upon the prejudices of the people and the public , opinion, which they knew would support the Great Preacher and the “Revered Citizen,” to justify his high—handed assumption of dictatorship to the press in our case. But inthis he failed, and when he saw that he was defeated, his impotent rage knew no bounds. Everywhere he went he openly avowed that he would never rest until he had procured a law by which he could send us_ to the peniten- tiary. Even before the culmination of his brigandish attempt upon us, he went before Congress and had interpolated into _ the law the word “ paper ” among the things that might be proceeded against for passing through the mails. Congress did not see that, by this word “ paper,” _its artful drafters really meant newspaper. A paper is a too general term to be used in statutory law to designate a newspaper, because a ‘paper may be any other thing in paper form just as well as a newspaper. But the trap was set to make_Congress violate the Constitution, and, as far as the intention of the Y. M, C. A. was concerned, they did pass a law abridging . the freedom of the press, which the Constitution prohibits. Not only did he procure this done, but he got the penalty increased from one year imprisonment to ten, specially to suit our case, and to appease his wounded vanity for being defeated in his schemes to dispose of us at first. , But this unconscienceless agentof the Y. M. ‘C. A. finding that this little word “paper” would not _carry himself safely through the crusade against newspapers that do not advocate the line xofimorals prescribed by the Association which he serves, has found it necessary to go before Con- gress again to widen the scope and the application of this infamous law by which he seeks to obtain control of the press and the power to suppress any paper that may fall under the bane of the Y. M. C. A. This time he makes a bold bid for the whole word, and asks that Congress insert the word “newspaper” so that there may be no doubt about his right, so far. as Congress can make it a right, to prosecute newspapers._ One of the members of the Com- mittee informed us while in Washington, that “if Lant’s Sun had been a regularly issued newspaper he could not have been convicted-;_but that in law, his issue was a paper, without being a. newspapefi “N0 newspaper,” said the Congressman, “can be attacked under this law; nor can Congress pass, 3 law of such import, because it is prohibited V by the Constitution.” When the late attempt was made to rush-a new law through Congress, its members at once saw the cat concealed in the meal, and some of the prominent ezepresentatives proceeded to denounce the bill" in proper germs as a dangerous innovation;upon the rights of the peo- ple, and the bill was recommitted for revisal. But behind the law, so far as it is intended by its promo- ters to apply to newspapers, it confers a power upon this agent of the .Y. A., now a U. S. P. O. ofiicial, to overhaul the mails and to break open letters that he may deem Suspicious-.——a.p0WeI' that even the Premier of England dare not exercise, and for exercising which, in the case of an Italian rfifugee in England, one was forced to resign his V Mfice, Pg,1-liament-would not permit even the British Prime , Mmnisp-er 1,9 1;;-Wk thpispal. pf a letter belonging to a refugee, was who had sought shelter in England, but here in the United tates, not only does the agent of a body of sectarian Chris- tians assume to do what a’ British Premier dare not, but Congress passes a law legalizing the infamous outrage. In England the mails are sacred. In the United States they may be tampered with by a mere scenter after obscenity. How long will the people of this country -submit to such outrages? How long will they endure the insults of a gov- ernment whichexalts such men as this one into being a censor of the mails and the press? Let the government beware how far it trenches upon the endurance of this long- suffering people, lest they rise and in a day resume the rights of which, piece by piece, they have been defrauded. Remember, people of the United States, that this govern- ment, your Congress, your servants, have passed a law which stands upon your statute books a blotch of infamy, by which this man, who is beneath the contempt of an American citizen, infers that he has the right to go into any post office and open your letters; your daughters’ letters; your wives’ letters; your business letters, to see if, per- chance, you haven’t written something that, in his judg- ment, may corrupt the morals of the person whom you have addressed. - Moreover, this agent of obscenity does not dare to attack any of the greatnewspapers. He only moves against such as he imagines he can rely upon the prejudices of the public to sustain him in. It was this only that convicted Lant.:Had it been Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun, instead of Mr. Lant, of the Toledo Sun, that had published the objection- able matter, he would never have been proceeded against in the first place, and could never have been convicted in the second place. No jury could have been found who would have brought in a verdict of guilty upon the evidence that convicted Lant. It was because Lant was not a Dana, or a Bennett, or a Jones, that he .was prosecuted to convic- tion by the Y. M. C. A. Wlien George Francis Train was in the Tombs, day after day the New York Sun published column after column, equally ‘as objectionable to good taste and public morals, as was this from the same source for which Lant is now in the penitentiary. This fact of itself ought to move Congress to immediately repeal the law under which such outrages can be committed. No law should be permitted to stand upon the statute books of this great nation, which, in any case, can be used to op- press the weak and the poor, but from which the influential and the rich are protected by virtue of their position in society, and their wealth. No law should be allowed to stand a moment,,that is open to being made the vehicle of any man’s, or any association’s, sectarian or social bigotry and intolerance, to be vented , upon his victims by working upon the prejudices of an ignorant jury, who have no competent idea of purity or vulgarity in literature. A law that cannot be enforced against the great and rich as well as against the small and poor,» should never beenacted, and if {enacted and found to work in this way, should at once be repealed. Law should be for the protection of the people, not for the oppression of the weak, or the vehicle of religious or social persecution; and as this is the use to which the Y. M. C. A. reduce the Congressional Act to prevent the circulation in the mails of obscene literature, it ought to be repealed, at least so much of it as may be inter- preted to prohibit the sending of newspapers, books and pamphlets in the mails, and upon which prosecutions for sending them may be instituted. Newspapers should be left free to discuss all questions relating to the welfare of the race; even the sexual question in its minutest particu- lars; and books and pamphlets, containing scientific or con- troversial investigations jnto the mysteries ‘and the un- known in sex, ought to pass freely through the mails. A m if LIFE‘-SIZE LITHOGRAPH. We have just received the first edition of life—size litho- graphs of Victoria C. Woodhull, from the lithographic establishment of Armstrong & Co., of Boston, Mass. They are splendid pictures, both as a work of art and as like- nesses. They are "printed on heavy paper 20 x24 inches, and specially adapted for framing. They will be sent post- paid, securely wrapped to guard against damage, to any address for 50 cents. The common price of lithographs of this size is $2; but we have arranged with the publisher to furnish them in large quantities at such rates that they can be resold at the price named without loss to us. They are thus put within the means and reach of everybody who desires to have a splendid life—size portrait of the Editor-in- Chief of the WEEKLY, who has devoted her life wholly to the inauguration of a new dispensation on earth, in which misery, vice and crime shall have no place. In reply to many letters asking for " dealer’s terms ” we would say that the lithographs maybe ordered by express by the half dozen, dozen, or more at 40 cents, the usual price, less the postage. In explanation of the delay that has occurred in sending lithographs we would say that the second edition has been delayed, but will be received within a day or two, when. all orders will be filled.—[MANAGING EDITOR]. __iQ 4 V 1* THE GARDEN OF EDEN . The paper edition of this oration is exhausted; but we have just received the pamphlet edition, which, to meet the extraordinary demand that has been made for the paper, We will furnishin lots of ten at $1, or more at same rate- V Feb. 19, 1876. READY FOR THE CONFLICT. Bowen talks like a man reluctantlyenlisted, but-, once in, resolved upon a square fight. VVe are rejoiced to secure for the right a soldier of such grit. He brings himself up with millions of ammunition, and will, no doubt, do more to shake up the sea—sick followers of Plym0utl1’s Jonah than all that have preceded him. There is manliness in Bowen’s words, some heart and brains. Good men ;will appreciate his straight forward statement. We are tired of petty-fogging; it has been one of the poisons that has brought on so much demoralization throughout the nation. “ Down with shams !” Parson Halliday very properly introduced Bowen’s “letter missive” by prayer. He seems to have had an idea that the “missive” would contain some sharp accusations against the modern St. Paul. No doubt Brothers S. V. W., Joe Howard, and others of that ilk will continue their whistling, and try to keep up their courage; but sounding brass and fog horns will not much longer protect their beloved Henry VVard, nor will they frighten the besiegers any more than do .Shearman’s tears. ——~——-————¢o« A REQUEST. As we are soon to begin the preparation of an elaborate statement of the ultimate truth of the New Departure, so far as it is known to us, we desire that all persons who have any singular, exceptional, or hitherto inexplicable sexual experiences which they think may relate to this truth, should write them out in detailed form. These com‘ munications, if desired, will be held strictly confidential, so far as the writer’s names are concerned, but we propose to incorporate such parts of them as have bearing upon the truth, with the statement. This statement is designed for those only who have expressed a desire to receive the whole trnth, together with all its responsibilities, and will contain in an appendix, a,‘,list of such persons’ names with their resi- dences, through which they may come toknow each other. P—<‘>—-4 TO OUR OHIO READERS. , There is :1 bill pending before the legislature of Ohio, providing for the taxation of church property. Every one W110 favors such a bill should send in a petition, with all the names that can be obtained, asking that the bill pass. _j—»;. LECTURE ENGAGEMENTS. Mrs. VVoodhull lectured in Memphis on Sunday, in N ash- ville, on Monday, and in Chattanooga to-night (Tuesday). And is to lecture at Atlanta, Ga., to-morrow night (Wednes- day) ;at Augusta, Thursday; at Macon, Friday; and at Mont- gomery, Ala., Saturday of this week. Route beyond there is not yet known, but will probably be Selma, Jackson, Vicksburg, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston and other Texan cities in regular succession. All letters about lectures should be addresed to the United States Lecture Bureau, Box 3,791, New York City. 4;. VV*- Bowen’s “Doxolager” will probably cause a fresh flow of briny tears from Shearman, an essay from J 0 Howard (or a squib from Jugg), a hundred fresh camilias from the ladies of old Plymouth, and some capital stories from “Henry Ward B., of Puritan stock,” who faithfully preaches “the word to his flock,” and then the brethren will vote an increase of salary, and request that brother S. V. White’s name be dropped for making a fussy time about nothing. Will somebody give the names of the male mem- bers of that society who have not yet been prominently connected with the defence of the “ Great Defendant ” and its financial condition, officers, vestrymen? Let it be seen. of wl-hm the rank and file consist. Those most prominent were registered long since—Henry’s letters to Moulton did that business—but his faithful sepoys! poor fellows, pity them! ——~———————+~>-—-———— THE -DAWN OF DAY. Are we in reality to have more truth in the world?- There is a vague idea tripping around corners, pitching into churches, schools, theatres, warehouses, prisons——even law ofiices find it frequently perched on their court calendars; that we are “too smart”——that we “cant”——are “hypo- crites ”——evcn worse, if that is possible—all false. _. Are your readers expected to believe the New Departure is to make a clean sweep of all this rubbish that has swamped so many millions of good fellows ? Suppose we begin by inviting that much-abused woman, Elizabeth R. . Tilton, whom we fervently hope will yet have faith enough in truth to clasp it, and demand the world’s approval. She has carried the sins of Plymouth on her shoulders, and besides, a load of masculine selfishness beyond endurance. She has heroic qualities. The good in all directions will welcome l1er—we pray she may step firmly to the front," and fear not. SOME WOMEN IN CHERRY VALLEY. Man A r ‘gra SPIRITUAL CHURCH on THE GOOD-SAMARITANS, recogniz- ing the Jesus Christ principles as their foundation, will meet? at the hall in the rear of Charter Oak Hall, San Francisco, Cal., Sundays at 11, 2:30, 7 P. M. Services by Rev. Dr. Chaun- cey Barnes and others. » .45» . g V _ .. 1- am;/hm . 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THE WORLD’S Sixteen Crucified Saviors; OR, CHRIST I A NI 1 ’Y BET ORE CHRIS T. ’ CONTAINING N ew, Startling and Eoilraordinciry Revemtions in Religious History, which disclose the Orientctl Origin of all the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts and Miracles of the CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and _furm’sliing a Key for unlocking many of its Sacred lllysteries, besides comprising the II/istory of Sixteen Or-ieaital Grucified Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, _ Azitlior of “ The Biograp/i_y_of Satan ”_an.ol “The Bible of Bibles ” (comprisi (7 ii description of twenty ibles.) This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the field which he has chosen for it. The amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the varied information contained in it must have been severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will ’ not willingly allow it to go out of print. ‘But the book is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics: ,' throughout its entire course the author—as will be seen by his title-page and chapter—heads~—follows a. definite line of research and argnmentyto the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. CONTENTS. gy- Chap. 1.——Rival Claims of the Saviors. Chap. 2.——Messianic Prophecies. _ Chap. 3.—Prophecies by the figure of a Serpent. Chap. 4.~—Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of ti‘ G d . Chalpj. 5f)—SVii'gin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods! Chap. 6.—Stars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. Chap. 7.—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the Infant : S ' . Cl1£:;.1§.r--Tlle Twenty-fifth of December the Birthday of the Gods. _ , Chap. 9.-—Titles of the Saviors. Chap. 10.—-The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birth. _ Chap. 11.—~Christ’s Genealogy. Chap. 12.——The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tigm in Infancy. . _ . _ Chap. 13.——The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of D1- ’ 't . ‘ 1}:1.—-The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.——The Saviors are real Personages. Chap. 16.——Sixtecn Saviors Cruciiied. Chap. l7.—-The Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci- fi ' . Cha}.£1:.()I118.—Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Cha . 19.——ResurrectiOn of the Saviors. Chap 20.——Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- CHH¥)T'21.—The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe ClE)ztl1l%[:]2..—The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. _ Chap. 23.——The Divine “ Word ”‘of Oriental Origin. Chap. 24.—The Trinity very anciently a current Hea- then Doctrine. _ Chap. 25,-Absolution, or the Confession of Sins, of Heathen Origin. Chap. 26.-——Origin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. Chap. 27.—-The Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen Ori in. Chap%28.—Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.——I:low Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. Chap. 30.——Sacred Cycles explaining the Advent of the Gods, the Master-key to the Divinity of Jesus ’ Christ. = Chap. 31.—Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systems‘. _ Chap. 32.—-Three Hundred and Forty-six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna. Chap. 33.-Apollonius, Osiris and Magus as Gods. Chap. 34.—The Three Pillars of the Christian Faith- Miracles, Prophecies and Precepts. _ Chap. 35.——Logical or Common-sense View of the Doc- triee of Divine Incarnation. ' Chap. 36.-Philosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. _ _ ' _ Chap. 37.—PhysiOlogical_ Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, . _ ' Chap. 38.——A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. 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A S d1’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.50 A. .’*5i§2§‘.?ét‘§.:: ................ .. 8.00 Pu“ ~ 5n§o?.3";. .............. .. 8.00 «M ' “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ A B‘ - k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 P. . ., Ar Bismarck..... . . . . . . . . . .. 12.01 P. M. «Ir ctilillniifns ................ .. 5.00 A. ll. ' “ Columbus .............. .. 6.30 “’ ' “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 P. M. “ Little Rock . . . . . . . - . - . . .. B 1‘ . . . . . . .. 8.50 A M- ArBurlington.... 7.00 P M. A“r ofifoiitgfll. 11.00 P M. “ Omaha..... 7.45 A. M. l 1‘ Cheyenne.... . “ Cheyenne. 12-50 I’. M. . “ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ 0 dell.---_. - 5-30 “ W“ San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ 5311 F1'&I1C1SC0- -- .. 3-30 “ Ar Galesburg . . . . . . . . . .., . . . . .. 6.40 A. M- . . Ar Galesburg ............. .. 4.45 P. M. “ Quincy . . . . . . . . . . . . ..'. . . . . .. .15 ‘.‘ “ flillcey - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- 9-45 " 4 “ St. Joseph ................ .. 10.00 “ .. “ St. Joseph ............ .. 8.10 A. M “ Kansas City .............. .. 10.40 1». M. “ Kansas City ........... .. 9-25 “ 1’ “ Atchison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I1.00 “: “ -04101115011 - - - - - - - - - - - . - - -- 11-17 “ f ‘- Leavenworth .............. .. 12.10 “ ‘ " Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.40 noon. '3,“ Denver.- . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.00 A. M. “ Denver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . V , , Through? l_Sleepirig" Car Arrangements 9.15 A.‘M.‘——Day"Express from Jersey City (daily except Sunday)_, with Pulln_ian’s Drawing-Room Cars and conncctin at Suspension Bridge with Pul1nian’s Pa ace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 8.00 p. m the following ay in time to take the morning trains from there. 730 1._ M_,._Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs through to Chicago Without change arriving there at 8.00 a. m., ving passengers ample time for breakfast and take the morning trains to all points West, Northwest and outhwest. CONNECTIONS OF ERIE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES OF ,jMicliigan. Central & Great. Western: Railways. At St. Catharincs, with Welland Railway, for Port Colborne. . At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover. At Harrisburg, with branch for Gait, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. At Paris, with G. W. 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Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2112
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Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
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1876-02-26
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New York (N.Y.)
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v PROGRESS 2 FREE THOUGHT I UNT3AMMELEiji;r*vtEsI BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE G-i:iN}ERATIon's.i Vol; XI.--No. 13.——-Whole No. 273. f NEW YORK, FEB. 26,1876. PRICE TEN CENTS. The truth shall make you free.——Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh a'7igel,~the my/stery of Gael shalt be _firtishecl.————St. John the ivine. 'Whereof I was made a minister to preach the im- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in Go cl.~——Paul. V p-<Qo« BEESON AND WARREN ormsn ON THE MARRIAGE QUESTION. Editors of the Weeklgt/—In your issue of Feb. 5th, our good brother, Warren Chase, invites me “to tell more plainly what I think of the marriage question.” Well, I agree with him “thatthis branch of the great sectarian tree bears the worst fruit of any;” and that it includes “the sum of all villainies,” and therefore if “there are Spiritualists who want to shape anew the unholy tree and its evil fruits,” I beg that he will ... Show morev PROGRESS 2 FREE THOUGHT I UNT3AMMELEiji;r*vtEsI BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE G-i:iN}ERATIon's.i Vol; XI.--No. 13.——-Whole No. 273. f NEW YORK, FEB. 26,1876. PRICE TEN CENTS. The truth shall make you free.——Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh a'7igel,~the my/stery of Gael shalt be _firtishecl.————St. John the ivine. 'Whereof I was made a minister to preach the im- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in Go cl.~——Paul. V p-<Qo« BEESON AND WARREN ormsn ON THE MARRIAGE QUESTION. Editors of the Weeklgt/—In your issue of Feb. 5th, our good brother, Warren Chase, invites me “to tell more plainly what I think of the marriage question.” Well, I agree with him “thatthis branch of the great sectarian tree bears the worst fruit of any;” and that it includes “the sum of all villainies,” and therefore if “there are Spiritualists who want to shape anew the unholy tree and its evil fruits,” I beg that he will not class me as one of them. Andl wish to remind him that the article in your issue of Jan. 22, which he re- ,views was simply a statement of the motives which induce marriage, and not the modes by which it is efiected; for no matter whether a priest.or a squire pronounced the fact, or the parties themselves. as in the case of Moses Hull and Mattie Sawyer, or Leo Miller and Mattie Strickland, it is in each case marriage, for the dictionary defines it as the “union of the sexes.” The difference is that in one case it is in accordance with law, and in the other with nature. The law compels its perpetuity for life, while nature permits it only while it ‘serves the purpose for which it was instituted. Thus, in one case, it must continue no matter how irksome and hurtful to parents andchildren; while in the other it ceases when its highest object is accomplished. It is akin to slavery with all its horrors; or to freedom with all its bless- ings. This vast advantage of one over the other is overlooked and hardly noticed by the masses, because priestcraft has given bad laws a religious sanction, until long custom has become a second nature. But of all great wrongs'this, which is emphatically the greatest, -may be the soonest and the easiest overcome. Indeed, if it is true what has been afiirmed, that comparatively few know who are their own fathers, and that there is as much sexual commerce outside of wed- lock as there is within, it is already largely overcome. All that is now required is the use of pure instinct, enlightened reason, and a properly educated public conscience, together with a right application of the Scriptural injunction, “Whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” The swallowsiunder thefleaves are_ thus mated, and surely the humans in the house can obey God's law and live as har- moniously as they. The first organized public effort should be a call for a national mass meeting to convene early in sum- mer, to discuss the cause and itlfe cure of existing wrongs, and to nominate a President and Vice-President of the United States whose well-known‘ enlightenment and love of justice will be a guarantee for their sanction ofall the essential reforms which are new advocated by the mostladvanced minds in the country. I think it needs no argument to show thatthis is the first step inlthe order of progress, because unless We have the right men in oflice, we cannot have the necessary change in“ the Constitution for woman’s sufirage arid for her pecuniary provisionwwhich will be necessary to her highest and holiest function as the mother and educator of our race. I therefore respectfully suggest that if neither _the _Woman’s Suffrage, nor the Sexual Science, nor the Uni- versal Peace Associations, issue a call for the above purpose by the close of February, that Mrs. Woodhull and her im- mediate associates do so, at such time and place as they deem proper. Respectfully, JOHN BEESON. CHAPINVILLE, Litchfield county, Conn.,j.I an. 29, 1876. JOHN GEMS FROM FOURIER. ‘SELECTED BY A. cnrnon. WHAT‘ NATION WILL '1?‘I‘RS'1‘ REACH THE SOCIETARY‘ ORDER. Germs of infinitesimal refinement in divers social faculties » [of the French : ~ r l .: - _ » 1. In its literature, much more chastened than that of other nations, more exacting in the unities and finesses of the art. 2. In its industry, wherein the designs are more exact, the forms more graceful, the caprices of fashion more refined, more multiplied than with any other nation. _ 3. In its amours. The French are more subtle in courtship, more refined in coquetry, more fruitful in intrigues. * * * 4. In its cuisine. where the_Frenchman obtains the palm, even by the admission of his detractors, where he knows how to raise himself from varities to tenuities of shades, to ap-, proach nearer than any other the minimities and to reach toward the infinities. [REMARK——F’S expectations on this head would have been more than realized had not the tendency to organize industry been suppressed by force. The co-operationworkshops insti- tuted by, or through the influence of Louis Blane in 1848, or just after the revolution of that year, were, notwithstanding persistent assertions to the contrary, completely successful, and therefore put down by force. This I had from an eye— witness, a French shoemaker, with whom I was acquainted in Washington. Other co—operative movements were at- tended by “ mouches,” or spies, who endeavored to entangle those concerned, in some political matter, so as to give the authorities a pretext for suppressing them.“ Failing in this, the “ mouche ” -would “ spin a yarn out of whole cloth ” for the same purpose. My information here again is from a gen- tlemen then residentin Paris, now in Washington, whom a “ mouche ” informed what he had been doing, remarking that it was disgraceful to those who arranged it, but as he (the mouche) was paid to do the work he had to do it. Yet a Republican (I !) American press is‘ down on the Commune because its partisans, or some other persons, drowned one of those wretches, paid to do any villainy which French ofiioials may order “in the interests of society and religion”! I This in connection with other " straws,” indicates that a coup d’ etat to i.naugurate a civil and religious despotism may not be less successful in America in 1880 than it was in France thirty years previously. At any rate, fiunkies are sufficiently numer- ous and influential.) V — - We are about to make a giant stride in the social career. By passing immediately from civilization to harmony, we escape a score of revolutions which may imbue the globe in bloodshed for yet twenty centuries. * * * * * * We shall make a. leap of two thousand years in the social career; let us know how to make a similar one in the career of preju- dices.—-(III 343.) , [REMAnK—-—We shall‘ not pass immediately from civilization to harmony. . “ Guaranteeism ” or demi-association being intermediate, and that on which we are evidently entering in England, France, Germany and the United States. But observe the consequences resulting from the delay. N ct over fifty years (probably) have passed since the above extract was written, and four revolutions have already occurred in France, a fifth being only held back by a repressive, oppressive ecclesiastico—military organization, which? governs France through ahold-over legislature having no title or pretence of right,‘ legal or constitutional. In 1848, as to-day, the French people (or a large portion of them) were and are ready for a large installment of co-operative, unitary life, which is only suppressed by force. And notwithstanding the enormous obstacles thus imposed tne “ Social Palace of Guise ” exhibits the superiority and practicability of unitary life in avery high degree. As to the “ score of revolutions” a million of lives have been recently sacrificed in the United States to es-. ablishp the germ of a. semi-savage monarchy, built on that struggle for freedom of another race, present social conditions in the United States only ofiering option between the Scylla of chattel slavery and the Charybdis of a semi-African gov- ernment, pivoted on dollars, dinners, drinks, “addition, di- vision and silence ”-—option between the lash of the planta- tion as the sceptre resultant from a " third term.” And some think that we must sacrifice more lives to put down the sceptre than have been expended to raise up the chattel. But the Granger and the labor movements and their auxiliaries approximate to guaranteeism by the necessities of their being, andmay thus save these anticipated evils by lifting us up out of this ‘accursed but worshipped “ civilization. COMPOUN DIN G FELON Y. ’ in WARREN oirssn. , “ Among the dispatches on this page are some further and_ crying appeals for a severer law against rape. We hope our legislators will make a note of them.‘ They are stronger than rhetoric, and more powerful than argument. A man who is capable of committing this crime is worse than a murderer. .‘/J and his crime ought to be ranked in law for an equal punish- to be for this, and, if there is no law to provide suitable pun- ishment for it, a man known to be guilty ought to be shot on sight like a dog. If the statutds propose to furnish no protection to women against this terrible danger, society will have to provide a law of its own with a shot-gun to it.” this subject, which we fully endorse, except in the taking of life, to which we always objects That rape is a crime second only to murder we readily admit. That it is a crime which it is equally well knownthat it can be committed by married the latter. It is also well known that the crime is often com- Fmitted on married women, and often by married men, and the criminal law reaches and recognizes all these cases except where the married man is the husband of the victim, and then the crime is no longer a crime, for the priest has by law sold him the indulgence, and he is licenced to commit the second crime in the calendar, and go unpunished. Why not‘: law and religion to commit this crime? Formerly he had the same right to murder her and her ofisprlng, but we have ameliorated the slavery a little where it does not interfere with the sexual lusts of the law-making sex; but in this the tyranny is as complete as in the days of Constantine and Nero. , ~ It is a well—established fact that there are ten rapes committed by. husbands on their wives to every one com- mitted on others. And if it is murder for a man to kill his wife, why is it not rape when he commits the same act on her that is rape when committed onganother woman that has not been married? A crime is a crime, murder is murder, and rape is rape, and how a few words of priest or magistrate can remove the criminality from one of the acts,.and. leave, it in others, is what we cannot see, unless it is “compounding felony." ‘ A - 2 The pretence that the woman has consented at the time of marriage to let the man commit rape on her While she ' lives is false. She has been cheated or deceived, as the par- ties often are where there is no marriage, and as he did not, trespass on her rights of person while courting her she does not expect him to turn to a brute immediately after. criminality? Suppose she had promised to let him kill hex- firstfchild, and he did it and proved she had consented at the time of marriage, would that exculpate him from the crime of murder? Or suppose she had consented to his murdering her the first time she failed to get his dinner precisely at cution for murder? If an-actis a crime in itself can any second party by consentingto its committal release the party from criminality? We would not abate the horror nor lessen the criminality of rape, but we would protect wives bylaw against it the same as we do against the next higher crime of murder, and hold the husband as guilty who commits it on his wife as the one that commits it on any other woman. nected with it. If an act is a crime at all it is a crime “per se,” and no licence to commit it can palliate its enormity. An unmarried woman consenting to sexual intimacy at'one time with a man, does not prevent his ever after committing a rape on her. She might have been his wife and ‘afterward divorced‘, and then he could be held in law‘ for a rape on he’r;"i but if the courts had not absolved the contract he could not be held, even if the act cost her her life, as is often the case. deacon who insisted on commerce with-his wife a few days after the birth of her child, and in which he forced the ‘lady that waited on her to leave, with severe threats and against the tearful entreaties of the wife, whoassured him that it would kill her, and it did, and he knew what killed her, but he soon,had.-a.nother’victim underthe holy institution. 4 ' fully Vequallinggin enormity those outside marriageiwhen ,our papers and few of our writers who see the enormity of this crime committed out of marriage bonds cannot see any merit. If there is a death penalty for anything there ought The above editorial scrap we clip from the Iowa State. Register, a leading paper of Iowa, somewhat rabid on the. subject of punishments, but speaking some solid truthson; can only be committed byithe male sex is well known, and, as well as unmarried men, and is oftcner by the former than, Is not the woman his property, on which he vlhas- errightl by? But suppose‘ she did promise, does that destroy the, noon, and he should do it, would that release him from prose-A “ When committed on children it has an additional horror con- ‘ A case has been related to us by a’ relative of a . We have heard many pitiful tales of rape in marriage (committed on fully developed persons. Why is it that few of criminality in the act inside xnarriage contracts? A priggg, . 5?‘, '4! ex 2 woonnom. a GLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Feb. 26, 1876. cannot condone crime nor a magistrate compound felony, A crime is a crime when committed on a wife, whether it be“. murder, rape, assault and battery, theft, poisoning or any.~<"other_,::and her consent to live with ghim, cook his diniiers, make his shirts and mend his hose does not_justly give him! the right to trespass in any way on her body, or at least itfnjover should do so. 1 Marriage should be a civil con- tract and not a: license for crime; but whenaman uses this marriage license to control, abuse and destroy his ‘wife, as thousands ‘do, it is time the law was repealediand protection for woman: substituted. Let us punish c1'iin,e_, but not with; death by the barbarous practice of hanging or the less barbar-:.v ous one of; shooting; protect women. and children,’ abolish slavery, make rape and adultery in marriage the same as out of it, and hold all men to strict accountability for their con:-. duct and treatment of those associated with them in business ‘ and life. This must come soon or late, and the soonerthe better for all concerned. Abandon the use of tobacco, and help on this reform and purification of body and soul. VICTORIA VICTORIOUS. Dear Weekly Reaclers—Our beloved Mrs. Woodhul1’slecture in St. Louis last night, Feb. lst, 1876, was an event never to be forgotten by any one who sat underthe burning eloquence of her impassioned oratory. She entranced her auditors, and no wonder, for she spoke with the tongues of angels. Ah, beautiful soul, crowned with the gift of God’s holy spirit, thou shalt reign over cruel injustice in triumph and splendor. Thou art rapidlyebuilding upon earth a holy temple into which the prejudice of ignorance that has assailed, and still dares cowardly assail thee, shall yet, under righteous judg- ment of Christ, humbly beg an entrance. God speed the day! God speed the hour! . , , Hard-faced men that may have come to satisfy a ‘vulgar curiosity, quickly changed in countenance, and were wrapt in tearful ‘attention throughout, while women wept in sym- pathy with every noble utterance. I believe she must /have won every heart present, for such melting, soul-reaching, magic tones preaching to “stones would make them capable.” For more than an hour after she first appeared upon the platform, I thought she wore upon her head an ornament C other than the white rose at the back; but after my vainly trying to define what it was, it suddenly disappeared, and then returned again to make itself manifest to me as a crown of hallowedliglzt Which God had placed upon the head of His A beautiful city-—the daughter of Zion——whose struggles will soonif-accomplish His kingdom. For these divine blessings I believe you will all join me in praise to His holy name. DARL Sr. MARYS. TO MATTIE STRICKLAND. I wish to express in the WEEKLY my appreciation of the . position of Mattie Strickland. 'When so many blunders in conjugal unions are made by reformers in trying to exter- nalize their ideals in the miserable, yielding-to custom way they do, it» is ‘truly a hopeful sign to see even one woman establish and follow a custom which her moral sense tells her is the only true basis on which to begin to realize an untram- meled life; and it is the duty of all appreciating her endeavors . to attain this ideal, to add their mite of magnetic support in some way. - - Grand ideals of manhood and womanhood cannot be at- tained by yielding to the demands of custom when We feel ' them to be demoralizing to our finer sensibilities;_and the nature that can come so boldly to the front must be true and ‘ pure. - What an exalted womanhood it portrays to thus create its exterior conditions in harmony with its interior concep- tions ! I .May‘the underlyingfprinciple which this attempt external- izes, reveal and manifest itself more universally. ‘ I 5 Miss SABRA A. STRANG. ORANGE, Clinton Co., Iowa. REPLY TO THE QUERIES OF HENRY A. C. STURGE-S IN No. 268. _ To the Editors of the ll7eekly :-— ‘ First proposition.—Oorrect. Mind.—-The combined organization of the intelligences or ideas of theindividual, which is made up of his experiences, and of the ideas comprehended and appropriated from'the experience of others. ‘ p The knowledge of truth that has cost an individual perhaps years of study and research to gain may be imparted to the ; comprehension and appropriation of another in a few hours (more or less), and so far as that truth is concerned in its re- lation to. and use by, the second individual, it may have the same organic value as the iirst, if the ‘mind be as well de- veloped otherwise as the first. . Ideas are living entities; to the individual so long as they remain a truth in the mind; when that ceases then they re-— main only as a shadow or as an imagination. I In the structural growth of the body each minute cell is an entity; in use and function each organ an entity; in aggre- gation, the whole an individual entity; so the mind grows by. structure and function, the aggregation‘ of the whole making the intellectual entity. ‘ I Dresume that electricity is in the brother’s vocabulary. What are its constituent elements? . L. M. Rosn, D. M. ’ ‘ - DETROIT, Dec. 18, 1875. MRS. VICTORIA C. WooDi=iULL. K Dear Madam :———In answer to your_ kind invitation in the WEEIILY, please find subscriber's name, and record it as that of one of those who seeks the truth for its own sake, be the consequences what they may. About two years ago I listened to your lectures at Jackson, Mich. Previous to that I had ‘heard of-A-you only through your enemies; but it turned out as I, expected‘ I was de- lighted to hear my feelings and principles so ably advocated, and to find myself enlightened on many points. » 1 _Your interpretation of the Bible I consider of the highest importance to humanity; so much so, that my aversion for the old book is overcome,.and I read it now with much in- terest. All hail! true and noble woman! you shall yet turn the hated whip into a good fairy’s Wand. .. C I like to compare you to the great and good Cabot who, years ago, lfed';Vus across the Atlantic to establish the Icarian community at Nauvoo, ‘I11. I was then but a young iman of 20, and left friends and home. as one of the French commun- ists, who pledged their all for the good of mankind. That th" ‘pledge was not lightly taken, they have proved by many yégrs of heroic struggles that"will yet ;.be crowned with suc- cess. While at Nauvoo it was my misfortune (perhaps not) to become accidentally separated from them. In this, how- ever, I wasjyonot to blame; gneitherwerei they. ~ ‘ ' I have had‘j'imuch to enduiie on account of the truth, and prospects of peace in ,my lfaimily toward me have not im- proved sincjefthe appeara»nce of the WEEKLY whose ‘princi- ples“I circulate and defend on all occasions. These family I I hamperings are deplorable; they have sadly interfered with my efficiency, but “ After the storm Clear sky must come." I feel much interested i_n your remarkable propaganda which must (or it would be useless) ultimate in the forma- tion of a new communistic community. They are all doing well, indeed some are exceedingly prosperous. Are Mrs. Woodhull and her friends inferior to the Oneid- ans? I think not. It only remains to be seen how many would pledge their all for the “sake of the truth,” to be able to follow it. « I will now conclude, and say that I am an engineer of much experience in designing and building machinery and structures; I have also given much thoughtand. work to communism, and (should; you think it desirable) could sug- gest a scheme that would prove a success in the . creation of a happy community, based on your principles, and of which the WEEKLY would be the trusty and necessary messenger, and thus assure its own existence, in the same manner as the “C'£'rcular of the Oneidans." V ' Meanwhile, dear friend, be ‘cheerful; better days are dawning. Do not recklessly sacrifice your health and life, ‘but remember that ‘ Spring-time has come and will not last; You prepared the soil in season; Reaping-time is coming fast, To neglect which would be treason. Yours truly, J AMES THIERRY. RESPONSE. Do I love thee! Do I love thee! And you ask if I will tell thee, Darling! sweet one! how I love thee. Dost thou not know love is dumb? Ask the clover in the meadow; Ask the daisy and primrose If they love the falling shadow, When the summer day is done. Ask the young and budding flower If it loves the summer shower; Or’ the dews that load its petals, Wilted by the noonday sun. If I tell you; if I tell you That I love you; that I love you, Will myyes with rapture fill you? If it will, then, come, love, come; Come and clasp thy arms about me, Whispering darling, do you love me; Pressing closer, closer to me, ‘Till our spirits interlace. How my yearning soul will greet thee! Fluttering, panting, love to meet thee; How my eager arms will fold thee In their loving, fond embrace." Dost thou hear my spirit saying, Come,‘oh come, I’m waiting, darling; } Oh, I’m watching and I’m calling, Canst thou hear me through the space? List! I hear thy spirit speaking, “ Love its own sweet mate is seeking; Spring-time darling ’s fleeting, fleeting, Here I am, love, haste, oh haste.” c PROTEST. ' TAXATION WITHOUT ‘REPRESENTATION DIRER TYRANNY NOW THAN A CENTURY AGO. VINELAND, N. J ., Jan. 1876.31’ Whereas I have natural se1f—governing rights. and by the spirit and theletter of the Constitution of the United States of America have all a citizen’s rights : and whereas both classes of these rights «are ignored, and their exercise pre- vented by other citizens and their oppressiveregulations, among which lsltho annual robbery, called tax, effected by the threatof spoilation and usurped power to seize ;—'-There. fore, I solemnly protest against the tyranny that grasps my property at will without my consent, and while compelled to “ stand and deliver” by a power base as any bandit, I only submit beneath the raised weapon of ready confiscation. Servant of justice. MARY E. TILLorsoN. , _ . I _ ATLANTA, G.a., Feb. 10, 1876. Editors Woodhull and Clafliws Weekly: ‘DEAR SIR-—'1‘he peace and quiet of our hum-drum life were ‘disturbed yesterday evening by the arrival in our little city of Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull and Miss Tennie Claflin. , Mrs. Woodhull was advertised to lecture here on the evening of the 9th, and our people were on the qui site to hear what this ‘noted social reformer had to say.‘ _At an early hour the elite of our city, and members. of our.Legis1ature, which is now in session began to gather at De Give’s Opera House. By eight o’clook a full audience had assembled, comprising the A ='i1_1t911ig911°9 Of 12116 Stateafind 8». few minutes afterward Mrs. Woodhull came upon the stage, with Bible in hand, and read the 16th verse of the 3d chapter of 1st Corinth. : “‘ Know ye I not that ye are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you.” For nearly two hours she kept that audience spell-bound by the magic of her voice. while she portrayed to them the many ways in which the temple of the living God is defiled, and gave many statistical ‘facfts‘cou- cerning the rapid march that .diis‘_ease,_insan.ity and Crimes are making upon the human race. She appealed in glowing words of inspiration that must haveburned inf-o,.the soul for . reform; Never was a speaker more intently liisteneid to, or an audience more thoroughly imbued with the ftfcts presented in regard to social reform than this one last evening. A Cheer upon cheer arose from them, though the words must have cut deep as they fell from the lips of a woman who dared tell them of their short-comings. To—day, on our streets, Mrs Woodhull’s name is on the iips of everyone, in words of praise, wishing her God-speed in her glorious work, until the temple of the living God is made a fit habitation for Him. If she were to lecture here again, the Opera“ House would not hold the audience that would comepout to hear her. From every quarter the press comes loaded with grateful remem- brances and mentions of her visits, and she‘ is winning for herself, and the great work! she has iundertaken, golden opinions from every section; and manywarm friends wish her Godspeed in her undertaking. Respectfully, : V F. F. TABER, M. J). A VOICE FROM CHICAGO. 1 Dear friends of the Weekly; , _ God speed the New departure, and well we know He wil in his own good time and way. I acted. upon your suggest- tions, and reached Chicago on Thursday evening. By Sun- day I got organised enough to take an out- look upon the spiritual status in Chicago. I find upon "investigation abundant evidence of disintegration and decay. The wonld—be leaders—-they who assume to have a fee simple upon the spiritual world, and its amamuensis here—are in hot water; whilst the people are hungering for the bread of life. The first society of spiritualists have been rent in twain, and while a part are in attendance upon the ministration of John Collier of England at Snow’s Hall, a considerable num- ber were to—day endeavoring to organize under the ministra- tion of E. V. Wilson. Wilson remarked to me as he took my hand, and inquiredhow the cause East was : “We are all broken up into factions.” As strong and ponderable as he is I felt that in this effort he would be like the Cincinnati speculator of whom a friend said : “He has come to the end of the rope, there is no knot on it, and he will slip off.” But failure and disappointment, as are prophesied, will inevitable attend these who do not accept and enter into the fullness of a new departure or’ dispensa- sation. But all we can do, is to do all we are inspired to do, then leave “the dead to bury the dead.” I never felt a deep- er and more intense inspiration to labor in the Master’s vineyard, than I now feel since I am safely landed here; for truly the harvest is ripening, butthe laborers are feW.” I send you all, greeting, my earnest sympathy in‘ the new de- parture to unfold the fullness of the gospel or Bible truths. - - THOMAS Coox. v CHICAGO, Jan. 18, 1876. Dear Weekly—~I find the following from the Religious Alliance, copied into the Inter Ocean of the 17th ult: “These children are seldom born of the miserable beings who speculate on their helplessness. Some are born of young beggars, but more are the illegitimate offspring of youthful fo1ly—-children born in city and country hospitals and in hidden resorts—-children whose mothers are forced by society to deny their young, and who consequently become the lawful prey of. thieves and beggars.” The Alliance, as quoted by the Inter Ocean, very pertinentl y says, that the majority of these children are those-whose mothers are forced by society to deny their offspring. Would it not be well for those papers to ask themselves the question: Who and what are responsible for the conditions in society that force women to the unnatural necessity o crushing the highest and noblest feelings of their being-—.~a mother’s love forlher oft'spring—that;they; may conform to the urgent demands of that society? , V - g If it is free thought and free thinkers, Spiritualism and Spiritualists, Communism or Communists, or even Wood- hullism and Woodhullites, let them know, and they will probably correct the abuse. I But, on the other hand, if these evil results are the natural consequences of present customs and institutions against which these classes rebel, then is it not high time that they should be put aside to give room for something better. . G. A. SCHILLING. (From the St. Louis Republt'can.); I . “CHARACTERISTICS or AMERICAN WOMEN.” ' L REVIEWED BY EMILY R. srEINEsrEL. Under the above caption a very able article, written by Dr. C, L. Bernays of the Anzeiger des Westerns, appears in one of the most popularlGerman periodicalspublished in Europe. As it is of interest to every well balanced fem-alevto know what is thought of the sex, I will make some extracts from the article bearing directly on the question of female emancipation—-while Burns’ lines float through‘ my mind: ‘ ‘ Oh, wad some power the giftie us , To see ourselves as ithers see us.’ ’ _ The doctor writes! It is twenty years and more since a de- mand was made by certain eccentric women for equality of political rights; but since the ballot has been given to the coloredrace, partly for the promotion of abstract justice——a sort of compendium between slavery and freedom——and par- tly for less laudable party reasons, almost all the intelligent and reasoning portion of our American woman are in favor of it, and the century willnot close without witnessing the achievement of this greatest of all,in,nov.ations. Our ladies say justly if an illiterate, uncultured, intel1ec— tually subordinate negro is capable of» casting, his judgment into the machinery of a self-govering people, then certainly they are entitled to the sameprivilege; * * *' -It is an- important what my opinionmay be on_this subject, never- theless I am in favor of political equal rights of the sexes for __ ,.«*f°‘.Zw--If . V ‘.3,-,4 as . ..,_ ...i_-._L. M’ -3.’... lg . -.~__ -.—1._,.___ Feb. 26, 18%. . WOODHULL.& ;CLAFLINi'5S..lWVEEKLY.- . I 3 two reasons, inasmuch as it is feasible and good for the United States: - . First, it will conduce to the elevation and moderation of p_o1%_t%cs, elevate the man, and moderate the excesses of pub- ic i e. . Secondly, women, afterftheir emancipation, will be situated, or, by this act, will place themselves in a position where they will be obliged to grant a man the right to criticise their er- rors and sins in an unvarnished and honest manner. This is impossible in their present passive situation, when with hackled movements they are justified in retorting to any're- preach, such as, “We are what you have made us, give us our freedom and make us self—resp0nsible beings!” I had heard that among the many females employed in cutting and arranging the lUnited States currency, (amount- ing from five cents to hundreds of dollars per package) in the treasury department, there ‘was never any stealing; while among the males thus employed, although so much discretion had been exercised in« their selection, I there were large and small sums embezzled‘ daily. You have heard of the revelry and bacchanalian nights, and doubts loud and deep expressed in regard to the virtue of these women employed in the treasury, but no one distrusted their honesty. I This fact was mentioned to me while in a little town‘ in Kentucky, where I was paying ofi an Illinois regiment, and my out money gave out, and I could not complete the pay- ment without “paceling” atleasta hundred of the sheets, on each of which twenty of the5 cent notes were printed; I hap- pened to notice a number of boys and girls playing near our 4 headquarters, and called them in. There were five boys and six girls. I promised each of them a brand new 10 cent note if they would out those sheets for me. They cheerfully consented.) I separated them, gave the boys 50 and the girls 50 sheets. When they had finished, my clerk counted the money, and out of the parcels cut and arranged by the boys, only one in ten was correct, while in those prepared by the girls, not one five cent note was miss—— ing. _ In the evening I related this incident to the planter at whose house we were quartered, in the presence of his little daughter, one of the girls before mentioned. She asked the amount purloined (one dollar and forty-five cents), hastened away and in the company of her girl playmates sought the little thieves and made them restore the ‘money. Every one of the boys had taken a few cents. Beaming with happiness she came to me with the money saying, “We got it all back but five cents, and mamrna put that to: it." Dr. Bernays thinks that if women once have their hands on the public helm the ship of state will not be so liable to get on to the shoals; they will force the men to act honestly, and save their own native integrity by not countenancing trickery on the otherside. he public morals will be decidedly im- proved, and public life become purer through the influence of woman. . Still, the doctor says we will, in time, be some- what inoculated by the lax principles of his own sex; but he is willing we should suffer by this, if a universal advantage is gained thereby. He is anxious for us to be “equal,” but promises to put us through "a. course of sprouts” and tell us our faults and point out our defects with a freedom that will astonish us, simply because we do not expect to be treated as a “public body,” though we aspire to its rights . He further declares the American ladies now pass all their time in prep- arations for and attending concerts, theatres and places of amusement. He does not mention churches and prayer- meetings, but I am sure that it is our American ladies that support after they build all the magnificent structures in which they worship. For American woman cannot do with- out religion, even if they do, as he says, ruin their husbands by their extravagance, and would ruin more frequently if it were not for the miraculous energy of the men. ’ There is still a greater wrong to be taken into considera- ation, and Dr. Bernays gives the statistics to prove it, that human propagation is lamentably decreasing, and if it were not for the constant immigration, the United States would soon be depopulated. He draws .a veil over the manner this is brought about; nevertheless the fact remains that Ameri- can ladies object to large families. The result is a broken constitution and delicate health, although the principal objec- tion to hearing chilbren rests in the idea that it breaks the constitution, destroys the graceful, Asymmetrical form and the gazelle—like movement for which American ladies are renowned. But he says every sensible and decent human being will agree with him in thinking it is a miserable sacri- fice to oifer on the altar of vanity—-this deviation from and abuse of nature’s laws that has heretofore been the basis of respectability, and nature"s badge of honor to womanhood. "Without exception all American ladies conduct them- selves with dignity, courtesy and confidence everywhere. They harmonize costume and toilet by adapting it to their ‘style,’ in other words study dress effect. They all write el- egantly, comoose well, and conduct an extended correspon- dence,” and h_e_ adds furthur that they possess a Wonderful taculty of fitting themselves to the changes of fortune that occur so frequently in this country, and under the most ad- verse circumstances ietain tlieirgladylike peculiarities and manners, and always endeavor ‘to makethe best of it, by never surrendering to misfortune. ’ Posessing neither the depth of character of the Grerman women, nor the effer- vescent spirits of the French women; cold,super.ficial, they are but made so by education; ornamented human beings, bhI'0l1gh the fact of the stereotyped treatment they receive from the gentleineii. But .Dl‘. B. declares they will become true, thorough women by the power of freedom and the‘ba1- lot.« He further blames the tyrant, fashion, that plays the despot in no other country more than in America, for many of Ami_ar_1ca’s peccadillos. Not only does this tyrant rule in large cities, but also in the remotest corners of the land. The perpetual migration. of people back and forth frpm state to state and city to country, carries the most absiirb fashions into the very backwoods. ‘No sooner are a pair of patent “calves” perambulated on Broadway, New. York. by. some fashionable lady‘ than great loads of these wonderful articles are shipped lI1LO the far West. A new agricultural machine, a new novel, a new piece of dress goods, or improved pump, &c., anything that may appear in the East, in six or eight weeks after, may be found in the stores of,Nebraska, or even New Mexico. If it -is fashionable to wear beards in Boston, the_very last backwoods man will grow one. If the Yankee ladies consider it proper to have only two children, all the other ladies inthe country will do there utmost to pattern after their Eastern model, etc. He says he never know an American to carry -the same pocket knife over three months, or the same watch over three years. Everything new must be had; if he cannot afiord the best quality, it must at least have the latest “style” in appearance, and in this respect the ;adies _take the lead. If it is fashionable to wear the hair short, immediately every head is sliorn, and when the next mandate calls for long braids they are furnished at the hair- dresser’s, without the least care whether people think they grew on the scalp to which they are attached or not. The skill of our dentists is lauded, but it can be attributed to the constant demand on their ingenuity by ladies who have their ‘ healthy teeth extracted because there may be some blemish of_color or shape, and others are inserted to please and suit. Still, _whatever is artificial or imitation is presented for just what it is, and the doctor crowns the American people with the noblest of all crowns-—honesty. It cannot be denied that he_is correct in one respect, and that is our spasmodic way of doing things generally. We rush en ma.._s:se at an idea that strikes the popular vein; ..for instance, the whole nation be- comes fired with religious enthusiasm. Certainly the nation hasgot one of those maddening prayingspells just now. and every idle fellow that is out of a situation will start up a re- viral somewhere, and the pestle resales him set their ssspsl for the time-being until they are disgusted withbis illiteracy, or his “yarns” are exhausted, or perchance a new opera or some circus attracts the “spirit” in another direction, and the religious "straw-fires” are burned out.- One thing, though, it were well to say to the doctor, and that is, if he is in favor of giving us the ballot because it would make better mothers, wives and daughters of us, I think he is just a little in error. If w.e_would attend political meetings and keep posted, as we certainly ought, _to become unbiased voters pro and con in all things pertaining to pub- lic life, we would want to become editors, Judges and ofice holders, etc., etc. I And then indeed our country would be- come depopulated, for we should have no time left to attend to maternalduties, and scorn to become wet-nurses. And as we crowd you out of the public arena where would you go? Nature, methinks, never intended you to perform our duties for us. I Z ‘ e . Yes, I concede the ballot and its attendent associations would develop our intellectualcapacities, but while one out of ten women would retain the charm of domestic manners, the other nine would develop an Amazonian bravado that would tear down the invisible, but hourly perceptible, barrier that keeps the rudest man in his place when in the presence of a lady, a woman, be she clothed in cotton or velvet. The respect pantaloons alwaysfgrant petticoats. ~ I SELECTED. “ Before I trust my fate to thee, Or place my hand in thine, Before I let thy future give Color and form to mine, Before I peril all for thee, Question thy soul to-night for me. “ Is -there within thy heart a need That mine cannot fulfil? One chord that any other hand Could better Wake or still? Speak now, lest at some future day My whole life wither and decay.” IN the trial of Landi for the murder of Carrnth they tried to prove that he was not only insane when he shot his victim, but has always been insane. If satisfactory testimony is offered to this effect it will be casting a reflectioii on the tripod. The idea of an insane man editing even a New Jersey newspaper is mortifying in the extreme.——The Capital. This is, nearly as good as the Englishman who wrote in his paper that “there is a very large river in the United States called Mexico, which empties into the Gulf of Missis- sippi.” Piatt almost beats that. Try it again, Don, and perhaps y0u’ll,succeed, quite. But he isn’t crazy any more. “The minds of the people are awakened. They see and feel political independence is but one—half of government, that it cannot save them from idleness, pauperism and serfdom more galling than slavery. They see that the other half of government must be ‘gained by which their present indus- trial serfdom will be abolished. Political government cannot give us industrial independence. That means simply a reor- ganizaton of industries under the control of the people through their chosen representatives. The objective points is the just equalization of the profits of industry among the producers of wealth. Privatecontrol over public wealth must cease. "Private control over created wealth must be‘ "limited to the narrowest limits. All wealth produced mnst belong to the producers of it. The system of working for wages must be cast aside, and co—operative production under governmental, t’. e‘ popular control. substituted by a gradual, natural process. To thousands of the people, this is a dream, They are not prepared for the transformation, but it will come, just as political independence came a century since. Labor ’1‘rz'bvne,P7Jttsburgh, Pa. _ When Labor Reform will take this position it will be on the way to a practical solution of the difiiuclties that beset industry. V “ SHE OUGHT TOBE SUPPRESSEDI ”i Were the words used by a gentleman (for he turned out to be one after all) on the 22d of January. Why dothe laws of our State allow such a woman as Victoria Woodhull to travel through the country and corrupt its moralsiwas further asked. No one replied. At an early hour of the evening of the lecture this same man was at the door of the Opera House eager to see and hear the subject of his recent con- versation. After the lecture was over, with tears in his eyes, he said,“ My God, this the woman whom we have been decrying! I never heard anefibrt. such as this. I will give five dollars to have it repeated Sunday night, and twenty-—five if my darling daughter could listen to it every Sunday evening for a year. My lips shallnever utter any- thing but deep regard for her again.” This is a sample of S the revolution wrought in Chardn by Victoria Woodhull in one short hour. A A CHARD0NIAN_ AN eminent physician of a ‘Western city says he has cured ninety-nine out of every hundred cases of scarlet fever by giving the patient warm lemonade and gum arabic dissolved in it. A clothjwrung out in hot water and laid upon the stomachshould be removed as rapidly as it becomes cool. ' I Jan. 25, 1876. Editors Weekl/y——I wish to correspond‘with those who are wide—awake and ready for something practical in (Jommun_ ism. Address R. It. Parker. Union City, Branch 00., ll-Iich. - BITS OE EUN. THE best thing out——au aching tooth. A NEW name for tight boots-a corn crib. A BAD habit to get into-a coat that is not paid for. VVHEN is a horse not worth a shilling? When it is worth less (Worthless). - "THE rich,” said a Dutchman, “ eat venison because it ish deer. I eat mutton because it ish sheep.” WE suppose Tweed will smoke the “ Boss” cigar in Cuba.