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Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Journal., vol. 12, no. 03 (January 29, 1881)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-2128
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1881-01-29
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: i of honour .9 , We , ...;::—;,«.«.—~ . ““' A Jezzrzzal devoted to t]2e_A.dV0eaey of Great 'S0e1'a.Z Questions and for the Hjgher‘Iﬁ”stz°uetio11 an cl II11p1°0V61218I2t of Woman. avot. XII., No. 3.—-VVHOLE No. 239.. LONDON, ENGLAND, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1881. PRICE 10 CENTS. “The author of Ct great reforma,tio-it is aezli/my/s Tmipojoztletr in his own age. II e gene- rally passes his life in disquiet and clemger. It is therefore for the interest of the hzmicm ’§9"Ct06 that the memory of such men shoitlcl be had in reverence, and that they should’ be s-at,-pportecl etgetirtst the scorn and hatred of ztheir contemporaries by the hope of teeming on great ct-not imperishable name. To go on the _ forlorn hope ofTr2tth is Ct service ofperiZ——who will imdertcthe it, if it be not also a service I t is ﬂeets}/ﬂe1z‘0‘zt_€jh, after the rmnparts are cctrriecl, to ﬁnd men to plemt the ﬂag on the highest tower. The ctiﬁeulty is to ﬁnd men who are ready to go ﬁrst into the bre...
Show morei of honour .9 , We , ...;::—;,«.«.—~ . ““' A Jezzrzzal devoted to t]2e_A.dV0eaey of Great 'S0e1'a.Z Questions and for the Hjgher‘Iﬁ”stz°uetio11 an cl II11p1°0V61218I2t of Woman. avot. XII., No. 3.—-VVHOLE No. 239.. LONDON, ENGLAND, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1881. PRICE 10 CENTS. “The author of Ct great reforma,tio-it is aezli/my/s Tmipojoztletr in his own age. II e gene- rally passes his life in disquiet and clemger. It is therefore for the interest of the hzmicm ’§9"Ct06 that the memory of such men shoitlcl be had in reverence, and that they should’ be s-at,-pportecl etgetirtst the scorn and hatred of ztheir contemporaries by the hope of teeming on great ct-not imperishable name. To go on the _ forlorn hope ofTr2tth is Ct service ofperiZ——who will imdertcthe it, if it be not also a service I t is ﬂeets}/ﬂe1z‘0‘zt_€jh, after the rmnparts are cctrriecl, to ﬁnd men to plemt the ﬂag on the highest tower. The ctiﬁeulty is to ﬁnd men who are ready to go ﬁrst into the breeteh.”—-Loan MACAULAY ..- .__‘.__:-___ ....j._.._. << TRUTH causueo TO EARTH.” , \ F :OOKING with sorrowing eye upon decay-. ing nations, upon the fairest and noblest of 5' the race’ borne helplessly round in the3*:_§1'i$i.els.t1‘on1i of human passion, I,...ten years since, establislied a journal, the aspiration of which was the emancié pation of woman, the leading of her out from her bondage of many-centurield wrongs, into the eelestial love-light of true womanhood. The development of circumstances demands that the silence which I have long imposed upon myself should be broken. Oalumny I had hoped would, ere this, have sunk and perished in its own corruption. But it has been or- dained otherwise, so that its destruction might be the more signal and profound. Gethsemane has still her dew of blood, and the souls of the slain cease not to cry out from beneath the altar of God, “How long? How long?” Achan is yet v in the camp ; but I shall rest nevermore until it has been cleansed fi*om the unclean thing. The ful- ness of harvest-time is come, and the tares must be burned with unquenchable ﬁre. , ~ From its high and holy mount of vision the . ‘Spiritual has proclaimediithe adveiit of celestial light. But, alas I there are many, even of the children of light, who hail not its coming with jubilation, and S who receive higher notions of life as hard sayings. They‘ regard with sorrow the golden—girdled chry— salis rent and forsaken, and look almost with .anger upon the burnished creature of fair splen- dour that has risen from it, and rests with ﬂuttering wings beside it, bidding them~not seek the living among the dead. They see not Jesus, only the grave-clothes in His sepulchre. Christ cometh. and His own know Him not. Truth should speak with pentecostal tongue one language to all hearts; yet they hear not the whispering of the living waters, and behold only afar, and almost as a strange city, the New Jerusalem, ﬁlled with the victor-song and the sound of the crystal sea. As the soft breathings of a silver lute is the still sweet Voice of Him whose throne is the ;, .,.a.,,e~~'*‘«,_>§5§:_f.4__ ,. thyself to be degraded into an unholy vessel. Vmorning star; it toucheth their ears and they are not opened.. It gently falleth as a dcwy and celestial balm, and they feel it not. And why is this? Because certain of those who might have been teachers of men have infused a poi- sonous leaven into the bread of .life, and profaned the holy temple; whilst ready—voiced Slander, the zealous servant of Satan, goeth to and fro, as a pest-stricken wretch amongst a multitude, devastating goodness, dosolating truth,— wounding grievously Where it cannot kill, and, above all, seeking always;_to_d_i_vorce love and purity. The‘ serpent hath ever hissed against the nobler life. Of old, he marred man, the masterpiece of the Creator, in‘ the Eden of his sbody; to-day, he would altogether destroy him by luring him to things in the spiritual world have their correspon- dence in the earth and in man, so the demoniacal serpent has a material human representative in Stephen I’earliAndrews—-—the originator of the most immeasurable infamy that ever formed a plague-stone in the temple of humanity. Pantarchic Free—Love, the inverted interpretation of the Divine commandment; perverting that which is pure and passionless as a snowy a.nd ethereally fragrant lily reposing on the holyi waters of life, and as a consecrated fragrance from the celestial pyre of love immortal, into‘ that abomination of desolation of promiscuous impurity. Stephen Pearl Andrews! I impeach thee before the judgment bar. Pure hearts, which might have communed with their Maker in the spiritual Sinai, hast thou, by i_nfernal wiles, tempted to bow down before the idol of lust in the valley of the flesh. The living words, traced by Grod’s ﬁnger in celestial characters upon the red tablet of the heart, thou hash sought to eﬁace. With daring hand thou art ﬁlling up the measure of human wickedness. Arch-blasphemerl Wouldst thou cast the ﬁery serpent of uncleanness into’ the holy ark of the Lord itself? Many? are willing to build tabernacles on the Mount of Transﬁguration; how few to carry the torch of light into the’ dark valley whence resounds the cry for help? But none liveth to himself; none dieth to himself. All . ye who love humanity, aid me in rescuing the sons and daughters of men from him who would trample all that is ethereal, beautiful, in- corruptible and immortal, into a pestilential mire of sensual grossness. Strengthen my hands in breaking down this monstrous lie-dam upon the river of truth. Permit not the pearl of great price, take11 out of the living waters, sought for and wo11 with so much labour and suffering, to‘ be defaced. Mani barter not thy birthright for a mess of poisonous pottage. Womaiil thou precious‘ vase of incomparable alabaster, in which burneth the lamp of God, suffer not Because I have unearthed the dust-eating serpent of lust coiled in the death-mould of ﬂeshly sensuality, and laid bare its material hideous- ness, unrelentingly have I been assailed. Re- deemer! arise in the majesty of Thy glory, dissipate the huge misty spectre that stands between man and the light of God. VICTORIA C. WOODHALL. VIGTAORIIA wooDHALL’sﬂ VINDICATION. ,< From. the COURT JOURNAL, Jazzuary 1, 1881. IiR_.,-——To successfully defend oneself against ‘ poisoned shafts of calumny is almostan ' . :irc111r:§t %;:f c ‘I gi11g,7‘ci<)zeni1ig slaves {iii-th itching tongues addietd to lyi' or and slandering work mischief long before it is di:sicove1'ed, and when, in certain cases, it be- comes next to futile to set about undoing the evil that has been wrought. Flying rumours gather as they roll, blighting and blasting the fair fame of individuals, when not even Virtue itself escapes such venomous breath. Of course the statements of slanderers are generally, to employ the terse language of a great English Writer, . “ As far from their report As they from honour.” The ‘ moths that eat an honest name,” the vipers that sting unblemished reputations in the dark, take care, as a rule, that they keep a strict incognito. Far worse than assassins who openly strike down their unsuspecting victims in broad light of day, they compass their evil designs in a Wary manner, such proeedurebeing just in harmony with their cringing, cowardly souls. Hamlet’s remark to Ophelia is but too true to real life at the present day: “ Be‘ thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.” Sometimes it happens that the more untainted the character of a person, the blacker hue of slander is.cast,}1p011 it-,. .N0t,§.i13.b.ut that to .qt1.0t,e the pregnant words of Fielding, “ the slander‘ of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.” Witli all noble, generous, high-toned minds this naturally is so. But, as the majority of persons are not trained up to this standard of moral excellence, an opposite effect is produced to the injury of the innocent and the unoffending. Doubtless the malign mission of L the traducer would speedily be brought to an end were there no eager listeners, whose ready ears take in with ill- concealel delight, the Ve11o1nous tell-tale gossip that happens to be on the wing. Hence it is that an old author makes the sagacious suggestion : “Those men who carrylabout, and who listen to accusations, should all be hanged; the carriers by their tongues and the listeners by their ears.” When, Sir, an “ unprotected ” woman, like my-4 self, becomes the target, at. which the reckless slanderer aims his thrusts, it is still worse. In. the \ . 2 I’/VOODIIIAZLZ. A./VD CL/IFL[[V’S 570?/Yfjl/'/IL. JANUARY 29, 1881. 0 first place, she can scarcely escape becoming the: victim of malevolent designs, inasmuch as she deprived of tlie power of self-defence; while, secondly, for the feminine character to be “ blown upon,” however slightly, quite suffices to place; L inmost being. ~earnes.tness of righteous indignation, that during a ban upon it. F or some years past. some evil-disposed persons on the other side of the Atlantic have been making free with my 1'ep.ut.ati;mr, which is far dearer to me than life. As I had led a public life, and had, by my strenuous advec€};cy' of Wo1iian’s. Rights, acquired a wide-spread pep-u-I larity, I did not care to busy myself much with j the unpleasant and uncongenial avocaticn of re- butting vile and unfounded rumours. lVhils‘. I felt deeply the grievous wrong done to my high principles and my untarnished name, nevertlieless I did not suffer such malevolent nianifestationsﬁ to arouse 1ny ire, on the principle promulgated by the dramatist, = 9 ,, ‘‘‘Who’s angry at a slander makes it true.” As a public character who wrote a good deal on current political, social, and economical topics, and whose career as a successful platform speaker was unprecedented, I, naturally enough, expected that I should not escape scathless. I was scarcely prepared, however, for the outpouring of calumny which was to assail my reputation as a woman, a wife, and a mother. New and again, with tongue and pen, I did essay to clear away the stigma most wrongfully attaching to my name. For a time I effectually silenced my traducers. But, like the calm which presages a storm, the lull of wagging tongues was but of comparatively brief duration. At a fitting time, and on an important occasion, the blatant voice of calumny is again heard; unscrupulous and corrupt minds give full vent to the stored-up venom within them; while cancerous tongues wag glibly with insin_uations——- direct accusations there are none——calculated to befoul an unsullied reputation and an honoured name-—a name which I had flattered myself should have long survived my mortal destiny. The Fates, however, have not so willed it.- And now, sir, much to my mortification I am I quit "h_e2‘isl1ecL;p1‘iv'> v, and Vi. " my {ices tl rough the only medium open to me——the generous British Press. While I take up the slender weapon of self-de- fence, I feel my comparative; powerlessness. Hence the diffidence with which I address myself Ii) '1 T :1 - -J- I to the onerous task of vindicating my womanly honour from the foul reflections cast upon it by those who are utterly unacquainted with the principles that guide my conduct, with the nature of my inner life, or the sentiments that pervade and sustain my soul. Nor should I even attempt to struggle with the hydra-headed monster-- Calumny--had I not implicit faith in the power of Truth, and in its ultimate triumph. Otherwise I fear that I should be in the unenviable position of one who—- “ Tilts with a straw Against a giant cased in adamant.” My name. has been most unrighteously asso- ciated with what is known by the name of “ Free Love.” No viler an aspersion was ever uttered. _No greater outrage could be inflicted on a woman. No deeper wrong could be done to the innocent. And here, Sir, it behoves me to mention the manner in which my name first got mixed up in connection with a small section of the American community called “ Free ILovists,’l for: whom, ever since I became acquainted with their prin- ciples, I have entertained the profoundest abhor- rence. For several years I was the ostensible editor of a New York journal, the main objectsof which was the elevation of woman, politically, morally, and religiously. I did my best to con- duct the paper and to keep it true to the purposes with which it set out. It happened, however, that I could not always read and select the contributions sent me for insertion therein. My lecturing en- gagements i11 distant parts of the States, some- times extending over one hundred nights, prevented such rigid supervision, or, indeed, any supervision at all. Still I had not the slightest apprehension that any matter should find its way into; the columns of my journal calculated to lower its tone or taint its character; But so it was. Articles . favouring Free-Love appeared without my know- ledge or sanction, which startled the readers of my hitherto spotless print. But the evil done did not rest here. I became inculpatedt as though I was morally responsible. for utterances and doctrines which I loathe and abhor from the depths of my I now openly avow, with all the no part of my life did I favour Free Love even tacitly. VVith the feelings that should actuate ievery sanctified wife and mother of a family‘, I regarded it with loathing when once I got a slight idea of its character and the deep infamy to which it led. And such is my state of feeling at the present time. I only wish that this honest, un- T reserved declaration, which, through your ceurtesy I ‘am enabled to make, would exonerate me from any degree of responsibility. in the matter, silence serpent tongues, and clear my reputation from the slur which ignorant, unthoughtful, or vindictive persons have cast upon it, reckless of V. C. W. the result. It may be asked, I/Vhy did not l\Irs. I/Voodliall take this mode of vindication at an earlier period, seeing that she had the power of clearing herself at once of all the calumny which had been heaped upon her? The answer is lst. That she arrived in this country in an almost dying condition, and it is only quite recently that she has sufiiciently recovered to undertake any exciting work. 2nd. A feeling of burning shame that she should ever have fallen into the hands of such a man as her husband proved himself to be, and the strongest disinclination to approach the odious subject. 3rd. The intention on her part was not to ex- pose the man who had been her husband, provided he had ceased to follow her with his vile and dastardly fabrications. [The annexed article we reproduce from The Quzbczr, a prominent London religious periodical. It is from the pen of a well-known clergyman, who has taken the moral measure of a certain class of social pests. VVe have rarely if ever perused so powerful and eloquent a denunciation of slanderers and their willing allies, the talebearers. unrighteous slander, which no power of ours has been as yet fully adequate to suppress. We now call upon the whole Press of America to aid us in unearthing those vile traducers who wanton with our good name, which, though nothing to them, is to us our all, dearer than life itself. Whoever has aught to say against us let him come forward and say it, or else for ever hold his peace. If any one living can point to any corrupt or unwomanly action of our life, now is the time for him to point his ﬁnger at us, and disclose what he has to say. We now wish that our American friends would act upon Mr. Alexander’s suggestion and “set traps” to catch our traducers. Then we could proceed crimi- nally against the parties, as our object is to right our reputation and not to recover damages by taking civil process.—V. C. W.] THE TALEBEARER. By 1726 REV. THOMAS .ALEXANDER, M.A. “ The words of a talebearer are as wounds.”—PROV. Xviii. 8. HERE are other ways of “doing murder ” than by the use of the cord, the knife or the poison: and, short of death, how much evil may be wrought on a man! The acutest pain is not always that which has its seat in the body; but very many are brought down with sorrow to their grave by the unseen yet barbed and poisoned arrows which stick fast in the soul. “The words of a talebearer are as wounds.” If an accurate estimate could be made of all the wreck and suffering of this world, it would be found, in our opinion, that war does not take the heaviest share to itself. VVar has its alleviations: it has its fierce joys and its pomp and circumstance what men call “glory.” War is not perpetual. The gates of the Temple of Janus have been shut : but from “the words of the talebearer” you have no cessation: to them there is no alleviation. I11 a fair stand-up ﬁght you may vanquish your enemy and feel that you have ﬁnally made an end of him. 'With the talebearer you cannot grapple: he ﬁghts you at a distance, in the darkness; he stabs you as you sleep, or from behind. He follows you everywhere : cats with you from your own dish, and then lifts up his heel against you. Besides, he is usually so weak, wretched, and , worthless a thing, that you cannot even grasp him Vv'e~l~.1ave l'B§e,rr been the victim of C) hard, for fear of causing the annihilation that is ever so near him : you can only suffer silently, and possess your soul in patience. “Have you heard the news?” he breathlessly begins. “A said to me that he heard B say to O, that you were heard saying”--saying something. Or you are speaking; to the talebearer, or to. some one in his presence, V abouta friend. He overhears part of your utter- ance, and immediately he is off to your friend with the intelligence of what you said, or did not say, of him. “ behind his back.” He puts all his own: ignorance and malice in» his report-—-not one grain of your kindliness, humour, and genuine love for‘ your friend——and the deed is done. The poison is in the “wound” which “the words of the tale- bearer” have made, and you have one friend fewer, one enemy more, than you had in this: world. 3 But that is only the source of the waters of wrath. C'7~escz't ezmdo. The river grows, and.’ gathers strength and bitterness, as it flows on from mouth to mouth, and man to man. “The be- ginning of strife is as when one letteth out water,” and it is only “where there is no talebearer that the strife eeaseth.” The talebearer is, almost of necessity, a liar. His tale-‘is usually a reported one, and he makes no effort to sift its truthfulness, and to separate the false from the true. He is careful to inform you that he is not the originator, but simply the repeater or reporter of the stor , and that he tells it. you “exactly as it was told to him.” He has lost part of the facts, however, by the way; does not repeat others ; gives emphasis to such places as are capable of being made to look very black, and there he leaves it, and you, with a comfortable sense of having discharged a painful duty; he has. been “faithful,” and having sown the tares, he goes to sleep till they grow: and they do grow, very rapidly. At other times he is unusually earnest: he has seen and heard himself. This time there can be no doubt, for he is the witness. “ You may take my word for it, he actually did say so and so ; I give you his very words; I could swear to them, ’ -v Very likely, and/yet in such a case there may be, and often is, the biggest and the blackest lie of all. For there are so many things that a man, who is even willing to report honestly and truthfully, cannot report. There are the circumstanqces out of which the conversation grew : there is the whole scope and drift of that which pre- ceded and followed: there is the tone of voice, look, manner, each shading of which varies the meaning of words: there is, above all, the feeling in the - iiiniac . d were-.’ one time all conveyed by any one statement, and the part left behind unexpressed might, and most rest; and if you add, as you always ought, the ignorance and malice of the talebearer, where and what is “ the truth” which could be sworn to? It adds unspeakably to the poignancy of the. “ wounds ” caused by the “words” of the talebearer that usually he has so little else to carry than “tales.” Of his own, beyond colouring matter, and a little of the inventive faculty, he has most, commonly next to nothino*, In other respects he is frequently a harmless sort of creature, like the fly that will settle on your face, and which is sufficient. to keep you awake. He does not always mean. to make strife, only he must talk, and in the utter- absence of other presentable materials, he is driven to that frequent refuge of the destitute—-tale-- bearing. There is a world of meaning in these two lines of Thomas I-Iood’s, that———. “Evil is wrought by the want of thought As well as by want of heart.” If there were fewer that listened to idle tales, there would be fewer talebearers in the world. But men not only listen to the tattle of the tale- bearer, they believe him, and in many cases act. upon his utterances. It is astonishing what dis-I regard men show for the simplest, most ordinary, and most obvious laws of evidence, when the tale- bearer is in question. If the veriest blackguard is haled from the street, brought into the presence of a magistrate, charged with the paltriest offence, and a sworn witness against him begins by saying i——“ M1‘. A B told me——-—-” “ Stop, sir,” says the magistrate; “what Mr. A B told you is not heart of the speaker, which hardly ever is at any probably would, have changed the aspect of all the l 34,.» JANUARY 29, 1881. IPVOODHALL /1./VD C11/JF[.]fV°S 7OU_/YZV/11.. I 3 evidence. Bring Mr. A B here, and let him tell that himself. Be good- enough, sir, to conﬁne yourself to what you yourself saw and know.” And, observe, all this must be said and done before the person accused. Behind his back, absolutely nothing can go on. At each stage he must be permitted to examine and cross-examine the witness, add explanations, call other witnesses to bring out all the facts of the case, and then reply on the whole evidence, before even eoininittal can be arrived at. But the talebearer puts himself in the witness-box : the accused party is absent and ignorant of the wliolo transaction :‘ the talebearer is not sworn, often not examined nor cross-examined: no witnesses are heard for the -defence, no explanations are asked, no corrobora- tive evidence demanded: the other party consti- tutes himself judge and jury, rapidly sums up, gives judgment, passes sentence, and imm:diately orders execution. And sometimes this sentence so~ :arrived at is “ death”———deat.li to all friendship between him and me : “ I shall never speak to him again.” Death; let the sentence be executed with- «out delay. How often has this most monstrous and summary proceeding been -gone through in the reader’s own experience I Every honest man should set liixnself to the putting down of these pests of society. They should be hunted out, and cxterminated, as the vilest of ivermin. Men should combine, and go in league against them, as they do against vipers, snakes, and the whole serpent tribe. Traps, gins, and snares, should be set for their feet, as for wild beasts and foxes. And the method of procedure is simple. Take it from another of those wise proverbs, given to us by God: “ Vfliere no wood is, there the ﬁre goeth out.” .The ﬁre will be «effectually extinguished without the necessity of water, if only you stop the supply of the fuel. ‘Cease to listen to the talebearer, and his ﬁre will go out: his “ wounds” and his “ words ” will be harmless. Cease to listenI,’orl cease Ito give cre- -dence ; hear as if you heard not ; pass on to other matters ; go clean over him and his tale, and forget it utterly. He who adds fuel to the ﬁre by re- peating the tale of the talebearer is piily a,sli,ac_lo_w, less guilty than he who originated it. “Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in Thy holy hill ? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketli the truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with -his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor to/get/L up a reproach against his neighbour.” “ He that back- biteth not with his tongue ;” 5.6., he who is no tale- bearer. But there is another side to it: “nor take!/2 up a reproach against his neighbour.” If there were fewer men to “ta./ce up” the evil re- preach, there would be fewer to ma/:6 it up, and ‘fewer to carry it about when made. The tale- ioearer usually concludes——for he is a coward--- vith, “ Now, mind, do not for the world say that I told you ; don’t mention my name at all in the .~inatter.”t He who acts on such “information” is as bad as the man who gives it, ifnot worse. “ Will you go with me and repeat all that before his face, that I may hear his explanation, and know whether this be all true, and whether I have got all the truth?” L If not-, then a speedy end ought to be made to the whole business—-—the heel put on the burning coal to crush it in the dust. [Our motive for publishing the annexed ~ -article is urgent, inasmuch as we have been bitterly reproachod by our English friends for not having denounced our- "viliﬁers, and proceeded against them criminally, previous to our coming to England. That we have done so, the following article is suflicient evidence. This article, we think it well to add, was reproduced in many leading daily journals of the United States. Iaving preferred the restoration of our good name, we were sufficiently satisﬁed, not caring for money damages, or wishing to display what might be construed as vindictive feeling by having recourse to legal process. We feel it our duty to assert, that when once the editors of the variouspapers found they were in the wrong, and that our explanations were satisfactory, they afforded such amends as lay in their power.——V. G. W.] From the CINCINNATI ENQUIRER. NEW YORK, July 27, l876.——-Fi'om all oyei‘ the -country,papers are pouring in containing a wickedly false and maliciously libellous article against me, which is credited to the Cincinnati Engzmrr. I have not yet seen that paper, but have ordered my attorneys" to procure half a dozen from your cities, properly identiﬁed. I did not intend to make any reply to this malignant attack until I should have them; but the injury I have already suffered urges me to wait no longer, and the hot blood of indignation coursing in my veins as each fresh repetition comes will not allow me to wait. What makes me more indignant, and the article all the more viciously malicious, is that it was brought to me before it was sent for publication, at which time I pronounced it utterly false, and informed the person who brought it that I should procure indictments against everybody who should have anything to do with its publication. Thus the En_qm'rer was warned of its character, and has no excuse. It has ‘deﬁed me by the publication. It deserves to be made responsible to the extent to which responsibility can be carried, both by in- dictment and civil suit for damages. Under the aggravating circumstances I am not certain whether I ought to write at all ; whether at the outset I ought not, as much for the relations that such an outrage bears to the community as to myself, to begin at the other end. The press has fallen into a too common pra—etice of publishing libels one day only to retract them the next to escape their consequences, which has made it a re- proach to the American people and a byword to the othernat-ions. I was thunderstricken to learn that the Enqu-irer, which I had uniformly found a most honourably-conducted paper, could be invcigled by a New York correspondent into the publication of an article which, to say nothing about its dozen libels, has all the ear-marks of a writer for the vilest police-sheet in the country. The low and vulgar conception evident in every sentence ought to debar a paper that would publish it from admis- sion into any family. And I was puzzled to know why the Enqmrci", of all other papers in the country, should have now given this exhibit of malice against me when it had been so courteous previously. When I lectured in Robinson’s Opera House last January, the En_(,rm'rer gave the best reports of my lectures, as well as the most flatter- ing personal comments of any of the city papers. Shame on the Engm'rer, to thus ruthlessly pur- -sue a woman, who through every form of opposition, and, self—made, has commanded such comments in its columns. Shame! Place these remarks side by side with this article as an exponent of its animus, and how much of it would stand for truth E Look at it as I may, I can see nothing but malice in it. It is a string of sentences, each one of which, save two, is barbed with a lie. Never was there such a mass of venom in so small a space. ~It«mus—t liavcbecn —prcpa—red revengcfully, probably‘ by some one who had sought and failed to black- mail mc to supp ‘css some such article. Such wan- ton maligning ; such persistent following of any- body by the press; of lOl"}g~Sll1CO exploded false- hoods ﬁrst in one and then another of the out- side papcrs by correspondents who live upon the price for suppressions of their damaging articles, failing to obtain which, they have them published, should receive severe chastisement. “Living with one who was recognised as her husband I ” Why shouldn’t I have lived with my husband ? and why shouldn’t he be recognised as such, when we were married in Dayton, Ohio, regularly and properly by a I’resby erian minister, the Rev. Mr. Thomas, in 18-38, the certiﬁcate of which, it is well known, I produced in the courts during our trials here in 1872 and 1873 ? Then, why these sneaking insinuations, unless it be to carry the idea that my life been irregular ? But how can I iindo the damage ? I never can. A lie travels where the truth can never follow it, and so much faster that the truth can never catch it. I shall have unnumbered papers sent me that contain the lies ; but I shall never hear of their refutation. Among the thousands before whom I have appeared this article will excite contempt for the papers that have publishedit, as I have already occasion to know. They understand the meaning of such articles, and are dr VII the nearer to me by them ; but it is among the millions upon whom, as a public speaker, I depend to make my audiences, in the places where I have never been, where the damage will be done. I’crhaps the ZL772gm'9"c9' does not know that during our trials in the courts, paid agents in the Beecher interest tr ced us from our cradle up, to fasten seine deed upon that llll<‘r“l'1t be shown in court to our clisadvantzagc, and failed to ﬁnd ablemisli even. All the vile insiniiations vanish into thin air in the lying lips of their inventors. Vicivuzin C. .WoonnAz;i..’ 1 Eciizforicsl of Me UI:¥C§INNA'l‘I Eiiouiiieiz. We have a startlire; card this morning from that very i-engiarl-;abl’c woman, "Victoria 0. Woodhull. A New letter, wliich we published the other day, contained seine inaccuracies which Mrs. W. has undertaken to corr=ect. In doing so, she has brought out some facts concerning her life, habits, attainments, «.l:c., which will be fresli to the public. Mrs. Woodhall says that she has ordered her attorneys to procure six copies of the Eaqirirer containing the matter complained of, properly identified. This would lead the public to believe that a lot of lawyers were about to be favoured with a big job, but we have Mrs. Woodhall’s as- surance that the publication of her card will be accepted as full reparation for the damage done. ». A FREE-LOVERVS “IN MEMORIAM.” HE British public can scarcely imagine the diabolical character of the principles and actions of those whose perverted minds gave form to a new social system, based upon the promiscuous intercourse of man and woman. Let the follow- ing published apostrophe upon a deceased so-called wife servelto throw a faint light on the subject. It appeared- on l‘:Iay 27-, 1871,- in -Wlood-/Lul-l-——a7zd— Clo/iz‘n’s lVecicZy :—— “Esrnnn B. Aunnnws, Wirii or STEPHEN PEARL A NDREWS, WHO INDITES THIS IN MEMORIAM. “ Never in her sensitive modesty really accepting the spontaneous homage which no great nature could with- hold in her presence. She was a great lover, rich passionately, magnetically, affectionately and senti- mentally, narrowed by no petty ideas of conven- tionalism; but tender and respectful to the ignorant bigotries of all.” Then, at the close of a long rhapsodical effusion, it thus terminates :— “ In a word, this grand woman was one of the Queen women—the Queen ‘Noman of the moral and social world. While her name has hardly been pronounced before the public at large, the circle of her private in- ﬁuence was of the widest and most efficient. Thousands of individuals have been reached and modiﬁed, and not a few regenerated by it. She now_ enters the heavens to reign morally and socially there, as much more, in herself and in her grand experiences of life, than Mary, the Mother of Jesus, or Anne Lee, or Olotilda de Vaux, as the developed and full—grown woman is more than the mere girl. She excels Mary, ‘ the Mother of God,’ as much as the age we live in excels the first Christian century, and she may be held in that esteem by all true Pantarcliians, and all apostles, Christ incarnated in her.” The writer even wentiso far as to boast of the number of liaisons his wife had formed during their supposedsinarried life. -— He is also _ have publicly said, that “ If the Saviour came down from heaven He should have to take His hat off to him.” COPY OF MRS. WOODHALL’S DPVOROE FROM COLONEL BLOOD. Szzprcmc Court, Qizeeifs County. V ICTOBIA O. W. BLooD of/ainst JAMES H. BLOOD. T a special term of the Supreme Court of the ,1” State of New York, held at the Court _ . - 7 House, in the City of Brooklyn, King s County, New York, on the 18t,l1 day of September, 1876. Present Hon. J. O DYKMAN, Judge. This action coming on to be heard on the summons complaint, and due proofs of the service of the summons and complaint on the defendant in the City of New York. The report of E. L. Sanderson, Est}, the referee heretofore duly appointed in this action, from which it appears that all of the material allegations charged in the COl‘]T)l‘1illlJ in this action are true, and have been A L AL “ provcn before said referee. - - '- ‘ . . 1 , - o I\*ow, on motion of II._J. Smith, Iiisq., attoiney for plaintiff, it is hereby ordered that the said report of said referee be conﬁrmed, and the said renort hereby is conﬁrmed accordingly, and it is J‘ ‘ ' . ‘ . - u 1. farther ordered and adjudged that the niaiiiage ‘pﬂi,\‘\'(30l1 the plaintiff, Victoria C. IV. Blood, and .,- _. _ V 1 the defendant, James II./ Blood, be (.llSSOlV8(J., and the said marriage is hereby dissolved ac~ coi'dino‘lv, and the parties are, and each of them is, I1‘GgtlUfl‘O111 the obligations thereof, and it shall . - 1 7-_ ' f be lawful for the plaintiff, V ictoria C. IV. Bl00d: J,-0 p1<‘I‘l'V '1o"Lll'l in the same manner as though the ‘Ag; ( :31’ A V . (l¢f.nii(l=1lli3 were actuallv dead, but it shall not be lawful for the defendant, James H. Blood, to marry :ig‘;i.i:i until t Ce obei’ (5, I575- J. H. Lumnm, Clerk. . of public morality. 4 W'00Df{AZ.Z. A./VD CLAFL[1V’S }”OU]€ZVAL. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mrs. ll"oorZ72aZZ, for .S:[?:’.?0l(I.l irmsozzs, liar alzfcrczl the ‘last ’v07zrcl in law‘ -mzazze, so as to 7'en.IZe2= it ?uu'f07wL wit/L tlzat atloptccl, by tile olal l’V00(l/’ea«llj2z11z,ll;2/ in the ll’2’.s=t (ff E/zglaind. Tl/"6 shall be glad to reccivre the names ry” .92zib.907*il7e7=.9 at our Oﬂlcc. 12, York Szfrcct, Cormt Gairdcni, London, Enzjlaml. Si(l7.rci'z';pt'i0ILs are 7'6Q’?1&S‘i‘(’(Z not to be mcuilccl mzt-ll tllcipaper has been recclrcrl for file ﬁrszf 5/z1a7'tc+7'. ;S'zlb.9crz'_ptio7L ﬁve dollars per mm'u222., zizwluclmg postage. T/zxz'.s* Z2cin_r/ but our preliminary 2298210, it is l'lm’lL‘ccl to one half the size of f'znfu7*c vzszunbcy-.s=. dﬁuohball auh elaﬂiife Enurnal. LONDON, ENGLAND, JANUARY 29, 1881. MORAL LEPROSY. By the REV. SAMUAELPHILLIPS DAY, London. BOUT ﬁve-and—twenty years ago a moral leprosy broke out in New York ‘City. A Free-Love Club was founded, the direct 0l3f;‘3CtS . of which were for a time hidden from the public. Citizens of both sexes were eligible, as candidates. By-and-by it was discovered that the members of this singular organisation repudiated the marriage tie; in fact, were the pronounced opponents of morality. To such lengths did they carry their vile practices that the civil authorities were induced to interrupt their nightly orgies. A raid was made upon the Club by the police, and certain persons were carried off to prison. A “new sensation” was created i11 America; while the daily journals gave due space to the nasty evidence given against the prisoners in public Court. This publicity had the effect of breaking up the Club. It did not, however, sweep away the contagious impurity from the land. The “ High Priest” of Free-Lovism enter- tained “ advanced views ” upon the nature of mari- tal relations, and the code that ordinarily governs the social intercourse of the sexes. Taking advan- tage of Mrs. VVoodhall’s long absence from New York City l1e had opportunities afforded him for airing his monstrous doctrines and giving utterance to his blasphemous sentiments. But the new apostie whe to perfect society, and who re- his as inspired, p1*op6ui1clc‘Zi views so shocking‘ that “the community, and even the authorities, interfered. Mrs. Woodhall, who first started her journal in 1870, was made the scapegoat for the evil doings of others. She was arrested and im- prisoned as the ostensible conductor of the print in which it was attempted to pollute the fountain N or are we to be sur,)rised at such an issue, considering that one eo1’:iributor——— Stephen Pearl Andrews, the high priest of de- bauchery——actually had the audacity and unblush- ing hardihood to append Mrs. VVoodhall’s signature to his ﬁlthy effusions. But, it will naturally be asked ,VVhy did Mrs. VVoodhall keep silent under the circumstances? The answer is simple and satisfac- tory. She acted thus to exculpate her husband, Colonel Blood, who was the responsible editor, and who was threatened with being “lynched” by an exasperated public. VVhen the vvhirlwind of public astonishment and reprobation which passed over America reached her—-the scapegoat of the enormi- ties of others,-—her hands were tied, for personal feelings restrained her from giving that all-sufﬁcing explanation. She shielded him who should have been as a right arm between her and the outer world. She bore the reproofs of many——a silent and living target pierced with innumerable darts. From that day to this, have the tares sown by the enemy in the furrows prepared for heavenly seed, been growing up. H Grreat pressure was brought upon Mrs. Woodhall in order that she should disclose the name of the writer of the “ Beecher Article.” Wliile in prison she was visited by some leading people connected with Plymouth Church. These friends made her the tempting offer of one hundred thousand dollars’ A and immediate freedom from incarceration, if she would but open her mouth. Her only reply was thus couched : “ No! we came here by no fault of ours, and shall not depart from hence until our character is completely vindicated.” promise. And she kept her‘ JANUARY 29, 1881. Although dragged to prison and through the Courts of their country, Mrs. 1Voodhall and her sister bore their sufferings 11obly. Their conscious innocence sustained them. As Lovelace has it :— “Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take ‘ That for an hermitage.” As was to be expected under the circumstances, they came forth triumphantly out of the ﬁery fur- nace into which they had been unrighteously cast. And yet the most strenuous efforts were made in cer- tain quarters to permanently tarnish their reputation and effect their punishment as the violators of social order and the ignorers of common decency. They threw themselves on their country, and they were acquitted; while leading journals spoke of them in terms of the highest praise. Perhaps never in the history of the world has a woman been so extolled on the one hand and so denounced- on the other, as Mrs. VVoodhall. Paeans of praise and notes of disparagement followed one upon the other, each striving for the mastery. For years a dark shadow hung over her name. Then the Beecher Trial, which caused intense excite- ment all through the States, came on. During the protracted proceedings, Stephen Pearl Andrews was called as a witness. Then he, with exultant pride, avowed himself the writer of the infamous part of the article to which Mrs. Woodl1all’s signa- ture had been fraudulently appended. So tardy an act of justice was only do11e when the victim of this man’s cowardice had suffered loss of property and well-nigh of life. It is now ascer- tained that the miscreant who sought to ruin a virtuous woman’s reputation, went off with the MS., so that at 'a future time no damning evi- dence could have been forthcoming against him. V/Vhile there lurked any danger he was appre- hensive of being discovered. This circumstance renders the dark deed the blacker. But what could be expected from a man who can affirm with the villain of an old dra1na:—- “ I can gild vice And praise it with alchemy, till it go For perfect gold.” Mrs. 1Voodhall’s character has been honourably cleared from obloquy. She is acquitted of enter- taining sympathy with the degrading principles of which Stephen Pearl Andrews is the champion. And yet, singular to record, “ Low-breath’d talkers, minion lispers, Cutting honest throats by whispers,” still strive to asperse her reputation. This they do by afliliating her spotless name with the loathsome teachings of one whom American society cannot refrain from regarding as a moral leper. The New York Daily Sun, in 1876, thus exculpates Mrs. 1/Voodhall from having any leaning towards Free—Lovism, as propounded by its principal apostle :—-“ Her social views are wholly different from his. shipped as God’s rarest work. He believes that she should bow to Stephen Pearl Andrews as a greater teacher than Jesus Christ. These differences were irreconcilable, and she long since recognised it, and ceased to allow him to cross her threshold. She owes him nothing, save the calumny that rests upon her name by associa- tion with his.”—S. PHILLIPS DAY. It has been reported, and most untruthfully cir- culated, that sMrs. Wooclhall has not propounded the same social views in England as she has in America. Mrs. .VVoodhall distinctly denies this charge as totally untrue, and appeals to the hearers of her lectures in London and throughout the Provinces, in proof of her having spoken on one subject only, namely, “ The Human Body the Temple of God.” She possesses the ﬁle of American papers reporting her lectures in her native land, which show that she has not changed her sentiments as stated by her accusers. The idea she always endeavoured to impress on her hearers was,—-that God’s love is a pure love and afree love to man, and this has nothing to do with the lustful idea of the Free-Lovists of America, who have most shamelessly associated these two antipathetic subjects. Latterly, owing to this degradation of the term Free- Lovo into that vvlxich is a sc::n:.l::l’ on her She believes woman should be wor- countrr, she has entirely disused and renounced‘ it as calculated to mislead, and has adopted a term far more comprehensive as well as expressive- of her views--—‘‘ God’s Love Free to All.” It is necessary to state that at the time the “Beecher Article” appeared Mrs. Woodliall was on a VVestern lecturing tour. The very night the paper went to press, she delivered an address at the Academy of Music, Chicago. It is well known that from the commencement of her journal, Mrs. VVoodhall was lecturing almost nightly from Maine to California, and for weeks together did not even see a copy of her paper. It is inconceivable how Colonel Blood could have suffered articles of a disgraceful and blasphemous nature to be inserted in a journal bearing his wife’s name, when: _he_ must have well known how her character for ‘purity would be damaged thereby. He held in his hands his wife’s honour; and how he protected that honour the American public can best judge. It is alleged on what we conceive to be unques- tionable authority, that Mr. Theodore Tilton has now in his possession Colonel Blood’s MS. of the “Biography,” in which he did his best to blast the fair reputation of Mrs. 1Voodhall and injure her family. VVhy does Mr. Tilton lie u11der this ban, ‘if he can clear himself by giving to the world the proof of his innocence? For a long time Mrs. Vi/Voodhall had been desirous of obtaining this MS. VVith this view she called upon Mr. Tilton at 28, Euston Square, where he was stopping when last in London. He had, however, just started for the United States. Mrs. Victoria C. VVoodhall is now preparing an “Autobiography,” which will comprise the leading incidents of her life, and the motives and principles by which her conduct was governed. Therein will also be given an account of how her printed speeches became polluted and perverted-. . / It is a well-known fact that from the moment Mrs. Woodliall became acquainted with Colonel Blood, he adopted towards her a course of persis- tent deception and treachery. After Mrs. Wood- hall had returned from a protracted Southern lec- turing tour, his conduct was so flagrant that no resource was left for Mr“. Wroodhall, as a woman of honour and spirit, but to apply for a Bill of Divorce. Wliilst the divorce was pending in 1876, and she still his legal wife, he, under terrible pressure, essayed publicly to defend his wife for the ﬁrst time. The nature of the pressure was this, that if he hesitated to perform so tardy an act of justice, his whole history would be made public. Such an exposure might result in serious difﬁculties. Blood’s vindication, however, was of but little‘ advantage to his wife. It came too late. Had it followed when his wife was ﬁrst attacked, she would not now be under the painful necessity of labouring to clear her character from foul aspersions. We understand that Colonel Blood, from whom: Mrs. Woodliall has obtained a divorce, has recently been engaged i11 sending round letters, wherein he stoutly protests against the imputations which were once cast upon his former wife’s honour. Such communications, we further ascer- tain, are couched in terms of endearment. As an act of reparation, such a course may be justiﬁable. But how comes it that at the time when a malicious, obscene, and scurrilous pamphlet defaming Mrs. VVoodhall was hawked about the streets of New York City in 1874 and 1875, that he remained a silent spectator of the event? Upon what principle did he refrain from taking legal action against Treat, the vile, mendacious vendor and reputed author of such an outrageous publication ? An outcast from society endeavours to make a living at the expense of a woman’s reputation, and the injured lady herself has to go before a Grand Jury, and obtain an indictment against the miscreant whom the Court for the Trial of Criminal Offences ﬁnally acquits on the ground of insanity. Treat, it is true, was V 4 A attached. JANUARY 29, 1881. WOODHALL A./VD CI.AFZ;][V’S ?OU]€./VAL. 5 a legally restrained from vending any more of his dirty ware, and the police destroyed his stock-in- trade. But this was no adequate satisfaction for the evil effected. Something lies in the back- ground respecting so abominable an occurrence. It is not improbable that all the circumstances of the case may leak out some day, and that before long, when he, who should have been his wife’s protector, may yet be proven to have been not only the author, but the person who actually furnished the money for the obnoxious publication. One S. S. Jones, of the Chicago Religio-.Philo- sophical Journal, endeavoured to pollute public morals by a contemptible production, framed on the lines of the Treat Pamphlet. Mrs. Woodhall subsequently went to Chicago in order to prosecute this man for libel. She had to remain iii the city some days before she could procure the obnoxious and obscene pamphlet, which she ﬁnally obtained through the kindly intervention of an English journalist. This gentleman accompanied Mrs. Woodhall to the Grand Jury Room, where an in- dictment was at once obtained. It appears that Blood was then in Chicago, yet he took no action in a matter which involved his wife’s honour. The public can form its ow11 inferences. On the very day that Jones had to come up for trial, he was shot by an injured husband whose wife he had seduced. Death was instantane- ous, as he had received two bullets in his head. Some American journals, in their description of the tragedy, headed the article “ Mrs. Woodhall Avenged.” Certain it is that a Nemesis often pursues the evil—doer, even before Justice lays ﬁrm hold of him. It will be known to many of her friends that some years since Mrs. Wooclhall was in a precarious condition of health, gradually failing day by day, so that many persons expected her death. Mrs. VVoodhall has since discovered that she was near being the victim of slow poison. Mrs. V\7ood.hall was treated by an eminent physician in America, as a pronounced slow poi- soning case; I In London also she has undergone similar treatment for at least two years. The history of this affair will duly appear in her forthcoming “ Autobiography.” A good many persons may, naturally enough, entertain the idea that we have personally derived large emoluments from our Transatlantic journal, which our generous friends as well as the general public so liberally patronised. VVe cannot deny that Woodhull and Clcﬂin’s W/Icclcly, during the years of its existence, was a special success. Having proved a success it should have afforded us ample resources and abundant recompense. Such, however, is not the case. Vile can con- scientiously aver that not a single dollar of the entire receipts, 11ay, 11ot even the money forwarded to sustain our paper and advance its principles, found its way into our pockets. VVe deem it a duty to ourselves, but more especially to our American friends who were so 11obly disposed towards us, to -make this plain statement.- Before Mrs. VVoodhall came to England, she lost no opportunity of repudiating the ‘‘i‘ Beecher’ Article,” to which her name was surreptitiously She has now in her possession a number of American papers which contain her protest. Hence it cannot be thought that Mrs. Woodliall took no steps in her own country to clear her reputation from foul misrepresentations. This explanation is given out of deference to the wishes of her English friends. In 1875, while labouring under severe prostra- tion in New York City, and when her life was in jeopardy, moved by a sudden impulse, Mrs. Woodhall suspecting the ﬁdelity of her husband (Colonel Blood), followed him one evening to a house in Lexington Avenue. There, having entered a private apartment, she found her husband i11 the embraces of a woman. Although highly incensed at his perfidious conduct, she did not immediately seek that relief which the law affords Wives in her peculiar situation. She simply refused to live with Blood any longer, and started off 011 a long lecturing tour. Not for nearly a year did she apply for a Bill of Divorce, and even then not until such accumulative evidence came to her knowledge respecting his treachery and bad conduct in divers ways, as left her no milder mode of procedure. THE “BEECHER ARTICLE.” HE annexed extract from the “Beecher Article” will suffice to exhibit its general character. The monstrous sentiments therein propounded are calculated to create a revulsion in the minds of the most viciously disposed. Such ﬂagitious sentiments, which strike at the root of all moral, principles, were, we believe, never before put in print. They are enough to make one blush to think that humanity could have fallen so low as to have entertained them even as intellectual abstractions. For such vile principles to be attributed to a woman, is still worse. What a seared conscience Stephen Pearl Andrews must have, who, to cloak his own infamy, placed the onus on the head of a woman, a11d that woman a public character. But how much more shocking for James H. Blood, who had the whole charge of the paper that bore his wife’s name, to suffer such sentiments to be published :- [ExTRAc'r.] “In conclusion, let us again consider, for a moment, the right and the wrong of this whole transaction. Let us see whether the wrong is not on the side where the public puts the right, and the right on the side where the public puts the wrong. The immense physical potency of Mr. Beecher, and the indomitable urgency of his great nature for the intimacy and the embraces of the noble and cultured women about him, instead of being a bad thing as the world thinks, or thinks that it thinks, or professes to think that it thinks, is one of the noblest and grandest of the endow- ments of this truly great and representative man. The amative impulse is the physiological basis of ciraracter. It is this which emanates zest and magnetic power to his whole audience through the organism of the great preacher. Plymouth Church has lived and fed, and the healthy vigour of public opinion for the last quarter of a century has been augmented and strengthened from the physical amativeness of Henry Ward Beecher. The scientiﬁc world know the physiological facts of this nature, but they have waited for a weak woman to have the moral courage to tell the world such truths. Passional starvation, enforced on such a nature, so richly endowed, by the ignorance and prejudice of the past, is a horrid cruelty. The bigoted public, to which the great preacher ministered, while literally eating and drinking of his ﬂesh and blood, condemned him, in their ignorance, to live without food. Every great man of Mr.‘ Beecher’s type has had in the past, and will ever have, the need for, and the right to, the loving manifestations of many women, and when the public graduates out of the ignorance and prejudice of its childhood, it will recognise this necessity and its own past in- justice. Mr. Beecher’s grand and amative nature _ is not, then, the bad element in the whole matter, but intrinsically a good thing, and one of Gods best gifts to the world.’’ A dozen columns of the like filthy matter constitute the “ Beecher Article.” Not one word of this prurient, obscene composition was written by us. VVe utterly repudiate the wretched sen- timents thereiii contained. The facts of the Beecher scandal we did know, as did many others in America. MRS. WOODHALL: How HER LECTURE WAS RECEIVED IN ATLANTA. From THE NEW ORLEANS TIMES, Feb. 20, 1876. - LARGE audience assembled at the Opera House last night to hear the lecture of Mrs. ‘Woodhall. There was a quiver iii the voice that betokened at first thought a dash of diflidence and timidity. As the lecture proceeded it seemed to be more like a tremor of tears in the pleadings of a woman for a place in the hearts of the people, one who had suffered, one who had deep feelings of philan- thropy and affection, and who did not wish to be cast out from the affections of her kind. The concluding portion of her lecture, in which this feeling was stated, was of a moving and melting character. , Her picture of her trials, her separa- tion from her daughter, and that daughter’s brave answer of love and loyalty, of the scene in prison, where, kneeling in prayer, she felt that she had had a revelation of the future love of the people, and her appeal for that love was eloquent and touching. Her manner was very fine. Graceful and forcible in every attitude and gesture, with a voice of rare modulation, controlled with a well» trained skill, she received the undivided attention, and swayed the hearts and applause, of her auditory from the beginning to the end. The matter of the lecture was one of outline and suggestion rather than distinct statement and full elucidation. The central idea was the reform of dissolute lives--—the necessity existing for this inevery 'co1‘ner'o‘/i"*tl1e land“ established byuirvaryi‘ ing statistics. The method of reform suggested was to teach the child by fathers and mothers, but especially by mothers, that the body islthe Temple of God. In doing this ‘we must be true to nature, state facts just as they exist in nature, give our children information in regard toall matters per- taining to nature, the origin of life, the necessity of purity, the results of criminal indulgence, witl1- out the false modesty which too generally prevails. The sacredness of motherhood was a prominent. idea in the lecture. The mother reproduced in the son was a favourite thought, urged with great. force and beauty. N 0 one could hear the appeal for purity i11 connection with that holy name and tie without an obeisance of reverence, perhaps a. memory of tears. She maintained that reverence for the Bible was a cardinal point in her faith, and insisted that by some admission or in some form such a reverence was universal. , There were, here and there, ﬁne touches of humour, but the humour was without the sting of sarcasm—— it taught and entertained without wounding. There were sallies of wit, bursts of eloquence in word and act, brilliant passages of genuine ‘oratory. As ,we tl?e..,pathns of the lecture touched its every as witli a. gentle and quivering light, whose tremulous plea fell upon the heart already influenced by argument and aroused by appeal. MAXIMS FROM THE SACRED BOOKS OF INDIA. India of the Vedas entertained Cl respect for woman amounting to worship. “He who despises woman despises his mother.” “Who is cursed by d woman is cursed by God.’-’ “The tours of a woman cull down the fire of Heaven on those who mdhc them ﬂow.” “Evil to him who laughs at womdn’s su_ﬂ”er— ings : God shall laugh at his prdycrs.” “It was at the prayer of d woman that the Creator pardoned mdn: cursed be he who forgets ill’ “ Who shall forget the suﬁerings of his mother at his birth, shall be reborn in the body of an owl during three successive trans- migrations.” “Thc-rc is no crime more odious than to persecute “woman.” ”‘ “ When women are honoured, the Divinities are content; but when they are not honoured dll undertakings fail.” “ The households cursed by women to whom they have not rendered the homage due to them, ﬁnd themselves weighed down with ruin, and destroyed as if they had been struck by some secret power.” “ We will not admit the people of to—ddy are incapable of comprehending woman, who alone can regenerate them.” “ Yhe inﬁnite and the boundless coin alone‘ comprehend the boundless and the inﬁnite, God only coin comprehend God.” I “As the body is strengthened by muscles, the soul is fortiﬁed by virtue.” “The wrongs we irglict upon others follow us lihe our shadow.” ‘ “It is time to appreciate all things at their true value.” 5 T/V0O.D[{AZ.[.'A./VD C[,AFZ,[[V’S 70U]€./VAL. .laNUAav E29, 1881. [We publish the following article from T he l’V0rZc‘l, in order to show that tl1e thoughts and sentiments Mrs. Victoria VVoodhal1 entertained when she gave a series of lectures at St. James’s Hall were precisely in har- mony witl1 the whole tenour of her Transatlantic acldresses] Tun DANGERS or RESPECTABILITY. From VVORLD, December 19, 1877. NE of the most celebrated of American ora- -. tresses is now in London, and has given speci- mens of her style and mode of thought to English audiences. Mrs. VVoodhall considers society in the present day closely resembles that of the period «of decadence of the Roman Empire, or of other nations who have died the death of shame after having luxuriated in a life of corruption and self- satisfaction. Sl1e sees before- us a career of inisery a11d ruin unless we apply, not slender pallia- tives, but drastic remedies‘ to the very rootof the evil. Her great panacea for the ills of humanity is the inﬂuence of intelligent women. VVoman has gradually raised herself from the position of a despised slave to the attitude of a noble partner of the good man’s life. Mrs. lVoodhall strikes the key-note whe11 she says a nation’s prosperity de- pends upon its morality, and its morality depends upon its women. “ The child imbibes more than a share of its mother’s idiosyncrasy and good or bad qualities; it is her very self.” No after-life or teaching ca11 efface the memory of a mother’s love «or of a mother’s wise and tender foresight. It may be doubted whether men will ever agree with the fair American homilist in demanding the purity of men as a11 equivalent for the chastity of women. The latter have been kind enough to grant men the privilege‘ of indulging their passions, and Mrs. Vl7oodl1all’s warmth and eloquence will hardly avail to cure men of their belief in their right of mono- poly to laxity of morals. The great judge of the present day, who rules -men’s lives and terriﬁes their consciences, is Re- ispectability. Respectability, like the temple where the Vestal virgins served, must not be violated, or the intruder will have to pay the price of ostracism aa,.;g§g+£remso_ciet5r. The middle level of respectability conduees neither to high virtues nor violent im- morality. It is alow level, and, like mediocrity in general, not inclined to be aggressive. “ But while we complacently nurse this phantom of respecta- bility in our midst, sin and crime flourish and ﬁll our gaols and our lunatic asylums.” Propriety demands that we should never mention delicate subjects to our sons, and thus a kind father or a loving mother calmly sends out the youth to a life of temptation and trial without hampering him with a word of advice or showing a particle of sympathy for his possible weaknesses and failings. Fathers who have “ sown their wild oats ” are ashamed to mention the matter before their children, and pre- fer, as they say, to leave the young to buy their experience. New such a theory as this is a hollow and adangerous sham; for every one knows evil exists, yet every one pretends to ignore it. The miserable part of such tawdry sentiment is that Divine laws are inexorable, and meanwhile every sin brings its own punishment. The one pauper, who was proved to have been the ancestor of four hundred other paupers, each leading a more abject and miserable life than the last, is a lesson which‘: should be pondered by all of us. The responsibility of parents is quite aslarge and as,important doc- .trine as the duties of children, who often have little or nothing but an inheritance of sin and suffering for which to thank their parents. And not only have we to bear the consequences of our sins, but of our own errors as well; and the mis- takes of nations are written in blood. Sanitary ameasures disregarded, social laws evaded, moral duties shirked,—-—all bring their Nemesis, some- times sooner, sometimes later, sometimes in the burning present, sometimes hidden in the womb of the future, but as certainly as night follows day. It is good for us occasionally to have the veil of decorum torn down before our eyes, and to see our- selves as others see us. It is impossible to legis- late a nation into morality, and probably Mrs. Wooclliall is right in her notion that mothers alone have the happiness and security of their children in theirhands. Criminals beget criminals, and in- sanity is hereditary. These are facts. The ques- tion is how to deal with them. No man can be great or good who does not in the outset of life start with an ideal before him ; and it is therefore of paramount importance that the ideal given to young men, fostered in them from their youth, and encouraged by habit and association, should be a high one. Strength of character may be drummed '1to a man if it is not already inherent, and the respect for women and for whatever is weak and helpless is a decided ingredient in strength of cha- racter. Wlhat delicacy of mind can be expected from a man who has been brought up to look on his mother either as a patient beast of burden, made to bear kicks and cuffs and abuse, or else as the heart- less doll of fashion or luxury? As is the father so is the son, and the woman’s good influence is merged iii an abyss of hereditary brutality. For, after all, vice is but a deep-spread egotism, the canker of nations and families. The difficulties that beset statesmen in making laws, and philan- thropists in working out their problems of charity, arise from egotism ; the selﬁshness of the masses, the absence of sympathy of the individual,——thcse are the causes of poverty, of niggardliness, of hardness in every shape. Self-indulgence pre- supposes a want of care for all others except the pampered ego, who must have his pleasure or his luxuries at any price. These, therefore, who preach morality ought to go to the fountain-head, and teach us to do to others as we would they should do unto us. Viewed in this light the American lecturer has certainly truth on her side: but truth ﬁlters slowly ; onltlz/, when once it /was been tested it is song/at after eagerly. VMRS. WOODHALL VINDICATED. From the WASHINGTON GAZETTE, 1875. OT the least remarkable of the revolutions .l_l wrought in the sentiments, feelings, and con- duct of the people of this country, and in the tone of the public press, is that which has taken place in respect of Mr". Victoria VVoodhall, and the theories of which she is the especial and distinguished exponent. A few years since thisilady was the object at which the poisoned arrows of slander, contumely, and scorn from a thousand quivers were directed. Every vile and disgraceful epithet within the vocabulary of our language was hurled at her devoted head. All that the ingenuity and ma- lignity of the most unscrupulous could devise was done, not onlyqto blacken and make in- famous her private character, and drive her from the public rostrum, but to make her the one social outcast in whose behalf neither justice should be invoked, nor respectful consideration be awarded. VVith a few honourable exceptions the entire press of the country lent itself to the ignoble work of abusing and maligning this lady, attributing to her sentiments she never expressed or avowed, theories she was never in atﬁliation with, and charging her with utterances which were a foul libel on every feeling of her heart. Trampling under foot every generous and manly feeling, losing sight of claims upon them as a woman and a mother to courteous and respectful treatment, the press everywhere, in its zeal to pander to a morbidly diseased public sentiment, left nothing undone to heap odium on her personal character, and make infamous her public teachings. Had the evils so boldly declared by Mrs VVcodhall to exist been but the ﬁgment of a diseased brain, had it not been seen and known of all men that her statements were true, had not both men and women in the privacy of their own homes admitted the absolute necessity for some radical change in our present social system, there can be no doubt but that this lady, under force of all the appliances used for her destruction, must have been driven into an obscurity from which she could never again have hoped to emerge. , But what do we see? Mrs. "Woodhall—-who but a few years ago was the target at which a thousand envenomed shafts were aimed, against whom myriads of tongues were wagging and myriads of pens scribbling, against whomevery man’s voice and hand «should be raised, who could find only second-rate halls in which to be allowed to declare what her views really were, and had these most infamously distorted-—-—is to-day admitted to be engaged in a great and noble work. No longer shunned, her society is sought by the best and purest in the land; and from being an object of vituperation and abuse, she has become one of courteous and respectful attention at the hands of all. No longer driven into obscure garrets and out-of—the-way halls, she finds it im- possible to comply with one-twentieth of the invitations received to lecture to the best audiences in the land. An end has come to misrepresenta- tion, too; and now the press everywhere discovers and shows eagerness to acquaint its readers with the views of this lady as declared by herself. This change, so creditable to the people and press of the country, cannot fail of being espe- cially gratifying to Mrs. Woodliall. She lias battled against the most tremendous odds, and won a signal triumph. Through contumely and scorn, through sadness, imprisonment, and tears, through persecution almost unto death, she has never faltered, but with a courage and heroism born of a conscious rectitude of purpose, has devoted herself with singular fidelity to the work of regenerating her race, and lifting the fell in- cubus which has well-nigh crushed out all purity from the social life of our people. In the relentless storm of obloquy through which she has passed, in the deepest gloom that has enveloped her steps, in the darkestonight of desolation and misery that has come upon her life, this lady has never for one moment allowed her faith in a ﬁnal vindication of her own character and the correctness of her principles to be shaken. And that vindication has come in the disposition everywhere manifested to admit that Mrs. W'oodhall’s advocacy of them in no sense de- rogates from her claim to recognition as a lady. It is a gigantic step forward in the direction of solving this vexed social problem when the best men and women in the land, admitting the necessity for its candid discussiiin, no longer malign those who devote themselves to that behalf——when there is a disposition to call things by their right names, and demand that the standard of moral excellence to which one class is required to measure up shall be that by which the lives of all classes must be udged. lVith the advent of this new era, Mrs. VVoodhall will ﬁll altogether a different place in the estima- tion of the public from that which ignorance and malice have hitherto assigned her. From being denounced as the enemy of a wise, pure, and well-organised social system, she will be recog- nised as among the ablest of those who have striven to establish it; from being thought inimical to the sanctity of home, she will be looked on as pre-eminently the advocate of unions that shall be unto death, as the upbuilding of homes on whose altars will ever be enthroned a deathless and changeless love; and from the lips of those who have denounced and abused her will come forth blessings on her name. “ Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure ; Sow grain, and reap its harvest bright ; Sew sunbeams on the rock and moor, Q And find a harvest-homefof light.” “ I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For claws to peek at : I am not what I am.”— Iago in ‘‘ Othello.” “You become none the viler for being dis- praised.”——T/"tomes at If mpis. “ For he whom God will help, no man’s malice can l'1urt.”~—-Thomas cl, Kempis. “ For well I know what pains await The lips that slancl’rous tales relatc.”~—PimZcu'. “They that are with thee today, may be against thee to-morrow; and often change from quarter to quarter, like tl1eiWind.”--T/z072zcrzs at Kem_pz's. l : .. : t . s F . 9 . I 1 it l . l . , e .. _-A...k. ,.- ._ . f. .—-l»....—-- v- ». -~‘— ~ -‘ *" ‘ ""“ """\ ‘i M‘ ‘ .IANUARY 29, 1881. l’VO0D]{./ILL A./VD CZLAFLZ./V’S }‘/0U]~3ZV/IL. 7 Mas. WOODHALIJS LECTURE AT BOSTON, MASS. From the BOS'rON HERALD, October 2, 1876. HE Boston Theatre, last evening, was ﬁlled to overﬂowing with people of both sexes. An analysis of the audience showed some of the brightest lights of Boston society. About five minutes before eight o’clock, Mrs. IJVoodhall appeared upon the platform from a side room, where she had been waiting with her mother, and was greeted with enthusiastic and long- continued applause. Holding a Bible in her hand, she began her lecture by quoting from Corinthians iii. 16, 17, to show that the human body, her. subject, was the temple of God. She said there were hundreds of thousands of women all over the country now waiting in quiet, painful, agonising watchfulness for society to recognise her true needs in her great and pitiful extremity. My only desire is to bring the world to look upon the frightful evils now fast spreading their pernicious influence, their incalculably bad example everywhere abroad over this beautiful world of nature and of God, and I have been denied a hearing. For four years the halls of Boston have been closed to me, but I know that the time is near when every mother, realising her position, and every father informing himself as to his, will no longer allow Mrs. VVoodliall to sue in vain for admittance. The time is near when our best people will view this question I discuss in its proper light, will convince themselves that it must be settled before any advancement can be made in the con- dition of society. The time is coming when every one of any intelligence will see that there is nothing vulgar save ignorance. (Loud applause.) VVhen this is thoroughly understood there will be no more opposition to freedom of speech. If there is any gentleman in this place to-night who thinks that this is not a fit entertainment to which to bring his wife or daughter, he had better leave at once, for every place that is fit for him is fit for either his wife or child. (Applause) Speaking of her recent visit to Europe, and alluding to the Paris Louvre, and the large number of paintings and sculpture on exhibition there, Mrs. IVood- hall said the sight brought a blush ‘to none save the countenances of ignorant women. The vulgarity was not in the pictures nor the sculp- ture, she said, but in the minds of the observers. She would teach the young woman of the country her true position, and what belongs to her as a woman, and the rights she has to guard and the privileges she has to insist upon. She would teach the young man of the world what every mothershould teach her boy, to respect every other mother’s daughter. I demand the same purity of the man who asks the woman’s hand in marriage that is demanded of her. Society, if forced to admit the truth, would acknowledge, as women in society have acknowledged to me, that if women asked the same purity of men that they ask of them, there would be fewer marriages. The speaker here pictured the horrible agony that racks a" woman’s breast who lives to follow her child to the gallows, and spoke of the crowded state of our prisons and houses of refuge. She said :‘ I ask of every mother, never to bear a child that can by any possibility fill a criminal cell or an idiotic room. I ask that our mothers understand in all its importance this mighty problem ; I ask that the ignorance which now hides it from her vision be at once and for ever dissipated, even though it exposes the truth in all its horrible and ghastly realism. You patronise horse trots and cattle shows; you dis- cuss publicly, and have it reported in the news- papers, how to raise Durham bulls, and how to create fine stallions, and how to graft the good elements of one animal into those of another, and nobody remarks it; but if the poor mother, torn by conflicting emotions, racked with an agony none but a mother can conceive or realise, cries out in despair, “ I11 the name of God tell me how to create my child ; tell me, in order that I shall not bear an idiot or a criminal,” every one would hold up their hands in holy horror. “ Oh! she’s vulgar; don’t go near her,” they would say. ‘Who will dare deny the fact, that boasts an acquaint- ance with the matter, that one-half of our young men are dying. of disease, induced by ignorance of the axiom, “ Know thyself ;” seven- tenths of our girls arrive at maternity unfit, totally and entirely unfit, for the functions of a woman and a mother. The evil began and perhaps reached fruition at a boarding school. We in- quire, “Is this so ?” and receive the answer, “Yes, but don’t speak of it,” and thus it goes on. How many intelligent parents in this audience to-night, dare tell their children the truth about the first question" that a child thinks of asking? The speaker then pictured a child asking its mother the question, “ VVho made me ?” and being told to “hush, and never talk so again,” how that child learns the fact upon the street, and acts upon it secretly, and learns to conceal its knowledge from the parent that taught the child’s receiving the information it sought, from a holy woman, a pure mother—— W/£0 made you, cZarlz'72g? Mamma carried you under her heart days, weeks and weary months, and at last went into the Garden of Gethsemane to bear you into the world. Now, my precious child, you can see why mamma loves you so; why she would give her life to save yours———and basing its whole after-life and the current of its thoughts and actions on that frank avowal; and said, 111 con- clusion, that child would never commit an act of which it would not dare to tell itslmother, because its mother had rendered concealment unnecessary and out of the question. Wdieii you understand this mighty problem of proper generation, all the mock modesty you have hitherto felt will die vithin you, and to this understanding the ideas Mrs. Wroodhall has put forth will lead. The medical world says that one half of our children do not reach the age of five years, and the reason is plainly apparent to any who understands the problem of proper generation. Not one in a thousand women is ﬁt to become a mother, and the number of men still less are fit to become fathers. People call me a Free-Lover. The first place I;e~%'er heard the word free-love mentionedcwas in a Methodist church. The minister was holding one of those protracted meetings, and telling everybody to come forward to the mourner’s bench where the love of God was free to all. There for the first time the idea that this was true struck me to fruition. God is love, and love is God.~ ‘Who dare tell me, to-night, that the love of God is not as free to me as to you? On the one side is pure, undefiled love; on the other is abominable, enforced lust. I appeal for the former, and my appeal has closed the halls of Boston to me for four years. Your abominable. lust I abhor, and God’s intelligent love I adore. (Applause) Speaking again. of a mother’s inﬂuence, ‘ she said, how can a boy with the pleading, imploring face of his lady mother before him boldly and calmly meditate crime? The very face of such a mother checks all incentive to crime. Mothers of Boston, she said, become the teachers of your own families; become the confessor of your boy, and make it impossible for him ever to become reckless and unmanly. To- night, if I had the power, I would make it impossible -—I would make it a crime for men and women to ~marry ignorant of parental responsibility. They have no right to marry and people these abominable institutions, for it is almost entirely from such sources that the recruits to these places come from. I want our people to recognise the divinity of mar- riage in its broadest and its deepest sense. I hold that when two people come together they ought to understand the responsibilities of marriage. Virhen our mothers teach their sons the responsibility of creating a human being, and when they teach their daughters the great responsibility of maternity, you will have your son saying, “Mother, dare I marry?” and your daughter saying, “ Mother, I do not know that I am worthy of marriage,” (Applause) A mother should proceed with the enthusiasm and the conception of her subject that an artist possesses. Besides her pride in her pro- duction as a mother, she should have an aesthetic feeling of satisfaction with the completeness and it coifcealment.’ ‘ She then drew anotlierpicture of’ speaker then drew a portrait of the common errands of mammas at the watering places to dispose of their daughters in as business-lil 3 a manner as possible. I know hundreds of women, said the speaker, who are in sympathy, in strong sympathy with the views I advance, who cannot render prac- tical assistance because they would forfeit the respect of society and their kindred. But what do I suffer in this respect while fighting the terrible fight? Oh, God I how few there are who have a just con- ception of what the agony of that I have endured has been. People who are afraid of losing their respectability usually have none to lose.‘ The woman who cannot listen to a discussion not to be allowed to become a mother. Nothing is farther from my chart of principles than the theory of promiscuity. Itcsuming the discussion of the subject of proper generation and the human body as the temple of God, she’ said, this great trtitli, for which I am pleading and _ giving up my life, must be settled before any further ad- vancement can be mace. As long as the mothers of America read the statement in the daily papers unblushingly that 1,000 criminals had descended from one Margaret, surely I have nothing to fear in the discussion of this question, save the ignorance that makes such a statement possible. Our mothers will not teach their children what they should, above all others, acquire perfect knowledge of. I/Vomen are responsible for almost all the misery and evil that accurse the country to-day. The speaker then described the many and peculiar inﬂuences «to which the woman sub- jects the child _during the period of gestation. VVhy close your halls to Mrs. VVoodhall? and oppose her errand to strip the veil which hides: from the people the engulﬁng dangers that surround them? I have only to wait ; the future will redress ' the wrongs that have been done me. In my soul I have no ill—feeling for any one who has ever uttered . a harsh or vulgar word about me. During the four years you have persecuted me I have taken my children and walked the streets of New York seeking for admittance here, admittance there, with my little of the great question of proper generation, ought girl’s arrns #30114. my neck; ‘ I have St.tInII%}.’€:iI"£L':3 no- mother ever suffered before, and it is I have suffered so deeply that I am here to-night to put forth my claim. It will be granted, not for the woman, but for the principle. You can- not crush me in the future any more than you, have crushed me in the past; you cannot heap any more indignities upon my head; time will right me, and the near future establish my prin- ciples. She closed her. address at te11 o’clock.. Her thanks to the audience were interrupted by long-continued applause. MRS. ELIZABETH em STANTON on nus. WOODHALL. “ ICTOEIA WOODIIALL’S acquaintance’ would be refining to any man. In her own. character and person there is never anything but refinement in word or movement. She has a beautiful face—-the ideal of spirituality. Victoria Woodliall has done a work for woman that none of us could have done. She has faced and dared. men to call her the names that Inake women-. shudder, while she chucked principle like medicine down their throats. She has risked and realised the sort of -ignominy that would have paralysed any of us who have longer been called strong- minded. Leaping into the brambles that were too high for us to see over them, she broke a path into their close and thorny interstices, witha. steadfast faith that glorious principle would. triumph at last _ over conspicuous ignominy, although her life miglit be sac “i ced; and when, with a meteor’s dash, she sank into a dismal swamp, we could not lift her out of the mire, or buoy her through the deadly waters. She will be as famous as she has been infamous, made so by benighted or cowardly men and women. In the annals of history the name of Victoria 0. Wooclhall will have its own high place as a deliverer.’.’ Mrs. Stanton seriously and with del.bera‘ite emphasis said: “ Ihave worked thirty years for I Wvoman Suffrage, and now I feel that woman suffrage is but the vestibule of woman’s emanci- thoroughness of the result she produces. The .,..~...\_v_ pation. ”——-— Vifccs/zirzgéozz 071749725036. 8 ZVOODEJALL AJVD CLAFLL/V’S }’OU[€./VAL. JANUARY 29, 1881. FREE-LOVE IN MARRIAGE. HE following correspondence appeared in the lVew York He7~aZd some twenty—ﬁve years ago. It is from the pen of a lady whose name we will not blight by giving it publicity, as she is now the wife of a leading journalist in New York City :—-,_ THE FREE—LOVE AFFAIR. T 0 the EcZz'zf0r of the HERALD. Sir,——During the past few weeks numerous re- ports and rumours have been circulating through the city, and the press has teemed with accounts regarding the club or so-called “ Free-Love ” As- sociation. But in all these various narratives by eye-witnesses there is so small a modicum of truth, and so slight an idea of the real character of the movement, that I appeal with conﬁdence to your impartiality as a journalist and candour as a man, to permit me, through your columns, to make a short statement of facts and principles connected with the organisation, and give your readers a truthful idea of what is really doing in their midst. The assertion that it is a social gathering for pur- poses of amusement is true so far as it goes, but it is not all the truth. The club is only an outgrowth of one department of an organisation whose ramiﬁcations extend already into nearly every part of the world, and whose basis and cen- tral idea is “ individual sovereignty ” or the right of every man and woman to free independent thought and action, so far as it does not conﬂict with the same right in others. It argues that a grand element of reform is to let people alone; that the history of the world has proved that arbi- trary and coercive measures, so far from making people better, only excite antagonism and the baser and the more degrading passions; that to make people good you must make them happy, and per- mit them to follow their own natural impulses, guided by a wise reason, instead of the perverting inclinations, the result of a11 arbitrary and coercive system of education. The league comprehends within itself departments for the examination of every question touching the interests of the human race, and so unites under its banndi‘ men and women of every nation and shade of thought, who desire the mental, moral, and physical freedom of the race. A That this movement is a slight aifair, destined only to a11 ephemeral existence, is simply an ab- surdity to those who are acquainted with the reality. It comprises among its members men and women of the highest intellectual power, who have made each department the subject of careful thought and profound study for years, and are re- solved to labour unremittingly for the emancipa- tion of mankind from every species of slavery which now presses down upon them—right, free- dom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of action by their God given, they will maintain at all hazards and to the last extremity. For what did our fathers brave all the trials, dangers, pre- cautions and anxieties of their first settlement and the succeeding revolution ? For the right to think and act for themselves. And shall we yield one iota of the sacred legacy bought with their blood and sanctiﬁed by their sufferings? N o I and God helping us, may America so prosper as she defends that most sacred right. The idea that freedom means license to do wrong has been the plea of despots in all ages of the world; but it remains for America to prove that freedom means liberty to do right. ' I come now to the consideration of the imme- »:--diate cause of the institution known as the “ Club.” It was the result of deliberations on the means of ‘sxproviding cheap and innocent amusement for the *;people, and proposed to combine instruction in «such away as to make it attractive and within the ”-«means of all who choose to avail themselves of it; also to provide a social home for a large class of " young men who would otherwise pass their even- ings at gambling—houses and other equally de- moralising places of resort, and away from the re- ﬁning influence of intelligent persons of the oppo- site sex. It Was believed that young men and women could associate together upon equal terms with mutual advantage, and would, at the same time, be brought into association’ with minds of a —-g. high order, who would help to develop and give impulse in the germinal powers which often die out for want of culture and encouragement. For the success of these efforts, it is necessary only to appeal to the personal knowledge of ever r member of the Club. For private opinions, or for their expressions, on any subject, each member is responsible to himself, so long as he does not make himself offen- sive to others, As for the “ Free-Love ” phase of it, the title was forced upon them, and they have neither accepted nor declined it, except in indi- vidual instances. To all of them the construction put upon it by the New York press and public would be utterly abhorrent and repulsive; to many it would be thus in any sense, not being yet able to comprehend the fact of the utter impossibiity of damming up the current of natural feeling, and repressing the tide of human alfeetions. In such cases nature always revenges herself, and society furnishes abundant illustrations of the ruin and devastation which frequently ensue as the conse- quence of such violation of natural law. Of course, in the investigation of the question of the social and domestic relations as at present existing in society, no one could help perceiving the terrible licentiousness and every species of vice, misery, and crime, which, if not the result, are at least the concomitants of the present state of things. But the method for relieving nations, families, and individuals, from this lead of guilt a11d wretchedness, is an open question upon which every person exercises his or her own right of judgment and action. As a proof of the low and brutalised state of the public mind, and the con- struction which is put upon any action and ex- pression, however innocent, I may cite the instance of the lady of the Chief, whose expression of anxiety and maternal apprehension for her son was tortured into fear for the fate of a lever on the evening on which the late unwarrantable out- rage was perpetrated. Oh, shame to New York, when a horde of in- solent otﬁcials are permitted to break up a meeting of quiet, orderly citizens, insult high-minded women, and presume to set up a standard of morality for people who could not imagine the wickedness in which these self-elected lawmakers daily revelled. Amenable to all proper authority the League will always be ; but while it bows to lawful juris- diction, it deﬁes any attempt to control in matters of conscience or individual opinions. The Club is still in existence, and will continue to prosper, though a shadow of a policeman should be sent every evening to disturb its harmony and threaten to arrest its members. J. C. Some twenty- ﬁve years ago Stephen Pearl Andrews founded a Club. The Club was legally and violently suppressed by the police. Mrs. , one of our first literary women, and new wife to the managing editor of the best informed and most brilliantly edited paper in America, was at that time an active member of Mr. Andrews’ society; indeed, were the badge of a High Priestess. The above indignant appeal was from her pen. By her earnestness she drew about her all the ablest women of the time. It is not our intention to disclose the name of the writer of the communication just reproduced in our columns. VVe have no disposition to act the unfeminine role of striking any woman. Decency and womanly sympathy prevent such an act. More especially is this the case as our whole life has been almost unremittingly devoted to the moral and domestic elevation of the weaker sex. VVe may mention, however, that some ten years ago we called upon the lady whom Andrews had ' in some measure brought under his pernicious influence. In the course of conversation reference was made to this disseminator of moral pestilence. “ VVe were,” remarked the lady, in tones of high indignation, “ ‘ psychologised.’ Even now the very mention of his loathsome name‘ in my house pollutes itl "’ . The moral revulsion caused in this lady’s mind was but natural, considering the nature of woman, and how even the semblance of viciousness to a virtuous mind’ is instinctively revolting. The factythat ladies of good education, reﬁnement and i . accomplishments, and who, moreover, moved in the best society, could for a moment become the disciples of this man, who was to usher in a New Moral I/Vorld, is impossible to account for on ordinary principles. Stephen Pearl Andrews —-—it makes us ashamed to write his name——taught doctrines which are enough to sink any nation, provided such teachings were generally accepted. Thank Heaven, his teachings had no effect upon our mind. The pure stream of our life was never sullied by it. That he was successful, however, in assailing the citadel of womanly honour, is but too well known in America. THE LORD’S PRAYER TRAVESTIED. HEN the moral sentiments become abnormal, and morality and common decency deﬁed, we are not surprised that even “worse remains behind.” Licentiousness and blasphemy are aptly mated. Hence we are not surprised that the obnoxious propounder of strange moral doctrines, which carry with them a fetid odour and a leprous taint, should indulge in further outrages upon the moral and religious sense of a community. This Stephen Pearl Andrews some years since indited a travesty on the prayer which our Lord taught to His disciples, and which is now universally used. The blasphemous composition bears the heading, “The Lord’s Prayer for the infancy of the Race, edited in J udea, 1,800 years ago, and the Lord’s Prayer for adults in the New Catholic Churcl1-Deuto-Christian (of the Second Christian Dispensation) of this Age.” Then follow, in parallel columns, the preface, petitions, and doxology of the sacred composition, and those of the revolting substitute for the same. It is with the greatest possible reluctance that we reproduce such a blasphemous travesty in the columns of this journal; but we do so advisedly, in order that the public on this side of the Atlantic may form a rightful estimate of the character of its author :—- “Our big Papa who livest up in the air. We want everybody to think ever so much of..you; And that you should rule over us; And that you should have your own way in everything; Down here among us, just as you have up where you are. Give us all we want to eat every day; And let us off without any whipping when we make you angry. And we promise to be good to everybody, and let them off just the same when they do wrong to us. And don’t get us into any bad scrapes; But help us out if we get into any. For you are our ‘Governor,’ And have got the power over us to treat us just as you please. And so we must honour you, always. Let it be just so.” Such is the blasphemous language of a man who puts himself forward as a great moral teacher, who is to reform the human family, forsoothl and erect a new system of society, founded upon unlicensed passion. Are we to be surprised, therefore, that the very name of Stephen Pearl Andrews should be loathed and reprobated from one end of America to the other, or that he should be regarded as “the abstract of all villany ”———one of those “ Calm thinking villains, whom no faith could ﬁx, Of crooked counsels, and dark politics ?” G E M S. “ The man that dares traduce, because he can With safety to himself, is not a man ; An individual is a sacred mark, Not to be pierced in play or in the dark.” ———O'0wpcr. ‘‘ 0 how good a thing and how‘ peaceable it is to be silent of others, nor to believe all that is said, nor easily to report What one has heart.”-V Thomas at Kempis. “More things are wrought by prayer Than the World dreams of.”——-Zlforte d’Art7m'r. “A good conscience can bear very much/’——— T/zomas it Keuqaiis. “Evil news rides fast, while good news bates.”" ——Mt'lzf0n. T “A pure heart penetrates heaven and hell.” ——T/Lomas ct Kempis. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1881-01-29_12_03
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1881-01-29_12_03
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 02, no. 19 (March 25, 1871)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1923
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1871-01-06
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: 'MARCII 25,-11871. shatter: it sauna sf ttttg. 'a.ks 3:‘ . _ I t Open this poem and it is like opening up fountain of health and the springs of life. There is no more healthy book in our literature. It is myrrh and rosemary which keeps off the contagion of a vast heap ofeffete matter outside, and checks at all events the spreading of a fataldisease. The poems‘ are alive. Cut them and they would bleed. Tlianatopsis was Mr. Bryant’s earliest poem of any mark, and was written at the age of eighteen; It made his reputa- tion ; ::.n<l it is not a little curious that Shelley, Keates, Festus. Bailey and VVordsworth ‘,had all written “things which the - world will not willingly let die,” when they were about the age. But it is customary to speak of Thanatopsis as if Mr. Bry-ant’s fame _depended upon this one poem. It is a fine piece of Hebrew rhetoric, to be sure, and touches with the simplicity and tenderness of an inspired prophet, the most sacred feelings of the human heart—...
