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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 20 (April 15, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2119
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-04-15
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: 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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Terms $1.’/5‘per year, postpaidl Sample copies and terms to agents sent free on appcation, Address Indianapolis Sum. Company. Indianapolis, Ind. =ir-=" THE Spiritualists of Rockford have lately organized (for lectures, etc., each Sunday) onafree platform. our cause 899515 ‘F0 be in 3- VBTY P1‘08P61'0us condition. Our lectures are attended 13? crowds of the most intelligent and thinking P301319 in the City, and 01.11‘ last Convention "was the best oun- ' Society has had in Northern Illinois since it was organined,, Not one word was uttered during the whole Convention, against a free platfo1'm. They nearlyall admit, shag the, question of most interest to humanity is the Social Questiona. Lecturers desiring engagements can address either (loL. E 0 SMITH, A. H. Frsnnn, or FRED. H. Bannann, the Committee appointed to provide speakers for next six months. locked up in New York city for stealing four cents worth of , ‘_ <,<.~\,.;_.\,. _.._m.__....l ._..__. 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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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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1876-04-15_11_20
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-04-15_11_20
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 21 (April 22, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2120
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-04-22
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: is . o {.4 ‘I PROGRESS: FFREE i’I:‘.I.—IOMUGI-ITVI UNCERAMMELED LI“V‘ES,.! BREAKING .'rie1EL WAY iron FUTURE G-ENERATIONS. ~ Vol. XI.-—No. 21.-—who1e N5. 281.. The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the’ mg/stery of God shall be ﬁnisheol.—St. John the Divine. W/tereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searehable riches of Christ, and the mystery. which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in Gocl.——-Paul. r ’ . __._____._,.,___;__ ENLIGI-ITENEDI IN DIVIDUALITY. GALVESTON, Texas, Feb. 25, 1876. Dear W eekly: As I journey over the country from town to town, and take notes, here a fact and there a fact. all tend- ing to show the corrupting inﬂuence of the age, the weakness and incapacity of human laws to meet the needs of human- ity, and above all, the supineness of human nature, its prone- ness to take the world as it goes; as 1 note the indifference of victims and the assumptions of might over right, I think how few.ar...
Show moreis . o {.4 ‘I PROGRESS: FFREE i’I:‘.I.—IOMUGI-ITVI UNCERAMMELED LI“V‘ES,.! BREAKING .'rie1EL WAY iron FUTURE G-ENERATIONS. ~ Vol. XI.-—No. 21.-—who1e N5. 281.. The truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the’ mg/stery of God shall be ﬁnisheol.—St. John the Divine. W/tereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searehable riches of Christ, and the mystery. which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in Gocl.——-Paul. r ’ . __._____._,.,___;__ ENLIGI-ITENEDI IN DIVIDUALITY. GALVESTON, Texas, Feb. 25, 1876. Dear W eekly: As I journey over the country from town to town, and take notes, here a fact and there a fact. all tend- ing to show the corrupting inﬂuence of the age, the weakness and incapacity of human laws to meet the needs of human- ity, and above all, the supineness of human nature, its prone- ness to take the world as it goes; as 1 note the indifference of victims and the assumptions of might over right, I think how few.are worthy of liberty. A Those who have caught the fascination of the sound of the word Freedom, for the lack of the balance-wheel of good judgment, or ‘rather because its cogs are out of gear, fly off into rank fanaticism and commence winding ram’s horns around Jericho, to the disgust of ears attuned to the bar- mony of sweeter sounds;'while those in Whose harmonious composition freedom is safe from perversion, do notiseem to comprehend the strength there is in union. Consequently, the ranks are scattered and the courageous pickets in immi- nent danger of the respectably entrenched foe. Self-control is evidently the ﬁrst requisite for individual liberty. Howimany,would stand the test? How many are even conscious of the necessity for self-control? How many confound self-control with self-immolation, to which it bears no more resemblance than the high soaring eagle to the scare-crow. ’ ' " Even those worthy of freedom, through the harmonization of their natures, are so hemmed in and hedged about by cir- cumstance and precedent, that to set themselves free is a task too great for their individual eﬁort. Thedogmatist 1n morals, or laws that pass for morals, sets it down as an indis- putable fact that self-control is in the power of all; that we are absolutely free agents to do right or wrong, when it is obvious to the thoughtful mind that the dogmatist himself is the direct refutation of his emphatically expounded fact (i’). As this world goes, self-control often involves the control of others in whom the temporal law has vested rights,(?), who possess, as it were, a power of attorney over the _lndividual will. This must strike the logical mind as a relative truth though an absolute falsehood insulting to personal rights. There is much to be said in favor of natural affections,’ yet they are but a snare to the feet of the unwary when wisdom ‘ ‘andixuildecstanding are lacking. in the,indiviclual who is in their bondage. , _For instance, the mother k’ills'l1er. child .by over indulgence throughigher undisciplin?ed;.hu\man" love which lacksthe sure in‘stinct~of the brute because shewas endowed with a sovereign reason which the f_orc‘e'ofi cir- cumstanceland educated indifference . have blunted into in- activity. Yet she must needs pay‘ thelpenalty of her self- I indulgence, and not onlyshe, but her-child whom she de- prives of the self-controllin g power derived from d_isci'pline in childhood. ‘ ' . f . j _ I We Again, for in'stance——and_ their name is legion--wives, throughthe strength ofjaiselﬁsh aifection, quite:na’_tural,; but totally undisciplined and unreasonable, are daily dethroning . their selfhoou, assassinating their womanhood, yielding the most sacred’ individual rights in the bondage, of custom,‘ hoary with age andrespectability as it is old in iniquity and death—dealing disease. Yet precedent has determined that such a course of s'elf-immolation (not self-sacriﬁce) is I the course best calculated to win the applauseof men and an im- _ mortal crown hereafter. The falsehood. and ignorancelthat induce the Hindoo,widowtor.immolateiherself on_the'funeral pyre of her husband is " but aphase of. the same piernicious‘ principle :th’at causes»ch_ristia~w»ive to submit themselves unto their husbands till the last yvestige , of "their divine self- ‘hood is prostituted unto lust.‘ But the more a womaniqsesli in such yielding of individual sovereignty, the“s‘urer is she of the testimony on her tombstone th‘at”'she was a. faithful wife and exemplary christian. I S A ‘ ’ Yet law is law; not that made by fallible men, but the im- Nnwgvonx, APRIL. 22,1875. mutable law that heeds not the manner of its breaking, but visits the same judgment upon those who break it in utter ignorance for “Christ's sake,” and those who break it in . sheer wilfulness, knowing the inevitable consequences. And what a penalty the world is paying for its ages of miscon- ceived duty, sacriﬁce of its birthright for self, not of self! by which I mean the yielding of individual rights,‘ based in im- -mutable law which we cannot break and retain our birthright —self-control. There is no legitimate demand of. any soul which involves the immolation of any other soul. All such demand is based in utter selﬁshness, and can but foster selﬁshness at the ex- pense of life and liberty. This is a nice point in morals, and its misconception has proved a stumbling block to the human race: for with all our boasting, humanity is in a bad state. How can I illustrate my point, to make it as clear to others as it is to me? It occurs to me that the case of Mattie Stricl; land’ will serve my purpose. Now, the thought less and the bigoted and the illogical re- gard Mattie Strickland as -the incarnation of disobedient selﬁshness, never recognizing her fealty to her selfhood through her comprehension ‘of the law of individual sov- ereignty. It is held that she has wantonly broken her pa- rents’ hearts—self—love is amerciless heart breaker—merely to indulge her own wicked desires. Now, in my opinion she has done no such thing, If she had not comprehended the law of her being, if she had merely been tempted of her de- sires, though the basis of the law were in them, without her intelligence recognizing their uses, and her aspirations sanc- tifying them, she might come under the’ condemnation of a selﬁshness born of ignorance, in which all the world is wal- lowing to-day, and for the controlling of which all our stupid laws are made ; which, however, through suppression of an evil, and not its eradication, only serve to augment that which they seek to assauge; laws which hold in bondage spirits awak- ened to the glad song of freedom upon the mountains as well as the insensate dolt who yet slumbers after the satiety of self. Call this sophistry—-those who fail to comprehend it—— but there are many, nevertheless, to whom it will come as fundamental truth. Mattie Strickland had but to look around upon perverted, not to say debauched, manhoodgand womanhood, to ask her- self its cause. Her free soul answered well, when it in- formed her that prostitution of selfhood is the cause; and over all else. Sh'e recognised her right to herself and over herself, and repudiated theinterference of any other soul. She has set an example worthy the emulation of all women whose perverted mission it is to breed sinners under present rule. \._ . ,. .,- . , Mattie Strickland, in her fealty to her own womanhood, has deﬁed the ﬂaming sword of modern society to bar her entrance into life. She is nearer salvation than those of her sex who weep with her parentsﬁlover her fall ('2), and yet yield their free will daily to legalized lust. I The world needs more such examples of rare courage; examples of that sort of unselﬁshness which will keep the reinover itself though itawadeknee deep through mheislaughtered selﬁshness of all its kindred; which will work out its own salvation, when it holds dear. Thus it is that Christ came torbring not peace but a sword. - ' » \ How well I estimate‘ the pangs her course has cost Mattie Strickland! It costs "the high s"‘oul moreto be true to itself than to weakly~yield‘itself for thevmisconcfeived comfort of those who are so steeped in selﬁshnessness as to ﬁnd joy in another’s sacriﬁced. For instance :. We -will say that awife-l— and we need -not suppose a case‘, there are cases enough in po‘int—a wife yields her will to the demand of her husband which grows by what'- it feeds upon, ﬁrst because she loves him so selﬁshly she has not the sublime self-control to deny ‘him an indulgence more detrimental to the welfare of both than“ ignorance can conceive‘, but which enlightenment is beginning" to sense the-enormity of. The wife who yields her selfhood is never conipeiis-ated; such as-gases self does not deserve compe'nsati6n,§though it be under a devotional sense of "obligation to ‘the law; for it insiilts the higher law. The woman’s selﬁshness isioften on a par with that of her husb'and’s; he demands of his'1,us't, "she yields of her self-l“6_ve", when she should care‘ be strong and*unselﬁsh'in‘ hehifealtyi to her womanho“od whosevdefnand she swore allegiance to the demands of her own womanhood’ sees the way, though it have to wound the self—love of all it" , I PRICE TEN CENTS. i J’ is more sacred than any other, and of which selfhood alone can be cognizant,’ and the individual will is solearbiter. But did the wife dare be true to herself in personal sov- ereignty, and refuse her husband his “ vested rights ” under the statute, the idiotic law would grant him a divorce, if he shouldavail himself of it, and if not, her life would be a martyrdom which, if she could endure forthe sake of her sacred obligations to herself, think youher struggle would not cost‘ her tenfold what a weak yielding to the “ respecta- bility' and majesty of the law” would cost? Mattie Strickland could’ have purchased temporary peace by yielding to the self—love of her parents and the respectable customs of society which could immolate another victim upon its altars with the usual pomp and ceremony, But she rather choe to forsake father and mother and {assume social ostracism in her allegiance to herself. Ten to one the boil- ing waters of worldliness do not overwhelm her, but the spirit of her grand action hath eternallife. I _Am I asked if. T have no pity for her. poor parents? Yes, pity for their bondage to self which blinds them to the merit of their daughter’s act. Pearls have been cast before swine before, and the swine have turned to rend, though I never heard of one possessed of Isuﬁicient cunning to advertise its in sensibility in a newspaper. Yet one must e’en view all things from the line of one’s vision. Some drink in the glories of the sunrise fromiﬁthe ‘mountains, while the dwellers in the valley are yet in slum- her. Over and above all, there is compensation. Mattie Strickland ﬁnds hers in the exaltation of a reciprocal pas- sion of love, the only unprostituted relation, and the offspring ofwhich she is not likely to murder in embryo; her open course has "exempted her from that sin. Her parents, no doubt, ﬁnd their compensation in the ‘turbid tide of a vulgar public sympathy which they publicly and vulgarly expressed the need of. . I ‘Well, it don’t matter, so we all are compensated, if one prefers the delicate wine in small quantities and in discreet season, "and another chooseto iswill down a quart of bitter beer three times a’day or oftener. But your beer drinker should not attempt to force his mess upon the more reﬁned — sense of the connoissieur of rare wine. Aind over and above all is Law which we cannot break for nothing.“ For I, the Lord thy’God, am a jealous God, visit- ing the sins of the parents uponthe‘ children! Thou shalt have no other gods before me! §God is Law, and Law is love! The law well kept will insure happiness to the children of men‘. Who so keepeth the law is wise, and his seed shall ﬂourish as ‘a cedar of Lebanon or a rose of Sharon. But wrorldl‘y‘s‘ucc’es's is not a cedar of Lebanon or a rose of Sharon. It‘ is a Upas tree that dropspoison into all the sweet springs . of simple, natural holiness. I The sweetest, purest lives, are not those about whichﬁcluster the ﬂaunting; bristling cactus- blooms of modern respectability, but those which are led by the spirit through green pastures and beside still waters. Though ostracised of mammon, and anathematised by its god I would prefer to inhale the pure sweetness of Mattie Strick- ‘-land’s life to holding the position of the most respectable dame who ever won her. claim to worldly distinction by a trick of custom to-cloak the outraged law. HELEN NASH. THE “INTERNATIONAL”. How comes it that the International Workingmen’s Asso- ciation which a few years ago presented so imposing a front, ﬁlling with uneasiness every crowned head in Europe, in- spiring with cowardly terror the base plutocratic herds that crowded around their several thrones. lies now prostrate, shattered and impotent? That. grand association, animated by so noble aims, breathing forth sympathies so sublime, that most characteristic of all the manifestations ever. pre- sented in purely practical life by the genius of christianity, --where is it now? Wherefore this strange paralysis? Here and now. in the city of New. York, amidst all the actual misery and frightful destitution, where its presence in all its POWBI‘ is more urgently needed than at any other time or place befgre, even in Paris on the 18th March, 1871-——ann iver- V 8?o1‘.‘7 f01' 311 biII16.S&cred!.——WhY do we see or hear no vestige or I sign of it? . . Answer you leaders——Banks, Ward, Elliott, Madox and the rest !—-you who were going to make a revolution with bullets ' './when.bal-lots failed! For how much worse failure, more complete, more ignominiousymust youneeds wait? The people are dying for want_of bread; the ballot gives you a ‘Campbell in place of a Porter! woonlnntt an oIT.srL1N's wnnxnr. The true answer is simple enough. The; International Workingmen’s Association lies to-day everywhere prostrate because it fell under the guidance of leaders who succeeded in making it turn a deaf ear to the wise counsels which had so large a share in its Original organization;.; succeeded, in fact ﬁnally, in tyin-g up its fate with that of mad schemes of ' madder dreamers. Demagogues like_ Karl Marx andff the other pure disorganizers it is’ who have defeated that grand international movement that ten years ago promised so I much; not the armies, not the I police, not the prisons of the combined kings, priests and plutocrats! Not even the bloody plains of Satory. ’ ’ » ' Upon a sound line of policy the working classes, being in the immense majority, must needs be invincible. ‘ They can be defeated and still further oppressed only by the dissemin- ation among tnemselves of falsities and chimeras. These are. the real dynamite exploders! They can be safely warranted to sink the tightest vessel ever launched! That stupid false-I hood, for example, which confounds together two things so vastly diﬁerent as the abominable parasitism that is eating out the heart of our modern society, and a social function so utterly indispensable as the accumulation of capital. This alone would have suﬁiced to wreck the noble ship of inter— ' nationalism even if all the rest of its planks had not been contributed by passionate invention instead of by calm ob- servation of facts. There is a truth underlying each one of those, planks, no doubt, as happens with all other human deldsions. and even with human vices; but that in nowise‘ hinders the errors being fatal. It only demands, as the true mode of criticism, the elimination of the underlying truth from the superposed falsehood. the latter being usually fatal in about even proportion with its seeming simplicity and superﬁcial truth-likeness. Nothing certainly can look more just and true on the face of the matter than the assertion that the workman is entitled I to the whole produce of his labor. Nor anything more easy to see, as soon as one begins to study the teachings of social science, withamind desirous of learning in spite of all pre- conceived notions, than that such an assertion amounts to less than nothing in view of the grand problem of this age, the problem of radical justice to the working class. A man does not want the produce of his own labor; he no, more wants the produce of his own labor than he wants land. What he wants on the contrary is the produce of other men's labor. -But he could not have it if he did want it, because in fact there is no such thing. A man for instancemakes a pair of shoes, or rather he is said to make them; but are the shoes the product of his labor? Not by any means; he did not create the shoes; he only superadded -certain labor to pre—existing materials, rendering those materials thereby more adapted to human use than they were before. The man that tanned the leather, the man that butchered the ox, the man that fattened the ox, the man that bred and raised it. the man that made the nails, the man that smelted from the ore the iron from which the nails were made, the man that drew the ore from the bowels of the earth, aye, the man that thousands, of centuries ago ﬁrst began to tame animals a little wilder than .was then man himself, and he who ﬁrst artiﬁcially producing ﬁre gave to man, not merely the secret of ‘forcing from rude and useless ores the priceless metals, but also a power that should some day enable him to dethrone the gods themselves,——these, all these, had directly or indirectly co-operat ed in making that one pair of shoes. And besides, even if the shoes were the product of‘ the labor of the man who made ‘them, he does not want them. He wants anything and everything except shoes; but shoes he has no use for at all. That is to say. he has already all that he wants and more. He has made himself all the shoes he can wear for a long time to come, and has done the same for his wife and all his children. So now there is not a thing under heaven but he wants a great deal more than be A wants shoes. The things he wants, too, and wants imme- diately, and must have, and have this very day or die, are products of days long gone by; products of toil during long sweltering days under the broiling sun of a year ago last summer, and of many, many day, hot and cold, since: sow- ing wheat, and reaping wheat, and husking wheat and stor- ing wheat—-not to speak of the indirect but none the less in- dispensable service of the building of the vast granaries years and years before——-and grinding wheat, andwpacking ﬂour into barrels, and bringing a barrel of it to the shoemaker’s door ;-—all this, and a thousand services more of the same kind, are what the shoemaker wants, aye, and must have, and not by any means whatsoever the product of his own labor. The workman of to-day is in fact subsisting, and must by the very nature of things continue" to subsist, so long at all _ events as he remains a human being, properly so called, and does not return to the state of his Chimpanzee ancestors in the forest, upon the products of labor long ago performed by great numbers of persons, mostly with no consciousness of any mutualrelations between them, and products, moreover, stored up and ‘taken care of tillthe‘ moment that he wants them, brought to him, too, at or In anticipation of that mo- ment, from all points of the compass, for varying and some- times for very long distances. It is in the very nature. of ‘things, therefore, that the produce of his own labor will have to be in its own turn stored up and taken care of and kept ready for the use of the several citizens who may in their turn again have need of it. The facts of the case. re- maining indeed none the less immutably facts because a great many of the workers in this vast, spontaneouly devel- oped and continuous co-operation are too dull and Dar. row-minded, or too much preoccupied each one with his own separate and personal interests, to care anything at all about it, or to be in the least degree ‘conscious of its existence, nor indeed werelany number of them too stupid i to perceive it when thus pointed out. If a man will persist in butting his head against a two-foot-thick stone wall his ‘head may quite likely be hurt. The stonewall can stand it if he can. W . I . , That which the workman really does need, which we all need most urgently.-all honest citizens, that is-—..-that which ” the workmen might well unite in demanding, and most proh- .«// ably would unite in demanding, were only envious and ambi- tious, demagogues to leave of diverting-their attention from" social products, into the production of which hisown labor and the labor of all other honest citizens enter directly or in- directly, should be distributed among those only who in one. shape or another contribute to the supply of the so vastly varyingfnoeds of the body politic, and that none of it should be squandered upon those who are living a life essentially parasitic. For any human being to be suffered to devour the products of the social‘_.co-operation-—and all really humanin- dustry is of sheer necessity, as we have just seen, a vast and continuous social cjo-operation-without yielding in return any useful gjservice to humanity. is unquestionably is foul; wrong donewto every honest -worker... Sofar as “property,” or any other institution, really does tend to this result, it is assuredly a “robbery.” That the moral theories actually; prevailing among us, do, however, unhapplly, encourage and protect, instead of justly reprehending this ‘robbery, is only too manifestly true. Wherefore, by-the-bye, is it plain enough that a bodyof men who would teach a higher, purer, nobler morality, audenforce the same upon the social con- cience by all the means available to such an end, by what- ever names such means, mayhave heretofore been known among men, would be rendering to society, and especially to the honest toilers, 3-‘ service incomparably greater, more ur- gently needed, at this day" especially, and always, in fact, continuously, to be "more urgently needed, than that of any shoemaker, or wheat-grower, or ox-breeder, or“ delver for ‘iron ore, or other laborerwhomsoever within the sphere properly to be calleaftheflndustrial. Rsmsnouu. DEATH. NOT DIVIDE US. 1_$r__ w. s. n. In my heart of ,hearts lies hidden A secret, sacred drawer, Where my lifels most precious jewels Its sweetest mcmoricsare. I Here are pearls«..of childhood’s laughter, Here are diamonds of sighs, Which came from hearts as pure and true As the people in the skies. Here are bars of golden music, Snatched iromson-ow’s saddest hymn, And priceless gems of glittering tears Time can never, never dim. Here wreaths of warming welcome smile Which adorned the college prize; Here are sparks which made the love-light Bless and cheer the sad good-bycs; ’ Here are rubies from the wine-cup, Where the lips gave but the click Of telegraph which spoke from hearts That were throbbing warm and quick; Here are drops of holy water, Which were once my mother’s tears, Still perfumed by her hallowiug love And her consecrating prayers. And in this drawer an inner drawer Far more sacred yet than all, Whereimy life is ever lingering, Waiting, waiting for its call. Here are smiles made up of God’s smiles, Light of pure and holy love; Here are sighs and tears to teach me That she was not from above. Here is trust andtruth and beauty— Mulsic, mirth and gentle grace; Every feature speaks the goodness That irradiates her face. And her form is lithe and lamb-like; Rarest gifts by God were given—- Human love and holy living- She clings to man and climbs to Heaven. Angels took her up one morning From my clinging arms to God, And my heart was racked with anguish, Broken, broken by the rod. But I heard within this drawer, Like the voice of Sinner-’s friend, " Love, your own is with you always, Always, even to the end.” And I looked and saw her smiling, And I listened to her prayer. “ Patience, darling! wait a. little; Where I am thou shalt be there.” God, whose care is e’er beside us, Tells me “Death shall not divide us.” - I I éﬂvening lllail. ‘la, "E PLURIBUS UNUM.” BY wsnuuu onssn. As our light literature is ﬁlled with fictitious stories of happy marriages, we should have occasionally one of the genuine cases of real life from the holy institution. “In one of the semi- christian semi—barbaro‘us towns on thewest side lion is not yet exterminated, there lives an old farmer now about sixty, with no education, but rich for a country farmer, being worth forty or ﬁfty thousand dollars. He owns a wife near his age, to whom he was legally married; when they were young. She is worth nothing, never had any'prof- perty nor money,never owned even the clothes on her scarred body, which bears the marks of many a blow received from theman who owns it. .She has borne him ﬁfteen children. fourteen of whom are raised to an age of self-support, and, as fast as they are old enough, are forced to do it. One is a‘ cripple, with a good brain, but like the rest, theﬂlfather refuses to board-this boy and let him go to school and get an education to support himself by. . The old man, thinks educa- main object of,life,.lr,e deems time wasted in education,_.. ‘-He age in life, and th'ey:both« tell at it, making it no secret, until. it is the common knowledge of the whole" neighborhood. People often ask her why she does not leave him, and she. says if she should he would soon marry another and younger wife, as his property would secure one, and then another realities to their insane and immoral chimeras, is" that all the? i of the Misissippi, where slavery once ﬂourished'1andvrebei—- tion useless, as he got property without it. and as that is the A quarrels withhis ?wife and abuses and even beats heiiaii -.t,1':,u. I crop of children Wcillgl oomgcbig, and hers, tor whom she, April 22, l{’T6. hasiworked all her life, would be robbed of all their and her share in the property, for she knows him so well she is sure he would do this, as he has no natural regard for his children, or for her.’ This man——worse than a brute--is a husband and afather. This poor slave woman is a wife and mother,.and - the sacred property of her husband, made 0 by law and re- ligion, and held by both in slavery after the black slaves are free. Therebis no emancipation for her but death, and that would have relieved her long ago but for her maternal love which binds her to the interests of her children in_spite of the misery she endures. Let no one suppose this is a solitary case raked up from a wide extent of country, for every neighborhood has cases in some respects resembling, thisfaud going to show that it is time our marriage laws were abolished and a substitution of equality in partnership for man and woman to take the place. Justice requires that every wife should not only control her own person, but have it protected by law, and that she should control and own half the property and the children, but our holy system is too sacred to allow of justice or to be tampered with by unholy legislation. Let the women vote and then see if they will protect their own sex. BANGOR, Van Buren C0,, Mich, Feb. 22, 1876. The New Departure has ﬁlled us both with new life and light. In less than four months my husband wholly over- came his previous desire to hold me in bondage, and became to me a new man. When he unloosed the shackles that bound me, and I saw that I was indeed free, then the repul- sion that had existed iu my heart faded away, and I gravi- tated back to him, and now we are happy in each other’s love, and are trying to live a pure life ; to live the best we know how, and to develop to the possibility of eternal life in the body together. My weaknesses are almost gone and my men- strual ﬂow has decreased one half.| We both feel that it is not too much to say that you have been a saviour to us; that we were caught like brands from the burning ﬂames. When the ‘tie of love was very near severed, thou camest to our rescue. Accept our best wishes and prayers for your prosperity and health. Ever yours for the truth. ALVIRA 85 DENNIS Cnmnsrnn. RECONSTRUCTION. BY s. 'r. FOWLER. LsNoUAen—contz'nued. The ancients watched the sun, moon and stars and record- ed their apparent movements, for signs of the times and sea—‘ sons, and thus they learned that day and night with the varied seasons of the year were dependent on the sun’s posi- tion iu its journeyings among the stars; also that certain apparent positions of the stars indicated the progres of the sun’s journey and of the approaching seasons. From these discoveries it became apparent that the fruit- fulness of the earth was dependent on the sun’s inﬂuences; and being familiar with genderology on their own plane, they inferred that the sun and ‘earth were as father and mother, and that all life on the earth depended on the im~ pregnatiug inﬂuences of the father sun. This led to the worship of the sun as the great ﬁrst pro- genitor of all good, and to fearing him as the progenitor of all evil. As they saw no apparent copulation between the ‘sun and earth they judged that impregnation was accom- plished by the breath, spirit, inﬂatus or holy ghost that pro- ceeded from the sun to the earth. . Sun worship is the worship of generative power, and so are all worships of every description. Sex worship i only the beginning or outside of gendcric worship. All the sym bols of sun worship have been derived from astronomical records. These symbols became the names of-the various gods or god ideas, and these names have become the basis of language. T ' i From this it results that a complete diagram of the heavens becomes a complete monogram of the alphabet. From this monogram each family or nation selected letters as the representatives of the particular idea of godliness that they chose to worship, and thee in monogramic form he- came their national emblem. ‘ ~ From this it becomes. evident that a true monogram of th alphabet is akey to the signiﬁcance of letters, words, god’ names and all symbols of worship, withall its myths, par- ables, riddles and allegories. ' ‘ i _ 4%’ /- . /...«-I»-.‘...'...-sw"9~"‘ "Thepccntre or the monogram represents the earth; the squares represent thchavens, houses, domislles or homes» i i ‘x . 1 l . ._,_,‘.:.(,3;‘:-1»-.32“...-1.c_n. -———-"———=« »«-— ~ .April'22, I8’? 6. .«-an .r-uJ1,l1l')<" w.oo.n.HU»LI. a-oI.ar,LI:n-s-,wsfEK,L,Y. . p *3 The large circle represents the path of the sun’s yearly journey. ’ ' ‘ - These constitute the original basisof the monogram, and hence we present a diagram of them separately. The large square represents the house’ of many mansions.) not made with hands, the eternal home of the great father, sun among the stars- ~ The quadrants of the large square represent the domiciles ' of the sun in the four seasons. The twelve outside small squares represent his monthly mansions. i ' ‘ i ‘ The centre-piece inside of these twelve mansions is the home of the earth and moon: and the quadrants of this square represent the" weekly abodes of the moon. ' By’ a metamorphosis the large circle represents -a day's journey of the sun. ' I ' I I In the above diagram the four dots on the outside of the square, perpendicular and horizontal to the earth, represent the noon, evening, midnight and morning sun. I The pendant ray of the noonday sun gives theletter j. The‘ quadrant ofthe circle performed by the sun‘ between noon and evening is the original R in its simplicity. The corner on the outside of this quadrant (or R) is the,’ letter L in its simplicity. V q _ q The. horizontal or evening sun ray, resting on the earth; and thus conjoined to the 1, gives the letter E. More anciently the sun’s path was represented by diagonal lines through the domiciles of the seasons, and then these diagonal lines served as R, and the. D was the delta of the Greek alphabet. . . I ‘ * The next quadrant of the sun’ journey accomplished the letter D in its original simplicity; and the midnight ray of the sun accomplished the letter T, though not in its present position. These are the T D of the evening tide. ’ The third quadrant of the sun’s. daily journey. and the I morning ray, gives the midnight T D, which was tide as spelled without the vowels. I The fourth quadrant of the sun’s daily journey brings -to the noon-day tide. ' ' , .1 The completed circle gives the letter 0., and the haif of which combined with a portion of the square gives the letter U. Also the H, with the plain F, the .C and the G may be found in this primitive ﬁgure. The circle in this diagram may have been premature, otherwise the oblique lines come next in the order of ‘ generation. — . « They and the circle seem to represent a dial plate and points of compass. I p Z: The diagonal lines between the 4 sun points were first in order and represent the 4 cardinal points, south, west. north and east; (this seems the true order) and the diagonals of the square represent the medial points of compass. ' The cardinal points divide the day into 4“ equal parts, be- ginning with afternoon and ending with forenoon._ ‘ ‘ The 8 points divide the day and night into 8 watches. These lines, added to the diagram above, make, create, compose or are the monogram before given. . They add A, V, M, N, K. X. Y, Z to the alphabet. They also give the B P and R in straight lines. _‘ ‘ J These represent the creation of animals,‘ including man, and bring us to the Garden of Eden, where the ﬁgieaves, or apron and breeches appeared. ' ’ With the diagonal lines the gods were made ﬂesh, and in’ the genderlc image of the gods. , The ﬁg leaf represents the fall of Inan from genderic inno- cence, or the naked truth, to genderic wickedness and hypo- critical mystiﬁcations. ’ — * ‘ I Change: of circumstances have Aencroached. on _oura.tixx;1e'. and will, mostly _.monopolize it for -some. weel_£§.. but our ,readers_ mayvolook for the signiﬁcance ofilletteifs,Aiif<e"_;;K;t,.]:V_v,'eek, and ,a‘ft‘erfthat we}‘will endeavor to send wecklycon V,ib_ution's.' . Errat'a‘.—-In my ﬁrstarticle ‘.‘perpetual”* grp‘iv‘th,“inithe‘ 'third"par_ag_raph,l should" read “ intell'ectual”; growth: and “perpetrated” by authority, in ninth "paragraph, second‘ K column, shouldread “ perpetuated” by, etc. - ' _ _ p I - - A SUGG}E'_ST10"N;‘ _ V . A.Congress of liberal andhumanitarian mlndswill convene at IIiliside_ Home, Carversville, Bucks ’County,‘' _Pa.,jon the 4th of May.” All hail’ the glad‘ tidings! “ May the angel hosts of heaven join with us to proclaim the principlesof universal justice and love, freedom and equality. On the 4th of Jul ,? 1876, a new Declaration of Independence will be signed. I ” ' I The ventilation of an idea neverigives anybody a cold... hope many. women, as well as many men, will sign it; but can wemen consistently sign ‘a declaration of independence with their badges of dependence fettering their forms? ' Now, I suggest that every woman who expects to sign that declaration array herself in agfree dress, and thusaid prac- dawn in this our Centennial year. ‘ _ ' in the consciousness of right‘! Come. brave sisters, let the pure air of Hillside Home resound with the anthemof liberty’s: song,’ and let woman march to its music with a step as free as her brother man's, that she may walk by his side as an angel. ‘ ’ ‘ . ' Noble brothers, ye who are interested in this glorious suggestion. One hundred years ago there was _a Declaration of I udependence signed in “the times that tried men's souls.” ; These are the times that try women’s souls. Then letrouri courage be tried. Grand will the triumph be, with free bodies clothed in raiments of health and comfort, with free ' spirits adorned in thebeauty and majesty of truth. J I I ' Prayerfully and hopefully,’ ' SADA BAILEY. SALEM,'Q., March 16. ‘ ‘ - ‘ ' I ~ ‘ I . A w I ' ‘ Onauoaﬂjolinton 00.,‘ Iowa. _ I have felt all my life that we have not attained the highest’ bility..b,ut could not solve the mystery. All that I have read and heard seemed unatisfactory until your ideas were ad- vanced. They ﬁll the void. I ' SABRA A, STRANG. (Written for Woodhull and Claﬂin’s Weekly.) WHO ARE THEY NOW? A loving soul, by men denied A resting place, was cruciﬁed For telling truths to pomp and pride. Who are the Cnarsrs’ to-day? Self righteous Pharisees were shocked To see Truth’s mysteriesunlocked, And thus their gilded pathways blocked. Who now on corners pray? The Tories, when their souls were "tried," Stood cringing bythe tyrant’s side, And LIa1m'rr's behests -"denied . Who now to power bow? At risk ofliberty and life, The noble fewbegan the strife, And won the ﬁeldwith gloryrife. Who are the nanoas now? Taauros, N. J., Oct. 22, 1875. EXCELSIOR. Du. R. P. FnLLows,' the distinguished Magnetic Ph yslcian stands _to-day without question the most successful physician of the age. He is now treating the sick in almost every State success.-—‘—N. Y. Truth Seeker. ‘ V The aﬁllcted should avai1...thT_emselves" of Dr. Fellows’ valuable services.——-‘Banner-of Light,-;_Bo'ston, Mass. ’ Lrra Bamvnr SAYLES. ln__ autarticlc in anold number of the Revolutian on 5‘ Friendship Between the Sexes,” says: ' “No doubt,,if husbands and wives would only allow then}- selvcs to understand their own needs. they would ﬁnd this the great element lacking in our social life. Barring this. we feel only from each other, and get so disgusted in time with continued honey and molasses, that even an emetic would be welcomed to change the programme. People get thisgreat nausea, and not having freedom‘. ‘nor being willing to take or grant it. they contract emeticipfriendships, where were are plenty waiting for them of the sensible, bread-and-butter I I, kind, which will cherish lifeginsteadl of draining the system. Both husbands and wives are, too exacting in the company of each other. ' We need other magnetisms than those with which we continually come i_u'_,._ contact, in order to bring ‘out our full natures and develop ‘all our powers. Let us learn to have more conﬁdence in our husbands and wives, our brothers and sisters, and believe. it possible for them to be actuated by high and holy motives- in seeking at times other than our exclusive society.“ ' - - .._._.—. . I -' A airs" or run. ,. IN what place are -two htbads better than one»? In a barrel, In spite of the hard times the wages of _-sin are up to~..tho_ old standard. C J ‘ ’ ' _ Wnris your wife like ~'d»y-nainite? Because" she is apt to -. blow up if harshly handled.‘ SAID a cobbler who had j-u’s~t-setuup in business : ‘ “My rm: purchase is in*y1las_t.”' ' t ' I S ' S ' ' omxmuxxm. hotelprices in"gBh’iladelphia will be *3 three dollars ayday, board and lodg‘iiiW'cxtra." " I “EXPLOIlING waist places, __djJohn Henry,,,as he'_put his arm around -the pretty c’h'amrbermaid. “Navigation of tihe .’alr.” said _Ml'8- HBIITV. Ovérhearoing him, and sailing into his ravencurls-.—.—Cincz'nnatc' Tiiliﬂsf ; g _ So Brooklynis to have a meter inspector, it: seems. .W6 Brooklyn U_ii'b'0n.—New ITorZt_;,.Ooijnmercial,Advertised" asked: “Wh0'i8»the master ofthis house 2''" “I.a'n1.s'ir," rc- plied the-lan»dlord;‘. "My wife» has _b_cen dead about three weeks.” I I » . AN’ Indiana farmer don’t pay any tolls; Hetshoots the gatekeeper, and jogs right along... They have tried7hiin twice, but he gets clear. since one ofhis aunt's cousinsusedc to act ‘‘ﬂighty‘like.’’ " ' " "- ' UPON the marriage of Miss. ‘Wheat, of Virginia. an editor V THE gentleman *who‘k-issed a lady's “snowy brow” scautght a severe‘ cold,’ and has been laid up ever since.... ’ ‘ ticablyyas welias theoretrically,. to usher in the millennial‘ movement, we believe you will give encourageinent to this: tor to the Atlantic. conditions. and been conscious that “‘eternal,life ” is a possi-I in the Union by his Magnetized Powder withnnsurpassed ' hope _he,‘l1_look after those chaps ;_;that write poetry for the . _ ,A_ cur.Nrr.Lr;MAN rode up’_to‘a~gpublic house in the country- and ‘ hoped that her pathmight be ﬂowery, and {that she might‘ "never De thmshedby hm‘ husband‘: E O ’ H ’t I V . Lecturers desiring engagements can address either COL E A PROVINCIAL paper says a witness was asked by a county court judge, rocently: “Did you go to the party yourself '1'” Witness: “Yes, sir.” Judge .' “And what did he say to you ‘I’ ’ W'itness:,he told me to go to the devil, sir,” “And so," says the Judge, quietly taking a pinch of snuﬁ’, with a rogueish _smile, “You came to the county court l" -Many a true word , _ V g , I , ‘ spoken in jest.-. A few more-years and the signers of that declaration will be ' ‘ I ‘honored’ by all the people. greatestrglory deeply rests PROF. Dana,_'of Yale College with a party of twenty—five,' went on a short excursion the oiher day for the purpose of observing some glacial scratch-es.‘ One of thetstudents se- cretly made gome scratches of his own upon a rock, and calling on the Professor to account forlthem, received the reply: “They look like the work oflan Irishman.” A LADY applying for admission to the junior classof an Eastern seminary, being questioned by the President. as to her qualiﬁcations, replied: “I ain't much of an arithmetic- ker, but I am anjexcellent grammarist.” A CORRESPONDENT wants to know the best way to become aliterary man. Well. the quickest way for him is to make a short voyage to sea. He will very likely become a contribu‘-‘=- N0 Chinesebank has failed for ﬁve hundred. years. When the last failure took place the ofﬁcers’ heads were cut off and ‘flung into a’ corner with the other assets. A WRITER in the Cleveland Sunday Voice has an article headed “How Shall We Rise 1?”, Did he ever try sitting down on‘ a‘ can of nitro-glycerine.——Cincinnati Saturday Night. _ THAT, much-talked-of telescopef it is said, has really brought t_i_1e_ moon within te_n_milesof the earth. One or two turns morc~'oi the screw may bring the whole thing. down on us. . “WILL your Honor please charge the jar ,” asked“, A,-i. kaiisas lawyer at the conclusion of a horse-thief trial. “ I will,” replied‘ his Honor, “the court charges each jurymau one dollar for drinks. and six dollars extra for the one who used the Court’s hat for a spittoon duringthe ﬁrst day of the session." " I A LADY remarked to ‘a popular divine ‘that his sermons were a little too long. ‘f_Don’t you think so ‘P’ said she‘. “just a little?" “ Ah ! dear madam,” replied the divine, “ I am afraid you don’t like ‘the sincere milk of the Word.’ " “Yes, I do,” said she: “but "you know the fashion nowadays { is condensed_milk." A CORRESBONI)ENT,t_an ardent admirer of Bryant, inquires of us the meaning of i“Thanatopsis.” It is latin for deat~,h_ When‘ Brutus, the ﬁrst temporary lunatic, slew Caesar, he remarked to his sister, “Jule is deader Than-—a-top—sis.i” A A I W wyy EDITORIAL NOTICES. LOIS Waisnnooxnai can be addressed at Eureka, Hum» bolt County, California, during April Will take subscrip- tionsfor the WEEKLY. I I Lao MILLER AND MATTIE STRICKLAND will receive calls for lectures _on liberal subjects, Engagements in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan particularly desired during the spring months. Terms reasonable. Address Omro,1Wis. .._:..—.. .'.‘_.WABR1LjN CHASE will lecturein Clyde, Ohio, April 9th; in Painesville, Ohio. April 16th; in Geneva, 0., April 23d; in Akron, 0., April‘ 30th; in Alliance, O., the first two Sundays ‘of May; and in Salem, 0., the last two Sundays in May. Ad- dress accordingly. ’ . WE take special pleasure in calling the attention of all our sreaders :\_vho_._need dental service to Dr. Koonz, at No. 1 Great J ones_S?treet;,, New York, who is both judicious and scientiﬁc in all departments of dentistry. _ His rooms are ﬁtted taste- fully-and,1el.egantly, and being constantly ﬁlled with the elite of the city, testifies that his practice is successful. He ad- ministers the nitrous oxide gas with perfect success in all cases. _, ’ . . Tr_In-next-‘Convention of the Spiritualistts of Van Buren County, Michigan, will be hold.en at Paw Paw, in Professor _ Cookf‘s_M,usic Room, April 29th and 30th, commencing at 2 ’-o'clock- p. on Saturday and continuing over Sunday. Susie Johnson is" engaged as one of the speakers. Let there“ beta general attendance of all interested, as" the friends :1 Pa.w“P'aw, and vicinity will spare no pains to make the ‘C0DVéIiti9n_¥,a success. R. 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Y. 0ﬂice.111 Nassau Street, Room 9.‘ . , If a man lreepeth my ‘saying he shall never see death.—Jesus. » ' b To him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the hidden‘ manna.——St. John the Divine. » That through death he might destroy him that u 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- p0crisy.——James, iii. , 1 7. And these signs shall follow them: 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 rec0ver.—Jesus. .. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. V Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth ;~» but I say unto you resist not evil. Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate. thine enemy: -But I say unto you, Love your enemies; That ye may be the children of your Father which is and sendeth_ rain on the just and on the unjpst. Eor if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye ? Do not even the publicans the same ?~—St. Matthew v. 38, 43, 44,and 46. ' ' ‘A new commandment give I unto you, That ye love one another.-St. John xiii. 34. ’ ’ Think not that I am come to destroy the law and the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulﬁl.—-St. Matthew v. 17. ‘ Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of ﬁre upon his head. Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil‘ with good.—Romansxii. 20 and 21. — . ' ‘- Vengeanceis mine, I will repay saith the Lord.,—Ibid. 19. . The progress of civilization is more distinctively marked by the recognition and maintenance of the life and rights of the individual than byany other single means. That community which does not regard the inherent, natural relations which. it bears to. its individual members,.though it may be advanced in learning, art and science, does not belong to a civilized nation. As we follow the records of nations and peoples from * early historic time down to the present, there is found to be a. constant though gradual elevation of the individual, and a corresponding going back- ward and a lessening of the power of the community over the individual. ‘This is to be observed not only in the character of the punisliments that have been inﬂicted for so-called crimes, but also in the character of the crimes for which the highest punishments have been provided. A few centuries ago life was forfeited for the smallest of crimes. There were do less than twenty different offenses for which the life of }the offender might pay the penalty. But now, in our couiitry at least, life is not forfeited save for having taken life;’—’ and every year some State departs wider and wider from this even, by recognizng different degrees of murder, and a. different penalty for each degree, life only being required for the ﬁrst degree; while in four States the death penalty has been abolished altogether. The barbarism of the old Mosaic law remains, therefore, but in one respect. Blood for blood is theonly remnant of that law, and thatis not left intact. That which Christ- nineteenhundred years, ago came- to fulﬁl is but now be-‘ ginning tobe recognized "as having been fulﬁlled by him, even bylthe most sincere professing Christians. Indeed, it is the Christians who cling most stoutly to the eye for eye, tooth for tooth, and blood for blood method of punishment. The death penalty lias been restricted to murder only, not by, but in spite of Christianity, so-called. The rack, the stake, the torture of ...va_ri_o_us. kinds-, havebeen forced from Christian usage by thosewhom they have called inﬁdels and devils, and today, ~ev’erywhere,r:‘those who-stand in the Tfrontand advancing ranks of civilization are not the "re- NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 23,1876. ‘ cognized Christians-. No one can observe the course ‘of events and say that WE are prepared to furnish a few liundrekfcomplete sets of the ﬁrst series of Bible Articles consisting of ﬁfteen_num- I 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- , ingof the great and all3important truth that is yet to be “re- ” vealed; which must be carefully and judiciously brought be- , , forethe world, as the :.'sun comes upon "it, ﬁrst the ' break-of-day, next its dawn, and afterward its full meridian bcrsiof the WEEKLY, for one dollar, postageupaid. splendor. V TIIE DOUBLE 'TRIANGLE":;, ' -on, THE SIX—P_OlNTED srnu _,11v 'rnE‘._nAs"fr.', For we have seen his star in the East, and we are‘ comeltoiworship ‘ "hf-,‘m,_'_Sv1‘..NIA'I‘:':l“£IEW,ll.,2. ’ I " 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- ,, sentsthe, coming blending together of the inhabitants (if the,__ earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood,.an§. the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been introduced, butwhich, deﬁned in a few words, is, God‘ in man reconciling the world unto Himself We adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future work. V capital punishment is not destined to be wiped out of the penallaws of the world. Besides, the States in which it has been aboli’she;dR, its abolition has been agitated many more,'if, not in all others. In the Legislature of our own State thereis constant agitation over this question; each year some amendatorv law is enacted restricting the-number of cases inwhich l[if8.:%II13.y be -forfeited. ‘It «is safe to say that‘-‘in aﬁve years ~—«this’ remnant of - barbarity ‘will have ceased to exist in New York%.':- ‘There ‘has been a wonderful, change ', in public ‘sentiment within” even single year;‘;_, This may be seen in ‘tlle_“‘tToiie'7of the prvess, which: is the“ barometer of the public thought.11ppn "any given stibject, rather than the projector of ;that‘tho1igl1t. Prominent papers that, a year ago, ,clamgred for the blood of Foster, and that would have denounced the Governor had he com- muted the sentence’ to_i;mprisonmcnt for life, would now commend that act of, mercy in the ‘case of Dolan, should the Governor be suﬂiciently: imbued w‘ith‘the_ spirit of the age, to make the commutation. Mr. Tilden is an aspirant _act that he has ihtinqhis power to do to, would so turn that gre at mass of people, k'n‘owr’i"as liberals and radicals, toward: him , as this one of mercy to this poor man. . The law gives ‘the Governor the power-.‘ Let‘ him rise to the height of a» Mosaic slrall be by ‘victims op the lgallo,v_y_s. But aside from the Christian duty and view of.,the case, there ,_is another question: whether capital punishment is expedient. . MThZos"‘e who have given most time to the study of the subject; who‘, have deduced the legitimate teach- no State where the law has been once" abolished can the leg“-" islatures be induced to retrace their steps taken tow»ard‘4?per- fect enliglrtenrnent.. It has been frequently :observed that a ‘number of murders -follow closely on ‘the executioniof a murderer. And it should be expected thatthey would‘. The whole air becomes loaded with the horror, and"'those who at, that ‘time are‘ thrown int’o:circ‘umst_a“nces' which tend to devdlop theﬁendish in{h_u‘man-natnre,,_are_toucl1ed by the general, inﬂuence, and by it are pushed into committing crimes‘ theyjwould otherwise have escaped committing. Children even play hanging, to see how it feels, and the in heaven; for he maketh the sun to rise on,,thc evil and on the good, ' - deed ; was born a murderer. for the presidential successi‘on. Let us sayto him that no" ‘eﬁgct real Christian and say. while that power remains in_.his_ ’ ‘hands, no i'1_1ore"fde'nials ‘that Christ wasthe fuﬁlment of ‘ the? ” [whole public pulse beats with the horror in some unpleasant L sense. While this is all true, it cannot be proven that the fear cg being hanged ever prevented any contemplated murder, nor will it be assumed by {anybody that it ever could prevent one done in the heat of passion, in which most murders are committed. But there is another and a still more horrid view of hanging as a punishment‘ for murder, and one which, when it shall come to be understood as it ought to be, will prove that hanging is not only inexpedient, but that it is an active cause of murder. The inﬂuence that hanging has upon children has been alluded to-, but what shall be said of the inﬂuence that it has upon children in gestation? It is during this period that the future character of children is formed. Every child born inherits the capacitiesto do all the deeds that it will ever perform. Every person who ever murdered was born with the capacity to do the ‘horrid The reason that one commits a murder under the same circumstances that another. does not, is because the latter did not inherit the capacity to be roused to the deed by the circumstances that had that effect upon the former. The world knows little about the inﬂuence that mothers have upon their unborn ehildren, but it is the most important period of life. It is while in this condition of development that the whole future character is decided. It is true that care and education may develop or restrain the good or bad that is impressed upon the child V by the mother in the gestative period; but they can never wholly eradicate the bad that is then sown,{or in graft the good upon the character in which it is lacking at birth. Hundreds of cases might be cited to prove that mothers not only meke their children what they are physically, but that they do so much more frequently and potently, mentally and mor- ally.’ Indeed it is a terrible fact thattmothers make their children just what they are, save what they derive from the father by the ‘law of heredity. Let the whole calendar of vices and crimes he run tlirough, and it would be found, if the truth could be arrived at, that the cause for the promi- nence of any special tendency of the individual to either was derived from the mother before its birth. Monstrosities even, have been known to be the result of the sudden im- pressions made upon the mother by some monstrosity. This being true, it is easy to conceive the awful results that hang- ing may produce through the mother upon the child. It is doubtless true that the real cause of nine~tenths of all the murders that_are committed, might be traced to some horrid things, impressed upon the mind of the child in embryo, and it is also doubtless true, that hundreds, if not thousands, are born and live having the capacity to murder, who escape the deed because no sufficient circumstances ever come upon them to develop it. Every fact that sends a thrill of horror through the soul, should be studiously avoidedby all child-bearing mothers, and especially should themost horrid of all horrible things—a brutal taking of life upon the gallows in deﬁance of all sentiments of human- ity and mercy, and of all the’ teachings and precepts of Christ—be banished from the knowledge of mothers when performing the divinest of all human missions; when creating an immortal soul, a temple of thelliving God. , If this line of argument be once recognized as logical, and it be shown that it is sustained by facts, the past in- justice of the world, to so-called criminals, will be made clear; A This unfortunate class will be shown to have suf- ’fe1§e1_dr}for the wrongs of the community. Being themselves the results of the evils that exist in the community, they are made to suffer the -penalties of its crimes. Every act is the result of adequate producing causes, and go backward and still backward each effect can be traced through a con- stant series of «causation, until the .primal' cause, -be it of ill or good, is reached, which. determined the whole. It is truegthat this wil1“d,estroy the commo,nly,acceptcd.idea of personal; responsibility; but if such responsibility be a thing havingfjio foundation in fact, ought it not to be destroyed? say,‘ unhe-sitatingly, yes! For if it be a myth, then its explosion will};-clear,_ the_..way for right-thinking and right- acting upon. the ‘cases which it has hitherto controlled. hen}.-crime shall come 1’-to be considered as a hereditary diseaselof_the mind or body, as the casemay be, which it really then the proper method for its eradication from society, willbe considered. Now, the people deal with its I s,‘ never looking‘ back to learn the causes. ;Cure’s of es, physical, mental and moral are what the efforts of ’ arefexpended ~to perform; Prevention is scarcely , , about as necessary or possiblevwhile, if one-half the effort were expended upon methods for prevention, that are put forth to cure or punish, viceaud crime would almost wholly-disappear within a generation.’ _ _ . _ “This is’ the end toward which all our efforts have’ been ings from statistics, not hesitate to say that hangings‘-V‘ . increase rather ‘thangdecrease the number of murders.~ In; 'a’imedi We would have ithelawsof generation and the re- -lations of the sexes so well understood, and the responsi. ‘b,i1ities_and duties of parentage so clearly deﬁned, that a child with evil ttendenciesf might be made an Impossibility.’ We would have this truth brought home to every parent’s heart as well as mind: That, if their children turn out to be more of ill than good, or wholly bad, it is because they failed ‘ in some respectsto do their duty to them, or else that they were conceived under circumstances, the existence of which sh_ould- have forbidden the conception. Here is theﬁreal point at which efforts ‘must begin before any permanent good can be effected.“ So long as we go on punishing crime merely, without seeking to stop its production, the same crimeswill continue to be committed, and society will re. ‘I «Mr. . is l-.=_ , April 22, 1876. woonnunr. as CLAVFLIN’ WEEKLY.. main where it now stands. But let the axe be laid to the root of the evil; let crime and vice and disease cease from being transmitted from parents to child1'en, and improve- ment will be at once perceptible. The same law that gov- erns, and that is recognized as governing, in breeding stoek and fruits and ﬂowers, governs also in the breeding of the human race. If avicious horse become the sire of a colt which is foaled by a vicious dam, the owner expects a vicious colt, and is never disappointed. So the children of vitiated parentage may, with certainty, be expected. to be vicious. - It was the understanding of this law that enabled < -4%.. Jacob to raise cattle of the color that he desired, and to thus circumvent Laban. The exhibition of the desired colors to the dams, during their proper seasons, secures those colors in their young. So will the exhibition to mothers of the dreadful horrors of the gallows, either literally or by pen-pictures secure in their young the .ele- ments of candidacy for the same horrors. , Too much cannot be said upon this theme. It is one of the most important that can enter the thoughts of thinking peo- ple, looked at from whatever view; from the standpoint of justice or expediency, or of mercy, capital punishment has nothing to recommend it. It stands as the one horrid remnant of almost effete barbarism; it stands as the one great denial that the Christian Era has been ushered in; it stands defying the immutable law of Godwhich declares, that “vengeance is mine; I will repay,” saith the Lord; it stands a mockery to justice, to mercy, to humanity. Let Governor Tilden defy its pretensions, and deal it a -blow from which it can never’ recover, by commuting the sen- tence of the unfortunate Dolan to imprisonment for life; and if he will do it for the reasons set forth by us, and set them forth to be his reasons for the act of mercy, he will become the prophet for its certain and speedy destruction in every State in the Union. Let him rise to the grandeur of the real issues involved in the question; rise above Dolan and above the thought of mercy for him; above his victim and his avenging ; rise to the good of lfumanity ; to the heights of principles and truths which underlie the un- deloped welfare of the race, and his name will go down to posterity as a saviour. ———————-+~9-—-—-—- MRS. HARDY’S DEFENSE. We had intended this week to publish Mr. Hardy’s state- ment in rebuttal of that of Bronson Murray and others’; which was contained in our last week’s number and also to have made a close analysis of the Boston Herald’s state- ment of Mrs. Hardy’s seance in Boston, which the ~.Bam2e7' denominates her vindication. But as Mrs. Hardy has now joined in a statemnnt in answer to the original one,‘ we‘ shall content ourselves with its’ presentation——merely re__- marking that to our mind a point blank denial would have been stronger, especially as they neglect to explain the Cotton-wool detectives—together with the second statement of her New York impeachers. We may observe, however, that we seenothing in the Herald’s statement of Mrs. Har- dy’s vindication but what might be performed without the aid of spirits, while it will seem strange, to say the least, that after spirits go to the trouble of materializing‘ a hand to form a paraﬁine mold, that ‘ they should invariably crush it nearly ﬁat, and drop it about so carelessly as to break its ﬁngers. Let Mrs. Hardy, or the spirits through her mediumship, produce,.a mould under the conditions mentioned by us last week, then she may fairly set up-' the ,elaim of having done so under test conditions. But even ttoauzwevw then the persons having charge must be investigators and not friends of the medium. , . ‘ We repeat again that we arefully convinced that the con- ditions under which complete materialization can occur ' do“ not yet exist, and that when they do they will not bevvfound a public business seance room. A spirit materialization of any kind can enlyhpbe produced wherethevnecessary ma- terial exists in the atmosphere. That material will ’not' be taken directly from the body of the medium, nor cana=sin- gle medium furnish it. It must be the "harmonized ele- ments that have passed through the organism of two people completely-unitized in the relations of the sexes. ‘Iii’: other.“ words, the elements cannot bewholly male or female, but must be blended properly together, the latter being viviﬁed by the former, upon the same prmciple that original con- ception takes place. Hence genuine materialization may be ‘ expected to appear in the harmonic lfome, where by lapse of time everything becomes permeated with the spirit of unity which rules- the dominating spirits of that home. In the ‘ ,' quiet sanctuary of love, shutout from the cares and bustle of the world, and from the iinharmonies and’skepticism ofwa modern investigating seance, is the place where ‘a spirit from the otherworldwill be most likely to put in an ap- pearance. Where this place may be we‘ dd not know ; but that ‘such a one is being prepared we have the fullest" assur- ance of those who have the matter in charge, and who have been moving for ﬁfty years to bring about the proper" con- ditions. One of two things is certain‘: Our in_formation that there have been no genuine materializations is correct, or else that for ten years we have been. under the guidance ' of a phantasy, and our work means nothing." For our part we have no doubt which is true, and we havethe most su- preme faith that it willbe made clear to the world that it is so within the present year. . 1 It is no part of our design that the WEEKLY shall be made the medium for the exposition of fraudulent materializations. We have higher objects than this. All fraud in medium- ship will fall of itself in time,’ and all false materialization will hide its head when the genuine shall appear. THE KOBOLDS HAVE COME. POSITIVELY THE LAST APPEARANCE AND BENEFIT or EMMA HARDINGE BRITTEN. “‘l3ub’ble, bubble, toil and trouble.” VVe have received from some unknown friend, we pre- sume for notice, a copy of the long-expected work, entitled, “Art Magic; or Mundane, Sub-Mundane-and Su'per—Mundane editor, and about which such a tremendous hub-bub has been made in the Banner of Light and other Spiritualistic papers. Now that jwejhave this volume on our editorial table. we are enabled to "judge of its merits, and we can conﬁdently state, after careful perusal, that this book is not at all what we were led to expect it wouldbe, from the grand ﬂourishes successfully victimized with the idea that what this book i shbuld contain would be something altogether new to Eng- lish literature; something that could not be optained else- where. The seeress of the Theosophists, the acquaintance of the Kobolds, and the Queen of the Light~Fantastic, A has gained a victory over Professor Gardner's protege whose toeless, stockings and cotton-wool pale into insigniﬁcance before the -awful histrionic majesty of the unparalleled em-prenziere danseuse. N If the book be an’ apology for the Theosophists, we are sorry for them. They have made agrand mistake in mixing themselves up with such a concern as these 467 pages. We had a better appreciation of the judgment of Arch- _Magus Olcott and High Priestess Blavatsky, the friends of D. D. Home and G. L._Bloede than that they should have fathered such a bantling. They have damaged their cause irretrievably, and their chancesof transforming the present jangling discordance of Spiritualism into a kind of hybrid Theosophy, is now very slim. After this ﬁasco, we would recommend them to integralize with the Pantarchy, if Stephen Pearl Andrews will open his “Magic” Portals and accept them, if , When we read the ﬁrst notice of “Art Magic” to “Ad- vanced Thinkers. and Students of Occult Science,” we thought it “ rather thin” to say the least. That “European gentleman, temporarily sojourning in the United States, who had been a life-long student of the theory and practice of occult science, acquired in Arabia, Egypt, the East and results of his wonderful and extensive researches into Nature’s most profound mysteries with a. limited number of worthy students,” we had not much belief in. We even had the temerity to imagine that he might be identical with his friend, “Emma Hardinge Britten, 206 West 38th street, New York City, who will act as Secretarypro tem., and receive the names and addresses of those persons who de- sire to make one of the 500 subscribers,” neither more C?) nor less (?) _ x V . We -were not much mistaken, (and we will refer our readers to our last year’s ﬁle,) in supposing that there was tobé some trickery in a work which was . “not to be pub- lished or sold by any professional ﬁrm, nor submitted for review-to any professional critic,” and we were certain ,th_ere_would be some “Theosophy" in the manipulation of .,the $5 "subscriptions to be paid C. ,0. D. We wondered from whence the necessity came of making stereotyped plateswhen “Art Magic” could be printed from the type d‘irect_,'and the further necessity of destroying type which, _ -afte_r.di-stribution, might have been used again. Although wefhdfd our doubts, we must acknowledge that even for a time we believed there was something in magic, and began to realize the possibility of the mundane devil of a printer being superseded by the super-mundane and sub-mundane Gnomes, Sylphs and Salamanders, who might, in the twinkling of an eye, by some occult_ “hocus-pocus” means, incarnate 500 ﬁnite (:9) copies of the.European gentleman’s dubricationsy to be supplied at $5.00, C. O. D. But, no! iAll our hopes were dashed like a super-mundane Undine amid the waters, when “Abecadabra,” and “Hi—Presto” had to make way for “Wheat & Cornett, Book and Job "Printers," 8 Spruce Street, New York,” who, alas! have to be paid byimundane Yankee dollars. . - r ' w‘The- book which Wasiimpudently prospectused to A be “the ﬁrst and, it is believed, onlypublication in existence magic, natural magic, Modern Spiritism, the diﬁerent orders of spirits in the universe known to be related to or in communicationwith man, together with directions for invoking, controlling, and discharging spirits, and the uses and abuses, dangers and possibilities of magical art,” is nothing of the kind, and Emma Hardinge Britten and her ‘ ‘‘European gentleman” are as much awareof thefact as our- selves. It is simply a re-hash of books accessible to any student of even limited means, and can be readily found in. almostjany book store, or on the shelves of any public library. Ennemoser’s “History of Magic,” Howitt’s “Supernatural,” Salverte’s “Philosophy of Magic,” Hargrove Jennings’ i“Rosicrucians,” Barrett's “Magus,” Agrippws “Occult Spiritism,” of which Emma Hardinge Britten claims to be- that were indulged in, invitbs ‘prospectus. The subsc:ibers. to “Art Magic,” in our opinion, have been completely and- West Indies, etc., ete.,” who had “at the earnest solicitation- of some of his friends and associates, consented to sharethe , which will give an authentic and practical descriptionof art‘ Philosophy,” and a few others, are the real sources of this wretched compilat,ion,,which is full of bad grammar and worse assumptions. We unhesitatingly assert there is not a single important statement in the book which cannot be discovered in already printed works, and if there be a few of no importance not t_o be so found, then they have been concocted in Thirty-eight street. As for composition, it would have been done better by a Writer" of hysterical literature on the,_New York Weekly, which we insult by the comparison. H P I ' The paste pot and scissors have been most injudiciously used; a tyre in what the book pretends to discourse upon, would have made a‘ better book, and what is more would, by using the least brains, have escaped making the errors of which “Art Magic Spiritism” is full to repletion. T The deﬁnitions of matter, force and spirit are altogether ‘ erroneous, and the. account’ of the opinions of the pre- Christian systems of magic and occultism, all at sea. Then the philosophy ofjthe Rosicrucians, Fire Philosophers, and Medimval Mystics have been grossly misr‘epresented. By far the mpst egregious absurdity is, however, dis- coverable in thatfpart relating to the Elementaries and the ritual to be used for invoking, controlling and discliarging (H? - those interesting creatures after having caught and bottled them." ‘The directions supposed to be given by Emma Hardinge Bi'itten’s magical E_u_ropean gentleman (I) is simply word for word the already" published folly of old Peter de Abanol Here circles and pentagons are resus- citated in all their pristine glory. The co-jﬁsecrations and benedictions of perfumes, and exorcisms in the name of the “God of Abraham, God of .Isaac,’and Gcd‘ ‘of Jacob,” are ' entered into at great length in what must appear to Christians themostjblasphemous manner. But the crowning ridicule, is ‘the dress necessary for invocation, which must be a “priest’s garment,” if possible; “but, if it cannot be had, let it be of linen, and clean.” We wonderwhether Cardinal McCloskey is aware of the value appertaining to the surplices of his clergy, if not, we would advise him to enter at once into arrangements with Emma Hardinge Britten, 20.6 West 38th Street, New York, to supply the Theosophical Society“ If this fail, then, perhaps, Lester Wallack or Edwin Booth might be induced, for “auld lang. syne,” to,have theirgreen rooms rummaged and send a con- tribution of cast off clean white linen ballet garments to the Mott Memo rial Hall, where they could be submitted at one of the fortnightly meeting of Theosophicans to Emma Hardinge Bri,tt_en,, who, from past experience, understands the ins and outs of all that “sort of -thing.” , A Instead of the ritual given, it would _have been sensible to have reprinted the witch scene in Macbeth, or the invocations in Faust, as the plagiarised -rubbish of which this part of the bookis full. , V The illustrations are, however, a pretty good,‘ perhaps the best, indication of the actual character of the book. There are two hideous plates of the real, original howling dervishes, which, strange to say, have been copied from the cartoons, representing the tour of the Prince of Wales in India, in a New..Yor_k weekly. -The ridiculous fall from the European gentleman ,(?) Twho hasvtravelled in “Arabia, Egypt, the East and West Indies’, etc., etc.,” culminating in the sublimity of the conceptions of one of Frank Leslie’s draughtsmen is as magniﬁcently grand as one of the trans- formation scenes Emma Hardinge Britten used to ﬁgure in behind the footlights as a sub-mundane Kobold or a super- mundane Fairy. 1 » _ F . , W 4 I The wood cuts of the Pentagon, Sistrum of the Celestial Mother, representing the Symbol of Virginity, Harpocrates "adoring the feminine generative organs, the Crux-Ansata, the -Egyptian Amulet of Anubis, Ezekiel’s‘ Wheel, the Tower of Babel, Stonehenge, etc.,,are all taken without acknow- ledgement, in common parlance, stolen, from Hargrave Jennings’ “The Rosicrucians.” ‘ The cut of Cornelius Aggripa is from Morley’s “Life of Agrippa,” and the portraits of Nostradamus and Paracelsus are from Mackay’s “Extraordinary Popular Delusions.” ‘ .It is a great pity that the “Newgate iCale"ndar”'an'd the _“Beecher Scandal Trial” were not drawn upon, but we/suppose that the length of -theqimagination. of ‘the. compiler did not run to the extent 0_f believing that the special_~500 could be so_ ex- traordinarily deluded as to believe that these fruitful sources could have had anything to do with an “European gentle- man temporarily sojourning in the United States.” From a careful analysis of theistyles of composition in “Art Magic” with that of . Emma. H'ardinge’s “Modern American;Spiritualism,” we-do not hesitate to assert the H ‘ belief that the authors are identical.-, Emma Hardinge Britten may endeavor tohide her head in the sand as muchras she pleases, -but those accustomed to her Trago-dr amatical mode of writing canscarcely be mistaken. The fulsome and eulogistic credentials of herself are too ‘characteristic and too‘ rich to be overlooked, 1 particularly where’ speaking t'ncognt'to of her high tone and excellence, or‘ where she is styled a “highly esteemed Englishifriend” (l) or where “the unworthy jibes, sneers, for our gentle, faithful, and long-suffering editor,” (1 I) “and cruel insults which have been levelled against the excellent lady,’’ (! l !) "her judg- ment andhhonesty,” (1!!!) “her good ,'faith"and hon- esty,” (! ! ! ! !) etc., etc., etc., ad mtuseum, are treated" of. Taking all this into consideration, about which thereisnot much’ magic',"but a, considerable amount of, art, and the en- dorsement of. thatvoluminous series of-. extracts from the Banner of Light and other Spiritualist papers called Har- equally , U / x misery, vice and crime shall have no;place‘ 6 . V WOODHULL 4% OLAFLIN’S:'f;WEEKLY. dingc’s “Modern American Spiritualismﬂ.’ we feel it to be our duty to call the attention {of the great "American show- man to this champion assumptionistlof America. But as “all the world’s alstage, and all the men and women on’t are players,” so we suppose Emma Hardinge Britten must play her part as she.has done since she skimmed over the boards! over twenty-ﬁve long years ago. If she choose to dance the Can-Can in one of her old Columbine costumes before the Theosophicians, she has the perfect right to do so. ‘i If she choose to assume the role of. an, Alchemist and publish awork claiming to be in- spired by Hippocrateps, and extolling Emma Hardinge Britten’s “Great New French and Viennese Systems of, Electrical ‘Cure, and the Infallible Electrical Cranial Diagnosis,” by means of Emma Hardinge Britten’s “Elec- trical,Vapour Bath” and “Electra Magnetic Medical Battery,” she can do so with perfect impunity. ' Y But when she attempts‘ to palm off a book of this descrip- tion’ upon a chosen 500 as something entirely new, and as fresh from the brain of “an European gentleman brieﬂy so- journing in America,” (of whom even the Theosophists themselves are kept in ignorance;’’) we are not restricted by any rules of honor from pointing out the truth about it, as we have endeavored to do in this review of this most wondrous of all the wonderful booksof the world. Had this book been offered to a special 500 as a_ compila- tion from well-known authors of theories, mysticisms, symbolisms, and of illustrations of the old'Pha11ic Worship, we could have commended it; but even then the same things could have been obtained from‘ other and original sources in better form, and for less money than $5.00 0. O. D We prophesy that this attempt to found a society based upon the ideas of old mysticisms, of which E. H. B. shall be the central ﬁgure, ‘Will’ be «a failure, because it 2 lacks honesty of purpose at its foundation, which is an essential element of success in whatever undertaking. A4: A V ‘wr'* OPENING OF SCIENCE HALL. We commend the attention of our readers in New York to the -fact, that Sunday, April 16, Science Hall, 141 Eighth Street, will be dedicated to the service of Liberalism. The Religio-Scientiﬁc Society, the Liberal Club, and other organizations will hold their meetings in this new hall in future.’ and in order to have a proper ‘opening, Mr. Charles Sotheran, the well-known liberal author, has con- sented to give the dedication address. » His subject will be, “The Struggle between Theology and Science; Torque- made and Gallileo. We trust that all who value the inesti- mable privileges of free thought and free discussion will be present, not only indeference to the circumstances of the occasion, but out of regard to the lecturer, one of the most hearty workers in the cause of religious and social reform. . % 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- nesses. They are printed on heavy paper-20x24 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 ofthis 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- Chie o the WEEKLY, who has devoted her life wholly to the -/inauguration of a new dispensation on earth, in which ._...—_-——p--<o+—<-—-—-——- 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- ——-_—..--—-—p-—-«Q»-< (From the Brooklyn Argus, April 7, 1876.). vIcToRIA C. w0,'oDHULL’s LECTURE. Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull stepped upon the stage Of the Academy of Music, last evening, with a morocco bound copy of the Bible in her hand, and read in the. presence of fully twelve hundred people, these words: “Know ye notthat. 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 Y8 are-" An outline of the lecture based upou this Biblical text has already tappeared in the columns of the Argus. Mrs. Wood- hull was frequently applauded.__ Z R A TEXAS judge is credited; with the following decission: “The fact is. Jones, the jail is an old, rickety affair, as cold 9.; an iron wedge. You applied to this court for a release on bail, giving it as your opinion thyt you would freeze to death there. The weather has not moderated, and to keep you from freezing, I will direct the sheriff to hang Y0l1.3t 10111‘ o'clock this afternoon. _ . ; » P » ‘ V THE REPLY on MR. AND MRS. HARDY. Allow us to express our surprise and astonishment at the course pursued by Mr. Murray and the other signers, call- ing themselves old Spiritualists, toward a. medium of ten years’ standing, meeting with us at these seances, all of them under strict test conditions, and pretending to the very last that they were well pleased and satisﬁed as to their genuine- ness, allowing us to leave your city without even a hint of anything wrong, and then_,». in star-chamber fashion, con- spiring -to blast the fair fame of a medium and woman, without giving an" opportunity of explanation, denial or de- fence; without even extending the poor boon, granted by the commonlaw to the murderer before trial, to plead guilty or not guilty,«and then rush said star-chamber proceedings into the press all over the country. Had anything been discovered during any one of these seances tending to prove fraud, why was not the medium confronted with your proofs on the spot? thus giving an opportunity of explaining or denying, if possible, instead of bidding us God-speed to the very last, with a Judas kiss from Mrs. Austin’ thirty minutes before boardingthe steamer. Talk of old theology! why, there is not a church in the country that would thus have condemned, unheard, one of the most miserable of its, members! If such are the fruits of Modern Spiritualism, then either old theology or materialism would be preferable for there is more humanity in either. A I In regard to the charges made in said statement, the mos ' of them are too insigniﬁcant and ridiculous to claim our no— - tice. ~ As to the parafﬁne dropped in the street, while we were going to the seance, it was a handful of pieces that had been removed from those previously taken.‘ while in your city. The paraﬂine molds are removed from the plaster cast in pieces, and saved for futureuse at the next trial. The valise containing the paraﬂine sprung open and some of these pieces? fellout, and Mrs. Hardy and my- self gathered them up. l_ Mrs. Austin did not exclaim,“ “There is a. paraﬂine hand!” the word mold, or parafﬁne » was not mentioned by either of us three, on the occasion, and Mrs. Austin did not even stoop to gather up a fragment of: it. and the question was not broached at Austin’s house, pre- vious to starting, as to whether we had any molds or not. So this merely resolves itself into a question of veracity be- tween Mrs. Austin and ouijselvos. As to the charge that what is seen and felt in the aperture of the table, claiming to be hands, on which rings have been put hundreds of times, and which takes bcllsfrom our hands and rings them, ofttimes three at once. are the toes of the‘ medium, as certiﬂedto by Dr. Hull on this occasion, it is too ridiculous to notice. Mr. Murray knows better himself, from his own experience with Mrs. Hardy at his own house. and other places. In regard to ﬁngers being seen by Mrs. Lane protruding from under the dress. of the medium, it was a manifestation of materialized ﬁngers, often occurring with thismedium when sitting with Spiritualists. On this occasion Mrs. Hardy was sitting before and near an open grate ﬁre, hot enough‘ to destroy a paraﬂine mold in ﬁve minutes. It was explained at the time, and Mrs. Austin made this remark: “What a sensation I might get up, were I so disposed, by declaring I saw a mold fastened under your dress l”, - ~ ' The only other point worthyof notice in this famous docu- ment, is in regard to the weighing process. This test has been applied about twelve times in the presence of large com- panies, four times of which were in public halls. the- weighing each time superintended by a committee chosen by the audience, and weighedby them before, and re-weighed after the seance then and, there, and never going from the cogni- zance of said committee; the result. on each occasion, a. weight gone from the vessel containing the liquid, equivalent to the weight of the mold taken. Now, on this occasion, instead ‘of having a disinterested committee from the audience, one of which at least being a . friend of the medium, and having the whole thing settled on the spot, Mr. Murray goes alone, slyly, and weighs a certain portion of parafﬁne. Then he loses sight of it, and it goes intothe hands of two others, who have every opportunity of manipulating, the same at pleasure. Then water is added to it; then, after the mold has been obtained, instead of re- weighing the vessel in presence of all the parties, they slyly wait till the “dispersal of the company,” when twoladies take the paraﬂine, while yet ‘so soft that it can-lrbeﬂrolled together, and lay it away till the next Monday morning. Who or how many had access to it between Saturday night and Monday morning, no friend of the medium knows.‘ . Then Mr. Murray again, alone, takes it away, and weighs it, and. behold! it weighs the same as before. And will you call this a. fair. candid and honorablerproceeding? And does'Bronson Murray lend himself to such an equivocal methodof trylnga. medium he has sat‘with, tested and endorsed during five years? and sign his name, in condemnation, on such=te'sti— vmouy? Et tu Brute? . Of the Austins, we have nothing more to say. Their con- duct in this whole thing (taking into consideration thatwe were their urged and invited guests), is beneatli,g.1’cont'e‘j,1‘i’pt. But Mr. Murray, whom we respect as a candid. honestvand upright man. and who fully and thoroughly endorsed Mrs. J Hardy as a genuine medium, in the matter of these seances, before your honorable Conference, the S_undayz;:following these seances, and who was probably induced to sign the Austin document by the seeming discrepancy in the weighing , process, ought not to have tried a dog on such loose manage- ment as that last weighing. Perhaps we have more experience in this matter than he has. Let us suggest to him the following experiment: Take a. stated quantity of paraﬁine, dissolve it in water, and then allow it to stand until the water be.comes thoroughly cold. Turn off the water, and the wax will weigh the same as when deposited in the vessel. But remove the vparaiﬁne, as was done in this case, while yetlsoft and pliable fenougjh to be rolled together, and there will be water enough remaining in the mass suﬂicient to weigh’ down the mold of any hand. Will Mr. Murray try the experiment? ” I V “ The very fact of the parafﬁne being removed fromthe ves— sel. as that was by those ladies, and rolled up while,yet.~s,o,ft, and weighing the same as the original, is proof positivcthat a portion of‘ the parafﬁne had been abstracted frornthe mass. To have proved this point it ought to have weighed two or three ounces more than the original. Thus much ' for the weighing process. ~ _ Mrs. Hardy thoroughly appreciates the good sense of the Conference, in twice refusing to lend’ their sanction to that unfair, unkind and ex parte statement, and trusts that it will not be long before she will prove to you that you have ‘not misplaced your conﬁdence. ‘ It is gratifying to be assured that she still has some true friends_in your city, and friends who do not desert when under a. guerilla ﬁre like this are friends indeed. She has no fears for the future. The loved ones over the border, who have so signally stood by her for the past ten years, will see her safe through to the ,last‘. And we assure you we‘ are very grateful that the Conference re- membered that Mrs. Hardy was not present to defend her- self, and took the course they did. Yours fraternally, ! J onrv HARDY, . * . MARY M. HARDY. 4 Concord Square, Boston, April 3d, 1876, A April 22, 1876. AGAINST MRS. HARDY. .Pursuing our inquiry in this matter of the genuineness of the molds produced in New York by Mrs. Hardy, we ob- serve: 1st. That our statement of the 23d of March and its facts are not contradicted nor denied by Mrs. Hardy, the Banner of Light, nor any one in its last issue. 2d. That statement, besidn other facts not necessary now tobe used-, asserted that dry cotton wool was found in the molds claimed to have just come from paraﬁine ﬂoating on water; that parafﬁne placed in the pail weighed twenty ounces when it went into the pail and twenty ounces when it came out of the pail, while the mold claimed by the Har- dys to have come from it, weighed two and one-half ounces; that the weighing was done on an apothecary’s scales which were accurate; that when the seams of the bag were known to be out of Mrs. Hardy's reach, no mold was produced. .‘3d. From the above we deduce that, measured by the standard selected by Mrs. Hardy, viz: weighing, these New York molds did not comefrom the paraﬂine in the pail (as claimed)‘ but did come from some other source. We wait for an explanation as to what that source was. In the absence of such explanation from the Banner of Light. Mr. Hardy, or any one else, we propose in our next to state where they may have come from, much more naturally and easily than from the spirits or the water, and how they could have been deposited under the table by Mrs, Hardy, which Mr. Hardy in the Banner desires we should do. BRONSON MURRAY, 238 W. 52d St. Trros. K. AUSTIN, 418 W. 57th St. MARGARET Z. AUSTIN. “ ELVINA ANN LANE, 66 Park Ave. MOLLIE A. LANE, “ JANE DEF. HULL, 140 W. 42d St. LITA BARNEY SAYLES, ' " 4; %7 BUSINESS NOTICES. The address of Nellie L. Davis, is 235 Washington street Salem, Mass. 4 ' WANTED—A competent lady associate in the conduct of a Radical Magazine. Albert, 205 East 14th street. To LET.—A nicely furnished front room, 820 Washington st., Boston. To arﬁrst-class clairvoyant or physician, this is a desirable opportunity. Call and see. Dr. N. G. COLE. M . 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CONTAINING N ew, Startling and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which ‘disclose the Oriental Origin of all the Doctrines, Principles, Preeepts and Miracles of the I ‘ CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furnishing a. Key for unlocking many of its Sacred Mysteries, besides compni-sin.g the History of Sixteen Oriental Crueiﬁed Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “ The Biography ‘of Satan ” and “The Bible of Bibles” (C01Il])7‘l8‘l72{] 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- ile the varied information contained in it must have cen 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 meansa mere collation of views or statistics: throughout its entire course the author—as will be seen by his title-page and chapter-lieads—folIows a deﬁnite line of research and argument to the close, and hi conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. C O N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; Cllntroduction; Address to the e . T83’- Chap. 1.-——Riva1 Claims of the Saviors. Chap. 2.—Messianic Prophecies. Chap. 3.-—Pr'ophecies by the ﬁgure of a Serpent. Chap. 4.-—Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. . _ Chap. 5.»-Virgin 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.—Tit1es of the Saviors. . Chap.h10.——The S‘ ‘viors of Royal Descent but Humble Birt . ‘ . ‘ Chap. 11.-—Christ’s Genealogy. . Chap. 12.-—-The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tipn in Infancé. _ _ - . Chap. 13.—The aviors exhibit Early Proofs of Di- vinit . Chap. i:1.—The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.——The Saviors_are real Personages. Chap. 16.——S'ixteen Saviors Cruciﬁed. Cliiap. 1'7.-—’l‘he Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci-- xion. . Chap. 18.—,—Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. l9.——Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.—Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- iors. ‘ » Chap. 21.-—,T-he Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe Ori 'n. * Chap.g12z.—-The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.—The Diyine “Word”.of Orienta Origin. Chap. 24.—The Trinity very aneiently a current Hea- then Doctrine. _ Chap. 25.-—Abso1ution, or the Confession of Sins, of Heathen Origin. _ Chap. 26.——Origin of Baptism by Water, Fire, Blood, and the Holy Ghost. . Chap. 27.—-The Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen Ori in. Chap.g‘28.—Anointing' with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.-How Men,_including J ssus Christ, came to be worshi ed as Gods. Chap. 30.—-Sacred Cycles explaining the Advent of the _Gods,“ the Master—key. to the Divinity of Jesus Christ. ,, Chap. 31.—4Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental S’ stems: _ Chap. 32.—— hree Hundred and _Forty-six striking Analogies between Christ_and Crishna. Chap. 33.-—Apo1lonius, 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- trieeof‘ Divine Incarnation. ‘Chap. 36.-—Philosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. _ Chap. 37.—Physiological_ Absurdities of the Doctrine of theDivine Incarnation, . _ _ Chap. 38*‘-—:;A Historical View of the.Divin1ty of Jesus 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 Chr‘s .: : .. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1876-04-22_11_21
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-04-22_11_21
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 22 (April 29, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2121
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-04-29
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: s .1‘ Am ' ‘ . Al PBOGBEiSSI‘g1FR]d3E LIVES 2 ' BREAKING. THE WAY FOR” FUTIIRE. G-ENERATIQNS. Vol. xI.—’No.: 22.—w1:o1e No. 282 NEVv?;YoRK," APRIL 29, 1876. PRICE. TEN cENTs. Infthe days'of the coicelgof A the seventh angel, th mystery’ of God shall ‘be _ﬁm'sheol.——St. John the Divine. I , 3, _ j _ g. A - Whereof I was maole a.m1Im'ster to preach the un- searchable ‘riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning‘ of ~ the world hath been hid in Gool.——Pa2u1. “ I‘ " I .4Ag_ V? CO-OPERATIVE COLONY AND INDUSTRIAL ‘ I l SCHOOL. » VINELAND, N. J ., March 14, 1876. Mrs. M. L. Heath: " ’ MADAM: A prospectus of the Potomac Colony and Practi- cal University has been handed me for examination. I have looked it over carefully, and ﬁnd in it much to approve,‘ nothing to cqndemn; but I think some things are not ex- pressed that ought to be understood before your plan can be -entered upon, practically. You may regard me as one who is entirely in...
