Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2113
Publisher
Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date
1876-03-04
Place published
New York (N.Y.)
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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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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. 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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. 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 ' Christ. Chap. 4t1.——The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus Chris . Chap. 42.—C11rist as a Spiritual Medium. Chap. 43.—Conversion,Repentance and “Getting Re- gion” of Heathen Origin. Chap. 44.—The Moral Lessons of Religious History. Chap. 45.—Conclusion and Review. Note of Explanation. Printed on fine white paper, large 121110, 380 pages, $2.00; postage 20 cts. Send orders to WOODHULL 935 CLAFLIN, P. O. Box 3,791, New York City. V ABULESH THE IHUUSIEN-YEAR PREV? lhdidlhill From leading Merchants, Sublisiiers, Editors, Shyfiician and Scientific Men. ‘ ‘ TH aE)ii‘(I>1n,1, the former publisher of “Uncle Tours New York, Sept. 1st, 1875. 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Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2114
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Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
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1876-03-11
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New York (N.Y.)
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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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I Dpecial place in advertising columns cannotbe permanently given. \dvertiser’s bills will be collected from the oldies of this journal, and must in all cases, bear the signature of Woonnnm. do CLAFLIN. dpecimen copies sent free. _ Newsdealers supplied by the American News Company, No.121 Nessa street, New York. . All/communications, business oredltorial, must be addressed A Woodhull &‘ Glafliws Weekly, A P..O. Box, 3791, N. Y. , Ofiice.111 Nassau Street, Room 9. If a man heepeth my saying he shall never see death.—-~Jesus. ‘ To himthat ooercomcth, I will give to eat of the hiclilen manna.—St.~ John the Divine. Yhat through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and clelioer time subject to bondage.-——Paul, The wisdom that is from abooc is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, ‘easy to be entréatecl, fall of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hy- pocm'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 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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The time required to learn its use is not worth mentioning in comparison with the advantages afforded by the machine. Yours truly ANSON STAGEB. What Governor Howard of Rhode Island says: PHENIX, R. I., March 27’, 1875. DENsMonE,' YosT & Co.: - Gentlemeu——We have now had the Type-Writer about a month, and are entirely satisfied with it. There can be no doubt in regard to its usefulness. When I saw the advertisement of the machine originally I had little faith in it. An examination surprised me, but not so much as the practical working has. We have no trouble whatever with it, and it is almost constantly in operation. I think that it must rank with the great beneficial inventions of the century. Very truly yours, N HENRY HOWARD. « , A MORRISTOWN, June 29, 1875. DENSMORE, YosT ,& Co.'. I , Gem5lemen—The Type-Writer which I bought of you last March I have used ever since, and I wish to ex- press» my sense of- its very great practical value. 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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. N - Chap. 36.--Philosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. _ V _ Chap. 37.~—Physiological Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, Chap. 38.-—A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus h ' ‘ C t- . . . . . . Chap1:1§9.-—The Scriptural View of Christ’s Divinity. Chap. 40.—A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus Oh ‘st. Cha.pr.141.——The Precepts and Practical Life of- Jesus Ch“ 1:. ' ' Cliap1.1:2.-—Christ as’a Spiritual Mediiim- Chap. 43.——Conversion, Repentance and “ Getting Re- gion” of Heathen Origin. _ Chap. 44.——'l‘he Moral Lessons of Religious History. Chap. 45.~—Conclusion and Review. ' Note of Explanation. Printed on fine White paper, large 121110, 380 pages, $2.00; postage 20 ete. Send orders to WOODHULL 85 CLAFLIN, P. O. 1- ox 3,791, New York City. I 297, 299, 301, Washington Street, Buffalo, N. Y. with same make. 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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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New York (N.Y.)
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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. Woodhull at the Hutchins House,on yester- day, and invited her to repeat her lecture in Galveston, assuring her a purse of five hundred dollars.—Houston (Texas) Age. 44A BUSINESS vnorrioss. 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 diificulties, or eruptions of the skin, blood impurities, tumors, cancers, or any nervous affections or diseases of the eye or ear, 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 Vineland, N. J. CO—OPERA'1‘IVE HOMES IN THE CITY.-—A.ll 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 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. Briggs Davis, editor, assisted by the most radical pens. Ind. Tract Society, Worcester, Mass., publishers. PROGRESSIVE 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. The address of Nellie L. Davis, is 255 Washington street Salem, Mass. PROF. LISTER, the astrologist, can be consulted at his room N 0. 319 Sixth avenue. Address by letter, P. O. Box 4829. 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. 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 No. 232 North Ninth street, Phila, Pa. THERE is nothing mysterious about the disappearance from the skin of eruptions, burns, scalds, bruises,ulcers, and sores through the influence of G—lenn’s Sulphur Soap. Sulphur is a potent purifier and healer of the skin, and is most beneficially utilized in this form. Depot, Crittenton’s, No. 7 Sixth Avenue, New York City. The Books and Speeches of Victoria 0. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices : The Principles of Government, by Victoria 0. Wood- $ 3 00 Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. Claflin. . . . . . . 2 00 The Principles of Social Freedom. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 25 11 .................... .... Reformation or Revolution, Which ?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Elixir of Life; or, Why do we Die ?. . . . . . . . 25 Suffrage-Woman 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, Tennie C. Claflin and Col. Blood, 50c. each, or three for. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 00 Three of any of the Speeches 500., or nine for. . . . . 1 00 One copy each, of Books, Speeches and Photographs for 600 A liberal discount to thosewho buy to sell again. 5:? :4 . . --f ‘ 97-}. Mar. 18,1876. \ W00‘DjHULLs &iC'LAFLINi’S VVEEKLYS IIave~you-seen the Wonderful Type- Writing Macliine? 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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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Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2117
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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. 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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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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. Fricke, the Swedish naturalist, observed, more than two thousand species of fungi in a square furlong. He also saw 10,000,000 of sporiiles in a single Reticularia maxima. One spore of the Torula cerevisiee or yeast plant will increase to a large forest of fung in a few minutes. Bedliain has described over 5,000 species of fungi. Among these are the Mucor mueedo, that spawns on dried fruit; the Ascophora mecedo, or bread mould, the. Uredo rubigo and u segetum or corn mould, and the Puccinia graminis or wheat and rye rust, etc., etc. l:[’1°acticc by Letter.-—Pa1ients residing at a distance, and wishing to cons ult Professor Paine, can do so in the following way: Write, {giving age, color of hair and eyes, height, weight, length of time sick, and, as near as possible, the cause of disease; the condition of the bowels and appetite ; whether married or single; if there be sexual difficulty, What it is ; and how many children. 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Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2118
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Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
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1876-04-08
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New York (N.Y.)
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v 2 F:RE.E tr.r1oUG—HT: UNTRAMMELED LIVES BREAKING THE WAY FOR ‘FUTURE GENERATIONS. A s . Vol. xi.—No; 19.—-Whole No 279 I v “s i O 0 . ' I ‘ V o y T , NEW YORK, APRIL 8, 1876. . PRICE TEN cnnrs, Nae truth shall make you f7'ee.—-V-Jesus, feel grateful to the spirit world for having selected you as to you that this was not their intention or purpose. ‘We In file days of the voice of the seventh omool, the the chosen one to whom the important knowledge to an an x- might say much in regard itothe‘ other signers of the card, in mysgeyy of G o d Shah be fino-ohod.______St. John the locus People is revealed: will You in return please condescend -which thepublic are told that they only suspected fraud, but’ Divine. _ _ 0 tell the “ world and the rest of mankind” who the messen- our reply is growing lengthy, and " we will pass to your state- . _ , ger is that was commissioned by the spirit world to point out ments of what took place at the easpose, in which you saylthati W’/Ler... Show morev 2 F:RE.E tr.r1oUG—HT: UNTRAMMELED LIVES BREAKING THE WAY FOR ‘FUTURE GENERATIONS. A s . Vol. xi.—No; 19.—-Whole No 279 I v “s i O 0 . ' I ‘ V o y T , NEW YORK, APRIL 8, 1876. . PRICE TEN cnnrs, Nae truth shall make you f7'ee.—-V-Jesus, feel grateful to the spirit world for having selected you as to you that this was not their intention or purpose. ‘We In file days of the voice of the seventh omool, the the chosen one to whom the important knowledge to an an x- might say much in regard itothe‘ other signers of the card, in mysgeyy of G o d Shah be fino-ohod.______St. John the locus People is revealed: will You in return please condescend -which thepublic are told that they only suspected fraud, but’ Divine. _ _ 0 tell the “ world and the rest of mankind” who the messen- our reply is growing lengthy, and " we will pass to your state- . _ , ger is that was commissioned by the spirit world to point out ments of what took place at the easpose, in which you saylthati W’/LereofI_ was made mmmzster to preach the ‘MW so clearly the law? Truly we should be glad to know, and “it is unnecessary to go into detail, but suffice it to say that searc/table 7‘?,C.h68.0.f 0/wast, and the mg/ste7'y in the meantime must say, “ from such egotism Lord deliver the seance ended with acomplete exposition of itsfraudulent » 75077; the begznnmg of the world hath been /Auden nus.” V y ’ character, and the production ‘to the astonished gaze of all Q(r——=-Paul. no. ‘A ~ . . The medium Whose .. fmndnlont materializationnvv W oro ny present of all the paraphernalia with which she had produced -- - i ' I w . . your asnlntanoo dloovorod no Cnlongo is supposed to bo yon several different ‘spirit forms who were recognized by some MR. HOOK PUTS HIS FOOT IN IT AGAIN. ' . say‘ u the Mrs. Stewart wnonn Mn Ponoo of Torro Hnnto’ had of those present as their friends ‘from the spirit world,” and‘ _ Editors W/Ieekly :——I ask you to give the following reply to for some time vouched by an offer of $1,000 to any one who ll? the °l0slnE remarks» l‘0191'I‘ln8.' t0 tl16AB«b0V09 70“ B33"! ‘"111 , an editorial found in the WEEKLY of March 18th, under the would demonstrate that her materialzations were fraudu- the Pr°“°“t state of this °3“° "9 do not 59° 11°" l"h°'°’sPl1°ll"“ 0aptionof"F d1tMt'l' "i ° . - ’tf’T Ht ll t “th - .. ..r::.“.:“....a;:;:.;::*;f: .::. 2:12: ans: ::;”~’;“1:;°.m:i:’°.:° °‘:“.‘“::S ‘° 1;,“ :::::.:.*::“..::;:. :;::.°.;', ‘;.::::: *.’.:°“::..::°:::;:..:.:: that Y 911 00111913’ Wllill tllls 1'9q11ssl3- Tbs many sxafigeratlolls Wale: ul1de:I‘a<:l:l‘ s:pes1'vei3sij)n, §e:::::§1‘,a llor dl:)rw:rbeEli:venl?l::t Whl°h by ‘heir “ll°“°° they b°°°m°' 11°” h°W they “"1 stall‘; and misrepresentations in the article should not pass uncor— she ever of her volition practiced deception. For the hun- by and 899 lills Promise that she W°‘1ld 1l9V°1‘ P1's°l7l°° d°°°P" 1'°°l"9d- '.l-‘l10 article P0I‘D0I‘l3S‘t0 be 3' 1‘9D0I‘l3 Of 3 ssanse given dredth time she passed successfully the critical examinations‘ ‘loll sgsllls made them 3'5 Clllsfigos dally b1‘0k°l1-" gyeggrtz. Stegvagt in Chicago. Sept-, 1873. at which you were made by a committee of ladies (skeptical and prejudiced) In reply, I request that you answer, in a truthful manner. “J an Y Y0111‘ assistance She Was eXp0Bed- Since who were privileged to examine her person, wardrobe and the following interrogatories: First.‘——Descrlbe all the para— :]l;‘f’:ri5h9 has bee? Psrflfllilisd by )7_0l11'_silen06 to Gontinue her cabinet in any way desired. During each examination, a phernalia found, and explain how it is possible that she could _ this isotllllse :7;’°1:tl"f“ Wlthtlnsrsaslsg 1I_1l701‘6st'- Realizing‘ that standing offer of $500 as a reward should they detect fraud, pcrsonate spirit forms so accurately as to be recognized by ’ » ll 0 3 Wall ed neslectlon )’0l11‘ Darn. it now be- was constantly held over,the heads of the committee by Dr. friend. Second.—‘—How many representations appeared, and ‘ 0011135 necessary. 3763-. Important. that the Public should Pence, the only request reserved was that a lady friend should how many reccgnized—,_and who were the recognizing parties? 4 lgnow _w1i_at restraining‘ influence has caused this long be present for the obvious purposejof detecting any imposi—, lThird.—Was it the -full form or onlyotheface that appeared? =' ‘ <~ slay, 1D_ l“fsl3_0Ds0 130 Wlllsll the f0ll0W"1R» as an apology 130 tion that a dishonest committee might attempt. A precau— Finally, who were the Spir_itualists_presen_t at the seance? 5, the Public. 15 Introduced: We have refrained from taking tion thatshould have been observed at Chicago. Remember that the questions refer to the one seance. It will any position which might be called a warfare against any . . ‘. ' class of mediums, knowing too well what are the influences From the .f0u.0W1.ng quotation It would seem that you under which all mediums nnw no brought; for to be a me_ accepted the invitation to attend the seance under protest, dium presupposes a variety of influences and conditions VIZ‘: “thoselwllo were m“"‘s‘”s the seance urge? us to at‘ against which the individuality of mediums, let it be as telld and supermtend the pr-epamt.l0nS' Wen oblected and gm-ong1y honest-, as it may, oannol; always otanoy, said that they would be sorry if they pressed us; that we had 1 can readily poroolyo too strong iinoont-No that one knoW_ no wish to interfere with their arrangements, but if they in- ledge of the above would have to restrain an honest, sympa- slated We would do as they WiShed'” so _a'fter 3?“ you did thetic inind, and to such minds, under ordinary circum¥ not Want to expose Mrs’ S‘; Oh’ no l will you mfofm the tances, must prove a successful barrier; but in this case, it publm, who managed‘ the Seance and Why y,Ou. Ob,Jected? _ . . , . should be remembered that, by the sllonooo a Wily Woman Knowing, as you have explained, that all materializations arc Since writing the above, my attention has been called to has been enabled to gain as 3 mntorlollzlno medium 3 na_ fraudulent, a curious people may conclude that you were the publication in your issue of the 25th of my private letter. tional reputation, plaolng hon at one hood, if not lo advance, willing that this bogus medium should continue to deceive I do not objectlto this betrayal of confidence,“neither am I of all others, and that hundreds of om. most Worthy and them. Verily, it has that appearance. And further, explain now surprisednthat the honor held sacredby others should be intelligent citizens have boon by one dooonoivo influences of whyothe managers should be sorry ? Was it because they did ignored, by you.« I should not notice the letter were it not this lllltal-ate and unsoplllstloalod woman mono to believe in not want her exposed‘? If so, they too werelunfaithful to an proper that I should explain the following which appears in contradiction to your Wonderful and nroonotio vision (to important and sacred trust; your refusal may be predicated the letter, to wit: to I have. done battle for and your which 1 shall presently rotor), that one time for .,matorian'_ on the sentiment expressed in my first and second quota- cause!” This is even so, though I never have endorsed the zationg H has truly and surely oomo; and yforthor, doubtless tion, but for the committee we have no excuse. _ radical and extreme measures advocatedby you. My request, ‘ by spirit agency tl_1I‘0l1gl1 Your mediumship, it has been re? That you have strong sympathies for bogus mediums no that m pubnshmg the report of the exl?0.86’ that you wpuld vealed-that her seance—room is crowded day- after day with one can doubt, particularly after being told that it was n0t.be.hasty’ was based on Him f‘“l"’f"?‘“°“ tha't'lanytmng_ honest, earnest investigators, among Whom are judgsfi, 1a.w— through this restraining influence that Mrs. Stewart wasper- indloalnng fraud’ lmwever “iv 3,1 It mlght. be’ well (1 be ex‘ yers. professors, doctors, in short, the advanced minds in the mitted to continue her deceptive practices’-for two and a-half “$39” ed and mmrapresented. 'by Pm-ludl°e' whmh wp_p°' 00‘1I1l?1‘Y- Fesllflg lsssllll’ that YOU are 1‘ssP0flsll>l9 110 the D11b- years; and we are ready to believe but for theinterference smon has been proven correct In the course taken by You’ not do to confound this with others, unless you are prepared to show that the paraphernalia found was used to practice de- ception. Having noticed worthy points, each in their order, I will close the review by assuring you that the unprejudiced who have witnessed the manifestations in Mrs. Stewart’s seances to any considerable extent are astonished at your foolish report, the result, doubtless, of prejudice and malice you hold against all materializing mediums, clearly mani- fested by the language foundvin your report. alilolls l3Y Which the dear people have been imposed‘ upon, sympathy would not have been changed to ma1ice,in evidence the consideration in as brief a manner’ as possible certain m"_‘k°5_1l‘ ne°°sss1'Y that something more should be offered in of which we reproduce the following we have taken from statements found in your three and a——half column article T * ‘ms d1l‘3°tl0D- F01‘ this Purpose We find the f0ll0Wll'-lg: “ If your article, viz., “We have been led to refer‘ to ‘this matter which the letter called out: In your comments you intimate fillers ls 3 Glass Of P601318 sfllilslefil 50 the enlightened consider- at the present time by a communication which we published that the committee know that Mrs. Stewart is afraud, but, ation of a considerate people, that class is the so—called me— last wet~k,signed by Mr. Cadwalla/dér (Professor,if y'ou'please,) Beecher-like, work to cover up her fraudulent materialize.- dluml We l1sVs‘ 9-lW3»Y s 1‘900gI1lZ0Cl this. and ha‘-*6 never in et at. We know Mr. Cadwallader (professor) to be an honest, tions. In all candor and seriousness, let me ask a just and 3»DY.«WaV pursued 80~0a1led frauds.” Of course those ac- conscientious man, one who would not lend himself to any- discriminating public: Is it reasonable to suppose that were Qzllalfllisfl With mefillllmshlp Wlll Gompreheud the sentiments thing of this kind if he were not thoroughly satisfied that he this true we would continue perseveringly and persistently 30 Vrulhfully’ expressed ln Elle a~b0V6 quotation... and Will, is right, andlneither henor those with whom his name appears our investigations at a great expense oftime and money, re- d0l1lJ'0l6s_sa bet astonished to find that one understanding this was at Terre Haute to expose Mrs. Stewart. They were there ceiving naught in return but scoffs and sneers of the ‘bigoted so well is guilty of pursuing vindlctively, with gross mis- at great expense to themselves to obtain satisfactory evidence skeptic, and the annoyances of the repeated charges of being ‘ represent~ations, one who is classed with our most reliable that materializations are afact, and their observations were dishonest ‘confederates, made "by unprincipled ‘newspaper 1I16d1U-ms» and 01 Wl10!1l you know so little. , conducted as friends to the medium, and not as exposers of scri/bblers, as an example of which the attention of the '1 Your prejudice against materializabioxl is fu 11y expressed in frauds.” We now regret that we did not have your endorse- reader is directed to your article, and this reply? Such a sup- - the following quotation referred to above, viz. : “ That a fully ' ment of the Professor previously. Had this been known in position is preposterous to the reasonable mind, and to this materialized» spirit is as yet‘, an impdggibiligy, because we * time his request to address our citizens from the rostrum in class we appeal with assurances that we have a higher and fcondmong in which ll; 1,, possible to fully materialize do not Pence.’s Hall might have been granted. His commanding more noble purpose in our work than that of aimposing a yet ' exist. Materializations are produced by natural means appearance secured the admiration of many, and we might fraud in a sacred matter on our unsuspecting friends and the under the guidance of law, and we have been shown what have known, to be sure, that he was no ordinary personage. public. But to thesubject: You deny~pr'ejudifceagainst any- that law is.” Oh! how thankful we should be for this. impor. The perfect symmetry of person, the beardless face and fair body, and say “ we care only for" the truth. and that we , taut information. But alas! how humiliated must, those 301. complexion, and above all his long, silky hair of agolden always love.” This assurancef voluntarily. made requires no ‘entists feel who have declared to the worm than the question hue, which extended far down between his shoulders, gave comment; your article sufficiently‘ answers ‘to the "truth or by scientific research has been settled in the aflirmative, to to him an attractive appearance; in fact his demeanor falsity of that declaration. ' ’ ' ' »- . * say nothing of the thousands of the best minds of the old and throughout was so angelic that some fanatical people were i we now callfiattention ‘to the paraphernalia reported to have {new world who have openly acknowledged that materializar “lads 30 l39ll0Vs that M1's- Stewart has mstsrlsllzsd she been foundiat the e:'vpose,a.ndlCparticularly-request the readers tlons of the full spirit form to them isa fixed fact dem0n— Na7“‘“‘sl1s- A. to make a note of this wonderful discovery, “false faces, lstrated beyond the peradventure of a. doubt. That the over We readily acknowledge the force of , your decision with false hair, false moustaches, rings,‘ bracelets, laces, and~what- ssslous may 1101'» again 00IIlII1ll3l?l1ls 0FI'0r, will you be so kind regard to his purposes, ‘but how you obtained the history and ever else of ‘properties’ for make up that were required to pre- , A as to state at about what stage in the world’s progression object of his ten associates is beyond our ken. We admit sent algoodly number of Spirits, and to have successful "ma- ~ will the conditions for materializaticn ripen. Doubtless you they did not expose Mrs. Stewart, and this may be evidence ‘terla1izations.” Will it not appear strange that the thorough 4| ll0 T01‘ Dsrmlliting this bogus medium to practice her machin- of your especial friend, Prof. Cadwallader, the professed I now re-indorse all that is said in that letter, and "pass to . WOODHULL as OLAl4‘LiN’S WEEKLY. April 8, 1876. Search 02, her perscn, which, yo.u‘admit .,w,as_._mad,e, previous to ' binjiet, fail to reveal s_o”me_;.