Show more'MARCII 25,-11871. shatter: it sauna sf ttttg. 'a.ks 3:‘ . _ I t Open this poem and it is like opening up fountain of health and the springs of life. There is no more healthy book in our literature. It is myrrh and rosemary which keeps off the contagion of a vast heap ofeffete matter outside, and checks at all events the spreading of a fataldisease. The poems‘ are alive. Cut them and they would bleed. Tlianatopsis was Mr. Bryant’s earliest poem of any mark, and was written at the age of eighteen; It made his reputa- tion ; ::.n<l it is not a little curious that Shelley, Keates, Festus. Bailey and VVordsworth ‘,had all written “things which the - world will not willingly let die,” when they were about the age. But it is customary to speak of Thanatopsis as if Mr. Bry-ant’s fame _depended upon this one poem. It is a fine piece of Hebrew rhetoric, to be sure, and touches with the simplicity and tenderness of an inspired prophet, the most sacred feelings of the human heart—but it is by no means his best production, and the poet must be surfeited with the heaps of crude praises which it is continually re- ceiving. Give me his woodland poems, his poem to a water- fall, his lyrics——and we can spare the Thanatopsis. We should be well pleased to make athorough critical analysis both of Mr. Bry-ant’s “ mind, character and genius,” and of his poems, if we could find the space. But at present we are driven to the wall. We are glad to ﬁnd, however, that he has put so noble a soul under the ribs of his verses— that he shows himself not only physically but morally and religiously healthy, and is not ashamed in these ghastly days of scientiﬁc atheism to acknowledge his Heavenly Father, and his dependence upon him for all he has and is. We are looking out for his translation of Homer, some lengthy passages of which we have already read. It is not fair always to judge of the whole by a part, but we may say that if the bulk be as ‘good as the sample, there is more fame in store for the poet. It is admirably well rendered, and in the spirit of the great morning epic of the world. Bryant was born November 3, 1794, at Cummington, Hampshire County, Mass. and the poet seems to have inherited from him his love of poetry and art, for he was much distinguished for these high matters in his day and generation, and taught his son to love poetry from his nursery days, and often, even, at an earlier period, “ reciting” him to sleep in his swaddling clothes. He began‘ to write poems at the age of ten, and found a publisher for these early pieces when he was only ﬁfteen. Of" course, being unusually good for a child, they astonished everybody, and it was prophesied that he would one day become a great. poet and man. “ Thanatopsis” appeared in ,1817, in the “ North American Review,” and has been popular ever since. In 1826, in his thirtieth year, he came to New York as an attache of the Evemng Post. Bryant was then a Democrat. The paper was Federal, and when slavery became a party issue, and Republicanism was born out of the throes thereof, Bryant joined the party, but always as an independent man. He has live abroad during the past ﬁfteen years, and does notsi much with the management of his paper. if _ His ﬁiist book of poems was more highly praised abroad than at home. His “Letters of a Traveller,” published in 1849, were collected from his contributions to the Post. He is not a rapid, but a painful and laborious writer, so far as poetry is concerned, and, like Pope, he is continually alter- ing, adding and amending. His home is in one of the most lovely nooks of Long Island, at Roslyn, and he has adorned it with gardens, lawns and beautiful streams of water, which ﬂow into a little lake- let. It looks like a poet’s dream realized. He almost lives among his flowers when at home, and his gardens are his Paradise. He is seventy-ﬁve years old, and, alas! a widower; and, although he has two daughters to whom he is devoutly attached, he is alone in the world. For who caii supply the place of his lost wife—his life—long companion and his best friend? He is a brilliant talker, hospitable to all comers, and a most genial companion, full of old memories of the illustrious dead, and not a bad listener. A/\AA/ A CUMBINED EFFORT AND VICTORY IS YCURS. There are ﬁve millions of women in the United States who desire suffrage. Let every one of them sign the necessary petition, to be found on page 8, and mail to Mrs. Josephine S. Grifling, Secretary National Woiiian’s SSffrage Associa- tion, Washington, D. C. AAAA% NEW J ERSEY MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.———ll¢Ir. Mil ler, the insurance superintendent of this State, recently made a thorough examination of the affairs of this Company at the request of its oﬁicers. He reported that the business was “ systeinatically and honorably conducted” and that “its ﬁnancial condition was such as to entitle it to public conﬁ- deuce.” There is no doubt that Mr. Miller has done his duty thor- oughly, therefore there can be no substantial reason for dis- crcditing his conclusions. The ﬁfth annual statement of this Company’s aff'aii-s shows a larger increase in business, which speaks well for the public conﬁdence in its directory, who are all responsible citizens of Newark. ’I‘wenty—two thousand dollars of the guaranty capital has been refunded. The receipts in 1870 reached $311,687 15, Its total assets are stated at $610,944 61. Its number of poli-. cies to January 1, 1870, 6,283. We learn that the prosperity of this company is attributable to the energy and business talent of its vice—presi-dent, C. C_ Lathrop, Esq. We trust it will always remain worthy the patronage which has been given it so freely. His father was a physician, 8 REPUTATION. ’Tis said that Wind and Water once, In emulation, Among the hills played hide-and-seek With reputation. With many a gusty ganibol first The Wind essayed it; Behind the hills and around the knowla He, slyly played it. But ev’ry nook betrayed his lair ; The leaves round him Would rustle at his breath. and so His playmates found him. Then, laughing, crept the Water forth, And ’moiigst the mallows He spread himself‘, and branched apart In countless shallows. The loiiggrass hid his silver stream, The sedge concealed him ; The drooping willows helped his fli'.ght—— No sun revealed him-— Till, in his conﬁdence elate With vigorous sally He leapt a rock, and so was caught Within the valley. The ‘Wind and Water‘, panting both, , Remiiid their mate That he should take his turn, and meet - The self same fate. But Reputation answered slow : “ Though I inclined me To sport, if once I hide myself, Say, who shall ﬁnd me ? With me all cunning skill is vain, Vain all endt--avor—— If I but lose myself from view, I’m gone forever 1” A¥‘ The various conventions being held throughout the coun- try do not appear to appreciate the advice of “THE INDEPENDENT” AND THE “ VVOMAN’S JOURNAL,” one of which says it does not believe in going “ across lots” by means of Constitutional amendments ; and the other, “ Nothing is to be gained by hasty, injudicious action. VVe would not press a decision to-day.” Will they please take sufficient notice to read the follow- ing from Sturgés’ Journal, relating to the convcntion_ lreld there: RESOLUTIONS. At the opening of the afternoon session the following resolutions were submitted by the Committee on Resolu- tions and accepted : Wltereas, impartial justice is true conservatism and thorough radicalism, preserving the good and up-rooting the evil, the efore _ Ifesolved, Tliat we advocate and claim suffrage for woman because it is just, and therefore safe and full of beneﬁt, hop- ing to a truer state and church and a purer and nobler social life by giving duties and responsibilities to all. Resolved, «That, so far from denying the overwhelming social and civil inﬂuence of woman, we are fully aware of ‘ it, BELIEVING, wrrir Diatrosriinnns, THAT MEASURES WHICH THE STATESMAN I-IAS MEDITATED A YEAR MAY BE OVER- TURNED IN A DAY BY A WOMAN, and for this reason we pro- claim it the highest expediency to endow her with full civil rights, since then only will she exercise this influence under ajust sense of her duty and responsibility, history bearing witness that tlieoiily safe course is to add open responsi- bility to power. Resolved, That since the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States declares that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of . the State where they reside, and that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immu- nities of such citizens, we believe and aifirin that women as persons and citizens have the right to the elective franchise and can vote and hold office equally with man under the Constit.utio’n of our country, and that we ask of Congress a declaratory act‘, and also that the women assert their righ‘, at the polls, and, it‘ refused, then carry their case up to the highest court.-1‘, persevering until Congress and the courts are compelled in the light of righteousness to grant equal justice under the law and the Constitution. v Resolved, That the right of women to vote under the Four- teenth Amendment does not lessen the earnestness of our ’ demand for such changes in State laws and constitutions as shall recognize her right and guarantee her elective franchise, and we shall urge such changes that States may make haste to be just and therefore truly great. [We cannot refrain from calling the attention of our friends to what we deem a great error, into which they are con- stantly falling. We refer to the last paragraph of" the above resolutions. Do they not know that three-fourths of all the States did legislate upon the XIV. Amendment, and by such legislation all the States are held to have done the same ? The XIV. Amendment could never have become a palgt of the Consti- tution without such action, and it seems _to,us the height of folly to now insist that the States must act again upon the sain_e question which they have already legislated into the Supreme Law of the Lanrl. I ‘ The real length, width and depth of the XIV. Amendment is as yet but little understood.] ‘ Also the following action of Cook County Woman’s As- sociation, Chicago : U . WOMAN SUFFR-AGE. / Frnsr ANNUAL CONVENTION orvfrnn COOK COUNTY WOMAN SUFFRAGE ‘ASSOCIATION. . Resolutions Oferecl that‘ Woman z's_,Alrea,rZy, E/ttzfiflecl to the Fmnchzfse. A M01tNINGc;SESSIO1\T. The ﬁrst annual convention of the Cook County Woina which .9 Suffrage Association we/ras_ held yesterday in Farwell Hall. It was announced to,/open at 10 o’clock; but, owing to the thinnessof the attendance, fully an hour elapsed before the commencement of btisiiiess. Mrs. Fernando Jones, the Pre- sident of the Association. was in the Cl1f:lll'.- Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. E. Cady Stanton, Mrs. Vt7aite and other cham- pions of the cause, were present on the platform. , Mrs. C. B. Waite opened the meeting with prayer. Mrs. Stanton read‘ the following resolutions, -which, she said, had been prepared by the committee the previous evening: ' Whereas, it is just as disastrous to the best interests of the race to. teach all womankind to bow down to the author- ity of man as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of Kings and Popes as divinely ordained: therefore, 1-Bosoloed, That men’s headship in the State, the Church and the home, is an exploded idea of the dead past, opposed to arepublican government and Protestant religion, both of recognizes individual responsibility, conscience, judgment and action. Resoloed, That, as the Fourteenth Amendment declares all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the «United States, therefore, women., being such persons, are citizens of the United States. Resolved, That, as the Fifteenth Amendment declares “ that the right‘ of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged,” and, as the Sixth Article says “that the Consti- tution and laws of the United States should be the supreme law of land, and the judges of‘ every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution of any State to the contrary notwithst:-iiiding.” therefore, it is the duty of the National and State Governments to secure to woman the right to vote. / Mrs. Stanton supported the resolutions, and announced the platform on_ which they proposed to stand. According to her interpretation of the Constitution, women had a right to exercise the privilege of voting ; and, instead of going in for the Sixteenth Ainendmeiit, they were to proceed, at the next Presidential election, to register, and let the question he decided then by thecouits. _ Mr. C. B. Waite objected to the second resolution, but was in favor.of the other two. -Ie urged them not to aban- don the Sixteenth Amendment and fall back on the declara- tory law. A woman was not excluded train the franchise on account of race, color or previous condition of‘ servitude, but because of sex, and no amendment to the Constitution had declared her a citizen. Mrs. Stanton replied to Mr. VVaite’s arguments, and didn’t " see how he could get away with the logic of the resolution. Miss Anthony took up the discussion and supported Mrs. Stanton’s position. protest against the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments as unnecessary; but if they did anything to help anybody, they helped women as much as any disfranchised class. Women must keep pulling away at this string until men should, just to get rid of them, be glad to acknowledge their rights of ciizensliip. There were twenty women in the District of Columbia preparing to make an attempt to regis- ter. Judge Riddle had promised to carry the matter through the courts, and that was the best plan to bring the subject to apractical issue before the country. The men would have to declare themselves one way or another. _ A second reading of the 1‘€:S0ll1tl()T1’WaS called for; and, after some further discussion,’ the convention adjourned till afternoon. V AFTERNOON SESSION. The convention reassemhletl at 223,- o’clock. offered by a lady from Rockford. Mrs. Brooks, the R.ecord.ing Secretary, read a report giv- ing a 'resume,of' the progress of the association since its or- ganizatlon, its ﬁnaiicial condition, and its proposed plans for the future. The report was adopted. « Prayer‘ was Mrs. Loomis, the Treasurer, reported that $200 had been received, which had been expended in oi'g:i.nization, and $150 which had been consumed for various purposes. The amount in the hands of the Treasurer was 953. Anthony read an editorial from a ‘W yomin g paper giv- ”-liss " owing picture of the practical outcome of the move- 1 that Territory, and followed it up by a speech of’ "able length. Vaite, the Corresponding Secretary, presented a re- port the progress of the association. Several societies had been founded within the past year in South Pass, Ill., in Onar a Chain )air>‘n, Paxton and Evanston and were all g ! S 7 3 . doing well.’ Incidentally it was mentioned that Rev. Robert Laird Miller was doing a great work for the cause. Dr. Blake moved that the present officers of the society he re-elected- The motion was carried. Mrs, C. H. Leonard was elected First Vice President to ﬁll a vacanc . Mrs. C. H. Wendte was elected Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Waite resigning. Rev. M. M. Parkhurst delivered an address, in which he sought to expound the Christian idea of the woman move- ment. ' Miss Anthony again spoke. Mrs. C. H. Leonard read an essay on the liquor laws, in which she propounded seine original and striking propo- sitions. ‘ Mr. C. B. Waite offerccl the following as a substitute for the second resolution offered by Mrs. Stanton: Whereas, By the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, the citi- zenship of women is fully recognized; and Whereas, By that amendment, as well as_by the original Constitution, every State is deharred from denying to citizens of the United States the privileges and immunities of citizenship, one of the fundamental as well as one of the dearest and most valuable of which immunities is the right of suffrage; _ Whereas, There is no warrant, either in the Constitution or in the na- ture of things, for denying citizens the elective franchise, except for crime, suiﬁcient age, capacity or residence; therefore Resolved, That women have the right of suffrage under the Constitu- tion of the United States, and should vigorously prosecute their claim to the exercise of the right until it is fully recognized and established by all the courts of the country. This resolution, as well as the other, were laid over to be discussed at this morning’s session. The convention then adjourned till 10 o’clock this fore- noon. ‘ The prograinmegfor to-day is as follows : In the morning a discussion will take place on the resolutions offered yester- day. In the afternoon there will be a grand suffrage matinee. j. Dr. W. H. Ryder will give an address at 3 o’clock on “ ‘What the Woman Suffrage Agitation has Accomplished.” In the evening Mrs. Stanton will speak on “The True Republic,” and Mrs. George C. Bates will speak on “ Our Republic.” She thought Sumner was right in his A ‘t‘nesefwor‘ds: “"c Thb vidufs‘ ._ -farlas the author of this article on “ Marriage Laws” ' _.is “they live, in short, in utter misery, it~is cruel to compel ’ sense,” a proposition which we cheerfully indorse, as we do ‘if-‘ Wznxiliiill ailiuls dtlerklg. 1 .MAn.cH 25, l87l. " If we would but check the speaker, When he soils a neighbor’s fame, Ill‘ we would but help the erring, Ere we utter words of blame; If we would, how men might we Turn from paths of sin and shame Ah l the wrongs that might be righted If we would but see the way I Ahl the pains that might be lighten"d Every hour and every dav, v~ If we would but hear the pleadings Of the hearts that go astray. Let us stepnutside the stronghold - ~ - g 0:‘ our selﬁshness and pride; Let us lift our fainting brothers. Let us strengthen ere we chide ; Let us. ere we blame the fallen, ' Hold a light to cheer and guide. — Ah. how blessed—-—ah, how blessed Earth would be if we but try Thus to aid and right the weaker,‘ " Thus to check each’ brother’s sigh ; Thus to walk in duty’s pathway To our better life on igh.‘ ‘W In each life, however lowlg, 'l"here are seeds of mighty good, Still we shrink from souls appealing, With a timid “ If We could ;” But. our God, who judgeth all things, Knows the truth is, “If we would.” AAA,ws~c WGGBHULL AND THE PDODLES OF THE I ' PRESS. ‘ An article appeared in this journal weeks ago on “Mar- riage Laws” which, it seems, ll‘-LS given umbrage to some of the old foss‘:l country newspapers. One of these is a Jersey paper, and the editor makes a long extract from it, which he introduces in some very moral words which ought to do good to his readers, who are currently reported to be old women, and spinsters who don’t know how old they are. It would not matter to us a jot; what this moral editor has said, if he only spoke the truth. Vile could pardon the bad taste which prompted him to abuse ourselves ladies because, in spite of themselves, they have been pressed to the front‘ of battle in the great social questions of the day-—and espe- Ciully in the Wom-1.n’s Suffrage question-—we say we could pardon this, because it is only gentlemen who understand and practice the amenities and courtesies of discussion. But we prot st against such words as these when used in connec- tion with “ Mrs. Woodhiill ” and the article alluded to. The editor, speaking of the woman’s.movement, says, “ N 0 cause has been more eanbarrassed and made odious by absurd and, sometimes, even positively mischievous schemes than this. The advocates of free love and of looseness have got in among the friends of this movement and played all sorts of bad with it.” He then goes on to quote the article, pre- mising that Mrs. Woodhull edits the journal in which it ap- pears, and thus, by iniplicationgnaking her responsible for the notions of her correspondent" He_furth_er.apol,ogizes for" giving the obnoxious contents of,;:th,_e,§i1'ticl_e./c W T 3"" 3’ ~ makes are so mischievous that we quote from it to show its quality.” This is a good deal like introducing a young man into evil scenes and company to teach him to avoid them?’ and is the practice of all cowards and sneaks who lug spicy things into their columns, and then profess to be horriﬁed that such wickedness could possibly exist in the world. We have read over the contraband article with care and confess that we see no kind of harm in it,-but a vast deal of good. John Milton, the great orthodox poet, and builder of the immortal epic known as “ Paradise Lost,” goes quite as}, “ Plea for Divorce,” only learned J ohn backs his argu not only with incontrovertible logic and the experie mankind, but with a whole park of Bible artillery, i shape of passages from Scripture. Milton said that divorce ought to be as easy as marriage in the getting thereof ; and old Michael Montaigne is of the same opinion, and tells us that at a certain period of Roman history, when divorces were open both to men and women. upon a greit variety of complaints, there was not such a thing as a divorce known for ﬁve hundred years. ' This is’ literally true. with some half dozen recorded exceptions, and proves the rule absolute. The author of the “ Marriage Laws” is evidently a-sincere and earnest soul, seeking to do good to his fellow-men by removing a heavy shackle from the mind and body of the race. He says, that for two peo- pie" to live together when they hate each other——when their pursuits, aspirations and aims of life are all diﬁ‘erent-when them to abide by their swcarings at the altar, to “ love, honor and obey,” and declares that the “ primal promise is all non- likewise the rfollo wing pretty amendment suggested by this writer : “ Love is not a matter of volition but of necessity We can only love that which is loveable, honor that which is honorable and obey that which is reasonable; and the bride at the altar can only honestly say, ‘ I will continue to love my husband so long as he is loveable, honor him so long as he remains honorable, and obey him’ so long as his commands are just and reasonable.’ ” There seems to us no kind of immorality and license to free love in these words, which are indeed the “ words of truth and sobcrness.” Our moral editor thinks otherwise. He thinks that because two foolish people have taken upon themselves the bonds of matrimony they are to remain bound together until jolly old Death parts them. But there “ it, although it is just tupidity and old fogyism as this ' be in! and how cold-blooded he would think any one who . ;2gcm~d=e_a,-1-or 1naiii3é*i*inffl‘ifi's. scirtsr which has built up so strong a wall of prejudice and ignor- ance and ghostly fear in favor of perpetual marriages, no matter under what circumstances of crime and misery. We should like to put our editor to the test in proof of his own theory of the indissolubility of marriage. It would give us pleasure——real pleasure——to tie this gentleman to a bad woman, whoselwhole nature was immoral, and who did her best to make his life a living hell. VVe should like then tohear what he has to say about everlasting marriage. c He would be the first to call it names, wedare-be sworn. He would dub it adultery, sin, crime and abominable injustice, and would never cease to plead for a clivorce, which he should never be able to get. Poor man 1 what a plight to did not sympathize with him! Can’t he," therefore, put himself into the position of writers against the existing marriage laws, and believe it possible that theylmay know what they are talking about ? That they may have suffered from precisely such causes as we have named, and as we desire to test our moral editor’s princi- ples by in regard to matrimony. We may be sure that three-fourths of the misery of mankind spring from unhappy marriages. Everybody knows it, sees it, pities it, but only the brave people whom he taunts as living “ free and un- trammeled lives” dare to denounce the whole scheme as an offence to God and an insult to the humanintellect. But this godly editor talks about the “divine sanction” which-is afforded to the married condition, and turns up his nose at everybody who “scouts that idea." as he says. But We, for one more, don’t believegghe divin sanction is given to any but the good,;t.rue and ‘ genuine arriage of noble souls. T Two wretches, man and woman, both thieves and worse, go before the altar, and ask the priest to marry them, that they may breed a whole progeny of criminals to prey upon society. The priest may not know them, but possibly God does; and in this case, will our devout edito r affirm that the divine sanction is accorded to it‘? If so, all we can say is, that we would not like to be in the shoes of the divine sanction. , ’ Whatever may become of this argument, however, there are such things as truth an-.l fairness in public as well as in private discussions, and since it by no means follows that Mrs. Woodhull indorses the sometimes very queer and crude crotchets of her correspondents, neither Cl0t'S it follow that this editor has the right to try and make it appear that Mrs. Woodhull is the person whoputs forth the views contairl-ed in the Marriage .art_icle=-that she wrote it, in fact. If he;,;_ name is to no,doubl’t‘she,is”lhe author of it; but if it isii not, our astute editor has no more right to charge her with it, .or ‘with holding. lejvs, sirnilar -t hose expressed in it, than he liaisito'cha.rge~ltKiupd£i lhe, a ﬁrs. Catherine Beecher Stowe, op-.-,any othernian. -.,,Bur. ,.we,,,.fear ,_t__h_er1‘p is a W00dhul1’s responsibility ; at all events, he shows a consid- erable desire to misrepresent her. He must know"5’vell enough that WOODHULL‘ & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY is open to all opinions, and that its ‘editors do not necessarily indorse anything which appears in its columns over another’s signa- ture, cr that is quoted from another paper, the latter of which is true of the casein question. lt is not a little curious, too, that the country editor should have gone back to an issue of nine weeks ago, in order to makehis attack. And it is still more curious that he should have charged Mrs. Wooclliull with the sentences contained in the Marriage Laws article which he quotes from to sustain hisabuse, inasmuch as neither she nor any of her friends nor correspondents wrote it, but it was copied from the London Cosmopolitan to show how advanced the English journalists were upon this “ tickli ” subject and how boldly they dare to speak out about it. ‘ The fact of the-case is,that this editor, or wine ’i’ft'l'.'}li07L oflzis, has exhibited quite too much spleen to warrant his readers in making the desired application. He must remember they do not wear green glasses. He, or somebody who speaks through him, evidently has a grudge against Mrs. Wooclhull. He is perhaps jealous of the position she has achieved for herself—of being at the head of the women’s movement- and as the ﬁrst among men or women to discover the mightiest fact of modern history in that XlVth Amendment, viz. : that woman everywhere is thereby accorded an equal right with man to vote at elections, etc. The little editor man strikes at high game, but he won’t bring it down. He does his best to blacken her character in the estimation ofthe bread-and-butter children who go by the name of women, and suck candy in church, and never heard in all their lives any objection raised to the existin g marriage laws, he tries to make Mrs. Wood- hull out to be a very black sheep, we say,‘ with such nonde- scripts as these, who are evidently his only readers ; but he can no more harm her with really good and intelligent citi- zens than he could harm the great pyramid by leaning his poor little body against it. He says,“ Such women as this Mrs. Woodhull and her public demonstrations, do great harm to the cause of the reform,” etc. Now this is poodleism out and out. Mrs. Woodhull has carved for herself a name in the history of this country which cannot be blotted out, and her fame is only just beginning to dawn. In a few years at most, and it may be much earlier, every woman in the land- will have avote through her “ public demonstrations,” and if that be doing harm, may God give her strength to do more INSINUATIONS, PERSONALITIES, SLANDERS. In view of the present busy. condition of many per-" sons who _. have no better business» than to be engaged in retailing stale maliciousness or in inventing new insinuations, but who lack the’ honesty and that -manhood and womanhood which speaks no ill, except he know it true ;' and to show them that they do not trouble. us in. the least, we quote from No.19 of this journal the fol- lowing, and wish them all the happiness and good which can possibly arise from such employment. ovg, as in Sep- tember last, we are too much. engaged in better business to waste time upon such specimens of a common brotherhood. simply remarking that we are perfectly willing to receive the first stonelfrom him or her who is without sin among them: The world has yet almost. no conception of a personality and character which stand so secure in their own poses. their self-justiﬁcd freedom, and their consciousness of strength as to meet every event and contingency as they may arise, that there is no fear and no care of what the world may say or think. Precisely that is, however, our position ; and we even forget, in our simple e nrncstncss to live true lives and do our work, that there are people in the world still to defer to the clictum of Mrs. Gruncly. If we are true to_ ourselves, to our own highest sense of right, we are content. The whispers, or the loud talk, or the sly malicious inuendo are alike indifferent, and if it were not that we are occasionally reminded by the anxiety of friend that some- have occasion to say “ shoo ﬂy I” The world is, for the most part, in its babybood, and in the condition of imperfectly conceived and badly bred babies at that. We have our earnest purpose to accom- plish, and by the help of the - good angels we shall accom- plish it, in good part. It is to instruct the silly and perverted menta. ities, and to elevate and rm-ﬁne the low and sensual appetites of this half-rotten humanity about us! but what the said humanity may say or think of us, in the me-.u1t-iuie is of little moment. ’ We have no contempt but the highest aduniration and re- spect for the possible man and woman. . We have no can- tempt for the actual man and woman; but, with a few noble, exceptions, and they grow iewer every day with our in- creased experience-, we do not propose to defer to their opin- ions. We measure the world by high standards, and we ﬁnd it wanting. We do not despise, for that is an action and sometimes a ﬁerce sen iment, but we passively disregard and ignore the judgments which the world may pass upon us. blcibocly is really entitled to have a judgment upon Wl1‘ltlllGV cannot understand, and people bowed and compressed cult of all natural shape cannot, as we said in the b ginning of this ar- ticle, comprehend the feeling even of those whom the truth hath made free. n .. MME8 FESK, 3%., "W ‘WE ilizddllh. —_,§GlENN,ES AS .5. l"QIlITIC‘j.il‘..hl()ROSC(ll?‘h3. -.3; IWWAYRD WAS WEGEWGLI. wuiiiirs RIGHTS noun iilll lllfﬁiiitl “A HAS LE§ l10liEli5ﬁK<2T§.»" James Fisk, J12, is a man. of the times. His acute pr.-.rc.cn~ tion tells him exactly when, where and how to make a liit. He looks a long way ahead, waits until his chance comes, then seizes it with unerring, grasp. Anythin g he takes hold of has life in it ; anything he passes by is either not worth pickingup on not high enough game for him. He is suc- cessful because he works to a deﬁnite end, and never for a moment loses sight of it. For some weeks past this city has been on the our vrvn in anticipation of: the appearance of “Les Georgiennes” and James Fisk, Jr.’s, elephant. But few who have seen the any idea of the real signiﬁcance of its production at this particular juncture; but once having seen it in all its geor geousness, no one can fail to see its political drift, and the adroitness with which the 'Wom:1n’s Rights question is rep- resented‘, in its several phases, throughout the entire drairia. We had no idea, as we entered the theatre, oi‘ the wiinocticn wicket, we noticed a signiﬁcant twinkle in the Admiral’s eye, that we knew very well. meant something, and \>vb_;-it that something was we will now proceed to explain. Les Georgiennes represents a certain city about to be at- tacked, and its male defenders being cowardly do not come», forward to defend their capital and their liberties under their constitution. The women therefore rise, organize and under- take the defence of their capital (capitol) and constitution ~ . ' '4 _ _ 4 ’ placing Feroza at their head and Nani. next in coznmand. In this state of affairs Boboli, leaving the men, joins the women, but is only halt-hearted. in their cause, having his own ends in view; he sees how al'lE1.i1's are likely to turn. out and wishes to be on the right side enacting the role of “ headg I win, tails you lose.” Rhododendron (or l{evolr1tion)_is head of a party who assail the capital (capitol) Feroza getshold of the key to the plan of attack of Rho- dodendron, and Nani (the gcneral) keeps the key of the fortress under her armor. We will explain no more of is neither good sense, good morals -nor good Christianity in of H B.» the play, but putting the proper names to the proper charac- / pur- « thing is buzzing‘. we should not, on our own account, evens; numerous announcements of the advent of this drama had i of the drama with our cause; but as we passed through the ..:-3.» Mason; 25 1871. cast and work out the drama, tors present the followin 9 glhe inference is too plain to be quoting its exact words. misunderstood. ‘ Feroza.. ......... ............... . ...Vicloria C. Woodhull. Nani .................................... . . '.Tennie C. Claﬂin. Boboli ....................... . ;. ...... . .Henry Ward Beecher. Rhododendron .’..,.., , ,. , . . . . ............. . ...The ReV01l1ti011- Les Georgiennes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .... . .Women’s Rights Party. Constantinople ,,,,,,,,,,,, . , ............ . .The Constitution. Les Georgienues ﬁnding the constitution likely to be tram- pled under foot to the detriment of the liberties of the women, call a council of war and in solemn conclave organize and appoint Feroza as commander-in-chief. » Fnaozs. Now, understand, ladies, that I Mean to have everything laid Aside for the defence of the country! Nam. We have set up a government of Women; but Feroza, having all The right to command, as the Strongest head in the town (Country), has been proclaimed General-in-Chief. LE5 Gsonsrazvxas. Hurrah ‘for Feroza. I hurrah for Tan Gsunnu. l Boson. Rise up in (THE) Revolution, Oh, TIMID DAMESI NAM. Ah, ladies, and misses fair, All the men have run away. BoBoI..I.U,. Now, you know they went out ' To beat the enemy. FEROZA. No more idle phrases; let us to the facts. Boson. But do you want me to spoil my future Y Nam. It is no disgrace to be rebels- In this case it is highly moral. Bosom. Ah that woman has thrown Vague yearnings into my soul. [Here Fcroza and Nani discover that women have the right to vote under the XIV. Amendment to the Constitu- tion]. . NARI. A nice discovery we have made; To think that I should hold here, In this little hand, what is going To save the country. B03011, Ifll pretend to know nothing, And ignore the rest. [Song by LE8 (}E_oReIENNEs.l ' The moment has come ’l.‘hat ends the reign of men. Boson At that Feroal ah, these womehl Faaoza. Let us strengthen our arms with Steel, for our cause is the noblest. Bogou, Let me betray so as not to be Betrayed myseif. [Here having the shadows of coming events‘ Floating before his vision he betrays Rhododrendron] Rnononimh non ’\coni‘essing'). I tried to win Over the guard of the gates By giving him three Rupees, but the rascal was‘ Incorruptible. ' They are all like that in This country, consciences of iron, In men of bronze, they will ” Never betray their trust till you Get to the ﬁfth rupee. (See sermon containing the remark “ You know how it is yourself.") “ Yes, that's just what happened.“ “' I know the scale ofrates." ‘ [See above sermom] Song by Rhododendron. “ Resistance is useless Submit to fate," “ Come, surrender.” . “ I am as gentle as a lamb, As gentle as two lambs.” “ Well ladies, are you satislled ?" “ Enchanted.” “ Fmasgentle as a lamb ; as gentle as two lambs.“ Boson. Rnononnnnunzv. Boson. Fnuozs. Boaou. Rnononsnnuox. Lns Gsonems nus. Bonom. Les Georgiennes. But the moment has come That ends the reign of men. My icoglans and I, Whom your example excites, Wish, upon my word, To march in your rear. V Moitsm.--The discovery that the Amendment gives the right to vote, at first placed Feroza in command of the Woman’s Rights movement, but frightened‘ those halt‘- hearted in the cause; who, when they ﬁnd this to be the key to die posi.ion, fall in line and victory ensues. James Fisk’s elephant is merely the symbol of our new movement, and the astute Fisk has appropriately made it one_ot the first magnitude. Boson. We.are certainly gratiﬁed at the manner in which “ Prince Erie ” has put this symbolical drama on the stage ; the silk- en and brilliant colored Fastern costumes; the choruses (some of which were very superior); the drummer girls with their pretty blue and white costumes, keeping perfect time with their marching and countermarching; then with the dashing Aimee and the model ﬁgured petite Persini, both artistes of the very first order, give a bill of fare not certainly to be surpassed" as affording a thoroughly enjoyable evenings amusement, which the audiences appear to highly appreciate. The inherent attractions of the piece, combined with its po- litical prognostications and allusions, as shown in our quo- ‘LECTURE BY ‘WENDELL PHILLIPS. of lectures, not as a literary entertainment, but as one of the shorts 3; panama dtiwklg. THE cantons. .i3Y'E. Gr, HOLLAND. The cosmic spheres that radiant glow ‘ , ~ In peaceful orbits, ceaseless ﬂow ; And no disruptive inﬂuence mars The grand repose of marching stars. , The Earth, which bathes in golden li ht, ’l‘o distant worlds seems glad and brig t; From depths unknown above the plains, The cent:-al ﬁres that bade them rise Were rad2'cal-and deeply wise. The storm that makes the ocean roar ln foaming rage against the shore, Or sends the lightning through the sky, Is the radical, coming nigh. ; 'l‘he Uyclone. whose rotative sweep Breaks up the calmness of the deep, And makes the wave its sportive toy. Is radical in ocean’s joy. The winds that blow from northern sky, With hale. refreshing energy, Are radicals we cannot spare For making pure the sultry air. Niagara’: eternal roar. And torrents which incessant pour, Chime not with timid caution’s vein, But triumph in heroic strain. The central ﬁres that deeply lie In this, our giiand Humanity, At times uoheaue the mountains strong, And bury deep the moral wrong. The sense of right, the Passion-tire, The Reason clear, the righteous ire,_, Unite to burn in ﬂames sublime The crushing tyrannies of time. And radical is Nature‘s force, Educing epochs in its course, Whose action bold and strong and free, Evolved each rare sublimity. No less in all Historic lore Are those hi h Forces we adore. Whose play as broken err0r"s chain, And I‘-‘reedom’s shout evoked again. In every clinic, in every age, ’l‘he highest truth of seer and sage Has lived and ﬂamed through souls that were The 7‘adi:c of its blossoms rare. Conservative are Nature’s laws, Educing lava and its cause, - With whirlwinds ﬁerce and thunders rand, And earthquakes shaking sea and land. ._:. , TOPICS OF TO;-DAY. _w,oRK1No-MEN TO FREE THE WORLD. Ht ‘lillllt wllfitt yours RIGHTERS. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN——It‘ any one should ask me wh I bring to this lecture-platform such grave questions 22.3% shall try to- offer you, when usually these winter-evening lectures are regarded as a literary entertainment than any- thing graver, my reply would be that I tookupon this system great educational inslrumentalities of a free government-— one of those necessary adjuncts to politics; for when God ﬁings on a generation a great issue, it needs some power to tear it open, and riddle it with light, and marshal the facts, and g lther the argument, and crowd the brain, and lift the heart, and ripen the million voters up to the level of an in- telligent grapple with the new issue. Politics. ‘lvhich cou- templates an, immediate result and action on the very mor- row, cannot afford to lift the angry issue, cannot safely touch it. Neither ordinary journalism nor ordinary politics to-day could stand in California and take the Chinese issue in its hands, and hold San Francisco still while they cram down her reluctant throat the facts which she must know and does not wish to know on that angry and unpopular and despised topic. The ﬁrst time that I ever saw William H. Seward in the Supreme Court of the United States he said to me: “ Go on, travel about, manufacture as much public opinion as you can, ripen it, and when it is ﬁnished I will use it up here in the Senate.” VVell, it was an exact description of the real relation under our Government between a United States Senator and a Vagabond lecturer. [Laughton] One is to make the road s-tfe—-one is to ripen the question up to the possibility of political treatment. Now, therefore, when I bring on to this lecture-plzltform the questions that politics will handle ten , years hence; when I try to take the anger, the contempt, the inclifference, the mob of 1835 on the slave question, and do my share to lift it into the loyality and intelligence of 1861, I think I am using this plaiforin for the very best and tions that do not .to-dayemake the politics, but underlie them; will crop out into their lull Slgl1lﬁC'&llCe ﬁve years, seven was still in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity. 1 was a lawyer. [Laughten] Seated in my office I heard a noise in the street, ‘Went down to ﬁnd what made it, saw three thousand men in broadcloth dragging a man through the streets with a rope around his Waist, I didn't know him; I had never seen him. Of course I didn’t know what offence he had given, or what idea he represented. Of course it was Mr. Garrison, and it was the anti-proslavery mob of October 25, 1835, in the streets ol Boston. But I was not an abolitionist; I was only a young lawyer, fresh from b0-.)kS. with all a young l.-twyer‘s keen sense of the sacredness of personal rigllts—frt-“sh lrom, the study of Genesis, of Anglo- Saxon -liberty. I had all Daniel Wet ster’s eulogy on law in New England at my tongue’s end. I was penetrated through and through with Story‘s idolatry for the Cousti_l,ution,‘\and, stood under the Inc this scene of mob _~ r was the viulition o i ’ liberty. Presently , represented law; watched ‘him anxi ‘never issued a com no policemen. mob, he prayed at these “ comrades ‘- to remember th. mob swept ove. Yet at her centre all may see . The real throb of tragedy. sand‘ He um tumult now swe, When ﬁrst arose the mountain chains , ﬁd-110% I had 3. . By my side stood a said to him, “ Why are the guns in F-an ten minutes!” My , more of United Stat had taught me. ﬁrst realizing sense‘ which~I lived. [Lat 10 me : “ You fool“. . front of you? would handle those ' time, it ﬂashed thror with all its merits, . ., 0 men ﬂing themselves against . » there is no bayonet anchor to wi.. , that moment justlso much of law-«ac _ intelligent sense as there is the mob, just .;.L. = ment you have got and no more. you will enjoy your life to-mori-ow. our idea of government. We borrowtlhe word 11-. that look up to quite a different machine. In Eng not so. When Birmingham lay in the hands of the _ week the Iron Duke ordered his Scotch guards to ro ' grind the scoundrels, as they did at ‘Natcrloo, and, vault , ing into their saddles, they rode the people down. There‘ highest purposes ; and I bring you, therelore, the great ques-. years, three years, ten years hence.‘ In 1835, in October,I‘ -‘am Ba H D01 It you are n; Ityoui burned down you will live in it the next day. is an element in the British state that in the maddest hour of the maddest mob cannot shake a hair. We have nothing like it. That very spring, when the guns sounded at Sumter, I remember a thousand men met in my own city, in Tremont Tlmple, when Boston mer- chants still thought it best to show South Car: alina that we were submissive, and accordingly they opened the Tre- mont House and the Parker‘ House gratis, and by 11 o’clock they had got a thousand men into that condition of mind that they turned them into the gallery and turned us into the street. Why do I give time to this? To bring to your mind this element, and remind you by these little reminis- cences that it becomes thoughtful men to ask themselves the question, “VVhat is the opportunily, what is the facility, which lies right at the hand of s-. if-seeking wealth when it pleases to lift up the dregs of society and ﬂing it a-. ainst law ? How do they get the means‘? How is it done? In a country of schools and churches where property is so widely ditlused how is it, on critical conditions, that a small class of men can lilt up the demoralized el< moms and beat down law? ’” Lord ‘Macaulay says_,_,in one of those prol"onnd and suggestive chapters, “T he great evil vices is illut in the ordma;-y hours hide and skulk from the _n0liCe of society, -but mu critical occasions they re-eme1'ge,‘é=and, in the hands of base men, are forged into weapons that beat down law.” What is New YOlk? New York is 500 men,a little ring that use and hold a the city like a piece of private property. How do they gov- ern it? They govern it through some 3,000 tools, every one of whom ought to be hung. [Great applause. On a criti- cal day one of these leading 500 says to his too , “ Go down to the polling-booth and make it so disorderly and danger- ous that no peaceable man will dare to approach it.” The man says, “ It I do that it sends me to Sing Sing.” “ Not a bit of it; I hold the 'udge in one hand and the district-attcn may in the other. 0 what,I_tell you. You are safe. Go back upon me today and I will hang you f0r_what you did ,yeste1'd-ay.” [Applaueej In other words,_tll1s (less of men are already so compromised that safety hes only in going rd. Well, how can he do the duty assigned him ? Ila go there alone, but must have comrades. He can’t go to __ ‘me ﬁfty or one hundred thrizfty mechanics, and say to tliem, “ Come let us go and break the laws.” He must go to men already half rotted by their vices, and bcsoitid by habitual imbibitions at the corner grocery. That is the duty assi ned him. Every man that studies the tendencies of the day uows that this is no exagg<»1‘nted picture, but a bird’s- eye view of the machinery lliat makes your great cily’s gov- ernment. I am not blaming any party for it. I am not here to day blaming any man for it; my inquiry is deeper than that. I am here to suggestlo you not only that the fact is so, but that 1; could 1101; be otherwise; for in the very elements, that make the city government this is lhe inevitable result and that unless you change the elements you cannot (Xpl at to change the result. Take the cily of Boston. I know its details better. It is a small place compared with ours. We have not a quarter of a l11ll1lOl1. There are a ways two classes of men, the conservative and prognssive, the man that needs the spur, and the man that needs the curb ; the man that never‘ looks with any Satisfaclioll on a new moon, and the man that isnever satisﬁed unless it changes once a month. They masquerade in all hislory. They are present in all society since history recorded it. Godfs method of check and balance perfectly exists. ’ Each one 111:-iy’ look up to his Maklgr and _ say the mind you gave me and the circumstances in which, I was placed forbid my looking at events otherwise. . These two classes exist of course, in Boston. Now in the centre of these stands a third force. Behind it is $80,000,000 devoted to the manufacture of drink. in front on them ’lhI°c‘e or four thousand drinking saloons; in front of them the demorallzed class, the dangerous class, the crnninal class. I don‘t care for the epithet-—a class that is ever present in cities; a class Wilh whom social science deals; ihe class that law cannot curb; the class that wealth panders to in order to double its gains. These men have no ideas ; they have only an object, -and that object is that the law shall never be executed against them. On election day they say we don’t care a whit lor your ideas, just give us the men that won’t execute the law against us. They hold the ballols,l1-we ever held the ballots. There is not a city from ﬁ ty thous-ind up to a million where they don’t. The eandidale virlually makes -the promise and it is kept. I say in every great (‘lty on this great Continent, the mayor and ald rmen are noth ng but a standing committee nominated by its grog-shops, and have not been anything else for many years. £ApplaL1se.j And tations, will give it a long lease of life. J. R. of course, after nine years’ study of such models, supposing I thus it follows that there has not been a great city on this they rock and demoralize a large class which at such times " “is , dtluaﬁtsll s dlstlias tttlg; MARCH 25, 1871. - tive years decently, chi and property is .' of self-government, erto with the prob- ilure. You may put ' Strand, and be safe. thout making your ‘l result of universal 5 streets are safe, be- ‘ her police gov- itic form of the ~itish law. Every the tendency of cities. Cities in- ature of modern civ- ' r into cities, and the » generation is how to , cities. Great cities ’ "t and home. Montes- *, for another reason, ‘ The experience of . es are only saved by riminal classes. San .d a vigilance commit- iore. The sin of in- .e great cities of the , xracaer to the empire, y ;’ -aple with it is the essen- of the next generation. For iii- disease, no individual weakness; it - ood oftherace. Every race has its domi- .ae.ss, its hesetting sin; and if you want to know i it, trace it back before Christianity, put it into and you will a ways find the beginning. .'on race has everywhere shown two ruling passions: - for empire and intoxication. What I wish to do is t the temperance idea to toe level of its patriotic sig- ioance. I k.iow that it has two sides: one is the Chris- ianity that puts its arms round the drunlaard and enwraps him in the warmest symp;-;tny, and tries to plant in his heart so much resolution as he is capable of ; and the other side tries to make it safe for him to walk in the st_reets by means of a prohibition. We are an inventive race; a Yankee baby, six months old,will look over its cradle, plan a model, and get out a paientbelore he is nine months old [laughter]; and we are herejust as ingenious in our statesman- _ ship. If this does not succeed, we will try another plan. An eloquent woman lecturer tells a story which I will re- peat. In one of the ‘Western States, the ﬂourishing State of Illini-is, one of her richest men said this : “Give me reso- lutronto pass that open door,” which led into the drinking- saloon, “ and I will share my wealth with you to-morrow.” He could not do it. Nobody but God can plant in a human soul that vigor of resolution which can trample his appetite under his foot. But there is one thing which law can do, which the safety of republican institutions demands, and that is to shut those doors. [Great applause] There is an- other question that is now looming all over the world, and that is the labor question—the workingmen’s ques- tion. I consider it the absorbing question of the next generation, to civilization, and to the govern- ments of Christendom. In Europe its aspect is a politi- cal one; here it is social. VVe have seen hall’ a million of workingmen of Prussia ﬂung against half a million working- men in France. They did not hate each other; their igno- rance of each other was made use of to create unfriendliness. While the Frenchman had built out of his imagination a de- inon _and'called it German, the German had built out of his imagination a monster and called it a Frenchman, and both were mistaken, just as we in our war thought of each other; the South thought the North a nation of peddlers that would not ﬁght, and the North thought the South a nation of bar- barians. It was not until we had seen each other on ﬁfty battle-ﬁelds that we began to know each other, and one of the best results of the war is that the sections did come to know each other at last. [Applause] But here we see two forces thrown together in Europe, to accomplish this last collapse of civilization, which we call the German war, and it 1S the greatest danger of the riiiiett-«Snth century. Men say it will take a million dollars if," A the beauty of Paris, but that is hardly a considerati mentioning beside the gravel‘ aspects of the questior made the Prussian a system of preparation for a sim lar war that will monopolize all the energies of the state in that di- rection. They took three adult years out of every man’s life merely to make him a soldier. Fifteen millions of people have given three years; b orty-ﬁve millions of wasted years wherein a man has neither planted nor sown to lease a mort- gage on his fellows! That is to make the Prussian army now a nation able to dictate to Europe at the point of the sword. And if England is ever to maintain her place, she, too, must adopt the system. And so must France; and if you liV8 you will see 100,000,000 of wasted years in Europe —wasted in the mere preparations for battle. The restora- tion of the feudal system would be no greater evil, and the name of Bismarck, that producedsuch a system, will be Loaded with the curses of the next generation. [Great ap- plause, and cries of “ Hear! hearl”] The ﬁrst step that he made westward from Sedan, when Napoleon’s broken sword lay at his foot; the first step that he,made westward he for- feited his title of statesman, unless he can prove that he was the tool of a bigoted king or aheathen soldier. [Hisses and applause long continued] Up to that moment every Prus- sian had. been taught by his mother to revenge the insults of seventy years ago at Berlin. When Bismarck stood there, if he had held out the hand of brotherhood, and said the people of Germany have no war with the people of France, it would have been a greater guarantee of the peace of Europe than a dozen such territories as Alsace. [Applause] Instead of that he has planted in every Frencliman’s heart the cruel purpose to carry. back revenge to the gates of Berlin. I know what 18 said of Germany, her llletllphysics and her advance in Protestaniism, but France has done more for pop- ular rights than a dozen Gernianes. [Applause] I But for her English Whig aristocracy would havesat like an incubus on Europe for centuries to come; her revolution, which is called . hell by some, was the result of thought against superstition of the people against kings; and, with all her shortcomings France has done more lOl civilization than any other kinet- dom in Europe. [Applause] She is like "the beast in tliae gospel; the devil reads her as he departs from her; and her normal poiiditioii and the place she occupies is a standing protest in favor of right, humanity, liberty, and the masses. [Applause] Europe ‘congregates against her to-day. Theie are only three great powers in the world to day. England stands third-rate; eilllld her is the Irish ouestion oil one hand, the Al ibain-a cl rims on the other. Eussia, Prussia,/ and this Government are the only three ; and I do not think c A ,. , / .2’ ./ 2’ it becomes the United States to send out congratulations to the blasphemous Emperor of Germany for his cruel conquest in this infamous war. [Applause] I mean what I say, for it is not a paltry sum of dollars nor a paltry kind of sympa- -thy we owe to France. France, ever since 1791, has been our yoke-fellow in the great uprising of the people. She is the only great power in Europe that, with her will or against it, has been the bulwark always at the side of progi'ess in this country. [Applause] _\With all her shortcomings, in the cause of the people France is volcanic and Germany is mud, and she stands to-day in the va11_gtia1'd of everything dynas- tic and aristocratic in Europe. And England let France fall, leaving herself the sole representative of freedom. She was judicially blind: nothing but her channel stands between Bismarck dictating the same law in London thathe does in Paris. [Applause] But no power will be allowed to domi- neer over Europe, for the workingmen will ﬂing all these dy- nasties to pieces wit.hin the next twenty years. This question is social here. Here it is the protest oflabor against. wealth —~labor against capital. I am not going to enter in any breadth upon the complaint of labor against capital, although I agree with it. It is a sound that I believe our children will listen to and wonder that their fathers ever doubted it for a moment. Your great-grandchildren will sit in these seats and listen to some orator telling the story of a Vander- bilt with as much wonder as a modern audience hears Agas- siz describe the habits of a mastodon [laughter] or as we wonder now that we ever thought it right to keep a fellow creature in bondage, and in seventy years hence your descend- ants will listen to the story of a Vanderbilt or an Astor with incredulity. I do not say that these men are wrong; they are but the growth of a false social system. Out of one hundred children lying in their cradles to-night in this city ten will have turned out weak; they cannot do anything without leaning on somebody. Ten more will have turned out ideali.sts——men that dwell in the skys—make poems, in- vent things. [Laughter.] Their feet never touch the ground; they do not want any bread. [Laughton] Of the ﬁfty left ten will be rich, they will be worth from a million to forty millions; and of the ﬁfty remaining members, they will rise every morning to coin their daily bread. Here is a man of sixty, he is worth forty millions—he has gathered it in forty years. There are 50,000 men that toil for him. At sixty most of them rise each morning to beg of him leave to toil. In the chain which connects the two there is a link which neither justice nor Christianity sanctions, and you will ﬁnd it out. There are the men that trade in money and swap stocks, and tht-‘re are the men that trade in time. Out of that class come four-ﬁfths of the rich men. Girard said the ﬁrst thousand dollars he ever gath- ered were gathered with more toil than all the rest he pos- sessed. That is, it took him more labor to get up from the position of pennilessness to a standing on the ﬁrst round of the ladder of capital than it took to mount all the others. Then there is something in all that leans unfairly on capital. Your children will ﬁnd it out. I am not touching that question. That theme can be left. I am on the ballot-box. VVe cannot afford to have a laboring class in this country. Vile, cannot afford to have a narrow-minded, ignorant class. England can afford to have such a class; it don’t matter. She looks down in Lancashire, rotting in its ignor- ance, and does not care. If a man has intelligence enough to wield a spade, or attend a spindle, that is*all that is wanted. We want him to wield the ballot; VVhen the Earl of Shaltesbury looks down into a cradle he knows that the child will never lift a hand against his fortune or title, and if he does anything he does it for the simple bidding. But when your Wall street looks down into acradle it knows that that baby hand will in due time wield the ballot, and unless it hastens to put morality on the footsteps of that baby, your country is not safe, I thank God for democracy. It is a glorious system; but it shows you that this labor question, to us; is not a question of mere sympathy. It is a question of absolute necessity. We cannot afford to have classes. If_ the time comes when you have got a class of capitalists standing apart permanently; a class of labor standing apar-t~—that is the end of the repub- lic. In England there is a capitalist class. It has stood over 700 years unchanged. There is a labor——it has toiled 300 years unchanged. Now and then, once in a while, a man makes his way over the chasm. There is a man worth £1,000,000 ! strong evidence that his father was; strong probability that his son will be. There is a man in New York worth $1,000,000; no evidence that his father was; no probability that his son will be. [Laughteix] The fathers ot your millionaires were pl ddlers. They count millions; their sons will die in the poor-house. Very likely it is for a re- public this shifting; it saves the average mood, the average intelligence, the general sympathy, the mutual sympatliy. Every man that watches his time sees creeping out all arpuncl him the evidences that we are having a laboring classfand another class that is capital. Two great dangers assail us in the future. One is great cities, the very nuclei and centre of talk and trade, a class dry-rotted with intemperance. Our fathers thought, when they had abolished the nobility of blood they had secured democracy; but the nobility of a millionaire is of greater inﬁnity than that of a duke. VVest of us those States newly grown and not merged into manhood have nothing but railroads. I can take you to two or three of them cobwebbed all over with rail- road corporations.‘ There is not a rail in the State that has not the same name behind it practically ; and when you look out and want to discriminate the State and the railroad, you ﬁnd that there is not a lawyer or merchant that dare to mutter until that corporation sets the example. You know you had aLegislature once at Albany; you have not got any such thing now, only a standing committee to register. [Laughter] It was no jest. It was of too sad a nature to be a jest, when a year ago at Harrisburg, in the Legislature, a member said, “ If Tom Scott has no further business with this Legislature I move we adjourn.” [Laughter and ap- plause.] I landed lately in a town where one man worth ﬁfteen millions breathed for the town, and a little while ago he thought he would have a county. He counted a dozen towns and went to the Legislature and had them joined. Ofﬁcers were elected, but the millionaire didn’t agree with the officers, and so he packed his carpet-bag again, and when the next sun arose there wasneither county nor judge.‘ He had taken them up in his carpet-bag. If that great channel that leads from Pekin to New York ever gets on to its ﬁnancial feet, and the great commerce of it pours into your harbor, Congress will sit only as a committee to register its decree. [A voice, ‘‘That’s so.”] You know it. Public labor with a problem out of which no statesman sees its exit, and the only efﬁcient protest that we have heard against it, comes from a stiﬂed voice of starved labor. Your papers print, with epi- thets of indignation or astonishment or disapprobation, the position of‘ the miners of ‘Pennsylvania. Three millions of men ready to submit’ to such laws would be enough to en- slave the rest of labi" r, and I "say to-day, tliank Girl the miners of Pennsylvania liaveresisted. [Applause] Thank God that labor, from St. Louis to Portland, has organized for resistance, for it is only twilight and struggling dawn of a better future. Much as any man here I reluc.-tatc at agr:iri- anism that ba-rtered privatepropt rty and repudiation; that de- nied the national debt. But as sure as ‘rate it is on the cards for a revolution that nothing but that of ’91 in Paris will equal, unless capital is wise in time, and presses labor no more relent- lessly to the war. Why, gentlemen, there are in New Eng- land to-niglit 200,000 men and women that, earn their living under a roof, in factories ; and from5 o’clock in the morning till 8 at night they have nothing but the mill. Underground in Pennsylvania are from ﬁfty to one hundred thousand men. and they have nothing in common but toil. I do not care now for inhumanity; it is nothing to me the individual in- justice. I only follow that man after * his ﬁfteen hours of drudgery into his cheerless home. I only take the man’s hand as he comes from the mine, and I remember that hand is to weigh just as much as mine in deciding whether we have war. with England, whether we shall pay the National Debt, and I approach him and say, “ VVell now, my good fellow, I want to confer with you. Here is an English commission sitting ; shall we submit? Here is a new scheme of Boutwell. Shall we pass it‘? Come now, shouldn’t you like to sit down to a juicy speech by Butler ; or how would you like to read what Sumner has to say on the German war, what John Stuart Mill has to say on protection, suple- mented by the T2-ibtme on the same matter? [Laugllter.] Ah, you laugh ; you know it is absurd. Half a million of such men are growing up ; half a dozen minds can fling them into the ranks that write repudiation on their banner; halt a dozen minds can ﬂing them into ranlgs that will ﬁll your harbor with British monitors. VVh-at I say is, you ‘C;l11l}Ol} afford to cut up American population into these Clllllll-LS of ignorance, and let one man’s ambition and another’s selﬁ;-li- ness, and another’s. greed throw them into which scale he pleases. The workingman’s movement is simply a claim that this generation shall reconsider the question between capital and labor. It is simply ‘a question that when you have trusted him with the ballotyou shall give him an appor- tunity to obtain intelligence. You remember that when the British House of Commons three years ago added 300.000 names to the list of voters the Tories resisted it, and when the speaker announced that it had become a law, Lowe, the leader of the Tories, said, “ Now, the first necessity and the ﬁrst duty ofevery Englishman is to educate the masses.” Americans, you are letting giant corporations concentrate wealth in the hands of a dozen greedy men from the harbor of New York to the harbor of San Francisco, grinding down the people to such a limit that the ballot-box is a shaln, and universal sufl’rage the peril of the age. [Applause.] The question of the eight-hours’ employment is the claim for schools, the claim for thought, the claim for preparation. I think there is one idea could be added to the forces of society to grapple with these coin- ing storms, for I believe that, stormy as the last thirty years have been, the thirty to come are to be storniier. I see so- ciety crashing and jostling frigates in a storm. The Repub- lican partyitself, with its brow covered with laurrrls is rotten to the core [applause] rotten to the core with the servility to wealth and capital at Wzishington. [Voice, “ Hear, hear,” and applause] One word more, I think there is an ll}‘.’1l1 of strength we may add to the side of honor and the Declara- tion of Independence in this struggle, and that is woman. [Applause.] I am going to trouble you with one word. not on the subject of woman’s rights, although I accord to all of the argument. I think it a just question, well sustained, soundly urged. I train in that regiment. [Lau_9,‘l1teI‘.] But it is not as a right; no, it is as a duty. Looking out from that same standpoint, the ballot-box, the advent of women into politics as one of the great strengthening elements, and on this account. There runs through all human history one law, seeming to be the law of God’s government of the race. I think it is this, that wherever you commit to one race a great interest, the interest is lost and the sex deteriorate. It is not at all probable that in human experience we shall ever see a ﬁner literature than the Greek, but you cannot read Sophocles to your daughter. Shakespeare was the highest mind of the English race, but you cannot open him upon your centre table. You can read every word of Charles Dickens, you can chant; every verse of Tennyson; but So- phocles had as pure a soul as Tennyson, and Chaucer lived in a ﬁner atmosphere. Chaucer and Sophocles wrote for men. The reader was man. Tennyson and Dickens wrote for the race. What is society? It is a plane where men and women meet together, put their lives together, thoughts, dis- cuss the true, the beautiful, hopes, memories, aspirations; it is the only plane where men and women are fellows and equals. Society judges by a higher rule than the statutes. Now, I want to lift the caucus up to the level of the parlor; I want in some way to take that atmosphere and clear it so that it shall be in some way the atmosphere of society. You have been into many a saloon where the partition went half way to the roof, and it said, “ Gentlemen are requested to re- member there are ladies on the other side.” I would like to put one up in the caucus. You may probe your man down to the network of the natives that make a man up, and, as sure as there is a history behind, so there is a law which makes it certain that only standing side by side can we ac- complish the best results. So I believe in the politics of the future, with woman as an element within it——not because she is an angel; she is no better than man. (Applause and laughter.) But it is the strongest strand in the rope of hope, and I believe that in this grapple with the outlying and un- derlyiug dangers which assail us, one of the safest aids for the future is in calling upon woman to remember that she has the brains and the heart, and God does not permit us to ex- cuse it from a share in the great battle for the hopes of the race and the model government of the century. Vv FACTS FOR THE LADIES.