Show mores .1‘ Am ' ‘ . Al PBOGBEiSSI‘g1FR]d3E LIVES 2 ' BREAKING. THE WAY FOR” FUTIIRE. G-ENERATIQNS. Vol. xI.—’No.: 22.—w1:o1e No. 282 NEVv?;YoRK," APRIL 29, 1876. PRICE. TEN cENTs. Infthe days'of the coicelgof A the seventh angel, th mystery’ of God shall ‘be _ﬁm'sheol.——St. John the Divine. I , 3, _ j _ g. A - Whereof I was maole a.m1Im'ster to preach the un- searchable ‘riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning‘ of ~ the world hath been hid in Gool.——Pa2u1. “ I‘ " I .4Ag_ V? CO-OPERATIVE COLONY AND INDUSTRIAL ‘ I l SCHOOL. » VINELAND, N. J ., March 14, 1876. Mrs. M. L. Heath: " ’ MADAM: A prospectus of the Potomac Colony and Practi- cal University has been handed me for examination. I have looked it over carefully, and ﬁnd in it much to approve,‘ nothing to cqndemn; but I think some things are not ex- pressed that ought to be understood before your plan can be -entered upon, practically. You may regard me as one who is entirely in favor of the general objects set forth in your prospectus. (1.) But I canlgive no assurance of practical co-operation till I know morexof practical details than is set forth in your“prospectus. (2.) You speak of calling a meeting of subscribers to perfect further arrangements. I must know the result of that meeting before I could bind myself to become a Colonist, because its action might defeat. or run counter, to my highest convictions of Liberty, Equality and Justice. * ”‘ (2.) In most efforts in the past, that professed to be in the right direction upon this subject, the inner de- sign wa s Self. Let this be avoided in your movement, and all will go smoothly. Respectfully, R. GARTER. REPLY. Editors Weekly: . The foregoing extract from Professor Garter’s letter is but a sample of» scores we are daily receiving on the same subject,- and I beg the privilege of making a general reply through ‘the’ medium of your columns. Allow me to reply, by changing the numerical order of ‘the subjects of inquiry,‘ byﬁrst an- swering (3): T Knowing that the most fruitful cause of failure in the ef- forts heretofore made in this direction, was the “inner” selﬁshness of one, or afew leaders, who stuck their arbitrary stakes. marked out theiflimited boundaries, promulgated their patriarchal“ details,” and then invited subjects, or follower, rather than co-operators, to join them, we have carefully avoided this fatal rock on which there has been so much splitting. Believing, from the hearty approval of hun- dreds of correspondents, that our School System, coupled with a proper, co-operative, Social and Industrial System for adults, would meet the demands and needs of the day, we, in our prospectus. designed to present, or. suggest, only a general plan, or ground-work, leaving the detailed ﬁlling- up, as well as the location, even, to the joint voice and wis- .,dom of those who were to associate with us. Prof. G. is but oneof hundreds who have expressed themselves “ entirely in fayorof the general objects” set forth in the prospectus, and, like him, “ fail to see suﬂicient of practical details” to _ pledge assurance of ‘substantial. and practial co-operation. In this they all display that caution, prudence, and kind of good, practical common sense that warrants success when they do see, approve of, and adopt the “details" notexpressed. If I, and my few personal associates, had professed to possess the wisdom, and arrogated to ourselves the prerogative, to legislate and arrange details, rules and regulations for the observance of the large number whom we invited to associate with us, we would, in my opinion, have displayed a degree of’ »ar‘bitrary egotism which-would render us unﬁt co-operators. and unworthy associates. Now we desire as many as agree with us in the “general objects -set forth,” to meet us in convention. at the Hill-side Home, Carversville, Bucks Co., Pa., as set forth in Circular N o. -2 (which can be had by ad- dressing me at the Home), and assist us in_ elaborating, de- signing, planning and establishing. the missing link——t~he de- tails. Let us _hold a post-mortem on all defunct methods; studythe causes of failure, and devise a remedy; ascertain the’ defects of’ oldisystems, and substitute new safeguards.‘ Let a‘ harmonious “seventy-five,” more ‘or less, pick them- selves out from among hundreds,and let them agree upon de- tails and a location, Potomac or elsewhere. {Start out harmo- The.trath- shall make you j"ree.-—Jesus. ' - I niously. understandingly, wisely. Then, if our motives are pure, our souls purged of selﬁshness, and imbued with the high and=noble principles of “ Love thy neighbor as thyself,” and “Peace on earth and good-will to men,” we cannot fail, but will continue to growiinsbeautiful grandeur and parties who adopt another ceremony that is equally legal’ God-like symmetry: and harmony, Euntil =our Homeiis reality a “ Union Station on the ‘Royal Road, where kindred spirits, in the form and out,~can meet and hold sweet com- . munion; where the weary and sick, in body and spirit, can ﬁnd rest and health; where the blind’ in error can ﬁnd light, . and where the poor down~trodden and outcast can ﬁnd guardian angels to whisperfinto their souls swords ofcheer and sympathy, and point them to the path of virtue and hap- happiness.” ' ‘ ‘ - I I ' - Believing thelabove statement to be of generalinterest to your readers, I solicit for it a place in your WEEKLY. Re- spectfully, ' ‘ L. M. HEATH. O :—..__. THE PROPHETIC PRESENT. STOCKHOLM, N. Y. April 1876., Editors Weekly--Bro. Parker Pillsbury (see WEEKLY, April 8th), touched the corruption of the higher political life of our nation with a heavy but very j usthand. It seems tome that he closed his article t'oo*soon,: and before alluding to ‘the most hopeless fact in our condition. The people, not all, but I fear a majority of them, are corrupt. From a spirit of political clannishness, bigotry, and more or less real dis- honesty, they will vote for one of their party- in church and in State— whom they know to be of doubtful honesty, when the most honet man can be had as well. Seeing and know- ing this to be so, I have little hope for good in any possible “ revolution.” I am old and weak in body and in mind, but . I do not forget what it may cost a poor and helpless man to state and repeat such unpopular truths. The people are corrupt. Men liehabitually, and by rule, in their “resolu- tions” and professed principles, in political gatherings, from the district school—house up to Congress. A strictly honest man stands a small chance to gainan ofﬁce of value, from the town meeting up to the State and Nation. 1 do not see more honesty in religious‘ organizations—in the churches. Wit- ness a sampleor two in the late Beecher ea;-pa/rte congrega- tional council in Brooklyn, and the earlier troubles in the Methodist Book Concern. The like happens all about us. Where has justice and integrity ﬂed to? ‘I believe China is many thousand years in advance of us injpolitical honesty if not in the general morals of her people. With us, men may adulterate nearly every article of drink and provision with little risk. We eat and drink poison daily. Good lawsyif we had them, as we have not. could not be executed here; if they could, our prisons could not holdione in one hundred of our criminals. I know men in good standing in church and in society, unrebuked, who are proper subjects for States—prison by such laws as we have. For more.‘ than ten years nearly allnthe people, not all by any mean, have been insane in waste and extravagance. All this must stop before we can have a permanent and healthy relief from hard times. Any relief short of this will be spasmodic and be followed by worse times. Twenty years ago a poor man could, in the country, be buried when dead, “decently” for twelve dollars; now, less than forty is not “decent.” The change in the rich is not less. If these were my last words, which I think they may be on this matter, I must » tell my countrym_en_, that till the people generally improve . , themselves, and improve or reject the counsel of some of "their unwise radical leaders, a “ revolution” may, perhaps must, come; buttit will add to the sufferings of the poor, and be more likely to leave ourcountry worse off. All revolutions do not improve the condition of the poor, or of the country. The ,“ destruction of property” will injure the poor vastly more than it does the rich. I pray, that my poor brothers may not be drivengby their own bad hearts orby unwise counsels to injure themselves. . I beg voters to, break every tie, incliurcli or in State, that prevents their voting for and promoting the best, wisest and mosthonest -men they know. If this could begin in the towns._it would soon reach Con- gress. It is 45 years since L.t9pk;.,...a stand for “woman’s rights,” defying. all prej,y1diccs.5 Sincethe Boston“‘W. N. women” virtually sold their vote,_ before they got it, to a corrupt party for less than a_song o.r a mess of pottage, I have little hope for immediate good in politics from woman.. In love to all, both poor and rich. AUSTIN KENT. 4 ‘ ' .‘ /' _REPUDIATING AND YET FULFILLING THE LAW. BY/H WARREN CHASE. Some of our friends seem to go into extacies ever the\pub- lie repudiation of certain kinds of marriage ceremonies by bringing them into matrimony, and under the law regulat- ing it,.as inexorably as the rejected ones, and by which they live, and try to ’love, as exclusively as those who are married V by the God established ceremony of a Catholic priest. Our —_ friend, Susie Gilbert, and her companion. in ‘Indiana, had a legal trial after their self—constituted marriage ceremony and public repudiation of any other party’s interference, and the Court decided, as of course it should, that they were legally‘ married, and had married themselves by declaring they loved each other and would live‘,together. Living together as man and wife, and exclusively, had previously been decided to be marriage. even though no ceremony of any kind had been performed, and the property been decreed to offspring accordingly, and that, too, by courts of the highest jurisdic- tion. Any ceremony, or no ceremony, brings parties who live together as man and wife, under the marriage laws, where there is no legal barrier to such relation, and where they are exclusive in such relations. This is assumed to constitute . marriage, and. such parties are, under the law in all respects, except, perhaps, that part requiring divorce in case of‘sepa- ration, and the ceremonial marriage afterward, and that has not, to our knowledge, been tried yet or settled by any legal decision. When Lee Miller and Mattie Strickland come before the‘ public with their declaration of love and union in life, they are as fully married, if there be no legal barrier to their marriage, as if they had been married by a bishop and four priests in presence of a crowd of witnesses; the law is fill»- ﬁlled and .its requirements complied with, 0 what can be the diiferenee to them or anybody else how they get into the meshes of the law that makes her his property? To us it seems useless to repudiate one form and adopt another with the same eifect, except so far as it ignores the business and oiﬁce of the magistrate and the clergyman, and the ceremony as religious. The law and its cruel barbarisms will not be put down in this way. We must expose its wickedness, and get * it repealed and removed from the statute books; but while . it remains there we are compelled to submit to it or stay out of the family relations which it attempts to regulate, since it assumes control over all parties who live in such relations, no matter how they get there. We cannot see that anything is gained by the air-line or short route. It seems too much like J ulia in Byron, who, declaring she “ never would con- sent, consented.” We never have resisted the marriage law ' nor the fugitive slave law, but declare both wicked, cruel and wrong, and work for the repeal. MRS. STEWART PRO _AND CON. . PRO. Editors Weekly: Having read your Erecent editorials upon “;Fraudulent Manifestations ” with deep interest, and feeling assured you desire to know all the facts you can obtain in relation to the manifestations occurring at Terre Haute, through the mediumship of Mrs. Stewart, I give you the following, and if you deem them worthy, please publish them in your valu- able paper. On the 12th day of February, 1876, I arrived at Terre Haute, and on the evening of theyvsame day I attended a cir- cle at Dr. Pencels. I did not see any of my spirit friends that night. ' “Wm” - The next evening, February 13th, I attended a circle with the same result. ' I On Monday evening, February 14th, 1876, I attended a cir- cle at ‘Dr.., Pence’s. There were present about ;25 persons, amongifwhom‘ was Mrs. M. B. Cary,469 North Dearborn .street, Chicago, Ill., who sat next to me. On this occasion a spirit came out oflthe cabinet, whom I recognizedias my bro- ther John; he came to me, bowed, and shook hands with me in the same peculiar manner he was wont to ldovwhen living in the earth form. I looked at him closely, and am positive if ever I saw him in earth life I" saw him then; there can be no mistake about it, if I am to trust the evidence of my senses. , He did not speak but returned to the cabinet, and, after a time, came out of the cabinet again, when both doors of the cabinet were thrown wide open, and while he was out- 1. M‘/” gv 27 2 ,,,./ £91 WOODHULL as OLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. April 29,,‘1s76. side of the cabinet I could plainly see the mediiim, Mrs. Stewart, sitting in her place inside the cabinet. I On Tuesday evening, February 15th, I attended a circle at the same place, but owing to unfavorable conditions no manifestations occurred, and the money was refunded tothe audience. ‘ ‘ b On Wednesday evening, February 16th, I attended the cir- ole, but‘ owing to the bad weather not many visitors were present. At this time my brother came out of the cabinet; I sawhim even plainer than I did. on Monday night. He came to me. and ‘shook hands, and while he was with _me I saw Mrs.’_ Stewart sitting in her place in the cabinet, the doors. being wide open. At this seance six spirits came out of the cabinet. One, a militaryoﬂicer, dressed in military uniform, with epaulets, etc. ; and a lady present said she re- cognized him as her brother. ’ A little boy then came out, who appeared to be from ‘ﬁve to eight years old, and was recognized by Mr. Gary as her son; he kissed her and called her “ Mama.” 1 My sister came; stood close to me and shook hands. I saw her features distinctly, and she was dressed in black, just as she used to be on earth ; and, while she was close to me, I saw Mrs. Stewart sitting in the cabinet. Then. Mrs. Stewart steppedtout of the cabinet, accompa- nied by a spirit, who gave her name as Belle; they walked together on the platform, and some one suggested that they be weighed on a Fairbank’s scale which was then placed upon the platform. Mrs. Stewart and the spirit, Belle, to- gether then stepped upon it, and Dr.Forden, of New Or- leans, three times undertook to weigh them; 1stweight......... ...... 96 lbs. 2d “ ...... '75 “ 3d “ ..... 56 “ The spirit, Belle,‘ then said she could not keep control unless she placed her medium" back in the cabinet, which being done, Belle came out again alone. She turned to me, and asked if I could weigh her? I told her I would try. She stepped on the scales, when I found I had not weights enough; then, again, she did not appear to weigh anything. After the seance closed, Mrs. Stewart came out of the cabi- net; I requested her to step on the scales. and she weighed 125 pounds. On Thursday morning, February 17th, I attended a pri- vate circle, at same place. I invited Mr. Cary and her un- cle, Mr. James Clark, of Chicago, to be present. A My sister came, dressed in black as before, shook hands with me andkissed me. I saw the medium, Mrs Stewart, sitting in the cabinet when the spirit came out to me. Then my brotherJohn again stepped out, walked up to me and shook hands. I asked him if he could not talk with me? Upon which he went back into lhe cabinet and closed the doors. He then threw the doors wide open and stood in the doorway, and while he stood there I saw the medium, Mrs. Stewart, sitting in her place in the cabinet. He then spoke and said to me, “James, I am sorry Mr. L. could not have stayed, I should like to have shown myself to him ; but the conditions were such I could not do it.” While he was thus talking his material‘ form commenced growing shorter and shorter, until his head was on the ﬂoor, and while looking at this strangephenomenon, "I distinctly saw his spiritual form in full above. Mrs. ‘Cary, who sat on my left, observed: “ There is some- thing I never saw before.” I asked her what she saw, I still keeping my eyes on the strange sight. She replied, “ I saw your brother’s spirit form above his dematerializing form.” He dematerialized fully in our presence, at the same time the doors of the cabinet were wide open, and we could plainly see Mrs. Stewart sitting in her place in the cabinet. Please allow me to say that Mr. L., above alluded to, meant a gentleman who came to Terr‘e«Haute with me, and was a particular friend of my brother John. Then a lady spirit, very ﬁnely dressed, came out of the cabinet, making deaf and dumb signs, whom I immediately recognized. I knew her in 184.4, in Columbus, Ohio. She turned her‘ back to me, and showed me her long curly hair, which reached more than half way down her person. She was very proud of it when in the earth life. Then Mrs. Cary’s little spirit boy came out of the cabinet, and his uncle recognized him, as well as Mrs. Cary. We saw Mrs. Stewart in the cabinet as before. ' Thelast seance I attended at Dr. Pence’s was on Thursday night, February 17th. There was a large number present, and a number of manifestations took place. My brother J ohn_came and bid me good—bye. , The spirit, Belle, came out of the cabinet, and, in presence of all, knit two mittens, Mrs. Cary holding the yarn which was maimed by the spirit to be materialized yarn. The time occupied in knitting the two mittens, I should judge, did not exceed ﬁve minutes. -I distinctly saw the kniting com- mence, and watched its progress to completion; and while this was going on we con medium, Mrs. Stewart, sitting in her place in the cabinet- One of these mittens was pre éented to me by the spirit . Belle, with the request that I w ould hang it up under the lady’s portrait in my store And I will here state tha I have the portrait of Mrs. Wood- hull hanging up in my sto .. In justice to Mrs. Stewart, and the committee, Messrs.- , Pence, Hook and Connor, I must say that during my stay among them, I did not see the slightest evidence of fraud or deception. . V ~ The names ofthe lady and gentleman mentioned in my article, I have taken the liberty to use, without asking their consent, but Ilfeelasssured they will not take exceptions on this occasion. Your friend, JAMES H. HASLETT. Ponr HURON, St. Clair Co., Mich., April 4th, 1876. ‘ . CON.» “ Stealing the livery, of heaven to serve the devil in.” Dem‘ Weekly: I feel it my duty to oppose the claims of the “ Terre Haute Committee,” ence, flock and Conner, who have made themselves .-quite notorious by sustaining Mrs. Stewart as a genuine medium for materializations. I was at the Chicago convention, and attended Mrs. Stewart’s “se- ance,” and witnessed the exposure by Mrs. Woodhull, who had not been in the room ﬁfteen minutes when she remarked to me that “she saw’ clairvoyantly it .was all a fraud.” When the cabinet was upset by one of the ungulllble and unterriﬁed, there was a scene for harmonial philosophers to‘ contemplate. The hearts of all present were melted to pity, ,mixed with contempt. for the bogus medium who made fran- tic attempts to conceal the very material evidences of her, abominable imposition. ‘ _ Committeeman Hook was loud in denouncing the act of detecting her as “ ungentlemanly,” and as doing violence to her conditions, etc ., etc. But when she confessed the fraud- ulency of the entire transaction, and showed how the thing wasdone, from playing the banjo by the materialized’-ola Ne-? ; gro, to the white alabaster saints 4 with golden curls, he was silenced. She then told us all about how she had concealed the trappings under her back hair and other equally‘inge— nious places, and how she baffled the scrutiny of the ladies’ investigating committee. She ‘then cried piteously, and said she was a poor woman, and had to wash for a living, etc. lM’rs."W’oodhul'1 "told her she had "better far remain poor and honest than gain wealth by “ stealing the livery of heaven to serve the devil in ” by “ imposing on the credulous, 7‘and lead-‘-, 1 ing them to think they were beholding and addressing darling friends g‘o‘ne'befor'e.”“ Nothing can be more recreant to the sacredness of the love of our spirit friends than such monstrosities opalmedoﬁ‘ as spiritual communion. . » Bro. Hook, after taking in the entire situation of the “lit- tle unpleasan_tness,?’ became as pale as death, and said “ ten vininutes ago I would have given_two hundred dollars toany one who would discover any fraud in her manifestations.- Then he was honest, and acknowledged himself terribly gulled. But now I cannot say I think he is honest, for a few weeks since when Mrs. E. W. H. Beck, of Delphi, Ind., was at Terre Haute attending those sean'ces,sho5, being an excellent medium herself,saw through the operation at once. But Committee-man Hook ﬂew into a violentrrage, and shook his ﬁst in her face, and said what Byron Reed had told her concerning the Chi- cago eazpose “ was a lie.” Such conduct needs_ no comment. The glorious cause of Spiritualism, per so, cannot be injured by suchgtransactions, but its acceptance can be greatly post- poned, and persons can be as walls of darkness preventing the light_ of truth from shining into hungry souls who are eagerly seeking the light. The Committee’s “ ﬁnancial abil- ity ” is their stronghold. Had they expended as much of their ‘‘ ﬁnancial ability” for the cause of truth as has Victoria C. Woodhull and many others, they would be like the gene- rality of Spiritualists-—inot very ﬂush. The fact of their not paying the one thousand dollars, fairly forfeited at Chicago, is evidence that the ﬁnancial ability is simply used as bun- combe to intimidate into silence parties who know too much. Even admitting that she has some mediumistic powers, which'I doubt, she cannot be relied on, for the fact that she is tricky is too thoroughly apparent to every thinking mind to allow her manifestations to have any importance save to the gulilble few who seem to glory in being deceived- When- ever George Washington takes the trouble to take on a mate- rialized form, the magnetic elements must be pure and truth- ful. He “ could not tell a lie,” even when a lad, and he surely would not mingle in corruption at this advanced state of his development. Let us try well the spirits and see whether they are of Washington or Arnold. ‘ My kingdom for truth. BYRON REED. ANOTHER. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 7', 1876. Editors Woodhull &: Claﬂz”n’s Weekly : A , As one of those present at the exposure of Mrs. Stewart at Chicago, in September. 1873, I do not hesitate to indorse your statement in every particular. I stood beside Mrs. Stewart almost immediately after the frail structure, called. a cabinet,,had been overturned by Mr. Anthony Higgins, and received from her hands (Mrs. Stewart’s) the false whiskers and other portions of the disguises which she had secreted in the skirt of her loose wrapper, and which she informed us she was in the habit of concealing in the “ facing ” of said wrap- per, whenfshe entered the room. I witnessed the seance held after thisexposure, she assuring us that if we would have the cabinet‘ replaced, she would “ show us how she did it,” which she accordingly did, producing, by means of a piece of white cloth and gilt tinsel, the white-draped “ spirit arm and gold bracelet,” which had been pronounced so “ spritual” and “unearthly in its beauty ” by the enthusiastic, when it was evolved after much singing of I“ Home, sweet Home,” some ‘» half hour before. Also. with the same, piece_of cloth and false whiskers attached to elasticcord, did she “ m_ateria.l_ize” the head of 9‘ turbaned Turk out of her own: the poor soups "tout distinction of 1 sex, can a true republican government he husband meanwhile, like a second Adam, declaring that “ if there was deception it was the woman who got it up, forthe didn’t know nothing aboutiit.” Of course the fact that Mrs.’ Stewart has once practiced fraud is novevidence that she continues to do so: but it should induce the utmost caution on the part of those who are ‘now investigating the phenom— , ena said to occur in her presence. Yours, for the whole .;;1-uth. , I LAURA’_KENDRICK, , ,1 * ~ ' (formerlyllauraCuppySmith.) _ _ p ‘ v , ,_ p , . .. . _ 1 A lwith view of arranging a vigorous State campaign. STILL ANOTHER.‘ I was at the Chicago expose of Mrs. Stewart, and was one of those whom shehad humbugged. While she was char— ; acterizing a negro boy, having previously presented ‘several * other ‘characters at the same seance, some one stepped rapidly derfully astonished to discover the fraud, for there she stood before the gaze of all, unveiled. She had a mask on,” which —. she gave up, together with whiskers and some otherithings ' that she acknowledged that she used to‘ perpetrate the fraud. A I She acknowledged- that she was playing fraud, and was ter- ribly humiliated’ because she‘ was detected. ‘She’ plead“ear- ' nestly to not be published to the world, and promised not todo it again. Mr. Stewart afterward said to me that he had no idea that his wife had those masks. At this seance there the female of his race.”¥DarimSn. were several who the day before had thought they recognized their friends in the presentations made by the medium. CIRCLEVILLE, 0., March 13. S. R. Eownnn. A fact, ‘is God in’ manifestation; just as really*so, when outwrought in the material, as wheifuhnvciled by the spiritual world; just as truly so when expressed by li§etjero‘doxy, as when enunciated by orthodoxy; forif there be‘aGreat First Cause, allufacts-must be the fruition of that cause‘. ' C ‘ - ’ E.*7BRINroN. jL'()VE MAKING ’Tis a dear little hand, i Half assisting My efforts,to kiss it again, That, at the last moment Whewl makes my ear tingle with pain. ’Tis a lovely blue eye, Half assenting When I ask for a kiss ere I go; ' And’ ripe, pouting lips, V » Not dissenting, _ ;fl‘empt'me on tcfa ‘£t1;liIl8.“b10V:VV. . 3; , - V - , But that dear little hand, Loving, coaxes; ' . Those velvety,lips,«pout full of bliss; ‘ And'fI soon find the blows ‘Are but hoaxes—- . Little stings “ to’ add zest to the kiss.” NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCI ATION—1876. The National Woman Suffrage Association will hold its .Ninth Annual Convention, in Masonic Hall, New York, corner Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third street, May 10th and 11th, 1876. - I C ’ t This convention, occurring in the Centennial year of the iRepublic, will be a mostimportant one. The underlying principles of government will this year be discussed‘ as never before; both foreigners and citizens will queryas to how’ closely this country has lived up to its own principles. The long debated question as to the source of the governing power, was answered 5 century ago’ by the famous Declara- tion of Independence which shock to the ‘foundation all rec- ognized power, and proclaimed the right of the individual as above all forms of government; but while thus declaring it- self to be founded on individual right, this nation has failed to secure the exercise of their inalienable right of self-gov- ernment to _one—half the individuals of the nation. It has held the women of the nation accountable to laws they have had no share in making, and taught as their one duty, that docrine of t rar'1ts— un uestioning obedience. Y ‘ Liberty to-day is therefore but the heritage of one-—half the people, and the centennial will be but the celebration of the independence of one-half the nation. The men alone of this country live in a Republic, the women enter the second hun- dred years of/national life, as political slaves. 4 i That no structure is stronger than its weakest point, is a law of mechanics that will apply equally to government. In so far asthis government has denied justice to women, it is weak, and preparing for its own downfall. All the insurrec- tions, rebellions and martyrdoms of history have grown out of desire for liberty, and in woman’s heart this desire is as strong as in man’s. The history of this country cannot" be written without mention of woman; at every vital time in the nation’s life, men and women have worked together; everywhere has Woman stood by the side of father, brother, husband, son, in defence of liberty. The-work of the women of the Revolution, is wellknown; without their aid the Re- public could never have been established; their patriotism ‘and sacriﬁce equalled that of the m_en,abut while the men have reaped their reward, women are still suffering under all ,-the oppressions complained of in 1776. » Theﬁve great principles recognized in the Declaration of Independence, are 2 '1st.- The natural rights of individuals. ' 2d. T-heexact "equality of those rights. ea. T-hat rights not delegated_ ‘by individuals, are retained. by individuals. ’ H p 4 _ . ' . 4th. That no person can exercise the rights of others with- out delegated authority. 1 _ , . 5th. That non-use of rights does not destroy them... Under these principles therights of every man,"’bl'ack and whit'e,“native-born and naturalized, have been s‘ecured;' but only"throug-h'*equal, impartial suffrage for all citizens, ‘with- established. ‘ A k ' « All persons who«beIie*ve‘ these principles should be carried out in spirit and in truth, are invited to be ‘preseint at ‘the May convention. I. ‘ ' ‘ v ‘ 1 H p , j . MATILDA J OSLYN Gxen, President. SUSAN ,B.xANTHONY, Ch’niEx. Com. : 3 I — ‘N.’ ‘B.——'l‘h‘e' New ‘York State Woman I Suffrage _ Association (organized in'18G‘.l)‘ will conduct proceedings the second day, Mrs. L." Dnvnnnnx BLAKE, Acting Pres’t. , ELEANOR’ KIRK, Sec’y. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Chfn Ex. Com. I @Allcomn1_unications.or contributions for either Soci- ; lety, should be addressed to to the cabinet and demolished it. The audiencewas won- , LILLIE Dnvnunux BLAKE, .. 106 East 55th St., New York. “ Man‘ -is theionly being of‘ the animal creation that abuses ’ HWE‘ notice a very able letter"upon woman’s wages in The Sunday Telegram, Springﬁeld, Mass; from the pen of our friend F.‘ R. Ladd :‘ should like to make extracts from it, but our limited space forbids it. ’ “i l . 5 g . ti’ . {ya - \ \\-—.«r- r . 7&v§.?,v,...,:.~.«« , , . 5 ‘i _ __ ._,-,,_..»__~.-2,. . . «— -'~ “‘ __.,. - “27..;.::¢‘;a; '-‘e.::’s-;—-‘---~“ Aps: ‘gt, M6,, M‘ns;'L.HARDY’ AND THE caox jTEsT——LETT_ER_ ERQM , DR.GARnNER._". ,_ _» _ To the Editor of the Herald: 5 During the 26 years that I have been lproiminently identiﬁed with 1 modern Spiritualisnl, my determination has been that whenever’, I‘ had occasion to public1y'make any statementsin regard'toan_y personal ex- periences, or of the‘ phenominal phases of mediumship which I have witnessed, I have always endeavored to- carefully guardmy: testi§rno,ny from exaggeration, andjto give. onlythe exact truth as I perceived it. In carrying out this,deter_m;in- ation I now ﬁnd myself underthe necessity of making an explanationto the public. V , - _ , ., , On’ Sunday evening, March 26th, a public seance was held in Paine—Memorial building, on which occasion a paraﬂine mold of ahand was produced in a locked, box through the mediumship of Mrs. M. M. Hardy, under what I announced to be strictly testcond-itions. The result was considered at the.-timeto be eminently satisfactory, and to fullysustain what my advertisement had claimed for it as a “crucial test.” Atthe close of the seance I announced it to be, according to my honest conviction,a perfect demonstration -—a conclusive test—and urged the scientiﬁc worldto the investigation of a‘ subject which allowed ‘of such direct and satisfactory meth- ods of veriﬁcation. Having no personal interest to serve, and being only desirous to present the public with the “truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” in relation to this great subject. Ifelt myselfunder the necessity of stating that subsequently an imperfection was discovered in the con- struction of the box, which-invalidated the claim I then made, that the production of the mold of a hand in said box should be considered a positive demonstration, a “crucial test,” that no human being in the earthly form could have assisted in the result. Since that time the box has been thoroughly examined and'the ‘defects remedied, and arrangements have been made for furthersittings to demonstrate the production of paraﬂine molds under the “crucial test” conditions pre- viously advertised. In the meantime We ask for a suspension of judgment upon this matter, until after further experi- ments. Let it be distinctly understood that the above men- tioned fact in no degree reﬂeots upon the wonderful me- , diumship of Mrs. Hardy, or upon her personal integrity. On the contrary I wish here and now to bear my testimony that by means of various sittings that I have had with her for the production of par-afﬁne molds, under what I consider test conditions, I am satisﬁed’ of the genuineness of “her mediumship. I await with intense interest the result of fur- ther investigations to obtain satisfactory results, which shall demonstrate one of thegreatest truths in the world’s history. Respectfully yours, H. F. GARDNER. - -Boston Sunday Herald. THE editorial staff of the New York Tribune is made up of twenty—three persons, ﬁve of whom are lady writers._ The entire force of the establishment, including attaches of the publishing, Areportorial, and mechanical departments, num- bers upwards of one hundred and ﬁfty persons. ' ‘ ._..:.—. PROPHECY MADE IN 1453. In twice twohundred years the Bear The Crescent shall assail, But if the Cook and Bullunite, I The Bear shall not prevail. But 10! in twice ten years again Let islam know and fear, I The Cross shall wax——the Crescent wane, Grow pale and disappear. It will be “ twice ten years ” _ next spring from the conclu- sion of the Crimean war. ‘ WHILE the Iowa House passed a bill in favor of woman suffrage. the-Senate has defeated, it by two majority. Pretty near a victory. ~ ’ ‘ ‘ ” I is —_..—..__u JBITS OF ‘FUN, COSTLY furniture: Indian bureaus. ‘CAN the man who carries Jay Gouid up stairs_.be accused of bearing the Paciﬁc male._ . A . _ t ‘ _ AN Old Dutchman froze his nose, . While thawing the frost out, he Said: “ I hat carry datrose forty year, unt he never k_freeze’hisself before. I noundcrstan dis. ting.” IN Ceylon, thelmarriage ceremony is the couple together by the thumbs. In usually put together by the ears. performed by tying this country they are "31:’!-]!}.l1eW fast mail train has been dubbed the “ Widow” by some _of_ the. postal service* attaches-becausel it ‘fetches the mails _much« quicker than any other train. ' SOME ineanrfellow, after saying there, is one physician to, every 300 inhabitants, adds that they begin this way, but after a while there are not so many inhabitants.—N. Y. Sun, ‘ THAT wasa shrewd girl, and not devoid of sense either, who remarked, when othengirls were —ma.king fun of her short skirts, and affected to be much shockedat _ the exhibi- tionltliereof at a part‘/y:,' “If yQI1_’d,only,p1_1l~1:up yourvdresgeg about your neck, where they ought to be, they’d be as short as mine!" She was not troubled any more. THE Reese River Reveille editorial makes the following im- portant statement: - _ g , . v ~ The pull—back_skirt is nothing new. It is mentioned in the Bible, where Mrs. Potiphar pulled back on the skirtof the garment worn by that member of the Egypt ,You,ng,Me,n’s Christiah Association, whose front name was Joseph. A I Pownn or IMAGINATION,-—The other ‘days. man took home a book containing‘ several. anecdotes showing the power of imasinationirand. ..=>»ﬂi6I‘ reading the.n:1:-to his: Wi.f.e.. he tenderly asid..= 9W».As1...se.1isaa .yoa msx:.some.tin;es ;—inas121.e that you hear‘me”'kissin'g the servant ‘girl in the other radar“ and ,wooi)in:oLLjasi cLA1rI.IN¢sr WEEKLY. A you see how base it would be to. accuse me of such a thing.” “John Henry,” she replied, ina smooth voice, “I; I ever imagine such a thing you’ll need a doctor within ﬁfteen minutes, no matter what that book says.” “CUSSED, if‘ the darned thing ain’t agoingl" was the sur- prised remark of a ,sight—seeing Granger from Maine, who ca ressedthe teethrofia circular} saw in a North,End plainng mm; and ‘now should _yo1_1_pr,opo.;u__nd to. him. that ﬁrst prob- lemn for young arithmeticians, “How many ﬁngers have you sadly reply, “Nary, stranger l”—Boston. Globe. « settled it_.« He jumped up from the table, and started for where the sun could shine on him, cxclaiming, “ Whoopee! Plenty damn cold grub. ! No cookee nuifl same like ice _wagon.——N. Y. Sun. A “WHo’s Herbert Spencer, pop ?” asked an inquiring Brook- continued the. lad, with the business air of a person who could keepright on asking questions till doomsday. »“A philosopher,” returned the father gravely, “is a man who never married-” him what he was doing. He replied, “ Shoost now nodings, Ihaf made arranchements to go into pizness.” “Glad to to hear it. What are you going intog” “Veil, I goes into partnership mit a man.” “ Do you put in much capital ?” “No, I doesn’t put in no gapital.” “Don’t want -to risk it, eh?” “N 0, but I puts in do experience.” “And he puts in the capital?” .‘Yes, dat is it. We goes into pizness for dree years; he puts in de gapital, I puts in do experience. At the end of dree years I will have de gapital and he will have do experience.” “ Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand; ’Twil1 soon be dark. Up! heed thine own aim, and God speed the mark.” LONGIN G. Oh, to see the new grass springing, ‘ And he not here! Oh, to see the sun awaking Another year! ‘ To hear the soft May winds caressing The budding trees; To know that violets are blooming Upon the leas; To see the birds return together From wandering!- The longing heart feels all its sorrow, In the spring. Appletohﬂs Journal. ' THE PHILOSOPHY or AFTER MARRIAGE.—“Y011 love me no longer,” said a bride of a few months to her better-half in his gown and slippers. “Why do you say that, Puss??? he asked, quietly, removing a cigar from his lips. “You do not caress me nor call me pet names, you no longer seek so anxiously for_my company," was the tearful answer. “ My notice a man running after a car? How he does run!-—over stones, through mud, regardless of everything till he reaches the car and he seizes hold and swings on. Then he quietly seats himself and reads his paper.” “And what_ does that mean ?’r’ “ An illustration, my dear. The car is as important to theman after he gets intas when he is chasing it, but the manifestation is no longer called for. I would have shot any- one who. put himself in my way when in pursuit. of you, has I would now shoot any one who would come between us; but as a proof of my love you insist on my running after the car.” BoRDENTowN, April 1st, 1876. answerthat we use the French method, which gives a new name to every third ﬁgure above millions. By this method each, thus : V A ' 000 000 _ 000 000 , ‘000 000 g I . - an "3 :5 2 :3 E -E .2: 2 S‘ I :2? ‘:3 ‘ '7: — E 5' .3 ' ":3; , ' 0'» 5‘ ca 2 [-1 D In aperiod of three ﬁgures we cannot possibly get thousand of millions; all we can -get is units, tens, hundreds of _mil- lions; units, tens, hundreds of billions, etc. , Daboll must entertain the idea that we use the English method of numeration which includes six ﬁgures in a period, -but he is mistaken; and the Rothschild who accumulated lion. . “ A. P. J. A (From the ,Brooklyn Eagle, April 7, 1876). ’MRS. WO0DHULL’S LECTURE. A. CHARACTERISTIC DISCOURSE IN THE ACADEMY OF ‘MUSIC LAST EVENING, ON “THE HUMAN BODY, THE TEMPLE or GOD.” At eight olclock last evening, over twelve hundred persons were seated in_the,.crches.tra and parquette ofthe Academy, 0l5;.1l4.1le5i-99,?-V¢?li;l?il1;g_Fl1.9.349933-13309 of .Mrs. . l§ic§qri.a O.;.:: Wood,-. hull, who was announced to lecture, on “The Human Body, Fleeze belly all A life. fname traduced were facts familiar to the thinking people of . the country, but the work to which she had set her hand was I dear to her heart and approved by her conscience, and with dear,” continued the aggravating wretch, “ did you ever‘ Dear Weekly: If Daboll shouldmeet some of our public; schoolchildren and question them concerning the methodf Of numeration usediin the United States’ they would readily 5 readers who need dental service to Dr. Koonz, at No. 1 Great ' Jones ‘Street, New York, who is both judicious and scientiﬁc the given number is divided into periods of three ﬁgures» S ﬁve hundred millions certainly had monopolized half a bil-’ . 8 the Temple of God.” After some delay the drop scene slowly ascended, and a magniﬁcient stage parlor scene was disclosed ~ Presently there was a rustle, and Mrs. Woodhull walked forth through the centre door i_n the rear. She was attired elegantly. Herdress was of wine colored velvet and brown silk. At her threat was a diminutive cluster of roses, and around her neck and wrists were lace ruffles‘. Her hair was neatly coiled in her neck and fastened with a white rose. In her hands she held a small open volume, bound in ‘scarlet, on which her eyes were fixed as she entered. Ad- on your. right ,hand?’-’ he wouid bite that lonely thumb, and ' vancing to the centre of the ‘stage, Mrs. Woodhjull raised her ‘ eyes, and repeated the following words: HIS teeth began to chatter over the ice—cream.' He but- I toned uphis jacket and swallowed another mouthful, That 3 “ ‘Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man deﬁle the temple of God, him shall G-od destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.’ First Corinthians, third chapter and sixteenth and seventeenth verses,” said Mrs. Woodhull, adding: “What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you? sixth chapter and nine- _ pf 11 f th h th _ ‘ H , f Eteenth verse.”,, Mrs.’§Woodhull then began her lecture, which lyn boy 0 is a er t e 0 er morning. ‘ e s a amous , “ , h 1 h ” I;was declamatory and declarative. English philosopher, my son. ’- And what s a p i osop er? ' -She condemned modern society and predicted for the pre- sent race of men a speedy end. She furnished statistics, showing the prevalence of impurity and crime, and attrib- 1 uted it all to the fact that mothers had not done their duty, I . either by obviating motherhood or by failing to instruct I GOT to chatting with a German acqaintance, and asked L their children in the science of reproduction. The essential point in the lecture was, that the existing re- lations of the sexes is practically bestial, that the bodies of men and women instead of being kept pure as temples wor- thy of God’s presence, are degraded by unbridled lust into pig-styes. In support of this proposition, Mrs. Woodhull used an abundance of illustrations that were in the highest de- gree explicit, and which the audience, as evidenced by their applause, considered apposite. Once or twice it seemed as '1‘ Mrs. Woodhull was going to discuss the scandal, but she made noldirect reference to it. That she had it in her mind was indicated by some general sentences about the social rottenness that has been discovered in we1l—known circles. In conclusion Mrs. Woodhull referred to her personal eﬂorts for the uplifting of her sex both politically and in domestic I That her position had been misrepresented and her the assistance of God she would, through ill report or good report, persist in it while life and strength lasted. She be- lieved that woman was designed to be the "partner and the _ equal of man, not the debased minister to a debased passion, or the occasional ornament of occasional gatherings, and to assistin putting woman in this her rightful place ,was the aim and purpose of her (Mrs. Woodhull’s) life. The future of the human. race depends upon the success or failure of this movement. While it lags man must continue in animalism; when it comes to fruition he will live in the freedom of un- trammelled intelligence and celestial impulses. This was the substance, or rather the line of argument of her lecture. At the end of her effort, Mrs. Woodhull was warmly ap- plauded and was presented with a beautiful star and pedestal of ﬂowers. .__.Q. 4 f ‘Cr . V EDITORIALS NoTIoEs. Lors WAISBROOKER can be addressed at Eureka, Hum- bolt County, California, during April Will take subscrip- tions for the WEEKLY. >7 LE0 MILLER AND MATTIE STRICKLAND will receive calls for lectures on liberal subjects. Engagements in_Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan particularly desired during the a spring months. Terms reasonable. Address Omro, Wis. ;WAnREN CHASE will lecture in Clyde, Ohio, April 9th; in Painesville, Ohio, April‘ 16th; in Geneva, 0., April 23d; in Akron, 0., April 30th; in Alliance, 0., the ﬁrst two Sundays _ of May; and in Salem, 0., the last two Sundays in May. Ad- dress accordingly. WE take special pleasure in calling the attention of all our in all departments of dentistry. His rooms are ﬁtted taste- fully andelegantly, and being constantly ﬁlled with the elite of the city, testiﬁes that his practice is successful. He ad- ministers the nitrous oxide gas with perfect success in all cases. THE next Convention of the Spiritualists of Van Buren County, Michigan, will be holden at Paw Paw, in Professor Cook’s Music Room, April 29th and 30th, commencing at 2 o’clock p. m. on Saturday and continuing over Sunday. Susie M.,;_’Johnson is engaged as one of the speakers. Let ‘ there be a general attendance of all interested, as the friends in Paw Paw and vicinity will spare no pains to make the Convention a success. R. BAKER, President. _:_...—,—.. THLI 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. 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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 sulgject to b0n0lage.—Paul. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then 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 recoeer.—Jesus. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 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- 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 ; OR, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST. ~ For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship 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 truthxwhich has not yet been introduced, but which, deﬁned in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself ISOWING AND REAPING; 03, ARE THEY nor YOUR FRUITS. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or ﬁgs of lhistles ? ' A A Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. , » _ , A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit; neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.‘ Wherefore by their fruits shall ye know them.-—St Matthew vii. 16, 17, I8 and 20. ‘ ~ _ ' Visiting the iniquities of the fathers on the children unto the third and fourth generation.——Exodus xx, 5. _ 0 generation of vipers, how can ye, being” evil, speak good things? for out of theabundance of the heart themouth speaketh- A good man, out ofthe treasure of his heart, bringeth forth good things; as an evil man, out of the evil. treasure, bringeth forth evil things.-—St. Matthew xii. 34 and '35. I If there is one fact of which it can be said that it is as fully established as anything can be, it is that of causation. Let the ﬁrst movements toward the evolution of this world have been what they may, they were its primal incipiency, and from them, spreading into vast varieties of forms, have come, legitimately and necessarily, all that is. It is im- possible that there should be a single fact in existence; im- possible that there should ever have been such an one, that is not the legitimate result of the cause or causes out of which it sprang. Allithe ills of the world—its miseries; vices, crimes, diseases, whether physical, mental or moral, as well as all the good, must be comprised in this. If there are evils among the people it is because there were evilcauses to produce them; if blessings of good abound, it is because their sources were good. Evil does" not come from good, neither good from evil, things. But though this is a ﬁrmly established fact; though it is a scientiﬁcally demonstrated fact: though it is an intellectu- ally admitted fact, how little does it descend into the prac- tical affairs of life. People in all phases of life go on doing the evil things, and expect that good will ﬂow to them. In to such a condition havethings come that thoroughly honest transactions in business are the exception rather than the rule. The best qualities of whatever is offered for sale rather than the worst, are presented to the purchaser, and every possible effort made to drive the best bargains, even ‘at the expense of downright lying, though this perhaps is not resorted to so often, as is a still more contemptible method covering it up. Our institutions even are the legitimate outcome of so- ciety—they are the fruits of our social ethics. What greater condemnation can be made of the morals of society are disgracing the pages of journalism? And yet why should the people ﬁnd fault? Indeed why should they not expect just such things to be the result of their own moral apathy. It is not the men who ﬁgure in the disgr-aces who are wholly to blame. They are but the creatures of circumstances that exist in theicommunity, for which the community and not they alone are responsible. To be sure they are the examples which come to thelsurface, but they come not more to show their own corrupt condition than they do to demonstrate the rottenness which lies behind them in the social body from which they spring. They are, in other words, the natural and to-be-expected fruits of our imperfect insti tutions and the moral torpitude that blasts the manhood of men and the womanhood of woman in all departments of society. Men live lives of_ which they are ashamed to have the community, which throughout is equally as had, be- come cognizant; women make use of the cloak - of marriage under which to do deeds for which they ostracise their less fortunate sisters who inhabit the known sinks of vice. Rail- road magnates and merchant princes live and die,'and re- ceive the honors of those among whom they lived, when, if their real lives were known; if the misery of whichthey were the cause had been;able to lift itself into the public gaze,though that same public were every whit as bad, they would have been anathematized and scarcely given Christian burial. In this way a vast system of hypocrisy has been inaugurated, and the moral rule has come to be “, No matter what you do so that it is not ‘found out.” And this is the tribute which vice pays to virtue through the medium of hypocrisy, mak- ing the world a vast living lie-—everybod y knowing that everything he looks upon is tainted, and yet pretending to believe that nothing whatever is other than it should be. Of what practical use to the world has been the demonstra- tion that good results cannot ﬂow from evil sources ? And yet. Christians pretend to believe in the teaching of Jesus, that they are to be known by their fruits. If this age and generation are to be known by their fruits, what shall we say, save that they are far gone ‘into decay? , But still. more than in any other regard do people deny ment of their life. -Here, none ever expect to be judged by their fruits. They go on living in conditions and relations that are an abomination to virtue and purity, and bearing children without the slightest idea that such children will be their legitimate fruits; never thinking when they are bad that the causes were back in theirparentage; never charg- ing upon themselves the miseries, sufferings, vices, crimes, diseases and premature deaths, with the agony of which the air is full. . And yet it is just here where all the other ills ﬁnd their source. Whatever evilthere may be in industry, We adoptthis diagram as emblematic of our future W9¥k: .4’ moral torpitude. business, especially, do they follow this practice. Indeed,- of deceit, which consists of either withholding the truth or ; ;man; and beyond all things else should they solemny pledge themselves never to bear another unwished-for child. in practice what they accept in theory, in the social depart-. ii; commerce, inpolitics, in moi-a.1s,.in ,re1igion~,‘—-it is charg- .April 29, .1s,7§_. able to social evils in which the people whoafterward be- , come the actors are born and bred. And yet, when one goes before the world to sound the alarm, to callattention to this awful but unrealized fact, almost to a person’ the world turns away and refuses to listen to the warning. The people blindly shuttheir eyes, their ears, "their hearts, and refuse to look at the horrid factsgwhich hem. them in upon . every side. __ i , , Let an attempt be made to present these evils to the pub- lic through the press, and its columns are shut against the “improper subject;” let mothers be warned of the evils that they are transmitting to their children, and theyjturn upon and often, with most ﬁendish rage, shut the door of respect- able society against the intruder. They will not listen to the voice that calls them to‘ judgment; that would show them the fruits that they are producing, but blindly rush onward to the destruction that is just in advance,vignoring the future danger and making merry in thepresent. But there is an inexorable judgment awaiting all such The wailings of agony that will rise from the hearts of future generations, will come up in judgment against, the mother’ and father of the present in mortal sorrow. It will soon come to be known that all the suffering that curses man, is the fruit of improper parentage, and the evils will be brought home to the doors of their progenitors, there to eat like molten lead into the vitals of their con- science, and to consign them to the lowest hell. In view of all these facts, we repeat what we have said often—that there is no other question before the people that is worthy to be thought of at all, when comparrd with the social question. _ This is the fountain head of all the good or ill that is, and it is crying aloud for recognition as such. The laws of reproduction ought to be fully understood by all persons before they should be allowed to reproduce, and the ‘organization of society should be changed and per- fected, having solely in view the production of better children. Whatever custom, law or usage that is found to interfere with the production of the best children, should be frowned down by the people, no matter how hoary it may be with respectability and age, or how sacred it may be held to be by religion. Mothers should meet in solemn conclave, declare their freedom, and put forth a declara- tion of their independence. They should most solemnly vow never again to permit their maternal functions to pass beyond their contro1;ﬁto be made to minister to the lusts of The demon, lust, which goes up and down the world seeking whom it may devour, and devouring all over whom it can than to call to review the list of oﬂicial delinquencies that Egain Control» Shmlld be deﬁed and ki119d, and W0ma11 a1011e can do this deed; for it is she who must bruise the ser- pent’s head; and she will bruise it and kill it effectually when she shall redeem herself from her present servitude to man. Let mothers go through the country and see the thousands on thousands conﬁned in loathsome prisons, in hospitals and asylums, and remember that those unhappy beings are the natural fruits of their depraved social rela- tions. Look at them, mothers! They are your fruit. By your fruit shall ye be known; by your fruit are ye known. Man, in his ‘reluctance to yield up the sway he has so long maintained over theperson of woman, stands in his own light, both individually and as a sex, for, if he but knew it, his ’,loss in yielding it would be his gain, because the glory that would come to him would be a crown of never’- fading joy, when compared with the miserable damnation that his present course evolves. But, if man be not wise enough to gain the blessing which is in store for him, by doing the right and bringing justiceto his too all-conﬁding companion, let her compel him, and setup the abomination of desolation which will ultimately come to allyvho, resist the demands of the age; to all who insist upon continuing the reign of lust in place of love; to all who shall sacriﬁce the future welfare to their present selﬁshness. A 4.; T7 MORE ABOUT THE VINDICATIONS. Phenomenal Spiritualism has been attacked in its strong- hold, and it is not to be wondered at that those who are more interested in this phase than they are in putting. forth efforts to so preparekmortals that they shall be highly devel. oped spirits after death, should spring to the rescue with all the energy and pertinacity of despair. There is a class of, Spiritualists who really thimk if the physical phenomena were to be exploded that Spiritualism would die. We do not happen to be of that class, and are therefore prepared to criticize and expose so-called phenomena, whenever’ we deem it to come within the sphere of our duty "so, to do. The Banner of Light is, of course, the accepted organ, of ‘phenomenal Spiritualism, and pays little attention" to the broader and, to our thinking, more important phase involved in the condition of spirits who enter the spirit world. We are not fully aware of the convictions of its conductors about the utility of physical conditions and their relations to the future condition of the spirit; but let them be what they may, they fail to make them a subject for considera- tion in the pages of their journal. Indeed, we_. do not re- member ever to have read an editorial in the Banner in which was discussed the laws and conditions of physical development in their relations to the welfare of the spirit ' here and hereafter. Perhaps their readers are not interested in tl1is‘;iﬁ-1fl;5orta11,t.subjec15. and that -they restrain themselves 4, --—._--.-.-_._.-_--.--.-.g._. 1,. ., ,§L___,___4,__._*. ,,M___ a 1-.--2.,» _ , - ~../; ,.,, n: .-A. , -. . .»» April 29,w1:8,76..-_ - ‘;-.imr::‘;s::-‘- -"mi.-":4:-:.a_.,r. .,- \ WO0D.HULLl& CL.AFLIN’8’ VVEEKLY. _ 5 " from treating to accommodate their paper to this de- mands. In this view of the case itis not strange that they should treat anybody or anything contemptuously that presumes to question the genuineness of .the corner-stone upon which the Bdmzor stands, or that what, in the minds of impartial people, is direct evidence of fraud, should be denominated “frivolous _charges,” or ‘finsinuations rather than direct charges.” ' And then, the “bits of cotton,” they are mere nothing, for, says the Banner,’ '‘p‘ it must have been well known to the persons ﬁnding them that if the cotton was used too wrap themolds in, itmight have been used hon- estly as well as dishonestly. Ah, but how could cotton used’ honestly‘, in which to wrap the molds," have found its way into the molds lmade by the spirits from the pail of paraﬂine? Let‘ the Banner inform its readers about this. Mrs. Austin would probably never have suspected that the cotton found upon her carpet had been intended‘ for dis- honest use,'or,had been used dishonestly, had not some of the self-same story-telling cotton been found upon the molds purported to have been formed by the spirits. In a word, Mrs. Hardy is put under the necessity of explaining the presence of that cotton in that suspicious relation,_ or else remain open to the strictures contained in the published statement.” Then there is a direct issue of veracity between her and Mrs. Austin. Mrs. Hardy says that the paraﬂine that she was so unfortunate as to drop in crossing the street, consisted of broken pieces from formerly constructed molds. But Mrs. Austin has made the following aﬂidavit : _l S'rA'rE'o:r NEW YORK. E City and County of New York. Before me, S. G. Hyatt, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said city and county, personally came Mrs. Margaret Z . Austin, of said city, who, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That on the evening of Wednesday, the 15th day of March last, crossing Broadway, in said city, at Fifty-seventh street, in the full blaze of a street gaslight, she plainly “ saw a paraiﬁne mold lying in the gutter where Mrs. Mary Hardy had just passed,” and that said “mold was the mold of a full-sized hand and not a “ handful of pieces,” as stated by said Mary and her husband in the ‘Banner of Light news- paper, dated April 8th 1876; and said deponent further says that much other matter in the letter of the said Mary Hardy, in the said Banner of Light, is untrue and false. [Signed] Mxnexnnr Z. AUSTIN. Sworn to before me this } 10th day of April. 187 6. [Signed] S. G. HYATT, Commissioner of Deeds, County of New York. - lWhen this question of veracity is taken into considera- tion, with the further fact, that upon the night in question the spirits were unable to produce the mold of a hand, we do not think that it is one of the “ti-ivialities,’-’ the name given by the Banner to the several parts of the statement, any more than is the further fact, that the spirits were unable to materialize a hand with which to produce a mold, when the table under which the’ parafdne was placed was - enveloped in a" bag with the seams at the ends, and out of the medium’s reach. It will be remembered that in the Boston. Herald’s statement of the vindicating seance given in Boston, the covering of the table was slitfrom the table to theﬂoor in f'ront'of where the medium sat. The query is, whether this slit was necessary to enable the spirits to materialize; or whether it was so for the medium to ma- nipulate the box. It is true that the proofs against Mrs. Hardy’s New York seances are all circumstantial; that is to say, no one saw her carry the mold from its place ‘of concealment and ‘deposit it under the table; but the circumstances seem to be almost as strong as if this had been seen. She re- quired conditions under which fraud was possible, and when these were denied, she failed to produce a mold; If the proof against her in New York be held to be clear and ‘conclusive,-which it is certainly by those who were: present, then the production of a dozen molds under the conditions named as having been imposed in Boston amount to nothing, because, while thehspectators may be able to saythatmtheyccould see no possible chance for imposition, they cannot say that there was none—the well-known slight-of-hand performance——which none save experts can detect, make it impossible for any to say so positively. They may notsbe able. to tell how it is done, but if it has been‘ done fraudulently in-any single case, it isfair to maintain that all the probabilities are upon the side of fraud in all other cases like it. Mrs. Hardy owes it to herself to permit the test conditions that we have presented as the only ones that can prove that paratﬁne molds are made by some power aside from herself. Then it will be time to inquire what that power is, and how it produces the molds. In Mrs. Hardy‘s_letter she asked, “How in the name of common sense could Mrs. Hardy deposit molds under that table?” Mr. Bronson and his co-signers to the statement are ableto answer from their observation of Mrs..Hardy’s seances, and by having produced them under the same con- dititions that were necessary with Mrs. Hardy, thus :- Dip your oiled hand several times in parafﬁne dissolved or melted in. hot water. When partially cooled it separates from the hand, which, by little practice, is easily withdrawn. Warm and compress the wrist, and you have a respectable " glove or mould. When cold and brittle, a novice would judge it impossible for you to have extracted your hand. Conceal the mold beneath your female dress and enter the exhibition room. Have this lighted from an adjoining room, dimly. Encase yourself in a bag of netting having seams, “ overhanded” loosely with short thre-ads——-the long thread of a machine would not suit you—-it would reveal your trick, because you have toopen a seam.) Seat yourself behind a’ table enveloped with heavy covers reaching to the ﬂoor; gather the seams of the bag into your lap asyou seat your- self. Allow no spectators within four feet. Keep them all in front of the table ifvpossible. The pail of paraﬂine is under the table, also cold water in a basin. They are for show only, notfor service‘. Set the ‘people to conversing or singing. Convenient knots will allow you to open a seam four or ﬁve inches. Slip the mold from its hiding-place through, the seam. Conceal the action by wiping your per- spiring face with your handkerchief, previously left on the table. Euvelop the mold in the folds of the nettingn It is a complete illusion and bar to sight in the dimness. Slide the mold to the ﬂoor,,push it under the table cover with. your foot; or, if safe, lift it with both feet into the coldwater basin. Put away your needles; there is plenty of time; be de~ liberate. It often takes an hour and a half. Half an hour will do if favorable conditions are allowed. Do not allow ._ the paratﬁne to be colored, nor “ specks” of any sort through it. “Say the spirits object” to that. Now, rap three times with the edge of the sole of -your slipper against the table-leg or against your other shoe’s sole, and proclaim the work completed . ” » MRS. ANNA STEWART. A This medium has also been vindicated in the columns of the Banner, the introduction to which is as follows: “Since the appearance of the crude, unjustifiable charges against Mrs. Stewart,” etc., etc. It willbe remembered that a part of these charges is that she was exposed at Chicago and that she admitted the fraud, and said that all her perform- ances had been of the same character. And this the Banner calls “crude and unjustiﬁable.” We must beg to differ with the Banner on this score, and tosay that they are proof: positive that Mrs. Stewart was a fraud. Suppose that, here~ f after, Mrs. Hardy should be caught in her performances, and should confess, would the Banner thus cling to this kind of defense of mcdiumship, and say that a charge of fraud, under those circumstances would be crude and un- justifiable? We shall see when it shall come, as come it will, or else materialization, through her, will be an estab- ished fact beyond all doubt. It is not beyond the range of possibility, indeed, it may be probable, that Mrs. Hardy is the woman appointed by God to bring life and immortality to light in the ultimate and immortalized condition in the ﬂesh. If so, none more heartily than we shall, will welcome that auspicious event— ‘ an event the importance of which,iif ther e be any reliance at all to be placed upon our spirit sources of information, has never been stated to the world, or even conceived of by the mind of any medium or other person. What would be the results of a failure to attain to this condition are not known, save to a few of the most advanced in spirit life. There are persons in this life, who are convinced that some great and universal calamity is impending over this earth, but they do not tell it publicly. So there are spirits who know that if this calamity come, before real materialization is ex- T perienced; before the resurrection is begun, then that all living individualized existences, both in earth and spiritplife, will be dissipated into the original elemental condition, and another million years pass, ere the earth can attain to its present status of civilization. If human life were to be cut off, if the earth were to be depopulated, spirit life would also cease, for that life is dependant upon the magnetism of this individualized existence, as this is dependent upon the organic kingdoms which lie between it and the inorganic. Were the organic kingdoms to be destroyed by any general change in the elemental world, human life could not con- tinue; so too if human life were to be destroyed, spirit life would necessarily cease, because human life is the connect- ing link between organic life and spirit existence. The fate which is impending over this planet will turn upon the attainment of the resurrection for the dead, and to immortality inthe ﬂesh for the living. We are not dis- posed, at this time, to enter into any philosophical consid-. eration of this assertion; but the time is at hand when it will be demonstrated,§and:we labor, being under the convic- tion that, upon the puriﬁcation of the race, or some portion of it, within a given time unknown “to us, ;but impend- ing now over the wo'rld, depends the continuation of indi-. vidualized existence upon this planet. Materialization, to us‘,the1'efore, is a most solemn thing——a thing too momen- tous to be made a subject of trickery and bu siness, and we should not have diverted our attention even temporarily, as we have, from the main thing to be attained, had not this thought come over us, that even “the elect” might be de- ceived" If there is any excuse reqmred by anybody for the’; established facts to warrant a rush to spirits, for an explanaﬁ digression from our usual course, we offer this, with the further explanation that we had no idea into what it would expand when the departure was ﬁrst made. We would also say, that if all the mediums were to be exposed, we should have no personal feeling in the matter. We should regret that all these things had to come, at the same time, realizing fully that wo would come upon those through whom they come. i We. are_ so anxious that all mediumistic power shall. be utilized to forwarding the great event,- that we are, perhaps, over earnest, when we see it frittered away in_ any manner;° and it is this anxiety, and not from -any per- sonal motives, for or against mediums, that-impels us to speak. If {mediums really knew -what depends upon the With needle and thread, previously concealed in your dress, sew up the rip any seamstress will show you how 3 to “overhand” by rolling the seam around your needle. ; perfection of mediumship, they would never cease to fast and pray; consecratingi themselves in theliolysanctuary of a harmonious home, to the use of the spirits, until it should be gained. Convincing all the world even of the fact of spirit existence, is of no moment at all beside the awful re» sponsibility that now rests upon ‘mediumship. Were the world convinced of -that existence today, it would not save a single soul from the destruction that awaits the failure of the resurrection. If? this were knownto mediums, they would indeed assemblethemselves together in some sancti- ﬁed place, and, shutting? ~the'm‘selve‘s up from the world, would consecratej their lives to God,” to usher in’ the Golden day of death destroyed~—that day when the reign of .“ him who hath the power of death, that is the devil,” shall‘ end for ever. A C it A ~ T — '—1‘4 ‘ V '7' TWEED'LEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE. Annie Eva Fay advertises as a"‘spiritual' medium.” We *-never believed her to be such, although some of the very parties who now are so swift to assert Mrs. Hardy a cheat, tion to showghow little reliance can be placed on hasty evi- dence. Mrs. Fay has lately been holding “ marvelous, seancos” in Orange, N ..-J . A late number of the Orange Chromcle thus rrotices one of them: . A p r “ One of the members of the committee, being of a skepti- cal turn of mind, watched very closely the methods of the ‘ medium,’ and became s Ltldﬁed that the exhibition was pro- duced by mere sleight—of-hand or jugglery. Keeping his con- victions to himself, with the exception of one friend whom he admitted to his conﬁdence, the gentleman went to work to perfecta plan by which he could produce exactly the same manifestations or phenomena, which, after a few ‘trials, proved so successful that_they concludedto give a parlor exhibition before apfew chosen friends.”