‘of;‘the articles ng of-_?.the good omittedlin j_i , A _ , away; ‘(Your state-— fwejre ‘fficoncealedilinéheriperson, where n" ctnceal .them,,*;’~'is to ujslsimply absuijd “just be isoflto all who halve.’ ’_itnessefd_itlie rem lied (and thgi {mayf relie,v§e you; absu ,‘ity> thfat at‘§t_;he time si're}f’e1§i:e I pientt.;31stag.e‘s.i}of deyelopment then manifestations; con’-_ sisted ‘of'”showing”‘ha'n'ds" a'n‘:d”‘faces which appeare~d at the window in the cabinet door, whereas since the 24th of March. 1874, the full materialized forms are exhibited, among, V whom are recognized the persons whose faces previously.,ap,.-‘ii peared. Your wise suggestions demonstrating the only sure; 1' test by which materialization can be proven has not pasvsfed: unnoticed: it is—“The only test is to secure the medium’ ‘ while the spirit is present, and to secure the spirit so that-"a con_federate_. is lmpo_ssible.”, Can it bethat you are so igno-_ _ rant of the laws governing materialization thatyou do not know, that such a test istfan impossibility ?; rm. that‘"‘the‘ putifb may"know Ehéfiii staaaniené of the - facts as reported, for I was not in the room at the time the raid was made but entered immediately tflhehreafter, I found the company greatly excited, the ‘cloth cabinet"demo1islie'd,l and the medium terribly frightened; she was menaced with arrest and": imprisonment; iurider that threat, the defenceless woman", trembling» with fear, was willing to make any conces- sion that gave hope of relief from the besiegement. I was the only person present from Terre H‘aute,'a'n’d declare your state- ment that -Terre Haute spiri.tualist_s were in attendance, to be false. There. was none, until I came in, to whomshe . could appealfor sympathy, .excepti_ng her husband who . I was present during the examination,,at the. close of which. at my sug—, * gestion,.she was conducted by her husband to a private room . and soon. left. for Terre Haute. Now, with your list before me, and in contradiction to which I furnish the following which ,« I assert is all that was produced to us to wit; one small piece 3 of linen. the size of_ an ordinary handkerchief, in which was enclosed one or two pieces of paper, silver tint; this neatly , folded. was foundin the seam of the under-dress, and a ~' with the odds against him, wasjépowerless. smhll, bunch of hair whichmight have been_.used to repre- sent chin -éwhiskers; this was found. inher back hair. This _r comprises the entire list, and is what I referred to in the ad- mission made in my private lettcr “ that on thes urface at that time it looked as though all was notright.” Had there been’ as you state, “ false faces, false moustaches, rings, bracelets laces. curls braided in the hair.” etc. produced, I must have known it. That the committee for two and a half years should remain in profoun_d ignorance of this discovery is passing strange, particularly when it is known that during all this time it has been the business of the opposition to. bringto the surface everything that could possibly militate: against Mrs. Stewart. After the medium withdrew from the. room I instituted a thorough investigation, and learned of those present at the beginning of the seance that the raid» had been pre—arranged .by you and the two or three others aiding. you previous to entering the seance-room, and was made on the cabinet at the appearance of the first face. I shall now close by a brief history of the committee, with Mrs. S. We learned of her ‘,husband;‘_incide,ntally that she possessed ‘mcdiumistic powers, but refused to let them be made public because of the persecutions that would follow, and for theafurther reason-that she was subject to the control ~ of evil, designing spirits. These objections were overcome, and the. first seance. was given,January 1, 1873. For several weeks they were private-——herpowers increased rapidly, and she finally consented to make them public. We were con- stantly. annoyed by this class of spirits. referred to‘; they frequently broke up the private seances, and we were occa- sionally forced to prematurely close the, public seances through their disturbing influences. The medium, Ewhen tied securely with a rope around the neck, the ends of which were passed through openings made in the cabinet and se- : curely held, and while under that test condition they would get contrcland cause her handspand face to appear at the A apperture after replacing her in the ropes as secure as before -a feat that we defy any sleight-of-hand performer to ‘ac- complish. . ' n A A During the seven months that Dr. Pence’s reward was of- . fered,-he was continually threatened by this class that they would compel the medium to secrete paraphernalia which would causeher exposure and a forfeiture of the reward. Fearingthis, the doctor was in the habit of having a select committee of friends to examine her before the committee selected by the company would take charge of her. - With these precautions he felt perfectly secure. So perfect was this control that, under these influences, she conducted the domestic affairs about her house under an unconscious influ- ence; so pérfect did they personate that it was impossible to detect the entrancement. We felt greatly relieved in knowing that since they have come -out in full form this annoyance has ceased, the band explaining that they had I added additional forces, and were able te hold them off, and I now aflirm that neither theprivate or public committee ever found anything in their examinations, and reaffirm what I‘ publicly stated at the . examination, that I do_not believe that she ever would, if left to her volition, attempt a fraud. We know Mrs. Stewart tobe a good, reliable and truthful woman, possessed of extraordinary and wonderful medium- istic powers; and you-should remember that thoughtful people will believe their sensesin preference to any assertions that you or others may make’; and if there are those who fqo1igh1y__ suppose that falsehood, sneers and scoffs, ..or any , . threats that they ma.ke, will drive her_ and the Committee A ,from their duty, let them be undeceived, for belt known that acovenantis made between the Committee and her noble band,» each to theother, the character of which is that they , willprotect us and the medium against diakkaism on their side of life, and we in return, knowing that We are in the ‘ she wiasilin the in ci- , ., right, with truth on our side, are determined to protect her and her noble‘ band to the extent of our ability against the sameiclass belonging to this side of life. I have much more I would like to add, but thegreat length of this reply ad- monishes me that I must close. Yours, etc.. TERRE I-IAUTE, March 20,,,18’76, J Ange Hook. THE BELLS OF SHADIDON. With fond affection ' . And recollection ‘ I think upon those Shandon bells: ‘ Whose. sounds so wild would A In the days of childhood - -Thus fling around} me their magic spells; ’ ’Tis thus ~Ip]0I,_1der , , ‘Wnere§er'I'wander, “And grow}"the‘fonder, sweet Cork,of thee, ’ A - Witlithy bells of. Shandon That sound so grand, on ' The pleasantwatcrs of the river Lee. I’ve‘ heard thebells chimiu g A _ Full many aclime in, ‘ " » Telling sublime in» the cathedral shrine, ‘ While at a glib rate " ‘N ‘Brass tongues would vibrate; But all their music spoke naught like thine. For mem’ry, dwelling On each proud swelling, Of the belfrysknelling bold notes free, . Made the bells of Shandon Sound for more grand, on The pleasant waters of the river Lee. I’ve heard bells tollin g , ‘Old "‘ Adrian’s Mole ”. in, Their thunder rolling from the Vatican; And cymbals glorious, Swinging uproarious, ' V In the gorgeous turrets in old Notre Dame. But thy sounds were sweeter Than the dome of Peter Flings o’er the Tiber, pcaling solemnly; O, the bells of Shandon Sound far more grand, on The pleasant waters of the river Ice. There’s 9. bell in Moscow While on tower and kiosko In St. Sophia, the Turkman gets, And loud in air , Calls men to prayer From the tapering summit of tall minarets; Such empty phantom I freely grant them,’ . But there’s an anthem more dear to me: ’Tis the bells of Shandon That sound so grand, on. The pleasant waters of the river Lee. MATERIALIZATIONS. Mrs. Parry was engaged in giving a seance at Rockfort, Kent County, a few evenings ago, and everything passed off as per programme until the spirit put forth its hand from the cabinet and boldly slapped a Mr. M. Lockwood on the ear. That was exactly where he missed it, for he instantly seized the hand and called for the light. A light was brought, and strange to relate, the spirit was found to have vanished, while there stood Mrs. Parry hitched to the other end of the arm tugging and pulling at it as if it was her own. She got it, but gives no more seances, and the cabinet, having proved utterly untrustworthy for spiritual purposes, now does duty as a wood box.—~— Detroit Post. RADICAL SPEAKERS IN CALIFORNIA. SAN Fnsncxsco, Feb. 19, 1876. ‘ Emrons WEEKLY: The way opened here by Victoria Woodhull for the utterance of radical thought on social sub- jects is well followed this year. There are a half dozen rad- ical lecturers new speaking in this State. First in point of earnestness and unyielding adherence to principle, is your old friend Laura Kendrick, and Benjamin and Marion Todd. About eight months ago these three commenced a series of meetings in a small hall on Market street, Mr. Todd opening the course, followed by Mrs. Kendrick who spoke two months, the audiences being so large it was necessary to take a. larger hall. The meetings for the last four or five months have been held in Social Hall, on Fourth street, during most of which time Mrs. Todd has occupied the platform, speaking morning and evening, on marriage, stirpiculture, divorce and kindred subjects, the audiences continually growing in numbers and interest. Some of her hearers are occasionally shocked by the plainness of her speech, but notwithstanding her boldness, she is increasing in popularity. Mr. Todd at present is in San J ose. _ All of the radical meetings were so well attended that Mrs. Kendrick thought she might venture to engage a hall on her own account, and inaugurate a new series of meetings. Her hall is expensive, and as the admission fee is only ten cents, she will have to draw full houses to make it pay: but she has the ability to do it, and all earnest reformers will be glad to hear of her success. ’ " Lois Waisbrooker, another outspoken radical, has lectured here several times, speaking mainly on finance and labor re- form. She is now lecturing in the southern part of the State. 1 Mrs. Belle Chamberlain, an inspirational speaker of great power, and whose utterances are as radical as those of any of the others mentioned, is also traveling southward after a se- ries oflwell attended meetings in this city. .. J. L. York, an iconoclast, yet a builder, an advocate of sci- ence inreligion ‘as in otherhuman afiairs, has taken Mrs. Ohamberlain’s place, and will continue to speak before the society—-“the Spiritual Union-—during the month of March. He is an able man, but is most liked for his genial nature, his lively style of speaking and his evident honesty. Free Thought is his hobby, if he has any, but in that heiincludes almost everything. He has just returned from the north, having traveled all over the settled portions of Oregon, Wash- ington Territory and British Columbia. ' Our Lyceum for Self—Cu_1ture:continues prosperous, and is -= serving to develop a ‘number of young debaters who are taking strong ground against the shams of society and in favor of common senseiviews. The leading speaker and most prominent thinker is Geo, W. Lewis, a young man of fine natural abilities, considerable culture, and much mental ac- tivity united with grcat industry. He has improved wonder— fully within two years, and the more he knows the more ‘modest he becomes. He was formerly very dogmatic and tenacious in the maintenance of his opinions, but seems now less intent on sustaining Lewis, than in ascrtaining and up- holding the truth. J. L. Hatch, formerly of Boston, is taking a leading part- in all healthful reforms here-—industrial, social and religious. .Mrs. Frances Rose Mackinley, although seldom ‘seen"in pub- lie, is living her own life, surrounded by creature comforts and congenial friends. Mrs. Anna Richardson, who was praised in the WEEKLI for daring to have a love child in defiance of custom and law, has joined, with Mr. Richardson, a society known as the “California.Industrial Community,” and the couple, with their “wonderful baby,” are living on the ranche selected by the community as the principal thea- tre of its operations. She is a woman who lives her princi- ples wherever she is. Dr. J. H. Swain, a profound thinker, a humanitarian and a great lover of justice, is also a mem- ber of the community, but remains in this city for the pres- ent. In time, as the facilities for giving employment at the communal home are extended, all the; members will proba- bly take -up their residence there. There are in this State also two noted speakers, who do not call themselves radical, although they claim to be reform- ers. They aim to be “highly respectable,” and within the limit marked out by themselves, they are perhaps doing a good work—Mrs. Tappan and Miss Jennie Leys. All of your readers know them, by reputation at least. Miss Leys is rusticating at Riverside, where she has been for more than six months, “ waiting for the materialization of Jesus Christ through her organism.” Mrs. Tappan gave a dozen of ‘her liquid discourses here. (" Liquid” means fluent. not watery). She has an easier flow of fine language than any woman who has .visited us since Victoria came; but, except in that one particular, there is no room for comparison between the two women. Mrs. Wood- hull is earnest in her eloquence, calm in statement. clear in logic, convincing in reasoning, occasionally denunciatory, at times vehement, often electrifying, full of pathos, magnetic in manner. tenacious of the right, condemnatory of the wrong, now rousing her hearers to indignation and anon melting them to tears, but in spite of all her moods, ever the same truthful. sympathetic, loving woman; heaven bless her. woman’s best friend. Mrs. Tappan never shocks the proprie- ties, never awakens deep feeling, never calls forth earnest endeavor, but gently lulls into a quiet enjoyment of the passing moment, charming with the sweet music of well chosen words, leaving her hearers barren of thought. Her smooth sentences fall like gentle showers—a tepid bath of rosewater words—-after which the people exclaim, “How beautifull” D—n such beauty, I say. Give me pwordsthat mean something, though they be as rough as the ragged edge on which Beecher hung. I am angry with myself to think that I, too, have been momentarily charmed by sweet words that mean nothing. Yours, for the honest thinkers and ear- nest workers everywhere. W. N. SLOCUM. MATERIALIZATIONS. Editors Weekly: As you seem to doubt that materialize- tion is not yet an accomplished fact in spiritual phenomena. I hereby send for publication a detailed account of manifes- tions taking place through the mediumship of my wife (Mrs. Emma Backus) which are produced under conditions that preclude the possibility of fraud. We have a cabinet of the usual construction, with an addi- tional door immediately in the rear of the medium, which can be opened, unknown to her, at any stage of the seance. The medium is secured by tying her hands behind her back, with a small cord madefrom shoe-thread,and thoroughly waxed with shoemaker’s wax. She sits on a stool in the cabinet near this side door, and is tied with the waxed cord to a strong wooden bar secured to the wall of the cabinet with screws. Her feet are fastened to the floor with straps similar to skate straps, which are also fastened to her feet with waxed cords. While in this position hands are shown at the opening in the front of the cabinet, about six feet dis- tant from the medium. Immediately on the show of hands the door is opened and discloses her secure in the fasteningr. We also blacken her hands with lamp—black when she stands near the opening. In this position her blackened hands and the white hands of the spirit are shown alternately in rapid succession, precluding the possibility of any artifice or decep- tion. Arms are shown to the shoulder, frequently striking the outside of the cabinet with considerable force, showing them to be composed of solid material; but no drapery or clothing of any kind appears. When tied with the waxed cord to the cabinet a large din- ner bell is rung violently, andlthrown out of the opening. A piece of iron weighing about 40 pounds is also lifted and thrown out of the cabinet with apparent ease. The doors are repeatedly opened from the inside while she remains tied. At any time during the seance the visitor is permitted” to open theside door to catch the fraud, if any exists. When the medium is released, the cord is found to adhere 111:‘ April 8, 18'} ii. woonHULL a oLAELIN*s WEEKLY. A 1 3 so tight to the wrist that in taking it off the cuticle sometimes comes with it. The knots cannot be untied, and‘ must be out. No one can doubt that the fastenings remain undisturbed throughout the seance. We also blacken the handle of the bell, when it will be rung and thrown out of the cabinet, and on immediately ex- amining the medium’s hands no blacking is found on them.. « TERRE HAUTE,iMarch14, I876.’ ’ J. R. BACKUS. “There will be no liquor sold on the premises, but cigars and tobacco may be sold in the restaurant.” " To G. W, MADOX: . so My Dear Brother? I was both grieved] and surprised on reading the above quotation from your“ Co-operative otel”, notice in last week’s WEEKLY.‘ ‘ I A I I 7, ” _ Can it -be possible that a manso good, so much interested in the elevation of humanity, would allow Amerlca’s greatest curse, tobacco, to be scld,‘or even used in a house the objec of which -is the good of humanity? I And I was also grieved that the WEEKLY, a paper devoted. to the highest -interests of humanity, should have silently printed the fourth itemiof your notice. a ‘ . -In love, your friend, . Vineland. March 15., , _«, . SEWARD MITCHELL. IS .IT TRUE ? Rev. H, W. Beecheer said, in a» recent sermon, that the chool directors and teachers ;_ in New York and Brooklyn employ women, to teach upon certain conditions, naming, them. Now, Warren Chase comes forward and indorses Mr. Beecher’s statement, giving corroborative evidence in the case. He has been in Washington, in club rooms, in other places where our law makers congregate, and hehknows whereof he writes. He instances a U. S. senator who boasted of having secured clerkships for seventy women, and had been intimate with every one of them. Are these things so? Where are the Brooklyn and New‘ York school teachers ? Why do they not rise and each ask " Is it I ?” By implication every woman teacher in the two cities is a Magdalen. ' ‘ ; Andwhat of the men charged with crime ? If guilty. let honest men‘ be put in their places; if innocent, let Mr." Beecher’s congregation and the rest of the world, know the fact. The senator is a moral idiot. A man possesed of one iota of decency will not boast of his baseness, especially when women are implicated; so his words are as worthless as the braying of a beast. Is it likely that cultured women who seek occupation that they may be self-supporting, will give their confidence to a man, simply because he has given them employment? If it is true, the pity is that" it is true. And moreover, it proves, beyond question, that society is corrupt to the core. Where is the remedy ?_ Let us" have it. H. E‘. N. BROWN. NATIONAL CITY, Southern California. ’ A.VOICE FROM THE SOUTH. Editors Woodhull & C'lafi75n’s Weekly: I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Mrs. Woodhull and her sister during her visit to Texas, and heard Mrs. Woodhull speak’ at Galveston and Houston about the last of! February, I was agreeably disappointed bin! Mrs. Woodhull. both as to her appearance, her department, and the character of her speeches. ‘I had formed of her altogether a different opinion from what I found her to be. Certainly she must be inspired, or she could not talk as she does. I know of no one, man or woman, who is her superior in intellect, and in general and universal information, or her equal as a speaker, and more capable of using the strongest arguments to support her opinions. I firmly believe her to be a good and pure woman, actuated by the purest and best of motive; and it affords me pleasurejto find that our people, with some exceptions of course, appreciate her. I believe if she were to travel through our State a great change would be brought about for the better in the minds of the communityybuti strange to say,’ and a pity it is, the ladies, those for whom she specially pleads, and whose good seems to be ‘her chief end and aim, and heartfelt desire, are {most opposed to her—the married ones especially,‘ who of all others; should know for themselves that shedoes, speak the truth. For my sincere belief (and I am 50 years of age, and, have been a close observer of the ways of the world) is. that 999 out of every 1000 married women are, by our laws and usages, the veriest slaves that ever lived on the face of God's green earth. Yea are even worse than slaves. I have been a married man; I married my wife when I was very young,barely 21 yearsof age; I married her because I loved her ?as‘—I did my own (soul; my love ‘was fully recipro- cated by my dear wife; wetloved each other to the last lin— , gering, moment that she breathed. During her last protracted illness I waited on her constantly, and kindly, and continu- ously, day and night for four months, and for 25 days‘ pre- ceding her death, I slept not on an average one hour out of the twenty-four; {and I love her memory. She was a good woman, a good mother, a good Christian, a good wife, and a good neighbor. and I know she is happy in heaven at God's right hand. Her last -words were " My dear husband, meet me there.” I I I promised her I would, and I will always pray that I may so live that when time is no more for me here, that I may again!-restimy head on her- pure bosom in a better and brighter clime than this. We l-ived together 26 years, and at no time would I ever have forsaken her if there were no law binding us together; so that it is not because of my own personal experience of the married life that I say Mrs. Woodhull has spoken the truth. 1 ' I am now living a lonely, and I must say an -unhappy life, since the loss of my dear wife ; but the fear of living one still more unhappy than that I am realizing or enduring, prevents me from binding myself, by our man~made laws, and running the risk of alife-long union of misery, and therefore from even attempting to marry again; because, I tell you, as Gdo is my judge, that the grave would be more Welcome than to become the subject of a life-bound contract to -a wife with whom I could not live in love, and peace, and happiness. Yours truly, THOMAS R.uHILL. LETTER FROM PARKER PILLSBURY.' _ . Editors of the Weekly: ‘ . . 