—~ Cmcago Tribune. Yes, if they Havana. WHAT requires more philosophy than taking things as they come? Parting with things as they go. I WHAT is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never ._r. “ THAT'S a great victory for ‘ the right,’ ” said a friend of Spilkins, the other day, alluding to ,,the French elections _“ Yes, over the ‘left,’ ” replied Leander.———New York Oom- merciial Advertiser. “ TALK about extravagance in dress of women! ” cries Martha Jane, exultingly. “ What do you say to Tweed’s six million suit. I’d like to know? He isn’t a woman‘ I guess.” A A FAR West contemporary propounds the conundrum, “ Can you understand what a boon we were to this sparsely- settled region? ” Boon—boon? No, unless it is a bab-boon. If not, ask us something easier.——Boston Co2nmercz'alBulleti/n. SHE" was brushing his hair, and he enjoyed being fussed over amazingly. Rolling up his eyes, he said: "My dear, why was Columbus, when he landed in America, like me now? She couldn’t tell him, and he explained: ‘,‘Because' he was tickled at being fust over.” I YOUNG man, if you should see your girl gazing intently at your feet, don’t shift them about uneasily," or draw them up and sit upon them, under the impression that she is over- whelmed by their immense size. She is merely taking their measure mentally for a pair of slippers, on the toes of which she intends to work a blue dog with a green tail and scarlet ears. . - JOHN HENRY, ' reading to his wife from a newspaper- “ ‘There is not a single woman in the State penitentiary.’ There you see, now, don’t you. what wicked creatures wives, are? Every woman in the penitentiary is married.” “ It is curious,” said she; “ but don’t you think, John. deal‘, lihal? some of them go there for relief?” _i S ‘ powerful’ ‘editorialgheaded, “I-Iow shall we Rise?” 'After.j» bent pin‘ ‘placed there by the “‘ devil.” He soon ascel‘-tfitined “ How to Rise,” but he finished the article in the manner he designed when starting out, notwithstanding. Then he made the “ devil” rise.—Norri'stou>n Herald. A DISCRIMINATING WITNEss.——Jake was called upon in the Recorder’s court to give testimony in favor of the good character of Pete, who had been on a Christmas bender. » , “ Jake,” said the Judge, “ do you know Pete, the prisoner?” - “ Oh, yes, sah, I kno’s him better’n any nigger in Atlanty.” “ Is he sober and industrious? ” ‘ “That ’pends ’pon de ’kashion, Judge; sometime he’s sober, and sometime he’s ’dustrious, sah.” “ Whenis he sober?” , . “ Mos’ generally when he ain’t got no money,_Judge.” “ When is he industrious?” I “ Jis’ ’bout the same time,sah! ” ' "Suppose he has money?” V “Den he’s putty lierble to be do drunkes’ and lazies’ nigger dat do good Lord eber put bref into—-dat’s the truf.” Pete was incarcerated the next minute.-- Atlcmta. 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Address Vin‘ela’nd~, IN: J. WARREN CHASE will lecture" in Ottumwa, Iowa, March‘ 2, 3, 4 and5. Address for February, Independence, Iowa; and first week in March, Ottumwa, Iowa. I v < I V SPIRITUAL CHURCH on THE Goon SAMARITANS, recogniz- ing the Jesus Christ principles as their foundation, will meet‘ at the hallin‘ the rear of Charter Oak Hall, San’Franc‘i’sco', V mine. has what is mind? on, its zlmmsterlela Gala». fiundeyfi at 114 33399 7?. M.” Services by Rev; Dr. Qlhiatirfs say hashes and steers; AN'Ohl0 editor satdown the other day and commenced a ' writing half a column,he left’ his chair foral few '1}-'.‘i£Xl1]~t"e_,s!;i ,; and when he ‘returned, he sat/d’own, pretty emphatically, .011‘ 35 devoted entirely to agriculture. Miscellany of the choicest. , selection, adapted to all classes of readers.‘ The latest general’ . with us in such an enterprise, that we will send them a cir-’ 4 - woon'nn'Lr. as cLArL1uj*si"wEnKLr .._- .~ ,_ -. .., ..... .v.._ .r..mv . 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Newsdealers supplied by the American News Company, No. 121 Nassau street. New York. an communications, business or editorial, must be addressed Woodhull 6* Cldfle'n’s Weekly, P. 0. Box, 3791, N. Y. 0mce.111 Nassau Street, Room 9. 9 Q‘-... - Ehh ;* If a man heejoeth my saying he shall never see death.———-Jesus.‘ I ' - ' him that ocereometh, I will give to eat of the hi en manna.—St. John the Divine. That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of ‘death were all their life- tame -swlgject to bondage.—~Paul. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then’ joeaceable, gentle, easy to he entreated, full of mercy and good frraits, without joarttality and without hy- pocre‘sy.—James, iii. , 1 7. And these signs shall follow them .' In my name shall they cast out devils,“ they shall take up serpents,‘ and they drinh any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they ‘shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.-—Jesus.' — NEW YORK, SATURDAY-, FEB. 26, 1876. WE are prepared to furnish- a few hundred complete sets of thefirst series of Bible Articles consisting of fifteen num- bers of the WEEKLY, for one dollar, postage paid. Our . friends should lose no opportunity to bring ' these articles to the attention of those whom they can interest. A careful study of all of them is necessary to a complete understand- ing of the great and all-important truth that is yet to be re- vealed; which must be carefully and judiciously brought be- fore the world, as the sun comes upon it, bringing first the break-of-day, next its dawn, and afterward its full meridian splendor. ‘ l .+—4 THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; OR, THE SIX—POINTED STAR IN THE EAST. . For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship lm.-Sr. MATTHEW, ii., 2. - \\ If f ,. . vi‘ . cl’?-’ 4 \/ This figure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the ‘establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been introduced, but which, defined in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself We adept this diagram as emblematic of our future Work THE TWO ALTERNATIVES. And now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from where he was taken. So he drove out the man.—Genesis ll.l—.22, 23, 24. The dead shall be raised incorruptible; and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and the mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying, Death is swallowed up in victory.-I Corinthians xv—52, 53, 54.. ll ‘ For this we say unto you by word of-. the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto thecoming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the God in the air; and so shall We ever be with the Lord.—-I Thessaloniansiv-15‘ to 17. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were, finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed is he that hath part" in the first resurrection; on such the second death hath no power.—Revela-’ tions xx—5 and 6. . And the spirit and the bride say, Come, And let him that heareth say, Come, And let him that is athirst,‘ come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life f'reely.—Ibid xxii—l'7. Let those who have discarded the Bible, as avbook of no account, say what they may, it is the only one ever printed that treats upon those things in which, of all things, every- body is the most deeply interested, in a manner that at all grasps the whole compass of the subject. Life and death are the two factors of the controlling power of the human mind; and these two factors, together with the causes of both, are the basis upon which the Bible is constructed. How shall the former be gained ; how shall the latter be de- stroyed, and how shall they who- have suffered from the latter be restored to the foriner, are the problems to which almost its whole space is devoted. Nor is it going too far to say, without asserting its truth or falsity, that in no other book is there any competent idea offered, of what the ulti- mate condition of life is tobe. Until the birth of modern spiritualism the people knew that they lived and were to die, and that was about the extent of their convictions. It is true that they pretended to have a belief in a heaven and a hell, but if asked to state what those very important places might be, the answers were such as to convince the questioner that they had amere belief, seldom amounting to a conception or a conviction. But what has Spiritualism done to really advance the standard of the knowable about these things‘? Can it be said——wi1l any of its “ great lights ” attempt to say—tl1at the ultimate , condition in which conscious individuality shall become immortal, has been demonstrated ? Will they say that they can show a natural process by which men and women are to develop into the immortal state? Will they assume that they have any other ground than the assertions of the spirits that the ultimate condition is a spiritual con- dition, and not spiritual and material combined ? And do they assert when» physical death is passed that the released spirit has done with earthly things, never more to desire or to be compelled to return to them? At what finality has Spiritualism arrived? It will not do to say that progress admits of no finality, because that is to say that there is no conscious individualized immortality ; that as progress goes on we are to progress out of organized individuality into, we know not what. Have we or have we not arrived at perfec tion in form ? If we have, what is that form to be ? And if not, what will be the form in which our individualities shall become immortal? Has Spiritualism decided any of these things; is Spiritualism the last development of truth that there is to be made ? If not, what is to come after Spiritualism ? The advent of modern Spiritualism has, undoubtedly, as nothing ever did before it, changed the whole face of belief in the condition after death. Before it came the after-death condition was one of unconscious sleep to the majority of the people, from which they were to be roused by the trumpet calling to resurrection and to judgment. It is safe to ‘ say that no intelligent person now believes that death is an unconscious sleep ; or that the spirit is in a comotose condition, waiting the call of God. All believe in spirit life; and many who make no profession of Spiritualism be- lieve that spirits can and do communicate. Hence we say that the whole current of thought about the after~death con- dition has undergone achange in the last quarter of a cen- tury, and that that change is due to modern Spiritualism. .We must not be understood as questioning the truth, the good, or the utility of Spiritualism. We admit all these and claim, perhaps, more for it than the most orthodox of them all have eve:'thought of claiming. But with all this, we want to know if Spiritualism, as defined by those who pretend to be its rightful custodians, includes all issues in _ which the spiritual part of man is interested; are all the issues that are germain to the welfare of the race germain to Spiritualism as defined by them ? And if not, whether it may not be possible that something may arise which will be of greater consequence than even Spiritualism? ‘In all ages of the world there has been at least a belief entertained, perhaps it would be nearer the truth to say that there is a fixed conviction, about the reappearance upon the earth, in a physical form, of the so-called dead. The doctrine of the resurrection from the dead is as old as the records of the race, and almost as universal. It has found a place in nearly every religious faith of the ages. and forms an im- portant part of present religious creeds. In its earlier dc- velopments Spiritualism, almost alone cf all religious .issues, seemed not to recognize that there is to be anything simi- lating to the resurrection. It has always made its chief glory to depend upon the beauties of the spirit life, and has left it to be inferred, at least, that the progress maintained in that life is away from, rather than in the direction of, material things and earthly localities. The “ seventh heaven” and some far-off planetary; locality have been the worlds to which the ascending spirit is to mount at each round of progress, and with each, to be fartherremoved from earthly care, and sympathies. Overcoming the attractions to the earth, they are to fly to other globes and link their destinies with the untrammeled souls of other Worlds. These, we say, have been the teachings of the leading lights of mundane Spiritualism. - ‘ - ~ But what has been the logic of Spiritualism itself ? In- stead of supporting these ideas has it not been precisely the reverse of this? Its first manifestations in our esteem, as wellwas all its more recent developments, have been the most singularly confirmative evidences that, instead of growing away from earth, spirits are coming nearer to it ; or at least, that the earth and spirit spheres are constantly approaching each other. The first manifestation of what was recognized as of spirit origin, was the first evidence to the world that the two worlds had grown so near to each other that it had become possible for the inhabitants of one to speak to those of the other across‘ the gulf, before too wide to be over- reached. And it is only necesssary to consider the character of the later manifestations to be convinced that the progress has been wholly and strikingly maintained in the same direction. I , Have spiritualists stopped to think what all this means *3 While singing of “That beautiful shore” have they con- sidered the meaning of the persistent effort made by spirits to return to this ? Do they imagine that that effort is a re- sult of a purely unselfish purpose to teach those still in the flesh that there is an active life upon the other side of the dividing gulf ? Their doctrine upon this point does not indicate that there is so sudden a loss of selfishness as such a conclusion would indicate ; but, on the contrary, that spirits carry with them the traits of character with which they are endowed when leaving this sphere. Moreover, has it not always been taught that the chief interest of the spirit world is centered in the earth, and that its powers are directed to influencing earthly things; in fact, has it not been claimed repeatedly that the spirits have had an active if not a dominating part in all the strides of progress which the world has made; in all its revolutions in religion, gov- ernment and science ? And still again is it not true that it is claimed that the rapid progress in all departments of life made since the advent of Spiritualism, is due to the fact that the spirit influence has been more intimate with, and had more efiect upon, the world, than before that time ? Most certainly will Spiritualists admit all this ; but will they also hdmit the necessary logic ? ' And what have they to say of materializations? What does this newest phase of manifestations mean? Is it not demonstration clear as mid-day sun that the two worlds are coming actually together. Admitting what most Spiritualists believe to be true, that there have been actual materialize- tions of perfect bodies, and that these have grown from very small beginnings, what is to be the outcome in a few years , more, if thegprogress continue? After spirits have demonstrated that they can materialize perfectly, are they going to drop it there, and, turning away from earth, direct their attention to establish the earlier teachings of spiritual philosophers? Now is it "not a factthat those who taught these earlier doctrines of Spiritualism see that the stern logic of events has already proved their theorizing false, and that it is useless longer to bandy wordsnpon sustaining them? And is it not also a fact that the developments of materiali- zations are unrefutable corroborations of the bible doctrine of the resurrection? What is it to be resurrected from the dead if it be not to come again to earth in fleshly bodies; in bodies having the same organs and functions common to human bodies? And why do they not admit thatthe resur- rection so vividly described in the bible, is now actually begun? Is it because they do .not wish to admit that the “old and Worn-out bible” was wiser than all of them; that the seers and prophets of two thousand years ago knew. more of _what should come than the great lights of the present knew, just before it began to come? Is it true that all this hesitation of Spiritualists to acknowledge these things is because they do not want to admit it? It seems so to one who looks on from an independent position; Then what are the alternatives presented to Spiritualists? They will be obliged to abandon their earlier cherished doc- trines and accept the facts ,5 that are to come, or else they will renounce spiritualism as wholly of the devil and fall into the bosom of the denying church. But few, however, and they of the kind who are more bigoted and intolerant than the church itself, will deny the light they have re- ceived. They will soon accept the necessities of the\situa~ tion and acknowledge. that the best thing that they can do is to aid the spirits in their unconquerable desire to .re- habilitate themselves with flesh, and will turn to look after . their own physical conditions, and to make them pure and clean; to fill the atmosphere in which they live, with in- fiuences that will invite and not repel their anxious friends; , to harmonize themselves and their relations so that their influence may be fit for spirits to come in contact with; to bear and rear their children in such a Way that they shall be fit companions for “the langel.s;” in short, they must Feb. 26, 1876. WOODHULL as oLAri.iN’swns.xi.r. 5 and will come to accept the inevitable social facts to which we have been claiming their attention for the last four years and to admit that inharmoniesbetween the man and woman through whom matter is being raised up for the future bodies of the spirits, are not only hindrances to their own spiritual advancement, but that they stand barring the pro- gress of the spirits. VVe say that this is the‘ necessary logic of the facts that Spiritualism and Spiritualists them- selves have given us ‘to consider, and confess that we have waited patiently for some one to acknowledge that these things are so, until “the time” is so near at hand that it must needs be spoken, that those who have recognized them, and failed to make it known, may be called to judg- ment. VERIFICATION. It will be remembered by our readers that we have long since claimed that the periodical wasting away of woman’s life is a disease. But it is not known to them that we were conscious of this a long time before we announced it to the public, and that we called the attention of numerous phy- sicians to what we believed about it, and endeavored to induce them to enter upon an investigation of the subject. Whether that to which we are going to refer is a direct result of ourefibrts or not we cannot say at the present time, but since it is admitted to be a new thought in the medical world, it is fair to suppose that what we have been agitating for three years or more is really at the bottom of the investigation which has been made by the medical scientists, and which has resulted in a complete verification of our previous discovery. This waste is now pronounced by high authority in medical science to be “an abnormal function,” and to be placed side by side with any other hemorrhage from the interior of the body, as bleeding of piles or at the nose. We are not prepared now to present the whole case as laid. down‘ in a late medical publication, but we are justified in saying that it establishes all that we have claimed of this function, and goes, with its deductions, even far beyond anything that we have any more than hinted at. This verification has been published widely, having appeared in all the medical journals of the country of which we have any knowledge, and is, therefore, fully beforethe whole medical world, because _every -physician of any note takes one or more medical magazines. The recognition of this’ discovery is in itself siifficient to create a revolution in our present social customs and ethics, and if every physician who knows that the truth has been at last spoken would perform his duty to those who trust him with their lives, it would not be a year before this revolution would be openly acknowledged to be under full headway, as it has really. . been secretly for a year. Let us say to our friends, who are anxious to have the whole truth, to be patient. Things are moving rapidly enough. When we began the exposition of the Bible Mys- tery, of which the fact in question forms a most prominent part, we had no hope that the medical world would come to our assistance. But it is true, nevertheless, now, that if there is to be odium attached to the declaration that woman’s curse is a disease, it must be bourne by medical authority as well as by us. But the chief value of this veri- fication does not lie in what has been done already, but in the results to which it is certain to lead. The fact that has been verified was the first one to be made clear to us, and from this, further investigation led us, as it will lead the medical investigators, to the discovery of other facts that will verify and demonstrate the possibility of immortality in the flesh, which to us is just as clearly to be the necessary outcome and culmination of creative evolution as that day succeeds to night, or that the human is the necessary cul- mination of the animal. It is to be by no miracle, but to depend upon the evolution of matter, and of mind and spirit in their control of matter. But for the immediate present, let us say to our friends who have caught a glimpse of,the great truth that lies concealed behind this fact that is now verified, take courage; ‘and to those who have not yet seen a, ray of this truth, that this verification by medical scientists of what we have been saying so long, is only the beginning of what shall end in complete demonstration of immortality through the normal use of what is now declared to be abnormal waste, When this shall come, there will also come an acknowledgement that the seers and prophets of ancient times knew more about the secrets of creation than any modern scientists have as yet discovered, and with it an appreciation of the Bible as the Book of Books, for in it the whole story is told in words so plain, when once the key is had, that he who runs may read. 44¢» 4 V 6'’ WHO PAYS THE PUBLIC EXPENSES? Nothing is more deceitful than appearances. In almost every sense the actual is precisely the opposite from the seeming. In no case is this more forcibly illustrated than in the apparently evident answer that is made when the question is asked, Who pays the taxes? Go to the assess- ors’ ofiices and turn over their books, and there will be found the names of all the property-holders in each district, with their property assessed at so much. Go to the collectors’ offices and there will be seen, in tax-paying season,man after man, representing the wealth of the city or town, paying his taxes. Of course they hand the money to the collector, and hence when theanswerlis returned, it is, The rich men pay the taxes. , ‘ But it is no mcre true than it would be to say that the boy whom the merchant sends to the bank to pay his note is the payer of the note. There may be isolated cases, per- haps we may say exceptional cases, where, if the individual property is considered for the present time merely, it may be said that wealth pays the tax; but we will consider this hereafter to see how deceptive is even this, Taking the aggregate of wealth in the country, it is true that it does not contribute a farthing toward defraying the expenses of government, local, State, or national. The fact is that the aggregate of wealth increases every year. What makes it increase? Labor, simply. If it were not for this; if there were no labor; ‘if people lived upon accumulated Wealth and there were any taxes paid, then it might be said that wealth pays taxes; but otherwise not. If wealth pay the expenses of government then it would _ decrease every year by the amount so paid. Labor not only pays all the taxes, but it also adds the increase _of each year to the aggregate of last year’s wealth, the holders of the wealth really being the channels or the agents for labor. All wealth is the result of labor. The men who hold it never add a dollar to their possessions.‘ Even the man who should pay taxes on United States bonds out of the interest which he receives from the government would pay money that came straight, though through many hands, from the daily laborer. - ' , It is the people who do the work; those who are paid by the day for their daily labor, from whom all this money comes. Doesn’t this seem clear? If there are any rich men to whom it does not seem so, let themdischarge their laborers and stop the work that is going on upon their property, and then see where the money would have to come from to meet the demands of the government. But labor does even more than this; a thousand times more than this. It not only pays all the expenses of maintaining the government-—the interest on the public debt, salaries and contingencies——but it feeds, clothes and houses every man, woman and child in the world who do not labor’ enough to do it themselves. Every ‘r‘ gentleman” who smokes his half dollar cigars, and drinks his five dollar champagne, and sports a ten, twenty, or fifty thousand dollar mistress, or wife, as the case may he, does so at the expense of labor, for it is from ‘this source that the substance comes by which these expenses are defrayed. We repeat, if the rich do not believe this, let them discharge their laborers and see to what they would come. A Is it any wonder, then, that the bond-holders and the money-lenders are unanimously in favor of retiring the “ greenbacks ” and of issuing more national currency? Not at all. If there were $1,000,000,000 more national currency issued, they would draw from the industrial classes $60;000,000 or more per annum as interest, because if this currency were issued, the banks would have to deposit that much in bonds with the Treasury, on which they would A draw $30,000,000 from the government, and then they would loan the currency for as much more. Now, if this billion of dollars were in greenbacks instead of bank cur- rency, all of this immense sum would be saved to labor. It is not to be wondered at, that manufacturers are compelled to reduce wages or close their shops, when theyare obliged to pay to these bond and bank mén from twenty to fifty per cent. interest, or discount, to get money with which to carry on their business. And yet they do not seem to know what is the matter. It is a notorious fact that manufactur- ing States are strong ‘gold-coin and bank-currency States, while their interests should make them quite the reverse. The only reason that there is any need for a protective tar- ifi is because the interest on money is so much higher here than it is in other countries which compete with this in manufactured goods. ‘Let the manufacturers exert their influence with Congress to have the national bank Act re- pealed, and the government to issue “ greenbacks ” enough to pay off the bonded debt and stop the immense interest,- and to supply them with “greenbacks” without interest, on good security, as it does now the ‘fpostal system without security, and the conflict between labor and capital, which increases in severity every day, would be half solved. It is this God-accursed interest that is the vampire, sucking away at the vvitals of industry, and that is gradually, but nevertheless surely, sapping the life of the middle-men as well. If there» is not a change made, the time i_s not-far distant when the bond and bank men will own this country and also, virtually, all the people. For how can labor and those who stand between the laborer and these two classes, hope to hold their own against their rapacity, when labor can only increase wealth less than three per cent. per an- num, while the insatiate maw of bonds and money is not satisfied unless they increase at the rate of at least ten per cent. Here is the first issue for the laborer: Greenbacks in place of bank notes, and no interest.. When these are obtained, then there will be another demand to be made. In the meantime, laborers, remember that you pay the ex- penses of every man, woman and child who does not work. TO ‘OUR OHIO READERS. There is a bill. pending before the legislature of Ohio, providing for the taxation of church property. Every one whofavors such a bill should send in a petition, with all the names that can be obtained, asking that the bill pass. THE GARDEN OF EDEN. ~ The paper edition of this oration is exhausted; but we have just received the pamphlet edition, which, to meet the extraordinary demand that has been made for the paper, we will furnish in lots of ten at $1, or more at same rate. ‘ _...¢,¢.._._ LOCALITIES OF COMMUNITIES. If . the heads of Communities everywhere in the world will send their locality, address, and any other information quirers; we shall be glad to insert them in the WEEKLY, to meet a demand that is growing and which we cannot answer in detail. We wouldsay that we do not desire to accredit any Community as being in successful operation, because we might mislead when we do not know. Hence, whatever sender,’ save the _name and to whom inquiries ;should be addressed. 9 >«-4~——————-———- Tl-IE DAVID EDGAR FUND. Up to the time of this writing, eleven persons have sub- scribed to this fund, proposed by Mr. Edgar, of Greenville, Pa., to help us sustain the ‘WEEKLY for one year, in case it shall require to be assisted. Heretofore, with the ex.- ception of the‘very generous responses that havealways been made to appeals for aid, we have relied upon our ‘own. exertions to bridge over any specially depressed time. VVhe.n-. thisproposition was advanced, it seemed as if a loadof anxiety was to be lifted from our minds, and we still be- lieve that‘-tliere are enough interested in our work to com- plete the proposed twenty. Eleven have signified their willingness to help us bear the burden. Who will be the twelfth, the thirteenth, andso on to the full twenty? ..._........___4,¢.__._m__..____._ A nnqunsr. As we are soon to begin the preparation of an elaborate statement of the ultimate truth of the New Departure, so far as it is known to us, we desire that all persons who have any singular, exceptional, or hitherto. inexplicable sexual experiences which they think may relate to this truth, should write them out in dctailedforni. These. com- munications, if desired, will be held strictly confidential, so faras the writer’s names are concerned, but we propose to incorporate such parts of them as have bearing upon the truth, with g the statement. This statement is designed for truth, together with all its responsibilities, and will contain ;in an appendix, 3. list of such persons’ names with their resi- dences, through which they may come to know each other. >—+Qr<- LIFE-SIZE LITHOGRAPI-I‘. We have just received the first edition of life-size litho- graphs of Victoria C. Woodhull, from the lithographic establishment of Armstrong & Co., of Boston, Mass. They are splendid pictures, both as awork of art and as like- nesses. They are printed on heavy paper 20 X24‘ inches, and specially adapted for framing. They will. be sent post- paid, securely wrapped to guard against damage, to any address for 50 cents. The common price of lithographs of this size is $2 ; but we have arranged with‘ the publisher to furnish them in large quantities at such rates that they can be resold at the price named without loss to us. They are thus put within the means and reach of everybody who desires to have a splendid life—size portrait of the Editor-in» Chief of the WEEKLY, who has devoted her life wholly to the inauguration of a new dispensation on earth, in which misery, vice and crime shall have no place. In reply to many letters asking for '‘ dealer’s terms” we would say that the lithographs may be ordered by express by the half’ dozen, dozen, or more at 40 cents, the usual price, less the postage. In explanation of the delay that has occurred in sending lithographs we would say that the third edition has been delayed, but will be received within .a day or two, when all orders will be filletl.-[MANAGING Enrron]. -—---———«>-+G»-—-4 DR. R. P. FELLOWS. By reason of the flattering testimonials which the success‘ of Dr. R. P. Fellows secures him, we take pleasure in calling attention to his advertisement under Business Editorials. . _......_..__.m_._¢,¢_.__..._._..._.__. THE Northern Illinois Association of Spiritualists will hold it s, fifteenth quarterly meeting at .Grow’s Opera Hall, 517 West Madison street. Chicago, beginning Friday, March 11th, and continuing three days. When we say Mrs. Juliet H. Severance, Miss Susie, M. Johnson, and Capt. H. H. Brown are among the engaged speakers, our friends may know that there will befree discussion upon any subject in which the welfare of the race is involved. Mrs. Severance, more. perhaps, than any other person in the Spiritual ranks, is representative of the important branch of the higher life, regarding diet, being a living example of its benefieient _.eft‘ects. Once at the gateway leading to death, she is now the picture of robust health and, strength. Let all who can attend this Convention. they may desire to give that would be i‘nterestin,g to in may be sent us will be published over the name of the 0 ‘those only who have expressed a desire to receive the whole A ‘flowing style that entices the reader from the moment he in her utterances and with her conviction of her mission as a ‘social reformer. NEW BOOKS. .______.. Foor NoTEs; or,Walking as a Fine Art. By Alfred Barron, “ Q ” Wallingford, Conn. Wallingfo1'd Publishing Co. 1875. Large 16mo, 380 pages. Cloth, $1.50 post paid. This is really a charming book; such an one as will prove a relief when the wearied mind or exhausted‘ body seeks to recuperate itself. Until one reads this book he can never know how much can be made out of the commonest things; nor how much beauty and poetry can be gleaned by the wayside in any country town. It is written in an easy, takes it up, andhel never thinks of being surcharged with heaviness so long as there are any pages to be turned over. It is a unique, genteel, graceful, poetic, indeed, an inimit-, able book, and under cover of simplicity and freshness, teaches many a profound lesson in philosophy. _It will prove to be a’ valuable addition to any library. Orders sent to Woodhull & Claflin, box 8,791, N. Y. City, will receive prompt attention. ' SOUL AND BODY; or, The Spiritual Science of Health and Disease. By W.. '1‘. Evans, author of, “Mental Cure” and “Mental Medicine.” Colby & Rich, publishers, 9 Montgomery place, Boston. M This book is an effort on the part of the author to estab- lish the superiority of the soul over the body, as a fact. He adopts the theory that it is the intention, both of the Creator and of nature, to develop the soul until it shall master the body, so that it shall control all physical ills. The author is evidently a transcendental Spiritualist, and his book will find no favor with the Materialistic class of mind. With him the soul is the living motor power of the universe and not a refiection of the action of matter. The book is wor- thy a place in any library; and may be studied with profit by even the best informed. 4; VVV CORA A SYME FUND. Amount previously acknowledged. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $321 95 183 six months’ subscriptions reported. . . . . . . . . . . . 274 50 Subject to appropriation last statement . . . . . . . . . . . $47 4 v RECEIVED SINCE. — John Orth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $0 50 James Thierry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 00 J . P. Lennert_ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 00 ~. -=--—-—-—-- 3 50 $50 95 Appropriated 36 six months’ subscriptions . . . . . . . . 54 00 Overdrawn..........A............. $3 05 May we not hope that the friends of the deserving poor will keep some money in this fund? m MRS. WOODHULL IN THE FIELD. COMMENTS on THE I>iiEss. (From the Herald, Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 10, 1876) ‘ THE EDITORIAL. .Mns. WooDHULL’s LECTURE.—-The idea running through . Mrs. Woodhull’s lecture, at De Give’s Opera House last night, made a powerful impression on the very respectable i audience of intelligent gentlemen and ladies who heard her. The difiiculty connected with the lecture was the reconcilia- tion "of the subject with feminine delineation of it. ‘ A scientific professor discussing the theory, that she elabo- rated, before a college of students, would seem a very fit advocate of her views. And certainly if the lecture had been delivered by such a person before such an audience, its utter- ances would have been, and must have been, pronounced strikingly philosophical, full of well-considered reflection. and worthy of careful thought. ’ The difiiculty of accustoming one’s self to the discussion of the delicate theme by a woman before a mixed audience of both sexes is hard to get over. That over, the impartial critic must own. that Mrs. ‘Woodhull spoke a deal of prominent truth, and grappled with live problems in a strong manner. And as the audience poured out of the Opera House the current of comment showed that, while men were reeling jinder a sort of sense of unfitness in the fact that the source of the lecture was feminine, yet there was irresistible and universal recognition of the further fact that a large amount of home truth had been uttered. Mrs. Woodhull grappled with the great social problem of human procreation, and how to check the progress of disease and vice. She dealt largely in statistics of crime and sickness. in illustration of her views. She contended that the produc- tion of a nobler race of people depended upon an intelligent understanding of the great laws of nature and a conformity to those laws. There was no mincing of words in her lecture in the portrayal of disagreeable things. She proved herself- the possessor of a strong intellect with unusual powers of fluent and forcible expression. She showed herself Well: posted upon statistics of human experience. Occasionally she took the breath away by her freedom of \ discussion, and by a flashing suggestion of inferential more than expressed latitude of opinion. But before ‘she got through she impressed her hearers with her undoubted belief life again repeat that had her lecture been heard from a professor in the curriculum of the university, we are frank to say, it would have been deemed orthodox and correct. Coming from a. handsome woman in the rostrum before: a social audience, it kept a Southern hearer in a sort of a whirl of revolutionary protest, due to a very audacious innovation upon deep-rooted prejudices. , [ THE REPORT. A fair audience assembled at the Opera House last night to hear the lecture of Mrs. Woodhull. When she appeared on the stage we saw ahandsome women, handsomely dressed. ‘ ‘ i’_l.‘l:ier_e was a quiver in the voice that betokened at first thought a dash of dilfidence and timidity. As the lecture proceeded it seemed to be more like a. tremor of tearsin the wooniinnt e cLArLin*s WEEKLY. Feb. 26,.18’2'6. one who had sufl’ered,"one who had deep feelings of philan- throphy and affection, and who did not wish to be cast out from the affections of her kind. The concluding portion of her lecture, inwhich this feeling was stated, was of a moving and melting character. Her picture of her trials, her separation from her daughter. and that daughter’s brave answer of love and loyalty, of the scene in prison where, kneeling in prayer,she felt that she had had a revelation of the future love of the people, and her appeal for that love, was eloquent and touching.. Her manner was very fine. Grace- ful and forcible in every attitude and gesture, with a voice of rare modulation, controlled with a well—trained skill, she received the undivided attention, and swayed the hearts and applause of her auditoryfrom the beginning to the-end . ’ The matter of the lecture was one of outline and suggestion rather than distinct statement and full elucidation. The central idea was the reform of dissolute lives——the necessity existing for this in every corner of the land established by unvarying statistics. The method of reform suggested was to teach the child by fathers and mothers, but especially by mothers, that the body is the temple of God. In doing this we must be true to nature, state facts just as they exist in ‘natur.e,.give our children information in regard to all matters pertaining to nature, the origin of life, _ the necessity of purity, the results of criminal indulgence, without the false modesty which too generally prevails. B The sacredness of motherhood was a prominent idea in the lecture. -The mother reproduced in the son was a favorite thought, urged with great ‘force and beauty. N 0 one could hear the appeal for purity in connection with that holy name apd tie without an obeisance of reverence, perhaps a memory 0 tears. - .S_he maintained that reverence for the Bible was a cardinal point in her faith, and insisted that by some admission or in some form such a reverence was universal. There was nothing which would have been considered vul- gar or improper in a scientific lecture from a physiological or medical professor to young men. The truths stated as to the prevalence of prostitution and its evil efiects were undeniable, the ground taken against it both in males and females, among the married and unmarried, only such as any moral man and woman could take. j There were, here andfthere, fine touches of humor, but the humor was without the sting of sarcasm~—it taught and en- tertained without wounding. There were sallies of wit, bursts of eloquence in ‘word and act, brilliant passages of genuine oratory. As we have stated, the pathos of the lee- ture touched its every part as with a gentle and quivering light. whose tremulous -’plea fell upon the heart already in- fluenced by argument and aroused by appeal. . A From the Constttattoit, Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 10, 1876. , For several days life-size wood cut portraits of Victoria C.” Woodhull, the celebrated woman agitator in social theories, have ornamented bill boards. These were accompanied with the announcement that she would lecture here last evening. The fact excited more comment than appeared, and while hundreds shook their heads and thought it would not do to encourage her, others determined to go and hear exactly how terrible were the doctrines which had lifted this woman to such prominence and brought upon herself and sister such an avalanche of abuse. Shortly after the opening of the doors last evening the curious and interested began to arrive and fill up the house. As they stopped at the window ofthe box-ofiice they met the not unhandsome face of Mrs. Woodhull, who was acting as her own treasurer and as much at home as when discount- ing notes at the window of her Wall street bank. Securinga ticket they passed up to the door, where Miss Tennie Claflin, an attractive lady, with bright blue eyes and sprightly man- ners, was taking up the tickets. The audience was a large one. The members of the Senate and House of Representa- tives were present in force and were flanked on all sides by some of the first gentlemen in the -city in every department of commercial, literary and professional life. . - . Shortly after 8 o’clock Mrs. Woodhull walked upon the stage in a home-like way. She is a ' lady of commanding presence, fine carriage, good features and an expression full of force and intellectual energy. She was elegantly dressed in brown cloth, elaborately trimmed with a darker shade of velvet, and she wore few ornaments. Her coiffure was simple a la Greque and her style modest enough end never extrav- agant. She has persuasive eloquence, fiery energy and an earnestness whose genuineness cannot be questioned. She is a woman of great ability, and states her views with singular clearness and force. She was frequently applauded with a twill, and when she ‘retired from the stage the demonstration was as enthusiastic as any orator or actor could desire. (From the~Datly 'Amem'can, Nashville. Tenn., Feb. 5, 187 6.) " MRS. WOODHULLAT THE OPERA HOUSE. As had been anticipated the Opera House was packed last night with-an audience eager tohear Mrs. Victoria C. Wood- Dress circle and parquette were jammed, and the galleries were better filled than was ever before witnessed in that thespian temple. The audience was composed of the more intelligent and cultivated citizens of the community, the ladies present being the wives and daughters of business and professional men. After the lecture Mrs. Woodhull received several letters, couched in the most complimentary terms, and specially asking that she might deliver another lecture, but she finds it necessary «to leave for New Orleans to-day. (From the Evening Mail, N ashvtlle, Tenn” Feb. (8, 1876.) MRSCVVOODHULL AT THE OPERA HOUSE. ' The lecture of Victoria C. Woodhull at the Opera House last night on “The Human Body, the Temple of God,” attracted a respectable and appreciative audience. The best of order prevailed during the evening, and the audience seemed to be deeply interested. I . ‘ a (From the Voice and Echo, Johnston [Pa.] J an. 29, 1876.) Victoria C. Woodhull delivered her famous lecture on “The True and the False, Socially,” at the Opera House, on Friday evening of last week, to a select and appreciative audience. She was attired in plain black, without any osten- tatious show» of rings, pins or chains. From the "beginning to the close she entranced her listeners with the most eloquent, rhetorical and convincing speech that has ever been deliv- ered’ in our city. As the truths, like pearls, fell from her lips they were eagerly caught by her admiring hearers and di-" gested, intellectually, and the praise givenighersince, will tes- tify that her eloquent display was never excelled by a Phil- lips, a Choate, or any other person. Would that all the mothers and daughters in our city could have left the false at home andfhea-rd the truths fall from the lips of-one of their own sex!‘ She certainly has the moral courage to dissemi- nate such facts as none dare dispute. When she visits us again we are confident of an overflowing house greeting , the appearance ofthe’ “ Queen of the Rostrum.” AT Saratoga, the other day, abridegroom stepped ofi the cars forja moment, and the train "went off with his bride. He followed by the next train down, and she, on the other hand, returned on the next train up,land they passed each other gram ‘kept the bride ‘stationary until her husband reached pleadings cf a woman for a place in the hearts of the people, lser.===-New York Com-nterctal .=rldver§2Jsrm hull lecture on “The Human Body, the,Temple of God.” ' ou the road. This operation wasrepeated, each trip leaving - them at different ends of the route, until a peremptory tele- . BUSINESS ENOTICES. DR. R. P. FELLOWS, the independent and progressive _physician, is successfully treating nervous and chronic dis- eases all over the country byletter, as well as at his ofiioe at home, by his, original system of practice, which omits all drugs and mineral. medicines of both old and new schools. Dr. Fellows has been steadily gaining upon the confidence of the public for the past eight years, during which time, he has treated thousands of cases, eighty out of every hundred of which he has radically cured, while every case has been bene- fitted. And at this moment he has -pa'tients,in_every State in the -Union. Every reader of this who has any affection of the head, throat, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, kidneys, blad- der, bowels, womb, genital organs, or rheumatic or neuralgic difiiculties, or eruptions of the skin. blood impurities, tumors, cancers, or any nervous affections or diseases of the eye or car, are invited to write to Dr. Fellows. The remedy with which he treats these diseases so successfully, is his Magnetized Powder, which will be sent to any address, at $1 per box. Address.Vi-neland, N. J. CO-OPERATIVE HOMES IN THE CITY.——All persons inter- ested in practical reform are invited to send their names and addresses to G. W. Madox, 29 Broadway, New York city, for the purpose of securing suflicient number of responsible persons who will unite together to rent a suitable house or hotel upon a co—operative plan, and thus lessen the expense of living. If an answer is required, please enclose postage stamps. WE still mail our book, phamphlets and tracts-—“Free Love,” “Mrs. Woodhull and her Social Freedom,” “True and False Love,” “Open Letter to A. J. Davis,” “Letter to a Magdalen,” “God or no God,” “To My Atheistical Brothers,” including my Photo, for One Dollar. Can you favor me? Address Austin Kent, Stockholm St., Lawrence Co., New York. Box 44. ‘ ’ POSTCRIPT To A PRIVATE LETTER FROM AUSTIN KENT. “ It now looks as though I could never write more for the press. I am extremely feeble. I deeply rejoice in Mrs. Woodhullls success, and no one but P. Pillsbury has a better goo . In love, A. KENT, OILY substances always aggravate skin diseases. Oint- ments aretherefore rather hurtful than beneficial. Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. which opens, instead of clogging the pores with grease, has, as might havebeen expected, widely super- seded oleaginous compounds as a remedy for scorbutic affec- tions. Depot, Crittenton’s, No. 7 Sixth Avenue, New York City. DAVIS’ BATTLE—AxE will contain a most momentous paper entitled “Shakerism and Shakerdom”—Human Life Therein; also “The Possible and Impossible of Community Life on Earth;” also “The Death Struggle of Religious Liberty." Any one ef these articles will be worth the price of the paper. Sixty cents a year. A. Briggs Davis, editor, assisted by the most radical pens. Ind. Tract Society, Worcester, Mass, publishers. The address of Nellie L. Davis, is 235 Washington street Salem, Mass. PEOE. LISTER, the astrologist, can be consulted at his room N o. 319 Sixth. avenue. Address by letter, P. O. Box 4829. Mrs. H. Augusta White and other first-class mediums will be in attendance at the above Circles, and give poychometri- cal readings during the day time. o No science ever developed itself more rapidly than has that of psychometry. or soul reading, and it is destined to take a place beyond all others in usefulness and grandeur. Mrs. H. Augusta White possesses remarkable psychometric and clairvoyant powers, and will give readings at the Co- operative Home, 308 Third avenue. (Hours from 10 to 5. She will also give written delineations from a lock of hair; age and sex must be given. Terms, $2 in advance. THOMAS _CooK, editor and publisher of the Kingdom of Heaven, Boston, Mass., who is earnestly and devotedly in sympathy with the new departure of unfolding the ‘gospel and prophetic truths of the Bible, has gone West to labor in the glorious cause of love, and may be address ed or seen a. N o. 578 Milwaukee av., Chicago- Hedoes not stop to ask how ‘much willyou pay him, but will go and preach in public or private assemblies for whatever earnest seekers after truth V may feel to give him. Let all who will give him a night/s lodging or a dinner to help him on, send in their calls, for it is the Lord’s wish and hewill provide. I’ ALL families and invalids should have Prof. Paine’s short- hand treatment of disc-a.se—-a small book of forty pages Sent free on application to him at N o. 232 North Ninth street, Phila, Pa. I right to rejoice, and in some respects, even he has not as d H - ‘ .3; ,!‘‘-:'_~-« . ‘Q ‘I-7' Feb. 26, 1876. wooniuunn & CL.A.F.LIN’S WEEKLYII .. Have you seen the Wonderful Type- , Writing Machine? - I I No more pen paralysislI No more spinal curvature because of the drudgery of the pen. The Type- Writer has found rapid acceptance wherever intro- duced, and has fully sustained the claim that its work is twice as fast, three times as easy and five times legible asthat of the pen. It paragraphs, punctuates, underscores and does figure work—in a word, all things necessary to the production of 'a perfect manii- script. Any size or quality of paper may be used, and the most satisfactory results obtained, at a saving in time and strength of at least one hundred per cent The Type-Writer “manifolds ” fifteen copies at once, and its work can also be copied in the ordinary copy-press. , V READ THE FOLLOWING INDORSEMENTS. What Mr. Jenny, of the New York Tribune, says about it: NEW "YORK, June 10, 1875. DENSMORE, Yosr & Co.: Gentlemen—I am an earnest advocate of the Type- Writer. Having thoroughly tested its practical worth, I find ita complete writing machine, adapted to a wide range of work. The one I purchased of you several weeks since has been in daily use, ‘and gives perfect satisfaction. I can write with it more rapidly and legibly than with a pen, and with infinitely greater ease. Wishing you success commensurate with the merits of your wonderful and eminently useful in- vention, I am, respectfully yours, E. H. JENNY. OFFICE or DUN, BARLOW & Co., Corr. AGENCY, } 335 BROADWAY, New York, Dec. 8, 1874. Gentlemen--The Type-Writers we purchased of you last June for our New York, Albany and Bufialo _ oflices have given such satisfaction that we desire you to ship machines immediately to other of our ofiices at Baltimore, Cincinnati, Detroit. Hartford, Louisville, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and no more to our New York ofiice, 335 Broadway. We think very highly of the machine, and hope you will meet with good success. ' Respectfully yours, DUN, BARLOW & CO. , Or-men or VVESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH Co., CHICAGO, July 8, 1874. 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Key for unlocking many of its Sacred Mysteries, bestdes comprcstng the Ifistory of Sixteen Oriental Crucified Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, . _ Author of “The Blograplty_of Satan ”.an_d “The Btble of Bzbles ” (compmszng a descrzptzon of twenty Bzbles.) This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the field which he has chosen for it. The amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the varied information contained in it must have been severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in I‘ such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book . is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—as will be. seen by his title-page and chapter-heads—follows aI definite line of research and argument_.to.the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. " C O N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; Introduction; Address to the Cle 0 rgy. Chap. 1.~—Rival Claims of the Saviors. ’ Chap. 2.—Messianic Prophecies. ‘ Chap. 3.—Propliecies by the figure of a Serpent. Chap. 4.—Miracu10us and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. _ Chirp. 5.——Virgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods.l Chap. 6.—-Stars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. Chap._7.—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the Infant- Savior. Chap. 8.-The Twenty-fifth of December the Birthday of the Gods. . Chap. 9.—Titles of the Saviors. I Chap. 10.—The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birth- . I ~ I Chap. 11.——Christ’s Genealogy. I r I I Chap. 12.'—’l‘he World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tigin in Infancy. _ . Chap. 13.——’l‘lie Saviors exhibit Early Proofs ‘of Di- vinit . Chap. 1):i.——'I‘he Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.-—The Saviors are real Pcrsonages. Chap. l6.—Sixteen.Saviors Crucified. ’ Chap. 17.—'l‘he Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci~ fixion. . Chap. 18.—-Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.—Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.—Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- iors. I I I Chap.’ 21.—-The" Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe Ori ”n‘. ‘ ' ‘ ‘ Chap. 22.-—Thc Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.——The Divine “VVorcl” of Oriental Origin. Chap. 24..——'I‘he Trinity very ancientlyia current Hea- then Doctrine. Chap. 25.—~Absolution, or the Confession of Sins, of ' Heathen Origin. . Chap. 26.—Oi-igin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. , Chap. 27.——The Sacrament’ or Eucharistof Heathen Origin. ' Chap.b28.——Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.—How Men, including J ssus Christ, came to beIworshiped as Gods. - ‘ .« Chap. 30.——Sacred_ Cycles explaining _the Advent of the Gr€dS, the Master—key to the Divinity of Jesus 0 ris . ‘ ' ' ‘ ' ‘ Chap. 31.-—-Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systems.Z I I * ' I Chap. 32.—-Three Hundred and Forty—six striking _ Analogies between Christ and Crishna. ' Chap. 33.——Ap0l1onius, Osirisand Magusas Gods. I Chap. 34.——The Three Pillars of__ the Christian Faith—— Miracles, Prophecies and Precepts. '. Chap. 35.——Logical or Common-sense View of the Doc- triee of Divine Incarnation. . . ’ Chap. 36.——-Philosophical Absiirdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. I Chap. 37.—Physiological Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, - ‘ Chap. 38.—A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus ‘ Christ. _ _ Chap. 39.—The Scriptural View of Christ’s Divinity. Chap ._.40.——A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus ‘ I Christ. . ClEarp._4t1.—The Precepts and Practical. 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Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2113
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1876-03-04