—J3anner of Light, .Aprtl15. , _ , . , We have no doubt that our readers will join with us in ,—'an expression of. surprise that the above paragraph could ‘have found its way into the identical number of the Banner in which others are taken severely to task for their skepti- cism about Mrs. Hardy’s and Mrs. Stewart’s mediumship; or for that matter, into any number of the Banner. We are afraid that friend Colby’s wisdom was asleepwhen this oc. ‘curred. He has never believed Annie Eva Fay to be a spiritual medium. , No doubt he has good reasons for this frankly expressed belief; but does he forget that she has been scrutinized by even “higher authorities" than ever Mrs. Hardy passed before, and came out unscathed? “Some of the very parties who now are so ready to assert Mrs. Hardy a cheat” happen to entertain the same opinion about that lady that he holds about Annie Eva Fayg « “Who shall decide when doctors disagree.” Now, we shall not fly off at a tangent in defense of Mrs. Fay,whom we believe to be a spiritual medium; nor shall we call the assertion of his belief without‘ the presentation of any evidence whereby to sustain it, as ahasty,ill-timed, crude, unjustiﬂable, or even “ad captandum vulgus” charge against her. ,We shall frankly admit the right of friend Colby to his belief, and in admit- ting this, we also admit, necessarily, his further right to have that belief stated and treated in a courteous manner in _.these columns, which right in others we are sorry is not admitted by the Banner inits columns when it so happens that such beliefs are not inharmony with those of its presid- ing Editor. If he maintain that Annie Eva Fay is not a medium, though she has successfully passed the scrutiny of those who believe that Mrs. Hardy is not a medium, is it not incumbent on the Bcmner to admit the possibility that all hands may be deceived?-.-ii Or is friend Colby the only competent person to decide upon the mediumship of pro- fessing mediums? If this be really so, let the Spiritualists make him Pope at once and put the burden and responsie bility of mediumship upon him, and make an end to this constant jingling over exposures. C But illogical, and inconsistent as is the position to which we have called attention, the quotation from the Orange Chronicle seems still more so, since, if the fact that Annie Eva Fay’s_ manifestations have been produced without the aid of spirits, be held to be a proof of her want of “spiritual - mediumship,” then the same fact must be admitted as ag‘ainst‘Mrs. Hardy, because, like Mrs. Fay, her production of paraiﬁne molds has been imitated without the agency of spirits. We do not hesitate to assert that, under any of the we have any knowledge, paraﬂine molds may be produced, T ad mﬁnitum, without the aid of spirits. So long as mediums A can offer only such manifestations as can be imitated, there is no necessity of attributing them to spirit agency. Illusions, tricks, psychology and delusions are too wel_l tion to the uninitiated of any seemingly incomprehensible phenomena. L H ' p A But we may be wholly at sea about what purports to be the materialization of spirits; and the Banner may be safely at anchor in the haven of their realization; but until our present belief is changed we must entertain it; at the same time, however, admitting_the_ right of others to an opposite belief, and respecting them for holding as well as expressing it. We have made but poorprogress toward the possibility of a-perfected life on earth, or anywhere else, if we cannot agree todisagree in kindness and brotherly love; if we can- not submit with good grace to. brotherly andsisterly criti- ¢1sm_,w1;to_s;._rgi1ing ts. calling, hard gnamles, he attributing "fully endorse Mrs. l3‘ay,’s mediumship. This we simply men-» pp conditions under which Mrs. Hardy has been put, of which 6 ‘ WOODHUVLL ds.lCLAFLIN’S’i.‘“WEEKLY. Aprill’29, 1114876. improper or base motives. We believe both Mrs. Fay and Mrs. Hardy to be spiritual mediums; but we also believe them both to be liable to palm oﬁ their own productions as manifestations of spirits. Besides, is not the testimonyof those who are admitted on, all hands to be spiritual medi- urns, to be taken for something when they say that materi- alization is a humbug? We have in our mind several well- tried and often-tested mediums, one especially, who has given more tests perhaps than any other, who has travelled more extensively, besides having been before the public; from the very first days of spiritualism, who does not hesi- tate to say, that materialization is: simple trickery; and placing the same reliance upon our own-sightin this, that we havelearned to do in other things, we have no hesita- tion in asserting the same belief. They make a mistake who think that spiritualists. are a unit about this phase. of manifestation. We doubt whetherveven a majorityput any faith in itat all. So we think it is fair to say thatthe fact still remains to be demonstrated. * A 4; %f g@” A valued correspondent, residing in Baltimore writes: “ Why these constant ‘ hubbubs ’ about mediums who have been thoroughly tested,’ like Mrs. Hardy? When will Spirit- ualism be lifted out of this turmoil and confusion that is so detrimental to the progress of divine phi1osoph.y.”—-The;Ban- ner of Light. Apm'l15. We wonder that the Banner, when appealed to alter this manner, did not deign to make some reply; as it did not, we will attempt to do so: . ' We think that these “ constant hubbubs” will cease when mediums shall stop using their hands in imitating spirit hands, and being detected in it, as was Mrs._Parry "at Rock- fort, Mich., some months ago; when_ they shall stop using . false hair, false faces, lace tinsel, etc., etc., to be detected in it, as was Mrs.- Stewart, at Chicago, in September, 1873; when they shall stop having confederates to personate spirits, and being detected in it, as were “the Holmes ”; in Philadelphia a year ago; when they shall stop issuing from the cabinets with their outer garments turned over their heads, to seem to be spirits, and being detected in it, as was Mrs. Miller, at Memphis, recently; when they shall cease to carry plaraﬁine hands about With them, and drop them in the street crossings, to be seen of others, and of being ‘un- able to produce them at seances immediately following the former circumstance; when bits of cotton shall cease to adhere to molds which are fashioned onspirithands (to say nothing of a hundred other phases that have been exploded); in a word, whenlmediums shall be nothing but honest and truthful, and shall invite rather than decline every possible test condition, even if some of them shall prove to be such as the spirits cannot overcome (one of the best evidences of honest mediumship, tous, is the fact that failures to get the desired manifestations. sometimes occur);-— when all these things shall cease, then “a valued correspondent” of the .30//t7?/6'7’ may be sure that “ these constant hubbubs” will also cease, but not before. ‘ 4;. SCIENCEVHALL. The above named hall, situate at No. 141 Eighth Street, was publicly dedicated on Sunday, April 16th, under the auspices of the Religio“Scientiﬁc Society, and will be occu- pied on future Sundays by “ The First Congregational Society of .the Religion of Humanity.” _ The programme of the Society instructs us, that its design is “ to promote human happiness by increasing Love, maintaining Order, and securing Prog1'eSS.f’ It further declares: “ Allwho are now outside of, and debarred from fellowship in the old church, by reason of having outgrown itssuperstitious and’unsc_ientiﬁc methods, will‘ ﬁnd ’a home inlﬁthis‘ ‘church’; provided they have (or desire to possess), clean hands, pure hearts, and devotion to Humanity.” ' A very fair attendance assisted at the dedication, which took place in the afternoon. I Mr. G. L. Henderson presided and opened the meeting. Miss Hume, assisted by a ‘piano accompanimentggave “ Consider the L’illies” with marked, eﬂ:'ect.‘ The music was followed‘ by the reading of J.jG' Whittier’s poem" “The Reformer,” by Mr. H. Brown. The invocation, delivered by lMr. Henry Evans, asked a blessinglon the Religion of Humanity and its work. An address followed, by Mr. Sotheran, which exhibited. the long struggle between Theology andScience, in which were ably and beautifully depicted the lives of Torquernada and ,; Galileo——many of the contrasts in the same calling forth the vehement applause of the audience. . . The subjects of the evening lecture were, “ The Divorce of Theology and Science and the Marriage of.Seien,ce_and Religion.” These positions were illustrated in a veryablle-_ address by Mr. T. B. Wakeman. He was followed .byMr. Henry Edgar and Mr". G. L. Henderson, the lattertofnwhorn drew a very vivid picture of a struggle between humanity and theology, which had occurred in Scotland, in which the man triumphed overvthe Presbyterian in a very'delic_ate case respecting the baptism of an illegitimate child; the describing of which, in the __ genuine. Scotch dialect of the actors therein, was_frequentlyapplauded. Asiinthe after- noon, the hall, though notncrowded, was wellﬁllied. ‘ ‘ ' Sunday ev_ening,Ap'ril, 23d, R. W. Hnumelisdappointed to ~ discuss the subject of “ The ‘Shortcomings of Creedal rag ligpions,” ' l I I ' - ' ;.I:i.s9;1,c11is,i§>ﬁ. ,.v9;.vou.1d sayithere is .r.ées§nL‘t6l’bé1ievé§ the scieaanaii isomers it’se'lf'*to"be*an6the¥'ic8htr’ ; e »; : understand . the Liberal Club is to hold its future meetings ground that she is a woman.—-N‘, Y, Sun. same gallants will undoubtedly deny that women are in July The Creation and Fall of Man. 7Sept. 4. The'..-Reconciliationlof Man to God. for free thought and free speech in this metropolis. We there, and the “Truth Seeker” our respected contemporary has transferred its oflice to the building in which it is loca- ted. As to the “First Congregational Society of the Reli- gion of Humanity,” if it be true to its name, and open to the discussion of all questions affecting the interests of the human race, we wish it (and believe it will obtain) speedy and sure success. .4’; ‘v 7 The whole. supply of water and gas in London is under the control of private companies, and .the Registrar-General estimates that one—half the present cost of gas and water in London would ‘be saved to consumers if the works were in the hands of public authorities. With us in New York, for- tunately, water is not controlled by private; corporations, and in\this respect -we are better off than residents in Lon- don; but ‘the gas monopolylstill continues to be a. serious ‘evil. I . A We are surprised to ﬁnd such a paragraph as this in the Sun. Is it really true, after all, that Mr. Dana is not false to his old familiar socialistic theories? and that he is using the Sun to gradually popularize them? If water and gas can be better supplied by the community than by private corporations, and if this be the conviction of the Sun now, l1ow long will it require for it to also become convicted that f_erries, street railroads, steam railroads, in short, all methods of ‘public communication, should be placed in the category with the postal service, the public schools, water and gas? -. ' From. the Irtdianapolis J oumal, April 15. SHALL A WOMAN EARN AN HONEST LIVING? A strike took place in the newsroom of the Telegraph oﬂiceiiight before last against the employment of Miss Amanda Boetticher, a lady" of many accomplishments and skilful in the art preservative. The strike was purely on the No! is the reply that the gallant gentlemen (?) of the Télegraph make to the inquiry of the Sun. And yet the bondage. Probablynot one of these “striking” gallants be- lieve that a woman has any rights which they are bound to respect; that she has any rights either inherent or acquired, political, industrial, social. We have not any doubt, how- ever, that they believe in the right of_ man to bind woman in legal slavery to his passions, and that if so bound, and any attempt were made to exercise the right of personal freedom, that [they would “strike” in another sense than they have done as stated. Gallants of the Telegraph ! ye are on the record. THE TVVO SERIES OF BIBLE ARTICLES. Before beginning the third and last and most deeply im- portant, thrilling and all-absorbing third series of articles completing our exegesis of the Bible, and the relation of its hidden meaning to the development through which the race, or some portion of it, will attain to life immortal, in the ﬂesh, or, as the case may be, resurrected from the dead, we desire to once more call the special attention of our readers to what l1as been said already. In the two se- ries already published most of the doctrines and theories of religionists have been examined in the light of the new exe- gesis, and the biblical "truths upon which they are founded, set forth. Everybody should have all of these articles, be- cause, when theinext series shall begin to appear, theylwill be neededyforreference. The series,..and the dates of the WEEKLY -in which they appeared, are as follows: FIRLT SERIES. April 17. The Culmination of Events. ‘ ’ S 24. The Fulﬁlmentof Law. May 1.’ On Earth Peace, Good Will. ‘8. Approaching the Mystery——The Time of the End. 15. Howshall the Kingdom of Heaven Come? 22. What is the Kingdom of God? . 29. The Higher and the Lower Relationship. June 5.. Sexual Purity—The Straight and Narrow Way. 4 Sexual Impurity--’_l‘he_ Wide Gate and the Broad I A War. I . , 19. The Human Body the Holy, Temple. 26. Inspiration and Evolution. A .10. 'he'Grarden of’EdeI1. . 17.} “ ' “ No.2. M _ I snoonp snnrns. _J,uly_24.. 'I,‘heVBible and Jesus Christ. ; 31.,Grod-—Pneum_a_Theos. 4' Ana. 7. ‘Th¢,DiVine,,Misd,- 14. .. Christ, or /The, Reconciliation. , "Le. ‘ ‘u:"_ <4". ‘ Nag. _18. His Love and His »Wrath. Oct. " 2. The D‘eV‘l:l‘——-Evil} ‘ " '5 The A~tonem'ent.— V 1-'6. ~ “I I =No.'2’.l ’ ‘3’0iNa3t'1iié-al vs;=1Ena'éted4Law. Nov. 6. The Allegorical Character of .the Bible. - 20. Exegetical. . 27. Spiritualism; ItsCondition and’ Prospects. Dec. 4. “ ‘ “ I A “ »No.‘2.: . (4 cc _ u 3.’ 18. Ac 5: ‘ ' it No. 4'; 25. “ “ “ No. 5. Jan. 8. The Human Organism and its Functions. Feb. 5. 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G ‘Wakeﬁeld-Earth Closet Co., 36 DEY STREET, NEW YORK. THE WORLD’S Sixteen Cruciﬁed Saviors; on, - I OHRISJ/A NITY BET! ORE’ czrnrsr. CONTAINING - New, Startling and Extraordinary Revelations. in Religious History, which disclose the Oriental Origin, of all the Doctrines, Prtnclples, Precepts and Miracles of the . I CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furnishing a Key for unlocking many of tts Sacred Mysteries, besides comprising the Histor'y ‘of Sixteen Oriental Oruciﬁecl Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “ The Biography of Satan ” and ‘FT/lie 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. - 9 C O N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; (introduction; Address to the er gy. Chap. 1.—Rival Claims of the Saviors. Chap. 2.~Messianic Prophecies. Chap. 3.—Propliecies by the ﬁgure of a Serpent. Chap. 4.—Miraculous and lmniaciilate Conception of the Gods. . _ Chap. 5.—Virgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods) 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.-—’l‘he Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble Birth. Chap. l1.—Christ’s Genealogy. Chap. 12.—-The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- ti 11 in Infancy. Chap. 13.—-The Saviors exhibit Early Proofs of Di- vinit . "Chap. 1y4'.—-The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.——The Saviors are real Personages. Chap. l6.—-Sixteen Saviors Cruciiied. Chap. 1'i.—’1‘he Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci- ﬁxion. Chap. 18.——De_scent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. l9.—Resurrection of the Saviors. iors. Chap. 21.——The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe Origin. = Chap.b22.—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. 2"/.——'l‘ne; Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen Ol‘.‘l°‘lll. . " Chap?28.—-Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.-—Hoiv Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. Chap. 30.—Saci-ed 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 I-Iundred and ‘Forty-six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna. .Chap. 33.~—Apo_ll0ni11S, 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.—-Pliysiological Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, Chap. 38-—A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus ri Ch st. Chap. 39.—The Scriptural View of Christ‘s Divinity. Chap._ 40.——A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1876-04-29_11_22
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-04-29_11_22
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 23 (May 6, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2122
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-05-06
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: - 1.»: 7. _...._.._4 W PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT 2. UNTB.1kl\llZhdELEDiLI“VESl " V01. X_I.-—No., 23.—Whole No. 283. 5 NEVV YORK, 6, 1876. BREAKING «ms WAY FOR FUTURE cnnsnarxons. A ‘ PRICE TEN ems. The ma shall make yoit free.~——-Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of ~ Gocli shalt be ﬁnished.—St. John the Divine. ’ ‘ ,WhereofI was made a minister] to preach the im- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which n from the beginning of the world hath beenlhiol in 4; ‘rvr THE ONE POINT OF EQUALITY. GRANDISLANI), U. P. R. R., , i I . March,31st, 1876. Dear W eekly: On the train that was about to leave Omaha a few days since for the “ Paciﬁc Slope,” a small circular was handed round to each passenger, to the effect that there is “ Nothing better when _you Travel than a Ticket of Insu- rance against Accident,” assuring the apprehensive indivi- dual that for a quarter of a dollar per diem . he is insured at the rate of $15 per week if disabled, and $3,...
Show more- 1.»: 7. _...._.._4 W PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT 2. UNTB.1kl\llZhdELEDiLI“VESl " V01. X_I.-—No., 23.—Whole No. 283. 5 NEVV YORK, 6, 1876. BREAKING «ms WAY FOR FUTURE cnnsnarxons. A ‘ PRICE TEN ems. The ma shall make yoit free.~——-Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of ~ Gocli shalt be ﬁnished.—St. John the Divine. ’ ‘ ,WhereofI was made a minister] to preach the im- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which n from the beginning of the world hath beenlhiol in 4; ‘rvr THE ONE POINT OF EQUALITY. GRANDISLANI), U. P. R. R., , i I . March,31st, 1876. Dear W eekly: On the train that was about to leave Omaha a few days since for the “ Paciﬁc Slope,” a small circular was handed round to each passenger, to the effect that there is “ Nothing better when _you Travel than a Ticket of Insu- rance against Accident,” assuring the apprehensive indivi- dual that for a quarter of a dollar per diem . he is insured at the rate of $15 per week if disabled, and $3,000 in theevent of death. ' . -_ , « Then ‘follows a curious marginal note in large. caps, blue letters, on a. clear white ground: - T “WOMEN INSURED AGAINST DEATH ONLY." In a- few - minutes‘ smug comes ‘thuiublquitous R. R. sen-at with papers. My mind still in‘ a sort of dull heavy mazelas to the signiﬁcance of the aforesaid “large caps ‘in “blue let- ters on clear white ground,” I became possessed of a‘ copy of that chaste sheet, the Chicago Times, and the ﬁrst thing that‘ glared at me from a middle column of the ﬁrst page, also in large caps, black letters on a white ground, was :- “MAD ANTHONY,” ‘ “ Otherwise known as Susan l13:{., ﬁne ‘Popular Advocate of Woman’s ig ts." - " Who went into one of her Tantrums in McCormick’s Hall, Yesterday Afternoon.” ‘ Then followed some more “large caps,” etc.,_ insimilar ele- gance of tone and conception. but not worth reproducing, as a sample is a dose: and still again, in condensed , matter, V some more of the sparkling emanations of a fair specimen of an ordinary reporter of an ordinary paper; said reporter in- forming us that there was a packed and jammed audience to listen to and see “Mad Anthony” in her “tantrums,” and further, that she “ appeared promptly and began her address in those calm and dulcet tones that have been familiar to the public for the last three quarters of a cen'tury.’’. ; My ﬁrst impulse, in view of the large caps in blue, and the ditto in black——after the reflection that “ one woe doth tread upon the heels of‘ another, so fast they follow”——was to have a sigh of regret that fate had ordained me to be a woman; for my sense of justice was pierced as with_a poisoned arrow by that small circular and that Chicago Times’ report of Su- san B. Anthony’s lecture. ' There’s no use disguising it, “womanhood , is wounded at ‘every turn by thoughtless ignorance and stupid insensi- bility, ingrained and bred in the bone, nursed in with mother’s milk, impregnated with prej udioe and falsehood. N 0 use my getting mad and raving over the vulgarity and foul slang which the Times’ reporter no doubt considered smartness; nor the gross injutice to women contained in that marginal notehto a very small circular. No use my call- ing that reporter hard names, thinking him beneath con- tempt——he is not so much to blame for being an excrescence of our boasted civilization; he has found himself a black- guard among blackguards, and he has no ambition to tim- prove his condition; or else he stultiﬁes his ﬁner perceptions for apenny a line in “ large caps” and “ condensed matter.” Perhaps, after all, my latest impulse, summing up the causes and effects in both the circular and the newspaper, was only pity fora state of society so whitewashed in its own conceit as to boast of itself after producing such specimens of manhood as a Chicago Times’ reporter, and such distinguish- ers of impartial justice as are capable of drawing so ﬁne and nice a distinction, from a purely masculine standpoint, be- tween the sexes as set forth in : “ Women Insured Against Death Only I” , — Of course, if a woman gets her life insured against acci- dent, and only happens to get disabled, she stands in no need of $15 per week to help her out; she is supposed, in pro- found massuline wisdom, to have, Somewhere or sgmehow, a male protector, which if she have not, thefault cannot certainly lay at the door of “impartial and unimpeachable masculine wisdom. ' 0 no! it must be the woman’s fault, since woman is at the bottom of allthe mischief, from mother Eve to Mrs. Belknap. ' I ' . Anyway, in the framing of all obligatory instruments, from the Bible to a “ very small” circular of an Accident luau- rance Company, man has ever held“ hard to his wise conceit ‘of a—“male protection” on whose ch-ivalrous and infallible potency woman can depend, even while she works her ﬁngers stiff to support the children she has borne to his“ selﬁsh lust; a masculine head to’ whose sturdy and oak-like proportions woman can cling as the vine, and just as woman has clung, I and just as woman will cling. in spite of swaggering reporters befogged in tobacco, bad whiskey and modern civilization; in spite of nice distinctions drawn upon‘ her status by men in whom the last trace of natural justice is legislated into sham in consideration of manly prerogative. “ Why do they insure us against the accident of death even? Indeed, one can scarce divine, unless they have our nearest -of kin in a male line in view of their “manly prerogative ;” for women in general are as generally muddled as men in general, and ten to one, if a woman should ‘get killed and have $3,000 for it, she would “ revert”'it to her husband, or her pa, or her brother, or her son, or her cousin John, though her maiden sister were making shirts for a living at twenty-ﬁve cents apiece. ‘The average woman’s "sense of the ﬁtness of things is in‘ full accord with the average spirit of the age and the blazonry of modern respectability. I have not the slightest doubt but as many foolish women have giggled over that‘eﬁ‘ort of ’ thatsmart Alick of the Chi- cago Times to write himself an ass, as stupid men have leered and winked and joked over it. _ The courage of some women is high, and grand to enable them to breast thethick and offensive surge of popular preju- dice and ignorance. Many a capable woman’s voice is silent, and her inﬂuence suppressed, because she is too timid and weak to face the vulgar rabble which in her soul she esteems so unworthy even hercowardice. . _: . » ' A Still the work goes bravely on, and crowds go to hear Su- san Anth ony, drawn in large-numbers by that very spirit of‘ senseless detraction manifested by the 0 Times. All things have their uses. Even the slime ‘spewed up by the reperto- rial lizards of modern newspapers manures the ﬁeld whereon is fought the world’s great battle of progress, in which women are equally interested with men, despite the efforts of bifur- cated nonentities to write’ the fact with ridicule; despite the inequalities that crop out even in so “ very small” a cir- cular of so meagre an institution as an “ Accident Life Insu- rance Company.” ' HELEN NASH. MRS. MARGARET T. AUSTIN. (or 418 wnsr 57’rn srannr, oHAizeED‘wIrH PERJURY.) A CHRONIC nxrosnn or MEDIUMS. Mesdames Editors: A friend this morning has loaned me No. 20 of your paper, containing various accounts of the alleged expose of Mrs. Hardy as a medium for obtaining molds of spirit forms, and you proceed to note your objection as follows 2. V No. 1. “The refusal to allow the use of colored parafﬁne.” The exact words used on the. occasion were these: . When Austin brought in his red parafﬁne, Mrs. Hardy remarked; “This is a new condition; I do not know what chemical eﬁect the addition of a foreign coloring matter may have, therefore, in introducing a newcondition of this or any kind, I prefer to ﬁrst experiment among ourselves, rather than before a public test seance.” Why were these parties not honest enough to state just what was said. on this occasion? You ask, “Upon what principles of law can spirits produce the molds of hands from white and not from colored parafﬁne ?”~ When you tell me upon what principle of law spirits can produce materialized hands at all, I will then I answer you. N o. 2. “If Mrs. Hardy relied upon the spirits to -produce the mold, why did she carry one to the seance on Wednesday evening? andwhy, when that one was dropped in the street and broken, was it impossible for the spirits to produce an- other,” etc. ’ I Answer. Neither Mrs. Hardy ‘nor her husband carried a mold to that or any other seance. No mold was ever dropped by them in the street. We took no golds with us to New s ‘/- Yorlr, had no molds in our possession at Austin's, and neither did Mrs. Hardy nor myself ever take a mold of our own ofany living person. That fact we are ready to state on our denial also answers No’s 3 and 4. ' A No. 5. “Whywas it necessary, to the successof the pro- ductions, that the seams of the bag, should be within her reach, and whenjthey were not so, no’ mold was produced?” 2’ Answer. A mold was produced at six of thejseven seances in New York. three of these the mediuinwas enveloped in a. sack to the neck. At two of these the table was en- closed in thesack, and at the other the table was enclosed in a cambric "bag by Austin. At all of these seances the medium sat in the light (never forgetithatl point.) At each of themse seances.‘ the enveloping was done by her critics, and every time the sack was thoroughly examined by these critics, both lbefore and immediately after the seance, and pronounced by them whole and intact. This we areipreparedto prove. « .No. 6 I have answered in my statement sent to be read at the New York Conference. According totheir. own testimony, they took the paraffine from the pail while yet so warm that it could be rolled together; and everyone trying the experi- ment will see that paraffine in that state, taken direct from water, will invariably contain quite a quantity of the latter, _and’.the result of their weighing process, under the circum- stan’ce”s,'w'as"a complete”vin’d‘icatio’n of‘ the m'edium’o1i that occasion . ' _ But, suppose that “after the company had dispersed that night,” Mrs. Hardy and myself had taken that parafﬁne with be weighed, and declared that 2% ounces were gone from the pail, would our testimony have been believed? Well, that is precisely the way it was arranged by our accusers, and yet you would condemn on such ﬂimsy, one-sided testimony! - N 0. 7. About the stockings being out, we have not thought it worth while to notice, As you seem to think so, we de- clare the statement, by whomsoever made, that one of Mrs. Hardy’s stockings was found out, or even torn, while we were at Austinis house, is an infamous falsehood, made out of whole clothfand I say now, as Isaid before, that Bronson Murray knows,‘ by his own experiences with Mrs. Hardy, that the hands and ﬁngers seen at her seances are not the “toes” of vtl_ie_medium, but hands and ﬁngers. A Dovyou know that hundreds have seen rings put upon and taken off these lingers at Mrs . Hardy’s seances? Put on and taken off‘, not by the medium alone, but by any one sitting near. And that the whole hand and wristhave. been seen scores of times, dressed in character, sometimes with silk, but oftener with lace, and that said arm has been held in sight of the company sufficiently long to have pieces of said silk or lace severed from the dress, and all this in the light, with every hand in sight atthe time? And yet you will talk about the medium’s “toes!” V = * I You speak of the statement made by seven persons. Can’t you see that two—thirds of that whole statement rests on the sole testimony of one witness? Mrs. Austin,a chronic ex- poser of mediums, among whom are Mrs. Andrews, the Eddys, and now she is after Dr. Slade; and don’t you know that Bronson Murray, the head signer of that document, stood up before the Conference, at the Harvard Rooms, sub- sequent to all these seances that he had witnessed, being a chief actor in making test conditions, and then and there thoroughly vouched for the genuineness of all that he had witnessed through Mrs. Hardy, and the honesty and integrity of the medium, with the provisoithat-the parafﬁue used the previous -evening had not yet been weighed? That test was -all he wanted to make the whole thing a_. grand success. Please put that and that together, and don’t it show a “mouse in the meal.” s i l ' In regard to a letter inlyour same issue, signed Charles Sotheran, he merely reiterates the same points I have replied to above, with two exceptions. -1st. As to his “feeling live ﬂesh under the table. and he knowing the diﬁerence between live and dead ﬂesh!” ’ We never supposed those hands were the hands of defunct corpses. They always claim to be just as aliveas we are, and, as a general thing, are said to feel just about the same as our own hands. Our God. Mr. Sotheran,is the God of the living. not the God of the dead. I suppose if one had touched the hands of those spirits whom the Bible says materialized ancieatlygand ate fish. and honey hands, or ever saw a whole mold that was taken by the hand . oaths, Mrs‘. Austin to the contrary, notwithstanding. ‘This I .-»~;/z~—«-f;;»"‘"1-,3»/2%-”' us, and kept it forty-eight hours, and then I had, taken it to I ." ‘ as: «r ,2» 0., .-‘f »'/f «I» i n.,..‘f_,,§ ' English woman’s dress. It is almost a caricature. 2 if woonnutn as OI.AFLIN’S WEEKLY. comb, etc., they would have felt very much like living hands, don’t you? A ' Another point, and I have done with this profound logician. Heaccusesthe editor of the Banner of allowing me to “sneer at” and “insult” Prof. Von Der’ Weyde, a scientist and a gentleman, in its columns. ’ The Professor attended one of our seances, and, so far as I know or saw, on the one occasion, he not only showed him- self a gentleman throughout, but freely admitted, before the company, that, ‘as far as he knew or could see, the mani- festations were outside and independent of the medium. And I am yet to learn that calling one a ‘materialist, or skeptical in regard to these physical manifestations, is either‘ insulting or ungentlemanly. That your readers may judge as to this grave charge of Mr. Sotheran, permit me to here quote from the Banner all I did say in relation to the Profes- sor, as follows: — “All present declared themselves satisﬁed of the genuine- ness of the phenomena, except Prof. Von Der Weyde, a materialist, and who is said to be one of the greatest critics and skeptics in New York. He declared that he was posi- tive, under the circumstances, that Mrs. Hardy could have had nothing to do with the depositing of the mold, but that it might have been secretly brought in by Mr. Austin when M heput the bowl under the table containing the water.” Now,_by what rules of logic the above can be construed or forced, even, into either “sneers” or~"insu1t” to the Professor, in the words of Lord Dundreary, “N o fellah can ﬁnd out.”- ' 4, Concordsquare, Boston, E4 ' April 15, 1876. ———---n WORK IN THE NEW DEPARTURE. By THOMAS COOK. It is easy rowing asyou ﬂoat with the current, and it may be a pleasant alfair with the paid clergy and priesthood to. drift with the current thought of the great public mind. But to them who take a New Departure, and go forth “ without purse or scrip” “ to do the will of Him who sent” them, it is like stemming the mighty force of a great tidal Wave. But we are not, dear editors and readers of the VVEEKLY, intending to indite a chapter of complaints, but rather to express to you a spirit of rejoicing that unto us, (asonly one of many humble workers), it is given the pri- vilege as well as duty, to go forth and break the seals , and reveal the mysteries (hitherto) of God or nature. True, we get no pecuniary proﬁt to rejoice over, but “my reward is within me ;” for truly we can sense the power that holds the helm of the great ship of progress, and ﬁlls her sails till her towering masts bend in the breeze; and though the cry, “breakers ahead” may startle the timid mariner, yet they who can trust the Great Captain as‘Jesus trusted Him, will stand‘ to their posts of duty fearless of the storm-cry about their heads, and gallantly bring the good old Ship of Zion intolher destined harbor of millennial safety. Our work for the past two weeks has been in and through Michigan, and we are this far on our way to Canton, Alliance, Morgan and other places in Ohio, and we are the guests of sister H. J. Hunt, and her two interesting sons, Arthur and Char1ie———ﬁrm,, fast friends of all the editors of the WEEKLY. They are a New Departure truly, hence are prepared in J ems: HARDY. spirit for the New Departure of Mrs. Woodhull. Arthur and '. Charlie are musical prodigies—musical mediums—-and more . especially does the manifestation of the times crop out in Arthur, the eldest, who does what perhaps no living man or woman ever did before, plays upon ﬁve-musical instru- A ments, rings a bell, and reads a newspaper, all at the same time, without the least assistance from any visible spirit in the form‘-—being within himself a full string band, the instru- ments being a guitar, banjo, harmonican and triangle.-eand performs many other wonderful feats as a musician. I know I am telling a wonderful story, but I speak of what I have «seen to my own entire satisfaction. He also arranges some fourteen glass goblets in two rows and tunes them by ﬁlling them with water, denomininating them the “crystaline,” from which he brings forth the most exquisitely sweet music that car ever listened to. entertaining and instructive, and we regard him as destined to become one of, if not the very greatest mediums or musi- cal prodigies this worldhas ever known. Onlour return from" Ohio to Chicago, we shall immediately start on our Western tour, through Kansas and Missouri, and we shall be happy to call on all who will write and give us their address. I could not but feel to rejoice to learn that Mr. Pillsbury, as I trust others are too, is alive to the fact that nothing but a bloody revolution can bring this nation to a realizing scnse of its situation. To foretell of this coming storm is my mission; for as many as believe it may escape its damning effects. L A DELTA, Ohio, March 25th, 1876. ..____._ How EN emsng WOMEN DRESS. C The ugliest thing we have seen in London is her woman- kind. This is owing in a great measure to the untasteful dress. . Taine has not exaggerated one whitain deridingethe The ele- mentary principles of taste seem unknown. The leading. idea is to get as much cost as possible in a costume, and as little beauty. We saw one lady who wore a seal-kin jacket, trimmed with silver fox fur, twenty inches wide, plaited on in heavy box plaits. The hideous effect may be imagined. (Don’t leave this out, Mr. Editor, the women will understand it, if the men don’t.)_ They trim their dresses elaborately round the middle of the body, and tuck them up at the sides with mathematical precision. They look like market women with their panniers. There is not a line of grace in the square sturdy ﬁgures. The abundance of color is another prominent feature in English women’s apparel. Not the lily, the lily of the ﬁeld, but Solomon in his glory, is their ideal. Blne,','green, purple and red ﬂash along the street, His entertainments are highly * u and organized just as we wish to be. rageously in traveling than any people in the world. One lady—a genuine lady in our coach—wore a scarlet petticoat, a gray overdress, a blue hat and a brown feather! At the theatre among the moat noblesse, who sat in the stalls, we saw an old lady dressed in a low crimson satin, pink rose in her gray hair, diamonds on her withered neck, and a blue- cloak half off‘ her shoulders. N ow and then-one sees a young girl extraordinary prettyand fresh, but of the old ladies not one have I seen to compare with those beautiful old women of America, who wear their years like so many added charms, whose silver hair shines like a glory around gentle faces that years and sorrow perhaps have reﬁned and spiritualized to a beautytbeyond the rose and rounded outlines of youth. The best dressed people we have seen are the actresses and the shop girls. The latter wear that very pretty and becoming dress, a plain black silk with a long train, and a black velvet jacket.——London. (Jar. Memphis Avalanche. EXTRACT FROM A TRIBUTE TO LUCRETIA . MOTT. BY FRANCES D. GAGE. I never think of that woman, But my heart throbs high with love, And I ask, “ Can she be more beautiful ' In the blissful realms above?” I can scarcely, in my dreaming, See her face more fair and bright, She seems to be now, with her radiant brow, A spirit of love and light! The poet may sing his praises Of the glow of “ sweet sixteen;” But there is a holier beauty, Of eighty-three, Iween; For the girlish face if moulded By a true and loving heart, Will brighten as the heart throbs on, Rechiselling every part. ——,——_._ OVER AND: OVER AGAIN. Over and over again, No matter whicli way I turn, I always ﬁnd in the Book of Life Some lesson I have to learn. I must take my turnjat the mill, I must grind out the golden grain, I must work at my task with a resolute will Over and over again. We cannot measure the need Of even the tiniest ﬂower, Nor check the ﬂow of the golden sands That run through a single hour. But the morning dcws must fall, The sun and theysnmmer rain Mustdo their part, and perform it all Over and over again. ' Over and over again The brook through the meadow ﬂows, And over and over again The ponderous mill-wheel goes. Once doing will not suﬁice, '' Though doing be not in vain, And a blessing failing us once or twice May’ come if we try again- Thc path that has once been trod Is never so rough to thefeet, And the lesson we once have learned Is never so hard to repeat. ' Though. sorrowful tears mayifall, And the heart to its depths be riven By the stoim and tempest, we need them all To render us mete for heaven. BLIND superstition, cowering, sits Amid the ashes of the past; While old Tradition, bat-like, ﬂits ‘ Where Time its deepest gloom hath cast. The bigot prospering through fraud, Pays to the church his tithes, and then, With pious fervor, thanks the Lord ' That " he is not like other men.” WHY should I blush that Fortune’s frown Dooms my life’s humble path to tread, To live unheeded and unknown, To sink forgotten to the dead? ’Tis not the good, the wise, the brave, That must shine or highest rise: The feather ﬂoats upon the wave, The pearl in oc’ean’s cavern lies. . , A ——,F7'om the Arabic. ARE WE ORGANIZED? A . BLOOMINGTON, I11. For the past ten years it has been a source of considerable irritation to me to think that tﬂe Liberals (Spiritualists, True Lovers, Free Thinkers, Atheists, Inﬁdels, Evolutionists, Materialists, etc.,) were so slow about organization. But all at once the fact has occurred to me that we are organized, The United States Government is our organization, and“, its civil and ‘military oﬁicers from the chief executive down to the school director must be made to do our will. ~* I In other woads, the Bismarckian idea of worshipping the State is a good one. If our ci_vil officials betray their trusts they can be changed. If our ideas of truth, justice and right are voted down by a majority of the people, why we must spread our liberal papers, pamphlets and books in every family, make our speeches from every obtainable rostrum, until public opinion becomes sufficiently elevated and Then, I repeat, we are. broadened to vote itself justice. organized; and from the humblest school district up to oﬁices of national importance, let every liberal cast his vote’ in favor of the best material within his reach. What ques- tions should a liberal ask himself while going to the polls? If he is going to vote for a school officer, he should ask: Is often all combined in one costume. They dress more out- hc in favor of com;Jll1§Q{y education? Is he in favor of is May 6, 1876. rejecting the Bible as a school book? Is he in favor of ex- cluding all silent letters from our school text books and all other hinderances to natural and rapid education? If any of these queries are answered in, the negative, he should im- mediately seek another suitable candidate, and failing in ﬁnding one. he should, by all honorable means, try to get himself elected. If he is going to vote for a civil oﬂicer, other than a school officer, he should ask; Is he honest? I3 he capable? Will he, so far asfin his power, favor the interests of humanity through his oﬂice? ‘And then if he ﬁnds him to be 3- _“S0I'00é.’6” W110 is, 1iViUg upon high rates of interest, or any interest, or’ one who is living upon rents wrung from the ﬂesh and blood of his tenants, or a speculator standing between the honest producer and the needy consumer, or a, . capitalist locking up his capital except when he can make from twenty-ﬁve to one hundred per cent by using it; if he ﬁnds his candidate any or all of these, let him reject him at once and seek a candidate who comes nearer to his ideas of truth and justice. Now, to all intents and purposes being organized, what ultimate results ought we to expect . from this organization? We ought to expect collective pro- tection against individual or corporate aggression. F01-in- stance, if railways can not take grain from Illinois to the sea- board short of taking every other bushel for freight, let the government transport the produce of the country and charge the producers the actual cost of transportation. So shall our civil government grow into a community where joys and responsibilities willbe shared byall. J AS. I. FERRON. I Editors Weekly: Helen Nash has written many good things, and I look with interest for her_articles, feeling sure that I shall ﬁnd something rich and spicey; but her article on Mattie Strickland has quite taken me aback in its lauda- tion and gloriﬁcation of a proceeding at least questionable as to its propriety. To me it seems like this: A young girl, just emerging from childhood, possessing good natural ability, has, by temperament and circumstances, been crowded forward before her judgment could have matured, and,§being thrown into the society of an attractive man (more than twice her age) has been induced in the immaturity of her judgment to take an unwise step, by heroically uniting herself, and pub_. lishing to the world that she has gone counter to the customs of society and to the wishes of her parents. who had cared for her all her days. If the question arises (as it will) for what J object? the answer of a majority will be, notoriety. Fascia nated by a man more than twice her age, who had had three legal wives, and divorced two and left another, is there any- thing magnanimous or even commendable in such a step? Has the obligation of honor and duty to parents become obsolete? Is the inchoate statewiser than maturity? Helen Nash sneers at the parents for publishing their grief and dis- approbation at the conduct of their daughter. Have they. published it more extensively than the act itself had been proclaimed? And did they not owe it to themselves to make known their disapproval of what they regarded an unwige exposure of a foolish act? Time is needed to show Whether such a step results in good or evil to the parties concerned but it seems preposterous to claim for it the honor of the sacriﬁceof self for a principle. Because women have been prostituted under cover. of the marriage rite, it would not-, justify other women in becoming voluntary prostitutes out- side of it. Fiel ﬁe! Helen Nash. M. D. BRADWAY. CARVERSVILLE BUCKS COUNTY, Pa., April 9, 1375, g Dear Friends of the Weekly: I left Vineland for this place the 7th. I wishxto say that what Mrs. Heath has sent out to the world in her “Circular" falls far short of the reality. The scenery around “The Hill—Side Home” is indescribably beautiful, and can be realized only by being seen; for no pen, however eloquent, can describe it. _ Beautiful ﬁelds, magniﬁcent scenery, ‘lie in all directions, As a place for pleasure seekers it cannot be surpassed. Yours truly. SEWARD MITCHELL. P. S.-—I have been asked by several for the proper route .from the West to Carversville. As any route to Philadelphia will be at reduced rates, tickets should, be purchased to that point. From there, procuretickets and have luggage re- checked to Bull’s Island, via Belvidere Division of Pennsyl- , vania Railroad. At Bull’s Island carriages will be in waiting to carry passengers to the Home, two miles distant. S. M. , . PLESSIS, J eiferson Co., N. Y. Editors Weekly: _While passingthrough Albany, on the third day of the present month, feeling that it would be a privilege to see one who has been so fearless and undaunted in pursuance of right as John A. Lant of the Toledo Sun, I made my way the Penitentiary in that city, and through the kindness of the Superintendent met, for the ﬁrst time, through his frank and honest countenance, the genial beam- ing of his noble mind. His health, with the exception of a slight cold, was good, and his courage and spirits were un- I failing. He seemed to take great pleasure in speaking of the unexceptional cleanliness, and frequentiand thorough ven- tilation of the prison. He uttered no word of complaint; yet I know his trial is at best severe, and the fact that I was his ﬁrst visitor was unexpected and unpleasant information. In addition to this, his having received but very few letters, suggested the propriety of saying, through your columns, to his friends" that I was informed by the Superintendent that Mr. Lant would receive all lettersvwritten to him, and that any money sent to him would be deposited as a fund from which he could draw for his personal beneﬁt: that, though newspapers were not admitted to the prison, scraps cut from papers might be enclosed in letters, and most of the maga- zines were admitted. I would say this to his friends, that none who would wish to share the honor of his persecution may be deprived thereof through a need of his address or a knowledge of these facts. Letters should be addressed, John A. Lant, Penitentiary, Albany, N. Y., care of the Superintendent. Very truly yours, . » ,GrRA'1‘IA HOWARD HARE. ﬁx‘ ..;. 5 i l £1 if 3:‘ :3‘?- in ‘y.’ u "~r.'»»" .-. I: I , . av. 8 May 6, 18’? 6. From the press of matter on hand and incourse of preparation when the subjoined article of correspondence was received (Sd inst), its publication has been unavoid- ablyomitted until now. ‘ ,1 SHOULD CHURCH PROPERTY BE TAXED? AN ANSWER TO Ex-Gov. Drx’s SO-GALLED IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION ON THIS SUBJECT AS RECENTLY PUB- LISHED IN THE NEW YORK HERALD. . . NEW Yomz, April 2d, 1876. Editors Weeltlg/—-My time has been so much occupied lat- terly with ordinary routine, I have not found it convenient ‘ to read in the public journals ‘all the details of current news topics, except by furtive and cursory glances. I am, there- fore, not familiar with political and legislative affairs, as they . transpire from day to day; buthappening to observe, by chance, a communication to the New York Herald of last Friday, from the pen of ex-Governor Dix, on the subject of church taxation, I-was quite pleased to learn that this mat- ter had ﬁnally been introduced to the notice of our legislators at Albany as well as those of some capital cities in other States. The document .is dated. March 7th, and unless its publication was rather disrespectfully deferred, it would seem to have taken a very long time for its preparation-—as long perhaps as it would necessarily require for a guberna- torial message or proclamation. But, as the side of the ques- tion which he espouses needs much-more of fancy than of fact, of sophistry than of sound reason to sustain it, it is probably not so much to be wondered that so long a time elapsed between its inception and publication. Yet, apart from all hypothesis concerning the article, and taking it as it really is, I should like, by your permission, to brieﬂy note a few of the statements and propositions embodied in it. He commenced by declaring himself surprised to learn that the taxation of church ediﬁces has been seriously and earnestly advocated before the Committee of Ways and Means in the Assembly, and that it is virtually a. proposition to impose a tax on the worshipfof Almighty God, unless it is rendered in the open air, or in scmebuilding a1ready;subject to taxation. Then, after quite a lenthy historical sermon about Christ and His Apostles, and their places of preaching, he ‘admits that in his opinion the pagans, through the veneration in which they held the temples dedicated to their idols. manifested more reverence than these persons, who, he prefers to say, are the promoters of this raid upon reli-A gious worship. I It is, indeed, not altogether surprising, that he, being a leading member of the richest church organization in this country orin Great Britain, besides having a son who is one of its most noted and prominent clergyman, should be sur- prised at such an attempt or presumption to regulate in the interests of the people only one part or portion of its hitherto undisturbed monopolizing franchises. I allude, of course, to the Episcopal Church, the eldest daughter of the Mother Church at Rome; both of which have always de- pended more on worldly power and patronage than on any- thing else for their support. And for him or any one else to say that the withholding of State patronage by an equal assessment of theirs with all other real property," is taxing the worship of Almighty God, so far from being in favor of, is nothing more nor less than impious, and an insult to that same Supreme Being; and I challenge him (Governor Dix), to ﬁnd iu the sacred writings any command or injunction requiring His people to look for any aid or comfort from the governments of the world. or forbidding them to exercise any act of justice and right toward their fellow beings. : When Christ told them to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesa‘r’s, he did not mean for them to select the most valuable portions of C2esar’s land, and after investing mil- lions of the circulating medium in the erection thereon of the most costly ediﬁces, to look to Caesar for an exemption from the tribute due from such possessions, and thus shirk a responsibility resting on all alike, individually and col- lectively. Church exemption is neither an inherent nor a moral right. It has nothing in it connected with christianity, and is only a clerical doctrine whose purpose and effect is simply to enhance the power and emoluments of the priest- hood, and is not the amount of a grain of mustard seed to the glory of God. On the contrary, those who choose to advocate it evince a lack of faith in His power and good- ness, and instead of doing Him service, as they most likely ﬂatter themselves they dogthey will only merit and perhaps receive His utter 00nC16Inn:§l';QIl§.: ;;As to Christand His Apos- tles, of whom the writer also speaks, and the places in which they preached, all that he or any one else knows of them is, that they went about doing good in "such way, and had no stated preaching in anyone place erected at great expense for the purpose; and that they .preached as often and ,as readily, circumstances favoring, in ithe open ﬁelds and 3011 board of vessels, as in‘ the temple and the synagogues. Then, too, the citation. by him of pagan reverence in those days for their idols as an example, for all christians respect- ing grand churches with their costly paraphenalia and hum- bug formalities is simply an argument ad absu/rdum, and unworthy of any furthercommerit than‘ to remark that all‘ plain, sincere, sensible, professing and unprofessing ‘chris- tians in thislcountry do not choose to copy after pagansfin their form of worship or their respect for idols, but to cherish a. reverence for the only and true God more than for the places in which theyworship Him;_and.that the only way to worship Him is to worship Him in spirit and intruth, and not through the media of any particularforms or substances whatever. I _ ’ p 1 ; ,0 : He speaks, too, of the Divine Founder of our faith having driven the money changers out of the Temple, and expresses a hope that His example ‘in that instance would prevent the money changers from getting a foothold ‘in our houses: of worship, and converting them .into dens of thieves. But are they all immaculate who belong to the churches now-a-days? From the clergy down to the sextons, inclusive, are there not thieves, and even murderers among them ‘P, Do not many of those who are money changers and possess most of this 'kind of sentimental exhorting and denunciatin WOODHULL as oLArL1u's WEEKLY. world’s goods, occupy. the foremost and most costly pews, and hold the most exalted positions in their respective soci- eties? And is there not a notable instance on record, even in this very city, wherein a leading and inﬂuential member of one of onr most pious churches, through the aidof his pastor, inveigled may of his fellow members into a Wall Street “ cor- ner,” and ﬂeeced, if he did not skinjthem? iAnd yet, for- sooth, because the people, throughout the land, while labor- ing underlfhe oppressions of taxation accruing from the late war and worse causes, are beginning to express a wish that all may bear an equal sharegjof the burden, he (Gener-a‘l’Dlx) raises the cry of wolf, and warns against theaggressions of outside money changers. Away with such Pharisaical soph- istry and imposture! . . - . 1 He further on says, in a sarcastic manner, that the abettors of the movement are willing to compromise with’ the Sove- reign Ruler by making rcasonable concessions, and allowing $1,000 of the value of each of His churches to be exempt from taxation, and that they may, perhaps, go so far as to allow Him.$2,000. A ' V Now, it would be expected that any one having a proper reverence for the S_upreme Ruler would not speak of Him in so common-place a manner, and, at the same time, keep back the motive which prompted the offer of which he speaks. This motive was to favor those societies that might not be able to erect a very expensive structure. And it was un- questionably a laudable one. An exemption even to the amount of $5,000, for such a purpose, would not probably be too much if it should be desired. ” He then contends that the Almighty is honored in a degree correponding to the costliness and magniﬁcence of the edi- ﬁce erected to His worship. If this be not pagan idolatry, then I should like to know what is. Not only is it idolatry, but the veriest sham and subterfuge as well. If the Al- mighty regarded the architectural style and character of a building made with hands, he certainly would not have al- lotted a stable for the birthplace of His only begotten Son, in whom He knew He would be well pleased. And this ~ same Son, if He had regarded worldly magniﬁcence and style, instead of going about preaching and teaching in all sorts of places, and riding on an ass’ colt on a public occa- sion, would most likely have chosen some ﬁne cathedral-like structure for stated and regular preaching, and a gilded car- » riage for His conveyance from place toplace. But that hum- ble birthplace and mode of travel were lessons of humility , which too many of our moderniprofessing christians do not incline to proﬁt by. If ostensibly they do not, as Governor Dix says, ignore God, theythus virtually ignore His exam- ples and His precepts. . The remaining portion of the.'gentleman’s statement is not . worth following with any special remarks. It is only a g perora ticn which amounts to nothing more than the many misused words of which it is chieﬂy made up. It is the poorer people—the laboring and producing classes —-who pay the taxes. And when such menias George H. Andrews, a tax commissioner on a salary of ten thousand dol- lars, and General John Q. Dix. a millionaire, stand up and exclaim against this mode of equal taxation, it should not be difﬂcult for any one to understandhow much the meas. ure may conduce to the pecuniary beneﬁt of the masses, and- how little it will detract from thespiritual welfare of those who are now so virulent in opposing it. In fact the passage of the measure may, perhaps, even beneﬁt them beyond con- ception by causing them to become less parsimonious in wordly concerns, and more pious uand, steadfast in their re- ligious exercises and devotions. In this age of corrupt and apostate christendom the existence of a church is not posi- tive proof ofhpiety. On the contrary, in‘ many of them, especially those in and near large cities, extravagance, vice and pride do most abound; and there isin mostif not all the , churches a redundance if not a preponderance o hypocrites: and adulterers—wolves in sheep’s clergymen down to sextons, inclusive. Let all those who cherish a regard for the churches, only with an eye single to the glory of God, pay special attention to the spiritual cleansing of the Sanctuary, and less to its material embellishment and decoration, and they will then be content to worship in houses with forms less ostentatious and inﬁnitely more acceptable and‘ pleasing in the sight of God. ' , , Flowers are chaste and beautiful objects to look upon or contemplate; but they alone do not purify a pulpit, or ren- der it a whit more sacred or seemly. It is the inward char- acter—-the true inwardness—-and outward demeanor of the f_ pharisees, iclothing, from one who ﬁlls it, and of those who sit beneath its droppings’, that can give to. it an unfading beauty and “ a joy forever. ’ . TAXPAYER. A SHORT '*SERMON. BY DR. H. P. FAIRFIELD. Text: The English Bull, Farrow Cow and “Art Magic.” Having been favored with the perusal of this bound trinity, I am lead to ask the following question: When will the American liberal people learn wisdom bypast experience, and “ Try the Spirits,” before spendingmoney for that which is not bread? ' A ,. ’ The intelligent, thoughtful reader of this trinity will find it a weak, deformed conception of garbleism. The writer must be an expert picker of old, musty records. It appears somewhat foolish to waste our time and the energies of our minds over the fabulous theories and mysticisms of the dead past. “ Remember Lot's wife.” It is impossible to infuse a breath of life into a decaying corpse, or to ﬁnd an intelli- gent, elementary, materialized departed spirit. _ ' I am poor and in distressing circumstances pecuniarily, but have no use for “ Art Magic”—ﬁve hundred people are enough to be gored by it. I would propose that the whole ﬁve hundred volumes be forwarded to the Centennial farce as the productions of a highly esteemed English lady. , Let ut pray, Oh God ! we thank thee, that the Devil of “Art Magic ” is dead. We pray that mines of credulity 3 may be exhausted to manufacture the coffin. We pray that the grave may be dug deep as the Valley of the Mississippi. And we pray that the Priest and Priestess who have had him or her in charge may be invited as pall-bearers. And oh Lord! if there be any sympathizing friends may-they follow as mourners. We pray, also, that the Alps and the Andes of foolishness may be levelled ppon the -‘resting place. And we pray, oh God of mercy! that no "tombstone mark the repulsive place, and that thy resurrection power may never think of it: Amen. ' .._.....—... A PRAYER. If I should die to-night, My friends would look upon my quiet face Before they laid it in its resting place, And deem that death had left it almost fair; And laying snow-white ﬂowers against my hair Would smooth it down with tearful tenderness, And fold my hands with linger’ng caress-_- Poor hands! so empty and so cold to-night ! If I should die to-night, . My friends would call to mind, with loving. thought, Seine kindly deed the icy hand had wronght; Some gentle word the frozen lips had said; V m Errands on which the willing feet had sped. The memory of myselﬁshness and pride, My hasty words, would all be laid aside; And so I should be loved and mourned tonight! If I should die to-night, , E’en hearts estranged would turn once more to me, Recalling other days remorsefully; , - The eyes that chill me with averted glance Would look upon me as of yore, perchance, And soften, in the old familiar way-4-’ For who would war with dull, uncons_cieus.clay! So-I might rest, forgiven by all, to—night. ' 0 friends! I pray to—night, . , Keep not your kisses for my dead, cold brow; , The way is .lonely—let me feel them now! Think gently ofme; I am travel-worn; My fa_lterin‘g feet are pierced with many a thorn. Forgive, 0 hearts estranged——forgive. I plead! VVhen dreamless rest is mine, I shall not need The tenderness for which-I long to-night! ARE BAD PEOPLE CAPABLE OF LOVE’? “ It appears not, because love is gained by kindness and goodness, qualities that are not understood and appreciated by bad people. Beauty raises lust, but love don't think much about the looks. T ELIPHALE1‘ KIMBALL. . _, g APERFECT and complete marriage is perhaps as rare as perfect personal beauty. Men and women are married frac- tionally. now a small fraction, then a large fraction. Very few are _marrled totally, and then only after some forty or ﬁfty years of gradual approach and experiment. Such a long long summer to ripen in, and then a .long season to mellow and season in. But a real happy marriage of love and judgment, between a noble man and woman, is one of the things so very handsome that if the sun were, as the Greek poets fabled, _a god, he might stop the world, in order to -feast his eyes with such a spectacle. EDITORIAL NOTICES. LOIS WAISBROOKER can be addressed at Eureka, Hum- bolt County, California, during April Will take subscrip—- tions for the WEEKLY. ‘ I’ i K LE0 MILLER AND MATTIE. STRICKLAND will receive calls for lectures on liberal subjects. 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A VISION. NO . II. Havingbeen unremittingly employed in other directions, together with a‘"lack of capacity for physical endurance beyond a certain -point, consequent upon a strange physico- spiritual development which I have been undergoing during the year past, has deterred me from following up the pre- sentation of the various visions of which, since childhood, I have been a subject, regarding my earthly mission, that I at one time proposed. And I do not now know when another may follow this. If my present hope shall be real- ized, however, it will not be many weeks;‘for the time has come when I must communicate to the world many things of which I have been made-the custodian, which, until now, have been held in inviolable conﬁdence. However, “Man proposes, but God disposes.” I do not think it will be assuming too much to say that the affections of a large portion of the readers of the WEEKLY are strong enough to cause them to feel a deep in- terest in what I am about to write, since it is ofit that Iam about to speak; and I trust that the growth of the cause of which it is the organ,’will warrant some faith in what that may be, irrespective of anyconﬁdence or want of it in the self, I wish to say that to the best of our ability, we have followed for years the guiding hand of a band of spirits, from whom what I shall communicate in these visions, came, In devotion to them, and the cause which they have inaug- ‘ “urated, we have endeavored to lose sight of ourown personal relations‘ to “the movement, and have been Willing to stand the odium-of reproach for what may have been deemed -‘ unwise in our course, as well as to make no per- sonal application of;,Mthat which has received commenda- ‘ V, tion. And now, challenging the charges of egotism which may follow what I am to communicate, I shall boldly write that with which I have been charged. .When I consider of the WEEKLY I feel for it as for a thing of life that has been committed to my care; feel for it as if I had bourn it as a child; feel for it as though it divided my affections with my children; indeed, if my affections for it and them were to be measured by the thought and care which I have bestowed upon them, and the devotion I have given, the palm would fall to the WEEKLY. At one time it was suspended for four months; but I did not mourn over it as. dead. I knew that it was sleeping, only; to awake with a new strength and a new vigor. Did not its awakening fully justify ourfaith ? Let the Beecher-Tilton scandal, and its worldwide results, reply ! In May, 1864, I was ﬁrst informed that I had been selected by aband of spirits, to work cut, under its guidance,‘a problem in which the future welfare of humanity was deeply involved ; perhaps I should say rather, that the ﬁrst intimations that there was a work to be done, in which I S ‘ should be engaged, were made known to me at that time, although the Mappointment, as I have been since told, and as I believe, was made years anterior to my birth. It was some eighteen months after these first intimations were received, however, before I obtained any idea of ’;what that work was to be. ‘ - A ,The Winter. of 1865-56 _I spent mostly in New Orleans, One evening, while in the city, I as those who then table, discussing plans for the future, I was suddenly raised into the spiritual condition .(a condition which had been familiar tome for years), and this is what I saw and what was said to me, as described and repeated to the circle, of which proper notes were ‘made: ‘ Iwas told that we were not to carry out any of the pro- jects that had been the subject of conversation; that our methods of life were soon to be changed, and that our of. forts were to be directed to a work which would be inaug- urated by the spirit World, through us. I saw the spiritof I Demosthenes (I didnot know it was he at that time) bring and lay _upon the table a printed paper, folded to the "size, as I described it, of Harpers’ Weekly, the name of‘ which, in bold letters, was “Woodhull & Claﬂin’s Weekly.-” The spirit said that we were to remove to a large city be- side the ocean, and there ‘were to edit and publish this pa- per, which was to be the organ of this band of spirits, and of the movement which they werepto inauguratein the world. M He said further, that there would come a time’ when M'th‘e excitement about the, paper would be soigreat, that the Voﬂice of its publication would be thronged with lnewsboys eager to get the paper, the demand for which I the presses would not print fast enough to supply; in fact, that the street in front of the office would be blocked by applicants, and that policemen would have to guard. the doorsto maintain order. Moreover, he ‘declared that the character of the ‘circumstances would‘ be so exceptional, and that the excitement would attain to so high a pitch, that as many as ﬁfty dollars would beipaid-for a single copy of the paper. He also assured us in the most positive manner that the paper would increase ultimately to be the most immediate future, saying: “You will find it necessary to leave. this city shortly and go North,” which we then had not the remotest idea of doing.“ It was not many ‘days, how- personnel of its conductors. For them, as well as for my-‘ c_omposed my family circle were sitting about our powerful journal in the country, and would find its way — "into every household. He then gave instructions for the only decided, butmade it necessary for us to follow the in- structions. I a While the condition of exaltation to which the inﬂuence lifted me was upon me, all this seemed to be already a settled fact. I saw it just as the spirit showed and spoke it; but when returned again to my normal state I felt that I had been triﬂed with; since to then think of our ever editing and publishing a paper appeared to besutterly preposterous and absurd, and I was indignant to think that a spirit so familiar to me as this one, should attempt to impose upon my credulityin such a manner and to draw me into any such foolish-lines of thought. In fact I regarded it as a delusion, and cast it out of my mind as such. Yet, whenever the inspiration came upon me I repeated the same things, and I assured those to whom I spoke, that, let me say what I would at other times, we were really todo just what the spirit said. , How perfectly a part of the vision has been veriﬁed may be realized by reverting tothe circumstances attend- ing the publication of the Beecher-Tilton scandal, even to the selling of a paper for ﬁfty dollars. There is no doubt in my mind that that publication was contemplated when this prophecy was made In regard to the part of the pro- phecy yet to be fulﬁlled, I wish to say that since the fulﬁl- ment of the other I have never had the slightest doubt about it. Indeed I say frankly that I see just how the WEEKLY is to become the family paper‘ of the country; but I must not be premature. I prefer that things shall work them- selves out. I After the first vision regarding our mission, similar ones were frequent. I soon became aware of an awakening in- terest and come to thirst for more knowledge; indeed I began to feel as if I had, something to do which was worth doing, though I must confess that its character and magnitude, as foreshadowed in my visions, often staggered me into skep- ticism about its possibility I remember one occasion upon -which this was more than usually strong. It was this : I saw ourselves (those then with me) seated about a table, upon which was spread out a map of the world. The spirit, standing behind one of the party, reached his arm to the table and touched his ﬁnger upon this country; he then passed it to Europe, then to South America, next to Asia, next to Australasia, and lastly to Africa, and said: “Do you understand what I mean ?” " The person to whom the question wasput, turned, to the spirit, and, smiling, bowed assent. The spirit then continued: “ The movement which is to first take form through you, will spread over the whole world in the present generation, and revolutionize allexjgt- ing things.” To‘ show how jealously the spirits have watched our course, and guarded their organ against perversion and _ contamination, I will relate the following circumstance; In July last there came to our house one Sunday, a per- son who professed to be deeply interested with “The New Departure,” and urged strongly and persistently upon us a certain course to be pursued. I was not impressed parti- cularly with what was said, but was, listening, when 3. pirit voice whispered in my ear, “ retire to the other room.” I did so, and was then instructed to summon the others, who were still givingltheir attention to him. I was quickly thrown into a spiritual condition, when Demog- thenes said: ,“ That person is all wrong. Do not let him swerve you from your present course.” . Sister then asked if he were satisﬁed with .the_conduct of the paper, relating to the subject of the conversation? Which was answered in this way: I saw before me a large pile of WEEKLIES, and about it were kneeling in prayer a multitude of women» Spii-_ its-, and from the papers there rose up an incense mat spread over the whole country. I described this to those present, and when I spoke of the incense, the spirit added, “Yes! Not only overthis country shall it spread, but over-the whole world.” M M M V * Guided consciously to ourselves, as we have been in all our movements, by this band ofgspirits, we came long ago to regard their sayings with tlrhiutmost conﬁdence and their commands as imperative. I ‘confess that I follow them with the" most perfect faith, for in no instance in which they have ever assured me, h3«V9 I _ W61‘ ~been disappointed They have not always explained all their plans fully, but when any detail or expected results weretwithheld, I have felt it to be necessary to insure success, for I can now see‘ if wehad known that somethings which have occurred were to occur, it would have been doubtful if we sh-ou1d have been strong enough togo forward, although now I am glad that wealways have. I say this-parenthetically, because there are some people who think themselves wiser than the spirits who exercise controlling inﬂuence in the spirit world. I- wish to add that I have never found them to be so. ' A V In {spite of ;all myifaith and-trust I have sometimes, when in deep distress, been shaken, but if I have, it has only been for a moment. At those-times there has always been a. kind spirit near to remind me that “Blessed shalt thoube if, when the time come,‘ thou art found#not_want- ing,” the purport, to me, of which I shall explain at another time. My constant prayer is that I may; my con- stant determination is that I will; my constant knowledge is that I must be thus found. ' M And who shall, who can say that the present is not pro- phetic of tbe fulﬁlment of what the spirits have shown me ! ever, before circumstances came naturally about, that not‘, Have _not their organ, laid before me in prophecy at New :’ l ‘ins May 6, 1876. A w k .1. ,‘ ;‘ «_.. «>"S»‘l’.'