—I can inform any one inter- ested of hundreds of ‘Wheeler & Wilson machines of twelve years’ wear, that to-day are in better working condition than one entirely new. I have often driven one of them at a speed of eleven hundred stitches a minute. I have repaired ﬁfteen different kinds of sewing machines, and I have found yours to wear better than any others. With ten years’ ex- perience in sewing machines of different kinds, yours has stood the most and_ the severest test for durability and sim- plicity. LYNDENVILLE, N. Y. GEO. L. CLARK. ‘ _ E c.v.—_>;:.§ - ll /l ___ /."~e—V?‘r:=<.W»\ » , , MARCH 25, 1871. starter: a stem tfblﬁa J ~ I M iii payment is, that its intrinsic value is equal to its purchasing power, while that of paper is not; while the objection gen- erally advanced to irredeemable paper money is, that it has no intrinsic value, and is of unlimited supply. The question of intrinsic value in reality merges into that of supply, in- asmuch as it is difficulty of supply, presupposing the demand, that ﬁxes the standard of intrinsic value. Treating the subject, then, on this basis, this objection to irredeernable pa.per falls to the ground, because, in the ﬁrst place, we have not found a sudden and large increase in the supply in the production of gold to affect its value-—to wit: the unprecedented and unexpected increase in the supply of bullion, which the dis- covery and working of the mines in California and Australia gave us, did not operate to depreciate its, value ; and in the second place, the ability to restrict the supply of paper money as the purchasing a payment power of gold, rests with the government or people, the one having no ﬁrmer basis than the other for domestic purposes; both deriving their stand- ard of value from faith in the governing body, which is, in a republican form of government, the people themselves. The proof of this principle is found in the fact that. governments have suspended payments in gold. Here, then, we have the principle demonstrated that the standard of values or me- dium of payment may be ﬁxed by government. What dif- ference, then, can it make whether that medium be paper or gold, since the government is the only basis of stability. We are aware that it is often urged that the same power issuing a certain amount of, not to be exceeded, irredeemable paper money, may rescind the stipulation, and issue a still further amount. This implies a want of faith in the governing body. Let us supply a similar want of faith to the issue of coin, and suppose that when that body coins metallic money, the objection to receiving it were advanced that the same body issuing it may at some future date legislate it as not legal payment or prohibit its tender in payment, and we shall at once perceive that gold has no advantage over paper as a medium of domestic payment, and that faith in ourselves is the only requirement necessary to make our own paper, for all internal uses, on a par with gold, as a ﬁxed standard of values and payment of indebtedness. _ This is not so with irredeeniable paper, or paper bearing interest, because its value depends upon the ability of the government to pay the principle or interest at the stipulated date, which ability is not absolutely within its entire con- trol. A war may keep goods at home, and lessen our im- ports, and in consequence the government may not collect sufficient taxes to keep its promise to pay. A failure in the crops may produce the same effect, or a war may make such a demand upon it for money that it may not be able to meet its promises to pay; but neither of these causes would affect its ability to guarantee. The real gist of the whole matter rests here: the people are the source of power, the people would hold their own money, and, even supposing them to desire to deteriorate or even repudiate the paper they have made their own standard of value, and which is in their own possession, who is to say them nay. It is true, those holding the largest amount would be the greatest sufferers, and thus receive injury; but, as we have shown above, the standard of values this class now accept can be altered at the hands of the people, under existing circumstances. This supposition is, however, supererogatory, inasmuch as, to render such action at the hands of the people at all admissable, an in- ducement to do so must be demonstrated, whereas no such inducement could exist, because such legislation would be self injury, with no possible advantage. The issuing of paper bearing no promise to pay at any stipulated time, and hear- ing no interest, does not preclude its ultimate payment in gold. \ The necessity or desirability for determining paper money as a standard of values and medium of payment for domestic purposes having passed, the people may determine to call it in and pay it in coin at its face svalue, so that in future cases of necessity the sameaid may be called in. It is true, the issue of such paper might temporarily hurt our credit abroad, but that is of no consequence to us, because in all our foreign dealings we propose to use gold; and it would be a matter of perfect indifference to us as to the estima- tion they might hold our paper in, with which they have nothing whatever to do; but the issuing of such paper, by re- lieving us of the payment of millions of interest, would enable us to rapidly call it_in-would exhibit a_-faith in ourselves that would enhance our credit abroad and save to us the vast ex- pense entailed by the collection of taxes imposed to obtain funds to pay interest. The germ of our position on this part of the subject of ﬁnance begins and ends in the people’s faith in their own ability to deal with paper as a standard of inter- nal values as they now deal with gold, which it is as much within their power to affect by legislation as paper is or would be. A In order to illustrate our position still further, let us sup- pose the Government to be a national bank, issuing its notes as promises to pay on"de1nand, the security being the internal credit, the notes being fixed bylaw at par with gold, there would be no inducement in such a casejfor persons. to present those notes for payment except to obtain gold sufficient to pay to foreign nations the amount of the balance of trade that may be against us ; the mass of the people holding such notes would not take the trouble to present them for payment since no advantage would thereby accrue. Government could call in any quantity it might desire to pay off, and if in consequence of there being no inducement to offer them for payment they were not presented in sufficient quantities, a slightjpremium could be placed on those presented, and we believe, startling as it may appear, such action would be absolutely necessary to induce people to take the trouble to present them for pay- ment. It is self-evident that in order to place paper on an equal footing with gold for internal purposes, we must make it depend upon itself as coin does, if coin derived its value from being payable at some future date in produce, as paper is in coin; then the latter would be liable to all the ﬁuctuation of the former; and yet both are merely standards of value for produce—that is to say, taking a ﬁve-dollar gold piece, it is only valuable inasmuch as it represents the power to pur- chase a certain amount of produce, and a ﬁve-dollar bill is in like manner equally valuable in proportion to the amount of produce it will purchase ; therefore, the intrinsic value of each being merely its purchasing power we have only to legislate the one to be on a par in value with the other, and neither will tb en have any advantage over or be more desirable than the other. / \ INSUUANCE . We have another case to add of the resistance of Life In- surance Companies to the payment of losses, in the sub- joined report of the termination of one taken from the New York Times of March 13. Suppose this widow had not the means to prosecute her just claim against a rich and inﬂuential company, or suppose, having the means, she, innocent of business, believed the co1npany’s statement that it was not legally bound. In thelfirst case her only resource would have been to drop the matter, or to divide whatever might have been obtained with some lawyer who would have sued on speculation. In the second supposition the company would have altogether escaped; and in neither event would the claimant have had justice, and yet a legislation which would stop these subter- ‘fuges of insurance ofﬁces, is strenuously opposed by New York daily journals : In the case of Rebecca L. Foote against the Etna Life Insurance Company, to recover on a policy of insurance on the life of her husband for $2,500, which has been on trial in the Court of Common Pleas before Judge Loew, averdict was yesterday rendered in favor of the widow for the full amount. As already published in the Times, the defence set up was, that the insured concealed the fact that consumption was in his family; but the evidence disclosed the fact that his disease did not originate in hereditary taint, but from a severe wound received in battle. ,,__.____..__ BOUFFE J GURNALISM. There is a folded sheet of paper, issued somewhere in this city, which a friend solemnly assures us is called a newspa- per. Now our informant is a person of some knowledge in these matters, and really we do not like to doubt his word, and presume, therefore, that it really is so called. ‘vVe there- fore determined to glance over its pages. Speaking of the treaty of peace now concluded between France and Germany this folded sheet of paper says, “ France cedes Alsace and ‘Metz,’ which latter term undoubtedly includes all the de- partment of the Moselle lying east of that fortress as well as Thionville on the western bank of the river, and possibly some other portions of Lorraine.” ,_ :.;..; Whew! This Metz is the place Marshal Bazaine was, as we thought, shut up; but there?’ is something decidedly. wrong here to suppose an army aslshut up in a great part of the department of the Mozelle, Thionville, and possibly some other portions of Loraine, is coming it a little too strong. Dear me, how things do get mixed up, don’t they ‘B The article quoted continues: “The Germans restore to France the Alsacian fortress of Belfort, PROBABLY, with a portion, IF NOT the whole, of the French speaking district around it. France pays in three years one thousand millions of dollars; the Germans holding, in the meantime, some of the fortresses occupied by them. We presume the border fortresses of Longevy, Montmedy, Sedan and Mezieres, IF NOT also Verdun.” This is exactly so, and IF NOT THESE THEN IT IS soME OTHERS; and there is no doubt the Ger- mans restore to France, probably, the fortress of Belfort, and, if not, some other place (the reader being left to take his choice; well, having paid his money, he has a right to do that). If Mr. Thiers has succeeded in negotiating such a deﬁnite treaty as this, he has made a reputation hitherto un- paralleled in diplomacy. - The very next paragraph in this folded sheet of paper says: “Of the wisdom of putting Thiers at the head of the Provisional Government there can be no doubt. He is the ablest, shrewdest, most experienced and most trusted politician France now ‘has. Considering what his career has been, and of what antiquated and immoral and absurd ideas he has in his time been the apostle, it is amus- ing to see him cited as a protectionist authority by the New York Tribune.” Poor France! “ How have the mighty fallen!” Her ablest, shrewdest, most experienced and most trusted politician is the advocate of antiquated, immoral and absurd ideas. , Turning to another page we read : “ Now that the Franco. Prussian war is over, it is not unreasonable to ask some of those who have busied themselves in commenting upon it and making predictions about its its results, to sitdown soberly and reflect upon their own sayings.” . Certainly, bring them to account. What do they /mean by such absurdities ? Well, after sitting down silently and thinking over some of those who have busied themselves on this Franco"-Prussian affair, we have determined as follows: 1st.—-That we do most decidedly/object to being placed in the quandary of not knowing Whether the above quotations were written soberly or in editor bouffe. 2d.——That the above Charles II. Fox, of journalism, has no right to publish a comic weekly under the name of The lVatz'on. 3d.———That the editor of The Nation, whether its editorials are written in “ bouife” or not,» ought to put notes at the bottom of each page; in the one case, to tell us what each paragraph means ; in the other, to tell where the laugh comes in. U I ~ In all sincerity, however, these quotations are a very fair specimen of the reliability of the Nation and its statements. As to its name, it has been suggested to us that it is intended to give the idea that whatever it may know of the nation unfortunate enough to possess such a sheet, it knows nothing of anything outside said nation; and here we leave it for the present. at MORFLDANGER TO THE ~er;r.a.en arsn rsaeerisnss” or i ‘ SHERMAN, DAHLGREN & i7GMPA_I€Y. UHAMMONTON, N. J ., March 9, 1871. DEAR Mas. WOODHULL: ~* A few days ago I and another lady. issued the following in to print it because it may serve other ladies who may like our way of “ carrying war*into Africa,” and stir them up to greater action at this critical moment. ' TO THE LADIES OF HAMEIONTON. The ladies of Harnmonton who are interested in examin- ing the claim of their sex to the ballot under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, and who are interested in the education and the local politics of the town, are re- quested by the Committee of the V»7o1nan’s Club to meet on Tuesday afternoon, at 2 o’elock, at the house of E. J. Woolley. BY ORDER on THE COMMITTEE. Eighteen ladies answered the call. We did not organize formally then, for the next day was the annual town elec- tion of officers, and we resolved to go and present our votes as citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment. One sister, in a courteous spirit, threw cold water on our movement. She declared that the framers of this Amendment’ did not intend to include women when they said -“ all persons,” and therefore her conscience would not permit her to join us. I, for one, declared that .I had no such tendernessof conscience, and that I believed “all per- sons” meant simply “ all persons” and nothing more nor less. Our meeting was enthusiastic and unanimous, with this one exception ; and yesterday eleven of our number and four others went to the hall where the elections were held and presented our votes. I had the distinguished honor of presenting the ﬁrst ballot. As I gave it, the judge of elec- tions said : I “By what right do you claim the privilege of representa- tion ?” . A “ I am taxed as a property owner, and I know that taxaf tion without representation is wrong in pripciple.” L “You are a woman,” said he, “ and cannot vote under our .State Constitution.” ' I asked him to read me the section which disqualiﬁed me. The Clerk read the odious words——“ white male citizen.” There were other words, I believe, but I heard only these. “That is a dead letter,” I said. “You have already re- ceived the votes of negroes. Will you please read me the XIV. Amendment to the Constitution of the United States?” The Clerk read the ﬁrst section : “ All persons born or naturalized inlthe United States, and subject to the jurisdic- tion thereof, are citizens of the United States and. of the State wherein they reside,” etc. “ Am I not a person ?” I asked, and “I looked around at the ﬁfty or sixty male voters, whose eyes were all intent upon me. There was a general smile, but all was perfectly till. “ Certainly you are,” said the Judge. “ Then I am a citizen. You know I own property in your town, for which I am taxed, and you cannot refuse my vote.” Mrs. Samson then came forward and presented her ballot, and" Mrs. Randall, M. D., and the discussion con- tinued. Two gentlemen among the voters spoke eloquently in our favor ; these were, J. B. Holt and Edward Howland. May their names be immortal I , I’Ve1l, the result was that theyregistered our ﬁfteen names and received our._,votes, but kept them. in a separate place We then drew up a, statement of the fact, signed it, and the. Judges of the election and the Clerk appended their signa- tures. We have laid the casfa before one of the lawyers of the Supreme Court in ‘Washington. I/Ve shall soon know if wevhave any redress or not, and will acquaint your readers of the fact, whatever it be. if We are now very busy in drawing upvthe constitution and by-laws of our club. There is a gloriousspirit of fra- ternity and enthusiastic unity among us, and we hope to do good for the cause of our sex. Any suggestions through your columns for our- guidance will be thankfully received. our local paper, The South. Jersey Republican. We want you ‘ it p Wruﬂtaii it tlllatlisr dtrstig. Mason‘ 25, 1871. We intend to establish fa. reading-room as soon as possible and your valuable WEEKLY will of course always be found on our table. We read it with great interest, and have re- ceived new hope and courage from your noble efforts in the cause of our sex. Yours, with love and hope, » MARIA Hownxnn (Mrs) P. S.-—I must not omit to add thatwe found the dreaded polls 3. cleanly and respectable place, and that we were treated throughout with the distinguished. courtesy that ladies al- ways expect and always ‘command from gentlemen; and we also treated them as politely as if we had met them in our churches or drawing-rooms. ‘ Where now is that terrible bugbear that has frightened so many of our timid sisters-— -namely, that the polls was a place unﬁt for the presence of ladies. ‘=a—z—= GRANT vs. A. T. STEWART. The? World publishes a list of the names offpromiiient men who have become disgusted with President Grant. In this list we ﬁnd the name of A. T. Stewart. We are some- what surprised at this, inasmuch as that ‘Grant has certainly, to the best of his ability, rewarded A. /T. Stewart for the pecuniary interest the latter took in the President's election. The Presidenuhas appointed ~Mr. Stewart’s proteges to West Point, and nominated him, also, to an appointment in the Cabinet, doing his utmost to secure him the appointment. Of course this has not given Mr. Stqwart his money back, and this is the sore point. If the President would take some ’ method of balancing accounts we see no difficulty in the way of a reconciliation and a shake-hands all round. ,..__.._____. MRS. MACREADY will give the third of her “ Drawing-. room Recitals”, on Tuesday evening, March 21, at 16 East. Twenty-third street. , nounced by the elite the most elegant literary receptionsof London, and promise to become so in New York. Mrs. Macready went to Europe some ten years ago and has made a world-wide reputation. , _ CHICAGO, March 12, 1871. DEAR ,1‘/Ins. WOODHULL: \ We have just had a very good convention here, and dis- cussed the enclosed resolutions. [The resolution will be found in another column.———ED.] . I think the ground taken by you before the Congressional Committee in Congress has aroused new enthusiasm among women in our movement. We have based all ou_r_.argu’— merits in this meeting in the fact that women are “citizens of this republic. In the letter I sent you last your reckless little type-setter made me use that much condemned exple— tive “ damned” instead of “ crowned.” VVill you tell your readers that I _said the Republicans had “ crowned ’ —not damned—their’ deeds of darkness by declaring that women are merely “members of the State." There is a reat demand in all directions for tracts. Do scatter Rid- le’s and Butler’s speeches in all directions; they are able and unanswerable. In haste, yours, respectfully, ' ELIZABETH CADY S'r.-mvron. ..___.._._._.;___§_=..=.==___.. A VOICE FROM KANSAS. Arcnisoiv, Kas.-, March 4, 1871. Mnsnxiuns WOODHULL'& CLAFLIN : Your paper is glorious. I have been advocating the same doctrine for ten years in the capacity of a private individual, and have had the reading of every paper pertaining to the eni'ranchisem'ent of women; but yours in its infancy is ahead of any other in its prime. Please send copy of date January 28, containing editorial “History Repeats Itself ;” mine has been loaned and read until worn. out. We shall be able to raise a large club for your WEEKLY here. Respectfully, Mas. H. A. Moxnon. —~——-j-—; A WORD T0 G. S. P. 'Mi3sn.A.mss WOODHULL & CLAFLIN: A word in the WEEKLY, if you please, in answer to “ G. S. P.” VVe have neither time nor space for particulars, barely enough to glimpse at the heads and ‘general outlines of the old mythologies in which the Bible has its place. The WEEKLY allows us but very little room to gather in all the fullness of the ancient Godhead bodily. When it shall grant us two or three columns a week, it may then be in order to . descend from the headlands and put in a fuller appearance in the valleys. We accept every physical, moral and spiritual truth in the Bible as of equal authority to the like truth seized upon heathen. ground. As a book of ancient oracles, written within and on the back-side, and sealed with seven seals, we prize it very highly. Its ambiguous givings-out, in the words of the wise, and -their dark sayings, are for those who have ears to hear and eyes anointed with eye-salve, accord- ing to the ancient initiations of the Nature worship, where the physical and the spiritual were blent in a homogeneous ‘whole, though often divided in Jacob and scattered. in Is- rael, in personiﬁcation of attributes. To others than the initiated the light shines unto the darkness and the darkness does not comprehend it. Over all must be the Genius, the Muse, or, as the wise men among the Hebrews would say, the Lord, or his angel, in manifestation of the spirit, incar- nated in the seer or medium. ’I‘rue, the way-faring man might “hoof it” forty years in the wilderness without ascending to Pisgah’s top, nor from any other mount of vision get a glimpse of the Holy Land. Ulysses also took the farthest way round as the nearest way home. It was the ancient peculiarway ofiollowing on to know the Lord through tangled juniper, beds of reeds, through many a fen where the serpent feeds, and man never trod uL‘fOI'e. Whether in exodus out of Egypt or in wander- ings to and fro amon the isles of the sea, the path was always rugged an sore; whether through the Dismal Swam or through the lake that burnethlwith ﬁre and brim-‘ stone, efore one could be properly born again for the fresh These entertainments were ﬁefds and pastures new in the Elysian Fields or New Jeru- sa em. a To those who wish to go to the root of the matter in par. ticulars, we would suggest the reading of the works of the learned Ereeinasons, particularly the “Signs and Symbols” and "‘ History of Initiat_ions,” by Dr. Oliver. Gen. Hitch- cock s “ Christ the Spirit”, is suggestive to beginners to the much more that supersedes him; Burritt’s “Geography of the Heavens,” Stewart's “ Hieraph-ant or Biblical Astron- omy, ’ and “ Volney’s Ruins.” As anatomy and physi- r logy in personiﬁcation of“ parts were more or less wrought into the sacred mysteries of the ancients, the anatomy of J. Meckcl will show how completely the human mechanism is in correspondeiitial relations; and thus -how the Lord might be the .Deus ea: machina in the image of God, and how the Lord between the cherubim was over the mei'cy—se'it. The anonymous work. “ Time and F-aith,”l.published in London. is a learned settiiig-f'orth of many celestial arcanas, the origin of the Hebrew Sa.bbatli- day, from tlie’; timetables of the old asti'ologvrs and sun worshipers, who horoscoped the heavens for the word as well as consulted the Lord by his spirit. Max Muller and Mr. Cox will open the way from the Ari-an to the biblical mythologics; for the root of the matter is the same. Anatomical and physiological works will show which way went the spirit of the Lord in personifications of the clio-sacral regions of the Holy*Land—a very large tract of land which ﬂowed with milk, and honey—-so that the solar plexus of the centre of the system corresponded to the sun with his going forth irom one end of heaven to the other. The psalmist sang of this mystic land in parable and dark saying when his “ reins instructed him in the night season.” A French work, by Delame,‘ “ Des Z)z'm'nites Geizerrrtrices ou Du Clulte Du, P/Lalius cites Am:z'e7zs at L23 illodei"/res,” is ap- ropos, as showing how much this has been blended with the modern church mysteries. Whoever may seek to read the book written within and without and on the back-side, and sealed Willi seven seals, must be a student of the same tor a long time on probation, before he is able to see and to read it with the seven eyes of the Lord. These seven, as per Z-achariali, r n to and fro thrdhgh the whole earth, nor less, we may add, through the heaven. Thus, to follow on to know the Lord is to see him as the sun shineth in his strength, shining more and more unto the perfect day, and with the spirit world to help, beau- tiful indeed are the angel’s feet upon the mountains, tripping on light fantastic toe, and bringing good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. But we must bear in mind that the ﬁgures of Holy Writ are not exactly those of Colenso, who found Mount Sinai so great a stone of stumbling and rock of offence, insomuch that Aaron and his sons had to tote the excretlse six miles before they could ﬁnd a dump- ing-oﬁ‘ place. With reference to Swedenborg, we have read a bushel of him, more or less, and he has many good things. In the light of modern spiritualism he is seen to have had consid- erable open vision ; but like the bible seers or mediums, he must not be taken as infallible, for heti-s much in the hazy reﬂex of his own personality in beginning and surrounding, in health and disease, whose influences so much modify his word. His considerable spiritual insight makes him so much the more apt to lead astray in his many baseless assumptions; and his followers who seek to exalt him in any exclusive sense, fall into the same error and idolatry as the Bible wor- shipers of the holy men of old who claim to speak the thus saith the Lord. ‘Brit no less was the Lord oi-acular by Balaain, and Samuel by the witch of Eiidor. As an exponent of the ancient initiations, or church, as known and practiced by the Hierophants or godmcn of those days, Swed enborg is worth- less. Those who would know of him without wallowing throu h a score or two of octavos,will ﬁnd him in best estate in m. White’s two‘ volumes, London, 1867'.” There the Swedist seer is very fairly set forth——very fairly weighed, and very fairly found wanting. , If we would develop, in the fulness of all truth, that the truth may make us free, we must have no infallible Bible, no infallible Pope, and no infallible Swedenborg, to say thus far and no farther ; but let each have whatever is rightfully the due. Asia and Europe are to lose their sway before the coming Genius of America. Neither the Lord of old Jewry, King Jesus, nor Baron Swedeiiborg is to be paramount in thesight of the coming God, who will do America in all the light of the largest vision. Mediums between this world and the next may be somewhat few and far between for the angel’s visits, yet lathe communion of «hosts has come so nigh unto us that we need not pin our "aim to them of old time. Woman, also, is to rise from the old planes and have her equal voice from heaven, already sounding the crack of doom to the fossil politicians and right reverends in God ; for these, with the parasitical women, Almira Lincoln Phelps, Mrs. Gen. Sherman, Mrs. Dahlgren, etc., transformed into Lot’s wife, are looking for help to the other side of the ﬂood, and calling with a loud voice for Moses and Paul to come forth ; but the more they call the more they won’t come. I - O. B. I’. ' -—~--—-——--9 A-.- mum. As we are the advocates of all measures which look to per- fect equality for all citizens, we make no apology for trans- ferring the following article from the N. Y. World to our columns. It is to the point and worth y of the best consid- eration of all thinkers: ' ‘ TAXATION OR ROBBERY. It is time to ask whether people who are taxed have any rights which government is bound to respect. If they have any, surely chief and most indubitable among them is the right to know how much they are taxed, and for what. Yet there is not asingle citizen of these United States, from richest to poorest, from the most ignorant to the wisest,’ who can answer either of these questions. , “What ! do not my tax bills show how much I pay?” asks some much—burdened working-man, who ﬁnds it no easy mat- ter to meet the expenses of his family, although his wages are ﬁfty per cent. higher than they were ten years ago. Not at all; they do not she w how much the cost of supporting a family has been increased by duties on articles consumed of ,foreign production or growth, and by the enhanced cost of articles of domestic production caused by duties on corres- ponding products from abroad. “ But -there are the Treasury reports,” some student sug- gests ; “ these at least will show how much the whole peo- ple have paid.” Mistaken man l They show only how much has been paid to the Government. Another and larger sum is paid by the people, not to Government, but to somebody else. . ‘ “’What for ?” Exactly: that is the very question every tax-payer has a. right to ask, and to have plainly answered. What clearer right can there be than that of the citizen to demand of his rulers, “ How much.do you tax me. and for what purpose ? How much of the sum paid by me go: s into the Treasury, and how much into private pockets?’ Is not a Government “of the people, by the people, ard lor the peo- ple,” bound to answer such questions as these? _Yet the system of taxation now in force is the most cuns ning device ever. yet discovered for hiding from those who pay taxes both the object and the amount of the tax paid by any individnl, or by the people in the aggregate A maxi specially trained in ﬁnancial inquiries, and-supplied with all extant documents and writings bearing upon the subject, may sp€’nd months of hard labor, spoiling his eyesight over volumes of ﬁgures, yet never discover with precision how large a tax is actually borne by the whole people of this country. Still less can he discover what tax is paid by any individual of the millions who have a right to know. And as for the millions themselves, they only know that in some undeﬁned and unlimited wa.y they are taxed, and that it is not easy to live. Prices rise, and the cost of living increases more than the earnings of ll dustry. The fact and the con- sequent burden are apparent. -But who can tell how much of it is accident, how much of it is tax, and how much of it is robbery‘? If there were no other objection to the existing system of taxation, this alone should challenge the attention of a peo-' ple professing to govern themselves. Some strange device for concealing from the people the real magnitude of their burdens might naturally ﬁnd favor in the counsels of despotic rulcrs. Ever since the ieudal baron ceased to extort by re- sistless force the tax from helpless serfs, and the wild bandit found high-handed robbery limited by order and the gallows, force has been giving place to fraud. and robber and ruler alike now search for ways to reach by cunning that which they dare not demand in open day. But here, taxpayers liciiig also the rulers, one might expect the adoption of l1}(tll()LlS designed to guard against plunder, favoritism and illegiti- mate schemes for private advantage, and to enable the tax- payer to know as nearly as possible how much his govern- ment really costs him. How can am-an be said to govirn himself if he cannot ﬁnd out how much he pays from his earnings, to whom, or for what purpose ? Let it not be said that even in this country such concealment is neces- sary; that the people would not bear needful taxes if the full extent of thern were known. During the war such bur» dens were cheerfully borne as few other governments have ever ventured to impose. So long as the government is their own, and taxes for objects of their own deliberate choice, in methods which they can understand and within limits which they can know and approve, the people of this country will pay as freely as they give or loan to any other investment deemed proﬁtable or wise. But if money is taken from them, they know not when or how, by laws dc- vised on purpose not to be comprehended, and if of that portion of their earnings which they pay only a part goes to government and the rest they know not whither, under laws passed by the inﬂuence of men clamoring always for aid and yet (rolling in luxury, what wonder if a people who wish at least to fancy that they govern themselves begin to murmur and complain ? What wonder if they begin to be- lieve that a part of their earnings‘ is stolen from them through forms of law, and that cunning ways, more ﬁtted to other modes of government, are here used to enable both robber and ruler to proﬁt by a taxation which is plunder, and a plunder which is concealed under the pretext of taxa- tion. For a taxation which purposely exempts one class and casts all the burdens of government upon another is virtually plunder, and a system which takes money from the farmer to give it to the manufacturer is not the less plunder because it is ostensibly framed to secure revenue lrom duties on imports. The main difference between the robber and ruler arrangement and_ that obsolete one of the brigands and barons is that in this age one cannot always tell which is the ruler and which the robber. The poor artisan, who helps to pay the taxes for his rich employer, never knows how many members of Congress that employer owns. And there are many members of ()0. gross who, when they vote for a tariff bill, never know how much plunder they are permitting, or who will proﬁt by their acts. Such are the beauties of a system of taxation devised, one might suppose, to keep everybody in darkness as much as possible. It is as if some law-giver had taken for earnest and applied to political economy the sad words of half-crazed ()thc.l.lo: He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it; he‘s not robbed at all. they know full well by ten years of experience. lt may not be practicable at present to so adjust taxation that it shall be fully understood by all tax-payers, but the system which purposely taxes one man for the beneﬁt of another can be exposed, and will be abolished. “ Let there be darkness” is the daily _,prayer of monopolists. “Let there be light” should be the command of the pepple‘ WOMAEVS RIGHT OF FRAHGHISE. I There are, I have no doubt, few questions at issuewhich will commandmore attention among master minds ‘of eithir sex than this question; and while we cannot but pity the want of understanding which some have evinced regarding it, we would wish to avoid all extremes in discussing such a momentous subject, and one from which we expect so many happy results to ﬂow. May we,'in all truth, request a f-aw r- able hearingand a triumphant success; not that we may as women, be brought prominently before the public, but thatjustice, at least, may be done to us, as a very strong, a very intelligent, and a most important integral of this great nation. I wish to‘ awake in all an interest in our right of franchise, but more particularly women. I want women to be fully alive to the many advantages she would then possess. I want her to remember the duty she owes to her sons and and daughters, her brothers and sisters,,the duty which she owes to society and her country, that all may unite as one in demanding of the government her untrammeled l‘l0‘llt to vote. ' zTo those who study the politics of our country, it must be evident that corruption is striding through this noble land ; ships are bearing hither to our ShOI'tS every day emi- grants from every land, the educated and the ignorant, the noble-minded and the vile, all come hither, and, alas, all are alike at the polls, and too well we know how soon they acquire the right of which we are deprived. Are these men. strangers to our laws, unacquainted withour public men, But the taxpayers will know it. All over the laiiitl they‘ V , begin already to protest against a wrong the magnitude of . which they cannot indeed measure, but that it is a wrong x u. . .<-.- fr): -1; 5?; .. A _ I ll :9 « . Manon: 25, 1871.‘ their aims and ambitions.’ Are they more competent to vote than women who have bet 11 born and educated here? Sons and daugh- ters of America, awake to your true in- terests, awake to your na.tion’s perils ; let not your ancestors’ blood have been shed in vain ; arise and act ere your country shall be shrouded in a night of gloom, through which no light glimmers; stay the tidal wave ere it submerge all you hold sacred and dear. ‘ Your population is increasing, but in what ratio? how many children are born to the cultivated and reﬁned? how many to the opposite class? Need I tell_ you the results arising from early training ‘E Who will be the majority at our polls before many years ? Oh, would I could open your‘ eyes, ere it be too late. There is but .one way __ to remedy this growing evil, and that is Womans franchise Man places in woma.n’s keeping all that to hirn is sacred; she bears his name, she holds his honor, she educates and trains your future presidents and statesmen, she has the power to make him supremely happy, or hopelessly miserable. Women go into the market and purchase and own property in her own right; she can establish and maintain a bllSll1l.8S without man’s aid or as- sistance; and very 111 my cases could I enu- merate where she has done so far more suc- cessfully than her lord and master! Would time permit me I could show in other ages and in many lands where women have ar- rived to as great a height in governing as men. I could speak of a Catharine of Russia, Maria Theresa of Austria, Elizabeth of England, but shall await another oppor- tunity. I trust it will not require examples or argument to convince our women that they should have the right to vote. I rejoice to see the stand which our country-women have taken, the ladies, Woodhull and Claﬂin. I leel that they possessthe energy and the will to prosecute this subject, and I trust, ere long, to see a. bill passed that will enable woman to give her inﬂuence and support in placing in our high oﬂices men capable of filling them. EXILE. [From the Pittsburg Leaden] @ix Rays in Eleaven. The Rev. 11. Sinsnbaugh relates the following sin- gular circumstance : On the 7th of November, the Rev. Joseph Per.-hing, of the Saltsburg circuit, began a series of meetings at .tselly‘s Station, on the West Pennsylvaiiiu Railroad, where the Methodists have a small unfinished church and 9. feeble society. During the second Sabbath evening of the meeting, Miss Emeline Taylor, daughter of Mr. John Taylor, ol' Whites Stallion, a young lady of quiet and amiable disposition, came lorward for prayer. She remained at the altar for quite a length of time, appearing to be mlm in mind, and yet earnestly and devoutly look- ing for the mercy of God. Abouw o'clock her prayer seemed to be answered. Her face wore an expression of unusual brighuiess, as she, looking upward, re- peated several times, with distinct emphasis, “ Oh, that beautiful place over there 1” She became en- tirely unconscious, and was carried to a. house near by, it being thought unadvisable to remove her to her 1‘-aLher‘s house, which was about three miles distant. In this condition she remained for seven days, in the meantime taking no nourishment whatever. on Tuesday she began to speak in 9. low voice, and for half an hour told of the scenes of another world, after winch she remained silent for several hours. The first of whom she spoke were two ministers; one was the Rev. A. H. Thomas. of the Pittsburg (.)onl'erencc; the other was the Rev. Mr. White, of the Pres'oyterian Church, once the pastor of the church at Ssiilsbui g. Many expedients were used to restore her to con- sciousness, among which were singing and animated religious services, but all without the desired eﬁ‘ect. ‘ On Friday her friends became very much‘ alarmed, owing to the opinions expressed by the physicians. that having been so long without food she would never be restored. The effort was made to give her some nourishment. but in Vain. She was asked whether she would ever be able to rise. when she re- plied, "My Elaviour has not yet told me.” At differ- ent times she had spoken of her Saviour as prezent with her as her guide and instructor Shortly a.l'l:er this she told them that her Saviour had just informed her that she might return to earth on Sabbath even- ing at 9 o‘clock. This statement occasioned a joyful surprise to her anxious friends. The father said that should it thus come to pass, he would believe all she would say conccrnin g the future state. On b‘:-i.bba.th evening a lar,<:;e company of the neigh- bors had gathered to learn the sequel. There was no clock in her room, nor any way in which she could marl; the flight of the hours, for her eyes had re- rnainml closetln-om1.he first. At three minutes be- fore 9 she raised her right hand, and waved it as if giving farewell to persons vanishing in the distance, and then raised her left hand in like manner, and at precisely ll o“cloclc she opened her eyes, spoke a. ;§l'eld'lill}_§ to her fl-ienrls, began praising the Lord, and called upon those around to join her in praise for His great mercy. When asked if she was hungry, she replied that she was not so in the least; that she had been fed with milk and honey, and. indeed, her sirengtli had been so wonderfully renewed that it seemed that she had been fed by an unseen hand. Tile original paper on which these statements were written as they fell from her lips is in the hands of the Rev. J. l”e1-shing. It is a most remarkable narra- tion of events, and a description of scenes that she still. avers were as real to her as any other in her wbolc life. GiLAD8TO'Nll on FEMALE SUFFRAGH.-—lrIr."Glladstone on arecent occasion said: "The ladies in England and America. are agitating for the suffrage. 'l‘h_at they will obtain it who can doubt, as they attain everything they set their hearts upon; and when they attain the snﬁfrage who can expect that they will stop there? On what principle is a woman to vote for a Z‘(‘.*.'.lUl)81‘Oflfzlrlllivlﬂellb and be herself excluded from a seat in it? Till:-i is the second step; and when she has arrived at beings member of Parliament there is still a third step. It would be impossible to have a mixed Parliament. Gentlemen could never, in public any more than in private affairs, carry o11'a successlu. debate with the ladies, so that rrentlemen mu.-tt evacuate the House of Commons, antfleave the la.di,es to manage public affairs.” A poor soldier i1'l.N(-IW Hampshire. who, after three applications, succeeded in getting $100 bounty, sent at once $510 to an uncle who had loaned him that amount when he was in (lespcrate need.‘ A few days ago the uncle died, and by his will left the almost penniless soldoer all his eslate, valued at $200,000, giving as his re ison for so doing that he had many times lent money to his relatives and be alone had repaid him. DB. HELMBQLD ARRHPAD. H. r. HELMOLD. . The most complimentary reference by newspaper men to him cannot justly be deemed extravagant, for he does more than any other man in America to sus- tain the newspaper ‘press. That he makes money is well known : but who is so deserving of it ? Byjudi- ciously advertising his excellent compounds, he has eome to be 2. , PUBLIC nnnnr‘-.alcron., his daily expenditure of nearly two thousand dollars among all the newspapers, while it helps to sustain them, bringing healing on its wings to suffering mill- ions. At the recent press banquet here, to which only the actual representatives of the “ fourth estate "- were admitted, including the Vice-President of the United States and a. few other distinguished public men who had been connected’ therewith, Dr. Helmbold was in- vited and called upon to speak during the evening—a compliment which was eminently deserved ; for, as we have already said, he is the life of the press, and therefore no man so richly deserves recognition at its hands as this onnsrnsr ouanvnnrrsnus. , If Dr. Helmbold makes money he spends it, too, with right royal mnniﬁcence. The cost of coming to our Carnival with his family, equipage and retinue must have been very considerable ; but, not satisﬁed with that, he engaged at the Arlington, our crack hotel, the best rooms and largest parlors, where during‘ his stay a constant S’l‘.lt1-!A'.*:t or vwrrous poured in upon him. with all of whom. in the spirit of true Dernoe.-,racy, he had sornething kind and even witty to say, and made them by his hospitality realize that they were at home. Of course, he possesses a brilliant intellect. No ordinary man could in so brief a space of time amass such a fortune, and that solely by the exercise of the highest medical skill, allied to indomitable perseverance, which he so happily deli ghts in. Almost every paper we take up from every quar- ter of our land has something to say about Dr. Helm- bold, until we are fairly dazzled by the power which he exercises, surpassing what we have read in the Ara- bian Nights of the . MA(‘=‘rICIAN'S wurn. Nor is this surprising. We ‘now read in the New York Tribune of the enlargement of his magniﬁcent. Broadway palace, extending clear through to Crosby street, upon which occasion full five hundred chosen guests are entertained ; then weﬁnd in the Philadel- phia Jinlletin. an account of a serenade to him by an immense concourse upon the opening of his new drug store in the Continental Hotel. the happy speech which he made from the hotel balcony,'forming, the subject ofa two-column leading article in the Cincin- nati (7ommercéaZ, merely because he has won so much opular esteem as to be generally regarded as the next resident of the United States. And now we have oe- fore us in the New York Leader, of ‘Wednesday, March 1. a glowing description of the opening of a magnificent up-town branch of the establishment of Dr. Helmbold, corner of Broadway and Twenty-ninth street, rendered absolutely necessary by the marvel- ous growth of the marvelous trade of this marvelous man. Are we not. then, justified in saying that he rivals the most extravagant. creations of fiction, and stands to-day absolutely PEERLESS AND snonn? This new Temple of Pharmacy cost, in its con- struction and decoration, :$30.000-—far more than many pretentious concerns have altogether of capital —~and yet it lorms but one of many branches of the PARENT sronn, 594 nnoanwsr, whose genial proprietor last year returned an income of $152,205. All honor to this worthy disciple of Es- culapius I On passing through Broadway recently. our atten- tion was arrested by a work of art so nearly duplicat- ing that of Nature‘s own, that a debate arose whether we were robbing Nature of her dues or giving credit to an artist, but were compelled to admit the latter. The subject was ﬁnely executed wax ﬂowers. thrown over an anchorof the same material marbleized—- Hope in a bed of ﬂowers, with the motto, “Nil Des- perandum.” More elaborate representations of the beautiful in nature, by the same artist. Mrs. Addison Bartlett, 896 Broadway (where she is prepared to receive pupils and orders for various designs) are to be seen at Cassell & Hazard’s drug store, Fifth Avenue Hotel and Tliirty-ninth street, and at De la Perq1;e’s, B0oth’s Theatre building. We have sufficient conﬁdencein the good taste of ladies of any age and in their love of beauty to feel sure that were their attention secured. they would realize more pleasure, and also render themselves far more pleasing to their gentlemen friends (if sensible). in learning and occasionally prncticin,,<: the art, than in preparing all those ﬁllings and frizzings which are ex- clusively for ladies and expressly for gentlemen. The art embraces more than a mere knowledge of forming ﬂower, it cultivates a taste for Naiure’s woi ks, and enables one to discover infinitely more beauties in them. Andif a tine. romantic scenery ex~ erts a reﬁning, elevating influence upon the intellect, certainly do ~beautiful ﬂowers. which we may have as constant companions in our houses, and they are cer- tainly pretty and lasting rnenientoels to friends, and ornamentsfor the dra‘.viu.;;-room and bondcir. “ Flowers are the brightest things which emrtlr g On her broad bosom loves cherish; Gray they appear as child ren’s §l1il‘lli., Like fading dreams of hope they pc-iisli.” Yet by that which the industrious bee fiirnlsllel-' us. they may be per_petuated——-nay, reproduced from their own sweetness. A young man in Oswego, who started to attend a rnasguerade party on_’.l‘hurs(iay, attired and accou- tere as he supposes Satan usually is, unhappily en- tered the wrong ho:1se,to the consternation of the inmates. The old g&*llIl€llL‘.l'I1, father of the faniil‘y, especially. was greatly alarmed, and with a wild shriek, " Maria, save the children l” he made his exit through the rear door, closely followed by llrlaria and ' all their little ones. Look out for coal-dealers who go about with the profession that they are goiiig to been}: up those who . ave ‘fmonopolized ” the trade of Wall street, but whose practices do not “ s<j;_nare‘” with their profes- sions. Mrs. Tiles. 0. Lombard, of this city, will contrib- ute, an article on the Church Music Associatioli to the art department of Old ct-no} New for April. Everybod_y wanting anything in the-line of “ dress- ing for the i_ect,’.’ are referred to the advertisement of Porter & Bllss, in another column. , John Gaultfs Billiard Rooms, 69 and 71 Broadway, are the most popular resort of the denizens of Wall street and vicinity. “Phelan tables ’” and “pure drinks ” are the attractions. t . taunt a slum avaag. Of all things in which parents should take interest, none is of so reat importance as that _of education. In selecting so ools sufficient deliberation is seldom had. The whole future of a child’s life may be dark- ened by a false step in early years. There are com paratively few people who are ﬁtted for havin charge of the young. It requires the most exqurs t_e tact, the most comprehensive grasp of characteristics, as well as an almost inﬁnite a aptation to circumstances. The instincts of childhood are always pure and true. They should never be stunted and bleared by an un- reasonable curbing. They should simply he directed so as to avoid the quicksands and shoals which cer- tain predispositions mi ht drift them toward. True education is not so niuc . the stuffing PYOCGSS 333 1‘ is the weeding or eliminating process‘, ‘by which the whole mental strength may be‘ exerts In producing 23. mind capable of the hi hest and noblest purposes of life. Most of our boar ing schools teach those things which relate too palpably to the external, and are therefore to be deprecated. There_a.re, however, some whose principals. have the true idea of education. Among them may be mentioned the School for Young Ladies, at No. 15 East Twenty-fourth street, under the charge of Mesdamcs Millard & Carrier, whose advertisement appears in another column. Tun NEW WORLD.-—-A weekly newspaper devoted to temperance, universal suffrage and the emanci a- tion of woman- Edited by Mrs. Paulina Wright a- vis and Miss Kate Stanton. Published in quarto-form by L. A. Carpenter. Providence, R. I. It will be the object of this paper to treat all subjects of vital inter- est to the American people with fairness and inde- pendence : and while its columns are open to the discussion’ of those great questions to which it is de- voted the editors reserve to themselves the right to be ju ged only by their editorials. Terms invariably in advance. One copy to one address .......... . $2 00 per annum Ten copies “ - . . . . . . . . . .. 17 50 " Twenty “ “ . . . . . . . . . . .. 30 00 “ A liberal discount made to lodges and societies. There have been many attempts made to combine . the usefulness of a. sofa and a bed 1n one article of household furniture, but_1t may be said they have been total failures, and it had come to be thought that nothing could be invented which would present the elegance of a first class parlor sofa and also os- sess all the convenience and comfort of the best ed. All thediﬁiculties, however, have at last been over- come in the combined Sofa. Bed, manufactured by WM. S. Hnmrnnnxs, 634 Broadway, who presents the public with an article of furniture which no critic could detect was anything more than 9. sofa. when closed, and which no one would ‘ever suppose could be converted into a sofa when in its bed form, and yet’ the conversion is made" instantaneously. It is the desidemtium long ‘sought but never before attained. Nothing marks the character of a man more dis- tinctly than his dress. It is not necessary that a. per- son should have a two hundred dollar suit of clothes to be well dressed. - Dressing does not consist so much of the material worn as it does in the st 'le of its make up. Few people are adapted to con not _a Ready-Made Gents’ Clothing Emporium. It 18 a dim- cult task to have clothing to suit and to ﬁtall custom- ers, But. if there is one who more than any other has overcome all these diﬁiculties it is Randolph, at his Clothing Emporium, corner of Great J ones street and Broadway. He not only sells to everybody, but he ﬁts ever body to whom he sells. If you want to be “ﬁtted ‘ instead of “ sold,” co to Ranclolph’s. If you want to be sold instead of” ﬁtted go to some one who will force had ﬁts upon you if he ca.u’t ﬁt you well. Hrrnrsn & Tnomv have just opened a first-class dining-saloon at 98 Cedar street, a_ few steps west of Broadway. They supply, by their arra1rgement_ of private dining-rooms, aneed, long felt in that vicinity. Gentlemen who have private business to arrange can attend to it there while discussing their lunches and dinners. It is also a. most desirable acquisition to the accommodation of lsd_ies who must dine down town, and who have an aversion to public dining-rooms. Everything is served up in splendid style and at about one-half the price of many other laces. They also keep a choice selection of wines, iquors and cigars. General entrance as above. Private entrance next door below 98. WE take special pleasurein 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 dentis- try. His rooms are ﬁtted tastefully and elegantly, and being constantly ﬁlled with the elite of the city, testiﬁes that his practice is successful. He adminis- ters the nitrous oxide gas with perfect success in all cases. §’.l‘EI.l.‘l'Wri.Y HALL. cnnrsrnvn N1Lsso:v. TUESDAY. 14th: VJEDNESDAY, 1:.”rth; SATURDAY. 18th. Mr. Ms}: Strakosch respectfully announces the iirst reappearance in New York of « Irl’l;.Ll~i‘. CHRISTINA NILSSON, in Grand"Concert's and Oratorio. Tuesday, 14th, Grand Miscellaneous Concert. VVe(lnesday, 15th, ﬁrst appearance of Mlle. Christina Nilsson in Haydrfs mnstersvork, .- THE CREATION". , . Saturday. 18th, Grand Nilsson Matinee at 2 o'clock, MLLE. Cl.lRlS'l‘INA NILSSON will be assisted by MISS PAULINE CANISSA, Soprano; Mléiéi AN1\lIl3 LOUISE CARY, Czonti-alto; E-IGl\‘OR BRIGNOLI. the distinguished Tenor; "Mr. GEORGE -.E4llllPSOiN, Tenor: SIGNOR N. VERGER Baritone; Mr. M. WHITNEY, Basso; Mr. Henry VIEUXTEMPS, Violinist. The choruses of the Creation will begrendered by THE MENDELSSOIIN ‘UNION. Musical Directors and Conductors. Elignor Bosoni and ‘Mr. Geo. Bristow. <':enel€al rkdznission, Zﬂeserved Seats. $l and $2 ezsrtra, according to location. The sale of Reserved Seats for either of the above will commence on lslaturday. March 11, at 9 A. M., at the Box (lﬁicc of lhe Hall, at Shirme-.r‘s. 701 Broad- way and at ll4 Broadway. Steinway’s Pianos are used at all the ‘Nilsson Corn.-erl‘s. “THE BEST lS TEE CllEliPEST.” Being constructed with re ard to scientiﬁc accuracy, are used in all tests of skil by the best players in the country, and in all first-class clubs and hotels. Illus- trated catalogue of everything relating to billiards sent by mail. as :aoAnwAr.. New York City. I OLBY WRINGE'.RSl Best and Cheapest! OMPOSED oi‘ indestructible materials I OMPACT, simple, durable, efficient! OMPARE it with any other machine l OLBY BROS. & 60., 508 Broadway, H. Y. .B.AN1:1N<:2. This pure Brandy has now an established reputat- tation, and is very -desirable to all who use a stimul- lant medicinally or otherwise. Analyses made by the di.stingn.ished Chemists.‘J.. G. Pohle, M. D., and Professor S. Dana Hayes, State Assayer, Massachusetts, prove that it is a. purely grape product, containing no other qualities. , For Sale in quantities to suit the demand. I California Wines and Fine Domestic Cigars. I s. Bhhdllhlidt ea, 66 BROAD s'rnms'r, . NEW YORK. THE NEW JER$EY MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE G9. , No. 189 MAnra.u'llj §TREHl.T,. Newark, N. J . Perpetual insurance secured by payment or One». Annual Premium. l Assets over Half a Million of Dollars. Income nearly_'.l‘hird of ‘a Million of Dollars. Policies issued on all the approved plans of‘ Insurance. .I)iVi(l8Il(lS declared anrmally on the ‘‘ Contribution ‘ Plan "'*a) licable. on seltiermeiit of third annual 7 premium, either toward the .lteduciion of the Pre- mium or the Increase of the Policy. ’l‘l1esc‘additions are, like the Policy, Non-l‘orl‘eitable. and are payable with the l’olicy. WlLl'_.lAM M. FORCE}, President. CHARLES C. LATHROP, V106-:Pl'6Si{l€Hi» CHAS. E’. BR.INKli‘.R.HOFI«‘, Aot‘y and Act's,’ Sec. liﬁddii ls. shawls, Sup’t Temp and Ministerial Department, 180 Broadway, new York City, Rooius 6, T. 8‘. l,EliO’l;T SE. . O}? ‘ K_(lUNTl‘ZE Butirnsus, new vonu. lat WALL STREET. Four per cent. interest allowed on all deposits. Collections made everywhere. I J ' Orders for Gold,’Glovernment and other securities executed. 14 enter a aéasaa tartan. MAROII, 25, 1871. BANKING HOUSE R Teasers at ca, No. 32 Wall Street. Interest allowed on all daily balances of Currency or Gold. _ Persons depositing with us can check at sight in the same manner as with National Banks. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand or at ﬁxed date, bearing interest at current rate, an available in all parts of the United States. Advances made to our dealers at all times, on ap- proved collaterals, at market rates of interest. We buy, sell and exchange all issues of Government Bonds at current market prices; also Coin and Coupons, and execute Orders for the purchase and sale of gold, and all first class securities, on com- mission. . Gold Banking Accounts may be Opened with us Egon the same conditions as Currency Accounts. Railroad, State, City and other Corporate Loan negotiated. ' Collections made everywhere in the United States, Canada and Europe. Dividends and Coupons collected. J. osBoRN. ADDISON CAMMACK. OSBORN & CA MMACK, BANKERS, NO. 84 BROAD STREET. STOCKS, STATE BONDS, GOLD AND FEDERAL SECURITIES, bought and sold on Commission. KENDRIOK a OOMPANY, D R Cr“T§:“!_“l R IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, AND ALL CLASSES OF RAILROAD BONDS AND STOCKS. C-1.. K2 TOWN, CITY AND COUNTY BONDS of the Northern and Northwestern States largely dealt in. Orders promptly executed and information given, personally, by letter or by the wires. No. 9 New street. P. O. Box NO. 2,910, New York. sAM’L BARTON. HENRY ALLEN. BARTON & ALLEN, BANKERS AND BROKERS, No. 4.0 BROAD STREET. Socks, Bonds and Gold bought and sold on com- mission. RAILROAD IRON, FOR SALE "BY S. W. HOPKINS & C0,, 71 BROADWAY. lPHOTOGRAPi-IIC STUDIO, CARL HECKER & C0,, 46 EAST EOURTEENTII STREET, Union Square, NEW YORK. CARL HECKER. Miss sIBIE ORARA, Ladies’ Hair Dresser AND CHILDRENS HAIR CUTTER, (Late with J. Hanney, of Baltimo.re,) N0. 1302 F STREET, 2d door from Thirteenth, WASHINGTON, D. C. Braids, Curls and Fashionable Hair Work for Ladies constantly on hand. A. F. WILMARTH, WOODHULL, CLAELIN a e., Bankers and Brokers, Ne. 4.4 BROAD STREET, New York. LOANERS’ BANK OF THE OITY OF NEW YORK (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE‘ CHARTER,) “ Continental Life ” Building, 22"NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. CAPI .L‘AL . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500,020 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,00 , L00 .BOARD 01?‘ DIRECTORS 2 WILLIAM M. TWEED, SHEPHERD F. KNAPP, EDGAR F. BROWN, EDGAR W. CROWELL, ARCHIBALD M. BLISS, , DORR RUSSELL. This Bank negotiates LOANS. makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES, and receives DEPOSITS. 0 V Accounts of Bankers, Manufactnijers and Merchants will receive special attention. @ FIVE PER CENT. I INTEREST paid on CURRENT BALANCES, and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILLMARTH, Vice-President. e§AMEs MOCREERY & CO., Broadway and Eleventh street, On Monday, February 13, will Oifer a splendid stock of Housekeeping Linen ,Good.§§,,,, . selected with great care for our retail trade, at ex- tremely low prices. ' Richardson’s Irish Linens, R In every make and number, at gold prices. Linen Sheetings. 10-4 Barnsley sheetihgs at 850. 11-4 Barnsley Sheetings at 900. Several cases of very fine Sheetings, 2-342 and 3 yargls w_i,dc\.“ Damasks. W 1 9.4 Bleached .Be.i{ele3 Dauiask, aI,‘“n»em $1 30. ‘ 9-4 and 10-4 Damask, new designs, in very ﬁne Goods. Also, a few pieces of Richardson's 8-4 Striped Damasks. A large lot of Damask Table Cloths, from two yards to six yards each, with Napkin en suite, _ under gold cost. Crash and Towelings. Crash, from 9 cents per yard upward. A large stock of Towels of every description, from $1 50 per dozen. Blankets, Flannels, etc. Our stock of Blankets, Flannels, Marseilles Quilts, Counterpanes, etc., etc., we are selling out at great bargains. Domestics. ‘ An immense stock of Domestic Goods, Shirtings and Sheetings, in every well known brand, , at manufacturers’ prices. ;§_AMES MCCREERY CO., ‘ I Broadway and Elexgcnth street, Will Open, on lilonclayﬁ February 13, A fresh assortment of ‘NEW. FRENCH CHIN TZES AND PERCALES, English Calicos in a new shade of purple, a specialty with us. Tycoon Reps, Ginghams, Delaines, etc. °Also, a large stock of American Prints, in all the most popular makes, at very low prices. SYPHER & co, (Successors to D. Mai-ley,) ’ NO; 557 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, Dealers in , MODERN AND ANTIQUE _ . Eurninre, Brenner; CHINA, ARTICLES OE VERTU. A Established 1826. 9 V IN DENOMINATIONS OF sioo, seen Ana $1,000. These favorite sEvEN PER CENT. BONDS are secured by a First Mortgage on the great Midland Railroad of New York, and their issue is strictly lim ited to $20,000 per mile of ﬁnished‘ road, costing about $40,000 per mile. Entire length of road, 345 miles,‘ of which 220 have been completed, and much progress made in grading the remainder. RESOURCES OF THE‘ COMPANY. . Full paid stock subscriptions, about . . . . . . $6,500,000 Subscriptions to convertible bonds . . . . , . . . . . 600,000 Mortgage bonds, $20,000 per mile, on 345 miles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘ . .. . 6,900,000 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,000,000 Equal to $40,000 per mile. The road is built in the most thorough manner, and at the lowest attainable cost for cash. The liberal subscriptions to the Convertible Bonds of the Company, added to its other resources, give the most “encouraging assurance of the early completion of the road. ‘ The portion already ﬁnished, as will be seen by the following letter from the President of the Company, is doing a proﬁtable local business: . NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 1870. Messrs’. GEORGE OPDYKE & C0,, New York: G'ENTLEMEN——-Yolll‘ favor of the 1st inst., asking for a statement of last mon th’s earnings of the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad, is at hand. I have not yet received a report of the earnings for November. The earnings for the month of October, from all sources, were $43,709 17,.equal to :ﬁ3524,510 04 per an- num on the 14.7 miles of road, viz.: Main line from Sidney to Oswego. 125 miles ; - New Berlin Branch, 22 miles. The road commenced to transport coal from Sidney under a contract with the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company in the latter part Of November. The best informed on the subject estimate the quantity to be transported the ﬁrst year at not less than 250,000 tons, wlzilc some estimate the ojuantity at 300,000 tons. This will yield an income of from $375,000 to $450,000 from coal alone on that part of the road. Taking the lowest of these estimates, it gives for the 14*‘! miles a total annual earning of $899,510 04. The total operating expenses will not exceed ﬁfty per cent., which leaves the net annual earnings $449,755 02, which is $214,555 02 in excess of interest of the bonds issued thereon. i should add that the earnings from passengers and freight are steadily increasing, and that, too, without any through business to New York. Y is truly, D. C. LITTLEJOHN, President N. Y. and 0. Midland Railroad CO. The very favorable exhibit presented in the forego- ing letter shows that this road, when ﬁnished, with its unequaled advantages for both local and through busi- ness, must prove to be one of the most proﬁtable rail road enterprises in the United States, and that its First Mortgage Bonds constitute one of the safest and most inviting railroad securities ever Offered to in- vestors. , For sale, or exchanged for Government and other current securities, by nnersen opnnnn & era, __ 25 Nassau Street. MAXVVELL & CO., Bankers and ’ Brokers, No. i1 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK. ,9. HE UNDERSIGNED BEG TO IN- form their friends that they have opened a Branch oﬂﬁce at . No. 365 Broadway, cor. Franklin Street, connected by telegraph with their principal oﬂice, No. 46 EXCHANGE PLACE, and solicit ordeis for Foreign Exchange, Gold, Gov. ernment Securities and Stocks, which will be prompt- ly attended to. CHAS. UNGER &; CO. January 3, 1871. Main tit Cent. interest ST. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY RAILROAD COMPANY. ' Principal and Interest Payable in Gold. 105 MILES COMPLETED and in operation, the earnings on which are in excess of interest on the total issue. Grading" ﬁnished, and ONLY 6 MILES OF TRACK ARE TO BE LAID TO COMPLETE THE ROAD. Mortgage at the rate of $13,500 per mile. Price 97% and accrued interest. ‘ We unhesitatingly recommend them, and will fur- ' nish maps and pamphlets upon application. W. P. eonvnnsn & Do, I‘ i 54 PINE STREET. EAMEER & co, 11 WALL STREET r RE .I. crane a sen, No. 59 Wall Street, New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit, subject to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. " ' ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH I THE CLEARING-HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSITIBY ALL.,,TPI_E CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates O‘T"Depq§,i%liliss;t£ed, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent.‘ interest. . Loans negotiated. Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. ”" I’ Collections made on all parts oi. the United States and Canadas. HARVEY FISK. A. s. HATCH. OFFICE OF Prsn & HATCH. BANKERS, AND DTJALERS IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, No. 5 NAssAn sTREET, ‘N. Y., Opposite U. S. Sub-Treasury. “We receive the accounts of Banks, Bank- ers, Corporations and others, subject to check at sight, and allow interest on balances. VVe make special arrangements for interest on deposits of speciﬁc sums for ﬁxed periods. We make collections On all points in the United States and Canada, and issue Certiﬁ- cates of Deposit available in all parts of the Union. - . We buy and sell, at current rates, all classes of Government Securities, and the Bonds ,,of the Central Paciﬁc Railroad Company; also, Gold and_Silver Coin and Gold Coupons. ' ‘Ne buy and sell, at the Stock Exchange, miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds, on commis- sion, for cash. Communications and inquiries by mail or telegraph, will receive careful attention. . ’ FISK & HATCH. A BEAUTIFUL er.-“r es resrn, With plumpers to set out the cheeks . and restore thh ‘ face to its natural appearance. Movable plumpers adjusted to old sets, weighted Lower Sets, ﬁllings of Gold, Amalgam, Bone,’ etc. ' TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN, With‘ Nitrous Oxide Gas. No extra charge when others are inserted. SPLENDID SETS, $10 to $20. L. BERNHARD, No. 216 Sixth Avenue, Between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets east side.