1 ‘ This is written in storm and tempest-atypical of the times. Storm sweeping across the sea and land, whelming Amer-A, icaland Europe, ifynot reaching round the world! . . i And the moral and spiritual elements as convulsed, at least{ in our country, as’ the material air, ear'th,'seas or skies! ‘ Grant in the Presidency; Lant in t'he‘Pe‘nitentiary. _' ‘ ’ ‘ “Right forever on the scafiold‘; I A ' ‘ Wrong forever on the throne 1”‘ » Schenck home from England to be whitewashed. Dana rejected as his succe-ssor, though his appointment was greeted with general joy. Barrabbas versus Jesus, again and ‘again. . Not an honest man, apparently, in the government at Wash-. ington. Not one Lotin all that Sodom, though plenty of- Lot’s wives, if not daughters. » L I ' : " _. New'IrIam»pshire declares for Grant-v1sm,*if not for Grant, a_ s‘ third term;” will have no objection, evidently, to Grant himself, with his Babcocks, Belknaps, and brothers and; brothers-in—law, if the party bell-wethers so appoint. V ‘ Congress is still tinkering away at the financial problem; as? many minds as members; more bills than brains brought; forward and considered, and fortunately, generally aban- doned. Three sessions already: given to the subject; and, three times three more such might only make matters worse 1' A The people, meantime, only taxed and plundered and pun- ished. . ‘ Verily, we needed a Revolution in 1776; but we need one “~' “ a hundred times more in 1876. And revolution has long seemed our only remedy for present ills. There is democracy as it was, and republicanism as it is ; but one brought us where we are, and the other keeps us there. If both do not prove the doctrines of total depravity, and the need and justice of everlasting punishment,'those terrible doctrines should forthwith be renounced forevermore. John P. Hale once said in the United Senate: “ If the people only knew how we are here spending our own time and their own money, they would come in a body and scourge us out of the Capitol.” That was near thirty years ago. What might not that senator say to—day, were he there a? Who does not wish a Cromwell? Is it conscience, or coward- I ice that so seals all senatorial lips, as that .no one utters, a with Apocalyptic inspiration, “ Cesar had his,Brutus, Charles * the First. his Cromwell,” and Jean Paul Marat his Charlotte Corday; and if that be treason let political inanity andtyrr anny in the name of republicanism make the most of it! “ I PARKER PILLSBUEY. ' CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 20, I876. ' R (From the Independent, Henry 0’,B0wm, Editor and Sale Prcoprleto r, ’ February 10, 1876. WHEN LOVE WENT. BY SUSAN COOLIDGEu' What Whispered Love the day he fled? Ahl this was what Love whispered: “ You sought to hold me with a chain. 1 fly to provesuch holding vain. ‘ “ You bound me burdens, and I bore The burdens hard, the burdens sore; ' I bore them all unmurmuring, For Love can bear a harder thing. “ You taxed me often, teased me, wept; I only smiled, and still I kept Through storm and sun and night and day A My joyous, viewless, faithful way. . “ But dear, once dearest, you and ‘I This day have parted company. Love must be free to give, defer, Himself alone his almoner. “ As free I freely poured my all, Enslaved I spurn, renounce my thrall, Its wages and its bitter bread”- Thus whispered Love the day he fled! PERSONAL LETTERS. — = - MAXWELL 'HoUsE, Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 7, 1876. Mrs. V. 0. Woodhull: V _ b I I I am inclined to think that you are mistaken in ‘giving Nashville only one night for your lecture. Had you stayed one night more you would have had what you expressed a desire for—-a full house of mothers and daughters. Can’t you return and give us a repetition of the best common sense address I ever listened to. Respectfully, _E. F. M. ‘ ‘ « ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 15, 1876; Mrs. V. C’. Woodhull: . A -. A, As I thought, you missed it by «not remaining with us over Sunday. I am-sure that you would have had. a packed house. I never heard many regrets at the departure ola stranger from : their midst as came to my hearing on account, of your de- parture. Many of our best citizens, men that have never taken any interest in the greatiprogressive movements of the age, were pointed in their expressions that you were the most vilely traduced and slandered person‘ within th‘e'scopej_of their knowledge, andwere loud in their praises of your course» Remember me kindly to sister Tennis and your amiable and venerable mother, and come back to us as so.on.9«,.8 Youoan. Yours, fraternally, F. IE‘. TABEB, M. D. ‘ appointed to ‘provide »;spéakers S‘-'foir.’n _, ' during“_wh4ich time .vII-have ~tr,ied. . ‘Q]hE0‘"M.II.L‘li:R MATTIE , ea ,, for lectures on liberal’ subjects. Engagements in Illinoi, ‘MEM1>HIs,'Tenn., Feb. 11, 1876. MY DEAR E.: Yours with Mrs. Minni’s came a few days ago, and yours of February 7’ came just.this_inst.ant. I would have replied to your idea: of forming a. Union of Women, but I have been so busy, and "the-=’W‘oodl:nill has driven everything else for the nonce away. She "is simply I . M grandl; she is great, and and add "another, good,‘="to‘rtJ1em. She has wonderfully improved since»I-heard her ii1"r*’i’?2';: then she was at bay with the world, and threw her gauntleit“‘down and dared it to battle. The battle has been waged, itheinnost unequal_battle ever fought on earth. I V‘ ‘4 ,_ g g A V: b 011 0110 Side. the church, the press, the ‘prejudiced wbrldl; on the other, a woman! And the woman has whipped the trio! Never was so tremendous a revolution! I"wi1l,send 5 you the Appeal with its plaudits. The theatre was crowded .. from pit to dome; she held’ them spell-bound for two hours. V’ I saw men and women weep, so passionatewere her plead- ings for the downcast. Theipreachersuare cut;.they abuse heryet. N o wonder; she preached to a crammed house, they I>r.each,to empty .ben.ches. .She to7deep1y,.incereqted- crowds, they to as listlessfew. , But those who, di-d:.no_,t hear her are crazy to hear her. If you see. .hfe1,',, b,eg-:'1.1°r;17Q.§i.Yfl us one more lecture. V She could get a jammed house.of,,Ch”nis— . tians, despite these preachers. If you possibly.,..can,, fq,ee,M;-g, Woodhull when she, g9es,,1ao, 15?, aw Qrl9aus., Yomg;u,,1m her; you caift help, it. Tellher to st_.op"‘1_,1 re as she returns, L and lecture. Hundreds‘ tare crazy to‘:hear'hei'. Oh, if we had a thousand such’ women,_w_e could _,1"ev‘oluti‘or1izey the ..world. . I told her shewould find‘. one noble .woman;in New Orleans, ifxno more“ I dojhope-_.byouwill be able to hear her. With‘ ‘true lov.e.,Wou.1'~ ‘ I E/. A? Muaaxwnrnma. \ _ liars: I pa 1 , Ale‘ r.m°other;5’wlfom you have this night taught me to love more than ever, and you may rest assured that your ‘lecture’ has done more for the morals of the young men of Nashville than all the Whittles and Blisses in the country. could do. * V I I F0!'m6I‘1Y I have" .traduced-you ,(;but because I_ did not know you); now—your.name shall always be held sacred by me ;' and may God‘ give you health ‘and strength to carry on your good work, is-' the prayer ‘of your unknown friend ‘and convert. ' I - :w_ H_=H_: ‘ _ .‘An.._4v r ww:~w V ;N:O4TICES.! 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Our lectures are attended by crowds of the most intelligent and thinking I , people in the city, and our last,Convention_.was?,_ the bestbgpur 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 001:. E. SMITH, A. H. FIsHEE, or__FRED._H. BARNAED, th.e,,C0mmittee . ‘Iisi”'17Xl.A.I'IlL.L’<J.:r1ti':il:s. ALL persons suffering from the Asthma, should send: for Dr. R. P. Fellows’ G1-eat“'I3ndian’Asthma Remedy. Mrs: Ellen Dickinson, of Vineland N. J. speaks of it in these terms, “Ihave suffered with the Asthma, for thirty years purpose, but no:w“aft'e'r 'res"6‘rt’ing“§to'lfir£‘:’Fe Remedy, I am perfectly relieved.” Sent to any part of the i globe on receipt of $1 per package. Address Vineland, N. 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To him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the hidden manrw-.—-St.,.John the Divine. , That through death he might destroy him that V had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life- time sulgiect to bondage.——Paul. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good ruits, without partiality and without hy- poerz'sy.—— ames, 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 recooer.—--Jes’us. - ———‘-—*' NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 8,1876. ‘ The articles on “re-construction, by S. T. Fowler, are crowded over by the- subject of materialization. Brooklyn Academy a of Music. A 44 ‘A r ‘C’ Tliursday, April‘ 6th. V‘? Victoria c. WOODHULL * SUBJECT: The Human Body, lhelempls of Bud. 4; V7 Afllllission-»$1i.00, 75 cts and 50 cts. . . Reserved Seats $1.00, secured at Ohdndler Bros, 181 Montague" st., Brooklyngllala Broadway, and 111 Nassau st., (Room 9), New York. THE PARAFFINE HANDS_EXPLOD_ED. . Mrs. M. M. -Hardy, the medium through W'110n1 the materialization of hands to form casts of paraffine, has recently caused -so great a commotion among Spiritualists, especially in Boston—her place of residence—recently gave three seances in this city—one at Republican Hall, the Sun’s account of which has, already appeared in these ‘columns, ~was all spattered with parafline. L and two succeeding ones at the private residence of Mrs. Dr. Hull, a prominent Spiritualist and investigator, of this city. The circle consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Austin’ (the same f onejmentioned in the Sun's account) at whose house Mrs. H. . was a guest, Mrs. Lita Barney Sayles, Mrs} Dr. Hull, Bronson Murray, Mrs. Winchester aindvsome thirty others. As Mr. and Mrs. Hardy were proceeding with Mr. and Mrs. Austin to the residence of Mrs. Hull on the evening ap- pointed for the second seance, Mrs. Austin observed that Mrs. Hardy had dropped something, and called her atten- tionto the fact. Whereupon it was discovered that it was A a fully_prepared parafline hand carefully wrapped in wool which, by the way, was a substance that Mrs. Austin had noticed was plentifully scattered over the carpetof the T room occupied by the medium, when Mrs. H. found that she had dropped and spoiledher parafiine hand, she be- came very much excited, and took her husband to task for so carelessly preparing the bag in which she carried it, probably suspended among her clothes, remarking, “You know wellenough that -it is the only one we have got.” The result of the seance of that night was a failure—no hand ' appeared, but in place of it some exhibitions of fingers and toes through the ‘cracks formed by separating the boards of an extension table. Strange to say, the following day a stock- ing, cut efi above the toes, was found in her room by Mrs. Austin’s niece, who also on another occasion, on entering the V room suddenly, discovered Mrs} Hardy making a hurried but ineffectual attempt to hide a paraffine glove-cast under the folds of her dress. This scance occurred on the 16th inst. ‘S ’ On the 18th inst. the third and last one was held. By this time the suspicions of the party were fully awakened, and everything was prepared with the greatest care,‘ and the performance guarded with every" possible precaution. At the first trial they enveloped the table in the bag, with the seams‘ on the side opposite to the medium, and the aperture tied with a cord, the end of which was held by a person present. A lengthy space‘ of time was insufficient; no hand was produced. The medium was then put in the ‘bag with the seams at her back. A hand was produced this time, but the bag had been turned round with the seams in front, and One of the party was deputed to watch her through a darkened window. She saw her work the bag round, and her hand through the seams, but the light was too dim to discover when the parafline hand made its exit from the bag, but that it did so, none of the above-named parties have the slightest doubt. Another test which was prepared was weighing the paraffine by the chemist from whom it was purchased, and its being reweighed by the same after the pretended materialization and found to be exactly the same to the sixteenth part of an ounce. As the cast weighed at least a pound, this fact proves that it was not formed from the parafline in the pail. All of these facts, together with much other detail, have been put In the form of an aflidavit, signed by the acting members of the circle, and copies forwar (led to all the Spiritualistic papers. Coming to us just as we were’ going to press, we could make room for no more than this. And so another, and apparently the most indubitable evidence of materialization that has as yet appeared, is exploded, and Spiritualists left to fall back upon other and less tangible facts for proof of spirit existence. 4-; -V ? FRAUDULENT MATERIALIZATIONS AGAIN. M ._. “What can the sheaves on the barn floor avail, _ Till the three her has beat out the chaff with his flail.” Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologer, the star gazer, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; theyshall not deliver them- selves from the power of the flame.—Isaiah xlvii, 13-14. But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift,..of God’ may be purchased with money. Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter; for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.—The Acts, viii, 20-21. - But Elymas the sorcerer, withstood them; seeking to turn the deputy away from the faith. Then Saul, filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes _on him, and said, 0 full of all subtlety, and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the ways of the Lord.—Ibid, xiii, 8, 9—10. In another column will be found a lengthy communica- -tion from Mr. James Hook, of Torre Haute, the author of the‘ letter published two-weeks ago, over the signature of “ One of. the Committee.” That letter was not intended by him for publication, and for that reason his name was not appended to it; but as he now avows its authorship, we can that letter was written and received, in our estimation, war- ranted the use to which it was put, and we are perfectly satisfied to let Mr. Hook’s criticism of that use go to the world,-with the contents of the letter, as our justification for its publication. Had we not have received-that letter, it is doubtful whether, after all, the editorial would have appeared in the exact form in which it did appear; in fact, when the ’ letter was received it was being revised; but the letter de. speak more freely about it. The circumstances under which cided us that we were right, and it was published accord- ingly. Since then our course has been endorsed to us by those whom we serve--those upon whom Mr. Hook goes so far out of his path to make an exhibition of his powers of sarcastic ridicule. , If he can stand it, let us assure him that they can do -so much better. ‘ . ' ~ " But we do not intend to permit ourselves to be led ‘into any personal controversy with Mr: Hook or anybody else. Ourmotive in speaking of this business as we did, at that- time, was not a personal motive atall. If we are not un- derstood upon this point we can aflord towait until we are, for our justification, as we have done in many other things. We have no personal ill-feeling. ill-will,for ill-wishes against any medium in the world ; on the contrary, there is no "class of persons who deserve the sympathy of the Publicso much as they do. If, a personbe a medium, no other per- son is capable of being his or her, judge ; since. it is.impos- sible to tell where the personal, responsibility leaves off, or where that of the controlling influence begins. -All the fraudulent manifestations ever produced may,.so.far as we know, have been produced by’ the medium at:the.instigation of the spirits; but if they were so, does that make the manifestations anythe less fraudulent in their character? We have always claimed that it is against the evils of the world, and not against those’ through whom they come that we wage our warfare.‘ .» . . .- . Those who are familiarpwith the NVEEKLY know well enough that we have frequently proved logically, in. its columns, that in the labsoluie sense there is no such thing possible as free agency and consequent personal responsi- bility ,; that there never was an act committed, with the ca- pacity to commit which the iudividualcommitting was not endowed at birth, and which was notcalled out at the time, by the influences by. which he or she was sur- rounded. So, when it is assumed that we have attacked Anna Stewart, the assumption is not true; we have__ at- tacked the manifestations for which she is the medium. And if she had been instigated and assisted to perform these manifestations by her committee, it would still be no business of ours to attack either her or them, but still again to represent the manifestations to be what they are. As for the motive which has prompted her to produce them, we only know what. she told us herself, andthat was, that’ it was the only way she had ‘to make a living, and she was compelled to do it. If this were true, even then, according to our philosophy, she would be less at fault than the system of industry which forces awoman to such an alternative to live. So all we know of Anna Stewart is What We saw, only of which we have as yet said anything about.- We did not set ourselves up to be her confessor at all. We were appointed to do a certain committee work, and we did it faithfully and fearlessly. Nor was any promise extracted from her under any threat by us. She begged that the expose should not be published, and so far as we were con- cerned, we assured her it should not be, if she did not at- tempt to repeat her seances. She has repeated her seances which, we have said we have notthe slightest doubt, are of the same character as the one we observed at Chicago, and we have said whatwe have about the repetition. If this be, to be “guilty of pursuing vindictively with gross misrepre_ sentation one of whom you know so little,” then are we guilty, and are willing to stand so charged until tried and acquitted or corrected by “the Powers” which alone can try this case, but which will try it and all similar cases, soon, as by fire, and to prove of what manner of workman- ship they may be. " Norahave we any preiudice, nor have we ever (expressed any prejudice against materialization, as asserted by Mr. Hook. We have said the conditions do not yet exist which make it possible for a spirit to’ fully materialize, and weasay so still; and Mr. Hook’s attempt to ridicule; our reasons for this assertion, fail to touch us. Two years ago last Septem- ber, when the spirits whom alone we obey and serve, di- rected the preparation of the speech “The Elixir of Life,” we were very deeply interested in the then comparatively new phenomena of materialization. Startling as were many of the propositions propounded to us in that speech, none were so strange as another made atthe same time, incident- ally to the others, which was that all the so called materiali- zations, were not what they purported, to be, i and we were advised not to waste our time on them, but to devote it to prepare the only way in which the ‘real return of the Spirit can ever be accomplished. That .,Was fully’ explained to us by the Spirit then, and we are more fully convinced of its truth day by day, as tlielaws of the relations between Spirit and matter are unfolded to our comprehension. Let others say what they may, we know that our sources of information and instruction have the good of the world at heart; and we know that through us they have moved the thought of the world in the direction of the real materialization as it -has been moved by no other Spirit. - . A The spiritual body can never*be constructed until the elements that are required to compose it are developed to the spiritual level. Nor will these elements be taken by it is now assumed that they are, but which Would notbe so assumed, if a little consideration were given to the proposi- tion before it was made, since, how can a medium furnish the material out of which another body, equally as heavy as her own, can be constructed and still have any body left? It is a «physical impossibility, simply. A body, which we have already related, and what she told us, a part — the returning spirit direct from, the body of a“ medium, as. .,. ,3. ._.. x-_ ,.. ix \\ if ‘ #- i -2-. April 8, 1876. whether of a medium or any one else, consists of so many pounds of certain elements. They cannot yield up these elements save by the laws which govern the exhaustive processes of all bodies; but the matter that passes from L the body into the atmosphere, by these laws, is spiritualized to the ‘standard represented by the spiritual development of that body, and so far as spirits can make‘ use of that matter, they can produce manifestations, and no farther. The reason that the elements contributed to the atmosphere from some bodies can be, while that from others cannot be, used, is because the former represent a higher order of spiritualdevelopment than the latter, and for this reason‘ are mediums through whose means the spirits can commu- nicate or manifest themselves. ' A I The laws that govern these things are not unknowable ;I they are evident to anybody who will take the time to inquire into them. Nor are they exceptional, but rather, are common to.all organic constructions. There must be an adaptability of the matter used, to the purpose for which it is used, or else there can be_no result. I Matter to be used by spirits to rehabilitate themselves must be of that The matter‘ of the bodies in which we live is still our master; we are‘ compelled to yield obedience to its power and laws; are? character that can be molded by their will. still its slaves to a great degree. The matter that spirits scan — control to construct bodies must be that-which has «been reduced to subserviency to the spirit, and which has -therefore transcendedthe laws of its own existenceiby: always produced, did she tell the truth or not? and when 5 she showed us how she had represented a certain “ Spirit,” ;By this it. must not be understood that we deny that the yielding 'to'a higher law. ‘ I ” ' spirit body of spirits is not discernible. The spirit sight of thousands is so opened—the material conditions in which the spirit eye is envelopedjhave been so far over- come——that spirits are seen and are as palpable to that sight and sense, as if seen through the medium of the material eye. We have ourselves seen spirits habitually, from our earliest years, and they are as real existences to‘ us as are any people still in the form. We have repeat- edly seen the spirits of Demosthenes, Bonaparte and Josephine, and they have repeatedly spoken and been heard by the spirit sense as audibly as we hearcommon conversation by the material ear. During our last lecture trip, the former two. with Alexander of Macedon, have always accompanied us on the rostrum, and from them, largely. came the power that has so moved the audiences that have been addressed. These spirits have been the actual movers, in behalf of the Congress of Spirits whom they serve, in all- the labors through which we have passed. We believe in and rely upon them. They have never deceived us. We have not, perhaps, at all times understood their full meaning, but that was no fault‘ of theirs. And now when they in- struct us to proclaim to the world that the professed mater- ializations of the present are fraudulent, as those which we have taken the trouble to investigate have been proven to be, we do not hesitate to do it, any more than we did to proclaim Mr. Beecher when commanded so to do; and we know in the present case, as they have done in the former, that they understand what they are about, and will justify _ _ I we admit. There is no question that she is mediumistic; their position, and prove their words to be true. So it must not be assumed .that we are opposed to Spiritualism. -We doubt if there be any person in the world more grown into and grounded upon the fact of spirit existence and communication than are we. But we wish it to be fully understood that we are opposed to all the jugglery and deception that is practiced ‘_in its name. Dark circles, cabinets and all other coritrivances to make _ deceit possible Tare an abomination to the spirits who have the elevation of the world at heart, and ought to bebanished from the ranks of Spiritualism to those of legerdemain where they belong, and where, too, they will have to go, soon. These things have been the stumbling-blocks that have prevented Spiritualism from moving on to do its legitimate work of preparing the way for the real resurrec- ' tion, through the perfecting of the physical bodies of its. mediums. In the blind allegiance that has been given to physical tests of spirit life, the possibility of proving that life has been lost sight of. Years ago we warned Spiritual- ists