?-fE\f."‘.\,.,‘_(>§;A“;').,r;§\ WOODHULL & CLAFLIH’S WEEKLY. 5 Orleans, and the words that they have given me to speak upon the rostrums of the country, roused a sleeping world to thought upon the most vital of all vital -subjects? The change that public thought has undergone! upon the so- cial question amounts to nothing less than a revolution. It is a revolution, broad and deep, and will lead, when consummated,-not only to the sweeping changes so long ago foretold, but also through them, to the solution of the last great problem of life and death. In this solution will the mission that has been inaugurated, and in which itjhas been my privilege to-labor, culminate. A , _ V A Vrcronm (J. _WooDnUL1_.. I ----r---Q9—&O®—---—-‘ ANOTHER DELIBERATE MURDER. ' The Governor refused to interfere to avert the fateof Dolan. It is the worst mistake he ever made. He under- rated the public sentiment in opposition to capital punish- ment, when he concluded that, if hewere to rescue Dolan A from the gallows, it would damage his presidential pros- pects. There has been a revulsion in the minds of the people about this horrid relic of barbarism generally in the whole country, and especially in this city, since Foster paid the legal penalty for his crime. The horrors that at- tended his execution _struck home to the public heartan.d satiated the thirst for blood, which, at that time, existed in some; while, through that much larger portion of the'com- munity who already denounced this vestige of the barbaric ages, it sent a thrill of horror that revealed to them the heathonish thirst for vengeance that is satisﬁed in this way in all its awful deformity. I . _ “ Vengeance is mine; I will repay saith the -Lord.” This power is not delegated to man. Moses said blood for blood; ‘but the gentle Nazarene fulﬁlled that law and ushered‘ in a Christian dispensation of love and good-will. _ . But in this Christian (?) country—now in its centennial year; now approaching the hundredth anniversary of the day upon which the immortal words, announcing the in- alienable right to life for man, were made fundamental to our institutions——at this time when the highest civilization and the profoundest Christianity should prevail, a poor man stood on the verge of eternity and plead for mercy; plead for thebegneﬁt of the doubt that existed in his case, and was refused. Think of this, ye Christians of New York! of the country»! a man face to face with death,_but entitled to life by reason of an existing doubt, and proven by the words of his victim, to be not guilty of that degree of murder for which the gallows is provided, and yet he had to die. Oh, shame upon such Christianity! Put your- selves in his place; remember his parentage; his childhood; his associations, all furnished him by this same society which has dipped its hands in his blood, and then see if he were not a victim as well as a criminal. He turned to the people and plead; but he-plead to stones. The busy public, it is true, shudde1'ed at the horrid spectre that lifted itself up in the yard of the Tombs, but it went on its way, other- wise unmoved, and permitted the law of four thousand or more years ago, to have its victim just as if it were not re- sponsible in any way. If the people had been imbued with the spirit of their pro- fessed Master; even with the better spirit of the age, could there have been this apathy to ‘the pleadings of this miser- able man? No! they would have risen en masse and de- manded his life of the Governor. They would have said_: We have had enough of this brutality; we do not live in a Mosaic dispensation; we are Christians, insisting on the adoption into practice of the teachings of our Master who, if He were here, would banish the gallows and command us to overcome evil with good. But it is too late! Another disgrace; another ‘denial of Christ smirches the records of the age! Dolan has been strangled to death in cold blood! He only attacked his victim for self-protection, with no intent to kill; but this community coolly, deliberately, bar- barously put its hands upon his throat and strangled him to death. The Governor said he “ couldn’t interfere; that the law had to take its course”. Dolan had been legally con- victed. The law is the exponent of the people. Every member of this community is guilty of I)olan’s death. They made the law and they refused tostay its behests. , ‘Dolan’s conviction was‘ upon circumstantial A evidence only, and while it has been frequently asserted that atrain of evidence, based upon; circumstances, all converging to show positiveguilt, is stronger than any direct evidence, we give no adhesion to such a theory, for there have been “cases where the circumstantial evidence was of the most conclusive kiud, and yet within brief periods after convic- tion and execution, it has been found that the executed were innocent. Such cases; nay, one such case, should cause it to be provided that a term of not less than one year should elapse between conviction and execution,las the law in every State, while the punishment for murder‘ is death. Such a. term would at least allow the condemned some chance to establish his innoc ence. We would go further even than this;we would have aterm of ﬁve years provided, until capital punishnientshall be abolished ;' and during this term, as well as during the term for life, when the present law shall be expunged from our statute books, the convict should labor in the peniten- tiary for wages equal to those paid outside ‘of prison walls for the same labor, the earnings to be eqnally divided be- tween the families of the convictjand his victim. crime, is evidenced by the results: that have followed the lessening of the number of crimes that were once punishable by death, which is specially noticeable in England. As this movement progressed, morals ;took as higher standard, and all criminal acts decreased. . ' That the Governor has committed apolitical, as well as a Christian, error, in not commuting Dolan’s sentence, or at least in not respiting him for a year or more, time will do monstrate, and that, too, erelong; and he will live to re- gret his error, while -the:man whom ‘he might have saved will be mouldering in his grave. - — - ’ ’ But there were other considerations in this case besides the rightsvof Dolan and the horrors of the gallows. There -were great public interests involved; interests which are but just beginning tobe known to the public, it is true, but Which, no_twithstanding, are none the less deep and ‘impor- tant. 4"I‘her'e, are great social laws that underlie the very ex- istence of society, which are outraged by every public bor- ror that transpires. A People are not the results of — chance; they are what they are by reason of the circumstances and, conditions from which they spring. Characters are not ac- quired. They are inherited or stamped upon individuals prior to their birth.” 'It is true that education develops that which is ‘inherited; that the evil tendencies may be re- strained and the good encouraged; but it is also true that the good which is wanting at birth cannot be engrafted into the character, nor the bad that ispossessed be wholly erad- icated by any process of development. Every person is born with the capacity for all that he may ever do. Dolan was born with the capacity to strike a deadly blow, and he was unfortunate enough to fall into circumstances that called it into action. ;_Who can tell from whence that capac- ity came ‘? . Perhaps in his pre-natal condition something similar to what this community perpetrated, upon him, struck his mother with the horror with which his death has struck thousands of other mothers in a similar condition, and, through her, impressed upon her unborn child the capacity to murder. Who can say that the cold-blooded murders of Dolan has not made a thousand murderers? These subtle laws are not generally understood, but the principle upon which they act is well established and well known; and, being so, should set the seal of doom upon the gallows. We would call upon mothers at least, everywhere, to raise their voices against the continuation of this worst of all public curses upon motherhood ; would call upon them for the sake of unborn generations, if not for that of the condemned, to demand that this relic of the dark ages shall no longer blacken the fair face of our civilization. To enforce the lesson we would draw from the murder by the community, of John Dolan, we quote the following from the N. ‘ Y. Sun of the 23d instant, merely remarking upon it, that, if the effects of a hanging scene were so horri- ble upon a man, what must they be upon women when per- forming their divinest functions; when they are the direct instruments through whom God operates to create immortal souls? Let every mother read this carefully, and remember that sheis liable to be similarly aﬁected, and to mark her unborn, child with the brand of Cain; and never cease to protest against this curse upon humanity, until it shall be among the things that were: . A, HAUNTED MAN. VISION or A GALLOWS AND TWO SWINGING FIGURES ON A RAINY DAY. “ — To the Editor of the Su/n—S7Zr: It is quiteuseless, of course, in the existing state of public sentiment, to lift up onefs feeble voice against ‘the execution of the death penalty by hanging; and I should not trouble myself, as to the Dolan affair reported in your columns this morning, to enter an un- vailing protest, were it not that, from experiences of my own, I am ﬁrmly convinced of the morbid nervous, tendencies at- tendant upon witnessing executions, and even upon perusal of their details aspictured by the graphic hand of the prac- ticed reporter. - I have met persons on whom such spectacles operated as a morbid nervous stimulant, and who would walk leagues rather than miss being present at the execution of a murderer; justas I have met old ladies who would regard it as a. real deprivation to miss a. funeral for leagues about, and have been heard to complain dolefully when two funerals happened on the same afternoon. For myself, I have reported a number in the course of a long service as daily journalist, and I verily believe that ex- ecutions are self-perpetuating— self—perpetuating because murders, by some strange psychological law, can often be traced to the morbid incitation and the almost uncontroll- able nervous sympathy that such spectacles engender. Iwas present at the execution of Gonzales and Pellicier in the Ray- mond street jail—yard, Brooklyn. It was a still, semi-dark- ened, rainy afternoon, or, rather, it drizzled and mistedlin place of raining, as if somehow the weatherwas holding its breath, aud waiting for the affair to be over, before proceed- ing to business; and, to strengthen the fancy that such was the ‘case, just after that horrible clatter in the box that con- tained the Dennis of the event had subsided, it came down in earnestifor a few minutes, and. dripped drearily from the black cross-beam, and from the black ﬁgures with clown’s caps on their heads, though the caps weretas blackas the rest. And as the drops gathered into larger drops, and fell steadily upon the platform, nervous as I was, and sick at heart, their devilish tattoo worked its way into my brain in 5 such a manner that I have lost‘ since then one ‘of the pleasantest things in life — that of listening to rain- drops. I saw them hanging there, and broke into a par- oxysmof nervous laughter that shocked the solemn; sheriff, the deputies talking in low tones, and the bullet—headed exe- cutioner, and made the latter look calculatingly at my neck. That such «a condition of punishment would decrease _ Since then a bubble of happy laughter has an inhibiting in- ﬂuence on the optic nerve. I dread to ‘laugh or hear the sweetest laughter; forI see myself sitting in a jail yard in _ the rain, with two suspended‘ corpses motioning toward me with "their feet, and deputies wondering whya man should laugh when he wasn’t tickled." ’ ” ‘ ‘pg But that is not thelworst of it. Nomatter where I am, or in what agreeable society~,iwith any sudden‘darkeni=n'g»of the atmosphere‘, as’: of the sun ‘passing behind-a -cloud, I see two . b130k_ﬁ2I1I‘6S B.WiDgi!.1£-’; under a black cross-beam;a,,-few feet from, 111)’ eyes. It is, not a mere recollection. of the thing, With its attendant mental,spectre,,but:a_vivid reproduction externalto ‘myself; , such {that the gallows, and the ﬁgures "s’winging'to and fro in the rainare actually before me as they were that day, ‘ah,”,and]that night, too"! I for ‘what terrible I-dreamsl had. with a thick-set,'cl3ean-shavein man, wearing a stiff, round—crowned hat‘,-— flitting. in and out of a box,-and taking a specially demoniac delig-h-t*in*making1,a clatter. And afterveach clattercame .a<black.cross‘—.beam~ of terrible dimensions and two. limp but gigantic —ﬁgufr'es- suspended from it bycords ridiculously too small to 'hang;.giants.with. A thousand, tl1ing_soperate_as remipnders. _.Sometimes, when I am: particularly nervous,.a,transom over.th'_e door, or along black sign-bpoard, or the sight of a" man very thick-necked and bullet-headedyor fa round—crowned hat! exposed in a hatter’s windowibrings ‘on the horrible vision’, and if‘ I shut my eyes I see it all the more. . ~ The result is, sir, that I am a 'haunted'man, and always expect to be so long as {I live: and~I am ﬁrm]-.y?f convinced that there are others whoare similarly ha,unt_edwby_nervo_us pic- tures of the s,am_e.,kin_d. Why. notrexecute with hemlock (extract ofconium) a._s_the_ Greeks d.i,d,in place.,of.p,oisoning lunatics with it? yWhyin,ot_makei,a logical appl-ication of anaesthesia? Why, not let :1 condemned man pass ‘into awful and menacing silence‘ fromfthe mtoméntt of sentence ?’ I con- cede, sir, that hangingis picturesqu,e‘--terribly picturesque- savagely so. I see two black ﬁg'uresjswingin'g'i'n the rain at this "moment, and I shall" see*them‘?all 'ni'ghtil'ong;'and‘ you can readily imagine how, in many temperaments, a morbid impression of thiskind may pass intoa. morbidimpulse_ and impel irresistiblyto the tragedy» by which it was.,engend_er,ed.‘ , . . , , 1i‘RANcIs.GEnnx FAIBEIELD. . NEw_YoBK, Ap1‘il22, 1876. A ' .,,,._e by THE‘ sanafrpt EDUCATOR. A When weconsider condition of theipubllc thought at " the present time, and "trace it back to see” in what it had its origin, it is a matter for d,eepg,grat.ulation to ﬁnd that it is to the WEEKLY that the ‘people owe the processes of puriﬁca- tion that are now being pressed with so much vigor on all sides. We do not say that peculation, fraud and corrupption have not existed in the‘State and Church and in corporations for many years. That it is nowjiistncoming to the knowl- edge of the people that all organizations are rotten almost to crumbling, is. no evidence; that the corruption to which this rottenness owes its origin; is of recent date. The extent. to which this condition has spread," as" well as the ‘conditions of decay, ‘seem rather to'show that it must have been of long duration, and that many years before: its existence was suspected, it had penetrated the whole body politic,-com- mercial and social. It has been to the community like an insidious disease to ‘the human ‘body thatigains a foothold I in the system, and, while yet unexpected, lays the founda- tion for that which, when it? really manifests itself, sweeps the life-currents with irresistible force. A But the corruption in the great social bodies was almost impregnably situated. ‘ It was carried on behind a patriotic front which disarmed suspicion; and in the church the elo- quent appeals for holiness cast avail about it, behind which no one ever thought. of‘ looking for‘ anything wrong; while in the corporations, under the guise! of ‘the public interest, the people were led to think them benefactors who were simply laying plans -to catch that part of the surplus earn ings of the industrial classes which the politici'ans-failed to legislate out of their hands. ’ A I I A , . This game went on for years, its players becoming bold and more unscrupulous as theiracts escaped detection, until at last they seemed to think themselves‘ sostrong that they could defy the public. With this conviction, came the bare- faced frauds which burst the , bubble they had come to handle so carelessly. _ And it came about in this way: There was a paper started in Wall street by two women, which essayed to grapple with this condition that was run- ning rampant over the country. It ﬁrst ‘attacked the huge system of swindlingthatihad-grown fashionable under the pretense of developing the country by building railroads. Those who read? the WEEKLY'in 1871 will remember that its -columns for months were ﬁlled with exposur es‘ of the vil- lainies that were practiced upon the people . No other paper had dared to touch these giant corruptions. Although they had the same facilities for knowing the facts about them that the'WEEKLY had, nothing was ever said to in dicate that what was going on was not legitimate. But it was not wholly to railroadyfrauds that the WEEKLY cdnﬁned itself. ‘It attacked rotten savings banks and insur ance companies. There can be no doubt that the move ment initiated by the WEExLYhas led to the winding-up of 7 many of these corporationswhich otherwise would have gone on swindling the peoplefor years to come. At one time there were forty-twoglife insurance. companies in the coun: .try.- They have dwindled until now there -are but. nine- teen. Then;there were the Mexican and ‘the: Georgia and North Carolina bond swindles. _The facts set forth in the WEEKLY~, at the timeof which we speak, have been proved literally true, and some of the swindlers are now paying the ‘penalty for their crimes. " A ‘ ‘thinking our political system was perfect, and now, when ‘ tory. _ V when it has been called to do this kind of work. This is J etc., etc., etc.—-Banner of Light. — Spiritualists, however, he proceeds to read those who do ’ way Spiritualists may sneer and carp-—is now a fact just as p be denied or abridged by the United States, or by" any A Ninth Annual Convention, in Masonic Hall, New- York, » Republic, willsbe a most important one. The underlying .WOODHU‘LL & OLAI4‘LIN’S WEEKLY. May 6, 1876. It was the bold course of the WEEKLY in publishing the facts about all these fraudulent and peculative schemes that ﬁrst called the attention of the public to the fact of their existence, and caused inquiry to'.be made into all suspicious- looking adventures and adventurers, whether in the political arena, the ﬁnancial or commercial_ emporium, or in the so- cial or religious ﬁeld. The results are before the world to- day. The highest legislative body—the Congress of the United States-is occupied “ principally in investigating frauds of one kind oranother, and are rapidly proving that the whole political‘ structure istoo rotten to stand. The people look" on aghast at tlieifacts daily evoked from the political_ cesspool, and thousands are already looking into eachothers faces, and earnestly inquiring, “To what next shall we’, turn?” The people had sat down in security, they~w‘ake-to- ﬁnd it ready to fall, they scarcely know in what direction to look for a better state of things. But thanks to the eﬁects of the exposuresfmade by the WEEKLY ﬁve years ago, wise minds have been called to the impend- ing disaster in time, and out of the chaos that will shortly come, a new government will rise; which shall spread over all the earth, and introduce a new _'_era in the world’s his- We repeat again, therefore, that we regard the work which other journals are doing to-day in unearthing fraudswith peculiar satisfaction, realizing as we do that it was the WEEKLY‘WhlCh opened the way for them to do it, by show- ing that immense corporations and powerful individuals engaged in wrong-doing might be attacked and brought to bay if the courage were present to speak the truth with boldness and decision. .1 This is what the WEEKLY has done upon all occasions not its ﬁeld, however, now. This having been occupied by other great and inﬂuential journals, the WEEKLY has been at liberty to go on to other and higher labors. The work of destruction is progressing fast enough. Let those who are engaged in it complete their work, while the WEEKLY shall treat of reconstruction and reorganization; of a new political social order,and of improving the people, so that with the and new, there may be less misery, vice and crime than now disgrace the escutcheon of our national honor. A NEW DEFINITION. A 'Spiritua1ist—-one who believes in the Eddy’s, the Hardy ‘S, the Stewart's, the Miller’s, the Parry’s, the Holmes’, .4; 4 r*w%~ A RARE OPPORTUNITY. ‘If among our readers there is any one having from two to four thousand dollars, ready cash, which they would like to invest into a proﬁtable business, we shall be glad to put them in the way of doing so. The business is a perfectly legitimate one, and those interested in it are people of the highest integrity and capacity and position, whom we shall take pleasure in recommending to any one who may apply to usfor the particulars. The investment will secure a half interest in the business. ' .44 ,®7 THE SPIRITUAL. POPE. The Banner of Light has jumped to the end of our.recom- mendation made last week, that friend Colby should be made Pope. Without waiting for the action of full-ﬂedged not believe in the full—form materializations of spirits out of the Spiritualistic camp, as follows: .. “The phenomena of the full-form materialization-how- ever skeptics may rail and rave, and however some half- well established as the minor marvel of the spirit hand.” Take notice‘ all ye people who do not now believe in the full-form materialization of { spirits, that you are only “skeptics” or “half-way Spiritualists.” Indeedis Spiritual- ism getting on after the fashion of old creedists wonder- fully well. '1 I "T ' ‘ ' ,4; if AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE’ XIV. All persons born-or-naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the ‘United States, and of the States wherein they reside. Nu;State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privil- eges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, libertyor property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction theequal protection of the laws. The right of citizens of the United States to vote, shall not State,’ on account of race, color,or previous conditions of‘ servitude." I ‘ ' ‘I ‘ -NATION AL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION-—'-1876. ~ The National Woman Suffrage Association will hold its corner Sixth Avenue and_’I'wenty-third street, May 10th and 1] th,‘ 1876. This convention, occurring in the Centennial yearof the principles of governmentwill this year be disctussedtvas never before; both foreigners and citizens will query as to how closely this country has lived up to its own principles. The long debated question as to the source of the governing power, was answered a century ago by the famous Declara- tion of Independence which shock to the foundation all rec- ognized power, aud proclaimed the right of the individual as abovejall forms of government; but while thus declaring it-. self to be founded on individual right, this nation has failed to secure the exercise of their inalienable right of se1f-gov- ernment to one-half the individuals of the nation, It has held the women of the nation accountable to laws they have had no share in making, and taught as their one duty, that doctrine of tyrants-unquestioning obedience. Liberty to-day is therefore but the heritage of one-half the people, and the centennial will be but the celebration of the independence of one-half the nati__on. The men alone of this country live in a Republic, the women enter the second hun- dred years of national life as political slaves. That no structure is stronger than its weakest point, is-a law of mechanics that will apply equally to government. In so far as this government has denied justice to women, it is weak, and preparing for its own downfall. All the insurrec - tion-s, rebellions and martyrdoms of history have grown out of desire for liberty, and in woman’s heart this desire is as strong as in man’s. The history of this country cannot be written without mention of woman; at every vital time in the nation’s life, men and women have worked together; everywhere has woman stood by the side of father, brother, husband, son, in defence of liberty. The work of the women of the Revolution is well known; without their aid the Re- public could never have been established; their patriotism and sacriﬁcejequalled that of the men, but while the men have reaped their reward, women are still suffering under all the oppressions complained of in 1776. The ﬁve great principles recognized in the Declaration of Independence, are: 5 , 1st. The natural rights of individuals. 2d. Theexact equality of those rights. 3d. That rights not delegated by individuals, are retained by individuals. _ 4th. That no personfcanexercise the rights of others with out delegated authority. 5th. That non-use of rights does not destroy them. Under these principles the rights of every man, black and white, native-born and naturalized, have been secured; but only through equal, impartial suffrage for all citizens, with- out distinction of sex, can a true republican government be established. W All persons who believe these principles should be carried out in spirit and in truth, are“-invited to be present at the May convention. , MATILDA J OSLYN GAGE, President. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Ch’n Ex. Com. - N. B.—The New York State Woman Suffrage Association (organized in 1869) will conduct proceedings the second day, with a view of arranging a vigorous State campaign. Mrs. L. DEVEREUX BLAKE, Acting Pres’t. ELEANOR KIRK, Sec’y. SUSAN. B. ANTHONY, Ch’n Ex. Com. @ All communications or contributions for either So- ciety,'shou1d be addressed to LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE, 106 East 55th St., New York. LOVELESS MATERNITY. EXTRACT FROM A LECTURE ON “ LAW on LOVE.” BY LEO MILLER. 0 that I had the pen of an angel to portray the evils of loveless maternity and loveless oﬁspring. A woman, forced by necessity or law, takes to her embrace a man she loathes, and in that act becomes a mother! When we consider the personal injury, the torture, the self-immolation of every- thing sacred and pure, the thought is certainly appalling enough; but when we loo‘; beyond to the effect upon her oil’- spring, it is a sight to make the angels weep and the world stand aghast. As certainly as that like begets its like, as surely as temperament, traits of character; complexion, color of eyes and hair, are imparted to the offspring, so surely is the loathing, the hate, the pollution, that ﬁlled the mother’s mind also transmitted. _ And this iniquity of parents is visited upon their children to the third and fourth generations, until society is literally infested with the human embodiments of inharrnony. and hate. Behold yonder wretch expiating upon the gallows the crime of murder. Take up his life-line and trace it back, and you will ﬁnd the brand of Cain stamped upon his brow be- fore he left his mother’s womb. Hate is a condition of mur- der. The Bible says, “He that hateth his brother hath al- ready committed murder in his heart.” The marriage in- stitution is full of deadly hate. Seven murder trials of hus- -bands and wives were pending in the courts of Maine at one time. . Our newspapers teem with murders committed by husbands and wives to escape the hellish bonds of wedlock; and while this is true, it is reasonable to suppose that thou- sands more are possessed of a like spirit who have power to restrain the impulse; and yet the effect upon their offspring is the same as though they were actual murderers. . The woman who has maternity forced upon her by the man she abhors with murderous hate, transmits the mental con- dition to her unborn child. The amount of ingrained evil and ‘crime of _every kind that is thus directly traceable to loveless marriage relations, imposed and enforced by cus- tom and law, is beyond the power of ﬁnite mind to compre- hend or time to develop. _ Eternity alone can reveal the mag- nitude of the evil. ’ Health and beauty and perfection are the products of har- mony. Discord at the beginning of life is fatal. Pause a moment, and considerhow» delicate must be the operations of nature in the formation of a new being, and how the slightest disturbance among the subtile forces would mar the work- manship. The‘ harmonies of natureare the conditions of perfection. The moment above all other moments when ab- solute unity and harmony would seem to be indispensable, is at the inception of life. The creative act should be the per- fect blending of two beings drawn together by holiest affec- tion. Sweet, hallowed peace should pervade the mother’s mind, and 1ove’s sacred ﬂame light up the temple of the liv- ing spirit where now the Divine Architect is at work shaping an immortal soul. Awful moment! A jar blemishes for all time! A discord vibrates through eternity! Alas! that the world in its blindness maintains a system of marriage in which jars and discords are the rule, and harmony the ex- ception. . I A This single branch of my discourse is too large to receive more than a mention here. In the future great volumes will be written upon the subject, and when the mists of igno- rance and darkness that now envelop it break away, man- kirid will shudder with amazement that an institution pro- ductive of such monstrous evils ever existed on earth. The abominations of chattel slavery will whiten into moral virtues compared with it. We would call the attention of our readers to the Na- tional Independent Convention to be held in Indianapolis, May 17th, 1876. The Pioneers of the New Departure, who sowed the seed of all the reforms that now agitate the na- tion, in the Equal Rights party, now that the movement is . taking shape in a National Party, should attend the Conven- tion, and see that ignorant or interested parties should not control its action, orjput forth to the people a declaration of principles that will be no remedy for our evils. _ .1n.A4 r -gr- BUSINESS NOTICES. The address of Nellie L. Davis, is 235 Washington street Salem, Mass. Boston. To a ﬁrst-class clairvoyant or physician, this is a desirable opportunity. Call and see. Dr. N. G-. Co_LE. CLAIRVOYANCE.-—l\Irs. Rebecca Messenger, diagnosing dis- .ease, or reading destiny, if present, $1 00; by letter, $2 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. Davis,” “Letter to a Magdalen,” “God or no God,” “To My Atheistical Brothers,” including my Photo, for One Dollar. Can you favor me? Address Austin Kent, Stockholm St., Lawrence Co., New York. Box 44. ‘WANTED-Correspondence with women who are desirous of forming an organization for the emancipation of sex; and who are free, or are ready and willing to assert their free- dom. 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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. ~. ($581.). The Books and Speeches of Victoria C. Woodhull and 'l‘ennie C. Claﬁinwill hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices : The Principles of Government, by Victoria C. Wood- Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. Claﬂin. . . . . . . 2 00 The Principles of Social Freedom. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 25 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, I 25 Ethics of Sexual Equality........... 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DENSMORE, Yosr & Co.: 1 Ge~nzflemen—-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. In the ﬁrst place, it keepsin the most-perfect order, never falling in doing its work. I ﬁnd also. after having used it for four months, that I- am able to write twice as fast as with the pen, and with far greater ease. The mechanical execution has become so far instinctive that it takes far less of the attention of the mind than was the case-with the pen, leaving the whole power of the thought to be concentrated on the composition, the result of which is increased vigor and strength of expression. The result is also so far better than the old crabbed chirography that it is a great relief both to myself and to my correspondents. The sermons written in this way are read with perfect ease by in- valids and those who for any,cause are kept from church on Sunday. which ﬁlls a want often felt by ministers. 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 Bres. Ch., Morristown, N. J. Every one desirous of escaping the drudgery of the en is cordially invited to call at our store and learn onse the Type-Writer. Use of machines, paper and instructons FREE. All kinds of copying done upon the Type-Writer. Satisfaction guaranteed. DENSMORE, YOST & 00., General Agents, 707 Broadway, N. Y. Orders ﬁlled by W OODHULL & CLAFLIN, P.O. Box 3791 New andjgliahiegwcrk. SEHRISTIANITYANB THE BlBlE AGAINST Philosophy 8: Science. 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. Li ' _ 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 twenty cents, postage 2 cents. 32 large pages. ’ INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY. Publishers Worcester, Mass. eral friend. no ﬁtter. 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 utillty. Physicians Prescribe Them. No competition to speak of. Full information on receipt of Stamp. 1 akeﬁeld Earth Closet Co., 36 DEY STREET, , ‘ NEW YORK. THE wonnnis Sixteen Cruciﬁed Saviors; OR, _ 01112132 IA rm Y BEB ORE orrnrsr. CONTAINING New, Startling and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which disclose the Oriental Origin of all the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts and Miracles of the CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furnishing a Key for unlocking many of its Sacred Mysteries, besides comprising the History of Sixteen Oriental Oruciﬁed Gods. BY KERS_lET—GRAVES, Author of “ The Biography of Satan ” and “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 tbe varied information contained in it must have been severe a.nd 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. o o N T E N T s . Preface; Explanation; Cllntroduction; 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.~Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. Chap. 5.——Virgin 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. , ClEi_p.t1i0.—~The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble ll‘ . Chap. 1l.—Christ’s Genealogy. Chap. 12.——'1‘he World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tiyin in Infancy. _ _ Chap. 13.-—'l‘he Saviors exhibit Early Proofs 'of Di— vinit . ’ Chap. 1y4.—The Saviors’ Kingdoms not of this World. Chap. 15.—'I‘1ie Saviors are real Personages. Chap. 16.—Sixteen Saviors Cruciﬁed. ' Chap. 17.-——Tlie 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- 10I‘S. Chap. 21.--The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe Origin. , Chap:°22.———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. Clgip. ?7.-—The Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen rigin. Chap. 28.—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 tire Grids, the Master-key to the Divinity of Jesus 0 ris . Chap. 31.—-Christianity derived from Heathen and Oriental Systems? _ Chap. 32.—Three Hundred and Forty-six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna. Chap. 33.—Apollonius, Osiris and Magus as Gods. Chap. 34.—The Three Pillars of the Christian Eaith—— Miracles, Prophecies and Precepts. Chap. 35.——Logica1 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, Chalp. 3;3.—A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus C ris . i . Chap. 39.——'I‘he Scriptural View of Christ’s Divinity. Chap._40.—A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. _ Clgtt1l)._4tl.—The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus 1'15 . Chap. 42.—Christ 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 line Wliite paper, large 12mo, 380-pages, $2.00; postage 2.0 cts. Sgnd orders to WOODHULL at CLAFLIN, P. 0. Box 3,791, New York City. A SURE CURE FOR GOITREI Sent by mail for Five Dollars. A cure warranted in -a cases, or money refunded. Address DR. E. L. ROBERTS, Marshall,— Mich. A SURE CURE FOR PAINFUL, TOO FREQUENT AND Co1>roUs, AND Tnnnr MENSTRUATION. One package, which cures in most instances, to any address for One dollar. GOITRE CURED for Five dollars. Address Dr. E. L. ROBERTS, Marshall, Mich. ..——......,.——_.4.,=.___ in L PRAUT GE UFMED educed to a. Science, w. PAINE, A. M., M. 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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 life 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 9. 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 sporules 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. Bedham has described over 5,000 species of fungi. Among these are the Mucor mucedo 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. ' Practice by Lettei-.—Patients residing at a distance, and wishing to consult 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 diﬁiculty, what it is ; and how many children. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1876-05-06_11_23
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-05-06_11_23
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 24 (May 13, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2123
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-05-13
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: PROGRVESSI THOUJGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES! _. BREAKING THE ‘WAY FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIONS. Vol. XI.-——No. 24.-—-VVhole No. 284. NEW YORK, MAY 18,1876 . PRICE TEN CENTS. Zhe truth shall make you free.--Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of G-ocl shalt be ﬁnishe0l.—4—_St: John the Divine. ‘ Whereoff was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of ‘the world hath been hid in G0ol.——Paul. ‘ . . ‘N 4; vv LETTER FROM PARKER PILLSBURY. CONCORD, N. H., April 25, 1876. Editors Weekly: Some of my friends among your readers thought my last letter to your paper leaned too much towards Catholicism. Not too much, I am sure, unless, as Mr. Emerson some- where says, it seems nearly impossible to state one truth, fully and strongly without doing injustice to some other truth. Mr. Emerson’s idea, though probably, not near his language. , — What I said of the Catholic Church is true, every word. What I said of th...
Show morePROGRVESSI THOUJGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES! _. BREAKING THE ‘WAY FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIONS. Vol. XI.-——No. 24.-—-VVhole No. 284. NEW YORK, MAY 18,1876 . PRICE TEN CENTS. Zhe truth shall make you free.--Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of G-ocl shalt be ﬁnishe0l.—4—_St: John the Divine. ‘ Whereoff was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of ‘the world hath been hid in G0ol.——Paul. ‘ . . ‘N 4; vv LETTER FROM PARKER PILLSBURY. CONCORD, N. H., April 25, 1876. Editors Weekly: Some of my friends among your readers thought my last letter to your paper leaned too much towards Catholicism. Not too much, I am sure, unless, as Mr. Emerson some- where says, it seems nearly impossible to state one truth, fully and strongly without doing injustice to some other truth. Mr. Emerson’s idea, though probably, not near his language. , — What I said of the Catholic Church is true, every word. What I said of the American Protestant Church is also true. And a good deal more remains to be told; and a good deal worse. The Church and the priesthood. the people and the politi- cians, all seem to fancy they have heard the last of slavery. But never was mistake greater; nor more deplorable. The lightnings ﬂashed down into the dark caverns of negro slavery, and all the seventy times seven thunders of the war of rebellion, only revealed more clearly the wickedness and degradation of the whole nation. No slaves were emanci- pated in the name of justice and liberty. N o slavery was abolished “in the name of humanity, and according to the laws of the living God!” In attempting to enfranchise the male slave to save the Republican party, woman’s enslavement was discovered, or became more and more apparent. And so the demand was made for all the disenfranchised alike. , If taxation without representation, to man be tyranny, it is tyranny to woman. And if the former justiﬁed a revolution and eight years’ war in 1776 to 1783, the latter should excuse another revolution and War, if need be, reach- ing from 1876 to the end of the century. ‘ I speak only of revolutionary wars as men speak. O’Con- nell said: “ there never was a revolution worth the shedding one drop of human blood.” I say the same, certainly as to our Revolution of 1776: and of our revolutionary rebellion led by J efferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. ()ut of the ﬁrst, we graduated alnation of tyrants and a Union of Slaveholders. The other was an attempt on the part of the South to perpetuate slavery, Union or no Union; and on the part of the North, to perpetuate the Union» slavery or no slayery. Freedom was no motive with the South: Justice, Righteousness, Humanity, were no part of the purpose of the North. And so the grand cataclysm of blood and ﬁre ended as we see. Debt and demoralization, crime, cruelty, want and woe, everywhere; freedom, justice, purity, charity, nowhere! “Washington has become not a “ den of forty thieves,” but of forty times forty, setting an example of plunder and peculation, of pride, aristocracy, arrogance and insolence, the result of its thefts and robberies, which the_people are every- where imitating—the rich to the best of their capacity, the poor to the worst of their necessity. ' The people are becoming bad as the government, until past all help but from themselves. The government did not help the people when it might. It only taxed, plundered and punished them. That is mainly what it does still. In some way the people must now help themselves. ‘The real gain of the last revolt and rebellion is, that the male slaves are half delivered, and woman’s disfranchise— ment is revealed. And in the light of her lack of suﬁrage, woman's complete social enslavement is discovered; and now her revolution is, indeed begun, and bare ballots are small part of her inalienable rights. In 1875 and ’76 “ were the times to try men’s souls.” This year, 1$76, is the time to try the souls of women. Boston was full of tories in 1776, but there were a. Samuel Adams, a John Hancock, a Peter Fanueil,.a James Otis, a ‘ Joseph Warren, and many more: of whom the Boston of _ today is not worthy to be the candle.-snuﬁer at their shrines_ Do not wonder that you are spurned from its halls and temples. So once was Garrison, and that after he, like yourself, had uffered severe imprisonment only for his ﬁdelity to truth, justice and liberty. 1 , .And he and the abolitionists were vmobbed in Boston, many. many times afterwards, until the day when John Brown was executed, a brave martyr to the same holy cause. Virginia hanged him; but Boston, withImob fury, rage and wrath. broke up a solemn assembly of his devoted friends who attempted to celebrate the terrible hour by becoming and appropriate services in Tremont Temple. 1 Wonder not that Boston would blast out your breath, as it so fervently prayed its God “ to silence the voice or stop the breath” of Theodore Parker! “Thou that killest the prophets,” was the charge made with weeping and grief, by him who came specially “ to preach deliverance to captives,” as he stood on Mount Olivet and looked down for the last time on Jerusalem. “Thou that klllest the prophets,” might be so charged on Boston, should some saint or savior weep over it also, as he looked down upon it from the top of Bunker Hill and re- membered its past. PARKER PILLSBURY. RESOLUTIONS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED. . B 00 I A L . BY WARREN CHASE. ~ 1st—-Resolved, That men and women, black and white, red and mixed, are by nature, and should be by law, free and equal before the law in all conditions of life, unless con- victed of crime or dangerous from insanity. A 2d—Resolved, That marriage should be no longer made by law a crime for which one party is deprived of name, prop- erty, freedom, earning, children, and control of her person and maternal functions, and by which, she is forced into a prostitution. often worse than death. 3d—-Resolved, That our marriage laws should be so changed that any married woman can be protected by law against any encroachments of her husband upon her person or her prop- erty or earnings, the same as against any other man. and her personal liberty secured and protected the same as that of a femme sole. 4th—Resolved, That all children should be by law made the legitimate offspring of both parents, and be by law pro- tected in their right to support and education from the prop- erty of both, or either, and from the State when both are un- able to furnish it, 5th—Resolved. That it is a disgrace to our boasted civili- zation and liberty to allow sectarian institutions, under a pretence of charity, to pick up the abandoned children and orphans and train them into superstition, religious bondage and sectarian slavery by giving them only such support and education as will secure such results. . 6th———Resolved, That social freedom, like religious and po- litical freedom, is a natural and inherent right of every adult and could be as safely protected by law as the latter, and with as little danger to pure morals as religious liberty gives to pure religion. , 7th——Resolved, That our whole social system is rotten to the core andneeds a thorough revision to adapt it to the best interests of the people, and happiness and prosperity of the rising gen eration. M RELIGIOUS. 8th~—Resolved, That as our sectarian christianity is fa st dying with the dry rot, and its effects receding like a freshet which has overflowed the country, it is therefore time to be-- gin to remove the ﬂoodwood which it has drifted into our po—— litical institutions, by taxing all church property the same as other property; by abolishing the oﬂice and use of chap- lains and prayers in political assemblies, in congress, in le- gislatures, in the army and navy, in schools, asylums, pri- sons, etc., and by repealing and refusing all especial advan- —tages and privileges to clergymen in any and every depart- ment of life. _ 8th—-Resolved, That, as we have discovered that there is no distinction in nature between the seven days of our week, thattherefore there should be no legal distinction between them, except to suspend labor and make one a day of rest; and that no act should be made acrime on that day that is not such on any other by law. lilth-Resolved, That as each Christian sects claims to /‘ have the truth, and as the ignorant and honest people cannot tell which sect does teach the truth, that therefore there should be a competent tribunal or commission appointed to hear the evidence of each, and decide which and what is proved to be true, so the people need not be longer imposed upon by false doctrines, or.’support so many. 11th—Resolved,’That the sixty thousand clergyman of the United States are hereby requested to meet at Philadelphia this Centennial year, and decide by vote, as the old councils did, just what is the Word of God, and what it means, and which doctrine is true andlwhich false, and that we have full reports by reporters of the debates and votes; and that the work may be faithfully done, we advise all churches to con— tinue the salaries of their preachers during the session of this How: council. » 12th—Resolved, That until these questions are settled we advise the people to build no more churches, to employ no imore preachers, to pay no more pew rent, as they are most likely sustaining error by doing so, and the truth ought to be known if there is any. ‘ POLITICAL. . 13th—-Resolved, That as labor has produced and does pro- duce all the real wealth ofthe country, therefore the la- borers are entitled to support from the past and present products, and that alllaws and legislation that deprives them of it is robbery. 14th-——Reso1ved, That air, water, sunshine and land, have no property or money value in themselves, and all legislation making any of them represent property is wrong, and is defrauding the workers by fostering speculation and fraud, and should be stopped by reversing the policy of govern- ments, and gradually abolishing ownership of the elements. 15th—Resolved, That occupancy alone should constitute title to land, and only the improvements should be valued, transferred, and protected by law. 16——Resolved, That as our government is a government “of the people.” it should be administered “by the people,” and “ for the people,” which it is not, but is administered by speculators", and against the people. 17th—-Resolved, That a currency to represent property and facilitate exchangesis a necessity of civilization, and should be furnished only by the government, and for the people and their use, but not for speculators to rob them of their in- dustry with it as it now is inthis country. ' 18th—Resolved, That as there is not enough gold and silver to be had to make a suﬂicient amount of currency for the requirements of the country, therefore it should not be made of these metals exclusively, if at all, notwithstanding other nations, which are governed exclusively by wealth and aris- tocracy, and oppress their laborers to the greatest degree may require us to do so. , M 19th—Resolved, That as paper is abundant and more con- venient than any metal, and as it is and should be the gov- ernment stamp that ﬁxes the money value of each piece: therefore we should have a supply of currency for the de- mands of the people, and the paper, and gold and silver, be by law, of equal value, and in accordance with its stamped ' estimate in all legal transactions, and exchangeable for the interest-bearing bonds and debt of the nation at such low rate as.will bring interest down to a rate that will not cripple industry. . 20th——Resolved, That our national banks and their paper money are a fraud perpetrated on the people, by which the latter are robbed of over $20,000,000 annually, and of the con- trol of the currency, and thereby of the value of property, of labor, and of the rates of interest, which are now controlled by these banks, and by which they are ruining the country. 2lst—Reso1ved, That greenbacks and fractional currency are the true money of the country, and should at once be de- clared legal tender, except in special contracts, and equal to gold and silver, and all other paper money taken up by this currency, and no other hereafter issued. ’ 22d——Resolved, That we need about $40 per capita of our- rency to do the business of the country, but that the quantity could be easily regulated and restricted by making it inter- changeable for bonds bearing three per cent. interest, and by issuing it only for the indebtedness of the government, while making its revenues meet its current expenses. 23d-«Resolved, That the national debt should. as soon and as fast as possible be put into a circulating medium and 3 per cent; l.J0Bd:5e ’ 2/ 2<,»/2'» 2/ <~*~. . m, tn. , the treason of Arnold was discovered. 24th—-Resolved, That monopolies should be tolerated only as necessary evils, and restricted closely to the business for which they are created, and not allowed to speculate beyond it by their charters, and that public business should be as far as’ -practicable done by the government, like carrying the mails, and that railroads, like harbors, may be made by the ' government for the people. 25th——R.eso,l,ve-d, That railroad combinations and monopo- lies should have been prevented by their charters, but as they were not,.they must now be regulated by legislation. ‘ 26th———Resolved, That political and ﬁnancial speculators have ruled our countrylong enough, and it is now time for the-people to have a party and control’ for a term on trial. IS “PHYSICAL DEGENERACY ” DEPLORABLE? It is quite the fashion now-a—days to instance this or that indication of the “physical degeneracy” of mankind as evi- dence that our race will possibly become extinct. A.nd I am aware that to present an opposite view, is to ﬂy in the face . of generally accepted logic; nevertheless, my thoughts prompt me to so do; and whereelse thaniin the WEEKLY will such a view be tolerantly promulgated? The universal lack of good teeth is instanced as an indica-— 1 tion of the degeneracy of our physical structure. For their conservation, the intelligent dentist tells us to use them. Analysis brings us at once to the truth that disuse is the best of all reasons why we have poor teeth. And why do we neglect to use them? Because the mill-stone, apd our gradual evolution out of carnivorous tendencies, have re— _ lieved us of the necessity of using them. As the need for teeth. therefore, gradually passes away, the teeth will grade ually deteriorate-until mankind will have no teeth. In other words, I dare say that from simple disuse, in aless number of generations than by the same cause mankind was relieved of its primeval tail, it will be relieved of its once useful, but 5 now nearly useless, teeth. _Along with poor teeth has come the weak stomach. In this age of the world (according to Mrs. ,Hyser) a man '.cau+ not digest the “strength of an ox” every day, as did David of old; therefore, unlike David of old, few men now enter- tain the conceit that three hundred wives and seven hundred concubines are necessary to their physical well-being. Mas; tic-ation and digestion being simply two features of the one process of preparing food for the system, the same reasoning applies to the separate organs by which those facts are ac‘- complished. Tail is gone; teeth are going; stomach will go. Inasmuch as it was use that made them, which use was the inevitable result of need, it follows that as humanity needs . these organs less and less, it will use them less and less, and disuse will ultimately cut them offfromqour, physical econ- omy, by simply retracing the steps that primarily brought them into being. ' 1 Next comes the assimi1atingsystem.' Will we ultimately (1 p with this? We are already--doi-ngso. One after an- er, like Lucretia Borgia"s doomed -revellers, the princely lords of the ﬂesh are reluctantly kneeling before their open (30fﬁl1S. Let us see: Those in whom: the assimilating econ- omy is dainty are thin in ﬂesh, and keenly alive to changes of temp erature——acute, sensitive. And if we say that a person, is sensitive, what is it but another way of, saying that that ‘ person is capable of receiving, andﬂdoes receive, excitements, stimulants, food from without, by the subtle and direct method of absorption. Science has already made practical use of this fact, through the medical profession, and some of * the most astonishing physical renovations are now brought about by medical practices that entirely shun the alimentary canal, etc. 1 “Physical degeneracy,” therefore, so far from being de- I. plorable, will come to be recognized as the expression of the great reﬁning method of nature. Stripiculture ? Bosh «l Thou art the wail of the ﬂesh. The inevitable will override all conservatism of theory and ‘philosophy. , Slowly, but surely, the ego of humanity is rising out ofthe circumstance . of physical life; and mortal deg_eneracy~is but a proper phase of the evolution of immortality. _ LUCIEN S. CRANDALL. NEW YORK, April 21, 1876." ‘ IN Burmah if two marriedpersons are tired of each other’s society,.they dissolve partnership in the following touching but conclusive manner. They light two candles,and, shut- ting up their hut, sit down and wait quietly until. they are burned out. The one whose candle burns out ﬁrst gets up at once and leaves the house (and forever), taking nothing but the clothes he or she may have ‘on at the time; all else becomes the property of the other party. ' JAMES W. T., Baltimore.——The superstitious persuasion that Friday is an unlucky day, though prevalent in England, has, orought to have, no partisans in America. It was on Frigay, August 3, 1492,.that Columbus’ commenced his great voyage of his discovery. On Friday, October 12, 1492, he " ‘caught the‘ ﬁrst glimpse of land. * On Friday, January 4, 1493,»he set sail on his return voyage to Europe. On Friday, March 15, 1493, he landed successfully in Palos. , On Friday, November 22, 1493, he commenced his second voyage from from Europe to Hispaniola. On Friday, January 13, 1494:, he discovered the continent of America. On'Friday, March 5, 1497, Henry VII.—gave John Cabot the commission which‘ led to his discovery of Newfoundland. On Friday. Septem- ber 7, 1565, the city of St. Augustine was founded in Florida. On Friday, November 10,1 1620, the Mayﬂower entered the harbor of Provincetown. On Friday,‘ February"22, George ‘Washington was born. On Friday, June 16, Bunker Hill was taken in and fortiﬁed. On Friday, September 22, 1780, On Friday, October 19, _1’2“8l, Yorktown was surrendered. WOMEN IN BUsINEss.—Ab'out ten years ago certain women n Berlin, Prussia, desirous of reducing the cost of living in WOODHULL &. CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. that city, established several “people’s kitchens”--restaurants where meals could be obtained at the retail cost of the ma terials alone. association, whose object was the reduction of the cost of living, the promotion of economical habits, andthe improve- ment of the condition of servants. In 1874 there were 250 members. Co—operative laundries, bakeries, and stores for provisions were opened under the supervision of‘ women. At the present timethe membership embraces 6,0U0*families- A weekly paper is issued containing its price lists. Supplies are imported direct from foreign countries, and coal is also purchased wholesale. The whole of this extensive business is managed—and accurately managed—'—by women.-13 a'rpe'r’s Bazar. IN THE MORNING COMETI-I Jor, ' The burden is heavy, and hard to be bourne; j The feet, too, are weary, and bleeding and torn; “ The spirit is drooping, and fainting and weak; The heart full of sorrow that lips cannot speak. The clouds gather nearer, the sun out of sight- While surely approaches the shadow of night. The rocks in the pathway loom up dark'and black, So hard to go forward-, but death togo back! The steps falter feebly; the eyes ﬁll with tears- The mind thickly crowded with doubts and with fears. At last, from the full heart breaks out the sad cry, “I cannot live this way! Oh! God! let/me die 1.” Peace! peacel weary suif’rer, night soon will be gone, The heaviest shadows are just before dawn; ' I Rest, now; ,wait in patience, day cometh, though slow; And remember, ’iis only through suifring we grow. , If thou would’st be ever a hero in life, Stand _up fotj the Truth—shrink not from the strife. ’ ' Then live for the highest, the purest, the best; ~ Be true to thyself, and trust God for the rest. VINELAND, March, 1876. . .RITA .WESSELLS. A :4 &K~n::n=:\»~ h-‘A -iv PASSED TO SPIRIT LIFE. FROM VINELAND, N. J., APRIL 14,’ MARY R. VAN VQORHIS, 2' IN HER 54TH YEAR. 4 ' For many years Mrs. V. has been a great physical suﬁerer, conﬁned to her house for periods of weeks. and months at a time. Her mind was active, clear and strong; she was a ﬁrm believer in the facts and philosophy of Spiritualism, and an earnest friend of humanprogress. 1‘ Her remains were taken to Poughkeepsieforinterment. H. ALLEN. 1 —..._.¢_.. HOW TO UTILIZE THE CENTENNIAL. Call :3. Convention on the 1st day of June, to meet in Phila- delphia, to be open ‘for thirty days, at which Convention essays on the best government for the people of the United States, not exceeding 10,000 words, may be read b_y the Sec; retariy, or delivered‘ in person by’ the author; and not more than two such essays shall be presented each day of the Con- vention. These essays may be compiled into a book,hand become the property of the compilers, under a copy right for the beneﬁt of the Convention; and all othervtime of the Con-1 vention shall be for the discussion of political and govern- mental questionsa At this Convention there shall be selected a committee on platform of organization for political action, which shall ‘have the use of these essays out of which to con- struct the platform. This committee shall meet in the City of New York, on the I5th of July, in a convention of the people, wherein governmental officers shall be nominated standing upon this platform. ‘ All persons who wish to aid in carrying out this purpose York City, which sums will be acknowledged through WoonHULL‘ AND CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. N 0 notice will be taken of correspondence unaccompanied with money_. The contributors will become the directors of the Convention. All papers favorable to this call will please give it a suitable publication. By authority of . G. ‘W. MADOX. ‘ EVEN INGS WITH THE GREEK POETS. BY J. M. PEEBLES. ‘ M Pre-eminently the land of poetry, painting and witching song, Greece, in the Along-ago, dim, dust—buried past, voiced the words of mental freedom and the conscious ministry of spirits. The classic writers of antiquity frequently employed the terms gods, angels. demons and spirits, interchangeably. This is conceded by the best scholars of the age. - _ T ' p 1 If rugged mountains and cold climates tend to solidity of character, tropical countries induce“ spiritual illuminations. ;Thel cultured Gree-ks, eminently’ emotional"a‘n.d spiritual, cherished views concerning death somewhat similarto the Spiritualists of this century. Plato, pupil of Socrates, was to the Greek mind a control inspiration. I , Thrilled and ﬁred by the sublime teachings of Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato, they considered the human body a. trav- elling—_dress—~this , world a sort of. I-‘Iadesv—Heaven the native home of spirits:-the gods the guardian.atte_11dants of man- kiud—and death a return, or ascent to the godsin ,the Elysian ﬁelds of the blest, , v Listen to the Greeks: _ » . _ . . . . These are the aerial spirits of great Jove, beneﬁcent, walk- ing over the earth, guardians of mankind. They watch our ‘actions, good and bad, passing everywhere overvtheeearth, in- visible to mortal eyes.:—,IIcst'od,’.,s Work and Days, hp. 121.; , , The gods dispense to man what is unlocked for, and those" whom they love th,ey,save.——Eum'p-ides,h Iphtg (in. Aul. 1610. ’ J v . For whosoever of mortals isof a base nature, him, the gods chastise’.-ll7m~11p?Sdcs, Inn: 440. _ The body is the tomb of the soul in which it is buried while in this worlcl——bu't being initiated andbeholding, per- In 18?3 these women formed a “housekeepers ' 1 the worship of the gods.——l’|Iemorab., m"t’., 9. can correspond and send in their contributions in sums of ‘ not less than one dollar, to G. W. Madox, 29 Broadway, New ‘ May 13, 1876. 1 feet. simple, and happy visions in the pure 1ight—being our- selves pure, and as yet, unclothed with this, which, carrying about us, we call the body, towhich weare ‘bound as ‘an oys- ter to its;she1l.——'Plato, .P}:LCEd73‘._30. “ " I 1‘ ring topfoung and old among you that it is not the dutyof irnanto take care of the body, and of riches, so much as to'look,after the soul, how it may be made into the mosthperfect state"; telling you that virture is not acquired from riches,-,; but that men derive true riches and every other blessing, private; and public, from Virtue.———Plato Apolg. Socr. 17. ' » 1 -For the gods do not make; themselves visible to all. It is easy for the gods, who inhabit the wide Heaven, to raise or cast down mortal men.—-Homer, Odyss., asml, 161-212. .The’ shades of the dead came thronging forth from Ercbus, virginspygouths, and old men, who in their days had endured gmuch, and_ tender little maidens overwhelmed with recent For I go about doing nothing else§than,.preach ._ ggriefjmany a man too wounded by the brazen spear, slain ‘ ‘on the battle ﬁeld in mail, who ﬂitted by in numbers beside the trench, here and there, with loud wailings;-—pale, I tremb1eé1..With fe,ar.!-ﬂames. Qdlns. 36,- .. But theimmortal gods shall send thee to the plains of -Elys_ia,ns,,_and_ the utmost bounds pf,,earth, where _,dwe1~ls Rhodamanthus with ,a_uburn~*hair ;'there_man”s5whole.existeiice isastate of spiritual rest; no snow is there, nor rain; but Oceanus ever sends the gently-blowing western gales to re- fresh weary souls,—:—Homer,s Oydss ., £22., 563. _ Those who-derlveiadvantalge, suffering punishment both from gods and men, are such ashave been guilty of offences than can be cured; yet it is through pain. and tormentsthat advantage is derived’ both here and in Hades. ‘Justice can not. be got. .1‘id_..of.+Pla.to. G-org., 81. God is the Creator of the universe, and also the Father of all things in common withall, and a part of Him penetrating ' ' all things.—D'lSog_e_n, Laert., 'ut't'., 1,147’. Socrates said.th‘at the best menwere the most observant of If thou wishest the gods to, be propitious to thee, the must honor the gods.—Memomb., t't'., 1. The gods give nothing. really good and. beautiful without labor anddi1ige.nce.+Memomb., 1122, 1. , - . Socrates prayed to the gods simply that they would give him what was good, inasmuch as the gods know best what was good for map. These who_aske,d for.gol_d, or. silver, or high power, or aénythingof that kind, heiregarded as doing the same as if- they prayed that they might play at dice, ﬁght, or anythingof that kind.——Memomb., 131,3." Socrates thought that the gods knew all things, both what is said, what is done, and what is meditated in’ silence; are everywhere present, and give warnings tomen of everything. =—Memorab., cl, 1. ‘ " 7 ~ ' We men have vain‘ thoughts, knowing nothing; while the gods accomplish all things after their own mind.-Theogm's., Ezeg., 141. Spiritual Scientist. OI‘ ‘ Sruners, Mich., April 12, 1876. Editors Woodhull and Olaﬁz'n’s Weekly: 1 During the war when the Government issued one hundred dollar bonds, for which it received sixty~doll'a.rs, they were used to purchase ﬂour at twelve dollars per barrel, or‘ ﬁve barrels for one bond. In justice, in equity, in an exchange of equivalents, how many barrels of ﬂour should be required to cancel the original promise in the Government bond of one hundred dollars? Five, of course. How many are de- manded under legalized traﬁic? A late New York paper quotes ﬂour at $5 to $7 per barrel, and Government bonds at $118 to $126; so at $61 pernbarrel it would require about twenty barrels to cancel the promise for which the Govern- »ment.only received ﬁve barrels. I ’ Thevquestion is not how long will the laborers stand this but how long can they wait. WM. Scrnom), [From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat] A STRANGE STORY. A I THE TROUBLE A‘MOTH§ER’\SSPIRIT MADE in HER SISTER"S J 1' E FAMILY-i_A D_YING REQUEST, h e V _ V In one_ of the most pleasant and aristocratic. localities of our city, _a,few_ _evenings-‘ago, there were some strange mam- festations, byisome, suppgsed to be spiritual doings. The bellsibegan to ring. First the frontdoor bell, then the ser- vants’, then the kitchen, and then all the bells rang at once, The inmates watchedﬂrstleonc and then another of the bells, but they always ranghwhenethey were not watching. After guarding ou_tdoors,and. iu’,unti,l exhausted, and they had be- come extremely alarmed, the ringing stopped at 3:30 in the ,morning. The servant girls gave notice that theywould leave next day, but to quiet the gentleman of thehouse told them that the disturbance was caused only by electricity, and he would have the b_.e1l,s ﬁxed ;_ and away he Went. to see the bell-hangers and have them ascertain what, was the mat- ter. They tightened. Somehof. the wiresand loosened others, , spending.nearly awday in the work. “All.right, now,”= said they,.to,the,ge:ntleman, _‘,‘you’l,l,_have no further trouble.” But the be1l—hange_rs had barely reached the street when all the "bells began to ring again, .an,d with ast.onishing.violence. The nextevening at 11 o’clock the invisible bell—ringers began their clanging music again, and continued?’ it half an hour before reaching the closing note. . For two evenings they acted only" as they were acted upon by the tangible, ﬁngers of doubting Thomases. It was thought that electri- city had completed its work, and there’ Would: be no more trouble: but that thoughtlwas .a mistake. In the morning , the beds of the children were found moved across the room, the location of other pieces of furniture changed to different ..parts oflthe room, the pictures broken do-wn, and the cords . cut. The children; denied that shay knew anything about , it,'wit_h,the exception of the eldest, who said he had. heard loud raps around the room. « Thisidisturbance was; repeated _ -three evenings,_when.thechildljéll ,jWeI‘e.re1;1oved.. into the parents’ room, as they were all too much ‘frightened to sleep in their own apartment. , _ p = . The next evening, however,,they returned ,to it, and they were just comfortably turned in for the.ﬂnight,. when the piano ,., ,:,:.-.«,s_~.:¢-;.—::¢t:':—;«c~_-::..-f=_~:r- ...~;::~:~1-:2» _ . . _4__..._ ,_._,.. 735 1. . . ll ,._.1 :2r—4.,.m-;::r.<_;:'vz-—::._-,_,:-_,- 1 A -g /T-‘»'~.4'.F‘F;_T<‘—:;_:-:.~.;; ..... , . V. t 9 I began to play.‘ They opened the“ door and-llistened; and lit Islets’! am {§hiS..I5h‘7*§iF>.ia*?.S .?%*ilé,5l L .133.-.‘?‘.‘° Argon? sf. ,death.~ A fn‘umb’er“ Jews: were ‘called in‘. prayers Wére.Voﬂ°_ered, wax - po'sed?to be in the lasttstagesﬂcommenced to bre‘atdhVeVfreely, _ be a hea£l;Dh;Y_.0119- II1“.»l311@.11.101‘I;‘1iI1g‘ he. awoke‘, saw wife and ‘were waiting 1013 his aWak,en_in,g, His Wife, _Voverwhelmed the 'rep,lled,"h,3I‘.,f%t1if1 Ademafnded‘ something in a language » man ofisallow?aPP9a1‘3I10e;"taIl and lean‘,‘lo’okV‘ing like at-gene: Mti§)r;;1‘;3,";l’:8'7'l5.f' s M. . played, most beautifully,;acco:mpanying_a lady ’s voice in songn They then ~‘we-nt downstairs and opened itherparlor-doors, when the musi-ciceased, and the instrument was foundlocked, with no indications that any one was near orhad been there. For ﬁve nights; peace and quiet rVeignedV withil:l,.th,e_ c_lV1Vi1Vd1je1CVlV. occupying the room adjoining that of the parents,Vthe do‘orV being left‘ open between the apartments. One little b(_?Y went to‘bedVon the ‘sixth night at o’c100k> 81191 V1_19VhV"‘.d 11°‘? / been ‘there long serene‘ the r:.‘t'lnily_:saw the bed ;novi1V1g‘a’cI‘0S‘s' the l*oohn ; and’ loud rappings "and’o‘th’er singular‘noiseVs'Vwere‘ heard onthe fi1rnitu‘"re.i The little fellow ‘was taken into .tVhVe parents" chamberagain, when an invisible power picked him’ up, lifting him three? feet,‘and: carriedthim along and Plfwed him. back in his bed. The te-rriﬁed parents VW;°1'9 “OW satisﬁed that it was not done by.a_ny:humaL1.vag§3HQY - , _ , ,. While mediating. as to what should; be done. t11p,fa!_1,1.i13i standinglin a group in one vlcomsr Ofﬁhe, F°°’1’2.‘_h9.Y “PBEEW, what 3DI5.‘.331“ed to be a little boy emerge fVI‘.0Ili1:_tVIle ﬁrelblace. He looked natural, but lV‘>&V1'c<V3V-f‘ _,tVh:g : deer‘, and then va:nlehec1i'i"’f°’1"e their eyes Thls frigmene I them‘more"than ever. They lnadetlleir b'eds~’3onl*t‘he~ﬁolor, and allﬂslept t“ogeth'er. I ’ « ’ I I ' ' In the morning the gentleman related the ‘whole occurrence to an old friend,” and that zpersonsaid he had heard of a gentleman in the city by the name of Charles Tu_,ckeVtVt,VwVh0 was posted in the spiritual phenomena, and he would Vhunt him up and see ifhe could solve the mysterious problem- Seeing the latter as per agreement. Mr. Tuckett, "with ‘a A clairvoyant and trance ‘medium (the beautiful daughter of one of our wealthy citizens), and two gentlemen‘ (not Spirit. ualists) repaired to thedisturbed residence and‘ agitated family at 8 o’clock the ‘following evening. A circle Was formed consisting of the persons just mentioned and the 7 - . family. A -’ ‘ * I ' ‘ ‘ - ’ _ The medium soon being" 11115161‘ “Sl>iTiW3«1 0011l31‘,01.- ’ Ema‘ «ll Sea 3, may by you, madam. She is tall, with darkhair. and says she is your sister. A little boy is holding her hand.”V The sister—spirit then took control of the modicum. and said: . A . . . “Sister: W‘ hen I died you promised to take care of my two little children. You neglected them, and this one now with me in the spiritworld died Hem neglect. It is the same little fellow you saw‘in’your room. ‘You placed themwamong strangers and’ they were cruelly treated. Thisone died, and the other is'bei.ng used cruelly by the persons you haveplaced him with. I desire you to bring him away t0im01'1'0W and take care of him as onecof your own, as you promised 1119- If youvdo not ,I.Vwill trouble you. more than 37011 3V9?