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:- PROGrR=ESSj! ‘FREE UNTRAMMELED L:tVEs1! BREAKING TTHE WAY ‘FOR FUTURE erENERATIoris. V01. xI.;no.14;_wL¢ie No. 274 NEW MAR. 4, 18.7.6 . A PRICE TEN cnnrfs. The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the days of the vcoice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God shalt be fin27shed.—St. John the Divine. ‘ » .' i ' T/‘Vhereof I was _made a mt'niste7* to preach the un- searchable riches of 0]2,7’?'27S25,' and the mystery which froin the beginning of the-world hath been hid in God.-—Pau1. . THE THORNY ROAD. D ear Weekly:—“ Those who have labored most zealously to instruct mankind have been those who have sufiered most from ignorance.” This i s no new idea, but it is one which bears constant repetition without becoming stale, for the truth it contains is ever recurring. I find the expression as quoted above in a workentitled “ Curiosities of Literature,” ' by D’Israeli, combined with “ Curiosities of American Litera- ture," by Rufus W. Griswold. . V Immed... Show more:- PROGrR=ESSj! ‘FREE UNTRAMMELED L:tVEs1! BREAKING TTHE WAY ‘FOR FUTURE erENERATIoris. V01. xI.;no.14;_wL¢ie No. 274 NEW MAR. 4, 18.7.6 . A PRICE TEN cnnrfs. The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the days of the vcoice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God shalt be fin27shed.—St. John the Divine. ‘ » .' i ' T/‘Vhereof I was _made a mt'niste7* to preach the un- searchable riches of 0]2,7’?'27S25,' and the mystery which froin the beginning of the-world hath been hid in God.-—Pau1. . THE THORNY ROAD. D ear Weekly:—“ Those who have labored most zealously to instruct mankind have been those who have sufiered most from ignorance.” This i s no new idea, but it is one which bears constant repetition without becoming stale, for the truth it contains is ever recurring. I find the expression as quoted above in a workentitled “ Curiosities of Literature,” ' by D’Israeli, combined with “ Curiosities of American Litera- ture," by Rufus W. Griswold. . V Immediately following the above sentence there is a list of illustrious examples of its truthfulness, which it will be well worth the while of the “general reader” to consider, as showing the cause for which the greatestand best have en- duredlthe persecution of bigotry and ignorance. Therefore I. _ need make no further apology fo.r borrowinglfrom the above - work some of its facts and some of its language to lay before the- readers of the WEEKLY. Those who are cognizant of them already will have memory refreshed. perhaps, and those who are not will be edified. I will put in quotation marks‘ the language which I employ from the book, for some of the instances I shall presume to comment upon myself if I can find language sufliciently strong. ’ First, then, in the "list of martyrs to the ignorance of the age, we find Lord.Bacon, who “ with a noble perception of his own genius,” prophesied in his will his recognition by pos- terity. Mark that noble perception of his‘ own genius! There is a distinction between conceitand egotism, or egoism as George Eliot persists in using it. But if one has genius and nobiy perceives it, methinks onlyafool or.apedant—-between , which there may be littleorno distinction—would be dis- posed to ball such perception either conceit or egotism, when it seems to be rather a sort of divine instinct, whichfserves as a buoy to keep the devoted head -above the dirty waters of ignorant detraction. Galileo sufiered forhavipg learned that the world. moves physically, and desiring to impart his truth to. mankind, just the same as they suffer persecution to-day, who,” having learned that the world moves in a higher sense than Galileo found out, are similarly desirous ‘of arousing the stupid masses to the fact.“ ’ Harvey was ridiculed for promulgating his truth that the blood in our veins circulates . Think what he must have felt, with his knowledge of a fact, not his conviction of a theory or a prophecy yet to be elucidated or fulfilled, but a fact that was obtainedrby. scientific investigation and experiment—a fact beyond peradventure-—,and yet he must endure the sting- ing lash of vulgar ridicule! Could aught beside a.“no_b1e perception of his own genius ” have upheld Harvey and his great truth? Thank_God for that “ noble perception ” which gets mistaken by the unskillful for fanaticism, to which; it holds no more resemblance than an eagle to a scare-crow. Nevertheless the dolts ofphumanity laugh to-day at what they do not comprehend, just as they did when informed that their blood flowed in their veins, fancying now as then that the finality of the universe was reached in their sublime conception, never dreaming of more things in heaven or earth than servejsheir immediate stupidity. V A Socrates had to die because he Was wiser than his genera- tion, and lived for some purpose in the ages. Anaxagoras was imprisoned for his idea of the Deity, which if not more just, had the merit of differiiig fromthe accepted idea, on the principle that, any change in a fixed idea, lnotbased upon a fact, is pretty sure to be a; change for the better. Aristotle could’nt endure the persecution he was sub- jected to, so made his quieitus with a “cup of cold piion.” Heraclitus, who has had an illustrious follower in George ‘ Francis Train, “Was so tormented by hiscountrymen that he broke off all communication with men. ”- “Great geometricians and chemists as Gerbert and Roger Bacon were abhorred as magicians.” “Virgi1ius,Bishep of Saltzburg, went to ,the stake for, asserting that there were antipodes.” “The Abbot Trithe'm.ius,, for his trial at improv- sing stenography, or the art of secret writing, had his works burned as works of the devil.” T L An ignorant old father 'confessor, presuming that the sum of human wisdom was footed up "in his thick head, through working upon the misdirected pietyiof Galileo’s wisdom, got possession of the MSS. ofthat philosopher, and “destroyed ‘God knows how much truth has'be‘en «rletarded—destroyed it cannot be for thefeternali years of God areihers——through zeal than just judgment. _ j V “Cornelius Aggrippa was. compelled to fly his country and the enjoyment of a large income, for a few philosophical exi- The peopleheld him as an object of horror, and not untre- quently when he walked he found the streets empty at his approach. He died ina hospital.” A , , p _ , ; The fly that settled on’ the head of Urban Grandier when he was being led to the stake was thought to be the devil come forhis own, because an old foolof a monkhad heard that in Hebrew, Beelzebublmeant the God of Fli:e_s.., On r such lamentable‘ ignorance havetége s.ci},1tjl_lations of .divi_ni_ty been hammered into dullness. V ‘f Sextus. the Fifth, Marechal Fabier, Roger Bacon, Caesar Borgier, his son Alexander the Sixth, and others, were sup- posed to have their diabolical attendants.” They didn’t lay claim, it seems, to supernatural assistance, which would have been some justification for the ignorant, supplying, them with the attendance of the devil’s imps, but their superior scientific and philosophical acumen was enough to clothe them in the grim majesty of Satan. . “Cardan was believed to be a'magician. The fact is that he was, for hisptime, la, very able naturalist, and hewho hap- pened to know something of the arcane. of nature was im- mediately. suspected of magic. Even the learned themselves who had not applied to natural philosophy seem to have acted with the same feelings as the most ignorant; for when Albert, usually called the Great——a.n epithet he owed to his name, De G»root—constructed a curious piece of mechanism which sent forth distinct musical sounds, Thomas Aquinias was so terri- fied at it that he struck it with his stafl -to the mortification of Albert, annihilating the curious labor of thirty. years.” ‘ It seems that poets and poetry were imuch under the ban of ignorance in ye ancient days,——and if Joaquin Miller’ had served them for an example there’ would not need be any wonder at it. Our book says‘: “They could not imagine a poet without supposing him to hold intercourse with some demon.” This sort of persecution of science and genius lasted tillthe close of the seventeenth century,” so the book says, and the list of its examples closes with this opinion from .Hallem: “ If the metaphysician stood‘ a chance of being burned’ as a heretic, the natural philosopher was not in less jeopardy as a magician.” Then follows alist of poor geniuses who lived in poverty and died inethe most abject want.’ But it seems to me a little like the assumption of ignorance to set it down that “persecution of science and genius ” ended with theseventeenthpcentury. The same inveterate and- intolerant spirit, born of egiotism and nursed in ignorance, is as rampant‘ in the nineteenth century as it ever was in the seventeenth or before; and if the priesthood had the same power the record would be as bloody and barbarous. The spirit enthroned in wisdom beyond the age sufiers torments and tortures though the poor body escape fire and poison. The superstitious ignorance and the grounded bigotry of the day will strip a gifted soul of all claim to decency and the “rights of man” for promulgating an unpalatable idea. The world seems doomed never to learn the lessons"of the past; its course seems destined over burning plowshares, trodden by the blistered feet of wisdom born before its time. It seems that all truth must fight its disputed way; first, through the indifference of the stupid; next, the ridicule of the vain and frivolous, and lastly, through the persecution of the bigoted and powerful. . ‘ ' r A , And the great social truth which took the ‘form of a social‘ earthquake has gone through each stage until it‘ has at last "reached popular recognition." Truth travels faster than before- we had the much ridiculed railroads and telegraphs to help it on its eternal course. What if the priests had had the power to suppress Fulton what in his judgment. were not fit for the world to know.” .blind and fanatic persistence in popular errors, aided by the cfliciousness of some small-souled Comstock more gifted with periments which any school boy performs with ease to-day.‘ .44,/" and Morse for apiairl of lunatics dangerous to the sway of their ignorant god, and to destroy their models as “ not fit in their (the priest) sublime judgment for the world to know A anything about ? W,el_l,.we should only have had tohwait a little longer for. the facts that steam and electricity could be utilized; for the womb of time was pregnant with the truth, and no stupid edict against nature could murder it in embryo, becausethe conception was immaculate. A , J " It is just dawning into the minds of advanced thinkers that there‘ hasbeen a Woful mistakemade in'regard to the human 'bodyj'a‘nd it functions. Never was the world more grounded in an error; never was the task of luprooting falsehood fraught with greater peril, in a temporal sense, to the soul that wider- .'took it with a “noble perception of its own geni_us;” never was persecution more rampant, merciless and insatiable, yet neverwas truth clearer to the sense of her votariesr;_V never was the "way of ‘her logical development better paved; with ~9testim‘ony, and never did truth travel so far and so fast in so short‘ a space. indeed shall the stone that was rejected of the builders become the crowning glory of the temple. ‘ The evo- lution of the truth that the human body is “ God’s holy tem- ple,” which men and women have been desecrating for ages, isdestined‘to work a new era in the annals of the world; for once substitute reverence for contempt, purification will begin to "take ‘the place of pollution. When we do come to T a sense of the sacredness of ourselves the worship will indeed be in spirit and in truth; for there will be no scapegoat, no vicarious atonement. no outside temple made with hands where we go each seventh day to put on a. vain-show of holi- ness and give up the temple not made with hands to the domain of death—dealing lust the other six . Itis not too much to hope that all who" have learned of truth to the reverencing of their bodies will live to see‘ the travail of their souls and be satisfied. HELEN NASH. MOODY AND SANKEY-—WHAT ARE THEY? A BY A FREE-RELIGIONIST. A thinker, who builds a frame for his facts before he has discovered them, is a dangerous man. The world has had many such, and incalculable injury has been the result. Thus human slavery, that master—piece of iniquity, was made to fit most admirably into the scheme of general salvation and dubbed a _“' divine institution.” Thus the curse placed upon woman, and the position of virtual servitude assigned her, have been merciless drags upon the growth of her mental and moral capacities. And such a terrible grip has this assump- tion of “divine wrath” so-called, upon the intelligence of the age—that even now we hesitateto acknowledge woman capable of the most ordinary civic duties, or_ entitled to a voice in forming the laws that‘ control her life, liberty,,and pursuit of happiness. . ‘ At present in our city we are having an exemplification of thehludicrous inconsistenciesthat result fromiour trying to force the facts of to-day into the frames of yesterday. In school and college the student is taught that the laws of the universeprescribed by infinite wisdom are inviolably ob- served, and that to ask the suspension of even the smallest of nature’s rules, would be at once impious and monstrous for it would be an impeachment of God himself, an accusa- tion that His bounty is not all sufficient. ‘ And yet these men stand”boldly forth and proclaim, that under certain con- ditions a. man suffering from tubercles on the lungs can be _made perfectly well and whole through the agency of a series of mental processes termed penitence, entreaty,1audation, etc. A village suflering from the scourge of intemperancee is promised relief by these keepers of the conscience of the Most -High by the same means. a A widow, whose only son has fallen into wicked ways, is told, that no matter what the causes of the young man’s moral obliquity may be, prayer, of itself and alone, is all potent to efiect his cure, and restore him to her arms as pure as on the day he first saw light. With causes these men have nothing to do, It is the old, old story. In every age, in_every profession, such men come to the surface. Wfiat Mesmer was to the scienceof medi.. cine, these men are to the cause of “true religion.” And when we say “true religion,” we are willing to accept the definitioniof the founder of Christianity, Whose followers these Quixotic theologians proclaim themselves to be. The young Jewish teacher said, in answer to a certain lawyer: “Love God with all thy heart, soul and mind, and thy neighbor as th.yse1f;” hereupon “hang all the law and the prophets.” ‘ 2 in WOODHULL as cnsrmuss WEEKLY. Mar. 4, 1876. What this “love thy neighbor as thyself" means, we find in another passage. “I was hungry, ye gave me meat; thirsty ye gave me drink; a stranger, ye took me in; naked, ye clothed me; sick, ye visited me; in prison, ye come unto me.” ~ . n l . Here we have a definition, rather bald and crude, but strik- ing withal. Lotus apply this standard to Messrs. Moody and Sankey and mark the result: ; , ' _, ' “Ye were hungry, we prayed for you; thirsty, we prayed for you; fa strand-ger,;we_ prayed for you; naked, we prayed for you ;”sick,_ we prayedfforr you; in prison, we prayed for you.’’’‘' , " , " 1, I . Children, playing with: 'lighte_d torches in a village of card- board houses,‘are not more to be dreaded than an ignorant man with an earnest fervid manner, for the world isalways impressed by earnestness and fervor; no matter how worth- less, how reprehensible the cause may be, converts are never lacking. Such a man is generally grossly ignorant, he ‘has'nt the faintest conception of physical" and psychical laws, he cares nothing for them, he is a law unto himself. If a physician, he carries his “specifics” in his vest pocket; if a lawyer, his office and library in. his hat; if ._ a preacher, he puts forth ‘ noise for argument and “howling dervish” manners for the “fervor of the spirit.”_ To such a man religion and emotion are synonymou’s.termS.. and‘. hysteria is the working‘-of the‘ Holy Ghost. A momentary attack of contrition is pro- nounced a descent of the spirit. The veriest rogue who has‘ preyerl upon society for years is] led ‘ to believe that his con-. version may be wrought in an instant. In other words, that which has taken years to pull down may be built up in the s twinkling of an ‘eye. Here we are struck with the full. ' enormity of such’ a" doctrine. ‘Here we are run upon that de- testable quackerywhich ignores the law of causation, ignores the law of environment, ignores the law of hereditary descent and ignores the law of social forces. Here we experience in i all its utter worthlessness, the moral cowardice that shrinks from the discomfort. ‘G011. SI1fl’6I'ing and sacrifice of the genuine worker and helper in the fields of humanity, and plays the part of the “stay at home.” ‘"9119 t9~1k8l‘.” “the exhorter,” “the wordycomforter.” It needs but a cursory glance at the principles‘ enunciated by these so—called evangelists, to be- come thoroughly convinced of their subjective and empiric methods. While p_roba_b1ythey might be induced to admit that theyare conscious of the existence of law and order_ in the physical world, yet in the domain of the mental and moral, they perceive naught but chaos, out of which it is.im- _ possible for the individual to bring light and life, except by the direct interposition of a supernatural force. And here it is exactly that such teachers become extremely dangerous.’ While willing to admit that nature’s mills grind slowly. that she requires much of time and effort to restore the broken tissue, yet with the madness of the deductive rmethod, they urge that the moral plague, the mental ulcer, may be-cured in ictu oculi. Here they cease to be harmless agitators and become distillers of a poison which they cun- ningly administer in such disguised form, as to delight whno it destroys. . Suppose a man who has stolen his neighbor’s coat, upon being asked to plead at the Court of Sessions, should rise and thus address the judge: “If your honor please, I did steal this man’s coat, but I have repented; I have told God of this false step. He has pardoned me and directed me to do so no more. I therefore ‘move that you discharge me.” , Or suppose the cashier ofa bank, detected in the act of em- bezzlement, shculd thus address the president: “True. I have committed this crime; but, sir, you see my tears, you hear my lamentations, my repentance is sincere. I feel that God has balanced the account in the Great Ledger of the re- cording ange1’s department. I therefore ask that you rein. state me and give me your entire confidence.” What think you would be the reply which these worthies would receive? It would be simple, terrible. just; it would be this: “Con- trition, Probation, Reparation.” To return tothe discussion of these menthemselves. Sup- pose Howard instead of v-isiting the “bridewells, houses of correction, city and town jails” had stayed at home to pray, what reform would he have accomplished in English prison system? Suppose l/Vilberforce, instead of fighting‘ slavery as he did, had gone about singing anti~slavery songs invlpulpits and on platforms, would he have fulfilled his glorious mission? r V A And the same question ‘may be askedof all the workers ' and helpers in the domain of true religion-——love God and man——from Buddha to John Brown. It is vain for these prayerful men to assert that no such field of activity is ready for them. Let them turn their eyes from withinwto without. ~ While they are engaged intakin g God to task for His lack of mercy, the hungry,.the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the imprisoned are calling unto them. Mr. Bergh has provided for the proper transportation of animals, but the horrors of the prison—vain and chain—gang still remain. Our penal laws and our prison system have come down to us from days of blood and revenge. The church dares not attack prostitution. In the temple, public conveyance, and public hall the whites still call out to the blacks: “ Holier than ‘ye i” Work degrades woman, where it should ennoble her. But enough. Why add . to the list? Men are willing to suffer martyrdom nowadays, provided they be allowed to carry a change of linen, comb, brush, etc. to prison with them. It is a shame that people should allow idle curiosity to give even a quasi—endorsement to this latter-day gospel of gush and snivel. . I » A We have no difficulty, in view of the facts, in framing an answer to the interrogatory placed at the head of this article. And in doing so, be it well understood, we set nothing down in the spirit of lampooner or satirist; but in sorrow rather than -in anger, in pity rather than in censure, with a pen _ moist with the warm milk of humanity, rather than dripping with the gallof cold indifference, we arrive at these conclu- sions: - 7 * r ' 1. In that these men, by their teachings, raise the emotional element of religion to such undue prominence as to leadmany ‘sell her maternallfunctions out of her control? ‘our marriage laws are wrong, and open the gates to many people to believe that, by earnest prayer, God may be induced to decree the release of man’s responsibility to fellow-man, they dispense a dangerous poison, the more dangerous from its sweetness to a disordered moral taste. -2. In that these men, either through an ignorance of i“causes,”, or from a moral cowardice to attack them, treat “ effects T’ only, and doctor the “symptoms” and not the .""’disease,’»’ they are simply religious charlatans. ,3. Inthat these men proclaim the existence of a Court of 'Heavenly.Justice, always in session, but whose judgments are based upon the statementof only one party, they bring “human law into’ contempt, they weaken the hold that man has upon his fellow-man, they rob remorse of its sting, they ‘open up a new road into the territory of crime by pointing out a safe . and pleasant retreat; in .a word, if they were not honestly in ‘error and had not their fervor and zeal to com- mend them, they would be prosecuted as enemies of law and order, and corrupters of the public‘ conscience. 4.. In that these men proclaim themselves the disciples of the Founder of Christianity,.but, unlike Him, have no power to do good or show miracles—except it be the strength of their tongues-they have no claim to our respect, and are alone saved from our contempt by the reflection that the cul- tured 'thought of’ the age will soon render such exhibitions "impossible. ' I ” I ‘ ‘ ‘ I SELECTED. * Could I but fly away Likefome sweet bird to-day, Pd haste to thee, , Far over hill and plain, -Over the wide, wide main, To thee, to thee. Morning and eventide I miss thee from my side; No hourigces by But some sweet thought of thee, . Some blesseli memory, , Wakes a deep sight 2 If I could fly away Like a sweefbird to-day, I’d haste to thee, Far over the hill and plain, Over the bounding main, To thee, to thee. A NEW CLASS OF CRIMI-NALS. BY WARREN CHASE. Crimes are settled among civilized nations by statute law, determined by the nature and effect of the act. and its hear- ing on the party and the public.’ The criminal code of the Christian Church differs somewhat from the legal code, as in the former there are many criminal acts not recognized as such by law, such as taking the name of God in vain, or pro- fane swearing, except when used in preaching and praying, when it is no crime to take it in vain as all praying christians do. Drunkenness and lizeing are also crimes in the code of most churches, and in the Roman church (the mother of the whole brood), coition is always‘ a crime, when not permitted by its priests in their marriage contract, and hence all legal and protestant marriages are void, as God does not put them together, and their intercourse is criminal in the sight of God and the holy church. But we are not after the criminal code of the church in this article, but the law of our protes- tant and infidelstatesmen. It is universally conceded, that murder, except in war, in self-defence, and by law, is a crime of the deepest die; hence suicide is always considered a crime, even though we cannot punish the perpetrator. Arson is next, and _this crime is the same in nature if the person sets fire to his own building, as if he set fire to his neighbor's, although the law might deal more leniently with the criminal. Rape is the next, and as we have often as- serted, ought to be the same when it is committed on a wife,’ as when committed on any other woman; but as we shall see, here steps in. another crime to justify this. Piracy is a crime, and slave—stea1ing is piracy; yet civilized men go,into Africa. and coax, allure, deceive, and entice the innocent and ignorant natives into their power, and "then secure and sell them for slaves; then {they are owned by the purchaser. Where slavery is a crime, as in this country, no person can any ,more sell himself or herself, except by special ,law, than he or she can a child, a neighbor, or a stolen African. If it is a crime to sell and make a slave of a child or neighbor, or a stolen African, it is equally so to make a slave orvproperty, which is the ame thing, of one’s self; and yet, by law, every wife is the property of her hus— band; hence the horrible crime of rape on her person is no crime in law, because she is,-in law, no person, but only property, and with only some especial laws for her protection, the same as there are for horses which the owner has no legal right to pound to _death_yvith_clu.b,s,.n . Now, as in most cases the wife is coaxed, enticed, deceived and allured into the mentalapower of the male, and then, for various considera- tions, induced to sanction the sale of herself in the presence of some person authorized to "legalize the sale, is she, or is she not, aoriminal, if slavery be a crime? It must be re- membered that the thousands of happy unions and mutual companionships that exist under the law have nothing to do -with this question, as our laws should be made for those who need protection from them, and not for those who have no need of them. As these happy unions are not made so by law, but by love, which is above the law, over which the law has really no control, they would be just as happy, as good and as true without as with it. This brings us to the bottom rock of this question: Has a person a right to sell herself, body and soul, into slavery—slavery for life——and to If not, then wrongs which are crying daily for redress, while the church and State, backed up by every libertine and real slave owner in the land, are calling out in holy horror at the horrible doc- trine of social freedom which alone can rescue us from the evil and the suffering from this terrible doom. FREE LOVE. An Arizona wife begged the court not to punish her hus- band for the crime of bigamy, of which he was convicted. “ He loved me once, and was kind,” said she, with the tears running in streams down her face, “ and when I go away to my lonely home it would be my only earthly comfort to know that he was free" to seek for happiness if he can find it any» where in the world.” When sentence was pronounced the stricken woman fell on her knees before her husband, and, placing her hands upon his arms, asked him to forgive her if she had ever done anything to chill his love for her, and to kiss her just as he would a dead wife whom he loved. The wretched man seemed entirely overcome by these appeals and his own fate, and grasping her in his arms, kissed her over and over again, and when the omcers drew him away she sank fainting to the floor. We commend the above extract to the editors of the many papers in which it has appeared, as an illustration of free love—a love that exists to bless and not merely to possess its object. Beside such love as this, the other kind is hatred. If people will not or cannot understand what we mean by free love, let them take the above Arizona wife as our argu- ,ment ; she not only was free to love, but she gave the object of her love the same freedom. INTELLUCENE AGAIN. . Srnunux, HURON Co., Ohio, Jan. 6, 1876. Editors Wealth/—~Desiring more-knowledge of the “Phil- osophy of Intelligence” the first thing to be considered is intelligence, for “ without this we can do nothing,” and our philosopher tells us that it is an idea, and that ideas are formed of a substance called intellucine, but whatintellucine is, further than that it is a substance, he does not inform us, nor how he knows that it exists, and that the earth is sur~ rounded with it, nor how he knows that it is subject to the like or analagous laws that pertain to other matter—,—all of which are matters necessary to be understood before one can form an intelligent opinion of the character of his proposi- tions. A few inquiries and remarks may serve to bring to light what seems now rather obscure. How does he know that in- tellucine exists, and that it is a substance and surrounding our earth like its atmosphere, and especially how does he know that thoughts are formed of it ? Has he ever detected and secured any of it and subjected it to chemical analysis to ascertain this and to sustain his assumptions? Of course if thoughts are formed out of this substance now, it must be reasonable to suppose that they always were so formed, and consequently that substance existed before thought, and that thought could not even havebeen coeval therewith. And just. here will our philosopher instruct us how intellucene formed itself into thought, and how the organism that ap- propriated or appropriates it for the formation of its mind, came to exist without mind intelligence? The individual mind could not have existed until the organism existed that appropriates it for its formation; and we would like to know (for we are naturally of an inquiring mind, especially regard- ing the mysteries of God and His creation) how thought could have a representative form of substance until a thought existed needing such representation? But the greatest of all this kind of mysteries that most needs solution is how intellucene, of which all thoughts are made, if any, does act per se in the same intellusic atmos- phere, in and through similar organisms, side by side, in the formation of thoughts in one that is so diametrically op- posed by the thoughts of the other. We are not unaware that difl'erences in theconstruotion of organisms imply the mani- festation of difierent operations and efiects, but that the two suggested should so sharply antagonize, and with apparent design, when, according to our philosopher, there could have been none, is not easy of understanding. The only way to account for this is, it seems to me, that old mother nature (matter, Itake it, is naturejorganized or unorganized) is an in- telligent old hussy per se, and having no intelligence to guide her, as a matter of course, could not do otherwise with her eflorts than to construct the unintelligent and varied mass of organisms, withall of their idiosyncraoies and contradic- tory and conflicting manifestations that we now witness, not- withstanding the boastful claim made in her behalf by her scientific endorsers. V V _r These remarks, with the connected querries, are deemed suflicient to draw from our philosopher such explanations as gratefully received, at least by his and your Humble servant, H. A; C. S. SAL'.rjLAKn CITY, Jan. 26, 1876. Woodhull and Clafiinfls Weekly, Greeting: As an earnest worker for political, social, and a thorough general reform, I desire to announce through your columns that Inam anxious to make the acquaintance of, and co—oper- ate (as far as possible) with, all persons» who are ripe for practical peaceful reform. Great amelioration of the suffer- ings that will attend the coming conflict, can be secured by the wise and determined union and co-operation of energetic working people. The gloomy wonder now is, how must we proceed to obtain support, and compel Government to pro- ? mote human safety and happiness. I offer my opinion of the true mode of organization: Small societies or divisions of people must enact‘ their own neighborhood laws, and select and install their own delegates to frame rules for more ex~ tended association with mankind. For further explanation I inclcse a copy of a petition now before the Utah Legislature on primary organizations, hoping that it may be extensively, studied and commented upon, so that by some means we may arrive at a true knowledge of organic union, peace and good will. Very respectfully, S. HUDSON. Councilor Caine submitted a memorial of C. W. Tappan and S. Hudson, asking for the passage of a certain memorial may erve to elucidate his propositions, and such will be V 2», ‘F ..-n\:e:~$\e'->:~:._ .-r.‘ ii ' V.‘ 1) :2 i; ii I i A; ""*\ Mar. 4, 1876. 'W,OODHULL & GLAFLIN"S WEEKLY. ed 3 introduced at the last session,,for aiNominative Franchise Bill. The following is a memorial: MEMORIAL Fon A LAW To GUARD THE SANCTITY or THE N oM1NAT1vE FRANCHISE. To the Honorable Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, Greeting: ‘ We, your petitioners, respectfully represent that there is no law. within our knowledge, that defines either how, when, or where to commence political . representation, and. conse- quently, we, as individuals, and the people as communities, find ourselves at each recurring election unprepared and un- able to make the necessary Government nominations on the basis of individual representation. . Therefore, to make it possible for all citizens to meet with their peers at a fixed time and place, to select governing deputies by a majority vote of all citizens they are to repre- sent, we respectfullyrequest your honorable body to estab- lish by law regular annual nominating conventions in each school district in the Territory, (where minority as well as majority representation will operate naturally), for the elec- tion of school ofiicers; also for the appointment of primary deputies to annual precinct conventions for the election of precinct ofiicers; also for the appointment from their own body of deputies to county conventions. and so on, repeating the process through a succession of annual fixed conventions, until the whole Territory is completely organized on the basic principle of individual and personally selected representation (furnishing revenue for governmental expenses by atax on ‘ clear yearly income), so that every citizen can independently take hold of the helm of government, and through general council and well-directed effort retrieve the elfects of former neglect, and proceed to organize a protective government for the safety and support of the whole population. and thus to inaugurate a policy to save the liberty of the citizen, and Con- stitution from otherwisecertain destruction. And in amity bound by mutual interest, we will be obliged for favorable action. (From the N. Y. Sun, Feb. 17 1876.) ' A LETTER women THE ADVISORY COUNCIL ‘ SHOULD READ. Mr. Oliver Johnson, then an associate editor of Mr. Beecher’s on the Christian Union, at the scandal trial was called as a witnes for the accused pastor. Mr. Johnson testi- fied to very little of importance, the main part of his evi- dence being directed to _the matter of Mr. Tilton’s alleged _ immoralities, on account of which, according to Mr. Johnson, Mr. Bowen dismissed ‘him from the Independent. Mr. Johnson gave no testimony touching his knowledge of Mr. Beecher’s immoralities, regarding which thepublic then. had and now has so great concern. But the form of action brought against Mr. Beecher enabled his counsel to befog the issue with inquiries as to Mr. Ti1ton’s moral behavior, and they did not fail to avail themselves of the opportuni- ty to help their client with the jury by efforts to macken the reputation of his accuser as something not to be damaged by a seducer who should enter his own household. What Mr. Johnson failed to tell in court regarding his knowledge of Mr. Beecher's immoralities, about which he seems not to have cared to speak, since he was in the employ of the accused pastor, the subjoined letter, which five years ago he wrote to Mr. Bowen in Mr. Tilton’s behalf, very emphatically says: “ [Private and Confidential.] “128 EAST TWELETH STREET Jan. 7, 1871. “ MR. H. C. BowEN—My dear sir: It is stated in various newspapers, and confirmed by public rumor, that you have expelled Mr. Tllton from the editorship of the Unibn. At first I stubbornly refused to believe these reports ' but after hearing them from so many quarters. I begin to,think they must be true. The statement is also passing from lip to lip that you refuse to fulfil the the pecuniary Obligation assumed in your contract with Mr. Tllton, assigning as the reason for so doing your conviction that he is an immoral man &c. I have neither seen Mr. Tilton, nor had any communication with him for more than a week, and in writing you this letter I act without his knowledge, and in simple obedience to my own sense of duty as his friend and yours. “ At the close of the interview at your house on Christmas day, I understood you to pledge your word that you would do nothing respecting Mr. Tilton——would take no step in the matter»-without consulting me. On this point I am sure I cannot be mistaken. If, therefore, you have done to Mr. Tilton what you are reported to have done, have you not broken your promise ? Certainty you have not consulted me on the subject since that day, except so far as to inform me that you had heard fresh reports putting matters in’ a Worse light. I was expecting. from day ‘to day, that you would seek my advice; and therefore when the newspapers re- ported that you had summarily dismissed Mr. T. from the Union, I contradicted the story among my friends, believing‘ that it could not possibly be true. . , - “In this matter 1 claim no right beyond those which you voluntarily, and without any solicitation on my part-,conferred- upon me. You took me into your confidence, and I have neverisought, even by inquiry or a hint, to elicit from you anything beyond what you deliberately chose to communi- cate. More than once or twice, did you say to me, ‘I shall keep still; I will not move without your advice.’ - A “ What has occurred to change your purpose in this respect, 1 do not know. Oi course, I understand you to be acting up- on the belief, no doubt sincerely entertained, that Mr. Til- ton is guilty of the charges made against him. But, even upon that assumption, I frankly confess that your course (if you have done what rumor declares). seems to me cruel, es- pecially when contrasted with your conduct toward ‘another man, whom you say you know to have been extensively guil- ty of the same offences. have hardened your heart against Mr. '1‘. in the same week that you paid a high premium for a pew in a church whose pas- tor yousay you know to be an adulterer. if your action to- ward Mr. Tilton proceeds only from a sincere abhorrence of the offences with which he stands charged, why do you take a different course with your pastor? If you would give the one a chance to recover himself, why not be equally forbear- ing to the other? This Lhsay on the assumption that Mr. T. is guilty; but I do not myself believe that he is half as guil- ty as you suppose. In short I know. that some of the stories told against him are false, and that malignant persons are on his track, with the intention of hounding him down: and I thinkvyou have been, to some extent, the victim of theirvmae chinaticns. A no you not remember saying to me that in all you might It seems to me that you should not ‘ do in this case, you would be governed by a desire to spare T. from exposure, and to give him a chance ‘to recover him- self if he was wrong? And yet I hear people say, on your alleged authority, that heis so bad a man that you can have nothing to do with him. Ah,,Mr. Bowen, if Mr. B. is fit to be your pastor, Mr. T. cannot be unfitto edit for you a secu- lar journal.” . has not But Mr. B., since he confessed to you, has‘ repeated know something thatI do not of the charges against Mr. Til- ton; but I also know something that you do not of the evi-' dence against Mr. B., and if he denies his guilt in the m_atter where of he was accused in that Christmas-day i-ntcrview at your house, he lies in face of evidence that would convict him in a courtof justice. That evidence I have seen. I l “ But I would have you be merciful to him. doing nothing to bring upon his head the odium of an ungodly an_d relent— less world. I want you to be equally. kind and merciful to T., as I fear you are not. Your precipitate action may lead, is likely to lead, to fearful consequences. A He may have pro- voked you, but I cannot forget how harshly and angrily you spoke to him at your own house, making him feel that you were not the tender-hearted friend who would deal kindly and generously with him, and to whom he might un- bosom himself in full confidence, confessing wherein he had done wrong. Your hardness repelled him——perhaps drove. him to concealments as unwise for himself as embarrassing to you. A ’ * ~ - I takes a Christian to be good and generous to a sinner- I did hope that you would have grace given you in this case to act a very high and noble part, and to become the agent in God’s hands for shielding an old friend so far as he might be inno- cent, and leading him to repentance for any sin he had com- mitted. ‘He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multi- tude of sins.’ Would ‘to God that this honor might have been yours. _ “I write under strong feeling, and only because I must. If I have written any word unjust to yourself, forgive me, and believe me, your friend, “ULTVER JoHNsoN.” It is not easy to_ understand how an honest man, informed of the facts of which the above letter. bears witness, could oc- cupy the place of awitness in behalf of the man he so ex- plicitly charged with crimes fatal to his reputation‘ and in every way odious and outrageous. But Mr. Johnson did it, and threw his influence on the side of his employer. Know- ing Mr. Beecher to be an adulterer of manifold offences, he went on the witness stand in his behalf, to try to shield him an oath in order to cast reproach on the accuser whom he to help to ward off righteous punishment from this last. In so acting Mr. Johnson has not been alone. Prof. Moses Coit Tyler is informed regarding the bottom facts, but he does not come forward with the testimony, and Mr. him tohbe an adulterer and a perj urer, a cruel assailant of his friends, and a man who is seeking to regain his foothold in the church and in society by trampling on those he has in- jured. no means made up when the case of,Mrs. Tilton is stated, points of Congregational order raised by Henry Ward Beecher and his wily attorney, Brother Shearman. LITERARY oUnIosITY. as if written at one time and by one author: V LIFE. M Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ?— Young. ._ Life‘s a short summer——man is but a flower;-—Dr. Johnson. By turns we catch the fatal breath’ and die—Pope. C The cradle and the tomb, alas! so 'nigh.—Prz'0r. To be is better far than not to be,-Sewell. Though all man’s life may seem a tragedy:—-;S’_r2e7z.cer.. , - But light cares speak whexlflllghty griefs are,dumb.—_Doniel.‘ . The bottom is but shallow whence they come.——/S’ir Walter Scott, Your fate is but the common fatcof all ;—-Lo7zgfe?llow. I " Unxningled joys hcreldo no man befall ;'—S0nt7_i'well. Nature to each allots its proper sphere.—— Uongreoe. Fortune makes follies her peculiar care;V~— (Ilmrciiill. _ Custom does often reason overrule—Roc/Lester. And throw a cruel sunshine on a r ool.—Armstrong. Live well—how long or short permit to heaven.~—1l[iIt0n.' They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.--Bailey. Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see its face.--Frencfi. Vile intercoursc where virtue has not p.lace.——Somerville. Then keep each passion down, however dear— T/iomson. Thou pendulumbetwixt a smile and a tear-—Bg/ron._ Her sensual snares let faithless pleasures lay.-—Smollei. With craft and skill to rum and betray.-— Oralme. _ \ Soar not too high to fall but stoop to rise;-—J|[assinger". We masters grow of all that we despise-C’r‘owley. Oh, then. renounce thatimpious se1f—esteem;-—Beattie. ’ Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.—-Cowper. I Think not ambition wise because ’tis brave—.3ir Walter Davenaut. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.—— Grraé/. A C I ' ‘What is ambition? ’Tis a glorious cheat,—— Wzme: Only destructive to the brave and great.-—Addis0n. What’s all the gaudy glitter of a crown ?——Dryden. , The way to bliss lies not on beds of down.--Francis Quczrles. How long We live, not years, but actions tells;—— Watkins. ‘ That man lives twice who lives the first life well;-Herriclc. Make then, while yet ye may, your God your friend.—fIerriok. Whom Christians worship, yet not compr.ehend.—Eill. ' The trust tl1at’s given guard, and to yourself be just.——1)and. For, live how we may, yet die we n1ust..——S7Lo7cspeare. ' DOUBLE-SEXED. ‘mg account of it: Its name is Hahman, and is a Esvsrisn by birth. The age “ You may say that the one has repented, while the other . “N ow, anybody can be good and tender to a saint, but it C“; had previously defended at the expense of the accused, and 3 - Beecher probably daily meets, men} and women who know “ Mr. J ohnson’s letter amply sustains the statements of Mr. Bowen-in his rep[y to the Examing Committee of Ply- mouth Church, that the sum of Mr. B_eecher’s offences is by It is, indeed, by reason of the source from which it; comes and the accusations it makes, a terrible onslaught on the . _ man who bears himself so bravely beforethe advisory Coun- Dr‘ R‘ P‘ Fellows, Gleat Indmn Asthma. Rem.ed:Y' Mm’ cilnow in session at Plymouth Church. It moreover sugests Ellen Dickmson’ of Vmeland N‘ J‘ Speaks of Hf 1“ these that these ministers and laymen are indulging in idle vapor- terms’ H I have suffered With_the Asthma’ for thlrty years ings solong as they direct their efforts to quibbling about during which time I have fined all known mmediesto no A lady occupied a whole year in searching for and fitting the following thirty-eight lines from English and American poets. The whole reads is about fifty-five years. When it was born it was baptized as a girl, and bore the name pf Catharine Hahman. The sexual organs were malformed to a certain extent, but the female ‘genital organs predominated. The child grew up and passed as a woman and became awifé. The organs named were healthy, performing all the operations of nature common to the female at mature age. The male organs suddenly began his offence. He mayhave convinced you that this is not so. ~ I developing and the female attributes became secondary. She - but if so, you are the-victim of a deception. Youprobably then became he and _married a woman, who is with him in the city. The case became’ known to the medical profession iii Europe, and attracted general’ attention there. The leading physicians of Vienna and Berlin examined the peculiarities off the case and declared it the most pronounced case of her- rhaphrodite ever known to the -medical profession. The man ' now has a beard, but the breasts are. still developed like those of a woman. This man claims to have beenvthe father of a. child, although he has never had any children by his present wife; Professor Virchow,a celebrated medical authority, in his Archives, vol. 43, page 332, which may be seen at the pub- lic or hospital libraries, gives a detailed and scientific descrip- tion of the case. I . , EDITORIAL NoTIcEs.\ 3 THE INDIANAPOLIS SUN.-—The leading independent reform weekly political newspaper in the Union, the special advocate of national legal tender. paper money.(the greenback system) as against bank issues on the gold basis fallacy, and the inter changeable currencybon-d as against the high gold interest bond. The Sun has a corps of able correspndents, comprisin. themosth eminent political economisltsiof the ago. One‘ page selection, adapted to all classes‘ of readers. The latest general Il,6.\lV5_.:a;Xl‘C1'.,Il‘l}1l';ky6U reports. Termsg$1.75*‘per ryeari, postpaid Address Indianapolis Sun Company. Indianapolis, Ind. I « : Editors Weekly-—Please announce that I will send copies of the report of the mass meeting at Cooper Institute, contain- ing the addresses, resolutions, etc., in full to any friends in any part of the country who desire to learn our views on against the consequences of one of his adulteries. He took labor and finance’ andlwho Wm send for them“) W’ A‘ A Garsey, 402 West Fifty-first street, New York Cit y. INDUSTRIALISCHOOL AND CO—OPERATIVE COLONY‘ Having our plans fully perfected, location selected,_ and one of the most beautiful and attractive sites secured,—.-on which to establish a thoroughly practical school, and a co- operative colony of advanced and progressive associates-— we would announce to allwho are desirous of co-operating‘ with us in such an enterprise, that we will send them a cir- dular containing full information, in regard to plan, location. terms, etc., if they will send us name, post,-omcevaddress, ands. postage stamp. Mus. L. M. HEATH, I ‘ West Newton, Pa. ____,u-u— ’* ~ ALL persons suffering from the Asthma, should Send for purpose, but now after resorting to Dr. Fellows’ Asthma Remedy, I am perfectly relieved.” Sent to any part of the globe on receipt of $1 per package. Address Vineland, N. 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Severance, Capt. H. Brown, and others. , » . Let the Spiritualists of the Northwest turn out and make the Second Grand Centennial Meeting of 1876 a success. Our V platformis free, on which all subjects germain: to humanity may be discussed Wll.h due regard to the use of language.. O. J. I-lowAnD, President. - . - - . . .E. V. WILso.N,.-Secftptary. LOMBARD, 111., Feb. 10, 1876. ‘ “ « THE CALIFORNIA IND USTRIAL COMMUNITY. , A_Commun1ty has been formed in California under the above name, at present consisting of thirty members, five of whom are women. They have leased a ranch of 480 acres, known as “Gibson Place,” in Nassau Valley, Calaveras County, on the stage road between Milton and f‘ Big Trees,” and six miles from Copperopolis. 'l‘he,;buildings consist of a large houselthathas been used as a hotel,» and plenty -of out- . houses, sheds, stapling, etc. The Board of Trustees‘ are Davidson, Annie Richardson,‘.]. ‘C. Moody, J. W. 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I ‘And these signs shall follow them .° In my name shall they cast out devils; 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.————Jesus. ' NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAR. 4,1876. Wnlare prepared furnish a few hundred ‘complete sets of the first series of Bible Articles consisting of fifteen num- i:‘riends should lose no opportunity to bring these. articles to the attention of those whom they can interest. A careful study of all of them is necessary to a complete understand- ing of the great and all-important truth that is yet to: be re- vealed; which must be carefully and judiciously brought be-‘ fore the world, as the sun comes upon it, bringing first the splendor. ’ _._4A. 4 V. bf THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE; on, rrnn srxronvrnn STAR mmm, EAST. - Fpr we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship him.—Sr. MATTHEW, ii., 2. ' V r,-. ,. This figure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clear1Y shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the earth and spiritspheres in a common brotherhood, and the . establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and moreimportant truth which has not yet been introduced, but which, defined in a few- worde, is, -god in man reconcilingthe .W0rld‘un1.‘o liimself nnr LIVING noon. ' There can be no doubt’ that the nearer one comes to eat- ~ ‘ing foodin its natural state, the nearer such an one will come to living normally. We have only to observe the diiference betweenthe habits of man and those of the animals to learn this. ‘Were animals to live after the habits of man, they would soonlbe. cursed with all his weaknesses, sicknesses and early death. Animals live naturally to certain ages, so seldom‘ dying. ‘before that age, that it may be said that they have anallotted period of life. But among the young this difference is‘ tobe marked most distinctly. The most fatal period of life among the young of man isfrom birth to the fifth year. In that period nearly one-half the children, bo‘rn_‘of.what ought to be the most enlightened parentage, die. Nothing like this is found among the ‘young of any species_'of animals below man. The reason is obvious. Animals live normally; live in accordance with the laws by which they are related to nature, and their young are born normally, wlthout any inherited tamts, and, living nor- mally after birth, suffer none of the evils that children suffer. . . A r . n The fatality among children exists because they are.con- ceived in wrong conditions, and are generated and born under abnormal’ influenoes;'a.nd are then nurtured and “fed in a manner that the feeble resistance which their immature being theleast affected by the unnatural influencesof which we speak, come to a more positive existence, andresist the destructive influences with more success. In the period from five to fifteen, save fijom contagious diseases, a very small percentage of 'childre‘n die. ;,This period is, however, followed by a fatal one, caused by the inability to resist the effects of the abnormally gdeveloped passions that in the meantime make their appeairance. But we do not intend to go into this here. . i The young of animals die so seldom that it may be said that none die from disease. Has this no meaning which man should understand? Why should one-half the young of ' the highest order of animals die immature, while all the young of the lower order live to mature? There can be but two reasons; first: By reason of the physical taints inherited from their parents; and, second: {By reason of improper food‘ and care. Think of it, mothersl. One-half of all children bprn, dying before attaining the age of five years? Can it be anything less than murder that such a fact is true——murder by reason of your ignorance, and your faults of life and care for those to whom you have given life? It is a most terrible, but a most true indictment. In the eyes of the law thousands of mothers are as guilty of man-, slaughter, as is he who, through carelessness, causes the death of another. ,~‘Among the causes of!‘ early death and almost constant suffering during life, one of the chief is, no doubt, that of , improper diet.‘ If man lived as normally as the beasts, it would be ‘fair to conclude that he would be as healthy. One of the two most marked distinctions between the life of man and the animals is in diet. And examples are not wanting to prove that as the diet of people approaches nearest to eating natural food, the better is the degree of health enjoyed. Natural food is that which, when eaten, has all the life principles still within it that can be retained and be prepared for food. In preparing meats for food, the first thing is to drain it of its blood, the very central force of life. Onereason that fish is a superior diet to flesh is that it does not lose this life. But fish is not atall equal to fruits and grains, because the spirit life of the fish goes out when it dies, while it remains in fruit and grains and is taken with their substances into the system. What we mean by this may be illustrated by butchers who stand over the animals they kill and inhale their departing life. They are seidom large eaters, nevertheless, as a class, they are always fleshy andhealthy. If instead of the meat of animals, the life of the meat could be secured, that would be a life-giving element. - All kinds of cooked foods, which in cooking lose any "of the vital life-force, are inferior as diet to that which is uncooked.’.;§t Indeed it, is almost certain that cooked food is second best to that which is uncooked. I We believe that the time will come when all cooked food will be discarded. V , . Of course to make a change from present diet to one of fruits and grains, requires some faith that it will be bene- ficial, because a system, long accustomed to abnormal things, will suifer if a change from them be made, and if persisted ‘ in, will in most instances cause a loss of flesh; perhaps, at first, of strength and of ability tolabor. It is like a drunkard leaving liquor. One who has drank to drunkenness for years will have delirum tremens, lf he cease too suddenly; and the same is true in less degrees of all use of intoxicating drinks. To eat or drink nothing of which the want is felt, if it be dropped‘, is a safe rule to follow, and this will ex- clude, almost at the head of the list, the most common articles of diet. Tea or cofiee‘ is used by the great majority of people. With many they are so necessary that they can- not attend to their accustomed duties without them. ’ The habit of drinking strong coffee for breakfast will in time produce an abnormal appetite for it, and such an efiect upon the system, that if it be discontinued, severe headache will ensue. It haslong been a question with us, whether his a;dnpt_thin sense as emhlematie or eat future earls bodies can oppose to external influence, cannot overcome; , hence they yield and die. After five years, those who live, V the aggregate of the ill efiects of tea and coffee drinking,vvas, drinks. In an individual case, the latter may be more deleterious; but as the number of those who use the former ' is so much larger than that of those who use the latter, the l total evil may be even greater. Nothing should ever be taken into the stomach, either as food or drink, that does not go directly to supply depletion; that does not assimilate " with the fluids, tissues and solids of the body. The body does not require stimulation or narcotization; it simply needs alimentation. ' - . ‘Confirmed habits of diet will undoubtedly prove one of the hardest barriers to overcome, in the search for eternal life. But the value which we place upon overcoming them, may b.e imagined when we say that, given parents who have lived perfectly in accordance with nature for, say, five years, who shall then bear children who shall live on natural food, they will develop into the conditions in which eternal life is found without difficulty. While, on the contrary, those who live abnormally, in diet and in their relations to the other sex, will‘ struggle many a day and fail at last to attain to that condition. We have said all along that the truth is a fearful .thing for those to have who are slaves to any habits that are opposed to it. And we want all our readers to take this to mean the most that it can be made to mean, before deciding that they want the truth that we have got to offer them. v ' mung fiorwr , THE TRANSIT FROM LUST TO LOVE. There. are many evidences, still existing and constantly coming to light, that even the first principles of love, are not yet understood by those who have seemed to think and study upon the subject most. Because both thesepowers find their physical manifestations in the same way, thou- sands have confounded one with the other; generally mis taking the former for -the latter, but sometimes the latter for the former. For these reasons the term free love to most people means free lust, just as if such a contradiction were possible. Thevonly logical way to contrast these terms is to make the latter the antipodes of the former, as well in the expletive as in the substantive. Enforced lust is the opposite of free love. Neither of these expletive words, however, are at all necessary, since love is always free; while lust, exemplified in action, is always enforced or gained by some means that are widely apart from love. But this will be better understood if the factors of sex- love be analyzed, Accepting love as a sentiment expressed in action, it is composed of two factors, passion and desire; the former positive and masculine, and the latter negative and feminine. Passion may exist unexpressed, and so long as it does, it is simply a positive power in readiness to be called into action; but when it comes into the influence of desire, then the law of unity, or the focalization of the two poles of the human battery, are indicated and it -may follow and produce harmonious results. But whenfpassion ex- presses itself regardless of, the attractive power of desire, it is like to the bursting of a shell, the explosion of a. maga- zine of powder, or any other simply destructive process; while passion answering to desire is like the confluence of two rivers running in the same direction—-they unite and increase the volume of power that flows onward to the great ocean of life. _ This may bejillustrated, perhaps, still more forcibly by the electric telegraph. The positive pole of the battery is always charged and in readiness to comply with any de- mands that may be made upon it, but it never projects its power forward into space or upon any object. And when it is brought into communication with a negatively po- larized battery, it goes forward over the wire by virtue of the draft, the demand that is made upon it; i. e., it is drawn ‘ to the other extremity of the connection. Now, in this simple electrical problem there is a truth locked up, which I would benefit the world immeasurably if it should search after and find it and adopt it as the rule of life. The same law is, however, exemplified under other processes of nature. The positive elements, in whatever department, when they act harmoniously and constructively, and not lawlcssly and destructively, move when attracted but not before; go where they are drawn, never elsewhere. All processes of recupera- tion and growth are evidences of this law. Recuperative and building-up powers, which are always positive, move to their places and take up their ‘association by reason of at- traction and not of propulsion. , If this law were rigidly observed in the relations of the sexes, all the ills that now grow out of them would cease. The propulsion of passion, when a.nd where it is not at- tracted by desire, is always lustful, is always selfish, one- sided, destructive and death-dealing both to its subject and object. There is little doubt that muchthe larger propor- tion d of commerce that obtains under cover of marriage is of this kind. . , And this large proportion of death-dealing commerce, is largely increased by another variety-——that which is carried on in utter ignorance of all the laws which ought to govern it and be fully understood. We refer now to that class of cases where passion and desire are both present, but where from inadaptation, ignorance, selfishness, thoughtlessness, or any other preventing cause, the former expends itself without having reached and filled the demands of the latter. Of all classes of commerce this is the most destructive, be- cause it not only has all the elements of evil to the positive side of the issue. that are possible of simple propulsive net greater than that seeming none the use elf stronger, passion, but it also destrogys the healthy tone at the opposite ’. i- ..- . -1.‘ ., .... _.. ,~.-.._._......._.-... ‘fix. ,....~=-5-1 .» ll‘ t .,_ .43 _.._ ll l 5 mi, Mar. 4-, 1876. WOODHULL &cr.A_rI.1N's wnnxtr. I - d "5 side, by first raising it to an intense pitch of expectancy only to let it fall into the cold abyss of disappointment. Highly wrought nervous diseases of females arise almost wholly from this cause. , But while the ultimate expression of love is centered in the physical organization of the sexes, it by no means fol- lows_that all there is of love is of the physical, although this may be perfect in itself, without the complementing benedictions of the other departments of love. Passion and desire that meet wholly on the physical plane are sub- ject to change; to satiety; to becoming repellant to each other, and consequently they seek new associations. Those who are on this plane are on a level with the animals whose commerce is governed wholly by physical passion. and desire. But the love divine is something quite" different from this. Man is a three-fold being; he is first, physical; second, emotional; and third, spiritual; he is a.three-fold battery giving off emanations from the brain, the heart and the generative system. He lives in an atmosphere made up of these three emanations, and when he comes into the sphere of one of the opposite sex who also has the counter- parting atmosphere, these different emanations meet and mingle or else repel each other. Thus men and women may meet and the former be strongly attracted by either one, some two or all three of these emanations, or be equally repelled; or be attracted by one and repelled by the others. Almost everybody has experienced this. There are fre- 'quently strong attachments between individuals of the opposite sexes, spiritually and emotionally, where physical attraction is wholly lacking; and sometimes, strong physi- cal attractions, where otherwise there is equally strong repulsion. The understanding of these laws would carry people along way toward a proper arrangement of their social relations. ' A purely physical love, as we said, is open to constant change and is never satisfied long at a time; physical and emotional love combined ensure more permanent unions; but it is only where there is a complete union of the three phases of love that permanency is to be anticipated or de- sired. The attempt to compel the incompatible emanations of the sexes to blend together into continuous and harmoni- ous lives, is thebeginning of all the discords and inhar— monies of life, and is also the fruitful cause of disease and death, because it is the condition in which lust develops and expends itself. Viewed in the religious sense, love and lust may be illus- trated by curses and prayers. Cursing and swearing are the efforts of the individual to impress himself, (ego,) upon others, while prayer is the sweet incense of the soul that , reaches out to find its Creator. So with lust. It vents it- self without care for man or God; it regards only self, it is self, personified; the utter cutting off of self from all about it, and wrapping it in its own mantle regardless of whom it falls upon or injures; but love is the offering of the soul which seeks a perfect resting place; gently, sweetly, per- haps ardently, but never rudely. It approaches its object with reverence and gratitude as well as love. Indeed the highest love isablendiug of all the attributes of human nature, seeking to be at-one with their Creator; seeking for divinity and finding it, if it meet response. To love perfectly is to love divinely; andto love divinely is to learn of God, for God is perfect love, which casteth out fear. The solution of the difficult problem of the relations of the sexes then, is to be found in the understanding of the laws of temperamental attraction and repulsion, which are the laws of God, and not in the enforcement of a written law, which is the work of man. God made the law that is writ- ten in the heart and in the understanding; and mans’ attempts to improve upon it have ever been, and will ever be, failures. . -* ‘ Or——-4- HE, SHE, OR IT. We have received. several letters from "our friends criti- cizing the use that we make of the term God, or rather in the use of the personal pronoun, He, referring to A God.’ We do not wonder that objections are made to the practice from which the tyranny over women has arisen. It is true that all the religions of the world, save the Catholic, have been male religions only. But we have defined_ our use. of the word God so definitely, that the objections that might‘ apply, if we had not done so, do not apply in our case. If the world use a term contrary to its true significance, and out of its natural relations,'it should not be a valid objection against its proper use by the few. This was the objection that both Mr. Tilton and Mr. Beecher raised against the use of the term “ free love ” to designate free- dom for the afiections. But we did not see the force of these arguments, and have wrested the n'1uch~abused words from the mob by whom they were held to stand for en- forced lust, and enshrined them in the hearts of the pure’ and good, as representative of all that is holy in the re- lations of the sexes. , The male and female principles are everywhere distin- guished respectively by the personal pronouns, he, she, his and her’s, him and her; and also as thepositive and nega- tive. poles of the creative battery. The positive power which permeates and works through matter is the male 7 principle, and is, therefore, properly designated by the male pronouns. The negative substance which is worked upon, and through which all creation is externalized, is is the earth; and is properly designated by the ishe discovered that the climate unpleasantly affected her female pronouns. It certainly would not be correct to use the neuter pronoun, it, to speak of either, because it would not convey the truth. i The creative power is the male principle. It is this which impregnates and makes fruitful; that which is impregnated and bears the fruit is the receptive or the negative principle, and this is feminine, always. These, then, wherever they are found, whether in the divisions or in the whole of natural existence, are designated. properly by the personallpronouns. The pro- noun, it, can be used properly only when it refers to some- thing that in and of itself has no gender, is neither a male or female.‘ This certainly could not be used properly to refer to God or matter. As there are no other words which can be used, we think it eminently proper to use he, his and him in the place of God; and her, her’s and her in the place of the earth. God stands related to matter, as a whole, in the same way that man stands related to woman as a sex ; or, as thte_individual man to the individual woman. The difficulty is not with God, but with ‘man. Man has subjugated woman, and refusesor neglects to set her free. Womeii, as well as these men who recognize the wrongs of woman, feeling this, rebel against the application to God of the pronoun which represents her master; but the rebellion should be against the master; against the position which she is forced to occupy by man, rather than against the creating power of the universe. God is male; the earth is female. He impregnates the earth with life; and she is impregnated and bears her fruit to Him. _ 4.; A .w* wr—~ FROM TIIE. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. Just as the WE'nxLY,is going to press, the following tele- gram is received: A A V r ‘ “GALvns'roN. Texas,.Feb. 22. “ Can’t stand Southern climate. Must go North. VVill fill all VVestern lecture engagements soon. . . “ Vroronra C. WOODHULL.” Our readers will have noticed that there have been no lecture announcements for_the last two weeks- This occurred because Mrs. Woodhull. has not been able to meet her en- gagements. From the day that she reached the South still weak lung, and it soon became evident to her that she would not be able to lecture continuously. She has battled against this until it is no longer of any use to "do so, and is now reluctantly obliged to relinquish her very promising tour and profitable engagement in the South, where she has -been able to lecture only three nights in two weeks, and re- turn to the North, the climate of which is less trying to her lung ; but, aside from which weakness, she was never in better general health. E V-—_4..{'Q,f—< LIFE-SIZE LITHOGRAPH. gW_e are now prepared to fill all orders for life-size litho- graphs of Victoria C. Woodhull, -from the lithographic establishment of Armstrong & Co., of Boston, Mass. They are splendid pictures, both as a work. of art and as like- nesses. They are printed on heavytpaper 20 X24 inches, and specially adapted for framing. They will be sent post- paid, securely wrapped to guard against damage, to any address for 50 cents. The commcn price of lithographs of this size is $2 ; but we have arranged with the publisher to furnish them in large quantities at such rates that they can be resold at the price named without loss to us. They are thus put within the means and reach of everybody who desires to have a splendid life—size portrait of the Editor-in- Chief of the WEEKLY, who has devoted her life wholly to the inauguration of a new dispensation on earth, in which misery, vice and crime shall have no place. I . g In reply to many letters asking for " dealer’s terms” we would say that the lithographs may be ordered by express by the half dozen, dozen, or more at 40- cents, the usual price, less the postage. In explanation of the delay that has occurred in sending lithographs we would say_ that the third edition has been delayed, but will be received within a day or two, when all orders will be filled.-[MANAGING EDITOR]. 9 V ‘ 1 ._ rm. 4 r wrvw THE GARDEN or EDEN.