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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1871-03-25
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1871-03-25
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 03, no. 03 (June 3, 1871)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1924
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1871-06-03
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: i?B.OG:REssz FREE THOUGHT 2 UNTBAMMELED LIVES! EUUMLKING IHI7TKAY FOR IUTTHHECEENEBMHTONW. VOL. 3.-No. 3. -WHOLli No. 55. SPEECH OF MRS. A. M. MIDDLEBROOK BEFORE THE National Woman’s Suffrage Convention, 0 AT Apollo Hall, May I2, l87I. I propose to look at the Woman’s Suffrage ‘luesﬁon in 3 legal point of view, and to examine those a_1'g'“mem35 that are based upon constitutional authority. It is Well for us to be told again and again, what rights 319 Possessed by women under the laws made by men. . . It seems to me that a crisis is ap.proaching,_ that the time has nearly arrived for some decisive measuresin this matter, and that with earnest purpose, and a full understanding or all its cl ims,we should go to the root of the subject, and each one of us do our work with a faithful zeal worthy of our cause. I present no new views, I oﬂer no theories that have not been before discussed. but to such as I have I ask your undivided attention. When a body of men, chosen as represe...
Show morei?B.OG:REssz FREE THOUGHT 2 UNTBAMMELED LIVES! EUUMLKING IHI7TKAY FOR IUTTHHECEENEBMHTONW. VOL. 3.-No. 3. -WHOLli No. 55. SPEECH OF MRS. A. M. MIDDLEBROOK BEFORE THE National Woman’s Suffrage Convention, 0 AT Apollo Hall, May I2, l87I. I propose to look at the Woman’s Suffrage ‘luesﬁon in 3 legal point of view, and to examine those a_1'g'“mem35 that are based upon constitutional authority. It is Well for us to be told again and again, what rights 319 Possessed by women under the laws made by men. . . It seems to me that a crisis is ap.proaching,_ that the time has nearly arrived for some decisive measuresin this matter, and that with earnest purpose, and a full understanding or all its cl ims,we should go to the root of the subject, and each one of us do our work with a faithful zeal worthy of our cause. I present no new views, I oﬂer no theories that have not been before discussed. but to such as I have I ask your undivided attention. When a body of men, chosen as representatlives of the needs of a. great people, meet together calmly to deliberate, discuss, and legislate ior this people: thus oringing into a common interest the happiness, and protection; the rights and piivileges; ihe duties, _and re- spei sibilities of all classes who make np.the inhabitants of a country ; 1 am certainly right in assuming that their con- clusions ought to be accepted as of the utmost importance and authority. Then, when these conclusions, or the laws thus passed by the assembled wisdom of these statesmen, are sent out to the legislatures of the several states, there again to be discussed, criticised and ﬁnally accepted (if a three-fourths majority so decide) it must be generally ac cepted that Ly this time the result ought to bring a state of greater prosperity, justice, equality and peace, to all parties concerned therein. ~ A _ For, it must be evident to all, that these deliberations would not have been called for, but as the eii'ect of some grievance, some great wrong that had remained unseen by preceding legislators, a wrong that had necome too great for endurance, and therefore called ior redress. And there may have been also, in the making of some of these laws, a pro- phecy of the future—a certain grand and glorious spirit of liberty inherent with-in—bursting forth in divine utterance, so that our rulers became at such times “ wiser than they knew ;” for many of our laws thus made are tar-reaching, and their deepest meaning only becomes manifest after years of suffering and tyranny. Thus I believe it was with our famous Declaration of Independence, where it declares “ these truths to be self-evi- dent that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” etc.,—“ that to se- cure these rights, governments were instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” etc. This was not so much the utterance of themasses in those days, as ofthose who were enlightened, so as to feel the inspirations of freedom, and to breathe the inspiring breath of future generations, for even now, these “ rights” are not " secured” to all, probably because our government does not derive its just powers irom the consent of the gov- erned ; for, with these grand utterances a century old, half of the most cultured and refined people of our country are in a state of most deplorable political subjection ; and from this rostru v. to-day, we, in the name of the women of this land, insist upon those " unalienable rights” with which our “ Creator endowed us,” and which our revolutionary fathers held to be “ self-evident.” The meaning of this truth has increased in power and intensity, until its wail of pain from an unjustly oppressed class has reached, the brains of our nation. This, 1 believe to have been also the case with the Fourteenth Amendment to our National Constitution, as passed at the ﬁrst session of the Thirty-ninth Congress, June 16, 1866. lt is upon this and the following amendment that I shall base the greater portion of my argument to-(la . li- ii well known to all politicians at least, that when this amendment (the Fourteenth) had passed both houses of Congress, and had afterward been subjected to the deliber- ations of each separate State Legislature, and rat-ihed by - more than three-fourths of those States; and when the oﬂicial announcement had been made public by William Seward, Secretary of State, July 28, 1868, it then (to use Mr. NEW YORK, JUNE 3, 1871. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ULTIMATUM NAT [lNALWlllVlAN’S SUFFRABE ASSBE EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL CITIZENS UNDER OUR PRESENT GOVERNMENT; 0R,A U tin grlirllinn ant a. ﬁrm @ni:rrii mi J WHICH SHALL SECURE ignnn. Seward’s own language) became “ valid ‘to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United States.” So that now this amendment is as much a law of the land as the original Constitution ; and the enforcement of this law is as binding upon our legislators and the officers of our government as any other. ‘ Article 6th of the Constitution says: “ This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made. or which shall be made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of‘ the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby; anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the coirrary notwithstanding.” When the Fourteenth Amendment became the law of the land, it found itself foretold, and the States prepared for it by Sec- tion 4 of the 4th Article, namely: “ The United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government ;” and, thus heralded. the Fourteenth Amendment is ushered into existence as the legitimate of- spring of the necessities of a great people. Who can tell. but, that prophesied of, proclaimed, foretold, it is destined to become the political saviour of our nation. Yet the young child has been kept in solitude for three longycars, and even some of our State oﬂicers do not know its import, or hardly its existence. ~ We are indebted, in a great measure, to Victoria C. Wood- hull, for the graceful, yet persistent manner in which it was rescued from oblivion and introduced to public notice in Washington, on the 21st day of Drcember, 1870. All thanks and honor are due to her clear-sightedness in arous- ing anew the agitation of.’ the subject of woman’s siilfrage. A great and efficient work had been done by other noble women previously, but when she was most needed she came. - I will proceed now to analyze this one supreme law of our land. 1st. it tells us who are citizens. When slavcrycxisted at the South, and the negroes had no vote. and no voice in making the laws that shouldgovern them, they might well conclude that it was because they were not citizens, espe- cially after knowing of the existence of such a law as we find in Article IV., Sec. 2. “ The citizen of each State shall be en- titled to all privileges and immunities of citizens of the several states.” If that law gave them no vote. then there could bc_ no_ other reaon than because they were not cit- izens. But the Fourteenth Amendment rectiﬁes this mis- take, and leaves no further room for doubt. “ All persons born or natiiralized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Could the English lan- guage be plainer than it is here? _ It would hardly be neces- sary to explain to a child that “ all persons” does not mean men alone, or white men. or white and black men, but that a person (according to Webster) is an individual human being, consisting of body and soul, and is aoplied‘ alike to man, woman and child.” Very Well. No further question here. Women are citizens. Congress says so. Our State legislators said so when they I‘a»t.lﬁ6(?l\tlllS amendment. Further than this Webster’s unabridged says: “ In the United States a citizen is a person, native or naturalized, Who has the privilege of exercising the elective franchise, or the qualiﬁcations which may enable him to vote for rul- ers and to purchase and hold real estate.” Putting this and that together, or taking them separately, we cannot avoid the same conclusions, namely, that women are citizens; that as citizens they have the right to vote and to a free use of all privileges and immunities that are granted to the most honorable and the most dishonorable among men. Webster uses the terms “ right ” and “privilege" as sy- nonomous, or nearly so. “ Right is just claim, immunity privilege. All men,” he says, “ have a right to the St'CUI‘8 enjoyment of life, personal safety, liberty and property.” Further than this Mr. Butler says, in reference to the citizenship of women: “None but citizens of the United States could register a ship at our ports, none others could pre-eiI.pt lands or receive passports; but from time imme- morial in this country women have registered shins, pre- empted lands and secured passports without question}? This opinion, coming from a gentleman so well versed in constitutional law, is. not by any means to be despised. But, on the contrary, it is worth a great deal as authority, because it is based upon legal poinrs and is the result of careful thought, which cannot always be said of opposing arguments. And Mr. Butler further said: “ The right of a citizen to vote for his rulers was a right outside of all Con- stitution and laws; it was an inherent I‘ig‘hY,” as he under. stood the principles of the government. VVhatever may be said about this inherent right of citizens to vote for their rulers, or whatever argument may be brought against it, we certainly have the matter clearly explained in the Four-' teenth Amendment. That is, understanding, as ldo, that na- tional governments are instituted by men (and I use the term in its largest sense), out of the great wisdom and power that belong to them naturally, or that is inherent within them, for the purpose of giving protection, safety, happiness, life, liberty, etc., to all persons that dwell. under the dominion thereof: therefore this amendment, aiming at the best and broadest republicanistn, says: “No State shall make or ell- force any law that shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” ‘ Whatever power the States might have possessed previous to the passage of this act, could be pos- sessed no longer after its passage. If one of the greatest privileges of citizenship was the ballot, and this privilege (under the excuse of“ State rights”) had been denied to the negro, simply because he was black, though he pos- sessed all other qualiﬁcations, and-to women simply beciuse of sex, though she possessed all other qiialiﬁcttions, yet henceforth this right of the State was piohibited, and the full license of sheer prejudice was no longer allowed. At‘. er the ratiﬁcation of this act and its pro alainatioo to the . neo- ple as oi_io'of the supreme laws of our land, “ No State shall make,” if it has not already made, or it’ any State within thejuiisdictioii of‘ the United States shall have pas=ed any law previousto this _ai_nendmeiit calciiiatcd to abridge the privileges or immunities of any of its eitiaens,it shall not p 2 if" . netball it dlsiiiws A uzkig. JUNE 3, 1871. -is “ enforce ”.such law. Oh! I hear some political fogy ex- claiming, “ VVhat have you done with our State rights ”— our right towsay who “shal1"vote’§ "I ‘answer-, given them‘ over to the United States, their lawful m‘aster——m‘a‘de the State laws subservient to the supreme laws of the land, as they certainly are, and no one can ‘deny it. Hear what the Tenth Amendment says : “ The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor probibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively .or to the people.” As the Constitution has prohibited the States from abridgiog the privileges of its citizens, therefore the State where I reside has no right to deny me the right to consent to those who a.re to govern me. And the sameuule will apply to all the women of our country. Besides this, wh at are the States whose rights we talk so much »about-?« Do we mean simply atract of land containing so many square miles ‘l Or do we mean the whole body of pe"ople“in a certain locality united under one government ‘l Certain- ly, in this sense we mean the latter, and no one, however prejudiced, would think of denying me the right of belong- ing to the State of Connecticut simply because I {am a woman. If, then, women are part of a State——natural-borncitizens thereof—subject to its jurisdiction, under the United States, how can there be such a thing as “ State rights” when all women (though counted in the representation) are denied the privilege of a voice in choosing those representatives; or in the making of State laws? Iassert that our.State rep- resentatives have held office and drawn money from the public treasury unlawfully, because they have never occu- pied their positions by a vote of a. majority of all the peo- ple; and, in the same sense, the qualiﬁcations of electors pretended to be made by the States, are not made by the States at all, but by an aristocracy composed of part of the people, who take it upon themselves to make laws for and rule over the other part. Therefore, the qualiﬁcations made for electors by this aristocracy, not being. in accordance With the representation of the whole State, but only a part, are no qualiﬁcations at all. Of course, lbase my premises upon the republican professions of our government. How can a government be republican unless all are represented and have a voice in the affairs of State? Let us reverse things and talk about “State rights” and “ State sove reignty” and “ State laws” with the White male left out in the cold. How our masculine rulers would laugh; but the only difference between then and now is that the laugh is in the other corner of the mouth. The States are in the same predicament that they would be in such a case with ‘a large portion of its loyal citizens proscribed, limited, muz- zled, by the other portion,-without any just,‘ constitutional or natural claim to precedence——a living illustration of the old adage that “ might makes right.” It seems to me that ‘whatever may have been right or just in this matter pre- vious to the passage of the Four»teenth,Amendment (and there can be no doubt that the right has always been the same as now), that since that law was enacted clearly setting forth that “ all persons born. or naturalized in the United States are citizens; and prohibiting the States - from abridging our privileges as citizens ; that no State‘of- ficer has any right to deny us the full and free expression of opinion by the ballot, and the judges in every State ought to sustain us in this, because it is in obedience to the ex- press wording of the above article of the Constitution. And as the President of the United States, the Senators and ‘Representatives in Congress, as well as both houses of our . State Legislatures, have sworn to uphold and support the Constitution of the United States, I do not see how any of these great men can fail in sustaining our measures without great remissness in duty, which should incur the just re- proach or every loyal person. Or, taking another view of this question of the State power to qualily, if we could have full representation—that is, admitting women as voters—— qualiﬁcation cannot mean prohibition or disfranchisement. Women as a class are prohibited or denied a right that is as sacred, and would prove as beneﬁcial to them as to men. And this prohibition in the face of our grand national prin- ciples becomes wholesale swindle, which is quite as degrad- ing to our rulers as it is humiliating to as. Another clause in the Fourteenth Amendment requires a little passing ob. servation. Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, - liberty or property without due process of law, nor » deny to any person within its jurisdicti.on the equal protection of the laws. Now is it not plain that where one class is prohibited a voice in making the laws, and is compelled to be gov- erncd entirely by another class, and the laws thus made for them being, In regard to property and in the mariiage rela- tion, so shamefully unequal, is it not plain, I ask, that the ruled class are deprived in at great measure of their liberty of person and property, and denied that equality of protec- ‘ tion that is guaranteed them. A glance at the property laws of some or our States would bring confounding testimony in proof of the disloyalty of our State laws to our National Constitution. And, in the name of justice, what is. our Constitution worth if it avows these sublime principles and no action is taken upon them any more than if they did not exist. and our officers are not compelled to enforce them. Are women to be insulted by a sham law, that pretends to extend equal pm-tect.ion to every person and equal privi- leges, and yet allows every rum-drinking, tobaccochewing frequenter ofgambling houses and brothels to control and govern by their infamous laws such women as are repre. sented upon this rostrum -to-day‘! For shame! For shame: It is not our husbands, or our fathers, or brothers - or other good men alone who represent us at the ballot-box (if it were possible for one person to represent another) which I deny, but we become politically the common slaves of this common herd. Protected by men too vile for us to asso- ciate with a moment? .No .' Represented by men too ignorant to choose their own ‘candidates without the assist- ance of some tricky politician? N o ' And yet our dear lords—n1any of them remain in this enlighted age perfectly. satisﬁed to allow things to remain as they are. Were it not so, this would not be. Justice and right are on one side, but the power is in the hands of men. The Constitution is with us, as I have shown, andas I propose further to show. Hear what the Fifteenth Amendment says: The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” This follows the previous article of amendments so directly that it is clear that the right to vote is understood as one of the privileges meant in the wording of that law. These tvs 0 articles evidently be- long together-——the one clearly deﬁnes the rights and priv. ileges of citizens, and states who are the citizens thaupos. sess these privileges, while the last lays special emphasis upon this one right of voting, and declares that it shall not be denied or abridged by either the States or the Un11-,ed_ States. . . It recognizes theriglit as something that already existed; and our National as well as _ our State Constitutions «ac- knowledge that all political power is inherent in the people. The Fourteenth Amendment is a sort of declaratory act; it deﬁnes the word citizens, and declares their power to make, use ‘of What is alreadyftheirs. “All persons native or natur- alized -'are*,,.¢itizens,” and then, in the Fifteenth Amendment, “their right to vote shall not be denied or abridged.” But, we are limited to race, color,-or previous conditions of s 2'rvi- tude; says our opponent. VVe1l, are not women included here? In fact, if itdoes not say men, or women, why does it mean men more than women ‘Q What proof is there that it means one more than the*oth'er ‘E ' It says citizens, and thereis proof rosrtivn that this word applies equally to *l)0.~El1.:. , . . There are wom‘en‘of“ race and color, as much as there are men of race and color, and if the word sex is not used, why ‘should we manufacture" an excuse for using it‘, ‘simply for the purpose of misrepresenting the plain rendering of this. article. ‘ ‘ C ‘ ‘ ‘ . And as for the “previous condition of servitude,” no one in their senses can pretend that‘ women do not belong to this class. And if thisarticle meant negroes, ‘as is claimed, it must have meant negro women as well I asmen. I For the service rendered by the black woman was oftentimes a thou- sand t'im“es‘“mor‘e ‘degrading,’ and called’ loude'r‘for‘“redress than that rendered by the black man. But in applying this to our-own race of women, I can do nothing -better than to give you Mr. A. G. Riddle’s argument upon the subject, in his speech made at Washington. He says: “The condition of the married woman is that of servi- tude. . Tlielaw gives her to the man, not the man to her, or the two mutually to each other. They become one, and that one is the husband, such as he is. Her name “is blotted out from the living, or at best is appended to that of the hus- band. She belongs to her master; all that she has belongs to him. All that she earns is his, because she is his. Ifshe does anything that binds him, it is simply as his servant. If she makes a contract that is binding even upon herself, it is because he consents to it. She does not own anything; she does not own the children that are born to her. The husband exclusively controls them while living, and by his will he may, and often does, bequeath to somebody else the custody and care of them after his death.” “And,” he says further, "the law which we men make enforces all this to- day. if the wife of a man should suffer from an accident the company for injury to her person, the suit brought by the husband would be upon the ground that his wife was his servant, and he had lost her service.” “The wife,” he says, “is always the servant of the husband, she never grad- uates away from him; she never becomes of age, or arrives at years of discretion.” If there is any further doubt upon this subject, reference to the statute books of the various States will settle the matter at once. It is not the question whether he beats his wife (though I think that is done oftener than he beats his lured servant), but what is the legal relation between them? And it is answered above, and upon our statute books, that the law demands her en- tire subjection to him, and that _he often demands of her the duties of wife, and mother to his children, and the drudge of his household, and that, too, with only the com- pensation that he chooses to offer, which is too fre- quently very meagre indeed. It would not be borne in any other relation in life, the law would never up- hold it in other relations. Talk about cruelty to animals! And yet, as Mr. Riddle says, “ the laws which men make en- forces” this cruelty to women. Our opponents tell us that the word “ sex” is absolutely necessary in the Fifteenth Amendment to make it applicable to women, and without that word it cannot ‘be made to apply. Has not the word “race” a larger meaning-_—a broader and mightier signiﬁca- tion? Can you think of a race of men alone, and is any one so narrow and so unjust as to admit all other races to the exclusion of the daughters of this republic’! If a spe- cial word must be used _to deﬁne the particular sex meant, by what means of turning and twisting could all our gov- ernmental iuatters be given over to the masculine gender during the century past, when the word "male” does not occur once in the Constitution until we ﬁnd it in the Four- teenth Amendment. It is true the words “he,” “his” and “ him” occur often, but may be taken in a general sense, as they are in law and within 0111' statute books. In many of our laws} the matter referred to embraces all persons as abso. lutely as if the specific word “she” had been used. Where the word “male” is incorporated into the the Fourteenth Amendment there is such a palpable display of the preju. dice and timidity of those who drew up this important doc- ument, that by the side of the noble words that were pre- viously written as a herald of promise, it sinks into misera. ble insigniﬁcance. There is evidently a prejudice against the woman question, and afear that this construction may be put upon this article, which might divert public attention from negro suifrage. We well know how jealous our Repub_ lican friends were of our cause at that time, and that many of them now are among our most able ad vocates, Ah 3 whip, “ waiting” for victory, as they told us we must——“ obedient” as it is a womau’s duty ('9) to be, we live to see the conver. sion of those great statesmen that were thought nearly per. feet before. And now even they admit that the two first paragraphs in the Fourteenth Amendment are broad enough and emphatic enough to embrace even our cause. 01117 16g‘iSl&t0I‘S, in laying down principles which they in- tended to apply to some particular case, should not regret that these principles take broader and deeper root than they intended, How often it is that under the control of some unseen and mighty power, words are brought forth from lips glowing with living lire, that are pregnant with high hopes and golden promises of future greatness, while those who are the instruments thereof remain unconscious of their deepest meaning. And how different are our dreams while sleeping from the reality when awake. For centuries the world has dreamed that woman’s fate was to be an inferior being—tlie toy and playthin g of man—to sit at his feet and mumble, parrot-like, the words. that fall from his lips- the tool and machine for his lust and avarice. Waking, it ﬁnds her his equal—an immortal soul endowed with mighty responsibilities and lofty aspirations! Sleep- ing in the intoxicated stupidity of custom, it has limited her sphere to the. narrowest and meanest latitudes. Wak- ing, lior range is the -wide universe, and within her grasp are all human possibilities! Shall we not accept as the les- son of the hour the reality rather than the dreams ‘i lAgain; we know how in law, there is oftentimes great stress laid upon parallel cases; and we know how words are made to apply in cases that they were not intended for, so that the intention is sometimes lost sight of entirely. Were I to say that the condition of the women of our country was parallel, or nearly so, to the condition of the negro, before he was admitted to the full rights of citizenship, it would I amjaware, bring down upon me alaughof derision from our opponents. I have tried it too often not to know this. But I maintain it, notwithstanding the derision, for I know it can only come from those who are too much prejudiced to see it; "words of i“Mr. Sumner.” on a railroad, and suit should be brought to recover against. or, from those who are too far removed, and. therefore, too ignorant of the suffering caused by this condition, to com- Hpreliend it. Itis difﬂcult for a person to feel the pain caused b3f.'the§boot that pinches someone else’s foot. 01'. for a man with anti—republican principles and ﬁnely-spun theories of “Dear woman’s trusting dependence and sweet reliance on pain suffered by a highly cultured, intelligent woman, who t’ully‘”realizes the deep humiliation of our present state of political-subjection. It is because of this pain and humilia- tion thatwe welcome the noble and authoritative words of Chas. Sumner and others; which, though intended to help th’e'cause of negro suffrage, are just as well ﬁtted for our work, as to carry out the original intention. Hear the great “ Beyond all question the true rule quuder the National Constitution, especially since its addi- tional amendments, is that any thing for human rights is constitutional.” No learning in books, no skill acquired "in courts, no sharpness of forensic dialectics, no cunning in splitting hairs, can impair the vigor of the constitutional principle which I announce. Whatever you enact for hu- man rights is constitutional. There can be no State rights against human rights ; and this is the supreme law of the land, anything in the Constitution, or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.” Then he quotes from Franklin’_s works the following: “That liberty or -freedom consists in having an; actual share in the appointment of those who frame the laws, and who are to be the guardians of every man. That they who have no voice, nor vote in the electing of representatives, do not enjoy liberty, but are absolutely enslaved to those who have votes, and to their representatives ; for to be enslaved is to have governors whom other men have set over us, and be subject to laws made by the representatives of others, without having had representatives of our oWn to give consent in our behalf.” Another argument proving women’s condition of servitude. Is not this confounding testimony in our favor? And yet there is plenty more of it——iu fact it has been piled moun- tains high within a few years. Here is more, which Mr. Sumner takes from El1iot’s Debates: “ The right of suf- frageis certainly one of the fundamental articles of repub- lican government, and ought not to be left to be regulated by the Legislature. A gradual abridgement of this right has been the mode in which aristocracies have been built on the ruins of popular forms.” It will doubtless be urged against these quotations that they refer to another subject. In reply I say, what of that? They are the fruits of our governmental tree—a tree whose branches are so far-reach- ing that it is expected to overshadow the whole nation, and its fruits, I believe, are for the healing of the nation. At any rate they suit our complaints exactly just now, and we propose to see if, by partaking of them, they will not prove a panacea for our unhappy political ailments. They are found good for native white men and for native black men, for naturalizedlrish, Dutch, French ; in short, all men who, tired of their own country, may chance to land on our shores. We cannot be treated longer as too many parents treat their children, who, while partaking of luxuries them- selves, tell the little ones that such luxuries are not good for them. We are not children, but part and parcel of this great republic. We work for our government; we pay taxes on our property for its support; we raise mechanics, farmers, lawyers, doctors, ministers——yes, statesmen, sol- diers and presidents. In fact our government only exists by our suﬁerance, and we do not intend it to exist without our suffrage. It seems to me that the great and important time has come for action, when we should concentrate all our efforts upon this one matter. We should let all religious preju- dices, all social distinctions, all questions of expediency and policy be laid aside, and stand truly united in this work. No one can deny that our interests are in common with those of men ; that our necessities are the same; that our loyalty cannot be questioned more than theirs; that every argument that favors their right to vote favors ours. Then can it, with any degree of consistency, be said, that the same means by which they seek a redress for their grievances will not also bring the same result to us. The great , principles of republicanism that were sent down the long years from our immortal Declaration of Independence, for a century, live as an eternal monument of glory, when fulﬁlled; but as a blasting shame Lefore all nations, while half of its children sit and wall for their en- franchisement. The noble love of freedom that burned within the blood of our ancestors who framed that docu- menthas gathered tribute with every advance, until, an impetuous torrent, it threatensto overthrow and inund ate your present miserable system oisham repu blicanism. The spirit of our Constitution is all right, its letter is all right; enforce both-—make them practical instead of theoretical, and we shall have a grand lulfillment of a glorious promise. We want the aid of both political parties, if we can have it; but, if the power in the hands of men will not bring us justice, we must create a new party and work against both, or carry our cause to the courts. We have sought to con- ciliate these parties long enough; we have gone down on to our knees before them, praying to be heard; we have spent our time, our strength and our money in speeches, in tracts and in con ventions to educate the public up to this work, at the same time that our sons have gone out from our homes to join the common enemy against us; we have sent petitions to our State Legislatures, which have re- mained unnoticed, so far as any practical result is attained; we have besought Congress in petitions miles in length, and all to no purpose as yet; and it is time we took other meas- uies and sought other means for the accomplishment of the great end to be gained. Our_cause has very materially changed within a_iew years; it has grown from babyhood into giant proportions since the passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. We have seen other parties similarly situated walking into the full enjoyments of the most sacredrights, with all beneﬁts to be derived therefrom, while we and the cause in which our lives are most earn- estly absorbed are treated with cold contempt and our grievances ﬁnd no redress. We have been tauntingly asked. bysome of our leading politicians why we do not take our rights; and probably there never was so great an attempt to do this as there has been this present year. The Enforcement act passed by Congress in May, 1870, together with the- Ku-Klux bill, and the proclamation just issued by the President to enforce this bill and the Four- teenth Amendment, are teaching the public that our repub- lican principles are as broad as the country and must protect all citizens,land teach all States that their laws must be sub- ject to the United States. nor, of Detroit, Mich., on the 4th of ‘April, cast her ﬁrst vote. I think at that moment, could our eyes have been‘ open to see and our ‘ears to hear, sweetly solemn sights and ‘sounds would have greeted our longing -senses from those halls u tlie‘pro’tectingarm of man,” to feel for one moment the ’ Under the provisions of these acts Mrs. Nannette B. f}ard-- JUNE 3, 1871. where justiceholds her courts. Buta question arises.-zllow are the men of Michigan diﬂ'erent from the men in other States? For other women attempted to vote iuidifferent States, but were denied the privilege. In Hammonton, N. J, ﬁfteen women oﬂered their votes at a late town elec- tion, but were refused. In other States—in Ohio and Wash- ington—this attempt was made with the same‘ result. In Connecticut, several women—myself included—made appli- cation to be registered at the time and place required by law, and our names were taken ; but when we presented ourselves before the Board of Registration “to be made” voters, we were denied the right." One woman besides my- self then made afﬁdavitbefore a “justice of the peace” that we had been wrongfully prevented from performing the nec- essary pre-requisite or qualiﬁcation of a voter, and with this afﬁdavit we presented ourselves at the Town Hall on elec- tion day and asked permission to deposit our votes. After a delay and argument of half an hour we were denied the right. ‘ We took this course under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, and the provisions of the “ Enforcement Act” of May, 1870. I stated to the Board ofRegistration and to the Moderator that we did not apply under our State laws, but under the United State laws ; that as the word “ white” in our State Constitution became null and void under the Fifteenth Amendment; so the word “ male” became null and void under the Fourteenth. These ofﬁcers coolly told me that they were “ acting under State Ia ws, and not under the authority of the United States : and that the United States, had no right to“'take away their liberties as State ofﬁcers.” I They did not care that my liberty as a citizen was entirely gone, under their assumed State rights. What we want now is the power to teach the States, and their officers, submission to the United State’s Constitution as the supreme law of the land. If this is done ‘every right will be given us, and I think it can be done by following the example of the ladies of Washington, and the ladies of Hemmon ton ; that is, pros- ecuting the dﬂicers of elections and carrying the case even to the supreme court or the land, if necessary. It seems to me disgraceful that we are obliged to do this, but we have the advice and counsel of able lawyers and statesmen. For the beneﬁt of those women who are earnest, and ready to work in this cause, but Who may not know what authority we may have besides the last two amendments (and. those ought to be suﬂicient), I would advise them to procure copies of the Enforcement Act of 1870, and the Ku-Klux bill, which is entitled “ An act to enforce the provision of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. and for other purposes. With this high authority sustaining us, let every woman take the matter into her own hand and present herself for registration at the time appointed in her respective State, and, nothing daunted itrefused, let her with afﬁ davit force her way to the polls, remembering that in doing this she is not merely securing the rights of citizenship to herself, but she is aiding in that political revolution which will cause the establishment of equity and justice all over our land. I advise this unless Congress will immediately pass a decla- ratory act enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment in our favor all over our land. Let us remember, too, that in tak- ing this cours9——in making this demand we are encroaching e upon the rights of no otherc lass, nor rebelling against any acknowledged power. The glorious Sumner—though like the Constituton he leaves out the special word women—3-has said it all for us when he declares the following: “ What I especially ask is impartial suffrage, which is, of course, embraced in uni- versal suifrage. For the present, I simply insist that all , shall be equal before the law, so that in the enjoyment of i this right there shall be no restriction which is not equally applied to all. I have no hesitation in saying that univer- sal sutfrage is a universal right, subject only to such regula. tions as the safety of society mgy require. These may con. cern age, residence, character, registration. These iempo- ra.ry restrictions do not in any way interfere with the right of suffrage, for they leave it absolutely accessible to all, N o matter under what depression of poverty, in what depth of obscurity or with what diversity of complexion you have been born, you are nevertheless a citizen-—the peer of every other citizen, and the ballot is your inalienable right.” In a late excellent editorial article in the Golden Age, we are told that " many of the representative men and women who have charge of the woman’s movement, speak and write and print as if the elective franchise were the sum-total of woman’s demand.” “Important,” he says, “ as we believe the political aspect of the woman question to be, we believe that other aspects of the question are still more important.” The woman’s movement, in- stead of being all summed up in the claim for the “ elective franchise is the whole broad question of woman’s rights.” As thankful as we should all be for every word spoken or written in aid of our cause, yet I hardly think we can forget that it is not the square inch of white paper that we call the ballot that we are, after all, caring so much for; but it is the» equality. thejustice, the educational advan- tages, the reformation in social matters, and all that may result from the ballot, And without the ballot we cannot have these matters properly adjusted. There are not men enough in the United States or the world to represent the necessities of women. We can only represent ourselves. Shall we be humble inendicants at the feet of men for all these blessings that can only come to us through the ballot, or an equal share with them in governmental matters. We want the ballot as a means to accomplish a great and ; and for this reason I have presented to you the political phase of this question, because if woman’s share in politics is not of the greatest and last importance, the elective franchise is certainly of the ﬁrst importance, as the instrument for the accomplishment of that greater and mightier social and moral reform, which is needed as much for man as for we- man. And with aspirations like the swift eagle, ready to mount upward ‘and cleave the air in our progress when the prison-doors shall be unbarre<l——ready also to bear our cap- tors to the mountain eyrie of true national greatness—how can we be longer held as manacled slaves when the laws of our country, written in human blood and suffering, call to us and point the way; while the spirit of justice from on high, with the balance in one hand and hope’s shining anchor in the other, beckon us on to victory! Oh, Colum- bia thy daughters, as well as thy sons, would be thy loyal subjects. Strike thou through the wisdom of our rulers every chain from thy disfranchised children ! §——-—-m—.. THE completest pun in the records of literature is produced in the following words, which were inscribed en a tea chest: “ Ta doces," which is the second person singular, present tense, of the Latin verb doceo, I teach, and when literally translated, becomes “ thou teachest.” * ' disappear. V roon CIIUMANITY. More than half a ' century ago, the following lines were found in the Royal College of Surgeons, London, beside .a skeleton, remarkable for its symmetry of ‘form. They were subsequently published in the London Morning Ulironicle, and a vain effort made to ascertain the author, even offering a reward of ﬁfty guineas: Behold this ruin! ‘Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full, w This narrow cell was 1ife’s retreat; This space was thoughlfs mysterious seat. What beauteous visionsﬁlled this spot With dreams of pleasure long forgot! Nor hope, nor joy, nor love nor fear, Have left one trace of record here. Beneathjthis mouldering canopy, ' Once shone the bright'an'd'busy eye ; But start not at the dismal void ! If social love that eye employed; If with no lawless ﬁre it gleamed; But through the dews of kindness beamed; - That eye shall be forever bright, When sun and stars. are sunk in night. Within this hollow cavern hung The ready, swift, and tuneful tongue; If falsehood’s honey it disdained, And when it could not praise, was chained; If bold in virtue’s cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke; The silent tongue shall plead for thee, When time unveils eternity. Say, did these ﬁngers delve the mine, Or with the envied rubies shine? To hew the rock, or wear the gem, Can little new avail to them, _, But if the page of truth they sought, Or comfort, to the mourner brought, These hands a richer mced shall claim Than all that wait on wealth or fame. Avails it whether bare or shod, These feet the path of duty trod‘? If from the bowers of case they ﬂed, To seek aﬁiictions humble shed: . ' If grandeur’s guilty bribe they. spurned, And home to virtue’s cot returned- These feet with angel’s wings shall rise, And tread the palace of the skies. V\«A The -People’s Reform Party in Convention. On Saturday last, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the mem- . bers of the People’s Reform Party met in Convention at Philadelphia, and organized by electing Damon Y. Kilgore, Esq, President, and L C. Wanamaker, Esq., Secretary. SPEECH on MR. KILGORE. On taking the chair, Mr. Kilgore addressed the convention as follows: GENTLICMEN on THE CONVENTION: In a. government of the people, no man should be an ofﬁce-seeker, nor should he shun any responsibilities his fellow-citizens thrust upon him. Thanking you for this‘ expression of your conﬁdence, let us proceed at once to the work before us. While We realize the fact that the two great political parties of the country have done much good, we know they have become selﬁsh and vensl, and to a great extent are controlled by dishonest and corrupt men. "-The Democratic party sustained an oli- garchy of slave-holders, until it almost destroyed the govern- ment. The Republican party now upholds, by its legisla- tion, a moneyed’ aristocracy, as dangerous to the liberty of white men as the slave oligarchy was dangerous to the lib erty of the blacks. Instead of making laws for the protec. , tion of the poor and weak, they legislatein the interest of huge moneyed corporations, soulless and heartless, which strike down the liberty and rights of the citizens, turn jus- ‘ ptice aside, and oppress the people. History warns us in vain if We (10 I101? 1111136 130 put an end to the power of these corpo- rations unj ustly obtained in fraud of the rights of the.Ameri. can people. Organize, and win. Combine the working classes, and all obstacles to the emancipation of labor’ will Continue inactive or divided, and multitudes will soon throng your streets, clamoring for bread. In a republic, no man should’ be destitute of work, or deprived of a just compensation for its performance. , A The government’ should not only cease to place tempta- tion to crime before its citizens, but the great avenues of evil should be closed. Not only should _every child be pro- tected against the evils of intemperance, but should betfur nished with a good English education, ' The institutions of freedom niust rest upon the intelligence and virtue of the people. No man should vote who cannot read and writehis ballot. Dishonesty in ofﬁce should be punished with dis- ‘franchisement. ' _ lhe man who labors for the public should be well paid. His salary should be proportionate to the services rendered, but he should never be allowedto dictate a policy to his employers, or to interfere with their rjuhts in order to secure a new lease of office. « _ D Our system of taxation should be so changed that no man should be allowed to become a millionaire in a single year, while every dollar of his gains above a fair compensation is wrung from the hard earnings of the laboring poor. In .Ph'i1iW91Phif% 0116 per cent. of the population own half of the real estate and personal property in the city, while the other half ls dlstﬂbuted to the ninety-nine. Thus one manlwho (1993 110'9h111£' 19f the good of society, equals in property D1I1el75’.'D1'10 melt Who do all the work. While the national pballks “,9 gettlng irom ﬁfteen to twenty per cent.tupon their capital, the mechanic cannot obtain employment, and tho_usant_ls_ all over the country are destitute of the neces- Sag1‘16S Oi N3 _beG3._use they cannot get work. All this comes or partial legislation in favor of money and againstmen. (Ientlemell. I trust you will adopt a platform which will ' be bmald ‘mollgh f01'all1‘aces of men and women. 1 It will be SeVU1T‘51y t1’i_6f}- Let it be one of principle, and so strong that G01-‘1'11Pl3 Pollblciaiis, aided by countless millions of capital, “Pd 3' V933} Press, cannot destroy it. The good and.patriotic' 0‘ bobh P_011_1310al parties will soon join our ranks. Let them ﬁnd patriotism and true statesmanship, principles otequality and Justice: instead of the corruption, dishonesty and .‘sel- ffshnesﬁ SQ Omnipotent in both the Democratic and Repub- lican parties. 1 upon labor, and upon that alone. . at par with gold, and receivable in payment of all debts. i All legislation i1 favor of banks and other moneyed cor- ) porations oppressive to the laboring classes should be ‘ abolished. . %iiInlI.._..&;.@latlin’i..swift. I 3 . , W TH_E_PLATFO:RM. ‘After . the various, committees were appointed, the Com- mittee on—Platform reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: 1 Resolved, That the government has no right to deprive any human being of physical life, but should sacredly protect every human person in its enjoyment. To this end. all personal and international disputes shouid be settled without resort to physical violence.‘ ’ Resolved, That the manufacture of alcohol, except for medicinal and mecha-nicalpurposes, should be prohibited. Resolved, That the present policy of donating the public lands to moneyed corporations is hostile to the rights and interests of the people at large. The national territory should be held in trust to be disposed of in small tracts to actual settlers. Land should be owned by those who till it, and all speculation therein, as well as in those products of thesoil used for human food, should be_ prohibited. Resolved, That the present system of taxation is unjust; it checks industry and robs the poor. It is most burden- some to those least able to bear it, and should be so changed that the productive wealth of the nation should pay the expenses of governmen t. Resolved, That. all public officers should be chosen directly by the electors they represent. The compensation should be ﬁxed by law at a salary proportionate to the ser- vices rendered, and all fees, proﬁts or income of the offices sbould_be paid into the public treasury. . Resolved, That all public. officers guilty of defrauding, the i government should be disfranchised, and be disqualiﬁed from holding any oﬂice of trust or proﬁt under the govern- ment thereafter. , V . , ' Resolved, That the national currency should be based It should, at all times, be Resolved, That it is the duty of the government to secure to every minor. a good English education, and to every adult. suitable employment, and a just com pensat.on for the work done. . Resolved, That, every person twenty-one years of age capable of reading and writing the English language .irrespective or sex, birth place or nationality, should be allowed to vote in all elections of public oflicers, State or National. « After the appointment of several committees, the conven- tion adjourned to meet at the call of the President. -,--——+——~v-— HOW A WILL WAS FOUND. ‘An instance of the renewal in sleep of an impression of ,memory called up an apparition to enforce it (it is the im- . pression which causes the apparition. not the apparition ,which conveys the im oression) occurred near Bath, half a century ago, and is related by Miss Cobbe in an article on " Unconscious Celebration.” Sir John Miller, a very wealthy gentleman, died, leaving no children. His widow had always understood that she was to have the use of his house for her life, with a very large jointure; but no will making such provision could be found after his death. , The heir-at-law, a distant connection, naturally claimed his rights, but kindly allowed lady Miller to remain for six months in the house to complete her search for the missing papers. The‘ six months drew at last to a close, and the poor widow had spent fruitless days and weeks in examin- .ing every possible place of deposit for the lost document, till at last she came to the conclusion that her memory must -have deceived her, and that her husband could have made ,.no\such promise as she supposed, or to have [neglected to fulﬁll it had he made one. ' The very last day of her tenure of the house had just dawned, when, in the gray of the morning, Lady Miller drove up to the door of her man of business in Bath, and rushed excitedly to his bedroom door, calling out “ Come to me! I have seen Sir John 1 There is a will !” The law- , yer hastened to accompany her back to her house. All she could tell him was that her deceased husband had appeared ,to her in the night, standing by her bedside, and had said solemnly, “ There is a will 1” Where it was remained as uncertain as before. Once more the house was searched in vain from cellar to .loft,till ﬁnally, wearied and in despair, the lady and her friend found themselves in a garret at the. top of the house. ,“ It is all over,” Lady Miller said; “ I ‘give it up. My lins- band deceived me, and I am ruined.” At that time she looked at the table over which she was leaning weeping. .“ This table was in his study once; let us examine it.” They ilooked, and the missing will, duly signed and sealed, was ,days. It needs no conjiiror to explain how her anxi- ,cty called up the myth of Sir John Miller’s apparition, and to her, but of which her memory had waxed iaint. ~v.A-—_—-¢—.f./vvvu- _ It is said that women, being more sensual than men. in Never was a- baser or meaner lie invented by even the devil himself than this. It is one of the most rascally im- putations ever hurled at the superior chastity and virtue of woman-kind. Women who have been driven out of society for imagined wrongs or indiscretions ; women who have been ruined by designing ﬁends in the shape of men, these are they who make up the bulk of the abandoned. — These unfortunates whodeserve our pity and help, rather than our supreme’ scorn and contempt, are they whom men prey upon like wild beasts and transform to hideous monstrosities of vice. — . . . Think of the rascality of registering prostitutes and,com- pelliri g examinations at stated intervals, as is done in, one of our cities, while the scourge of Grod~—the accursed veneral virus—is stalking everywhere throughout the same city, shrouded in foreign broad-cloth and immaculate , linen. What sort ofjustice is this ‘I In God’s name, whyshould not abandoned men——-broad-cloth prostitutes——be registered as well as women‘! , A man who will degrade himself to the degree of promiscuous “ crib’_’ patronage, isnone too good to be registered or him g. . ’ We protest against loading this terrible evil upon woman, for we are well assured that man and the unchristian course of society toward women are the main causes of this hu- miliating curse. .We appeal to Christian men and Christian women to exercise more of the broad charity of Jesus ,-Christ toward woinen,'and more justice toward men. Re- member what Jesus said to the woman, and know that to Jearn you to saveisoulsby following His‘ sublime examples ‘was the great object and aim of all His 'teaching.—"-Pennsg/L comic and Real Estate Journal. ;within it, and the widow was richto the end of her- made him say precisely what no had once before really said stigate these foul blots upon humanity to satisfy their lust . anti: a starter ruling. ' ‘ JUNE 3,1871. M033 EDITORIAL IIONESTY. nnivnv c. nownu, EDITOR OF-THE F‘ Iunnrniv nnrrr,” AFFIRMS WHEREOF rm KNOWS NOTHING. M IQNORANCE, DUPLICITY AND WlLlll:‘l}Li }l’llSli}“.-P- RESENTATION. Last week we gave the editor of the Cleveland Leader the advantage of our columns to spread before the country the evidence of his editorial honesty. This week we extend the same courtesy to the editor of the IncZ_epe7i.dent for the same purpose : Mr. Bowen says: , . WIOZVIEN AND SUFFRAGE. . No subject discussed during Anniversary Week excited so much attention as the question of the suﬁrage forwomen. There were, everywhere, comments friendly and unfriendly, arguments sciiptural and unscriptural, applause and jeers. The excitement was not a little fanned by the sudden revela- tion of facts in the private life of the somewhat notorious Mrs. Woodhull. The facts were no secret before, but legal proceedings brou:_9,.ht them into the press. The Tribune, wiiirzli knows how to be as thoroughly pariizan and unfair in some quesfions as it is great in others, made the most of case. Prejridice manufactured of such material is more cfzbctive with a. certain class than argument. And insinua- . tion is so much cheaper than logic. Let us, for the good of the cause, speak the truth frankly. “ l\T.evv' York Association,” as it is popularlycalled—the S3C‘tl"‘-I1 of advocates of the suiifrage who are now known as the “Union 'Woma.n’s Suffrage Association,” and now -as the convention under the auspices of the “ National Com- 1n2ttee”——have written their history in a series of unwise acts. —They have mixed t.he suffrage question with almost every other sort of question. They made bargains ‘with the Democrats, as though the Philistines could ever be the friends of progress. They took on board George Francis Train, who is enough to sink any boat that carries him. They have given a prominent place to Mrs. ‘Woodhull, about whose private afl‘airs all gossip is needless. ‘WoonHULL 62$ CLAFLLN’s WEEKLY, with its coarse treatinent of all the sacred things of social life, is enough to condemn any one whose name is associated with it. The very fact that modest Mrs. Vi7oodhull apes Mr. Train in the poor trick of pushing herself for President should have warned those who sought to be leaders of the suffrage movement to give her a wide berth. We know the argument on the other side. We could not help knowing it; tor, did not the Apollo Hall Convention, of which Mrs. ‘Woodhull was a member, frame it into at’ resolution? Substantially it is this: “In politics you take anybody’s help. You do not ask what a man’s private life is in time of war ; but you ask whether he is willing to ﬁght the common enemy!’ The argument is well put, but bad, Theﬁcbjection to Mrs. VVoodhu1l’s being a recognized leader is precisely that she does more harm than good. For there are thousands of people who will never be able to distin- guish between Mrs. Stanton, who advocates suffrage from principle, and Mrs. Splurge, who advocates suﬁrage from a sheer love of sensation and notoriety. If Mrs. Stanton praises Mrs. r='plurgc, it‘ Miss Anthony endorses Mrs. Splurge, and if Mrs. Hooker co-operates with Mrs. Splurge, how shall plain ]Iif:O}}l'-Bk}:-.0W the difference betwen Mrs. Splurge, who makes iiersieli prominent as a suffrage leader, and owns a. paper that rnal-:.es her ridiculous by nominating her ior,Presldent, and that pubii-hiss free-love articles from the pen of Stephen Pearl Andrews--how shall the public make the distinction between this Splurge & (30,, whose private atfairs scandalize the public in police reports, and Mrs. Hooker, who is a noble woman and a devoted wile ? How shall the unreasoning ‘ ublic, which thinks all reformers tree-lovers, distinguish ‘between mati-only Mrs. Stanton and miscellaneous Mrs. Sp‘.urge ? There must be offenses in every movement. There will be fanatical. women in pantaloons, who will push themselves on platforms where they are not wanted. People who are tools, and people who are fanatics, and people who are worse than fools or ianatics, will be found around every re illy live movement. But we need not nurse an impudent offense. i We have said this in no spirit of unfriendliness to the ‘women who managed the convention ot'Apollo Hall. After each period of unwise management they change their name, but they do not cease to compromise their cause. No one shall yield to us in admiration for the right royal ability oi Elizabeth Cady Stanton. With whatever there may be that we hesitaze to receive in some of her doctrines, with all the mistakes that she persists in making in her management of the movement, Mrs. Stanton must have. credit tor having done more for the cause of oppressed women than any other person in America. From the time that her girlish heart was touched by the story of the wrongs of women who were her father’s clients, she has concentrated her great gifts to secure the modification or abolition of the cruel laws that bore so hard on some classes of married women; and it is to her, more than any other, that we owe the great improve- ments in the laws of New York bearing upon this subject. Her whitening hairs always seem to us a wreath of honor. That sh is not a wise political manager only proves that,God has not given allkinds of ability to" one woman. And we know h.i7W noble is the courage, the zeal and the disinterested- ness of Susan Anthony. The world laughs now, and will build a monument to her hereafter. Of Mrs. , Hooker we have often spoken in the highest praise. But neither of this trio of great women has been able to avoid acts which enable crafty and self-seeking persons to compromise their cause. . Have we proved, then, that some of the greatest women are unilt"for political life ? So are some of the greatest men. Great soldiers are not generally - great presidents, and the greatest on ators have sometimes proven the worst party leaders. W h:le,t’he American Suffrage Associazion, the head- quarters of which aregat Boston, and which met this year in Steinway Hall, in this city, sails on to success, it cannot be stid that women have no talent for political management. Mrs. Livermore is capable of siatesmanship of a very high orler. Both in the Sanitary Commission and in the conduct of the woman’s movement she has shown herself capable of making a capital president of the United States. Magnetic and coznrninding in her presence, persuasive, in her, i has she attempted to do so. oratory, suave in her manners, never losing sight of her central purpose, inaking everything and everybody serve it, she is a standing proof that a womn can be_a great politician. Mrs. Lucy Stone, withher sweetly plain and homelike face, her everything that is high and heavenly, having a poet’s insight in the highest degr-.e, listenedto by sages and by the simple-minded ali.ke—is she not a higher and more ideal character tiian__we have ever seen in public life? _And all the chance her country has ever given her to serve it oﬂicially is in her recent appointment as a justice of the peace ! Massachusetts never had such an one before ! Because it will elevate poitics, because it will elevate women, because women need it, because the country needs it, and because it is in accordance with the American idea, we are in favor of the franchise for women. The movement to secure it has more to fear irom the mistakes of its ad- vocates than from the opposition of its enemies. We were sorry to hear broached upon the platform of the American Association a proposition to co-operate with the Democracy in a remote contingency. Better sense will repudiate such‘ tactics. The ]'izcZe,oendent’s_article contains many contradictory state- ments, at which we are not surprised after having listened to one of its editors before the Women’s Convention in Steinway Hall. Passing over these, we immediately denounce the whole article as lying and slanderous in spirit, neutralizing even its modicum of fact by its false inferences. If a slanderer why not a murderer ‘! A man who will assassinate a reputa- tion is only protected by his cowardice irom murder. He is a murderer at heart. What are the “ facts in the private life of the notorious” Mrs. Woodhull to which this virtuous editor refers, and which he makes the basis of his “ gentlemanly” remarks. Mrs. Woodhull was married and divorced. Hus Mr. Bowen any “facts” regarding this divorce damagfng to Mrs. Woodhull? The law of the land gives the right of divorce. Mrs. Wood- hull being frce to marry, did marry. It is notorious that there are many persons known and endorsed by the Independent who have been married and divorced one or more times ; some, indeed, have not always taken the trouble to obtain legal divorces previous to entering upon new relations. Oh, but she calls herself Mrs. lVoodhull while the wife of Colonel Blood. DoesMrs.W'oodhul1 conceal this fact, or If Mrs. Wooclhtill and Colonel Blood are agreed as to that, does the Independent object? Is there any law which they transgress, or is society scan- dalized ? ‘ Perhaps Mr. Bowen is horriﬁed because Mrg. Woodhull permits her former husband to reside under the same roof with herself, which she has permitted for nearly six years, regardless of what meddling people have said, but in the performance of a sacred duty she owed, both to him and to their unfortunate child, from which duty no law could ab- solve her. And people had better withhold the shafts, which they would hurl at her on this account, lest they be found ﬁghting against a courageous devotion to principle which it is impossible for common minds to comprehend. However much Mr. Bowen, or others, may denounce and vilify Mrs. Woodhull for this, she is perfectly indiffer- ent thereto, and will continue to do what she knows to be right if the whole world denounce her therefor. Or isit that Mrs. Woodhull is so unfortunate as to have un- principled relatives, from whom she has suffered everything but_ death, that Mr. Bowen takes exceptions to her as a leader in the cause of women ? In this matter also, ’Mrs. Woodhull has duties to perform. It does not matter how far others may forget their duties, it can be no excuse for her, and she will notvattempt to make it such, under any cir- cumstances. On the contrary, she will always appear where justice calls, even if that he in the police court, and will speak the truth when-so-called, if to do so should cause every suflragist to denounce her. Mrs. VVoodbull does not be- lieve that she should be condemned for the acts of others any more than many public men should be condemed, on account of their friends——some of whom, at least, are equally unfortunate with Mrs. Woodhull. _ She has opinions and convictions, and also the courage to live up to them. She is a life-long Spiritualist, and owes all she is to the education and constant guid-ince of spirit inﬂu- ences. To deny this would be like Peter denying Christ. Through all the obloquy and condemnation which have been showered upon her for this faith, she has come un- scathed. She also believes in and advocates free-love in the high, the best sense (as distinguished from lust) as the only cure for the immorality, lewdness and licentiousness which now corrupt the holy institution of the Sexual Relation. Many of those who sit in judgment over her preach against tree-love openly, but practice tree-lust secretly. To all out- ward seeming, they are fair and pure; while inwardly they are full of “ dead men’s bones and all manner of unclean- ness.” “Hypocrisy is the tribute paid by vice to virtue.” If this must be so, Mrs. Woodhull declines to stand up as “ the frightful example,” or to be made the scape-goat to be offered’ in sacriﬁce by those who seek to cover the foulness of their lives and the feculence of their thoughts and words with a hypocritical mantle, the object of which she long since dis- covered. ‘ » - Those who slandcrously assail Mrs. Woodliull must make good their allegations, or stand condemned before the world, and Mrs. Woodhull now denounces them and all others of like pretensions, as black-hearted, cravenly cowards, wlio, being unable to refute the doctrines she advocates or the methods she proposes, seek, by viiifying her private life, to divert attention from“ that part of her career which belongs, to essential to break down Victoria C. Woodhull. the public to that which belongs to herself; in order that by. so doing her "doctrines and-methods may be rendered less effective. ’ I A The main object of the Independent article would seem to be to uphold the Steinway Hall Convention, and to nominate Mrs. Livermore for a Woman President. To this end it is This is done by slander and aspersion. To all Mr. Bowen’s badinage about women i.n pantaloons, fools, fanatics, and worse than fools and fanatics, we are per- fectly indifferent. As between Mr. Bowen and Mrs. Wood- hul, we are perfectly willing the public shall decide which is nearer tool or fanatic. It seems to us that Mr. Bowen adopts his own suggestion regarding the Tribune, that “ prejudice manufactured is more effective with a certain class than argument, and that insinuation is so much cheaper than logic.” - In all the good things said of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Isabella Beecher Hooker, we most cordially join, regretting only that our acquaintance and co- operation with them should have began so late. But we have a superior opinion of these persons to what Mr. Bowen has, knowing them to be competent to conduct any move- ment, political or otherwise, without danger of suffering irom the “craft of self-seeking persons.” Mrs. Woodhull feels amply repaid for the ridicule she has received from her self-nomination, in the fact that it has de- veloped in such a brain as Mr. Bowen’s the idea that :2 woman could be president. We have no doubt of Mrs. Liv- ermore’s capacity to make a competent administratrix of national affairs, and should she be the nominee of the Na- tional Convention, none will be found more cordial in their support than thisjournal. If her conduct of the Sanitary Commission is to be taken as a. criterion, it is certain she would. be acomplete success in one way at least. This, however, would rather indicate her special capacity as head of the Treasury Department than for general administrative ability. I It was said at Steinway Hall that if this movement did not mean perfect liberty and equality Ior women, it meant nothing. It‘, then, it do not comprehend the right to her person and its proceeds, whether of labor or progeny, ac- cording to the law of natural justice, we cannot tell what it does mean. We have no disposition to enter into a rigid analysis of the capacities of the leaders of the Suﬁrage movement as represented in their speeches at the recent conventions; but we have copious notes, and are ready for that ordeal. We would much prefer to move on harmoniously; to see less selﬁshness, more humility, more humanity, more justice, less cant and pretension. ‘Division and dissension only distract and weaken,and make us despicable in the eyes of our common enemies, Whatever else we do, one woman should not pull down and labor to destroy another woman while our common wrongs are pressing all of us into the earth. As to Mrs. Woodhull herself, and her standing and im- portance in the won."