‘ (Redm- Your own little boy is a medV_ium,Vthrough whom‘ I 0311 operate. If_youV take care of my lVi‘tVtVleV boy Iwill Vtro‘ubl'6V”Y'011 no more, but will be" around you to impress ‘your mind with all that ‘isgood and lovely, and will be a, guardian angel to you and yours, greeting you when you cross the river‘ to where 1 am. » Teach my boy to love me and to be a good and true man. Good bye. Your SIstrEa.” The medium came out. of hergtrance perfectly ignorantV of what hadtranspired. -. . - . . A The boy was brought away from W1_1e1‘e_ he Was, and there has «been no trouble of any kind at the haunted mansion, since. _ V _ V V‘ “GOD IS LOVE."" V _ Z BY HEVLEN ,wnLroN. _ ALL love is lawful that hath but honest thought. . Alljlove is loya1,,too, that haVtl_l not evil thought. V I I jVClea'nV'fro'Vm the false, the base, VGod’sVtruVtVl1 will set usfree, I “And li'fe‘ﬂ"o’w onloved, crowned ‘by human sympathy. ,‘ All levels sacred, knows ;but_-one true and perfect aim, ‘ " All lovemost holy burns Vin one exhailstless ﬂame; ‘ V " ‘And-hepeshell ﬁnd the ‘world both ‘wcrshipfliland strong,‘ Clothed in the vesture white thatto the saints belong. All love is glorious, free, because of God a sacred part- ‘ All love‘imniortal is, yet dwells within the human heart; in ‘ Self-crbwlled‘ with glory ‘shines,’ and that ’without'allo'y,‘ a And smites-the face ofall itsvworsllippers with joy. “Chi; Cherubims and Seraphimsj swecpvall yollr harps of gold, ‘ In rolling anthems true. the song of old: “ That God ,Vis=I_.ove, and Ilov_e_ is VGVrodV,j’Veterna,1ly sublime, And was and is-fo-reverhicre t'l:i'ro‘ugh“o‘l1't;’the age of time. BROOKLYN, April 23, 1,876. , I A. .1 _ (Eromtlte I-5etersburg',Me‘dtlcaZ Weekly-Journal.l) it V TRANSMIGRATION5-OESOULS’. - Orenburg --is .2. town~lo-f I Eurbpeanh-Russia, situated -in the _.U:ral Mo.untai”ns«,~. nearthel Asiatic border. About a‘ year ago Abrah-am.Chorkov, ;aI;we"a-lthy:..Iewish inhabitant of that foyv_n,, was,,:1yins dange1‘ous.1y,si.ck,« Withi tyl>hoi-d .. fever. on .t_11e,2,?d day, sf, .$’est<r;n.bsl'» at vmidI1.ish,t.. 3» crisis set in which seemeito vta1<e.s.if=’~ta»1 <=0.srse..: the man suﬁsred 2.mo1.st.rlag-1 ‘candies were lighted. andbehcldl the ‘patient, whorwas up-V ‘opened his eyes," and looked with astonishment‘ at the sur- troundingl scene. ; But the sequelihas no precedent. The man soon iafterfell into a sleep which the physician 'declared’t'o , children around him, who, part1y_in.an'guish and partly in joy, with joy, walntédjto thrsvl’ herself upon his neck, but by signs whichunone’ of't'hetii'u’nJde‘rstoo,d_i _ V_ V V V It should‘ be mentioned here that Abraham Ch'ork'ov is a me Rmian, Jew, with -long black whiske-'Vrs’V‘ ‘and’ ' beard,‘ black ‘eyes, and as long Oriental ‘nose, -and that» before his sickness he understoodano other .languag"es- than Hebrew and‘ a little Russian, being‘ one, of those illiterate Jews. found‘ in su-ch large gnumbers -in that part of theVworl,d. ;fNo,w-the man:b.ega_n him. . The physician who was summoned did not understand’ .whenever:theycatte'mpted to come‘nV‘ear'him, alnd the doctor V~ here, or to this woman.” ‘ The Professor declared the parties to be frauds, or that a man ‘ the examination lasting for weeks. But nothing came of‘ r the examination, th‘e“l:natter remained as deep a mystery as ' it tolbe apsychological puzzle, a revelationof the human - sire than to go back to his family. ,» "dared ‘diligent search tobe made after the lost one; but all of erally be1ciev'ed't‘h’at’he had’ beenV'in‘san'e, and in his insanity, I 'ha‘d-so-ught his death in the river Neva. I A ' ‘ j In the spring;-ot9V the cyeiar I875, ’Prcfe_*ssor’Orlow, of stli = Petersburg, visited Philadelphia, ‘at the requestV of his Gov-5. him. VVithVeontempt_he pushed away his wife and children gave itas his opinion that in consequence of‘ the typhu the fellow had become insane. The despair of the family lasted; for ‘many days. His wife had, in the meantime, sent to Tamboy for his parents; but on their arrival Abra- ham would not recognize them, did not understand their language; and appeared to be angry that no one} understood Aftera week he rose from the bed, and hisjwife gave him his clothes asworn, by him before his sickness. the usual nab/its,of the Russian "Jews. He examined them closely and laughedheartily. He wanted to run out, but the,people_ quicklycshutithe doors, fearing he wou].d takecold. He re- mained in the roo’mf,”pacing it with nleditation.‘ assing a looking-“glass'he' beheld his ﬁgure in it. He stopped before I the mirror amazed, touched his -curls, his big nose, his long beard, and burst out laughing, but then, all of a sudden, be- came quiet and earnest and in‘ deepmeditation. HIS PEOPLE ASTONISHED. ‘His wife and parents, who had witnessed this strange be- havior, looked ateeach other with ‘astonishment, and it now appeared to them that the man before them was not their Abraham Chorkov, but a stranger. . But Abraham’s forehead boreV still the black line with which he was born, so that even the physicians who had attended on the patient for ‘nearly two months had to laugh at.the idea. Abraham Chorkov looked often out ofthe window, and seemed surprised at the country about him, and one day he ‘made strong efforts to run away. The family now decided to call in the Government physician and other doctors, who, after a careful examination, pronounced him thoroughly sane. Although they did not understand the tongue in which.he spoke, they recognized it as a regular language, well articulated. Thinking that he could make himself un- derstood in writing, Abraham wrote afew lines on a piece of paperj,,which the physician read, but without comprehending their meaning. The writing is in a plain, good hand, in Latin letters, but thevlanguage wasunintelligible to all, and no one couldtmake outhow Abraham Chorhov came to use Latin characters. 4 V ’ So things went onuntil it was agreed to take Abraham to St. Petersburg to the lm‘ed_ical university to hear the .opinion of the ‘prominent "sch-olars. As soon as Professor Orlow as English. Abraham expressedimmense pleasure at being enabled to make himself understood, and, after some con- telligent Englishman. V V. , . V“_But,V for God’s sake !’_’ cried his wife, ‘.‘ how does my hus-, band come to be English, and how did he forget his Hebrew language?” V V V V A A rnornssoa AMAVZED. ' Professor Orlow listened with astonishmentto the story of Abraham’s life, and would not believe that he had been a common illiterate Russian J ew. He asked Abraham in Eng- lish who he was and whence he came, and Abraham replied in the same language: “ I am from British Columbia, in North "America; my native‘to'wn is New Westminster. I have there a wife and one child living, and God only knows how I came It is easy to imagine the great‘ amazement on all parts. abduction had taken place. He called upon the Government’ to have the matter investigated. and the family physician of Abraham, his neighbors, and others were oﬁicially examined, ever, and the physicians contented themselves with declaring soul which could not be explained. Abraham told the Pro- Vfessor that _although- his name is.Abraham, it is not Abraham Chorkov, but Abraham Durham, and that he had no other do-' _ One _morning,gVwhen his wife arose, she found his place. emptVy—VheVV.had_. disappeared. . Th_eV.maV.rve_llous, story-v soon: reached theears of the Russian Emperor, who forthwith or- noavail, the man could not be found: and at last it was gen- ernment,-to arrange‘ the preliminaries of the Russian depart?‘ ment. of the .:Centennia1 Exhibition. One day, reading a; newspaper, the following arrested his attention: ' ’ V, A I ‘ “A STRANGE ‘CASE. . “ In New Westminster an oc‘curren'ce"recent1y took place. 'Which‘caused»great' sensation throughoutlthe whole territory of British Columbia. On the 22d day of. September, 18’7i,‘ai furdealer of said; city, was in a dying condition, suﬁering. from typhoid ,fevVer, andno one, not even. his physicians, seemed to entertain any hope as toV_t_l_:le_ possibility of his re. “covery. A Nevertheless, the patient rallied and fully recov- ered. But, wonderful to relate, the patient, who was an in. 't'ellige'nt Englishman. had forgotten his mother t_on'gue, and s'p‘eaks”'a language‘ which’ is understbod byﬂno one around him. but which at last is “recognized by an inhabitant of this; city to- be a jargon of bad Jewish-German. The patient, a short stout fellow, refuses to recognize his wife and child, but insiststhat he has a wife and child somewhere else. The man is believed «to be insane. All at once a European travé eller arrives, marked with a genuine Hebrew face, and claims , to be the husband of the wife of the fur dealer. He speaks ' to the woman in the same language herhusband was wont to; speak to her; he gives her,"and even his parents who reside. in said city, but who, of course, do not recognize him as; their son, the most detailed. and m-'i_nu"te's'i*i description"; of by..;. .g.o,I.1.6». .events,. and insists . upon‘ "being€’r=£theiiwo'man’s husband‘ .and=the5parents«’,_ son. ' ‘The?’ *poot:wem'an»ls= ’al’ost iii’ ‘pe"ril’of, to speak in a language unintelligible to every one around an heard the language of "Abraham he recognized it forthwith V. versatlon, Prof. Orlow pronounced Abraham to be a very in- L , of national legal tendeVr,pape1~= money (311 K bond. Th§eVtS’tl/Tb has a corps of able correspndent ' devoted entirely to agriculture. -and grounds $26,500 is mortgaged for $12,500; weenntt.te fo§L‘sriLllq*.»s* WEEKLY. 3 santly asks, ‘Who is this fellow? Howdoes he come to claim to be my husband?’ When she hears him speak. and does not look at his ﬁgure, she is ready to think that he is her hus- band; but as soon as she looks at him the spell is broken, for, surely, this stranger with the Jewish face cannot be her hus- band whom she had just nursed inhis sickness. But the man continues to press his claim, and tells her the most secret and delicate facts, evidently known only to husband and wife.” I ” THE PROFESSOR INVESTIGATING. I Prof. Orloﬁ‘ now recollected all about the occurrences last fall, and to solve this “ psycholegical phenomenon ” he de- cided upon going to New Westminster. To his great surprise he really found there the same black Abraham whom half a year ago he had seen at St. Petersburg. He asked the blonde fur dealer in the Russian language whence he came, and was answered, from Orenburg; and when asked for the name of his wife, he gave the name of a Jewish woman who had called upon him with her husband, now before him, in St. Petersburg. When asked what his name was, he answ “They call me here Abraham Durham, but in is Abraham Chorkov.” Prof. Orlow was struck with a strange idea. this way: A man abduction could not have taken place; the bodies have not been changed ; one is short, sto'ut,- and blonde, the other thin, long, and dark; and then New Wests. minster is 2,000 German miles away from Orenburg. Me-— tempsychosis must have takenplace. It must be remembered that on the 22d day atfthe midnight hour, both were lying between life and death-, the soul of ‘each one must have ﬂown into the body of the other, and thus a complete metempsychosis‘ has takenplace; that at the midnight hour of the 22d September begins the shortening of the days; that the inhabitants of the twolcities are antecians. that is, if a spike were driven, through the centre of the globe, entering at Orenburg, it would come out at New Westminster, and that when at ‘Orenburg it is 12 o’clock at midnight, the time in New West- minster is just 12 o’clock noon. Prominent men of science are now occupied with this most marvellous occurrence. Prof. Orlow has taken the blonde fur dealer with him to St. Peterburg, whither the woman Chorkov of Orenburg will also be brought, and further de- lvelopments are now expected. ered. y right name He reasoned of September, EDITORIAL NOTICES. 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If a man lceejoeth my saying he shall never see death.—Jesus. ’ To him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the hidden manna.——St. John the Divine. That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life- time subject to bondage.-—’Paul. The wisdom thatis from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hy- pocrisy.—-J ames, iii. , 1 '7. And these signs shall follow them : In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall take up serpents,’ and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them ,' they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.——Jesus. —{-W NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1876. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL will lecture in Cooper Institute, Friday evening, May 5. Subject): “The Heel of the Woman shail Bruise the Ser- pent’s Head, and thereby Death shall be Conquered.” Tennie C. Claﬂin and Victoria Woodhull, J r., will also appear, in ‘Shakspearian Readings. Seats secured in advance at 127 East 10th Street. 4; %7 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 him.--Sr. MATTHEW, ii., 2. This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present ‘series of leading alticlesthat it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been introduced, but which, deﬁned in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself We adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future work. MOTHERHOOD. Of all the devils that inhabit the earth the demon lust is the most insatiate monster of them all. Its maw is never satisﬁed. has caused more misery; ﬁlled more grave-- yards; peopled more asylums and prisons; broken more hearts and blasted more lives than all the other evils com- bined. But it is ordained that a redeemed womanhood, its face lit up with a ﬂood of light that shall be cast over it by a God-like intelligencethat is even now dawning upon the horizon of woman’s intellect, shall conquer the monster. Her seed shall ultimately bruise this serpent’s head eﬁ°ectually- Let her learn that the serpent that deceived theﬁrst parents and led them into captivity, was the demon lust, and learn- ing, let her set her heel ﬁrmly upon its head and crush it. This she can never do so long as she is subject to the curse put upon Eve. Ohpenligbtened womanhood! when thou shalt rise in thy majesty and proclaim thy liberty from bondage, having a perfect understanding of all the laws that govern the divine mission of maternity, thou wilt then raise the glorious banner upon which shall be inscribed “Our chil- dren shall hereafter be conceived in love; shall be gestated in a hopeful intelligence, and shall be reared in purity, holi- ness, godliness, to stand ever in their manhood and their V womanhood, worthy to be called after the image of God. As the dawning of this intelligence is come, may we not entertain a sure and steadfast hope that abright and glorious day is just before us, in which mothers will realize the full extent of the awful crimes that have been committed against their unborn children; when the abortionists will no longer ply their horrid trade in human souls; when it shall be a crime for women to become pregnant unwillingly; a double crime to bring forth children whom they_do not desire. Until woman shall ribs to the full dignity of her mission as the mothers of the race, prisons will cast their black shadows over the face of the earth in evidence against her; gallows will lift their hbrrid‘ forms above the earth in con- demnation of her-sins, and all the other institutions of mis- ery, vice and crime, will stand in every State to testify of her disgrace and degradation. It is useless for woman to shut her eyes against these facts. It is she who is responsi- ble. It will not do for her to say that she is forced to bear ‘children to recruit the ranks of the vicious and the criminal. It matters not to what she may be reduced; what may be her relations; what her sufferings and her miseries, she must release herself from the bondage in which she now ﬁlls the earth with crime and suﬁering. She must ‘under- stand that when she becomes the slave to lust, that it is her fault. No matter what may follow the assertion of her free- dom; if she be turned into the street by her legal lord; if she be defamed, disgraced, belied by him because she shall maintain her self-respect, she must strike the blow that shall set her free, or else be held responsible to God for the use to which she puts the functionsjwith which He has entrusted her. Could we rouse woman to a sense of her responsibility as we know it to be, our labors would soon be ended; could we make her know as we know, that the mother makes the child just what it is; that, if during the gestative period, she loath the father, quarrel with him, suffer from him, she must expect her child to possess the same character- istics; that, if she conceives in lust and not from and in. love, her child will be a child of lust and subject to all its deep damnations; that, if she desire to rid herself of her unwelcome burden, she makes her child a murderer at heart——; if we say, We could do all this, the need for our work would cease. Nay, mothers! we would repeat again and again that it is you who are responsible for the groans and griefs and tears that make this world a hell; that it is you who create the candidates to adorn the gallows; to ﬁll the prisons and other loathsome institutions._ We would sound this in your ears until you wake to your senses, now deadened, by the curse on , Eve, to all the misery you make. Medical scientists tell you that you can mark your children, and thousands of exam. , ples stand before your eyes to tell you that this is true; but — it is all of ill of which they speak and testify. No word is ever heard that marks of good, as well as ill, are possible. But we tell you, mothers, that you may mark your children with all the good that you may desire them to possess, aye, make them God’s indeed. When it shall become a disgrace for a woman to become pregnant of a child she does not want; when it shall be made a crime to bear a child thus bred, then the institutions that stand in testimony against you, will be left desolate, and pale—faced, sunken-eyed, pi nched-checked and prema- turely-aged womanhood will be replaced by faces lighted up with joy and beaming with love, and by forms elastic and erect and rounded-out into the full perfection of woman’s 1ovliness and divinity, in which joy, love, grace and perfect- ness, she shall crush the serpent’s head that has so long en- slaved her sex. Then she. shall stand before God, redeemed; then she shall wait, as did the virgin mother of Jesus, to be overshadowed by the Holy Ghost, that “ the holy thing '-which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” Mag 4 rwwr - THE DIFFERENCE. An exchange takes us to task as.‘ follows: _.“Mrs. Woodhull comes out strong inopposition to materi- alization, and While she insists that people shall not be- have in the spirits they can see and ‘feel, they must believe her when she says Demosthenes, Alexander of Macedon, aid her in delivering lectures, whom they cannot see.” Now this is precisely what we do not do. We have never insisted that people shall not believe in spirits that they can see and feel, and that they shall believe us when we say that the spirits named do_ as stated. We have always had a happy faculty of letting people believe just what they please, at the same time also of stating our own belief in plain terms. We have never insisted that any one should believe a word we have ever said. We have said what we have had to say, and what we have been given to say, without fear or favor, and have been satisﬁed tolet time ﬁjustify or condemn us. selves has been principally in reference to our work, which stands before the world in testimony of the truth or falsity of our positions. We are willing to be judged by this, and our testimony will stand or fall with it; and if our work has been of God, nothing can prevail against it; if it has been of the Devil, nothing can save it from destruction. But aside from this, ‘there is a great difference between the two conditions. we not only accord as true of all mediums, but all mediums claim that it is true of themselves. What reason can then be suggested why we should assert that these spirits prompt and help us to do the work in which We are engaged‘? Suppose we said nothing about this assistance, wouldn’t the work go on the same, provided we had the same aid from them? If we desired to arrogate to ourselves the credit ot having performedjthe work that has been done, we should make no declaration of spirit aid, but we wish to state the facts just as we know them to be,=, and let those believe who can, and those disbelieve who must. But we can easily overlook the inconsistencies in our critic. He is only a newly-ﬂedged Spiritualist, and, coming as he does from behind the thick vail of materialism, it is not to be supposed that be yet fully comprehends the difi‘erence between a spirit in a spirit body, and ajspirit in a materialized body. No Spiritualist denies that {there are spirit bodies, nor that in certain conditions, known as mediumistic, persons may and do see them; but many deny the otber proposition. It is in their spirit form that these spirits visit us, and it is with the spirit eye and senses that we are conscious of their presence. The case with the test medium is altogether different, she offers certain kinds of tests to prove the existence of spirits, and charges a dollar or more a head for doing it; then she be- comes rightfully subject to such conditions as shall satisfy her auditors that she is not imposing on them, and if they think that they are not having test conditions, they have the right to demand them; and especially is this proper when there have been so many mediums detected in their efforts at impositions. No honest medium, or well-meaning spirit, will object to the most rigid tests being applied. All we have asked is that the “materializations” shall be performed under conditions that will not admit of even a doubt about their being genuine. And what has followed this demand? Why Mrs. Stewart, at Terre :Haute, has declared that she will not submit to test conditions, and Mrs. Hardy, at Boston, refuses to be made subject to any conditions save her own, and this too when Dr. Gardner has felt obliged, to save his own reputation for honesty, to withdraw his en- dorsement of Mrs. Hardy’s last attempt to produce molds of spirit hands. We did not hesitate to say that Mrs. Hardy would not submit to test conditions, and we repeat now that she will never attempt to produce molds under the conditions that we proposed. In conclusion, we also repeat that our work stands a liv- ing testament to the fact that we have been the mediums through whom a higher power than ourselves has wrought a work which, unaided, we could never have performed. -444 V ‘TVW BLUNDERING JOURNALISM. The N. Y. Times of she 28th ultimo, in an editorial article in which some recent propositions of scientiﬁc men are ridiculed, commits blunders that should turn the laugh upon itself. no matter how absurdly ridiculous the scientiﬁc men may have made themselves. The propositions at which the Times levels its shafts of ridicule are those by which it is proposed to ﬂood the valley of the Caspian Sea by emp- tying the waters of the Black Sea into it by means of a canal, and of transforming the Sahara Desert into a great inland sea by the same means, from the Mediterranean. The former plan, the '1' imes says, “ consists in emptying the Black and Mediterranean seas into the Caspian. The latter is eighty- four feet lower than the former, and if a canal be cut across the Caucassian Isthmus, the greater part of the waters of the Mediterranean would rush down toward the valley of the Caspian.” The Times writer failed to see that the waters of the Black and Mediterranean seas could be diverted from their usual course only to the cxtent of the depth to which such a canal might. be cut, if it were ever so wide; and that it could never be cut to the depth of the difference in altitude between the Caspian and the other seas. But this IS nothing when compared with the other blun- der in which it is assumed, if the waters of the Mediterra- nean were turned into the Sahara Desert, that the waters of the Atlantic Ocean would not ﬂow through the Straits of Gibraltar to maintain the common level of the sea with the Locean. It says: “The pretext that the Atlantic will pour 9. and Napoleon Bonaparte, accompany her on the stage, and- What we have said of 0ur- ‘ That which we declare of ourselves ,A.. . -_ .~v~r/.:=‘.~ _ . . v , ,. *':::”»:"'<‘-‘ ‘ “NT - -- - - May 13, 1876. woonnutr. as c,,L_AFL1N's w1tr.ai.r. into the Straits of Gibraltar and so keep the Mediterranean at its accustomed level, can only deceive those who are un- aware that the depth of water at the Straits is very much less than it is throughout the greater part of the Mediter- ranean. We should like to ask the Times what the depth of water at the straits has to do with the flow of water from the ocean into the sea, unless that ﬂow should reduce the waters of the former to a level lower than the depth of water at the Straits? If there is not water enough in the ocean to make good «what the sea would discharge into the desert, then the shallow water at the Straits would become a barrier to pre- serve the ocean, but not otherwise. Hence, under no cir- cumstances could the basin of the Mediterranean be drained byiany outﬂow of its waters into the great African des- ert. ' We are surprised to ﬁnd such a lapse from accuracy made by the astute Times, and are at a loss whether to place it to the credit of ignorance of physical geography, or to a mis- conception of the principles of hydrostatics which control the levels of waters. The proposition to convert the great desert into an inland sea, to rival even the Mediterranean in area, did not origin- ate with certain scientiﬁc Frenchmen, but with a romantic Englishman, _since it is in Maitland’s novel, entitled “ By-and-By ; or, the World Five Hundred Years Hence,” that it was broached. Should this ever be accomplished, it is probable that the meteorological change that would follow would revolutionize Western and I Southern Europe, which owes its present genial climate to the burning winds that rise from the immense desert waste A in Northern Central Africa. .4; A wﬁwv THE RELATIONS OF THE SEXES. * The book bearing the above title (which is advertised in ' another column), by Mrs. Duffy, is one that we recommend to all who are inquirers into the subject of which it treats. We can do this conscientiously, notwithstanding the author has treated the doctrines and theories of the WEEKLY in a very discourteous and unjustiﬁable manner. If she do not understand them sufficiently to speak of them truthfully; if she has gathered her version of them from the “hear- says ” of the world, we have commiseration for her, while, if she has wilfully perverted them, we simply pity her, and continue to recommend her book for the many really good things that it contains. Our readers are used to having their ideas treated unfairly, and in this instance no more than in previous ones, will they condemn the book for the untruths that it contains, which their better trained minds will not be slow to detect. We have no fear that these un- truths will produce any impression upon our readers save the sentiments that we have expressed for their author. So long as the author holds to the following, we can readily forgive her for shortcomings in other respects, only wishing she might have had courage and honor enough to have been guided by the principles laid down, throughout the book: “ Even the words free-love have a basis of truth, since all love, to be of any value, must be free——-in fact, since love cannot exist without freedom.” Her coarse and malignant language evidently intended for us we overlook with a sigh, as we think how their writer will some day wish that she had left them unwritten. There is a class of so-called reformatory writers and thinkers who still labor under the delusion that they must’ denounce any- thing and.everything that bears any relation to our theories, if they would gain the ears of the respectable portion of the community. Never was a class of people more deceived, for while it is true that this class attempts to dodge the issues that we have raised, and are ashamed to have their names connected with ours, it is nevertheless true that we have the ears and hearts of the very class that they de- grade themselves to reach and fail at last to gain. A straightforward, honest expression of one’s own convictions alwayspommands respect, while creeping and crawling and falsifying to gain favor always defeats its own ends. So of Mrs. Duﬁy’s book we can speak advisedly when we say that the parts of it which are unworthy of her, damage the inﬂuence of the other parts which should command the respect of all, while her disrespectful, untruthful and un- justifiable language used about us and our views, will cast a shadow of doubt over the whole book. But we recommend our readers to a careful study of the book, quietly passing over its oﬁensive parts, remembering that they will harm Mrs. Duffy rather than the objects ,_ at which they were aimed. 45 ‘V’? THE “ SPIRITTUAL SCIENTIST.” This comparatively new. candidate for the patronage of Spiritualists has, by its recent course, proven itself worthy of conﬁdence. The impartial manner in which it has dealt with the recent convulsions about materializations, shows that its editor is not afraid to publish the truth. In all other respects, however, it is an ably conducted and interesting paper, numbering among its contributors many talented writers. The Banner will have to “look to its laurels” well else its young and athletic rival will despoil them. That the recent course of the Scientist is approved by East- ern Spiritualists may be inferred from -the fact of a very large increase of subscribers since this discussion was‘ sprung upon the public. We wish it the success to which a brave, outspok en, manly conduct, should entitle it. A RARE OPPORTUNITY. If among our readers there is any one having from two to four thousand dollars, ready cash, which they would like to invest into a proﬁtable business, we shall be glad to put them in the way of doing so. The business is a perfectly legitimate one, and those interested in it are people of the highest integrity and capacity and position, whom we shall take pleasure in recommending to any one who may apply to us for the particulars. The investment will secure a half interest in the business. i; 44 ww THE PARAFFINE MOLD BUSINESS. FLOATING OFF INTO THIN AIR. In the Spiritual Scientist for last week, the discussion relating to Mrs. Hardy is continued with undiminishedi vigor and interest. There is a letter from Dr. Gardner to Bronson Murray, in which the following 1 words occur: “ I hope and fully believe that Mrs. Hardy will speedily be vindicated.” Also one from Wm. Denton to the same, in which the following is found : " I do not believe that paraf- ﬁne will absorb water so as to increase its weight appre- ciably.” Also letter from Bronson Murray to Mrs. Hardy} inviting, and one from her declining, to meet the “ seven, for the purpose of holding a seance for the production of parafﬁne molds under test conditions. Also the following pertinent aﬁidavits: ' ' “ CITY AND COUNTY or NEW YORK‘, I ' “ State of New York, i 93' “ Before me, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said City, personally came Thomas K. Austin,—Adrain H. Austin, Jennie E. Arlington, W. T. Van Zandt, and Margaret Z. §Austin, all of said city, who, being duly sworn, do severally depose and say, that in their presence, on two days between the.l5th day and the 20th day of March, 1876, inclusive, the said Margaret Z. Austin, of said city, called the attention of Mary M. Hardy, of the city of Boston, to the fact of a par- afﬂne mold of a hand having been seen by both ofthem lying in the street gutter, where the said Mary E. Hardy had just passed, on the said, 15th day of March, in words to the following effect: " Well, if I did not believe in your truthful- ness, that hand in the gutter would be strong proof against you,” or “ What a. strong proof that hand in the gutter would be to those people who believe you produce the manifesta- tions under the table with your feet ;” and that on no occa- sion in their presence did the said Mary M. Hardy deny the fact of a parafﬁne mold being seen by the said Margaret Z. Austin in the gutter, as stated and subsequently sworn to by the said M. Z. Austin, but that she replied to the following effect: “ Oh,well, I have got used to that sort of thing and dont mind them, "or “Some people would not believe any way, and I think in the future I shall insist upon being . myself put into the bag [meaning not the table] and not being- subjected to these everlasting tests.” And the said W. T. Van Zandt, for himself, deposes and says (independently of the other subscribers hereto), that he distinctly remembers that on one of the days included within the said 15th and 20th of March, that the said M. Z. Austin did, in his presence, ad- dress the said Mary M. Hardy, in nearly the following words, to wit:—“ * * Well,=this ends the materialization seance, and I shall believe that it is done by the spirits until some one does the same, in the same time, under the same condi- tions; but if those people who believe you carry them under your clothes and put them under the table with your feet had seen that hand lying in the gutter the night we went to Mrs. Hu1l’s, and then the spirits not giving a mold that night, they; would have said that it was proof positive that you did it‘; why, the spirits ought to have given a. mold that night if they never gave another,” or words to that eﬂect; and to this remark the said Mary M. Hardy, in her reply, made no denial of‘ the fact that a. paraiﬁne mold had been seen in the gutter, as alleged therein by Mrs. Austin. I “The material fact herein declared and sworn to by all the subscribers hereto——being thatjduring the time stated the said Mary M. Hardy did not deny in their presence that a parafﬁne mold had been seen in the gutter, as stated and sworn to by the said M. Z. Austin, but that she spoke of it as being an actual fact which she admitted to have occurred. ’ “Thomas R. Austin, A. H. Austin, Jennie E. Arlington, W. T. Van Zandt, Margaret Z. Austin. “Sworn before me this 25th day of April, 1876. “S. G. H.YA'r:r, “Commissioner of Deeds, County New York.” ', “Crrr AND COUNTY oF N EW YORK, ' “State of New York, i SS‘ “Before me, a. Commissioner of Deeds in and for said city, personally ‘came Elvina‘ Ann Lane and Mallie A. Lane, both of said city, who being duly sworn do severally depose and say, that on the 16th or the 17th day of March, 1876, in Mrs. Austin’s parlor, they both distinctly saw the ﬁngers of a paraﬂine hand {protruding from beneath the skirts of Mrs. Mary M. Hardy while she sat at needlework; that the said Mallie A. Lane. by pointing with her ﬁnger. called the atten- tion of the saidlElvina A. Lane, and that the said Elvina A. Lane then exclaimed, “Why, there’s a hand under your dress ;” to which,,after some hesitation and with a. guilty ex- pression of countenance, the said Mary M. Hardy then re- plied, “Guess you see nothing there but what "ought to be ;” uponwhich the said Elvina A. Lane replied, with emphasis, “Well, I saw aparafﬁne hand there. ‘ ‘ ‘‘[Signed.] ELVINA ANN LANE. ’ ‘ MALLIE A. LANE. “Sworn before me this 24th day of April, 1876. ‘ »“[Signed.] = J. G. F. METCALF, ' “Commissioner of Deeds for City of New York.-’.’ , The Banner also gives a farewell leading editorial of a‘ column and ‘a-half to this business, from which we quote ‘ as follows: , M . ‘f We have successively and successfully defended the Holmeses in Philadelphia. Mrs. Stewart in Terre Haute, and others in various parts of the country.” * * *: “We shall hereafter decline to follow this New York imbroglic.” “It is best that we please our readers, who have written, asking us to give them something new, or a change of mental diet.” * * “The thanks of the New York Committee for what we have done toward giving publicity to their side of the question were received by us a few days since, engrossed in the hand writing of Mrs. Sayles, and embodied in the shape of a document which our high respect for its signers causes us to refuse to publish.” The latter italics are our own, and are used to call atten- tion to the delicate compliment paid to the New York Com- mittee, who should feel under everlasting obligations for such disinterested friendship. The Banner winds up its article thus: “Thus ends the whole matter——at least as far as this paper is concerned .’-’ (From the last number of the Spiritual Scientist.) N 0 MORE PARAFFINE MOLDS. A PROPHECY. Many days have now elapsed since Dr. Gardner gave to the public the ﬁrst intimation that the seance at Paine Hall was not the “ crucial test” that it was claimed to be because of a defect in the wire box. The box was to be repaired for fur- ther experiments, but no reports of progress have been made. One seance at least has been held, and on. good authority we can say that the results were unsatisfactory. The editor of the Spiritual Scientist and the “ New York Seven” in com- mon with many other honest, true Spiritualists, would really like to knowif Mrs. Hardy can, under “strict test condi- tions,” produce a parafﬁne mold by spirit agency? Those gentlemen who knew that the statements from New York could not be true because they had witnessed a “' crucial test,” those gentlemen who declared the Paine Hall seance a complete vindication of Mrs. .Hardy against any and all charges and insinuations. and sarcastically questioned the persons who made them; those gentlemen who “rushed in hot haste ” to denounce the Spiritual Scientist, and publicly question the motives-the honesty——of its editor for publish-— ing the New York statement; those gentlemen, particular friends, who have seen so much of Mrs. Hardy, and testify that she can obtain parafﬁne molds by spirit power, each and every one included in the above category, are interested in having experiments made. When the statement came from New York the Banner stated that Mrs. Hardy was completely vindicated by the “ crucial test ” at Paine Hall. Dr. Gardner’s letter shows that the test was worthless, both for Mrs Hardy and Spiritu- alism. _ We will not enlarge upon the necessity of having Mrs. Hardy demonstrate her power, for she never will. This de~ claration is not intended as an opinion of her mediumistic powers, but we prophecy that Mrs. Hardy will give no more parafﬁne mold seances. Dr. Gardner has rendered_ Spiritual- ism another important service; for the emanations of Mrs. Hardy cannot pass through a wire box, without a defect.- Spiritual Scientist. ' _4g 4 r wwrvw THE TWO SERIES OF BIBLE ARTICLES.‘ Before beginning the third and last and most deeply im- portant, thrilling. and all-absorbing third series of articles completing our exegesis of the Bible, and the relation of its hidden meaning to the development through which the race, or some portion of it, will attain to life immortal, in the ﬂesh, or, as the case may be, resurrected from the dead, we desire to once more call the special attention of our readers to what has been said already. In the two se- ries already published most of the doctrines and theories of rel igionists have been examined in the light of the new exe- gesis, and the biblical truths upon which they are founded, set forth. , Everybody should have all of these articles, be- cause, when the next series shall begin to appear, they will be needed for reference. The series, and the dates of the __WEnKLY in which they appeared, are as ‘follows: FIRLT snnrns. . April17. The Culmination of Events. . 24. The Fulﬁlment of Law. I V 3; May 1. On Earth Peace, Good Will. I 8. Approaching the Mystery--The Time of the End. 15. How shall the Kingdom of Heaven Come? 22. What is the Kingdom of God? 29. The Higher and the Lower Relationship. June 5. Sexual Purity—-The Straight and Narrow Way. 12. Sexual Impurity--The Wide Gate and the Broad Way. I _ 19. The Human Body the Holy Templ . - 26. Inspiration and Evolution-. A d July 3. The Creation and Fall of Man; 10. he Garden of Eden. 17. , “ . ,‘~‘i No.2. , 24. The Bible and Jesus Christ. _,l,V_',".i SECOND snnrns. July 31, God——Pneuma Theos. Aug. 7. The Divine Mind. _ 14. Christ, or The Reconciliation.‘ 21. — cc cc as NO‘ 2:,’ 28; cc’ ' 'u 4: N0. 3,“, Sept. 4. The Reconciliation of Man to God... 18. His Love and His Wrath. ' Oct. 2. The D_evil—-Evil. 9. The Atonement. 16. “ ~ No. 2. 30, Natural vs. Enacted Law. , ,,: . /*7 6 « A woonnutigsi i(3t.A.Ea1.Ii$:*si wsnsnr. May 13,°is7'c. Nov.’ 6.? ’l‘he_AllegdricalCharacter of the Bible. 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A ’ A A, ARTICLE XIV. 2 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subj_ect.to‘ the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United S‘t;J:1,teg,,,;a]gd of the States wherein they reside. No State shall ,make,or enforce any law which shall abridge the privil- eges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any,State deprive any person of life, liberty or property withoutiduge process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ' “Tito right of citizens of the‘United States to vote shall not be denied or ‘abridged by the United States, or by any State,'on'”account of race,‘ color or previous conditions of‘ servitude“; ‘ ‘ = 1- LETTERS FROMITHE PEOPLE. " WESEMQRELAND, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1876. 0 Dear Mrs. Woodhull: *4 V’-‘ * I could not make myself understood ,with my husband until reading your zblessed paper which has been a great help to us both: ,Now we" can _.reason together rightly, knowing neither‘ is to blame for our natures if they cannot harmonize. So we are more sacred to each other now than before, and both discern and recognize your great truths as far as given, and endeavorto proﬁt by them. Please print more letters fromlpliusbands and wives in your paper; they help to strengthen pus.‘ Wewish to be remembered as your true Yours, in love, friends_ in truth and progression. ‘ ' ~ Mus. MALACHI ELLIS. Dear Victoria’: Pardon‘ this further intrusion upon your notice. Having once written to you in answer to your re- quest for experiences, we feel that a few more words may not b'e—”ou‘t" of place, as it» is for the purpose of developing ourselves, and also to compare experiences so that the whole trutnmay become apparent. Feeling that the whole truth hisfta matter of "growth or ‘development which does not come- V’-.,‘i?i-‘:-.i.~;«5i1;‘..—1e,‘ but by ‘a gradualadvance of the mind and body,‘ to i.ind‘:for'so grand‘ and sublime a condition, we are bending ‘our ‘best energies so thatthe things declared by the wise land” good of former generations may be in due time realized, » and humanity redeemed. We.-remain yours, for the development of the whole truth, . DENNIS 8t ALVIRA CHIDESTER. ‘ "1 MC‘ "A.”McCord, St."Lo'uis, Mo., writes: I did not like your 'a‘r‘t‘icle"on "True and "False Mediumship. I ‘understood you 1 ‘so say that inithe main mediumship is false. Being a medium -ﬁiyg‘e1f,.z‘.I..was "puzzled to/know how you came to write such'*an;ar,ticle, but attributed it to a desire to retaliate upon Spiritualists for the abuse that they have heaped upon you, and in doing so you had wounded the feelings’ of many of ‘»3%oui"\‘siaiii~'i.i friends. ’ But'”my eirr6r_'wa‘s in "not understanding you, for in a recent circle, a spirit calling himself P. B. Ran- dolph spoke of the article, and of my misconception of it,- ahd of your Inotiveslin writing it. He explained that your position was one of a thorough understanding of spirit life, which the world does not yet appreciate, and that per- fect; materializations could ‘not occur ‘until those who“havel ipiassed over‘sh‘ot'1‘ld\take>‘on "physical life and dwell with us. I See it:a11,=<plainly, now, and so will everybody when they look into it as I have been able to do through the explan- ationsof rthe_.:sp'1.riit of Rand01ph- I ’ i ,a}lAkr-.,on,i .Ohio,'writes: 1 see by the WEEKLY that ,.. " 3 ?~ Rice you have pulverized Mrs. Emma Elardinge Britten. She ‘ ought to have been blown away “ﬁve years ago. John Scott, 59 Victoria Terrace, Belfast, Ireland, writes: I hope you are keeping well and strong in your arduous work of reformation. I see bythe WEEKLY, which I receive regularly and circulate freely in England, that you are suc- ceeding in leavening society to a‘wonderful extent. Go on and prosper in your.hea.ven—ordained work. Brave. noble agent of the angels, you have conquered many of the powers of darkness already, and more will fall before you yet. GEO. W. SEEVERS, 'JR.,‘ Winterset, Iowa, writes: J Can’t well do without the WEEKLY, ,for I ﬁrmly believe that all the hell‘ and all the heaven that man ever knew, or ever will know,anythin:g'about, have their germ and root in the social relations of ,ma:nki‘nd—‘—:liellr gerniin’ating in and growing out of the false, and heaven germinating in and growing out of the true. It is theserelations that ._ i,_,.Inan comes into an individualizéd"and‘immortal existence; and when these relations become universally ‘pure, holy and_ happy, then man will come toi'b’e'”a’pure,‘harmonious,healthy,“ we look for a millennium. ithrough them?‘ to redeem‘ the whole sex. might catch their meaning. transit from lust to love.” article were printed in tract form and sown everywhere. PATIENCE. There will come a weary day, ‘ When oyertaxed at length, Both hope and love beneath The weight give way. Then with a statue’s smile, ; A statue-’s strength, , Stands the meek sister, 7 Patience, nothing loth, '2 And, uncomplaining, doesﬁ I The work of bo.h— -——COL2H.‘RIDGE. 1 P_R_oe.REssIVEV COMMUNITY. estate, in a Unitary Home, eleven persons. They are Spi- holy, happy and heavenly being. And never till then need E. C. Hotchkiss, Bpuifalo, N. Y., writes: “After reading the editorials in your able paper, that which rejoices me next most are ‘the ‘epistles of love’ and appreciation‘ that flow in to you from allparts of the world. Go on, and remember that Garrison, Phillips, Pillsbury and others ‘were -villiﬁed, traduced and i1'nobb_ed, and yet lived to see the'fruition”.of , their works. You are the priestess in a work ‘as-much‘greatcr* fI‘0IIl l7W0 30 l3hI60~ I110Dl7hS- than theirs as the members involved in it are greater. .No' iSh0111f1 be taken in 001180fiI1.‘-I the W6ed- It 9-0'08 by the ab" man could do the work that you are doing, and I rejoice that women have been inspired to redeem themselves, and Susan A. Bixby, Leominster, Mass, writes: “ I do so long to see the WEEKLY placed in every family. The editorials ‘ are, I know, going to the bottom for causes of all thislmisery which ‘cries to heaven.” It ‘seems that the most ignorant I wish a million of copies of this This Community is located in ChautauqueCo.(500 miles west of Independence}, Kans-as,,close by the southern boundary of the State. Climate mild. Has an unencumbered domain of 242% acres, with buildings, orchards, stock, etc., valued as per inventory of January 1st, 1876, at $3,140.47. Debts less than $40. Has passed its ﬁfth anniversary. There reside on the ritualists, Hygienists of various degrees, and may be properly classed as Socialists, as they are all willing that they should adipose tissue in the_ human frame without injuring the the infusion the patient drinks. Dr. Griffith ﬁrst noticed. the effect of it upon ‘a person who had taken it for a cure of a skin disease and found that it had diminished his excessive weight considerably. He then took‘ it himself, taking no otherdrinks, and in a 'few-weeks his own corpulence had greatly subsided. ’ He then tried it on three stout neighbors, who lost from twelve to thirty pounds within periods ranging Dr. Griﬂith says great care sortion of the adipose tissue, and lessens the secretions from the oily suderiferous glands. , I , WANTED. We want the proper party to take charge of our advertis fing department, and to such an one wewill, give extraordi lnaryvinducements. He must possess the_fac‘ulty to secure advertisements; must be familiar with thebusiness ways of In the issue of _M,,»,.ch 4th is an edit0rii,,1,._headed. .66 The the world, and have complete conﬁdence in himself of mak- ing a successful manager. If the right woman offer,’ it will be all the better. One of the requirements would be, the capacity to properly represent the doctrines and theories of the WEEKLY on the social question. This is a rare oppor- tunity for the right party. o+o¢»———— BUSINESS Norions. The address of Nellie L. Davis, is 235 ‘Washington street I Salem, Mass. To LET.——A nicely furnished front room, 820 Washington st., Boston. To a ﬁrst-class clairvoyant or physician, this is a desirable opportunity. Call and see. Dr. N. G. COLE. . CLAIRVOYANCE.-Mrs. Rebecca Messenger, diagnosing dis~ ease, or reading destiny, if present, $1 00; by letter, $2 00. Send age and sex. 1 Address her,lAurora, 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. Davis,” “Letter to a Magdalen,” “God or no God,” “To My Atheistical Brothers,” includingmy Photo, for,,.One Dollar. Can you favor me? Address Austin Kent, Stockholm St., Lawrence stomach. N 0 care need be taken in_ regard to the amount of be known as "Free Lovers,” provided you allow them to define that term. They publish a small eight7page monthly paper, “ The Progressive C'ommun'£st,” devoted to an exposi- tion of Communism, as they understand it (also to reform ideas generally, when directly or indirectly connected with Co., New York. Box 44. Wl1N'rED—Correspondence with women "who" are desirous of forming an organization for the emancipation; of sex; and its joys and sorrows. Kansas. J. H. FOSTER. enforced or outward one, binage of the sexes. Henry J comes z'n‘The Index. ment and research. prisonm/ent on an issue sohypocritically made. poison, and will ‘eat into the vitals of ‘ecclesiasticalireligion parts of ‘men have bestowed on C. A. Bartol.’7—1'he,Womz, “My blood has not ceased to boil at "the pretencesl that _ _ , . . ,_ , _. . _ were the motives to M,.S_ Woodhullas persecution, and that physician, is successfully treating nervous and chronic dis- denial in her case of freedom’ of speech——her trial and im- V 2 i I stand aghast‘/jat the Congregational and Christian stainpwhich the Ciiurch"so'patient1y,l for policy and _se1f—protection against _ _ __ , _ _ _ , the truth, still consents to bear." It is a, stain which is 3 the public for the past eight years, during which time he has unless removed. '"Having 41.10 _m911,191fY bills, of, delight in my 1 t’ s to women, and no secrets inmy social life ‘t ' ‘ , . ~ ._ . . . . §,::'h:,:,]:, easy for me to a"dd"t*his paper y.irtue“(wliich WI’lsz1‘en1§§ in the Union. Every reader of this who has any affection of t0 the. pure inspiration and perfect joy these ﬁ‘nercounter-i- Communism). and to an illustration of their life with -all Whoiaireh “'93 01' aredreaidy ‘Mid Wmlﬂg t0 ‘cl-3'S6l1(‘i7 their fI‘68- dom. A As itwill bewell not to let the "left hand know what Address Secretary Progressive Community, Cedar Vale’? the right hand doeth,’names will ‘be held sacred. except un- - der such -_conditions as shall be agreed to by the parties Each letter, if desiring a reply, must contain at least ten ADULTERY is an Offence committed against a Vicious social, cents, to pay for paper, {time and postage. Address ;Lois order among; men, an imperfect social state, and is eI1gen.. dered by it exclusively; so that, when society comes or is5 acknowledged as thejnormal state of man, adultery ‘wing disappear as the fog of the marsh disappears before the: morning sun. * * * * Our existing conjugality, accordingly,; is not marriage except in name, because itdisallows an; inward, free or spontaneous tenure, and admits only a legallyﬁ It is simply a legalized concu-§ Waisbrooker, 1,242 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal. W A N T E D , Fifty Acres" of Greed Land’ in a healthy locality, as a free gift "to ﬁve =w‘omen', where they can have ten acres each, to borntheir own selves into individual selfhood. They have each one hundred dollars, and ‘intend to put this land under the highest culture, and will raise fruits, fowls and bees, as their specialty. Any one havingsuch lands that belong to the spirit world, and is willing to aid in this enterprise, will please address “Mission,” this office immediately. They say REV. C. A. BARTOL, D. D'., Boston: “I grow more anal thatlthey can build acabin upon it until they can do better. more indisposed to dispute, or even debate, in public or: "Would like tobe located in Western New York or Pennsyl- private. You know from personal conversation, if not pos-1 vania. They mean to teach‘ Womanfs Mission by practica- sibly mm printed report, ‘my feeling of_the sacredness of ble labor ;“but, be it understood, their ‘work is ﬁrst to born marriage, in which I am more ﬁxed the more I think and see,}. themselves’ intoan understanding of their own needs by get- and the longer I live. Nevertheless, the foundations of ﬁle‘ institution must be able to stand under all ﬁt rational argu. from mother nature. ting in position where they can generate their own life forces ‘DR, R. P. FELLows, the independent and progressive eases all over thelcountry by letter, as well as at his office at home, by his original sys_te'm of practice, which omits all drugs and mineral medicines of both -old and‘ new schools. Dr. Fellows has beenfgsteadily gaining upon the conﬁdence of treated. thousandsgiof cases, eighty out of every hundred; of which he has radically. cured, while every case has been bene- ﬁtted._ And at/gthis moment he has patients in every State d the head, this-.112, 1ungs,heart, lstomach,1iver, kidneys, blad- . lder,i‘bowel‘s,"w’omb, genital organs, or rheumatic or neuralgic ; ‘idiﬂiculties, or eruptions of the‘sk‘in, blood impurities, tumors, cancers, "or anynervous aifeetions ‘or diseases of the eye A A,NoyEL CURE FOR B.HEUMA'.rIsM.——An Englishman with rheumatic, gout found this singular remedya cure for his ailment: He insulated his bedstead from the ﬂoor by ‘placing underneath each post a broken-off bottom of a‘ glass bottle. He saysthe eﬁect was magical, that he had not been free from rheumatic gout for ﬁfteenyears, and that he beganto or “ear, are invited to write to-CD.r. Fellows. The remedy with which he treats these. diseasesso successfully, is his Magnetized Powder, which will be sent to any address, at $51 per box. Address Vineland, N. J. improve immediately after the application of the insulators. fortunates. 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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 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 twenty cents, postage 2 cents. 32 large pages. INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY. Publishers Worcester, Mass, w ().,..~O.sDH U L L & C L A F L I N ’_.S W-E ,E.:fK}3L Yii THE woRLn’s. L Sixteen Oruciﬁed Saviors; . on, ; CHRISZIAJVIJ Y BEE oxen CHRIST. A CONTAINING N cw, Startlt’n_q and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious fIt'story, which disclose the Oriental Origin of all the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts and Miracles of the CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and f'urnr‘shing, a,.Key for unlocking many of its Sacred lvlysﬂéries, besides comprising the History of Sixteen Oriental’ Cructﬁcd Gods. ' BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “The Biography of Satan ” and “The Bible" of Bibles ” (comprising or 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 informatioii 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 argu_ment,to the close, and his conclusions go, like sure ‘arrows, to the mark. C ’ C 0 N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; glntroduction; 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.—Miraculous and Immaculate Conception of the Gods. ’ Chap. 5.——Virgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods.’ ~ Chap. 6.—Stars point out the Time and the Savior”s Birthplace. OhSap._'7.—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the In! ant. avior. Chap. 8.—-The Twenty-ﬁfth of December the Birthday of the Gods. Chap. 9.—Titles of the Saviors. Cl:i§._pﬂ'il0.—The Saviors of Royal Descent butpﬂumble ir . . Chap. 11.——Christ’s Genealogy. Chap. 12,-The World’s Saviors saved from Destruc- tigin in Infancy. Ohap._ 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.——Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.-—Rea.ppearance and Ascension of the Sav- iors. Chéip. _21.-The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe F1 in. Chapg22.—-The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.—The Divine “Word” of Oriental Origin. Chap. 24.—The Trinityvery 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. ’ Clgip. §2'7.—'l‘ne Sacrament or ‘Eucharist of Heathen rigin. Chap. 28.—Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. Chap. 29.—How Men, including J ssus Christ, came to be worshiped as Gods. Oliap. 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.~—Threc Hundred and Forty-six striking Analogies between Christ and Crishna. Chap. 33 —~Apol]onius, Osiris‘ and Magus as Gods. Chap. 34.—Th‘e 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. 86.—Pliilosophical Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation. Chap. 37.-—Physiological Absurdities of the Doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, Choalp. 88.—A Historical View of the Divinity of Jesus rist. Chap. 39.—-The Scriptural View of Christ’s Divinity. Ohap._ 40.——A Metonymic View of the Divinity of Jesus Christ. ‘ — Ol3p._4tl.—The Precepts and Practical Life of Jesus ris . Chan. 42.——Christ as a Spiritual Medium. 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IIOLBROOK, D. ‘ , The book is for the most part uncommonlyapt, coming to the point without the slightest ci 1 t‘ and is more to the point than many larger works._—Z\few York Tribune; I mum ow Ion One of the best contributions to recent hygienic literar.ure.——Bo.9ton Daily Advertiser’. What is particularly attractive about this book is the absence of all hygienic bigotry. One man’s mother and another man’s wife send me word that these are the most wh Lady Ag-en as Wanted, T R U E L o V E What it is and Wl1~at it is not By A. Biueds DAVIS. With an Appendix. Th" '— . hl t ‘ " Sound thinkers have alreddysaadiphaitﬁgd it t(bfi*2a:’1lI:a\%szzi2tSh the ablest intellectual efforts of the age. Its views on the great theological absurdities -of denominatjonay Christianity, on Socialism, and on Love and Marriage are at once novel and sound. The work is a challenge to thinkers the world over. All minds seeking rest in %1117iS.S0.%%l;§etlt‘)l:)tglkS.- of religion, life and?‘ love‘ should read The Appendix and Po * th th .3‘ book. The ﬁrst editionellggiggerlegily e:§i1§p.1§:%3f ztililie other is inpreparation. , " ’- In. this work is “shown the only possible hope for Commuiiismpn this;earth. No-readerof Mrs. Wood- hu1l’s late articles, can afford‘-to remain ignorant of whatis here boldly. ,;'1lIg.,0ut;' to the t]1j_nki1n(r World Send for Catalogues.‘ 7 ’ _ ' ,5, _ ' .Pr.ice,,p,0st,paid,,10_ cents,._»_ Address ~ I’ 1 " INDEPENDENT TRACT SOCIETY, Worcester, Mass. Maine . [ ‘iEND 25a. to e: P. ROWELL & CO., New York, roi- , -Pamphlet of 100 pages, containing‘listsIof'f;3,00. papers, and estimates showing cost-"o.r advettifsii; -—0hri9lidn Register olesome and practice. 3 i 4 per dayat "home. S" ' 1” I ‘ $5 TO 0 $51 free. STINSON & (§1(?:1,pP%Sr?l§lflfl1? 9 WOODHULL &» CLAFLIN S VVEEKLY ‘ May13,1876. GREAT CENTRALRV UTE. SPIRIT COLLEGE. What is Property ‘.7 on, . AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLE OF RIGHT AND OF MEDIUMs DEVELOPED, HEALERS . INsTRUeTED, ‘AND LEGAL HORT AND FAST LINE AcRoss THE coNTINENT BY THE OLD EsTAR DIPLOMAS GRANTED THEM. llshed and Popular Route via ’ . , _, — , ‘ I GOVERNMENT, The ERIE RAILWAY to SUSPENSION BRIDGE ; _ Add.”°S5 Pm‘ 3‘ B’ 9Am.BE.LL‘ M'~D". — The GREAT WESTERN OF CA \I ADA to Detroit; 156 Longworth street, Cincinnati, Ohio. . 'l‘he M.IoHiuAN can TRAL to Chicago; The CHICAGO, BURLINGTON and QUINCY to Kansas City, St. Joseph, Lincoln, Omaha and to. all points in the great North and Southwest. » . Through without change of cars, from New York to Chicago. One change to Omaha, andithat in the What lung People Shtuld Know. Bi Depot of the Michigan Central in Chicago, from which the C., B. and Q. departs. The hours’ time consumed P° J’ PROUDHON by travelers by other routes to Chicago from the East or West in transferring from depot to depot. is saved THE UNGTION IN MAN , by passengers by this route to get their‘ ineals——an advantage over all other routes which deservedly makes 0 R ANIMA-I-|S- —————- it the most popular and the best patronized line of travel across the Continent. By PROF, BURT (}_ WILDER, THROUGH TICKETS to all important towns, an .1 general information may be obtained at the Comp-:i,ny’s - of C°r_n-en dUmver§1ty' Transl.ated from the French b oﬁlce, 349 Broadway (corner of Leonard street), New York. - Adgiggstwenty 5”‘ Illllstratlonsi 31 50- BENJ R TUCKER y CHAS. P. SOMERBY, .... illi. , I , /I I Freethought 1311101151161’: Prefaced by 0. Sketch of Proudhon’s Life Condensed Time Table, 130. E. EIGHTH STREET, and Works, by J. A. 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M. .. —~ STEPS TO THE KINGDOM - "Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . , . . ..12.E}OP.M. ' R. “ '0<rden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. I “ Ogden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.30 “ I ' ii . ° 1" ' ...... “ s F ' ....... .. 8.30 ‘i BY L015 WAISBROOKEE sr?f::ric;i:?1:c1Sco 6 40 A :.1- Ar Cfdlesbiriglsco 4 45 P M Author of “Helen Haﬂowas VOW”, “Alice Va1e'” PRINCETON’ MASS‘ .‘.‘ uinc g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.15 E‘ . . . . “ Quincey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘.‘ . . . . . .1 Diayweed B10ss0ms,a9 an Suﬁrage for J _ . ~ St. .-:..’.—,’..‘.;:'.::::::°.::::::::::: 10300 « ‘Til ~i St. 10...: '''''' :.::.:.::::' 0:1: .. .. :1“: Women? etc» etc» em . ii ' .............. .. . . . “K C‘t ........... .. (.25 ii . . .. ..““'." . ' 1 ~ : “ ]1IticI:1liBi:SoiI).l.t ........... .. P“M . “ A.€d1l1Si3sI>n.1.I ........... .. 11117 " Chmtlans Pmyv. '.“‘Y k‘“gd°m 001119» thy will be TRIANGLE " Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.10 “ Q " Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . .. 12.40 noon. .. .. dog‘) %nt‘3‘1rth 3*’; It ash 1.“ rheaven-11 b‘§' tﬁey know 1 s . . _ ., “ ' ‘ . _ _ _ ' “ Denver, , _ _ _ _ , , . _ _ , . , , _ , , _, 7.00 A, M. ‘, E, “ Denver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. , n1?n‘V a S :3? 3 < nriisfiaiis Orea ct ing L1k_0 All diseases growing outof false congugal relations I , and e if you ca .1 0 dt have your prayeis v Q ‘ anSWe1'6_d; and, if not,_ In_ake preparation. for the will receive especial attention. Ourcombinedniedium *' an§‘(’)V[‘l3;'1&5 i*3r‘l11'§1:7)‘t’h°01131§’[‘i)n 1§§6°VI‘)’2gIé§°1§11'ggflgostage hip, shut from the outer Vi orld in our cabinet, will “N . . i ‘ ’ ’ ’ enerate acom ouiid element Ma etized and S irit- w , 18 cents. Address, WOODHULL 0 CLAELIN, 8 P » ,8” P THPOUQ 1'1 Sleeplng C3-I’ APP ang i'3‘1'I1€1’.ll2S P. 0. Box 3,791, New York City. L 1 alized, that will prove an elixir of life that we can _ ' tt 1:‘ t . 9.15 A. :1t.—Day Express from Jersey City (daily except Sunday), with Pullman’s Drawing-Room Cars Impar 0 our pa len S 1:10 connecting at Suspension Bridge with Pullma_.n’s Pa ace Sleeping Cars, arriving at Chicago 3.00 p. m DIVORCES LEGALLY, QUIETLY AND QUICK- MAGNETIZED BEL” f°r am pm“ °f the System‘ the following day in time to take the morning trains from there. . 1y obmjned_ Incompatibility guﬁicient gauge; no BATTERIES 1'01 the head: hands and feet Paper: 7.20 P. M —Night Express from Jersey City (daily), with Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars, runs throiigh 1,5 publicity, no vexatious delays, _correspoiidence eon- Powders and Liquid Medicines prepared, Electricized, Chicago without change arriving there at 8.00 a. m., iving passengers ample time for breakfast and take ﬁdentlals 1’€6 aficl‘ decree. _1'€Sif1e11Ce 11D11€CeB5aFY- Magnetized and Spiritualized in a single or double the morning trains to all points West, Northwest and outhwest. Addreﬁsa 1’- 0- BOX. 19. Corrine. Utah. Triangle Cabinet as the patient may desire‘ The Guardian Spirits of every patient will be requested to accompany the Medicine and aid by their inﬂuence. Three strong Healing Mediums will sit in the cabinet with an electric apparatus when the medicines are pre- pared. We shall observe all inspirational conditions that will insure a full ﬂow from our Spiritual Battery, and require the same of our patients. The age, sex‘ married or single, with some of the prominent symp- toms and conditions of the system, will be required. ~"‘*' CONNECTIONS or ERIE RAILWAY WITH MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES or Mieliigan Central & Great Western Railways. At St.,Cathai-ines, with Welland Railway, for Port Colborne. At Hamilton, with branch for Toronto and intermediate stations; also with branch to Port Dover. At Harrisburg, with branch for Galt, Guelph, Southampton and intermediate stations. At Paris, with G. W. R. branch for Brantford and with Goderich branch Grand Trunk Railway. At London, with branch for Petrolia and Sarnia. Also with Port Stanley Branch for Bert Stanley. an daily line of steamers from there to Cleveland. At Detroit, with Detroit & Milwaukie Railway for Port Huron,‘Branch Grand Trunk Railway. Also De One Dollar for a single prescription. Sent by mai or express. A Stamp must accompany all letters. Address, DR.. GRAHAM & CO., 1 cit, Lansing do Lake Michi, an R. R. to Howard and intermediate stations. Also Detroit & Bay Cit R. 12. I Brranch Lake s. & M. s. R. 1%. to Toledo. 3' G—LENN’S 3,117 Easton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. At Wayne, with Flint d5 Pei-e M. R. R. to Plymouth, Holy, etc. . - _ . At Ypsilanti, with Detroit, Hillsdale & Eel _River _R. Rs, for Manchester, Hillsdale, Bankcr’s, Waterloo SULPHUR S()AP' Columbia City, N. Manchester, Denver and Indianapolis. THE LEADING EXTERNAL REMEDY ‘PEVWW LVA} IA RAILPOAD At Jackson with Grand River Vallev Branch, for Eaton Rapids‘, Charlotte, Grand Rapids Nuncia Pent- FOR LOCAL DISEASES OF THE SKIN, L 1 °‘ . I - " - -’ . - - - - - - ’ ’ i ~ . . T111:-.2 GREAT TRUNK LINE .‘{i‘.‘§‘i.%‘§:‘} ‘3‘.‘.é:i‘!.‘i:.‘£?.e.‘.‘.§‘i,g‘e.c*“%’:i;3:’i.S.;w "$2.?$?‘%o‘?‘i.?;é‘:%§?t§I.%§%%i’ €”v%i‘if’.§3Vsi?.iiSu.°%?§£?§i% Bgmisﬁgs °F TH}: C°MP‘§3XI°N> .AN,i> iiNi,;,rEii,,sT,i;gEs ii;-Ii, RfO%TEb' and 1-iitermednite stations. Also with Fort Wayne, Jack 8; Saginaw R. R. for Jonesville Waterloo Fart ORES CALDS URNS HEU‘ F2153 ~‘““”° 9”” °r 7 mm ‘)0 0 es r°55e W ayiic, and Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cin. R. R. to Cincinnati. ’ : MATIéM AND > GOUT‘ AND A anﬁixbgigslgngfl.s%f,ﬁ§11l£:dE<31¥’)itItSsl;ur 1} the West and At Battle Creekv with Peninsular R R‘ _ _ . RELIABLE DISINFECTANT South), with Pullman l’2ilzi%’e, Cars attached, 9:30 A. M., g A Kalamazoo, with South Hayen Branch, to G. Junction, South Haven, etc. Also with G. Rapids & 1111. AND PREVENTIVE OF CONTAGION. 5 and 8:30 P. M. Sunday, 5 and 8:30 P. M. R R. for Clam Lake and intermediate stations. Also with Branch of L. S. & M. R. R. Th. . bl .ﬁ For Baltimore, Washington and the South, Limited . At Lawton, with Paw Paw R. R. for Paw Paw. _ I . ls lncompara” spew C T.em°VeS: Wﬁshiilgmll EXPTGSS Of Pullman ,P31'101‘ 031‘S~_dailY: ,. . entirely and speedily, Eruptions 01 except Sunday, at 9:30 A. M.; arrive at Washington Atl\1les. with S0u_t11B6I}dBran°h-_ . . the skin or scalp s0reS_ sca1dS 4:10 P. M. Regular at 8:40 A. M., 3 and 0 P. M. Sun- At New 1311111110, with Cmeago & Mich. Lake S. R. R. for St. Joseph, Holland, Muskegon, Pentwatcr and 5 . ’ - ’ day, 9 P. M. . - - Burns &c cures Rheumatism and - - all intermediate stations. . 4 Gout ,and . Eounteracts a predisposi 4 l41~.;1;6i-%ss7f%i- §:)h1é8igIe%£:)hla, 3:313, 95310 A. $11., £22305 3, . At Michigan City, with I1i..atlIla.190liS, Pen). 83 Chico; B. 8. ‘Also with Louisville New Albany & Chi. . = . _ - ' -_ 5 1 v 1 ‘ 2 ~ . -v 3“ mg 3- ‘um “:55 v 7» ma. ' tiontomse 1.53215i:trr1.°1::1*.1;- 1‘: /- Aihiliee Wm 501M Br”-‘~0hi° J°1i°‘i- It especlauy COMMENDS I-“TSELF T0 M., 1, 2, 2:30, 3:10, 3240’, 4310’, 4230’, 5’, 5’:20,’5:40, ‘6, 0310, “ At Chicago, with all railroads diverging. " THE LADEES On accoynt. 0% 1455 12UnI- ' 01 :30, '7, 7:30, 8:10, 110, 11 §:[0 P. M., and 12 night. Sun- .c. ' “ , FYING an BEAUTIFYING 111 1161106 llp- ay, 5220, ‘Tana 83 0 P. . * 1 VALUABLE DISCOVERY.—Dr. J. P. Miller, 2‘. For Elizabeth 6, 6:30, 7:20, 7:40 8 9 10 A. M. 12 A practicing physician at 327 spruce street. Phila. 0nEthe COMPLEXION‘ . k . M., 1, 2. 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 4:30, 42:50, ’5:20, 5:40’. 6, deipnia, has discovered that the extract of craiiberries Very 0110 P0SS9SS;1Dg 3 0% 6 01 . 0:10,0:30,7,7:30,s:10,1o,11:30 P. M., and 12 night. an hemp combined cui'is]l1ieaélactl'1ie, either bilious, GLENN’S SULPHUR SOAP, costing 25 Su_Enda3%51:120,7and(553:1(§l 10 A M 1 yspeptic, nervous or sic ' ea ac e neuralgia a‘ d or a way, 6, :8 , : . . 2 M. 1 2, nervousness. This is a triumph inme,dical chemistiyr or 50 Cents’ MALY ENJOY AT HOME A-LL 2:30,3:10, 3:40,4:1o, 4:30, 4:50,’ 5:’2o,5:40,6,'0:10,0?30’,7 3’ FIT D 1 RIVABLE FROM 3: S - ’ and suiferers all over the country are ordering by THE BENE L‘ emes 8:10, 10 P. M. and 12 night. Sunday, 5:20 and '7 P. M. gall. Hel pi-epaiﬁls it in pililslatgo cents a box. The 0f COSHY SULPHUR BATHSa For1\?Voo1:iAiiidg2e§(l°ertgiAIi(11b((;)31r), 0;; South Amboy, octor is arvely own an ig._ yrespected.~RtiEa~ It d’ ' f cts clothin an line ' - 6 and 0 A. ., : 4: 0 an . . delpltia Bulléltin. » ‘ . ‘Sm e - g d n 1m For New Brunswick, 7:20 and 8 A. M., 12 M., 2, 3:10, — pregnafted‘ by dlsease’ an prevents 4:30, 5:20, 6:10, '2' P. M., and 12 night. Sun ay, 7 obnoxious disorders caused by eon- P, M, A c met with the person_ . Ber East Millstone, 12 noon‘, 3:10 and 4:30 P. M. . K ‘Dandruﬁ is eradlcated and the ham. PI‘]0Ir Lambeitville and Flemington, 9.30 A. M., and g ‘ ~ I . D Y 0 0 Prevented from faumg_0ut 01' Premai‘ For Phillipsburg and Belvidere, 9:30 A. M., 2 and 1 0 01”‘ Owﬂ ? 1° Hﬂiﬂlg _ turely turning gray by Its 1188' ‘Flo. Bordentown Burlinoton and Camden 7 20 d , , . r , : an -4.-._..,.. , ,,_,_, Portable $9 Eggssgggggggg ,};,il;-,;§1,,S,i,f,§,,<§1,,0,g;,0,:i PHYSICIANS RECOMMEND ITS We 9:30 Apr, 12:30, 2,’ 4, 4.10351 . . . ‘ I I _ 5%” Business llien dotheirprintingand PRICES, 25 AND 50 CENTS PER CAKE, $0’ %1"”eh.°1d(3171‘20 Ad lg‘-s 2§*nS-_%61gPMM- (1.2 M /' F advertising, savemoney and increase’ PER Box (3 CAKES) 60c and $1_2()_ Fer Hggglllig 3‘ 81%“ bqtia ’- ‘d C ‘ d‘ an . ' ' “ ,. , - , ; ., - b 9 7 .4 . . . . U, _ , , _ I 5, iﬁigisfiggafﬁiﬁggéiﬁffrgg’ N. B. The large cakes at 50, cents are triple the Ani(l))[oy,12:3L(II(’).wl\I/I. Igcﬁlr %1:Il§1]11t§Il3I¢l)Wna]a:§1dfaIII3eIIII%6II‘§(lltll‘I], 5% § " E53 3 €51 - — Q have_greatf11X} and makéi 22030)’ ‘ ‘*3?!’ size' Sold by an Druggism I 0 eﬁires 526 and 944 Broadway 1 Astor Housn EEE ' ggg , SE15, -:— A ﬁlnilﬂgs ;*,§,gg,‘,':,‘},f,§§§,-,§;§;‘;i,'i,‘;;g “ Hi1l’s Hair and Whisker Dye,” and rtoclks: 01 }]5fsbrossis12§id1?€rtla1n;{i1% hgegtsz 4 Cour? 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1876-05-13_11_24
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-05-13_11_24
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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 52 (May 20, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2124
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-05-20
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: v :_.._g ‘H ..._., PROGRESS ! FREE T_".ElZOT.TG~E£Tl UNTR.AMqlNIELlED LIVESi BREAKING THE PWAY son reruns G-ENERATIOEES. Vol. XI. ——No. 52.—Wl;ole No. 285 NEVV YORK, MAY 20, 1875. PRICE TEN CENTS. Yhe truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God ‘shall be ﬁnishecl.——St. John the Divine. Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in G0cl.——Paul. EDITORIAL DIGEST. “ HE left a wife and several children.” So reads a refer- ence to the Rev. .Mr. Parker, late pastor of the Presbyterian church in Ashland, Ky. He has not left the world, however, but has eloped with the young daughter of a deacon of his church.—N. Y. Sam. IT is refreshing to read about “ Poker Schenck” in papers whose conductors are notoriously acquainted with the game of draw, as well as with that of “ The Tiger.” Consistency, gentlemen of the Press, should teach ...