‘ The paper edition of this oration is exhausted; but we have just received the pamphlet edition, which, to meet the "extraordinary demand that has been made for the paper, we Will furnish in lots often at $1, or more at same rate, 4A.». ‘WV’ THE LANT PETITION. The ‘following isthe petition that is being circulated for the pardon of John A. Ilant. Although it is not what we should have written for this purpose, it is nevertheless, suflicient. Let all of our readers who would be glad to see Mr. Lant ‘restored to his family, send in their names at once to us: To His Excellency U. Gwmt, .Pre3z'de7tt of the United States: We, your petitioners, having received information that John A. Lant has, within the last two gmonths, been tried. convicted and sentenced to eighteen month’s imprisonment at hard labor, and a fine of $500, in the District Court of as United States in New York City, upon a charge of publishing the Toledo Sun; and, believing that said Lant meant no harm ‘n publishing said paper, and that his intent was only to ex- ercise the freedom of speech and of the press guaranteed to every American citizen; believing that Lant’s paper con- tained even less obscenity than every daily paper in New York and other cities has published month after month, without any action being taken against them; believing that the animus of the charge against Lant, the persecution and ostracism he has received’, arose from the fearless expression of his honest religious convictions; believing that the powers of the United States audits courts should not be employed for this purpose; believing it is too far advanced in the nine- teenth century for a man in this" centennial year of our na- tion’s existence to beimprisoned and disgraced for the honest expression of, and adherence to, what he believes to be the citizen is already out of all proportion to any ofience he hag committed, we humbly pray your Excellency to pardon him out of the Penitentiary at Albany, N. Y., where he is now confined at hard labor with felons, and to restore him to his needy wife and little children, who are suffering for the want ofhis aid and support. We are your hopeful pen- tioners.” ~ ' .4; wvvw , ,_ - wnars THEAMATTER NOW? “I am sure that if the facts could be arrived at that the abuse of sexuality has been the exciting cause of more trouble than -everything else.” published in a_paper that professes to be a Spiritual paper, and to deal in nothing that is not “ germain ” to Spiritual- ism. Vile object to such an infringement upon the domain of the social‘ issue as this, by that ubranch of Spiritualjgtg who shut this issue off its platforms and denounce its advo- cates as patrons of the'devil. Perhaps, however, these same Spiritualists begin to see that there is some relation between Spiritualism and Socialism, but they must see i be- fore they will reach to the truth about it, that the only mistake they have made is, in not carrying their logic far is not germain to Spiritualism, because the larger cannot be germain to the smaller; but the fact is, that Spiritualism is germain to the social problem, and always will be, be- causeit is much the more important issue, as the above excerpt plainly admits. Give this class of Spiritualists rope enough and they will in time hang their own logic, . lg. .4 "‘wr* NEW BOOKS. SOUL PROBLEMS; with other papers. .. By Joseph E. Peck. Charles P. Somerby, 139 Eighth street, New York City. 1875. inquiry into the question of the materiality or immateriality of the mind, and is tersely and logically argued in favor of the former. It contains, besides this, “The Theological Amendment; ” and“ The State Personality Idea,” both in opposition to the Christian Church. ,_ ' ~ THE CHRIST or PAUL; or, The Enigmas of Christianity. By George -Reber. Charles P. Somerby-, 139 Eighth street, New York Oity. 1876. . This book of 400 pages is a laborious and exhaustive effort to utterly destroy the pretensions that the four Gospels of the New Testament were written by the disciples of Jesus, and to prove that they were concocted by the churchmen of the .second,century. It claims that St. Mat- thew’s Gospel was written by some ignorant person, while “ Ireneus ” remodelled it and wrote ‘the other three to cor- roborate it and to support the fraud. It claims thatthe Old Testament contains all the material necessary out of which, in the hands of a shrewd designing priesthood, to manufacture a new Bible to suit a new dispensation. Peru it, woulddevelop a more complete success than it now appears to be. In any event it evinces great research and careful study; but we should say, study pursued to find who are interested in this, either pro or con., cannot fail to find this a deeply interesting book. Its style is clear and terse, and it was evidently written under convic- tion of its importance. Foor NOTES; or,Walking as a Fine Art. By Alfred Barron, 1875. Large 16mo, 330 pages. Cloth, $1.50 post paid. This is really a charming book; such an one as will prove a relief when the wearied mind orexhausted body seeks to recuperate itself. Until one reads this book he can never know how much can be made out of the commonest things; nor how much beauty and poetry can be gleaned by the wayside in any country town. It is written in an easy, takes it up, and he never thinks of being surcharged with heaviness so long as there.are'any pages to be"turned over, It isa unique, genteel, graceful, poetic, indeed, an inimit- able book, and under cover of simplicity and freshness, teaches many aprofound -lesson in philosophy. It will prove to be a valuable addition to any library. — Orders for any of the above books sent to Woodhull a, obscenity and sensing is threugh taemails in his paper called»- truth; and believing the punishment meted out to this worthy . We excerpt this statement of a conviction, in an article I enough. “We are willing to admit that the social question - This neat littlebook of lessthan one hundred pages is an I haps a more careful reading than we have been able to give » arguments for an already formed and very decided opinion. ' We believe in examining all sides of all questions, and those “ Q” Wallingford, Conn. Vifallingford Publishing Co. ' flowing style that entices the reader from the moment he . stasis, has 3,791, ft‘. Y; say, will receive erempt attegattesi, ., / .....u4. 6 woonnutt s 0LAFI4IN’8 wanker. Mar. 4, 187 6. MRS. VVOODHULL IN THE FIELD. COMMENTS or THE PRESS. (From the Memphis, Temv.,rAppeaZ, Feb. 8,-1876.) On Sunday night one of the largest and most thoroughly, representative audiences ever gathered in the Theatre, in- cluding, perhaps, one hundred ladies, assembled to hear the first lecture delivered in Memphis by -Mrs. Victoria 0. Woodhull. By eight o’clock, at which hour thecurtain was . raised punctually according to programme, every seat was occupied. Scanning the auditorium the reporter of the Appeal saw that the bench and the bar, the press and the medical profession, as well as the mercantile, the mechanical and the laboring classes, were fully and ably represented, and that the faces of all present indicated, especially after the fair lecturess made her appearance, a very tension of in- terest. Mrs. Woodhull entered upon the work before her withoutjntroduction or preliminary, indeed,almost abruptly. This, however, was pardonable in view of the visible effect her apearance worked, and when itis remembered that she had hardly opened her mouth to speak ere her mastery, so to speak, was confessed. Her toilet was plain, but rich and be- coming. Her dress, composed of brown velvet and brown silk, was made up in, the latest style of pull-back, and pro- perly trimmed, relieved only by linen collar and cuffs, the absence of jewelry being conspicuous. Her hair was put up in the plain “club” style of the day, and altogether she pre- sented a quiet, decorous, lady-like appearance. At first her words came slowly, deliberately, indeed nervously; but once fairly launched upon her theme, the flow of ideas and words was steady and rapid, both occasionally/merging into periods as startling as eloquent and beautiful as any ever delivered by the best orators of our language. At times she reached the loftiest flight of forensic effort and roused her audience from the repose of a death-like stillness to most enthusiastic applause. Every point she made was caught by the audience and, as our reporter has indicated, was greeted as it deserved._ Five or six times this applause was delivered with unusual fervor,and with an enthusiasm that surprised even those most favorably inclined toward the lecturer who so nobly contended for her sex, and at the close, when after what seemed vain efforts on her part to take her leave, she finally bade adieu, the most deafening and prolonged shouts recalled her again and again to receive the warm and generous plaudits of those who had listened with pleasure and profit to one of the most logical and able lectures ever delivered in Memphis upon any subject—if not the ablest. She answered every call until at last, breaking throug hall form and ceremony hundreds, both old and young, stepped upon the stage and personally con- gratulated her upon her success, each one giving assurances of satisfaction and gratification. Among these were many ladies, and most conspicuous of all were the young men-— gentlemen of position and culture—-some of whom failing of opportunity on the stage, followed her to the hotel, and through the media of ordinary introduction expressed to her the most unbounded gratitude for the instruction she had given them. ‘One such embassy we ourselves witnessed, and confess it not the least of the delightful surprises the evening produced for Mrs. Woodhull. Hundreds of her portraits and pamphlet copies of her lectures were eagerly purchased, and the audience evidenced in every way possible a most respect- ful consideration for this woman whose heroism they gener- ously confessed. Of her lecture, a full report of which we append, there can be but one opinion: Every word of it is true, and the only difference there can be between our readers and the lecturer is as to the propriety of such plain talk upon questions so delicate and hitherto wrapped in the mystery of silence. Without committing ourselves as to that one way or the other, we give it as follows, as part of the absorbing news cs the day: [Here followed an almost verbatim report of theiwhole lecture] ‘ [From the Melnphis (’1‘eam.) Ledger, Feb. 7, 1876.] The fame of Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull and the publication of her peculiar views on social science through the press of the city during the past few days brought together at the theatre last night a very large, respectable, intelligent and cultivated audience. In fact, the theatre was crowded to ex- cess, many ladies gracing the scene with their presence. At eight o’clock the drop curtain was rung up, and Mrs. Woodhull walked out from behind the scenes and approached the foot-lights amid no little sensation and encouraging ap- plause from all parts of the house. Mrs. Woodhull is a fine, earnest-looking woman, possessing a ‘well-shaped. form, in- telligent face, acquiline nose, and expressive mouth. She was clad in a dark brown silk velvet dress, heavily. fringed with black lace; a small white collarcircled her throat; all jewelry was discarded; white linen cuffs, fastened withjet buttons, encircled her wrists. Her hair is dark brown,. cut short in front, and was destitute of crimps, but it was tied up. in folds or knots behind. She was dressed for a lecture, and gazing over the sea of faces, she commenced "her discourse, in a voice slightly tremulous and emotional, by reading from a Bible which she held in her hand: [Here follows a four columns report of the lecture, closing with a paragraph equally commendatory as that ‘of the Ap- epctl, but which we have lost.) (From the Avalanche, Memphis, Team, Feb. 8, 1876.) A EDITORIAL. ‘ Many ‘gentlemen and ladies who heard Mrs. Woodhull’s lecture at the Memphis Theatre Sunday night, were so well pleased that a petition was circulated yesterday, requesting her to repeat the lecture, and a number of signatures had been obtained before it was discovered that Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claflin had left for Nashville on the early train. (From the Dispatch, K okomo, Ind., Feb. 3, 1876.) One of the largest and most highly educated lecture audi- ences of the season filled the Opera House, on last Friday evening, to hear Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull deliver her cele- brated lecture, “ The True and the False, Socially.” It was noticeable that the audience was about equally composed of the male and female elements. Prejud_1ce and mock modesty, doubtless, deterred a few delectable individuals from enjoy- ing one of the very ablest lectures every delivered in this city. Promptly at eight o’olock Mrs. Woodhull stepped be- fore the foot-lights and began he_r lecture. For two hours shepoured hot shot into the shoddy rampants of a diseased and debauched moral and social fabric. As she progressed in her lecture her face flushed with inspiration and herwhole being was aglow with the enthusiasm and sentiment of her topic. She piled fact upon fact, argument upon argument, in arapid flow of impassioned eloquence. She drove home many wholesome facts that the world afiects to disbelieve but knows full well. She denied; free love as the world under- stands the term. Her free love, she said, was the free love of God to the world. She said she had been traduced, vilified, misrepresented, and imprisoned for-maintaining the right. To the world that has hated her and tried to crush her, -she now offers her bleeding heart in love. She said thatthose who’ knew her in a false light should yet know her as she ‘is’; those that hated her should yet love her; and the world that refused to listen to her story should yet accept her truths and become reformed from social and moral degradation. Mrs. Wo0dhull’s lecture was able and full of truths. Those who went to hear a coarse woman were happily disappointed. Mrs. Woodhull is a handsome, unostentatious, honest-appearing woman of wide learning and great depth of mind. She talks as a mocher who knows the joys and sorrows of maternity, as a woman who has suffered much for her principles, asa representative of her sex who is boldly breasting public opinion for the promulgation of a great social reformation. She made many friends in Kokomo and removed a false prejudice that had long been entertained against her. All wflfio heard herpronounce her lecture a grand and masterly e ort. 44 TW GEMS FROM FOURIER. WHAT To Do WITH THE BOYS; THE “ HOODLUM ” PROBLEM ’ SOLVED; THE “LITTLE HORDES” AND THE “LITTL _BANDS.” “ About two-thirds of boys are inclined to filthiness; they de- light to wallow in the mire and play at handling nasty things; they are surly, headstrong, ribald, adopting a roifizh tone and gross expressions, raising uproar, braving dangers and in- clemencies of weather, and committing havoc for port. These children (in Unitary Homes or the Combined Order) are enrolled in the “Little Hordes,” the employment of which is to exercise, as a point of honor and with intrepidity, all ‘repugnant labor which would degrade a class of workmen. This corporation is a. species of half-savage legion which con- trasts with the refined politeness of Harmony only in tone and not in sentiment; for it is the most ardent in patriotism.’ The other third of the boys, with about two-thirds of the girls have a. taste for good manners and peaceful functions. They are enrolled in the “Little Bands.” On the other hand, one- third of the girls have masculine inclinations, liking to in- troduce themselves into the plays of boys, which they are for- bidden to frequent; (“tom-boys.”) Thus one-third of girls enrol themselves in the “Little Hordes.” (VI, 206-47. ‘ The “Little Hordes” are the focus of all civic virtues; they should employ for the welfare of society that self-abnegation recommended by Christianity and that contempt of riches recommended by philosophy. (The latter refers to the per- mission supposed to be given in the Combined Order to the members of this body to fill from their own earnings sundry gaps of a pecuniary nature which _might. otherwise cause discord.) . They should practice all virtues dreamed of and simulated in civilization. Conservators of the social honor, it is theirs to crush the serpent’s head, physically and morally. In purging the country of reptiles, they purge society of a poi- son worsethan the viper; they stifle by their treasures all risk of cupidity which might trouble concord; and by their unclean labors they stifle that pride which", by despising an industrious class, tends to bring back the spirit of caste, change the general amity and hinder the fusion of classes. It is one of bases of the Societary mechanism, which is founded on- Industrial attraction; equitable division; Unison of classes; equilibrium of population. It would seem that to obtain from childhood such prodigies of virtue we must use supernatural means, as do our monas- teries, which by very austere noviciates habituate the neo- phyte to self-abnegation; but exactly the opposite course will be followed. * * * Let us analyze the springs of those virtues; they are four, all reproved by [existing] morality: They are the tastes for filth, pride, impudence and insubordination. It is in their addiction to these pretended vices that the “ Little Hordes ” are elevated to the practice of the highest virtues. * * * * Their’s is the high police of the animal kingdom, watching in the slaughter-houses to see that no one makes any beast suffer, but gives him the easiest death. Whoever, of any age, maltreats any animal is liable to be brought before the “Little Hordes.”-—(VI, 211-12.) slaughter-houses would be unnecessary, owing to the superior quality of vegetable foods obtainable by unitary cultivation. THE “ LITTLE BANDS.” As the “Little Hordes” maintain social concord. so the “Little Bands” maintain social charm. The former reach the beautiful by way of the good; the latter the good by way of the beautiful. The “ Little Bands,” are composed of about two-thirds girls and one-third boys. They addict themselves to the care of animals difliicult to raise and train; their’s is the high police of the vegetable kingdom: whoever breaks a branch of a tree, gathers flowers or fruit mal apropos, or carelessly tramples on a plant, is brought before the senate of the ‘_‘ Little Bands.” They are charged with ornamental; it is their duty to censlire bad language and vicious pronuncia- tion.—-(VI, 214-18.) REMARK BY A SPIR1’.[‘.—IS it not beautiful to-contem- plate these possibilities of a future which may be within the reach-and ken of many now living in the form, even of adults, which are so far within the province of the present that almost we can stretch forth our hand and grasp them? Blessed be the men who have had the cour- age and the foresight, the eye of seer and the soul of poet, thus to throw out in sight of the many those high, heroic, emotions and impulses which are more than mere poetry, because they can be actualized, and more than practice be- cause they are the ideals of which the practical can only be the imperfect embodiment. Thus marrying the ideal to the practical they help the race to steps which will ere long become strides in a. progress which will know no halts and no backslidings. ‘ But the power to incarnate in the actual was wanting in Fourier; and the times demand those who can supplement this defect step forward! Those can best do this who are most conscious of the difiiculties whichvbeset the transition. BISHOP HAVEN. “Warrington” writes the Springfield Rmublvlcan, a letter wherein he says of Bishop Haven;-7“ He knows everybody, 'I‘i1ton.and Beecher equally well. He is as strict a marriage men as Greeley was, but implicitly believes that, if the white REMARK.-—It is probable that in the “Combined Order,’ ’ man and, black woman desire to intermarry, the State should not interfere. I got. information or surmise as to the Brook- lyn scandal from him longbefore Mrs. Woodhull made her invincible statement; and now it is no wonder that he tells Mr. Blackwell that, if Mr. Beecher makes his appearance as a. “sufl'ragist” on the platform, he (Haven) steps ofl".. The Bishop cannot stand’ everything, and he knows that even now the joints of the Church universal are beginning to crack under the load Plymouth Church insists it shall take on board.”——Telegrosm, N. Y. Feb. 7. G 4.-.; T V-‘V BUSINESS NOTICES. DR. R. P. FELLOWS, the independent and progressive physician, is successfully treating nervous and chronic dis- eases all over the country by letter, as well as at his office at home, by his original system of practice, which omitsall drugs and mineral medicines of both old and new schools. Dr. Fellows has been steadily gaining upon the confidence of the public for the past eight years, during which time he has treated thousands of cases, eighty out of every hundred of which he has radically cured,_while every case has been bene- fitted. And at this moment he has patients in every State in the Union. Every reader of this who has any affection of the head, throat, lungs, heart, stomach", liver, kidneys, blad- der, bowels, womb, genital organs, or rheumatic or neuralgic difficulties, or eruptions of the skin, blood impurities, tumors, cancers, or any nervous affections or diseases of the eye or car, are invited to write to Dr. Fellows. The remedy with which he treats these diseases so successfully, is his Magnetized Powder, which will be sent to any address, at $51 per box. Address Vineland, N. J. CO-OPERATIVE HOMES IN THE CITY.-—All persons inter- ested in practical reform are invited to send their names and addresses to G. W. Madox, 29 Broadway, New York city, for the purpose of securing sufficient number of responsible persons who will unite together to rent a suitable house or hotel upon a co—operative plan, and thus lessen the expense of living. If an answer is required, please enclose postage stamps. WE still mail our book, phamphlets and tracts-—“Free Love,” “Mrs. Woodhull and her Social Freedom,” “True and False Love,” “Open Letter to A. J. Davis,” “Letter to a Magdalen,” “God or no God,” “To My Atheistical Brothers,” including my Photo, for One Dollar. Can you favor me? Address Austin Kent, Stockholm St., Lawrence Co., New York. Box 44.-. POSTCRIPT TO A PRIVATE LETTER FROM AUSTIN KENT. “ It now looks as though I could never write more for the press. I am extremely feeble. I deeply rejoice in Mrs. Woodhull’s success, and no one but P. Pillsbury has a better right to rejoice, and in some respects, even he has not as good.” In love, A. KENT. DAVIS’ BATTLE--AXE will contain a most momentous paper entitled “Shakerism and Shakerdom”.—Human Life Therein; also “The Possible and Impossible of Community Life on Earth;” also “The Death Struggle of Religious Liberty.” Anyone ef these articles will be worth the price of the paper. Sixty cents a year. A. Briggs Davis, editor, assisted by the most radical pens. Ind. Tract Society, Worcester, Mass., ‘publishers. The address of Nellie L. Davis, is 235 Washington street Salem,'Mass. N 0. 319 Sixth avenue. Address by letter, P. O. Box 4829. N 0 science ever developed itself more rapidly than has that of psychometry, or soul reading, and it is destined to take a place beyond all others in usefulness and grandeur. Mrs. H. Augusta White possesses remarkable psychometric and clairvoyant powers, and will give readings at the Co- operative Home, 308 Third avenue. Hours from 10 to 5. She will also give written delineations from a lock of hair; age and sex must begiven. Terms, $2 in advance. .. msrmvcuxwma ALL families and invalids should have Prof. Paine’s short- hand treatment of disease—a small book of forty pages Sent free on application to him at N o. 232 North Ninth street, Phila, Pa. - MEDIOATED BATES ARE EXPENSIVE.-Not so, however, Glenn's Sulphur Soap, a cheap and eflicient substitute, which answers the same purpose as far as local diseases of the skin, rheumatism, and gout are concerned. Depot, Crittenton’s, N 0. 7 Sixth avenue, New York City. The Books and Speeches of Victoria C. Woodhull and at the following liberal prices : The Principles of Government, by Victoria 0. Wood.’ hull.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .-.......$300 Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. Claflin. .. . . .. 2 00 The Principles of Social Freedom. . . .. . . . . . . .. , . . . 25 Reformation or Revolution, VVh.ich ‘P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,5 The Elixir of Life; or, ‘Why do we Die ?. . . . . . . . 25 Suffrage-VVoman a Citizen and Voter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Tried as by Fire; or the True and the False Socially. 25 Ethics of Sexual Equality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 25 The Principles of Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Breaking the Seals; or the Hidden Mystery Revealed 25 The Garden of Eden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Photographs of V. C.,Woodhull, Tennis 0. Olafiin and Col. Blood, 500. each, or three for. . . .. . . .. .. . . . 1 00 Three of any of the Speeches 5£1ic., or nine for. . . . . l G!) one c’o:_::3r each, of Books, Speeches and Fhoto_graphs for 598 A liberal discount to those who has to sell again. PROF. LISTER, the astrologist, can be consulted at his room Tennie C. Claflin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, . - A “.’?z-.—:“*—:jf’j " -‘ ‘j " _._ Mar. 4, 1876. Have you seen the Wonderful Type- Writing Macliinel because of the drudgery of the pen. The Type- Writer has found rapid acceptance wherever intro- duced, and has fully sustained the claim that its work is twice as fast, three times as easy and five times legible as that of the pen. It paragraphs, punctuates, underscores and does figure work—in a word, all things necessary to the production of a perfect manu- script. Any sizeor quality of paper may be used, and the most satisfactory results obtained, at a saving in time and strength of at least one hundred per cent The Type-Writer “manifolds ” fifteen copies at once, and its Work can also be copied in -the ordinary copy-press. READ THE FOLLOWING INDORSEMENTS. What Mr. Jenny, of the New York Tribune, says about it: NEW YORK, June 10, 1875. DENSMORE, YOST & Co.: Gentlemen——I am an earnest advocate of the Type- Writer. Having thoroughly tested its practical Worth, I find it a complete writing machine, adapted to a wide range of work. The one I purchased of you several weeks since has been in daily use, and gives perfect satisfaction. I can write with it more rapidly and legibly than with a pen, and with infinitely greater ease. Wishing you success commensurate with the merits of your wonderful and eminently useful in- vention, I am, respectfully yours, E. H. JENNY. OFFICE or DUN, BARLOW & Co., COM. AGENCY, } 335 BROADWAY, New York, Dec. 8, 1874. 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A series of Golden Rules, which should be found on every man’s door-post. A few hundred only left. Sent for 3 cent stamp. IND. TRACT SOCIETY, Publishers, Worcester, Mass Catalogues free. THE WORLD’S . Sixteen Crueified Saviors; _ on, UITRISI/ANITY BEFORE UHRIST. CONTAINING N cw, Startling and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which -disclose the Oriental Origin of all the. Doctrines, Principles, Precepts and Miracles of the CHRISTIAN‘ NEW TESTAMENT, and furnishing a Ifey for unlockirzg many of its Sacred Mysteries, besides comprising the History of Sixteen Or-iontwl Crucified Gods. BY KERSEYGRAVES, _ Author of “The Biograpliyof Satan ”_an_d “The Bible of Bibles ” (cmnprtszng a description of twenty Bibles.) This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the field which he has chosen for it. The amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the varied information contained in it must have been severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics:. throughout its entire course the author—as will be seen by his title-page and ‘chapter-heads—follows a definite line of research and argumentgto the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. 0 O N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; Cllntroduetion; Address to the er , gy. Chap. 1.——-Rival Claims of the Saviors. Chap. 2.—Messianic Prophecies. . Chap. 3.—~Prophecies by the figure of a Serpent. Chap. <i.——Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. _ _ Chap. 5.——Virgin Mothers and Virgin—borii Gods.‘ Chap. 6.—St.ars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. ' _ . _ Chap. 7.—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the In? ant Chaap\.18):—The Twenty-fifth of December the Birthday of the Gods. ' ' _ Chap. 9.—Titles of the Saviors. Chap. 10.~—The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble, Birth. - Chap. 11.——Christ’s Genealogy. Chap. 12.——The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tiyin in Infancy. _ _ _ _ Chap,13.—The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of D1- vinit . Chap. 13:1.-The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.——The Saviors are real Persoiiages. Chap. 16.—~Sixteen Saviors Crucified. Chap. 17.—The Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci- fixion. Chap. 18.——Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.——Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.—Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- iors. Chap. 21.——The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe Ori 'n. Chap.gI32.—The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.—The Divine "'VVord” of Oriental Origin. Chap. 24..——The Trinity very anciently a current Hea- then Doctrine. " _ Chap. 25.—Absolution, or the Confession of Sins, of Heathen Origin. . _ Chap. 26.~Origin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. _ Chap. 27.—'l‘he Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen Origin. v Cliap.D28.-—Anointing with on of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.—-How Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. Chap. 30.——Sacred Cycles explaining the Advent of the Gods, the Master-key to the Divinity of Jesus Christ. . Chap. -81.—Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systemsj _ _ Chap. 32.——Three Hundred and Forty-six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna, Chap. 33.—Apollonius, Osiris and Magus as Gods. Chap. 34.—The Three Pillars of the Christian Faith- Miracles, Prophecies and Precepts. . Chap. ‘-.l5.—Logical or Coinmon-sense View of the Doc- triee of Divine Incarnation. _ _ _ Chap. 36.—Philosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. 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Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2114
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1876-03-11
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9 _..._................ Vol. XI.-——No. 15.——-W’l“.‘-ole No. 275. NEW YORK, MAR. 11, 1876 ii . . . — . PR?sBESs THOUGHT 2 UNTBAMMELEP mvsfsr L BREAKING-ATHE WAY iron FUTURE GENERATIONS. , — V T T PRICE TEN CENTS. The truth shall make you free.-Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh cmgel, the mystery of God shall be finishecl.—St. John the Divine. . W/iereof I was mettle ct minister to preach the im- sewrchable riches of Christ, cmcl the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God.-———Pau1. 4uL_ <7 LAND REFORM“. If our “ Reformers ” limited themselves to denouncing the tyranny of our money lords and our landlords, the rob- beries of our Wall street and our railroad men. the hypocrisies and infidelities of our clergy and priesthoods, especially if . they included the venality and base falsities of our news- paper men and quack scientists, there would be less to re- proach them with. What they said would at all events be true; most of it really needs sa... Show more9 _..._................ Vol. XI.-——No. 15.——-W’l“.‘-ole No. 275. NEW YORK, MAR. 11, 1876 ii . . . — . PR?sBESs THOUGHT 2 UNTBAMMELEP mvsfsr L BREAKING-ATHE WAY iron FUTURE GENERATIONS. , — V T T PRICE TEN CENTS. The truth shall make you free.-Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh cmgel, the mystery of God shall be finishecl.—St. John the Divine. . W/iereof I was mettle ct minister to preach the im- sewrchable riches of Christ, cmcl the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God.-———Pau1. 4uL_ <7 LAND REFORM“. If our “ Reformers ” limited themselves to denouncing the tyranny of our money lords and our landlords, the rob- beries of our Wall street and our railroad men. the hypocrisies and infidelities of our clergy and priesthoods, especially if . they included the venality and base falsities of our news- paper men and quack scientists, there would be less to re- proach them with. What they said would at all events be true; most of it really needs saying and saying often. Their weak point‘ would be that, making no pretension to pro- pound any remedy, they would seem peculiarly exposed to the cynical inquiry of the Tweed ring: “ Well, what are you going to do about it '3” But, then, to this cynical inquiry there is possibly a really effective answer accessible when men feel the need of it, but from which the absurd actual attitudié ‘of our several “ Reformers ” utterly debars them. They have a ready answer enough now, no doubt. Theo-. retical difficulties have no existence for them; only their so ready answers are foolishness in themselves, and a resultant calamity to us all. “ Land reform,” " Anti~usury,” “ Indi- vidual sovereignty,” L“ Cost the limit of price,” “Paper money and lots of it,” and all the rest serve just one pur- pose: to strengthen the grip of the tyrants upon our throats, seat them more securely than ever upon their usurped thrones, and enable them to laugh to scorn all attempts to place upon their absolute, and irresponsible power any sort of limitation. Our tyrants, unfortunately, with all their stupidity, are not quite so ignorant as our “Reformers,” and, in view of some of the anti-social absurdities propounded, might well imagine themselves the champions of civilization against barbarism. Only the self-defeating futility of the schemes of the disorganizers; prevents their really becoming such. , , . The “Land Reform ” scheme is a good illustration. How our great monopolist lbrigands must laugh in their sleeves at this “lame and impotent conclusion” of all the tirades hurled—and really so justly hurled—at them. As a remedy againstland monopoly, forsooth! Well, what? Why, every- body-—it is always this everybody, just as though society were made up of mere individuals—everybodyi must have all the land he wants for cultivation byvhis own hands and no more! And pray who wantspland nowadays? The scheme assumes that the workingman wants land to raise his own food, and to be independent of the tyrant capitalist.‘ The very men who advance this doctrine know well enough‘-—-or would know if they could silence for a moment the clamors of anarchical passions and allow common sense combined with a genuine love for their kind to speak——th-at it isa stupid lie. They know at all events that they don’t want land themselves; they choose to stay in Boston. They know quite well that the working-men can have land if they want it under the United States laws easily enough, on the terms simply of occupying it and cultivating it. But the workingmen also refuse to have it onyany terms; they also choose to stay in the cities. Nay, more, the sons of the men who already have the land and know how to till it, forsake the paternaliacres, as our census reports stand there to prove, and flock more and more, from decadeto decade,linto the great cities. S P A 3 ' And they are in the right——most plainly in the right. Who "in this age wants land, in this age of steam-plows, and reap- ‘ ing machines, and mowing machines, and haying machines, and great granaries laden with stores of food for two or three years ahead, this age when water and iron taking upon themselves, or having put upon them, rather, by an organized , human providence, the drudgery heretofore imposed by nature uponhuman muscles, and having it put upon them more and more continually, Keeley motors or no Keeley motors? What we do‘want, on the contrary, is to have thee steam-plows. and reaping machines, and mowing machines, andi haying machines, and great granaries, with their exhaustless stores, administered in view of the general well—being of the whole. instead of being perverted‘ from their legitimate destination, their social destination, to be the mere instrument of a barb aric and debauohingluxury for _a privileged (and thereby accursed) few. What we do want is to have all the results of a grand industrial organization. the gradual growth of ages of human suffering, justly and honestly i distributed among the entire human ‘family. . But we want a great deal more even than this. It is - not the direct results of the social industry only, properly so called, that we need to have justly disseminat ed amongst us all. but the whole of the beneficial results of this grand civilization that has cost mankind so much; not the material products merely of its steam engines and its spinning jennies, its looms and its lathes, counting in even its Lyons silks and its“ Sevres porcelains. We want, and must, and will ‘have, still more, those other products, of finer and rarer texture. ’the light of science, the aesthetic culture of the fine arts, the refinements and embellishments of life, whether radiating from the drawing—room or from the temple. 1t is not dis- persion that we want; dispersion is our curse. We want only a higher, diviner, more social concentration. No, indeed; it is no individualist anarchical “ land re- form ” that can give us what we want, nor any other juggling . with » mere externals. “ Labor notes,” “ greenbacks,” , “ bonds,” i nterchangable or non-interchangeab=1‘e, or whatso- whether of the Carey kind, or the Malthus,'or the Ricardo, or any other kind, are altogether beside the mark. , It is that higher kind of Spiritualism that can purge out the grossness of our habitual aims and purpose, naturally breeding, as this does, grossness and empiricism in our habitual conceptions, conceptions of politics, conceptions of society, conceptions of reform, conceptions of religion, that alone can help us. Un- happily much of the so—called “Spiritualism ” of to-day is itself only a product of this very grossness; only another form of the all—pervading, still-developing, still-extending, of our worst vices, moral as well as intellectual. And if this seems a little like speaking in parables, all there is space to say further here, just now, is,~that the in- telligent ‘reader who is not afraid of the trouble of doing a little honest thinking can have it all made clear enough to him; on conditions, of course. Nature has fixed immutably the conditions upon which alone she will yield up her secrets. As long as men shut their eyes, stop their ears, crying, “ Are not the waters of Arbana and Pharpar. etc.,” setting up ignor- ance to weigh knowledge, in her stupid, crooked, and passion- weigh ted scales, so long must the supreme laws of our Cosmos remain to them as Sphinx riddles. RAMSHORN. IN LMEMORIUM. Aurora H. C. Phelps died at Woburn, Mass., in the 45th year of her carth—life, and was given a pauper's burial by the town authorities. She, was a remarkable woman in many respects. Liberally educated, she might have ‘moved in the highest circle of society, yet she gave up all and de- voted her short life here to the uplifting of the down-trodden and oppressed of earth. During the war she devoted her time and energies to nurs- ing the sick and wounded in the Union hospitals, and many an old comrade has changed worlds with a blessing from his pale lips for the soft hand that soothed his fevered brow. Since the war closed, the Working women and sewing girls of the East have ever found in her a devoted friend. Failing apparently, but not in reality, in many of her grand and benevolent projects through the lack of pecuniary means, she never faltered,/but toiled on up the ragged heights of progression, though her -fleet were oft times torn and bleeding, and at the age of 45, almost as one might say in the summer of life, this grand, noble woman must needs lay aside her earthly body becauserforsooth it was worn out through un- supported eiforts to free the slave women of America. What a comment on Christianity? What a world of teaching is contained in the efforts of that short life to you O followers of the meek and lowly Nazarene I When he sendeth his chosen. disciples among you and they follow in his footsteps, ye re- eeive them not; ye turn coldly away,‘ and instead of giving of your abundance to assist an earnest one, ye keep your gold and silver beneath lock and key to be a millstone about your necks for ages. Verily, I say, let them that loveth me give up ever hocus-pocussing of politico-economical quackery, still-intensifying materialism, pandering moreover to some ' I J’ allfand follow “me; and hath not our arisen sisterdoneall, aye and even more than this? And this woman (ishould say angel) whose whole aim through life has been the elevation of humanity, who, as the Lowell Journal informs us, had many friends and no enemies, was givena pauper’s burial! Perhaps it might be well for you, wealthy men ofVWoburn, to enquire concerning A her introduction into soul—life. and whether the leading minds there tendered her a pauper’s re- ception, and whether him whom, ye professto love and serve condesended to say: Well done, good and faithful servant; inasmuch as thou hast been faithful“ in small things,Iwill thee make master over many things. , ‘ S , To therespectable wives of the respectable men of this town I have only pity. Ye have no rights; ye want none; and when-one comes in your midst and would teach ye con- coming a higher life than which ye now know, ye turn coldly away as did the Jews of eighteen centuries ago, and will not learn ofwisdom when it is tendered thee. To the veterans of our war I must say, comrades, liregret that you so soon forgot the ministrations of one who was mother and sister to’many of ‘us far away in Southern hos- pitals; one would have thought that it would have been a fitting occasion for any Grand Army Post to have tendered their services as a guard of honor at the burial of one who had devoted the best years of her’ life to the nursing of those who comprise your circle. I A » among women. Ye trailed your arms in the dust, ‘and wreathed the starry flag in orape at the burial of Sumner and Wilson. Were they more worthy than she? Nay I tell you not so; they may have labored in a more popular field than she, but her work was unfolding and developing the natures of the mothers of these of whom we speak. Have a care Grand Army of the North that your boasted eagle of freedom may notlbecome an owl, shining to better advantage in thedarkness of slavery and despotism, than in the broa d sunlight of Progression and Equal Rights. To the sewing girls there are no need of words; deep en- shrin ed within your hearts the recollection of what she was to you can never die, and the tears falling from theiweary eyes of the slave women of the North are a fitting tribuca to the memory of one who has made her name immortal. God...» while we drop the silent tear for the tired form that has van- lished from our midst, yet we know that mankind. hath‘be,en grandly educated by the teachings of such as thou. AYER, Mass, Jan. 17, 1876. W FRED L. HILDBET1=f, .._..___... eon on MAMMON ‘? , OBERLIN. Ohio. Feb. 21, 1876. Editors of the Weekly: I am of the opinion that Mr. Beech- er’s greatest sin does not consist in what you charged him with, by any means. I noticed, years ago. and commented upon it at the time, thathe misrepresented his. Master, and in so doing robbed his cause of millions of dollars per annnm that he might gratify his lust. If his example had been fol- lowed, it appeared to me, the Lord’s treasury Would have been entirely empty, because no one man could-earn with the labor of his hands an amount equal to What he expended; consequently, if his example was right there was nothing left for‘God’s poor. Neither Christ nor Paul made merchan- Idise of their talents, and if he had not, but had orucifiad his lusts, as taught by his divine Master, he could have revolu- tionized the world, apparently, in his day, and been tri- umphing now, instead of being in the agonies of hell, and fallen as low as Lucifer. Christ chose poverty, became “the poorest of the poor," and why did not Mr.’ Beecher? Beecher has appeared to me to be a willing servant of mammon; and has not mammon come to his rescue and done all she could to save him from the bark of a fox. The bowels of the entire nation, from the White House all through, were moved in behalf of the distinguished citizen, but they can't save him; neither can he save himself, and he will drag multitudes down with him, and they feel the halter draw ‘already. If I am correctly informed, Edward Kellogg, author of the “. New Monetary System,” labored in person with Be.echer toconvert him, but to no ‘purpose. When we heard this we made 9; note of it. No honest. mind, as we believe, can reject the; truths revealed in that book, any more than they can thosé revealed in the Bible. All truth is Ggodis, and eternal: kBgecher cgaylvri hays seized he had flamed him; )7T”? f‘.‘ _ . Surely ye reward 1ne1'itoriioiis acts among men; wh-y”not ' speed ye, Aurora Phelps, in your sunny spirit home, and 1' 5' Q1 2 C I woonuom. & CLAIl‘LIN’S wunxtr. .— -1'.,.fiV,.",>_,-:'.‘.- . ~ Mar. 11, 1876. self and wielded the truth Kellogg put into h-is handsas he was able. V When Beecher protested his innocence in the first instance, in the. face of,such‘evidence as lay against him, we stood aghast at it, and shocked, completely. He cannot shock us ‘more, say what ‘he will. .We are sorryfor him as we should be‘for,the devil {in agony. Had he stoodffagithful and true to duty,’ ~ had he declared for the perfectedgigreenback atlthe properctime and been in the interest of labor instead of main- moihgthe millions ,:out of employ to day need not have been stanvding idle. = .. . ‘ 4 T LEONARD. ' WHAT TO DO; HOW TO DO IT. . Feiendsiof the Weekley: ' ’ . There has been much discussion 'for several years past, of the great social {problem, and it is safe to assume that light has penetrated very many minds. Experiments have .also been made, and are being made. to work out into actual life, the truths that are already revealed. Up to this time, how- ever, so far as I am informed, no movement has been made thatomeets the views ofthe mass of earnest sympathizers in the work. With some difiidence. I present the outline of still another plan for the consideration of all who wish to en- gagfe -in active work. _ * "Let there‘ be raised by voluntary subscription, a fund suf- ficient for the endowment of a free home, and the organiza- tion of industries, whereby those who occupy it, may main‘-, L tain themselves by labor. Let the property be held by trus- tees for the use and benefit of all who wish to live pure lives; end let theindustries be presided over bypersons selected fornbusiness qualifications requisite to ensure success. Let no individual own. any interest, either direct or contingent, « in the property, except as a tenant. rent free. Let the pro- . ceedsiof labor be appropriated, first to defraying the domes- « tic expenses, including food, clothing, care ofthe sick, edu- cation of both old and young and recreation; and let the balance, if there be any, be divided pro rata. according to la- bor done. Let there be no test of membership, but the one stated above, and no voting, either to admit or exclude, there . being no power, or means to enforce either, except social magnetism. In this article Iwill not attempt to defend, oreluoidate this plan, further than to say, that, in my opinion, if properly presented to persons who have means, it will win support thatoocouldfnot be obtained for any regular communistic. movement. I am impressed that itowill secure the benefits of communism, while avoiding the objections that are con- stantly urged against it. I am willing to stake all upon it. Others, more cautions, will contribute only such sums as they are willing to lose. Many will give, not expecting any personal benefit, and some whole-souled, rich liberalists may be induced to shoulder the burden. I am impressed that the neccessary fund can be raised. .. A. WARREN. .- [Those who feel in sympathy with our correspondent can communicate with him at Van Burcn, Hancock Co. Ohio.] RESPECTABILITY. BY wnnnnn CHASE. - , ' “ MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 15. “ A young girl of modest and becoming appearance who appealed to the County Commissioners for assistance yester-- day tells a sad story. She came here seeking employment, but failing, found a home with a kind lady. A brother of the latter conceived more than common fondness for the stranger, which was reciprocated by a solemn promise of faithfulness. She was led, astray in disgrace, was deserted by her lover._ She returned to her parents in Wisconsin. Her father sternly turned her out of home. Again she came to this city and put herself under the protection of the county. She is now cared forat the ‘ poor farm.’ " - _ Wei clip the above item from the Chicago Inter-Ocean, which,fof course, only gives it as an item of news, for the pul- pit and press both sustain this mode of treatment for the fe- males, and directly the opposite for the male. With them it is no "disgrace for a single man to do all she did, and indeed, many people think he is not qualified to marry till he has sown a lot of wild cats in this way. This poor girl, like the thousands of her sex, must be kicked out’ of decent homes by christians, and even her parents, because her delicate, fine. and sensitive nature was overcome by the wily deception of the‘ seductive rascal‘; - but he can go to church and get the fairest daughter in it for :a wife, while she is sent where she must have the worst of surroundings and poorest company, and .-no chance to recover. I am glad to know there are some poor sufl“erers of this kind rescued by a better class of reformers andprogressive Spiritualists who are above the shafts of the churches and their gossiping crews; arid if we had means, even a tithe of the fortunes of a Stewart or Astor, this and every such poor deserted victim of masculine vice should be rescued and have as good a home and friends as the married mothers; and if possible the guilt should follow the one that deserted her in such hour of trouble. There is a world where justice will be done, even for the deeds in this life. Every kind of snare is set in society to catch young girls, by the . opposite sex, and as soon as one is caught, no matter by what “system of lieing, she is thrown out to leave room for others = to be tried; and it is often the best—hearted and best disposi- tions that are trapped. This is largely the reason so many young girls join the churches, seeking there social protection and respectability. For if they do not belong to some church they are far more liable to become the subjects of gossip and -scandal, and lies, even; and so delicate is society on this sub- v- zject that it seldom goes to the trouble to search out the truth or to punish the liar, or even the seducer. The truth is not that the young ladies are so much morereligious than the opposite sex. They seldom believe the doctrine of the churches they join, and most of them do not even know what that doctrine is; but they seek protection bya social wall which thechurch furnishes, and thus they get reputations till they get caught, and then usually they are cast out and down. Young men . who do not needthat protection seldom join the church, un- less it is to cover up some moral delinquency, or to get em- ployment, or oftener to get some girl that is in there. About all the good the churches-‘do nowis to protect the reputation of ladies, andfif it did even this decently and justly we would?‘ give credit for so much. But its wicked and unjust discrim- inations leaveilittle ground for credit, and its cruel system of making slaves of women by marriage, as it now is, leaves a large balance’ against it. How far this causeapplies to the ex- cess of females in Beecher’s and some otherpopular churches 7 we cannot say, as many people believe these are drawn in by the great magnetic and psyohologic‘ power of the preachers, and it may be so, for it is certain. that the women in Mr. Beecher’s church are not of a remarkably religious turn of mind, as ‘is "plainly shown by; their‘ public and private exhi- bitions sinceéfthe trial of their pastor. We have long been aware that.né1'ther thegprea‘chers nor therfemale -members of- churches were more r»elig"i‘ous” or moral than those outside the folds. We,.*~,lrave ha'd’jjdirect,testimony to the loose morals of nearly a sc'ore’of preachers who have neverbeen exposed, and who keep on preaching and saving souls, and will till caught. - Au hail! tjo the conqueror’ in triumph ascending ' c v» Go'lvumbia?'s~Mount, with her banner unfurled; See, brave Mattie Strickland, her brow crowned with laurel, Comes forth in her glory to bless a new world. Hark! hark! hear the music that peals.o’er the mountain, And thousands on thousands take up the refrain; See! see the grand army of liberty marching, While truth, love and justice, and right load the train. Then onward brave Mattie, the world needs a leader! Advance to the centre, so brave, strong and true, The army is waiting, their banners are flying, They are waitingbravc Mattie, they are waiting for you, . COBNVILLE, Maine, 187 6. i~ WM. S. FLANDER5. eons DESIGN NOT THWARTED. BY M. E. A. The Spiritual element” of the human family, which is the “Seed of the Woman,” is just as much an incorporated part of her, as the physical generative seed is apart of man. When we bring Genesis down to modern language it reads thus: After God had made man in his own image, he took from under his ribs on the left side, the solar plexus or spiritual heart, individualized itand named it woman. It was the last thing he created, and therefore the highest and nearest his ideal, and was designed for a mediator between himself and man. Then the, first she desired was an external expression of her internal conception of God made manifest in the flesh. In the two entities, man and woman, which in the perfect state constitute but one, there are three distinct elements or dspartmentséanimal, human and divine. ' The first accounts that we have of the human family in our Bible show that the animal predominated and harmon- _ ized with all of its surroundings, and was the ruling power, » and is represented by the lowest order of animal life. The serpent signifies a paralizing, fascinating power to bring one down on to a lower plane, like the snake charming the bird. In spite ofvall its trying to keep up in the tree on ’ its own legitimate plane, it fails and drops down into the jaws of the serpent. » ' - Can there be a more perfect figure of the sexual magnetic power of an animal man drawing a spiritual minded woman down to his own level? But she'difl*‘ers from the bird in hav- ing two natures, and when his passion is satiated she realizes that she has outraged her spiritual nature in pandering to the animal: 1 She has yet to learn that in this day of unfold- merit, a godly woman falls from her high estate when she comes into the sexual relation from any other cause'or prompt- ing than her divine instinct which is the Holy Ghost that God implanted within her for the salvation. of the race. 6000 years ago itwas all in the order of things that she should come down from her legitimate position for the express purpose of helping man,’to carry out the first command to multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it; for the first or animal plane must inevitable be perfected. before there could be a foundation whereon the human intellect could be built,Which took 4,800 years before the most advanced manhood arrived at a plane of development where human intellect predomin- ated over animal instinct in sexual matters. As man ascended from the animal to the’ human, woman arose from the human to the divine. Then the divine instinct, which is the Holy Ghost, came upon Mary and inspired her in regard to the physical father of her child, the spiritual or soul of the child was already begotten by the Heavenly Father. C It has taken us 1875 years to understand the spiritual sig- nificance of the Christ principle. DRESS REFORM. To the friends of the‘National League I would say my pioneer work still assures me that, to start the practical strongly, it only needs the example and active advocacy of believers whoseem confident, and in many ways prepared to act, but scarcely can tell why they defer. There is abund- ance of willing material when favoring events can produce concert. I_have just spent several days in‘Philadelphia. and Camden, canvassed among strangers, visited mayors, held a public meeting in each city assisted by Mrs. Byrnes, Dun- dore. Coleman and Palmer. Considerable interest is mani- fest by both people and the press, and I trust the day is not distant in which we shall see the curse of ages cast from woman‘s form. E. TILLOTSON. VINELAND, Fe.b., 1.876. _ A . Sr. Josnrn, Mo., Feb. 15, 1876. Mrs. WooclhuZl—Fr0m I this splendid young city of the Northwest, where you was greeted by such a large admiring audience, I address you, moved by the perusal of an article .4. in’ yours of this week. It was never designed by the founders of our government that Congress should have power: to punish crime and of- 1 fences, except such as are specially provided for in the Con- stitution, viz., counterfeiting the ‘coin or currency, piracy, and other felonies on the high seas, and such offences as were committed by those in the military service (land and naval), and perhaps in_one or two more instances. I Do you doubt it? Read that Constitution! ' Do you still doubt it? Read the Debates on the, Constitution. See the picture drawn by some of those great, old men,’ of a time that might occur, in case the power of Congress were not limited as it is, some day in the future when men might really be carried out of the counties where the commission of the ofience was charged, into distant counties for criminal trial. What would they say now, after all the'guards and limitations were imposed, at [seeing men dragged hundreds of miles‘ on thousands of charges of offenses made into crimes (acts often harmless in themselves). and cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. \Vhat are cruel and unusual . punishments forbidden by the Constitution? Nearly every penalty under the revenue, pension, bankrupt, postal, press, ; currency andvoither laws. m 1 This infernal system of protective paternal legislation is a disgrace to our intelligence; and ‘the fools we send to Con- gress seem incapable of understanding how to legislate with- out introducing acts creative of crime. Wipe all such laws ' from the statute book. ‘Let the States provide the penal codes, as was originally intended. The world is governed too much. During the past ten years how many poor farmers and others have been dragged three hundred miles to J effer- son city, charged with selling a little tobacco to their neigh- bors (tobacco of home growth), or other trite oflences, and been punished most severely. And to make bad worse, the wretched accused must ‘ad- vance all costs for his own witnesses, and is never reimbursed if acquitted. oMany a man has been indicted on more sus- picion, owing to the officious zeal of the prosecuting attor- neys, and thus ruined. These courts are become human slaughter houses. ’ So often have the penal laws been amended and changed that it is doubtful if a single conviction is legal in any of the cues; for a change of penalty or a repeal ‘discharges the accused. But so low is the tone of the bar, keeping pace with all else, that a Constitutional lawyer is hard to find. H. Mnnnnrru. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22, 1876. Editors Woodhull and Clafi'm’s Weekly: I had prepared an E article for your paper on the Samoan Islands as they were twenty-five years ago, when I learned that one on that sub- ject had been published in the Banner of Light. At that period the Samoan group had been but little visited, except by Whalers and cocoanut oil traders. By the efforts of Eng- lish missionaries many of the natives had embraced Chris- tianity, but on some of the smaller islands, where only native teachers resided, the manners and customs of the people—-excepting some of the ceremonies of Christianity, and among them a strict observance of the Sabbath—were the same as the habits of their ancestors; and this to a cer- tain extent is the case now, or up to a late date, in the remote districts ofthe outlying islands; but iest I repeat what has already been printed in the Banner, 1 will defer the sudject until I have seen that paper. California is the stronghold of bullion; here weworship the golden calf, and like Mexico we are poor. Greedy para- sities flock to our shores and take away all our produce. Nobody seems to care’ what will become of us when our fertile fields are exhausted of their fertility, and our mines are worked out. I presume it will. be time enough then, when the greedy cormorants with which we are -infested have left. to adopt a greenback currency and lower the rate of interest that European Shylocks are filching from us. VVe are a little worse off than Mexico, most of whose traders, miners and money lenders are foreigners. While we have all these as well, who annually swell the hoards of European cofiers by shipping abroad all the profits of our industries, we encourage Chinamen to come here and take away what they leave. This is a subject upon which many honest reformers differ. Our country they say “is the asylum of the oppressed of all nations.” If they are fleeing from oppression, and come here to make a home for themselves and their children, well and good; but when they come here to amass wealth and take it away, or to secure property and go to Europe to live upon their rents, the result is absenteeism; but that which permits the Chinaman to come here and degrade labor by competing with our own people at prices that no white person can successfully contend against without descending to the worst depths of human degradation, is even worse. Those who advocate the cause of tho laboring classes should be careful how they echo the phrases that the capitalists coin. If we wish to elevate the masses we must keep these Chinese coolies away; if we wish to improve them, we must first secure amelioration for ourselves, and then they will be able to profit by our example, and we will be ‘able to give them assistance to improve their own condition. It is too plain to be mistaken, that among our rulers, especially in Congress, there is a reckless disregard of the rights of the masses in this particular, if, indeed, there is not a design to crush the working-people of our country by the degrading competition of the servile laborers of Asia. V A l V ‘ , Our China line of steamers carry Chinese sailors and waiters. An ex-captain of that line lately testified before. a legislative committee, "‘ that they were very unsafe in cases of peril, liable to be panic—stricken;” but for the sake of getting their crews at little cheaper, these companies do not hesitate to trifle with the safety of passengers. The Bullion King not only sits enthroned in California, but here, too, the princes of gamblers have their head quar- ters. We have very stringent laws against “ thimble rig- in l r. 5; I‘: . -.v . . _>.:ag,,m .. is >. 75. t H , Mar. 1-1,1876. 1' ging,” “ banco,” and faro dealing,” for the mining-stock gambling interests are jealous of their legitimate rights, and are not willing to divide their plunder with these petty rob- bers who are ostracized by our laws, while their compeers are protected in their nefarious practices by judicial de- cisions- These operators, when successful, are sent to the U.~S. Senate; these positions they are said to secure by car- rying stock for the members whojvote for t,hem,,but the joke of the last senatorial election of. this kind was, thatthe elected senator let the stocks down before they reached the prices at which the legislators were to sell. There was some tall cursing, so it is said,*b’ut noboby dared to complain. The way fortunes are made at mining in this State would have astonished the Puritans (whose decendants many of us ’ are) 50 years ago. Jones and Sharon have both been super- intendents of mines - in” Nevada, though it is generally sup- posed that they are new residents of San Francisco, which is, as you know, ‘in the -State oI California- The modus opera/ndt fof striking.-a Bonanza is this: A’ diamond drill is used to bore into the face of the drift or the'bottom'of the shaft, This takes out acore of rock, the quality of which is kep}-, secret from all who are not in the ring. Ifpay ro_ck is struck, of course that drift ‘or shaft is stopped.‘ , If a bonanza in embryo is developed, assessments are levied to depress the value of the stock; until ‘the ring has bought it all iniat low prices ;* then they uncover, invite ‘experts to go to the mine and examine.'1 Even 'U. S. officials are roped in. ‘ Away flies mg shook, kitingfiand. thus the.-Ivolume of the property in afew. days is increased millions of dollars. Of course ‘a few out- siders get in on the ,first.. of the flood or the game would be too thin to ‘succeed more than once. While it is high water the ring of course" unload all the stocks they can spare and keep control of the mines. Then comes a fire, or they strike water, and down goes the stock until the prices suit the ring to load up again; and thus the wheel of fortune keeps turn- ing for the ring operators, but woe to the outsiders. Thou- sands of, women in ourcity are engaged in stock gambling. Widows left by their husbands in comfortable circumstances have been made penniless. Mechanics who had acquired homesteads by industry and frugality have sunk them in the vertex of this gambling maelstrom. In my next I will show , up the tricks of the lesser luminaries in this great plundering ; SySte-m_ “ A i o ANTI SHYLOCK. nEHIND THE SCENES. Editorsi Weeklg/—In the WEEkLY of February 5, over the signature‘of A. Warren, is a call ‘for names of:pers'ons’who are willing and anxious for the new order of things. ' I hope that many will respond." I believe that there are thousands all through our land who are panting for “the good time.” There are others (and I own to being one of that number) who have not courage to come out and say to the world that “ I am'free.” )Oh, what frightful cowards we must appear in” your eyes. I would like, had I dared, to have sent my name when you asked for those .who “ wanted the whole truth.” I think if I were rich and influential I might take a decided stand for what I know to be right. But now I shrink from doing or saying anything that might injure my children in the eyes of the hypocritical world. 