-an’s rights movement: Mrs. Woodhull claims the right, and will exercise it, to advocate and practice whatever principles she feels to be just and right. If they conﬂict with commonly accepted rules, customs and forms, she cannot help it; she will not desist. Neither will she require the assistance of Mr. Bowen to determine what her relations of private life shall be. These, she claims, belong alone to herself, and she will act accordingly. She inaugurated no suffrage organization, and lays no claim to the merit. She did not force herself on the Na- tional Suifrage Association. She did not go to it. She did not ask leave of any of them to start her paper, to petition Congress, to make an argument, and she has paid her own personal expenses in whatever she has done. She never asked and never expects to ask their endorsement of either her paper or sentiments or life any further than they are com- pelled to yield it by the force of her logic. But we beg to differ with Mr. Bowen in regard to “the series of unwise acts,” believing that the facility with which these people accommodate themselves to new circumstances, stamps them as wise, consistent, and progressive. In this we hope the association, with which Mrs. Woodhull has had the privilege of acting, will ever differ from that made up of persons so pure and holy as to be in danger of becoming deﬁled by contact with such as Mrs. Woodhull, and who thank God that they are not as other people are. It is at least to be seriously questioned, whether the Lam- holier-than-thou kind of persons are any better cbristians in these days than they were in the time of Jesus. Neither do we think it deﬁnitely settled whether this kind of piety is not nearer the chin than the heart. Our convictions are that it is, but we are only “ publicans” and should not pre- sume to express an -opinion of the selﬁelected of Christ, lest we be doomed, to that hell out of which it is said, the Great Leader of the self-styled true suifragists (so declared to be by the Steinway Hall Convention) knocked the bottom not long since. ' ) To convince Mr. Bowen how little he comprehends the present condition of humanity, and how stupid it public teacher he is, we quote the following extract from an edito- j rial in the Tribune of May 12, which evinces a true appre- ciation of the mental condition of that part of the people ll ‘x JUNE 3 1871. \ ;l / l all entities a status arise. , who will not much longer be held in servile bondage to‘ any institution or to any authority other than that ‘of their own consciences, representative of God in humanity: “ The failure yesterday ofthe Woodhull-Anthony-Stanton Suflrage party to defend or even to advert to the advanced views of their leader on matrimowy and kindred questions is truly mournful. Are we to understand that the subject was considered too dangerous to be mentioned? Was the excellent Mrs. Hooker, for example. unwilling to_ let the waiting public know her ‘estimate of the liberal opinions so boldly defended by her co-laborer in Washing_ton——-the lady whose intellectual ability and high moral worth she lately indorsed ? For ourselves, we toss our hats in air for Wood- hull. She has the courage of her opinions ! She means business. She intends to head a new rebellion, form a new constitution, and begin a revolution beside which the late war will seem but a bagatelle, if within exactly one year from this day and hour of grace her demands be not granted out of hand. This is a spirit to respect, perhaps to fear, cer- tainly not to be laughed at. ,VVou1d that the rest of those who burden themselves with the enfranchisement of one- half our whole population, now lying in chains and slavery, but had her sagacious courage.” ' Now we desire to put a home question to Mr. Bowen. Should there come a. person who would convince him that by pursuing a certain course different from that adopted, he could run the Independent at one-half the ex- pense, and with greater results, what would he do? Would he make the adoption of the recommendation dependant upon anything in his past life? As a. business man, would Mr. Bowen discard his advice and himself because of such antecedents ? Further, should that person desire admission to the church, would Mr. Bowen object? And should he prove himself a talented, eﬁbctive, and uselul co-worker would he discard him? And should he suggest a. better method of converting the world than had been practiced, would he refuse to listen to him and accept him as an assist ant therein? But we are inclined to the belief that ‘Mr. Bowen will not ﬁnd a great many who will agree with him that Mrs. Woodhull has done suffrage more harm than good. Vi/'e know the movement has become wondrously active since she become pl'()lI1ll1el1E in it. But this we leave for others to settle as they think proper. We know that Mrs. Woodhull has done what she conceived it her duty to do, and nothing more. And We therefore are in a position to say to Mr. Bowen, when he asserts inferentially that Mrs. Woodhull, whom he personates as Mrs. Splurge, advocates suffrage trorn a sheer love of sensation and notoriety, that he either deliberately states what he knows to be false, or that he states something of which it is impossible for him to know the truth, which is equally culpable. Victoria 0. Woodhu ll’s personal and individual private life is something entirely distinct from her public position. Daniel Webster and William Pitt were_ bon cicants ; they were also great statesmen. The two phases of life are per- fectly distinct. Their ﬁtness or unﬁtness for public office did not hinge on their wine-bibbing. The editor of-the Inde- pendent may or may not be a worthy member of society in private, and lead a virtuous life; that has nothing to do with the Independent. The Independent maintains that it is expedient to identify private life and virtue with public employment and charac- ter, which indeed is a very proper and highly moral propo- tion. We are content. It is partof the governmental theory steadily advocated in the columns of this paper. Only let us all live up to our professions. But coming down from an independent, self-reliant posi- tion far above the reach of envy, malice, hatred and re- venge, Mrs. Woodhull will meet editors upon their own ground and defy them, as she deﬁes all their dirty sarcasm and insinuation, for which they know they have no justification. She will denounce them to all the world for the despicable things they are—brave to stand- within their defenses, and, in their pharisaical godliness, thinking themselves secure to hurl upon her their shafts; but too ignoble and cowardly and dastardly to come out upongthe open ground where equality is possible, She does not desire to resort to any unmasking of the hy- pocrisy which we know to exist in certain quarters, but she will not permit people who live in glass houses, in which are concealed the very “ crimes" they profess to decry,,to throw stones without returning something more than turf. There is altogether too much appearance and profession of virtue without the reality in the community to permit editors, ministers, bank presidents and others high in social position and conﬁdence, their license unrebuked, when, with- out cause or provocation, they seek to heap infamy upon the head of an earnest worker in the cause of humanity. If Mrs. Woodhull has valuable ideas of the principles of government, a clear perception of their legitimate applica- tion to the present condition of things, or a better proposi- tion than is yet advanced to obtain what women are seek- ing, what has her past history to do with them? ,Whatever that may have been, whether good, bad or iiidiiferent-, does it detract from the good or the ill of the present? It seems to us that a good thing, coming from a source previously very bad, should be a cause of general rejoicing, and a bad thing coming from a previously good source should occa- sion mourning. The fatted calf was killed on the return of the prodigal and not for him who had remained in the fold. And so, too, should these righteous ones kill the fatted calf for Mrs. Woodhull, if, as they profess, she has been prodigal, and is now returned from “the bad” to the good. For, be it known, they do not condemn what she does for its lack tences——are too numerous to be more than hinted at. of merit, but because it is Mrs. Woodhull who pelfofms it- It is the person, not the principle, which they see. The truth however, is, that the same old story is repeated—the professed Christians are practical’ hypocrites. Profess- ing the doctrine and acts of Christ, they keep them on the tongue, but deny them in practice. Instead of saying to the woman, “Go and sin no more,” every one who has sinned gathers stones and casts them. But such cantihg hypocrisy only exposes the true animus of those who use it. They know that the subject they would defame is be- yond their reproach, and, maddencd that she is, in their rage unwittingly expose their true character. The old adage, “ Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad” is again strikingly exempliﬁed. In their eagerness to render Mrs. Woodhull po werless for good theygexpose them- selves to the ﬁre of all who may have a home-thrust to give. But, halt a moment 2 We have a word to say, a warning to give, not to Henry C. Bowen alone, nor mainly, though we have a shot in the locker for him also, but to whomsoeoer it may concern. Three weeks ago we stated in good faith that we did not propose to deal in personalities and private histories. We meant what we said then, and we mean what we say now; and we now sayjust the contrary. We are converts, through the merciless treatment we are receiving, to the necessity of carrying the war into Africa,” and we, issue this preliminary protocol in view of an early formal de- claration of war, and war to the knife, on this hypocritical and slanderous community. And when we move in this. direction, let those who dwell in brittle tenements stand from under. In the phrase of Bismarck: “You can’t make an omelette without brexking some eggs.” E. H. Haywood was probably prophetical when he said at Apollo Hall, “that we are on the verge of the great Universal Washing Day, when everybodyls dirty linen will be paraded, and when the leaders of sham morality in high places will ﬁnd that it will cost more than seventy-ﬁve cents a dozen.” The respectability of the magnatcs of this hypocritical Sodom stands on a volcano. Civiliznion, rotten to the core and festering to the bursting point in our great cities, and notably in New York and .Br-oo/cl;/n, needs only to urge us byia little added outrage to enact the part of avolunteer surgeon, to puncture the sore spots, and spirt the vile stuff into the daylight. Forbearance may cease to be a ,virtue. Men and women of the noblest spiritual and moral endow- ments, who have devoted their lives to casing the transi- tion from the Old False Civilization to ahighcr purity of Life and Freedom, as the ﬁrst condition of purity, by. stating Principles, have been habitually “blackened and slandered by exactly those editors, preachers and reforniers, whose own lives needed to be guarded by raising a hue and cry in some other direction. But these victims of abuse have not been idle. They have provided for the possibility of having to make a “change of venue” from the forum of principle to that of Factpand Personality. The whole socialstate is honeycombed with social irregu- larities and outrages; everybody knows the fact, and yet everybody pretends to conceal it; everybody knows that everybody else knows it, and yet everybody pretends to conceal the fact that anybody knows it. Hypocrisy is settling like a ‘mildew on every individual character. When the vail is pulled off, when the nightmare is dispelled, when men and women are jusliﬁcl to themselves and dare state their convictions, and live their own lives in freedom; men and women who are now crouching in abject fear before a false public opinion, which they are tliemselves helping to create and intensify, will join in one universal Hallelujah to their deliverers. ‘ There is a skeleton in every house ! an incubus on every free breath! at reign of terror in every household! At this very moment awful and hercule-an efforts are being made to suppress the most terriﬁc scandal in a neighboring city, which has ever astounded and convulscd any com- munity. Clergy, congrcgation and community will be alike hurled into more than allihe consternation which the great explosion in Paris —car:ried to that unfortunate city, if this effort at suppression fail. a In the assemblage of the ovenriglitcous pharisees on the Steinway Hall platform, one familiar with private histories and scandals embodied in that little group of womenland men, might unfold more than went to the making up of ‘the “Mysteries of Paris,” and we speak by the book, and have the inventory of discarded husbands and wives, and lovers, with date, circumstance and embellishment! Bankers in Wall street, and Great Railroad men, come early on the schedule. Conﬁdence:-2 which are no conﬁdenccs abound ; publicity ranges in the little clique, but is iremu- lously guarded from the great public.‘ One oﬁ‘ers,conﬁdcnti- ally, Fifty or evena Hundred Thousand Dollars to any decent comer who will take a daughter of ' “ damaged repu- tation ” off his hands—a minister ofthc Gospel the seducer—— he, himself, leading the loosest life of prostitution, a girl of fourteen one of his mistresses. Another boasting thathe visits, surreptitiously, the wife of his own minister. But the instances of social inlidelities and of new and strange alliances—some of them highly honorable to the parties, if society did not force them to hypocritical pre- Nota- bly one case,in which a little community of ‘social affinities, a common stock of marital affections exists in high life which only needs some train of slight circumstances to be ﬁxed ‘to release the parties from daranca vile and enable them to stand erect as pioneers of a higher civilia it-ion. In conclusion, Mrs. Woodhull does not desire to sheltrr herself under the miserable rejoinder of “ Tu guoqace.” she does in the corner she is willing to proclaim on the housetop. But as the Independent affects to condemn her with- out even pulting her on trial, she would remind Mr. Bowen that who breaks the law in one particular breaks the whole law. She would then ask CIOES Mr. Bowen keep the whole law. Does he cheat, lie, slander? Does he live up to his own profession? Is his life temperate and chaste? Is he honest and just to his inferiors? Does he fawn and cringe to his superiors? Does the_Independent for its own interests countenance and indorse any persons male or female whom its editors know to be chargeable with the very offenses that “the religious paper” denounces. Mrs. Woodliull does not acknowledge the self-constituted jurisdiction of this reli- gious commercial paper; this freie-love niiscegen-ate of Cat- nach cartoons, dry goods and orthodoxy. But she recog- nizes that the Independenzfls rule, if good, mustiwcrk both ways, and. as private life is to be impeached for opinion’s sake she would like Mr. Bowen or his associate editors to step up and tell their “experiences”——-their lives will be a more effectual l?e€L211l11_l_2,',‘lhi1l1 theirstrictures. ~ THE BIBLE AND MARRIAGE. FOR THOSE WHO ARE DRAGGING THE BIBLE INTO THE SUFFRAGE CONTROVERSY. Marriage, or the union of the sexes for reproduction, and for that alone, was made a perpetual statute in and by lla- ture (God, if you like) prior to any civil government, statute law or special infallible revelations. 2. Any attempt to compel or continue that relation for any other purpose, or contrary to the mutual and cordial consent of each party to the contract, is clearly an infraction of an original, inherent, and therefore inalienable, right. 3. Thatiwhich is right in nature cannot be made wrong by statute law. The only legitimate right of civil law is to pre- . vent the abuse of one party by the other. 4. ‘Moses, the divine and infallible law—givcr, provides no special ceremony or legal form. God made Eve out of a rib taken from the side ofAdam (poor material) and brought her unto the man; no ceremony about it; not a word from poor Eve-—Adam did all the talking. 5. Cain had no formula; he only “ knew his wife” in the land of Nod. Geographically where, the book does not say, nor yet whose daughter she was, nor whether she was any- body’s daughter. The inference is palpable thatshe was his own sister, or near relative, the descendant of the union of brother and sister. For it is evident that the ﬁrst multipli- cation of the race must have been by the marriage of brother and sister, then cousins, then second cousins, and thus, by a process known by stock-raisers as breeding “ in-and-in,” did the peopling of our planet commence, and without If gal form. , 6. The Sons of God took them wives of all which they chose. The women had no voice in the matter. 7. Abraham, the father of the faithful, had Sarah. and Hagar; the latter at first by the consent of the former, and no legal ceremony. I I 8. Jacob had four woinen—t-wo wives, for which he paid a consideration (fourteen years of service), and two concu- bines, by consent of the two purchased wives. Laban, the father-in-law, cheated Jacob in the women, forcing on him. the one he did not love nor contract for, and then gave him her sister, thus sanctioning the marrying two living sisters, obtained by purchase, and without any ceremony except the act of the father, who not only sold his daughters, but forces one of them into adultery by an unwilling match, onthe part of Jacob at least. . j 9. David, the man after God’s own heart, had a plurality of wives, committed murder to secure the wife of Uriah after he had seduced her, sat in judgment on and condemned him- , self, and repented only after he was exposed, as do many in modern times. ‘ I 10. But Solomon, who chose wisdom above all things, and was rewarded therefor with great honor and riches.,eclipsed all the fathers of the faithful named in the genealogies by taking seven hundred wives and three hundred ccncuhines, and not a ceremony over one of them. 11. Abrahamfs chief servant selected the wife of Isaac; contract made without consulting the woinan—-not a day allbwed for considering whether she would become the wife of a man she had never seen, perhaps never heard. of. 12. If a man died without children the surviving brother ‘must take the relict, love or no love, and raise up children to his dead brother or be disgraced before all Israel, and thus depriving him‘ of the right to raise them for himself. 18. The act of adultery by married persons was punish- able with death. , I 14. If a woman found no favor in the sight of her lord,‘ the man could put her away by simply writing “ bill of divorce,” and the woman had no remedy. ~ ‘ We are curious to know if this Bible law were applied now how many men would escape the death penalty, how many women would submit to the yoke of the lords of ore- ation, and whether society would be improved thereby. I , THE wEEKLY..BULLElTIN , Our host of the evening informed me that he had received O of the Labor League, I requested him to forward me a copy .-to be" got by it.” I %< I pp‘ 6- iwnmllmlliitz dlttlizm éwrcklg. JUNE 3, 1871. on THE ‘‘ PANTAROHY INDIVIDUALITY AND PAN-PAECHISM. I *was.prese'nt recently at a social evening party of social reformers, at the house of a banker in this _ city, distin- guished for his interest in such Vsubj ects. After partaking of the collation, and when we were assembled in the spa- cious parlor, the host informed us that he had recently re- ceived from a friend in Boston a small pamphlet, written and published nearly twenty years ago, which contained ideas to .which, it seemed to him, that the most advanced thinkers of to-day are only now slowly arriving. He pro- posed to read the document before announcing the name of the writer, submitting it, also, before announcing the name, to an individual expression of opinion as to its merits. When through with the reading, he began, seemingly by chance, with the party sitting at my left hand, obtaining his verdict, then going to the next, and so on till he arrived at my right, having" gonewround the circle. Every person present was laudatory of the paper, and no one so much so as another distinguished banker and political economist who was present, and ‘who had supposed that he stood at my antipodes in opinion,-knowing me only as the advocate of Organization and Pantarchism, while he stands on the extreme ground of Individuality, so emphaticallydeﬁned in the document. This gentleman abounded in praises of the paper just read, and in expressions of surprise that so clear , a. statement of the doctrine of Individuality could have emanated from any one so far back, saying that the writer’ was remarkably in advance of his age. Our host then, instead of asking my opinion, announced my name as the writer of the paper, much to the surprise of those present, who regarded me as the representative of the opposite views. Indeed, until the reading was con- siderably advanced, I had not myself recognized its au- thorship. I had completely forgotten that I had ever writ- ten that particular paper, although the views were mine. it, along with other olddocuments, from Mr. J OSIAH WAR- BEN, the veteran Social Reformer, ofMassachusetts. Meeting Mr. WARREN the other day, at the Anniversary of this document. He has just done so, andil hasten to transfer it to the columns of the Bulletin of the Pantarchy, for the study and use of its readers. It is a misapprehension that I often meet, because I now advocate Organization, and the Centralizing of the Reform. Movement at large, that I have therefore abandoned the doctrine of Individuality and the Sovereignty of the In- dividual, to the maintenance of which I devoted so many years of my life. On the contrary, I wish to reaffirm and emphasise every word I have ever said or published on that side of the question. If I could “ ‘I would double on every syllable of it.” ‘ The trouble is that most people’s minds are simplistic; that they can see and apprehend only one side of a subject. The culmination and natural sequence of Individuality is in Individuality of Lead. These are the two Poles of the same Principle. People are not ﬁt to be organized in the higher, the true socialistic sense of Organization, till they are ﬁrst completely individualized _; the act of comingiinto organization, under discipline, into subordination,u'nder a proper leadership, should be the free act of a developed individuality; and the freedom should always bereserved, at every hour, to withdraw from the allegiance, for any cause deemed suﬂicient by the individual. In this simple complexity is the solution of the whole question of true government; the reconciliation of freedom with order or organization. When people are sufficiently individualized, if they still wish to secure ends which depend on their co-operative or combined adition, they must organize to that end. They musthave their generalissimo, and their proper ranks and functions. The more perfect the individuality of each, and the more perfect the unity of all, the more perfect the society so constituted. This is the fundamental thought of Pantar-I chism, and if people are not prepared for a,Pantarchy it is mainly because they are not yet sufficiently individualized to beproper members of "it. ' A O STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS.‘ CLIFTONDALE, Mass. Dnnnv ANDREWS--I forward to you one copy of that article. I have more if they are wanted. ‘ A Much to my regret, I was obliged to leave the meeting without hearing Mrs. Woodhull or speaking to you, butI hope the future will make amends for this, and‘ for being obliged to hurry this off to the mail without another word; ' ' ‘ Aifectionately yours, I ‘ ‘ J osmn: ,WAiinn,iv., DICKENS says; “I have known vast quantities of nonsense, talked about bad men not looking you iiitlie face. Don’t trust to that is conventional _ idea} Disho'iies’ty'wi’ll_,_stare you out of ‘countenance any "day in tl,ie’we'ek,’if theretis, TI-IE SOVEREIGNTY or me INDIVIDUAL. BY s. P. A. _ , The logical and legitimate termination of the democratic idea is in’ the sovereignty of every individual, within the limit that it is not to be exercised atthe cost of others, or, in such a manner as to throw burdensome consequences on them. “ The sovereignty of the individual to be exercised at one’s own cost ” is, therefore,a two-edged sword,” cutting both ways, and deﬁning what one may not, as well as what one may do. It is the soverignty of every individual limited by the equal sovereignty of every other, and consequently without encroachment. It is self-government, by the aid of a principle, and in the only sense in which self-government has signiﬁcance or value. Self-government, in the vulgar democratic sense of submission to the will of a majority, being a mockery and a cheat. ' The limitation above stated is sufﬁciently implied by the simpleformula, “ the sovereignty of every individual,” since the admission of the sovereignty of others, within the do- ,main of their own personal affairs, necessitates a correspond- ing restriction upon our own. A ’ ' The sovereignty of the individual is the foundation prin- ciple_of"social' order and harmony. It is the simplest, and yet the most radical" and revolutionary ofprinciples. It is no true. objection to the doctrine to affirm that nothing can be done at one’siown cost, since the solidarity of mankind is such that every‘ act of the individual affects more or less remotely the interests of the race. This unity of “ the grand man ” is doubtless a profound truth, of the same kind as the unity of all the‘ planets, and of all the particles of matter in all the planets in one grand material system, all the parts of which mutually relate to and affect each other. The truthiupon, which the objection rests belongs, there- fore, to whatmay be denominated the science of social as- tronomy, and is wholly inapplicable in the sphere of social physics or mechanical science. If an objector were to urge the impossibility of building a steamboat because every bar of iron and every stick of timber is affected by gravitation, and because the whole gravitation of the universe is liable to be disturbed by the jumping of a ﬂy upon the planet J u- piter, the absurdity of the objection would be obvious, although the statement might be theoretically true. It is an absurdity of the same glaring kind to deny that interests can be substantially individualized, or to urge against the as- sumption by each individual of his own responsibilities, that every act affects the race. Sociology is a science of actual appreciable relations, and not of remote and attenuated theo- ries. I deny, for all practical purposes, that if I burn my ﬁnger the Emperor of China will suffer in consequence. A I deny the unity of the race in any such sense as would inter- fere with the possibility of practically adjusting individual rights. ‘ e ’ In America and elsewhere, the sovereignty of the individ- ual has already received bothga theoretical and practical in- terpretation in some of its applications, as, for example, to worship, The right of a man to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience is fully recognized, pre- cisely limited, as it should be, by the inhibition of encroach- ment. Nobody ﬁnds any diﬁiculty in the practical applica- tion of the principle. , Ifany one should insist that the wor- shipers at a given church should kneel in prayer, or that those of another faith should not kneel, and propose forcibly to compel the acceptance of his own dogma on the subject, ‘the moral sense of-the community would be shocked. No such invasion of personal rights would be tolerated for a mo- 'ment in thiscountry, and in this age, because the whole world recognizes, among us, that the individual is himself, the sole umpire over his own conduct in this particular. In other words, the doctrine of the sovereignty of every indi- vidual is already accepted and applied in certain countries I and upon a given point ; and, wheneverit is so, and because it is so, the bloody religious feuds of other times and other lands are extinguished ; intolerance, bigotry and persecu- tion are allayed, and mutual respect and harmony secured. It has thus proved itself, so far as adopted, what it will prove itself in the end, universally the foundation principle of order in the social world. It is nothing more and nothing less than that simple dictate of common sense and good intrusioninto other peoples affairs. I Any argument, however specious, against this broad tol- erance of all the forms of worship, based on the ground that the slightest individual action is a link in the universal chain- of events, and possibly liable, therefore, to bring disaster upon the race, would be at once rejected by every liberal mind. Any interference upon such slender pretensions of right would be indignantly repelled. It is known and ‘felt that in order’ to justify constraint from without, the conduct and direct infringement of the rights of others, and not merely remotely, lcontingently or possibly injurious to’ them. , . Y ' ’ i T Thesovereignty _of the individual, as a philosophical and political dogma, is simply the claim for the extension of the same degree of freedom to every department of social life. It ie the assertion of the individual to be ‘fa law unto‘ him- self'”_ 'just‘so"fast.and so far as he demonstrates in Macon- breeding which requires that every one should abstain from A of the ‘individual must be in some way a serious, palpable, duct the ability ,to use that A freedom" ,with_out, encroachment ,_ ’.upanIh§elé91i.51 frééé19iri1..ofo:h¢rs.. .It is th.e....pﬁi19ip1e-of iionkiﬁtéfréﬁiiéiiis-Ptiraiié ail"-if .s.pre9i.se.1y as that Iiiri;nc;ip1.e; ' npj6§,iiiiifvt§i;s§1iyunderstood, bet.ween_ national sovereign- ities. It is the principle participa- tiongin, the common rights of self—direction and control. The admission of the right of individual selﬂgovernment does not imply that every individual is qualiﬁed to exercise that right, or is likely to exercise _ it wisely for himself. Freedom is demanded as a basis. Wisdom and good taste in the use of freedom come afterwards, form the combination of all good inﬂuences. ’ Freedom is demanded also as alright, ' or as a denial of the right of others to interfere, whether it be used well or ill, provided always that the bad use of it does not extend to encroachment. From the nature of the position set forth in the preceding paragraph, the sovereignty of the individual is open to the objection that it is the assertion of a right to do wrong, which involves both a contradiction of terms and a seeming proﬂigacy of moral sentiment. The liability to this imputa- tion rests upon the poverty of language, and the fact that the word “ right” is necessarily employed in various senses. The civic right to do a given act is quite distinct from the moral right or wrong of the act in question. Thus, the civic right of locomotion belongs equally to the citizen who travels with a good or bad motive, and the right of free speech and freedom of the press, equally to the man who speaks or prints pernicious and destructive opinions, as to him whoiannounces the sublimest and most beneﬁcial truths_ To assert this, however, is very different from affirming that it is morally right to travel for a bad purpose, or to speak or print pernicious and destructive opinions. The sovereignty of the individual is, therefore, the asser- tionof a civic or political right, in the exercise of which the individual may, if he will, do many things which the judg- ment of others, or even his own conscience, may not approve. Evil consequences are attached to every wrong act, as the natural correctives of the tendency to do wrong, and the in- dividual may be entitled for the completion of his moral education, to a further experience of the evil which his con- duct provokes. Except in the case"of actual encroachment, society has no more right to interfere with the morality of individual_con- duct than it has to interfere with the orthodoxy of individual belief. Neither comes within the jurisdiction of third per- sons except at the point where encroachment begins. The question of civic right is, therefore, a question of jurisdiction, the limitation of which belongs to the political or sociological department of science. The right or wrong of a special action is, on the other hand, a question of A morality, pertaining to the department of Ethics, and subject solely to the jurisdiction of the individual, within the limit of which sociology deﬁnes. It is, therefore, true that the indi- vidual has a civic right to do what is moraly wrong; or a right, in other words, to the application of the principle of non-intervention, even when doing that which a sound morality condemns. V ‘ In its application to nations, the doctrine of distinct sov vereignty and special jurisdiction, over questions of right within their respective doniinions, is familiar and approved. In this sense a nation has the right,“ relatively to other nations, to maintain slavery, to oppress its own citizens, and to do other things which are morally wron g. The concession of this right is the only basis of plan and peace——is the neces- sary condition for the operation of other inﬂuences more elevating and more conducive to the ends of morality than physical force. , The principle is equally true and equally important in its application to individuals. The concession of the right to do wrong with one’s own, without authorizing the interference of any external police, is a condition precedent to any and -all harmonious intercourse. It is the simple courtesy of ad- mitting that other men have consciences, and standards of rightas well as we, and which may equally chance to be right’. i - Thus defined, all freedom consists, in fact, in the right to do wrong, since where no choice is permitted between good and evil, there is no freedom. It is not enough, therefore, to afﬁrm that we claim the right to do right, since there is neither merit nor dignity in a correctness of deportment for which there is no alter- native. . ‘ Let us begin, therefore, by trusting humanity to the extent to which, in all the theologies, God himself isrepresented as trusting it. Let us concede freely the choice between good and evil, and claim it for ourselves. Until a foundation is laid in freedom, no true virtue is possible; or, if it exist, it cannot be known, since the opposite conduct was inhibited. Remove. then, for once, the fetters from humanity, and con- sent thatshe shall exhibit herself precisely as she is. If a pandemonium results it will be something to know by ex- periment that the gloomy theologians are right. If, on the other hand, the experiment shall prove that the pandemo- niufm we now have comes in part from constraint, and the strife engendered thereby, and that the fruits of freedom are contentment, and peace, and joy, with the ultimate elevation and reﬁnement of the individual and the race, it will then be seehhow badly the world could have afforded to be longer without the toleration of freedom. The double. aspect of the sovereignty of the individual was noticed above. It isthe claim on the one side of one’s own right to person- -ality and selfhood. . It is - the concession on the other of the I’ same right to all others. . . - These two -aspects of the doctrine are so distinct and so opposite, that some technical terminology is neededto sig- JUNE 3, 1871. l Etta-sttsll 6:. sauna A 7. K nalize their. difference. Comte has furnished the words Egoist and Altroist to designate the love of self ‘and the love of the neighbor, or the selﬁsh. and benevolent impulse. Adopting these terms, the egoist aspect of the sovereignty of the individual protects a right, and the altroist prescribes a duly. The ﬁrst emancipates the individual from an over- weaning subservience to authority and traditional assump- tions, and teaches a prompt resistance of invasions of all sorts, whether instigated by hostility, or by an amiable and well-meant but intrusive and misdirected friendship. The second becomes for those who intelligently accept it, a verit- able religion of deference for the slightest manifestation of desire, and of abstinence from every possible incumbrance of the absolute freedom of others_. A It recognises that the individual has an absolute right to "himself, a right to his own time, to a companionship of , his own choice, to his own habits and characteristics, to the privilege even of whimsical inconsistency and unreasonable -conduct of every shade and variety, provided it be not of a kind to invade the sovereignty of others. In this latter aspect, the sovereignty of the individual is the practical love of the neighbor equally as of one’s self, rectiﬁed by a scientiﬁc knowledge of the limits of encroach- ment. It is a new chivalry, teaching to all men and all women the most delicate respect forthe personality of all others. This largeness of toleration, it must be repeated again, does not rest in any degree upon the assumption that the conduct so tolerated willbe in all respects, or any respect, abstractly or morally right. It rests on this other proposition, that the jurisdiction of the moral question belongs of right to the in- dividual himself, in the same sense as Protestant Christen- dom entrusts to the rights of private judgment, in matters of faith, questions, involving as it believes, the eternal salvation of millions of souls. It rests, likewise, upon the necessity as a policy for the individual to concede to others what he claims or desires for himself, and the intellectual perception that our own freedom is enlarged precisely in proportion as we tolerate the freedom of others; and, ﬁnally, it rests as already observed, upon another intellectual perception, namely, that in order to give place to other and higher inﬂu- ences, tending to elevate and reﬁne the individual and the race, we must discard the pretention of forcing men to adopt that line of conduct which we individually deem to be right. - It results from all that has been said, that the sovereignty of the individual is the basis of harmonious intercourse among equals, precisely as the equal sovereignty of States is the basis of harmonious intercourse between nations mutually recognizing their independence of each other. If there are circumstances and relations which authorize the assumption of despotic power, as one State may claim the dependence and allegiance of another; if children, who-can- not yet assume the burden of their own support, are right- fully denied the exercise of a sovereignty which they cannot maintain; if it be contended even that inferior races of men require to be placed under pupilage to superior races, or ignorant and undeveloped persons of the same race under a similar pupilage, as we all constitute ourselves guardians of idiots and the insane, the fact, if admitted, does not in any manner affect the doctrine in question in its just application as between those who begin by admitting an equal right to self-government. If self-government is afﬁrmed, then the sovereignty of the individual is the fundamental law of that species of government. If the right of self-government is denied, then another and a different question is raised, which it may be only possible to settle by an appeal to physi- cal force. If man, for example, openly claims the ownership of woman, and a paramount authority over her by virtue of a superior wisdom which rightfully vests in him the title to reign, this is a question of fact, to be settled upon its own appropriate grounds. If, on the other hand, man comes ﬁrst up to a knowledge of the equal dignity of the sex, let him perceive intellectually "what it is he admits, and be fully prepared to accept every consequence which logically ﬂows :from the previous admission. The assumption of equality, and of the right of sell-government as a basis of .intercourse, is. the assumption of the sovereignty of the individual. The doctrine in all its plentitude and all its development, is nothing in addition, but simply a greater exactitude of deﬁ- nition and a greater variety and minuteness of application. Miss EVANS (George Eliot), who is engaged on a new novel for Blackwood, is a most laborious and pains-taking writer, bestowing as much pains upon a single book as ordi- nary authors do upon six. Her handwriting illustrates this. It is bold, round, as easy to read as print, and scarcely an erasure is to be met with in the manuscript of a whole vol-. ume. This is owing to the fact that she carefully sketches beforehand what she intends to - write, and then copies it elaborately. The printers keep her manuscrip.t clean, and after the proofs have been corrected. it is returned to her. She has the MSS. of all her books bound in red morocco, and they form one of the most interesting features of her library. . She sold “ Adam Bede” to Blackwood for $1,500., but its success prompted her publishers, to ‘present, her_ $7,500 besides. For “Felix Holt” she received the large sum of $30,000. She is described by a European correspond- ent as one of the most interesting and captivating of English , [The following extracts are made from a mass of curious; ‘papers, upon which I may ﬁnd occasion to speak further,- ‘publishcd originally at Salem, N. J., by the author, Mr. Rob- ert Sinnickson.——S. P. A] COLLECTION O F . “CRAZY” CONTRIBUTIONS ' TO A COUNTRY JOURNAL, 650., INDICATING THE COMING MAN-FORM NATION, A o R “ KINGDOM OF HEAVEN” ON -EARTH- NATURAL SUCCESSOR TO THE REPUBLIC ' OF T HE UNITED STATES or NORTH AMERICA. (VVHICH IS THE HIGHEST BEAST-FORM PRECEDING MAN.) A POINT or DIFFERENCE; T CONSISTING IN A REPRESENTATILN OF CLASSES INSTEAD OF LOCALITIES.» 0 BY ROBERT rsmnroxson. ' “ The good time is coming—it’s almost here. ’Twas long, long, long on the way.” The present political, religious, and social structures of the world are losing their vitality, and becoming mere shams —soul1ess shel1s——enve1oping rottenness within, which would make the people stand aghast, if they could . get a whiﬁ" of their contents. In vulgar parlance, they might be called “bad eggs.” When the political leaders of a country or the world buy their positions in the head or government, and sell their services. after they get there ; when the religious leaders spend months of time and millions of money in trying to prove the “infallibility” of imbecility I and when the social leaders ﬁnd it necessary to justify the most dastardly mur- ders in order to uphold the dignity of their basal institution -—-it is time for the PEOPLE to open their eyes, and look about them for a more substantial foundation upon which to build a “future State.” If those “pious fools” who so dolefully bewail the “Social Evil,” would scan their own ﬁresides and bedrooms, they might discover the cause of it. If the “respectable,” “law- abiding,” “moral” and “religious” men of this country could see their social acts in the light of Nature, and as their wives do see them, they would be ashamed to look an honest woman in the face. ‘ , Those delicate Christians who may feel shocked at the ideas here publicly advanced, I would refer to a passage in the New Testament of their own Bible : “To. THE PURE, ALL THINGS ARE PURE.” And I would further remind them, that TRUTH can never be injured by discussion. Error only dreads investigation A man. may repeat a lie, until himself believes it to be true—as a people may practice usury, until they. believe it to'be just. The correspondence may be carried on in social life, and elsewhere. I 1 would advise the WOMEN of America tohusband their means (instead «of themselves and their daughters), and establish. independent, industrial communitary homes of their own; where they may entertain their friends in their own ways, and rear and support their own children——regard-— less of the eifete laws and customs promulgated by the mas- culine prostitutes who now constitute the political “powers that be”——and where their present despotic overseers (hus- bands, fathers or brothers) will not have even the ﬂimsy pre- text of a legal right to enter without their permission. They will be aided in such efforts by the best men in the country. Do the blocks at the head of this nation or people know that the BALLOT is the foundation of a REPUBLIC? And do they further know that when the foundation of any structure And would they shut their eyes to the transparent fact that the system of balloting which placed them where they are, is rotten to the core ? When a “Pilot”. employed on the “ship (or broken raft) of State” publicly asserts that he “knows that from twenty to forty dollars a vote was given” in the late election of a present member of Congress, honest oﬁicers would have suﬁicient grounds for a legal investiga- tion of the case. [See “Notes from the National Capital,” in_ National Standard, Salem, N. J., of June 15, 1870—on ﬁle -in Salem County Clerk’s Office, according to law.] But if all similar cases were brought to light, how many members be one left? If so, who is he? Barnum wants him. %v - A MILLENNIAL DISCOVERY. The physiological principle of MALE CONTINENCE, asap- to workagreatrevolution in society. ; O ticable. becomes rotten, the structure must fall, as a logical sequence? . would lawfully hold their seats in Congress? Would there. plied to the relation, of the sexes is destined, asit spreads, It solves, in the ﬁrst place, the population questi,0n,“an.d eXtingu_ishes«Malthus- and Restell, and all other professors of '1 It opens the way for improvement of the race by scientiﬁc procreation. With a due amount of religion, it makes association prac- lt reconciles the sexes, and promotes, in the highest de- gree, true fellowship and union between them. It removes the curse from women, and beautiﬁes instead of blasting them. 7' - It is healthful for man. » A It gives to woman her original position as a “ helpmeet” to man, thereby diminishing his cares and burdens, and doubling his resources and happiness. ' ‘ It was discovered in connection with Communism, and belongs appropriately to it: but, so far as adopted, it will also tend to relieve and elevate marriage. Its recipe for the poor man is———“ If you wish to thrive, stop having children, and take your wife into partnershipﬂ’, Let society adopt this principle in connection with Com- ' munism, and then : . . No more broken-down women, worn out by over-breeding ' and excessive family care; No more neglected and half-bred children growing up in vice and want from the inability of parents to look after them ; ' , « No more neglected and forlorn “ old maids ;” No more overworked men toiling alone for the support of an undesired but ever-coming family increase ; i No "more reaction and disgust between the sexes growiiig out of uncontrolled passion. On the other hand: . , Children, born by choice, and under the best conditions attainable, with the care and interest of the whole Commu- nity exercised on their culture and welfare; and Such a limitation of propagation as will , not exhaust soci- ety, but will be consistent with its highest vigor and beauty; and _ » Boundless, ever-improving respect and love between men and women as exponents to each other of the life and love of God.—0neidd Circular. m.»\AA.a~—-—<§————v~.vvv- In there were one language for the whole world it would add, in effect, one third part to the life of the human race. Leibnilz, col. i., Sixth Geneva editioiz, 19. 297. . . All other attempts at a universal language by Liebnitz, Bishop Wilkins, Vidal, Denis de L‘————, Ochander and others have been contrivances or inventions ; Alwato is a DISCOVERY. The difference between these two things is immense. A language invented has a thousand chances to one against being adopted; a language discovered MUST be adopted, cannot fail to be adopted, is inevitable. . . There was a time when the world had music as a fact, but no scientiﬁc music, no science of music. ing, chance-directed; but no scientiﬁcally constructed language, no language embodying the discovered science of language. Alwato is the scientiﬁc or true form of human speech—not a true form, but the true form—the lingually embodied discovery of the science of speech. Study Alwato. Alwato is a new and universal language ; but is not that merely. It is inﬁnitely more than a mere language, as the. word is now understood. It is the God- invented instrument for the intimate edpression of thought; the instrument for the inﬁnite development and training of the human mind—- beyond anything heretofore conceived of. The Primary Synopsis of Unioersolor/y, just publislied, con- tains the Elements of Alwato, and its inception. Every reader of the Bulletin should commence at once the study of The Primary Synopsis. See advertisement. LABOR. Hark how creation’s deep musical chorus, Unintermitting goes up into heaven I Never the ocean wave falters in ﬂowing, Never the little seed stops in its growing; More and more richly the rose-heart keeps glowing Till from its nourishing stem it is riven ! Labor is life—.’tis the still water faileth: Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth ; Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon, Labor is glory-—the flying cloud brightens; Idle hearts only the dark future frightens,~— Play the sweet keys wouldst thou keep them in tune. Labor is worhip ! the robin is singing——- ' Labor is worship ! the wild bee is ringing; Listen! that eloquent whisper upspringing, Speaks to thy soul from out nature's heart. V Work! and pure slunibers shall wait on thy pllloww ‘ « Work! thou shalt ride over care’s coming billow, Lie not down wearied ’neath woe’s weeping willow,—- Work with a stout heart and resolute will’! Work for‘ some good, be it ever so slowly- Cherish some ﬂower, be it ever so lowly- Labor! All Labor is noble and Holy! . V § I DR. NEWMAN, last Sunday evening at Washington, said from his pulpit, .“ I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, yet I venture this prediction: . Within the next de- triedas it has never been tried before. There. are: men in -tinue, and there are men and women before me to-night, WOIDBII. natural control. — the “dismal science,” by placing propagation under full and their faith terribly shaken.” Hitherto we have had language as a fact, imperfect, blunder- . cade, aye, within the next ﬁve years, Christianity will be England. and America to-day.-, whowill bring to the .assault,.. a ripeness -of scholarship, a power of intellect,_.and:a breadth E of view, unequalled by the past. These assaults will con-. 7:: V gwmumu - l 3; Gllaflizfr among. JUNE 3,1871... * urns or SUBSGRIPTIDM I PAYABLE IN ‘ADVANCE. One copy for one year -, - , — $2 00 ’ One copy for six months ~ - ‘ - - 1 00 Single copies - 1% - - - - - - 5 9' ' FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTION. on’ no MADE TO run AGENCY or rm: xmuiuoxn xxws oonrmx, . ' LONDON ENGLAND. One copy for one year - - - - - $3 00 _ One copy for six months - - . 1 50 .RATES OF ADVERTISING. 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Blood was charged by Annie Cl-aﬂin with assault, will the press, which was so eager to put the charge before the public, be as eager to give his justiﬁcation and ac- quittal? Especially do we call attention of "certain papers which published a libellous aiﬁdavit as that upon which the order of arrest was granted to the fact that said affidavit was never before the court. If they were deceived in supposing it was, would they not Show wisdom by making the amende lwnomble without delay. Or will they assume the responsibility? If they published it, hoping that the trial would develop the supposed scandal and have been disappointed, let them say so; especially those which assumed their truth and enlarge upon them editorially. ‘A ___..____,._...___. A NEW GOVERNMENT AND . THE COSMOPOLITL ' CAL PARTY. No. VI. MONEY/—-FINANCE—EQUILIBRIUM. [co1v'rnIUED.] Money and wealth, then, are not synonymous terms-—do not mean the same thing. Wealth includes all things re- sulting from labor which are of use, comfort and convenience to the people. People make use of gold; it is, therefore, wealth; so also is cotton and corn, but no less so. But money is something entirely different from this, both as to character and intrinsic value, All wealth has value in itself. Money has no value in itself, else our analysis is false. Money is used for the purpose of facilitating the exchange 5 of wealth; therefore whatever portion of the common Wealth is exchanged, the money used in effecting it must be its representative. That is to say, a person possessing wealth in the form of ﬂour, transfers it to another person for a sum of money, which represents that wealth. Money, then, in its last analysis, is the representative of wealth, or it is the representative of true value, but not itself that value. For, as we stated before, money cannot, at one and the same time, be both value and its representative. Gold is value ; it is the result of labor, and can be exchanged for other value, but not by other value. The means of making the exchange is not value. Those means, in what- . ever form they are used, are representatives of value. And all representations of value are money,wbether inlthe form of currency, bank checks, notes, draft.-', bills of exchange, or “W11-at not, lecrluse they stand for value. Gold is wealth, but not all wealth; and itis no more entitled to the position to which it has been assigned in the ﬁnancial world Ihan any other product of labor. Cotton purchases and p _‘.'S tor more European imports than gold——to say nothing of the large amounts of other wealth used in the some way. Our annual proriuction of wealth in gold is about $40,000,000. Our annual production of cotton is $150,000,000. While other products swell the grand aggre- gate to an almcst inconceivable sum. Tncie. has bcenone fatal mistake made and pcrseveredin which has been productive of more ﬁnancial ills and conse- quc.;t individual injustice to the producers of wealth than all other causes, and that is in making land, wealth. Land is no more entitled to be classed with wealth than gold isto be called money. Wealth is that which is produced. Land exists. All improvements made upon land are wealth; but the land propgr, never. In this fatal mistake, which is fundamental in its character, is found the basisupon which the vast disparities, in distribution of wealth,rest, and which gives to certain favored individuals the means of realizing immense fortunes, without resorting to the usual methods of 1 production. There’ are numerous examples of this kind of wealth. People hold lands which, by favorable location, have come into [great demand, and have risen in value from one dollar per acre to hundreds of thousands of ‘dollars per acre. By what right shouldoa person holding such lands be entitled to this vast increase? To ‘,be so entitled is to possess an advantage over others to which no just commu- nal government should consent. It is against all principles of equality and justice, and is the great error of the present regarding the rights of property. I This matter of land monopoly was referred to in this connection to establish a comparison. Land in its present uses bears the same arbitrary relation to real wealth that gold does to "real money; with this distinction in favor of gold, that gold is wealth while land is not. But, says an objector and worshipcr of the gold god, how can it be said that gold is only wealth along with other products of labor, such as are produced and consumed ycarly—-—such as houses and all kinds of internal improvements, which are subjects of, decay, while gold, so to speak, is not a subject of disin- tegralion, but, so ‘far as is yet known, is one of the elements? This is one of the most commonly made and generally supposed sweeping arguments against the crusade against gold, but in reality it has no bearing, Whatever, upon the question. We have not pretended that gold was not wealth, but on the contrary that it is wealth in the very best sense of that term; and the most desirable form of Wealth to acquire, from the fact of its durability. We are not arguing against gold as wealth, but against it as money, and here is just where all the confusion in ﬁnance ﬁnds its entering place, from which we shall never be free until people learn the real distinction between wealth and money——the ﬁrst being value, the last convenience. There is one more unanswerable reason why gold cannot answer the requirements of money, found in the degrees of value which attach to different products of labor, and which are universally determined by the sacriﬁce required to produce them. That is to say, all other things being equal, the rela- tive value ot two different products is determined by the time and labor required to produce them. The increase in value of manufactured articles is in exact proportion to the time required and" wealth consumed in their production. The value of gold is determined in precisely the same man- ner, and it is foolish to say that the value of gold never changes. Suppose there should be immense ﬁelds of gold suddenly developed all over the country, so that it would become as common and plentiful as iron or coal, would it not decrease in value? That is to say, would an ounce of gold then, possess as great a proportionate value to other products as it now does? N one will pretend it. Then gold is just as much the subject of ﬁuctuation as any other pro- duct of labor; and for just the same reasons—dcmand and supply——which are the great arbitrators of values in all parts of the world. . Everybody know that for a certain quantity of gold a certain quantity of cotton can be obtairped; and for a certain quantity of com, a horse. The horse being obtainable by the corn does not convert the corn into money; neither any- more does gold become money because the cotton can be obtained thereby. The gold for the time is equal in value to the cotton; so also is the corn to the horse. But neither the gold or corn represents the cotton or the horse. Now what is required of money is this: Suppose the gold, cotton, corn, and the horse to be of equal value, a person possessing an amount of money, representing either of the four, canﬂat his discretion purchase which ever he choose. Hence the money would equally represent the gold, cotton, corn, and the horse, and anything that cannot do this is not money. We are now prepared to inquire, what will best perform the functions for which money is required. The basis of values is the capacity for production; and productions are values. The people who produce and those who consume are not at all times contiguous to each other, and they re- quire some other means of exchanging their respective pro- ducts than by direct delivery and receipt, and this means is called money. Real money is something that can stand representative of these several products, so that there may be the utmost facility in their exchange. A person may possess value to the amount of ten thou- sand dollars, upon which he may issue his certiﬁcates orzepreseutatives promising to pay ten thousand dollars. These representatives would circulate among those who believed in the capacity and the willingness of the" utterer to give up to the possessor that which they represent. This is the basis of the system of uttering bank notes. But there is an insuperable objection to this rep- resentation being called real money, because the vicissitudes of life and circumstances often produce such changes as make it impossible for those who have uttered such representatives of value to rcdeern them, con- sequently holders ﬁndthemselvcs with bits of paper re-I presenting nothing, but for which they have parted With their value and 10:13 it. So far as this isa transaction con- ﬁned to individuals, in which there is no other assurance than the supposed capacity and intention of the individual, it is perfectly just and right; for one individual, upon his per- sonaljudgmcnt, accepts the representations of another indi- vidual, which, if they prove bad, he has ‘himself alone to blame for the loss as coming from anerror of judgment. But when banks are organized under certain forms of law framed by the people or their representatives, through gov- ernment, the people accept their notes or repljesentatives, not because they have a special conﬁdence in the individuals who compose the management, but because they have con- formed to certain requirements of law, which it is supposed render them safe. The government then indirectly gives credit to the banks, and currency to their issues, and the people accept them because the government has done so. But suppose these banks are mismanaged, or managed by designing men, who make use of the governmental sanction to swindle the people, and they do swindle the people, as many times they have, where can the people look for re- dress? They should look to the government, for they re- lied on its sanction and found it valueless. Now this is precisely our objection to any and all forms of bank issues. There can be no arrangement made, per- feet in security to the people that will permit the proﬁts that the banks must have. In absolute security there can be no proﬁt. Proﬁt comes of speculating in some way, either upon the conﬁdcnces, or the money, of the people, neither of which is legitimate. We hold, then, that all bank notes are frauds upon the people. The substitute for these bank notes, as the money for the people, should be the PEOPLES’ MoNEv——a national cur- rency, whose basis of value, would be the productive ca- pacity of the whole country which the government repre- sents. If there is any reliance to be placed in a currency issued by a portion of the people based upon their wealth, of which they are liable at all times to be deprived, how much better would be the reliance to be placed upon a cur- rency issued by the government based upon the entire wealth of the whole country, which, no matter how much it might change among the individuals comprising the nation, could never depart from the country. Here, then, is the true basis for a currency for the people. It would be their own money which they would possess, and which could never be made valueless except the country should be destroyed. Such a currency would cost nothing. Whatever interest there would be paid for its use should be received by the government, and thus reduce the general taxal ion by just that amount. By proper arrangements for distribution and accommodation, the revenue to the gov- ' ernment from this source could be made sufficient to maintain all the necessary expenses of government, and would transfer the immense proﬁts now realized by a few bank owners to the vaults of the people’s treasury. Vroronm C. WOODHULL. [TO BE ooN'rnvUEn.] 0 FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. OUR G-OLD RESOURCES. Whatever medium different nations, at various epochs in their history, may have seen proper to constitute a legal tender in paymentof obligations between individuals, there has never been but one solvent of balances between na- tions. In view of this irrevocable law, the present heavy adverse commercial balance, coupled with the large amount of Amer- ican securities held abroad, the interest of which is continu- ally maturing, makes an examination of our gold resources an important as well as interesting study. ‘ We give the oﬁicial statement of imports and exports frr thirteen years, suﬂiciently long to afford a correctdata for the future : Total imports Total Total of coin. Exports.‘ Re-exports. 1858 _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $19,271,496 $42.4:-7,246 $10,225.901 1859 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7.43 789 57.501307 6385.105 1860 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,550,135 56,946.l:£51 9.599.388 1861 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 46,339,611 23.799370 5,99l,20 ' 31.044,651 5,842,305 ' 55,693,562 8,165,045 10n.321,3’(l _ 4.922.979 64.618,I24 3,331,941 82,643,374 3,40l,b'97 - , 34,976. 196 5,892,176 1868 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 14,188,363 84,197,920 10,038,127 1869 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 19,807,876 42,915,966 14,222,424 1870 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 26,419,179 43,883.8(l2 14,-171.864 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..