of this, but the prejudice and bitterness felt toward us by some of the then ‘leading lights of Spiritualism, has pre- vented the large majority {of Spiritualists from giving heed to the warning. And even now, as we write this, the spirits show us an immense balance, on one side of which are ‘placed all this external Spiritualism, and :it goes down together withall its workers, and the spirit adds, “They have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.” True Spiritualism is going to shed all this sort of stufi. The Terre Haute performances, in spite of the determination of “the Committee,” are to be shown up for what they are; thosethat have been going on at Memphis are already ex- posed, let Dr. Watson say what he may to the contrary. We saw the persons who were at the seance, and they in- formed us that the Appeal report of it was true to the very" _l‘etter. Nor will the proposed machinations at Ancora, N. J., organized to catch the anxious seekers after spirit evidences, who will throng to the “Centennial,” escape, any more than could the parafline exhibitions of recent notoriety in this city, as detailed by several people whose devotion to Spiritualism cannot be doubted any more than ‘ "can their veracity. .In their blind zeal Spiritualists may ~ attempt to cover. up these deformities that have attached ‘ themselves, vampire-like, to the body of Spiritualism, but -said? declarations, after the great fright of which he speaks was; momentous character of what isnow made the su-bjectof all over; andiyet he speaks of Anna Stewart as being ‘ ‘ vin- 3 another quarter. fraud ‘of which he had been cognizant, or else that had been presumptive evidence of what has occurred since. woonnum; s onnrniivs wnnntgr. that will not save them. They are doomed. Let us warn them to flee from the wrath to come upon all such attempts to desecrate the holiest ties of human sympathy by feeding them with a sham-, which ask for bread and are offered , stones. If to say this, as we are commanded to do by those whom we serve, is to fall under" Mr. Hook’s charge of. “egotism” then are we there. I I ._ In regard to Mr. Hook’s statements and questions we have only to refer him and the reader for our replies, to our former article, from which we have nothing to take away; to which there might be much added. He may be disgust- ed at some portions of that statement; we confess that we were at the facts which made the statement possible. Mr. Hook, rather than to attempt to defend himself’ and his ,medium by dodging the point at issue‘——whether she was or was not exposed at Chicago-—by'asking questions, had bet- ter explain how it happened that the diakka instructed Mrs. Stewart to construct; her underskirts with blind pockets, in which her paraphernalia of sundry kinds could be and were bestowed. V Was that skirt prepared for that especial seance, or was it not the self same skirt that she was in" the habit of wearing during, her seances at Terre Haute previ- onsly? and were not the gauze,~the tinsel and the hair, which Mr. Hook-admits, usodby her previously for the same purposes for which she used them at Chicago? and when Mrs. Stewart said that the manifestations that she pro- duced at Chicago were of the same character that she had by putting the whiskers on, was not that the same, spirit which she showed in the cabinet, and the same which she had produced repeatedly before she came to Chicago, as she Mr. Hook stood there and heard her make these dictively pursued with gross misrepresentations.” While, as we said, it is not our province to make these articles of a personal character; while it is our province to speak plainly of all things that relate to any of the individuals to the frauds that are being practiced, we may be permitted to say‘ that such strictures and others similiar, contained in his let- ter upon our course, would come with better. grace from In a brief seance, Mr. Hook was shown a imposed upon him, which months of his own investigations had failed to discover. Mr. Hook was aware of the character of her manifestations, she said that she did not know, but at the same time de- clared that Mr. Stewart was not awareof them. How did she know the one and not the other? If she were the truthful woman she is represented to be by Mr. Hook, could she not have said that he did or did not know? She did not claim that there were any “ diakka" about the affair at all. She said that she performed all the manifesta- tions herself for money-making purposes. Then why does Mr. Hook endeavortoshoulder the responsibility upon the diakka? Mrs: Stewart‘ is a woman of strong character, quick and keen, and eminently capable of conducting just such a fraud successfully; and she has been very successful, enough so to come into rapport with the sympathetic -among those who gorto see her; and in this way she adds mental evidence of spirit individuality to the improvised spirits whom she presents from time to time. A ' A In this connection we wish to call attention to Dr. Pence’s article in favor of Mrs. Stewart in the Banner of two weeks ago, in which he. gives her credit for honesty because she refused to be silent when her hands were found blackened by the’ contact which the “spirit” had with the hand of one of the audience, who asked to see her hand after the seance was ended, and whoiremarked that he _“ wouldn’t say anything about it." The theory upon which this cir- cumstance is explainedby Dr, Pence is, that the lamp—black was communicated to the hands of the medium "by the spirit as it dematerialized through the body of the medium; that is, as the spirit body departed into the medium’s body; and the Banner makes no comment upon this way out of the dilemma. All mediums for materializations are pro- vided with explanations for the most common methods of‘ applying tests ‘to mediumship. The spirit who shakes hands with its audiences must expect sometimes ‘to get its hands blackened, and some favorable "excuse must be at hand to ward off the suspicious circumstances. We wonder that the Banner can be caught with such chafl’ as that; but we wholly agree» with the Banner in its statement in last week’s issue. Fraud detected at one time is only presumptive evidence that fraud -has been com- mittedat other times byfithe same medium. But the me- dium’s own confession in this case seems" conclusive about all thathad gone “before theChicago empose, and is strong If Anna Stewart deceived Messrs. Pence, Hook and Connor pre- vious to the expose, may she not have done the same since? CWe learn from a recent communication. from Mr. Cad- waller that anything like test conditions,-are absolutely denied, and that Mrs. Stewart refuses to be even searched. ‘Then how can “our investi ations be so strict thorou h 1 1 2%" , and persistent as to be entirely independent of the good or bad character of the medium?” as the Banner suggests. But let us ask the Banner people if they had at one time thoroughly and unmistakably provena medium to be a fraud, and she had confessed it, and declared she would = When Mrs. Stewartlwas askediif 5 never repeat the deceit, would they then consider it neces- sary to continue their thorough and persistent investiga- tionswith-that' medium? This is the point at issue now with ‘us: Mrs. Stewart was exposed and adm_itted the de- ception. Is it necessary -thatwe see her now to convince us‘ that she is still a fraud? _ And if so, how often is it necessary to repeat an exposition to prove a fraud? Shall we go day after day to the same medium and believe that although she was a fraud yester,day_and~ admitted it, she may be genuine-to-day, and is there- foren entitled to another trial ? Will the ’Ba;mzer lay down its rule upon this point, so that the peoplemay know when they are at liberty to conclude that a medium is really a fraud? In regard to tests, materialization differs from -all other manifestations. A medium‘may give a communica- tion purporting to come from aspirit, be wholly true or false, and still there may be no doubt of her mediumistic power, but a medium may dress and “ put up”. herselfto personate. aspirit and have no claim at &all to mediumship. V i No one can be more desirous than ourselves for the in- auguration of the resurrection day; and when it shallcome perhaps it will be found that few have done more than we have to hasten on the time. We. know that it is near, but we also know that it has not come. " We are anxiously watching the signs of its appearance, rind we trust our lamps are trimmed and readyfor its coming. Of this time no one knoweth. the hour or the day, for it will come “like a thief inthe night.” % It is to be the great as well as ter- rible day of the Lord, in thefwhich every one’s works will be tried»of‘what sort they are.-7 It will be the send‘? of the one 7 dispensation‘; the inauguration of another -when old , things shall pass away and all things become‘ new. ~~The such imposition, is scarcely dreamed of by even the most thoughtful; but if it ‘wereireally ‘understood, thousands would join with us and help to clear the debris of the present, out of the way, so that the glorious dawning to the world may not be delayed thereby. \ , . 1 COMMUNICATIONS. ' v A s’ “ = j s A ‘NEW LoNDoN, 1nd. March ‘:20, 1876. Editors Woodhull and Claflt'n’s Weekly: I A I In response to a request in your paper dated March 18, also in response to my own sense of truth and right, I feel it my duty (though it is repugnant. to me to be the accuser of any- one), to testify to the facts in connection with the so—called “ materialilzation seance,” held in Chicago by one ‘Mrs. Stewart, while the National Convention of Spiritualists was in session in thatcity, in the fall of ”73; but iniadvance, I wantlto say that I have been an investigator of'Spirit.Phe— nomena. from its first spread over the country as rappings, and-that it has been mvtgcod fortune to witness it in_ nearly ‘all its phases. A .. I V ' 1, I have stood the storm of slander and prejudice on account of my belief, almost alone in my section of country fora quarter of a century, and with such an experience it could not be supposed that I would lend myself to the per— secution of any one in its advocacy. r ‘ ' The evening preceding the expose, my wife and I attended one of Mrs. Stewarts seances. at which Mrs. Strattan assisted in the examination of _Mrs. Stewart, both before and after the seance, and immediately after the seance she told me that her suspicion had been aroused upon discovering that her clothes and hair had been re-arranged,’ and that quite a number of pins were sticking here and there on her clothing, that she, Mrs. Strattan, knew were not thereiwhen she entered the cabinet. It seemed tome that all the faces that were shown Were the same; I especially noticed the same heavy dark eyebrows on all. Nearly all who attended seemed satisfied, many having recognized friends and relatives. I I was so much disturbed in my mind_ that I. concltlded to visit her :-again the next afternoon, at which time she was ex~ posed. I saw the cabinet torn from over her; saw her making frantic efforts toconceal the paraphernalia in which she was enveloped; heard her confess it was all a fraud, and that her materializations had all been frauds; and at the request of Mrs. Woodhull, she explained and exhibited to the crowd how she had rigged herself to represent the different charac- ters. Mrs. Stewart seemed to he-in’ great agony on ..,_;.;:ount; of the detection and dread ofexposnre through the press, and she begged Mrs. Woodhull not to pt:hi;sh.*her. Mrs. Woodhull then told her upon her solemn promise never again to attempt to practice deception, she would, promise not to make the affair public. After those mutual pledges, Mrs. ‘Woodhull and her sister iboth spoke very kindi y to her, and seegned T.»<‘~'.z~y sorry for her. All that I have stated occurred under my own personal observation. - In conclusion, viewing the position taken by the WEm:I.Y in regard to fraud and OO1‘1“«'. ;.ion of all kinds, and that Mr. Hook (one of Mrs. Stewart-‘s committee), was a party to the pledge given by Mrs. S., and the fact that they, not Mrs.Wood- hull, have violated the pledge, it seems to me that Mrs. Woodhull is ‘not only released from her pledge, but in view of the position occupied‘ by her, compelled either to. publish -themior be in some degree accessory to the fraud. Yours for the truth, S.+..MUr:L E. STRA'rirArI.. A , A A CLARION, Iowa. March iii, 1876, Dear Weekly: As.you wish to communicaAt'e with those present at Mrs. Stewart’s exposure at the Convention of ‘the cabinet. Mrs. Stewart professedtto be ignorant of the fraud, and very -thankful for the exposure. I ,Were I giving the details I/should vary slightly from yours. As my stand... point was not yours, the difl’erence is easily accounted f0I“s. She frankly acknowledged her fraud and promisedanevento. practice it again. . A , I will further state thatl went from Iowa in thatflonven-at September, 1873, I will state‘ that I was present, sitting near E o ’ , woonIIuI.I.a GLAFLIN’S,,,WEEKLY. tion more to witness materialization, perhaps, than to attend the Convention.‘ Previous to Mrs. 'Stewart’s expose l had paid my dollar to the Bangs’ and got no proof. Afterwards I visited Miss Alley, who. my friends there assured me, was no fraud. I paid my dollar again, got no test -worth naming, and came home disgusted with professional materializers. Some of them are making money in their profession, and that seems to be the object in all professions. Why then is it not as legitimate and honorable as others of similar type? Sham is -the order of the times in‘ which we live, and no sham pays better than sham spirit manifestations, as every one is. interestedcin» ;that direction. Hurry up the new dis- pensation, please,.,-and, oblige, , ‘ HARmsON,BRooIrs. Editors Woodltull and,Claflz'n”s _Weeklyi:‘ We see by the last paper (March“18) that all who were pres- ent at the expose of Mrs. Stewart, during the sessions of the Convention in Chicago in September, 1873, are requested to communicate with you. Aslwe were present and witnessed the expose, we send you our names. Yours, for truth, EMILY R. BRADWAY, CORNELIA B. STEVENSON. MAQUOKETA, Jackson Co., Iowa, March 14, 1876. 4; V? STEPHEN H. VINCENT. Many Spiritualists will remember that, some seven or eight years ago, there was a very promising young medium boy of about twelve years of age in this city, and at that time possessing remarkable mediumistic gifts. He sud- denly disappeared and remained unheard of until quite re- cently, when he returned from Mexico, where he has been taught to perform many of the wonderful tricks which pass for Spiritual manifestations. .We spent an evening at his. rooms-303 'West 21st st.—a week or so since, and among other things, witnessed his trunk trick. This trunk is a very heavy wooden one, stsongly bound with iron bands, and upon examination, presents a perfectly solid and sub- stantial appearance. Heavy blows upon any*part of it fail to discover any weak places, or to reveal any means ‘by which a person confined in it could possibly obtain egress. It is 35 inches inlength by 20 deep, and 16 wide l—just large enough to admit the body of Vincent in a cramped up position. This trunk is placed in a small corner room of the second story of the house, on one side of which is the sitting room, and the other - the hall and stairway the front door, the room being directly over the front hall, and having one window which overlooks the street. In the room there is nothing whatever save the trunk. When he is ready for the performance, the Committee search the room, examine the trunk, and having first enveloped Vin‘- '-cent in a bag, which is tied with the utmost care possible, they put ;him into the trunk and close and lock it, the lock being a common pad-lock—nOt the usual trunk lock—- and take the key away.’ They are then at liberty to tie the trunk about with as much rope as they please. When done, they retire from the room and close the door, and in thirty- five seconds Vincent, having A released, himself from the trunk, will open the door and exhibit himself. Upon examining the trunk it is found precisely as it was left. ‘The Cominittee having satisfied themselves that the trunk has not been opened, again leave the room with Vincent in it, and in about thejsame length of time, he will call for the Committee, who find him back in the trunk again just as they first secured him, the keenest examination failing to disclose his method of egress and ingress. While confined in this room and in the trunk, he also produces flowers in profusion, shows hands and faces, and many other spiritual tricks, all of which would pass for genuine spiritual manifestations, and yet he says that they are nothing but tricks which were taught him by an old Mexican Indian Spirit; and the same spirit also tells him that all the manifestations similar to those which he per- forms, are also tricks taught the mediums by Juggler Spirits. He is soon to “travel” to give exhibitions, the first_ part of "which are to be of genuine spirit manifestations, and the Elatter, of these tricks which he callsfiby their right name. ‘We advise those who are interested in witnessing, as tricks, what they have been accustomed to consider as genuine spirit manifestations, to attend his “ seances,” and judge whether there be any difference between the two kinds’. 3 4 v'< LIFE-SIZE LITHOGRAPH. ‘We are now prepared to fill all orders for life-size litho- graphs of Victoria 0. Woodhull, from the lithographic establishment of Armstrong & .CO., of Boston, Mass. They are splendid pictures, both‘ as a work of art and as like- Inesses. They are printed on heavy paper 20 X24 inches, sand specially adapted for framing. They will be sent post- fpaid, securely wrappedto guard against damage, to any ‘address for 50 cents. M The common price of lithographs of this size is $2 ;. but w_e- 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 arethus 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 crim e shall have no, place.» leading to I In reply to many letters asking for " dealer’s terms ’f 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 fiIled;—[MANAGING EDITOR]. ' _..xQ4 r<gy< ‘THE GARDEN OF K V. 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. Cr--4 —MRS. WOODHULL IN THE FIELD. . ' . COMMENTS on THE PRESS. . . (From the Daily Statesman, Dallas. Texas, March 9, 1876.) It is a great pity that every mother, father, daughter and son in Austin, able to think reasonably, could not have been It was a moral discourse, surpassing anything related to it think and act as she -taught upon this occasion, man would become so ennobled as indeed to. make of him the “Temple of God.” She would teach man to be pure, and she believes‘ the way for the world to become purified and man ennobled is for the mothers of the earth to, cultivate the acquaintance of their children, to make them their confidants, and to teach them from childhood their true origin and the ‘dangers that await them in society. And this is the great social question, about which, through ignorance, she has been anathematized. She would lift mankind into a higher sphere, out of which there would come a noble freedom of love,‘ which would purify the races of the earth, and thus‘ she defines her theory of free-lovism. She claims. that mankind shouldnever be- come enchained bv ignorance and_ vice, and that daughters should be reared to protect themselvesjagainst marri'a2:e_con- tracts with men not as pure as themselves. Her discourse was elegant and pure, and she held her audience so enchained that the ending of it was met with universal regret. She will lecture again to—night., on special request, her proposed theme being “Woman’s Curse,” and we express the belief that there was not a husband or son who listened to her through her discourse last night who is not anxious to have the wife or ‘mother hear her. i ' (From the Herald, Dallas, Texas, M arch 16, 1876.) MRS. wooDHULL’s LECTURE. Fields’ Theatre was filled last evening to listen to Mrs. WoOdhu1l’s lecture. Without going through the formalities of an introduction, M-rs. ,Woodnu1l stepped upon the stage and began to speak. Her tone at first was nervous, but gradually she overcame this tremor and for an hour she held forth to an audience that seemed to not only understand, but thoroughly appreciate the greater part of what she said. Mrs. Woodhull possesses a powerful voice, and it is of won- derful flexibility and modulation, and under perfect control. Of the lecture, it is hardly necessary to speak at length. That the theories advanced by Mrs. Woodhull, however im- practicable they may seem when applied to a‘ heterogeneous mass, are soundjand pure,;no onejwill deny. But it istothe utter impracticability of these theories, doubtless, that Mrs. Woodhull owes so few followers; for surely could they but be put into practical use, the world would be far better, purer and nobler. At any rate, no one could possibly be the worse for hearing it, while many a father, mother, sister and brother might learn from it a most valuable lesson. ' . MRS. woo1_)HUI.L’s LECTURE; last night. Mrs. Woodhull camevbefore them, held her listeners enthralled by her powers of oratory, by her beauty, by her finished address, by the statements of undeniable person within the sound of her voice. What she said may the knife of facts and figures cut away the diseased cancer of ignorance or willful blindness that has been eating into our hearts, and as yet no physician has been found skillfulror daring enough to probe the fester to the bottom. We wish that every mother in our city could have heard her last night, listened to her as with a mother’s love, a mother’s exper- ience, and the deep feeling that must be felt by every true mother, plead in piteous tones for the more perfect enlighten- ment of the rising generations.‘ Her heart -’ was in her voice, barbed arrow of self-condemnation as they listened to her words, and felt that she: {too plainly exposed the injuryand I neglect our children sustain from those who love ‘them ‘best,’ through a false delicacy. Many gentlemen were there who are thankful that they embraced the opportunity to hear, and who emphatically stated that, if she would remain an- other night, they would be onlytoo glad to have their wives, mothers and sisters attend. ‘ There were men there, too, which would pander to their depraved tastes; but we will venture to assert that those same men left the hall feeling that they had received a just and merited rebuke, and who will hereafter speak of the ladywho addressed them last night in far different terms than what they did previously. Mrs. Woodhull has done a great work here. She has dropped good seed that will fall on fertile ground and bring forth the perfect fruit. And wherever she goes, and in whatever city she visits, she willreceive no more hearty welcome than in Dallas, should she ever return here. - present last night to listen to the lecture of Mrs. .Woodhull. that has ever been delivered in this city. If the world could There :was a large number in attendance at the Theatre; truths that struck conviction to the heart of every intelligent‘ have grated harshly on the ears of some; but it was because , and deep down into the sanctum of every breast sank"the‘ who went out of Va prurient curiosity, expecting to heartthat. April 8, 11873.‘ (From the Statesman, Austin, Texas, March 10, 1876.) Mrs. Woodhu1l’s second lecture at the Opera House last night was more largely attended than the first ; fully one-half were ladies of the elite of Austin. In the most thrilling, glowing" sentences she depicted the thralldom of woman, owing, asshe claims, to, the sense of false modesty which prevails; and exhorted the women, as mothers, to emancipate themselves, to rise to a true sense of their dignity, and to endeavor to rear a “race of gods and goddesses.” She hails with joy the approaching millenium‘ of free ‘discussion, through the medium of the press, ‘of truths which have here- tofore remained as a sealed book. The auditors were held spellbound by her simple, unaflected eloquence,Tand bursts of applause were frequent, demonstrating the :fact that her words carried conviction to the hearts of the hearers. ' (From the Waller County,“ Oou‘km'eai~,i _1EI_enipstead, Teams, lMa'rch 16, 1876.)’ VICTORIA WOODHULL. The lady whose name heads this article lectured last Sun- day evening to one of the ’ largest and most respectable audiences ever assembled ih the city of Hempstead to hear a lecture on any snbject. I ' ‘ ’ §MRS. WOODHULL IN THE SOUTH. Mrs. Woodhull was called back toGiddings by a committee or gentlemen and ladies who,'being so well pleased with the firstlecture, tendered her anovation which should came her to feel proud of the (conquest won. She leaves the Lone Star State for her home in N ew;-York City, laden with laurels nobly battled for and cheerfully given. Mrs. W’. is accompanied on ‘her southern tour by her beautiful and ta- lented sister and mother, the appearance of the latter cf whom is that of a- courtly lady. When speaking of her tal- ented daughters, her eyes will flash with the old—time fire, as she-tells of the noble blood that flows through ‘their veins. 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 oflice at home, by his original system of practice, which omits all drugs and mineral medicines of both old and new schools. 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He claims to be blessed with many beautiful-gifts—rappings, table .move- ments, trances, spiritual -telegraphy, prophesy, diagnosing disease, healing by laying on of hands and with “the ba1m_ from GOd’s medicine chests.” He contemplates returning to the East in April, stopping for a while in 'Chicago,land go- ingithence‘ to Philadelphia. V A The address of Nellie L. Davis, is 235 Washington street Salem, Mass. _ _ p , p , 5 V . Mns. S. A. WAKEMAN COOK, 578 Wilvvaukee Avenue, Chi- cago, Ill., Psychometrist and Developing Medium, will give heriatgtention to answering letters addressed to her, or will go into ‘whatever town, hamlet orcounty wherever ‘she ' may be sent, or called to gc——taking, pecuniarily, whatever those whom she‘ visits or aids in their. development may be in- spired to" give, letting] each oneimeaisure their own‘ pockets, and be their own judges of th,eircapa'city;tc' give, There. can be no new era, until all things have passed away. 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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- secutions of the Churchin all a es, than many a more bulky, and ambitious work. Li eral friend. 11!} fitter work can be selected to hand to your bigoted neighbor of the Church than this instructive pamphlet. _Anx- iousto spread the truth, we have reduced the rice of this work -(whcih is elegantly printed in clear ype, on fine white paper), to twenty cents, postage 2 cents. 32 large vases- INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY. Publishers Worcester, Mass. Asentsl A $5 Article! Several are wanted in every house. A purchase leads to a desire for our $15, $30, or a$40,zii'tic1e. All of great utility. Physicians Prescribe §,Tlieiii. Wakefield Earth Closet Co., 36 DEY STREET, NEW YORK. THE WORLDS Sixteen 'C:rn‘cifie'd Saviors; on, 01112131 IA NITY Bnfl one OHRIST. CONTAINING ‘ New, Startling and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which disclose the Oriental Origin of all the Doctrines, Prmctples, Precepts and Miracles of the I CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furm'slt'ln.g a .Key for unlocking many of its Sacred Mysteries, besid-es coinpristng the .History of Siocteen Oriental Crucified Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “The Biography of Satan " and “The Bible of Bibles ” (compr1',sz'ng a description of twenty Bibles.) _.j__. 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 menial labor necessary to collate and com- ile the varied information contained in it must have een 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. C 0 NT E N T S. Preface; Explanation; Clint:-oduction; 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. 4.——Mii-aculous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. _ _ Chap. 5.—Virgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods.‘ Chap. 6.—Siars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. ._ _ _ ChSap._'7.—-Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the In'ant I avior. Chap. 8.—-The Twenty-fifth of December the Birthday of the Gods. _ » Chap. 9.—Titles of_ the Saviors. — Chap%&0.——The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Bir . » Chap. 11.—-Christ’s Genealogy. i Chap. 12.—The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tigin in Infancy. _ _ _ Chap._ 13.—The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs {of Di- vinity. Chap. 14.—-The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.-The Saviors_are 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.—Resuri-ection of the Saviors. iors. Clgtp. 21.——’I‘he Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe ri n. Chapg122.-~The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.——The Divine “ Word ”_ of Oriental Origin. Chap. 24.—The Trinity very ancieiitly a current Hea- then Doctrine. _ . Chap. 25.—Abso_lution, or the Confession of Sins, of Heathen Origin. _ _ Chap. 26.——Origin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. _ Clg.p.'?7.—-—Tlie Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen ri in. Chap{:gfl8.—-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 _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. 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Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2119
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s PROGRESS! 1i‘I~?.lE3El"i?i.[—IOUi(5}-l?EIT! UNTR.AMMELED LIV}%3S§ __n -n .5 BREAKING THE WAYS FQR FUTURE CG-ENER.ATI0"NS.l Vol. XI.—No. 20.—-Whole No. 280. The truth shall make you free.——Jesus. In the clays of thepeolce of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shall be finz'shed.—St. John the Divine. . Whereof I was maole a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, ancl the mystery which from the beginning of _the worlol hath been hid in Gaol.-Paul. 4; V7 SPIRITUALISM THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE. Editors Weekly: Mylast articles were more political than is my habit or taste, but seemed necessary at the moment, and so were written. In one of them I spoke of the National Capitol as ripening apparently for a Sodom cremation. Your types made “convention” of my cremation-«another affair altogether. Had Sodom survived its firery baptism, and got annexed, in some way, to these United States of ours, our Presidential Conventions might appropriately be held there... Show mores PROGRESS! 1i‘I~?.lE3El"i?i.[—IOUi(5}-l?EIT! UNTR.AMMELED LIV}%3S§ __n -n .5 BREAKING THE WAYS FQR FUTURE CG-ENER.ATI0"NS.l Vol. XI.—No. 20.—-Whole No. 280. The truth shall make you free.——Jesus. In the clays of thepeolce of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shall be finz'shed.—St. John the Divine. . Whereof I was maole a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, ancl the mystery which from the beginning of _the worlol hath been hid in Gaol.-Paul. 4; V7 SPIRITUALISM THE RELIGION OF THE FUTURE. Editors Weekly: Mylast articles were more political than is my habit or taste, but seemed necessary at the moment, and so were written. In one of them I spoke of the National Capitol as ripening apparently for a Sodom cremation. Your types made “convention” of my cremation-«another affair altogether. Had Sodom survived its firery baptism, and got annexed, in some way, to these United States of ours, our Presidential Conventions might appropriately be held there”; but I did not so contemplate in my letter. My mission, for five-and—thirty years or more, has been rather religious than political; and since the popular chris- tianity proved itself unable to grapple successfully with chattel slavery, and finally was compelled into bloody war in its behalf, it is a most solemn question, what religion shall come in its stead ? For it surely should not last. Roman Catholic Christianity supplanted Judaism ; and for three hundred years Protestantism has been seeking to ex- tegfminate Catholicism, and might have succeeded in the “Western hemisphere but for the support it lent to Southern slave breeding, slave trading, slave hunting and slave hold- ing. In the guilt of all these, the Protestant Church of the United States was implicated, long after the Catholic Church had been seeking to exterminate it, at least from its own do- main in the South American and Mexican states and sov- ereignties. It was Roman Catholicism that abolished slavery in Mex- ico in the year 1829. Mexico then included Texas, which contained a vast number of slaveholders from our Southern States with their thousands and thousands of slaves. These incited rebellion and revolt against the government, which led finally to war between Mexico and the United States, and the subsequent seizure of Texas and its annexation to these States, with slavery, of course, restored and secured, and our payment of the war debt of Texas, amounting to ten millions of dollars, into the bargain. The slave power now felt itself omnipotent in the nation; supported by the State, sanctified by the church. Disgrace- ful as was our war with Mexico, waged, as all the world knew, in behalf of slavery, and for nothing else under heaven, still the Northern Protestant ministers actually shamed all de- cency, shocked all modesty, by their loud clamors to be ap- pointed chaplains to accompany the regiments and fleets. And the war ended. Mexico plundered, and slavery magni- fied, the church. north and south, with most insulting mock- ery. everywhere gave public thanks to God that the Protest- ant cause and faith were victorious. But the time came when Protestantism saw another sight; when the drum beat at dead of night, eommandlng tires of death to light, with the contending parties, not now Catholic and Protestant, but both Protestants; and that same church and clergy that so gallantly fought side by side against Catholicism in Mexico, and in *behalf of slavery, only half a generation before! V The most astounding phenomena of the nineteen christian centuries were the Protestant Church of the United States defending slavery; santifying slavery; dying in Mexico for slavery; drinking together, North and South, the very blood of the.slave at their sacramental altars in wine bought with his unpaid toil; and then when occasion called, arming against each other—-on one side, fighting for slavery; on the other, for a Union with slaveholders, in a four years’ war, the most demoralizing, most bloody, most destructive to life, limb and property, the World has seen in a thousand years! Such is American Protestant christianity illustrated in the history of the thirty last years. Robbing and murdering Roman Catholics in Mexico, in a most disgraceful war waged wholly for slavery and nothing else, and then turning their blood besmeared weapons against each other to sustain and .NEVV YORK, APRIL 15, 1876. prolong another greaténation of Protestant slaveholders and their Northern abettors. - And now that the war is over, these saints of the contend- ing hosts, such as survive, are rushing into each others arms: and to each others sacraments, baptisms and love feasts, as 1311011811 not one handof theirs was ever stained with brothers blood! Such in very‘ brief is the religion which Spiritualism, or some sublimer faith, must meet and overcome. Such is the Protestantism the abolitionists encountered in their first at- tempts against that slave system which has cost the nation a half million human lives and those millions of dollars “than human sinews bought and sold have ever earned!” Let Spiritualism study well its history if it would maintain triumphant warfare upon it, and supersede and supplant it with something more divine. PARKER PILLSBURY. PAINESVILLE, Ohio, March 30, 1876. GEMS FROM F0 URIER. SELECTED BY A. CRIDGE. MECHANISM or enonrs AND snnrns. This can scarcely be outlined, much less defined. Fourier’s style is not clear in general, and he considered even a volume too small for an. adequate exposition of this branch; nor would minute details be of much use until the finer shades of co-operative life require to be considered, by reason of success in initial experiments, when it may be found that Fourier’s plans need important modifications. It is possible, however, that recently formed communities may have reached a point where Fourier’s views on. the subject may be suggestively and practically valuable. I therefore subjoin extracts and condensations thereon: The series of groups he founds on The five external senses. The affections of friendship, ambition, love and familism, or paternity. / Three other “ passions,” little known and much condemned by “ civilizees,” viz.: The Cabalistic.——Love of refinement, intrigue, emulation. The Butterfly.—Love, of variety, or alternation in both labors and pleasures. The Composite or Compound.—-A desire to realize two or more pleasures at once; as, for instance, to dine with per- sons whom you like,’ where there is a flow of agreeable con- versation, uniting gastronomic, intellectualand social pleas- ures; love of combination or cumulative action . The three last named are regarded in civilization as vices; but God created them to operate by series of contrasted groups; from them is born true wisdom, the equilibrium of the passions, resulting in unity. Moral science pretends to repress the discordant passions; but repression is not mechanism, is not harmony; the end should be to reach the spontaneous mechanism of the pas- sions without repressing any. To regulate them it is neces- sary that each iudividual in seeking only his personal inter- ests, should constantly serve the interests of the community, which is exactly contrary to the civilized mechanismlwhich operates only by repression and constraint.——(vi. 48-51). Cabalism is for the human spirit so imperative a need, that in default of real intrigues it seeks with avidity the factitious at games, theatre, romance. An artificial intrigue is created when a company assembles by means of cards. The princ ipa property of the cabalistic passion in the serial mechanism is to excite discords or emulative rivalries between groups similar enough to each other in occupation to dispute the palm.—(vi.) [REMABK.--In civilization and lower forms of social life, the cabalistic passion shows itself in cliques, rings, sects, parties, and their accessories of backbiters, swindling and slandering. These cliques and rings to—day—not the people- control this and other governments, regardless of “forms of government,” for which, Pope says, "fools contest.”] Civilizees, with instinct of falsity, have chosen for the pivot of their social system a group essentially false-—-the conjugal couple; false by the number (limited to two) by the absence of freedom, and by the divergencies and disagree- ments of tastes.—~(vi. 57.) A passional series is a league of divers groups graded in ascending and descending order, united passionally by identity of taste for some function, as the culture of a fruit, 3. special group undertaking each variety of work in connection with the object with which the series is occupied. if the series is PRICE TEN CENTS‘. ,. devoted to the {culture of the hyacinth orethe potato, for instance, there should be as many groups formed as there are varieties of these articles adapted to the soil of the locality. A single series (in a phalanstery or community). would be useless; there must be series mechanised and interlocked to the member of at least 45 or 50. The passidnal series utilizes disparities of character, tastes, instincts, fortunes, etc. A series is fed only by contrastedi and graded inequalities. Discords are so necessary in a pas»- sional series that each of its groups must be in full antipathy with two contiguous groups, and in graduated antipathy with the sub-contiguous, as in musical tones. Three conditions are indispensible to the success of a series, V VIZ: . Compactness, or nearness of varieties of any given plant cultivated by contiguous groups. This is necessary to secure activity of the cabalistic passion. Short Sessions.——Long ones fetter the butterfly (variety) passion. Division of Labor.—-—The civilized mode compels one person to fill all the functions of a given labor, thus fettering the play of the composite passion. vi, 52-54.) Minimum for sub-groups, three persons. Minimum for full-Igroups, seven to nine persons. . A series operates on a group as a group does on the respec- tive individuals composing it; and should contain at least five groups. A full series comprises twenty-four groups. The individuals comprising a. group should be as follows: viz: Transition 1 - “Ambigu” Superior Wing 2 Bachelors Centre 3 Adepts Inferior Wing 2 Novices Pivot 1 Chief (vi, 60.} To attain passional success, to mechanise the passions, we must have in operation fifty or sixty to five hundred series, thus abridging their seances and enabling each societary to figure in a large number of series, fifty to one hundred, if he can. It is a stnec qua non to interlock: one with anothe1'.—~ (ii, 143.) We insist on the stupidity of the civilization which, pre- tending to have studied man, has neglected to analyze groups, their contrasted properties (iii, 344), their ranges in divers degrees (iii, 352). It is a blunder of the same magnitude as if, in agriculture, we had omitted grains, and wheat, barley’ and cats were still disdained, despised, as coffee was for_sev- eral thousand years until goats, by their intoxication, had disclosed its properties. The learned world has this charac- ter of servilitv, of persisting in a prejudice because some master was imbued with it. Aristotle did not mention cof- fee: twenty succeeding centuries concluded that coffee and its bean were not worthy of attention. . Plato made no an-— alysis of groups; therefore groups are not worthy of study. Thus civilized genius forms its opinions; yet it claims to have perfected reason! ! ! A In all descriptions of passional series * * * * * the accords of passion and sympathy, the rules of which seem to civilization an undecipherable scrawl, are, on the contrary, a mechanism accessible to geometrical methods. Civilizees, in this as in all other problems, see nature only in a simple mode; they believe all sympathies to be permanent; they are, however, permanent, occasional, periodic, etc. This calculation is one of the new worlds of science, to which the genius of civilization has been unable to obtain access, but which has about it nothing impenetrable, notwithstand- ing popular supposition to the contrary. Allnature is an immense mechanism of sympathies and antipathies, very methodically ruled and very penctrable to genius, provided the person possessing it studies as preliminary the two the- ories of passienal attraction and association with which our great minds have never dared to occupy themselves.-— (vi, 65.) The mechanism of equilibrium in the series absorbs indi- vidual cupidity in the collective interests of each series and of the entire phalanx; and absorbs the collective claims of each series by the individual interests of each member in numerous other series.——(vi, 315.) [I think this is what F. calls “engrenage,” or interlocking] , In great industries, re-union not distributed in passional series is subject to two radical vices :, 1 / ‘I. . I / f-\.,_..~ ~41.-..».~é-.~4i "‘ ltlediocrity of product for Want of industrial attraction. ‘Waste, for want of guarantee as to management.——(vi, 475.) _ The contrasted passional series is fed exclusively by the ‘disparities which disconcert civilized methods. It operates as does the laborer who from heaps of dirt draws the germs of wealth. The waste, filth, dirt and general refuse which gpollute and infest our houses, become for him sources of tic-rtiine. It is the same with our passional dirt for which ‘our present [social] policy has no use. We are about, thanks to the lever I have named, The Contrasted Series, to trans- form into precious materials all those leavens of social mad- ness. The more numerous are they, the better will the series be graduated, contrasted and aptly interlocked.—(iii, 31.) UiEMAR-K.——Which suggests Huxley or Tyndall’s remark, that “dirt is matter in the wrong place.” But as such ma- terial dirt never should have existed in any place in actual forms, so there is much passional dirt for which no form of society will have any use. I refer to such as is not merely misdirected, but owes its origin and form wholly to sexual unions that are merely lustful or enforced. Such “ passional dirt” must be incapable of utilization, having its origin in a “sin against the holy spirit (of love) which cannot be for- , given either in this age or the age to come,” but the results of which will become less and less obvious in generation after generation of that social harmony which can be born only of freedom; or, as Swedenborg has it, “there is no regeneration but in freedom.” YES, “WHO PAYS THE EXPENSES?” Editors Weeklg.'