1 try to do my duty by them. I intend that my girls shall have the means of gaining an honest living, and I hopeithey may never know by ex- perience the misery of my life. I hail the WEEKLY as my greatest blessing. I want to say so much, but can say so little. I should lose my position if E116 300d P601910 (?) should hear that I am a free lover, although they all know that I ought not to live with the man I do, and some tell me so; but he is my husband, and I can’t break the chains, but he is willing I should support his children, (and have more, too). Oh, if every woman’s heart was opened what a wail of dis- pair would sound through this land. I do not believe it is all imaginary; I know it is not. REMARKS. ' The above is a fair sample of hundreds of letters re-‘ ceived by us. What is there that cantbe said of a social system that rcduces a wife to such an abject state of sexual, moral and intellectual bondage. Don’t dare to give utter- ance to their opinions; don’t dare to subscribe to the truth; don’t dare to do anything that an emancipated mother ought to do! In the name of all that’s good and true ; victims. They are the slaves of the powers that be; but who shall rise up to help‘ us crush out these infamous’ powers ? ~ . DBRHAM, Co. Grey, Ontario Canada Feb, 14 1876. Editors W'ee7cly—-Inresponse to the “ Request ” in the last; issue of -the “ WEEKLY” I write, not that I suppose that anything I have to communicate will be of any public utility, yet I deem it due to you to say, that for several months I have lived in compliance with those saving truths set forth from time to time in the ‘f WEEKLY,” so far as I could do so nega- tively, that is tosay I have given up everything inimical to the hope of immortality, with results wonderful and satisfac-5 tory so far as the physical is concerned. _ I am also a firm believer in the doctrine set forth by you, that the blending of‘ the positive and negative elements in the manner only hinted at, in the “ WEEKLY,” would bless ‘ humanity when over such relations could be established gen- erally—-on which subject more light will, no doubt, be shed when the final truth -shall be all disclosed. . A ' Fraternally yours, SAM’L, E. LEGATE. THE Southern press forgets politics occasionally in order to give its u,nd,ivi,ded,attention——five columns to the article—to Mrs. Woodhu11.—Rocheste7' Democrat. ,means and a desire to promote the “. community entorprize ” . moved me that Iiresolved to offer reparationifor th_eVInenta1 I play appropriated music. Tue musician, when the picture? that’s pure and holy; intthe name of virtue and chastity, how long shall such conditions be permitted to crush the womanhood out of woman ? We do not blame the poor Latin fo’ owahs akday, Fwench, seven up and science evah so womanly curiosity to know what was in the letters that he spunky, and has had him arrested, regardless of the expos- Now, Katy was out that evening, and the ‘kitchen"was dark. ,’Burning with jealousy, the wife took some matches in her “ INDUSTRIAL COMMUNALI HOME.” Friends of the Weekly: Our barn with its contents, and our dwelling are consumedby fire, leaving ‘us without shelter and our stock without fodder. Loss $60U,'no insurance; have -no means to replenish thiis—only to run in debt. _ . If any of the numerous readers ofthe WEEKLY have the‘ and will help us, however small, it will be gratefully_received and appropriated toward a dwelling on land thatis/deeded 130 trustees for communal purposes foriall‘coming—tim‘e.. ’ JMINNIE J. Monsn. ' HATTIE N. ‘GRAVES. JOHN BENTLEY.‘ “ ‘ ‘ ‘ " . I O;C.HALn. PEKIN. Niagara Co., .'Y., Feb. 15,1876. ‘ njn 'r ‘ GAMITOUR, IsLA1x+D_'or MApAeAscAE, S. E. CoAsT or AFRICA, Dec. 14,1875. VICTORIA O. WooDHULL.,NEw.YoEY: . Dear Madam—I had ofteniheard of you during the lastfew years, but was misled by the scandals’ that were circulated about you. The other day, however, this isolated part of the world was by visitedvthel new U. S.Consul,“Col‘. Robinson: of Sparta, Wisconsin; and his story of your wro,ngs”and‘suifer-\ ( i j _ _ H r _ ' lectures, etc., each Sunday) on a free platform. Our ‘cause seems to be in a very prosperous conditionf tOur=lectures are ings in a righteous cause-—the,soci_al isexualiiqueystion-hats: i so wrongthat I had done you, and shallonly be too glad to hear from you, receive your photograph or your j ournal‘; and as- sist in any way that you may ‘suggest in the helpingioncf the good cause here. Are you aware that in the centrevof this island, in the capital, are thousands of natives whioare-superior. to us in someparticulars, especially in the liberal manner in which they treat the sexual question, and from which as yet the utmost efforts of the Jesuits and orthodox Protestant missionaries have not been able to turn them? 1 also have suffered much persecution for my belief on these subjects. Make what use you like of this letter. It may comfort you to know that you have sympathizers even in this remote island. Yours incerely, THOMAS WILKINSON, I ' General merchant and commission agent. i . 1 V ; ,13_ITs or EUN‘.‘ f I A NOT able phrase:-“ I can’t ”: 1“ A . , , SWEET meets—two fond lovers in afirst embrace, A it A BOARDING establishment-—a carpenter's shop. C J How To raise beets-—take hold of the tops, and pull. WHEN the spider left the ark, did hewalk for take a fly ? WOMAM proposes and man gits up and gits, this year. w _ THE HAnDEsT kind of chasmito get over—sarcasm. DON’R MARRY till you can support a husband. ’ That’s the advice the Barnstable patriot givesjthe Cape girls this year. “SoME N ew_Ycrkers talkof doing away with a police force entirly.” This is another blow at thelcriminal classes-—'NoT- wlstown Herald. I ' ' NOTHING of the kind is apprehended at present, but if Mrs. Twain shound be called away we hope that she will leave her Mark in the world.-—Danbm-y News. I ‘ “MY native city has treated me badly,” said a drunken Vagabond, “ but I love her still.” “ Probably,” replieda gentleman, “ her still is all that you do love.” I AN Austin butcher, named Link,» has. to stay athome be- cause he got pitched out of his cart and broke his shoulder. The other butchers, who are posted in Darwinism, refer to him as the missing link, and o he.is—San Antowlo IIemld. “ No, SIR,” said a weary looking man on a street car to an individual by his side. “I wouldnft marry the best woman alive. I’ve been a dry goods clerk too longfor that.” SATURDAY mornieg after the warm rainhad melted, the spotless snow from the glassy‘ ice.ionthejflagging, a Roman stepped from his front door, and sitting down on the side- walk, surveyed the landscape between ’his elevated’ feet: while hymns of praise bubled up from his overflowing heart.‘ --Rome Sentinel. ‘ 1 I 1 ONE of Mark Twain’s funny_stories is that of a Scripture panorama, the proprietor of which engaged a pianist to of the “ Prodical Son ’_’ was passing,-struck up “ When J chu- ney Comes Marching Home 2”’ which excited the indignation. of the moral lecturer. P "J I " 1 —A Vassar girl wrote ‘home: ,“ Dee Paw-paw; we study : loung. The good matrons nevah let us go owet.' Won't you -I send me my legginsand skates_ for a‘poo, little girl who lives in the village. Don't‘ forget the heel straps.” ‘ ~ I « A 3 “ Say, pop," said John Henry’s hopeful, the other day, “wasn’t it" the prince of whales that swallowed‘ Jonah ?” And John pattedhis head. and gave him a. nickle, and told him he might some day be an alderman; andthen as he put" on his slippers, and found a small chestnut-bur in each too, he took that boy over his knee and wrestled. with him.——C'L'n-: cinatt Times. . » I . - ——PosTMAsTER FORT of Vischer’s Ferry, N. Y., ‘possessed a handled. He opened many, and one of these, addressed to a married woman, . contained a proposal to , elope. He handed her the opened missive, supposing that the possession of its secret would save him from punishment; but she is ure of her own affairs. A LADY in thisfcity. snspectedthat herhnsband was in the habit of kissing Katy, the cook, and resolved to detect him inthe act. After watching for days she heard him come in one evening and quietly pass through into the kitchen‘. months. woonnutnie oL-Ar.L.1E'?sIWEEKLY. ' 3‘ T- hand and hastily placed her shawljover her head as Katy some- times did, entered the kitchen by the back door, and was almost immediately seized and embraced in the most arden manner. With her heart almost bursting with rage andj_eal- ousy the injured wife prepared to administer a terrible re- buke to her faithloss spouse. Tearing herself from his em- brace, she struck a match and stood face to face with—’the ghired man. Her husband says his wife has never treated himso well since the first mouth they were married as she has for the past few days.—-From the Marquette J ournal; _._.a. 4 fi— ya EDITORIAL NOTICES. it WE have received from Mrs. L. M. Heath aprospectus of the “Potomac Co—operative Colony and Medical University,” to -be located at Free Stone Heights, Prince William _County, Va., but too late for extended notice in this number. i We can say merely now that it is a grand enterprise. V ' A CONVENTION of the New England Free Love L’oag,:{é"1wii1 .be held in Boston, March zen; and 27‘th. I I ‘ Truly yours, ' 1 , E. H. nntpwom people in the city, and A our last Convention“ was the best odour‘ Society hashad in Northern Illinois since it was organized. ' attended by crowds of the most intelligent and_thinking Not one word was uttered during’ tlfe,,wholé'iCon"vention againsta free platform. They nearly all admit that the question of most interest to humanity is the Social Qnestiopn. '. Lecturers desiring. engagements can address either .77., I 3 OoL~_.j E.‘ SoorrL_T' A. H. 1risnns,~:_. , » I I . I . ~ ’ ‘FRED. Bsnns-nn.i. the Committee appointed to provide speakers fcrtnext, ix THE INDIANAPOLIS SUN.—The leading independentreferm weekly political newspaper in the Union, thespecial advocate {of national legal tender paper money (the greenback system) ‘as against bank issues on the gold basis fallacy, andtheinter changeable currency_bond as against the high gold,interest' , bond. The Sun has a corps of able correspndents, tcomprisinr ’ the most eminent political economists of the ago. One page devoted entirely to agriculture. Miscellany of thechoicest selection, adapted to all classes of readers. The latest general news and market reports. Terms $1.75-‘per year, postpaid Sample copies and terms to agents sentfree onappcation Address Indianapolis Sun Company. Indianapolis, "Ind. i WEd'ito»rs Weekly—-Please announce that I will send copies the report of the mass meeting at Cooper Institute, contain- ing the addresses, resolutions, etc., in full to any friends ‘in any part of the country who desire to learn our views on labor and finance, and who will send for them to W. A. larsey, 402 West Fifty-first street. N ew-York City. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AND CO-OPERATIVE COLON Y’ A ‘ Having our plans fully perfected, location selected, and one of the most beautiful and attractive sites secured,-"on which to establish a thoroughly practical school, and a co- operative colony of advanced and progressive associates-— we would announce to all who are desirous of co—operating with usin such an enterprise, that we will send them cir- cular containing full information, in regard to plan, location, terms, etc., ifthey will send us name, post—oiiice*addres’s, andapostage stamp. MES. L. M. HEATH, West Newton, Pa. » I ALL persons suffering from the Asthfma, should send-for Dr. R. P. Fellows’ Great Indian’Asthma -Rome/dy..,Mrs. Ellen Dickinson, of Vineland N. J. speaks of it in these terms, “I have suffered with the Asthma, for thirty years during which time I have tried all known remedies to no ‘ purpose, but now after resorting to Dr. Fellows’ Asthma Remedy, I am perfectly relieved.” Sent to any part of the globe on receipt of $1 per package. Address Vineland, N. J. WARREN CHASE will lecture in Ottumwa, Iowa, March 2, 3, ,4. and 5. Address for February, Independence, Iowa; and first week in March, Ottumwa, Iowa. > _.....=._. SPIRITUAL CHURCH or THE GOODSAMARITANS, recogniz- ing the Jesus Christ principles as their foundation, will meet at the hall in" the rear of Charter Oak'Hall,-San Francisco, Cal., Sundays at 11, 2:30, 7 P. M. Services by:Rev. Dr. Chaun- cey Barnes and others. I Loxs WAISBROOKER can be addressed till further notice, Room 22, Western Hotel, Sacramento, Cal. Friends visiting the city are invited to call. She will re- ceive subscriptions for the WEEKLY. I THE Northern Illinois Association of Spiritualists will hold its 15th quarterly meeting in Grrow’s Opera House, 517 West Madison street, Chicago, Ill., beginning on Friday, March 10th, 1876, and ending Sunday evening the 12th—-a three days’ meeting. Eminent speakers,‘singers, and test mediumstare engaged, among whom are Susey M. Johnson, Dr.‘Juliet H. Severance, Capt. H. H. Brown, and others.« I . .~ Let the Spiritualists of the Northwest tu.rn out:and:n1ake the Second Grand Centennial Meeting of 18?’6 a_ success.. {flour platform is free; on which all subjects germain to humanity may be discussed with due regard to the use of language. , _ O. J. HOWARD, President. _ V . i E. V. "WILSON, Secretary. Q LOMBARD, Ill., Feb. 10, 1876. 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And these signs shall follow them : In my name shall they cast out devils,’ they shall take up serpents,‘ and if they olrinh any clcadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.-——Jesus. 7*} NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAR. 11,1876. WE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets of the first series of Bible Articles consisting of fifteen num- bers of the WEEKLY, for one dollar, postage paid. Our friends should lose no opportunity to bring these articles to the attention of those whom they can interest. A careful study of all of them is necessary to a complete understand- ing of the great and all-important truth that is yet to be re- vealed; which must be carefully and judiciously brought be- I fore the world, as the sun comes upon it, bringing first the_ break-of-day, next its dawn, and afterward its full meridian splendor. I THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; OR, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST. For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship hlm.—-—S'r. Mmrnnw, ii., 2. i 1.: i This figure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been C1e.31”1V shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the earth and spiritspheres in a common brotherhood, and-the -‘establishment thereby of the universal human family. .' It lalsolrepresents still another and more important truth which has not "yet been introduced, but which,defined in '21.. feW words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself We adopt this diagram as emblematic of 0111“ future W01’)? ‘ from what it would be if he were to die. WHAT IS LIFE, AND WHAT IS DEATH ? And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my-flesh . shall I see God.—-Job xix, 26. . And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall aWal:e.—— Daniel xii, 2. I will ransom them fromthe power of the grave; I will redeem them from death.-—Hosea xiii, 14. _ And have hope toward Gbd, that there shall be a rcsurrectienof the dead.—-The Acts xxiv, 15. - » ’ - Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should ' raise the dead ?-Ibid xxvi, 8. ' , For the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorrnptlon and this mortal must put on immortality. * * * Then shall be brought to pass the saying, Death is swallowed up in victory.-—Oorinthians.—xv, 52, 53, 54. -A I Verily, verily I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, heshall never see death.~—St John viii, 51. , . ' And whosoever liveth and believeth on Inc, shall never die.-Ibid xi, 26. ' But the rest of the dead lived not again :until the thousand years‘ were finished. This is the flrst resurrection.—Revelations xx, 5. . 1 For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die.——Genesis ii, 17. - _ And now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Gar- ; den of Eden.-—Ibid 111,22 and 23. That they may have "right to the treelof lil'e.—Re'velations xxii, 14. ' And there shall be no more death.-—lbid xxi, 4. I ' " Until the advent of modern Spiritualism it is safe to say that the prevailing notions about the condition of the dead, were based upon so-called revelations. There were various theories held by small classes of the people, but there were none based upon either pretended or admitted facts. Nor were there any things claimed to be facts, upon which a theory could be baaed, and such as existed were more speculations, most of which, like those based upon revela- tions, have been overturned by the facts of modern Spirit _ ualism. But putting;-aside all theories and speculations," all revelations and disputed things, there still remains the fact that those who die, pass beyond the realm of our physical senses, and that the query still is unanswered to the great majority : “ If aman die shall he. live again ?” We are aware that Spiritualists claim that there is no death ; that the phenomenon called by that name is really nothing more than a change. In the absolute sense, all this them who throng}, few. of death wgy-g all their life- his very true, since it is certain that, of all the matter there was in the world at the “ beginning,” not so little as one small atom is dead, in the sense of being destroyed. But death and destruction are by no means synonymous terms, save in a very limited and relative sense ; save in the sense of the relative. A physical body that is dead is destroyed ; that is, the structure is destroyed, but not the substance of which the structure consisted. That has undergone a change only; and so it is with the physical body after the process called death. The structure in which the life that it is claimed still exists, was confined, is dead ; is destroyed ; is passed away, and, so far as the organization of which it con- sisted, islconcerned, it is efiectually destroyed. Of this there can be no doubt. Then is it logical to claim that death is nothing more than a change ? The thing that decays is not merely a habitation in which the life that continues exists in the sense that a house is a habitation, from which, when we remove from one to another, we make 9. change. The physical body is the thing in which and from which the life that continues is developed. In fact, if it were not for the- physical body there could be no spiritual body. Then, the process called death is something more than a simple change. It is a transition from one sphere of life to another, in the making of which that which is left behind is destroyed in the fullest sense that there ever is destruction of anything. A change would be the transit of the life that continues, from one place to another, still remaining in its physical environ- ment. To go out of that environment ; to drop its in- fluences and associations, and to enter into new and alto- gether different ones, is not sufliciently described by the word change; nothing less than the word death can adequately? define that change, death meaning the destruction of that- in which life was developed. ‘ ‘ ' ' There is a process which has been always called death, and it means the same thing to-day that it meant when it ,wa_s'j first used ; and it will always continue to be used so long as; the process to which the term is now appliedshall continue.» Therefore, because it has been demonstrated by the facts of modern Spiritualism, that the conscious individuality of the person continues to exist after death, it is not logicalto say that there is no death ; or that it is nothing but a change, unless change have its distinct departments ;.because if a person remove to a distant country it is a difierent thing If death meant an- nihilation; or if it had been used to mean that, before it had been demonstrated, that there is a conscious existence after it has taken place, then it would be improper to continue to use thegterm as it is used; but death has never meant anniliilation, since it is an impossibility to -conceive of anything being annihilated in the sense that something can become nothing. We are aware that science denies everything of which it cannot take hold; cannot put in its crucibles and formulate the results. Nevertheless, we are also aware that there are many common illustrations that are ready answers to this assumption. For instance, who has not seen the oil in the lamp diminish in quantity until nothing was left in the lamp , save’ the wick ? There was something; there is nothing, to the sense of vision, touch or taste. What has become of it? Is it destroyed ‘.9 No E1 It’ is dead, asoil; that is to say, the elements that entered into theC0mP011I1d' have been set free by fire. Who can tell that fire may not be able to set all the elements that are combined in all forms equally as free’ as it does those of the oil ? Who can tell if this con- dition of freedom were not the original condition of all elemental matter existing inthe space intangible to any of the present methods of determining existence-—’hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling? And who can ten if to that condition all matter is not to return again‘ ? , There are no , reasons, _however, ‘for supposing that the eléments .01‘ atOIT1§,0f matter set free from combination in Space by fife 01‘: 0131191‘ means (the same process is constantly going on in our bodies in breathing and insensible per- Spifation) are intangible to the spiritual senses. In- deed, we know that they are not; we_know that every different motion of elemental matter makes its music with which to entrance the spirit ear; its beautiful color to cap.- tivate the spirit leye; its delicious perfume to delight the spirit sense of- odors ;- its luscious flavor to satiate the spirit taste; the degree of harmony, or attractiveness of each sound, the beauty of each color, the power of each odor, the ‘deliciousness of each flavor; and more than all, the exquisite sense that shall be communicated by every con- tact, Will be determinecl by the degree of the organic devel- opment through, which matter shall have passed; and we ‘ ?k11OW alsolshatn all _these things are ,to be enjoyed without money and -without price (save that of. attaining to the required conditions) «‘by-all who shall arrive at the immortal state; at that state in which the new-born sons and daugh- ‘ters of God shall haveburst the barriers of ‘the tomb or bid defiance to the" grim monster, death-—the "Bible devil whom Jesus came to, demonstrate, could be overcome; could be destroyed; and whom he did overcome and destroy in his ownperson; » . _ M Now, admitting that Jesus did rise from the dead,,as each of the-‘ifour Gospels, and as St. Luke in The 'A'cts, {St. Paul in his Epistles, and St. John in his Revelations declare, and ‘as all’ Christians of whatever ‘creed orisect ipretend to believe that he did, what is: its significance to the world? If it have any significance at all; if it were not »a whim of Christs, with no ulterior purposes—no promise :of ulterior conditions to the world—~it can have meant one ‘ thing only, and that is, that all whom" the ‘Father had given into his charge should also be raised from the dead. Now, we want to confine all Cliristians strictlyto these facts, so that they may not be able to slnrk or cavil at their logic. WW6 therefore reassert, that all the significance that there _'was attaching to the death, burial, and resurrection‘ of Jesus, was in the resurrection. Everyone dies and is buried, but none save J csus, have, as yet, been resurrected from the grave. This was the life and thcimmortality that he came to, and that, through his resurrection, he did bring to light. Had he not been resurrected his advent on the earth would have been of no more importance than that of scores of others, who, at various times in the history of the world, have done the works that he did. He said himself that his mission would amount to nothing unless this, the crowning fact of it, were to be madelclear; it was not “possible that this cup should pass from” Him; it was “ Thy will” that he should drink it to its dregs. And all of Jesus’ teachings confirm this. There is but onesalvationi that he taught, and that was the salvation from death, and He meant the death that we call death now, for there is no other death. To claim that the death which he referred to was a life in contra-distinction to the heaven of the Christian, is to play upon words, for the existence in their hell is as much life‘ as it would be in their heaven, and we should say much more so. Read the text: “ Verily, verily, I say unto you; he that keepeth my saying shall never see death.” It is impossible to make that mean anything else than that he should never die. ' Death, then, means the existence out of the physical body. All are dead who are in spirit life, and will remain dead until the resurrection, when such as have kept, the saying of Christ will be resurrected, to live with those who shall then be on 5 ‘earth, who have also kept His saying, and shall never die. ‘ ' Now this view of the case brings about a perfect reconcil- l'iati’o_n of all the hitherto unexplanable and incomprehen- sible conditions to which .continued,reference I is _made in the Bible, and which have made it a stumbling-block to many and a thing of ridicule to more. It ‘explains’ away the mystery that has always attended the claim that a belief in J csus couldconfer any benefits; for it shows that those who live this true life, when the resurrection‘ day shall come, being dead, shall be able to rise; and those-still remaining, as Paul says, shall be able to live; not by any miraculous intervention of God, but as a natural result of a true life. When the mystery in which salvation is enveloped shall be rent, and it shall come to be demonstrated that salvation depends upon the manner in which we live in‘ the physical life, and that that salvation is a salvation from death; when it can be shown to the people that there is a life which, if ‘ led, will make, them superior to death, then the ridiculous position into which Christians have reduced religion, will be understood. As it is now, there is no faith in the Bible. It is a mere fable which nobody comprehends, and which has but little restraininglor constraining influenceupon anybody. In this intellectual age of the world, people refuse to ground their faith in anything that does not at least have some evidence of existence or of a possibility of attaining to existence. The intangible heaven of the pure transcendental idealist, together with the illogical, un- -reasonable and, to athinking mind, impossible heav ex). and '”.‘_‘~l:- - V ,2 Mar. 11, 1876. WOOD*HiULL & CLAFIaIN'S WEEKLY; _ 5 hell of orthodoxy, can no longer be crammed into the developed mentality of to—day. It is only those who think little, and reason less, who can be made to"swallow these absurdities. All others are looking for something new and higher; some new development upon which to hang their hopes of life. . - ' Indeed, the Bible itself is an utter refutation of the com- mon idea of heaven and hell. The only words that have been translated hell are Gehenna, Sheol and Hades. The first of ,these means the valley of Hinnom, a valley near Jerusalem, in which all the offal of the city was carriedto be burned. That was where “the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.” The term Hades, as well: as Sheol, signifies the place where all the dead-all spirits—--exist, the good as well as the bad. The meaning, the literal meaning, of these words in the Greek, may be-found in any unabridged Webster’s dictionary: Sheol-—the place of departed spirits; Hades—the habitation of the dead; but yet the orthodox Christians, in the face of these facts, continue to preach that there is a hell of literal flame into which the wicked are consigned, and a literal heaven where the blessed re- side. Is it not almost time that the outraged sense of this progressive age should rise and throw off. this bondage into which the world has been reduced through fearof a hell bigots? There are but two alternatives for Christians who profess” the Bible. They must either admit that the future state of existence is the resurrected condition, or else that death is5 eternal; for there is no other way pointed out" in their ,, guide. To die, is to be damned, for that is to yield to the dominion of the devil, and to be in his domain so long as death continues. Paul distinctly states that him that has the .. power of death, is the devil, through fear of whom all our life, 1. we are in bondage. Now, can there be anything more start- lingly true than this assertion, if it be rightly comprehended‘? Are we not all our lives under the dominion of this mon-I; ster ? We are taught on every hand that we have got to‘-' die. Until very recently the idea that we have not got to die has been latent in theflhuman mind. But thank God, the; knowledge that death has got to yield his sceptre to the sons: into many souls and redeem them from their bondage. If hell, after all, mean nothing but “ the place of departed spirits,’ “the habitation of the dead,” and thedead are all, who have once lived in the body but are now living in spirit,: then heaven-life must mean the contrary of these-—mu‘st— mean the life in the body-—the material form-—let that life be what it may as compared to the forms of the present. In other words, to live is to express the powers of spirit through material channels. This is the way that God liyes. .Asidef (if there be any such thing) from the expression of His powen in this way. He is dead, the same as they are dead who have departed out of the body. ; ‘ In this view Paul’s assertion, that “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable,” be-. comes significant. It could apply to no other condition than the one to which we are endeavoring to attract the attention of the world, viz : a common condition for those who are living, and thosevwho are dead. The hope in this life is to be saved from dying; the hope in spirit life, without which we should be “of all men most miserable,” is to be with Christ at His Coming ; is to be resurrected from death into life. Paul, further on in the xv Chapter of I Corinthians, states this fact so clearly that there is no mistaking it, for he says: “So when this coriuptible shall have put on incor- ruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then (not till then) shall be brought to pass the saying, that -“ death is swallowed up in victory.” This does not say‘- that we are goingto die and be resurrected ; but directly the reverse ; this corruptible (form) must be changed, in the twinkling of an eye to incorruption, for “the dead shall ’71’ not only “ be raised,” but we (the living) shall be changed. Do these words of Paul have any meaning ? Let Christians answer, and if they shall say that they have, then let them hereafter read the words as they stand written, and not per- vert them ”0 that they make them to mean nothing; ‘ As a result {of the evolution of life we also come to the same conclusion. The -aim of evolution’ is toperfect material formation ; is to make the abode of the spirit a perfect one ; one in and through which it can enjoy all the glories that its prophetic soul sees in the yet dim vi-sta of the future ; in and through which it can come into perfect rela- tions with God the Common. Father. A SECOND RASHER OF BACON. We are perfectly willing that Dr. Bacon and all othefir admirers of Plymouth Church and its Pastor should"; call the empose of Mr. Beecher by whatever name best pleases them, for none we feel sure, know so well how to properly characterize it, as those who first manufactured- the material out of which it was made, and then dealt it , out. If Mr. Beecher still think that the contents of the pail that was emptied by the Nov. 2d, 1872, number of the WEEKLY were slops, and if Dr. Bacon and the rest of his admirers choose at-this late day to prefix“ dirty” tothem, we shall not object. One thing is certain, let thembe “slops” or “ dirty slops,” orwhatever else they may choose to de- nominate them, we should never have had a_ pail fullof them to empty, if they had not been first .mi,X6,c1 by Mr. jBeeeher’s own hand, and thence by him, and the others inte- rested in them dealtout to others; When the news was Efirst received, we were not so certain that they were “ dirty slops, ” but after they had been in our possession about a year, ;we began to learn that they were not altogether clean, and finally we ;concluded that they were not of a quality that would keep well any longer, and we therefore dispensed ‘with them. We were surprised to hear Mr. Beecher, soon after ‘that, declare that he had been douched with “ slope,” and still more ‘so now to have thatdeclaration enforced by Dr. Bacon withrtheprefix-which he has seen fit to add, because, .altl'1oughlate,in the day,"rhey fullyiconfirm our own opinion arrived at years ago. If Mr. Beecher and Dr. Bacon are not competent to decide the character of the dish that they have ;themselves'“made', who, fipray, should be? We can when Dr. Bacon departs from characterizing the scandal, to calling us names, we have a right to ask him for his authority. He says, “that infamous woman,” and “that infamous paper.” Some of our readers will remember that this Christian D. D. once before let his passion get the better of his discretion and run away with him, and we were 3 must,’ therefore, give him a little attention again. 1 Dr. Bacon, we presume, professes to be a Bible Christian. Did he ever read Proverbs, X. 18, which says, “He that uttereth a slander is a fool.” To call one infamous without being possessed of aiknowledge of facts that will justify the use of the most approbrious term there is in the Eng- lish language, is to utter a slander. Now, we will wager that Dr. Bacon cannot bring forward even one fact upon which to base his assertion. He has said‘ publicly, “that infamous woman.” Now, Dr. Bacon, these columns are open to you to substantiate your charge. What. have we done that is infamous? Come now, there is no backing down; substantiate your assertion by proof, or else take home to yourself what the Bible says about such things of such people._ If Dr. Bacon call it infamous to expose Mr. Beecher, and . , -because we havedone that he calls us infamous, we reply and daughters of God, has had birth, and it shall spread that we did not- compound this crime as he and the rest of the Advisory Council have attempted to do. If, as Mr. Beecher says, there is a State’s -Prison offence. at the back of all this, and they are trying to conceal it, are they not one and all accessories after the fact, and next guilty,» with the parties to the crime? People who live in glass houses should be careful how they throw stones carelessly about. A person to be infamous, must, according to Web- ster, be guilty of some infamy. Now, Dr. Bacon, is the infamy that we have committed the exposure of Mr. Beech- er, or some other; and if some other, what other? But Dr. Bacon also said that “infamous paper.” Has Dr. Bacon ever read the WEEKLY? If he has we will also give him the opportunity to call the attention of its readers to anything that he has ever seen in its columns that is in- famous. The WEEKLY is a free paper, open to the discus- sionof all sides of all questions. If Dr. Bacon has seen anything so very reprehensible in it as ‘to deserve the appellation of “infamous” it is his Christian duty _to warn its readers of such a departure from right teaching. A Christian cannot, of course, attempt to correct everything that is wrong; but if he has had sufficient interest in the _WEEKLY and inthe cause it advocates to read it enoughto be comes within the range of his duty to correct it. We have tens of thousands of readers, Dr. Bacon, many of them equal to yourself in talent and position, and, save yourself, not one has ever’ , called the WEEKLY an infamous paper. We should be extremely obliged if you would point out to us, and we know our readers would join with us in thanking you forp ointing out to them, wherein the WEEKLY has been guilty of teaching anything that should render it infamous. But if you have not read the WEEKLY, as we suspect is the truth, by what right do you, Dr. Bacon, go before the people and attempt to do injury to a paper of which you know nothing? Is it a part of your.Christianity to do this? We do notso readithel Bible. Your illustrious Master’s command was that “ye should love one another,” that “ye should do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you,” and Paul supplemented this by commanding, “If a man be overtaken in_a fault, ye which are spiritual restore such an one in a spirit of meekness; considering thyself lest thou also be tempted.” Now, Dr. Bacon, have you obeyed your-Master and his Apostle in calling us names without first having endeavored to “restore” us? But we will notrefuse to be restored even now. We would even ask in a spirit of humility to be set right, if we have done any infamous thing; and to be shown wherein the WEEKLY has been infamous, so that we may in the future correct the evil of its ways. You should not pass by this appeal unheeded. The readers of the WEEKLY are held by you to be the worst class of people in the country, and you should not lose the opportunity now offered of showing them the errors of their ways. In the true Christian spirit we invite you to the task, and we will devote any part, or the whole, of the paper to you, for a week or a month, for this purpose. Let ‘ustrust that you may not be like the Levite mentioned by your Master as passing him by who . met with a misfortune as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. ' afford to let them have their own way about this. But‘ obliged: to serve him up “a Rasher of Bacon” in the ; WEEKLY. It seems that he was not satisfied with that; we that has no existence save in the brains of narrow-headed‘ justified in pronouncing so emphatically upon it, it certainly‘ FREE LOVE; One of the almost incomprehensible facts of social re- form, is the utter perversity of those who place themselves in opposition to freedom in lcontradistinction to slavery; who support slavery of the affections. Freedom, when used in connection with love, has precisely the same. sign nificance, means just the same thing that it meanswhen applied to any other sentiment of the soul or conviction - of the mind. People who would be insulted ifthey were to be told that they do not kn ow wliatifreedom means when applied to thought, religion, or «a country, will, with the utmost nonchalance imaginable, pretend to think that it means something altogether different when applied to love. The Word, free, itself tells all there is to be told: about it. Free love is that love which is not in any way enslaved; not bound, not fettered, not held in servitude by anyla w, custom or power; that is not compelled by anything what- ever outside of its own God-given existence, to express it self; that cannot be made tolie byyany circumstances by which it may be surrounded; in short, it is love and not lust, for all love must be free, since it cannot be forced. A thing that is forced may still be" called by the name of love , but it is a self-evident fact that it is not love, butlust. Love - must exist independent of all law; free from all constraint and then it must be reciprocated by its object in the same way. If one love another, that is, has a physical, intellect. ual or spiritual outgoing of life for another, which is not accepted, which is repulsive andia. cause “of unhappiness to that other, but who still insists upon’ having satisfaction, is its object. Alove that would force’ itself up?‘on.its= object regardless of its objects happiness, wishes or desires, is purely self-love; is a love that endeavors to reduce its object to slavery in utter disregard of its happiness, comfort or, well- being. Any law, custom or power, therefore, that induces, compels or makes it possible for, people to, live tog_ether in what should be the holiest relation known. to man, in which either party endures any {unwished attentions, ._a,n;y, mani. festations of self-love which desires gratificatiou.rather:than to confer happiness, is a law, custom; or power that reduces love to slavery; or, in plain terms, changes love-~~to- lust; that licenses the one party to satisfy itsiselfishdesires at the expense of the prostitution of the body and the cruci- fixion of the heart ofthe other party. Love‘exi_sts to confer happiness, and ever is and ever must befree; ilustiexisttsto gratify itself, and ever is and ever must be slavery- There can be no other love than free love. Anything. else that goes by the name of love is enforced lust. These are the alternatives, free love, or enforced lust. l Which will ye have? which will ye be? I Free Lovers or enf orced Lusters, for one or the other ye must be? There is no middle ground; there can be no third class in the relations of the sexes. Whoever declares that he or she is not a free lover, also de clares by implication that he or she is an enforced, luster. Let every free lover hereafter have the courage to "stick this title upon the back of every person _who den_ouuces,_fre,c- dorn for love. 7 ~ , . , . . LIFE-SIZE LITHO GRAPH. I graphs of Victoria C. Woodhull, from the ., lithographic are splendid pictures, both as awork of art'_and_.,as like- nesses. They are printed on heavy paper 20 x24 in_ches, and specially adapted for framing. , They will-be sent post- paid, securely wrapped to guard against-damage, to any address for 50 cents. The common price of lithographs of this size is $2 ; but we have arranged with the publisher to furnish them in large quantities at such rates that they can be resold at the price named without loss to us. " They are thus put within the means and reach’ of everybody who desires to havea splendid life-sizeiportraitgfof, the Edit,o'r-in- Chief of the WEEKLY,,who has _.devotVed.,_lier_life wh,olly'to the inauguration of a new dispensation on earth, iniwhich misery, vice and crime shall have no place. , , M E , In reply to many letters asking for " dealer’-s terms ” we . would say that the lithographs may be ordered; bylelrpress by the half dozen, dozen, or more at 40 cents, the usual price, less the postage. In explanation of the delay tha‘t:h1as occurred in sending lithographs we would say” that the third edition has been delayed, but, will be ‘re‘ceived'withi'n a day or two, when. all orders will be fi11e‘d.-E-[ll/IA1§iiAG'ING Enrron]. ‘ ‘ A ‘ . ,- THE GARDEN OF-EDEN.“ A The paper edition of this orationis exhausted; but we have prepared a pamphlet‘ edition, which, to meet the extraordinary demand thatqhas been madeforthe paper, we will furnish in lots of ten at $1; ormore at same ‘rate; a ~ 4.4L ' v-v— e WE are requested to say that the annual meeting of the New Jersey State Association of Spiritualists and Friends’ ‘of Progress, which was to have been held in November last," was postponed in consequence of the illness of Dr. L. K. Coonley, its President, and from the same cause the Sunday meetings in Newark, N. .l., were placed under the management of David Walker. We are {pleased to learn that"Dr. C. is now gradually recovering, being able to éitup most of the ‘day, [and hopes soon to again” move In spiritual. matters. not love, but lust. For love alwaysllbl-esses instead. of curses. We are now prepared to flll all orders for life—size litho- ‘ establishment of Armstrong & Co., of Boston, Mass. They ‘ s , . woornnunn a CIl‘A.FI4IN’B'.WEE»KL’Y. Mar. 11,1876; . . NEWS--BOOKS. Poor Nor-Es‘ or,Walking' as a Fine Art. By Alfred Barron, “ Q ” Wallivngford, Conn. WallingfordPL1blishiug Co. 1875, Large 16m0, 330 pages.,. Cloth, $1.50 post paid. This is reallya charming book; such an one as will prove ,a relief when the weariedmind or exhausted 100(1)’ 580115. '50 recuperate itself- .IInti‘1 0ne:.1'ea<1S. t1.1iS.'b00kv:h.e Can HGVGT know how mu'ch‘can be made‘ .0u,t_,of the commonest things; nor how much beautyiand pfcetryecan beugleaned by the wayside in: anY’count13y1¢0Wn.. Ittiswrittené in an 6385’. flowing style that entices the 1;'ea.de.r from the moment 1.19 takes it up, and he never thinks. of being suI‘Cha1‘g€d With heaviness so.1c.ng as there'are:any.pages to be turned over. It is a unique, «genteel, »g1'acef1J1.’l‘09ti0, indeed; 311’ 1313115‘ able book, and under covergof ,simpli,city anchfreshness, teabfles ,m,;,ny, axprofound lesson in .ph;il_osoph_y. <It:Will prove 13,0 rile a valuable addition to any library. . A Orders >- for any of? the above‘ ‘books sent to Woodllull & Claflin-I, box 3,791, N. Y; City, :wi11rec”eive prompt attention. 4'.’ ‘V? Wtll Kimball ‘please us ; addi'dé.i§, that wem,ay_.forward ailetter left in ourcagre for her, _ . I 1 A frrIn{ LANT,’,PE,TITION.‘ V The llfollowingisi the that :circulat_ed for the pardon of John, A. Lant. Although it is .not what we sho.uld.ha_ve. written for this ,purpose, it is nevertheless,’ suflicient. . ,Let all of our readers who,wou1djbe glad to see I Mr». Lantsrestored to his;fa»m,ily, send in their namesat once ‘tous; : ,\. , , .: .. . To His Excellency U.gS.l‘ Grant,-V: President of the United States.‘ We‘, your petitioners,‘ having received information that J chn A. Lant has, within-’the“'last‘itwo months, been tried. convicted and sentenced to eighteen 5m‘onth’s imprisonment at hard labor, and a fine ;- of -$500, in‘ the District Cou-irtlof the United States in Now York‘City,7 upon acharge of publishing obscenity and sending it through the miailsin his papercalled ’ the Toledo,S'Lm,‘3I1d,; be1i.ev—.1ns__.that ssid,1;-ant meant 110 harm. in publishing said . ..r, und 1211817 hi5 intent was Only to; ex’ er-cisie the freedom of speech andof the press, guaranteed *0. every American citizen: b9Ii9.V..ilJg th3t.L3m3’5 Paper 003', ta.'ineid'evenilcss ‘obscenity than every daily paper in New York and other cities’ has published month ‘after month, with-0ut.any action be‘i‘n‘g“takenI againstthem; believing that the animus of -the charge against Lant, the ’ persecution and ostracismhe hasreceived. arose from the fearless. expression . of his honest religiousconvictions; b91i0ViHg that 15119 POWGTS , of the United States and its courts should nct~be_cmp1oyed for this purpose ;believing it is too, far advanced in the nine— tecnth century for a infill in this 99.11l331111;i31,l793'r:°f 931' D3‘ ti 0,1,8 existence to be imprisoned and disgraced for the honest expregsionvof, and adherence’ to, whathe believes to be the truth ; and believing the punishment meted out to this worthy citizen is alreadyout of all propcrtionto any offense he has committed, we humbly pray your -Excellencyto pardon him out of the Penitentiary at Albany, N. Y., where he ‘is now confined at hard labor with felons, and to restore him to his needy Wife and little childr_en,,who are .suifering for the want of his aid and support. We are your hopeful petitioners.” ‘-4; 4 . _r 317*‘- FRAUDULENT MATERIVALIVZATIONS. I Editors :Wee7tly: .'i:n'a.n age of‘corruptioin,' fraludand excessive“ morbidness of a_cti'cn {know ing the eager _avid‘ity with which thousands are ‘now pursuing their. investigations in“ .ref—e‘ren‘ce» to?" the ~ genuineness of’ spirit materializatlons ; and“ also knowing the:su'sccptibility' of the maj ority. of ‘in-; ’ vestggm-,i,n.g minds to be deceived. by the-‘ charlatanism of many — so-called mcdiumsgin difl‘enent sectiens, of our cou_ntry.. I say, knowing a.1l.’.0hiS_..I.1;é61,iF:111¥;d‘1l7Y.l5° give to .1=.h.e..I.>ub1i°: through the. c01111Ii1,!.13/ Of. Y-OW‘ Vin‘-i..‘\5P5§‘i~!‘i-e1.1l‘="‘Pid: °.i.1'9u’i lating paper. 5; brieio1it1ii:ie‘té5f’né¥ éiperieeoa as W011 as other reliable pe1'son’s’..W1th,0D6H0f:t,h9/,1P9l5l7 noted. it set tllsrrliest promine1it,f of'thei matcrializing‘ '"meidi’um"s, ‘or the day.‘.l\Irs. ’ .hh'h'als‘tewart, of*Tcrrc’:Haut?e,"In‘d.7sr » ‘- Thifiigh the glowing ddscriptions' of her’ s‘ean'ces, as wi.dely published to the world, a"numbe'r’ of intelligent persons are dailyeattractcd to that city for tlIe’p’u»r:pos‘es ofinvestig ation, of which? number the writerwas one.’ Iwe ntithere with a gincel-e'desire.tl1al3 I miglltobtain some indubitable evidence, that disembodied,spi.rits, could, temporarily clothe ,thcm- . selves, with a materiality that 001.1161. successfully appesllto the human consciousness for a recognition; but after spend-z ing several days testing ,’the_ ‘alleged ‘phenomena, in the most A critical manner 'p'ossib1e,’under' the mostiimposed restrictions of the managing committee; closely observing numerously connected incidents, trivial and unnoticed by the superficial observer and .in3vestigator.} butlweighty in their cumulative power, especially when aided by clairvoyant powers, and re- ceiving. as I did, corroborative .testimony.from many other intelligent, critical and astute minds from the varied walks of life, I was ’c0nscientiously"fo'rced to the conviction that the . so-called materializations were fravuds,and;that ‘hundreds at- least hadtbeen the dupes-ofgan over-zealous credulity. ‘Tes- timony is not wanting to prove that this same medium was detected in fraud in the citypof Chicago previous to her ap- justice demahds.thsP imP°Btér8.9f.eve11xdescviption- should be.exp0S6dt0l1!9l1'iShl7.99ll§i31‘3ig¥1‘t§i013 of a sufiferins I>.u»b1i.c. ‘ and that the tihvfiboenfand 1,1n$41_1Sp.80ting.sh0u1d bewarned of the shtrés in their pathmso: inv.est.i.gation. , Th§3.dim'1ight' for the-soai10é;1TQ91il»I}¥éS91}1di%S,13116. possib.i1ity to most p;e.rs0I1_8t or discerning‘or,1jobOg¥1i@il1gg,lih9.,f€3t‘};1'Q$ of any .one_. in the cabinet, or on-the platform g,butfto,the_.,clear perceptions and} .,...1 mittal of fraud. This article is intended, and I hope may, place your many readers upon their guard when spending their time and means in the investigation of Spi.ritua_lism through so-called materializing mediums. The time has come when the false must be, and will be, sifted out from the true; and it is the duty of every truth—loving investigator to aid in the good work. Spiritualists, we askyou to come. to the rescue and reclaim the cause of Spiritualism from the damning influences of charlatanism now so prevalent. I herewith also inclose youga copy of a special declaration made by a number of worthy and credible witnesses, who do- sire the same to be widely published in the interests of Truth and of Humanity. Yours ever for the truth, , — A “ ‘ ‘ ' D. S. CAnwLLLua-nu. Tmmn HAUTE, Ind. Jan. 25,1876. We, the undersigned, residents of several states, having been attracted to this city for the purpose of investigating the truths of Spiritualism as demonstrated by the alleged facts of materializations reported as now transpiring through the mediumship of Mrs. Anna Stewart, of this city, do, after afull and ‘careful investigation extended ‘through several days, as far as privileges were granted, us /for examination-— ” no test conditionsbeing allowed—unhesitatingly declared to the world, that w.e honestly believe the so—ca11ed.m,ate.rial- . izations to be ,mere fabrications——a work of de_ceptio_n,—,- ' deserving , the condemnation of all true, honest and enlightened investigators. SW9 regret very much to be compelled to make this public statement, but the voice of Truth and of Justice demands it at our hands. and we cannot flinch from the duty imposed. The glorious truths and philosophy of Spiritualism so grandly portrayed in the ‘past, urge us to make this unpleasant declaration. D. S. Cadwallader, Wilmington, Del.; N. P. Stockbridge, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Mrs‘, H. Morse, State Lecturer of*Iowa; Ind.; W. R. Potter, Circleville, Ohio; 8. R. Fowler, Circle- vlile, Ohio; N. Kellenbérger, Chillicothe, Ohio; H. Fockler, Penn. unavoidably left, overtill next Week] EXTRACTS FROM A PRIVATE LETTER. “ I feel no ill effects from leaving on‘ tea, coffee, meats, at-,lo., but, on the contrary, I feelclearcr in mind and stronger to encounter the elements with which I have to contend. I am determined, with the help of ‘ the Invisible,’ to present my body a living sacriflce,.holy and acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service.’ ’_’ A. “ In my own family I am debarred the privilege of reading the WEEKLY. My would—bc master doesn’t approve ofvits doctrines, and why? Because ‘of the abomination that maketh desolate has been setup,’ and several years since ‘the daily sacrifice was taken away.’ Oh, how I pity such ignorance!” V ' 6 “ But I have formed a club, to whom I read from the WEEKLY every week, the interest in which is increasing.” A CORRESPONDENT says that the work of placing matrasscs in the jetty improvements of the Mississippi River, at New Orleans, is progressing. The matrasses, of course, are to catch the river when it falls.-—T¢legrdm. - Are they not rather to keep ships’ bottoms off‘ the bars? ._....j.__ IDOIIKPIRATE, under the vigorous schooling of the Telegram, managed yesterday to do two good things-—~to oppose redu- cing salaries, and to pitch heavily into that public nuisance Anthony Comstock. The unjust and foolish law that gives this petty tyrant chance and power should be promptly re- pealed.—Telegram, Washington, D. 0. Jan. 31, 187 6. Was’): HuBn0N, Washnington County, has a clergyman who, when a couple called on himnon Saturday night to be married ‘sold them to go home, live as husband and wife, and make their appearance‘ at church next day, and then come to him on Monday: and he‘ would marry them. . They did and he did.,-—Thc. Esemfrng Wt"scon.st‘/n, Milwaukee, Wis. A - . V = » THE LAWS CON CERNIN G- NEWSPAPERS. .1. Subscribers‘ who do not give express notice to the con- trary, are considered as wishing to continue their sjubscrlpp ‘tions.‘* A " ‘ n ' A L. I 2.,If subscribers wish their papers discontinued, publish- ers may continue to send themiuntil all arearages are paid. 3.”-If subscribers move to other places without informing the publisher, and the paper is sent to the former direction, they are held responTsible. Notice should always -be given of the removal. . p ' ' . 45.. If rsubscribtfrs neglect or refuse to takevtbeir papers from the _office_ or place to which they are" sent, they are held ,res,ponsib_le until they settle bills and give notice to'discon— t_'1nue._ , , A , ' _ , . y ,5. The courts have decided that refusing to take a paper from the office, or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is primdfacie evidence of intentional fraud. ‘ v , A 6. Any person who receives a. newspaper and makes use of it, whether he has ordered it or not, will be held in law to _be a subscriber." ’ ' . 7. If subscribers pay in advance, they are bound, to give no- tice to the publisher at the end of their time if they do not ‘rizedptolcontinueto send it, and the subscriber will be re- sponsible until an express notice, with payment of all ur- rears, is sent to the publisher. ” ' ‘ keen intuitions of many, detection is sure to follow the com- r Rjrarkinson, OshkoshfWis.; E. G. Thomas,’ Huntingdon, [We had prepared an'_,editoria1 upon this article, but it is ‘ , QMANY Buifalcnians would * like to have Woodhull return , and give us another»ta.lk.——Stmda2y Leader, i ‘wlsh‘to continue taking it; otherwise the publisher is autho- t ' l V , , , Three of any of the Speeches 500., or nine‘ for. . . . . 1 00 BUSINESS ‘NOTICES. DR. R. P. FELLOWS, the independent and p1=ogressive physician, is I successfully treating nervous and chronic dis?- neases all over the country by letter, as well as at his office at v "home, by his original system of practice, which omits all drugs and mineral medicines of both. old and n‘e_w,sch_ools. _Dr. Fellows has been steadily gaining upon the confidence of the public for the past eight years, during which time he has treated thousands of cases, cightylout of every hundred of which he has radically cured, while every case has been bone-' fitted. And at this moment he has patients in every State in the Union. 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W1: still mail our book, phamphlets and tracts-“Free Love,” “Mrs. Woodhull. and her Social Freedom,” “True and False Love,” “Open Letter to A. J. Davis,” “Letter to a Magdalen,” “God or no God,” “To My Atheistical Brothers,” including my Photo, for One Dollar. Can you favor me? Address Austin Kent, Stockholm St., Lawrence Co., New York. Box 44.. . POSTCRIPT TO A PRIVATE LETTER FROM AUSTIN KENT. >. “ It now looks as though I could never write more for the press. —I am extremely feeble. I deeply rejoice in Mrs. Woodhu1l’s success, and no one but~P.. Pillsbury has a better . right to rejoice, and in some respects, even he has*not_as good.” ‘Inlove, A. KENT,“ DAVIS’ BATTLE—AXE will contain a most momentous paper entitled “Shakerism and Shakerdom”—Human ‘Life Therein ; also i“ The Possible and Impossible of Community Life] on Earth;” also “The Death Struggle of Religious Liberty.” Any one of these articles will be worth the price of the paper. Sixty cents a year. A. Briggs Davis, editor. assisted by the most radical pens. Ind. Tract Society. Worcester, Mass., publishers. WHAT are the credentials of Glen”n’s Sulphur Soap? Firstly, it is indorsed by medical men as a disinfectant, deodorizer, and remedy for local diseases of the skin. Secondly, it is an admirable article for toilet use. Thirdly, it is inexpensive. Depot, Crittenton’s, N 0. 7 Sixth Avenue, New York City. . Paoeuuazssxvr; COMMUNIST, published monthly by the Pro- gressive Community, Cedar Vale, Chautauqua County, Kan- sas. Fifty cents per year. Three months, on trial, ten cents. Read it and learn of that life as it is. What is Communism? Read the above paper and learn. Specimen copy free.“ '3; ‘ I ' ’ The address of Nellie L. Davis, is 235 Washington street Salem, Mass. . ‘ » . PROF. ,LIsT1aR, the astrologist, can be consultediat his room N o. 319 Sixth avenue. Address by 1etter,-P. O. Box 4829. 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The sermons written in this way are readiwith perfect ease‘ by in- valids and those who for any cause are kept from church on Sunday. which fills a want oftenfelt by And’ altogether. if I could not procure another, I would not part with this machine for a thousand dollars; in fact, I think money is not,’ to be weighed against the relief of nerve and brain that it brings. Yours, very truly, ; ’ , JOHN ABBOTT FRENCH, , Pastor First Pres. Ch., Morristown, N. J . Every oneidesirous of escaping the drudgery of the pen is cordially invited to call at our store and learn to use the Type-Writer. Use of machines, paper and instructoiis FREE. All kinds of copying done upon the Type-Writer. Satisfaction guaranteed. . I ._ N DENSMORE, resr & 00., General Agents, 707 Broadway, N. Y. Orders filled by WOODHULL S5 CLAFLIN, P.O. Box "3791 l ‘A flew andjsluahle Work. VEHBISHANITY in THE BIBLE - Philosopl:§;%§cScience. DR. J. PILKINGTON, of California, has written a striking Pamphlet with the above title. A perusal of . its mass, of facts will better post and fortify the Lib- eral mind as to ecclesiastical pretensions and the per- secutions of the Church in all ages, than many a more bulky; and ambitious work. Liberal friend, no fitter work can be selected to hand to your bigoted neighbor of the Church than this instructive pamphlet. Anx- ious to spread the_truth, we have reduced the price of this work (whcih is elegantly, printed in clear type, on fine white paper), to twenly cents, postage 2 cents. 32 large pages. . ‘ INDEPENDENTTRACT SOCIETY. Pubhshers, Worcester, Mass. 1876. NEW.Bfl0KS. Chap. 30.——Sacred Cycles explaining the Advent of Woongnutn .2 CLAFI.IN"S." wfnnxtlr I876. “ SEXUAL FREEDOM;” Free Love and Free Lovers." NINE ESSAYS, . BY onxs. w. BENNETT. A first rate little work to go out among the in see. The arguments used are forcible. as The S. S. Jones School of Spiritualists have here the tables turned on them with tact and coolness. Read it by all means. Only 10c by Mail, IND. TRACT SOCIETY, Publishers, — Worcester, Mass. Victoria C. Woodhull. “ GOLDEN SEVNTENCES,” FROM HER OWN WRIT INGS. COMPILED BY SEWARD MITCHELL ‘N ’ This is printed on fine solid book paper, with bor- der, (8x12 inches) for framing. _ A Splendid Ornament; for the parlors of Radical Spiritualists. Sent, rolled, for 10c. Also What Constitutes A‘ True Reformer ‘? BY ‘SEWARD MITCHELL. A series of Golden Rules, which should be found on every man’s door—post. ' A few hundred only left. Sent for 3 cent stamp. IND. TRACT SOCIETY, Publishers, Worcester, Mass Catalogues free. THE WORLD’S . Sixteen Crueified Saviors; on, 01112151 /ANITY BEF any orrzarsr. CONTAINING N ew, Startling and Extraordinary Revelations ' in Religious History, which disclose the Oriental Origin. of all the _1)octrt'>rt‘es, Principles, Precepts and Miracles of the CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furnishing a ‘Key for unlocking 'fl'l.Cl7l-’_l/ of its Sacred Mysteries, besides comprismg the History of Sixteen Oriental Crucificd Gods. BY KERSEYHGRAVES. _ Author of “The Biography of Satan. ’’_and “ The Bible of Bibles ” (oom_7m'.sz'ng a descmptzon of . twenty Bibles.) ‘This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the field which he has chosen for it. The amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the varied information contained in it must have been severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—as will be seen by his tit.le—page and chapter-heiads——foliows ya definite line of research and argumenkto the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. C O -N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; Introduction; Address to the ' le C rgy.‘ _ Chap. 1.——Rival Claims of t e Saviors. Chap. 2.—Messianic Prophecies. « Chap. 3.—Prophccies by the figure of a Serpent. ' . Chap. 4.—-—Miracu1ous and Immaculate Conception of G d . A , C133. 5f)—Wirgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods.‘ Chap. 6.—4Stars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. , , _ _ Chap. 7.——Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the Infant S ' . , Chaai)‘f1§.r—The Twenty-fifth of December the Birthday of the Gods. _ Chap. 9.—-Titles of the Saviors. N Chap. 10.——The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birth. , ' N Chap. i1.—Christ’s Genealogy. ’ Chap. 12.—The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tigin in Infancy. _ _ _ , _ Chap._13.—-The aviors exhibit Early Proofs of D1- init . Clfap. Iv4.—The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.—-The Saviors are real Personages. 3 Chap. l6.~—Sixteen Saviors Crucified. _ Chap. 17.~—The Aphanasia, or; Darkness, at the Criici— fixion. - Chap. 18.—Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.—Resurrection of the Saviors. ’ Chap 20.—Reappearauce and Ascension. of the Sav- Cll(;.§'21.—The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe O . . Cha1p.gl2l'12'.—The Holy Ghost of Oriental Ori in. Chap. 23.——The Divine “ Word” of Orienta Origin. Chap. 24.-—The Trinity very anciently a current Hea- then Doctrine. _ ‘ Chap. 25.—Absolution, or the Confession of Sins, of Heathen Origin. . ‘ _ " Chap. 26.—Origin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. _ Chap. 2’7.———The Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen 0 ' ' . ' ChaIp:ghIS.—Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.-How Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. the Gods, the Master-key to the Divinity of Jesus Christ. I , Chap. 31.—Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systems: _ N _" Chap. 32.—Three Hundred and _Forty—six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna. Chap. 33.——Apollonius, Osiris and Magus as Gods. Chap. 34.—The Three Pillars of the Christian Faith- Miracles, ‘Prophecies and Precepts. _ Chap. 35.—Logical or Common-sense View of the Doc- " triee of Divine Incarnation. 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Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2115
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Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
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1876-03-18