$223,700,862 $741,251,233 $102,287,167 ' At the commencement of this period the country was on a specie basis———now currency-—and the people have lost that large amount of coin which was in daily circulation. The exact sum cannot be accurately determined, but as the issue of fractional currency is in excess of $40,000,000, it cannot be less than $100,000,000; indeed, many statisticians place it at double this ﬁgure. Assuming it to be one hundred mil- lions, it undoubtedly furnished that amount of the exports, leaving about $520,000,000 as the production of the country in thirteen years,beyond its consumption in arts, or $40,000,- 000 per annum. There is nothing in the present that war- rants the supposition of an increase in this production in the near future, while the only reserve fund is the gold in the Sub-Treasury, now under $100,000,000, of which a large amount cannot be sold without exciting questions concern- ing the stability of the future interest. By no possibility can the Sub-Treasury sell over the actual amount belonging to it, which, after deducting coin certiﬁcates and accrued in- JUNE 3, 1871. ,atuuttttt & etattmattettr. terest, is now about $35,000,000. This would give $75,000,- 000 as the limit which for the present year can be made_con- tingent we of, leaving only the coin production for the ‘fol- lowing year. ~ ' _ The important question now arises, Can a. drain to this amount be brought against the country ? Let the history of the past few years answer. According to ex-Commissioner Wells, the amount of “governments” held out of the United States, in the autumn of 1869, was one thousand million. According to General Butler, in 1870 it was $1,200,000; while, in 1871, the New York Economist places it at $1,300,- 000. , These bonds ha .1 no existence nine years ago. Europe also holds a large amount of miscellaneous securities, vari- ously estimated from $330 to ",,200 million. Many popular rail ways were built during and since the rebellion, and "many of the city and State debts are the resultiot the late re- bellion, while a still larger amount of paper value is the off- spring of that infatuation, “the watering process.” Certainly $2 000,003,000 of these various obligations have gone abroad within eight years, or $250,000,000 per annum, and that because Europe had a claim upon us to this amount, after taking everything the country could produce, including gold. The interest account alone now amounts to $120,000,000 in gold. - That the immediate future will witness a settlement in any other manner than in the past it is impossible to deter- mine, though exchange is now at a very high point, and threatens a settlement. Still it may be deferred, and fur- ther new debt incurred. If Europe should demand only interest in coin, instead of accepting railway or government obligations therefor, our coin production and Mr. Boutwell’s surplus would be en- gulfed during the present year. If Europe should require the settlement of trade balances, including interest as it accrues, the supply of coin would be exhausted during the coming summer. Should Europe enforce a liquidation of her call loans and accrued claims, there is not sufficient coin in the Treasury. to comply with her demand. That the ﬁnancial dangers which menace the country are known to Mr. Boutwell is apparent through his action in re- gard to the delivery of coin to bankers for shipment; for he well knows that when the export is on a scale commensurate with their claims he will lose control of the market. Europe will get all the gold, we will have all the paper, and then for the ﬁrst time will the people realize the smothered volcano over which they have been resting, because they will then begin to see the eruption, which shall spread dismay and desolation where now there is a false security, which has been and is being engendered by the ﬁnancial policy of a government in leading the nation blindly on to the coming destruction, of which it must either be aware or it is crim- inally ignorant. g__________ . INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS vs. THE RIGHT OF THE COMMUNITY. THE TEST OF GOVERNMENTAL CONTROL. THE APPLICATION TO SOCIAL ORDER. No. IV. Governments, then, are organized to perform duty. They have no rights except the right to perform just what the people require of them. They may require a certain sort of duty to be rendered this year, and a very dilferent sort of duty hereafter. Constitutions are merely to conﬁne the execution of the duties of government within certain chan- els. But constitutions are always the subjects of the will of the people who frame them. It is the very cheapest ar- gument to say, that because our fathers formed a wise foun- dation for government, that we, their descendants, must never change it. Undoubtedly it was the best that could be ap- plied then. It certainly is a great deal better than is the ap- plication made of it now. It is therefore laid down as un- answerable that the people themselves are always superior to any constitution anl to any laws. They have inherent rights, of which no constitution or law can dispossess them, and which if an attempt be so made, it is not only the right but the duty of the obj eels of the attempt to denounce and rebel against such assumption of power never conferred by the people. It does not matter if this attempt include a single person, or a large aggregate of persons, the principle sacriﬁced is the same, and any government practicing such authority is a bogus government. Our government has been gradually passing from a representative form, with the power in the people, into that in which the representatives seek to become the power, or toward a centralized government. It is not without cause that Democrats cry out against Republican centralization, but they entirely mistake the reality, and are as far upon the opposite ‘si,‘.e of the true standard as the Republicans 4“-are removed from it. ‘ - The Republicans have endeavored to increase the centra power, that they may better execute the central will. The true standard should be an increase on, central power, that the will of the people may be better executed. , The Democrats affect to believe in the rights of individual members of the Union as superior to the rights of the Union. The true standard is that individual members can never freely exercise their rights as such, unless protected from en- croachment by the power of the Union. A . In other words the government is a vast machine, in the movements of which each separate part must act in har- mony with every other part, which truth must upset both the Republican and Dem )CI‘3.tlC theory, as expressed by present parties. Nor can the machine be cumbered with members and parts which have no connection’ with itself‘. If such exist in it, its motion will surely be, more or less, interfered with by such parts, and must ﬁnally be so clogged by them as to cease its movements, or be worn out by their weight. , Everything Within an organized body must be utilized and turned into channels which will contribute to the public good. No body can carry an inanimate load without be-_ coming affected by the disintegration which attaches to all bodies, whether active or passive in their connections. The liver cannot indeﬁnitely perform its own functions and be laden with those of the kidneys ; but it can assist the kid- neys if, for any reason, they become temporarily impaired and unﬁtted to performtheir whole duty. So also it is with society and governments having individualized powers, of which they are made up,they must berecognized and assigned to their proper position in the general economy, so that all the comprehensive elements may be reduced to the service of the general whole, in the promotion of whose good the good of the individual parts is always best subservcd. . It becomes apparent, then, that government must consist of just that varietyfof general methods which Will guide the movements of the governed, so that no interests w_ill clash. And equally apparent that any special methods‘ which can- not apply to the whole body of the governed, must, from their nature, bear upon, and interfere with, the general methods established ; for if put in operation they must, for the time being, supplant the operations of the general. Therefore all special legislation is subversive of the common rights of the people, and, in reality, is null and void, and if imposed upon the people, compel a departure from a republican form of government and an approach to assumed authority. ‘ 1 There are other than special laws which trespass upon the rights of the people, and display a want of faith in the com- mon honesty of the individual. Any organization, under any general form prescribed by the will of the people, enables those taking advantage thereof to co-operate to better purposes than if they acted merely upon individual right. All incorporated bodies are illustrations;V granting peculiar advantages to the organization, it is the duty of‘ the government to protect the community of individuals from their impositions. They are in no danger from indi- viduals, but they may become dangerous to individuals. This fact government has entirely ignored, and the country is now "suffering from the despotism of corporations. This illustration is introduced here, not for the purpose of following it to its legitimate deductions—that »must be done elsewhere at other .times—but to open the way to the comprehension of where legitimate control over individuals begins and ceases. In all contracts individuals enter into with corporations, government should protect them; but with the contract between individuals, who derive no power from the government to make them, government has nothing to do. In these the honor of the indidvidual must be the only determining power. Being entered upon by in- dividuals, as individuals they must make their exit there- from, and never call upon the community to protect them from the legitimate results of their own acts. TENNIE C. CLAFLIN. —--————-9 DENOMINATIONAL ENi)owMENTs.é—Periect freedom of re- ligious opinion is guaranteed by the governmental theory of this nation. It is even charged against the nation that the republic has no God. It is of the very essence of American freedom that no religious opinion should be enforced on any citizen. This necessarily involves that there should be no undue encouragement of religious opinion. The State is not indifferent, but it is perfectly impartial, and guarantees to every individual the absolute and untramrneled right of pri- vate judgment. The Protestant sects are content with this let-alone arrangement. The Catholics desire perfect free- dom, but they also claim State support. There is unques- tionably a great and growing comparative increase in the ‘Catholic population of the United States. It is said that from onesixteenth in 1820, they have advanced to one-sixth in 1870. The next census reports will give us correct ﬁgures. ’ We sometimes have to go far aﬁeld to learn what is going on at home. A controversy now going on at Knoxville throws some light on the relations of the Catholic citizen to the State. The question is of school grants and educational, sys- tem. The same battle is going on throughout the country. Father-Finnegan, an able writer, comes squarely out and says: “ It is argued we can teach our children their peculiar form of religion on Sunday. We are not satisﬁed with this arrangement. We believe that certain things are necessary for the soul’s salvation. These things are very numerous and require constant and careful inculcation, and no school . Catholic ‘B can be satisfactory, except whe_re,the teachinggf these things , go hand in hand with secular edi1cation.” .' . This is the whole issue——-shall the common schools- be Shall education be bond or free ‘P It is not only a question of education, although education is the main thing. The Catholics, as Catholics, receive aid and comfort by a thousandpchannels, direct and indirect. Their religious system is one of Works, and their institutions are maintained at the cost of the whole State, ostensibly for the sake of pub- lic charity, but really for the sake of charity -to the exercise of which Catholicism is the recipient is a condition preced- ent. In Europe Catholicism, though alive and active, has received a deadly wound. It is no longer sustained by State policy. With the profound craft that always has distin- guished Romish rule, Rome seeks to turn our free system‘ to her own proﬁt; Thegood oi the Church is the prime mo- tive of every Catholic, and if there be a question between Catholicism and citizenship, we cannot doubt which will go to the wall. The Knoxville Uhronicle, in its comments on the controversy,-points the moral at the expense of New York: “ If we turn to New York city, now under the control of the most corrupt and intolerant ring ever known in this coun- try, we ﬁnd its government practically under the control of the Romish Church. The voters in that city upon which Hoffman, Tweed and Hall rely are Irish Catholics. They are under the control of the priests, and whatever is ordered to be done, they willingly and slavishly do. They are prac- tically in control of the public schools of that city. They control indirectly the State Legislature and the immense rev- enues of the city. In appropriations made for asylums, churches and schools they get the lion’s share. What they have secured in New York through the connivance and aid of the Democracy, the party with which they invariably act, they seek to secure elsewhere. The same contest We are now to meet they have pressed everywhere. They ‘ demand’ their share of public moneys, to be used not through public agents for the public good, but through their own priests for their own purposes.” ' §———.—.:::——. THE CLAFLIN CONSPIRACY. [From the Citizen and Round Table] The Claﬂin conspiracy has the merit of being the sublimest piece of impudence ever yet hatched by the:red—hot malevo- lence ot a mother-in-law. For twenty-tour or more “unat- tached” members of the corps to enter calmly with baggage- ‘wagons and equipments, and sit down and appropriate the mess of the regular ﬁghting army, in present active service, was cool to a freezing extent ; but for the same undaunted braves to insist on a court-martial to try the besieged ones for mildly suggesting that the paymistress objected, was a coup de grace of surprising brilliancy. The conception was grand, and the capital stroke of carrying off the aged and garrulous otvandiere, to testify against those who paid her board, showed military ﬁnesse of no mean calibre. We trust that we may ‘record our sympathy with Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claﬁin without having an avalanche of anathemas hurled at our heads by an infuriated press, who, according to their views of the eternal ﬁtness of things,» argue that because the defendants are women, they must necessarily be all in the wrong in any case, and because they are women they must be tried, not according to the lights of justice and equity, but according to the standard of their personal virtue. We have never seen either of the ladies. We know noth- ing, or scarcely anything, about them; but we are not going to apologize for tendering them the same amount of sympa- thy we would to two hard—working men in the same predica- ment. As to Col. Blood, we do think it hard that his 1nother—in-law should pound on his door the livelong night, and yell abuse at him in and out of season, and that he should purchase boots for an outrageous loafer to walk to court in to swear abominably against his wife and himself; that he should board the said mother-in-law in ﬁne style and pay all her bills, while she was preparing a most diabolical torment for him. ' +——~—-———-- TI-IAT CONSPIR ACY. The ﬁrst conspiracy was such a miserable failure that its promoters are stung to attempt a second. So be it. The fate of the next will be like that of the ﬁrst—only more so. ‘Country gentlemen and W-all—st-reet men had better invest their spare cash in a more proﬁtable enterprise. This “ won’t pay.” 9 JOHN Swrivrori wakes up to a sense of the outer world. He thinks it is time to begin to think of woman suﬁ-‘rage. He gives mankind an organon, a philosophicahanalytic method ' o_n which to examine the expediency of woman suffrage. Too late I too late! The cause is safe ; the day of the pre, vious question is over. point is, How to doit 2 What to do! is settled; the only ‘ \ io éwnndlmll & dlstlixfs dtleeklg. JUNE 3, 1871. The Root of the Matter. or the Bible in the Role of the Old Mythologies. BY C. B. I’. No. XV. \ In Calmet’s old Dictionary of the -Biblé there is a woman in the head of the Hebrew cherubim, as represented in the plate of the same. In the Hebrew cherubim, Egyptian or Grecian Sphinx, she was the same mystical woman who went “bobbing around” in the midst of the» riddles and dark sayings of the old mythologies. She might be the mother of God or his bride. From the head of the cherubim she might speak with most miraculous organ, and open her mouth in parable to proclaim the voice from heaven. To unriddle her was to understand the mystery of the word in the wisdom of God. In ancient times, as per ~ Cudworth, the “ungodding of the sun, and moon, and stars, was looked upon by the vulgar as nothing less than abso- lute atheism.” It was the personiﬁcation of these as the parts of the whole that constituted the fullness of the God- head bodily, the Lord God of hosts who sat in the midst of heaven, having the earth his footstool—the invisible things being clearly, seen and understood by the mode in which the sun and his ten thousand saints with ﬁery law in hand put in anappearance. The secret things which belong to God Were vailed from the groundlings, lest the Lord break forth upon them, and many of them perish. As too much light isihurtful for weak eyes, not every one was permitted to enter into the Holy of Holies to disembowel sacred myster- ies, and ﬁnd Christ in the secret chambers by ungodding the sun. The multitude of the heavenly host lived, moved, and had their being with the sun, the visible angles, mediators and stars of the God of heaven, who “giveth wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding, he revealeth the deep and secret things. He knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him,” as in the solar and astro-mythical romance of Daniel, with enough of historictreference interwoven without ungodding the sun, moon and stars, Where “the heavens do rule.” Among the demons slain by solar deities, Muller ﬁnds the “ shaggy one,” who would seem to answer to the biblical goat, which, like the Shekinah, sometimes abode in a cloud. As per Gliddon, in appendix to “ Types of Mankind,” the goat may be translated either God or the Devil. As the scapegoat to be sent off to the wilderness, he would seem to have been that same old Satan on the brink of everlasting woe—the far-downer Oapricomus, whose seat in this aspect was in the blackness of darkness forever at the winter solstice. Then let poor sinners stop and think before they further go, lest they shoot over Oapmfcom to everlasting woe. The “ shaggy one” sometimes took Michael in ﬂank, to ﬁght it out on that line, if it took from morn till noon, irom noon till dewy eve, a summer’s day; or rather from eve till midnight, from midnight till break of day, when the Lord awaked, as one out of sleep, and smote his enemies in their hinder parts. Daniel’s “ shaggy one,” whether goat or ram, performs in the mythic drama. Here the ,myth-devil, Ahriman, the Prince of the kingdom of Persia, put down the brakes one and twenty days, till Michael, one of the chief princes, came up to the help of the Lord against the mighty. In vain did the devil have understanding of dark sentences and see the light shine unto the darkness, while he himself hovered under the cope of hell. He could not shine where Michael is your prince. ‘ In this spacious ﬁrmament on high, with all its blue ethereal sky, “ They that be wise shall shine as the bright- ness of the ﬁrmament ; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever.” Thus it would appear that, in having understanding of dark sentences, one may see how Lucifer, son of the morn- ing, might have a root in the offspring of David, and be transformed into the bright and morning star, an angel of Jesus, to testify unto you these things in the churches. Michael, as the chief Prince or Sun, was the Illuminator, the Animator, or the Mediator, and might equally take the name of the Father, the Son, 01' the Holy Ghost. Through- out all the old theologies, whatever the name, it was always as one with God, or performing the part assigned by the Deus ex Macitina, whether in sextile, trine, and square and opposite. As the Illuminator, Shekinah, or the Sun, God was continually playing fast and loose among the clouds, sometimes hiding his face in wrath for a little season, and then radiating with the light of his countenance, being very , pitiful and tender of mercy. AManifestations being so per- soniﬁed that under a cloud we must read the wrath of the Lamb. A God dwelling among the clouds was sometimes the black demon, who withheld the early and the later rains. It was in this guise that Milton saw him rattling on over the Gas- pian, with heaven’s artillery fraught, and thundering mar- vellously with his voice. As per Muller, the cloud is some- times the “ black-skin,” and this may have been the Ethi- opian woman whom Moses married—-the Lord himself com- ing down in the cloud to make Miriam leprous seven days for her dislike of the “ black-sk_in.”, Night, too, could be per- soniﬂed as the “.black-skin,” and, Miriam, or Mary, equiv- alent tothe DaW1.1,,might claim that the Lord spake to her ' to openthe gates to let the King o_f Glory ‘come in. In accompaniment with her timbrel she might sing the morn- ing psalm, “Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in, the Lord strong and mighty in battle”--the same Sun and King of Glory who put the devil to the worse in a free and open encounter. The horses of the_Sun, with their necks’ clothed’ with thunder, smelt the battle afar off, and rushed at the black demon of the clouds and of night, who made darkness his secret place——his pavilion round about him dark waters and thick clouds of the sky; or there might be the lighter tissue- work suﬂicing to vail his presence. But whether the God of the ﬁrmament above, or the waters under the earth, all were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,iand were all baptized with Moses in the cloud and in the sea, there be- ing the same spiritual meat and the same spiritual drink for those who knew how to partake of manna from heaven. From the spiritual Rock one might suck the sincere milk of the Word, with honey out of the rock and oil out of the ﬂinty rock. From the cleft in the Rock one might also see the shady side of God, while His brightness was too much to look upon. The black demon of theclouds was often the Prince of this world; but let loose only for a little season so to vail the Sun as to make him refuse to give his light, or to cause the Moon to be turned into blood. He was the demon who walked in darkness and wasted at noonday, raining down great stones from heaven, the Destroyer, the Adversary, the Leviathan, that crooked serpent in that day of the Lord till Michael, “ with his sore and great and strong sword,” ﬂanked him, and thus slew the Dragon that is in the sea and walloped him out ofiheaven. There was manifest the rainbow of our Lord, mingled with gall, and running purple to the sea, from the deep wound made in his side by the black demon of the clouds. Never- theless it was the bow of promise and of victory that the Lord would shine again. The blood of the wounded Sun was the blood shed for the redemption of man. As the Devil departed for a season, so would angels minister unto the newness of life. He would be the resurrection and the life for all who put their trust in him; but while the strong meat was of the personiﬁed and dramatic heavens, the babes in Christ stood not on the order of their receiving, but stood gazing up into heaven to see the hero-person come in clouds. To these babes in Christ, or ﬂedglings of the Word, Mother Goose in Israel sang wondrous ditties all a summer’s day. How much blood-theology we have had from the blood of the wounded Sun, streaming across the ancient sky and sweating the same on earth. With so much vesture dipped in blood, need we wonder that much more than rams and goats, and calves, the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin. Need we wonder that, so much blood in the dying agony of the Sun, or “Tragedy of Nature,” spouted from the wine press, or ran purple along the sky even up to the bridles of the Lord’s chariot horses. Judas, the night devil, prepared the way for the Lord’s descent into hell, nor could John forbear to wonder with great admiration when he saw the woman on the scarlet beast in the same great wine press of the wrath of God. A Sometimes the ram and the goat ran into each other in the same shaggy cloud; and it may be difﬁcult to decide whether one or both came up to the help of the Lord against the mighty, or to do each other on the plains of heaven, while the Lord looked out from the pillar of a cloud. It would seem that Gabriel held the stakes, and instructed Daniel into the kingdom of heaven—“ forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel.” As per Muller, on the mytho- logy of the further East“-“ While thus the cloud itself is spoken of as a black-skin, the demon of the cloud, or the cloud personiﬁed, appears in the Veda as a ram, 5. e., as a shaggy, hairy animal.” The Lamb of God cometh with clouds, and the Mosaic “ ram of consecration” would seem to have been ﬂeeced in the same shaggy cloud. The demon of the thicket may have put in an appearance to save Isaac from the offering to the Sun. Thus the demon who dwelt in the thick darkness played fast and loose with the Shekinah who also abode in the cloud. C ' The demon clothed with the black cloud——we may suppose the Lamb of God to have been- ﬂeeced with the white, and the marriage to his Wife, like the marriage of (Edipus to Iocaste——was just as in the Sanskrit hymns India is called the husband of the Dawn, and sometimes her son. “In fact,” says Mr. Cox, “ thewhole nature of the gods in these very ancient poems is still transparent. There are no genealogies or settled marriages. The father is sometimes the son, the brother is the husband, and she who in one hymn is the mother is in another the wife.” Parallel to this runs much of the mythology of old Jewry. The Mother of God is clothed with the Sun. She is also his Wife in the sign of the Lamb. She may be the supposed wife of Joseph in the old sign of. Taurus, but Gabriel in- structs her into the kingdom of heaven, and she is the Spirit Bride in the New Jerusalem. Father, Son and Holy Ghost may have a largerange of the ancient heaven as well as the demon of the black cloud among the sons of.God. Adam and Eve play fast and loose in the wisdom of the Serpent. presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod. He, too, knew his wife, who grew, like Topsy, in the Nod-land, where the Lord, and everywhere appear the quickening spirit in Adam knew his wife, and she conceived and bare. Cain, and . so she got a man from the Lord. Cain went out from the she put in an appearanceguite as naturally as Eve from the _ rib. Adah and Zillah also were in the secret of the Lord by bearing Tubal-Cain as the doer in brass andiron, and is mys- tically one with Vulcan, who also worked in iron and brass, and may have had somewhat to do in making the Brazen Serpent. It was in these days that men began to call upon the name of the'Lord, or, as per Calmet, “ called themselves by the name of Jehovah.” Noah, atﬁve hundred years old, has a wife on the other side of the ﬂood, and the myth—gatherer sets him aﬂoat with his sons, and wife, and his sons’ wives, with beasts, fowls and every creeping thing, in twos and in sevens. This omnium gatherum into the Ark would seem to have been a sore trial for the harmonial philosophy, for, as per “Book of J asher,” the happy, family were “ tossed about like pottage in a caldron.” However, the Ark sufﬁced as a pone asinorum, or asses’ bridge, for Thomas Bolin, his wife and Wifes mother, all to get over the ﬂood together. Abram and Sarai, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and his wives play the same role in different ways as the heroes and mys- tical women of Gentile mythology—the Hebrew mythology using the same machinery to work with, but having its own peculiar way for the Deus ea: Machina. Leslie, in “ Origin of Man,” ﬁnds Abraham, Isaac and Jacob mythical, and when every scribe is instructed into the kingdom of heaven it may be discovered of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures that much of the Godhead is in mythical relations with the Sun and heavenly host~—that Christ, the day-star of the soul, was also a name of the sun, and the wife of his mystical mar- riagethe pure heaven in white, or her garment changeably tinted, or fringed with blue, golden and purple. Her crown of twelve stars were the twelve of the Zodiac, and as the poetic virgin of Israel, she was as lovely as any of the daugh- ters of God. . Twothousand years before our era the Sun was in the bull-sign to eat the Passover at the Easter equinox, and take away the sins of the world, instead of the Ram of God ; but whether the “Golden Ox” or the “ Golden Fleece” of the Lamb, either would be Son of God as clothed with the Sun, the same as St. J ohn’s woman who was so clothed. In Egypt Typhon is that same old serpent called the Devil and Satan, but Isis, the virgin of Egypt, is victorious over him, like St. J ohn’s woman over the dragon when the earth helped her. In Egypt, per St. John, our Lord was mystically cruciﬁed, and there too was the great Dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers. Nor do we fail to make acquaintance with the “ Gilded Ox,” the leader up of the seven fat and seven lean kine in the sign of Joseph, or Taurus—the same cross being the symbol of the Bull or “ Gilded Ox,” as the Lamb who afterwards took away the sins of the world. As per Wilkin- son, the Bull Apis was “ an excellent interpretation of futu- rity.” No less did the Ram in the latter day, with his ' golden ﬂeece of clouds, betoken the Coming Man or Messiah, to feed his people in the large place of Him who was and is, and is to come. Did he not feed thousands with loaves and ﬁshes from the Zodiacal baskets, and so the Redeemer in his latter days upon the earth. The spiritualists of ancient Egypt sought as much as pos- sible to live upon the bread from heaven. The nature wor- shipers, or students of nature, were much averse to gluttony, “ that their bodies may sit as light about their souls as possi- ble, in order that their mortal part may not oppress and weigh down the more divine and immortal,” as per Wilkin- son. vv A DOUBTING HEART. BY ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTOR. Where are the swallows ﬂed ? Frozen and dead, Perchance upon some bleak and stormy shore, O doubting heart I Far over the purple seas They wait in sunny ease, The balmy southern breeze To bring them to their northern homes once more. Why must the ﬂowers die? Prisoned they lie In the cold tomb, heedless of tears or rain. . O, doubting heart! They only sleep below The soft white ermine snow, While winter winds shall blow, To breathe and smile upon you soon again. The sun hathlhid its rays These many days; Will dreary hours never leave the earth? Oh, doubting heart! The stormy clouds on high Vail the same summer sky That soon for spring is nigh, Shall wake the summer into mirth. Fair hope is dead and light Is quenched in night; What sound can break the silence of despair? ‘ Oh, doubting heart! V The sky is overcast, Yet stars shall rise at last, Brighter for darkness past, And angels’ silver voices stir the air. PLAIN HAIR is rapidly becoming fashionable. Ladies‘ who have ruined their. hair byalong course of hot iron and crimping pins, will now be necessitated to wear “false fronts” to hide their deﬁciency of hair. I . by Gibbon. JUNE 3, 1871. ailuiiillmll & ®liIfliiI’% tiiletklg. GEMS FROM MILL ON “ LIBERTY.” WITH REMARKS BY A. CRIDGE. [This work is a clear, dispassionate exposition of the prin- ciples on which the right to “ untrammeled” lives is flquiéded. NO. I. PREAMBLE TO A DECLARATION OF SOCIAL INDEPENDENCE. “ Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at ﬁrst, and is still, vulgarly held in dread, chieﬂy as operating through the acts of the public authorities. But reﬁecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant- society collect'ively—-over the separate individuals who com- pose it, its means of tyrannizing are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political‘function- aries. . Society can and does execute its own mandates; and if it uses wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it prac- tises a social tyranny, more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself. Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough ; there needs_ pro- tection, also, against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to improve, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them ; to fet ter the development, and, if possible, prevent theformation of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own. There is_ a limit to the legitimate interference of Collective opinion with individual independence, and to ﬁnd that limit and maintain it against encroachment is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs as pro- tection against political despotism. _ “ Wherever the sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim to be obeyed.” [Eva Gm:-—-Religion in England, Marriage in the United States] DECLARATION OF SOCIAL INDEPENDENCE. “ The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individu- ally or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. * * * * Though our good, either physical or moral, is not a sufﬁcient warrant. * * "“ * The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. * * * * Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.” at —:<- 96 g at * as “The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pur- suing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.?’ [Pseudo liberals in the United States, however, can find no words emphatic to use in denunciation of American reformers who venture to advocate in detail andsometimes to live out, these ﬁrst and irrefutable principles of a calm English thinker With whom social science has been a life-long study. Is it true that the people of the United States only escaped from the sceptre of King George to fall under that of Mrs. Grundy ?] “ The disposition of mankind ,wh ether as rulers or as fellow- citizens, to impose their own opinions and inclinations as a rule of conduct on others, is so energetically supported by some of the best and some of the worst feelings incident to human nature, that it is hardly ever kept under restraint by anything but want of power; and as the power is not declining, but growing, unless a strong barrier of moral conviction can be raised against the mischief, we must expect, in the present circumstances of the world, to see it increase.” No. II. CHRISTIAN MORALITY. “ Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction. It is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than active; innocence rather than nobleness: abstinence from evil rather than energetic pursuit of good. In its precepts (it has been well said), ‘ thou shalt not’ predom- inates unduly over ‘thou shalt.’ In its horror of sensuality it made an idol of asceticism", which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality.” And which, he might have added, has intensiﬁed, and does intensify, that very sensuality which he seeks to re- move; for nature, even in the very ‘dark ages,’ was and must be true to herself. If defrauded of her rights in one direction, she not only regains them in another, but takes fearful vengeance for the attempt to suppress natural ex- pressions of natural requirements. Asceticism is the in- evitable parent of excess; celibacy inevitably results in prostitution and its accompanying evils. Freedom, accom- panied by spiritual development and a knowledge of nat- ural law, would as inevitably result in true purity. The growth of this infernal principle of asceticism is ably traced Its culmination, twelve centuries afterward, is effectively delineated by Froude. Its remains (the cause being generally recognized) still curse the present genera- tion in the form of legality, and will curse it until those who have outgrown it co-operate for self-protection against the enunciators of that false morality which designatesas a virtue the suppression of a natural want, when its grati- ﬁcation could produce no real injury. It is also time to unvail the ﬂimsy, yet complicated delu- sions of what is termed “moral philosophy,” and “the science of morals,” etc., and substitute therefor an en- lightened, comprehensive, philanthropic utilitarianism, making utility, the greatest good not only of the greatest number but of each individual, the test of virtue. But this may become a subject for future consideration some- what in detail. More practical truths on this subject could be condensed into half a dozen pages than are probably contained in all the volumes on “ Moral Philosophy” hitherto written, One serious defect in most ofthem much rese nbles those indicated by Cuvier [or Button], in the de- ﬁnition of a crab proposed by certain Parisian sammts, viz.: “a red ﬁsh that walks backwards.” The celebrated natu- ralist remarked that the deﬁnition was coi-rect,‘with three exceptions: it was not red, it was not a ﬁsh, and did not walk backwards. Nearly all books on “ Moral Philosophy” are open to theiobjections of being tm-moral and im-philo- sophic. I I ' ' « 1 1” ANOTHER FRAGMENT OF THE WOMAN‘ QUES- ' ' TION. . Some weeks ago we entered our protest against the gra- tuitous assumption of the inferiority of woman in our social system as compared to man. We again propose to protest against another most miserable abuse of woman. In all the furor about the social evil curse in our midst, the principal partner. the monied partner in the infamous transaction, is entirely overlooked; yes, more, exonerated. Who ever heard of even a single instance of a man being thrown out of society because be contributed to keep alive houses of ill-fame? We have yet to learn of the ﬁrst case. Society is so onesidedly virtuous as to thus wink at the in- famy of men; but if a woman go even to an assignation house, the same unfair society put their feet upon her with all the energy of horriﬁed indignation. Why should a man be tolerated, fostered and recognized as undeﬁled, even when his whole body is corrupted by the damnable virus of the lowest and most hellish debauch- ery, when at the same time a woman is utterly proscribed on even the wretchedly ﬂimsy evidence of hearsay‘! Society, with holy hands, thrusts the woman down to per- dition on the mere suspicion of her unchastity. while with the same hands it fraternizes with «he blood-stained soul of the seducer and the proﬂigate, who bears ‘the unmistakable signs of the tires of hell. By this most unholy and unchristian discrimination in favor of men as against women, society in a great measure brings upon itself the contaminating pollution which to-day is so alarmingly prevalent. Men ieeking with the foul abomination of “fancy houses” and “ street walkers,” just from the moral degradationof promiscuous and polluted beds, bought with money and the price of souls, are coun- tenanced and fellowshiped by virtuous men and chaste wo- men: by those who pray and those who pray not; by Chris- tian men and women. and by a portion of God’s clergymen. Is this a strong statement ‘Z We can prove it by unpal- atable facts. What would be done with a woman who pros- tituted herself in this beastly way’! She would be driven from society as a contaminating curse. Is it worse for a woman to sell her soul to hell than it is for a man to sell his? No! not a whit. Has God made any distinction be- tween the value of souls? We hear of abandoned women, but not a word of aban- doned men; and yet there are ten times the number of abandoned men that there are of women. Eight millions of dollars paid by men in the City of New York every year to support this infamous business. by which they gratify their damnable and damning lusts. What does this prove '! That this monstrous abomination has amarket price among men. Abandoned women are driven out of society as cruelly and remorselessly as the Hebrews drove the idol-worshipers from the promised land, while the ten-fold number of aban- doned men are permitted to remain and enjoy all its im- munities and privileges. Is this justice? Is it Christian ‘é Is it even human‘? Is it not infamous '2 These cess-pools of destruction, reaching downward’ and ever downward,where virtue has no type and happiness, but a name ; where God is but a dark cloud of muttering in the soul ;' where souls go down, do wn, transformed and beastiﬁed to the deinoniacal regions of the lost ; these pit- holes which lead to the in ternal regions of the damned are supported by the money of men. It is not the men whom society call degraded who do this, but those whom it calls respectable, those who have means to feed this voracious destruction. vv\z\A./\.-——-@.——-/vv\.rv- NOW AND THEN. , ’ Monday, May 15, 1871. WoonnuLL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY: ‘ The two following little documents, marked respectively ‘_‘ No. 1” and “ No. 2,” are submitted to you for publica- tion. ‘ “ No. 1” (2. little has been added to it since) was written out, addressed and handed to the Secretary of the Steinway Hall Suffrage Convention, with instructions to read it before the Convention on Wednesday last. (It had been previously stated by the Chairwoman that the platform was free.) It was not, however, read. being sent in the next day to be read—under the impression that the Convention was to last for thesecond day. The documents——by implication as well as by express statement——-will further explain themselves. OBSERVER. No. 1. Just a word or two of friendly criticism and suggestion. There is one point of view from which we (this Conven- tion) are seen to be behind the Pagans of 3,000 (or, to go to India, it may be 50,000) years ago in our claims for the “ equal rights” for women, or the co-equality of the female principle with the male principle in nature. For example : These Pagans recognized in their theology the goddess as well as the god. . W e, on the contrary, entirely ignore the goddess and make the god “ The all-in-all ”—not only the ruler, but the everything. Hence, with us the man (the male) is not only the ruler of the family, but is the family. (Ain’t we—just a little—“ Jewish” here, as well as behind the Pagan ?) ’Tis true, if we have any Roman Catholics with us, that they have made some etlorts-—though they seem “ a little mixed” on this point——to correct the mistake (if mistake it be), by essaying to elevate the “Virgin Mary” up “ among .the gods,” but the rest of us hold them in disgrace for this. So, on the whole, does not our politics and our theoloy slightly clash the one with the other on female suffrage or equality ‘B _ ;r.~ But does not our so frequent use of this great name-—GoD —rather indicate a want of faith in Him and reverence for Him than anything else? _ In so doing do we not act somewhat like the boy who Whistles, when in the dark, to show that he is not afraid? A truly reverential and sublime faith, such as we should have, is not of this whistling sort. — It should be deeper down and at the bottom of the heart and of the understanding——-permeating them all through-.- ‘and not on the surface for display, not to be worn on the outside, like a ﬁne garment over dirty underclothing. But, to revert back to our ﬁrst point: May we not make of truth a god, and of love a goddess? ‘to be or to do! “No.2” was then drawn up with the intention of its I Again: We “go to seed ” on peace, or love. ‘ Love is proverbially blind. Wisdom sees. Love desires Wisdom knows how to be or to do! Are they not, therefore, dependent upon and necessary to each other in reform and growth? Moreover, it takes the two to make a system, an organiza- tion, and without organization—the balancing power of or- ganization——we have chaos ! Disorganization leads to decay and death I ‘ [No. 2.] Freedom of discussion has been promised in this Conven- tion. Under this promise a few words of criticism and sug- gestion were placed on paper and handed to the secretary, with instructions to read them to the Conventicm (which was but parliamentary.) They were not so read during that ses- sion. If they be not read, together with this supplement, that promise is broken. If excuse be made that no name was signed, it is replied that no such condition was exacted, nor should there be, for, it is submitted, we come here not to exhibit our persons or assert. our individualities, but to present and consider principles. But, when we do become personal let us be consistent, and not unjust. . ‘ An enumeration and history of the different methods for securing woman suffrage has been given. The originators of some of these were referred to in person, while the name of the originator of the (so acknowledged) most prominent, latest and best of them, was, evidently, in- tentionally and unfairly suppressed, though better known than any of the others—namely, that of Victoria 0. Wood- hull. Pardon me, I must; too, become personal just here. I want justice done Victoria C. Woodhull. I am in love with her! I love her because she is my sister! because she is a part of me! I love her, not so much as I do some of these sisters of mine here on this platform for some things, but for this thing, in which she has done more for the triumph of right and the good of humanity than any of you have done, I love her proportionately more than I do any of you. Those who are not yet imbued with the spirit which de- clares f01‘ Truth, come from where it may, lead to where it may, are bigots and cowards, and have not only yet much tolearn, but much to unlearn. ‘ The Anti-Free—Love resolution which has been passed by this Convention was conceived in a spirit somewhat akin, at least, to a consciousness of self-quiet, and of moral cow- ardice. It smacked strongly of hyprocrisy, cant and cowardice. It smacked strongly of the spirit which says, “ Stand off, for I am holier than thou I” and repudiates the spirit of—- “Come unto me ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest !” or of——“ Go, sin no more 1” , It was, also, pure supererogation. A~ THE Herald, in a leader, shows how——all the world being, almost at peace—it is time we should go to war with China. China has broken treaties, has massacred missionaries, and does not keep faith with the outer barbarians. True it is that the treaties were forced on her, and she wants to evade‘ them or break them. Russia does the same successfully. France has tried it -unsuccessfully. True, also, that several native heads were chopped off to pay for the slaughtered missionaries. True that she throws obstacles in the way of opium importing, and that she repeats over and over again that she wants no dealings with foreigners. Let us have the plain truth. The weak have no rights. We want the trade with the four hundred millions of Chinese. We are strong,‘ and we mean to have it. What need to salve our con- sciences with lying pretext or excuse! m¢ “REV. H. W. BEECHER: “ Dear S'ir—-Please to inform me, through the columns of the New York Ledger, who Cain’s wife was, and oblige “ A READER on THE LEDGER.” - There is no record of Cain’s courtship or wedding. HOW‘. ever interesting to the parties themselves, it is of no interest to us, except upon supposition that the account in Genesis of the creation of Adam was designed to exclude the sup. position that any people had been created, If Adam and Eve were the progenitors of the race, then Cain and Abel, it is inferred, must have married their own sisters—a con- nection which is shocking to the whole race, at a subsequent stage of development. ‘ But many of the Fathers of the Church denied that Adam and Eve and their children were the only people on the globe. They afﬁrmed that the text in Genesis very plainly implies» that there were other inhabitants besides Adam’s family. They alleged that v. 14, chap. iv., of Genesis, plainly implies that the earth was already widely populated. or when God declared that Cain should be driven out lrom his family, and made a vagabond on the earth, Cain depre- cated the sentence and replied that “ every one that ﬁndeth me shall slay me.” the earth. Who, then, were the people whom Cain feared to meet when he should have gone forth into the earth? It is also reasoned by scholars that the most natural method of soothing his fears would have been to. tell him “There are no other people on earth except your father's i children.” Instead of that, the Lord is represented as fall- ing in with Cain’s impression respecting the population of the world, and. that He set a mark upon Ca-in, lest any ﬁnding him should kill him, (Gen. iv.. 15.) Still further, it is said Cain, separating himself from his kindred, wentyto the land of Nod, east of Edom, “and he builded a city and called the ‘name of the city after the name of his son : Enoch.” The Fathers very pertinently asked, “Where did the people come from that lived in the city? That would be an extrardinary state of things, which should , have en- abled Cain to ﬁll up aqcity, however small, with his own And it is inferred, therefore, that there were‘ , other people in the land beside the immediate posterityof ', . children! Adam. If Adam was the only progenitor, Cain must. have j married his sister. if there were other lines of people, other I‘ Adams as it were, then Cain might haveimarried into an‘. ' other stock.——E'a:change. It was plainly not his family connections - he feared, for he desired not to be driven forth rrom them; It was the people that he should meet when a wanderer on , 2 ewuuaimu & coma swing. JUNE 3, 1871. ADVANCE SHEETS FROM THE PROVIDENCE. R I., “NEW VVGRLD.” PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS, EDITOR. FREEDOM TO DO RIGHT. “ Resolved, That the basis of order is freedom from bondage; not, indeed, of such ‘ order’ as reigned in Warsaw, which grew out of the bondage; but of such order as reigns in Heaven, which grows out of that developed manhood and womanhood in which each becomes ‘ a law unto himself.’ “ Resolved, That freedom is a principle, and that as such it may be trusted to ultimate in harmonious social results, as in America, in harmonious and beneﬁcent political results ; that it has not hitherto been adequately trusted in the social domain, and that the W0man’s movement means no less than the complete social as well as the political entran- chisenient of mankind. “Resolved, That the evils, suﬁbrings and disabilities of women, as well as of men, are social still more than they are political, and that a statement of woman’s rights which ignores the right of self-ownership as the ﬁrst of all rights is insufﬁcieut to meet the demand, and is ceasing to enlist the enthusiasm and even the common interest of the most intelligent portion of the community. ' “ Resolved, That the principle of freedom is one of principle, and not a collection of many different and unrelated princi- ples; that there is not at bottom one principle of freedom of conscience as in Protestantism, and another principle of freedom from slavery as in Abolitiouism, another of freedom of locomotion as in our dispensing in America with the pass- port svstem ofEui-ope, another of the freedom of the press as in Great Britain and America, and still another of social freedom at large, but that freedom is one and indivisible, and that slavery is so also ; that freedom and bondage, or restriction, is the alternative and the issue alike in every case; and that if freedom is good in one case it is good in all; that we in America have builded on freedom, political- ly, and that we cannot consistently recoil from that expan- sion of freedom which shall make it the basis of all our in- stitutions ; and ﬁnally, that so far as we have trusted it, it has proved in the main, safe and proﬁtable.” ’ We presented the above resolutions as an expression of our thought on freedom, at the recent Woman Suffrage Conven- tion in New York: . We presented them as the advanced thought, knowing them likely to be misunderstood, carped about, and possi- bly-condemned utterly by some of the progressive minds of to-day; but we also ki-iewthat until the line wasbroken, those in the rear could take no step forward, and we would not that they should take a ﬂying leap over our heads and land, possibly, in the mud ; possibly on heights where it might take time for us to reach them. It is the business of some one to launch new ideas, not one of which is ever lost. ' Regarding freedom as a principle, we hold that a person in order to be a law unto himself or herself, must be abso- lutely free, that is without physical restraint. We will illustratelby the human system. If it is healthy and in natural conditions, the whole complex organization works without friction. The brain takes no cognizance of the stomach, of the heart, or liver; the blood courses through veins and arteries, the capillary and allactiou is steady and regular as though there were no law in existence, because the whole organism is in harmony with God’s law. Now tie a ligature around the arms, take a stimulant into the stomach, breathe an impure, vitiated atmosphere, and see what a commotion is raised, and how soon the brain is cognizant of laws violated. A febrile action is set up, the heart, the lungs, the brain——all the higher organs enter an indignant protest against this violation of the harmonies. Being free, each organ chooses what is best for it. Con- strained by physical force, they are thrown into confL1S10I1 We come together in voluntary associations or organjza. tions, and all is harmonious. Some individual, possessed with a love of power, ties a ligature on an arm, Cvmpresges the lungs, stimulates the stomach, and then friction be. ins. , g it is usurpation of authority, an incessant demand for legislation that is fretting and chaﬁng human souls. Things seem out ofjoint and wrong: without seeing the cause we ﬂy to external law to cure the ill, prohibition or license of an evil, making a penalty. of dollais and cents or brief im- prisonment the remedy, and then the public conscience is at rest. The mind and will of the ofi’ender—-that part of‘ us which, by provision or foreknowledge of scientific princi- ples, must accept or reject evil—is still either unconvinced or untamed. The Egyptian priesthood arbitrarily and without any scientiﬁc Knowledge, prescribed to each class and caste just what they should eat and drink. Modern science presents the physiological laws and becomes,per force,regulati’ve, for the free will yields voluntary obedience to laws founded in nature. What can be done for the health and happiness of the in- dividual,by scientiﬁc knowledge, may be done forthe whole body politic by teaching self-preservation and self-govern- meut. ’ With the vast amount of taxes levied to punish crime, let us begin prevention. Let there be free halls where lectures on all departments of science shall be given to the masses. Give the drama free to the people; the opera to those who , love music; free baths, and the free schools made so at- tractive that chi'dren will need no compulsion to make them attend. A look toward prevention is found in the union for Christian work, the free amusement room, the reading-room and the varied forms of instruction, has saved many young lads from a do wn-hill course. It is an admitted postulate, that the human system needs stimulus, but it is by no means a scientiﬁc certainty that that stimulus should be wine or alcohol. On the other hand science proves clearly that alcohol, in any form, never is incorporated into the system, but always acts as a f'oreign_ substance. Give to the brain and heart the mental stimulus it demands, and you have obviated the necessity, the crav- ing for alcohol. Freedom on the temperance question may be trusted if science is made a basis of teaching; and on the one live question of the day, viz., the woman question freedom is the one demand. ‘ A true, high, pure nature, never asks if the law allows this or that——it IOIIOWS its own intuitions; it avoids evil, just as the sheep browsing on the hillside turns away from the poison laurel and feeds only on the wholesome and nu- tritious herb. Nomother says, “I must take care of my babe, and love my husband because the law says so.” She never thinks of the law. She never grudges or charges her babe six cents, per pint for its milk. She obeys the laws of her nature, which may be trusted. N o statute could compel this love, this devotion which gives freely of the life-blood—she is free to love or hate. Law can coerce the external, and hold her bound only in the outward. ._If these relations become hateful, the interior bond falls a under like ﬂax touched by ﬁre. It‘, then, the interior law—that written by the author of all science on the s0ul—is so much higher and stronger than the statute laws, are people safe in social relations when hatred, strife and malice are engendered by close proximity ‘l The law may compel them to eat the ﬂesh, to drink the blood and pick the bones in these social relations, if it choose, but it cannot sanctity what is sinful, nor make harmonies out of discord and compulsion. Self-ownership is the ﬁrst demand for all the relations of life and self—gov- ernment on scientiﬁc principles, the basic line for all humanity. _ ¢ OUR INDIAN TROUBLES. THEIR CAUSES, COST AND CURE. BY JOHN B. WOLFE‘. No. V. The Minnesota massacre was occasioned by long-continued injustice and frauds practised by the whites, in the shape of agents, traders, and speculators of every class, who took advantage of the ignorance and necessities of the Indians until forbearance ceased to be a virtue with them, and in regular Indian fashion, they retaliated on the guilty and innocent alike. Let us not forget that with all our boasted justice and christian kindness, we are gradually crushing out these children of the forest, not by natural necessity, but by abnormal and unnecessary methods, and they see and feel all this——fully comprehend the situation. VVe, therefore do wrong when we charge these outbreaks to their im- mediate and proximate incidents. There is always a. lurking feeling of hostility, the natural result of years of abuse, which, like a magazine of powder, is ready to explode from a very small spark. There pre- vails, for the reason named, a strong feeling of dissatisfaction and animosity, among all the wild tribes who have been thus wronged, and which it will be very diﬂicult to eradicate. With this feeling, if a soldier or citizen kills an Indian, or does some other obnoxious act, the Indian seeks the easiest method and first opportunity of revenge ; and thus are Indian wars inaugurated, which might easily be avoided. It will be remembered that the Indians captured and hung for the massacre in Minnesota, showed by every act, to the last, that they felt they had done nobly and bravely. All the wild tribes have been fully informed in regard to that execu tion, and it will remain a. festering sore for a. generation to come. The next general outbreak was on the Platte and Arkan- sas Rivers, which was hastened and intensiﬁed by the Min- nesota affair. In the year of 1849 the overland emigration to California commenced, mostly over the Platte and Arkan- sas River rbads. It 1858 it commenced to Colorado, and in 1859 it became a great tide, numbered by tens of thousands, travelling in every possible shape. At this time the Cheyennes and Arrapahoe Indians of the plains had laid claims of unpaid balances due from the government and withheld for years. All this travel and the necessary and unnecessary destruction of game, the withholding of the anuities, and other grievances, were en- dured, and no outrages committed on those routes until an unprovoked attack was made by a squad of soldiers in the neighborhood of the City of Denver, Colorado. A small band of Indians were found in possession of stock supposed to be stolen, but alleged plausibly by them to have been found astray, and they were then taking the stock to the settlements for identiﬁcation. Their guns were demanded and refused. Whereupon they were ﬁred upon and some of them killed. This was the spark that cost hundreds of lives and millions of property. But it is not to be denied that there was a growing dissatisfaction,for causes above named, and only needed this incident to inﬂame it into de- structive fury. The Land Creek massacre, which, unlike the Minnesota (Indians by white old men, women, and children), in real In- dian style, was one of the sequels of the former unjust and impolitic conduct of an irreponsible military captain, which culminated an intensiﬁcation of the barbarifies of that pro- tracted and disastrous conﬂict. It is, perhaps, true that there were Indians in that camp who had been guilty of depredations, but it is also true that they had been called to the adjacent fort by the Governor and furnished food and protection, and had not been detected in any acts of lies- tility after this quasi treaty had been made. It is further true that they were driven away from the fort; by military orders, that they were in camp, and seeking to prevent star- vation by hunting, and that they had asked to remain near the post on the Arkansas, where they would have been di- rectly under the eye of the military. To butcher these In- dians and not be able to follow up the victory, provided they were hostile, was only to call down greater vengeance in other quarters, which was the fact. Then came the massacre by :Custer, under Sheridan, of Black Kettle and his band——an Indian who had never lifted his hand against his white brother-—had always been his friend, and had resigned his position in the tribe to escape the necessity of taking part in the raids on the settlements, and always counselled peace. All the glory that Sheridan acquired in the late war was eclipsed by this act of perﬁdy and murder. These facts are again alluded to for the pur- pose of showing that we are indebted largely to the presence of the military in the Indian country for a large per cent. of the provocations ; and to their wanton and inj udicious exer- cise of their powers, for the actual commencement of hos- tilities, as O well as the perpetuation of the memory of uiimerited outrages, as compounding interest to be collected from future generations. We have some startling rsvela~ tions to make in regard to these same military operations which ought to arouse the whole nation. In our next we shall begin the ﬁnancial part of the subject. 0 A WORD IN snnson. An agitation meeting is to be held at a private house in this city to-day, to discuss the movements of both the asso- ciations of wild women, who lately held conclave at Stein- way and Apollo Halls. Certain members of the little clique of women who represent the County Suffrage Association, it is presumed‘ will attempt to call Miss Anthony, Miss Lozier and others who gave Mrs. Woodhull the right hand of fellowship on the platform of the National Association, to account for their temerity, and attempt to vindicate their own moral and social status by the wholesale condemnation of their course. It is very funny. The reproving ringare of that sort which suggests the familiar quotaiion———“ Satan re-proving sin.” It is an old sayingthat “ Whose liveth in a house of glass should not be ready to throw stones.” But women are ever ready to forget the homely adage. and in the en- deavor to maintain even an uncertain position on the out- skirts of the “ best society,” into which they are struggling to enter, will ofien attempt to assure their own position by pulling other folks down. Our opinions concerning the leader of the Apollo Hall suffragisis have been well venti- lated. We advise, however, the three or four Women who have been chewing gall for the last week, because they were apparently putin the shade by boili conventions, to keep quiet. Be just as virtuous and exclusive and proper and nice as you possibly can in your private lives and converse- tion, but don’t makegtoo much parade and talk of it before the world. Your little histories, we are told, are jotted down in the annals of halls of learning ; are chronicled among the free-love spiritualists, to which one of you be- long ; are the laughing stock of the journalistic circle on which another is a parasite. A little too much “stand- back-I-am—holier—than-thou ” talk even to Mrs. VVcodhul1- Blood, or criticism of Miss Anthony, Mesdames Hallock, Lozier and Stanton, for recognizing her, may arouse some indignant person to give three or four liitle histories to the world which would make quite as much stir in the ranks of suffrage, journalism and sorosis, as the clishmacl-aver about your Sister Woodhull has done. Keep quiet, dears. “ Soiling another will never make yourself’ clean,” you know.——ota7'. _ H _____._,____,,_________, DEATH. A SONNET. 0 Death! why do men fear thee and surround Thy name with terrors, that the stout heart fears With creeping ﬂesh the chill ill-omened sound, Though he would meet thee, nameless, free from tears, Nor sigh as sounds die on his bloodles ears, And fainter grows the forms of friends around? When thou dost summon us, we leave this coil Of changeful earth to be resolved, may be, To grass or ﬂowers or elemental soil ; The living soul to ﬂeshly garb set free Like the gay ﬂy that bursts his wintry tomb, Man knows a brighter and more genial day, And ﬁnds a happier sempiternal home. ~—InfeZlectuaZ Repository. 9 THE NEW YORK Code amendments ‘call for some strong strictures from the learned in the law. Judge Dwight is out with some cogent remarks 011 the subject of that mysterious and most indeﬁnable offense, “ contempt of court." Any- thing may be a contempt of court if ajudge is only sensitive enough. The power of the court contemned is absolute and irresponsible. Whether the court knows itself or not-, it cannot be coutemned. The Erie judges are as safe from con- tempt as Kent or Story. The judge may squint at jusiice ever so obliquely, may be totally unable to see it, but con- tempt, however strong, must not be expressed. The penal- ties are irreversible; nothing short of purging will be ac- cepted. The Code proposes to deﬁne when the court is contemptible. 