——In your issue of March 18, “ J. W. T.” in , criticisinga previous article, and defending the National Banking system, states “ so much error” and so little “' truth,” “that I am constrained to reply” to those parts which are unsupported and “unwarranted assumptions.” Elie first is in substance, that if we should increase our our- rency one billion dollars they would not be “worth the paper they were printed’ upon.” From what data does J. W. T. draw this “ assumption?” From ofiicial figures we find that ‘the total circulation of all kinds outstanding in 1865 was $2;,003,874,179.25; in August, 1875, we had only $764,908,217, sh owing that the currency had been contracted; $1,238,965,962,- 25; also shcwinggthat we have had more than “ one billion more currency” than we have now; but can he recall a time when it was not “ worth the paper they were printedfion? ” If not, what reason has he for assuming that they would‘ so depreciate now or in the future? I assume, that if that amount of currency (a non-interest bearing debt) was afloat, instead of being locked up in unproductive interest bearing bonds, itwould be compelled to seek productive enterprise, set the wheels of industry moving as in 1865, giving employ- ment, food and clothing to our laborers. Again, J. W’. T. says: “It is generally conceded by the best financiers that the national banks have already more currency than they can profitab1,V» and at the same time safely float.” This “float” means to loan, and the “best financiers ” ‘are the national bankers, who know how to “float” or loan money so as to have it pay them well, and double their fortunes everyfour to eight years. All over the West and South the “floating” rates are from 10 to 24 per cent per unnum, and if national banks are retiring their circu- lation, it is because the people see nothing but bankruptcy in these rates, and refuse to borrow and invest in productive enterprises. But right here is the point with such as J. W. T. and the national bankers: Money must reap its reward, “ profitably and safely fioat,” whether labor be rewarded or not. La- borers may starve and freeze, be made “tramps ” and " thieves,” the nation driven to bankruptcy and ruin by the enforced idleness of its wealth producers; but money must be well protected and rewarded, it is so much superior and of so much more importance than humanity I J. W. T. also assumes that the national banks “pay back to the govern- ment and to the people in extra taxes fully as much as such benefits are worth.” Now, what are the facts? The national banks pay a tax on their average circulation of half of one per cent semi-annually, making. lone per cent per annum. Would not the people be glad to borrow currency at that rate? ‘ “ Horace Greeley, in speaking of this stupendous fraud, at one time said: “ If the government can afford to loan $300.000,000 to bankers for nothing (or a tax of one per cent), it can afford to loan the people $300,000,000 at three per cent per annum;” and I add,;with that interest pay some of the expenses of running the government and stop taxation. Another fact is, that the bankers do not pay the government or the people anything—not one dollar in taxes. This has been clearly proven many times in the WEEKLY: all that they pass over to the government as taxes is wrung from the labor of the people in the 10 to 24 per cent interest charged to those who are compelledto borrow the money that they (the national banks) get from the same people, in their col- lective capacity, at a tax of one per cent. . I will intrude upon your valuable space only to reply to one more “unwarranted assumption” of J. W. T., which I quote as follows: “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 worth less on the dollar, while a decrease of the greenback has always enhanced their value.” ’ g c I In September of 1864, gold was quoted at 275; it is well known that the issue of greenbacks continued to increase until after the close of the war, and that gold fell to about 150. . According to the reports of the Comptroller of thejCurrency, we have over $13,000,000 less greenbacks afloat now than we had one year and one month ago, and are thirteen months nearer the day fixed for resumption ;‘ yet gold is 114%, 114%, against 111%, 111% then. How will J. W. T. account for these facts? All that is wanted to bring_our greenbacks to par with gold, is to have the government receive them for all dues, woonnum. as CL.aFLiN’S WEEKLY. and not discriminate in favor of gold. This is no assump- tion, for we have proven it, as the “ demand notes” that were issued during the last War were made receivable for duties on imports, and remained at par until they were all drawn in and cancelled. _ Our financial legislation since the close of the war, managed by and in the interests of “ the best financiers,” has been such as to cal.l forth the following severe criticism from the London (Eng) Economist: “ It was said by one of the mase culine writers of the seventeenth century, in discussing the evils entailed on Ireland by bad and stupid laws, that if such laws had been adopted by the devil in the government of his dominion, the kingdom of Satan could not have lasted a year. We should hesitate to apply so strong a description to the American policy since the war, but we have no hesita- tion in saying, that that policy, in its violence, ignorance and greed, has, in its economical results, left little to choose between the United States of 1875 and the Ireland of two hundred years ago." Very truly, A. W. ST. JOHN. CARTHAGE, Mo., 1876. ' ‘ A LOVERS PRAYER. BY HELEN M. COOKE. C (LOTTIE LINWO D). Touch gently now, oh happy sleep; The dear beloved’s soulful eyes; His glowing visions guard and keep; Shut in my light of paradise. And from his tender poet—face Smooth out each lineament of care; And over all his features trace The beauty of my worship there. Breathe on the lips I love so well, Round which such wondrous sweetness clings 'Whispcr the words I dare not tell; ’ Sing him the song my spirit sings. [1 Lay thy soft hand upon his heart, \ Oh envied sleep! and make it strong To meet my deathlcss love i11 part, ' And cherish it from every wrong. New Yonx, 1876. - PERSONAL LETTERS FROM TEXAS. Editors ‘Weekly: An incident recently came under my ob- servation which shows the perverse depravity of men and the wild delirium to which their passions are allowed to rise, and above all, the injustice of society in its dealings with the parties to it, so vividly, that my soul is chilled with hor- ror and filled with indignation. I feel moved to write for your columns the facts as I learned them, and at all other times to do all that in me lies to lift woman out of the power of man, and to make him bear the ban which society attaches to the commission of such deeds, from which he now goes “ scott free.” In quite the early part of my public work I was called to give a course of lectures in a thriving country village in C0nnecticut——the State designated as “the land of steady habits.” While there, I met a mother who carried in her arms a blooming infant, scarce twelve months old; its eye was bright, its complexion fair, and as it laughed and carroled in its baby glee every one" stooped to kiss and admire it. As time passed on, I chanced again in the social circles of life to meet this mother who now led by the hand a shy, timid child, for the baby girl had grown to be some five or six years old. She was somewhat delicately formed, and had an expressive face, and although she seemed fright- ened when observed; or addressed by a stranger, a few gentle words won her confidence, and as she grew to be familiar, she would come and twine her arms about your neck, /and as you attempted to interest her in the recital of anything com- prehensible to her childish intellect, her little cheek would dimple with smiles, or her eyes be brilliant with tears, as the theme was either grave or gay; quick to laugh when mirth was in the ascendancy, rapidly reacting, easy to cry when her sympathies were touched; tender, sympathetic, confiding, teachable, always looking up to her elders with confidence and trust. Men or women were to her the embod- iment of all wisdom, and upon them she looked with great . reverence. Like a flower that could only blossom in the sunlight, she was only happy in an atmosphere of love, and in such her young mind expanded and absorbed its neces- sities, giving out in its turn sweets which, if she had been properly guarded and directed, could not have failed to have. blessed the world. Some weeks since, while sojourning in a city not outside the limits of the State in which this young and promising child was born, I met apoliceman in uniform who rudely hurried along the walk a young and fragile girl, apparently not more than fifteen years of age, with a pale and forlorn countenance, and beautiful brown hair which hung in a mass of dishevelled ringlcts down her shoulders. As they turned a corner of the street, men jostled them on the walk, and called out to the officer to know where he was go- ing with his “ young cub.” I turned about and heard girls who had homes and protection, and whose only boast might be that they were better dressed, and mothers, too, who should have felt different, saying “the outcast,” the vile thing,” " she is not fit to live,” and other similar epithets which aroused my indignation. I had gazed into that girl’s wo- begone face, and saw the look of agony as the ofiicer of the law hurried her along, and I knew she was a victim of man and of that society of which he is a pampered favorite. I inquired to know the “ head and front of her offending,” or why the officer had taken her into custody. A woman re- plied, “ her appearance tells what isjher offence ; why she has been in the stable all night where the men took her, and did with her as they pleased, the miserable thing.” “But where are the men, her associates in sin,” I asked ? Alas! none knew or cared. It was enough that this youngjand helpless girl was to be arraigned for what she had done. The author- ities cared nothing for the men who had degraded her. But Whatmen? There were men (or things having the forms of men) who enticed this girl into a saloon, and through some means yet- unknown induced or forced her upon a billiard- table. To gratify their beastliness a dozen or more of them abused her person, until she lay in a dead swoon, andthen, April 15," 1876. like the cowards they were, afraid to stand the consequences of their acts, sneaked away, leaving their victim to her fate; but one more humane than the rest, who was an ostler, lifted her. in his arms, and carried her to his stable, the only avail- robes and blankets, and brought her wine andrefreshments. At daylight, when she had so far recovered as to be able to move about, and as he was casting about to see how he could aid her, a policeman who had been informed of her where- abouts took her under arrest. And this was the prattling in- fant I had caressed, the promising child I had admired and loved! My heart sickened within me, and my soul cried out, “ how long, oh! how long will it be before this christian community will make a higher standard of morality for man, and hold him as rigidly accountable for his acts as it does the woman ?” The explanation of this sad case is simple. The mother had sickened and died. The father left her with distant relatives who took no interest in her, and proved re- creant to their trust. Through a combination of influences and circumstances she fell, and there were none to reclaim her. Mothers would not do it; society would not do it; and what protection or help had she? Think of it, mothers; for to you belongs this work. To-day all is prosperous with you, and you have homes and can give your daughters protection; but reverse may come quickly, and your own daughter be turned out upon the cold charities of an unfeeling world, to share a fate like to this poor girl’s. She was not a prosti- tute who had sold herself; none had paid her money: but she had yielded to the entreaties of men with Whom her fate had thrown her in contact, because she had neither strength nor capacity to resist them. Let women put it beyond the pow- er of men to do these things by making the censure and con- tempt fall upon them, and by standing together and uniting E. ANNE HINMAN. __—__._. HEMPSTEAD, March 14, 1876. Miss Termvlc 0. Olaflin: The citizens of our town are circulating a letter of invi- tation to your sister to deliver another of her interesting lectures. Some of those who were the most opposed to her have the matter in charge, and my advice would be to throw the responsibility on them of making it a success pecuniarily. Should your sister conclude to return on the invitation (it will be sent to Dallas). select Messrs. Haveman & Co. as the parties to work it up. You will in any event have the hearty support and assistance of your friends. Respectfully, etc., Cns. F. VERLANDER. HEMPSTEAD, March 12, 1876 Mesdotmes Wbodhuzl & Otaflm: Dear Friends: As Mr. Verlander is writing, I thought I would give you an idea of the impression your lecture pro- duced in this little community. The Vlfoodhull friends, next morning, could be counted by hundreds. All the leading young men thank you ‘a thousand times for your most elo- quent advice; indeed, the one I pointed out to you at the hall called to get your address, as he had written you a let- ter to which he had obtained a dozen other signatures. I told him to leave it here and I would enclose it. They all most earnestly request your return, promising a sum sulfi- cient to satisfy you. The ladies, who were “ strong-minded” enough to have listened to you, have been most generously envied by those who most unfortunately remained at home_ Should you be induced to return, you will have a warm wel- come from us of the City Hotel. I will give myself the great pleasure of again addressing you in a few days, enclosing the young men’s letter, which they most earnestly hope you will have published in the most popular papers. My kindest re- gards to your mother, with heartfelt wishes for you and yours. Mus. M. P. VERLANDER. City Hotel, ‘Hempstead. THURSDAY MORNING, DALLAS, Texas, ‘ March 16th, 1876. My Dear Mrs. Woodhull : ‘ I was an attentive listener to’ your beautiful and inspiring appeal last night at Field’s Theater, and want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the great good you did me. and in speaking for myself I believe I do so for the entire audience and Dallas generally. Indeed I heard enough, be- fore leaving the room, to assure me your sentiments are pre- cisely mine, and have been since I could think for myself. May God speed and bless you in your noble work. My dear mother was taken away from me when only three years old, and I have had no one to direct or advise me as I should have had, and today, at twenty—four, my heart hungers for one I could call mother—~such an one as you pic- tured to us last night. How I wish I was able to give utterance to my heart as it feels, that I might teil you all the good brought to the surface since hearing you the second time: I say second time; per- haps you recollect your lecture at Bordentown, N. J., in ’68, ’69 or ’’70 (I forget which). B. is my native town, and though younger) as now. » I am going to read carefully your lectures in pamphlet form, and anticipate much pleasure and good results. I feel, my dear madam, that I have no apology to offer for thus intruding before your notice, but trust you will receive my words as a slight token of the esteem and brotherly love that I bear you. Truly and most respectfully yours, ‘ GEO. B. Honsrrnnn. AUSTIN, Texas, March 7th, 1876. Dear Lady: From the core of my heart I ihank you for your lecture last evening. 1, am librarian in a reading-room of weekly papers. As I listened to you last night it seemed to me as if it were as tongues of flame issuing from your lips; it was, as it were, -molten lava pouring through my veins; the tears poured over my face-«me, almost an old woman! able shelter he had for her, and made her a resting place of 1 our efiorts to save thoseof our kind who need our assistance. - I enjoyed your lecture I was not so impressed (being much. .5 F I x“ ‘J April 15, ism. Now, I wish I could make all the mothers in Austin go to hear you. Many women.are thanking you. I couid write on and on, and tell you of a th.ousand things that are in my heart, but I must say good—night; we shall never meet, but I shall always pray to the good Father to give His angels charge over you, that your ways may be made more smooth, the hunger of your heart fllled, the love of the whole earth poured upon you. I see in the future monuments erected in your honor. I shall not see it, but your child will live to see it. She will raise her hands to heaven in thanksgiving that the day has arrived——“ Ah! if my darling mother could only see this.” M. HIGBY, Librarian of Austin L. Ass’n and Cor. Sec, (From The American Sm'm'tnal M agaziine for M arch.) MRS. Vroronm wooDHULL. This remarkable woman, who has been reported. to advo- cate doctrines subverting the very basis of our social fabric, created more interest than ever any woman did in this city’. We called to see her at the Peabody, and told her we always made it a rule if we said anything against any one to tell them of it the first opportunity. Handing her a bound copy of the Magazine to see it all, she smilingly said that she was shocked when she heard the construction that was put on the sentiments she had uttered, The press called to see her, and gave lengthy reports of interviews and of her address, all of a v.ery favorable character. We must,,in justice to her, say that we presume no woman was ever more misunderstood, or more misrepresented, than she has been. Her teachings were of the most excellent character, and her system of the purest chastity. M4-a THE HARDY SEANCES. To THE PUBLIC :-—The following facts have forced them- selves upon us during the past week spent by Mrs. Hardy in New York, and we shrink from the duty, which as Spiritual- ists who have become cognizant of these circumstances, is incumbent upon us. ' - - Mrs. Hardy gave her first seance of this course, at Repub- lican Hall in 33d Street, before the 1st Spiritualist Society of New York, upon Tuesday evening, March 12. It was, upon the whole, considered quite satisfactory to the majority pres- ent, and the Press gave several good notices of the same; although Mr. Austin has a piece of DRY oorrrou WOOL picked out from the mold produced upon that occasion, upon. its being exposed to the amdience. Mr. and Mrs. Austin having previously invited Mrs. Hardy to visit them during the week. a seance was held in their house Tuesday eve, when about thirty people were present. A small pine table was previously prepared by Mr. Austin, measuring 18 inches in width by about 4 feet in length with an opening across the centre into which a board or leaf was " so closely fitted, that, though it could be removed with one hand, it would require both to replace it. The pail contain- ing the paraffine and water was sustained by one arm of a scalebeam, which was suspended from the frame of the table in such a way, that while the pail was under the table, the ' other arm, supporting the nicely balanced weights, was out- side, and in full view of ‘the audience, passing through a slat in the black glazed-muslin bag which enclosed the table and its contents, and which was of sufficient depth to overlap itself upon the top of the table where it was thoroughly secured by pins on the opposite side from the medium. The seams of the muslin bag were sewed by a lock-stitch machine, and over the table were thrown blankets to exclude the light. Mr. Austin had some colored par-afine which he desired to use, but it was declined. It was proposed by Mr. and Mrs. Austin to make their seance arrangements before the en~ trance of Mrs. and Mr. Hardy, but in this matter they failed. No light was allowed in the room, and only a moderate amount from an adjoining one, as the “ spirits” complained that the conditions were not favorable. Very soon a slight motion of the outside beam was increased to such a degree as to throw the weights from their place, which naturally at- tracted the gaze of all to this point, except that of Mr. Austin and two other gentlemen whowere intent upon the fact that Mrs. Hardy frequently introduced her left hand under the blanket; and finally the motion became so attractive to her, that she rose many times, and leaned over the table to observe it, but never failed to pass her hand under the blan- ket at the same time. The last time leaning over a violent motion to the outside beam indicated the same to the pail within, and on the in- stanta light “thud” was heard as of some substance dropping inside upon the carpet. The left hand of Mrs. Hardy was withdrawn, and the blanket, previously left rumpled, was now carelessly smoothed out, and it was soon indicated that the work was finished. Upon removing the blanket, Mr. Austin found the muslin pinned differently upon the top of the table, from what he had it, and having in the spot where the left hand had been hidden, a strained appearance ;—-and the mid- gdle board was found displaced.. A paraftine mold was lying upon the bottom of the bag, a little under the edge of the bowl. . Wednesday evening, as Mrs. Austin and Mr. and Mrs. Hardy were coming to a seance at the house of Mrs. Hull, Mr. ‘Hardy being quite in advance, and Mrs. Hardy next, in crossing the street, Mrs. Austin, who was last, saw a paraf- fine mold lying in the gutter where Mrs. Hardy had just passed. She exclaimed, “ Why. there’s a paraffine hand!” And Mrs. Hardy, returning quickly, crushed it, and both ladies icked up pieces from the fragments. Mrs. Hardy ascoldecfher husband for being so careless about “ carrying that bags” he ought to know».the top was liable to spring open, and now perhaps there would not be paraffine enough to form another to-night.” Mr. and Mrs. Hardy had, just before-leaving Mrs. Austin’s house, denied, to them and to another lady, that they had any paraffine molds with them. Mrs. Hull, at this seance used an extension dining-table, with a slight opening in the centre. But the medium failed to ,obtain a mold;—-owing, she said, to the too great thick- ness of the coverings of the table, which consisted of a linen floor-cloth laid beneath, and brought up securely around the Whole, with table-_cor_ver,s above to exclude the light, and which was arranged by Mrs. Hull, Mrs. Sayles and Mr. Mur- ray ;—'and secondly excused, after our dropping the covering upon her side of the table as desired, on the ground of her “lgreat fatigue of previous night, etc.” On this occa- sion, Dr. Hull, who occupied a favorable posi- tion during the materializatlons of spirit-hands, etc., declared to Mrs. Hull and Mrs. Sayles that he assuredly saw toes three times, when Mrs. Hardy professed that the s irits WW3 showing hands; and a lady who sat by Mrs. I-lar y’s side felt the vibration of her chair, and saw a movement of Mrs. I-Iardy’s,d;e,s_s and handkerchief (in her lap), at every presentation of purported spirit-hands at the opening. We had also writing upon slates, when Mrs. Hardy desired all pencils t_o be removed, as the “spirits were able to write without pencils.” Present, 30 people. Lights -very dim. — ' I On Thursday evening, Mrs. .Lane and Miss Lane, her daughter, calledon Mrs, Hardy at the house of Mrs- Austin, and both saw the fingers of "a paraftine mold lprotruding from beneath Mrs. Hardy’s dress, and which she hastily con.- wccsscm. e Gf.AFLII\I’£S wnin cealed as soon as she was informed, and declared them mis- taken. During this evening, Mrs. Austin having arranged a small table with paraffine and bowl of water, all within a netting or bag, the position of the seams of the bag not being noticed, heard, as did also Mrs. Lane, Miss Lane, and Mr. Murray, 3. rubbing and scraping under the table, and after- wards saw a mold inside the netting with its thumb detached, and claimed by Mrs. Hardy to have been formed by the “spirits” from said. paraftine. Mrs. Austin’s niece, whoiwas sitting at the table, upon looking beneath during the after materializations, saw Mrs. Hardy’s foot manipulating the bell, etc. Light was abundant for distinguishing each per- son in the room. Nine only were present. On Saturday, the 18th, Mr. Murray received a package of parafiine from Mrs. Hull and Mrs. Sayles, which was designed for use at that evening’s seance with Mrs. Hardy, at the home of Mrs. Hull, and taking it to an apothecary near by, had it accurately weighed, and the weight, which was 1% pounds avoirdupois, marked on the wrapper. Mrs. Hull and Mrs. Sayles kept this sacredly until the evening, when it was shaved up in their presence, and before them and Mr. Mur- ray and others was placed in a pail and hot water poured upon it. A table about three feet square was enveloped, with parafline and water--bowl, in the netting bag used by Mrs. Austin in her seance of Thursday night, but the seams of ' the bag were placed at the ends of the table and beyond the reach of Mrs. Hardy. No mold was forthcoming; and Mrs. Sayles assisted Mrs. Hardy to hold a slate for spirit-writing, in exp1anation—to be done, as usual without pencil. ». Mrs. Sayles saw Mrs. Hardy carry her hand to her head, ostensibly for the purpose of arranging her hair, both before and after such writing. She saw the form of Mrs. Hardy’s hand, through one thickness of table—cover, move as the writing progressed, and return to commence the second and third lines of communication, and motion with each faint tap which announced the writing finished. Mrs. Sayles held the slate six or eight times. The writing was always done across the corner of the slate near Mrs. Hardy’s hand, and never out of. her reach. Mrs. Sayles once lifted the cover a. little quicker than was anticipated, and saw Mrs. Hardy’s first fingers and thumb above the slate, which was not, how- ever, supposed to be noticed by her. Mr. Austin and others in reading the writing, saw once a double formation of the letters. and were puzzled. After the close of the seance, Mrs. Hull found and preserves a bit of slate~—pencil‘, one and one—quarter inches in length, having one pointed and one jagged end, and which was lying on the carpet, above which place Mrs. Hardy had been sitting. The “ spirits” desired us to place Mrs. Hardy, instead of the table, etc., in the netting—to which we acceded, as they declared that they could not otherwise make the mold.