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«- PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT: AUNTRAMMELED LIVES! ._?4 N.’ > , I BREAKING THE WAY ‘FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIQNS. Vol. XI.——No. 16.——Wl:o1e No. 276. NEVV YORK, MAR. 18, 1876. PRICE TEN CENTS. In the days of the voice of the seventh cmgel, the mystery of God shalt be fim'shed.——St. John the Divine. = —————4~+—-+—— THE WORK IN THE SOUTH. Dear Weekly——I am just from Galveston on my way North, and it is my pleasure to inform your readers, that, most un- expectedly to myself, I met Victoria in that city. We were stopping for two days in the same hotel, and 1 had to regret that fate would have it so that I was compelled to leave the city in the morning of the day she was to lecture at night. I have never seen Victoria. on the rostrum, and re- gard 1t as rather an ill stroke of fortune that deprived me of the rare opportunity when it was almost within my grasp. I have not seen her since my return from England. more than a year ago, when she was almost going through the valley of the shadow o... Show more«- PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT: AUNTRAMMELED LIVES! ._?4 N.’ > , I BREAKING THE WAY ‘FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIQNS. Vol. XI.——No. 16.——Wl:o1e No. 276. NEVV YORK, MAR. 18, 1876. PRICE TEN CENTS. In the days of the voice of the seventh cmgel, the mystery of God shalt be fim'shed.——St. John the Divine. = —————4~+—-+—— THE WORK IN THE SOUTH. Dear Weekly——I am just from Galveston on my way North, and it is my pleasure to inform your readers, that, most un- expectedly to myself, I met Victoria in that city. We were stopping for two days in the same hotel, and 1 had to regret that fate would have it so that I was compelled to leave the city in the morning of the day she was to lecture at night. I have never seen Victoria. on the rostrum, and re- gard 1t as rather an ill stroke of fortune that deprived me of the rare opportunity when it was almost within my grasp. I have not seen her since my return from England. more than a year ago, when she was almost going through the valley of the shadow of death, and when she was in the midst of the fire of persecution thrice heated. She seems in better health and spirits now, and well she may; for, what does not often fall to the lot of advanced thinkers, she is beginning to reap some reward of her efforts . She is coming into popular recognition all over the country. People are beginning to I earn that she had a purpose for the benefit of humanity in her exposure of the Beecher business, and the developments of that rather mixed affair have had a tend- ency to establish faith in Victoria Woodhull, despite all the machinery of Satan set in motion to bolster up Beecher, and to destroy her. Few of Mrs. Woodhull’s friends and admirers would have thought it expedient for her to betake herself and her “ pecu- liar” views into the South; it would have seemed too much like bearding the lion inlhis den. But her triumphant course thus far has proved that Southern chivalry is not dead, and that receptivity is not swallowed up by prejudice in Southern intelligence. She has been granted not only respectful hear- ing wherever she has appeared, but in most instances her reception has amounted to an ovation, as though the people have been surprised to find her an earnest, comely woman, telling them, with her heart upon her lips, plain truths about themselves in a plain and comprehensive manner. Especially has she taken the heart of the Southern woman by storm, for the fact of the inertia ‘of the women of this section has tended to make the upheaval all the more start- ling. If the Southern woman has been inactive, she has not been insensible; and the good seed Victoria is sowing is not falling upon barren soil here. Mrs. Stanton. to be sure, has been before her in this fruitful field; but, as l judge from what women tell me, she had not the courage to speak out to both sexes; she lectured privately to ladies when she had her most important sexual truths to utter. Not so!Vi'ctoria. She knows that any sexual truth concerns both sexes alike; and as she has no idea of vulgarity in the matter, and apprehends no necessity for mawkishness, she speaks what she has to say to both sexes at once, and, judging from the reports from all the cities of the South where she has appeared, she has had a fair attendance of both men and women. Southern women are not given to maw— kishness to a great extent; they are, after all, much more independent in manners and less under the petticoat govern- ment of Mrs. Grundy than their sisters in the North, conse- quently they have not hung back,f1'_om Victoria’s lectures for fear Mrs. Grundy would not be there. They have determined to hear her, and the consequence is they have accepted her on sight ;_ for they have not heard a word drop from her lips that was not G-od’s truth, requiring no stretch of faith or imagination to believe; truth that each womanly soul has experienced some degree of in her own individual existence Neither are the men of the South backward in extending the right hand of fellowship. Their chivalrous sense recog- nizes the true soul of woman in Victoria ‘Woodhull, and the innate manhood of the true Southern gentleman is quick to ‘respond. They, too, know the truth she speaks to their per- verted powers. Men are not so steeped in the debauchery of ages but theythank the woman, who, for the sake of pure manhood and womanhood,‘holds.them up a mirror wherein they can see the inmost part of themselves, “such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct.” While Victoria has it before her to imbue humanity with a. reverence for itself while she strives to teach the sacred uses of human functions, now, that she has gained patient hear- ing, she need not fear of meeting anywhere a less enthusias- tic welcome than the people of the South have accorded her. God speed her in the way of truth. ‘HELEN NASH. REASON, GOODNESS AND FIRMNESS. The inborn qualities of reason, goodness and firmness are the fundamental principles of a good mind. Goodness com-i prehends all virtues . Reason includes many kinds of ability. Firmness includes energy and courage. These three quali- ties are conscience, and they are refinements. They are natural education or self-education. Without them book- learning would be undigested and useless. They are what make a good citizen and good voter, even if the person has no book-learning, and is unableto read. The character is good and great according to the degree it has of these qualities. Without goodness there can be no real greatness or ability. The highest degree of reason, goodness and firmness is a great mind and noble character—a commander and statesman. In other words, it is the military character, which is the perfec- tion of the human mind. Greatness is ability and virtue in great things. War and statesmanship are the greatest things. iThe greatest general is the greatest statesman. History pre- sents great warriors as almost the only persons who have founded empires, been able lawglvers, and raised nations to greatness. True warriors are the truest friends to peacef‘ superior to prosperity as they are to adversity. They are least liable of all men to abuse power or wrongfully assume it. They are always friends to equality and to the laboring peo- ple. Heroism’ is the sublimity of goodness. N 0 man of true military character ever overthrew a good government or injured the cause of freedom. Julius Caesar did not. The Roman people had already lost their freedom through the corruption of luxury and unequal wealth, and the aristocracy had usurped the political power. Caesar took the power out of bad hands into his own. His death by the hand of Brutus was, no doubt, a loss to the Roman people instead of a benefit. Napoleon Bonaparte had no confidence in re- publican governments, and there he was right. He abolished the form of it in France, but maintained equality. With him merit alone was the only nobility or road to promotion. He ‘thoroughly despised aristocracy. Undoubtedly the absolute government of such a man would be better than a republic. Instead of being made Emperor he ought to have abolished all artificial government and given nature a chance to govern France. He would have been the greatest benefactor the world ever knew. Unmilitary characters, with armies at their command, have often overthrown republics, usurped the sovereign power and enslaved the people. Napoleon the Little was the opposite of a military character. an aristocrat and tyrant by nature. He destroyed two republics,that of France and that of Mexico. The kings of Europe are not military characters, and they keep down their subj acts with large standing armies.. To be at the head of an army is one thing, to be born a. military character is another thing- Previous experience in government affairs is not necessary to a statesman, nor is book—learning. Cromwell, we know, had superior abilities as a statesman. He raised England to a height of greatness that she never saw before nor since. If he was a great statesman. it follows that he was a great war- rior. Bonaparte’s ability as a statesman was equal to his military talents. While at St. Helena he said that his fame with posterity would rest not on his military achievments but on the code of laws he drew up for France. His goodness was ‘equal to his ability, although in some things he was very unwise. * Washington was not a military character and statesman- not a great man-—although an honest one. Winfield Scott was no general or statesman, and not much of a man. Grant is no military character or statesman. Wellington was not a military character nor a good man. In the war of the Rebel- lion the Union armies had but two genuine commanders within the knowledge of the writer: General Thomas and General Isaac J. Stevens. The United States have had but one President, Andrew Jackson; all the others were without efficiency in war or peace. Napoleon Bonaparte said that in all Italy, among a population of eighteen millions, he found only two men. Victoria 0. Woodhull comes near to being a military character. Garibaldi is a. true military character. His nobleness proves it. His enthusiasm of equality and en- thusiasm of truth prove his nobleness. He is a born enemy to aristocracy and priestcraft. ' The military character ‘is, extremely rare. It is doubtful whether more than oneznan in ten millions is one of them. 2 _/' Accordingly, very few persons can know and appreciate it, or distinguish who is one and who is not. The others judge only by success. People can comprehend only such persons as re’- semble ‘themselves. The parents of all true military men were superior persons. The writer of this comprehends it because he is one of them. His parents were the right kind of people for it. A chain of remarkable and adverse circum- stances, beginning in early youth, have alone prevented its display. These remarks concerning myself are addressed only to those who are worthy of them. They are only justice. People judge others according to what they are themselves. In that way I shall be judged by my readers. Aman’s opinion of others proves what he is himself. If we should “ see our- selves as others see us” we should appear to ourselves of different and contra colors. ‘ All examples in history agree with the decision of reason that generalship and statesmanship require the same qualities of mind. ELIPHALET KIMBALL. OXFORD, N. H. ..—.__— WINTER AND WOMAN’S nnnss. Friends of humanity, philosophers who can reason on a consistent method of robing the sacred and sensative human body, speak out your saving truths and lay them on the wings of the thousand steam—flying newspapers, that the wanting may catch them at every point. Men and women who are left sane and sensible amid the demoralizing customs of this knowing, but sinning age, be brave, if possible, now, for the need of your counsel and encouragement is great. Every winter many women contract. diseases that make life a linger- ing period of misery, by insufficient protection against in- clemc nt weather. This needless loss of health and happiness must continue till they are taught that petticoats are but loads, not protection; that they make exercise so tiresome that women are indisposed to it in winter; hence those hav- ing leisure lose force by inaction, and those laboring exhaust under the double burden of toil. and a. perplexing weight fastened to their forms, more tedious than any work. Science, natural laws, indicate the only remedy for all this weariness in weights and fetters, all this female debility and incapacity, all this lack of time and means for culture, art, and all high use. No standard exists for the form of clothing, but the form to be clothed. The nearer dress follows the form, and shows by the easy loosen ess of its fit that comfort and protection are- the objects sought, and decoration a ful dress must give full freedom of motion to every limb, full sway and swell to every limb, muscle and viscera. This can- not obtain in petticoats and corsets. Their use is unworthy present knowledge. iThe idea of healthful dress has so far reached the general mind that truth touching practicality can be understood without long explanations, and now, as ths cold season is come, and the more thoughtful of fashion’s devotees are advising necessary protection before style, let the truly-informed chime in with facts as to what is whole- some and adapted to the needs of the best development of womanhood. Women are awaiting the voice of the press and the people, many of them anxiously; not all are content in their physical bondage. An excellent feature of some of the city papers, the Tribune, for one.is an occasional, article daring to touch the topic of dress. As no reasonable approval or defence could be ofiered for recent styles, silence accompanied the floods of fashion plates. When a few will speak for women’s and children’s chilled and abused legs, philanthro- pists will rejoice. These writers advised calf boots and shoes, flannel drawers and canton ones over them, so that one light skirt would be enough. They probably see finally that skirts do little toward warming the body, especially the legs, and that trowsers or an equivalent is requisite beneath them. Several extra skirts cannot supply the need of one layer of fabric fitted to the leg; their size and weight but encumber and fatigue the poor carriers. Let this ‘be taught; and when they see that it is a vulgar education as ‘well as awicked fraud that has curtainedqand crippled the’ beautiful locomo- tive system, they will findit easy to drop" the shackles and move forth in grace and grandeur; elasticity of gait will take the place of heaviness, joy of spirit will supplant sadness, bloom of health will put to shame skin-destroying paints, and self-sustaining ability, bless them with something like realized independence. , . ~ MARY E. TILLOTSON. VINELAND, Dec. 1875. secondary idea, the nearer perfect it must be. A truly beauti- I YWOODHULLU as CLAll‘L*IN’S WEEKLY. FEB. 27th, 1876. Editor lVee7tly———One of the most rational financial dis- fserta-tions that I have'yet seen infiprint is that which appeared ‘in a recent number of your paper onthe question. Who pays the public expenses?” Similar to it was an editorial in the New York I-Iemld about the same time, headed “the bottom fact on whiskey. The former demonstrated the serious dis- ' advantages that grow out of an excessively stupid or wil- fully wicked, or both, financial‘system, while, the latter exhibited the woful and shameful results of party Vpolicy and class‘ legislation. To this journal (the Herald) great credit is due for having done more perhaps than any other within the last ten years in exposing and denouncing the wholesale land and money subsidies by Congress to railway and mail monopolies, and the national "banks, ‘whose system of business annually absorbs about fifty millions of the peoples’ money. ' With its party platforms and party measures, created in the interests of political aspirants, the country for the last thirty or forty years has been a house divided against itself, until finally its industries and business interests are threatened with disaster and general ruin. High tariff and bank notes on one side, with free trade and specie payments on the other, have been the cry; and these measures or principles, with their multifarious offshoots, have all been descanted upon by public speakers and writers, ad infinitum, according to their respective party predilections. Consequently,legislation in Congress and in the State capitals has been for the interests of the party in the as- cendent, whatever may have been the actual needs and requirements of the country at large; the policy having been in most cases to select men for. this purpose, who, though unlit either in ability or in moral, and patriotic principles, or both, were ready and willing to make a. party pledge, and obey the party behests. ‘Hence have arisen. all the bank, railway and other monopolies, with Credit Mobilier, whisky, canal and municipal contract thieves, whose chief object and aim have been to plunder as much as possible, and perpetuate party power. Financial essays innumerable have been writ- ten and published, and meetings have been called and held at public places like the Cooper Institute. Merchant’s EX- change, etc., here and elsewhere, at which our so—called leading and influential men have, discussed this and that measure relating to the tariff‘ and the currency, and yet they don’t seem to know that they are only trying to prune the upper twigs and branches, while the roots of the tree are being consumed by worms and dryrot. One morning last winter, when passing up Wall street, I was met by a fine, intelligent-looking man, who accosted me with the question, “What building is that?” I informed him it was the Custom House. He then asked if there wasn’t an Assay Office somewhere there? I told him Yes, and where it was. “ Well,” said he, “ they are great institu- tions, aint they? but they don’t seem to be of much use, while we out west, in California and thereabouts, produce fifty millions of gold and silver per annum, sixty or more millions are drained out of the country in the same time ‘for the benefit of foreign bondholders.” And with a swing of his hand as he passed along, he added, “ there must be a stop put to it before long.” I And he told no lie. When we abolish national pet banks and substitute for their. currency redeemable and exportable government greenbacks; shut down on government subsidies to railway and other monopolies; legislate a little for the interest and encouragement of the laboring classes who fur- nish all the golden eggs, and not so much for making the rich richer. and the poor poorer, so that enough gold and grain, cotton and wool may be produced to pay off the national debt some time or other; spend more money at home for what may be requisite, and less abroad in the way of fashionable distinction and aristocratic nonsense; put down all political sinecures and vampires, and hang all financial as well as horse thieves, then may we look for an era of renewed con- fidence and activity in all industrial and commercial in- terests. In these days of speculating combinations of middlemen and ‘forestallers, whose unrelenting exactions even for the necessaries of life are alike odious and oppressive, sumptuary laws should be enacted to protect the poor, if no others, from their rapacious aggressions. - The law of supply and demand is of no account in such respects. _ Then in order to avoid a recurrence of the savings-bank swindles which have afflicted the poorer people during the last few years, proper liabilities and penalties should be im- posed on all stockholders and officials of such institutions. History relates, that in China, about three hundred years ago, a swindling bank failure occurred. The result of it was, all the ofiicials of the institution were decapitated, and their heads thrown aside along with their waste and worthless papers. Since that time, financial failures, with appearances of fraud, have not been known in that particular country. The foreign bondholders and our national banks, which absorb ahundred millions annually of the peoples’ substance, are two great evils which neither a paper currency nor a. hard money system can abate; and while our law makers are igno- rant, selfish and venal, those malefic institutions will continue to be a drain upon our resources, and an insurmountable obstacle to our progress. Laws must be passed for the benefit of the many as well as the few, so that the already rich may not be specially made richer at the expense of the poor. And, unless something to this effect shall be accomplished, it will, indeed, seem as if “a bridle has already been put into men’s mouths causing them to err. , STYCA. CO—OPERATIVE HOTEL. I desire to obtain a hotel or suitable house in an accessi- ble, but not aristocratic, part of the city of New York, to be operated on the co-operative plan. ,1. The total rent of the hotel is to be levied upon all the rooms, public and private, according to the location and quality of the rooms, with five per cent. added to the total sum. * » ,_/_/ 2. The total rental of the public rooms is to be divided equally between the private rooms, ' 3. The restaurant and laundry is put to eo—operators at cost price with five per cent. added. 4. There will be no liquors sold on the premises, but cigars and tobacco may be sold in the restaurant. " 5. The government of the house will be under a master, who places each department under. its proper superinten- ’dent. I 6. All officers and agents will receive pay for services ren- dered, nothing for the ofliceor position. 7 The rules for the government of the house will be just as arbitrary as in any hotel. 8. All outsiders will be charged the usual city prices in the establishment. 9. All bills will be paid in advance.’ 10. Daily receipts will be cancelled by cheeks, receipt or vouc_hers with tlietreasurer at a stated hour each day. 11. At the end of each month, all dividends arising from the five per cent. margin and outside patronage will be di- vided among the co-operators in proportion to the amount each one has paid into the establishment. . 12. No party can become a co-operator for a less time than one month. - * 13. This is not intended to be ‘a money making, but a money saving, concern. All parties who can participate in this money saving con- cern willplease éorrespoiid with G. W. Madox, 29 Broadway, New York City, and, if an answer is required, enclose stamp. VVINTER. ' It is a chilly day. The sun hath hid Himself behind the clouds that vail the sky; There is no beam that warms the frigid fields; All that which once my gazing eye well pleased, Looks drear-aye, all the streams that late flowed on Throughmeadows decked with flowers and rattled oc’r Their pcbbly beds, coiyigeal and turn to ice. But just. above my dwelling climbs the smoke, And forms a haze outspread portending storm. The glowing flames that heat the fireplace hot, Scarce warmme; all is chill; the whistling winds Forewarn that soon the snow will fill the air, And whiten all the tract that stretches wide. The forest groans and utters forth such sounds As tell that winter wields his tyrant rod. Methinks he now comes forth with hoary head; I For ’mong the trees I see thick falling round, Like leaves in autumn, loosened by the wind, The flakes of snow that dress in white the ground. Oh, chilling potentate! thy coming stay; . Do hear my prayer; no more my limbs bcnumb. Ah, me! how ruthless; sure ’tis that amidst Bis blustering and storm he hearcth not! See here the dim horizon that, afore, The distance arched as far as eye could ken, Encircles less and less of far-off look. I hear a sound as if the storm ’s more fierce; ’Tis so; it comes and buries deep in banks The walls and fence that line the highway side, And herds and flocks, if chance they be unstsxlled. Whose lotit is to be abroad such time,. Must move with wary steps, else lose the way. See how the sleet blovs s on from drift to drift; Mark how the lawn appears deep-clad in snow; What change in landscape scene the storm doth make 1 The Wind, without a. lull, sweeps through the woods; Anon is heard its roar; then dismal noise Of creaking branches writhed and tossed in air; The tall old elm that high o’ertops my cot, Around whose trunk and limbs the frosts of years On years have wrapped a garb quite colorless, Bows down his lofty top, and seems to shake The snow from off his leafless, pendant boughs. Before my windows whirl the yellow leaves That fell from shrub and tree, incopse, or grove. The storm king regnant, rules in rage the hour, Full clad in royal robes of icy web, With locks all powdered o’er with crystal snow 1 Tie winter I lo, all nature hath a mcin That saddens, and an aspect void of cheer.‘, But why complain I thus of winter’s looks? The solar orb shall soon unvail itself, Effui gent rays again beam brightly forth, The distant hills once more in sight appear, The joyful jingling bells dispel the gloom, And all the town become a gladsome scene I —Dr. Horace ])7*e.9ser. C A NEVV OPPONENT TO THE THIRD TERM. For the last year there has been traveling through the South 2. Dr. J. W. Shiveley, said to be a Worsliipper of the Sun, alter the order of the old Fire ‘Worshippers, who is a self-nominated candidate for the succession. If there is not much method i.n his style, there is, nevertheless, some sound sense in”his method. VVherever he goes he talks to the people, and distributes his circulars, from which we extract the following as a curious evidence of “ truth in the rough:” PROCLAMATION. This is a copy of my New Banking System and my New Declaration of Independence, or bill of Human Rights, which I propose that we, the sovereign people of these United States, shall adopt as our campaign platform, for this, our Centennial Presidential Campaign of 1876; and as one of the free, independent sovereign people of these United States of America, I herewith issue this Proclamation to all the sovereign people, and call upon them to meet in -mass meet- ings in all the villages, towns and cities, on the first day of April, 1876, to ratify this Proclamation and my New Banking System and bill of Human Rights, and appoint delegates to meet in national convention in Chicago, on the first of June, or in Philadelphia, on the first of July, to nominate candi- Mar. is, 1375. dates for President and Vice-President; and this Proclama-, tion is unto all the sovereign people—-to the Jews and the Gentiles, Catholics and the Protestants, Spiritualists, Free Thinkers and Infidels; the Masons, Odd Fellows, Working Unions, Mechanics, Farmers and Grangers, all, male and female, to meet in mass meeting, on the first day of April, in this, our Centennial year, 1876,-——meet in national conven- tion to organize the sovereign people’s party, which shall be called the Universal Brotherhood of the Human Family or human race. And such it shall be. With the wise Old Shiva for president and for —— vice—president, victory is ours; and truth, justice, charity, love and mercy, humanity and honor bright shall rule and govern, and our new party shall be in truth, and fact, and deed, a universal brotherhood of the human family, unto which all the people ofthis earth can come into brotherhood with the sovereign people of these United States. Yours respectfully, J. .W. SHIVELEY. BILL OF RIGHTS AND NEW BANKING SYSTEM. Claiming the right of individual sovereignty for myself and for all the people of these United States of America. male and female. I herewith ofier myself as a candidate for President of the United States in 1876 upon the following great fu nda— mental principles of government: Individual sovereignty, equal rights, and universal liberty in all things for all per- sons, male and female. _ And as our fathers claimed in the Declaration of American Independence: ‘ “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all persons have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” and to secure these rights governments are insti- tuted by the people. - And we _hold that all ‘persons have an equal right to ‘the land and the water and the air, and to all the good things that they can gather therefrom by their own toil and labor; that they are the gifts of the Creator, the God of the Uni- iverse, unto all. And we hold that no person. nor any com- bination of persons, company or corporation shall claim or hold any lauds, only what they can cultivate or use for build- ing upon, or for manufacturing pursuits. And we hold that all this hue—and-cry about a specie basis and a specie pay~ ment is all a humbug and a swindle. ’ And we claim and hold that the only way to secure a true principle of finance that shall never change, never depreciate. is: Let the government of the people—the Government of these United States of America—-issue four or five hundred thousand millions of greenbacks, or one, two. or three billions of greenbacks, with the right and the power to make and in- crease it to five or ten billions, if the manufacturing and the business transactions of the people should call for so much. And let the Government of the United States issue "United States bonds to the same amount, with a law and interest at- tached to them, like the laws of the Medes and the Persians that never change. " With a law establishing banking houses in all the towns and cities, counties and villages throughout the United States, place the greenbacks and bonds in these banks, and ap— point agents to transact and do the business of these banks for the Government and people. and to loan out the green- backs to all persons who may want them, at an interest of from to 4% per cent. on the dollar to all who can give real estate, houses, and lots as security, or the bonds, and security of persons that have real estate to give; and all the agents of these banks must give real estate as security for all the green- backs and United States bonds placed in their banks. And any and all persons who get more greenbacks than they can use in their business or loan out to others at 3% to 4%- interest, can take them to the banks at any time and exchange them for the United States bonds, and draw 2% per cent. on the dollar for the full amount of the bonds, which they can return to the banks and get grcenbacks for again at any time. This will give the people plenty of money at all times, and a cheap and unchanging banking system, and will bring into the government of the people a sufiicient revenue to pay all the expenses of the Government, and kill off all the money rings, and gold corners, and financial explosions and smash- ups. The specie basis and the specie payment is all ahumbug and a swindle that all sane, sound, reasoning minds ought to be able to see and know to be; such gotten up expressly for the bulls and the bears of the money rings and money corners, money gamblers and finance smashers. . Yours respectfully, Pnor. J. W . SIIIVELEY. ALEXANDRIA, VA. BILL OF RIGHTS. ACADEMY or MUsIo, PHILADELPHIA, N ov. 16th, 187 . “A New Declaration of Independence of the Equal Rights and the Individual Sovereignty of all Mank1nd,,male and female.” By Prof. J. W. Shiveley, of Alexandria. Va. 1. “ We hold these trnths to be self-evident, that all man- kind ”——male and female——" are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights: that among these are life, liberty, individual sovereignty,” and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights gov- ernments are instituted by mankind, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. _ And whereas, the land, and the water, and the air, and the sunshine, and light are the free gifts of our Creator unto all mankind, male and female; family, male and female, are, and of right ought to be, free and individual sovereigns at the age of sixteen, with equal rights in all things—-in the land, and the water, and the air, and the sunshine; with equal political and civil rights before the law and in the courts: and the righ.t to vote and to be voted for, and to hold ofliice, and the right of free speech, and a free press, free religion and free love, and the right to work, and to get and hold property; and the right to love and to make love, and to enjoy that love with any and all persons consenting thereunto; the right to choose their own love- mates and husbands and wives, to marry and make their own marriage contracts, and the right to dissolve and repudiate them again, when they do not and cannot findlove and union, peace, enjoyment, contentment and happiness therein. 3. And whereas, according to the laws of nature and of nature’s God, woman ever has been, and must ever be, the mother of all mankind, and of woman, too, and must bear the pains, and the suffering, and the toil, and the care of mother- hood; Therefore, be it Resolved, That all motherhood shall be honorable and re- spectable, and the child shall be a legitimate child, and heir of the father and mother thereof, audthe father shall provide for the mother and the child in their helplessness. and for the support and the education of the child until the community or the State, or the child’s majority, shall relieve him there~ from. 4. And whereas, like ever produces like, and the infirmi- ties. diseases, dissipations, passions and the vices and crimes of the parents are ever visited upon their children unto the third and fourth generation. and we may safely say even unto the tenth and the twelfth generation; . Therefore, be it resolved, That the fathers and the mother of our children should be thoroughly educated, and young and healthy, and good and wise, and temperate in all things; and that it. is the duty of all parents, 0f_§:1_l communities, We therefore hold that every living soul of the human ’ - r" I ‘K I i I- Mar. 18, 1876. and of all States, and of all governments, and of the whole human family, to see that their children are all well provided for, and all well educated and thoroughly instructed in all the mysteries of life and health, disease and death, and the great mystery and love of the sexes; and the time to love and to make love, and how to select and choose love mates, husbands and wives, and to marry and make marriage con- tracts, and the enjoyments, duties and the responsibilities thereof; and how and when to dissolve and repudiate those marriage contracts, when union, love, enjoyment, content- ment. peace and happiness do not come and abide therewith. 5. Andwhereas, according to nature or nature’s laws, we believe that at the time and age of puberty, say from four- teen to sixteen years of age, is the proper time to love and . to make love, and to choose love mates, husbands and wives, and .to marry and to make marriage contracts; ’ Therefore, be it resolved, That it is the duty of all parents, and of tall communities and of all States and all govern- ments, and of the whole human family, to provide all their young men and young women with homes, and means, and husbands and wives of their own choosing, and a good trade or some profession, or a. legitimate honorable business of some kind, so that all the young men and young women of the coming ages shall have a fair and an equal start in the race of life. " 6. And whereas, we believe that the rights,‘duties and responsibilities claimed and set forth in the above preamble and resolutions are inalienable rights, duties and responsi- bilities, and universal, fundamental truths, bright and pure and spotless as the Sun of Light, and believing that it is in and through and by these means alone that the human family, the human race, may be and can be purged and purified, redeemed and saved from its present degraded, demoralized. corrupt condition, and from the dissipation, prostitution, vice and‘ crime, disease, suffering and the un- timely death of the present day and age; and seeing a bright and glorious future, and eternal life and health and youth and happiness and Heaven and Paradise, for the whole human family, in these inalienable rights, duties and respon- sibilities,- and great, universal, fundamental truths and principles being adopted and faithfully carried out, and lived up to by the whole human family,— Appealing to the God of the Universe for the rectitude of our belief and of our acts, we hereunto set our names, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honors. So help us, thou . Sun of Light, our Creator, the God of all Light and of all Life. and the G-iver of all the good things that we have and enjoy here in this life upon the face of this. our good old Mother Earth. PROF. J .,W. SHIVELEY. W'HO PAYS THE EXPENSES? Under the above heading appears an article in your paper issued February 26th, containing so much truth, and at the same time so much error, that I am constrained to reply to that part which appears to me an unwarranted assump- tion, viz: “Is it any wonder, then, that the bond holders and money lenders are unanimously in favor of retiring the greenbacks and issuing more national currency? If there were 9,’51,000,000,000 more national currencyissued, they would draw from the industrial classes $60,000,000 or more per an- num as interest, because if this currency were issued the banks would have to deposit that much in bonds with the Treasury, on which they would draw $30,000,000 from the Government, and then they would loan the currency for as much more.” . First. I would say from positive knowledge, that the money lenders and bond holders are not unanimously in favor of retiring the greenbacks and issuing more national‘ currency. On the contrary, many of them, and I think, a large majority of the people above referred to, are strenu- ously opposed to reducing the greenbacks below such a point as will place them at par with gold. As to‘ the proposition to increase the currency one billion dollars, I believe that if our currency, or demand obligations, whether issued by Government or national banks, should be increased to that \ figure they would not be worth the paper they were printed 0111. It is generally conceded by the best financiers in the country that the national banks have already more currency than they can profitably, and at the same time safely, float; as an evidence of this fact, an examination of the report of the Comptroller of the Currency for the year 1875, shows that during the last year a great many national banks, from all parts of the country, have voluntarily thrown up their charters, sold their bonds and retired their currency, be- cause there was no longer any profit in keeping the same. Within the last Week one of the strongest banks in this city, at a meeting of their directors, unanimously resolved to withdraw from circulation one-half of their entire issue, and the probabilities are that the balance will be taken in within the coming year. Second. If the national bank circulation should be in- creased, wo are told that the taxes would also be increased, because the banks would have to deposit the same amount of bonds with the Government, on which they would draw in- terest. The fallacy of this kind of reasoning becomes apparent when we consider the fact that these Government bonds were not created for the especial accommodation of the na- tional banks, or for any other holder of the same, but, like all other evidences of indebtedness, they were given for the benefit of the debtor. During the war this Government got out of money; the people,” including «most all capitalists banks and bankers and particularly savings banks, who held largely the savings of the poor, came forward and loaned to the United States Government, taking in exchange the Gov- ernment promises to pay at a fixed time (or at the pleasure- of the debtor at any time before maturity), and at a fixed rate of interest, mostly payable in coin. From time to time ‘ many of these promises, or Government bonds, have changed hands and have been sold in the open market, as the people could agree, like all other evidences of debt. When the national banks went into operation, like other investors, their managers went into the open market and bought their bonds at theirpmarket value, and deposited them with the Treasury as collateral security to their circu- lation. A The Government is justly indebted to the holder of its bonds for their face value and the interest as it becomes due, consequently it is immaterial whether such interest be paid to banker, broker, or private individual. It the national banks derive a bBl.lE3_f_li3 from the Govern- ment for their charter, or circulation, we should remember that they pay back to the Government and to the people in extra taxes fully as much as such benefits are worth, and many of our best and most practical financiers think a great deal more, otherwise they would not surrender their national bank charters and reorganize into State banks, as -they are doing all over the country. The third and last proposition which I shall now consider is, “ Let the manufacturers exert . their influence with Congress to have the national bank act repealed, and the Government to issue greenbacks enough to pay ofl the bonded debt and stop the immense interest.” Before issuing the two billions of greenbacks necessary to pay oif the bonded debt, let us stop to inquire what are green- backs ? « Strictly speaking, greenbacks are paper evidences of in- debtedness, which the United States Government has forced the people within the limits of said Government to accept at par in payment of all debts (except duties on imports and interest on the public de_bt), contracted prior to the issue of such greenbacks. Although they have been and are still received as a iegal tender, yet they have never passed for a single day at par, except in the paymentof debts contracted before they were issued. All subsequent contracts have been made upon a basis of the specie value of greonbacks. During the late war we have seen gold quoted at a pre- mium varying from one per cent. to nearly three hundred per cent. But this is not true. Gold has remained compara- tively stationary, having fluctuated less than any other known commodity; and for this very reason gold has been selected by all nations of the globe as a standard measure of values or medium of exchange. Greenbacks have fiuctuated in value during the last twelve years all the way from ninety-one cents down to thirty-five cents on the dollar; hence, to attempt to measure values with greenbacks, with out having a fixed price for the greenbacks in gold or some other commodity which the world recognizes, is as uncertain as to attempt to measure land or cloth with a rubber string- It is a fact acknowledged by the world, that the present dis- count on our greenbacks is because the United States Gov- ernment is at present unable to redeem them at par in gold. By comparing the average‘ price of greenbacks in gold with the volume of such greenbacks in circulation during the last twelve years, we find that an increase of the same has always caused them to be worthless on the dollar, while a decrease of the greenbacks has always enhanced their value. To pay off the present bonded indebtedness of the United States in greenbacks, is simply to ask the present holdersof said bonds, both at home and abroad, to surrender a Govern- ment promise to pay at a particular time a specified sum of money (not paper), with interest, at a specified rate per cent. 7 payable semi-annually in gold, for a paper promise to pay in paper at no particular time. and without interest, redeema- ble only in paper promises to pay. Really, is this anything more or less than simply repudia- tion? J. W. T. SYRACUSE, Feb. 2:2, 1876. ‘ BITS OF FUN. “COURTSHIP is bliss,” said an ardent young man. “Yes, and matrimony is blister,,’ snarled an old bachelor. SOME people think Tweed is still in the city. We think he’s still wherever he is.--Commercial Advertiser. Ir is said‘ that some people have what is called “spon- taneity,” and some haven’t; bub n0b0dV ever sat down on a pincushion yet without manifesting something surprisingly like it.—Brook:lyn Argus. A Sr. LOUIS dentist has mysteriously disappeared. He probably lost his balance and fell in while fixing some St, Louis girl’s teeth.—Chz'cago Times. . A DARKEY who was stooping to wash his hands in a creek, didn’t notice the peculiar actions of a goat just behind him, so when he scrambled out of the water and was asked how it happened, he answered, “ I dunno ’zactly; butdpeared ag gf de shore kinder h’isted and frowed me.” PIoUs old party—-“And now, Mrs. Stubbins, I’ve one im- portant question to ask. Does not Satan ofttimes tell you that you are not a Christian?” Mrs. Stubbins——“ Yes, ’ee do so.” P. O. P.——“And what say you to him on these occa- sions?” Mrs. S.—-—“ W611, 1 8337. Whether I be or no, it can't possibly be none of his business.”—-—Lo‘ndon Fun “IT is not our fault,” says a Milwaukee editor, “that we are red—headed and small, and the next time that one of those overgrown rural roosters in a ball-room reaches down for our head and suggests that some fellow has lost a rose- bud out of his buttonhole, there will be trouble.” BUNNELL, of the Danville Advertiser, has been compelled to abandon his type-writer and return to the goose quill and lead pencil. His ideas—the scintillations of genius, so to speak—flowed so rapidly through the type-writer that they set the machine on fire; and the insurance men threatened to treble his rates if he didn’t stop using it.—-Lyons, (N, 17,) Republican. I “ BENJAMIN,” shouted Mrs. Toodles to her husband, who was going out at the gate, “ bring me up five cents worth of snuff when you come.” “ Snuff, Mrs. Toodles, snuff?” he ejaculated, as he paused with his hand on the latch; “No, no, Mrs. Toodles, the times are too hard to admit of such ex- travagance; you must tickle your nose with a straw when you want to sneeze.——Fulton Times. ' SCENE in’ a Green Bay, ‘Wisconsin, police court, Justice Westman presiding. Several gamblers were under examina- tion, and one Of the Witnesses was questioned about what he knew of gambling in the saloons in town. Yes, he had seen gambling going on in most of them. “ Well, one for in- stance ?" “I. have seen‘ men gambling in the Old York Saloon.” “ “What were the stakes?” “ They were a horse on one side and money on the other.” “Well, which won?” I “J udge.Westman won the horse.” Peremptory command from the bench——.“-'l.‘here, that will do; this examination is reaching into too wide a range altogethcfl’. . ' WOODHULL s CLAFLIWN’S‘WEEKLY.. 3 EDITORIAL’ NOTICES. WE have received from Mrs. L. M. Heath a prospectus of the “Potomac Co—operative Colony and Medical University,” to be located at Free Stone Heights, Prince William County, Va., but too late for extended notice in this number. We can say merely now that it is a grand enterprise. A CONVENTION of the New England Free Love League will be held in Boston, March 26th and 27th. Truly YOUTS. <_E. H. HEYWOOD. 2 THE Spiritualists of Rockford have lately organized (for lectures, etc., each Sunday) onafree platform. Our cause seems to be in a very prosperous condition. Our lectures are attended by crowds of the most intelligent and thinking people in the city, and our last Convention was the best our. Society has had in Northern Illinois since it was organized. Not one word was uttered during the whole Convention‘ against a free platform. They nearly all admit that the question of most interest to humanity is the Social Question. Lecturers desiring engagements can address either COL. E. SMITH, A. H. FISHER, or FRED. H. BARNARD, the Committee appointed to provide speakers for next six months. .._.____. A THE INDIANAPOLIS SUN.——The leading independent reform weekly political newspaper in the Union, the special advocate of national legal tender paper money (thegreenback system) as against bank issues on the gold basis fallacy, and the-inter cliangeable currency bond as against the high gold interest bond. The Sun.has‘a»corps of able corresipndents, the most eminent political economists of _the age, One page , devoted entirely to agriculture. Miscellany of the choicest selection, adapted to all classes of readers. The latest general news and market reports. Terms, $1.75 per year, postpaid Sample copies and terms to agents sent free on appcatiou Address Indi~anapolis'S1.mCompany. Indianapolis, Ind. comprisin- __.__.._._. m.Ed'£t0'rs Weekly-Please ‘announce that I will send copies of the report of the mass meeting at Cooper Institute, contain- ing the addresses, resolutions, etc., in full to any friends in any part of the country who desire to learn our views on labor and finance, and who will send for them to W. A. A Oarsey, 402 West Fifty-first street, New York City. A INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AND CO—OPERATIVE . I ‘ COLON Y’ Having our plans fully perfected, location selected, and one of the most beautiful and attractive sites secured,—on which to establish a thoroughly practical school, and operative colony of advanced and progressive associates-— we would announce to all who are desirous of co-operating with us in such an enterprise, that we will send them a cir- cular containing full information, in regard to plan, terms, etc., if they will send us name, post and a postage stamp. - a 00;" MRS. L. M. HEATH, ' West Newton, Pa. ALL persons sufi’ering from the Asthma, should send for Dr. R. P. Fellows’ Great Indian Asthma Remedy. Mrs. Ellen Dickinson, of Vineland N. J. speaks of it in these terms. “I have suffered with the Asthma, for thirty years during which time Ihave tried all known remedies to no purpose, but now after resorting to Dr. Fellows’ Asthma Remedy, I am perfectly relieved.” Sent to any part of the globe on receipt. of $1 per package. Address Vineland, N. J , I SPIRITUAL CHURCH or THE Goon SAMARITANS, ing the J esus Christ principles as their foundation, at’ the hall in the rear of Charter Oak Hall, San Cal., Sundays at 11, 2:30, 7 P. M. cey Barnes and others. I recogniz- will meet Francisco, Services by Rev. Dr. Chaun- Loxs WAISBROOKER can be addressed till fur Room 22, Western Hotel, Sacramento, Cal. ‘ Friends visiting the city are invited to call. ceive subscriptions for the WEEKLY, ther notice, She will re- THE Northern Illinois Association of S its 15th quarterly meeting in Grow’s Op Madison street, Chicago, Ill., beginnin 10th, 1876, and ending Sunday evening the 12th--a three days’ meeting. Eminent speakers, singers, and test mediums are engaged, among whom are Susey M. Johnson, Dr. Juliet I-I. Severance, Capt. H. H. Brown, and others. Let the Spiritualists of the Northwest turn out and make the Second Grand Centennial Meeting of 1876 a success. Our platform is free, on which all subjects germain to humanity may be discussed with due regard to the use of language. ' O. J. HOWARD, President. E. V. WILsoN, Secretary. piritualists will hold era House, 517 West g On Friday, March ' LOMBARD, Ill., Feb. 10, 1876. 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Ofilce.111 Nassau Street, Room 9. death.—Jesus. fig him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the hi en manna.-—-St. John the Divine. ’ That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life- time subject to bondage.——Paul. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hy- pocrisy.———James, iii., 17. And these signs shall follow them: In my ‘name shall they cast out devils; 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.—Jesus. 0 x 1 1 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAR. 18, 1876. g . r WE are prepared to furnish a few hundred complete sets of the first series of Bible Articles consisting of fifteen num- bers of the WEEKLY, for one dollar, postage paid. Our friends should lose no opportunity to bring these articles to the attention of those whom they can interest. A careful study of all of them is necessary to a complete understand- s _ ing of the great and all-important truth that is yet to be re- vealed; which must be carefully and judiciously brought be- fore the world, as the sun comes upon it, bringing first the break-of-day, next its dawn, and afterward its full meridian splendor. THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; on, THE SIX-POINTED smn IN run EAST. For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship him.——S'r. MATTHEW, ii., 2. g:2.'”r-rv"_ . . 5 3 ; \/7 / This figure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the’WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and ‘the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been introduced, but w/hich,.defined in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself We adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future work FRADULENT MATERIALIZATIONS. We have a dozen or more articles which have been received from time to time since the phenomena of materializations began to occur, which are called expositions of mediumistic frauds. We have never published any of them, although some of them bear the signatures of highly respected and wholly responsible people; people who would not bear false witness, and who, with all, are deeply interested in Spiritual manifestations, and would have been glad to have given their testimony upon the opposite side in these mat- ters. We have refrained from taking any position which might be called one of warfare against any class of mediums, knowing too well what are the influences under which all mediums, necessarily, may be brought; for, to be a medium, in the popular sense, especially to be a public medium for tests, presupposes a variety of influences and conditions, against which the individuality of mediums, let it be as strongly honest as it may, cannot always stand. It is not necessary to go into detail to show what may be the inducements to produce manifestations, where they do not come otherwise. They will suggest themselves to every Spiritualist, and probably have done so to all of any depth of mind at all, or of any considerable breadth of under-. standing and observation. If there is a class of people en- titledto the enlightened consideration of considerate people, that class is the so-called mediums. We have always re- cognized this, and have never, in any way, pursued so- called frauds. But while we have not done this, when it was evident that frauds lrad been perpetrated, neither have we attempted to build up;_or uphold them, as has been true of some Spiritualists and their journals. Our personal experience ‘ among mediums, especially those claiming Amaterializing power, has not been small. It is true that we have never been to Moravia or to the “Eddys;” but our experiences outside of them have been uniformly of one kind, and that not favorable for the reality of the manifestations. We have not hesitated to affirm constantly, and we have so stated editorially, that a fully materialized spirit is as yet an impossibility, because the conditions in which it is possible to fully materialize do not yet exist. Materializations are produced by natural means, under the guidance of law, and we have been shown what that law is. We do not deny that there have been partial materializations, say of the hand, face or arm; but we must confess that we have never seen them occur in the presence of mediums for so-called materializations, although we have been frequently invited to see them. We are sorry to say it, but our regard for the truth compels us to do so, that, if we have any spirit sight at all, all the manifestations called materializations, that we havefwitnessed were not what they purported to be. We have been led to refer to this matter at the present time by a communication which we published last week, signed by Mr. Cadwallader etal. We know Mr. Cadwallader to be an honest, conscientious man; one who is an earnest seeker after truth, and who would not lend himself to anything of this kind if he were _not thoroughly satisfied that he is right; and neither he nor those with whom his name appears, was at Terre Haute to expose Mrs. Stewart. They were there at great expense to themselves to obtain satisfactory evidence that materializations are a fact. And their observations were conducted as friends to the medium and not as “exposers” of frauds. But for our reason for saying now what, we do, and for departing from our usual practice regarding mediums. We were once present at a seance where this same Mrs. Stewart (or at least‘, we suppose her to be the same, the one to whom we refer being the Mrs. Stewart for whom Mr. Pence, of Terre Haute, had for some time vouched, by an offer of $1,000 to any one who would demonstrate that her material- izations were fraudulent) was completely‘ exposed, and where she admitted to the assemblage that her manifesta- tions were fraudulent. We have been appealed to by several who were present at that time to make the facts public, but, for the reason before given, we have never felt like doing so until now. This scene occurred during the sessions of the Convention in Chicago in September, 1873. The room in which Mrs. Stewart was holding -;_ her seances was in the same block of buildings in which G1'ow’s Opera House is located. Those who were managing the seance urged us to attend and superintend the preparations. We objected and said that they would be sorry if they pressed us; that we had no wish to interfere with their arrangements, but if they insisted, we would do as they wished. There were some forty per- sons present, many of them well-known names in Spirit- ualistic circles, and some from Terre Haute, where Mrs. Stewart is staying, contrary to her promise at that time,_ carrying on her trade. It is not necessary to go into the details, but, suffice it to say that the seance ended as stated above, with a complete exposition of its fraudulent char- acter, and the production to the astonished gaze of all present of all the paraphanalia with which she had pro- duced several_difi'erent spirit forms, who were recognized bysome of those present astheir friends from the spirit world. If we remember correctly, no form was produced but what was required by some one as a spirit ‘;friend or relation. When the fraud had proceeded sufficiently to make it palpable to all present, the cabinet was upset and the medium seen plainly personating the last spirit with all the mechanical appliances that was necessary upon her; and all those that had been recognized to produce the pre- ceding spirits also about her. She acknowledged the fraud and promised faithfully that she would never practice deception again. Mr. Pence and the other Terre Haute P9°P1e,Who are keeping her to humbug the public and in- ducing people to go to the expense of a long journey to pay her money for what, we have no doubt, are the same mani- festations that she presented in Chicago, are the responsible Parties in this business now, because knowing what occurred at Chicago, it will hardly be good logic for them to say that, While the Chicago manifestations were fraudulent, those which she produces now are genuine. In the present state of this case we do not see how those Spiritualists from Terre Haute who were present and saw the exposition at Chicago can any longer be parties to this fraud, which by their silence they become; nor how they can stand by and see the promise Mrs. Stewart made them at Chicago, daily broken. ‘ [Just as we are going to press a letter is received from one of “ the three,” who now vouch for and defend Mrs. Stewart, who was at the Chicago ercpose. This letter ac- knowledges that that was a fraud. We take this OPPO1" tunity to say that we cannot be intimidated from speaking on a matter in which we have at last felt it to be a duty to speak. Having received this letter, we shall have more to say about this questionable business next week, since they have felt it to be necessary to resort to such means to seal our lips. In the meantime, will these who were present- at Chicago, under whose notice this may fall, please corn- municate with us] D--4 .—>——4 EDITORIALLY PERSONAL. VVc are obliged this week, to goto press without our usual editorial matter. The editor—in-chief, still absent in Texas, though lecturing only occasionally, has failed to send any- thing; or, if she has not, it has failed to arrive. The managing editor has been temporarily disabled from duty by a surgical operationfor an old injury received while in the army, which could not be longer neglected with impunity. He will probably be at his post in time for next week’s issue. A new series of Bible exigeses, more searching and approach- ing nearer to the vital points than anything /previously given, will be begun in the next paper, which will also con- tain reviews of several articles in the present number. ——-———————>—4Q>——<——————- LIFE-SIZE LITHO GRAPH. ._._.. We are now prepared to fill all orders for life-size litho- graphs of Victoria C. Woodhull, from the lithographic establishment of Armstrong & Co., of Boston, Mass. They are splendid pictures, both as a work of art and as like- nesses. They are printed on heavy paper 20 X24 inches, and specially adapted for framing. They will -be sent post- paid, securely wrapped to guard against damage, to any address for 50 cents. The common price of lithographs of this size is $2 ; but we have arranged with the publisher to furnish them in large quantities at such rates that they can be resold at the price named without loss to us. They are thus put within the means and reach of everybody who desires to have a splendid life-size portrait of the Editor-in- Chief of the WEEKLY, who has devoted her life wholly to the inauguration of a new dispensation on earth, in which misery, vice and crime shall have no place. In reply to many letters asking for " dealer’s terms” we would say that the lithographs may be ordered by express by the half dozen, dozen, or more at 40 cents, the usual price, less the postage. In explanation of the delay that has occurred in sending lithographs we would say that the third edition has been delayed, but will be received within a day or two, when all orders will be filled.—[MANAGING EDITOR]. 4‘ 4 7 iv’ . THE GARDEN OF EDEN. The paper edition of this oration is exhausted; but we have prepared a pamphlet edition, which, to meet the extraordinary demand that has been made for the paper, we will furnish in lots of ten at $1; or more at sarnerate. THE SPIRITUALIST AT WORK. No. 13 of Vol. II of E. V. Wilson’s paper is on our table. He has experienced the same. difficulty that all new papers in reform encounter. He tells frankly what his difficulty is: llfant of a sufficient number of prompt paying subscribers. The Spiritualist at Work is a good paper; a, much better and we should be sorry to have it fail for want of support. Besides it is getting to be something more than a Spiritualist at work, after the style of those who declare the social re- lations not germane to Spiritualism, as will be seen by the following declaration of faith which we copy from the last number: We believe in monogamy, or marriage, but hold that mar- riage grants no rights to one contracting party not shared by the other. The husband has no right whatever to coerce sex- ual relations with his wife, under the marriage contract. The relation between-husband and wife must be governed by love, not lust, and whenever a woman holds sexual relations with her husband against her wish, will and desire, she is guilty of adultery, and whenever a man consooiates with his wife paper now than it was when it first made its appearance, . r)\ U .““)1’\_ m! U Mar. 18, 1876. WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. 5 against her will, or coerces her into sexual relations, he should be tried for rape by the laws of the land. The true marriage, the true family compact, must rest on the law of love. Children begotten outside of this law are unnatural results, and in violation of law. Our motto, one woman and one man, under contract to live ' sacredly for each other. All of their acts governed by and through love, and any condition outside of this is irregular and ofiensive to good society, to law, love and order. Men and women, under these conditions, will not have a wife in one place, a mistress in another, and afiinities in every town they may happen to be. Let us have a. true marriage under law, founded on love, and then there will be no need of divorce courts. We hope that Mr. Wilson may sometime see that, where there is law without love, lust is the legitimate result. If love should be the dominant quality in marriage, then law should be made dependent upon love; but the present law andlpractice is precisely the reverse of this, and gives the husband the legal right to assault the wife, and there is no law of which she can take advantage to defend herself. The Spiritualists of the great Northwest should see that the Spirizzoalist at Work does not faint by the way. POST OFFICE REFORMS. / T0 the Editors of the Weelcly :- I , Permit me to call the attention of your readers to a letter on the above subject, copied from the Bayside Ifomet. It -contains an endorsement of the position taken by the WEEKLY, and will form a prelude to further reflections I propose to make on the subject. It is as follows: “I am a poor man, and have little time to spare for literary pursuits. I purchase the few periodicals I read at news stores, and receive none through the public mail. Sometimes, how- ever, I send letters through the post, and Uncle Sam carries them for me, charging me, for such service, three cents per half ounce. I understand that he distributes vast quantities of matter in printed form, issued weekly or oftener, by petted publishers and newspaper proprietors, at two cents per pound, while, for my letters, he demands ninety—six cents, or thirty- two times more from me than from them for a similar service. This may seem just to my servants at Washington, but, from my standpoint, it has a very different aspect, therefore I feel justified in writing this letter complaining of governmental partiality in the case above mentioned. For the life of me I cannot perceive why I, and thousands, if not millions of poor men like myself, should be assessed for the benefit of rich publishers; neither can I admit the immoral claim of Congress to make invidious distinctions in the mail service between rich and poor American citizens. and to tax the latter for the benefit of the former. For my- self, I never pass a large publishing house but I mentally calculate how many of the bricks of which it is built have been paid for by the proceeds of the governmental robbery practiced upon me. And, while I censure Congress for such wrong doing, I also deplore the meanness of the wealthy knaves who are willing to accept the results of such legisla- tivepilferings, and who do not feel called on by their honor to repel the proffered favor with contempt and scorn. For surely it would be more excusable for publishers to solicit aims in the public streets of our cities (for What they would then obtain from the poor would be gratuitously given) than to revel, as many of them now do, in luxuries obtained by such high-handed legal robbery. . Of course, I shall be set down by unthinking people as an “ignoramus” for writing this letter. Such will say, “Why, the man wants to stop the spread of enlightenment among us;” but I dispute the truth of such statement. I assert, on the contrary, that now most of our daily papers are engaged in spreading crime among us, and that their columns are now largely monopolized by the doings of the idle, vicious and criminal classes. As to the fancy periodicals, I fail to per- ceive in them any improvement on the light literature of the past, and do not hesitate to declare that most of their tales of fiction tend more to the derangement and demoralization of society than its improvement. v I admit that, at rare intervals, such papers publish praiseworthy articles, butI claim that their general drift is evil, and that their instructions mainly tend to generate vice and crime among our people. But, were they all new translations of the Bible instead of ne wspapers. the excellence of their contents would form no ground of justification for my oppression, nor sanction the tyrannical action of Congress in robbing me for the purpose of sending other peopie’s goods at my expense through the public mails. I repeat, at my expense, because it. is manifest that my res- pected relative, Uncle Sam, finding the carrying of goods for publishers at two cents apound a profitless business, taxes me three thousand one hundred per cent. more than he does them, in order to make up the deficit in his exchequer. This I object to as being reprehensibleboth in its economical and moral aspects. while politically it is unworthy of longer toleiation in our Republic. Yours respectfully, , PETER POSITIVE.” I confess I like the directness of Peter's argument, and can find no inaccuracy in his reasonings. This being so, I propose to enforce the position he has taken. Out of the primal in- justice practiced by Congress in making the discrimination complained of, has sprung of late the system of postal espionage, instituted by Congress, and committed by it to the charge of agents of the Y. M. C. A. alias the modern American Inquisition. By such means the proprietors of the WEEKLY have been cruelly, and according to the decision of U. S. Judge Blatchford, illegally deprived of their liberty and foully wronged and persecuted in mind, body and estate. By a similar intrigue, utterly unworthy of the dignity of law, Mr. Lant has since then been arrested, and is now suf- fering in prison. It is no wonder that thoughtful editors who respect the liberty of the press and the freedom of the public mind, are complaining of the high-handed tyranny -thus exhibited, and that many are speculating as to who is to be-the next victim our modern Torquemadas will select to put to the torture. B Of course these evils have arisen out of the injustice com- plained of by Peter, viz., the discrimination made by Con- gress "in the prices for carrying certain kinds of matter through the public mails.