6- Mrss KATE STANTON will enter the lecture-ﬁeld next fall with a lecture entitled “ Whom to Marry,” and she says she shall study -her ‘subject all summer. Miss Stanton is, we be- lieve, a young lady, and she never had a husbandjn her life; wherefore her lecture will probably be——we will say interest- ing. During the summer, however, her loneliness may be_ remedied; and in that case she will have to tear up her old lecture and write another and entirely different one, which may be valuable. It isn’t a bad idea, occasionally, for one to know what one is talking about. ‘ 9 HENRY WARD Bnncnnn says, “ It will scarcely be denied that men are superior to women, as men ; and that women are immeasurably superior to men, as women ; while both of them together are more than a match for either of them separately.” That is a sound platform. ' . . l P i JUNE 3, 1871. iwruﬁhuii & dlaflivfa wevklg. 13 THE ORIGIN. TENDENCIES AND PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT. BY VICTORIA C. WOODHULL. This remarkable book, just from the press, contains a graphic consolidation of the various principles in- volved in government as the guarantee and protection to the exercise of human rights. Such principles 318, from time to time, have been enunciated in these columns are here arranged, classi tied and applied. A careful consideration of them will convince the mostskepti cal that our Government, though so good, is very far from being perfect. Every person who has the future welfare of this country at heart should make him or herself familiar with the questions treated in this book. No lengthy elucidations are entered into; its statements are fresh, terse and bold, and make direct appeal to the ea soning faculties. It is an octave volume of 250 pages, containing the picture of the author; is beautifullyprinted on the best quality of tinted paper, and is tastefully and substantially bound in extra cloth. No progressive person’s house should be without this conclusive evidence of vvoman‘s capacity for self-government Price. $30 0; by mail. postage paid, $3 25. “ There is a simplicity, freshness and originality in this book which rivets the attention ; and one rises from the perusal with the feeling of being refreshed, strengthened and made better by such a healthy mental stimulant. She divests the woman question of all its sentinientalities and places it where it should be, on the ﬁrm ground of justice. Read this book in the morning, when the mind is active, and it is a good preparation for intellectual work ; it is full of suggestions, and compels thought in the highest direction. Our advice is get the book and study it.” --New World. EQUALITY A RIGHT OF WOMAN. BY TENNIE C. CLAFLD1. The object of the author in presenting this book to the public was: First, To show that woman has the same human rights which men have. Second, To point out wherein a condition of servi- tude has been involuntarily accepted by women as a substitute for equality, they in the meantime laboring under the delusion that they were above instead of below equality. Third, To prove that it is a duty which women owe to themselves to become fully individualized persons, responsible to themselves and capable of maintaining such responsibility. Fourth, To demonstrate that the future welfare of humanity demands of women that they prepare them selves to be the mothers of children, who shall be pure in body and mind, and that all other considerations of life should be made subservient to this their high mission as the artists of humanity. Fifth, That every child born has the natural right to live, and that society is responsible for the condition in which he or she is admitted to be a constituent and modifying part of itself. W0MAN9S RIGHTS—NEW BOOKS. We have received cgpies of twofbooks which just now possess coiisi< era e interest or many people. They are entitled respectively, “ Constitiitional Eq1ial- ity a Right of Woman,” by Tennie C. Claﬁin, and “The Origin, Functions and Principles of Govern- ment by Victoria 0. Woodhull. We have examined these books carefully. not only for the sake of the subjects treated of, but because of the discussion which has been called out in the past few weeks about these two remarkable women. It wouldl seem as thou(ii,hhevei'ytliingbhfad cogspired at once to )ring them an t eir views e ore t e pub- lic. First, the Tribune paraded them as the champion free-lovers by way of attacking its old enemies, the woman suffrage women; then one branch of the suf- fragists attacked them, while the other wing as vehe- mently upheld them, and lastly they were brought bodily before the public in the recent trial. These conﬂicting elements of notoriety were enough to have In ide any one famous for the moment, and ought to make their books sell. The chief element of curios- ity, however, was in the fact that they were de- nouned so bitterly by tl.’l(1§] Trébime as frge-lovers, while the were, on the ot er an , iiidorse so enthusiast- ica.lly by a lady so universally respected as Mrs. Stan- ton. Careful examination of their books Iails to show anything so very startling in the doctrines put forth in them, however distasteful they -may be to many. They advance many strong arguments for giving the women the right to vote, for a remodeling of the mar- riage laws, and, in fact, for the general renovating and making over of society. Some of these are new, and some not so new, but they are very well put. and will be found not unir_1teresting, even to those who are opposed to the d0CL1‘lI1eS advocated-«Newark (N. J.) Register. FRIENDSHIP. He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need; It‘ thou sorrow he will weep, If thou wake he cannot sleep ; Thus of every grief in heart He with thee doth bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend to ﬂattering foe. SHAKESPEARE. AG E NTS WANTE I) to canvass for Liberal Books and Papers. Apply to P. M. KELSEY,319 West Twenty-sixth street, New York. EW YORK AND NEW HAVEN RAILROAD. - _ V SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. COMMENCING JUNE 20, 1870. Passenger Station in New York, corner of Twenty- seventh street and Fourth avenue. ‘Entrance on Twenty-seventh street. TRAINS LEAVE NEW YORK, For New Haven and Bridgeport, 7. 8 (Ex.). 11:30 a. m.; 12:1 5 (Ex.), 3 (Ex.), ‘3:45, 4:30, 5:30 and 8 (Ex.) . in. p For Milford. Stratford, Fairﬁeld. Southport and Westport, '7, 11:30 a. in. ; 3:45, 4:30, 5:30 p. in. For Norwalk, 7, 8 (Ex.), 9, 11:30 a. m.; 12:15 (Ex), 3 (Ex.), 3:45, 4:30 (Ex.), 5:30, 6:30 and 8 (Ex.) p. in. : For Darien, 7, 9, 11:30 a. m.; 34:5, 4:30. 5:30 and 6.30 p. in. - For Stamford. 7, 8 (Ex.), 9, 11:30 a. m.; 12:15 (Ex), 2:15, 3 (Ex.), 3:45, 4:30 (Ex.), 4:45, 5:30, 6:30, 7:15, 8 (Ex.) p. in. . _ For Greenwich and intermediate stations, 7, 9, 11:30 ‘a in. ; 2:15, 3:45, 4:45. 5:30, 6:30, 7:15 p. In. Sunday Mail Train leaves Twenty seventh street, New York. at 7 p. H). for Boston, via both Springﬁeld Line and Shore Line. CONNECTING TRAINS. For Boston, via Springﬁeld, 8 a. m., 3 and 8 p. m. For Boston. via Shore Line, 12:15, 8 p. m. For Hartford and Springﬁeld, 8 a. m., 12:15, 2, 4:30 p. in. to Hartford, 8 p. m. . For Newport, R. I., 12:15 p. in. (Ex.),_ connecting with steamer across Narragansett Bay, arriving at 8:30 p. m. For Connecticut River Railroad, 8 a. m., 12:15 p. in. to Montreal, 3 p. in. to Northampton. For Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill Railroad, 8 a. m. ; 12:15 p. In. _ For Shore Line Railway, at 8 a. m. to Norwich and Providence: 12:15, 3: to New London, 8 p. m. For New Haven and Northampton Railroad, 8 a. m. ; 3 p. m. to Nor-thamptoii and Williamsburgh. For Honsamnic lt:'~ilro2id. 8 a. m. and 3 p. in. For I‘I3‘.1{;‘z‘:T.ll"'( R:iiii:o-ml, 8 a. m., 3 p. in., and 4:30 p. T-1. in Waterbury. For Daniiiiry and Norwalk Railroarl, 7 a. m., 12:15 and 4:30 p. in. For New Canaan Railroad, 7 a. in. ; 12:15, 4:30 and 5:30 p. m. 1 _ Commodious Sleeping Cars attached to 8 p. In. train, and also to Sunday Mail Train on either Line. Draw- ing-Room Car attached to the 8 a. in. and 3 p. in. trains. J MES H. HOYT, Superintendent. EW Y ORK CENTRAL AND HUD‘ SON RIVER RAILROAD.—Traiiis will leave Thirtieth street as follows: 8 a. m., Chicago Express, Drawing-room cars at- tached. 10 a. m.. Special Drawing~room Car Express.““"No accommodation for way passengers except in Draw- ing-room cars. 10:40 a. m., Northern and Western Express, Draw- ing-room cars attached. 4 p. m., Montreal Express, Drawing-room cars at- tached. 6 p. m., First Paciﬁc Express, with Sleeping cars thropgh to Watertown, Syracuse and Canandaigua. (Dai y.) 8 p. m., Second Paciﬁc Ex ress, with Sleeping cars attached, for Rochester and uffalo; also for Chicago, via both L. S. and M. C. Railroads; for St. Louis, via Toledo: and Louisville, via Indianapolis. (This train will leave at 6 p. m. on Sundays.) 11 p. m., Night Express, Sleeping cars attached. 7 a. m., 2 and 5 p. m., Poughkeepsie trains. 9 a. m., 4:15 and 6:40 p. m.. Peekskill trains. 5:30 and 6:10 p. m.. Sing Sing trains. 6:40, 7:30, 9:10 and 10:15 a. m., 12 m., 1:30, 3, 4:25, 5:10, 8:10 and 11:30 p. m.. Yonkers trains. 9 a. m., Sunday train for Poughkeepsie. C. H. KENDRICK, General Passenger Agent. NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 1870. RIE RAILWAY.—TRAlNS LEAVE Depots foot of Chambers st. and foot of 23d st.. as follows: Through Express Trains leave Chambers st. at 9 a. m., 11 a. m.. 5:30 p. m.. and 7 p. m., daily. Leave 236. st. at 8:45 a. m., 10:45 a. m., and 5.15 and 6:45 p. m., daily. New and improved Drawing-room Coaches accompany the 9 a. in. train through to Buf- : falo, connecting at Hornellsville with magniﬁcent Sleeping Coaches running through to Cleveland and Galion. Sleeping Coaches accompany the 11 a. in. train from Susquehannah to Buffalo; the 5:30 p. m. train from New York to Buffalo. and 7. p. in. train from New York to Hornellsville, Buffalo and Cincin- nati. An Emigrant Train leaves daily at 7:45 p. In. For Port Jervis and Way, 4:30 p. m. (23d st. at 4:15 p. in.) For Middletown and Way, at 3:30 p. in. i23d st, 3:15 p. m.); and, Sundays only, 8:30 a. in. (23d st., 8:15 a. m.) For Otisville and Way, at *7:30 a. in. (23d st, *7:15 a. m.) For Newburgh and Way, at 9 a. m.. 3:30 and 4:30 p. m. (23d st. 8:45 a. m., and 3:15 and 4:15 p. m.) For Suffern and Way, 5 and 6 p. II1. (23d st., 4:45 a.nd L5:45 p. In.) Theatre Train, *ll:30 p. in. (236. st., *11:15 p. in.) For Paterson and Way. from 23d st. _depot, at 6:45, 9:45 and 11:45 a. m.: *1:45, 3:45, 5:15 and 6:45 p. m. From Chambers st. Depot. at 6:45, 10 a. in ; 12 m.; *1:45, 4, 5, 5:15 and 6:45 p. m. For Hackensack and Hillsdale, from 23d st. Depot, at 8:45 a. in., and 12:45, 3:45, :5:15, 5:45 and :,6:45 p. in. From Chambers st. Depot, 9 a. m., and l, 4, 15:15, 6 and 16:45 p. in. For Piermont, N yack, Tallmans and Way, from 23d st. Depot, at 9:15 a. in ; 1:15. +3:l5, 4:15, 5:15 and +6:15 p. m., and Saturdays only, 't11:45 p. m. From Cham- bers st. Depot. at 9:30 a. m.; 1:30. +3:30, 4:15, +4:30, 5:15 and 6:30 p. m.; and Saturdays only, ’rl2 midnight. Tickets for Passage and for Apartments in Drawing- room and Sleeping Coaches can be obtained, and orders for the checking and transfer of Baggage may he left. at the Comna1iy‘s oﬁices. 241, 529 and 957 Broadway; 205 Chambers st.; 33 Greenwich st.; cor. 125th st. and Third ave,, Harlem; 338 Fulton st., Brooklyn, Depots foot of Chambers st. and foot of 23d st.. New York: No. 3 Excliange place, and Long Dock Depot, Jersey City, and of the Agents at the principal hotels L. D. RUCKER. ‘WM. R. BARR, Gen’l Sup’t. Geii‘l Pass’r Agt. Dec. 22, 1870. ' * Daily, it For Hackensack only. ‘r For Piermont and Nyack only. A TENNESSEE FARM FOR. SALE, LOCATED IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ABOUT 12 miles from Clarksville, which is one of the ﬁnest tobacco marts in the world. Contains 343 act-es—about one hundred in cultiva- tion, the rest covered with the best timber. Produces corn and tobacco, and yields the most abundant crops. It is on the north side of the Cum- berland River, about or 3 miles froma railway station. It is richly timbered and abundantly watered, and is in a very healthy section of country. There is a small Log-house upon it, occupied by Mr. Powell, who has rented and cultivated the farm for the last seventeen years. A better investment could not be made. Necessity alone compels its sale at present. Before ten years it will sell for $100 an acre. It,ougl_it to have been stated that the farm is about 31 miles from Nashville, the capital of the State. I gave $10,000 for the farm and will sell it at an ad- vance of $500. ’ ISABELLA G. PQLLICK. Americgﬂﬂ Plan PARIS sxeoeiron. tiiiiiiui i an TRIUMPHANI‘ AT THE I iisivsassi treasures, PARIS, 1867. CHCKERNG .& SONS WERE AWARDED THE Highest Recompense over all Competition, the Cross of the Legion of Honor, and FERST NEAL for the American Pianos, in all the three styles exhib- ited, viz. : Grand, Square and Upright. This award being distinctly classiﬁed by the Imperial Commis sion as ‘ FIRST IN THE ORDER OF MERIT, places the Pianos of Chickering & Sons at the head of the list, and above all other Pianos exhibited. A General Reduction in Price, and a strict adhesion to the ONE-PRICE SYSTEIPE, adopted by them April, 1869. Uniform and Fair Prices to all purchasers. In addition to their established styles of Pianos, Chickerin & Sons offer, for the use of Schools, Teach- ers and 0!. ers. wishing a good, reliable Piano at an exceedingly moderate price. The SCHOOL PIANO, a thoroughly complete in- strument of seven octaves, precisely the same in size, scale, interior mechanism and workmanship as their highest-priced 7-octave Pianos, the only difference being that the School Piano is made in perfectly plain case. It is in every respect a thoroughly First-Class Chickering Piano. and is offered at a price which can- not fail to give satisfaction. Chiekering & Sons also desire to call especial atten- tion to their new Patent Upright fishes. which, for power and quality of tone, delicacy of touch. perfection of mechanism and durability and eneral excellence of workmanship, with beauty of esigu and finish, cannot be excelled by any other Pianos of this style now offered. ~ Every Piano is fully Warraiited- WAREROOMS: No. 11 E. 14th Street, Between Union Square and Fifth avenue. mas. M. BRiiil‘0N’S FASHIONABLE No. 129 WEST 27TH STREET, Between 6th and 7th Avenues, NE W Y 0 R K .—. Mrs. M. Branton takes the pleasure in announcing to her lady patrons and the public generally. that she has opened the above Rooms, where HAIR-DRESS ING in all its branches will be carefully and promptly attended to. by her own personal supervision, and endeavor to receive the approbation of her lady’ patrons. The very latest and most fashionable style of HAIR-DRESSIN.G will be strictly followed. Old Hair made over in the latest style. PRICE LIST: Hair-Dressing at Residence, per week ......... ..$2 50“ “ “ “ , one time . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 00 “ “ Mrs. Branton’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Friends of Peace are invited to attend the Fifth Anniversary of the Universal Peace Union, Cooper Institute,,New York (Room, No. 24), on Wednesday, May10, 1871, at 10 A. 112., and 3 and 8 I’. M. In addition to the oﬂicers and members of the Union, and of kindred associations, the following speakers have been invited, and are expected to ad- dress the Convention: Julia Wari Howe, Elihu Burritt, Lucretia Mott, Hon. John B. Storm. Mrs. Lillie Devereiix Blake, Aaron M. Powell, Hon. George W. Julian, Mrs. Charlotte D. Wilbur, George Drury, j and others. , Admittance free. Annual dues and contributions may be sent to the Treasurer Ronnnr F. WALLCITT, S103 Springﬁeld Street, Boston. READ THIS! THE LOWEST PRICE LIST EVER PUBLISHED or W A T C H E S . In Solid Gold and Coin Silver only. BENEDICTS’ TIME VVATCH—PRICES. Silver Watch, Ovington Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $30 00 Gold (18 kt.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 90 (10. Silver Watch, Samuel W. Benedict . . . . . . . . . . .. 45 00 Gold (18 kt.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 105 00 AMERICAN WALTHAM WATCHES—PRICES. Coin Silver Hunting Watch, Wm. Ellery . . . . . . $19 00 Gold Hunting Watches, Gents’ Sizes . . . . . . . . .. . 0 Gold Hunting Watches, Ladies’ Sizes . . . . . . . .. 70 00 Sent to all parts of the country by Express, with privile e to examine before paying. , Sen for a Price List before purchasing elsewhere. BENEDICT BROTHERS, Jewelers and Keepers of the City Time, 691 BROADWAY, near Fourth Street, NEW YORK- PROPOSALS. DEPARTIIENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, NO. 237 Broadway-—To contractors-—Proposals enclosed in a sealed envelope, with the title of the work and the name of the bider indorsed thereon (also the number Of the work as in the advertisement), will be re- ceived. at this office until Monday, May 29, 1871, at 11 o’clock A. M., for the following works : No.1. For paving Thirty-first street, from Second avenue to East River, with Belgian pavement. No. 2. For paving Fortieth street, from Madison to Third avenue, with Belgian pavement. No.3. For paving Hubert street, from Hudson to West street, with Belgian pavement. N0. 4. For paving Franklin street, from West Broadway to West street, with Belgian paivement. ; No. 5. For paving Watts street, from Canal to West street, with Belgian pavehient. N0. 6. For sewer in Seventy-second street, between Avenue A and First avenue. No. 7. For sewer in Water street, between Gou.ver- neur and Jackson streets. No. 8. For sewers in Hudson street, between Bank and West Twelfth street, and between Horatio and Gansevoort streets. ‘ No. 9. For sewer in Fifth avenue, between Thirty- second and Thirty-third streets. No.10. For regulating, grading, curb, gutter and ﬂagging Sixty-ﬁfth street, from Ninth to Tenth ave- nue. , No 11. For regulating, grading, curb, gutter and ﬂagging Forty-seventh street, from First avenue to East River. No. 12. For ﬂa-rging Fifty first street, from'Broad- way to Eighth avenue. - No; 13. For ﬂagging Seventieth street, from Third to Fourth avenue. . No.14. For ﬂagging Seventy-seventh street,f1jom Third to Fifth avenue. . No.15. For furnishing this Department with 40 granite and 100’ bluestone basin-heads and their ap- purtenances. For furnishing this Department with 600 cast-iron manhole frames and covers. Blank forms of proposals, the speciﬁcations and agreements, the proper envelopes in which to inclose the bids, and any further information desired, can be had on application to the Contract Clerk at this oﬂice. WILLIAM M. TWEED, . Commissioner of Public Works. NEW YORK. May 17, 1871. PATENT srccaise snsrearss AND Lanins’ sacrncron. NO MORE COLD ,FEET—-NO MORE DEFORMED LIMBS. MRS. DANIELS takes pleasure’ in offering the above articles to ladies, with the assurance that they . will give satisfaction. The trade supplied at a discount. No. 63 Clarendon Street, BOSTON. on MRS. C. A. GAYNOR, 824 Broadway, New York. inns. nianrnis Kinder-Saiiten School, 696 BROADWAY, ALBANY, in. Y. PATRONS. Hamilton Harris, Esq. Isaac W. Vosburgh, Capt. Quackeiibush, U. S. A , Hon. W. B. La Beau, C. T. Shepard, S. A. Lush. REFERENCES. Thomas W. Olcott, Esq., J. H. Armsby, _M. D., Thurlow Weed, Esq., Alden March, M. D., G. H. Thacher, Mayor, Rev. I. N. Wyckoﬁ‘, D. 1)., Rev. W. B. Sprague, D. D. Rev. E. L. Maggoon, D.D,, Hon. Eli Perry, John 0. Cole, Esq., Edward C. Delevan, Charles Fayette Taylor, M. D., New York. Dio Lewis, Boston, M1SS., ’ la ,7 ¥ ,1 VW/ .. .. { If 14 Etluutlxsll & Elstlias atlecltlg. JUNE 3, 1871. BANKING HOUSE OF HENRY CLEWS & ce., No. 32 Wan Street. » Interest allowed on all daily balances of Currency or Gold. , Persons depositing with us can check at sight in the same manner as with National Banks. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand or at ﬁxed date, bearing interest at current rate, an available in all parts of the United States. Advances made to our dealers at all times, on ap- proved collaterals, at market rates of interest. We buy, sell and exchange all issues of Government Bonds at current market prices; also Coin and Coupons, and execute orders for the purchase and sale of gold, and all ﬁrst class securities, on com- mission. Gold Banking Accounts may be opened with us upon the same conditions as Currency Accounts. Railroad, State, City and other Corporate Loan , negotiated. Collections made everywhere in the United States, I’ anada and Europe. Dividends and Coupons collected. ,1, osjgomv. ADDISON CAMMACK. OSBOBN la CAMMACK, BANKERS No. 34.BROAD STREET. ’ 7 STOCKS, STATE BONDS, GOLD AND FEDERAL SECURITIES, bought and sold on Commission. sAM’L BARTON. HENRY ALLEN- BARTON & ALLEN, BANKERS AND BROKERS, No.40 BRO AD, STREET. Socks, Bonds and Gold bought and sold on com- mission. I R IL ROAD IRON, A FOR SALE BY S. W. HOPKINS & oO., 71 BROADWAY. MISS SIBIE O’HARA, Ladies’ Hair Dresser . AND OHILDRENS HAIR CUTTER, (Late with J. Hanney, of Baltimore,) No. 1302 F STREET, 2d door from Thirteenth, WASHINGTON, D. C. Braids, Curls and Fashionable Hair Work for Ladies onstantlyon hand. MISS INGRAHANPS FAR-FAlllEll SPIRIT BADGES, "CAN BE OBTAINED AT A 767 Sixth Avenue, And sent by Post throughout the country. Cures diseases chronic and acute, even where all the boasted remedies of the old-school practitioners have failed. ' All letters of application must contain $1. Addressed MISS A. S. INGRAHAM, 767 Sixth avenue, N. Y. 5. ll. A re. GENERAL AGENTS FOR WOODHULL & CLAFLIl\T’S WEEKLY FOR THE PACIFIC COAST. No. 12 MONTGOMERY STREET, San Francisco, Ca. WOODHULL, CLAFLIN & OO., Bankers and Brokers, No. 44 BROAD STREET, New York. I THE * LOANERS’ BANK OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER.) “ Continental Life " Building, 22 NASSAU, STREET, NEW YORK. CAPITAL ............ . .. .................. .. $500,000 Subject to increase to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,00 ,000 BOARD OF DIRECTORS: WILLIAM M. TWEED, A SHEPHERD F. KNAPP, A. F. WILMARTH, EDGAR F. BROWN, EDGAR W. CROWELL, ARCHIBALD M. BLISS, DORR RUSSELL. This Bank negotiates LOANS. makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES, and receives DEPOSITS. ‘ Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. 1 @“ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CURRENT BALANCES, and liberal facilities oﬁered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILLMARTH, Vice-President. “REAHTIES AND PCISSIBILITIES OF V AMERICAN WOMANHUUD.” Housekeeping & I-Iomekeep ing MRS. HELEN EKIN STARRETT has prepared and will deliver, during the ensuing season, a new lecture, entitled “HOUSEKEEPING AND HOME- KEEPING.” She will also deliver her lectures en- titled “MEN AND WOMEN,” and “REALITIES AND POSSIBILITIES OF AMERICAN WOMAN- HO0D,” which received the most ﬂattering testi- monials wherever delivered during the past seasons. Mrs. Starrett will make engagements with City Lyceums, as follows: ' One Lecture,- - - - $100 Tvvo Lectures, - - - - 150 SPECIAL TERMS TO SMALLER PLACES. BANKING HOUSE KOUNTZE BROTHERS, NEW YORK, if 14 WALL STREET. — Four per cent. interest allowed on all deposits. Collections made everywhere. Orders for Gold, Government and other securities executed. WM. DIBBLEE, LADIES’ HAIR DRESSER,’ 854 ‘Broadway, HAS REMOVED FROM HIS STORE TO THE EIRST FLOOR, where he will continue to conduct his business in all its branches TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. CHEAPER than heretofore, in consequence of the diﬁ"erence in ’ his rent. CHATELAINE BRAIDS, LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S WIGS, and everything appertaining to the business will be kept on hand and made to order. DIBBLEEANIA for stimulating, J APONICA for soothing and the MAGIC TAR SALVE for promoting the growth of the hainconstantly on hand. Consultation on diseases of the scalp, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. Also, his celebrated HARABA ERIN, or FLESH BEAUTIFIER, the only pure and harm- less preparation ever made _for the complexion. No lady should ever be without it. Can b.e obtained only at WM. DIBBLEE’S, 854 Broadway, up-stairs. lllDLANll BONDS sioo, $500 I and 0 $1,000. These favorite SEVEN PER CENT. BONDS are secured by a First Mortgage on the great Midland Railroad of New York, and their issue is strictly lim ited to $20,000 per mile of ﬁnished road, costing about $40,000 per mile. Entire length of road, 345 miles, of which 220 have been completed, and much progress made in grading the remainder. RESOURCES OF THE COMPANY. Full paid stock subscriptions, about. . . . _ . . . $6,500,000 Subscriptions to convertible bonds . . . . . . . . . . 600,000 Mortgage bonds, $20,000 per mile, on 345 miles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6,900,000 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,000,000. Equal to $40,000 per mile. The road is built in the most thorough manner, and at the lowest attainable cost for cash. The liberal subscriptions to the Convertible Bonds of the Company, added to its other resources, give the most encouraging assurance of the early completion of the road. The portion already ﬁnished, as will be ' seen by the following letter from the President of the Company, is doing a proﬁtable local business: NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 1870. Messrs. GEORGE OPDYKE & Co., New York: GENTLEMEN—Your favor of the 1st inst., asking for a statement of last month’s earnings of the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad, is at hand. I have not yet received a report of the earnings for November. The earnings for the month of October, from all sources, were $43,709 17, equal to $524,510 04 per -an- num on the 147 miles of road, viz.: Main line from Sidney to Oswego. 125 miles; New Berlin Branch, 22 miles. The road commenced to transport coal from Sidney under a contract with the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company in the latter part of November. The best informed on the subject estimate the quantity to be transported the ﬁrst year at not less than 250,000 tons, while some estimate the quantity at 300,000 tons. This will yield an income of from $375,000 to $450,000 from coal alone on that part of the road. Taking the lowest of these estimates, it gives for the 147 miles a total annual earning of $899,510 04. The total operating expenses will not exceed ﬁfty per cent., which leaves the net annual earnings $449,755 02, which is $214,555 02 in excess of interest of the bonds issued thereon I should add that the earnings from passengers and freight are steadily increasing, and that, too, without any through business to New York. Y rs truly, D. C. LITTLEJOHN, President N. Y. and 0. Midland Railroad Co. The very favorable exhibit presented in the for ego- ing letter shows that this road, when ﬁnished, with its unequaled advantages for both local and through busi- ness, must prove to be one of the most proﬁtable rail- road enterprises in the United States, and that its First Mortgage Bonds constitute one of the safest and most inviting railroad securities ever offered to in- vestors. I For sale, or exchanged for Government and other current securities, by GEORGE OPDYKE as 630., 25 Nassau Street. I MAXWELL & co.-, Bankers and Brokers, No. 11 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK. Sci-IOLARSI-er. Value $150. Will Sell It For -$100. It entitles the holder to attend as many regular lec- tures as he pleases until he is graduated. The institution is known as “ The Eclectic Med- ical College of New York,” the only one of the kind in the city, and is located at 223 East Twenty-sixth street. All particulars ascertained from PRoEr::~soR COMINS, 174 East Twenty-sixth Street, afew doors . from Third avenue. 8 Per Cent." Interest First Mortgage Bonds! 01‘ THE ST. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY RAILROAD COMPANY. Principal and Interest Payable in Gold. 105 MILES COMPLETED andin operation, the earnings on which are in excess of interest on the ‘total issue. Grading ﬁnished, and ONLY 6 MILES OF TRACK ARE TO BE LAID TO COMPLETE THE ROAD. ’ Mortgage at the rate of $13,500 per mile. Price 97% and accrued interest. We unhesitatingly recommend them, and will fur- nish maps and pamphlets upon application. W. P. CONVERSE as 00., ‘ 54 PINE STREET. TANNER & oo., 11 WALL STREET JOHN J. (31360 & SON, 9 No. 59 Wall Street, New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit, subject to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. . ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING-—HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent. interest. Loans negotiated. Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. Collections made on all parts of the United States and Canadas. HARVEY FISK. A. S. HATCH. OFFICE or FISK & HATCH. BANKERS. AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, No. 5 NAssAU STREET, N. Y., Opposite U. S. Sub-Treasury. We receive the accounts of Banks, Bank- ers, Corporations and others, subject to check at sight, and allow interest on balances. We make special arrangements for interest on deposits of speciﬁc sums for ﬁxed periods. We make collections on all points in the United States and Canada, and issue Certiﬁ- cates of Deposit available in all parts of the Union. A We buy and sell, at current rates, all classes of Government Securities, and the Bonds of the Central Paciﬁc Railroad Company; also, Gold and Silver Coin and Gold Coupons. We buy and sell, at the Stock Exchange, miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds, on commis- sion, for cash. Communications and inquiries by mail or telegraph, will receive careful attention. FISK & HATCH. A BEAUTIFUL SET OF TEETH, With plumpers to set out the cheeks and restore the face to its natural appearance. Movable plumpers adjusted to old sets, weighted Lower Sets, ﬁllings of . Gold, Amalgam, Bone, etc. TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN, With Nitrous Oxide Gas. No extra charge when others are inserted. SPLENDID SETS, $10 to $20. L. BERNHARD, No. 216 Sixth Avenue, Between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets east side. 1 .1‘ i it .2 4 , «-z-’'“‘: 9.._,,_. V , __,~_v:_ ,..<. ‘?“’ JUNE 3, 1871. ﬁwumllxull & ®Ia£1iu’5 swig. .15 JAMES M’CREEBY & C.. BROADWAY AND ELEVENTH STREET, ' On MONDAY, WILL OPEN A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF RICH LACE GOODS, Comprising _ REAL CHANTILLY SHAWLS, from $87 to $400. LLAMA LACE SHAWLS, in beautiful designs, from 15 to $75. LLAMA LACE SACQUES, the handsomest imported this season. REAL CHANTILLY SACAUES,‘from $100 to.$200. The largest assortment of Real THREAD AND GUI- PURE LACES ever offered. REAL POINT HANDKERCHIEFS, $2 to $75. REALt P$O3I0NT APPLIQUE HANDKERCHIEFS, $3 0 . ALL THE NEW STYLES IN POINT, POINT AP- PLIQUE AND DUCHESSE COLLARS, CAPES, BARBS, COIFFURES, etc. REAT VALENCIENNES SETS, SLEEVES, HANDKERCHIEFS, in styles, at very low prices. We will also open a magniﬁcent assortment of INDIA CAMELS’ HAIR SHAWLS, in beautiful de- signs and colorings, at extremely low prices. JAMES MIIREERY & CO., BROADWAY AND ELEVENTH STREET, On MONDAY, _ WILL MAKE A GRAND EXPOSITION OF NEW SPRING AND SUMMER SILKS, JUST RECEIVED, AT VERY ATTRACTIVE PRICES. MEDIUM COLORED STRIPED SILKS, at 871/§c., $1, $l.12}§ and $1.25 per yard. BLACK AND WHITE STRIPED SILKS, at $1.50 and $1.75 per yard. GRISAILLE STRIPED SILKS, $1.50 and $1.75 per yard. GRISAILLE STRIPED SILKS, extra qurlity, at $2 per yard. LIGHT COLORED STRIPES, in all the New Shades at $1.50, $1.75 and $2 per yard. COLORIED CHECK SILKS, at $1, $1.25 and $1.50 per yar . - STRIPED GAUZE DE CHAMBREY, in desirable shades and very ﬁne quality, at $1.37}§ per yard. A Full Assortment of PLAIN COLORED SILKS, In choice colors, at popular prices . Great bargains in BLACK SILKS, in all the celebrated mak 0 5. AMERICAN SILKS of approved makes. Also, an invoice of INDIA CAMEL’S HAIR SHAWLS, Of exquisite designs and colorings, in plain and ﬁlled centres, at less than cost of importation. SPRING AND SUMMER SHAWLS of every descrip- tion, imported ex ressly for our retail trade, at the lowest possib e prices. James M’Breery & 80., BROADWAY AND ELEVENTH STREET, WILL OFFER ON MONDAY, EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS in new SPRING AND SUMMER DRESS GOODS. AN IMMENSE ASSORTMENT of LISLE THREAD, NORWICH BYADERE STRIPED and CHECK ED WASHING POPLINS, at 25 cents per yard. ENGLISH REVERSIBLE DIAGONAL SERGES. A NEW FABRIC FOR SUITS, IN TWO SHADES, FOR TRIMMINGS, at 50 cents per yard. . FRENCH MOHAIRS. IN ALL THE NEW SHADES, VERY DESIRABLE FOR TRAVELING WEAR. AN ELEGANT STOCK OF‘ STRIPED AND FIG- URED GRENADINES. from 37% cents per yard. A FULL LINE OF ENGLISH BAREGES, at 20 and 25 cents per yard. BLACK IRON GRENADINES, IN ALL WIDTHS AND QUALITIES. SILK WARP MOHAIRS. SILK SERGES, PON- SATIN DE CHENE, IN ALL THE NEW S. JAPANESE SILKS, In Black and Gray Stripes A FRESH SUPPLY OF 4-4 PRINTED PERCALES, at 12% cents per yard. FRENCH BATTIEST CLOTH, FOR ROBES. A NOVELTY. COLLARS, the latest DELAINES AND GINGHAMS IN GREAT VARI- ETY. at 12% cents per yard. ALSO, A BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT OF INDIA SHAWLS AND SCARFS, AT PRICES LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE OFFERED. THE GOLDEN AGE, A NEW WEEKLY JOURNAL EDITED BY THEODORE TILTON, Devoted to the Free Discussion of all L-icing Questions in Church, State, Society, Liter tare, Art and Moral Reform. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY IN NEW YORK. Price Three Dollars a Year, Cash in Advance. MR. TILTON, having retired from THE INDEPENDENT and THE BROOKLYN DAILY UNION, will hereafter devote his whole Editorial labors to THE GOLDEN ‘ AGE. Persons wishing to subscribe will please send their names, with the money, immediately, to THEODORE TILTON P. 0. Box 2,848, NEW YORK CITY. R. LISTER, ASTROLOGER, 25 Lowell street, Boston. , For terms send for a circular. Hours, from 9 A. M. to P. M. _1 box, $ - L‘ D, CERTAIN, SAFE, EFFICIENT It is far the best Cathartic remedy yet discov- ered, and at once relieves andinvigorates all the vital functions, Without causing injury to any of ‘them. The most complete success has long attended its use in many localities, and it is now Offered to the general public with the conviction that it can never fail to accomplish all that is claimed for it. It produces little or no pain; leaves the organs free from irrita tion, and never overtaxes or excites the nervous sys- tem. In all diseases of the skin, blood, stoma_ch, bowels, liver, kidneys——of children, and in many diﬂi- : culties peculiar to Women—it brings prompt relief and certain cure. The best physicians recommend and prescribe it; and no person who once uses this will voluntarily return to the use of any other ca- thartic. _ , , Sent by mail on receipt of price and postage. 0 25 .................... ..Posta.ge 6 cents. 1 00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .- “ 18 “ 2 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. “ 39 “ It is sold by all dealers in drugs and medicines. TURNER & CO., Proprietors, 120 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass 5 boxes, 12 LL RECOMMENDED BY PRYSICIANS. BEST SALVE IN USE. Sold by all Dru gists at too cents. J HN F. HENRY, Sole Proprietor, No. 8 College Place, NEW YORK. RANDOLRHB CLOTHING EMPORIUM, 684 BROADWAY. Corner Great Jones Street. The Cheapest Place in: the 6 TE STOCK EXCHANGE BILLIARD ROGMS. Seven jirst—class Phelan Tables. 69 & 71' BROADWAY, (Nearly opposite Wall St.) Open from 7 A. M. to 7 P. M., exclusively for the Stock and Gold Boards and Bankers. The Fénestégualtttes of Imported Wines, Brandies and Cigars. Wholesale Store—71 BROAD WAY. I H N E A ll LT . PIAEOS! PIAEBS! CABINET ORGANS AND MELODEONS, AT MERRELIJS ' [Late Cummings], Piano Warerooms, No. 8 Union Square. A large stock, including Pianos of the best Makers, for sale cheap for cash, or to rent. Money paid for rent ap lied to purchase. Repairing done well and prompt y. Call and examine before deciding else- where. M. M. MERRELL, late Cummings, _ No. 8 Union Square. BOOTS & SHOES. PGRTER :& LISS. LADIES’, GENTS’ LAND MISSES’ BOOTS O 85 SHOES, ‘No. I 1,255 Broadway, Corner of Thirty-ﬁrst street, New York 111 (Opposite Grand Hotel and Cliﬂord House.) BOYS’ AND YOUTHS: BOOTS AND SHOES A SPECIAL TY, ROGNOSTIC ASTRONOMY: ASTRO-PHRENOLOGY ' as practiced by Dr.L. D. and Mrs. s.D.—’BoUeHToN . 3 ~ ~ 491 Broomestreet, New York City. - To know by sIGNs,' to judge the turns of fate, 18 greater than to ﬁll the seats of State ;, The ruling stars above, by secret laws, Determine Fortune in her second cause. These are a book wherein we all may read, And all should know who would in life succeed, What correspondent SIGNS in man display His future actions-—point his devious way ;—- Thus, in the heavens, his future fate to learn, The present, past and future to discern, Correct his steps, improve the hours of life, And, shunning error, live devoid of strife. Any ﬁve questions in letter, enclosing two dollars, promptly attended to. Terms of consultation from $1 to 5, according to importance. Nativities written from 5 upward. Phrenological examinations, verbal $1; with chart, $2. GUNERIUS HGABRIELSON, F L 0 R I S T , 821 BROADWAY, CORNER or TWELFTH STREET, NEW YORK. @°0hoice Flowers always on Hand.& E. D. SPEAR, M, D., Ofﬁce, 713 ‘Washington St... I BOSTON, MASS. The medical record of Dr. E. D. SPEAR, as a suc- , cessful physician in the treatment of chronic diseases, is without a parallel. Many are suffered to die who might be saved. Dr. Spear makes a direct appeal to ‘ the substantial, intelligent and cultivated citizens of our country, and asks that his claims as a physician of extraordinary powers may be investigated. It you are beyond human aid Dr. Spear will not deceive you. If you have ONE CHANCE he will save you. Come to his oﬂice and consult him. If you cannot visit, con- sult him by letter, with stam . Dr. Spear can be consulted at his oﬂice, 713 Wash- ington street, Boston, or by letter, with stamp, free of charge, upon ALL diseases. Those who have failed to be cured by other physicians are respectfully invited to call on Dr. Spear. ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERY. 7 $330,000 IN GOLD DRAWN EVERY 17 DAYS. Prizes cashed and information furnished. solicited and promptly ﬁlled. The highest rates paid for Doubloons and all kinds of Gold and Silver and Government Securities. TAYLOR & CO., BANKERS, No. 16 Wall Street. THE NATIONAL MONITOR, A RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Orders DEVOTED TO CHRISTIANITY, EDUCATION, INDUSTRY AND EQUAL RIGHTS. THE NATIONAL MONITOR represents directly over 250,000 of our colored citizens, and is one of t e very best mediums of communica- tion with them. . ‘I r TERMS: One copy for one year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2 00 One copy for six months . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 50 To »CLUBS3 Clubs of 20 to one address, for one year . . . . . . . .. 30 00 @ IN ADVANCE. __® Or, if not paid strictly in advance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 50 Money should be sent by Post office order or ‘Regis- tered Letter to THE NATIONAL MONITOR, Lock Box 602,’BroOklyn, N. Y. IT IS AN EXCELLENT MEDIUM FOR ADVER- TISING. BATES on ADVERTISING: First insertion 15 cents per line, and 10 cents per line for all subsequent insertions. 5 Special Notices 20 cents per line. ‘ Notices of Marriages and Deaths, not exceeding four lines, 25 cents. _ < All communications and exchanges for this paper must be addressed to V ‘ THE NATIONAL MONITOR,‘ \ LOCK Box 602, BROOKLYN, N. Y. SYPHER & 00., (Successors to D. Marley,) N 0. 557 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, ‘Dealers in MODERN AND ANTIQUE Furniture, Bronzes, CHINA, ARTICLES OF VERTU. ' Established 1826. THE BALTIMORE &. OHIO R. B. Is an Air-Line Route from Baltimore and Washington to Cincinnati, and is the only linerunning Pu1lman’s Palace Day and Sleeping Cars through from Washing- ton and Baltimore to Cincinnati without change. Louisville in 29,14 hours. - » Passengers by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have choice of routes, either via Columbus or‘Parkersburg. From Cincinnati, take the Louisville and Cincinnati Short Line Railroad. . Avoid all dangerous ferry transfers by crossing the great Ohio River Suspension Bridge, and reach Louis- ville hours in advance of all other lines. Save many miles in going to Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Savaiinah, Mobile and New Orleans ‘The only line running four daily trains from Cin-_ cinnati to Louisville. Silver Palace Sleeping Coaches at night, and splen- did Smoking Cars, with revolving arm chairs, on day v trains Remember! lower fare by no other route. To secure the advantages oifered by this great through route of Quick Time, Short Distance and Low Fare, ask for tickets, and be sure they read, via Louis- ville and Cincinnati Short Line R. R. , Get your tickets—No. 87 Washington street, Boston ; No. 229 Broadway. oﬂice New Jersey R. R., foot of Cortlandt street, New York; Continental Hotel, 828 Chestnut street, 44 South Fifth street, and at the depot corner ‘Broad and Prime streets, Philadelphia; S. E. corner Baltimore and Calvert streets, or at Camden Station, Baltimore; 485 Pennsylvania avenue, Wash- ington, D. C. ; and at all the principal railroad Oﬁices in the East. ‘ SAM. GILL, General ,Supt., Louisville, Ky. HENRY STEFFE, Gen. Ticket Agent, Louisville, Ky. SIDNEY B. JONES, Gen. Pass. Agent, Louisville, Ky. 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ANTHONY & CO., 591 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, Opposite Metropolitan Hotel, IMPORTERS AND MANUAFCTURERS or- PHO TO GRAPHIC MATERIALS. "THE BEST IS THE i,UHEAPE’ST.” , Being constructed with re ard to are used in all tests of skil . country, and in all ﬁrst-class clubs and hotels. Illus- trated catalogue of everything relating to billiards scientiﬁc accuracy, by the best players in the sent by mail. ’ 738 BROADWAY, New York City. RICHARDSON , & PHINNEY, I SHIP STORES‘ AND CEANDLERY, At Wholesale and Retail, . _ I . No, 36 South Street, New York. , L, E. Rmmnnson. H. H.‘ Pnnm: alumni: & trauma asmag. Junie 1871. ART, DRAMA AND MUSIC. NATIONAL ACADEMY or DESIGN.-—The Golden Age contains an elaborate four~column notice of Page’s 9‘ Head of Christ," of which itjustly says that it has excited more comment than any other picture in. the exhibition. The article is presumably from the pen of Theodore Tilton, and as Mr. Tilton is the fortu- nate owner of this picture, it is reasonable to infer that Mr. Tilton thinks very highly oi‘ the work. The world will scarcely, however, believe’ with him that he possesses the one perfect picture. He justiﬁes Page’s conception and treatment at every point. Christ being not only man, but God, we see in this head the renewal of that perpetual youth which is emblematic of Divinity—the Grecian ideal being the standard of Divinity. That the Greek was the most perfect of mortal types in art, that Greek perfection was perpetuated by the artists of that classic age, and imitated by the artists of the Renaissance, is not to be denied. But that Christ the man was a Jew- probably a red Jew like David——ruddy and fair, that the Jewish type was distinguished for, and that it is capable of expressing virile beauty, is equally not to be denied. It was not necessary for Mr. Page, as an artist, to have recourse to the Hellenic type. That is precisely the objection to modern art. Its highest eﬁbrts are imi- tative, tied down _by rules, ines and preconceptions. Because antiques are straight-nosed and low-browed. is there no beauty save in straight noses and low brows. Was the artist at liberty to convert a his- torical personage, notoriously a Jew, without a taint of foreign admixture in his blood, into a Greek. What was Christ on earth? A man of the people, the son of a carpenter; by the legend of the early ' church assisting his father in his trade and handi- craft ; by the gospel account, a thinker, an ob- server, an enthusiast, an idealist, a man deeply con- scious of the things seen and unseen. All this is consistent with homelincss of person, as in Socrates, or with beauty of person as in Raphael or Da Vinci. But there are no facts on which to rely. In our ideal of unknown excellence we always associate personal beauty with qualities of soul. But it is not necessary to violate probability by a recourse to im~ possible types. This is on the assumption that Mr_ Page has given us a picture that gives the world as- surance of a perfect man—nay, more, of the Man Di- vine. Now, as we look at the picture, it seems to us that Mr. Page has come nearer the real than ideal——, Christ, the son of the Carpenter, is before us. Strong, manly, capable of “ doing” much—perhaps with those full lips, eloquent; certainly sensuous—-those blue eyes, which wear not the “introspective” cast that Mr. Tvlton ascribes to them, but the faamilir expres- sion of observing an object far behind the audience, looking into a far vista of life or the drealnland, ele- vate the face from the grosser ideas with which the . very strong features are replete. Another critic has found in this royal head an expression of the “ Evolution? theory—close at hand a manly face, afar off anoval of madonna delicacy. This is pure bosh. Mr. Page probably intended to give us the face of a man—young, vigorous, with capabilities of action—something, in short, different from the delicate, reﬁned, sensitive, effemillate faces that church art has created and p‘”€-f1’i'1i1.etuated. In this Page has succeeded. Whether the Greek be better than — the Jew for that purpose may be questioned. The artiﬁﬁdérhaps, intended to give us a generic type of the universal man which included both Jew and Gen- tile; and, indeed, we incline to think that the features before us have quite as much of the Saxon as of the Greek——the Christ expression being derivable from the eyes and from the hair, to the arrangement of which we are already familiarized. But surely Mr. Tilton exceeds the limit when he says that the hair of Page’s Venus is the most perfect ever put on canvas. -o—————~ SUGGESTIONS OF OPERA BOUFFE. The poets are never conventional. They have ever dreamed of that golden age of bliss and innocence, “ where love is liberty. and nature law.” Entire freedom of life and conversation, restrained only by politeness. “ The virtue of the soul, or the sense of what is due to the freedom of others,is the aspiration of all developed humani1y_.”_ _ _ The most orthodox of dlvines, if he be a classical scholar, feels no wrong in that attribute of comedy which makes the married man the butt and the lover the favori:e, the protest of love against selﬁsh pos- se.-sion. though he may consider it necessary to up- hold marriage, as he does the church, as a sort ‘of Providential break or hold back upon liberty in its tendency toward license. _ The men of genius of all ages were all free-th1nk- ers and free-lovers. l The marriage institution, so sacred to the com- mon place soul, is as little regarded in art as it-is in the drama of human life, which art imagines. This is prettily illustrated in 0ﬁ'enbach‘s charming opera of " La Belle Helene,” so admirably put upon the stage lately at Flsk‘s Opera House. Aimee plays the lively lady, who prefers the Bar- dan shepherd to the nxorions king with_ charmillg vivaclty. Indeed, this travestie of Grecian life is graphically put before the audience. The music is redolent with graceful rollick and heartfelt abaildon- merit; full ofthat combination of inspirating mel- ody, and tempering harmony, so characteristicof the composer. The orchestradeserve commendation for the skill with which they render the delicate H accom- paniments and bold instrumerltation of Offenbach. The concerted pieces are admirably done. The scenery, in the last act, in the Isle of Cyprus, is worthy of comment; and the graceful nymphs 01 the ballet enliven it with one of those magic dances, ‘into which they throw all the resources of their won- derful art, illustrative of the almost inconceivable capabilities of the human anatomy under culture. _ Those who delight in diversiﬁed mirth, provoking and picturesque entertainments, should be g_ratcf_u to Mr. Fisk for his skill, taste, and ingenuity, _in supplying this want. _ _ , . ‘ . The sparkling and fascinating Perslni portrays, be- witchingly, the character of the boy Orestes. These French opera bouifes instruct us towards the attainment of greater social freedom. “ When from the lips of truth, one mighty breath Shall. like a whirlwind. scatter in its breeze The whole dalk pile of human mockeries, Then shall the reign of mind commellce on earth, And starting fresh as from a second birth, _ Man, in the sunshine of the world’s new sprin , Shall walk transparent, like some holy thing.’ In former times of Tostee, these operas were fre- quented principally by the French. They now at, tract apparently more . thoroughly American audiences. infusing some liberality of artistic per- ception, instead of catering merely to minds exhaust- ed with amusement, or to mere dissipation of ennui. Let those who desire to study the old and oft re- peated comedy of love, go and see the lover-like type ill Paris; who, disguised in the habit of a high priest ofVenus, carries off his prize in the judgment of beauty; the crowd, sympalhizing, as is true to nature, more with the lover than the husband. ‘ FRANCES Ross: MACKINLEY. DEAR WEEKLY. Allow me to call your attention and that of all lovers of art to an oil—painting now on exhibition at thegallery of the Union League Club House. Among the ierras, it is entitled, representing a sun-set on those mountains so celebrated for their beauty. The Western horizon gl-lws with ﬁre from the de- parting sun, gilding and fringing the crimson and purple clouds, and bathing the whole scene in a rich warm coloring. Lights again the almost tropical vallies; discovers the glisten of the ribbon of water winding at the base of a distant mountain. and touches the edges of the rocky cliff, with something of the glory of the day, dying in the sky. The moun- tain-stream dashes along at the base of the cliﬁ‘. and another still nearer in the foreground, leaps to meet it in dashing wave and cascade. A fallen tree placed across it serves to show that even in this wild canon the foot of, man has trod. The artist, Miss Hattie N. Clark. now twenty-four years of age, is a. native of New Haven, Coiln., but spent her childhood in Louisville, Ky. Her artistic dreams and aspirations possessed her soul at an early period, but the way was not opened for her study in that direction until years after. Promised a course of art-study and development the ensuing fall, and disappointed in its realization. the next season named as a period at which the attainment of her hopes and desires. might be certain. Again the inevitable something intervened, and after years, literally full of promises. she was at last enabled to start for New York, where for three winters, she de- voted herself to unremitting study and work. Two years at the schools of design, Cooper Union, and, the third under the instruction of Prof. F. ltendel. an eminent artist of the French school of coloring- Having been called holnc to her parents. now re- siding in Sacramento,Cal.,she was obliged to abandon her loved pursuit in this City. With the anticipation of returning East to complete her study the following fall, she took her departure via Union Paciﬁc R. R.. the 14th of March, 1870. The journey was replete with interest, and almost a continual ovation. Such diversity of scene as glided by, like a mighty moving panorama. in which the boundless prairies, the settlements here and there appearing, having. seemingly. like Jonahs gourd, sprung up in one night, busy with life and enterprise. 'l‘lle red huttes, the mad torrents, palisades. at an altitude of 8,000 feet, and towering up at an almost appalling height. Devil‘s Gate and Devil’s Slide. of the Rocky Mountains, the miles of desert, alkali and sage-brush; the picturesque groups of noble red men, as spoken of by the Plophet Fennilnore Coop- er. arrayed in rnuch—soiled and worn blankets; bars of grease and felt, surmounted by a. ﬁne rooster- feather. and promenading in all the uncut glory of a pair of boots.notmates ; squaws with thick black hair, similar in texture to that ofahorse’s mane, though not nearly so ﬁne; papposes. with list in mouth staring with bright, animated eyes. evidently con- tent in their bright mummy—like wrappings. ’ The beautiful great Salt Lake, with the Wahratch mountains standing guard with dazzling shows, and shadows blue as indigo, soft and velvety, all mingled and dissolved again to give place to succeeding views The snow-sheds, fortyone miles long. with sleigh WOMAN ITEMS. At the Manchester (England) Police Court two men were brought up in custody, charged with being drunk and disorderly. When arrested, both’ prisoners were respectively attired in male costume. While they were at the police-station. the inspector was struck with the appearance of the smaller of the two, and after looking close at the prisoner, said: “ Why, you are a woman.” ‘ She admitted the fact, and told a remarkable story of her adventures. Sixteen years ago s e and her husband were schoolmaster and schoollnistress at a national school at Gloucester. Her husband lost his sitliation through drinking, and subsequently they both learned the art of house paint- ing. Her husband made her out off her hair and sell it, dress herself as a man, and go about the country with him. She had worked with men on high build- been separated from her husband for some years, and the other prisoner was her nephew, and she always passed as his uncle. The usual penalty for drunken- ness was inﬂicted, and the woman went off in her male attire. |_Here, now. is a case in which a woman of energetic character proves her ability to do man’s work. It may or may not be desirable that women should pur- sue muscular employments. But the special ﬁtness lodged in the attire. Who would have given this woman work as a house—painter had she been in hoop- skirts and female ﬁxings *2] A Washington correspondent says that, though the marriage of his daughter’ Jessie to Fremont was much against the wishes of Thomas H. Benton, he allowed the wedding to take place at his own house, and afterward carried the notice to the oﬁice of the Globe, The elder Blair, reading over the notice, re- marked: "This is not the usual form, Colonel. It reads that Miss Benton marries Ml‘. Fremont. Per- mit me to transpose it.” " No, sir,” replied Benton, very emphatically. “Let it stand. John Charles Fremont did not marry Jessie Benton; Jessie Benton married John Charles Fremont. sir." Miss Ellen Hammond, daughter of Dr. Justus Ham- mond. of Danielsonville, was one of the graduates of Women‘s Medical College, of New York, at the re- cent commencement. and will have charge of her l'ather‘s practice during his absence to the Legislature, to which he has been recently elected. The witty journals make a raid on the young ladies who miss the chance of waltzing with the Czarowitch that didn‘t come. For one woman that cries “ what a pity,” there are a hundred politicians and journalists who mourn their lost chances of mak- ing points. Adalinc Patti, upon one of her recent beneﬁt nights at St. Petcrsburg, was called before the curtain twenty-ﬁve times: three times she was sent for to come to the Imperial box, and was presented with diamonds and other jewels, valued at 50,000 francs. Boston girls, as a rule, are the most intellectual, New York girls the most stylish, Brooklyn girls the most “ﬂt7'-zfa.tious," Philadelphia girls the most lady- llke, Baltimore girls the prettiest, alld Chicago girls the most extravagant. So says an exchange. _ Fontenelle being asked one day by a lord in wait- ing at Versailles. what difference there was between raclock and woman, instantly replied: “A clock serves to point out the hours, and a. woman to make us forget them.” Mrs. Henry VVood, the English novelist, is reported to have not realized not less than £20,000 by the sale of her setsational stories, which at first she could not induce any publisher to look at. breaks inervening near. and at the summit of the Siena Nevadas. are reached, and votv d a necessary, though abominable evil. The smoke from the loco- motive, so nnavoidablyconﬁned. ﬁnds its way into the train, until every coach is nauseatingly full. Emerging from these. and commencing the descent, one of the two lo omotives is withdrawn, and snow- covered trees, and drifts of twenty and thirty feet deep left behind, and a milder climate attained in three quarters of an hour. A little verdure now appears, and the varied scenes becolne more grand and beautiful. A glance upward, anrl the summit appears at a. distance. now clothed in shining white. It recedes, and, finally, disappears. Purple mollu- tains, slopes of green velvet. limpid streams, wild gorges, down whose precipitous sides goats are springing; trussel-bridges, of a length and height almost unprecednted in the way of bridges, and calcu- lated to give one a de,':ree of dizziness. in contemp- lating, when the iron- horse stops to rest mid-way. In doubling Cape Horn. the scenery is unsurpassed in grandeur. Far beneath you in the valley, behold a log-house, which, from its distancni seems a boy affair! Environing the vale are mouﬂfins. a delicate green where the light falls, and thclg, rich purplish shadows varying and tolling the tillas. In the dis- tance glides the American river, a silver thread. The climate waxes warmer, and wraps are burdensome. Houses appear, embowered in groves; peach-trees in the yards, drifted with pink blossoms. Golden pop- pies, brilliant scarlet, purple and blue ﬂowers nod 10 the gentle breeze among the green grass. The shrubs and bushes abound luxuriantly, with leaves and blos-' some of every hue. and the whole scene is enchant- ingly lovely and voluptuously beautiful. The mining district, through which the route lies, is supposed L0 be mostly washed out. From immense distances, up the mountains, water is forced through the water boxes, and in hydraulic mining, are shot fl‘r:IIl this power, through the hose, tears asunder rocks. In passing over the foot-hills, numbers of Chillamen, repairing the road, are to be encountered, and, on arriving at Sacramento, they seem absolutely to comprise nearly one half the population, so often is the “Heathen Chinec.” “with smile that is child- like and bland,” to be met with. Miss C——— was particularly impressed with the beauty of a certain scene among the Sienas. and by the aid only of her memory, the above mentioned picture was painted. She was busily enga ed upon it for nearly two months, and when tinis ed, several residents in, and natives of. California, recognized at once the locality which furnished the subject for the painting, as near the head of the Truckee‘ River, pronounced it correct as a sketch from nature, and declared it true in point of coloring. Owing to the extraordinarily depressed state of monetary affairs all through the Paciﬁc coast last year, it was found impossible for her to come East to perfect herself lll her pursuit. as anticipated. It was not the ﬁrst time, however, she had aimed at the hill difficulty, and her desire and ambition prompted her to various efforts, all of which Jailed ill success, exhausted inventive faculty, and dlscouraged her in all attempts. She has ﬁnally brought her picture to New York. in the hope of realizing suﬁicient from the proccedsof its sale, to enable her to continue her study and work where there are so great facilities and advantages for, and so much sympathy with, this interesting, beautiful and profitable pursuiil N C ..:.:_.._.é.—-————-——-—- Mus. H. B. Srown is amusing the readers of the Christian Union with a story, chieﬂy composed of watered ideas, in whichshe arrays the Bible against the modern view of Woman’s rights, and makes a feeble effort to be sarcastic at the expense of her sisters, who are honestly seeking what they deem PIANOS l PIANOS 2 EANNET REANS AND MELODEONS, ?1llEP.RELL’S, [Late Cummings,] Piano Wztrerooms, No. 8 Elnlioln Square. A large stock. including P.anos of the best Mak- ers, for sale cheap for cash, or to rent. Money paid for rent applied to purchase. Repairing done well before de- and promptly. Call and examine in. M. MERRELL, L ATE C UMMINGS, their rights. No. 8 Union Square. ings in London without fear of detection. She had. I-IESPERIA; I AN EPIC THE PAST AND FUTURE - OF AMERICA. - BY MRS. CORA L. V. TAPPAN. One Volume lﬂmo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Price $1 75 THEME. Astreea, the Genius of Liberty and J usticc, seeks a dwelling place upon earth. Persecuted alld driven from laild to land, she follows the evening star and ﬁnds at last a beautiful kingdom in the Western world; this becomes her home and the birth place of her beloved daughter Hesperia. Erotion, the Genius of Love and Fidelity, the hus- band of Astree and father to Hesperia, after many wanderings in search, at lastjoilis the objects of his love and care. Reunited, they preside over this new land and seek to preserve it for their child‘s inheri- tance They are recognized and cherished by a small band of devoted lollowers, who summon them to their counsels in the city of Fraternia. At ﬁrstliberty and love prevail, but Austrae dis—. covers the presence of a serptllt who breathes on her a subtle poison, and she (with El‘O(lOll) is slain. Llamia, the serpent ol policy, illen Controls and takes in charge the beautilul child Hesperia, seeking to unite her in marriage to her foul son Slave;‘y— who must be nameless evernlore; but Hcsperia is warned by the Genius of Nature, calios, who, in the gu1se_of a poet and magician, holds sway even over Llamia. When Hesperia beholds him she recognizes her soul's counterpart, and is prepared, by his words and love to resist all the evil machinations of Llamia, and her son. ' - ‘ Llamia, however, holds temporary power over the form of Hesperia, and succeeds in throwing a spell around the maiden which she vainly imagines will prove fatal; the love of her parents and Calios rouses her spirit, and with them she withdraws into the world of souls, where, for a time, she be-holds the scenes enacted under the influence of Llamia. She witnesses in Alhenia and Crescelltia deeds of horror and the tortures inﬂicted upon the oppressed. Calios sings to her in plaintiff songs of these down-trodden ones, lures her by the voice ol' nature. and in inter- ludes of Love and Truth seeks to win her back to her earthly kingdom. Long years does Llamia hold sway, and at last wakens the voice of war; when Astraea, not dead, but only withdrawn for a space, tulns the sword of Llamia upon her son. Through long suffering is Hespcria made strong and pure. She listens to the voice of nature’s chil dren, and their tortures cease ; slavery and war are known no more. Astraea and Erotloli are again the attendant and abiding souls of this fair land: they witness with rapture and behcdictions the union of Calios and Hespel-ia, who rule with undivided sway over the most lovely empire ol‘ the earth.. Published and for Sale Wholesale and Retail by S. F. TAPPAN & CO., 136 8th St., bet. Broadway and 4th ave., NEW YORK. QUESTIONS OF TO-DAY. By DAMON Y. KILGORE Published by Hurd & Houghton, New_York. OPINIONS on THE rnnss. “An elegant pamphlet.”,—Christian Advocate, Nash- ville. “ A valuable work.”—Christian Standard. “ It contains some very sound and sensible advice.” ——Am. Baptist. " It is an eloquent discussion of the ‘ Questions of to-day.’ "——Massachusetts Ploughman. “It is the best private address we have evel seen.” Newport News. " This oration, we must admit, is a production of rare eloquence.”—-Methodist Home Journal, Philadel- phia. “ It takes the right ground on the questions of which it treats, and defends them with much force and ability.”——The Nation. “It should be read by all who are watching the signs of the times, and preparing themselves for the coming struggles of thought and action."—Christian Sun. “The author of the oration is a profound thinker and a strong reasoner, and he has consequently treat- ed each one of the questions which he regards of ‘ To- day,’ in a most able and masterly manner.”-—Spring- ﬁeld Union, Mass. Price, 15 cents. For sale by all newsdealers, and wholesale by Central News Co., 505 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. OFFICE or BIBLE Bnornnns. PUBLISHERS, No. 75 BLEECKER ST. NEW Yonn, May 13, 1871. EDITORS WooDnULL & CLAir*LlN‘s VVEEKLY1 The lamentable failure of the party now in power, after six year.-: of ordinary and extraordinary legisla- tion, to restore our Southern States to a condition of friendliness, peace and prosperity, and the consequent continued burdening of our Northern States with the great bulk of an oppressive national debt, is but one of many weighty reasons why our people are begin- ning to look forward. hopefully and with conﬁdence, to the formation of a new and better political organ- ization. The fullest and best expression that we have yet seen of this new need of the people is, as we think, embodied in Mr. Helper’s latest work, just is-ued by us, entitled " Noon-day Exigencies ill America.” Herewith we send you a copy of the book, trusting that you will give it a careful perusal. especially the chapter headed "The Necessity for the Formation, and Suggestions for Some of the Basis, of a New Political Party.” We doubt not that. if the work commends itself to your good judgment, you will further the obj: ct ofits inception and publication. You will not mil to ob- serve, by reference to the dedication and other por- tions of the work, that the author has given special attention to the rights of labor and to the general in- lerests of the workingmen and workingwomen of the country. More especially would we request your perusal of the matter on and between pages 23 and b5 believing as we do that on those pages you will find thoughts and facts of prime importance to the noblest woman- hood of the future. - Yours, very respectfully, ' BIBLE Bnowuirhs.
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Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1871-06-03_03_03
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 04, no. 02 (November 25, 1871)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1925
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1871-11-25
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: .. #—— .3 V __ I—I—I—a Ill [nth Milli ‘_ ll - 3 7;‘ ~'3'1‘1lE'1w , . Ll W3 ‘Wig. Al.--.370. ‘2.-WHCLl:‘«. No. 80. NETW YORK, NOVEMBER 25, 18701. saris 3. arses a son, BANKERSI info. as ‘Wall Street, New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit, subject to ‘ check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING—BOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent. interest. Loans negotiated. . Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. Collections made on all parts or the United States and Canadas. THE LOISLNERS’ BANK THE} CITY YORK (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTEIF) “ Continental Life ” Building, as NASSAU srnnnr, NEW YORK. O.s_Pi1“AL .............. ... ................ . . $500,000 Subject to increase to .....