Show morev :_.._g ‘H ..._., PROGRESS ! FREE T_".ElZOT.TG~E£Tl UNTR.AMqlNIELlED LIVESi BREAKING THE PWAY son reruns G-ENERATIOEES. Vol. XI. ——No. 52.—Wl;ole No. 285 NEVV YORK, MAY 20, 1875. PRICE TEN CENTS. Yhe truth shall make you free.—Jesus. In the clays of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of God ‘shall be ﬁnishecl.——St. John the Divine. Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in G0cl.——Paul. EDITORIAL DIGEST. “ HE left a wife and several children.” So reads a refer- ence to the Rev. .Mr. Parker, late pastor of the Presbyterian church in Ashland, Ky. He has not left the world, however, but has eloped with the young daughter of a deacon of his church.—N. Y. Sam. IT is refreshing to read about “ Poker Schenck” in papers whose conductors are notoriously acquainted with the game of draw, as well as with that of “ The Tiger.” Consistency, gentlemen of the Press, should teach you to write with more care about “ an old comrade." ‘ TEE closing of the Centennial grounds on Sunday is another blow at the industrial classes, dealt by the religious capi- talists. When will the laborers learn the real animus of this class? When will they see that they are gradually tightening the grip by which they hold them in bondage? _.__.._. ONE Green, of Jersey City, has got into diﬁiculty by mar- rying a girl not “ eighteen.” He hired her to keep house for him, with the consent of her parents: but afterward he mar- ried her without their consent. For this disrespect to “ age,” he has been convicted and sentenced for “ abduction-” IT has been agreed by The Plymouth Church Committee to expel “Brother Bowen.” But how to do it doth not yet ap- pear. Move carefully, gentlemen Committee, or a torpedo, planted by the Mephistophilesﬁﬁom you handle so carefully, may explode under your feet, and blow you to ———~. THE manner in which Presidential candidates are being “ shelved” is rapidly thinning the ranks of “ The Hopeful,” and leaves the names of Bristow and Tilden, day by day, more and more prominent. But would it be strange if, after all, the strategy which conquered the late rebellion should also outwit the present rebellion against “ a third term 3”’ THE better way for the people to dispose of the mass of rottenness and corruption, that it is only too evident, exists at Washington, is to abolish the government altogether. We certainly could be no worse oil’, we think we should be much better off, if there were no such possibilities afforded for peculation and rascality as our present system offers. REV. C. A. KENDRIOK, of Columbus, Ga., having been held to bail in the sum of $3,000 for seducing a Sunday—schoo1 pupil, al aBeP.chere, denies everything, and denounces his accusers as perjurers and conspirators, notwithstanding the pupil has confessed and several e_ve——witnesses testiﬁed ; all of which again proves the truthfulness of an “ old saw:" “ The old cock crows, and the young ones learn.” STILL ANOTHER VICTIM and more evidence: “ TUsoAoosA. A1a., April 25——E. T. Fitch, of New Haven, Conn., cut his wife’s throat with a razor, killing her instantly. She was a former resident of Tuscaloosa, and was on a visit to friends there.” AT 265 Stanton street recently, George Knights plunged a a knife into the neck of Joseph Burnet and killed him. Cause-jealousy. ANOTHER railroad war has broken out, through which it is likely that visitors to the “ Centennial ” may obtain more than 25 per cent reductions from previous fares- “ God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform.” Perhaps the Centennial is to be, after all, a Divine Minis- tration. . T . broken, and the whole of Jersey City and a large part of New IT appears now that the canal which Gen. Grant cut across the peninsular opposite Vicksburg is going to prove a success’ since the high water of this Spring has"forced its way through the excavation, which promises fairly to become the main channel of the river. leaving Vicksburg to stand upon its frowning heights miles away. But the current by the short cut will prove to be very rapid, since in a few miles it will have to make the same desent that it now makes by the way of Vicksburg, which is, at least, ﬁve times the distance, or thirty miles. ANNA DICKINSON will appear at the Globe Theatre, Bos- ton, the 8th inst., in her new tragedy entitled, “Anne Boleyn,” which is her’s solely—-—-conception, plot, the situa- tion and every word of the text. No professional playwright has ever read it. Her utter ignoring of all external aid and counsel may show self-reliance in a remarkable and to be appreciated degree, but may it not set the critics against her, who may make the stage an up-hill work for the new debutante to revenge themselves upon her ignoring of them. OF each million of children born. in England 263,000 die be- fore reachiug the age of ﬁve, 34,000 are carried oil‘ during the ﬁve following years, and 18,000 between ten and ﬁfteen years. Only 634,04-5 attain the age of 25, and but 421,115 that of 55. Out of the whole million only 2,153 reach the age of 95, 223 live to be centenarians, and only one attains the 108th year. The latest statistics conﬁrm the statement that fe— males live longer than males, and married peeplelonger than single ones; and it also appears that Jews live longer than Christians. 1 TH1RrYthousand rounds of dynamite, each one sufficient to blow a ten-ton rock into fragments, exploded on Bergen Hill, Saturday night. Results: Many houses within a half mile of the scene shattered, a much larger area of window-glass York rocked to and fro as if an earthquake were pasing. It occurred at eleven o’clock. It was the city’s talk Sunday. Wonderful to relate, only a single life lost, that of the guard, of whom not so much as a drop of blood or a piece of bone can be found. ' THE Legislature of Massachusetts has passed a law pro- hibiting children under ten years of age from working in the factories. So far, so good. Now, let the Bay State go a very necessary step farther, and provide that these chiidren under ten years of age shall not suffer for food, or clothes, or shelter. during the time that they are prohibited from working. Negative legislation isn’t enough in this case. If the right exist to say that they shall not labor, the duty of seeing provision made for their maintenance follows. Now that investigation of Presidential aspirants is in order, who does not somebody inquire into tho method by which the Hon. David Davis, of Bloomington, Il1., acquired the method of constructing wells? It would not be out of the way, perhaps, to also inquire if he is in favor of free speech, that is, if so small a principle is of any more account in this country; and if he be in favor of it in principle, whether he does not deny it in practice, in the conduct of Durley Hall,‘ Bloomington, which is his property. THE following, which requires no comment, “to point a moral or adorn a tale,” we glean from the N. Y. Sun of the 4th inst., caption and all: THE SWEET MARITAL OBLIGATION. Officer Edward Scanlon was called in by Mrs. Pierce Craig, of .23 Thames street, yesterday morning, to prevent her hus- band, a. ’longshoreman, from beating her. Craig assaulted the ofﬁcer, and stuck a butcher’s knife into his shoulder. The woman assisted her husband when the oiﬁcer wielded his club. FIRsrr—John Jacob Astor was called away. He took none of his $60,000,000 with him. The results of his whole life were represented in those millions. He had no treasure laid up in the bank which Jesus recommended. N ext-Alexander T. Stewart was summoned to a higher court than earth. He failed to proﬁt by the lesson of Astor. He laid up his trea- sure where “moth and dust doth corrupt ” to the extent of a half a hundred, millions. He forgot the Injunction of 2‘ Jesus, and died. And now, the third and richest of them all, is standing on the verge of the dark valley. Will He who has entrusted so many millions to his stewardship also ﬁnd him an unfaithful steward, who will not “render unto God the things that are God’s '3” WE ﬁnd the following beautiful (?) illustration of the Christian character in the Methodist, a religious paper, pub- lished in this city: “The man Dolan, hung at the Tombs in this city last week belonged to a class that we have no better use for than hanging them. We have scruples about hanging men on cir- cumstantial evidence, and if a man has any character, as, for example, Rubenstein has. we should strenuously favor other modes of punishment. The Dolans are professional enemies of society. They kill us when they get a chance and have a. motive. We should hang them as we shoot wolves, whenever 'we get a chance, We do not know whether Dolan killed Mr. Noe, nor do we care. He had probably, though only twenty- two years old, killed other men, and if he had lived would have certainly gone on killing. We ought to hang every Friday at the Tombs as many Dolans as the oﬂicers could dispose of. It is terribly unsafe living in the city with them at large; and we never met an enthusiast whose fanaticism embraced an expectation of the reformation of the Dolans.” In which sentiments we desire to ask if the Methodists of the country concur? THIS time it is the Rev. F. D. Buifam, of East Hartford, who is accused of the double crime of seduction and abor-1 tion, and a “ council” is investigating him. It will soon be an established fact, proven too frequently to admit of denial, that clergymen are just aboutas good as other men are. But thereis another phase to this. Miss Cora Lord, the subject of his delinquencies, was an inmate of his house. The Rev. Buft'a.m’s wife, coming to a knowledge of the facts, had, upon his repentance, forgiven him, a la. Tilton, but sheinsisted that MissCora should be sent away, a la Bessie Turner, to which the good man objected, giving as a reason, “ that he ought not to turn her away from him after having done her the wrong. “Miss Lord shall have a home as long as I have one,” re- torted the pastor. Then followed the usual number of letters in which the wife denies ever having received a confession, and in which he admitted that she had the power to ruin him, but charging the whole aifair upon the “ disagreeable temperfof the wife,” which had driven him to other love than hers-—the usual excuse-—;and ‘so one after another of the hypocritical shams fall. WE gather the following indicative straws: “ Henry Ward Beecher "appeared in the Town Hall of Brattleboro’, on Wednesday evening, April 19, and delivered a lecture on ‘Religion in Education; or, the Moral Aspect of Education.’ Two or three hundred more people might have been accommodated with seats. This is a singular and unaccountable fact, when We consider Mr. Beecher’s notori» ety and popularity as a. minister and unquestioned origin- ality and eloquence as an orator.”—Vermo-nt Record and Farmer. , , ‘ “ The New London folks, who hired Beecher to lecture for $300, aren’t so enthusiastic over him as they were. His au- dience was very small, and there was a loss of $150 on the lecture. ”——Springﬁeld Republlcan. There is another indication of the waning powers of Mr. Beecher. The Christian Union, the paper which he edits. once having a circulation of 130,000 has fallen to 15,000. Moral —Thc story of David and Groliah repeated. UP to this time Mr. Beecher has not accepted the chal- lenge of Mr. Moulton, of the 26th ult., in which the latter proposes “a mutual coiincil” “ to determine whether you ought to be in the pulpit or I in a prison.” Evidently the former does not like the proposed method. of solving the conundrum. C; THE Sunday Dispatch gives the outline, without names of a tremendous ministerial scandal that is being suppressed,'in this city. About a year ago there was a secession of twenty members from a church whose pastor had been intimate with the wife of one of the members, but which coming to the knowledge of the church, the large majority of the members were in favor of keeping the scandal quiet. The minority, the above twenty members who were in favor of ,2 .1 r . wocnHULL as 0LAFLIN’S‘WEEKI.Y. May 20, 1-876. investigating, seceded, going in a body to another church. But it seems that they had been connected with their new church only a short time when they were informed that this church was in precisely the same predicament as the one from which they had seceded, only that the circumstances were of a still more aggravated cast of villainy, for in this instance, the pastor,’himself married,had set out deliberately to debauch the young and beautiful wife of a member, in whose house he was living. The facts stated are so circum- stantial and of such a character that they point unmistakably to the parties involved. The latter pastor took a prominent part in the Moody—Sankey revival. getting so much worse recently, or are they, since the Beecher ewpose, just beginning to be detected in their idio- syncracies? 41; ‘yum WHO PAYS THE EXPENSES ? Editors Woodhull and Olaﬁin’s Weekly: On the 15th of April an article appearedvin your paper, over the signature of A.W. St. J ohn, in answer to a communication written by myself, March .18, to which I would ask permis- sion to reply. Having stated in my former letter that I be- lieved if our national, or United States, currency should be increased one billion dollars, that it would not be worth the paper that it was printed on. I-“will now give my reasons for thinking so: First—If our national banks should increase their circulation one billion dollars, they would then have outstanding over thirteen hundred million dollars in curren- cy, payable on demand; this vast amount of currency could not possibly be keptin circulation for any length of time, as the national banks at_ present are unable to keep out less than one—fourth of that amount ; consequently it would be presented at the banks for redemption, in such quantities as to break down and destroy every bank in the country. National bankruptcy would follow, and repudiation would be the result. Second-If the United States legal tender notes should be increased one billion dol- lars, the Government would then owe about fourteen hun- dred million dollars in greenbacks, or more than double the amount that was in circulation in 1864, when gold reached at one time 280 in greenbacks, or legal tenders were worth but thirty -ﬁve cents on the dollar. ' Mr. St. John states that “ the total circulation of all kinds outstanding in 1865 was $2.003,874,179.25; in August, 1875, we had only $764,808,217, showing that the currency had been contracted $l,238,965,962,25;’ also showing that we had more than one billion more currency than we have now.” I Where Mr. St. John gets his “ oﬁicial” ﬁgures I cannot tell; but I do know that the Secretary of the Treasury, in his oili- cial report to Congress, for the ﬁscal year ending June 30, 1866, states the total amount of grcen"backs in circulation on the ﬁrst day of July, 1865, as $662,7 96,766. Again, Mr. St. John says, “in September, 1864, gold was quoted at 274, and it is well known that the issue of green- backs continued to increase until after the close of the war, and that gold fell to about 150.” - How can he harmonize this statement with the one above, when he says that from 1865 to 1875 the currency had been contracted $l,238,965,962.25? ’ If he has made poor calculations in the ﬁrst statement, he has not bettered it in the last. If Mr. St. John will consult the public debt statements, pub- lished by the Secretary of the Treasury annually, and repub- lished by nearly all of the leading newspapers of the country, he will ﬁnd that the greenbacks did not increase after 1864, p but steadily decreased for the six years following, while their value increased. Below is a statement showing the average ‘price of gold, payable""in currency, and the average amount of greenbacks in circulation, from 1864 to 1874: ’ I - Amount of Legal Tenders. 1864—Average price of gold”... 190 Legal tenders, about.. $670,000,000 1865—- “ . “ 156 “ “ , “ .. 614,000,000 cs , H ___. as 55 (6 Year. Price. 575,000,000 1867-— “ “ . . . . 135 “ “ _. “ . . 466,000,000 1868-. “ “ . . . . 136 “ “ “ . 450,000,000 1869—- “ “ . . . . 130 “ " “ 420,000,000 1870-» " “ . . . . 115 “ “ “ 356,000,060 1871-—~ “ “_ . . . . 113 “ “ “ . . 356,000,000 1872—- ‘ “ . . . . 112 “ “ “ .. . 357.000,000 1873.. “ » “ . 115 “ “ ‘,‘ 358,000,000 _ ‘L (5 “.’ s‘ 55 £6 382,000,000 While Mr. St. John may beable to show that greenbacks temporarily ﬁuctuated in value, irrespective of their increase or decrease in volume, I think my former statement will hold true. . That the average price of greenbacks in gold is meas- ured by the amount of such greenbacks in circulation. It must be very clear to every ﬁnancier that if our legal tenders were reduced to one hundred millions, and the United States Government had on hand one hundred mil- lions in gold to redeem them with, the greenbacks‘ would be at par with gold; and it is equally clear that if we inﬂate the greenbacks while we are unable to increase the amount of gold necessary to redeem them, thatthe greenbacks will de- cline in value. * Further-more, Mr. St. John says that the nationai banks pay a tax of but one per cent, on their circulation, quoting Horace Greeley to support the assertion. If Horace Greeley ever made such a statement, it simply shows how little a great man may kno w upon some subjects . Mr. John J. Knox, Comptroller, says in his oﬁicial report for the year 1873, page 33; “ The national banks, prior to May 1, 1871, paid to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, a license or special tax of $2 on each $1,000 of capital. and an income tax on net , 2 earnings to December 31, 1871. The special or license tax, from May 1‘ 1864 to May 1, 1874, amounted to $5,322,688.43; ' the income tax, from March 1, 1869 to September 1, I871, amounted to $5,539,289.17. The national banks also pay the following taxes to the Treasurer of the United States: One per cent. annually on their circulation; one-half of one per cent. annually upon deposits; and one-half of one per cent. annually upon capital not invested in United States bonds. These taxes are paid—semi-annually.” ’ An. examination of the report of the Comptroller of the Query? Are the pastors . ‘from the people on their loans, is simply ridiculous. Currency, issued December 7, 1874, shows that the nationa[ banks paid directly to the Government, from 1867 to 1874, over $50,000,000 in these items of revenue alone; viz: Taxes on circulation, deposit and capital, for the ﬁscal year ending September 30, 1867: ' Sept. 36, 1867 .... ..'..$5,840,698.21 Sept. 30, 1873. ... . ...$7,004,646.93 “ “— 1868 ...... .. 5,817,268.18 ~ “ “ 1874 ...... .. 7,083,398.85 “ “ 1869 . . . . . . .. 5,884,778.99 ' --—— “ “ 1870 . . . . 5,940,473.70 Total . . . . . . . . . ..$50,450,440.20 ‘-,- ‘f 1871 ...... .. 6,175,154.67 “ " 1872 . . . . . . .. 6,703,910.67 Average per ann.. 6.300,000.00 The State taxes paid by the national banks for the same time amount to $65,000,000, or over $8,000,000 per annum. The average amount of local taxes collected from the national 4 banks in the country, is estimated by the Comptroller at three and'one-half per cent. on their capital; and in the large cities at three per cent. Estimating them at the lowest rate, and we have $15,000,000 more, making in all over $29,000,000, or more than 9 per cent. per annum, which the national banks have paid to the Government and the people for their circulation and the privilege of doing business. It may be argued, however, by the inﬂationists, that if the national banks should go out of existence there would be no capital lost, the same amount of property will still exist from which the same amount of taxes can be collected. But let us see if this kind of reasoning is true. Close up the national banks to-day, and the Government will certainly lose more than $6,000,000 per annum of direct taxes. $500,- 000,000 of national banking capital (every cent of which is now reached by the assessors) will go into other channels, a part of it, perhaps, be invested in real estate to be ‘as- sessed hereafter at about one—fourth its true value, and a large part of the balance will be held as personal property to be hid away from the assessors, thereby escaping taxation altogether. There are many other items of taxes which the banks are obliged to pay, either directly or in'directly, not included in the above statement. By law the national banks have been obliged to hold in their vaults, without interest, a certain percentage of their circulation and deposits in green- backs. The amount of idle ‘capital thus held by the banks as a reserve, has averaged more than $100,000,000. The law which compelled the banks to hold this cash amount is con- sidered by our best ﬁnanciers (both at home and abroad) 9. good one, as it has kept the banks strong, and enabled them at all times to redeem their circulation at par with green- backs. , ‘ The statement made by Mr. St. John that “the banks do not pay the government or the people anything, not one dol- lar in taxes,” for the reason that the banks receive interest By the same kind of reasoning we might prove that no kind of tradesmen pay any taxes at all. As to “who pays the expenses” of all products ? I think we can agree that the consumer is the one. The poor man always pays more for the taxes, and more for the necessities of life, according to his ability to pay, than the rich. This is one of the penalties of being poor, and for this very reason all. or nearly all of us, would like to be rich. It seems wrong for the poor to be obliged to pay more than the rich, but such are the laws of trade, the wholesale dealer can always afford to undersell the retail dealer: consequently the wealthy can buy cheaper than the poor. Justice would demand that this thing should be reversed, but who shall re- verse it, and how ? “ How is the bell to be put on the cat’s neck, and what old rat will volunteer to do the job?” These are the questions which the people in all ages have asked. but as yet no one has been sage enough to furnish a satisfac- tory reply. J. W. T. SYRACUSE, April 18, 1876. THE OLD MIRROR. BY SARAH HELEN WHITMAN . Oft _I see at twilight, In the hollow gloom Of the dim old mirror Phantasmal faces loom. Noble, antique faces, Sad as with the weight Of some ancient sorrow, Some ancestral fate. Little rose-lipped faces, Locks of golden shine, Laughing eyes of childhood Looking into mine. Sweet, auroral faces, Like the morning bloom; Ah, how long and long ago Shrouded for the tomb! In a bridal chamber Once the mirror hung, Draperies of Indian looms Over it were ﬂung. From its gilded sconces, Fretted now with mold, Waxen tapers glimmered On carcanets of gold. Perfumes of the summer night Were through the lattice blown, Scents of brier roses ' And meadows newly mown. The mirror, then, looked eastward, And caught the morning’s bloom, And ﬂooded with its rosy gold The dream light of the room. To-night ’tis looking westward, Toward the sunset wall; The wintry day is wanin g, The dead leaves drift and fall. All about the hearthstone The whitening ashes blow, The wind is wailing an old song Heard long and long ago. Like the dead leaves drifting Through the wintry air, Like white ashes sifting O’er the hearthstone bare, Sad ancestral faces, Wan as moonlit snow, Haunt the dim old mirror That knew them long ago. WE ask prompt attention for the bills for the renewal of subscriptions, inclosed in this No. of the WEEKLY. It costs no more to renew at once on expiration of subscription than it does to let it remain for months, to the great annoyance-, frequently to the great inconvenience, of the publishers. Promptness in this respect indicates promptness in all other respects. v. RECONSTRUCTION. BY s. T. rowmta. ART. 3.—LAN'eUAe.E—-Continued. The last article (April 22) was written under a strong inﬂu- ence. at one sitting, and under circumstances thatadmitted of no revisal; and hence imperfections render a continuance of the subject necessary. Written language began with astronomy; was modiﬁed by anthropology, physiology and psychology; and hence it has a “Icelestial,” or God phase; a “terrestial,” or human phase; a “ natural,” or ﬂesh phase, anda “ spiritual,” angelic, or re- surrection phase (see Paul). — « All these phases, or aspects are united by analogy in one language, and hence history has been written in allegories, in which stars, men and angels are disguised, each in the garb of the others; also these allegories have served to veil knowl- edge in mystery. ‘ Sacred records are mostly of this character; and our Bible is largely composed of allegories, so woven as to give astro- nomical, ‘- anthropological, physiological, psycological and literary history, all mystically united in one; which can be solved only by a knowledge of letters. A knowledge of meridian time was the ﬁrst requisite of astronomy; and this could be ascertained by a perpendicu- lar pillar and the measurement of its shadow. The second requisite was a knowledge of the equatorial line of the earth; , and this could be ascertained by the pillar and the circle of its shadow. The shortest and longest shadows give the line of the meridian; and the exact circle indicates the equator. A perpetual shadow on one side of the pillar would indicate a tropical line, either north or south. ' . In the torrid zone, from the base of a high pillar the sun could be seen, twice in a year, at noon, as resting on its top, and hence the ball mounted on a pillar or pole would become the image of the v_ertical sun and its perpendicular rays. These observations would furnish the angles of the sun’s rays; and they led to, and were illustrated by, the pyramids, which were astronomical observatories, under the guise of the tombs of great men. The pyramid superseded the pillar; and the pyramidial age followed the age of pillars; and was eminently the age of astronomical observations and discovery. To it we must ascribe the mapping of the celestial sphere, the establishment of periodical signs, and the founding of letters and religion. To illustrate pyramids and their uses we give a sketch of the tomb of Osiris: Its four sides faced the cardinal points, and the four cor- ners gave the medials. Each face was 110 fathoms. or about 802 feet of the base. The perpendiculrr height was 77 fath- oms, or about 561 feet. From these dimensions and its 10- cality it follows that it would cease to cast a noon—day shadow fourteen days before the spring equinox, and not cast it again until fourteen dams after the fall equinox. Twice in a year, at noon, the worshippers at the base of the tomb could see the sun as resting on its top; and so it was with the full moon when it occurred in the same parallel. Osiris was reputed as an ancient king of Egypt whose body was deposited in this tomb by Isis his wife, to await the de- cree of honors by which he should become a god. The death of Osiris occurred on the day of the noon shadow, and annually the people mourned him on that day. The decree of honors, by which he became deiﬁed as the god Orus, oc- curred on the day this shadow ceased; and annually his wor- shipers assembled at the base of the tomb to celebrate his re- surrection. Osiris represented the sun in_the grave of win- ter; Isis represented the moon, and Orus the sun resurrected to power in the spring. The pillar, or pole and ball, were naturally the first images of the vertical sun and its perpendicular rays, and “ 1 i” their symbols. The pyramid was an image of the vertical sun and its di- vergent rays, resting on the earth; and the triangle (or Greek delta,) was its lineal symbol. As the ball was obscured on the high pillar so the dot is obscured in the “I.” As the ball is hidden by the pillar, so the pillar is hidden in the pyramid; and the “I” in the triangle. In the age “of pillars the circle with the dot in the centre was a symbol of the earth and its limits with the sun over its centre; and the circle withthe "‘+,” cross in it represents the sun on the meridian at the equator. In astronomical records the first requisite is a meridian line; the second, an equatorial line; the third, tropical lines; and fourth, parallel meridian lines, to furnish the outlines of a square, for a pyrarnidial base. ning of the pyramidial age. Now draw a diagonal line, from each corner to the centre; and they will" divide the square into four triangular sections, that repre sent the four faces of the pyramidial elevation; and in these facial sections the meridial and equatorial lines represent the perpendicular, or pillar, centre of the pyramid. Next, place a pyrami dial elevation (including the line of ' the centre) north and south, to represent the solstial points; This brings us to the begin- ,_ VA 6 ‘ 'A F‘? May 20,1 1876 A woo:oHULL & 0LAI|‘hIN’S WEEKLY. 3 and east and west, to represent the equinoctial crossings , and these form the large square enclosed by the circle of the sun’s annual path. On each side of this square, place a like elevation,,to rep- resent the four seasons; and they complete the outer square of the monogram. In this cut we have endeavored to indi- cate these steps by a gradation of lines. N ow extend the four outlines of the pyramidial base, each way to the outer line, and we have the twelve outer squares that represent the month mansions of the sun in his annual journey through the zodiac (see former cuts). The pyramid- ial elevations are composed of two divergent lines that rep- resent the divergent rays of the sun; and a perpendicular line that represents his verticle rays. In all pyramids and in all pyramidial elevations the apex implies, and represents, the sun as their ray centre and their source. The elevation is also a corner view, that shows two sides and three corners. with the apex on a perpendicular with the middle corner. The squares are symbols of boundaries, and are emblematic of limitation. The equatorial and meridial lines are lines" of centrality that represent the centre of the earth, according to the daily and yearly aspects of the sun in its journeyings; and their conjunction at the centre represents a conjunction of these aspects. The diagonal lines that divide the squares into angular sections are emblematic of sexuality. The perpendicular line is emblematic of generative power; andan angle is emblematic of opposition or unity. Lines of divergence, as from the apex outward and downward, are emblematic of dominion lines of convergance. as between. two pyramids,_are emblematic of receptivity and increase. An angle of conjunction with a horizontal or base line is emblematic of copulation. An angle of divergence, as at the apex, is a symbol of the sun’s rays, and emblematic of pour- ing forth. An angle of convergence, as at the base between two pyramids, is emblematic of concentration and unity. A horizontal or base line is emblematic of domain, or the sub- ject of dominion. The pyrimidial apexes are symbols of source andemblematic of seed. The circle is emblematic of comprehension, progress, com- pleteness and repetition. These simple symbols may serve as akey to others, and to their combirations. Each letter of the alphabet comprises a variety of symbols; is emblematic of avariety of ideas, and is therefore equivalent to a compound word, or a sentence; but each letter has a central or germinal signiﬁcance, while the rest serve as qualifying radiates, preﬁx and sufﬁx. We have made the above tracing as a necessary preparation for the signiﬁcance of letters, which we shall give in the next article. P. S.—In the study of any subject, new aspects give new and modifying revelations. The squares in the monogram have both a terrestial and a celestial side. They represent domain on the earth as well as in the heavens. ' The centre horizontal line represents the equatorial line of the earth. as well as the equinoctial line of the -heavens. The lines next above and below represent the boundaries of the torrid zone on the earth, as well as the boundaries of To understand the triangle, it must be viewed as a quad- rantal section of a square, or as a pyramidial face, each of whichhas a different aspect, each of which may signify mat- ine (feminine), or mal-ine (masculine); or mat—ine and mal- ine, conj ugality. ‘Feminine is derived fromf female, which is derived from fee and male, and signiﬁes one who is held as a fee, or in fee simple, by a male. Masculine is derived from master. These words belong to the marriage vocabulary,-and indi- cate the social status of husband and wife. ' SUBsoEIBEEs who receive bills for renewals of subscrip- tions, enclosed in this No. of the ‘WEEKLY, will greatly oblige us by giving them prompt attention. “HE, SHE, OR IT?” In the WEEKLY of March 4th is an article with the above name, to which I would like to reply, if you would be so kind as to insert this little article. I I object to calling the motive, mind or spirit power of the universe the masculine or male principle. If that were so, and the earth the feminine, as stated in the above—named article, our bodies would be feminine, our minds masculine; but man, masculinity, has more body, generally, than woman,.andwoman as much mind as man, and that which impregnates, in any department of nature, or life, is as much matter as that which is impregnated. I most decidedly object to the theory that the male princi- ple is the creative power, as it is the male and female principles blended.“ The masculine and feminine elements, I think, run through both mind and matter. The doctrine that the mind power of the univere is masculine only, is, I know, the doc- trine of past ages, but it is only half a doctrine, and the doc- trine of those who seem to have had masculinity on the brain. Respectfully. ANNIE E. HIGBY. NEW BRIGHTON, Pa., March 1, 1876. REMARKS. There is a no more potent signiﬁcance attaching to the words “He” and “She,” than there is to ,Positive and Negative. Both couplets are the names given to the two departments of the whole universe. The positive, the he, is the central life essence, the germ of existence, to which, when deposited properly, the negative, the she, contributes the material to build up the new structure. None of the de- velopments of nature can go on save through the united ac- tion of the two opposite but still counterparting factors of a grand and complete unitary whole; hence neither can say to the other, I have no need of thee, thou art secondary to me. What we mean by the use of these terms is well illus- trated by the development of all germ life. point about which the new organization aggregates is the male spermatazoa. This penetrates the female ovum, and consumes, or appropriates it, and in so doing it-begins to develop. Plainly, -then, there are two forces, the giving and receiving, the positive and negative currents of exist- ence~—the former of which is the architect, and the latter the builder aof the’universe, and all its parts. HOW TO CURE A SORE THROAT. To the Editor of the Herald: Let each one of your half million readers buy at any drug I store one ounce of camphorated oil, and ﬁve cents’ worth of chlorate of potash. Whenever any soreness appears in the throat, put the potash in a half a tumbler of water, and with ‘it gargle the throat thoroughly, then rub the neck thoroughly -with the camphorated _oil at night before going to bed, and also pin around the throat a small strip of woollen ﬂannel. This is a simple, cheap and sure remedy. ONE WHO HAS TRIED IT. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. An Englishman, Brighton, England, writes: God bless you, my dear sister, and give you a double por— I tion of His Spirit to enable you to bear the burden you have undertaken, and to carry you on to victory. Accept my tri- bute of admiration, and-love, and deepest sympathy. AN ENGLISHMAN. Mrs. R. S. Briggs, West Winﬁeld, N. Y., writes: I rejoice in the grand advance Victoria is making into the The central , aking deep root in the hearts of the people. Indeed it seems unaccountable that any one with ordinary common sense, not to say observation or experience of life, can read the truth on social questions and not believe in it. » ' Many souls are longing for freedom, waiting for something to set them free, never -thinking that all are free from the moment that they will it; that the body can never be en- slaved unless the will itself is ﬁrst a traitor. I am glad that I live in these days when the long night is nearly gone, and we can perceive “ Eastward not now very far, A song too loud for the lark, A light too bright for a star.” FOR bills for renewals "of subscription, that are sent out in this No. of the VVEEKLY, we ask immediate attention. BITS OF FUN. “ PROBABLY one of the most trying times in man’s life is when he introduces his second wife, seventeen years old, to his daughter who is past twenty. POSTMASTER FILLEY, of St. Louis, is charged with making compulsory assessment on the clerks. rackets of the ﬁlly, what may we look for when that lively animal becomes the mare of the city? AT THE close of a tavern dinner two of the company fell down stairs, the one tumbling to the ﬁrst landing place and the other rolling to the bottom. Some one remarked that the ﬁrst seemed drunk. is not so far gone as the other gentleman below.” MR. BUCKLE states that human nature has changed very little in the last three thousand years, but we do not remem- ber any record of a Roman Senator trying to account to his wife for a light deposit of pearl powder on the left shoulder of his toga on the ground that he had been playing checkers in a grist mill.—Norwich Bulletin. “HOW WOULD you make a believer of an incredifloug man ff” asked one gentleman of another not long since. “ I think the safest way would be to set him over a bee hive,” was the reply: “and I calculate that after he’d been stung once or twice he would become a bee-leaner in earnest.-Chg‘. cago J ownal. A BOY was asked which was the greatest evil., hurting another’s feelings, or his ﬁnger. “ The feelings,” he said, “ Right, my dear child.” said the gratiﬁed priest: “ and why is it worse to hurt the feelings?" “ Because you can’t tie a. rag round them,” exclaimed the child. A PRETTY little Ohio schoolmarrn tried to whip one of her pupils, a boy of ﬁfteen, the other day, but when she com- menced operations he coolly threw his arms around her neck and’gave her a hearty kiss. She went straight back _to her desk, and her face was “just as red.” 4 THE Utica Observer promulgates Senator Hamlin’s idea of a proper schedule of postal charges as follows: “ He would have a one--cent stamp for a circulair, a two—cent stamp for a sealed lettair, a ten—cent stamp for a newspapair, and a great big frank for the Senatair. Hump, Hamlin! rip and tear! Go for the friendless newspapairI”—-N. N. Sun. A DETROITER who didn’t exactly know how to get a letter registered, sent some money away the other day, and wrote on the envelope: “ Registered with a two dollar bill inside.” Fearing thatthis might not be strong enough, one of his friends wrote: “I’ll swear that 1 saw Jim put two dollars in this.” The man who fools with that letter will get into trouble. 4; V? 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His rooms are ﬁtted‘taste- — fully and elegantly, and being constantly ﬁlled with the elite A of the city, testiﬁes that his practice is successful. He ad- ministers the nitrous oxide gas with perfect success in all cases. » the zodiac in the heavens, and in both they represent the bounds of the vertical sun, north and south. This is from the aspect of a base plan, the centre of which represents the sun, on the meridian at the equator; and the upper and lower horizontals represent the arctic and ant- arctic, or polar circles, and the lines or circles bound the sun’s dominion as from the equator. The outer or entire square represents the entire pyramid- ial base of the sun’s rays from any given meridian on the equator. , In each quadrant of this square the centre represents the sun as on a« tropical line, and either of these squares may‘ re- present thc pyramidial base of the sun’s rays from any me- ridian, horizontal to its centre. . The pyramidial elevations, representing the solstial points, must be viewed as an elevation, even in the daily aspects of the sun. But the? equinoctials may be viewed either as basis or elevational views; for the sun’s meridian may be moved on the equatorial as well as on the tropical line. This reveals an error in the position of the star in the east, as represented in the double triangle in the WEEKLY. where the star in the east, or the sun at its equatorial height, is re- presented at the pole instead of on the equator. A turn of a quarter of a circle would bring it to its true position on the equator, so that at noon, or on the meridian, it would be over or as at the centre, or its highest power. Phebe Cross, New Lenox, Ill., writes: I have been a reader of your valuable paper since 1872, and a Warm admirer of you since I read your Address to S piritu— alists at Troy, printed in the “Present Age,”—feit intuitively you. were the one to lead. 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This is a rare oppor- unity for the right party. 4.; &? THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; , OR, THE SIX-POINTED STAR IN THE EAST. For we have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship him.—'-ST. MATTHEW, ii., 2. ‘ This ﬁgure is allegorical of the truth, to the exposition of which the WEEKLY is now devoted. It has been clearly shown in our present series of leading a; ticles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been introduced, but which, deﬁned in a few words, is, God in man reconciling the world unto Himself METEMPSYCHOSIS. The old Egyptian doctrine of the transmigration of souls has had a most wonderful illustration, in the characters of the article from the St. Petersburg (Russia) Medical Weekly Journal, which we reproduced in our last issue. From the inquiries which we have made, we are satisﬁed that the story, as related, is substantially true; that it is a fact that the spirits and bodies of Abraham Chorkov, of Orenburg, Russia, and Abraham Durham, of New Westmiiiistcr, British Columbia, were interchanged, the spirit of the Rus- sian leaving its own body and taking possession of that of the British Columbian, and vice versa. If these things should be proven to have been wholly true by the investigation that is being made into the facts at St. Petersburg, several heretofore difficult and unsettled problems of life will be established. It is to be noted that Orenburg in Europe, and New Westminster in America, are directly opposite each other on the earth, being nine thou- sand (it was misprinted two thousand) miles separate, this being the distance directly east and west over the earth in the latitude of those places. So when it is noon at one place it is midnight at the other. These two persons were sick of the same disease, and at precisely the same time were supposed to be dying; but at the turn of night and noon, respectively, both passed the crisis safely and began to re- cover, but, strange to relate, when consciousness returned, they were utter strangers to their surroundings, and talked languages which were not understood by the friends of either. After the fact of the interchange of souls, it is to be noted that the change had cvcryl-_ appearance of being instantan- eous, which establishes the fact that distance is not an ad- junct to the spirit. There ?was no period in which either of these bodies were lifeless.‘ There was a sudden shudder in each, which uudoubtedl y marked the time when their souls changed bodies. Space to’ the spirit isfjthen, annihilated, which accounts satisfactorily for the many cases in which a spirit has purported to have been at two or three different places at, or near, the same time. The impossibility of this has been raised against the truthfulness of such spirits, and clouds have been cast over many otherwise undisputablv spirit phenomena. - After the fact of the change, there stands prominently out the further fact that, though the size of the bodies of the two were widely different, and their shape still more un- like, yet their spirits occupied their new habitation with the same case and had the same control over each organ, speech included, that they had in their own bodies. This fact re- moves another objection that has been raised against the most common phase of spirit manifestations, for, it has been said, how can the spirit of a child take possession of a full-grown body, and use its organs of speech? In l3l1lS case the spirits of bodies, as opposite in character as they could well be, not only were not conscious of any impediment to speech through the organs of the other, but were also un- conscious of the transmigration they had made. Besides the Englishman could scarcely believe the evidence of his senses when he examined his exterior in the glass; and this was also probably true of the Russian as well. But there are other and still more intricate problems involved 1n these strange circumstances. They not only demonstrate that the real individuality of the person is something entirely independent of the body, thus overthrowing the last foothold of the materialist, but they are an explanation for many of the present mysteries of life, for, if the spirit be proved to be an actual individualized identity capable of existence outside of the body, and, putting aside for the time the whole doctrine of the transmigration of souls, of taking posses- sion of bodies other than the one in which it was developed, how can it be deﬁnitely determined what actions are really our own? All persons are aware of sometimes doing things for which they cannot account, as well as of forgetting to have done other acts which were proven to have been done by them. Now, if the spirits of the dead are constantly near and over us, who can tell just where their inﬂuence upon us begins? just where our own individuality is re- sponsible, and where our acts are the result of external in- ﬂuences? The capacity for complete possession of the body by an outside spirit, proves the capacity for all degrees of control from the very slightest up to the complete. Again We ask, where, under this conditionof things, should the reponsibility for bad, or the approval for good, deeds be ﬁxed? It seems to us, as we have often argued, that per- sonal responsibility is an utter impossibility, for it must be manifestly unjust to punish any one for a deed he would spirit; and ‘as manifestly unmerited to bestow praise for deeds that the resident spirit could never have performed had there been no overshadowing inﬂuence brought to bear from the exterior. There is, however, a still more serious phase of this question yet to consider. We are all aware that one mind (we should say the spirit, for the mind is an organ of the spirit) in the body, can at will exert an inﬂuence over the minds of others. The science of psychology is a demon- strated fact. Nobody of intelligence pretends to deny it ; but who is there that pretends to follow it out to all its le- gitimate sequences, and to apply them to practical life? Thcmasses of the people who labor day after day, piling up thewealth of the world, only to see it aggregate in the We adopt this diagraﬁ as emblematic of our future Work. hands of the veriest few, know nothing about the exercise not have committed had he not been inﬂuenced by another. of this power, and are not aware to what an cxtent they are under the psychological inﬂuence of the class which holds this wealth, many of whom, perhaps unconsciously, though none the less effectually, but many consciously, exert this power over the laborer to keep him in subjection. What but the psychological power of party politicians could keep the masses of laborers tied to the two great parties, when all their interests lie outside of them? In the recent election in Connecticut, where tens of thousands of laborers were direct ly interested in the Greenback Movement, scarcely a couple of hundred voted the ticket on election day. They were overawed by the psychological power of the party politicians to vote for men whom they knew would advocate measures utterly opposed to all their interests. The same thing is. true in this city, where a few thousand politicians control, absolutely, the votes of one hundred and twenty-ﬁve thou- sand laborers, who, by cutting loose from the old parties, could make a party and elect oﬂflcers and legislators of their own. And what is true of this city is true of the whole country. This is a rich man’s government by virtue of the complete subjugation of the industrial classes, by the psy- chological power of the classes who spend their time in setting nets to catch the surplus wealth, and who succeed. But the political and industrial phases of this question pale into insigniﬁcance when compared with other and more subtle phases. These phases relate almost wholly to the external man; to his bodily comfort and relations. But there are other phases still more intimately involving the happiness of man, in which this fearful power is exerted still more detrimentally to its subjects, and which few peo- ple have the capacity to resist. Theodore Parker died a victim to this inﬂuence. He had the active, concentrated hatred of hundreds of people, all the time wishing him dead, constantly poured upon him. He was aware of it, but had not the power to throw it off, and, at last, suc- cumbed to it. What was true of Mr. Parker is Jrue to a greater or lesser degree of all others who undertake to at- tack anything in high places that _tl1ey consider wrong, or that is rendered respectable by age or circumstances. In our own case this power hasbeen remarkably illustrated, for perhaps in no single instance of innovations upon cus- toms and popular prejudices has there been so much bitter- ness evoked as in than against the abuses of marriage; perhaps in nosingle instance has there been so many pour- ing out their vindictive hate and malice as in the present, but in some it has been more concentrated. Inﬂuence ex- erted diﬁusively by many individuals does not produce so mach eﬁect upon its object as the concentrated or combined action of a much loss number. But, thank God, almost the only inﬂuence that reaches us now comes from a class of disappointed men and women who attempted, and failed, to warp this movement into a machine to forward their own ideas and designs; but even their inﬂuence is fast melting into nothingness and recoiling upon their own heads. For let it be known that, whoever wilfully exert psychological inﬂuence upon others to do them harm, will most assuredly receive it back again with increased power, whether it be successful in its mission or not. Let those who habitually follow others with their hate, remember that “ Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord,” and instead of ours- ing, pray “ Thy will, not mine,” and leave all their wrongs in the hands of the Great Law Giver and Executor, having faith thatjusticc will be assuredly meted out to all; that “ Ever the right comes uppermost, And ever is justice done.” Following this doctrine still deeper into the constitution of things, we ﬁnd in it the foundation for a theory that has been advanced in the world, in regard to the ﬁnal condition of man. The great, last battle which man will have to ﬁght and win, is the battle of self. He may conquer all things else, but if he have not yet conquered himself, which is the “overcoming” spoken of so frequently in the Revelations of St. John the Divine, he is not yet a conqueror in the most essential point of all. This battle is called by John the battle of Armageddon, and this is the battle which is begin- ning to be fought in earnest by some in the world. It is the battle which, when won, will forever emancipate the victor from the terrible dominion of psychologic power, and this is what it is to becoe thoroughly individualized, while to become complete master or mistress of one’s self, is to have risen superior to the laws of the ﬂesh. Who can tell if the problem of immortality in the ﬂesh is not locked up in this very question? who can tell whether, to become conqueror in this regard, is not to be born a son or daugh- ter of God? who can say this is not to have God come and take up His abode within us? and who can say that the fact of the transmigration of souls may not be the explanation of the resurrection, when those who are ﬁtted by reason of having conquered self, whether in the spirit or the body, shall inhabit the mansions prepared for them from the foundation of the world. What other deduction can be logically drawn from the casting out by Christ of the legion of devils that tormented the man who “ lived among the tombs” [St Mark v. 2 to 15.] than that unclean spirits possess or, in modern phrasi- ology, obsess, individuals to the utter overpowering, of self? Unquestionably many forms of insanity, as well as countless other human aﬂlictions, if traced to their causes, would be found to originate in some form of spirit ob- session; or to the less pronounced form in minor cases, of psychologic inﬂuence. Jesus said, as recorded by John, [xiv. 2 and 3] “In my Father’s house are many mansions. “P1 1... A c v‘ .. . ~_- May 20, 18.76. WOODHULL &' CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. I , . 5 If it were not so I would have told ‘you. I go to prepare a place for you; and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” The parable of the vineyard [St. Mark xii. 1 to 9] seems to. teach this doctrine clearly; that is to say, that the bodies that shall ultimately possess the earth in the immortal state, will be themselves pos- sessed by the lords of the vineyards—the real lord of the body being’ him or her who has conquered in the great battle of Armageddon and obtained a place in the ﬁrst resurrection, while the others shall be “ cast into outer dark- ness,” or “go away into everlasting punishment, prepared for the devil and his angels ”-——him who hath the power of death and those over whom he can exercise dominion and hold in death; hold outside of the body, which is-to be dead in all the sense that the word implies. If, as we said, the facts set forth about the transmigration of the souls of the Russian and the British Abraham be ﬁnally proven conclusively, all that has ever been said about metcmpsychosis, reincarnation and obsession is demon- strated as being possible. Coming, as this illustration does, just at this age of the world, when the solution of the greatest of all problems is about to be accomplished, it has a mighty import, and will open the way to the demonstra- tion of many questions about life and death, that, as yet, remain among the mysteries which, if ever understood, are now scaled up in the mystical writings of the ancient Wise Men. In any case, the most important lessons may be drawn from these strange circumstances. It should teach everybody to become complete victor in the battle of self; to become ruler in his own house; lord of his own vineyard; or, summing all in one saying, that they may “do the commandments and have right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.” TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. We wish to remind those who receive bills for renewals, folded in their papers, that during the summer months, only a small proportion of our ‘subscriptions expire, which makes it all the more necessary that those which do, should be promptly renewed. Some attention should be given to every bill sent out. Let us urge the. importance of this upon all our readers. Thesubscription list of the VVEEKLY is large enough to maintain it if the subscribers will give as prompt attention to its demands as they are obliged to give to local claims. A large number of bills sent out four weeks ago have not been heard from. Let those by whom they have been overlooked, give thrm their proper attention without any unnecessary delay, and by so doing very much oblige us. —-—~————¢~+————~—~ PRINCIPLES vs. PRACTICES. In spite of all that we have ever said, there is a class of people who will persist in pretending to not know that there is any difference between 5being the advocate of the abstract principle of social freedom and of advocating pro- miscuous sexuality; and probably, in spite of all we may ever say, the same pretense will be kept up. Then there is another class almost equally persistent and inconsistent, who, from precisely an opposite standpoint to that from which the former class object, claim that we deny the principle of freedom when we advocate monoganic unions of the sexes as the highest social condition, and say, when we denounce promiscuousness and lust, that we have “gone back” on the principles we once advocated. The opposition of the former class was to have been ex- pected, because, not knowing exactly what social freedom means, it is natural that they should stand by the prevailing custom in social things; but the unreasonable position of the latter has no excuse at all ; it is simply the worst form of intolerant bigotry, and will soon come to mark the class among which it prevails as the most bigoted sectists there are; as much worse than sects in religious things as the sub- jects which are involved by it, come more into the com- moner affairs of life. The doctrine of the sovereignty of the individual, of which Mr. Warren, recently deceased, was the most pro- nounced exponent, involves the doctrine of social freedom. That doctrine asserts that there is no rightful power resid- ins: outside of any individual, to compel him or her to any course of life that they do not choose to follow, but it does not mean, as some have an idea that it does, that the indi- vidual has the right to steal and murder because he has the inclination to do so. Such a rendition of that doctrine is wholly wrong, because to assert it is to announce quite another doctrine. To: admit the right of the individual to murder, because the might feel inclined to do so, would be to deny the application of the doctrine to the person upon whom the crime is contemplated. The true exposi- tion and practice of individual sovereignty would most per- fectly secure to each and all individuals, all the real rights which they possess. The practical effect of the adoption of the principle as a rule by society, would be that the whole community would say to each individual member of the community, “You shall be protected in the exercise of every right you have ;” while to say this and to performiit, would be to prevent any interference in the rights of indi- viduals by others. Hence the result of this principle redu- ced to practice, is not only to secure the rights of individuals inalienably to them, but at the same time to prevent all in- terference with such rights by others; in other words, it not only secures the right to the exercise of individual capaci- ties, but it protects them from infringement by others. We are aware that it is claimed by some that the com- munity has the right to pass proscriptivc laws to secure the public welfare. But when we consider that the public wel- fare is nothing more or less than what the majority of the public may, from time to time, think is for the good of the community, and that this is constantly changing; and when We further consider that many things that, at times, have been held to be for the public good, have afterwards been proved to have been the reverse, we come to see that the rule of the majority, in such things, is nothing more or less than “an insiduous form of despotism, by which the strong in power or numbers impose their wishes upon the weak. The public now, holding that monogamic marriage is for the best interests of society, impose legal marriage upon all; that is to say, they attempt to compel everybody who de- sires to enter into social relations, to do so through the form of marriage. Now, suppose that the majority of the public were opposed to monogamic marriage, and should attempt to compel the minority to adopt and live in promiscuous- ness; should make it a crime for one man and one woman to live together during life, as monogamists now make it a crime for one person to live with several of the opposite sex, what would monagamists say? I/Vould they not rebel? But should they not see that their opponents would have the same right to impose this rule that monagamists have to impose their rule; and for the same reason, to wit: the majority would declare it to be for the welfare of the com- munity that men and women should not live together in monogamy. H We have never hesitated, and we do not hesitate now, to declare that monogamists have no more. right to impose monogamy upon those who do not believe in it, than the promiscuous would have to compel monogamists to lead promiscuous lives. But this by no means proves that we are in favor of promiscuousness. The mere fact that we advocate social freedom for all, does not indicate at all what form of social life we hold to be the best, any more than the advocacy of freedom for religion would indicate in what form of religion we believe. We believe in the right of the Catholic to his religion, the Jew to his, the Mahomedan to. his, but we are neither of these. A So in social theory; we believe that the promiscuously inclined have the right to be promiscuous if they will; the varietist a right to change if he please, -but we have always held that monogamic union will be the ultimate relation of the sexes. Therefore, while we claim freedom for all, we believe in and do all we can to show that monogamy is the highest social order, and this we have said and written over and over again and again, and yet we are not understood. It seems to us that it can be nothing less than a dogged and obstinate deter- mination to not understand, that can prevent a full com- prehension of our social theories. Educate the people in the things involved in thefsocial relations, and‘ take off the compulsory force of the law, and they would voluntary adopt and live the lives that would lead to the best results. Now, the law is all there is of marriage, because it may exist and too often does, when there is no love as a basis. If there should be any law at all, it should be made dependent upon love. Love should be the ﬁrst requisite. Where this is, then there may be law. But the practice now is, where there is law, it does not matter Whether there he love or not. And in such relations is the race generated, born and reared. Is it any wonder that the fruits, of so corrupt a tree are themselves corrupt? We say none! but rather that the wonder should be that the fruits are as good as they are. So, while we say to the legal monogamists that we advocate the principle of social freedom, and believe in the doctrine of individual sovereignty as applied to the social relation, we also say, at the same time, to the other class that we abhor promiscuousness, and labor with all our might to lead the way out ‘of what we feel to be an anarchial stage of social evolution. __4Q A r WV DR. WATSON AND MRS. MILLER. In an article on Materializations some weeks ago, there was a reference made to Dr. Watson, of the Spiritual Maga- zine, as having been deceived by Mrs. Miller, the medium for materializations, who is holding seances in Memphis. Our account of the aﬁair was received from the editor of a Memphis paper, who was present, and not from the widely published accounts of it that have made the rounds of the press. Mr. Watson took exceptions to our saying he had been deceived, and wrote a letter to that effect ; but the letter was mislaid. Not wishing, however, to do him any injustice, we make this statement at this rather late day to correct the impression that our article may have conveyed, that he was aware of the deceit. He still vouches for the genuineness of Mrs. Miller’s materializations, and is un- doubtedly honest in his eonvictions as well as when he says, that he will expose her himself if he ever detects her prac- ticing frauds. But his convictions to the contrary not- withstanding, we still are of the opinion that he is deceived, and that the rendition of the affair given to us by the Mem- phis editor is true. We freely state his convictions and as freely express our own. Time will prove which is in ernor. NEW BOOKS. M. Schlesinger. Ph. D. Rabbi of the congregation Anshe Emcth, Albany, N. Y., has written, and Charles P. Somerby, 139 Eighth street, has published a book of one hundred pages entitled “The historical Jesus of Nazareth.” It is avery able exposition of the Jewish views of Christ. The Mes- sianic idea of the old testament is traced down to the time of the birth of -Jesus. It is admitted that there was such a person born, that he lived, and died upon the cross as set forth in the new testament; but taking the records of him tontained in the four gospels, he pretends to utterly destroy the character with which he is invested by Christians; while he makes Peter, Paul, John and James to have been a set of very turbulent fellows, claiming that they got up “the gospels” much as political parties to-clay get‘ up platforms, without any regard to the real truth. The book is a valu- able contribution to anti—Christian literature, and is written in ‘a most entertaining style. Its price is $1.00 postage paid. Orders may be sent to us. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF SoIENcE—~—a work soon to appear. We learn that Mr. Leon Hyneman, widely known as Author, Editor and Publisher, has in press, and nearly ready to present to the public a. pamphlet embracing the following subjects: “The Law of Unfoldment,” “Matter” and Spirit” (showing the unity and uniformity of Nature’s revel- ation); and “The Dualistic Principle in the Economy of the Sex” (showing woman’s natural position in the world of humanity), all embraced under the title, "The Fundamental Principles of Science.” It is well known from the author’s persistent antagonism during many years of sectarian inter- polations in the Masonic ritual by the clergy and bigoted re- ligionists, and his Liberal writings on scientiﬁc subjects, that he is unsparing in his condemnation of the assumptive dog- matism of the clericalprofession, and such scientists who, in fear of losing caste in the Church and so-considered respect- able society, stultify themselves to make their reasoning and investigations conform to modern Christianity. This little work will be ready in a few days, and we will gladly send it to those of our readers who want it. Price twenty-ﬁve cents. MRS. WOODHULL ON THE ROSTRUM. (From the N. Y. Sun, May 6, 1876.) MRS. wooDHULL’s LECTURE. Victoria C. Woodhull had a. large audience in the Cooper Institute Hall last evening. Mrs. Woodhull’s daughter, pre- vious to the lecture, recited “Portia’s Plea for,l\lercy.” (From ‘the N. Y. Herald, May 6, 1876.) VICTORIA o. wooDHULL’s LECTURE. _, The large ball of the Cooper Institute was ﬁlled last evening with a very respectable audience, assembled to hear Mrs. Victoria Woodhull. Mrs. Woodhull read several verses from the third chapter of Genesis, containing Grod’s promise to Woman that her seed should crush the head of the serpent. She said that redemption from the ills that affect humanity must come from woman, and that in order that they may ﬁt themselves for their mission, they should study the marital question in all its details and responsibilities. She denounced the practice of rearing girls for the matrimonial market, and insisted on woman’s right to claim from her husband the same purity he expected from her. The mother should be the teacher of her family and the confessor of her child: and, in order to do this properly, should imitate the purity of the Virgin Mary. Here Mrs. Woodhull turned to a small statue of the Virgin, which was placed on a pedestal invthe centre of the stage, and with much force called on all present, both male and female, to cherish and cultivate; purity, and there would be no use for penitentiaries and prisons, no necessity for hanging men for murder, for murder would soon cease to exist; and thus intelligent mothers, knowing their duties, would bring forth virtuous children, and by that means cause vice to vanish from the world, and crush the head of the ser- pent. Mrs. Woodhull was frequently and loudly applauded. (From the Providence [R. I .] Press, April 17, 1876.) THE HUMAN BODY gpnn TEMPLE or‘ GOD. Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull 7appeared at the Opera House, last evening, and delivered her lecture on “The Human Body the Tenziple of God," before a very large audience. Mrs. Woodhull needs no introduction, she has been too ex—- tensively advertised; she is personally known in this city. In person, she is tall and comm anding, regularly featured, has a good deal of grace and a large amount of magnetism, which attracts all classes. The curtain rose at 8 o’clock, and disclosed a parlor scene neatly set. Mrs. Woodhull soon entered by the rear entrance, walked to the footlights, look—- ing intently at an open Bible, which she carried in her hand. After standing for a moment, she read two passages from 2d Corinthians as a sort of text. Her voice is very pleasing and melodious. At first she was slow in her delivery, but soon warmed with her subject and paced the stage rapidly, raising her form to its fullest height and gesturing with her hands. Of the lecture itself, much might be said. It was apartial exposition of the extreme views held by the lady on the social question. Her ideas have truth and justice on their side, particularly those referring to an equal condemnation of the excesses of both sexes. The lady made a favorable im- pression and liberal applause greeted the ‘passages which could not fail of stirring every pure heart. Should Mrs. Woodhull visit this city again she would be sure of a crowded house. She is surely as eloquent and enthusiastic a lecturer as adorns the public rostrum. (From The Stylus, 0. Monthly Magazine, Austin, Texas, April 1876.) . VICTORIA of WOODHULL. On the 8th and 9th ultimo, our State Capital was thrown out of the usual and monotonous groove of apathy and lassi—- / '\ . y,_.,. . \‘ ii 3. ',V. 5. ‘,1 6 I ' W-OODHULL &.CLAFLIN’-S WEECKABY. May 20, 187 6. tude by entertaining as its guest the famous and renowned Victoria C. Woodhull. Upon two consecutive nights she lec- tured in the Opera House before large and respectful au- diences of gentlemen and ladies. The subject of her dis- courses were, “ The True and the False Socially,” and “Woman’s Curse.” N 0 uneasiness or embarrassment was visible in her features when she ﬁrst appeared before her audience, and the same coolness and self-possession was maintained throughout the evening. Without any introduction whatever. she began to speak, and not many minutes had passed before the telling truths of her discourse were greeted with long and continued applause. Every eye in the audience seemed to be riveted upon her, and every car seemed to be chained to the very rock of attention. Judging from her lectures, we have no hesitancy in saying that she is mistress of one of the ﬁnest and most powerful intellects with which, in modern years, nature has endowed womankind; and again, the beautiful and poetical ideas that were contained in almost every sentence. portrayed that she was also gifted with arare and brilliant fancy. Her;diction is classical, limpid and musical—arising at times to such a de- gree of eloquence and pathos, that it borders on the very edge of sublimityﬁ But the greatest and most laudable virtue of her lectures is that she speaks truth——truth that ﬁnds an echo and a sanction in every generous and unprejudiced heart. But, in conclusion, without averring that we accept and endorse her doctrines, We will suggest the idea, that if every divine in the land would preach with her fervor and feeling, and throw aside‘all “mock modesty” while occupying the sacred pulpit, that not many years would elapse before the world would be rejoicing in the twilight haze of the siuless era of the great millenium. —-—-——->-<Q+—-4————-:- @,Brenson Murray, in the; last number of the Spiritual Scientist, writes a most scathing review of the course that the Banner of Light has pursued in regard to the Hardy matter, closing with the following additional aﬂidavit: “CITY AND COUNTY or N nw Yoax, as “State of N ew. York, ' “Before me, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said city, personally came B. Josephine Nevens, who being duly sworn, ‘ deposes and says, that on the 17’th day of March, 1876, while- at work in Mrs. Austin’s parlor, N o. 418 West 57th street, in this city, she distinctly saw Mrs. Mary M. Hardy, of the city of Boston, while dressing herself, take from a satchel a model of a hand, to all appearances exactly like the parafﬁne molds which she, the said deponent has seen, and place the same in an old-fashioned pocket which she, the said Mary M. Hardy, were attached to a short underskirt, beneath the usual skirts; that shortly afterwards, having ﬁnished dressing and taking breakfast, she, the said Mary M. Hardy, went out and did not return until the next morning. - “[Signed.] B. J OSEPHINE N EVENS, [A true copy.] THOMAS K. AUsTIN, Scribe. “Sworn before me this 28th day of April, 1876. “[Signed.] S. G. HYATT, “Commissioner of Deeds for City of New York.” THE BEGINNING OF THE END. [From the Spiritual Sctenttst.] When the Banner published the ﬁrst statement of facts , from New York it considered Mrs. Hardy vindicated by the “ crucial test” seance at Paine Hall; when Dr. Gardner announced a defect and asked a suspension of judgment, it published in its editorial columns a glowing account of a private “ crucial test ” seance in which the editor “ person- ally” did this, that and the other, and the most “conclusive results were attained of the genuineness of the paraﬂine mold phenomenon.” But Mrs. Lizzie Doten, present also on the same occasion, and whom the editor of the Banner would have us infer by the construction of his article was also “satisﬁed,” tells a different story about the box. She says in a letter to the Boston Sunday Herald: To the Editor of the Herald.r-Will you allow me to state through your columns that the seance held with the famous “crucial test” box, at the“residence of Mrs. Hardy, on the evening of April 5th (of which Mr. Colby has given an ac- count as a part of his personal experience in the Banner of April 15th), again failed as a conclusive demonstration on account of a second defect being discovered iii the box of a more decided nature than the ﬁrst. As I believe with Dr. Gardner, that it is better to tell “ the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” in this matter, and as I also be- lieve that Spiritualism will not be beneﬁtted by any con- cealment of_facts, however unfavorable they may be, I make this statement. Yours truly, LIZZIE DOTEN. BOSTON, April 29, 1876. What persistent efforts have. been made to break down the testimony of the “ New York seven ” by holding test seances and .printing accounts of what Mrs. Hardy has done and whatshe can do! And yet, thus far, she has been unable to give the ﬁrst shadow of proof of the genuineness of these pa- raﬂine mold manifestations. Every seance to which the Banner has pointed was a perfect failure, the evidence favor- ing the theory of fraud. The mold in the box at Paine Hall was crushed and ﬂattened——just large enough to pass through the aperture in the top of the box, or the defect spoken of by Dr. Gardner. The wonderful private test seance which was so “perfectly satisfactory” evidently depended for its success on the “second defect in the box of a more decided nature than the ﬂrst,” as Miss Doten expresses it. And now the Banner thinks that “ Mrs. Hardy needs no defence,” and it has nothing further to say. Of what value is its endorse- ment in view of these facts? And what weight has its opinions’? _ Furthermore, there have been several seances which were unsuccessful; of these we have no report. We are positive in making this statement; we refer to the seances of Tuesday and Friday. Atlione of these, held on Friday, apostage stamp was placed on the key-hole, and Mrs.Hardy chewed parafﬁne in the dark “ because she liked it.” Dr. Gardner has ﬁxed the box several times, and the smaller he makes the holes theless paraﬁine he ﬁnds in the box after a sitting with Mrs. Hardy; from molds of ﬁngers the manifestations have dwindled into particles of parafﬁne. Have we not stated it correctly? When the report of these seances of Tuesday’ and Friday are made we shall see. Is it not about time that the editor of the Banner or Dr. Gardner favored an impartial public :with a short report of progress? Of the honesty of some of the parties concerned in these “crucial test ” seances we have no question; therefore, sooner or later, the truth “will' out,” and Spiritualists will know what a. load Spiritualism has been carrying. "NEW YORK, April 19:11, 1876‘. , Editors Weekly: . Some time ago I took occasion, from a conversational inci- dent, to explain the old, and what I consider the proper or real method of numeration; and A. P. J., a contributor in your issue of to—day, takes up the subject in opposition. In the ﬁrst place the term ﬁve hundred millions, as the amount which the Rothschilds, of whom I spoke, are reputed to be in possession of, was a misprint, and should have been fourhundred millions, as in the manuscript. _He according- ly had but two—ﬁfths of what A. P. J. calls a. billion; and therefore lacked 150 per cent. of being worth so much. Da- boll is no doubt mistaken by A. P. .I.; but he does not mis- take the subject on which he wrote. He was aware that one was the English and the other the French mode, but was not aware that the latter, which is of more re- cent use, had been adopted in our schools. If such be the case, then it is only a proof that much may some- times be learned from ?the mouths of babes and suck- lings. But what wouldlbe learned in this way about the matter would not be a natural, rational and true knowledge, like what is usually derigved from such sources, but a mere labor—saving, perverted system, amounting only to pedantic show of periodical names. with a mischievous abridgement of the power of expressing by numbers. For all ordinary busi- ness transactions this short cut system may dopvery well: but as Space is illimitable, and the bounds of Art and Science are not yet reached, there is no divining to what extent As- tronomical calculations may sooner or later be made. “Arithmetic,” therefore, as was said by old-time philoso-- phers, is‘ not to be studied with gross and vulgar views; but in such a manner as may enable men to attain to the con— , templation of numbers; not merely for the purpose of deal- ing with merchants and tavern-keepers, but for the improve- ment of the mind, considering it as the path which leads to the knowledge of truth and reality.” ' A. P. J. attempts to illustrate by a table of periods of three ﬁgures, as follows: 000 _ 000 000 000 000 000 3 A .3 .2 '6 ,, . E Q m In C1 s 2 .5 .