‘ This necessitated inspection, and on that inspection has been grafted the meanest system of postal espionage the world has ever witnessed. The true way -to annihilate it is to destroy the system which gave it birth, and Peter Positive has exposed the viilainy of the latter so thoroughly that no words of mine are needed to en- force that part of the subject of postal reform. But there is another view to be taken of the matter. About thirty years ago the penny postal system was introduced in Great Britain by Rowland Hill. That great reform has since been accepted and instituted by many-civilized nations, and has done more to secure the stability of the government of that nation than fifty Waterloos. Congress has it in its power to add to the uniformity then established, the further and grander reform of uniformity of price for all mailed mat- ter. Monarchicai England did well in advancing as far as it did;_ it is a country of castes, and could not be expected to repudiate classifications entirely in its postal arrangements. But all the reasons which have well proved the correctness of the calculations of Rowland Hill can be cited in favor of the further reform here demanded. Added to these it is our duty to remember that we are a Republic, and that the ad- mission of the idea of classification among us was an error, and that its continuation, after our experience, ought now only to be regarded as a crime. That the oppressed and over- charged_ citizens among us are mainly the poor and the un- learned only aggravates the offence Congress has committed against justice, for such among us especially need the defence of the laws, and would and will ever obtain. protection from all our honest legislators. A R. W. HUME. SAVE THE REPUBLIC. Nineteen centuries ago a young Jewish mechanic, ignorant, humble and lowly, yet meditative, sympathetic and earnest withal, crazed at the sight of his native land. beneath the Roman heel, maddened by the arrogance of wealth, the power of mammon, the sickly pallor of virtue’s check, the death of patriotism, the birth of book-religion, the greed and tyranny of the priesthood, the rabies of the politician for plunder, the degradation of woman, the elevation of bad men to high places, the wine-bibbing, the gluttony, the simony, the sodomy, the putrid Lazarus and the perfumed Dives, broke out into that terrific denunciation: Woe unto you, scribes, pharisees. hypocrites, blasphemers, fanatics, money« changers, adulterers, evil-workers, worshippers of Mammon, woe unto you, your hour has come! Better were it for you that mill-stoneshad been slung. about your necks and ye cast into the sea! Your hour has come! Ye shall cumber the earth no more. Alas, it was too late. The lightning oi his breath fell on gangrene; there was no searing it into life. There was but one answer to his arguments, that they gave him—-death. ‘ Mark the result! Out of the womb of that event has sprung that monster, ecclesiasticism, which, with claws of iron and nails of steel, has fastened itself upon the white throat of fair humanity. See what flowed forth when that spear was withdrawn! The simple Words of peace and love that this young teacher murmured in the ears of his friends on the hillocks, under the trees, beneath the clear sky, have been perverted, twisted, distorted into the mysterious jargon of litany and introit, credo and doxology, sacrament and ac- tual presence. In the name of this earnest, simple—minded Hebrew youth, who cursed the gorgeous temple, cursed the priesthood, cursed the prayer—monger, cursed the devotee, cursed the pomp of Caesar and the power of Rome, in the name of this lowly shepherd, thisipeasant-preacher, this gentle enthusiast,‘ the world, led on by priest and demagogue, has reared tem- ples of marble and gold, with painted windows and mosaic , floors, built lofty altars, gorgeous with embroidery and golden fringe, laden with wine cups and images, perfumed with cen- ser-smoke, and lighted with a thousand tapers! Ay, the ’ world has stripped the sanctuaries of Jove and Apollo of their flowing robes, their stoles, their palliums, their scarlet skirts and {purple vestments to wear them in the lowly He- brew’s name! Aye, more, has robbed the heathen temple of its tripod, censer, pix and altar-steps, its consecrated oil and cakes, to daze the eyes of earth’s weak sons and mesh them ere the spell be broken. All, all, in his name! Alas, poor, lowly humble shepherd, thy pastoral is lost for- ever! But thou,:Rome, joy and curse of the world, shalt drain the cup to its bitterest dregs, for “Peter, get thee be- hind me, Satan, thou art an offence unto me i” * * * And now. citizen of the Republic, take Freedom’s encyclo- pedia, and turn to its firstietters. Ah. 0, that stands for concord! Bend your head, for we are on holy ground now! Hark! Did you not hear those musket-shots ? There, listen ! Did you not hear that cry: “Liberty or Death !” Look, eight of them stagger, reel and fall dead! Who are they? Patriots, citizen, patriots! Their names,.citizen politician? Go cleanse your month before you speak their ‘names, for you swore falsely this morning to save a few dollars taxes. Your lips are not clean enough to pronounce their names. Aye, citizen- politician, there were patriots in those days. Not honest and pure as the world goes, but as the world ought to go, and did go, then. They were.men who loved their country, not be- cause they held office or had contracts, but because they were the fllowers on Freedom’s heather and had their roots struck deep in the sacred soil. They were true patriots, pure in their families, pure in their townships, pure in their legis- latures, ready, willing, happy to face death for freedom’s sake, even as the politicians now face the penetentiary for mammon’s sake. But mark the-change. The patriots are dead; the politicians live. Corruption, greed and fraud stalk about in our midst. Men begin the week with credo prayer and commandment, and end it with peculation, embezzlement and defaulting. Save the Republic! Churchism and politics are the two ,mill-stones, between which , it is about to fall. The government is by the ‘worst. Character , and intelligence go for naught. Public morality is tuberculous, its breath is fetid. The poor clerk, the starve- ling employe, the white-lipped sewing girl, give of their very marrow to grease the chariot wheels of ‘their masters. The church’s maw, ostrich-like, knows no difierence between pure and impure givers, when the gift is large enough to gorge it. It can digest and grow fat on the conscience-money of the public plunderer. The_churches and politicians go hand in hand . They dare not rebuke the rum—seller, as they dared not rebuke the slave-holder. They dare not fulminate I against the brothel and gambling-hell, lest the bolt fall upon the heads of communicants and voters. The “ mother church,” ogress—iike, devours her own children. The “ ring and caucus.” in the name of freedom,rob the citizen of his dearest rights. Babylonian mystery lets the body rot, while it mutters abracadabra for the safety of the soul! Thus these two manifestations of emotional power, to wit: the cry of outraged, humanity that fell from the lips of the young Hebrew, on the one hand, and the soft, sweet adieux of far- mers and merchants to their wives and children, as they stepped from their door-siiis—to die ;—-thus, I say, these two gigatfticthrobs of humanity’s great‘ heart, that should have set the world in a flow of light and liberty, have shrouded it in doubt and gloom, plunged it into the lethargic dream of a senseless hereafter, and debauched the purity of the town- ship meeting-house and common school. ,Men read their prayers from books. Churchism is triumphant. Money, not morals, is the badge of honor within these beautiful temples where song and musicjdelight the ear, and gaud and tinsel feast the eye; where the priest stands upon the altar-steps and needs but the fillet about his brow to cry out: “Hail, Jove, king of gods and men!” I The caucus has throttled the township . To avow love for one’s country is to be jeered at. Putridity imagines putrid- ity. Men sell their votes and—-live. Save the Republic! Women, earnest and industrious workers, are robbed by the tax-gatherer, defrauded by their employers, wronged by the State, thrust out by those “with sin.” Churchism, non- producing, inert, sponge-like, cephalopod, absorbent. is fed by the State, nurtured on public funds. God is an expense to the orphan and widow. They pay toll on a road that the young Hebrew meant shouldibe free. The priest declares that God dislikes “ black skins,” and forthwith the “ colored an” takes a back seat in the temple, and waits for the “second table” on communion days! Rum and politics both smell alike. The gambling—hell, brothel and police- station are a trinity—-three in one. Save the Republic! The press follows the rabble, as the dog his master, by the smell of-his feet. “One line, first page, $2 50;” “second page, $1 50.” Journalism has become “impersonal,” for the writers are owned by corporations. The scholar parts with his glorious “ ego,” and wears the slave-garb of “ we,” to serve his master in. Men of intellect and refinement slaver over the man gy, dirty oretins—ruling spirits of the caucus, ward and bar- room-and though they sicken when the drivel cools, yet must genius befoul itself to live. Men and women sneer at the sacred ofiice of “ school teacher.” Butter, cheese, oil and pork ennoble those who handle them, while the avocation of preceptor shuts out the incumbent from Dives’ villa. Save the Republic 1» Bank notes, hair dye and diamonds elevate to the gentry. There is nothing genuine save vulgarity; there is nothing unadulterated save ignorance. All is "tinsel, veneer and stucco. Five dollars buys an escutcheon that cost five cen- turies of virtue, bravery and honor! Save the Republic! * * _ .A .4: %'w#* MRS. VVOODHULLIN THE FIELD. COMMENTS on THE rnnss. (From the Daily Picayune, N. 0., Feb. 21, 1876.) V THE SOCIAL PROBLEM. Last night Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull made her first ap- pearance before a New Orleans audience at St. Patrick’s Hall. Owing to a fire which had occurred across the street, and the impediment offered to traveling for some time, the. audience was not as large as it would otherwise doubtless have been. Notwithstanding this, there must have been some fifteen hundred persons present, about two hundred of whom were ladies-young, middle-aged and old. It was a decidedly intellectual aadience, and the professions, partic- ularly, were all generously represented. At 8:15 Mrs. Woodhull stepped upon the platform, and her appearance was the signal for a unanimous burst of applause’ She was arrayed in a handsome brown silk dress, with a trail, which lent a certain grace to a naturally easy and dignified demeanor. , T After a few words of an introductory character, she gave out the text of her discourse. Text from I. Corinthians, iii. chapter, 16th and 17th verses; “ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you. “ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” Her voice was of that clear, musical, ringing sort, born of native power and high cultivation; but it was evident from the first that it could not fill the compass of the vast hall. In her lecture she first treated of the ethnical constitution of Americans, and the result to ensue from the merging of many nationalities into one. She then proceeded to elabo- rate upon those themes of social interest developed in her interview with the 1-‘icctyune reporter on last Wednesday, first stating her opinion of the world and its practices at the present day, then treating of the duties of parents toward their children, the conditions on which marriage should be contracted, wherein she would exact’ an equal amount of purity from both the contracting parties, and closing‘ with an explanation of a personal nature. “ Her speech was very rapid, but distinct, and every word was well rounded and articulated. Her gestures were few and easy, and her face would betimes light up with that 1 6 "V . iwoonnutt. & GLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. Mar. 18, 1876. fiery energy which sparkled in her eyes. The interruptions were few, for the audience paid rapt attention throughout, and only at times would they break out into applause, which, when they did, was unanimous and “long drawn out.” . , At 9:30 Mrs. Woodhull retired from the platform laden with offerings of flowers, and amid a general expression of enthusiasm. (Frbm the N ew Orleans Republican, Feb. 21,1876.) MRS. wooDHULL’s LECTURE. This lady has succeeded in attracting a good deal of interest in the minds of all classes of thinking citizens. Aside from the novelty of seeing a woman on the rostrum, or appearing before a New Orleans public as the champion of an idea, or the witness of great truths, there is a sort of magnetic charm in the perfectly easy manners, the earnestness bordering on enthusiasm, and the great self-possession of the remarkable lady who fills the public eye for the moment. The truths which Mrs. Woodhull illustrates are as old as the garden of Eden. She holds up amirror in which very many of the poor struggling integers of humanity see anything but compli- mentary refiections of themselves. We may admit her facts to be true, and address ourselves to the inquiry, is her pro- posed remedy—the intelligence of women——adequate for the great evil. And, to pursue it further, is the high condition of intelligence which she demands for all the mothers in Amer- ica, for the whole world, in fact, feasible, or even possible? None who heard her on Sunday night, at St. Patrick’s Hall, can doubt she is thoroughly 3. good, womanly woman, with a heart full of love for her species, and a most intelligent ap- preciation of everything that is beautiful in human love and in the true religion of the heart. She speaks with great fluency and apparently with case. It is next to impossible for a skillful stenographer to keep up with her, though the gist of her remarks is easy to retain in the memory. (From the N ew Orleans Bulletin, Feb. 22, 1876.) Notwithstanding the fact that a fire occurred opposite St. Patrick's Hall, Sunday night, just before the hour adver- tised for the opening of Mrs. VVoodhull’s lecture, a large and respectable audience attended to listen to the progressive views e: that lady. Not only gentlemen attended, but the fair sex was well represented, fully one-fourth of the crowd being ladies. After some little delay, on account of the fire, Mrs. V. C. Woodhull entered, and taking a position near the centre of the stage, read her text. , In her exordium she called the attention of her hearers to the fact that neither in written history nor tradition hasthe conduct and action of the human race been such as to leave upon the mind of an impartial reader the impression that any people ever gave evidence that the body was regarded in a light as sacred as the book of Divine inspiration in- tended. Following this, Mrs. Woodhull with much power and grace of diction, alluded to many other interesting ques- tions of society, being frequently interrupted by the ap- plause of her listeners. , She leaves for Galveston this morning, where she intends to lecture also. (From the N. 0., Times, Feb. 21, 1876.) Alarge audience, one-fourth of which was composed of ladies. assembled at St. Patrick’s Hall last evening, to hear M,.s_ Vim-,o1~'1a.C. Woodhull. (From the Galveston (’Iea;as) News, Feb. 28, 1876.) The announcement that Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull was to lecture in this citylwas suffioient to set every one agog, and develope the greatest amount of curiosity and comment as to the character of the entertainment. Sunday evening, the appointed time for the first appear- anoo of this distinguished lady, the Opera House was com- pletely filled in the parquette and parquettecircle, while numbers were obliged to seek seats in the circle in the second ti(g;0mpt1y at eight o’olock the curtain rolled up, disclosing the set drawing—room scene, and immediately thereafter Mrs. Woodhull made her appearance, having in her hand a small morocco bound copy of the New Testament. Her cos- tume was rich and ‘fashionable, though not in the extreme, while her hair was gathered in a simple knot behind, in which was fastened a white rose. After a most flattering and enthusiastic greeting from the audience, which the lady acknowledged by merely bowing, she opened the Tes- tament, and in low, reverent tones, read her text from I. Corinthians, third chapter, sixteenth and seventeenth verses. Beginning in a low earnest tone, Mrs. Woodhull gradually became infused with her subject until her words rang out like hailstones on a roof, and carrying her audience along with her shefiwon repeated and hearty, applause as the telling points were made. At the conclusion of the lecture a large number of the gentlemen who had ladies with them took them on the stage and were introduced to Mrs. Woodhull, thanking her for the fearless manner in which she spoke her convictions,‘ and for the new light she had thrown on them. From the Houston (Te:ca8) Age. March 2. 1876. MRS. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL- There was a large audience of ladies and gentlemen at the Opera House last night, to listen to the dis course of Mrs. Woodhull upon social science. , She came upon the stage with a Bible in her hand, and dressed in an elegant velvet cos- tume, which set 011*‘ to £19313‘ advantizge her tall and command- ing figure. ' She took her usual text from First Corinthians, and began speaking in a low, nervous, and exceedingly rapid manner, upon the ethnological phase of the world. Gliding out of this, her voice, gathering in strength, broke forth into periods ofigreat oratorical power, freighted with a magnetism of earnestnessyand depth of feeling which captivated her au— r ditory, and bore it along with her to the close of her remarks. She claims that the source of all crime and of all human im- perfections, both mental and moral, is to be found in the pros- titution of the body from unloving sexual intercouse. That marriage without love is simply prostitution. She favors marriage based upon mutual affinity, expressed in perfect love. She denounced marriages of convenience as the gravest sins against God and nature. She sanctifies the human body as being the “temple of God," which no man or woman should dare profane. She urged that man should be as pure as . woman. That young men should have the same moral test applied to them when seeking marriage as is now applied to young women . She depicted the duties and responsibilities of maternity, and portrayed its sacredness in colors of astounding impressiveness. She spoke on in the same nervous, rapid manner for more than an hour and a half, without pausing for the applause which ever and anon broke forth spontaneously from the audience in response to her telling hits. We rarely ever be- held an assemblage of any kind so completely under‘ the influence of a speaker. Men andlladies were to be seen brushing the tears from their eyes as the pathos of this strange woman went home to their hearts, linking them together in that chain of common sympathy whose weird spell no individual present could successfully resist if they would. Many of the most thoughtful, intelligent and prom- inent citizens of Houston were present to hear Mrs. Wood- hull, and the unanimous voice of these attested that they discovered nothing to condemn in what she said, but on the contrary, much to commend. _ * At the close of the lecture, a lady advanced along the dress circle and threw a bouquet upon the stage, which thoroughly interpreted the feeling of the entire auditory. Instead of leaving the Opera house, as is usual when an entertainment closes, the crowd seemed inclined to move toward the stage, and many did so either to be introduced to Mrs. Woodhull, or to purchase a number. of pamphlets which were exposed for sale at the right of ‘the rostrum. If we had been told that such a scene as was there witnessed, could have been possible in a Southern city, with Mrs. Woodhull as the cen- tral figure, we would have failed to realize it. It was won- derful, overwhelming and astounding to the last degree, and actual presence was necessary to fully appreciate it. Mrs. W. announced that she would remain and lecture again to—night, and we have no doubt the Opera House will be crammed to its utmost capacity. We can assure our citizens that they will hear nothing to offend ears polite, and hope that at least every young man in Houston will go and profit by the severe lesson of morality which Mrs. Wood- hull inculcates. VVe are confident that none who may go will condemn us for giving them this advice. T R U T H . ro MRS. WOODIIULL BY AN HUMBLE AmnRER, wno FORMED A HIGH OPINION or HER‘ SOCIAL wonrn AFTER HEARING mm LECTURE LAST NIGHT. Oh, my mother, can you love me, Can you call me darling boy, In your prayers to God above me, Can you claim in me a joy, Since I havefrom virtue wandered Far into the swamp of shame? Since I have my moments squandered, Doing deeds of awful name? Since my life I’ve prostituted, Reeling on destruction’s shore ? Since my soul seems so polluted To be lost forevermore ? Can you speak, in love sincerest, To me words of tenderness ? Can you fondly call me dearest, And me to your bosoni press ? Yes, I know you can, my mother, For your love is blindly strong; Can my check with kisses cover, Tho’ there burns the blush of wrong; Even now you think me shameless, The’ I’m deeply steeped in sin; Yes, you look on me as blameless, Tho’ 1’ve long disgraceful been. 011, you never, never knew me, Tho’ confessed to be your child; And I feel you should but rue me, When you know I’ve been so wild; When you know that I’vc committed Acts of sins I blush to tell; When you know my soul is fitted ‘ Better for degraded hell. Yes, to you I’ve been a stranger, Traveling down the path of shame, With my soul in darkest danger Of a hell-tormenting flame; But hereafter, darlingmother, Every thing I dare to do, (Nay, to you, if 10 no other), l’il reveal it all to you. Now I see the shameful error, That I long have slumbered ln, And I shrink abashed with terror At the burthen of my sin; Stranger to my darling mother! She who nurtured, gave me birth! Oh, it is enough to smother, To destroy all social worth! True, the adage that is olden, Truth will not remain concealed; And the one is glorious golden, That is being now revealed. Hear the workers, God will bless them, Give them health and make, them strong, Bid them onward, onward press them, To destroy this social wrong. HOUSTON, March 2, 1876. ' l A committee of gentlemen from Galvestomrwaited upon Mrs. Victoria C. 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WE still mail our book, phamphlets and tracts——“Free Love,” “Mrs. Woodhull and her Social Freedom,” “True and False Love,” “Open Letter to A. J. Davis,” “Letter to a Magdalen,” “God or no G-od,” “To My Atheistical Brothers,” including my Photo, for One Dollar. Can you favor me? Address Austin Kent, Stockholm St., Lawrence Co., New York. Box 44. I POSTCRIPT TO A PRIVATE LETTER FROM AUSTIN KENT. “ It now looks as though I could never write more for the press. I am extremely feeble. I deeply rejoice in Mrs. Woodhull’s success, and no one but P. Pillsbury has a better right to rejoice, and in some respects, even he has not as good.” In love, A. KENT. DAVIS’ BATTLE-AXE will contain a most momentous paper entitled “Shakerism and Shakerdom”—Human Life Therein ; also “The Possible and Impossible of Community Life on Earth;” also “The Death Struggle of Religious Liberty.” Any one of these articles will be worth the price of the paper. Sixty cents a year. A. 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' THE WORLD’S Sixteen Crucified Saviors; _ OR, g UHRISZ I A NI’./°Y Bl/717 ORE CHRIS CONTAINING N ew, Startling and Erotraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which disclose the Oriental Origin of all the Doctrines, Principles, Prepceplts and Miracles 0 tie CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furnishing a Ifey for unlocking many of its Sacred. Mysteries. besides comprising the Histor-y of Siaiteen Oriental Crucified Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, . Author of “The Biographg/'of Satan ”_an_d “ The Bible of Bibles ” (comprising a description of ' twenty Bibles.) This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the field which he has chosen for it’. The amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the varied information contained in it must have been severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no means a mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—as will be seen by his title-page and chapter-heads~follows a definite line of research and argument,to the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. 0 O N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; Cllntroductioni; Address to the e . rgy. Chap. 1.-—-Rival Claims of the Saviors. Cap. 2.——Messianic Prophecies. Chap. 3.—Prophecies by the figure of a Serpent._ Chap. 4.—Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. Chap. 5.—Virg'in Mothers and Virgin-born Gods.’ Chap. 6.——Stars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. _ _ _ Chap. 7.—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the In! ant Savior. Chap. 8.——The Twenty-fifth of December the Birthday of the Gods. _ Chap. 9.—Titles of the Saviors. Chap. 10.——The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birth. _ Chap. 11.—~Christ’s Genealogy. Chap. 12.—The World's Saviors saved from Destruc- tigin in Infancy. _ _ _ _ _ Chap._13.——The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of D1- vinit . Chap. 1):i.~The’ Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.——The Saviorsare real Personages. Chap. 16.—Sixteen Saviors Crucified. Chap. 17.——The Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci— fixion. - ‘ Chap. 18.—Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.——Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.—-Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- Cii§if'21.—The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe O " ‘ . Chal1?gT‘3r2.-—The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.—'I‘he Divine “Word ”_ of Oriental Origin. Chap. 24.—'l‘he Trinity very anciently a current Hea- then Doctrine. _ _ Chap. 25.—Ab_so_lution, or the Confession of Sins, of Heathen Origin. _ _ Chap. 26.—-Origin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. « _ . Chap. 27.—-The Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen O '0' . Chal;.°gS.~—Anointing with Oil of Oriental _Origin. Chap. 29.——How Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. . _ Chap. 30.-Sacred Cycles explaining _tl_ie_ Advent of the Gods, the Master-key to the Divinity of Jesus Oh ' t. Chapr.1.§1l1.—-Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systems‘. . _ _ _ Chap. 32.——Three Hundred and Forty-six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna. Chap. 33.—Apnllonius, Osiris and Magus as Gods. Chap. 34.—The Three Pillars of the Christian Faith—— Miracles, Prophecies and Precepts. _ Chap. 35.—Logical or Common-sense View of the Doc- triee of Divine Incarnation. . _ _ Chap. 36.—Philosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. _ _ . Chap. 37.—Physiologica.1_ Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, _ _ _ Chap. 38.——A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus Ch ' t. ' ' ChapI:l§9.—The Scriptural View of Chri_st’s_Divinity. Chap. 40.-—A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus ’ Ch ' t. Chapr.1Z1.—The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus Ch ' t. 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A33 ................ .. 8.00 P“M “ Denison .............. .. 8.00 “ .. “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.45 “ “ Galveston . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.00 “ .\r Bismarck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11.00 I’. M Ar Bismarck...... . . . . . . . . . .. 12.01 P. M. Columbus ................ .. 5.00 1.1.1. 3 Columbus ...... boo “ “ Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.30 P. M. Llttle ROCK - - - - - - - - - . - - -- is in 1" . ............. .. 8.50 1.. M Ar Burlington ............ .. 7.01:9. it ""(lI‘Ill‘Z3.I.I1.‘“tg:L.O.I.l ............... .. 11.00 1-. M “ Omaha ................ .. 7.45 A. M. .« (j[1eygnne__ _ , _ , _ ,_,., . Cheyenne..... . . . . . . . . . .. 12.50 1:.‘ M . I‘ Ogden _ _ _ . . ‘ _ . _ _ _ , _ _ _ , ,_ “ 0gdeI1...._ . . . . . . - . . - . .. “ o “ San Francisco ........... .. San Francisco ....... .. 8.30 . 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Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2117
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Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
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1876-04-01
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s Vol. XI.-—-No. 18.——Wl.ole No. 278 NEW YORK, APRIL 1, 1876. ._-'-* E3’ ' " vi- o PRICE TEN CENTS. The truth shall make yoafree.——Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shalt be ft'n2'shecl.—St. John the Divine. - Whe7'e0f I was macle a minister to preach the «an- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the l2e_c/inning of the world hath been hid in Cr’oc‘l.-—-Paul. ' O>—< THE END OF THE EARTH. IS THE GRAND CRASH AT HAND. [From New York Dispatch] It is an extraordinary coincidence, to use no stronger phrase, that at the present time Dr. Cummings is by no means alone in predicting that the terrible cosmical convul- sion, by which our earth and its inhabitants shall pass away, will surely overtake us about September of the current year. There have been scares of this kind in the past; but they were invariably confined to one prophet and his disciples. The present heralds of approaching doom ar... Show mores Vol. XI.-—-No. 18.——Wl.ole No. 278 NEW YORK, APRIL 1, 1876. ._-'-* E3’ ' " vi- o PRICE TEN CENTS. The truth shall make yoafree.——Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shalt be ft'n2'shecl.—St. John the Divine. - Whe7'e0f I was macle a minister to preach the «an- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the l2e_c/inning of the world hath been hid in Cr’oc‘l.-—-Paul. ' O>—< THE END OF THE EARTH. IS THE GRAND CRASH AT HAND. [From New York Dispatch] It is an extraordinary coincidence, to use no stronger phrase, that at the present time Dr. Cummings is by no means alone in predicting that the terrible cosmical convul- sion, by which our earth and its inhabitants shall pass away, will surely overtake us about September of the current year. There have been scares of this kind in the past; but they were invariably confined to one prophet and his disciples. The present heralds of approaching doom are not only mem- bers of widely different schools of speculative philosophy, but their well recognized ability entitles their opinions to great respect, even when expressed indvidually. How much more so, then, when they unite in declaring a single unmistakable conviction! . During the past decade our idea of the universe has under- gone a complete change——a radical metamorphosis——though but few persons appear to recognize this fact. The notions entertained ;by astronomers respecting the stars and the heavens have disappeared. Take the constellation called the “Great Bear” or “ The Wagon ” as an illustration: Every one has regarded that as the enduring symbol of pre-establish- ed harmony—of the unalterable durationof the firmament. For several centuries the mariner has watched the two last stars in that constellation——those that form the rear of that imaginary “ wagon,” and termed “ the pointers ”—as point- ing infallibly within a few points of the polar star. The polar star and “ the pointers ” are the emblems of sta- bility to the mind of every sailor who crosses the ocean. Yet that ancient constellation is passing away, and its form will be completely changed. Each star in the “Great Bear” has a motion of its own. Formerly, as the eminent French as- tronomer, M. Camille Flammarion, recently demonstrated in the Revue Scientifique “the constellation had the form of a cross; it is now in the form of a wagon, and is gradually changing into an ellipse, when it will be of no service to the sailor.” - Nay! the polar star itself, as well as the stars in the “ Great Bear,” are drifting away from us and from each other at the velocity of thirty miles per second. It takes _a cannon-ball, about five seconds to go one mile. The stars of this constellation are, therefore, drifting sideways from the pole star and each other one hundred and fifty times as fast as a cannon ball. At this rate, how much longer will our present “ pointers ” and the pole star be reliable for naviga- tors ? ‘ But it is not necessary to examine distant constellation in order to seek evidences of disruption. It has been custom- ary to treat the planets as members of one family, and as- tronomers have expatiated enthusiastically on the remarkable fact that the planets all moved in nearly one plane, corres- ponding with the centre of the sun’s body, and that the motion of the sun on its axis, those of the planets round their axis (the sun), and the satellites round their primaries, were in one direction-—from west to east. Some of the other rela- tions of these bodies were also garrulously presented—as, for instance. that the primary planets show an increase of bulk and diminution of density from the one nearest the sun to the most distant. These facts were adduced to prove the nebular hypothesis, and to form a theory of the manner in which puclei (planets) were formed. “ Supposing, from a peculiar- ity of nebular composition,” writes an eminent living scien- tist, “ nuclei are formed, we know, by virtue of the law of gravitation, how the neighboring matter would aggregate to these nuclei. It is a well-known law of physics that fluid matter establishes a rotary motion when it collects to a centre, as for examples, whirlpools, whirlwinds and water sinking through a funnel. We know by mechanics that in this revolving fire-mist (nebulae) two forces——centrifuga1 and centripetal———would act in forming the planets, and in severing them from the shrinking mass.” It was all as plain as a. pike-stalf. «After the planets were formed, one school of astronomers proceeded to people them; while Professor Whe- well, of Cambridge, and others, resolutely {restricted life to our globe. But the “More-worlds-than-one ” disciples had the best of it for years; and they gave glowing descriptions of the delightful climate of Saturn, and the glorious skies his inhabitants would enjoy in consequence of his long summer, and the gorgeous illumination produced by his belt and his Gight revolving moons. His solid earth, it was true, was not so dense as our earth’s—-hardly as dense as water, in fact; but then might not his inhabitants be a superior race to what we had any conception of~—beings not touched with any feel- ing of the infirmities of mortalmen? Then, there was Ju- piter, the magnificent, whose mass exceeds all the other plan- ets, including Saturn, two-and-a-half—times! What a sub- lime race of beingsuprobably archangels-—must inhabit his prodigious orb! With the bold dash of genius, in short, these scientists declared that man’s world was not solitary in tne wilderness of the solar system, but that it had companions and brethren whirling in the sunshine, and capable of afford.- ing all the conditions which life of the highest kind needs for its development. The late Sir David Brewster and the pre- sent astronomer royal of England were the leading expon- ents of these views which were shared by a_large majority of scientists and divines. And, indeed, the idea was in accord with common sense and the analogy of nature, as far as man- kind have an opportunity of interpreting nature. It was, therefore, a terrible revelation to Professor Airy when, examining Saturn one night with the mag- nificent , equatorial telescope at Greenwich Obser- vatory, he discovered that the planet had suddenly changed shape. Normally presenting the form of an ellipse, he beheld withawe that the two zones of theplanet corresponding with the north and south temperate zones of our earth were mys- teriously flattened, communicating what he termed a “square shouldered aspect” to the hitherto beautiful orb. In plain terms, the planet looked like a rectangle with rounded cor- ners. The astronomer was ‘convinced his eyesight was im- paired. He tried another combination of lenses, and a differ- ent eye-piece, but the result was the same. There was Saturn and his belt out of all shape! An assistant was summoned. He, too, saw the extraordinary change. What could it indi- cate? The professor began to consider. There was the mighty mass of Saturn, exceeding that of the earth ninety-fold. That stupendous mass was endued with gravitating energy pre- cisely in the same way as the eart.h’s mass. There must be from the surface toward the centre a continually-increasing pressure. This pressure is incalculable. It must enormously exceed the internal pressure existing within the earth’s in- terior. Steel, in fact, would be as yielding as water under such a pressure. Such a phenomenal sinking and change of shape as this, must have involved amazing and most stupend- ous throes-—throes whose force and magnitude paralyze the imagination and prostrate the mind with the vertigo of the infinite! The cataclysm would certainly involve the utter destruction-of life—so far as we understand the term. The astronomer felt that doom had overtaken the favored inhab- itants of Saturn, with their glorious summer, and mellow, efiulgent skies. Henceforth he revealed in his orbit round the sun the silent graveyard of an unknown race. It was from this remarkable planetary catastrophe, combined with certain prophecies of Daniel, Zachariah, and the Apocalypse, that led Dr. Cummings, some years since, to believe that the “Great Tribulation” was close at hand. In this, however, he was mistaken; for it was not then even dreamed that planets, like human beings, vegetables, and nations, have a period of youthful development, maturity, lingering or sudden death. Mars, for example, has passed through these stages before the epoch of man on our planet. A gigantic spasm had con- vulsed him, during which his oceans were gradually drawn into the interior as it contracted, not by large crevasses, but by a power resembling, if not identical to, capillary attrac- tion. Two of the family, so to speak, were therefore dead—— clothed in everlasting silence-—and the former inhabitants had gone to Judgment, or perished like the verdure of a by- gone summer. “Tbe sun himself is but a star in the ‘milky way,’ and an unhealthy, changeable, organically-diseased star at that. The planetary family that revolves round him are likewise sub- ject to sudden‘ internal maladies—convulsive eruptions or morbid and fatal spasms. Mercury is probably burned to a cinder-or more properly resembles a. red—hot iron ball, unin- habitable except by celestial salamanders. Mars and Saturn‘ V-,1: German astronomer, I-Ierr Schroter, of Lilienthal, when an extraordinary experience was vouchsafed to him. He be- held, in fact, the death of the majestic planet of the solar system—-the grand and transcendent Jupiter! He reports the awful catastrophe as follows: 0 “This evening being extremely fine, I was watching the second satellite ofJupiter as it gradually approached to tran- sit of Jupiter’s disk. It appeared in contact at half-pa st ten o’clock, and for some minutes remained. on the edge of the disk, presenting an appearance not unlike that of the lunar mountains coming into view during the moon’s first quarter, until it finally disappeared on the body of the planet. After an interval of exactly twelve minutes I again turned to Jupi- ter, when, to my utter astonishment, I perceived the same satellite outside the disk. It remained visible for precisely Lfour minutes, and then suddenly vanished. No possible ex— planation of this most extraordinary phenomen on can be conceived. Of course, even to suppose that a cloud layer rose or fell in a few minutes several thousand miles——about eight thousand miles—is as inadmissible as to suppose the solid crust of a globe to undergo so vast a change of level.” The phenomenon will probably forever remain an impene- trable mystery; but there remains not an atom of doubt that such a gigantic throe involved the instantaneous destruction of everything resembling life on the planet. Death, in fact, overtook Jupiter as it had overtaken his three brothers, and as it may in a few months overtake our earth, or any reader of these words. 1 Saturn and Jupiter seem to have been suddenly convulsed. by a gigantic spasm of gravitation very much as the individ- ual is suddenly stricken dead by apoplexy. There are good grounds for believing that our globe, as well as the kindred planets, Venus, Uranus and Neptune, may perish simul- taneously in what will be the crowning convulsion of our system. Father Secchi, the eminent astronomer of Rome, and the highest living authority on the sun, has recently dis- covered that the grand source of all terrestrial activity-the controller of the planets whether /alive or dead—-the origin of all energy, activity, vigor and vital power——the sun himself-- is at present subject to some extraordinary influences, which produ.ce continual changes in his form as well as in his size. I-Iis diameter is less than usual, his colored sierras are deeper, While his red prominences are larger than usual. These per- turbations, the learned father declares, indicate a disturbance of extraordinary character and vehemence in the solar-cloud. envelope, probably occasioned by shrinkage in the sun’s mass. For it must not be forgotten, ‘while examining the probabili- ties of the impending convulsion and extinction of life from our earth and the solar system, that this fact of the sun’s shrinkage has been tolerably well known to astronomers for nearly a decade. Of course the sun cannot continue to give off the vast amount of heat that it does without expending material. You cannot heat every room in an immense house without a large daily expenditure of fuel. The sun emits every minute as much heat as would melt a shell of ice forty feet thick all over the _sun’s surface. There has been, and still is, a great deal of conjecture about the originof this heat. Some have attributed it to chemical combinations; but if the sun were of solid coal it would have been completely burned out during the Scriptural chronology-——say 5,000 years. The view that some astronomers entertain is, that ‘the heat is maintained partly by the inflex of meteors——wrecks of ex- ploded planets—and partly by a contraction of his volume. This contraction is variously estimated at from 300 to 1,000 feet in diameter per annum; but while the contraction is well established, the amount of it is almost total conjecture. Father Secchi, in this alarming solar disturbance, traces a striking comparison between the fate of the planet Saturn and that likely before long to befall the sun. In Saturn and his system we see a miniature of the solar system. In each system there are eight orbs circling around the central body; and each system exhibits close by the central orb a multitude of discrete bodies—the zodiacal light in the solar system and the scheme of rings in the Saturnian system—subserving am unexplained purpose. There is still another momentous consideration. The vari- ous planets probably act upon the sun even as the sun acts upon them. Let us look for an analogical system of action and reaction. Unquestionably the moon exerts an influence on the occurrence of earthquakes and volcanoes in our planet PROGRESS: FREE THOUGHT: UNTRAMMEL:ED L1:‘V:e:.e2i BREAKING- THE WAY FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIQNS. are dead.” Thus reasoned a few months since the famous ‘ ‘.9 —-—not. be it understood, by her own attraction directly, but s woonnnti. s CLAFLIN’S wrsxr.-r. by affecting the balance between terrestrial forces. We ob— serve the direct action of the moon in the tides; but in the indirect acti.on of which we speak, the primary forces-centri- fugal‘ and centripetal~are affected. Similarly, as the emi- nent F°rench savan, M. Flammarion, has remarked, “the planets indirectly affect the sun’s condition, and the recent gigantic throes in the two prime planets, Saturn and Jupiter probably exerted a powerful and disastrous influence on the central orb of our system.” As exhiiting the terrible experiences through which our globe has already passed, the distinguished philosopher just quoted remarks: “ There are grounds for believing that the moon will unite itself with our earth. The results of the col- lision are manifest. The whole mass of the moon and the cold crust of the earth would be raised some thousands of- degrees, and the surface of our globe be converted into a fiery ocean. Such a collision is by no means improbable, however; for it is almost certain that such processes of combination between different parts of our globe may have repeatedly happened before the earth attained its present magnitude, and that luxuriant vegetation which now exists as deposits of coal may have at different times been buried under the fiery debris resulting from the conflict of those masses.” Some- thing in the same style, on a smaller scale, is continually hap- pening in our day. Thousands of meteors are daily falling upon our globe, mostly in the form of ashes, consequent upon the fierce confiagration of those bodies while being projected with inconceivable rapidity through our atmosphere, and it strikes the ground like the Iowa meteor of February 12, 1875 --a series of metallic fragments, weighing in all over 5,000 pounds. ' Let the imagination that is not appalled by these immensi- ties strive to conceive of them. Yet science is as certain con- cerning these distances as in predicting that there will be a total eclipse of the sun on the 17th of September next, visible in the northern and western Pacific Oceans and in Australia. When astron.omers, therefore, enter the field of prophecy, their presagements deserve attention. But when theologians, skilled in Scriptural exegesis, and believers in Spiritualism, who are incapable of charlatanry, unite with the mathemat- ical astronomer in predicting that the end of mundane things is at hand~—is at the very door, so to speak~—people of sagacity an.d acumen will perceive that this is no crude Millerite sen- sation——no fanatical dream. THE CAUSE AND CURE or CRIME. BY WARREN CHASE. Of all the many theories to account for the recent increase of crime and its reckless enormity in our country, we do not recollect to have seen one that attributed it to our cruel, wicked, nefarioussystem of legal swindling from the pro- ducers of wealth by our financial policy—short currency, ruinous interest, enormous taxes, unjust distribution of them, and the fostering of monopolies by robbing the people to enrich them; a system carried on by Congress for the nation at large, and by State legislatures for the several States. The first great evil and cause of poverty and crime, often resulting from it, lies in our Congress trying to make a currency for the people out of material of which there is not enough to be had anywhere to make what is needed for the business of the country; and failing in this, to try to patch it with fractional or other material, resting on the deficient article for redemption—~a policy that has no ra- tional support but the interest of speculators, since every one ought to know it is the stamp and not the material that makes a piece of gold, or a piece of silver, or a piece of paper of money value, else we might use cotton or corn, which have as much commercial value as gold and silver. The effect of this specie basis is ruinous to the industry of the country, and turns thousands of willing men and women out of employment; and the old saying is " the devil finds plenty of work for idle hands to do,” and pressed by a necessity that knows no law, these idle and oppressed classes are largely the criminal, while another class which has been bred in luxury and extravagance find salaries, or earnings, or speculations inadequate to keep up these ex- penditures, and steal in various ways. by law or without law, if they must, and become defaulters, forgers and crim- inals of various kinds, often prefering death to a failure to maintain their social position. Had Congress at the close of the war, or at any reasonable time after its close, made a currency of metals and paper, and by law made it of equal value in all transactions, and regulated its issue as proposed in the House of Representatives by Messrs. Stevens and Kelly, by making it interchangable for bonds with a low rate of interest, our national debt would soon have been con- fined to this currency and bonds, gold and greenbacks of equal value regulated by the stamp, the laborers of the coun- try employed, its resources developed, its people happy, with plenty of work, plenty of money, plenty of everything needed for prosperity; and crime, instead of being increased, would have diminished from 25 to 40 per cent. The repub- lican party could thus have saved its credit with the people, and would not have lost its hold on them and control of one branch of Congress with doubtful prospects of retain- ing any power at all. But first our executive was cap- tured by speculators, and enough of them elected to control Congress and enact only such laws as would enable them to carry on gigantic schemes of swindling. For this purpose a legal difference between gold and paper money was established, and then the control of the increased. body of the paper currency put in the hands of the national banks which are paid for circulating and loaning the currency, which they can inflate and restrain at pleasure, so as to keep the price of property and the rate of interest in their hands, while debts (and specie which cannot be obtained) are of unalterable value. Failures, forfeitures and crimes are the result, and yet nearly all the leading papers of our great cities are actively engagedand in this nefarious scheme of political robbery, and the leaders of both parties largely involved in it, and are trying to lead and control the parties _to ./x support it. The Inter Ocean of Chicago is a worthy excep- tion in our State, and some others equally so in other States, but papers like the Herald, Times, Tribune, World, etc., of New York, and Times and Tribune of Chicago, and Republi- can of St. Louis, cannot be expected to advocate the poor man’s policy, nor measures which speculators will not pay for. Whilesuch sheets are constantly parading the increase of crime, they will not advocate the proper and true remedy which is simple justice from Congress in the matter of a currency for the country. Resumption of trade, resumption of business of every kind, resumption of our highest state of morality ever attained, would soon follow the adoptlon of thetrue currency policy, and a resumption of equal values between paper and gold would come without special legis- lation on fhe subject. We cannot believe that it is ignor- ance of these facts which. are so plain, that prevents Con- gress from the adoption of the measure, but itis the political rings and the money of speculators that control these rings, and through the rings control Congress, as they long have the President, and no doubt knew they could before they secured his election the second time. Except Spain, no civilized nation is so shamefully ruled as ours at this time. With the best and most abundant resources and employ- ment for far more labor than we have, over 1,000,000 laborers are compulsorily idle for want of money which Congress could supply with one act of law that would employ all who want work, and keep hundreds from crime and punishment; and yet for political reasons neither party will even advocate it for fear the money of speculators will be turned against them and defeat them. The people maybe compelled to organize a new party and defeat both, as it surely would if these measures could be understood. Of State legislation we will say nothing at this time, as it is not so glaringly absurd as the national. We have waited and watched the demo- cratic ascendancy in the,house to see if it was going to be what democracy once was in our country, the party of and for the people, but we watch in vain: it fears the power of the wealth that was procured by bad legislation and must be kept by the same, and which threatens to destroy any party that opposes its schemesfi , SACRAMENTO, Feb. 10, 1876. Dear l/Vselcly: I send you a few extracts from T. L. Harris’ “ Lyric of the Golden Age,” which are full of significance to , me. I have underscored some portions that seem so pregnant with meaning when taken in connection with much that has been published in the WEEKLY for the past year, that I can hardly forbear directing particular attention thereto. Would it not be well for those who fear “ Free Love,” to banish that grand poem from their libraries ? LOIS VVAISBROOKER. “ Oh mystery of being, mighty love! Thou ocean that dost flow through many streams; Thou soul that ilowest through many lilies; Thou day that fillest all tliiugs with thy light; How beautiful art thou I How wond’rous is thy mterblendéug force, Merging the all in one, Merging one in all. The self-forgetting energy that fires The lovcr, hero, saint or martyr, flows From thee and is thine own. ' In loving we grow wise ' Beyond all finite thought. Love is the blood which veins the life; Love is the life that lives within the soul, Love is the tree whose fruits are golden suns; Whose branches fill immensitics of space; W/Lose essences are spim't-ual spheres, Whose most ethereal substance lives from God. >l< * =l= * * There is no virtue separate from love, There is no virtue but is born of love. Heaven is love. All men are heavenly mansions built of God. :}: =l< 4? :1: When love renews the world below, All thoughts shall like the roses blow, ()n lilies white virgin snow. . =l< >x< >1: vs at Christ hath descended to humanity; Earth shall behold her deserts bud and bloom, And thrill :in all her veins of Deity, And error die, and love make all men wise andfree. '35 * tit * >.‘< In heaven again, The dust that now obscures the minds of men, Quickened by spirit~fi1-e, transformed shall glow Like crystal moonb cams shining on pure snow; ll,/[miter 7'efin.ed and purified, shall be T/w_/looting garment of ;‘he Deity. =:= =k a: Men to angelic stature wisely grown, Embody in one form of might and grace Not the perfection of one mind alone, But all the forms and forces of the race. g .4; >l< =:< is Out of the ashes of this great decay Shall spring swift revolution, for I hear A voice prophetic, pregnant with all fear, All terror, all confusion, all distress. ::< =1: * =l< « * And I will arm him (Revolution) to avenge the woe Oi’ millions on despotic heads. His call Shall rouse the nations, he shall tear the pail From the Christ, and it will wave so bright That tyrants. pierced and blinded with the sight, Shall reel and perish with the morning light; I’ll temper him a sword, and he shall smite Revenge and bigotry; but ancient Night Shall rise against him, and his feet must tread Where blood shall rain as from the skies o’erhead; The lurid flames shall follow him, his form Shall burn with agony, through strife and storm, Battling with all the enemies of man. The end of government is to perfect The human spirit. Laws that merely serve To aggrandize and elevate the few, Destroy at last the statelicst commonwealth April 1, 1876. Which topples by its own ill—balanced weight, Crushing the builders in its overthrow. , God’s government, unlike frail mortal man’;-3, Contemplates as its chief design and end A perfect life for every human soul. a: =l< ‘ That human hearts have m'g7u's, That tyranny is crime, that error springs Zvozffrom the human hearts, butfrom The wrongs that crush humanity. Then earth, From the Antarctic to the Arctic pole, Shall blush with flowers; the isles and continents Teem with harmonic forms of bird and beast And fruit, and glorious shapes of art, more fair Than n1an’s imagination yet conceived, Adorn the stately temples of a new Divine religion. Every human soul A second Adam or a second Eve, Shall dwell wz'tlL its pure co-unterpart In sacramental vnurriuge of the heart.” NOTES. OBSCENITY. A On the silver gilt gate—plates of the palatial mansions in. our “ garden district,” aregwords deeply graven with a knife point, too obscene to be on prison or brothel walls. words out there bychildren who had been conceived and gestated “in lust, and lust breeding secrecy in training, until their natures are drunken, and poisoned with it. IGNORANCE. Theignorance of woman gives the longest leash to the vices of men, and many a pure and innocent woman has gone down to her grave, ignorant that the vital source of life had been poisoned by her husband, and her trusted family physician, knowing her ignorance (from the accursed laws of conventional forms) helped her husband to conceal his crime of murder, aye, murder no less, than if he had seen her fair limbs stiffen under the daggers deadly thrust. Ah, there are men before me now who wish not that the “winds of heaven should visit their darlings too roughly,” and yet by their cruel and lust- ful, dominatlng nature, are slowly killing them, sapping life’s forces. and rendering the blooming girl the prematurely aged woman; vampire like feeding on her vitality, until she sinks outwearied, the mother of many children——~life’s race half run, and too often glad to lay the weary burthen down. A woman of your city said to me “God speed you, I am condemned for not being a christian; but my breast yet’ Warm with the touch of baby fingers, my lips thrilling un- der the loving kisses of my husband, I have enough of the Christ principle in my heart to strip and be flayed alive, if by so doing I could infuse into the hearts of women the love for humanity, and the knowledge of it that I possess. ’ It is easy to be a latter day saint and tie your children’s dainty bows and sashes and send them to Sunday school to learn some old, old story; to dress in dainty silks and costly laces, and sit in cushioned pews and languidly fan one‘s self whilst listening to the well salaried divine for a given hour. But oh, to imitate the Master, to go into the lowly places, lift up the bruised and broken, and then, when maligned and reviled by saintly ones, to be able to say: “God, Thou knowest I forgive them, they know not what they do.” This is not easy work my friend. Miss. E. SAXON, New Orleans. NEW YORK, March 12, 18‘£"G. Editor Weelclg/——Recently, while in conversation with a gentleman about the amount of possessions acquired by some persons in the world’s history, he remarked that he believed there was never yet a human being so much of a monster as to be called a billionaire. I told him there never was and never would. be. He thought, however, it was quite possible, as one of the Rothchilds, who died lately, left live hundred millions, and he only wanted 150 per cent. more to make him worth a billion. His notion therefore was based on the idea that a billion was a thousand millions instead of a million of millions. Now, ever since our late war the word billion or billions, though expressing an uncommon number, appears to have been brought into quite common use. For when the national debt has been adverted to by different writers, many of them have spoken of it as so many billions, instead of so many thousand millions. Where they get this sort of numeration I cannot imagine. It is not according to decimals, the per- fectly correct system of operation by figures. It may be from ignorance. as it appears to be; or, it may perhaps be because when writing they are too lazy to express themselves by thousands of millions, and so they say billions for con- venience. lf the latter be the case it is exceedingly repre- hensible as well as ridiculous; and if the former, it would perhaps be advisable for such writers of disquisitions in financial matters before they thus make wrong impressions on the minds of others, to try and meet some of our public school children on their way home, and learn from them the numeration table up to decillions. quintdecillions, etc. De— nominating numbers or sums in such a way is certainly very discreditable to our national system and policy of common school education. The true is always better than the false. A Yankee school—master seeking an appointment,’ on being asked if he understood figures, said he was not much of an arithmeticer, but he was desperate on fractions. It would seem that those who are apparently so familiar with billions, are equally desperate on whole numbers. DABOLL. Dear Weekly: Permit me to add my congratulations to the many rejoicings at the success of Victoria C. Woodhull. Like truth crushed to earth, she is triumphantly rising over her enemies. Well I remember the depth of my feelings which almost culminated to rage, at the great injustice of the sisters imprisonment, and the destruction of their paper for having in its columns an article which other papers printed and sent broadcast with impunity. I now hold a. April 1, 1876.: letter which I had written and directed to Mrs. Woodhull in Ludlow Street Jail stating the above facts, supposing in the excitement of the arrest she had missed seeing them; and .. which (I am ashamed to confess) I was scared by friends into applying to the station where I had but a few moments be- fore dropped it, for its return to me. The postmaster re- fused to grant my request, although holding my letter in his hands at the same time, until it could be sent to the General Post Oflice and opened. I had been a subscriber for the WEEKLY from its first publication, not because I endorsed allits tenets, but for its teeming truths, substantiated by able and philosophical arguments; a journal in which I saw no guile, owned and edited by women who earnestly advo- cated the elevation of their sex. Timid and sensitive as I was at the pointed finger, I soon rallied, and with increased vigor defended the WOODHULL AND CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY (long may it live) often in the face of derisive insults and the loss of friends. When public sentiment hung like a pall over the head of Mrs. Woodhull, a gleam of light seemed to tremble through its blackness, which gave me a trusting hope that justice would yet awake and sting the cheek of this Re- public with the blush of shame. God speed Victoria 0. Woodhull, is the earnest wish of YOUFS. Darsr J AYNE. IS THERE LONGER HOPE. 7(l/altom of the Weekly: While there is life, there is hope; u is often said in desperate personal ailments. and it may be true in a governmental and religious sense. But what is life in a religious, or a national sense? What, but justice, truth, righteousness, honor, integrity; private virtue in public men, public spirit, fortitude, manly courage in securing and sustaining right, in the private citizen? Public virtue in private men and private virtue in public men, regulated by reason and conscience, the eternal law of equity and right, old as human nature, immortal as the soul of man; only this is life, to nations and governments, and when such life fails, there is no longer hope. In any worthy sense, the United States government has ceased to be; is dead, putrid, “smells to heaven,” demand- ing, for the health of humanity, a Sodom ;g:_5&m*fi’_'1t-,h brimstone and fire. The president has proved weak and wicked alike; vulgar, coarse and besotted. And his minis- ters, mostly, are worthy their master. And the Congress did not need three years to prove itself in statesmanship, as idiotic as it is totally depraved in prin- ciple and moral character . Three full Congressional years it has now been wrestling with the financial problem; and wiser men than any of them now say it had been better for the nation had every member of both branches stayed at home all those years. And yet, when the present panic (now become chronic) broke out, by the bursting of the Jay Cooke bubble and the subsequent explosion of the “dissolving views” in Wall Street, and similar “open sesame” caves, commerce thought it could not wait three months till Congress should regularly assemble, but must call an extra session forthwith to pro- vide relief and protection against impending calamity and financial ruin. But the people did wait the three months; have now endured three whole Congressional sessions, and are appar- ently worse off than ever before! The Congress taxes, plun- ders and punishes the people, and that is all. And the popular government is as good as the prevailing religions in the land. Were our thirty to fifty thousand ordained priests and preachers any better than the “dumb dogs” of the ancient Hebrew prophet, there would be re- pentance or revolution in an hour. Revolution seems now the only and inevitable remedy. And revolution unto blood! More needed, a thousand times, in 1876 than it was in 1776; and more to be justified. The return of the brave Helen Nash to the columns of the WEEKLY is some consolation for the much absence of its peerless Editor in Chief, though her triumphs in the lectur- ing field are sufiicient to delight every true and liberty-loving heart. even were they at the cost of temporary suspension of the WEEKLY altogether. For her influence is omnipresent wherever or however it be diffused; and universal benefac- tion as well. PARKER PILLSBURY. Cincinnati, 0., March 12, 1876. '_«1 WOMEN WHO ARE TO BE EVER YOUNG. (J onnie J hue in Baltimore American.) Action is the secret of immortality, and now that women are entering the active fields they will cease to become old; they will remain young, like men. There was a time when women only lived five years——from eighteen to twenty—tl1ree. Before that they were “chits;” after, they were talked of pityingly, sneeringly, as “old maids.” Married women were supposed to be out of the world altogether, to have no interest for any one but their husbands and their children, and with the natural perversity of human nature, when a , woman ceases to have an interest for any other person than her husband, she quickly ceases to have an interest for him. The time has gone by when women ceased to be interesting because they had passed girlhood. Womanhood is found to be as much richer, as much liner and more attractive when ' it is developed and employed, as summer than spring, or manhood than boyhood. “This is my last call,” remarked a flippant young gentle- man to a young lady who was soon to be married, on a re-- cent occasion. “I never call on married women or unmar- ried _ladies after they have reached twenty-five.” “You do well, sir,” gravely remarked an elder lady present. “At that age and after marriage they begin to know the value of. time and do not like to waste it. ” Who stops to think whether George Eliot (Mrs. Lewes) is ‘ young or old? Who cares for noted women until they are old, or at least until they have passed their youth? for it is their experience and the use to which they put it, which makes them worth knowing. ' each one has paid into the establishment. -first thing},-—Broolclyn Argus. WOODHULL & 0LAFLIN’S WEEKLY. CO—OPERATIVE HOTEL. I desire to obtain a hotel or suitable house in an accessi- ble, but not aristocratic, part of the city of New York, to be operated on the co-operative plan. b 1. The total rent of the hotel is to be levied upon all the rooms, public and private, according to the location and quality of the rooms, with five per cent. added to the total sum. 2. The total rental of the public rooms is to be divided equally between the private rooms. 