‘ In tying the netting bag about Mrs. Hardy’s throat, Mrs. Sayles strove to leave both seams behind Mrs. Hardy’s shoulders, inwhich she was entirely bafiled by Mrs. Hardy, who shrugged the fulness over her right side, and firmly grasped it with one seam in her right hand——Mrs. Sayles carefully before sit- ting down brought down the table-cover to the floor on the side next Mrs. Hardy, while others looked after the exclu- sion of the light from the other sides. She found, upon come ing again to Mrs. Hardy, that the whole cover on that sid- was lifted and laid over her lap. The lights were required so low as to be of no avail in the back parlor, at the extreme end of which she sat facing her audience ;—all the light allowed being from two burners in the chandelier in front parlor, partially turned down. No one was allowed within a semi—circle of five or six feet from the table. The mold was soon declared finished; and on be- ing quickly examined (by a novice, as it happened) another bit of dry cotton-wool was foupd within the orifice of the wrist, which Mr. Austin has with the first in his possession. This table, etc., was then’ placed aside, and we resorted to the same table used Wednesday evening for spirit—hand ma- terializat-ions. Mrs. Hardy first seated herself at the end of the table, which was built with a heavy standard, opening in the centre; but soon the “spirits ” found it necessary to change seats, until Mrs. Hardy was placed on one side and opposite the opening. when about the usual after manifesta- tions took place. Thirty-five people were present. After the dispersal of the company, Mrs. Hull and Mrs. Sayles found the parafiine cool enough to roll up, and turn off the water, which they did, laying back the paraffine till Monday morning, when the bits adhering to the pail being also detached and placed with it in the same wrapper formerly used, Mr. Murray took the package and had it weighed on the same scales, when it balanced exactly 1% lbs avoirdupois, the same as before the seance. He also received the parafiine mold or glove from Mrs. Hull and Mrs. Sayles, and found its weight to be 2% oz. avoirdupois. The druggist performed the weighing in both instances. Mrs. Austin was unaccountably annoyed by bits of cotton wool abouther carpets while Mr. and Mrs. Hardy were with er. . Upon Sunday, the IQLII, Mrs. Austin saw Mrs. Hardy’s stockings worn the previous evening at Mrs. Hull’s seance; at about two inches above the toe they were cut across the sole and left open. . I Each can draw his inferences from the facts we state. VVe subscribe our names to verify what is attributed to us in this statement. Bronson Murray, 238 West 52d Street, N ew7.York. Elvina Ann Lane, 66 Park Avenue, New York. Mattie A. Lane, 66 Park Avenue, New York. Thos. K. Austin, 418 West 57th Street, New York. Margaret Z. Austin, 418 West 5*Zfth Street, New York. Jane De Forest Hull, 140 West 42d Street, New York. Lita Barney Sayle s, 140 West 42d Street, New York. March 23d, 1876. . L. B. SAYLES, Scribe. At a meeting of the N. Y. Association of Spiritualists, held in the Harvard Rooms last evening, the following reso- lution was adopted unanimously: - , . _Resolved, That the ladies and gentlemen whose names were subscribed to this report read before our conference thig afternoon, by Mr. Bronson Murray, in the case of Mrs. Hardy, are persons who, in our estimation, are entitled to our full credence and confidence. P. E. F.-mnswonr, Sec’y. “ NEW YORK, March 27, 1876. . BITS OF FUN. minute. “SHE Stoops to Conquer,” was written before the days of pull~back dresses. I “HOw,are ye, Smith.” said Jones. Smith pretended not to know him,.and answered hesitatinglyg “Sir, you have the advantage of me.” “Yes, i suppose so. . -Everybody has that’s got common sense,” A BACHELOR returning from a hall in a crowded coach, de- clared with a groan that he had not the slightest objection to “rings on his fingers,” but he had a most unequivocal aver- sion to “belles on his toes." 7 “Now my little boys and girls," said a teacher, “I want you to be very still-so. that you can hear a pin drop.” In a moment all was silent, when a little boy cried out, “ Let her drop I): . “HM-{E you any nice fresh farmer’s eggs ?” inquireda pre- ! cise old lady at a grocery store I’ “No, ma’au_1,” replied the K L‘ Y. O I 3; clerk, “but we have some very good hen’s eggs,” She took three to try. JOYCE is writing a drama entitled “The Whisky Ring,” in the hope that the audience will “call out” the author. A COLORED wrrnnss in the J ohnstown murder trial said he was a Democrat. “ I signed de pledge t’ree y’ar ago,” he said: “ ’haved myself an’ voted de ’pub1ikin ticket. But I’Ee a Democrat now. Tuk to drinken’, boss, an’ got into bad kump’ny.”—— Rochester Democrat. KNEE~BREECHES are said to be coming in fashion, and Mrs. Fiske——late Burnham——writing for the St. Louis Republican, says she is much exercised about the men’s legs. Tut, tut I You just let ’em alone my 1ady.—~Rocheste'r Democrat. THEY haven ’t caught Tweed yet, but there is ayoungmun bread to keep from starving. “FIGURES will lie,” said a young married man the other day, “and don’t you bet on the figure of a woman until you know by actual observation just what you have to sustain your judgment. Yes, Sir, I know that figures will lie.” “PIETY,” remarked an Arkansas preacher to his congrega- tion the other day, “does not consist in noise. The Lord can see you give to the needy just as easily as he canhear you pray the roof off.” AN Arkansas man ate a pint of sawdust a few days ago on a bet. An intelligent physician who “was called in, told him he would have pain in his lumbar region if he stuck to such board as that. A. LADY put her watch under her pillow the other night. but couldn’t keep it there because it disturbed her sleep. And there all the time wa her bed—ticking right underneath her, and she never thought of that at all. AN elderly maiden who had suffered some disappointment, thus defines the human race: “Man, a conglomeratcd mass of hair, tobacco-smoke, confusion, conceit, and boots. VVoman the Waiter, perforce, on the aforesaid animal.” ..________ M’... THE Spiritualists are disturbed by dissensions among themselves. Some of the believers are trying to introduce occult philosophy, including a belief in necromancy and kin- dred things; but a great number, probably a majority, reject the innovation. There is likely, however, to be a schism upon this point. Another trouble is caused by Home, the well known medium, who denounces as impost ers the Daven» ports, Eddys, and all other operators in materialization. Home says that everything done in the dark, behind our- tains, or in cabinets may be properly regarded as trickery. This arouses the resentment of a numerous class of Spiritual- ists, who retaliate by saying that Home is a trickster. The Oneida Community has embraced Sriritualism, Sand that. has revived a discussion of socialism, upon which Spiritualists are divided:-N. Y. Sun. MATTXE Srnr cKLAND.——We extract the folluwing comp1i_ mentary notice of Mrs. Mattie Strickland, from the Ripon, (Wis.) Eree Press, of a recent date: . “Mattie Strickland lectured in the Unitarian church last Sunday evening, on the subject of woman’s rights. She is an educated and refined lady, and her lecture was one of the most brilliant ever delivered in this city. , Her voice is clear meanor that of a cultured lady. In appearance she is degid- edly handsome and were she to quit the rostrum and go before the foot lights, there would be little doubt of her success. To think that a woman so highly gifted shouldiadvocate the. damnable doctrines of free love, is lamentable.” "-W Q»-4 EDITORIAL NOTICES. LOIS WAISBROOKER can be addressed at Eureka Hum- bolt County, California, during A.prifl1 Wm take g:1bgcrip-. tions for the VVEEKLY. I i‘ f LE0 MILLER »"~{7D: MAATTIIF STRICKLAND will receive calls or lectures on. liberal subjects. Engagements in Illinois, Wlsconsin and Michigan particularly desired during the Spring months. Terms reasonable. 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And these signs shall follow them: In my name shad’ thmg/__cast out devils,‘ they shall take up serpents ,' and if’ they drink any cleaclly thing it shall not hurt them ; they shall lay haricls on the sick and they shall reeocerr-Jesus. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1876. Brooklyn Academy of Music. _.-4fi+_.g+#-1»---~———— Thursday, April 6th. WJOODHULL SUBJECT: The lluman Body, the lempleouf Had. A Admission-——$1.00, 75 cts and 50 cts. Reserved Seats $51.00, secured at Chandler Bros., 181 Montague st., and at Bolles’ Book Store, 244 Fulton street, Brooklyn; 114- Broadway, and ‘.111 Nassau st., (Room 9), New York. MEDIUMSHIP—-THE FALSE AND THE TRUE. 0 generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.—-St. Matthew xii. 34. tion of hell ‘?—Ibid. xxiii. 33. 0 generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come ?——St. Luke iii. *7. Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily 1 say unto you, there shall be no sign given unto this generation{—St. Mark viii. 12. For there is nothing covered that shallpnot be revealed; neither hid that /shall not be made known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in closets shall be proclaimed upon Ihe house—tops.-—St. Luke xii. 2 and 3. ‘ Tell us, when shall these things be‘? and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world? For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.—St, Matthew xiv. 3, 24 and 14. But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruitsof them that slept. But every man in his own order; Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his co1ning.~—1 Corinthians xv. 20 and 23. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. . 4 . And the dead in Christ shall rise first.——1 Thessalonians iv. 16. The last enemy that shall be betrayed is death. For this corruption shall put on incorruption, and the mortal must put on immortality.—1 Corinthians xv. 26 and 53. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God. Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God—1 John iv. 1 and 2. It is impossible but that offences will come; but wo unto him through whom they come.—~St. Luke xvii. 1 . GENERAL STA'EI‘EMEN’]‘. Our readers who have followed us through the editorial columns of the WEEKLY during the last year, know that we believe that the end of the worlcli-the present dispensation —is at hand. We have shown that the fruit of the former, or Jewish dispensation, was thefperfect man Jesus. With the yielding of that fruit. the dispensation passed away—- died——even to the extent of numbering the years from the beginning of the new. Surely there was an end of time and the beginning of anew time. The old dispensation was, under divine guidance, evolved purposely to produce the desired fruit. The Jews were a peculiar people; specially the objects of spiritual influence, all pointing t-fo the one thing——-the man Jesus. It was to “ Abraham and thy seed” that the promise was made. There was nothing feminine about that era, But the new promise was to Mary and her seed, and the Christ era has been specially femi- nine. In this era Woman has risen from nothingness into a thoroughly independent individuality, and soon there shall come forth to the world the perfect woman—-the fully developed fruit of the {present dispensation; and the fruit of the old and that of the new shall merge the opposite powers which they represent, respectively, and from them there shall spring the new heaven and the new earth, and the end of the world or this dispensation will come, when all its powers and principalities shall go down as did the Jews, when out of their decay had risen the beginning of the new era. Indeed, the signs of decay and dissolution are, even now, evidently written in bold and unmistakable characters all over the face of existing things. The body politic, the body religious and the body social are rotten, and the scent of their decay already ofiends the nostrils of all those who seek not the flesh-pots of the day and age. Dispensations —-eras of time——come and go intheir alloted seasons, with the same regularity that is true of all things else; and they yield their fruit with the same unerring certainty. As the seed planted in the earth dies, and as the new germ springs forth from its decaying organization, so do eras die, and so do new germs spring from their decay and become the basis of the new. Seed time and harvest come with every year; they are necessary for the needs of man. Other things come and go in greater lengths of time, —~in decades and centuries. But the eras of man himself, organized in the great races, come and go with the cycles of the sun, every two thousand years——~Adam, Abra- ham, Jesus, mark the dispensations known to historic lore, and with the transition of the sun from the zodiacal sign of Pisces, into that of Aquarius, will come another era, risen from the seed of Mary. Nothing is more evident than that allthings in the universe work together; nothing truer than that if understand the law of one department, we may . learn of all others by analogy. The incubating process of the truth born into the world in Jesus, is seen in the dark ages when civilization, as it were. Went down into the frozen winter, in conformity to the going down of the sun into the central period of the sign Pisces-—Signifyin_g the descent of the fish into the depths mid ocean. As the sun approached the surface of the water, to be on the shoulder of the water carrier, Aquarius, light began again t0 lighten the mind of man; and now, as it appears on the si1rfac.e-—the end of the sign-—the pure spiritual light Washed clean of all the mire it had taken on when it descended into the depths of the former sign, begins to illuminate the dark- ened recesses of the heart, and to show to man the relation- ship between the Father and His children. mun JOHN THE BAPTIST. Ye yourselves hear me witness, that I said. I am not Christ, butjthat I am sent before him. He must increase but [must deCreaSe-—St- J01111 iii. 28 and 30. i The advent of Modern Spiritualism into the world marks the time when the spiritual body began to gain the ascend- Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the darnna~ -. ency over the material body through which it had, till then, been obliged to manifest itself. ’Tis true that, in all ages of the world, there have been exceptional cases in which this ascendency has been markedly exhibited in individuals. They were the lights set upon the mountain-tops at which the world might gaze, and, if possible, learn of the future by what they prophesied. But the modern manifesta- tions are something more than prophecies; they are the realization of prophecies, and prove that what belonged to a few individuals scattered here and there throughout the world, now comes to be the inheritance of many, perhaps the majority, of the race. The seed planted ages ago in the constitution of man is now beginning to yield its fruit, and thousands shall rise who will inherit the gift of God. All mediumship is the proof of the independent action of the spirit still confined within the body. In ordinary life the spirit is compelled to use the various organs of the body through which to receive and give communications; but in the extraordinary life, illustrated by mediumship, the use of the physical organs is dispensed with, and the spirit gives and receives communications, coming into direct rapport with disembodied spirits; or what would probably be a better statement of the fact is, that some special organ of the spirit body, having gained the ascendancy over the physical organ, which it inhabits, reduces the latter to its use instead of being subservient to it. Hence a medium may hear spirits converse, or see them, when to others present there would be neither sight or sound to indicate their presence. This being true it is not strange that manifestations of an opposite character should be desired by the seekers after knowledge about the dead; nor is it strange that such manifestations should he supplied. The spirit, still in bondage to the law of the body; still obliged to depend upon its functions for all its interviews with things external to itself, is skeptical to all things that do not appeal to it through the medium of the physical senses. A medium may say to such an one, that a spirit says thus and so, or that such and such a spirit is present, and he will believe or disbelieve, according to the character of the say- ing and his confidence in the medium. When manifesta- tions first appeared many readily believed; but as the gift of mediumship began to be prostituted to money-making purposes, and mediums began to make manifestations when the spirits failed to furnish them, the basis of belief and confidence was damaged so seriously that other and more tangible evidences were demanded, and they have been furnished to meet this demand, in various ways, up to the latest developments called materializations. We do not remember ever to have stated what be believe to be the philosophy of all that has occurred which is in- cluded under the head of modern Spiritualism; but that there is a philosophy underlying it, there can not be the slighest doubt; nor that this philosophy is a necessary part of the transitional development from the material to the spiritual condition in the race. All new developments in man are foreshadowed by some expression of a need, or to say the least, some want, and this need or want stimulates efforts to dis- cover the meaus for its satisfaction. In almost all cases the first means coming to furnish this satisfaction, are de- ficient or imperfect, sometimes being wholly useless, though often when so, illustrating the principle involved and point- ing the way to a genuine realization. Tlierefore We say, while none of the results of mediumship that have been manifested, have been; such as to warrant their being called the real coming; the real inauguration of the new dispensa- tion, proving the death of the old, still, all that has been or purported to have been spirit manifestations, may prop- erly be denominated .the prophecies of that which is to come. It may be possible even, that what are termed ma- terializations are necessary to prepare the conditions in which the real resurrection of spirits may be eflected; as well as to also prepare the minds of the people generally, for the real appearance. Had there been no such prepara- ation; had there been no idea instilled into the public mind that the resurrection of the dead is possible, aye is probable, and a spirit had been really resurrected, it would have been like to the coming of Christ to the Jews; he would not have been received. But now, without saying anything about the fraudulent character of materializations, the public is prepared to receive him who shall first appear, raised from the dead. Before this is probable, however, there will come “ signs and wonders that, if it were possible, shall deceive the very elect,” “ Then shall the coming of the Son of Man he.” The signs and wonders that will come near to deceiving the very elect have already raised the hopes of the world to such a degree that thousands are as confident of the reality of spirit existence, as if one had really returned from the dead and testified about it. When these signs and wonders shall be shown to be not the real coming; when their true cliaracter shall, be unmistakably demonstrated, what a wail of agony will then go up from the souls of those who now feel secure! May not such a wail; such a terrible agony; such an intense desire make the real coming ,pos_ sible, which might not have been had not the unreal gone before; had not the John the Baptist come ‘,‘ crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” The John the Baptist who preceded Christ was beheaded, but he never claimed that he was the Christ. So will the John the Baptist that now precedes the second coming be beheaded, but unlike the former, "there are claims set up that it is the real Christ. The fact that the beheading of the false forerunners is being done so rapidly, ,’- ‘v. ‘. .1‘, g__ ,_ ‘« ,.. L .6 April 15, 1.876. is pretty conclusive evidence that the reality is near, even ‘at our doors, and warns all to have their houses prepared, and their lamps burning, to welcome it; warns all to watch, for, of the day and hour when it shall come no man know- eth. And thus the falsities and errors of the past become the stepping-stones to the truths of the future; while the genuine quietly pursues its way, veering neither to the right or left, welcoming all the tests that are required to disarm skepticism, but shivering at all contact with that Which is not like itself; that is not pure and true. NO TEST CONDITIONS PERMITTED. It is utterly impossible for any thinking person to regard the recent movements in the domain of so-called 1naterial- ization mediumship, and not come to the conclusion that it is to be put into the crucible under such conditions as to preclude the possibility of trickery, and tested thoroughly. We have no hesitation in declaring our belief that when this is done, that its pretensions will be exploded; We say that absolute test conditions ,will be required, but they will will not be permitted by the mediums. There h.ave been no precautions yet applied that preclude the possibility of trickery. It may be true that there have been manifesta- tions produced for which the uninitiated could offer no explanation, and because none were possible to this class, the claim of reality seems to have some foundation. B11t who that has seen Houdin, the Fakir of Ava, the Chinese Jugglers, will dare to say that there is any com- parison between the inexplicability of their performances, and the bungling manifestations of modern materialization? Yet no body pretends that the unaccountable things of the former were performed by spirit power, and yet if they had claimed that they were they would have had a more plausible pretense than their more modern prototypes. Of course to persons who are unaccustomed to the wonderful feats that have been performed by slight—of—hand, in the light and before the concentrated gaze of an entire audience, without detection, the feats of mediumship seem unac- countable, and they are ready to admit its claim. The simple feat of the Chinese egg is more difficult to perform or to be conceived of, than are all the tricks that are ever performed by mediums, for it is quite impossible for a person to conceive how an egg which he may bring from his own henery can, before his very eyes, be filled with anything that he may desire, and the egg still present the same unbroken surface that it did before the trick was done; but it is done nevertheless ; or rather it appears to be done. Or who, after seeing the trick performed by the Fakir of Ava, of concealing a watch in an orange, would say that modern materializations , may notbe tricks? The conditions under which the watch trick is performed seem to preclude the possibility of human, agency, but it is a trick nevertheless. The Fakir desires the audience to designate some prominent citizen from those present; some one known to everybody. Of this person he asks the loan of his watch which the citizen himself walks up and hands to the Fakir. Next he asks the man of the watch to designate some one to go out and purchase a half dozen oranges, which when done, and as they are being brought to the stage, the Fakir commands the bearer of the oranges to stop half-way down the audience and re- quests the man of the watch to go to the orange-bearer and select an orange from the half dozen. This orange so selected is then opened before the whole audience by the man himself, and his watch is found inside of it. Now, here are conditions presented in which it seems absolutely impossible that the watch left in the hands of the operator can find itsway, by any human means, into the orange from which it is taken; but it has been done, nevertheless, and that, too, without spirit agency. We hold that it is fair to question the genuineness of the manifestations which any medium may produce, when such medium refuses to submit to any test conditions save those prescribed by herself. And the same may be said of the Terre Haute Committee, when they refuse to allow any conditions save such as are approved by them. Their offer made through the Bummer, viewed in the light of the facts presented in the following extracts from a communication from Mr. Cadwallader, is seen in its true light: “I did not intend. neither do I claim to have made in the least degree, any scientific expose of Mrs. Stewart’s fraudulent manifestations at her public seances; I claim that there are other avenues to knowledge, equally important and reliable, as what is generally termed scientific methods; and when opportunities are offered by managing committees for a full and free investigation of so—called manifestations by the inductive as well as by the deductive methods, then, indeed, is it superior to either one alone. But, remember, no test conditions are allowed by the trio during these materializing seances, not even a simple examination of Mrs. Stewart’s person; and in confirmation of this, I will now make a state- ment of facts—which is the first that I have made public in connection with Mrs. Stewart’s seances, although I am defi- antly branded by “one of the committee” as a falsifier; of what, I pray? can any one tell ?