§ § :2 ad : : 2 Q .... 5 51 :1: E E5 5 And he then says, that, ina period of three ﬁgures we can- not possibly get thousands of millions; and that all we can get is units, tens, hundreds of millions; units, tens, hundreds of billions, and so on. Now, while he thus admits that a million of units can be numbered, but denies that a million of millons can, the falsity, not to say incongruity of his prop- osition, is at once apparent. The fact is, the French people, though very intelligent and scientiﬁc in many respects, are nevertheless a very eervescent and volatile race—full of fantastic ideas and fangled forms, which minister more to foolish extravagance, pride and vanity than to real or sub- stantial good. If their incomplete system of numeration has been introduced and adopted in our schools, I opine that the sooner it is discarded and the old, solid, systematic English method restored, the better. We are mostly an English speaking people in this country, and are not in?need of any. French or other foreign innovations in our educational in— stitutions. With many of our more wealthy people there is already too much monkey imitation of French airs, French novelties, and French frivolities, and too little regard for sound, practical English common sense. Any mode of dress, dancing, cooking, or the like, that the French people may dictate may be well enough while it suits the taste or fancy of those who choose to copy from them; but a plan or branch of scholastic teaching that is incomplete and inconsistent, ought not to meet with favor, though it should emanate from the very heart of Paris. Let us, therefore, cling to the old and true English system, than which there is nothing better for the smallest purposes, and cannot be equalled, much less excelled by any other, especially the French, for capacity of notation. DABQLL, -TO THE DRESS REFORMERS OF ’l‘HE UNITED STATES. To make an understanding among the friends of this Basic Reform, and thus secure the best beneﬁts of a centennial convention to individuals and the -world, I early give this’ preparatory call, praying that those friends make their visit to the ’exhibition at the time of said convention, that they may meet each other, aid in council and in representing the cause. The officers ofthe national league can be in Phila- delphia in August, and we can calculate on about the middle of that month, though unable to set days before learning what public demonstrations occur about the same time. The week and days will be announced asearly ‘in July as possible. Let every man with a voice to cheer. or a spirit to stand by this work, come in the bravery of his manhood, and offer woman the support of his mighty words. Let the many ‘women who abhor the trammels they wear, oppressing body and soul, meet with us for mutual aid. Let the- few who have arisen from fashion’s bondage, and enjoy the boon of free locomotion and respiration, come in the robes which are both’ badges and means of liberty, and attest the blessings of obedience to natural law in honoring the carnal temple of the soul with health—givingi garmenture. Come from all quarters, letting badges preach sermons of deliver- ance on the way, and speak of comforting release. I will try to direct all to suitable lodgings. Expect to spend the main of the season in Philadelphia, and to have the assist- ance of Sada Bailey. Our address will be 4,233 Market St., West Philadelphia. We shall vigilantly labor for the physi- cal preparation for all that is worthful in, humanity. Dr. Mary E. Walker will also be in the city, and the prospect is we shall do good daily. and by the dutiful response from scattered friends truly represent the cause in convention. Its principles are gaining esteem in the boastedly unpro- gressive city. I have interested the officials in securing for us orderly streets, and the police are empowered and com- manded to allow no annoyance from staring ignorance. Let your visits take in our meeting, and fail not to appear there. In behalf of the American Free Dress League and all philanthropists, MARY E. TILLoTsoN, Cor. Sec. Editors will oblige by copying. HARLEM P. 0., N. Y. CITY, May 4, 1876. To the five women who advertise for land, etc.: Two of us, determined women, have already suﬁflcient land to work upon, with precisely the same object in view as set forth. It is situated in avery healthy locality, free from all encum- brance, already partly under cultivation, and only a few miles from New York. _ Each of us has invested all she is Worth in the work, and is determined to conquer or die. Call and see Mrs. Zelia J. Hyde, 306 E. 114th street, Harlem, N. Y.‘ Perhaps we could harmonize suﬁiciently to go on together in the work. Yours for truth and freedom, ' ZELIA J. HYDE. O-$0}?-T’ BUSINESS NOTICES. The address of Nellie L. Davis, is 235 Washington street Salem, Mass. CLAIRVOYANCE.——MrS. Rebecca Messenger, diagnosing dis- ease, or reading destiny, if present, $1 00; by letter. $2 00. Send age and sex. Address her, Aurora, Kane Co., III. P. O. Box 1.071. (303.) Woman’s enterprise enabled Columbus to discover'America. A lady with some capital who will write “Fortune,” New York City P. O., appointing an interview, will open the way to a large fortune. 6 To AVOID THE DANGER or INFECTION, the linen of persons suffering from skin diseases of a, contagious nature should be washed with Glenn’s Sulphur Soap, which is not only a remedy but a disinfectant. Depot, Crittenton’s, No. '7 Sixth Avenue, New York City. - WE still mail our book, phamphlets and tracts—“Free Love,” “Mrs. VVoodhull and her Social Freedom,” “True and False Love,” “Open Letter to A. J. 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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 twenty cents, postage 2 cents. 32 large pages. « _ ” » INDEPENDENT “RA OT SOCIETY, Pu ~ \ is V. orcester, Mass. ‘W~O*OyDHUiLL ﬂ 0LAFLIN’S WEEKLY" THE WORLD’S Sixteen GI-ucified Saviors; OR, UHRISZ/A.NI_1 Y BEFORE OHRIST. , CONTAINING New, Startling and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which disclose the Oriental Origin of all the Doctrines, Principles, Prejccepiis and Miracles o t e CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and furnishing a Key ‘for unlocking many of its Sacred Mysteries, besides comprising the History of Sixteen Oriental Cruciﬁed Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author 0;” “The Biography of Satan ” and “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- 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—fol1ows a deﬁnite line of research and argumentmto the close, and his conclusions go, like sure arrows, to the mark. 0 O N T E N T S . Preface; Explanation; Cllntroductioii; Addi ess to the .e ' . rgy. 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. 1 Chap. 5.—Virgin Mothers and Virgin-born Gods.‘ Chap. 6.—Stars point out the Time and the Savior’s Birthplace. . , ChSap._7.—Angels, Shepherds and Magi visit the Infant avior. Chap. 8.—-The Twenty-ﬁfth of ‘December the Birthday of the Gods. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1876-05-20_11_52
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-05-20_11_52
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 11, no. 53 (May 27, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2125
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-05-27
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: .:*..»:>:nt5eol=~g7:;r:;<.-:~:fs:szxr.g. Q -»«' v PROGRESS! FREE TE-[OUG-I-ITZ UNTRAMEIELED LIVES! _._.__.. ‘U BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIOl*lS.. Vol. XI. »-No. 53.—-W‘"l'~.~ole No. 286 NEW YORK, MAY 27, 1876. PRICE TEN CENTS. The truth shall make you free.———Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shalt be~_/inisheol.—St. John the Divine. _ Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hiol in Gocl.—Paul. A EDITORIAL DIGEST. THE Methodist Book Concern. The alleged deﬁcit is only $261,000. There is a stagnation in modern piety as well as in industry. ANNA DIGKINSON’S debut was not, we are sorry to say, a success. Neither is the Centennial—-—yet. Have patience, Anne Boleyn. NOT satisﬁed with the Greeley Campaign, some of the Independents are trying to repeat the experiment. They met in this city on Saturday last. PROF. WM. Cno...
Show more.:*..»:>:nt5eol=~g7:;r:;<.-:~:fs:szxr.g. Q -»«' v PROGRESS! FREE TE-[OUG-I-ITZ UNTRAMEIELED LIVES! _._.__.. ‘U BREAKING THE WAY FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIOl*lS.. Vol. XI. »-No. 53.—-W‘"l'~.~ole No. 286 NEW YORK, MAY 27, 1876. PRICE TEN CENTS. The truth shall make you free.———Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery of Goal shalt be~_/inisheol.—St. John the Divine. _ Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un- searchable riches of Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hiol in Gocl.—Paul. A EDITORIAL DIGEST. THE Methodist Book Concern. The alleged deﬁcit is only $261,000. There is a stagnation in modern piety as well as in industry. ANNA DIGKINSON’S debut was not, we are sorry to say, a success. Neither is the Centennial—-—yet. Have patience, Anne Boleyn. NOT satisﬁed with the Greeley Campaign, some of the Independents are trying to repeat the experiment. They met in this city on Saturday last. PROF. WM. Cnooxns, T. R. S., ot'London, of spiritualistic investigation fame, has succeeded in transforming the light andiheat of the sun into a motor power. What next? THE recent enlargement of honors bestowed upon the Queen of England make her the only reigning empress in the world. Her subjects now number by the hundred mil- lions. THE prospect is becoming more favorable, that after all Massachusetts will receive a Visit from Ezra D. Winslow, who is the subject of a diplomatic warfare between Mr. Secretary Fish and the Minister {of Foreign Affairs for the Queen of England. THE representatives of the European emperors recently met to consider the case of the "sick man” of Europe. They are a unit, and agree perfectly that the disease from which he suﬂers must ultimately prove fatal, when they will bury him decently and divide his estate. 1 THE New York Herald (Sunday edition), has just dis-‘ covered that there is a “ stagnation in industry,” and declares the situation “is not assuring” in a column and a half leader. Some of the industrial classes made the discovery two win- ters ago. The Herald is behind the times. WHAT will the scientists, who will not believe in any power that they cannot handle and analyze. say about that tubular hurricane that recently visited Chicago, and played so fu- riously and fantastically with the waters of the lake ?. Come, gentlemen, tell us from whence it came and whither it went. N URSES should be careful not to dispirit or frighten their patients. By a mistake a married lady in London gave her husband, who was suffering from heart disease, a dose from a wrong bottle, labelled “Poison.” The mistake was imme- diately detected, but there was no poison in the bottle; the patient, however, was so frightened that he died the same afternoon. HENRY C. ROWEN selected Dr. Wm. M. Taylor as the proper party to hear him repeat to Mr. Beecher a list of the delin- quencies upon which he, Bowen, predicates his opinion that he, Beecher, is an adulterer, perjurer and hypocrite. The Dr., however, rememberingvthe ‘diﬂiculties of a former mu- tual friend, declines the honor. ‘ A WOMAN entered Secretary Bristow’s office and said : “ I have been promoted for hard labor in your service, step by step, up to a $1,600 position. Why am I now‘ turned out ?” The Secretary looked sternly at her and replied, “ Sixteen hundred dollars 5. year is too much for any woman." Can such a man be President? No! N evairl Nevair! THE present difficulty with the Keeler motor power is that he can compound no metal of suﬁicient solidity to pre- vent the escape of the gas through its pores, under‘ the pressure of 25,000 pounds to the square inch. If he succeed, good—bye to steam and water. The stock of coal monopoli- zing companies will be somewhat below Zero, and its holders will wish they had let the people’s property alone. EXPERIMENTS made by the Austrian government have shown that up to “a twelve knot” speed a'steam—propelled craft continues to sink below its standing water level, but above that speed it rises rapidly; a vessel at the speed of “twenty knots” rising extraordinarily toward the surface of the water. ' WARREN CHAsE’s proposition for the sixty thousand clergymen of the country to meet in Philadelphia during the exhibition, to determine what is true in modern Christianity —a. kind of “Council-at—Nice”—is exciting much comment in the secular press. The N. Y. Sun has shed its rays upon it several times, but they all forget that the proposition was made in the WEEKLY ﬁrst; but Susan forgot that the WEEKLY ever advocated suffrage.‘ therefore how should we expect that men can remember? But Susan doesn’t forget that she once said that the WEEKLY was what it is not nor never was. How treacherous is memory! Even Susan’s: and Dana’s; and the rest of them. IN the Harlem Police Court, Saturday, the beautiful wife of George Parker, an Eighth avenue car conductor, com- plained that he was in the habit of beating her. Henry Wagner, her father, a wealthy contractor,‘substantiated the charge. Parker burst into tears and confessed. “I struck her, and I can’t give bail,” he said. As the officers were taking her husband to prison the wife’s fortitude gave way, and she was about to follow him; but her father shook a menacing ﬁnger. “This is a sorrowful episode,” said Justice Flammer, “but you shall not be prevented from talking to your husband.” Mrs. Parker threw herself into her husband’s. arms in the ante-room, but be was committed nevertheless.‘ Then say that such a power as this can be regulated by law! “WE’vE plagued ’em almost to death,” the other sister said. “ They don’t want to take our furniture. They know they they have violated their own laws in selling our land when there was other property. There were seven cows; I had raised them all myself, and it was like taking my life away. We were told that women couldn’t go to the auction block; but we told ’em we’d go wherever our property went. The men believed that we thought so much of our cows that we’d pay our taxes. I could have prevented the cows from having been driven off‘, and given the man a great deal of trouble in taking them, for the cows would mind me if I spoke to them. But I did not say anything, and let them go, and they Were put in a yard near by, where I could see to them. Eleven acres of our land which is considered worth $2,000, were sold for $78.35; and another tax has just come in for $96. We get, on an average, 24 letters a week, from per- sons all over this country and England. and 150 dilferent newspapers have been sent us, proclaiming, to the shame of the men of Glastonbury, that we have paid more than any man in town to. build a town hall that we are not allowed to speak in. I guess we can hold out as long as they can.--Sis- ters Smith, Glastonbury, Ct. GREAT men have differed and stillidiffer on questions of religion, and scientists use this as an argument against reli- gion. But the following, from the N. Y. Sun, puts the case in the right light : “ Some of the lights of modern science are adherents of the Catholic religion; others are followers of Protestantism; others belong to the Jewish faith; others are called deists; others are atheists;: others spiritualists; and still others strange to say, cling to the heathenism in which they were born. In fact, it would seem that even men of the largest scientiﬁc knowledge may differ totally from each other in matters of religious belief. Look how New- tonstheology differed from that of Kepler and Laplace; look how Goethe’s differed from that of Wm. Herschell; look how Father Secchi’s diﬁers from that which was Hum- boldt’s; look how St. George Mivart’s differs from that of Charles Darwin; and this again from that of his co-laborer, Wallace ; look at the difference between that of Tyndal and.of Agassiz; look at that of Herbert Spencer, and so keep looking around to the right and the left. Scientiﬁc men diﬁer in their religious views just like common mor- tals.” If religion is a myth because all people do not have the same religion, what shall be said of science for the same reason? CONJUGAL UNIONS: WHEN LEGAL AND WHEN NOT. Editors Weekly: I ask the use of your columns to correct , a very erroneous impression which extensively prevails, viz... that parties cannot form conjugal unions and openly live together without such alliances being held by the courts legal marriages. Even that usually well—posted and astute thinker, Warren Chase, labors under this mistake. In the 29th of April number of the WEEKLY, he makes the assertion that, '“When Leo Miller and Mattie Strickland come before the public with their declaration of love and union in life, they are fully married, if there be no legal barrier to their mar- riage, as if they had been married by a bishop and four priests. in the presence of a. crowd of witnesses. Mr. Chase will look in vain for a single principle of law, or a single judicial decision, on which to base such an assertion. Marriage, in all civilized countries, is a union for life, volun- tarily entered. into by thecontracting parties. There must be an intention of a life-long union to make it legal. When the parties comply with the forms of the law, and are mar- ried by a proper officer in the presence of witnesses, the in- tention is self-evident. When they dispense with these initial forms, and live together as husband and wife till separated by death, the intention is presumed. , In every instance .of self-constituted marriage reported, except the one referred to by Mr. Chase in Indiana, the case has been brought to the notice of the court after the decease of one of the parties, by the action of the other to secure property or legitimize offspring. The plaintiffs in each case set up a plea of virtual marriage, and sustained the claim by proving that they and their deceased companions had uni- formly held out the idea that they were married; had recog- nized each other as husband. and wife; had registered at hotels as such while travelling: as such had introduced each other to strangers; and as such had lived together till death did them part. The courts, in these cases, rightly held that all the circumstances tended to show ‘intention of marriage, and gave decision accordingly. » All that these legal decisions have established is, that parties intending to contract marriages for life can do so without the aid of priest or magistrate. Those who do not wish to form life-long unions, but who yet desire to live openly together as long as it may be agreeable, have only to ' disclaim legal marriage, and they will no more be held mar- ried than the man and woman who agree to lodge together over night at a hotel, and in the morning separate forever. Pray what is the difference in principle whether parties con- tract to live together a day, a year, ten years, or an indeﬁnite period, so long as they disclaim marriage for life. There is not a case ‘on record of a self-constituted union being held a legal marriage against the disavowal of the parties. Mr . Chase refers to the instance of his friends, J. R. Buell and Susan D. Gilbert, in Indiana, to prove his position. It, unfortunately for him, proves just the opposite. I have Judge Chapman’s decision given in the case lying before me, and I am astonished that Mr. Chase, if he is acquainted with the particulars, should have represented it in such a way as to leave the impression that the court, against the will of the I parties, held them {to be legally married. The fact is, they came into court and swore with all their might that they con- sidered themselves legally married; that they believed when they signed the contract that it was a. legal marriage; that they wanted it to be such; and that they had no idea that they could ever be legally separated without divorce or death. They took out a marriage license as the law directs, and, dispensing with the aid of clergyman or magistrate, themselves, in the presence of witnesses, solemnized a cer- mony of marriage, and took each the other for husband and wife. Instigated, no doubt, by those who had, lost a mar- riagefee in this instance, Mr. Buell and Mrs. Gilbert Were indicted for “fornication.” What did they do? Did they come into court and disclaim being married? Did they plead “guilty?” No; nothing of the kind. As juststated, they swore that they intended and considered their union to be a perfectly legal marriage; and on their own showing they were acquitted. Judge Chapman in his decision said: “The defendant, Buell, testifies he believed at the time of making his marriage contract with Miss Gilbert that it was a legal marriage; and he further testifies, in answer to cross- interrogations by State’s counsel, that Miss Gilbert stated at the time she believed it to be legal. Counsel for the State admit if either party , believed the marriage legal at the time 2 WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. he or she entered into the relationship that it will stand. * * * Whatever may be said of the want of wisdom a.nd good taste of some of the sentiments expressed in the so- called agreement, which was signed by the parties, I don’t see that it overthrows the testimony of Buell in regard to_his belief concerning the legality of the marriage; GBPGGWUY’ when I regard his statenient, that be supposed that he could be divorced from his wife only by a decree of court.” Here it is seen that the validity of their marriage contract is made to depend upon their belief and intention. But had the parties come into court, even after having conformed to all the requirements of the law, except calling in a third per- son to marry them, and disclaimed marriage; had Mr. Buell said “Mrs. Gilbert is not my wife,” and had she said “Mr. Buell is not my husband,” Mr. Chase is lawyer enough to know that nothing on earth but executive clemency would have saved them from the vengpan cc of the law. How different is the case of Mattie Strickland and myself. Examine the agreement we signed, and you will ﬁnd that it embodies no marriage contract. We contract a business partnership only, as two men might do; and for the rest we simply “confess” our mutual love, and give notice that if the expression of that love should result in offspring, we would take care of the precious gifts without the help of society. So far from their being anything in it from which to infer that we intended or believed our union to be alegal marriage, we take special pains to say that we “oppose” and "disre- gard” the laws whichare made “for the control of an affection between the sexes, which we believe is, and of divine right ought to be, free.” We took out no marriage license, though the laws of Illinois, where we signed the agreement, require this to be done to legalize marriage. We never claimed to be married, never intendedto marry, never register'at'hotels as man and wife, never introduce each other as “my husband,” or “my wife.” On what principle of law, then, canwe be I considered legally married? Mr. Chase says we are, pro- vided there is no legal barrier in the way: and that the courts would so hold. Will he give us the law and the.pre— cedents for such an opinion? Will he tell us how such a case could be brought into court to be tested, except by making complaint against the parties for “fornication,” or “lewd co- habitation,” as in the Indiana case? But suppose, unlike Buell and Gilbert, the -parties should disclaim marriage, and plead “guilty” to the technical charge. what then? It doesn’t require a lawyer to know that they would stand convicted—- of not being married. Now, should Mattie Strickland and myself be indicted .on such a complaint, as is quite possible we may. I will assure my friend Chase, and all the world beside, that though a life- long imprisonment stares us in the face, we shall plead “guilty” and suffer the penalty for the good"of the cause. There is no law nor gospel to compel persons to be mar- ried if they don’t want to be. If parties wish to form con-. jugal unions and live together as long it may please them to do so, let them disclaim the idea of legal mariiage, and it matters not how exclusive they are in their lives, no court: under the sun will hold them married. But they are liable. to prosecution, as indeed are all persons who maintain in- tercourse without the marriage license. In most, if not all, of, the States there are statute laws against what is technically; called by some “fornication.” by others, "lewd cohabitation.” They are virtually dead letters on our statute books, as much so as laws against “profanity” and “Sabbath breaking.” The penalties consist of ﬁnes and imprisonment in the county jail. Were all cases of unlicensed commerce prosecuted.’ our jails would have to be greatly multiplied; their present capacity would hardly be suﬁicient to accommodate clergymen alone. ' Now, I have‘ no doubt, if the friends of social freedom. should take a general stand in opposition to legal marriage, and assert their right to live openly with those they love, these laws would be called into requisition to persecute us with. But let it be done. The martyr spirit has not fled the earth. The angels of Heaven never looked down upon a holler cause than ours; and we should be degenerate, craven souls indeed, if, with the example before us of martyrs dying at the stake and on the rack, we should shrink from a little conﬁnement in a countyjail. Mr. Chase thinks the marriage law and its cruel barbarisms will not be put down by resisting them. I am conﬁdent that a general resistance would be the most effectual way to get them repealed. So long as we tamely submit to dovhomage to the institution by marrying, or by skulking in secret be- hind the door with our love relations, so long will our feeble petitions for liberty be spurned, and deservedly so. “Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.” “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.” Some laws are honored more in their breach than in their observance. I have no compunctions of conscience in disregarding fugitive slave laws, Sabbath laws, marriage laws, or any other laws that are an outrage upon conscience and personal libert_y. The early Quakers suffered persecution and imprisonment for’ marrying themselves. But the devotion and heroism which they manifested challenged the respect even of their enemies, and soon the British Parliament passed an act mak- ing Quaker marriages legal. Let us take a step in advance and make a similar resistance to legal marriage itself, and the accursed system which is rotting to decay will the sooner be removed from the world. LE0 MILLER FARMINGTON, Minn., May 1, 1876. . THE “INTERNATIONAL.” II. Not merely the general utility, but the absolute necessity of the function of accumulation, “ accumulation of capital,” necessity, too, not only in View of any and every possible progress. but even for the bare existence of any society prop- erly human. lies so much at the.root of all positive know- ledge of social and political affairs, and therefore of all sound effort for social and political improvement, that it may be well worth while to make here somefurther effort for its elucidation; especially seeing that it is only sh far as we clearly comprehend the true nature of the function that we can accurately appreciate its abuses. And it is the abuse of just this function, abuse, that is to say. in the administration of the social wealth, that is the immediate source of nearly all our actual miseries. ’ It is this abuse which directly brings is the same abuse which is responsible for almost the whole of the so-called crime in our midst. The same again which is the direct source of all poverty and destitution, save only in exceptional cases too rare to be worth counting. It is, in a word, the one vast, all—absorbing wickedness of this age, crying aloud to heaven for that legendary “ whip of small cords ” at which our modern church-goers so super- ciliously laugh in their sleeves. , Let us see, then, if a familiar illustration will help us. Here, for instance, is Mike hoeing his potato-row. The land is his own; that hoe in his hand is his own; the potatoes, when grown, are going to be his own. He fulﬁls,.then, the condition demanded by our perverts of the “ International’ and other Labor Reformers (with platforms), he is going to own and possess “ the products of his labor,’—absolute1y to own and possess without condition '2 Is it really so? Not at all. How came he by that land? Where did he get that hoe? He paid no money for the land, it is true. But when he squatted on it .a year or two ago, it needed a vast amount of labor to make it ﬁt to raise even potatoes. The land which Nature furnishes to man gratis is one thing; the land which furnishes us the wheat’ our bread is made of is quite another thing, not at all the free gift of “Nature,” but altogether a productof: human art and great toil and moil and sweat. Let any one who has ever squatted on wild land tell! Mike’s land is his to-day, and the potatoes he is hoeing l-to-day will be his at their maturity, because he has to-day, ;and has had for a long time past, stored upin his cellar, pota- ltoes and pork and other means of sustenance, long and long ;ago produced, and stored up, too, in quantities suﬂicient to ,last until the potatoes he is to—day[hoeing shall have arrived }at their maturity and be ready to replace in the cellar those have but this one sole alternative-—to lie down in yonder‘ ditch and die, or ﬁnd some one who has in his cellar more than enough stowed away to last himself till his new crop comes in, and who is therefore willing, on some terms or other, to share with Mike. , Let his actual stock, however, hold out, and his new crop will be his. But his absolutely, to do just as he pleases with? Not at all; his, only on the same conditions as those he now has stowed away. True he may, in a sense, do what he pleases with his potatoes. He may eat them up in idleness, or throw them away, or give them away to the poor, or drink them up in the shape of bad whiskey, or in any other manner “use or abuse” them, like any other capitalist :——taking the consequences. There is that land which he owns; it will cerlainly not cultivate itself, and as certainly he must have these potatoes (or their equivalent) to eat, or he cannot cul- tivate it himself; and more, the potatoes must hold out till the new crop comes in. Surely it is the grossest thought- lessness which can alone lead any one to imagine it :1 man- made law, anything, other than the unchangeable na'ture of things in themselves, or in other words, the immutable nat- ural law, that capital is the necessary instrument of human industry. The capital may be concentrated in large masses, substi- tuting organized industry for isolated toil; or it may be dis- persed, as happens in certain stages of civilization, among the several workers, dooming each one to toll on alone under miserable economical conditions, reaping the smallest return from the severest labor. I Yet, forsooth, our Labor Reform- ers, prepossessed by an exaggerated appreciation of certain parts of the abuse to which the administration of the social wealth is liable, during the actual transitionary phase of so- cial existence, while, among other false conditions, industry; and capital are both alike regarded from a radically individ- ualist (false and perverted) point of view, talk of this owner- ship of the instrument of industry by the workmenas one of the blessings toward which Progress is leading us, instead‘ of one of the conditions from which it is carrying us ever farther and farther. A ﬁnally controlling yoice'in the administration of the so- cial Wealth certainly is an element in the future destiny of the working class. The constantly growing numerical pre- ponderance of this class, with the also growing spread of in- telligence, must inevitably bring this about sooner or later; both these conditions, moreover, being hindered to the utmost of their power, however unconsciously and iguorantly, by the Demagogues and “ Reformers.” But that is quite another part of the question. One thing at a time, if you please, in- telligent reader! The immediately important thing is to see that while human industry is, by its very nature, a social corporation, capital is, also by its very nature, a social trea_surc,,not at all an abso- lute individual right, as the politico—economica1 blasphem- ers pretend. If it were not so already, all the “platforms” in the world could never make it so. And what constitutes capital? “Oh,” says somebody, “ capital is, of course, so many thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to one’s credit in a banker’s ledger,” which may, from an every day practical point of view, be true; but what is the broad, uni- versal fact, underlying those dollars, that would remain wholly unchanged were money abolished to-morrow? Looked -at from the standpoint of_ science, that is of‘ eternal, un- changeable realities, capital is composed of these three things: (1.) Materials to Work upon. (2.) Tools and imple- ments to work with. (3.) Sustenance for the workm an while the work is being performed. All which three things, more- over, must, by the very constitution of the universe, no man- made law having any power whatever to change the condi- tion, be accumulated at the outset, and in sufﬁcient quanti- ties to last until the entire completion of the work: this com- pletion including the marketing of the product, that isvto say its transformation into new materials, implements and sustenance. Certain apparent exceptions, it is true, may be about all our political corruption from top to bottom. It" on which he is to-day living. Let__his actual stock give out ' ‘ before the crop he is now working on is ready, and Mike will May 27, 1876. found or invented; as, for instance, where some great work is sustained by a wealthy man out of his income, or by a na- tion out of its revenues; but any one who will take the trou- ble to think out this apparent exception will soon see that it is no exception at all, but only a conﬁrmation. Let us turn again to our friend Mike, here, with his potato row, for a little additional clearness. if that be possible. Consider that hoe that he has in his hand. How many and many a long weary day of toil must have been stowed away, in the shape of its product, in the cellar of somebody or other before that could be made for him! Ore must be wrenched from the mine, vast furnaces must be smelting iron from the ore, mechanics spending years in acquiring the skill to fashion a hundred different implements; all these workers needing potatoes, and bread too, for the matter of that, and a thousand other things beside, which must per- force have been long before produced and stored up, put away and taken care of, in a word, accumulated, and not by any means eaten up and expended as fast as produced. It is as clear as the sun at noon-day that the miner can by no pos- sibility quietly ‘occupy himself day after day, week after week, year in and year out taking ore out of the bowels of the earth, a material he can neither eat nor clothe himself withal, unless others are and‘ will be continuously producing for him food to eat, clothes to wear, and all manner of com- modities for his sustenance and deleotation. Nor can he wait to have them produced for him, even during this current year. They must exist already and in suﬁicient abundance He will not willingly wait even untilto-morrow for to-day’s dinner. Much lesscan he Wait till the ore he is extracting from the earth shall be transferred into a hoe, and in that shape produce him potatoes. Mike's labor-note promising agricultural labor at some future day, however certain to be duly honored, will in no wise serve his turn. He must have the stored up labor of a day long gone by, or die; it is the natural order itself, and in no wise "any human legislation which imperatively imposes this condition upon him and upon us all. But he, and I, and you, 0 reader! and all of us. must in- evitably die, too, i. e., die of starvstion, if we are furnished out of the actually existing stores of sustenance on any terms that are not in their very nature such as to insure that these actually existing stores shallbeireplaced by new production at least as fast as they are consumed. It may be very true that the mode by’ which this is now assured may be very bungling, and in certain respects insuﬂicient. The end is in fact accomplished, however; we have habitually stores of food suﬂicient for some two years and a half ahead. And so the old-time famines. that periodically visited our western civilization up to and even beyond the close of the Middle Ages, are now unknown; the plague, moreover, that most , fearful of all the scourges to which man has ever been sub- ject, having disappeared in their wake. Strange partizans of progress indeed must they be who can see in this fact no source of satisfaction, however vast the task ofimprovement yet awaiting accomplishment. RAMSHOBN. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 29, 1876. Mrs. V'1Ictom'a. C. Woodhull.‘ ' ' Respected Lady—F‘eeling, after an extensive reading of your printed thoughts, that you are not one of those persons who are so self-complacent that they cannot possibly admit that what they have decided to be right, can possibly be wrong, I write you this note. Your late departure is most admirable. It certainly re- quires doctrine to understand the Words of the Creator, as it requires science to understand his works. Your portrayal of the evils of social life, and of man’s frequent inhumanity to woman, and sometimes of woman’s inhumanity to man, is truthful; and your tears should arouse the World to give its best thoughtland action to pI‘0Vide*a.guinst their con- tinuance. Is it not possible that. after all, communism, of which you are the best exponent in America, is not to solve the social question? i I cannot bring myself to believe that the family is onot the unit of a correct social system, and I am inclined to think that you will sometime View it in this way yourself. Allow me to state, in a few words, what I believe in this relation, without giving the reasomwhy, as I assume that re- ﬂection on your part will develop quite as many arguments as I could present in an autogram of this kind; I believe in a Divine Providence, in wt in generals only. but in particulars, andthat no evil is ever permitted but to pre- vent a greater calamity. And, remembering that the number of men and women born are equal, I believe that not a male child is born that there is not also born a. female expressly to counterpart the other, but that on account of the wide de- parture of the human family from the paths of .tI1l,1.bh. and virtue. they very seldom get together in this world, but often get wretchedly mismated, and troubles, trials and tribulations are the result. . _ In the next world, however, it is I‘6aSOlI.‘tbl6 to believe that every soul, by the divine mercy of the Lord, ﬁnds its mate, and side by side they go through? the spirit land together. , - Would not a belief in this doctrin“’e afford‘ comfort and con- solation to the struggling heart which could go on and per- form the duties of this life with amfull consciousness that-, perhaps, the true partner of our joys and sorrows is some- where going through a like fearful ordeal. in preparation for the ﬁnal union above, where’ all is peace and love. I do not ask you to accept’ this doctrine; I simply wish you would think it over, and if you can in any way facilitate the consummation of eternal unions in this world, the gratitude of unborn millions is yours. “ Yours truly. SIDELIGHT. We cannot conceive when _or how “ Sidelight ” obtained the idea that the communism that has been advocated in ' the WEEKLY is opposed to the family. Communism relates to common property, which may exist without the extinc- tion of the family, We have never opposed the family. it tr» .-°\ *‘'‘~. , s .94 ., n. -. « ,,..,;—.-.\«..,.;<.a-«A. _ .- 2- A ,.,.. . . ...,.-.-_=.,-,:.,..—,—,..,.A.; ....,....___:,A..,_,.,.j_._,... ,..-.,. - _;<-_~.~4as« ‘4?-—rb-2~¢\mwﬁ7;~««a»_:..‘-..am»>a-(1-1‘?-"‘ ~ \ I...-s—_~.-.5...-.¢—,...,.,, , _ A -- g ,,,<.;.-_;s=......».-....=.\,A...._-A-,«.-.~..-...~. ~ ‘May 27', 1876 _ WOODHULL as oLAELIN°s WEEKLY. 3 Our opposition to legal mrariage arises from the fact that iwhen law, whicl1 is not the basis of marriage, supplants love, which is, that then the law is wrong because it binds people externally between whom there is no internal har- mony or unity; and this, to us, is legalized prostitution.‘ Our views are very similar to those of “ Sidelight.” , V . BURLINGTON, N. J,, April 3, 1876. Dear Weekly: . p 5 i I I wrote you a few weeks ago, and since have received sev- eral letters asking where I am to be located the coming summer. I , Permit me. through your paper. to inform its readers that we have established ourselves at the above mentioned place, where we will accommodate as many as possible of the friends of reform. . Burlington, is a beautiful little city, ﬁfteen miles from Philadelphia, accessible to it by boat or cars. We have cho- sen this locality, knowing Philadelphia would be full of bus- tle and confusion, liable to ﬁre and burglars, and that many would prefer the quiet of the country where they might re- tire vvhen weary with the day’s tramp. Like a Methodist, I give in my testimony that Irejoice at every step that points to reform, and I am prayingthat dur- ing this centennial season, some steps may be taken ——some-» body call a meeting where the question of all questions, the true relation of sex, may be discussed rationally and can- didly from Nature’s standpoint. I mark all such calls with satisfaction; they show woman’s emancipation dawneth. ’ What we want as a nation is to learn to look over and above the accumulated mists of prejudice, early education, sectarian creeds, up to Nature’s God for the true light, and then press on. Dear WEEKLY, I rejoice that you live. I rejoice that you dare combat everything not in God’s order. I want much to see you resume your original size, and give mothers and fathers a column, boys and girls a column, that all may be- come so satiated with knowledge on the sexual question, and so perfeclly disgusted with lust and prostitution, that it will die a. natural death, and when it dies thus, it will never re- vive. ‘ V There are many weighty points to me yet to be settled many questions llong to ask, and each week I search in vain for the answer. 3 Can weknot have a column where questions may be aslfed and answered? . Send two copies _of the lecture “ Garden of Eden.” I loaned my paper to a minister to read, and he insists he must have that lecture. “ It is a glorious interpretation,” he says. Give us the light. ANNA ATWATER, M. D. COMMUNISTS AND ASSOCIATIONISTS Who intend to visit Philadelphia can have lodging and board- ing secured, on reasonable terms. stating what kind of accommodations they require and on what terms; enclose a stamp for reply. This will be one of thebest meansfor socialists becoming acquainted with each other; there is no doubt but what many will be here from all parts of the world, and our light should not be hid under a bushel. It would also be W611 for all those who desire to connect themselves with any practical co-operative movement, to fur- nish me with their age, occupation, or what they can perform, as well as the amount of funds they are willing to invest, and the location they prefer, so that their names may be regis- tered. , This is certainly a very favorable time for those who de- sire to make arrangements to provide a social system.Whe‘re— in the members can live up to their highest ideas of what a true life should be. We may be assisted in this by ascer- taining the laws of nature, and particularly of our own being, so that 'we may live in accordance with them, instead of suffering the consequences of violating nature’s laws, either ignorantly or wilfully. ‘ The spiritual world has been proclaiming to mortals the sublime doctrine of the Brotherhood of man and the Father- hood‘of God. Should not all those who acknowledge these glorious truths work and labor for the good of each other, all for all? ' . It would be the duty of those who were appointed to make all necessary arrangementsto surround all with the best:con- ditions for the highest development of the physical, intellec- tual, moral and spiritual unfoldment of all our faculties. If brotherhood does not require this, will the ‘Banner of Light" inform us what the spirit world means, when it is teaching us that the brotherhood of ‘the race, fully carried out, will re- deem the race from all sins? An anxious world of sinners are waiting for the answer. ‘ I have written several articles, at different times, on topics relating to co-operation and associations showing why these principles would develop the feeling of brotherhood within us. But the Bumter nevernoticed them. When an editorial article appeared in the Banner, saying, "‘ Spiritualism ought to be ready and eager to improve the.opportunity for the ﬁner and higher inﬂuences to remodel our social system, so that it would eventually embrace the brotherhood of humanity,” and thought Spiritualists should be engaged in this work, instead of wasting any of ‘their strength in differ- ences and wranglings and jealousies among their members, ' I thought that they.were -really in earnest, and that we should soon have somethingtpractical to hasten on the good Work.‘ A I sent them an article in which I declared that ignorance and poverty were the causes of a great deal of the evil and crime in the world. The plan that was suggested for our improvement was, perhaps, one that could most easily‘ be entered" into, viz: that reformers should rent or purchase a farm,Which would be accessible by steam railroad, where those having business in the city could go to the city in the morning, attend to their work, and return home in_ the evening. They could have a unitary home _and isolated dwellings, arranged around {a garden or park, .Tl_1e econ- omies of a’ unitary home are very considerable, both in materials and labor. Should twenty-ﬁve families thus unite, ﬁve cooks would do the baking and cooking easier and better than twenty-ﬁve could in the isolated way. The other twenty thus released would ﬁnd some other ‘occupation, so that in time thenumber of hours of labor would be much re- duced. Beside farming, gardening and fruit raising, manu- : facturing should be introduced, all to be conducted on the «co-operative plan. From such plans as these. higher social conditions would be evolved. People living. thus harmoni- ously together could have circles in which the mediums could afford to be truthful and honest. Then the spirits could begin to teach them more spiritual truths. Ide- sired them when they published my article to allow the Spiritualists to show any better plan or system, if they had any,‘ by which poverty and crime could be abolished. The people would be glad to hear them, as this is one "of the live questions of the day; but the “free thought” column will not permit such freedom as this to those who wish to assist the spirits in establishing a. practical brother- hood. The editor, in the Banner of April 1st, says: “ To our mind the promotion of the highest welfare of the human race is the chief end and aim of the whole spiritual move- ment,” which is no doubt correct. Then why not admit ar- ticles that may point out practical ways of realizing how we may assist this great spiritual movement. They contained many good and grand thoughts, and he continues. “ We are bent on doing whatiwe may to hasten the inauguration of the era.” But I was astonished at the consummation of the grand era, as follows: “ When to believe indeed that God is our Father and our Mother, and that all men and women are bound to us by the tie of an external relationship, will not be charged on the one hand as inﬁdelity, and on the other as license; when equal laws will operate upon all, the rich and poor, the humble and the exalted; when virtue in rags will challenge respect before successful fraud in costly apparel; when those whom God has blessed with abundance, will take honest poverty by the hand.” “It is this high ground that the spirit world would have mankind one day attain.” . , ' Now, we contend that the Spirit world proclaims a higher and more glorious era, than virtue being left in rags and honesty in poverty. We would have all the workers for hu- manity, with brain or muscles, have an abundance of our Father’s free gifts. The brotherhood will supply every- thing necessary for shelter, food, clothing, and the cultiva tion of every faculty of our being, so that we may live har- monious lives; then all shall enjoy more true happiness than the wealthiest man can possibly do. " It is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom.” The refusal of the Banner to permit the discussion of these vital questions of the day, reminds me of the Smithsonian Institute when they refused to entertain the subject of Spiritualism, when presented to them by Governor Talmage, because their time was too valuable; at the same session, however, they spent several hours discussing the subject, why cocks crowed at certain hours of the night. , So the Banner often contains articles that are not of as great value to its readers as would be articles from the pens of those who wish to put in practice some system that shall elevate men and women into the glorious era, when there shall be‘ no more poverty or crime. GEO. D. HENCK, 1204 Callowhill St., Phila. _._—............. A BEAUTIFUL INCIDENT. A naval ofﬁcer being at sea in a dreadful storm, his wife sitting in the cabin near him, ﬁlled with alarm for the safety of the vessel, was so surprised at his serenity and composure that she cried out: p “My dear, are you not afraid? How is it possible you can be so calm in such a dreadful storm?” ‘ ‘ He rose from his chair, dashed it to the deck, drew his sword, and pointing it at the breast of his wife, exclaimed: “Are you not afraid?” ' ' She immediately answered-. “N 0.” “Why ?” said the ofﬁcer. A “Because,” replied. the wife, “I know that sword is in the hands of my husband, he loves me too well to hurt me.” “Then,” said he, “I know in whom I believe, and that He who holds the wind in His hand is my Father.” A DELIGHTFUL LEGEND. There is a charming tradition connected with the site on which the temple of Solomon was erected. It is said to have been occupied in common by two brothers, one of whom had a family; the other had none. On the spot was a ﬁeld of wheat. On the evening succeeding the harvest, the wheat having been gathered in shocks, the elder brother said to his wife: “My younger brother is unable to bear the burden and heat of the day. I will arise, take of my shocks and place them with his, without hisknowledge.” The younger brother, actuated by the same benevolent “motives, said within himself: “My elder brother has a family, and I have none. I will contribute to their support; I will arise, take of my shocks andplace them with his, without his knowledge.” ‘ Judge of their mutual astonishment when on the following morning they found their respective shocks undiminished. Editors Woodh/wll and Cla.ﬁ73n’s Weekly: Whether spirits can and do manifest themselves will soon cease to be the question of the day, and in its place will be the all important one. , Is Modern spiritualism the second coming of Christ, or is it the same power that said to Mother Eve thou shalt not surely die? and is it not making its last desperate effort to de- ceive woman in the same direction that it did in the Garden of Eden, knowing that its time is short? May 10th. MARY ELIZABETH ADAMS. YoUNG{folks3 grow’ most when in love. It increases their sighs wonderfully. EDITORIAL NOTICES. “ Lore WAISBROOKER can be addressed at Eureka, Hum- bolt County, California, during May. Will take subscrip-~ tions for the WEEKLY. o LE0 MILLER AND MATTIE STRICKLAND will receive calls for lectures on liberal subjects. Engagements in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan particularly desired during the spring months. Terms reasonable. Address Farmington Minn. I WARREN CHASE will lecture in Salem, 0., the last two Sun- days in May. Adrdess accordingly. WE take special pleasure in calling the attention of all our readers -who «need dental service to Dr. Koonz, at No. 1 Great Jones Street, New York, who is both judicious and scientiﬁc in all departments of dentistry. His rooms are ﬁtted taste- fully and elegantly, and being constantly ﬁlled with the elite of the city, testiﬁes that his practice is successful. He ad- ministers the nitrous oxide gas with perfect success in all cases. To THE PROGRESSIONISTS or AMEnIcA.—A11 who are ear- nestly working-for the good of humanity and the highest de- velopment of man. and who spirituallypdiscernand realize the importance of an inﬂux of liberal elements into California, wallader, Wilmington, Delaware. Who can and will re- spond? ' A PERFECT PARADISE FOR $16,000.——Large double house and grounds, in a ﬁne, healthy location, 30 minutes from Fulton’ Ferry, in Brooklyn. House is Wood, ﬁlled in with brick; is 40 X45 to 50 feet, with piazza front and rear; has parlors, reception-room, dining-room and kitchen on ﬁrst and ﬁve bed-rooms, bath-room and billiard room on second ﬂoor—sixteen in all, and nine large closets; a splendid cellar with large furnace, also a " Boynton” in reception- order. The grounds are 75 x 200 feet, comprising garden, ﬂower-garden, clothes-plot, croquet ground, etc., and are kinds, yielding fully 75 bushels per year’; 28 pear trees of all kinds; the ﬁnest grapes in abundance; 40 large English gooseberry bushes, etc., etc.—all which must be seen to be appreciated. House cost in building $15,000 gold. House -and grounds $26,500 is mortgaged for $12,500; will be sold, if at once, for $16,000. Any one desiring to view these premises, may obtain their location by application in person or by letter to this oﬂice. 1776 -1876--1976, THE GREAT CENTENNIAL SPIRITUAL CAMP-MEETIN G . I The Northern Illinois Association of Spiritualists will hold a grand camp-meeting on the Winnebago County Fair Grounds, Rockf0rd,;,Ill., commencing on VVednesday, June 7th, 1876, at 2 o’cluck P. M., and will hold over Sunday, the 11th, ﬁve full days, during which every attention will be paid tothe wants of those attending the camp-meeting. Tents June. Provisions will be furnished at the lowest market price. The grounds are enclosed witha substantial fence; the gates will close at 10 o’clock P. M., and open at 6 o’clock A. M., sharp, each day during the session of the camp-meet- ing. There will be an eﬂ:icient,police force for maintaining order day and night. The best talent in the land will be placed upon the platform asspeakers, singers and mediums. Meals will be furnished at the eating—room, on the ground, at the lowest possible rates. There will be no liquor or beer stalls tolerated on the grounds. All temperance beverages and refreshments will be furnished on the camp-grounds under the direction of the Business Committee. The Fair Grounds will accommodate ﬁfteen thousand people. Full arrangements will be made ‘for cheap fares on the railroads connecting with Rockford, of which notice will be given in due time. There will be a news stand for the sale of Spiritual and Liberal literature. All hawking or peddling of goods of any kind will be prohibited on the camp-ground. Familieswith tents can enjoy every home comfort they mayidesire. These grounds are beautifully shaded and watered, are of easy access by rail or carriage, and are located in the vicinity of one of the ﬁnest cities of Illinois. Spiritualists of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Mis- souri, Indiana and Michigan, we specially invite all of you to come to our Fourth Annual and First Grand Centennial Camp-meeting. Come with your home social inﬂuences, with plenty of bedding, with hampers ﬁlled with provisions; come with tents large enough for others beside yourself. Come with your souls full of love and your brains freighted with wisdom. Come up to our First Centennial Camp-meeting and let us_have “a feast of reason and a ﬂow of soul.” Our platform will be a free one, and free speech will be tolerated; this, however, grants no license to do wrong, orwarrants the use of abusive language. By order of the N. Ill. A. of Spiritualists. ‘ J. O. HOWARD, M. D., President. E. V. WILsoN, Secretary. LOMBARD, Il1., March 14th, 1876. .We, the undersigned, Committee of Ground Arrangements for the Camp—meeting, fully endorse the above /programme Dated at Rockford, Ill., March 19th, 1876. E. SMITH, FRED. H. BARNABZD, A. H. FISHER. are specially invited to communicate at once with D. S. 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'tdvertiser’s bills will be collected from the cm of this j c, urnal, and must in all cases, bear the signature of Woonntmr. & CLAPLIN. specimen copies sent free. Newsdealers supplied by the American News Company, No. 121 Nassau street, New York. A All communications, business 0 ‘editorial, must be addressed Woodhull & Claftira/s Weekly, P. O. Box, 3791,. N. Y. 0ﬂice.111 Nassau Street, Room 9. V death.——Jesus. To him that overcometh, I will give to eat of the hidden manna.——St John the Divine. That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them mho 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 joartialityand without hy- p0crisy.~—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. A NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1876. vIoroRIA c. WOODHULL Will lecture at Library Hall, Newark, N. J ., Fri- day evening, May 19th. And at Musical Fund “Hall, Philadelphia, Tues- day, May 25. Reserved seats at the Continental Hotel News stand.E 44.; VVT THE DOUBLE TRIANGLE ; OR, THE SIX-PODTTED STAR IN THE EAST. ' jrorwe have seen his star in the East, and we are come to worship ' mm.——S'.l'. MATTHEW, ii., 2. -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 a: ticles that it repre- sents the coming blending together of the inhabitants of the earth and spirit spheres in a common brotherhood, and the establishment thereby of the universal human family. It also represents still another and more important truth which has not yet been introduced, but Which, deﬁned in a few words, is, God in- ‘man reconciling the world unto Himself We adopt this diagram as emblematic of our future work. REMINISCENCES OF THE GIRLHOOD OF TENNIE C. CLAFLIN. In connection with the speciﬁc visions that we have given and are to give to the public, having direct reference to the spiritual movement in which we are engaged, we propose also, from time to time, to give other phenomena that have been developed through the different members of “our family.” There have already appeared in the secular press, several instances in which the clairvoyant vision of the junior editor of the WEEKLY has been attested, prom- inently mentioned among which were her predictions, gratuitiously and involuntarily offered, to three prisoners in the Tombs under the charge of murder in regard to their fate; one of whom was hanged, another new undergoing a short term of imprisonment, and another free, as she said would be the result. Among other prophesies concerning public affairs that she has made, may be mentioned the violent death of Lincoln, which she foretold, about the time of his ﬁrst inauguration, would occ_ur, as well as also in the oﬂice of the Cincinnati Commercial, at about 8 o’clock of the evening of its occurrence; and what she said to the deceased father of the present President, soon after his first nomination: “ Tell your son to not accept the nomination, because though he will be elected, he will leave the presi- dentia chair In disgrace.” A A volume of similar instances, but about things of less public notoriety than these, might be narrated, showing the gift by which she has been blessed of God. The purpose of stating this, however, is not so much to give publicity to the facts involved, but to more specially show the peculiar faculties with which nearly all the members of “our family” have been endowed, as a fundamental proof that persons are “raised ygup” of God through His chosen agencies, to perform certain works, as Moses was raised up of Him to deliver. His children out of the land of darkness, which will become clearly established in this in- stance when the special work for which We were designed shall have culminated, as culminate it will, shortly. Thirty-three years ago, several years before the beginning of the Rochester knockings, the “raps,” as well as several other phases of spirit phenomena, were prevalent in our family. At the speciﬁc time mentioned, there came one night, to our home, a stranger—an Englishman—who be- came interested in “the children” on account of some singular and weird things that he saw occur. During the evening the spirit of his wife, whom he supposed to be living, unquestioned, rapped out for him that herself and her two children had been lost at sea, the vessel in which they were coming to this country, having gone down with all on board. At this time he was en route for New York to meet his family. What the spirit said proved to be liter- ally true. But we come now to refer specially to some incidents in the life of the junior editor of this paper, whioh, at the time, were widely known in the region where they occurred, because they have more or less reference to the develop- ments that are soon to be made in the progress of the estab- lishment upon earth of the real Christ dispensation, that ‘dispensation when “ Thy kingdom ” shall come and “ Thy will” shall be done here as it is in heaven, toward which all our work for the past ten years has legitimately led, and will come some time to be acknowledged, regardless of what it may be held to be by any or all people. It is no egotism for people to declare what they know to be the truth, let that truth bear whatever reference it may to themselves. It is rather the highest kind of courage to claim for one’s self what, standing upon the faith in the future for justification, one knows that the world will not admit. Jesus said, substantially, “I am the Christ——That bread of life which comes down from heaven of which if aman cat he shall never die, as did our fathers who ate manna in the wilderness and are dead.” The Jews to whom He made this declaration mocked Him to scorn for His presumption, as they called it, while many of His disciples even deserted Him, on account of this, as they supposed, preposterous claim of one whom they then supposed must be beside himself with wine. So now,‘ we, while by no means desiring to have it supposed that we make any pre- tension to equality with Christ, or that our mission is to be compared with that of the Nazarene in importance to the world, but that in the spirit with which he was related to His, so are we related to ours, let it be as humble as it may; so now we do not hesitate to publicly declare what we know to be, true about ourselves, as in the case of Jesus, when “many went back and walked no more with him.”- [St. John vi. 66.] When she was eleven years old, having beenlthen for several years known in her region of the country as “ The Wonderful Child,” on account of the remarkable cures she performed through the help of the spirits, and the strange and confounding things she “told” by the same assistance, her father and mother, with whom she traveled, and herself, were at Lebanon, 0. Having been announced there sev- eral days before her arrival, some of the inhabitants re- marked to her father, who was in advance of them, that this must be the child about whom, three years before, the ﬁrst spiritual lecturer who had ever come to that place, had spoken. This lecturer, whose name, if given, has been for gotten, delivered a lecture in the trance state; his audience, as Spiritualism at that time was so unpopular, consisting of ﬁve personsfonly.» Near the close of the lecture he said, ’ l “ Never mind, my little audience, for in three years from’ this very night there will come to this town a little girl whose spirit power will be such that it will make the people tremble in their harvest ﬁelds from the desire to’ go to see her.” Upon comparison of the dates when this prophecy was made, and the day the “little girl” was to arrive, it was found to be precisely three years. For days after her arrival her rooms were thronged with the country people, many of whom said to her mother on entering, “When I heard of her being here I was seized with such a desire to see her that I had to drop the sheaf of wheat I was binding, and hurry off.” _ Previous to the principal event that occured at Lebanon, she had been there two weeks, in which time her fame had grown so much by reason of the works she did, that the people said that she even raised the sick from the dead, so "marvellous were some of the cures that she performed, of which there are people now living who will attest the truth. We remark here, parenthetically, that early in the life of each of the present living children of our family, there was some remarkable and ‘prominent spiritual develop ment shown, which, after having been thoroughly unfolded, and the person provcn to be capable of being used in the . manner of the unfoldment, the remarkable exhibitions of the power have been held in abeyance, as it were, waiting" for the appointed time, when it should be required in the work for which the Spirit §World were making prepara- tions. In evidence of this, but as much to our astonish- ment and incredulity as the announcement of it will be to the astonishment and incredulity of many who shall read it, we were told repeatedly by the Spirits, especially by De- , mosthenes to whose charge we are specially committed, ‘ ‘ that there were no other people in the world who would do the work that we should be required to do.” With many other things that were told us, we regarded this as having been said to encourage us to be true to their cause, rather than as an absolute fact, but We do not hesitate now to declare our belief that the reverse was true, and that it was a fact that there were no other persons living who would have done, under spirit direction, what we have already done. It was also added at the time this was said to us, that if we failed, it would require one hundred years for them to prepare another family to do what they desired of us. Not a night passes upon which we do not pray with all the fervency of enthusiastic devotion that we may not fail; that when “the time” shall come we may be found “ not wanting,” not in any spirit of egotistical desire for what may come of it from the world to us, but from a deep- seated devotion to, and conﬁdence in, our work, and to God and Christ, and their representatives whom we serve. After they had been at Lebanon two weeks, on the third Sunday there came to the town a stranger who stopped at the same hotel at which they were stopping, who expressed to the landlord a very great desire to see the “ little girl.” During the previous week, under the direction of the spirit who had controlled her for “ telling” for several years, her mother had had made for her a little pink dress, low neck and short sleeves, with ruﬂies about both, which, on account of the rush of visitors during the latter part of the week, her mother had failed to go to the shop to get. That Sunday morning she had the landlord send to the shop to have the dress sent home, which being done, and when she was about putting it on for the ﬁrst time,.the landlord called at the door and made known the stranger’s desire, saying that he hoped “ tlie'_little girl” would break her rulepof never see- ing any one on that day, and see him, because he could not remain over night, and must see her upon something very important to himself and her. But the mother refused to permit him to come up, be- sides, she said, “the little girl is -dressing nowand cannot be seen.” The landlord took this word to the stranger. but he would not give up, and soon after went himself to the room and knocked. The mother opened the door, and he repeated to her what he had said tothe landlord, and added that years ago he had a prophecy made him, which, “he believed, related to this very child, and he only wanted to just look at her, to see ‘how she was dressed, and if she were not dressed in a particular way he should not care to say a word to -her. The mother, thinking there could be no harm in letting the stranger see how she was dressed, opened the door for him to come in. As’ she did this, “the little girl” also opened the door of the private room and en- tered the reception room fully attired in the new pink dress. The stranger exclaimed, “That is;-jthe child, for” said he, “ she ' has on the very dress that was described to me ; now, I must see her, and talk with her.” After some further urging, she reluctantly consented to “ see ” him on Sunday, but she thought it was very wicked; and this is the story "he told her: “Eleven years ago, when living in England, I went to see anieccentric but learned clairvoyant named J as. Wilson.’ “ Why,” interrupted the little girl, “ that is the name of the spirit who tells me so many things, and who helps me to cure the sick.” He continued and said: “ He told me that in eleven years from that very day, I would be travelling in the United States, and would be at an inland town ﬁve miles away from any railroad, steamboat or canal line of communication, and that there I: would see a little girl, then just two months old, who has been born to do a great work in the world. Jesus was born to save the world, and this little girl has been born to convince - the world that He was born to save it, and you will hear <_>~'~r-- - 1‘ it rl {U —_<:._;yh,., ,, "<3: i «V ii May 27, 1876. WOODLHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. 5 of her through her marvellous power to cure the sick, and’ you will know her when you shall see her by her light blue eyes, auburn hair, and very fair skin; she will be dressed in a new pink dress, which she will have on for the ﬁrst time, and which will be cut low neck and short sleeves, and there will be white‘ ruﬂiesi around both neck and sleeves. She will be exactly eleven years and two months old; when I die, I am going to control this girl.” “Now,” said he, “you are the very child who answers to this description, and I ﬁnd _all the circumstances con. ﬁrm it. ‘Upon examining the date, it was found that the little girl was just eleven years and two months old, and that :it was just eleven years from the time that James Wilson had told what we have related, and that there.was not so much as the slightest variation between what James Wilson had told him, and what he saw and heard.” There can be no question in the minds of any who be- lieve in the overruling hand of Providence that there is an appointed time for all things, the smallest as well as the greatest; since, if all things proceed from one common source of power, and that source is what we denominate God, then all things are consequent upon Him, and, as John says in his Gospel, chapter I, “All things were made by Him: and without Him was not anything made.” If. there be any truth at all in this, all things work together as He doth direct; and without His direction doth not anything. occur. We have said instruments, are prepared to do cer- tain works; and when they are prepared and tested, and found to be of the proper material, they are, as it were, laid by- to await the time in which the speciﬁc thing for which they were prepared is to be done.‘ So in the present instance, the almost marvellous powers which she possesses as evidenced by what was performed through her While very young, have not since -then been so prominently or so remarkably exhibited, but from time to time have cropped out to indicate that they still ‘exist; but that the time is near when they will be called into requisition with more than all their former strength, and for the real purposes for which she was endowed from birth with them, there is no question in the minds of us who serve in this cause in connection with her, being “not disobedient to the heavenly vision,” in obedience to which we now write and publish these things, knowing that it will not be many months until the time will come in which St. John’s injunction when he said, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world “ will be put to the test regarding them. Let it be remarked, in conclusion, that here was a little girl, not yet in her “teens,” born of a most devout christian, whose life during the gestative period of this, her child, was one constant prayer to God that he might give her “ pecu- liar” children “zealous of good works” and who never failed to prefer the same petition in her public religious devotions; curing diseases often by merely “the laying on of hands” that had been given up by physicians, and at other times by prescribing medicines of which she knew nothing but what the spirit told her, sometimes even going to the drug stores, and with her own hands, and without the aid of the “ prescription glass,” handling and compounding the most dangerous remedies, and never com- mitting a mistake; sitting before others and telling them “all things that ever I did,”—remark all this, and some idea may be obtained why she came to be called the wonderful child, and why people said that she even “ raised from the dead.” .Q4 ﬁwv PRINCIELES AND PRACTICES. A principle announced applies to all degrees through which the world and all its parts pass. Evolution is the process by which matter has developed from its primal form, to what it is in all its varied formulations; and it will be by the same law that all future advances will be made, until “we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as he is.” He would be called a fool who should fall to denouncing an advocate of the theory of evolution, because under its sway there are low orders of development; because it had to take up its operations on matter as it found it, and from one step to another, carry it along and up the grade of progressive unfoldment; he would be called a knave who should befoul Franklin, because, when he caught the lightning on his kite string, he did not give us the latest developments in the application of electricity ; he would be called a thief who should attempt to arrogate to himself all the results that have followed the discovery of the circulation of the blood by Harvey; he would beicalled insane who should say that God doth not direct both the hurricane and the sunshine; but the same persons who would call these fool, knave, thief, and insane, by reason of these things, themselves apply to us degrading epithets, because, under the theory of individual freedom, socially, some people are naturally inclined to return like “dogs to their vomit,” or like 1‘ sows to wallow in the mire” of their promiscuous sexual natures; just as if we are responsible for the low degree of the development of such people, andbecause such people, with us, will believe in the principle which we advocate. ‘ The social nature of the people is just as much a sub- ject of , the law of evolution as is the intellect or as are morals. As in the infancy of the race there was no intel- lectual or moral standard by which the people were meas- ured, soin the social growth itvwas the same. . The time was, when, _ men and women, or those in their forms, had no social ideas above the brutes; indeed, were the same as the brutes. The social nature was altogether under the guidance of the instincts. It was when mankind ——Adam—ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that he fell from this condition of instinctual purity which the woman, following the laws of the animals, previously imposed upon man; when ;she was beguiled by the serpent, which led her to take of the tree and to give it to her husband, and with him to eat thereof, that the race began “to become as one of us,” and to know good and evil by having a consciousness of the effect of their actions; that the race began its intellectual development, having before been as the animals; when their intellects began to dispute with their instincts for the government of the body, which conﬁict is not yet ended; which will not be ended I until man becomes master and mistress of the temples not made with hands, that they inhabit. This departure, and the progress that has been made in it, is aptly illustrated by the musical scale. Departing from “one” the performer traverses the whole octave, through all the full, and all the semi-tones of accord and discord———of minor and major harmony and dissonance-—until “eight” is reach- ed, whichis the repetition of “one ;” which isjthe same as “one;” which, while being “eight” of the lower gamut, is 3,130. “ one” of the new and higher scale. So in this depar- ture which the race made from “ one” of the social scale of progress, it has gone through all the accordant and discord- ant stages of the movement’ toward the “eight,” which, when reached, the race will attain to the same condition of purity and harmony from which it departed, when it “fell,” as allegorically presented in the third chapter of Genesis, but having added to that ‘condition the intellectual comprehension of all of that through which it shall have passed, thus developing from a condition of para- disaical innocence and purity that belonged to the in- stinctual ‘ epoch of the race, throughthe slough of social debauchery and degradation to a condition of equal purity and innocence, to be maintained under the guidance and control of a fully developed and enlightened intellect ; intellect combining the powers of mental com- prehension and reason, and these culminating in wisdom which will be the ruling power, and which is only possible when the intellect and the instincts come to be in harmony, these two in the social gamut standing for or in the same re- lations as “one” and “eight” in the musical scale, “one” be- ing the instincts and “ eight” the intellect——the fruit of the action of both of which combined being wisdom; or to state it in another way: “ One” of the social scale is the instincts of the sexes, or love, which draws them together; that unites them in the procreative act; while “eight” is the governing of the instincts by the intellect, the yielding of their sway over man to the dominant power of the mind. All the inharmony there is, or ever was, in the race, soci- ally, is the result of the contest that is waged between these two contesting forces. When the victory shall be wholly won, then will be ushered in the wisdom era, when love and intellect shall act in perfect harmony. Therefore the announcement of. the right of every indi- vidual to decide for himself or herself, what shall be their social relations, is only claiming the right to advance along the line of progress which must be passed over in going from the instinctual to the intellectual era. What is true of man as a race is also true relatively of every individual of the race. Each for himself must go on from the degree of the scale upon which he was born, in order to reach to the‘ culminating point, all the manifestations that he makes be- ing indications of where upon the scale he stands at any given time. But the fact that such manifestations are low down in the scale, does not invalidate the truth of the principle of his right to make them, nor deny to him the right to work himself out, or upward, from that position in the social scale. "Indeed there is a question that is not yet satisfactorily solved, even by those who hold to its solution, whether," one low down in the scale of progress, having the ﬁres of instinctual physical passion, burning ﬁercely within, whether such an one can makeany real progress until these ﬁres burn out; whether they can be smouldered, whether smothered out, without detriment to other departments of the nature. If certain undeveloped forcesvexist in man and are not expended; are not given vent, the doctrine of “the persistence of force” which has been scientiﬁcally demon- strated, teaches us that the same force continue to exist. If the individual in whom any special form of it at ﬁrst exists, succeeds in casting it out of him, it still persists as the same force, and must and will be compelled to be developed be- fore it can enter higher combinations. Upon the same principle that the heat that is latent in coal cannot be made of use in any other form until it is set free, so with the un- expressed power of the physical passions. Let us look at‘ this subject coolly, logically, scientiﬁcally, as we ought and have the power to do, and we shall not be long in arriving at the real truth that is now lying in it, con- cealed from the mental vision. It does not become us as an intellectual race to attempt to ignore thes forces, that in obedience to natural law have been wrapped up in human form; but it would rather become us to study into them and learn how best they may be overcome, or, more properly, perhaps, utilized in the economy of social evolution, of which as much as any other form of force, they constitute a part. They’ are a part of the creative instinct of the uni- verse, and when, as we conceive, they exist in any indivi- l dual, to an undue extent, and in the contest with the in- tellect they gain the ascendancy and force him to do the acts that are repugnant to a higher stage of development, rather than denounce and degrade him for that with which he was endowed, we should lend ‘him a helping hand to aid him to reach the position from which we view him, We should remember that the human family is one; that each individual is a member of it, and that,.as a whole, as it progresses, every member makes advances along‘ thepath which he must travel to gain the goal which he has been designed to reach by his Creator, in the due course of time. . Jesus went among the lowly and theﬂdespised, not because by nature he was despicable and low, but because His great heart yearned for those who were in that condition; He came to the “lost sheep of the house of Israel.” So must those who would do as He did, go to the lost sheep; or to those who were born low down in the scale of social prog- ress; or who have not made rapid progress along this scale. And we should always bear in mind that the Pharisee, in his supercilious pride, thanks Gcod thatghe “is not as other men are ”; while the despised Publican says, “God be mer- ciful to me a sinner;” and that it was the Samaritan who did not pass by the unfortunate man who had fallen‘ among thieves, but who bound up his wounds, put him on his beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him; and so bearing in mind, we should have compassion on those who fall among thieves in social life and through their pas- sions are robbed of their garmenture of what to usiis pur- ity and virtue. It is the Christ-like humanity; it 1s"His compassion and His forgiving Spirit C that almost all the ‘best of people need, quite as much as those, perhaps, not so far advanced along; the social scale, need that advance. Those who lack His Spirit may well take heed lest even the harlots whom they despise and Levite-like pass themby upon the other side, get into the Kingdom of Heaven before them. These are the teach- ings of Jesus. practise them, or else make no further claim to being fol- lowers of ;Him whose words and acts are a standing con- demnation of their lives and practices. Let them join with us and denounce the condition in which so many people live in misery; let them join with us to put_forth their best eﬁorts to shed the rays of intellectual light upon the dark- ness that prevails over social laws, and to teach the people ' ‘ that theﬁrst great necessity of rapid advancement towards “ eight” of the social scale, is a complete understanding of the facts by which the advance is to be made, sothat they may be utilized to help it on instead of hinder; but have compassion on those who are unfortunate examples. L4; fvwf MR. W. IRviNG§BrsHor is announced at Chickering Hall, Thursday evening, May 18th, when he will imitate the va- ' rius spiritual phenomena, as he claims, under the same con-' ditions as those to which the mediums are subjected. Those who believe that he can be defeated in this, shonldby all means be there to effect it, and to see that the conditions are test ; while skeptics about spirit manifestations will do well to also attend _and learn the key to .many of the manifestations that are really spurious, though palmed oﬁ by mediums as genuine, and be thus enabled to detect the fraudulent phenomena, so good will be done on both sides of the question. , .,I-.,l ' DURING the past winter, R. W. Hume delivered a course of lectnres on Industrial Financial. Religious and Social ‘ Reform, at Latham Hall, East Brooklyn, which was at- tended with remarkable success. He has again been ap- pointed to deliver another course there, and commenced his work on Sunday (May 14th) by a review of “The Signs of the Times.” He has also lately been elected President of the New England Labor League. Knowing him as a fear- less and able reformer, and a learned and eloquent speaker, who will not withhold the truth from the people, we wish. him every success. _4A|,4 fwr HUMBOLDT ON LEGAL MARRIAGE. Wherever the name of this great man is known, his memory is reverenced. No other person perhaps who has lived since the time of Christ commands more respect for his opinions. The wisdom of his judgment is universally admitted, and hence, whatever wecan ﬁnd in his writings, in harmony with our own views and theories, we are“glad to bring to our support. In the following, from his “ Spheres and Duties of Government,” our readerswill ﬁnd precisely the same views that we have so often advanced. If our enemies will not listen to us, let them listen to Humboldt : “ The radical error of such policy appears to be, that the law commands, whereas such agrelation cannot mold itself according to external arrangements, but depends wholly on inclination, and wherever coercion or guidance comes into collision with inclination, they divert it still further from the proper path. Wherefore, it appears to me that the State ‘ should not only loosen the bonds in this instance, and leave am pler freedom to the citizen, but if I may apply the princi- ples above stated (now that I am not speaking of one of the many injurious consequences arising from restrictive State institutions, which are in this one especially noticable), that it should entirely withdraw its active solicitude from the institution of matrimony, and both generally and in its par- ticular modiﬁcations should rather leave» it wholly, to the free choice of the individuals, and the various contracts they may enter into with respect to it. I should not be deterred. from I‘ Let Christians, at least, take care that they I 6 woonnum. a ULAFLINHS wnnkrr. the adoption of this principle by the fear that all family rela- tions might be disturbed, or their manifestation in general impeded; for although such an apprehension might be justi- ﬁed by considerations of particular circumstances and locali- ties, it could not be fairly entertained in an inquiry into the nature of men and States in general. For experience fre- ‘quently convinces us tlmt jxisi vsl‘-ere» law ‘ms llllpnl-efl no fetters, morality rnost surely binds; the idea of external coercion is one entirely foreign’ to I an institution which, like matrimony, reposes only on inclination and an inward sense 6 of duty; and the results of such coercive institutions do not at all correspond to the designs in which they_ originate. ——————-—-<»~o—-——--—--——- . MRS. WOODH ULL AS A WRITER AND ORATOR Revised from the Argus, ‘Akron, 0. ' ‘However much people may differ as to the soundness of Mrs. Woodhull’s doctrines, there can be no hesita- tion in according to her _ a station among the most extraordinary persons who have ever appeared; nor is there now but one opinion as to the place it is ﬁt to assign her. She is a writer of the ﬁrst class, and excels in all kinds of prose composition in which the eleva- tion of her sex and the reformation of the world are con- cerned. Possessed of extensive knowledge and of the most varied description; acquainted alike with what dif- ferent classes of people know, each in his or her own pro- vince, and with much that hardly any one else ever thought of learning, she can either bring her masses of information to bear directly upon the subjects to which they severally belong, or she can avail herself of them generally to strengthen her faculties and enlarge her views; or she can turn any portion of them to account for the purpose of illus- trating her theme or enriching her diction. Hence, when she is handling any one branch, we perceive that we are conversing with a teacher, to whom almost every other branch of knowledge is familiar. Her views range over all the subjects in which humanity is concerned; her reason- ings are derived from principles applicable to other matters as well as the one in hand. But her abilities as a writer are but the smallest part of her talent; the range of her powers as a speaker is uncommonly wide. She is equally qualiﬁed to conciliate or subdue; no one can be more plausible and ingratiating; no one has a more winning address, or is more adroit in obvi- ating objections and allaying prejudice. When she changes tone, and chooses rather to subdue, she has the sharpest and most massive weapons at command-—-wit, humor, irony and overwhelming contempt. In all such conﬁicts the energy of her will and her boundless self-conﬁdence secure to her the victory. Never did that mobile countenance sink be- fore an enemy. Never was she known to hesitate or falter. She has a feeling of superiority over every one around her, which acts upon her mind with the force of inspiration. She knows she is right; she knows she can secure to her sex those inalienable rights “to which God and nature entitle them,” and that no one else can do it. Such a‘ spirit in a great crisis is the unfailing instrument of command, both to the general and the orator. You may call it arrogance; but even arrogance here operates upon most minds with the potency of a charm; and when united with a vigor of ge- nius and a ﬁrmness of purpose like hers, men and women of the strongest intellect fall down before it and admire—per- haps hate—what they can not resist. The leading characteristic of eloquence,‘ when talent is behind it, is force, and force in the orator depends mainly upon the action of strongly-excited feeling on a powerful intellect. The intellect of Mrs. Woodhull is of I the highest order, and is peculiarly ﬁtted for the broad and rapid concentration of oratory. It is at once comprehen- sive, acute and vigorous, enabling her to embrace the larg- est range of thought; to see at a glance what most persons labor out by slow degrees, and to grasp her subject with a vigor, and hold on to it with a ﬁrmness, which have rarely, if ever, been equalled. But her intellect never acts alone. It is impossible for her to speak on any subject in a dry and abstract manner. All the operations of her mind are pervaded and governed by intense feeling. She does not, like many in modern times, divide a speech into distinct compart- ments, one designed to convince the understanding, and the other to move the passions or will. They are too closely united in her mind to allow of such a division. All go to- gether——conviction and persuasion, intellect and feeling in- separable. The rapidity and abruptness with which she so often ﬂashes her thoughts upon the mind, arise from the same source. Deep emotion strikes directly at its object. It struggles to get free from all secondary ideas—-all mere accessions. It puts forward a few great objects sharply deﬁned, and standing boldly out in the glowing atmosphere of emotion, it pours the burning thoughts instantane- ously upon the mind, “ as a person might catch the rays of the sun in a concave mirror, and turns them on their object with a sudden and consuming power.’ Her mode of rea- soning, or rather dispensing with the forms of ‘argument, results from the same cause. When the mind is all aglow with a subject, and sees its conclusions with the vividness and certainty of iintuitive truth, it is impatient of the slow process of logical deduction. It seeks rather to reach the point by a bold and rapid progress, throwing away the in- termediate steps, and putting the subject at once under such aspects and relations as to carry its own evidence along with it. , .. “Demostheneswas remarkable for thus crushing together proof and statement in a single mass.” It is so with Mrs. I Woodhull. The strength of her feelings carries her directly forward to the results of argument. She aﬂfirms them earn- estly, positively, not as mere assertions, but on the ground of their intrinsic evidence and certainty. This ardor of feeling, in connection with her keen penetration of mind, ll:lFl rn:1.(‘lc lxcr somciiines irdnlge in political prophrcy. Her predictions have in some insianccs been surprisingly veriﬁed. . Her great preponderance of feeling makes her in the strictest sense of the term an extemporaneous speaker. Her mind is indeed richly furnished with thought upon every subject that comes up for consideration, and the mat- ter she brings forward is always thoroughly matured and strikingly applicable; but she seems never to have studied its arrangement, much less to have bestowed any care on the language, imagery or illustration. She pours out her thoughts and feelings just as they rise in her mind. Her language is always pure’, always elegant ; the best words drop from herlips, into the best places, with a ﬂuency at I all times astonishing, and often really melodious. Her highest powers lie in these sudden bursts of passion. They form the grand charm of her oratory. To this intense emo- tion, thus actuating all her powers, Mrs. Woodhull unites a vigorous and lofty imagination, which form her crowning excellence as an orator. It is this faculty which exalts force into its truest and most sublime eloquence; In this respect she approaches more nearly, than any speakeriof modern times, to “the great Master of Athenian Art.” It is here, chieﬂy, that she surpasses all other female orators of this or any other age.-, Truly “she is the Queen of the Ros- trum.” The imagination of Mrs. Woodhull makes directly for its object. It “ﬂies an eagle’s ﬂight, forth and right on.” It never becomes her master. Nor do we ﬁnd it degener- ating into fancy; it isjnever fanciful, in the limited sense of that term. It is in fact so perfectly blended with the other powers of ‘her mind,},so simple, so sublime, so true to na- ture even in its loftiest ﬂights, that we never think of it as imagination at all. She does not hastily adoptla measure nor hastily abandon one. The plan struck out by her for the improvement and elevation of mankind, is the result of prophetic wisdom and profound policy. She knows nothing of that timid and wavering cast of mind which dares not abide by its own decision. She never suﬁers pop- ular prejudice or party clamor to turn her aside from any measure which her deliberate judgment has adopted. She has a proud reliance upon herself, and it is justiﬁed. The strength. of her oratory is intransic; it presents the rich and abundant resources of a clear discernment, and a correct taste; her speeches are all stamped with inimitable marks of originality. When replying to her opponents, her energy is not more conspicuous than her readiness; she is always prompt and always digniﬁed; she can have a recourse to the sportiveness of irony, but she does not often seek any other aid than is to be derived from an extensive knowledge of her subject. This qualiﬁes her fully to discuss the argu- ments of others, and forcibly to defend her own. Thus armed, it is not in the power of her adversaries, mighty as they are, to beat her from the ﬁeld. Her eloqence, us- ually rapid, electric and vehement, is always chaste, winning and persuasive, not awing into acquiesence, but arguing into conviction. Her understanding is bold and comprehensive; nothing seems “too remote for its grasp, or too exalted for its touch,” She is to be placed, without any doubt, in the highest class. With a sparing use of orna- ments, hardly ever indulging in ﬁgures or ﬁgurative ex- pressions, but with all the dignity and graces of manner, she no sooner rises than she carries away every hearer, and keeps the attention ﬁxed andunﬂaging until it pleases her to let it go, and then “ So charming left her voice, that we a while Still thought her speaking, still stood ﬁxed to hear.” Eloquent as she is, she impresses every hearer with the conviction, that there is in her something higher than all eloquence. Everyone feels that the woman is ‘inﬁnitely greater than the orator “ I have seen,” says one, eminent for his learning: “Eloquence without wisdom, and often wisdom without eloquence,” but in her I see them united in the highest possible degree. A. RICE. ‘AKRON, 0., April 20, 1876. ' 4; V? We call the special attention of such as believe in the eﬂicacy of legal restraint in the social relations to the fol- lowing: ' ‘ DIVORCE. The following inscription is written in large characters over the principle gate of the city of Agra in Hindostan: “In the ﬂrst year of the reign of King J ulief, two thousand mar- ried couple were separated by the magistrate, with their own consent. The Emperor was so indignant on learning these particulars that he abolished the privilege of divorce. In the course ofithe following year the number of marriages in Agra was less than before by three thousand; the number of adulteries was greater by seven thousand; three hundred women were burned alive for poisoning their husbands; seventy—ﬁve,men were burned for the murder of their wives; and the quantity of furniture broken and destroyed in the interior of private families amounted to the value of three million of rupees.” " The Emperor re-established the privilege of divorce. ,TRUE LOVE GONE OUT OF FASHION. The country never possessed so many beagtiful andimar- riageable young women as it does at the present time. And May 27, l876. why do we not have more marriages? We answer: Because marriage for love is the exception "and not the rule. The young people of this age have-gone fashion and money-mad. If the dandy bank clerk. who pays one-half of his income for board aigd the other half for clothes cannot «improve his con- dition he will not marry, The shop—gii-l who earns good wages. and Cllllllul be (ilﬁllllgilllsllyfd by her l_ll'i'R§-1‘ from the banker’s daughter, certainly will not plunge into matrimony unless she can better her condition in life. If a man is for- tunate enough to possess money. it matters not how old or ugly he may be, hundreds of intelligent, handsome young women can be found only too willing to become his wife. Love isan after consideration. They marry to be supported and dressed extravagantly. How often do we hear the re- mark, “Better be an old man’s darling than a poor man’s slave.” Alas! too many of them are not satisﬁed to be dar- lings. They will persist in loving other men after they are married. , . _ Itcannot be denied that ha great number of the unmarried men are adventurers looking for wives who can keep them without working for a living. The peace aud contentment of ‘a happy home is not taken into consideration. They are willing to suffer a hell upon earth if they can be kept in idle- ness. If our young peopleldo not abandon this extravagance of dress and greed for money our country will be ﬁlled with old bachelors and old maids. We must have more genuine courtships and marriages to have prosperityand happiness in this world. Too many marry for money, only to be disap-, pointed and, unhappy the rest of their lives.——.Albany Argus. WHEN the Hindoo priest is about to baptize an infant, he utters thevfollowing beautiful sentiment: “Little baby, thou enterest the world weeping, while all around thee smile. Continue so to live that you may depart in smiles while all around you weep.” BUSINESS N U'l‘lCEi=.l The address of Nellie L. Davis. is 235 Washington street Salem, Mass. CLAIRVOYANCE.—Ml‘S. Rebecca Messenger, diagnosing dis- ease, or reading destiny, if present, $1 00; by letter. $2 00. Send age and sex. 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CONTAINING N ew, Startling and Emtrdordlindry Revelations in Rel'igz'ous History, which disclose the Oriental Origin of all the DOCt?"l'rLe8, Principles, Preoepts and Miracles . of the CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, and fiwnlshwlng a Key for unlocliciing many of its Sacred Mysteries, besides c0mp7"is'1'.ng the History of Sixteen Oriental Cruciﬁed Gods. BY KERSEY GRAVES, Author of “The Biography of Satan ” and “The Bible of Bzbles ” (cwnpmséng 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- 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: throu hout its entire course the author——-as will be seen _ y 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; Clntroduction; Address to the r . Chap. 1.—Rival Claims of tile 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 Virgin-born Gods.‘ 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. Cl%t'ph10.—The Saviors of Royal Descent but Humble 1r . . Chap. 11.——Christ’s Genealogy. Chap. 12.-The World‘s Saviors saved from Destruc- tipn in Infancy. . _ ‘ , Cha_p._ 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. Cliiap. l7.—-The Aphanasia, or Darkness, at the Cruci- xion. Chap. 18.—Descent of the Saviors into Hell. Chap. 19.—Resurrection of the Saviors. Chap 20.—Reappearance and Ascension of the Sav- iors. Chélg. §31.—The Atonement: its Oriental or Heathe rigin. Chap. 22.--The Holy Ghost of Oriental Origin. Chap. 23.—The Divine “ Word ” of Orienta .l0rigin. 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. Clgip. 27.—T he Sacrament or Eucharist of Heathen rigin. » Chap. 28.-—Anointing with Oil of Oriental Origin. 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ROWELL & 00., NewYork,for ‘.3 Pamphlet of 100 pages, ‘containing lists of 3,ocu papers, and estimates showing cost or advertisi 1;; word that these are the most wholesome mini ,.. mtiea . WOODHULL J5, CLAFLIN S WEEKLY May 27, 11876. I i ‘\-\ § 1 7‘\ \ ‘K -s X .. § -- .’..:, \ n. g L .‘\S‘.'_'_ . A , \ , ,. /__.— wl\_.IgMs- 3 lLuP.~!i..-sR\»u>. ““ ' ' ""7-§;’*—'“"‘ 4. NEWSUHUULPBAUT {}EﬂF MED NE Q Reduced to a Science, BY W. PAINE, A. M., M. D; Professor of the Principles and Practice of »Medicine and Pathology in the Philadelphia ‘University of Medicine and Surgery; Ex-Professor of Surgery and Diseases of ' ‘ Women and Children in the American Medical College; Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons ; Honorary Member of the Academyi, of Medicine; Author of a large work on the Practice of Medicine; ' one on Surgery; one on Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and _ 1 Children; one on Materia Medica and New Remedies; a Review i of Homoeopathy and Old Physic; former Editor of the University Medical and Surgical Journal, Medic_al Independent, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc. ‘i 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 A 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 sosmall 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 life 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 V 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 fnrlong. He also saw 10,000,000 of sporules in a single Reticularia maxima. One spore of the Torula cerevisiae .or yeast plant will increase to a large forest of fung in afew minutes. Bedham has described over 5,000 speciesof fungi. Among these are the Mucor mucedo 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. Practice by Letter.———Patients residing at a distance, and wishing to consult 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 0 single; ii’ there be sexual diﬁiculty, what it is ; and how many children. 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Professor Paine’s consultation oiﬁce is at 232 North Ninth st., Philadelphia, Pa. Med mines for sale at his oﬂice and at the Laboratory in the University. The usual discounts made to the trades ,Age11tsi 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 utillty. Physicians Prescribe Them. No competition to speak of. Full information on-receipt of Stamp. Wakeﬁeld Earth Closet Co ., $336 DEY STREET, NEW YORK. -,.o«=2-,3}. 5 ‘ ....~ . ,. VALUABLE DISCOVERY.——Dr. J. P. Miller, r «practicing physician at 327 Spruce street, Phila- del hia, has discovered that the extract of cranberries an hemp combined cures headache, either bilious, fdyspeptic, nervous or sick headache, neuralgia and fnervousness. This is a triumph in medical chemistry. land suﬁerers all over the country are ordering by ail. He prepares it in pills at 50 cents a box. The {Doctor is largely known and highly respected.—1Phz‘lz:- olelphla; Bulletin. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1876-05-27_11_53
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1876-05-27_11_53
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 12, no. 01 (June 3, 1876)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2126
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1876-06-03
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: 1-e;R,QGrBEssi c r... ._.QUG-1-H: 2 UNTRAMMELED LIV'ElSl _..._—n BREAKING ‘THE WAY FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIONS. Vol. XII.-—No. ——VVl:ole No. 287. Ihe truth shall make you free.-——Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery ‘of God shalt be ,ﬁnishec_l.—St. John the Divine. .- Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un- sea/rchable riches of . Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in G0cl.——Pau1. - .4. m *7 EDITORIAL DIGEST. A SALT LAKE CITY paper asserts that the recent gunpow- der explosion caused 100 premature births. THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts has decided in a test case that the ten hour law of that State is constitutional. MOSES L. SWIFT, of Reno, Nevada, has been granted a divorce from his wife on account of her “ mental cruelty.” ROBER'J1.;C. RmHAnnsoN,—‘(;harity M. Richardson, Wm. E. Mills and Emily C. Mills, of Omro, Wis., have formed a co- operative association, which is chartered by the State of W...
Show more1-e;R,QGrBEssi c r... ._.QUG-1-H: 2 UNTRAMMELED LIV'ElSl _..._—n BREAKING ‘THE WAY FOR FUTURE G-ENERATIONS. Vol. XII.-—No. ——VVl:ole No. 287. Ihe truth shall make you free.-——Jesus. In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, the mystery ‘of God shalt be ,ﬁnishec_l.—St. John the Divine. .- Whereof I was made a minister to preach the un- sea/rchable riches of . Christ, and the mystery which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in G0cl.——Pau1. - .4. m *7 EDITORIAL DIGEST. A SALT LAKE CITY paper asserts that the recent gunpow- der explosion caused 100 premature births. THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts has decided in a test case that the ten hour law of that State is constitutional. MOSES L. SWIFT, of Reno, Nevada, has been granted a divorce from his wife on account of her “ mental cruelty.” ROBER'J1.;C. RmHAnnsoN,—‘(;harity M. Richardson, Wm. E. Mills and Emily C. Mills, of Omro, Wis., have formed a co- operative association, which is chartered by the State of Wisconsin. It is called the Omro Agricultural and Manufac- turing Association. ’ PETER COOPER, of New York, and Governor Booth, of California, are the candidates of the greenback party for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency respectively. What will the politicians hatch up against them ! PROF. PECK says that in this country, where cheese is least used, one physician to every 500 persons is required. In Switzerland, and in countries where it is most used. one phy- sician is needed for every 10,000 per sons. A REPORT comes from Portsmouth, N. H., that a Swedish woman, living on Smutty Nose Island, Isles of Shoals, has confessed on her death bed that she murdered the two women in April, 1873, for which Louis Wagner was convicted and hanged. Another argument against the gallows." ’ THE Washington Daily News re-tellsvthe horrible story of the hanging of Mrs. Surratt, and cites the fact that all those who were responsible for it have been called to their account. Justice travels quickly on the. heels of the transgressor. “ In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” PARTON hasgone to New York to live. where a. man is not prevented from marrying his step-daughter. The only law in that State bearing on this subject reads: “A man may not marry his g_randmother,’.’ and some New Yorkers grumble at that.-—Sat'u,rday Night. 11‘ looks “in the East ” as if the Mussulman might attempt to expel the Christian from his domain. If they are moved to defend their faith, the “sick man ” may give the Euro- pean doctors considerable trouble before they get him into their dissecting room. Besides, the Western J ohnnies, Bull and Crapeau, may object to his becoming “ a subject.” Gov. TILDEN has signed the bill passed by the last Legis- lature, allowinga wife to testify in favor of her husbaudiin criminal cases. The new law does not compel her, however, to be a witness. This is the ﬁrst innovation ever made by our Legislature upon the old common law rule prohibiting husband and wife from testifying for or against each other in criminal cases. MAI-IOMET heard one of his followers say: “ I will loose my camel, and commit him to God." “ My friend,” said Ma- homet, “ tie thy camel, and commit him to God.” It is pre- sumption and not faith that expects a harvest without sow’- '-,;i,.',r.;j-v‘,,-./,;,_,_:,,;'.,A, ,‘,_,‘_,,\‘__ fa.-' : _“X‘,’. NEW YORK, JUNE 8,1876. ing, or that p rays God to avert a calamity while neglecting to i use all lawful means for averting it. The means themselves are God’s messengers. I THE Boston Woman Suﬁragists have at last come to what we advised them three years ago,which is expressedin the fol- lowing resolution recently adopted: Resolved, That, as woman suffragists, no political party will be entitled to our future political support in State affairs, unless it make the establishment of woman suffrage one of its avowed objects, and also admits women to full membership in its organiza- tion, with an equal voice and vote in its primary meetings. in the nomination of candidates and the transaction of busi- ness. THE Cnrcxoo DEMOCRAT started the story that‘ Mattie Strickland and Leo Miller had already separated. It is need- less to say that it is utterly false. It is true that they have changed their address from Omro, Wis., to Farmingtcn, Minn. Nearly the whole ofthe odium with which the move- mentfor social freedom is loaded down, has been, as this has, manufactured by its enemies. especially the class who had better iook to their ministers for the frightful examples they seek in vain among the radicals. A recent number of this paper referred them to about a dozen of them. RUSSIAN FOUNDLING ASYLUMS.—In all the large cities of Russia, and especially in St. Petersburgh and Moscow, there are large institutions for the reception and rearing of “ love children,”_A maintained at the expense of the Government. These children are not treated as similar ones are usually treated in this country; they are not considered as subjects for charity; nor is the care extended to them deemed a char- ity. They are reared with the greatest care, and given every possible advantage of education, the result of which is, that many of the most eminent, able, and withal, useful men in the empire, rise from these institutions. As a class, the children who are thus gathered are considered to be above the class born of more respectable legal parentage, both in physical and mental endowments, On account of the pro- tection given to these children, abortions are seldom prac- tised. . ' A EANDSOME and affable young woman recently commit- ted suicide by throwing herself into the Detroit river. De- ceased was nineteen years of age. She was married on Mon- day last. On Thursday morning she kissed her sister when she left the house, saying that she would be back in a short time. It was ascertained that she had crossed the river to- Detroit, and when last seen was sitting on the railroad track near the river. Her muff and gloves were found at the place indicated, which caused suspicion that she had either fallen accidentally or wilfully into the river. Search was made, and the body discovered within forty yards of where she had been sitting. What ought to have been the coroner’s verdict in this case, save that of criminal negligence against the mother of the girl, who permitted her to walk blind- folded into relations in utter ignorance of what they involve? Let mothers who think it improper to instruct their daugh- ters in those things, take warning from the fate of this girl. SOME husbands do" not make their ﬁnancial aﬁairs a topic at home, and some better-halves know less of their own h-us- band’s affairs than they do of their neighbors’. Some weeks since a. lady was informed of her husband’s suspension by reading the announcement in a paper which she accidentally took up in a store while waiting to have an order. ﬁlled. Whether it was pride or fear that prompted the secrecy cannot be stated, but what can be expected of wives in the way of true economy if they are only silent partners in the matrimonial copartnership? In 1857 a large jewelry ﬁrm sold a costly set of jewelry to a. lady. The ﬁrm knew her husband was in a failing condition, for the lady had been a long and proﬁtable customer. VVhen the partner ordered his clerk not to charge the set which had been delivered, but to make a memorandum on the blotter, he paid the lady’s integrity a high compliment. When her husband failed the "jewelry came back with a. note couched in such terms that the dealer only regretted that the gift of the set would be construed as an insult. PRICE TEN cnnrs. AMONG women of exalted rank who have been wanting in; beauty have been Margaret of Sweden, Matilda, Empress of Germany, and Christiana. of Sweden. Fluvia, wife of An- thony, had but few personal charms: nor had Terentia, Wife of Cicero, much personal beauty, if one may trust to the majority of historians; but most of these have found some admirers among biographers. - Neither Anne of Cloves or Catherine of Aragon was good looking; still for awhile they swayed the ﬁckle heart of their Bluebeard husbands. Queen Anne was a dowdy and graceless woman in her best days. Cromwell’s wife was plain. When Queen Anne of Bohemia came to England as a bride, there was a pagent at Cheapside of a castle with two towers, from both sides oi which ran fountains of wine; and we are told that the beautiful girls who blew gold—leaf in the faces of the king and queen caused the plain bride to look plainer; yet she _made her way into the good graces of both king and people. In France the gay iand pleasure loving plain women have gained many laurels. Madame de Steel is a memorable instance, though no one was more conscious of her personal defects. Even her name was a power in itself. The great Napoleon condescendedto be jealous of herinﬁuence that no persuasion would induce him to allow her to return to France. Mademoiselle do Yes- pinaisse, one of the most fascinating women of the day, who exercised a marvellous inﬂuence on those around her, was marked with small-pox. Mad.ame_,G;e,oiiw’gi‘in,,yvas a-plain wo- man; Madame d’Epinay was neither beautiful nor clever, but most attractive. Madame de Mailly was the plainest wo- man of the court. Maria Leczinski, daughter of Stanislaus, King of Poland, wife of Louis XV-., was good, but uninter- esting; and that famous Palatine princess, second‘ wife of Philip, Duke of Anjou, brother of Louis XIV.. and mother of the.Duke of Orleans, the regent during Louis XV.’s mi- nority«—a woman who exereisedmore sway than any of her time—was coarse of feature, and so ungainly that her large hands passed into a proverb. She was of masculine habits, clinging to the customs of Germany, and were ‘at short, close wig, like a man’s. ’ ' « » MORE BEAU PIES OF OUR MARRIAGE LAWS. ‘BY WARREN CHASE. A young friend writes me of a case which recently occurred in Holmes county, Ohio, of a man (if it be lawful to call him a man), who owned a piece of property conveyed to him ‘legally in the sacred marriage ceremony, which conveyed to him a woman who thence forward became his slave, as all wives legally are, which is fully established by the fact, that one man sues at law another man for damaging this piece of property, as Tilton did Beecher, and by the constant reports of how one man steals another man’s wife as he would or could his horse, as was so largely reported‘: in the Richardson- McFarland case, and in which we so often ﬁnd a man justi‘ ﬁed by the public in killing another man for what he calls trespass on his wife—prop,erty, as in the Sickles and Key instance, and among others of almost daily occurrence. ' The story of my young friend runs: That a wife had a child two weeks old, who the husband, who would not get her any help, saying he could not aﬁ'ord to keep a wife and hired girl too, ordered her to get up and "clean up about the house. She said she could not get up-—she could not get out of bed, having had no suitable assistance. {After repeating the order, cursing and threatening to kill her, she still unable, still re- fused, when he commenced beating her, and bruised her so that she died. 01‘. course, he was arrested and pleaded guilty, and gaining the sympathy of thelovers of the holy institu- tion, he expects his punishment will be light, and he will even be at liberty and looking up another wife——-probably some of the girls are already setting their caps for him. Oh, glorious and holy Moloch, that daily swallows its innocent victims and screens the basest and most bloodthirsty mur- derers, and yet has the devotion of thousands of good honest people who look only at the few who are naturallyygood and live in it and not abuse it because they will not use or take advantage of the legal powers it gives them. Nearly all the young girls are trying to get into it. andmost of _those in it are wishing they were out, but careful not to“ warn those out to avoid it, after opposing every eﬁort to reform it, to protect woman, because it should be a holy and God—given institu- tion; but it comes through the church, and of course cannot be -2 I 4 woonnnm. & ______.._________________,___. improved-——“to meddle is to war"——so let the wheels roll on and crush the victims by thousands; those not crushed, and some that are, praising it and shouting for its sacred con- tinuance as it is. ’For thirty. years I have raised my voice and pen against it and, until Mrs. Woodhull came, with angelic power, like Joan of Arc, to her oppressed country, I had despaired of effecting any important reformin our social code; but since she has taken up the defence there is hope, and my closing years are being high-tuned wi.th_ a hope of relief for the poor crushed victims, like the one above referred to who has followed the thousands murdered, as really if not as brutally as she was. in our country every year of our national existence, even in this Centennial year, which is no excep- tion to the wife murders and cruelties, nor to the farcical ceremonies that make slave of wives. ‘ PAINESVILLE, 0., April 25, 1876. ~ GEMS FROM FOURIER. SELECTED BY A. CRIDGE. “ Whither are we drifting?” is a question frequently asked, and, in connection with these concluding extracts an en- deavor will be made to indicate our present social condition andprospects from the standpoint of Fourier’s system. S People emerge from a [social] period only to the extent that they quit its pivotal characters- But you do not in any respect attempt to emerge from the pivots of the Civilized Period, such as parcellings, agricultural and domestic [i. e., farms separately cultivated by avery few persons, and house- holds of but one family, whereby interests are “parcelled” or divided that should be united, frightfully increasing labor]. You do not even endeavor to abandon the‘pivots of the Phases [see “Chart of Civilization”]_: for you tenaciously maintain the characters of the Third Phase, such as Insular Maritime monopoly. (VL, 404-8.) [REMARK: This is virtually equivalent to railroad monop- oly, which Grangers and others are leagued to break down, and by that and other means are thus unconsciously bring- ing in the Sixth Period, or Guaranteeism, the Seventh and Eighth Periods-iniitatory Combined Order-—looming up in the distance.] And you cling to certain’ characters of the Second Phase [of Civilization] uch as the illusion of Representative Gov- ernment, which in sundry cases conducts to retrogradation. (VI., 408.) , [REMARK: As in the United States, where by means of this “illusion,” chattel slavery, a relic of barbarism, was re- tained as a. power in politics long after public opinon, freely expressed, would have given it the dea.th—blow and avoided a ruinous war. This “illusion ” still makes people sit quietly down under the grossest outrages, and tolerate a government honeycombed with fraud. under the illusion” that they are represented as fully as practicable, and therefore self-gov- erned, when, in point of fact, there is very little representa- tion in the case, and consequently no self—government, as can be easily proved. It is time that the illusion was de- molished.] . Y The chimera of Representative Government introduces numerous vicious characters; for example, makinga nation pay the price of the corruption of its representatives. . . . The regime [of pretended representation] engenders so many abuses that we have seen the chiefs of liberalism de- clare that representative government does not suit the French. (VI-,416-l , ' REMARK: Good for the French that they are not satisﬁed with a sham, as are Americans and English, to their disgrace." There are no representatives in the case, except by accident or in a very minor degree, nor ever can be while representa- tives (so—called) are chosen by localities that are purely arti- ﬁcial in most cases, and nominations therefore necessarily made by cliques and rings.] ' _ Liberalism--a stationary spirit impassioned for a character of the Second Phase of Civilization—-the Representative sys- tem; a nice “gimblette” (“a sort of cake in the form of a ring”) for small republics like Sparta and Athens, but eu- trely illusory in a vast empire like France. -(VI., 388.) [REMARK: Fourier has not detailed the absurdities of the “representative” system, but hits its main defect, viz : its want of adaptation to large populations. It takes the “form of a ring” in a sense ‘other than indicated by the dictionary. The social absurdites so ridiculed and denounced by Fourier, admi- mirably correspond with the political absurdities involvedin supposing that majorities or intelligent minorites can be rep- sented under conditions that render a true representation mathematically impossible. That they are not so repre- sented at present in the United States or Great Britain, every intelligent newspaper reader can easily satisfy, himself. There are enough Liberals, Spiritualists and Free Thinkers of various grades, in the United States, to send (on a basis of real representation) twenty to ﬁfty members of Congress, and a large number of State legislators. Yet were there one quarter of the number to which they are entitled there could be no such legislation in the interests of religion and medical bodies as now prevails in almost every State. _ But what I mean to infer here is, that this illusion of the Second phase of Civilization, holding over into the Third phase, must be attacked and demolished in connection with a movement out of Civilization into Guarateeism.] The monetary system, entirely opposed to the rules of free competition, is a mark of the Sixth Period, Guaranteeism, where it will be known how to organize true social guarantees, of which Civilization, in its moclreries of liberty, has no knowledge. (VI., 44-8). The actual Civilization of France and England (1822-30) is in the Third phase, declining. . . If a society linger too long in a'Period or Phase, corruption is engendered as in stagnant water. (VI., 420.) We have only been a century in the Third Phase of Civili- zation; but during that short period of time the Phase has moved rapidly onward by reason of industrial progress, so 0* 0LAl4‘LIN’S wnnxnr. June 3, 1876. that to- day it exceeds its natural limit. We have too much material for a grade so little advanced, which material hav- ing no natural employment, there is surcharge and distress in the social mechanism, resulting in a fermentation which corrupts, lassitude, etc.-—eﬁ'ects of the prevalent dispropor- tion between our industrial resources and the inferior social ' grades to which they are applied. We have too much_indus- try for a Civilization so little advanced——retarded in the Third Phase (VI., 420.) _, , If there be not due proportion between the social grade and the degree of industrial growth; if the social mechanism re- main stationary in the Third Phase of Civilization, while the industrial mechanism makes gigantic strides, it falsiﬁes all the motions, causing monstrosities such as our present condi- tion; presentiuga colossal in-dustrialism applied to a..subal- tern social grade incapable of supporting the burden. At the sight of this disparity at which our political economists should blush; at the sight of legionsiof paupers which are the fruits of. this. industrial tumor, our philosophers exclaim, “ What a rapid advancement towards increasing perfec- tion !’..’ . [REMARK: Here Fourier detail the methods by which he thinks the transition from the.Third to the Fourth and last Phase of Civilization and thence to Guaranteeism, should be accomplished. Merchants, brokers, storekeepers and other unproductive commercial folks to be reduced greatly in number by exacting licenses; same with master manufactu- rers. The surplus would be_compelled to resort to produc- tive labor, provided for them and others, on large public farms, where the economics for co-operaiive production, con- sumption and distribution would be realized and aliberal min- imum “guaranteed” to each employee, the aged and helpless being there provided for by a small tax on the community at large.. After a while these employees, instead of considering their condition a necessity or misfortune, would become proud of their employment, and “ Guaranteeism ” would be inaugurated. ‘ In detail, such methods would be unadapted to the United States; the suitable counterpart here would be the organiza- tion of industrial armies for road-making, irrigation, etc., in the Territories and on the Paciﬁc Coast.» /It is probable that in the United States there may be a direct transition from the Third Phase of Civilization to" Guaranteeism (jumping the Fourth Phase) by means of the Grangers, “ Sovereigns ef Industry,” et al. ‘ ' He details and classiﬁes 32 “issues ”_out of civilization into the next period, from which I select a few “ which are now prominently agitated in the United States,” indicating a ten- dency to transition from civilization (5th period), through guaranteeism (6th), to the combined order, or co—operative life. ) Social utopias. " Researches as to guarantees (on which various labor or- ganizations are based). ' Calculations as to -agricultural association (Grange move- ments to save freight, commissions, etc.,) in purchases and sales;-but they should attack the isolated household to-be fully successful. Truthful commercial “ concurrence.” (I think the Grange movement is in this direction.) ' V The theory of gradual enfranchisementof women. ‘he intense interest on this subject is one of the most hopeful signs of emergence from a rotten civilization into a pure and rational societary order. The grand blunder of most advo- cates of “ womanfs rights” is their neglect or refusal to couple therewith co-operation in domestic life, which is the soul, whereof the suffrage, equal compensation, etc., are only the body. To most of those who exercise the suffrage to- day, it is but a “ mockery, a delusion and a snare ;” as far as regards any real choice in the matter,,they might as well put their ballots in the ﬁre as in the ballot-box. Systematic skepticism (which is riddling political, and social shame as well as religious ones). * Antedeluvian archaeology (which is rapidly demolishing theological idols, and clearing the track for the unobstructed march of social questions). Pivotal roads out of civilization; syntheses attributes; thorough exploration of the domai complete faith in God; societary algebra. of passional n of science; 3d Phase of Civilization. £6 56 55 Ambigue. or transition from Civ. to Guar. { lst Phase. I 2d 44 Guaranteeism. I Apogee. I 3d Phase. V , 4th “ Transition from Guaranteeism to Sociantism. ' 1’ 1st Phase. i 65 1, Apogee. 3d Phase. l 4th .. K 15. Transition from Sociantism to Harmony. 16. Harmony. 1st Phase. scum or 15 PHASES or REAL Pnoennss. o 5FSPes9gn“N“ Sociantism. ¥-ll-1 599° EXPLANATION.-—Th6 table begins with the latter half of the Fifth Period, or Civilization. “Guaranteeism ” is the Sixth Period. “ Sociantism” is understood to be equiva- lent to the Seventh Period in the “Tableaux of the First ‘Phase of the Social movement ” previously given. ..._..—.__u - Dear Weekly; It is incomprehensible how a reader of the WEEKLY, who looks with interest for the radical articles from Helen Nash, can call her expression of the feelings of the parents of Mattie Strickland a “ sneer,” as is done in the article over the signature of M. D. Bradway. I cannot believe in the possibility of a woman who pro- mulgates the philosophies Miss Nash does, sneering at a men- tal condition which results from the eﬂorts of one who leaves all to follow the line of development which intuition andicir. cumstances indicate. After several readings I can detect no sneer, but a reasonable representation from the “line of her own vision.” Of what signiﬁcation is the answer of the ma- jority-—notoriety—to the minority who are battling for the grandest condition of humanity——untrammeled lives? Shall this almost universal verdict deter those who-foresee the seas of suﬂfering tbrough which some souls mustopass before more endurable conditions can beattained for humanity, from giving expression to the belief that this individual case of " publishing to the world that she had gone counter to the customs of the country. and the wishes of her parents.” universal personal freedom? p The question “ has the obligation of honor and duty to parents become obsolete?” ought to be thoroughly discussed., I offer my experience and observation as testimony to the fact that it ought to be in most cases where children have at- tained a self-supporting age and condition. I class this with the man-made precepts which pass current for the religion of Christ, and which have kept full force and pace with some other superstitions. With this idea thoroughly ingrained in the average parent, the child has about as much chance to develop the possibilities‘of its nature, as husbands and wives have under the present marriage system of expanding their mental vision to sense anything beyond personal ownership. Parents imbued with this idea, “children obey your pa- rents,” hold their children in such bondage that their na- tures are utterly perverted. and impose duties so revolting to their moral sense, that parental discipline is felt to be a curse instead of a blessing, and every effort made to escape it. My parents had intense love for their children, but their religious belief of children’s obligations rendered them so ‘morbid in their demands that their discipline was almost an unc-easing system" of repression. My sense of justice was early developed, and when thirteen years old I said, at the conclusion of a lecture by my father on duty, “father, I feel that parents owe duties to children as well as children to parents.” From that time I never felt the bondage of en- forced obedience against my judgment. Judged from the standpoint of human needs and supplies what cause has the average child to feel obligations to the average parent? VVhat degree of duty can a thinker reason- ably expect them to feel? The conditions that gave them being are not of their creating, and when their wants begin to manifest themselves they ﬁnd them poorly supplied, and on every hand they ﬁnd life a struggle that seems undesir- able. I believe facts will reveal about as much wisdom in the “inchoate” state of the average child of self-supporting age and condition, as in -the “maturity” of the average parent. What if time does show that “evil” results from the step? Will our reflections then teach us that it is wisdom for us to never move for fear of stumbling? If such thoughts and ‘fears possess us, we had better enter some Ark of safety where we will not feel inclined to go “counter to the customs of society.” » As all these premeditated innovations on customs are experi- ments, it is natural for the interested parties to be anxious about the developments. If evil results, I could not censure ‘the actors, but grant them another trial, with as extensive a publication as theinjudgments dictate. Does afailure in any direction forfeit one’s right to another attempt to succeed? Do failures prove that the principle of freedom will never become so evolved that the condition we term evil will be eliminated ? I can scarcely reconcile the closing sentence of M. D. Brad- way’s article. I consider the word prostitute, in connection with the case, an insult. As a reader of the WEEKLY, and a believer in the principles of social freedom, I enter an ear- nest protest agaiust the use of the word prostitute, in con- nection with a case of this kind, by any.radica1 Spiritualist. V , MISS SABR-A A. STRANG. ORANGE, Clinton County, Iowa. _.,5g[See M. D. Bradway.’s letter in another column.) ’=* EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG. ' (From the World of the Unseen.) The course of instruction to be pursued in regard to the young, as viewed from the standpoint of the present con- trolling intelligence, is to teach them that the union of the sexes from the basic planes of love is sure to result in failure » and disgust, and the offspring resulting are liable to be inferior and imbecile. Then let us plainly say, reformers of the earth, teach your children what the manifestations of those basic laws are. First, animal heat, followed by desire and a ﬁerce culmination, if not restrained by reason and intuition. In fact, taking the physical ﬁrst, then the mental and spirit- ual, teach them the results, just as you would mathematics or any of the physical sciences. The ﬁner and higher law of magnetic attraction does not come early. It‘is a later de- velopment where -the intellectual faculties come in play. When these are in operation they determine the permanency of a union from which offspring may result perfect in intel- lect and physique. - Therefore, we say, let the young minglefreely socially, but not sexually, during the time of development. As the intel- lect matures, let magnetic attraction be the governing law. Many will manifesttheir attraction in Iva monogamic way; while some, from less harmonious conditions, will be born polygamic or incapable of permanent attachments. We un- derstand the word monogamic to be almost synonymou with the word concentrative. As if one chooses a. business, all the energies of the person are directed on it, so if one chooses an object of affection. the love-nature is lavished there ;, and this, so to speak, is the home of the aﬁectional in that per- son’s nature. ’ ' A And further, as things are now with you,we do not take the broadest ground, but think it best to conform to existing laws, even if unions should be entered into "under protest with published conditions which make it in law none the less marriage. as 11,1 the Miller-strickiand case. Reformers bears the relation of an important move in the march toward ' -,.LT'I'-:1“.-.‘.’-“,v.v5=)¢ ‘ June 3, 1876 I wo0Diib"I.I. as oi.AFLI‘N*s warms. s are not yet strong enough to stand alone in defence of their truth, and any attempt to do so now would bring ruin and disgrace to the children resulting from such unions, and also bring the law heavily to bear against those who thus become the marks and targets for the outburst of popular fury; truth would be crushed to earth in the "anarchy and chaos of of the time, andthe dark night of ignorance would reign for along period to come. The case of southern slavery is often referred to as a parallel to the present one. This is so in principle; but circumstances, as seen ‘by us, make them greatly diﬁ‘er._ In that case there was a large party here at the North with a unanimous adverse opinion; in the ca_se before us, there is only now and then _one in any community who has yet received the light,“and there is a great state of unpreparedness in the public mind. Let us not be misunderstood. We do not advise inher- monious relations. When nature divorces, let the parties seek freedom in separation as the only safety from disease that is sure to result in continuing in such connection. Most divorces can be obtained easily, and the laws‘ molded by a growing public opinion are getting so that they can be made easier and easier. , e v A “ Learn to labor and to wait,” but never cease to agitate ll Agitate in every possible and rational way until this greatest of all truths—nature’s laws in regard to sex—shall be known to all. H. W. BoozER.' GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. i (From The Manufacturer and Builder, N. Y. City, Edited by ’ P. H. Van Der Weyde M. D.) I THE NEW YORK LIBERAL CLUB. Some six years ago, Mr. D. T. Gardner, with some of his friends, conceived the idea of founding a club for the discus- sion of scientiﬁc and other subjects, but which should differ from the ordinary debating clubs in such essential features as would give it a more solid character . It was decided that the club should. meet one evening each week, and that then‘ one of the members should give a lecture on some subject of interest, giving him the utmost liberty in the choice of sub- ject and in the views represented, but that after the close of the lecture such other members as possessed additional infor- mation on the subject, or were desirous of presenting oppo- site views, should also be allowed full liberty to ventilate them in speeches not exceeding ten minutes each; that then the lecturer should have the privilege of closing the discus- sion in a ﬁfteen—minute address, while the public should be admitted free. As soon as this club was organized and had commenced its operations, it was greatly appreciated by that portion of the intelligent public who relish receiving information of an often spicy debate. The number of members increased. aswell as the respectability of the club as a body; the late Horace Greeley accepted the Presidency, and after his decease, Mr. James Parton became his successor, and is still its President. Soon non-members offered to give lectures before the club, and some eminent men, foreigners as well as Americans, have in this way been very useful to the interests of the club, and also to the public attending the meetings. The small room where the club met at first was soon abandoned for a larger one, while it now occupies quite a large hall, seating about 1,000 persons, and which is crowded at almost every meeting. The most peculiar feature of this institution, is that it is truly liberal, as its name indicates, though not in a political sense. Notwithstanding politics are not excluded, the club is by no means political, but rather a scientiﬁc organization, as its leadingmen are of a more scientiﬁc turn of mind; still among its members men and women of every stamp are found, and of the most extreme views in religion, politics. science, etc., and this is exactly what makes the discussions so extremely interesting. Notwithstanding all this, the members always treat one another with parliamentary politeness, even when uttering the most severe criticisms on the opinions of their oponents, and to their credit it must be acknowledged that in the ex- citement of debate personalities have always been avoided. This is indeed remarkable, as the club contains orthodox and liberal Christians, and Jews, Christian and Inﬁdel Spiritual- ists, women’s—rights defenders, Positivists, Socialists, Deists, Pantheists, downright Atheists, and Universologists, with the Pantarch himself at the head. - The simple existence of such a club as a noble example of extreme tolerance can not but have a good inﬂuence on socie- ty, showing practically as it does the way in which we must treat those who differ from us in their views, to all those wlzo regularly orloccasionall y visit the meetings. An example of what can be done by good-will and proper co—operation, was shown when a member made the sugges- tion to found a circulating library; at once scores of mem- bers volunteered to furnish books from their own collections. Some gave six, some a dozen or more, some ﬁftyior a hun- dred, and in a short time a choice library of several hundred volumes was established, many of which are now in the hands of the members, while one of the members volunteered to act as librarian on those days when books are given out and returned. - 1 Another peculiar feature became apparent when one of the wealthy members offered a lotof ground and several thous- and dollars with an invitation to further subscriptions, so that the club could erect itsown building. This was strong- ly opposed by the leading members; the example of the American Institute was pointed out, which, being posessed of valuable property and salaried officers, is at every election subject to a severe struggle on the part of the outs to get in, while, on the contrary, in the Liberal Club as now organized, nobody can expect to gain any ‘pecuniary advantages; the the elections are peaceful, intriguing agitators are keptaway, and only such persons take part who have a purely philosoph- ical turn of mind and love knowledge and truth above all things. A ‘ Another instance of a similar kind was shown when a very enlightened physician of New York, suffering from an incurs- L ble disease, and knowing that his end was to be expected in about four months, desired to will to the club his whole for- tune, (which was considerable,) on the condition that it should be employed to further his liberal views, especially in regard to the _social aud political condition of women, whose condition he considered inferior to that of men, and wished to have raised to a higher level. He had sons, who however did n-ot need his fortune, and therefore he wished to do as much good with "his posessions as he considered possible. The club, after due deliberation, also refused this offer, and advised the testator to will all to his sons. The conviction has now settled upon the minds of all that the safety of the New York Liberal Club is bas

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