3. The restaurant and laundry is put to co-operators at cost price with live per cent. added. 4. There will be no liquors sold on the premises. 5. The government of the house will be under a master, who places each department under its proper superinten- dent. 6. All officers and agents will receive pay for services ren- dered, nothing for the office or position. 7 The rules for the government ‘of the house will be just as arbitrary as in any hotel. 8. All outsiders will be charged the usual city prices in the establishment. 9. All bills will be paid in advance. 10. Daily receipts will be cancelled by checks, receipt or vouchers with the treasurer at a stated hour each day. 11. At the end of each month, all dividends arising from the five per cent. margin and outside patronage will be di- vided among the co-operators in proportion to the amount 12. No party can become a co-operator for a less time than one month. . 13. This is not intended to be a money making, but a money saving, concern. All parties who can participate in this money saving con- cern will please correspond with G. W. Madox, 29 Broadway, New York City, and, if an answer is required, enclose stamp. 111 ,. __ ; flea-.'“’é.’t".§"L ' I }? BITS OF FUN. Old lace is the object of the latest fashionable mania, and the factories are running double time to supply the demand. Alabama State Journal. “You ain’t afraid to die?” said the clergyman, tenderly. “No,” replied the sufferer, “I’m only afraid it I do that the old woman will go snooting among my private papers the A Brooklyn girl is engaged to be married to an Italian Count, and in the course of four or five years she may be looked for on the street with a. hand-organ playing the usual tunes. The Baltimorean says a woman is more ecconomical than a man, because her “waist" is smaller. Of corset is.—Boston Post. We always thought lace expensive .——Detrot't Free Press. Stay that!——St. Louis Republican. Come, now, don’t play on those stringsany more.—E:r,. A correspondent inquires the etymology of the word “restaurant.” It is from two Latin words—-“taurus.” a bull, and “res,” things-—bully things, originally referring to ox- tail soup and the steaks usually found there. Judge Brady, of New York, tells this good story: He was one day on the wharf while an emigrant ship was coming in. An Irish laborer, who knew him, edged alongside, and, after alook at the crowded ship, turned to the Judge and said: “ Tell ye what Misther Brady, thim furriners is goin’ to play the divil with us entirely. What’ll we do at all, at all?” “Who’s Herbert Spencer, Pop ‘P’ asked an inquiring Brook- lyn boy of his father the other morning. “He’s a famous English philosopher, my son.” “And what’s aphilosopher '2” continued the lad. with the business air of a person. who could keep right on asking questions until doomsday. “A philosopher.” returned the father, gravely. “is aman who never marries.—Brooklyn Argus. Prof. Rudolph says that he has found out that the sun is a white, hot mass, 850,000 miles in diameter, having a sur- rounding ocean of burning gas 50,000 miles deep, with tongues of flame darting upward 50,000 miles, and volcanic forces that hurl luminous matter to the height of 160,000 miles. Darwin says the male grasshoppers use their hind legs to fiddle on the edge of their wings, and that the boss fiddler always wins the affections of the female first. The editors of the Norristown Herald aver that they have frequently noticed this, but didn’t think itcworth while saying anything about it. A promising young shaver of five or six years was reading his lessons at school one day in that deliberate manner for which urchins of that age are somewhat remarkable. As he proceeded with the task he came upon the passage, “Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from guile.” Master Hopeful drawled out, "Keep-thy--tongue——from-—evil—-and ——thy—lips——from——girls.” A case of chronic laziness is reported at Washington. A young man appointed to a clerkship in the Treasury Depart- ment was conducted to his desk and informed what his duties were. The chief of the Department discovered him a short time after comfortably reposing in his seat, with his feet characteristically resting on the desk. “Hello,” said the chief, “don’t you expect to do any work?” “Work be hanged!” exclaimed the astonished youth, “I had to work hard enough to get here.” A corpulent woman, wearing spectacles and a very serious look, was a passenger on a Woodward avenue car yesterday. and inquired: “Can you ringgthe bell?” “With pleasure,” he responded, as he rose up and yanked the strap. The car stopped, no one moved, and after a long look through the As the car rolled along she smiled at a man sitting opposite,/i door, the driver started up again. The man looked across at the fat woman for an explanation, and she said: “I didn’t know whether you could or not.”—Dctro'il Free Press. A drag driven by an elegantly attired lady, and with a trim and neatly dressed colored boy perched on the foot- man’s seat behind, was passing through the streets, when it was espied by an old negro woman. “Bress de Lord,” she exclaimed, raising her hands as she spoke, “Bress de Lord, I never ’spected to see dat. Wonder what dat cullud young gemman pays dat young white ‘Oman fur drivin’ dat ker- ridge? I know’d it'd come, but never ’spected to lib to see it. Dis nigga’s ready to go ’way now.” A Dutchman being advised to rub his limbs Well with brandy for the rl1eumatism,s-aid he had heard of the remedy; but added, “I dosh potter as dat——I drinks do prandy,den I rubs mein legs mit der pottle. A‘ 4 V Cr EDITORIAL NOTICES. A CONVENTION of the New England Free Love League will be held in Boston, March 26th and 27th. Truly yours, ._E. H. Hnrwooi). THE INDIANAPOLIS SUN.-—The leading independent reform weekly political newspaper in the Union, the special advocate of national legal tender paper money (the greenback system) as against bank issues on the gold basis fallacy, and the inter changeable currency bond as against the high gold interest bond. The Sun has a corps of able correspndents, comprisin- the most eminent political economists of the age. One page devoted entirely to agriculture. Miscellany of the choicest selection, adapted to all classes of readers. The latest general news and market‘ reports. Terms $1.75 per year, postpaid Sample copies and terms to agents sent free on appcation Address Indianapolis Sun Company. Indianapolis, Ind. THE Spiritualists of Rockford have lately organized (for lectures, etc., each Sunday) onafree platform. .,Our cause. seems to be in a very prosperous condition. Our lectures are attended by crowds of the most intelligent and thinking people in the city, and our last Convention was the best our Society has had i.u Northern Illinois since it was organized. Not one word was uttered during the whole Convention against a free platform. They nearly all admit that the question of most interest to humanity is the Social Question. Lecturers desiring engagements can address either COL. E. SMITH, A. H. FISHER, or FRED. I-I. BARNAR1), the Committee appointed to provide speakers for next six months. ’ ALL persons sufl’ering from the Asthma, should send for Dr. R. P. Fellows’ Great Indian Asthma Remedy. Mrs. Ellen Dickinson, of Vineland N. J. speaks of it in these terms, “I have suffered with the Asthma, for thirty years during which time I have tried all known remedies to no purpose, but now after resorting to Dr. Fellows’ Asthma Remedy, I am perfectly relieved.” Sent to any part of the globe on receipt of $1 per package. Address Vineland, N. J. .__.._.__ SPIRITUAL Cnnnon or {run Goon SAMARITANS, recogniz- ing the Jesus Christ principles as their foundation, will meet at the hall in the rear of Charter Oak Hall, San Francisco, Cal, Sundays at 11, 2 :30, 7 P. M. Services by Rev. Dr. Chaun- cey Barnes and others. ‘VVARREN CHASE lectures in Rockford. Ill., March 19, 21 22, 23 and 24, or may be addressed accordingly. spend April and May in Ohio. G. Vaughan. Post Oflice, Philadelphia, he will find an ear- nest friend. THE Independent Labor Party meets every Saturday at Masonic Hall, 13th street and 4th avenue. All who believe in the organization of an independent party, based on liberty, equality and justice, with its results, labor, land, finance and social reform are invited to attend. Dr. E. P. Miller will ad- dress the meeting next Saturday on the labor and financial questions. ' LoIs WAIsnnooKER can be addressed at Eureka, Hum- bolt County, California, during April. Will take subscrip_, tions for the WEEKLY. LE0 MILLER AND MATTIE STRICKLAND will receive 03,113 for lectures on liberal subjects. Engagements in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan particularly desired during the spring months. Terms reasonable. Address Omro, Wis. 'l.‘1—10MAs COOK will lecture in Michigan and Ohio from March 15 to April 15. Where public halls are not to be had he gives parlor conversations. He would like more calls in both these States, or Northern Indiana. Let all who would like to meet and converse with him upon the subject of a “ New Departure,” address him immediately at No. 578 M11- waukee avenue, Chicago, Illinois. No science ever developed itself more rapidly than has that of psychometry, or soul reading, and it is destined to take a place beyond all others in usefulness and grandeur, Mrs. H. Augusta White possesses remarkable psyl isometric and clairvoyant powers, and willgive readings :t the C0- operative Home, 308 Third avenue. Hours from 10 to 5, LShe will also give written delineations from a lock of hair. 1 9 1, age and sex must be given. Terms, as in advangee He will IF Mr. A. Gusley, late of Philadelphia, will address Prof. ‘V 4, ‘ woonnunr. a cLArLIn:'s WEEKLY 4April 1, 1876. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. I PAYABLLE: IN ADVANCE. One copy for one year, - 33 on Une copy for six months, - - - - - . 1 50 Single. copies, - - - - - - - 10 CLUB RATES. I Five copies for one year, - - . $12 00 Ten copies for one year. ’ ' - - - 22 00 Twenty copies (or more same rate), - - - 40 00 Six months. - - - — - - One-half these rates. ' F()RElGN sucscrurrron ' GA-N BK MADE TO THE AGENCY 013' THE AMERICAN NEWS OOMPARY, LON non, nnqrnnn. . One copy for one year, I . $4 00 One copy for six months, - - ‘ - 2 00 RATES OF ADVERTISING. I Per line (according to location), - I From $0 50 to $1 01) Time, column and page advertisements by special contract. pecial place in advertising columns cannot be permanently given. \dvertiser’s bills will be collectedtrom the office of this journal, and must In all cases, bear the signature of WOODHULL & CLAFLIN. specimen copies sent free. _Newsdealers supplied by the American News Company, No. 121 Nassau street, New York. All communications, business or editorial, must be addressed Woodhull «Ii (Jlaft'in’s Weekly, P. 0. Box, 3791, N. Y. Oflice,111 Nassau Street, Room 9. If a man heepeth my saying he shall never see death.—Jesus. A To him that overeometh, I will give to eat of the hidllen manna-.—St. John the Divine. That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life- time subject to hondage.—Paul. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to he entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without joartiality and without hy- 1o0crisy.—James, iii., 17. V And these signs shall follow them: In my name shall they cast out devils ,' they shall take my serpents ,' and they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them ,' they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.-——Jesus. . a NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1876. WE are prepared. to furnish a few hundred complete sets of the first series of Bible Articles consisting of fifteen num- bers of the VVEEKLY, for one dollar, postage paid. Our friends should lose n.o opportunity to bring these articles to the attention -of those whom they can interest. A careful study of all of them is necessary to a complete understand- ing of the great and allimportant truth that is yet to be re- vealed; Which must be carefully and judiciously brought be- fore the world, as the sun comes upon it, bringing first the break-of—day, next its dawn, and afterward its full meridian splendor. ' 0»-49-..-——_... THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; on, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST. For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship him.——S'r. MATTHEW, ii., 2. /\ - /\ This figure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading articles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been intrbducecl, but which, defined in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world ‘unto Himself. We adopt this rliagrarri. as emblematic, at our future work. '1 PARENTAL DUTY. There is an idea prevalent in the world, that, if children I are well fed, comfortably clothed, and given such a tolerably good book education as may be obtained in the public schools, the full parental duty has been performed; and that, let their after health and life be what it may, parents are in no wise to be considered responsible. But is this true? To be sure, it is the duty of parents to furnish their children food, to clothe and give them shelter; but these, save in the first few years of their existence, are generally . more than well~earned by the children; and the same may be said of education, since the direct benefit that accrues to the parent from the education of the child, much more than compensates for the expense incurred, even in‘a ma- terial sense, leaving out entirely, the other question of in- direct recompense in satisfied aflection. In a large sense, parents are also considered responsible to the community as well as to their children, for their morality, or for that thing which is understood to be meant by that term, as well as for their religious training and habits. If, at the legal age, the man or woman stands the test of public criticism in these regards, the parents of that man or woman are said to have fulfilled their duty; and to have failed to have done so, in so far as he or she fall below thattest only. But, we ask again, is this a true test; or a true standard of parental responsibility? It may be true as far as it goes, but if it go no further than to include these, and leave out the question of physical health, than we say it is not true at all, for of what use are all the accomplishments, in whatever direction they may be gained, if the body sink under their weight, by reason of physical weakness and disease? But let parents be held as c,-ulpable as they may, for any lack in any of the respects inentioned, they are seldom ever even censured for any falling of their children below the stand- ard of perfect health, while in no other respect are they so directly the cause of what their children may be, and con- sequently so responsible, as in this regard. In the first in- stance, at birth, the child is, physically, just what the parents make it; is free from taint, or free from the seeds of disease, as they were free or full at the time of conception, and dur- ing gestation and" lactation. In the second instance, the health of the child who is free from physical taint, and the degree of the want of it in the c hi.1d who has inherited ten- dcncies to disease, depends almost wholly upon having proper care, which involves a great deal more than is usually understood to belong to the care of children; indeed, ex- tends to proper food, bathing and exercise; to regulatio n of habits of eating, drinking and sleeping; to application to study, to labor and recreation. And in the third instance,‘ they are specially responsible for the private and secret habits of children, by which so many, perhaps wholly free from inherited taint, are brought to physical ruin, and by which more of the other class are consigned to the grave before muturity, or else to a life of physical suffering and misery, to still further depress the common health of the race, by begetting children to whom they transmit -their own degraded standard. We believe that what goes by the name of Christianity- modern Christianity—-is responsible for the physical degen- eracy of the people. It has taught that spiritual growth is to be attained by the crucifixion of the body; and has brought the natural and necessary appetites and passions of the body into such disrepute that the body, as a whole, has fallen into total neglect. In the days of Grecian and Roman supremacy, the physical perfection was held to be of par- mount importance, and every known physical law was rigidly observed. Had this idea been retained, and upon it there had been engrafted the further ideas of intellectual, moral and spiritual perfection, all would have been well. Common sense should have taught that this should have been done; but, as the Bible was falsely supposed to con- demn such a course; indeed to teach that there was no ne- ccssary connection between physical health and moral recti- tude and spiritual perfection, its modern expositors have made it the block over which the Christian world has stumbled into physical decay. Instead of parents teaching their children how to develop in.to physical perfection, they deny to them all the knowl- edge which they might communicate, as well as all other sources of obtaining the needed information, and quickly, usually sternl_,', attempt to check_the rising thought that would question them about it. In the respect in which there should be the most complete confidence between parents and children, all means of confidence are cut off, and parents remain utter strangers to their secret habits, and they are left to gain the knowledge they should obtain from their natural instructors, in purity of thought and pur- pose, from impure and vulgar sources and for degrading purposes; for where there is a want in child or adult that IS not satisfied in a proper and normal way, it is pretty certain to be ministered unto by improper and abnormal methods, To look into the faces of the rising generation and see the pallid cheeks, pinched and thin; the sunken eyes, encircled with yellowish brown; the attenuated limbs and undeveloped forms, flat and angular and covered with shriveled skin, when they should be full and rounded out, and their covering full "of life and rosincss, is quite enough to make one sick at heart who looks only one generation ahead. Nor are these signs confined to one sex. Both boys and girls, youth and maidenhood, alike carry the fearful evidence of their secret yiees written illli1t}§Ql7‘tl11Q;€ll)l8,Cll§tl‘§tGt6l‘ii all eve; thcirfaces and forms. Many children are, to be sure, debilitated and weakly by reason of the vices of their parents, and between them and those who are the cause of their own degeneracy, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish; but when children, once rosy and healthful, become shrivcled and lead-colored, parents may. rest assurred that secret vice is at the bottom of it, and that it may be charged to their own criminal negligence in not teaching their children properly about the functions of sex, and warning them of the danger of the practices that have become so common among the young. But parents live on blindly, and see their children fade away and pretend never to.-suspect the cause; but the children themselves, the boys especially, after awhile learn that something is wrong with them. There are plenty of books that point out the evil, of which they get hold, after the evil is accomplished. They try to, and in many instances do, break off the vice, but the fatal effects - only then begin to appear, for, what had been a voluntary habit, now degenerates into an involuntary and abnormal ac- tion and more rapidly than the vice itself would have done, pushes along the evil work begun in ignorance. Some parents excuse themselves for having left their children to drift into this vice, by saying that no warning would have deterred them from it. But the incompetency of this reply is demonstrated by the fact that, when the vice has become a habit, children break themselves of it without assistance when they learn what are its fearful effects. No! Intelligence upon all these subjects is what is needed by the young, much more than any other kind of instruction; instruction communicated from pure lips for the high and pure purpose of preserving the dependent young from falling into the snares that are set at every dark corner of the earth to catch them in their fatal noose. The purest minded peoplc—men and women—in the world are those who were taught the most about their sexual functions by their saintly mothers; are those who can dis- cuss intelligently any problem that relates to the health and disease of these functions, or to the origin and develop- ment of life, and do so without being seized upon by the demon lust. The really impure minded are they who blush and simper and hide their faces when any one happens to refer to a question of sex. To the really intelligent there is no more disgusting sight than to see a woman pretend to suffer from an affront against her ideas of propriety, when the relations of the sexes are being discussed. It is from this class of young women that the seducer obtains his Vic- tims. He knows well enough that it is useless for him to attack one that understands herself and can speak about herself, or others, without the idea of impurity or vulgarity finding a place in her mind. It is such women--such young womcn—who gain and hold the respect, and ulti- mately command the love of the better portion of the op- posite‘ sex, while to the simpering idiots in these things, fall the other portion. Children who are strangers to their parents in these deli- cate regards, sooner or later lose a large part of the respect for their parents that ought to exist for them during life. They learn that they were afraid to tell them what they knew, or else were afraid to trust them with the knowl- edge; often times they remember such lies that were told them in answer to some of their questions, and this teaches them that their parents had no regard for the truth, and they distrust them in everything else besides. In fact, there are thousands of instances in which children go to some respected acquaintance, or to the family physician or minister, to learn something that they dare not inquire about of their parents. Nor does the evil of this want of confidence end in the subject in which it began, but it spreads into all the relations of parents and children, and is frequently the source of untold ills to both. Not only is the insatiate maw of death constantly felt by ill-timed victims of this estrangement, but asylums, hospitals", and prisons are filled by its results; and the ranks of vice in all its forms are constantly recruited from the self-same cause. -When we say that, if parents were to become acquainted with their children, thoroughly, and know [them through and through, and were to teach them just what they should know about the only portions of their bodies and their func- tions of which there are not other proper sources of infor- mation, a generation only would be required to banish al- most wholly, all misery, vice and crime from society, we say what we most assuredly feel would be true. In the exceptional cases in which this confidence has existed, the results have been so marked and beneficial, that we are forced to conclude that, next in importance to proper gen- eration stands proper education in these respects. In a moral sense, parents who know the ills to which children are exposed and do nothing to warn them, are as responsible for what befalls tbem as he would be who should see an- other walk blindly into the jaws of death without giving him warning that there was danger in that direction. We are aware thatthere are too many parents who know next to nothing about these subjects which have been hid behind the veil of mystery so long that knowledge of them has come to be forbidden fruit, and many, who have some . knowledge, profess to be ignorant lest they fall under the curse. We but reiterate what we have said often before, when we say that, if there is anything bad, anything Wrong, in any way among a people, the very best way to get rid of it is to teach the rising generation freely about it. The possession of proper knovrrledge upon. any subjectshuts cit ,. W7’//.9" __ _ .A,pri1 1, 18’? 6. woo:onUI.L as CI.AFLIN’8 WEEKLY. r I 5 the demand for the improper and really vulgar knowledge upon the same subject, by which the hearts and lives of the young are now so widely tainted. Proper teaching by parents and teachers would soon destroy the occupation of the agent of the Y. M. C. A. for the suppression of vice, for, if what ought to be known by all, was properly com- municated to the young,‘ there would be no morbid curiosity to be satisfied in any vulgar way. , Hence we appeal to the mothers of the country to be- comepure and virtuous enough, flrst to never beara child . that is not desired before it is conceived; and, second, never to permit one to run, blindfolded, in igngrance, on the rocks or shoals upon which so many lives are stranded, so many happy futures blasted, and so many moral virtues wrecked. To do the opposite to these is to fail to perform a parental duty which, in our esteem, is to be guilty of the greatest of all crimes. Think of these things, moth- ers, and then see whether you have done your whole duty to your children, and if you see you have not, then lose no time in making whatever amends so late an awak- ening may still render possible. .4; V7 THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. If there were ever a time in the world when the hearts of those who look for great and radical changes, should feel rejoiced, it seems to us that :the present should be that time. While the large majority of the people look on the evidences of decay and rottenncss that are being daily exhumed from the sinks of corruption, with growing dis- may, amounting to terror in special cases, the inconoclastic reformer smiles a smile of satisfaction to see this work go on, and sits quietly to wait for the grand culmination. He knows that all great changes are preceded by long- continued ages of healthy growth, but he also knows that the new era is only born when the old one dies. The new grain appears after the old has decayed and become Lthe the seed in which the new has its first life. Development in institutions follows the same law that the seasons observe with such wonderful regularity. Each season has its seed- time, time of growth, and seed-yielding-time, and when the last appears, the effort that develops it exhausts the process, and in :the chilling winter a new one is provided for the coming year. So with institutions, governments, and all other organized bodies, whether of men or things. It does not require a prophet to tell that the institutions of this country are in their “ sear and yellow leaf.” There is no soundness, strength or virtue anywhere. Onevast seed—yielding-time spreads over them all. They are about to give up the fruit that they have bourn, and fall into decay, out of which will spring the new and better order. It is not true that the decay is of quite recent origin, but that the people have discovered that there is decay and are hoping to sound its depth and length to learn the strength ' of the foundation still left to stand upon. Everywhere it is one and the same thing, ;from the Epettiest government ofiicial leading even into the White House itself. Look at Congress-a body chosen by the people to legislate-spend- ing all its time investigating corruption ! Regard the heads ,of high ofiicials, as one after another, they fall into the death-basket! There IS no department of the government G that has not been under the control of a “ ring ” for specu- lative purposes. But this does not tell the whole tale one-half so well as does the other side of it. VVith all the evidences of fraud and corruption morally chargable upon the present adminis- tration, the people of a prominent State, last year almost democratic, now go strongly republican. Have the people gone so far into the chronic state that nothing will arouse them; has mortification, insensibility, already set in, or are they still more fearful of the “outs” than they are of the “ins” that they hesitate “to fly to the ills they know not of ?” It is questionable whether if Grant himself should be found to be the very head and front of all the peculation that has been carried on,. the people would be moved even by that to a change of front. Tweedism in New York, and Grantism in Washington are the touchstones of the two old political parties, between which there is no choice by which the people feel there can be any advantage gained. One thing is certain: With all the exposure, the opposition is not as strong to-day as when Congress assem- bled. There have been no statesmen developed among‘ the new members, and the old ones baflie the new by their superior tact in almost every move that is made, often turning their own weapons upon them and doing fearful ex- ecution in their ranks. It may be true that for every Bel- knap there would be found a Pendleton, and that the “ins” having this assurance dare the “outs” to move upon “their works,” and they may hesitate to shoot at the highest game for the same reason that made it impossible for Horace Greeley to use a certain lot of letters which he had in his possession, to which the name of one of the Grants was signed, and addressed to the Sub-Treasurer and others at New York prior to, and at the time of, that never to be forgotten Black Friday——the beginning of the present depressed commercial condition of the country. They probably involved individuals belonging to his party, whose exposure would have done him as much harm as Grant would have received by the exposure of the other side. I ‘ What has become of those letters? Documents for the tpcsssssicri at which friends at iii-6 adnjiinistraticn were willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars, which sum was refused decidedly by their holder, must have contained some interesting facts. Documents of such value would "not be likely to be destroyed. May it not ,be possible that they are still to come before the public and cap the climax of all the corruptions of all the lesser officials? What would the people think of their republican government if, after all, it should culminate in having at its head a man who was willing to involve every -busi- ness interest of the country, so that his friends might speculate in gold, he rushing in at the eleventh hour, after they were safe, to rescue the business interests from ruin by using the whole power and influence of the United States Treasury to stop the panic that had been purposely inaugurated? Republicanism in politics, coupled with competition in industry, or rather with money-getting, has culminated, and is verging to its overthrow. But the people are no more aware of what is to take its place, or even that it is to pass away wholly, than they were that, when the late war begun, it was destined to overthrow slavery and the slave power. The few, only, saw that the purposes of the extremest abolitionists were the ones that were to be ac- complished by that war; so now it is only the few who see that the purposes of the extremists, only, are to be subserved by the impending revolution. One portion of the people are asking for greenbacks, interchangeable into bonds, bearing “8.65” interest, never dreaming that they are to get money without interest at all; another class is asking for slight reforms in land tenure and possessions, never thinking that all the land is to belong to the pub- lie in common, again. Laborers are striking for better wages and fewer hours, never imagining that there is to be an organized industry in which all will have an equal right, and that they will stand side by side with their -recent employers in everything; and the same in many other things. But they are to come as the result of the next revolution, and all distinctions, save those established by nature without the aid of man, are to be laid low. Woman, too, is asking for the ballot, never dreaming that the days for voting, as voting is now done, are rapidly coming to an end; or that they are to be accorded all the God-given rights by which they are endowed, as freely and as necessarily as political equality was accorded to the recent slaves. slavery, to which she is subjected_by the law of marriage, is to be abolished, and she be elevated to be the queen in the domain of the affections, and be thus restored from the curse put upon her through her common mother, Eve, by which her sorrows and conceptions were multiplied, and she made subject to her husband. ‘ And least of all do the Christians think that the prayer which they have been praying, parrot-like, so many ages, that “Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” is to come, as Christ said, “like a thief in the night,” and find them not waiting to receive it. Little do they suspect the near advent of the reign of Christ upon the earth, coming to His temporal as well as spiritual kingdom; and little do they imagine that we are soon to be as the angels who “neither marry nor are given in marriage ;” or that the time of the end is near. But all these things are true, nevertheless. _ .A._4 r Vfi V LIFE-SIZE LITHO GRAPH. We are now prepared to flll all orders for life-size litho- graphs of Victoria "C. Woodhull, from the lithographic establishment of Armstrong & Co., of Boston, Mass. They are splendid pictures, both as awork of art and as like- nesses. They are printed on heavy paper 20 X24 inches, and specially adapted for framing. They will be sent post- paid, securely wrapped to guard against damage, to any address for 50 cents. The common price of lithographs of this size is $2; but we have arranged with -the publisher to furnish them in large quantities at such rates that they can be resold at the price named without loss to us.’ They are thus put within the means and reach of everybody who desires to have a splendid life-size portrait of the Editor-in- Chief of the WEEKLY, who has devoted her life wholly to the inauguration of a new dispensation. on earth, in which misery, vice and crime shall have no place. In reply to many letters asking for " dealer’s terms ” we would say that the lithographs may be ordered by express by the half dozen, dozen, or more at 40 cents, the usual price, less the postage. In explanation of the delay that has occurred in sending lithographs we would say that the third edition has been delayed, but will be received within a day or two, when all orders will be filled.——[MANAGINe. Enrron]. __ln. 4 V wrw THE GARDEN OF EDEN. The paper edition of this oration is exhausted; but we have prepared a pamphlet edition, which, to meet the extraordinary demand that has been made for the paper, we Will furnish in lots of ten at $1; or more at same rate. -—---————-—>—<Q>—--4 A SHAKER MEETING will be held at the Brooklyn Academy v of Music, Thursday evening, -March _30. Addresses, and Shaker music under the directicti of Elder 1}‘, W. Evans, Mt. lsebanen. (.301. cc:-.. -3.37‘. 3;‘. Nor does she dream that her greatest, CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN NEW ’ ' YORK. ’ MEDICAL “ SCIENCE” ARRAIGNED, CONVICTED AND CONDEMNED. Editors Weekly: I learn through the press that the San- hedrln of, your State have commenced the work of perse- cution on Mrs. Holmes under the law of May 11, 1874, for practicing and obeying what Jesus Christ instructed his disciples and followers to do—-“ And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the'sick.”—Luke ix. 2. “And heal the sick that are therein.”—Luke x. 9. To the man who had been helpless thirty-eight years Christ bade ' him “ arise, take up thy bed and walk, and immediately the man was made whole ”—John v. 8 and 9. “ Verily I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater.”-——John xiv. 12. For doing these things, had Christ and his disciples lived infNew York, they would have been subjected to the tortures of persecution and the penalties of the law referred to. Personal experi- ence, in the iecture—room and at the bed-side of the sick, for over twenty years, with the vast amount of corroborative testimony of the most eminent medical men of,a1l ages, have established in the mind of the writer the lamentable fact “ Physicians are tossed on the sea of unfounded hypothesis, and feel convinced in their own minds that absolute dark— ness prevails in the medical practice.” In the month of March, 1848, the (supposed to be) “ honorable degree of doctor of medicine ” was conferred upon the writer, on the grounds as recited in the parchment. that he had “ sustained an honorable examination before the Faculty of this College, in all the departments of medical science, and has been foundto be duly qualified to discharge all the highly‘ re- sponsible, important and complicated duties attached to the oflice of physician, surgeon and accoucher,” etc., and in con- sequence of the said “ honorable examinations 7’ and the eminent qualifications possessed by the candidate, and the authority vested in the said faculty by an act of the Legis- lature, the said degree was conferred, “ with all the honors, privileges and immunities thereunto belonging, both in this country and among all nations.” This document was signed by the Faculty and the Board of Trustees, under their great seal, with a long blue ribbon attached, and thus executed in due form. was delivered to the happy recipient. Who won- ders that a youth without practical experience, armed with legal authority and solemnly declared by seven wise teachers of the mystic art, to be “ duly qualified to discharge its re~ sponsible duties,” should go forth to battle disease with high hopes and unbounded confidence in his ability to “heal the sick, raise the dead,” and cast out of the human system all manner of (d) evils! Twenty years of study and practice have brought me to the following conclusions in reference to the prevailing systems and practice of medicine. They have their merits and demerits. Anatomy, physiology and surgery are their merits. Of pathol0gY. nosoiogy and thera- putics the educated physician knows as little correctly as the astrologers of old, and his ideas of disease and its proper. remedy areas inconsistent in the light of truth as the in- cantations of the “ medicine men ” of the forest. I believe that every honest physician will concur with me that every step taken in practice, from the portals of that college from which he went forth clothed with authority and full confi- dence in the merits of his chosen science, has led him deeper and deeper into darkness and confusion. Every practi- tioner will acknowledge to himself, if not to the world, that the endless classification of symptoms to be found in the various works are not truthful guides to the proper under- standing of complaints, nor to the proper applications of remedies. He knows that every new case presents new symptoms, and that in eight cases out often he is obliged to rely upon his own judgment in making out what appears to him to be the proper diagnosis and prescription. He is forced absolutely to flee from the superficial authorities of the pro- fession into an independent, individual system. The indi- vidual who receives his medical dogmas from Hippocrates, or from books by minds walkingin the same well-beaten track, rejoices that the whole philosophy of medicine is hypothe- tical and conj ectural. He feels secure in his unsound but popular position, knowing that neither the profession or the people are capable of making an exposition of the‘time- honored fallacies of the schools. Thedarkness and uncer- tainty whichenveioped all my early experience as a medical practitioner led me to doubt my capacity to comprehend the “science,” and my skill to properly apply it to practice. I was flattered when my professors declared, over their official signatures, that I was duly qualified to judge of the nature and character of physical derangements and capable of ap- plying the proper restoratives. My experience taught me different, and had I not held a. court of inquiry and sum- moned the most reliable experts who have ever graced the profession, I might have settled down under the mortifying conclusion that I had mistaken my calling: that the science was perfect, and that in my case the “ honors of the degree?’ had fallen on unworthy shoulders. As I before said, I called a court of inquiry in which the following testimony was elicited. If the medical profession object to the evidence, I have only to say, the witnesses are your own, your teachers and your authors, and as a general thing your superiors: “Oh, that man Would stoop to learn, or at least cease to destroy.—-STOKES’ Pmcttce. . “All the metallic preparations are uncertain, as it depends entirely on the state of the stomach whether they have no action at all, or operate with dangerous violence.”--—i Hoornn. ' “The physician is a fortunate man, if positively he does not injure his patient.”——BoERHAAvE. “N 0 physician whose works I have read, no professor of medicine whom I have ever heard speak on the nature of diseases, has ever discovered, or even hinted at, the nature and cure of fevers; all have delivered theories which amount to open acknowledgment of their ignorancefl’.--DoNALDsoN “The science of medicine has been cultivatecl for mere than tire ttiassaud years the sgevetaa greatest l 4.“; ,.v V-~./' s I C S swoonnonn a CLAFLIN’S"‘WEEKLY. A-r—\ talents have been exercised. Yet upon no subject has the Wild spirit of imagination been more widely displayed. VV6 know nothing of the cause of diseas,e.”——DR. G001). “It is not less certain,’ but still more deplorable, that the majority of the people are yet a prey to medical credulity, superstition and delusion.”—-PROF. RAFINESQUE. “Both surgery and medicine can and will, in the present astonishing strides of human intellect, be forced to pass a rigid scrutiny, and undergo. a radical improvement.”-,- SMEAD. I “To harmonize the contrarieties of medical doctrines is indeed a task as impracticable as to arrange the fleeting vapors around us.”——PRor. CHAPMAN. “Medicine is as yet in a very imperfect state. The philo- / sophy of diseased action is very little known.”-—PRors:ssoI«: ‘ ‘.NUNNELY. ~ “Very few of the valuable discoveries in medicines have been made by physicians. They have either been the effect of chance or necessity, and have been opposed by the faculty till every one else was convinced of their importance. An implicit faith in the opinions of teachers, and an attachment to systems and established forms, will always operate on those who follow medicine as a tI‘ade.”——BUCHAN. "Taking the general run of practitioners, we can convince ourselves that most of them exercise nothing but the rudest empiricy under the cloak of science.”-—PRor. HARTMANN. “I have long enough been tossed on the sea of unfounded hypothesis to feel convinced that absolute darkness prevails in the medical practice.”—REIL. _ “What a mass of credulity and error has actually accumu- lated in medicine from the presumptuous attempt to grasp at obscure objects, and make hasty and dangerous application of them to practice! When we cast our eyes upon our shelves loaded with volumes, few of them containing any genuine profitable knowledge, the greater part of them composed . chiefly, either nugatory, erroneous, inapplicable or mischiev- ous, in which the dear——bought grain is to be sought in the bushel of chaff, may it not be questioned Whether such re- searches have not tended more to retard and corrupt than to advance and improve practical medicine ?”——SIR GILBERT BLANE. “The refusal in universities to tolerate any opinion in the private or public exercise of candidates for degrees in medi- cine, which is not taught or believed by their professors, is restraining a spirit of inquiry in that period of life which is most distinguished for ardor and invention in our science.”—- Rnsn. “Many individuals are blessed from their birth with such a powerful constitution that they are able to resist the worst kind of medical treatment.”——KREUGnR HANSEN. “ Physicians have been tinkering the constitution for about two thousand years. The result of their discoveries is that brimstone and mercury are the only two specifics. Diseases remain what they ever Were.”--COLEMAN. “Except we adopt a reformed system, we shall lose our practice.”-—P.aorsssoI«: JACKSON (medical, not pyrotechnical, professor). “Minerals are the most destructive to animal bodies that malice can invent.”—-DR. Cl-IEYNE. “If God will not impart to man the secrets of medicine, it is right to consult the d0Vll.”——PARAC ELSUS (inventor of mer- curial practice). “Medical men have first obscured their art, and deluded the community into the belief that in medicine there is some charm, some conjuration, or some mighty magic. Men are indignant when we prescribe means as simple as the waters of Jordan, instead of smiting upon the part and uttering some technical incantation.”-N. R. SMITH. “I have seen nearly every form of chronic disease, after resisting almost every kind of medical treatment for months and years, yield in a very short time to correct diet and a well regulated general regimen.”———GrRA.HA1rI. “The whole nation is groaning under thelpresent practice of the medical profession, which fosters disease more than it cures it, and debases or ruins our constitutions."--MoR1soN. “Of all sciences, medicine is the most uncertain.”~PRor. ALoNzo CLARKE. A “The science of medicine is founded upon conjecture, im- proved by murder.”—-SIR ANTHONY CARLISLE. “The reason why quacks accumulate fortunes is, because regular physicians are so generally unsuccessfu1.”——MUrtrr:'a. “I was a dogmatic at twenty, an observer at thirty, an empiric at forty, and now at fifty I no longer have any sys- tem.”-—BoRDEN. ‘ “I giveallkinds of medicines, in all kinds of doses.’ ’——DR. W. H. HoLooMB. "1 am sick of learned quackery.”—-Pnor. WATERHOUSE. “It is so impossible toseparate from the trivial, that it were better to reject all.”—— LEUTAND. “I am wearied of guessing.”-—D’ALEMBnR'r. “Few are the remedies whose virtues and operations are certain. Many are those which are doubtful, suspicious, fal- lacious, false.’ ’-—Ilo FFMAN. A “Universities are but dull repositories of exploded opin- ions.”-—-DR. ADAM SMITH. "An undue attachment to great names--Hippocrates, Galen, Avauteus, among the ancients; Boerhaveu. Cullen, Brown, Broussais, among the moderns——have in their turn established a despotism in medicine by the popularity of their names, which has imposed a restraint upon free in- quiry, and thereby checked the progress of medicine.”—- Rusn. _v ,7 “The psople are a goose, and I’m going to pluck it. -- BEALE. I _ “From the month of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.” Here is the evidence. Let the suf- fering professional-ridden masses, as jurors, render a ver- dict ’If medical science was an individual. amenable to the laws of the land, the above array of testimony would be more than suflicient to convict it of a great capital crime, and the unbiased judgment of public opinion would consign it to a felon’s doom. Still, with this terrible record. of ignorance and crime, the "profession” is allowed to control your legislative councils, and to further outrage humanity in its self defence, by making it a penal offense in the Empire State to obey the teachings of Christ, in curing disease by the “laying on of hands.” Out upon such laws, and shame upon those who enact and sustain them. — B. L. HEATH, “M. D.” HE is no common soul she loves- The one on whom she ponders When, in some dream of tenderness, Ilcr truant fancy wanders. A The form that glides her vision through Is like some god of old, In tales of prince and paladin That ininstrelsy has told. Man may not hope her heart to Win, Be his of common mould. A HILL~SIDE HOME. At an informal Convention held March 4th, 1876, at Pitts- burgh, Pa., Hon. A. B. Bradford being called to the Chair, and Milo A. Townsend, Secretary, the following Call was pre- sented, read, and on motion of Col. B. S. Heath, was adopted. - TO THE LIBERALISTS or AMERICA. The light and experience of the last century, and particu- larly the present deplorable, social, political and financial condition of society. admonish us that we are on the eve of a Revolution, no less radical or important than that of a hun- dred years ago. For years, We have been drifting toward the rocks, without chart or compass, pilot or engineer. Self- preservation has coinpelled mankind to suppressitheir honest convictions, and toilpander to a corrupt public sentiment, to honor those who are unworthy of honor, to cringe before the power of money, and to shout huzzas to gilded villiany. The Angel of Justice has forsaken the Ship of State. Millions are “asking for bread, and receive a stone.” Moral honesty has become a jest and a by-word with those in power." In view of these facts, it is deemed important, that ad- vanced and liberal minds should meet in a Congress during this Centennial year, in the vicinity of Philadelphia, and de- vote the months of May and June to the discussion and elaboration of such Political, Industrial, Commercial, Finan- cial, Social, Educational, Co-operatived and Communal Sys- tem, as humanity demands, and the times warrant, so that America may yet become the Messiah of nations, even though it may be through other Grethsemanes of Agony,” or other Seas of sorrow,-but leading ultimately to grander heights of national glory, where Justice shall build her shrines, Humanity her homes, Science her temples, and the Religion of Righteousness, her altars. After such systems have been wisely conceived, elaborated, digested, and adopted by the Congress, let it be proclaimed to the world on the 4th day of July next, with such appro- priate ceremonies as the occasion requires. The beautiful Mansion, ' "THE HILLSIDE HOME” at Carversville, Bucks Co., Pa., has been leased for the Head- quarters of Liberalists during the Centennial period. Its scenery and central location, proximity to Philadelphia, ease of access, beauty of surroundings, its pure soft spring water, its numerous and well furnished apartments, capable of ac- commodating one hundred and fifty guests, and the cheap- ness of living, all combine to render it the most desirable and appropriate point for the purposes named. At this place, the Liberal Congress will convene on May 4, 1876, and continue its session from time to time, until its ob- jects are accomplished. All persons of liberal minds are cor- dially invited to participate in its deliberations. It is espec- cially requested that the Llberalists of all nations at the Centennial, will be represented in this Congress, and units with us in proclaiming a new Declaration of Independence. THE ROUTE. From New York and Philadelphia, by the Pennsylvania. R. R., via., Trenton, N. J., Belvidere division to Bull's Is- land, thence to Carversville, a distance of two miles through a beautiful valley by stage, which meets the trains that ar- rive at B. I. Quick connections at Phillipsburgh, Camden, Elizabeth, Flemington and Monmouth Junction, with all parts of the country. From Philadelphia by the North Pennsylvania R. R. to Doylestown; thence a distance of’? miles over good roads by a new and comfortable stage, which connects with trains from Philadeiphia. Quick connections at Lansdale, with Bethlehem, Norristown, Allentown, 8tc. ' A. B. BRADFORD, President. MILO A. Townsnm), Sec’y. CO-OPERATIVE COLONY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. The undersigned begs leave to announce to her numerous correspondents and co—workers, in her efforts to establish a co-operative Assoc iation and Industrial School, that in view of the assembling of a Liberal Congress, at the Hillside Home soon, to digest and elaborate a more perfect system for the management and guidance of such associations and Commu- nal Homes, it is deemed advisable to postpone furthur nego- tiations on the subject, ‘until the deliberations and conclu- sions of the Congress are proclaimed. She hopes to meet at the Home the coming summer, all who are interested in the proposed reforms, where future plans and arrangements can be perfected, and the co-operators meet face to face, thus se- curing the benefits of personal acquaintance, as well as the wisdom and experience of the combined assembly. It seems to be of the utmost importance that those. who con- template association and co—operation for a lifetime, should meet, get acquainted and exchange freely their thoughts and views. In the present inexperienced, isolated and unorgan- ized condition of public sentiment onrthis subject. we be- lleve time, money and annoyance will be saved by awaiting the deliberations of the Congress referred to. After April 1, my address will he Carversville, Bucks Co., Pa. Hoping the above will meet the approval of my friends, I am, fraternally yours, L. M. HEATH. ‘April 1, 1876. BUSINESS NOTICES. DR. R. P. FELLOWS, the independent and progressive physician, is successfully treating nervous and chronic dis- eases all over the country by letter, as well as at his office at home, by his original system of practice, which omits all drugs and mineral medicines of both old and new schools. Dr. Fellows has been steadily gaining upon the confidence of the public for the past eight years, during which time he has ” treated thousands of cases, eighty out of every hundred of which he has radically cured, while every case has been bene- fitted. And at this moment he has patients in every State in the Union. Every reader of this who has any affection of the head, throat, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, kidneys, blad- der, bowels, womb, genital organs, or rheumatic or neuralgic difficulties, or eruptions of the skin, blood impurities, tumors, cancers, or any-» nervous affections or diseases of the eye or car, are invited to write to Dr. Follows. The remedy with which he treats these diseases so successfully, is his Magnetized Powder, which will be sent to any address, at 9.51 per box. Address Vineland, N. J. DR. CHAUNCEY BARNES writes that he is still in San Fran- cisco, Cal., organizing circles for all kinds of mediumistlc developments, and for practical Work. He claims to be blessed with many beautiful glfts——-rappings, table move- ments, trances, spiritual telegraphy, prophesy, rlizigzlosiug; disease, healing by laying on of hands and with “the balm from God’s medicine chests."’ He contemplates returning to the East in April, stopping for a while in Chicago, and go- ing thence to Philadelphia. A SKIN LIKE MONUMENTAL ALABASTER may be obtained by using GLENN’s SULPHUR SOAP, which does away with the necessity for Sulphur Baths. Try it, ladies. It is a genuine beautiiier, and very economical. Depot, Crittenton’s No. 7 Sixth Avenue New York City. The address of Nellie L. Davis, is 235 Washington street Salem, Mass. Mus. S. A. VVAKEMAN COOK, 578 Wllwaukee Avenue, Chi- cago, lll., Psychometrist and Developing Medium, will give her attention to answering letters addressed to her, or will go into whatever town, hamlet or county wherever she may be sent, or called to go-taking, pccuniarily, whatever those whom she visits or aids in their development may be in- spired to give, letting} each one measure their own pockets, and be their own judges of their capacity to give. There can be no new era until all things have passed away. I feel that I cannot belong to the new era so long as 1 make merchandise of the Holy Ghost (the Spirit of all Truth.) CLAIRVOYANoE.——Mrs. Rebecca Messenger, diagnosing dis- ease, or reading destiny, if present, $1 00; by letter, $162 00. Send age and sex. Address her, Aurora, Kane Co., Ill. P. O. Box 1,071. (303,) ' WE still mail our book, phamphlets and tracts——-“Free Love,” “Mrs. Woodhull and her Social Freedom,” “True and False Love,” “Open Letter to A. J. 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ALL families and invalids should have Prof. Painc’s short- hand treatment of disease—a small book of forty pages Sent free on application to him at N o. 232 North Ninth street, Phila, Pa. ‘ 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '3 00 Constitutional Equality, by Tennis 0. 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A perusal of its mass of facts will better post and fortify the Lib- eral mind as to ecclesiastical pretensions and the per- gecumons of the Church in all ages, than many a more bulky, and ambitious work. Liberal friend, no fitter work can be selected to hand to your bigoted neighbor of the Church than this instructive pamphlet. ‘Anx- ious to spread the truth, we have reduced the price of this work (whcih is elegantly printed in clear type, on line white paper), to twenty cents, postage 2 cents. 32 let e a es. g p g INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY. Publishers Worcester, Mass. Agents! A $5» Article! Several are wanted in every house. A purchase leads to a desire for our $15, $30, or $40 article. All of great utility. Physicians Prescribe f,Tlie1n. No coinpetition to speak of._ ). Full infoimati.on on receipt of Stamp. 9; my Wakefielcl Earth Closet Co., 36 DEY STREET, NEW YORK. THE WORLD’S Sixteen Cruoified Saviors; on, UIIRISZ /A NITY BEFORE CHRIST. CONTAINING N ew, Startling and Extraordinary Re'vclat'z'.o'ns ‘in Religious Hwistory, 'wht'ch disclose the Oriental Origrin of all the Doctrqines, Principles, Precepts and Miracles _ of the CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and _furm'sh1}ng a Ifey for unlocking many of its Sacred Mysteries, besides corrtprrisimg the Iltstory of Si-acteen Oriental Crucqifiecl Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “ The Biography of Satan ” and “The Bible of Bibles " (cornprlsing a description of twenty Bibles.) This wonderful and exhaustive volume by Mr. Graves will, we are certain, take high rank as a book of refer- ence in the field which he has chosen for it. The amount of mental labor necessary to collate and com- pile the veried. information contained in it must have been severe and arduous indeed, and now that it is in such convenient shape the student of free thought will not willingly allow it to go out of print. But the book is by no means a more collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—as will be seen by his title-page and chapter-heads——follows a definite line of research and argument_to the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. C O N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; Cllntroduction; Address to the 6 rgy. Chap. _1.~—R.i.val Claims of the Saviors. Chap. 2.—iVlessianic Prophecies. Chap. 3.-—Propliecies by the figure of a Serpent. Chap. 4.—lVliracu.lous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. ‘ Ch:ip..5.—-Virgiii Mothers and Virgiii-born Gods.‘ Chap. 6.-Stars point out the Time and the Saviorls Birthplace. ' ' Cl§ap._'7.——Ange1s, Shepherds and Magi visit the Infant avior. Chap. 8.—-The Twenty-fifth of December the Birthday of the Gods. Chap. 9.—-Titles of the Saviors. Chap. 10.—~’l‘he Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble . Birth. Chap. 11.~—Christ’s Genealogy. _ Chap. 12.——The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tigin in Infancy. Chap._t13.—The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of Di- vini y. ‘ Chap. 14-The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.—~’l‘he Saviors are real Personages. Chap. 16.—Si‘xteeii Saviors Crucified. Chap. 17.—-The Aplianasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci- fixion. Chap. 18.—-Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.——Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.—Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- iors. Cl1(z)ip_. 21.—The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe l‘l0'1ll. Chap.b22.--The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.—Tlie Divine “VVord” of Oriental Origin. Chap. 24.——The Trinity very anciently a current Hea- then Doctrine. Chap. 25.—Absolution, or -the Confession of Sins, of Heathen Origin. Chap. 26.-Origin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. ' Chap. 27.——The Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen Origin. Chap. 28.—Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.—Ho\v Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. ‘ Chap. 30.——Sacred Cycles explaining the Advent of the Giods, the Master-key to the Divinity of Jesus Chris . Chap. 31.——Christia1iity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systeinsl Chap. 32.—Three Hundred and Forty—six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna. Chap. 33-Apollonius, Osiris and Magus as Gods. Chap. 3:1.—The Three Pillars of the Christian Faith- Miracles, Prophecies and Precepts. Chap. 35.-—Logical or Common-sense View of the Doc- triee of Divine Incarnation. . Chap. 36.-—-Philosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. Chap. 37.~Physiological Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, I Chap. 38.—A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. . Chap. 39.——The_Scriptural View of Christ’s.Divinity. Chap ._ 40;—A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. _ C15Lp.4%.-—-The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus hris . Chap. 42.——Christ as a Spiritual Medium. Chap. 43.——Conversion, Repentance and “Getting Re- gion” of Heathen Origin. V Chap. 44.—The Moral Lessons of Religious History. ' Chap. 45.——Conclusion and Review. ~ Note of Explanation. Printed on fine wliite paper, large 12mo, 380 pages, $2.00; postage 20 cts. I Send orders to WOQDHULL & CLAFLIN, P. o, Box 3,791, New York City. = .AF”LIN’S 5WEE5Ki.?Yi A V 7 ..._T. A s\ \\\~ _ \ "S \ ILILI/>\l‘l\5.R\\\\.‘i~\\ PBACT CE BF MED to a Science, BY . w- PAINE, A. M., M. 13.. Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and Pathology in the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery; Ex-Pi'ol’essor of Sui'gei"y and Diseases of Women and Children in the American Medi.eal College; Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons ; Ilonorary Member of the Academy of Medicine; Auth.or of a large work on the Practice of Medicine ; one on Surgery; one on Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; one on Materia Mediea and New Remedies; a Review of Homoeopathy and Old Physic; former Editor of the University Medical and Surgical Journal, Medical Independent, etc., etc., I etc., etc., etc. In no department of human knowledge has there been more beneficent discoveries than those we have made in relation to the germs of disease, and the methods by which they are introduced and propagated in the human system. These germs are so minute that they are not only incapable of being perceived by the . mere unassisted human senses, but some require a glass of from one-twelfth to one-fiftieth of an inch of focus, and of the very strongest magnifying power to discover them. Some are so small that a million may exist in a drop‘ of water, and not be discovered by any ordinary magnifying glass. These germs are both vegetables and animals, and under the glass show every structure of li.fe as in the most perfectly formed trees and beings around us. These cryptogamous plants and microscopic animalculae, are in most instances developed simultaneously. Their rapidity of growth is simply miraculous. All are familiar with the growth of mushrooms, and it is known that minute fungi cover miles of earth in a few hours. Dr. Carpenter states that the Bovista gigantea grows in a single night, from a mere germ to the size of a large gourd. The Poly- porus squamosus and Frondorus are equally rapid in growth. 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