——and I defy Dr. Pence, Capt. Hook, Mr. Connor or the medium, Mrs. Stewart, to deny it or call me a falsifier. Truth is too precious to me to be re- creant to it, and I not only speak it, but live it to the best of my ability. On. Sunday evening, January 23d, a materializ— ing seance was held by Mrs. Stewart, at which there were about thirty persons present. The manifestations were of the usual character, very unsatisfactory and. as many ex- pressed it, “verythin .” At the close of the seance, just as the medium was about making her exit from the cabinet, Mr. Townsend, a very intelligent gentleman and a reporter of the press, arose from his seat, and after making the state—- ment that he was there in the capacity of a reporter, and in the interests of hundreds and thousands of people who de- sired a truthful account of his investigations, etc., he made a request of the committee that Mrs. Stewart, then and there, be thoroughly examined; and for that purpose he had brought with him a female friend. At this stage of the pro- ceedings, great. was the consternation of the trio, who were present, and after a few moment’s silence, the great mogul spoke. and said: “That the committee had no -objection, if the medium had none,” and so the whole matter was re— feared to her; whereupon Mrs. Pence stepped on to the platform, and held a short colloquy with the medium, which resulted in a positive refusal by her to submit to any examin- ation, alledging that shefidid not feel Well, but at the same time promising that the examination should take place the next evening. We all, of course, bowed assent, and so the matter rested. Mr. Townsend left the next day, assuring us that he was too old a bird to be caught with such chafif, after giving the medium 24 hours for preparation. Many will in— nocently ask, did she keep her promise? Not she, for during Monday afternoon, it was authoritatively announced by Dr. Pence that Mrs. Stewart would not, under any circumstances, submit to a personal examination again; so. ended that farce. The trio have it all their own way, and the audience have to grin and bear it, losing their time and money for the privi- lege of being humbugged. While at Terre Haute I was credibly informed that the majority of the most advanced and influential Spiritualists of that city had little or no confidence in the genuineness of Mrs. Stewart’s manifestations,‘ as a materializing medium, and did not affiliate with the management of her seances. Do not these we1l~informed and truth-loving people lend a hand to deception and become accessory to the guilt, by their negative acquiescence in these manifestations, instead of their positive public declarations of what they know of their unreliability and falsities? I Before leaving Terre Haute I received the testimony of a very estimable, moral and intelligent gentleman, who, in fact, was one of the nine signers of the Declaration, and withal an honest and earnest Spiritualist of several years standing, that he was present at Chicago on “that occasion” already spoken of by you and by “one of the Committee,” and was fully cognizant of all that transpired at that time, at which time she also made a solemn promise that she would never again be guilty of perpet rating such a fraud as long as she lived.” In this connection, although somewhat out of its proper connection, we will present a letter from Mr. and Mrs. Belden which will tell its own story; I N EWBURGH, Tenn., March 27, I876, Woodhull db Cldfltn: We ask pardon a thousand times for having delayed so long to reply in reference to the “Stewart expose” at Chicago. Should you need any testimony to corroborate your state- ments, as already published in the WEEKLY, we are ready and can testify to all that you have stated, as we were there and saw the cabinet lifted off frompher, and saw her with a portion of her paraphernalia in her lap endeavoring to conceal it, and saw another portion of it (false hair and jewelry) con- cealed beneath her hair which she wore, cut short in her neck, and heard her tell you her tale of sorrow as an excuse for her acting such a part, and her promises to abandon it. VVe are Spiritualists, and have seen what we believe to be genuine materializations through the Eddys and others, but we think Mrs. Stewart’s were the work of Diakka in the form. 0. H. BELDEN, . M. B. BELDEN. We do not hesitate to say that the people who attend Mrs. Stewar t’s seances are entitled to place her under their own conditions, provided that they are such as, while precluding the possibility of fraud, will not interfere with the operations of spirits. One thing in particular should be insisted upon. There should be provided for the me- dium an entire change of clothing, and the change should be made under the supervision of ladies selected from the audience, who should not take their eyes ofi‘ the medium until she is in the cabinet, her own clothes in the mean- time being urlder guard. This would prevent the Diakka from forcing her to conceal improper things upon her person as the Committee complained that they threatened to do. "The cabinet should be placed in different positions in the room so that no accomplice ca 11 enter; indeed it should be placed in the center of the room with the audience en- circling it; and then when a spirit should be bold enough to walk about the room, it should be asked to take a seat with the audience and remain with them, or else to demate- rialize before their eyes. We venture that even these simple precautions would, if insisted upon, be rejected by “the Committee” and by Mrs. Stewart, as conditions under which the spirits could not materialize, but they should be insisted upon, and she should be judged by them or others equally effective. So long as the Committee have the arrangement of every essential thing, spirits will continue to materialize, but when positive test conditions are im posed, our word for it, spirits will not be able to put in an appearance. I MRS. M. M. HARDY. , Elsewhere we present the full text of the statement from which we last week gleaned the most important points re- lating to the recent seances of Mrs. Hardy in this city. It has been published entire in the Bamter ofjLz'ght and the ,Spz'r~z'tucl Scientist, and is to appear in other Spiritualistic & GIsAF‘LIN’S _ A ‘ , 5 papers. The position of the Banner is that of a partisan. It denominates the statement made by people of unques- tionable veracity and honesty of purpose, as an “ad captandum vulgus” document prepared by “would~be ex- posers,” and unhesitatingly endorses Mrs. Hardy, by saying, in a despatch to these same “ad captandum vulgus” writers, that she “was completely vindicated here last night.” We shall reproduce from the Banner the statement of the seance which is the basis of this vindication. We trust that all these things will receive the careful and unprejudiced analysis of’ all the readers of the WEEKLY; that they will sit upon the evidence as judges rather than as advocates. It is in the interests of both Spiritualist and Spiritualismt that the truth about these manifestations slia-ll be demon- strated beyond a doubt, and it is to the interest of all honest mediumship that the fradulent should be exposed. We have been frank to state our belief about all these things, and our reasons for this belief, but we do not see why this belief should warrant the charge of “enmity to Spiritualism” that is made against us in some quarters. We should be enemies of Spiritualism if, having this be- lief, we should hesitate to declare it, and we trust that this view may prevail during the discussion that is now certain -to continue until an irrevocable decision is arrived at, about the manifestations that now stand impeached‘: Now, what are the decisive points in the “ ad captandunr vulgus” document? The following will readily appear to» the careful reader: 1. The refusal of Mrs. Hardy to allow the use of colored paraiiihe. Upon what principles of law can spirits produce the casts of hands, from white, while it is impossible to do the same from colored paraffine? Would it not be prepos- terous to assume that a neutral coloring matter used in pa- raifine should make the materialization of a hand from. which a cast could be made, impossible‘? 2. If Mrs. Hardy relied upon the spirits to produce the cast, why did she carry one to the seance of Wednesday I evening‘? and why, when that one was dropped in the street and broken, was it impossible for the spirits to pro- duce another, as it is claimed that they did usually? 3. If the paraifine moulds were fashioned from a material~« ized spirit hand from the paraifine in the pail,‘ how did it occur, upon two occasions, that those pieces of cotton-— wool were found to be adhering to them, that being the same substance in which Mrs. Hardy kept the moulds which she is known to have had in herposses sion? 4. Why did Mrs. Hardy deny having any moulds just be- fore leaving for the seance, and then how did it occur that, admitting the truth of her assertion, she could drop one in the street? and why, if the spirits produce the moulds, does Mrs. Hardy have them about her at all? 5. Why was it necessary to the success of the productions; that the seams of the bag in which the medium is envel- ,oped, should be within her reach; and when they were not ’ so, that no mould was produc ed ‘P . 6. If on Saturday" evening, the mould weighing two and a half ounces was manufactured from the paraifine in the. pail, how could it be possiblethat precisely the same,- amount of paraffine could be removed afterwards from the pail tha twas first put into it! '7. Why do mediums find it necessary to wear stockings . cut across tthe bottoms above the toes, so that they may ‘be turned ,back over the foot, when. they are to produce mate- - rialized toes? Admitting the statement made by these seven persons to be true, is it possible to conclude otherwise thanthat the moulds purporting to have been the product of materialized spirit hands, were really produced by the medium herself? And yet the Bcwmer, with all the nonchalance imagi nable, dismisses the issue by saying that, “they make no one strong point,” and the statement is published “ in deference; to the ladies and gentlemen who prepared it, rather than on account of any particular weight contained therein.” It would seem rather out of place for the Ba7t7t6'7‘ to pay‘ any deference to ladies and gentlemen who can so far forget. themselves as to write “ ad captandum vulgus ” documents.- I for publlcation against “ a completely vindicated medium."” In the present status of the case, Mrs. Hardy will be obliged to present rebutting testimony to secure her acquit-» tal. She should answer categorically and deny specifically each charge made by the,‘ signers to the statement of the New York seances, and explain the points fully, to which we have called attention. But beyond this even, she will ultimately be required to produce moulds of hands under positive test conditions, such for instance as these : A com» mittee of skeptics should aloe appointed, who should. pre~ pare a box which should be placed under the table, with colored paraffine in it, and securely locked without being seen by Mrs. Hardy. Nor should she be permitted "to ex-— amine the box or paraffine, but should take her seat; at that table, in complete ignorance of the construction of the box and the color of the paradise.‘ To still further guard against the possibility of collusion, she should be required to change her apparel under the supervision of proper par»- ties who sh-onld know absolutely that she does not take: anything whatever to the table with her, save what she: should be observed to put on. Then the table should he surroundeed by the party so that all sides might be under surveillance all the time. If, under these conditions, a. mould should be formed inside the box, it would have to be: conceded that it was not done by the medium. But we-. predict in advance, that Mrs. Hardy will submit to no such L I ‘ ‘ 6 I A wconhurlt a cLArr.Iu=s test conditions. We have only to refer to our remarks last week regarding Stephen H. Vincent, to show‘ that anything less than such conditions would not amount to a positive test, for it is easy to conceive tl1at Vincent could success- fully produce paraffine hands in his trunk under -more severe test conditions than any to which Mrs. Hardy has ever been subjected. We are informed that the signers to the former statement, stung intorretort by the tone and treatment of the Banner, have prepared a second statement that will contain several points, which out of deference to Mrs. Hardy, were omitted from the first. hand, said to be as perfect as any ever produced by Mrs. Hardy, wh.ich was obtained under the same conditions to which Mrs. Hardy was subjected in her‘ seances here, by, we believe, one of the signers of the statement, who has learned the trick by watching Mrs. Hardy. A LETTER FROM ANOTHER THE HARDY SEANCE PARTY. Editors Woodhull and Clafliws Weekly: As Iwas present, by the invitation of friends, at Mrs. Hardy’s seance of Saturday, March 18, referred to in the signed statement published in the Banner of Light and Spiritual Scientist, I am able to corroborate the truthfulness of the same, so far as that evening is concerned. By permission of Mrs. Hardy, I placed my right hand be- tween the folds of the table during the intervals of the supposedspirit hand materializations, and am able to testify that I was then struck from beneath the table three times by warm human flesh. As an old student of surgery in the Hotel Dieu and Ecole de Medicine, Paris, I know the difi“er- ence between the warmth of a human body long or recently dead, and that of a living person under various conditions. I can therefore positively assert that the flesh was that of one alive. I should add that a further request I made for the spirits (Z?) to grasp my hand was not acceded to, and my hostess informed me after the seance that Mrs. Hardy stated she did not desire my presence,[again in any future sittings. - I haveibefore me on my desk, at this moment, a paraffine cast, taken by natural means from the hand of a friend ;j it is in every way equal to those produced by Mrs. Hardy, who, if my opiniqn be worth anything, has an unanswerable case to 1 meet. The categorical facts in the signed statement must bemet by point blank denials, supported by evidence equally credible to that by which the charges are supported. N 0 _further manifestations are necessary to prove Mrs. Hardy’s genuineness, and no special pleading by her friends can "dispose of irrefragible proof. The signed document styledgby the Banner of Light of an ad captartdum /vulgus character, is a plain, unvarnished tale, marked by dignified simplicity, and can in no way be considered either clap—trap or an appeal. to popular prejudices. I am astonished that the editor of the Banner should have taken a position more suitable for a defendant’s attorney than that of a judge imi- partially summing up the cases of both plaintiff and de- fendant. - 3 ‘If the friends of Truth are to be answered by argument’ like this, then Spiritualism is not Worth much, and to attack the signers of this document is simply to attack Spiritualism in a most vulnerable place, for these ladies and gentlemen are known and esteemed not only as recognized Spiritual- ists, but as of elevated social position, and what is more, of honesty and discretion. It is also quite as unnecessary to sneer down my friend, Professor Van Der Weyde, a scientist and a gentleman, as Mrs. Hardy’s husband isf;per— mitted to: in the Banner of Light. He may be a Materialist and a skeptic, but he has at ieast a right to give his honest convictions without being insulted. If the editors of the Banner‘ had ‘heard the remarks of this gentleman (a brother editor) in the N. Y. Liberal Club last Friday night in refer- ance to this Hardy exposure, and his belief in the sincerity of Spiritualists whom he nevertheless considered mistaken, I am confident he would never have allowed the publication of that portion of Mrs. Hardy’s husband’s letter in reference . to the Professor; or, if he had seen the poignant sorrow which both Mr. Thos. K. Austin and myself expressed when speaking on the same occasion about this miserable business, I am certain he would never have indulged in the reflections which he has deemed it necessary to make on persons seek- ing the truth and endeavoring to do their duty. Yours faithfully, CHARLES SOTHERAN. NEW YORK, April 3, I876. .~——————~o-o<>———————— SPECIAL ! SPECIAL ! ! SPECIAL ! l I ""’”“‘?““‘ We wish our friends to give their immediate attention to the bills that will be found in what we call, the “West ” and the “North” Mail, which include the States of New York, Michigan and the West. OUR friends who have written letters that require answers, will please be patient. The disability of the Managing Edi- tor has been such as to prevent him from attending to any, save the absolutely necessary office business. We would also remind our correspondents, in View of the great amount of correspondence that is accumulating in our drawers, that the VVEEKLY is only an eight— page paper Which. requires gpzfilly fla few short articles to fill. Every week we receive snore than matter enough to make three papers. We hope soon to return to our original size, and shall probably have something to say about it in our next number. L_____.>a4@+-<——— ‘ WE take special pleasure in calling attentionto Dr. Philip .5. Koonz, No 1 Great Jones st., city. Unquestionably Dr. V,- ln. is one of the most accomplished dentists in the world. Vile have seen specimens of his work done at twenty—four hours’ notice, which for beauty of finish and every other We have also seen a paraffine mould of a A I .T:Cl’$.‘ requirement cannot be ‘excelled. Besides, his prices are in accordance with the times. Work for which many dentists charge from thirty to fifty, he performs for from fifteen to twenty-five dollars. His rooms are elegantly fitted up and centrally located, and easily accessible to visitors to the city. Any of our friends who need dental work will find Dr. K. athorough gentleman and that he will furnish the very best. ALA 4 V T’ ‘ LIFE-SIZE LITHOGRAPH. We are now prepared to fill all orders for life-size litho- graphs of Victoria C. VVoodhull, from the lithographic establishment of Armstrong & 00., 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- Chic 0 the WEEKLY, who has devoted her life wholly to the inauguration of a new dispensation on earth, in which u:..‘i.ser;7, 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 éorders will be filled.——[MANAGING EDITOR]. 1 I .__.;g 4 V wF*V ' THE GARDEN or 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. 411,.‘ V wr‘ SPIRITUALISM IN JAPAN. From the Liverpool Daily Courier. Mesmerists and mediums may hide jtheir diminished heads. There are two old women in Japan who have the reputation of doing far more than any electro-biologist has attempted. Near the temple Eikon, called the demon Baba, dwells an old lady who casts out evil spirits from suffering people and cures them of all their complaints. When fever is epidemic she is an important personage, and has more work than she can ac- complish imposed upon her. Another old woman, rejoicing in the name of Oshakakababa, is a -centenarian and very wrinkled. This lady, when she condescends to give her aid. swells out to an enormous size. She says Shaka has entered her stomach, and makes use of her mouth. Shaka a veritable medium, answers all manner or questions, tells the origin and cure of sickness, and relates .,the doings of the absent and the dead. It is said that she is visited by all ranks of people of both sexes and all ages. “WHO ART THOU THAT JUDGEST ?”—-Who can judge men righteously, seeing how they differ widely from one another‘! Who can tell where to snap the line of real merit as regards ,moral agents so unlike in their spiritual equipment? Is temperance any virtue to him who has an actual distaste for liquor? Is placidness of speech a test of excellence to one who was born meek and gentle. and whose training educated him into Quaker-like mildness of address? Is the man who was never thrown, because he was never pressed by a devil- ish passion into a corner and had to wrestle for his life, to be crowned; while he whose whole llfe has been but a long wrestling match with Satan, and who has been on the ground half the time, is to go unwreathed? What human eye and finger can adjust the scale to accommodate such dissimilar conditions? Who can unravel this tangle of preceding causes and thread out the degree of virtue and of guilt which belongs to each of two men who are in their nature and sur- roundings so utterly unlike? Jesus was right when he taught his disciples not to attempt to judge men. It is a task to which men are not equal. It must be left to"; Him who alone knows how to be just. “Who art thou that judgeth another man’s servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth.”—- The Golden Rule. ' THE rhymer who wrote the line, “Dearer to me is the turf- tossed beach,” probably had in his mind the recollection of his bill at some sea»-side hotel. UP-HILL business——Sitting on a wheelbarrow and trying to wheel yourself to glory. AN Iowa man went into his cow stable the other day and by mistake mixed her up a. nice warm mash in a box full of sawdust, instead of bran. The cow, merely supposing that hard times had come and they were all going to economize, meekly ate her supper, and that man never discovered his mistake until the next morning, when he’ milked that cow and she let down a half a gallon of turpentine, a quart of shoe pegs. and it bundle of lath. IN relation to American marriage laws, the Sunday Courier says: “In the course of a journey across the continent, from New York to San Francisco, the same man and the same woman may, as the locomotive rushes them through State after State, be living a life of alternate marriage and concu- binage half a dozen times over.” rwnnntr. April 15, 1876. A SHOCKING CRIME.-—A Special to the Boston Herald da- ted March 22, says: On Sunday morning last four young lads, all about seventeen years old, forcibly entered a dwelling house in Sandwich, occupied only by a widow lady. and out- raged her, one after the other. 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THE WORLD’S Sixteen Crucified Saviors" 7 on, CHRIS] /A NI’./’Y BEFORE CHRIST CONTAINING P New, Startling and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which disclose the Oriental Origin of all the Doctrines, Principles, Prccepts and Miracles of the CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furnishing a Key for unlocking many of its Sacred Mysteries, besides comprising the History of Sixteen Oriental Grucifieol-Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “The Biography of Satan ” and “The Bible of Bibles ” (cmnpristng 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. C 0 N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; Cllntroduction; Address to the e 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 the Gods. _ _ Chap. 5.—Virgin Mothers and Virgm-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. _ Chap. 10.—The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birth. Chap. 11.—-Chrlst’s Genealogy." Chap. 12.—The Woi-ld’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tiyiii in Infancy. _ _ _ . Chap. 13.——The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of Di- vinit . Chap. l:i.—The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.—-The Saviors are real Personages. Chap. 16.——Sixtcen Saviors Crucified. Chap. i"(.——The Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cr1ici— fixion. Chap. 18.~Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.~—Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.——Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- s. Chap. 21.——The Atonement: its Oriental or Hcathe Ori ‘ii. 4 Cha.p.gl22.——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. E27.——’l‘he Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen ‘ Ori in. Chap.g28.~Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. 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