Show more.. #—— .3 V __ I—I—I—a Ill [nth Milli ‘_ ll - 3 7;‘ ~'3'1‘1lE'1w , . Ll W3 ‘Wig. Al.--.370. ‘2.-WHCLl:‘«. No. 80. NETW YORK, NOVEMBER 25, 18701. saris 3. arses a son, BANKERSI info. as ‘Wall Street, New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit, subject to ‘ check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING—BOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent. interest. Loans negotiated. . Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. Collections made on all parts or the United States and Canadas. THE LOISLNERS’ BANK THE} CITY YORK (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTEIF) “ Continental Life ” Building, as NASSAU srnnnr, NEW YORK. O.s_Pi1“AL .............. ... ................ . . $500,000 Subject to increase to .............. . .7 ..... . . l,00,000 This Bank‘ negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES, and receives DEPOSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. 3%“ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CURRENT BALANCES, and liberal facilities oifered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President. A. F. WILLMARTH, Vice-President. 1 HARVEY rrsn. , ‘ CFFECE OF FISK & HATCH. an N K E R s, Ann DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, No. 5 Nussnu srmrnr, N. Y., A. S. HATCH. Opposite U. S. Sub-Treasury. We receive the accounts of Banks, Bank- ers, Corporations and others, subject to check at sight, and allow interest on balances. ‘We make special arrangements for interest on deposits of speciﬁc sums for ﬁxed periods. We make collections on all points in the United States and Canada, and issue Certiﬁ- cates of Deposit available in all parts of the Union. We buy and sell, at current rates, all classes of Government Securities, and the Bonds 01 , the Central Paciﬁc Railroad Company; also, Gold and Silver Coin and Gold Coupons. We buy and sell, at the Stock Exchange, I miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds, on commis- sion, for cash. , . Communications and inquiries by mail or telegraph, will receive careful attention. FISK «S HATCH. \ RAILROAD "IRON, FOR SALE BY s. W HOPKINS & oo, .71 BROADWAY. CALDWELL a 00., BANKERS, ' 27 Wall st. New York. Order for Purchase and Sale of United States Securities, Stocks, Bonds and Ameri- can Gold promptly executed at $34; commission. ‘Collections promptly made in all parts of the ‘United States and Canada.‘ @‘’Interest, 4 per cent., allowed on de- posits, subject to sight draft. '28 to 103. ' NATIONAL SAVINGS BANK. THE FREEDMANS SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY. (Chartered by the Government or the United States.) DEPOSITS OVER $3,000,000. 185 BLEECKER STREET, NEW YORK. SIX PER CENT. interest commences ﬁrst of each month. Four per cent. allowed from date of each deposit for full number of days, not less than thirty, on sums of $50 and upward, withdrawn before January. DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES, as safe as Registered Bonds, and promptly available in any part of the United States, issued, payable on demand, with in ierest due. Accounts strictly private and conﬁdential. Deposits payable on demand, with interest due. Interest on accounts of certiﬁcates paid by check to depositors residing out of the city if desired. Send for Circular. ~ Open daily from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., and «MONDAYS and SATURDAYS from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. J OHN J. ZUILLE, Cashier. New roan SAVINGS BANK, Eiglil Are..cor.FuuIlae11In S1. « allowed on all sums from $5 to $5,000. Deposits made on or before August 1‘will draw interest from August 1. Assets, $2.473.303 05. Surplus, $200,272 95. S. .3. & F. BROKERS, ' ill GDLS, Sl'0£iiS & No. 7 NEW STREET, new roan. ‘C. 'J. ossour-I. SIX PER CENT. INTEREST ADDISON CAMMACK. CSBORN & CAMMACK, BANKERS, No. 34‘ BROAD STREET. sroons, STATE nouns, GOLD AND FEDERAL SECURITIES, bought andsold on Commission. BANKING nonsn OF HENRY GLEWS & On... No. 32 Wall Street, N. Y. Letters of Credit for travelers, also Commercial Credits issued, available throughout the world. 0 Bills of Exchange on the Imperial Bank of London, National Bank of Scotland, Provincial Bani; of Ire- land. and all their branches. . V , . Drafts and Telegraphic Transfers on Europe, San Francisco, the West Indies and all parts of the United Slates. * Deposit accounts received in_ either Currency or Coin, subject to check at sight, which pass through the Clearing-House as if drawn upon any city bank; 4 per cent. interest allowed on all daily balances; 0- Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued; Notes, Drafts and Coupons collected; advances made onapproved col.- laterals and against merchandise consigned to our care. Orders executed for Investment Securities and Railroad Iron. _ ~ Cnnws, Hnnrcnr & CO., _11 Old Broad street, London. \ s TANNER & CO., BANKERS, No. 114WALL STREET, NEW YORK, nmnnns IN ' STOCKS, BONDS, GOLD AND EXCHANGE. ORDERS EXECUTED AT THE STOCK AND GOLD EXCHANGES. Inrnnnsr ALLOWED on Dnnosrrs SUBJECT mo CHECK AT SIGHT. Buy‘ and sell at current market rates, the FIRST MORTGAGE EIGHT (8) PER PER CENT. GOLD BONDS of the ST. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY RAILROAD COMPANY. * _ Interest, payable August and February, in New York, London, or Frankfort-on-the-Main, free of United States taxes. Present market quotations, 97% 9. 98%c. and interest. 0 . TANNER & CO., No. 11 WALL srnnrrr. 56 107 Rail . Road Bonds. ST, Louis cm‘ , ,WheTther you wish to‘ Buy or Sell " write to CHARLES WV. HASSLER, No. 7 WALL STREET, New York. 4 62-74 SIX PER cam‘ com) nouns. Twenty Years to run. We offer $400,000 at as and accrued interest. Jameson, snirn 85 COTTING, ~ ‘ A ~ 14. Broad Street -.. 2% I PRICE. FIVE 4 New roan STATE EAILRGAD ENDS; I A First,»-Glass Esme Investment. Freer moarcses %LD,BONDS OF‘ THE RAILROAD. Pirirrcipa-.5 & interest Payable in ’ Gold. ‘ Seven per Cent. Semi-Annually. This Road covers 100 miles of the most direct pose sible line, between the Great Lakes and deep water navigation on the Hudson River, the whole line of which will becompleted and in operation on or, be- fore October 1st, 1872, and give a. new line of road to Lake Ontario and the West, 25 miles shorter than any line that can be found. ber regions of Ulster County, and the rich, agricul- of which have not heretofore been reached by railroad facilities, and from which sections, the formation of the country prevents the construction of a competing line. The 36 miles ofrroad operated for three months is already paying net earnings equivalent to 7 per cent. The issue of Bonds is limited to $20,000 per mile of COMPLETED ROAD, the coupons payable in goldin this city. PRICE OF THE BONDS, 90 IN CURRENCY. Full particulars of the above maybe had of,’ the Bonds for sale by rats sight Eta, 9 Wall Street, YORK-‘CITY. 56 Financial Agents of the R. & 0. Company. rmnnnr savrrses OBANKE, /0 32 NASSAUSTREET, N. Six Per Cent... Interest Allowed. nterest commences on the 1st of each month. HENRY R. CONKLIN. ‘ WM. van mum, Secretary. ‘ - 00:83 It passes through the Cement, Flag~Stone'and Lum , tural bottoms of Delaware and Greene Counties, all , gold‘, on its cost of construction and equipments.‘ and. ’?resident._ ,, - / No. 229 Broadway. ofiice New Jersey R. R. _ l -woonrinnn t cr.ArL1n’s WEEKLY.‘ ' trsosseoius I ‘L.ookwo:o?o,. '_'Late United States Consul to the Kingdom Of H8-1}0- ver. Author of “Transatlantic Souvenirs.” Translator of Renan’s “ St. Paul," etc._ 1.‘ "CQUNT Brsnuncx, run GREAT PRUssrAN*PnE- mun.~” 2.““NAr1oNALrrY AND Nomnrrr." '3. WornaN’s Facns.’ 4. “Basins.” . (New Lecture.) Although one of the youngest? in thelecture-ﬁeld, K Mr. Lockwood’s success has been most ﬂattering, and press-notices, indorsing his rare abilities,_have‘been received from all places where he has lectured. The following is a sample: . Ingersoll Lockwood, of New York, is one of the most popular lecturers in the country. He has been a foreign minister of the government (when only twenty-one years old). and is one of the most genial speakers of the present day.—[Evening Mail.] . . . .The lecture was interesting; exhibits a wonderful recon- diteness in the subject, and presents an array of on- rious facts. Though exhausting the subject, he did not exhaust the audience, which listened to -it with pleasurable delight.—[N. Y. Herald] . ...The lecture delivered last evening, before the Youncr Men’s Asso- ciation, by Ingersoll Lockwood, on ‘Count Bis- marc ,” was a very ﬁne eﬁbrt in_deed.—-[Troy Ex- nress.]....A cod audience-was in attendance at Tweddle Hallg, last evening, to listen. to Ingersoll ‘ Lockwood, of New York, on Ceunt,Bismarck. Mr. Lockwood is a distinct, clear and “powerful sp_eake_r, and showed throughout apcrfect Iamlliartty with his. subject. His presentation of the facts of the €.‘ount’s life, and estimate of his character, were so well done as to make his lecture full of interest and proﬁt.-[AL bany Journal.]....'Bri1liant and .mast_erly.—[E. S. Journal, White Plains] . . . .An excellent lecturer. An eloquent description of the life and character of the- great Prussian Premier.—-[S. S. Republican.) . . . .Mr. ockwood’s oratorical powers are well known.—,, [Borne J ournal.] Terms, $100, with modiﬁcations. 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Avoid all dangerous ferry transfers by crossing the great Ohio River Suspension Bridge, and reach Louis- ville hours in advance of all other lines. Save many miles in going to Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, Atlanta. Savannah, Mobile and New Orleans. The only line running four daily trains from Cin- cinnati to Louisville. ._ Silver Palace Sleeping Coaches at night, and splen- grid Smoking Cars, with revolving arm chairs, on day ams Remember! lower fare by no other route. To secure the advantages olfered by this cat through route of Quick Time, Short Distance an _ ow Fare, ask for tickets, and be sure they read, via Louis- ville and Cincinnati Short Line R. R. Get your tickets—No. 87 Washington street, lioston; oot of Cortlandt street, New York; Continental liiotel, 828 Chestnut street, 44 South Fifth street, and at the depot corner Broad and Prime streets, Philadelphia; S. E. . corner Baltimore and ‘Calvert streets, or at Camden Station, Baltimore; 485 Pennsylvania avenue, ﬂash- ington D. C.; and at all the principal railroad Oﬂices in the est. 7 SAM. GILL, . General Supt, Louisville, Ky. HENRY sr , Gen. Ticket Agent, Louisville, Ky. sinner’ B JONES - , ‘Gen. Pass. Agent, Louisville, Ky. estates of ttrrssmi. DR SIGESMOND, Surgeon Dentist to the W0- man‘s Hospital, is the inventor of Artiﬁcial Teeth ‘without plates or clasps. Can be inserted. perma- nently without extracting any roots. Warranted twenty years. 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Address Aima, Wis. 75 A ssrswonu’ or THE NATIONAL WOMAN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT, FOR TWENTY YEARS, With the Proceedings of the Decade Meeting held at APOLLOHALL, OCTOBER 20, 1870, From 1850 to 1870,. WITH an APPENDIX CONTAINING THE HISTORY or run MOVEMENT DURING run WINTER on 1871, ' IN THE NATIONAL onrrzron, Compiled by PAULINA W. DAVIS. For sale by all Booksellers. Price 50c. . A lucid and liberal account of the most important political movement of the day.-—W. & C.’s W. UST PUBLISHED.——'l‘he Primary Synopsis ol _ Umvunsonoor and .ALWA'I‘0 (pronounced Ah]- wah-to.) The new Scientiﬁc Universal Language, by Sujnrunn PEARL ANDREWS, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American -Ethnolo rcal Society, etc.; 2-illth_O1' of ,7 “ ‘ , _ “Discoveries in Chi- Yo1r:lkheD§3(§§\1TS 1E1mmSO1°gy’: Wt" . L " ' - “on ree. (1871.) Price, $1.50. ’ Fm” 5 GUNEEEUS GAE/~REiZ1LS®i§, F A @ R i S T‘ ,l 82: ‘BROADWAY, iC7€)}Z317VER OF’ 1’WELFTH’ 87’1’.’.EZ.E’E’i”, NEW YCREL ®"(7'$iowe Flowers always on H;cs72«zZ.@ k,E:€%"E'JALI’E‘Y 'A. ' RIGHT, OF ' 7 rights which men have. U mission as the artists of humanity. ‘now possess considers 1e interest for many people. ‘attained these books carefully. not only for the sake once to bring them and their views before the pub- ~ volved in government as the guarantee and protection to the exercise of human rights. elucidationsare entered" into; its statements are BY TENNIE C. CLAFLIN. The object or the author in presenting this book to the public was: ' v First, To show that woman has the‘ same human Second, To point out wherein a condition of‘ servi- tude has been involuntarily accepted by women as a ubstitute for equality, they in the“meantime,1aborin g under the delusion that they were above instead 0 below equality. if Third, To prove that it is a duty which women owe 0 themselves to become fully individualized persons, responsible to themselves and capable of maintaining such responsibility. . Fourth, To demonstrate that the future welfare of humanity demands of women that they prepare them selves to be "the mothers of children, who shall be pure in body and mind, and that all other considerations of life should be made subservient to this their high Fifth, That every child born has the natural right to live, and that society is responsible for the condition in which he or sheis admitted to be a constituent and modifying part of itself. W7€PIVI&N’S’P§ IGHTS—-NEW? BOCKS. We have received co ies of two books which just They‘ are entitled respectively, “ Constitutional Equality, a Right of Women,”_‘ by Tennie C. Claﬂin, and "‘ The Origin. Functions and Princi les of Gov- ernment,“by Victoria 0. Woodhitll. e have ex- ol the subj-"cts treated of, but because of the discus- sion which has been called out in the past few weeks about these two remarkable women. It would seem as though everything conspired at lie. First, the Tribune paraded them as the cham- pion free-lovers by way of attacking its old enemies, the woman suffrage women : then one branch of the suifragists attacked them. while the other wing as . vehemently upheld them, and lastly they were brought bodily before the public in the recent trial. These conflicting elements of notoriety were enough to have made any one famous for the moment, and ought to’ make their books sell. The chief element of curiosity, however, was in the fact that they were“ denounced so bitterly by the T1-ébmze as free-lovers. while they were, on the other hand, indorsed so en- tlmsiastically by a lady so universally respected as Mrs. Stanton. Careful examination of their books fails to show anything so very startling in the doc- trines put forth in them, however distasteful they may be to many. They advance many strong argu- ments for giving the women the right to vote. for a remodeling of the marriage laws, and, in fact, for thegeneral renovating and making over of society. Somepf these are new, and some not so new, but they are very well put. and will be found not unin- teresting, even to those who are 0 posed to the doc-‘. trines advocatcd.—Newa'r/‘c (N. J.) tegister. . l €B.REG}l‘i, TENEEENCIES ANIB PRENEEPLES ‘OF GGVEENMENT. BY VISTORIA O. WOODHULL This remarkable book, just from the press, contains a graphic consolidation of the various principles in- Such principles as, from time to time, have been enunciated in these columns are here arranged, classi ‘tied and applied. A careful consideration of‘; them will convince the most skeptical that our Government, though so gocd,'is very far from being perfect. Every person who has the future welfare of this country at heart should make him or herself familiar with the questions treated in this book. No lengthy fresh, terse and bold, and make direct appeal to the easoning faculties. It is an octave volume of 250 pages, containing the picture of the author; is beautifully printed onthe best quality of tinted paper, and is tastefully and substantially bound in extra cloth. No progressive 'person’s house should be Without this conclusive evidence of woman’s capacity for self-government Price, $30 0; by mail, postage paid, $3 25. “ There is simplicity, freshness and originality in this book which rivets the attention; and one rises from the perusal with the feeling of being refreshed, strengthened and made better,by such a healthy men- tal stimulant; She divests the woman question of all its sentimentalities and places it where it should be, on the ﬁrm ground of justice. Read this book in the morning, uhenthe mind is active, and it is a good preparation for intellectual work- it is full of sug-restions, and compels thought in the highest di- rection. ( lur advice is get the book and study it.”- New World. — _ MUTUAL BENEFIT SAVINGS BANK, SUN BUILDING, 166 Nassau street, New York. DIVIDEND. —A semi-annual dividend at the rate of six per cent. per annum, on all sums of $5 and up- ward which have been on deposit for one or more months next previous to July 1, will be paid on and after July 21, 1871. _ INTEREST not called for will remain as principal, and draw interest from July 1. ‘ BANK OPEN ‘daily from 10 to 3; also Monday and Saturday evenings, from 4% to 6% o’clock. Interest commences on the 1st of every month following the deposit. \ _ — 7 CHARLES K. GRAHAM, President - WGMAN. G. Bnunnxcr, Secretary. .saranr srcsnrsc sssrosrss u AND , I _ LADEES” PRSTESTSE. NO MORE COLD FEET-—I\lOi DEFORMED LIMBS. \ MRS. DANIELS takes pleasure in 0il"cl'ing the above articles to ladies, with the assurance that they ‘ will give satisfaction. Theltrade supplied at 8. discount. ‘ ...RTo. 63 Cinrcruiogn Stir-e-ct, BOSTON. on MRS. C. A. GAYNOR, SS4 Broadway, New York-. S Y P H E R & C 0., {successors to n. 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Can be obtained only at DIBBLEE’S, _ 854 Brwoadtvay, up-stalrsr “rear-restarts essence.” social. BY WARREN SMITH. OUTSPOKEN, FEARLESS AND RADICAL. Price 10 cents ; $5 00 per hundred. Addres Box 2723, Cincinnati, o. , 74 . . E WOODHULL & CLAFLlN’S WEEKLY. I ~ . ~ 3- The Books and Speeches of Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennis C. Claﬂin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices : . . “”I"ne Principles of Government, by Victoria C. Wood- .. 00 Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. Claﬂin ...... .. 1 50 V’Vom-an Suffrage guaranteed by the Constitution, speech by Victoria C. Woodhu 1; The Great Social Problem of Labor and Capital, speech by Victoria C. Woodhull; The Principles of Finance, speech by Victoria C. Vfoodhull; Practical View of Political Equality, speech by Ten- nie C. Claﬂln; Majority and Minority Report of the Judiciary Com- mittee on the Woodhull Memorial; Each per\copy. . . . . .. . . . 10 per 5 00 .___.__..g.___.—......_.. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL’S ENGAGEMENTS. —.'-..--.-.---.a Steinway Hall, N. Y., Monday, Nov. 20, at 8 P. M., on “ The Principles of Social Freedom.” . Corinthian Hall, Rochester, N. Y., Wednesday, Nov. 22d: “The Great Political Issue.” Bartholomew. Opera House, Dunkirk, N. Y., Thursday, Nov. 23: “The Great Political Issue.” Case Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, Nov. 24th: “The Principles of Finance.” Young Men’s Hall, Detroit, Mich., Saturday, Nov. 25th: “ The Great Political Issue.” White's Hall, Toledo, Ohio, Sunday, Nov. 26th: “The Great Political Issue.” St. James Hall, Buffalo, N. Y., Monday, Nov. 27th: “ The Great Political Issue.” Farrar Hall, Erie, Penn., Tuesday, Nov. 28th: “The Great Political Issue.” Mercantile Library Hall, Pittsburg, Pa, Friday, Dec. 1st: “The Great Political Issue.” _.___...__..+.........._.___... SUFFRAGE CONVENTION AT VVASHINGTON. The National VVoman _Suﬁ'rage and Educational Commit- tee will hold a Conventgpn at Lincoln Hall on the 10th, 11th and 12th of January, for the purpose of urging upon Con- gress the passage of a “Declaratory act” during the coming session. Friends of Equal Rights are earnestly invited to make early arrangements for being present at this most important gathering. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President. ISABELLA BEECHER Hooxnn, Chairman of Ex. Com. Josnrnrnn S. Gnrs-rune, Secretary. '9 THE annual meeting of the Northwestern Woman Suffrage Association is to be held in the Representatives’ Hall, in Indianapolis, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 15th and 16th of November. All the prominent suﬁra e speakers in the Northwest are invited, and every effort wi 1 be made for a great meeting. Indianapolis being the home of Senator Morton, a strong effort will be made to induce him to ad- dress the Convention. This society was formed in Chicago, in May, 1870, by delegates from the various Northwestern States, and the first annual meeting was held in Detroit, last . November, and was a decided success. A large and success- ful Convention was held under the auspices of this society at Fort Wayne, Ind., in March last. The headquarters of the Northwestern Association are at 145 Madison street, Chicago, and are occupied jointly bg the Northwestern, the Illinois State, and the Cook Count ocieties. I ADELE . HAZLITT, President. ..........._...._...=.§..____.._..—. POST. OFFICE NOTICE.‘ » The mails for Europe during the week ending Saturday, Nov. 18, 1871, will close at this oﬂice on Tuesday at 11:30 A. M., on Wednesday at 6 A. M., on Thursday at 6:30 A. M., and on Saturday at 7:80 A. M. P. H. J ONES, Postmaster. ._....__...__._¢. Mus. HANNAH M. TRACEY CUTLER, President, and Lucy Stone, Chairman Executive Committee of the American Woman Suffrage Association, have issued a call for a conven- tion, to be held in Philadelphia, on the 21st and 22d of No- vember. ’ A ._..____._.§......_————_.—— THE INTERNATIONAL. It ought to be known that this association is not sccre.t—— it does not aspire to the honor of being a conspiracy. Its meetings are held in public; they are open to all comers, . though only members are _permitted to speak (unless by special invitation), and none but members are allowed to vote. The several sections in this city and vicinity meet as follows : _ \ Section 1 (German).—Sun.day, 8 P. M., at the Tenth Ward Hotel, corner of Broome and Forsythstreets. Section 2 (French .——The second Sunday in each month, 2 P. M., at No. 100 rince street (especially to accommodate 1 female members) and every other Sunday, 9 A. M., at the same place. . N , , Section 6 (German).---Friday, 8 P. M—., at No. 10 Stanton ’ street. Section 8 (German)——Sunday, 3~/P. M., at No. 53. Union avenue, Williamsburgh, L. I. Section 9 (American).-Wednesday, 8 P. M., at No. 35 East Twenty-seventh street. .. Section 10 (French).——First Tuesday and third Saturday in each month, 6 P. M., at No. 650 Third avenue, between Forty-first and Forty-second streets. Section 11 (German).-—Thursday,-8 P. M.,- West Thirty- ninth street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, at Hessel’s.’ Section 12 (American).—The second and fourth Sunday in each month, 8 P. M., at No. 44 Broad street-. Section 13 (German)--The first and third Tuesdayin each month, 8 P. M., at No. 801 East Tenth street. Mnmmos on THE SnoT1oNs.—-Joint meeting of German sections in West Thirty-ninth street, Sunday eve, November 12. Nothing done ; but a warm discussion was indulged in relating to the platform of the organization; and the need of a German newspaper devoted to its interests.—Section 2 (French), 100 Prince street, at 2 P. M. Here, also, there was lively debate, resulting in the unanimous revocation of a vote of censure passed upon its delegate tothe Central Com- mittee at a previous meeting, and his re-election to the office that he had resigned. This was an act of justice, performed with commendable promptitude. All honor to Section 2 !— Section 6 (German), Friday eve, November 10, at No. 10 Stanton street. ’I‘he.report is long, and must be deferred There was some discussion concerning the best means of re- ‘organizing the Central Committee, whose functions termi- nate hy limitation on the 1st of December next. Finally, the Section approved of a proposition that the new Central Com- mittee shall consist of ﬁfteen members, ﬁve from each nation- ality, to be elected at a mass meeting. The Section also approved of the Address to the Workingmen of America proposed by Section 1.-—Section 12, at 44 Broad street, No- vember 12. Unusual numbers of members of other sections were present. No_ business of importance, however, was transacted, except the adoption of the following paper, pro- posed by Mr. West, disapproving of the “ Address to the Wor'kingmen of America” referred to the several Sections by the Central Committee : PROTEST on SECTION -12. Section 12 having heard read and duly considered the Address to the “ Vforkingmen of America,” emanating from Section 1, and submitted to the several Sections of the I. W. A. by the Central Committee, are reluctantly compelled to withhold their approval, for the following, among other reasons : ' 2 1. It unconstitutionally limits, by implication, member- ship of the I. A. to workingmen (so called), meaning thereby only those who work for wages. .There is nothing in the proceedings of the several Congresses that warrants such a limitation. It is explicitly condemned b_V the letter and spirit of the Rules and Administrative Regulations issued by the General Council. It is not true, therefore, that the “common understanding or agreement” of the workingmen of all countries, of itself, standing alone, con- stitutes the Association. Into that understandi g or agree- ment there enters another element, embracing the co-operation of everybody that will sustain the principles of the I. W. A.., and those principles are all summed up in the statement of its object, which is simply the emancipation of working men and women by the conquest of political power. The found- ers of the organization were far too wise and sagacious to blame individuals for the conditions resulting from subsist- ing relations of capital and labor, which have been inherited. Accordingly, they sought to change those conditions by in- voking the help of all that have been the victims of such re- lations, without imputing personal guilt to any one. There is, indeed, no guilt involved, except that in which all alike have participated; for if there were no submissiveness on the one hand, there would be no tyranny on the other, and although the statement that the emancipation of the work- ing classes can only be conquered by themselves can- not be denied, yet it is true only so far as it describes the fact that the working classes cannot be eman- cipated against their will. It is not true in any sense which would exclude the co-operation of individuals of any class. That cooperation is invited, not repelled by the I. W. A., remembering that first of all, and above all, working men and women are human beings, before they are either laborers or capitalists—-that their conditions of to- day. are the result of the working of the whole of society of yesterday, even as their conditions tomorrow will be- the result of that work of to-day. ' 2. It limits the action of the I. W. A. within a sphere not contemplated by its founders nor sanctioned by the pro- ceedings of any of its hitherto recognized Representative bodies. In the enumeration of the Rules of the Association, the most important of them all, namely, that which says, “The economical emancipation of the workin g classes is the great end to which every polilical movement ought to be subordinate as a means,” is entirely omitted from the Ad- dress; this, too, in face of the fact, which is self-evident, that the “ Normal Work-Day,” “the new point of depart- ure (so-called) of the working classes,” cannot be attained until politics are made subordinate to the rights of labor by. the substitution of the State in the place of the individual, and the power of the Almighty Ballot in the hands of poor men and women, in lieu of the Almighty. Dollar in the pockets of rich men and women. Section 12 would therefore recommend that this Address be returned to the Section in which itoriginated, for revision in accordance with the above-recited facts. ' l ' THE RECENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE I. W._A., HELDAIN LONDON, ENG. Through the delinquency of somebody, either on this or the other side of the Atlantic, the official account of the action of the above named Conference has been withheld. o g . . _.E The subjoined accountof agmeeting of the London members, which we ﬁnd in Reg/Izalds’ Newspaper of Oct. 29th, may, however, afford some explanation of this interrupti_on of communication: , 7 A A A numerously attended meeting of the London members of the International was mid at the central oﬂice, 256 High Holborn, W.C., to take into consideration the advisability of forming a Federal Council for England. Mr. M. Ma1tman,Barry was elected chairman, and saying, “he was glad to meet so many of his fellow-members to discuss the question of organization,” called upon the score- ‘ tary, Mr. John Hales, to state the object of the meeting. Mr. Hales said it was the custom of the members of the general council to address each other as citizens, believing it to be the highest title that should be given to any man. The International claimed for every man the right of a citizen, and required every man to perform the duties of one. No duties without rights, and no rights without duties, ran through principles of the International. He trusted the English members would remember this, and would adopt the only preﬁx men should use to each other. The work of the general council had increased at a corresponding ratio with the progress of the assoc?ation, and it was found impos-.. sible that it could devote its time to matters :purcly English, wilhout the interests of the association as a whole being neg- lected. The late conference, therefore, after careiully dis- cussing the malter, passed a resolution requesting the London branchis to proceed to the formation of a Federal Council for En-glrrlnd, so that the English members might undertake the direction of the English movement themselves, an it bring '-he inﬂuence of the International to bear with greater ioirce upon the labor struggle. This resolution had been communi- cated to the branches, and they had instructed him to call the present meeting. ' _ . Mr. Canham said he was glad the meeting had been sum- monc d, for there never had been such a. favorable opportu- nity tielore for making propaganda in England. ' The part- played by the International in the Newcastle struggle had opened men’s eyes to. the great value of the association. He was an engineer himself, and was on the London Council which had been formed in support of the Nine Hours’ League, and he could testify to the important services which had been rendered by the International, and he felt certain that if the proposed Council was formed, the progress of the assoclai ion would be rapid, I —Mr. Chaddocks agreed with Mr. Canham. There never was a stronger feeling in the country than at the present time. P Mr. Bradnick said the International was the only body that saw the importance of uniting the political and social struggles in one movement. In reality, the two were but diﬁ“erent phases of the one struggle for em-an'cipation. Mr. Elliott thought the double struggle should be conduct- ed by the International. Mr. Roach said be _quite_ agreed with the importance of taking immediate action. The privileges of the capitalists and landowners “ were doomed.” He would only give one bit of advice to the Council, and that was to avoid all relig- ious controversy. - ‘ V Mr. Mitchell said one thing proved the necessity for im- mediate action, and that was the continual inquiries that -were being‘ madefrom ' all quarters for information. The people recognized the fact that the International advocated the interests of labor. . I Several other members also spoke, after which the.‘fol- lowing resolution was carried unanimously: “That this meeting accepts the instruction‘ of the late conference, and resolves itself into a provisional Federal Council for London, to become the Federal Council for England, when the adhesion of the provisional branches is obtained.” - Mr. Barry was {then elected provisional chairman, and Mr. Hales provisional secretary, and the meeting adjourned. . , , . CORRESPONDENCE. [Our correspondence column admits every shade of opinion; all that we require is that the language shall be that current in calm, unfet- tered social or philosophical discussion. It is often suggested that cer- tain subjects should be excluded from public journals. We think that nothing should be excluded that is of public interest. Not the facts but the style to determine the propriety of the discussion. We are in no wise to be held answerable for the opinions expressed by correspondents. N. B. —It is particularly requested that no communication shall exceed‘ one column. The more concise the more acceptable. Communications containing really valuable matter are often excluded on account of length] ' PSYCHE ATTEMPTING TO VOTE IN THE NINE- TEENTH CENTURY. Annnvn or THELEME, Nov. 5, 1871. DEAR VICTORIA: “ Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” “Faint heart never won fair lady,” nor will a. tepid and timid soul ever obtain those rights of women which, like the touch of nature our sex symbolizes, will yet makethe whole world kin. . Thus soliloquized I, as I determined to register my name as a voter, on the morning of Saturday, November 4,thelast . day of registration prior to the grand fight against Tammany on the ensuing Tuesday. In this frame of mind I donned my_j-aunty hat, adjusted to my Byronic collar a killing tie, * T‘ after the sedulous manner of Beau Brummel, and with a fixed purpose decided to break through the thick array of 1 strong legions of impudent men that surround the polls with blackguardisin and tobacco fumes and juices, asif to exclude all decent spirits from voting, like the internal incantalions and vapors with which Hecate. and her crew protect their vilest orgies. 0’eszf' le premier pas gut’ come, and that step I screwed up my courage to the point of taking. I did not hesitate to consider whether success or failure would attend ' the attempt, for I had‘ made. up ‘my mind that reasorrand argument would fail, and that only the most captivating smiles, bewitching glances,and sugared speech,would soften masculine force and posiliveness. I *" ' ‘ I tell the girls that in this ﬁght for our right, reason cold and hard must not be our only logic. I Cl0..n0t Wish to See, women dangling fawningly round the necks of menand suing to vote. ‘We must take our claims so gracefully, . charmingly and naturally that manhood will forev.er after be asliamed of having excluded truth, gentleness, grace and‘ beauty from the hitherto unchivalric arena of politics. Above _ offered inc a chair. I I * i - - r j e A woonnnm. .‘& 'oLnrL1N*s_i WEEKLY. of Nov. 25," l8'?i‘.‘ 7 everything in the world, do not let us, in assuming rights heretofore held to be exclusively male, forego for one mo- ‘ ment the /more reﬁning attributes of our sex, nor ape one — iota the angularities of theungracious and awkward monster man. If woman is to acquire more force oi intellect, more ﬁrmness and determination of purpose, let it be the strength of artistic beauty, touches ofa scuiptor’s hammer, yielding at each blow another grace. ,,-Q ' I undertook myimorning’s' expedition with enthusiasm, for however Quixotic my attempt might seemin the eyes ‘of casual thinkers, it was sublime in purport to me who dream of voting as the most exalted of duties to be consecrated hereafter by intelln-ct and art. Nature marked the occasion with one of the halcyon days of the characteristic Indian summer of North America, just cool enough, to bring a natu- ral ruby to the cheek, and remind fashionable ladies that the tinge of the’ C’m°iiacmms tmczfoﬁus is a superﬁuity outvied by the delicate blending of warm blood andcool oxygen. I drank in -with pleasure and exhilaration the ethereal champagne that,secmed,ﬂoating in the vivifyin g atmosphere as I hurried along with a’ gentleman friend who had, like Parker Pillsbury‘, determined not to register his name nor vote if mine should be refused. ,‘ ‘ The choice of placesof registry seems also to have been - dictated by a desire to exclude all elegance and sensitive- ness therefrom. The one in my district was in the aristo- ._ craiic shaving shop ‘of a Teutonic Figaro, wherein the great unwashed of Third zavenue are, unhirsuted of ﬁtheir shoe- biush appendages. But this fact rather animated me with courage, as my memory reverted to recollections of the gen- tle Jasmin, the barber poet of Agen, whose verses have been — the admiration of France, while he gains his bread by titi- vating the rustic Hodges of his native town; and to Olivier Le Dain who barbered,,; and atthe same time inspired with his great political schemes the wily andfar seeing Louis XI. Who knows but I miglithere; encounter another Jasmin or some Figaro discarded by Almaviva and condemned to min- isier to lesser souls ‘.9 And what. more appropriate place for the polls in these days thanthei place where polls are mani- pulated? - ‘ -. , -- ‘ . Not a whit intimidated, therefore, by the fear of the razor, I opened the door, entering a long, narrow, somewhat dark room, along which were ranged a_ ﬁle of high-backed chairs, in which were seated a corpse-like looking crowd enveloped in white shrouds, with theirface_s so besmeared with lather that I was not able, with all -my psychical, physiognomical and craniological acumen, to discriminate the scale of these animals (undergoing their weekly Saturday ’s tonsorial ab- , stersion) in the ladder of Darwinian progress toward a truly conscious ens. This was not an appalling sight to my woman ’s nerves, and perceiving-n.o formidable obstacle to my advance, not even so much as a knight of the chestnut club, I tripped along to the rear of -the shop with my most graceful teteer, praying my Ariel (I have one, like Belinda of the stolen lock) to suﬁuse my features with beguiling I graces, and touch my tongue with siren-like eloquence, and dart from my eyes such latal and-‘ inaguetic willacles as those ascribed by Moore to the lass oi Killarney when he said: “ From the glance of her eye Shun dang r and fly, ’ For fatals the glance . Of Kate Kearney.” Arrived at the very backot the room, running the gaunt- let of these night-capped heads, like walking the hospital, I found myself in presence of these guardians of the sacred ballot. There were two men at the register table, with large, open books before them, while several others sat around—-one in his shirt-sleeves, a black-eyed, humorsome- looking Wight, the barber, as I afterward learned, and who really proved himself the most polite of the company, since when I declared my mission, forecasting some discussion, l I he offered me a chair. . - With a Semiramis-like resolution, I was prepared for the worst; though not for the perpetration of so naughtya deed—no, not I—-as that of the Duchess of Devonshire, who “threw asideher dignity to grant toa huge and uncouth butcher, for his vote in favor of her candida1e——oh liorrofs l --a kiss. The register who represented the Republican party, an exceedingly good-looking and gentlemanly person, smiled amiably as I told him I came to register my name. He said that it was the ﬁrst call oi the ’ kind that - had come before them and required consideration. I took from my pocket the law of New York on the subject, which provides that every citi- zen, without any male qualiﬁcation shall be entitled to vote. and handed it to him to’ read. He seemed to have already considered the matter, and consented most. willingly, as far as he was concerned, to accepting my name. But he could not do so, he said, without the approv-al"of,; his coadjutor, a youthiul and obtuse agent of Tammany, who sat opposite, with his face turned sullenly away, and whose sturdy and obstinate features reminded one of what Schiller says: “The - . lightning of the intellectual gods plays inefféctually upon the head of the Dummizeitﬂ’ his head being manifestly a non- conductor of thought. At this juncture the polite barber I sat queen of the occasion. ‘But how to mollify Tammany, in the person of my Hibernian antago- nist, was my now perplexing thought. I looked at him en- treatingly. I could not catch his glance. Unconsciously to himself, he instinctively shunned my psychological eye. Now to my wits, thought I. What the eye cannot accom- plish, the-tongue of blandiloquence must. “For when success our politics attends, Few ask if fraud or t7’”Mt/L attain’d the ends.” I told how the Democrats had favored the cause of women - that we expected more from them, in the way of our de: rnands, than from the Republicans. Five years ago in Kansas, when Stanton, Anthony and Train were there ’the Democrats were willing to give them the vote. This ’con- cession to Democracy enabled me to engage the attention of * my Irish opponent, and a faint smile diﬁused itself over his stolid features. My Republicanfriend, well-versed in po. litical history, and familiar with the nuinberless demonstra- tions since given to the woman’s cause by the Republicans talked eloquently,for his party. Inwardly pleased with his arguments, I could not deny them, yet with Talleyrand strat- egv I questioned h’s statements and sustained the Democratic side, manifestly to the molliﬁcation of the bucolical juvenal of the Tammany tribe, who shook his head with milder dissent. “ Enough of . argument,” said the Republican; ‘‘.will you take the lady’s name?” “I am opposed to woman’s voting,” he answered. I asked, mmy most dulcet and winning accents, “Wh'v‘are you opposed 2?” He wassilent. Men either ‘are without reason or boast of too much. Fie on men’s powers of ratio- » _ cinalionl Where is the man whose reason has taught him ‘ that there is for humanity no progress until woman's thor- ‘ ough freedom is established. Lais,’a Corinthian courtezan, been erased from the registry by a majority of the Board, so that the latter may not do likewise. * * Institutions lcated, woman freed, woman participant, become not only one of the most famous musicians of antiquity, and afavorite of Diogenes and Aristippus, used to ridicule the wise men of her day. “I do not understand what is meant by the austerity of philosophers,” she ‘said, “for, with this“ ﬁne. name, they are as much in my power as the rest of the Athenians.” I ‘ The old Rosicrucians held that to think of a spirit was to invoke and obtain its magnetic inﬂuence, and perhaps it was this vision ‘of the fascinating Lais in my mind, which the occasion had called up, that may have instilled some sense of gallantry into the souls of the bystanders. “ Put the lady’s name down,” said several of them, reiteratedly. ‘I leaned over and looked coaxingly into the face of the savage of Tammany and said, “I will allow the gentleman to recon- sitter his decision.” More argument ensued and discussion. The Republican decided, in these words, “I shall take the lady’s name if even you -refuse.” Both gentl-smen took up their pens and on their books inscribed my humble cogno- men. I0 tm°zmz_297ae, I gratefully muttered, and said, “N ow, gentlemen, since I have given you my name, I, beg to ask for yours, which shall be recoroedlastingiy in my remem- brance. Haviug received their names, curtseying most pro- foundly, I bade adieuto the scene of my ’ﬁlSl3 public effort to obtain a vote. - FRANCES Rosn MACKINLEY. P. S.—Nov. 10.—-Of my after attempt to vote, I have but a few words to say. On presenting myself. at the polls the Democratic Inspector of Election told me that my name had though the Republican said that he had retained it upon his book. It was-in vain to protest against this tyrannical act, the only answer I received being, “ In my opinion you are not entitled to vote.” F. R. M. ¢=£-===. “PERSISTENT REMAINDERS”_—-NVOMAN AND CIV- ILIZATION, ANCIENT AND MODERN. Editorsl Woodizull cf: Olaﬂzws "Weekly .' LADIES : I send you the following, as received by me from, a. spiritual source; it seems to have a. direct bearing on your work. I am not aware to what extent the views taken as to the connection of woman’s inferiority in culture with the decline of ancient civilization can be historically sus- tained; those better informed can, perhaps, give an opinion. ' ALFRED CRIDGE. “Persistent remainders” is an expression calculated to convey ideas entirely inaccurate. We are not “ remainders,” we are the whole, with a change of form-—a loss of what is comparatively dross}, and an addition of power to be our-« selves for which you vainly strive. * * * * While we have no desire to trench on the prerogatives of those in the ﬂesh, we are not aware of having ceased to have a right to intervene in the aﬁ'-airs of a world which is ours as much as yours, and which we did as much to shape as you. A I know not why our rights should be considered lessened by an ex- tension of experience, nor why centuries, during which we have "added lives to our previous life, should be deemed a disqualiﬁcation for judicious counsel. The man can be a counselor of the boy even in his sports ; and we know not why continuity of observation and a larger experience should (lebar us-from aiding in bringing about certain‘re- sults. Doubtiess observation of an advanced society should ‘not disqualify us from attempting to place your society on the same plane. An experience which is akin to prophecy is not the ‘least desirable qualiﬁcation for a reformer ; and if there can be imparted that which is virtually an experience of the future to those whose experience can only be that of thevpast, who says nay ‘R We have seen in other worlds those social condtiions which this world, as it progresses, must near in a parallel route, and we hail with delight the oppor- tunities thus presented to help you to such conditions. Thus there is a use, not inapt to the occasion, in even the orators and philosophers of an ancient» civilization operating upon a modern one. Knowing experimentally the rocks on which the former went to pieces, we are better prepared to navigate versus men were then, as they are now, the impelling cause of disability in the direction of self-reliance. Society then demanded the inferiority of women in one form, now in another; but the principle is the same,.and can be met now butcould not have been then. Inferiority of woman was the main cause of ‘ the fall of the ancient civilization, operating by the introduction of an effete religious system, which introduction was possible because women were open to inﬂuences which men had nearly outgrown, but to which they were afterward compelled to succumb. Of proved ineﬁicacy in India, this religion reached in another modiﬁca- tion to Europe, and produced the dark ages. It is still strong enough to blight almost every progressive idea, and can be overcome only by educating the sex which is most open toils inﬂuenccs to a political, intellectual and social equality with man. Knowing this, seeing this, we move the lever which moves ‘theworld; and well may we exclaim, as did Archimedes on another occasion of another principle, that we have found it! This lever is womcm—-woman edu- mightier but holler, stronger to work, stronger to be free, stronger for the inauguration of a new civilization ere the old shall decay. She alone can renovate the civilization which is perishing into one that is imperishable. She alone can impart to it a vitality endurable as the heavens; she alone can unite the"tangled threads separated in endless con- volutions amid the social complications of a mixture of races and religions. She alone is mighty to unravel by her intuition that which intellect can only confound. Intuition and knowledge go together, and thus fulﬁll the rounded law of-completeness. . This fulﬁllment is indispensable to the security of that undoubtedly be achieved only by a union of the sexes in the work. They who would introduce any antagonisms of the sexes are the worst enemies of both; for intheienlargement ' of the sphere of uses and of action, "liesftliat harmony of both which is essential to compl’eteness:,, Tyrant and slave are no more in the aura of/a holiness whichis beautiful and i a freedom which is the very essence otjprd'er; and when the .-artistic, the spiritual, the perfect andthe strong are blended, the task is achieved; the foundations of a new heaven and a new earth are laid. Thenceforwaijd there is no retroces- ' sion, no declension from a false fcivilization to an untutored nature; no recession into the depths of anarchy to obtain the raw material for rebonstruction *but all is Growth all is’ , . 1. b 7 life, all is peace. It is n-ature’s growth, which is noiseless :, it is nature’s life, which is iinperceptibly unfolded; it is nature’s peace, which is boundless, ceaseless, endless ac- tivity. *' * ‘*5 , * * As the azure sky to the green forest, as the rippling waters . to the granite banks, so shall woman be to man-—-glorious in her gentleness, powerful in her purity. ¢ FROM the Baltimore Sunday Teley9'am of October 29 we ' clip the following: I “ It is Victoria Woodhull who has been pronounced in- sane. Queen Victoria has only rheumatism in the foot.” VVe feel the same-in regardto Mrs. 'Woodhull’s insanity as the Irishman did about his friends sickness: Pat’s friend being drunk, and after coaxing him till he was tired, he resorted to rather rough measures to get him home, an old lady who was passing remonst-rated with him for treating a sick man in such a cruel manner. ‘Pat, looking at her with a cunning grin, said, “ Be gorra, it’s‘ miself that would loik to have half his sickness.” ” Let me here add that I think it would be a great beneﬁt to the world if more of our women, had half Victoria C. Woodhull’s craziness. “ E. Q. G. . LAWRENCE, Kas. EDITORS WOODHULL & CLAFL1N’s WEEKLY : The follow- ing, which is an extract from a letter written by a friend of I woman suffrage from St. Louis to the Ifcmsas Szctte Journal, alter the general election in 1868, should be reproduced in your excellent paper with proper notice: ‘ f‘Leavenworth‘should be occasionally reminded of the glorious stand she took in -advance’-of all others in this movement. This may save her people from lukewarmness in our cause, and‘ encourage other parts of the State to do their whole duty in this regard.”‘ Respectfully, egz, . E _ COLUMBUS, August 21, 1871. The “noise to beheard round the world” is already echoed all over this continent, and, like,_.the sound of many waters, is passing in this direction toward the setting sun. All hail the Victoria league. We pass the most friendly greeting all along the woman’s rights line, and bid Madam ’ Woodhull and the good cause God—spe,e.d. Arm, arm, we throw a. bold deﬁance in the enemy’s teeth. Your friend and fellow-citizen, gltronano or Yonx. WENDELL PHILLIPS AND ANNAAE. DICKINSON. The difference between these two reformers, judging them by their latest utterances on the Labor Question, is mostly a differencein'1'ange of vision. Phillips is a long-range tele- scope which sees objects afar—tne moons of Saturn and me planets beyond. ’ Dickinson is a shorter‘-range telescope, who.e powers of vision stretch to Venus and the planet Mars. in exact propoition to their powers of sight both are intense Radicals ; critics, also, of the most incisive sort. Among Labor Relormers, Phillips is trunsccndcritly the icon- oclast of the western hemisphere. Dickinson sees Fnosily the unwisdom and .sl1ort.sightedness of the Labor R.-form party. Phillips excuses these, beholding them as a means to an end—-1 he incipient beginnings of a mighty revolution. Phillips suggests a remedy forthe ills we bear and is aﬁirma- tively and profoundly sympathetic. Dickinson suggests a emedy, but is only negatively sympathetic. . Phillips plants his eyes on the central cause of the distress of nations ; but as yet has only partially revealed it. Dickinson suggests co- operation only, but does not see the central cause of our woe. , PhllilpS puts the case in this fashion : - , “ The man who with his hands digs clams,-out of the sea shore, or climbing a._tree gathers apples; or ()D€;_~WlJf) fashions ahoe out of hard wood, is a pure, simple laborer, and is entitled to what he gets and makes. The man who makes such a hoe one day and, working with it the next day, dgs lJV\ ice as many clams as when he used his hands alone, is capiaalist and laborer united. He works with a tool, which is capital, the result of past labor. He too is an honest laborer and en- titled to all he‘ gets. The man who works a’ week and makes ten such hoes, then joins nine less skilled" men with "I himself, and ,they, the ten, share fairly the product of his hoes, and their toil, introduces co-operation and a just civili- zation, a system which seems to hold within itself every pos-* sible safeguard against misuse, and to be full of theseeds of all good results. The man who, having made such a hoe, lets it to another less skilled man to dig clams, receiving an equivalent for its use, is a capitalist... Such a system has no __ inherent, essential injustice in it, and, if it can be properly arranged and guarded serves civilization. The diﬁicul_tv is to guard i_t from degenerating into despotism and fraud.” It is thus seen that, in two squares of type, Phillips has focalized the vast range of his mental telescope and pithily presented to our vision the wages side of the labor problem. One thing he has failed to do, namely, to show us what is a fair equivalent for the use of the hoes. Do this, and the vast problem is solved. I will do it presently. ‘ But before I make the attempt, I will present Phillips’ view of the capi- talists’ side of the question- I beseech the reader to note how admirably he does it : 7 “The man who, getting possession of a thousand such hoes, sits with idle hands and no mental effort but sellish cunning, and arranges a cunning network ot' laws and cor- porations, banks and currency, interest and ‘corners,’ to get seven out of every ten clams that are dug, is a drone. We , mean by an honest system to starve him out and compel him to work. ‘ The man, who sits in Wall street, and by means ofbank credit buys up all this year’s clams to raise the price, who, taking ﬁfty thousand honestly-earned dollars, m‘a‘kes a amount of, civilization which has been acquired ; and must ‘clam-diggingcompany,-? bribes newspapers to lie about it, ' ._.3«;~_ -~-.-.-.- - "I/';-«A - ,...._ .4...‘ .: ,,. - -‘z J."V.‘}L‘3’.L.—P)LL , '1 iii l A Bible does not Leach any such doctrine. It matters not V Most High and profane humanity. The doctrine is not in ‘cognition of her equality. , ,hIov.' _2;5,-I1\8?I. \- woionii‘ui;Lf°1&io.Lari;ii~i>s’cwnhxnv. — . S ,5 createsrten banks and locks up gold, or arranges a corner to depress its stock, then buys up every share, makes ten more banks and i.IO.~t.lS,Li1G land with paper and sells out, retiring after a week of such labor with a lortune, is a thief. Such» thieves of the ipast we propose to leave undisturbed. Our, plan is to make such thieves impossible in the future.” Yes, Phillips,.tliat’s the plan. But there are others be- sides Wallstreetthieves that must be made impossible in the future. There are proﬁt thieves, rent thieves, interest and dividend thieves. There must be an end of these also. But how to do it. This brings us to the question--What would be (t jae'7'- equtealentfor the use of the hoes?’ -The answer is——-The cost of making them, if they should be used till they are‘ worn out. If but half worn out, but half the cost should be paid. If but one—fourth worn out, but one-fourth thetcost should be paid. If there be no perceptible wear by -use, then nothing should be paid. From these self-evident truths it logically follows: 1st. That when the rents paid for the use of property amount to the cost of the property, such property should revert to the renter: When the interest paid for the use of loaned money amounts to the money loaned, indebtedness to the lender is canceled, after he is paid for his service in loaning the money. Hence, all national debts should be obliterated when the interest paid amounts to the debt and the lenders are paid a fair remuneration for their service in lending. 3d. VVhen dividends amount to the cost of the interest, in which such intercst——wl1ether it be a railroad, a cotton mill, a founglry, a tarin, a coal, copper, silver or agold mine- shonld revert to the the people, and henceforth should be runat cost for the beneﬁt oi’ the people. ‘ etth. Hence, all goods and merchandise of every sort should be sold at cost, and service only in selling should be paid. 5th. As the land and all that is beneath ;» its surface, the watercourses, the fishes of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the flzld, the air we breathe, the forests and sun- light, are the gills of nature to the human race, and there- fore cost nothing, nothing should be charged for their use, nor should they be monopolized. Therelore, whatever in- teresis have been allowed to grow up by a monopoly of these gifts of God to the race, after they have been equitably piid, as they should be, such interests should revert to the people, for the benefit of the whole people and their poster- it 37- e _ * _ This article will be continued, when I shall‘ make a speci- ﬁc application of these fundamental principles, to Rents, In- terests, Proﬁts and Dividends. W. HANSON. O COMMUN AL MARRIAGE. WOODHULI. & CLAnLiN’s WEEKLY: Sir John Lubbock, in his “ Origin of Civilization,” gives numerous facts to show that among the aboriginal tribes, marriage, as now deﬁned and recognized by law,had no existence. Couples mated ac- cording to lancy and separated without scruple when either lost a partiulity for the other. Sometimes this freedom took theform of Communal Marriage, no one individual having special and exclusive claims to another in marital relations. Now, it seems that “civilization,” as we call it, instead of reﬁning and spiritualizing the “institution” as it thus pre- sents itself crudely and imperfectly in the state of nature, has artificially and arbitrarily substituted something radi- cally ditferent. It has not improved the freedom which na- ture dictated, but has thrust servitude into its place. Now civilization is an improvement on the stvage state. Note the worcl—tm;.r0eement,* /implying that the germ is presented in the primitive experience which knowledge and culture are to ripen and perfect. But our legal marriage, an indissolublc bond, is not, does not pretend to be, a perfect- ing or that germ. On the contrary, it roots the germ out, destroys it entirely and in its place plants a seed wholly for- eign to nature, and legitimates its growth by law and cere- mon . Oiir the other hand, Free Love, by no means taking as per- fect and complete the natural Communal Marriage, accepts it as germinal only, and so cultivates and puriﬁes nature’s own growth. Who cannot see in this obvious distinction be- tween an institution of nature in its crude and in its culti- vated stzite a solid diffcrence between free love and free lust, and between lree love and constrained love—-rather, mar- riage apart from love ? E. J. . ___________,¢______.______ THE FALL OF MAN. Wooi)HULL & CLArLriv : There is one argument urged in favor of man’s right to rule in the political world,and against W()111'll1’:lI'lj.1hi3 to p;»irl.icip-ate inthe business of legislation, t lat has never been fully met, so far as I have observed, by the advocates of woman’s (l1f1‘.tl’JClllSGl11€I1t. I mean the doctrine of the so-called “Fall of Man.” This has always been the most eﬁeciive weapon the believers in the divine authenticity of the Scriptures have wielded against the re- Indeed, it is the only b.1Sl.S of nearly all they have to say on the subject; Remove this, and what would become oi’ the anattiemas of the Pope and the thunders oi‘ the Heckers, the Todds and the Fultons? Now this "is just what I propose to do. I aver that the that the assertion has been made many millions of times; that hunilreds or millions believe it, or, rather, assent to it ; that the doctrine has been current in the Christian Churches for centuri~.-s without being questioned; is now taught by nearly all the Christian di-nominations; is reiterated from a hundred thousand pulpits every Sunday, and still lorms the staple-stock of all the damnation sermons that blaspheme the the Bible. Were such an. aboininablevrdoctrine taught in that book I ' . should be obliged to regird the book as a fiction or a fraud. My reason could never accept it. Nor does any one’s reason accept it. Those who assent to it do not pretend that it is reasonable. But they say it is taught in the Bible, and there- fore must be assented to, reasonable or unreasonable. Will there not be joy unspeakitble in millions of souls when they understand that their cl1ei'is'l1cd “Word” contains nothing of the kind?. . . I am prepared to show that the Bible contains no such dreadlul and pernicious doctrine, and is, indeed, a better book than its best friends have ever imagined. I The doctrine ol the “ Fall of Man” rests on the following propositions, either of which being untrue, the whole doc- trine tails : 1. The Bible teaches that the devil tempted Eve to sin; 2. The Bible teaches that Eve tempted Adam to sin. 3. The Bible teaches that Adam, when called to ac- _long as they do- not interfere, or injure others. N ow the Bible-makes neither of these statements. All of these statements must be found in the Biblelto make the doctrine of the “ Fallg” but not one ol them is there. . ’ There is no latnguage employed in the Bible which, prop- erly interpreted, can be made to express any such meaning. No fall is mentioned, no devil is named. Eve does not say that the devil tempted her; Adam does not say that Eve tempted, misled, or in any manner deceived him; on the- conirary, like a true gentleman as he was, when called on to give an account ofsoinetning which had occurred, he justi- ﬁed both himself and his “better half.” _Moreover, what the serpent (not the devil) told Eve turned out to be literally true. By what strange perversity oi’ judgment can a truth told by the serpent be tortured into a he told by the Devil ‘.9’ Some ingenious writer has remarked, in view'of the hor- rid dogmas and monstrous absurdities taught by college-bred theologians, that“ the best religious creed is that which a child would approve.” We need some unsophisticated child to in terprct the Bible to us. Surely no such mind, young or old, on reading Genesis, would ever suspect any devil, temptation, fall from grace, and a curse on all posterity for all ages. I repeat, the doctrine of the “Fall of Man” is not taught in the Bible, and if the readers of your VVEEKLY will appeal from these theologians who so ﬂippantly quote the Scrip- ture on this subject (and invariably misquote it) to the re- cord itself, they will ﬁnd no such doctrine there. What then, it may be asked, are we to think of this tre- mendous bugbear of “original sin” by woman, which has “subjected ” her for ages? Think what you must. It is my present purpose only to explain an error, not to ﬁnd a sub- stitute for it. If the doctrine of the “Fall” is not in the Bible there is the end of that matte 1'. But I wish to say, in conclusion, that I am a believer in the “Mosaic account of creation.” I am not very sure that Moses wrote it, but whoever did write it told the truth, not literally, but allegoric-ally. In this sense the allegory which brings the ﬁrst pair, or man and woman, to the knowl- edge of each other in the sexual relations, represents a philosophical truth most beautifully to those who can pene- trate the mystic dress of thelanguage to the reallife and spirit of the story. It is not my purpose, however, to ex- pound the Scriptural teachings in this article, but simply to relieve the cause of “woman’s rights” (which I believe to be ‘ the cause of man’s salvation) of the disadvantage and odium of being “contrary to the Bible.” Dooron. ——._.._....._..+_..__......_._. . POLYGAMY vs. FREEDOM. I am not a believer in Mormonism nor in all that is re- corded in that book called the Bible. But the course our government is pursuing‘ toward the Mormons in Utah should arouse the serious attention, if not the indignation, of every enlightened mind in this country. The orthodox creedists tell us that the Bible is infallible in every respect, and to doubt its divine inspiration is to be stigmatized as an inﬁdel. According to that book ten passages can be found to sustain polygamy to one against it. It is a part and par- cel of the Mormon religion, and they have as good a right to enjoy it as any other denomination of so-called Christians, so It is con- ceded by all that not only Salt Lake City, but Utah as a Ter- ritory, is the most moral, temperate and virtuous place on the continent. Is not their religion, then, the most exem- plary? But there is something deeper and darker that un- derlies this whole movement. It is an attempt to‘ strike a death-blow to religious liberty in this country; to overthrow that liberty of speech and thought that our forefathers shed their precious blood to sustain. If this Mormon persecution is tolerated, Heaven only knows where it will end. The momen't"man’s religion is proscribed, just that moment will be introduced one of the most bloody wars that was ever known in the world’s history. ' Forone, I am free to declare that I never will cast a vote for an administration that pro- scribes what religious views I must entertain; and I call upon all spiritual and liberal minds to look at this matter in its true light, and to repair at once to the ballot-box and assert their sovereignty, and hurl such demagogues from oiﬁce. — . WHITE. . ___________,__, WOMAN AT THE POLLS. WOODHULL & CLArLIN’s WEEKLY: Well, our votes have been refused after registration. But we have demonstrated one fact by our efforts—that women may visit the polls, un- attended by father, husband or brother, with the sime se- curity and freedom from insult that they do the Post Otiice. Being advised that my late protracted visit to the South might vitiate my residi-nt qualiﬁcations as a voter, I did not olfer my own ballot, but attended the polls at the Second District of the Twenty-second Ward with a lady friend who had all the qualiﬁcations of residence. On entering the small, crowded shop, the gentlemen present made room for us to pass to therear of the apartment. Here a police otﬁcer requested those standing around the voting boxes to allow ' the ladies to approach the table—wliich they did at- once. Here I inquii-edit‘ they would accept our votes. _ The answer came promptly, “We cannot accept the votes of women.” I responded, “ Very well,” and we retired wi:hout encoun- tering a look or a word that was not respectful. Indeed, I feel assured that officers and people, from the sympathy they have manifested, are ready to admit that women are citizens, and, as such, are entitled to the franchise, and only the De- claratory act is neeued to convince the most sceptical that it is just as practical and proper for a lady to drop a vote in the ballot box as todrop a letter in the post oﬂice. The many abuses in our government call loudly for the aid. of women to redeem the ‘country from the evils insep- arable from a purely male administration. ' . Give us the "Declaratory Act” and we pass peaceably into the exercise of the duties and the enjoyment of the privileges of citizens; refuse us this, and I speak advisedly when say that the next move will be 'rivol2tt2'on.’ Injustice and oppression are ever lulled by a fancied security, but the condition of involuntary servitude is favorable to the devel- opment of all the vices of secrecy and deceit. As women, we have been schooled in hypocrisy and duplicity until our deep souls revolt against the oppression that compels us to so belie our sincere and earnest natures. The most docile wife has that hid in her heart which only needs the “Sesame ” to pass to a ﬂame: M-any seemingly contented wives would almost risk the salvation of their souls to make their masters feel for one day the humiliation they have en- dured uncomplainingly for years. If this is true of the favorites of fortune, what may not be said of‘ the great crowd of women who rush into every folly, Q1‘. are doomed to ‘severest toil, by unjust laws count, accused -Eve of tempting him to sin. and the oppressive customs growing out of them. — Laws . were made by Dr. T. H. Logan, the President; and customs that disfranchise, prcscrihe their -pleasures, limit their fields of labor and curtail -llieir wagt s all on the :plea of sex. We have, gentlemen, very generally ar.rived at the knowledge that sex ' tion, governed; without our consent, not allowed a jury of our peers. And in the language of "76, we say, “ It is our right, it is our duty, to throw oﬁ' such government and to provide new guards for our future security.” and woman‘s heart to-day is ready to re—echo the words of Patrck Henry—- repaid your injustice and oppression with such caricatures and moral a.bOI‘i3l(.11S as have made you blush with shame. We formed, idiotic; ewe have given you frail snow—cirops who dissolved at the ﬁrst breath of miasma. against oppression you have looked upon as dispinsations of Divine Providence. You yvilllearn these to loethe legit- imate friiitsof male domination. Our secret service system reaches to every hearthstone, our bond of union is strong as truih, our signs and passwords defy masculine scrutiny, our communications are independent of the printed page. .We point you a safe passage from fancied to ieal se- curity; from partial to coiiipleize I'€pubilCi'-III; from the op- pression of half of the cominunity to equal rights and ‘priv- ileges in the Declaratory Act. _ v — « Yours, to the bitter (or sweet) end, ’ c -MARY A. LELAND. . ,WOMEN’S WORK IN THE CHURCH. The following, clipped from the Western C’hm'stz°cm Adon- cate, shows the gradual change going on in public opinion in regard to women as lecturers. It shows, too, how willing men are to plume themselves _and air their notions of things, while yielding to the imperative demand for a wider spliere for woman’s labor, by admitting that it is possible she may do some good in a “modest. unassuming Christian” vva . Some conservative reviewer has said that while attending Society of the M. E. Church, ‘ttheicongregation was large and the exercises of a very interesting character. A.ddre.sses Mrs. Hagans and Miss Lizzie Boyd. I am no advocate of ‘ IWoman’s, Rights,’ as expounded by Mrs. Stanton and her coadjutors, but while listening to the eloquent and earnest addresses of these two modest, unassuming Christian women, I felt that there was in all our churches women to whom God has given the ‘right’ and the ability to ‘labor in His cause, but who are deterred by an absurd prejudice or a false modesty.” » the Gospel discovered that “ God had given the right ” to women to make public address,and‘whether “Mrs. Stanton and her coadjutors ” had not assisted him in making this discovery. Who has helped women, even “modest, unas- suming women,” to speak in public if not Mrs. Stanton? Who has braved the way, even to persecution hour by hour, that women might have broader privileges, if not those who ask for a broaderrccognition than merely speaking in behalf of foreign missionaries. - ; We all remember the diﬁficulties with which Mrs. Van Cott met in order to be recognized as amodest, unassuming Chris- tian woman and worker among the heathen at home ; and we are all aware too that had not the martyr’s cross been Mrs. Van Cott and a hundred others would never have at- tempted to speak in Christian churches, even as modest, un- assuming women. ‘ - - ETNA. A LAST APPEAL TO WOMEN. Congress is about to assemble ; it has the power to com- pel the States to admit you to suﬁ‘rage ; it remains with you to say whether you will have it or not. A decision of the Supreme Court of the District of -Columbia tells you that but that the right is in abeyance until legislation makes it active, and says it is the sphere of Congress to make such laws as are required to bring the right into full and free exer- cise. Indeed, the Amendment itself provides that Congress shall have the power to enforce the provisions of this Amendment, by appropriate; legislation. Now, if this Amendment has conferred citizenship on women, what more appropriate legislation than to give action and vitality to its i'i ‘hts ? . gEvery man and every woman, then, ‘should at once sign his or her name, and obtain the namesof all neighbors, to the following petition,sand send-the same to Mrs. Josephine S. Grilling, 231 North Capitol street, Washington,’ D. C. : To the Honorable the Senate and House of .Re,prese7ttctt2'oes of the United States, in Uongress assembled : . ” We, the undersigned, believing that since women are citi- zens of the United States, under the provisions of the Four- ieenth Amendment to the ‘Constitution, they should be permitted to exercis.e the citizens’ right to vote, which is also acknowledged by the Constitution to be a. right of citi- zi ns, subject to be regulated and established, and never to be (.llS€Sla.hllSl1t‘d or prohibited, respectfully petition your hon orable bodies to enact such laws as shall in your wisdom be necessary to secure to them the exercise of the elective fran- chise, subject only to such rules and regulations as men. And your petitioners will ever pray. w THE WOMAN MARKET. The idea of -a woman as a piece of property is the basis of all the hells of that compacted barb-arism we call civili- zation. the widow is the “ relict” of ‘her proprietor. The Ijlindoos with our Christian‘ socialism. . _ Being a chattel, a thing, a possession, a piece of goods, it is requisite that the landlord and owner use his own, and somehow get the value out of that which is his. Unfortunately, the only use most men can imagine for being in the fact that housekeeping offers supreme facilities for feeding, lodging and coition. more dissatisﬁed, than man ; hence they suffer together, the master and the slave engendering mutual damnation, with an outgrowth of perdition. ' E. S. WHEELER. is a crime punishabl-e"-by law; We are deprivi—d of citizenship, taxed without represi—nta- — “ Give me liberty or give me death.” Up to this time well ave K I have given you soils and daughters blind, deaf, dumb, de- A All "those protests I the VV.heeling Branch of the VVomaii’s Foreign Missionary _ We would like to ask how long it is since this minister-of borne by brave women, like Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony, . you have the right to vote by virtue of being made citizens, . Regarded as property in her maiden or married condition, I used to burn such abandoned possessions, not indbnsistently woman is a sexual passional one, the cliai-in of cohabitation . Doubly” unfortunate, woman is not less ignorant, even if we onrrULr. s cLArLm=s, wEfnx_Lr. Nov. §5, lS"?l.. rrneonr or MONEY. ' 3. new cnuanncr sun A new cnntorr sxsrmr. ‘ jar ALBERT isnrsnm, _ rump ARTICLE. The preceding articles were devoted to theoretical investi- . gations ; we now come to the practical part of the problem ; — ‘namely, the mode of ‘creating a true Currency ; of regulclting ~ _ that real wealth consists in the products of lrtl>or—-in the food, ‘ its issues, and of _determz'nz'ng the basis of Uredtt. We shall explain brieﬂy the mode in which the new "Our- rency should be created. e Let it be borne in mind that a true Currency must possess the following attributes : ' _ p 1. It must be non-monopolizable by individuals, classes or corporations. I A - " 2. It must be non-interest bearing. 3. It must be devoted to the service and interests of Pro- ductive Industry. . 4." It must be the true Representative of real wealth. 5. It must be in exact equilibrium, as to its issues, with the industrial wants of Society. . 6. It must be created and introduced by the State or Col lective Interest. ’ . To understand these conditions, let it be borne in mind clothing, dwellings,‘ and other objects, which mnister to manswants and comforts, and aid his moral development. On a desertisland, where no products are created, money * canlbuy nothing, and is useless. Money isgmerely asign used to represent products ; it stands for them all, and thus facilitates their exchange-—their purchase and sale ; this is its function and use. Now if it be clearly seen that real Wealth consists in the products of labor, and that money is merely a means or instr'umentality which serves to effect their exchange, it will become evident that money should be nothing more than the sign or representative of products ; that it should bevbased upon them, and that it should have no existence separate from or independent of them. It should be merely a symbol, not a reality. The defect of the Specie Currency is that it is a Reality; that it has an intrin- . sic value, based on that of the metals of which it is com- posed; that it is separate from and independent of that which it should represent. Our Greenbacks are based on if the responsibility of the Government, on its supposed power to redeem them by taxation; they again are defective as a currency, having merely a supposititious foundation, and representing government responsibility, not products. Few persons arrive at clear and precise ideason any sub- ject. On that of the,Currency, our best political economists even seem to have very confused ones they accept the spe- cie currency as the true and natural - one, showing that they have made no exact analysis of the nature and function of Money. We have endeavored to present above one idea clearly; namely, that a true Ourrency should represent the products of rnduvsr/ry and other values which men, wish to em- changé with each other, and nothing else. If our conception of this function of money be true, it condemns all our ex- isting currencies, for none of them fulﬁll this representative function. We will now present our plan for creating the true Cur- rency ; we submit it to the consideration of men of intelli- gence ; if they reject it, let them study the subject and ﬁnd a better. ' I The new Currency is to be created by Governments. In this country, the plan could more easily be carried out ‘by a State than by the general Government. If undertaken by one of the States of the Union, the mode of procedure would be as follows : I The State Government would establish a State Bank with Branches. The central Bank would be located at the Capi- tal, provided with all the means necessary to prepare the new Currency, and with an organization for registering and issuing it to the branch Banks. These latter would receive the Currency from the central Institution and loan it to the public. The new Currency would be made of a cheap and con- venient material. As paper fulﬁlls these conditions, and the people are accustomed‘ to it, the new currency would be made to resemble our present bank-notes, and would be of various denominations from $1 to $1,000. It would be fur- nished by the central to the local Banks in amounts propor- tional to the business wants of their localities, and would be - loaned in a manner whichwe shall presently describe. A [when such sales should take place. L In connection with each of the local Banks, 3. large Store- house or Depot, properly constructed and afrrangecl for the reception and storage of the staple products of the country, would be erected. The producers and owners of products would store them in these Depots, receiving certificates of deposit, stating the quantity and the quality. With these certiﬁcates as collateral security, they could obtain loans from the Bank. About three-quarters of the value of the products deposited would be ‘the amount loaned. The Banks would act as agents or factors for the sale of the pro- ducts. Samples from all the local Storehouses would be kept at the general depot, located at the commercial centre of the State. Sales could bemade from these samples at the latter, as atthe former points. Owners would direct These Depotswould “ soon replace the numerous little storehouses of individuals; they would become the great centres of the commercial operations of the country, the medium through which the exchange of the bulk of products would be eﬁfected. The present irresponsible and’ arbitrary commercial system,» which permits individuals to control the exchange of pro- ducts, to-speculate upon and spoliate productive industry, would come to an end—at least as regards the staple pro; ducts of the country, A ﬁne illustration would thus be furnished of what could be done, if the entire commercial system were conducted on principles of equity and economy. Thus loans would be made on, the deposit of staple products——of products that are sure of sale, and not liable to spoil or deteriorate. In the great commer- cial depctsof the State, the farmer, the manufacturer and other producers would store their products, and order them sold or sent to any point. On depositing their products, they would receive certiﬁcates ; and with these certiﬁcates they would either sell direct themselves, or could obtain loans from the Banks. A The Currency issued by the Banks would represent these products; it would therefore be at true Represeniatzlve of pro- ducts or real wealth, which, as we have said, is one of the essential characteristics of a true Currency. In fact, every Product on being deposited would become Moncy——would be transformed into currency; and could exchange itself with any and all other products; whereas, at present, it must ﬁrst ﬁnd a buyer and be converted into specie ; if it cannot do this, it cannot be exchanged. "The management of the Banks would be simple and economical; a cashier, teller and book-keeper would be all that would be required in most cases. The Banks would charge on loans just enough, as we stated, to cover the cost of management ; which would not exceed one per cent. per annum. - _ r Loans would not be _made on promissory notes, however well indorsed; they furnish, first, no true standard for the amount of Currency to be put in circulation; and, second, they give rise to bad debts, favoritism, speculation, ﬁnancial mismanagement, andto inﬁations and contractions, which lead in turn to commercial disasters. ; Loans would be made only on the security of products— and on staple products, the sale and consumption of which are considered certain.* They would be made, ﬁrst, on pro- ducts stored in the depots; second, on bills of lading of pro- ducts in transit ; third, on products which are ordered and are in process of creation, the acceptance and payment of. -which are guaranteed. Loans made on any other conditions would not be perfectly safe ; the Currency would not have a sound and secure basis on which to rest; above all, no stand- ard would eccist, ‘we repeat, by which to regulate the amount of issues; the true standard being the amount of exchanges of products——that is, of legitimate commercial transactions to be effected. - Such, at the commencement, should be the regulating principle to be followed; at a later period, when ‘order and method were introduced intothe industrial system, the basis of credit could be extended and modiﬁed. Labor—which is the primary source of production and of value—wou1d be madethe basis and standard. Butas it would ﬁrst be neces- sary to determine and ﬁx the Value of Labor, and as this has not been done, the tangible embodimentwthe product of . labor——must be taken in its place. When the products of a borrower are sold, the proceeds of the sale would go into the Bank. The amount of the loan, together with the charge for the use of the currency, would be deducted and retained, and the surplus paid to him ; the operation will then be closed. - _ As we stated, a general Sample Oﬁﬁce for the sale of al the products of the State would be established, at the com- mercial centre; and States distant from the seaboard might have one at some large seaport, like New York, Boston or New Orleans. The system could even be extended to for- eign countries, and sample oﬁlces organized in their great marts. For example, it would be very easy for a cotton State to have such offices in Liverpool and Havre, ship to them and sell direct to foreign manufacturers, thus saving the expense of intermediate transhipments, storages and cartages, and the proﬁts paid to home and foreign shippers, brokers and speculators. V If a cotton-growing Slate, say Louisiana for example, were to establish the system proposed, with the central Bank, and its vast depots at New Orleans, it is very certain that the Planters would send to those depots, in preference to com- mission merchants, their cotton and other products; the Bank would act as their factor, -and sell their cotton for them at New York or Boston, at Liverpool, Havre or Ham- burgh, as they might direct; it would even charter vessels for transportation, and manage the business on a largeand economical scale. The Bank would make loans to the plant- ers on the security of their crops ; so that they could obtain the credit they required. By such a system, a large sum would be saved to them, now expended in interest, usury, -commissions, waste and cost of transportation. ' Let us examine the character of the Currency which would be issued‘ by the State Bank of Louisiana. Every dollar would be a draft, accepted in advance and sure to be paid, for * It is use or consumption that gives value to a product; it is valueless —-it is as if it had not been created, if it does not ﬁnd a purchaser and consumer. A bootmaker, for example, may make a pair of boots, but if no one buys and uses them, it is as if they had not been made} value then is determined by consumption. The new Currency must be based on security that is perfectly safe—that is,~on products the demand for which is certain. S0 11111011 cotton, sugar or other staple product. —This Cur- rency would circulate, not only in Louisiana, but through» ‘the entire North,‘ and even in Europe. A manufacturer of , Manchester would buy it as readily as he would a bill of exchange of the Rothschilds. The State would, of course, guarantee that every dollar should be redeemed in one of . the greatlpstaples-—cotton, sugar or tobacco. — one more point. Suppose the system-were generalized ; suppose all the States issued this Currency, and gold and sil- ver fell into disuse, would it not follow that foreign coun- tries, in taking the new Currency, would have to buy with it our products——in which case a balance of trade would be established of itself ; gold and silver would not at stated periods be drawn - suddenly as at present from the country, the Banks forced to contract, and a general demand for the payment of debts made, causing revulsions and widespread bankruptcy. Free trade would be established, and to the fullest extent. If Europe sold‘ to us vast amounts of her pro- ducts, she would have to take ours in return ; accounts would have to be settled in the new Currency, not in gold and silver, and with this Currency products only could be bought. _ and our Custom houses abolished. There would be thence forth no danger of over-tradin g. To sum up: ' The new Currency would be created and_ issued by the V State. . It would be loaned at cost of management. It would not be monopolized or controlled by individuzxls or Banks. ~ _ Its basis would be the Products of Industry, or the real wealth of the country, of which it would be the true Repre- sentative. Its security would be perfect. It would be loaned without favoritism. Its issues would be regulated by the amount of products created and to be exchanged. It would secure credit at all times, to the Producers of wealth, and serve the real, that is, the producing interests of the country. Numerous objections will, we are aware, be raised. “ The Superintendents of the Depots,” it will be said, “will give false certiﬁcates of deposits, and the Banks will be swindled. ; The Bank Officers themselves will lend more than the value of the products, and thus bad debts will be contracted.” These and other diﬂiculties in the way of carrying out the project will be urged. In answer, we have only to say that it may take some time to perfect the system ; but that in itself it is simple and easy of execution. It is not near as complicated as the Post Office system of the general Government. If a State un- dertook it, and the good-will of the People was secured to the project, it would soon be put in successful operation. In ﬁve years the Organization would be rendered complete in all details, and once in operation, the country would, under its inﬂuence, enter upon a career of prosperity such as men have never beheld or even imagined. These explanations will give the reader a general idea of the plan we propose. As simple as it may appear, it con- tains the principles of an entirely new Currency and a new Credit system——one that differs radically in its nature and in the results it would produce from the present currency. To exhibit this more clearly, let us examine the basis of the two currencies--the Specie and the new Currency which we pro- pose. ‘ The Specie currency is, 1. Furnished man by Nature with- out thought or invention on his part. 2. Its adaptation to the purposes of money is determined by the scarcity of the metals of which it is composed; if they are as common as iron, they could not be used; governments would, at every great war, inﬂate the currency beyond all bounds and destroy it. 3. The amount in circulation is ﬂuctuating and uncer- tain, as it can be withdrawn and boarded. 4. It is invariably monopolized and controlled by a few wealthy individuals and corporations, who employ it in the great majorityof cases, either directly or indirectly, to spoliate industry, in- stead of aiding and encouraging it. The true Currency should, 1. Be created by Reason, guided by Science and aknowledge of the laws that govern money—-not furnished by Nature. 2. It should be made to serve the purpose of money by being rendered the exact representative of the products of industry and other values which require to be exchanged. kept in exact equilibrium with the amount of genuine legiti- mate business transactions required by the industry of the country; its issues should be determined by the amount of C exchanges to be made. 4. It should be under the control of governnfent or of some power that/would regulate it strictly . according to the laws of justice and public interest. These few comparisons are suﬂicicnt to show the essential difference that exists between the two Currencies. ; Let us now see how the plan we have proposed fulﬁlls the conditions laid down in the second table, which we gavein a previous article. A V 1. It will create a. Currency that costs little or nothing. 2. A Currency thatiwill represent exactly the products of industry, as for every dollar issued there is a product behind it of equal value. 3. It will abolish all control of the Cur- rency by individuals and the great abuses to which such control now gives rise. 4. It will abolish interest. 5. Abolish the rental system by abolishing interest. 6. It will secure credit at all times to production, and refuse it "to Our ports could then be thrown open to the world, - 3. ‘It should always be - . V, nov. 251,. isri. . . ”, .,». ,wooD;HUr.i;~-; at iorarrr-res . wnnxLrl.l be adequate to and in equilibrium with the ‘business opera- tracting with consumption. 8. I-twill secure _ perfect regularity in, the issues of the currency, and prevent those artiﬁcial inﬂations and contractions, which are now the cause of so many disasters. 9; It will take the control of redit out of the hands of individuals and corporations, and free the industrial and business’ worlds from the powers that new rule them. 10. It wil furnishgan exact standard for the issues or Currency, at present regulated by the decisions of Bani;-oﬂicers. — ” I The plan we have sketched out will appear, on a cursory inspection, very simple; many persons will assert that itdoes not differ essentially from the present system—~the only dif- ference being that the present Currency is loaned by the Banks at seven per cent, while the new Currency will be loaned by the State at one per cent. Let us correct this error, and show that the two Currencies diﬁ'er radically in principle; that applied on a large scale——to the industry of _ Nations—they must necessarily, after a. certain -lapse of time, produce results of a diametrically opposite character, and of the greatest magnitude. Two examples will be sufficient to explaiii this: 1. The present Currency is loaned for the most part on perscnal seomttj,/—that is, on endorsed notes. This places - credit wholly at the disposal of a small minority of men in society—of merchants, speculators, monopolists, usurers and ﬁnancial schemers——‘whose only aim and effort are to make the largest proﬁts possible out of industry, and to spoliatc it by every means that human ingenuity can invent. It gives to a small. body of non-producers the entire control of the producing interests of society. Under the new Currency, loans would be made only on the éecurz't,;/ of products; a note, were it indorsed by a Roths- child or an Astor, would not obtain credit. Credit being ' thus secured to production, the producing classes could ob- tain the facilities they needed to effect exchanges. The Banks, through the storehouse organization, would act as their agents; they would by this means have the exchange of produ.cts, and the control of their interests in their own hands. The whole system of commercial speculation and monopoly, of l1Slll_'~", -‘liid spoliation under all forms, would .be overthrown; the immense sums they now absorb—two- thirds of the proﬁts of the industry of Nations——would be j ‘ saved, and retained in the hands of the producers of wealth, to be applied to productive improvements. The era of com- mercial speculation, with‘ its instability and revulsions, H would be brought to a close, and the wealth and talent now engaged in commerce and banking would-be devoted to de— veloping Industry on a vast scale. 2. I The present Currency, drawing the high rates of interest which it does, accumulates through interest _the immense sums we have pointed out.- One thousand dollars loaned at eight per cent.——a less rate than our Banks on an average now obtain—— accumulatesiin-~half a century-,' or in a long bus- iness life, about sixty t'ho’us"a1icl dollars over the originalone ~ thousand dollars. Tenhrtelligcnt mechanics or farmers,lla- boring assiduously the‘ same length of time, do not, as expe- ' ricnce demonstrates‘, accumulate any such sum. Thus, one thousand dollars in the hands of a« capitalist, can, through in- terest and without labor, accumulate a greater amount of wealth than the labor of ten efficient men. The new Currency, ‘costing one per cent., would accumu- late, in the period above mentioned, about seven hundred "dollars over the original amount. N ow as productive Indus- try creates all wealth, and in the end pays for everything, the diiference, ﬁfty thousand and three hundred dollars, would, if economized by means of a cheap currency, remain in its hands. Vlvlhat a gigantic impetus would be given to industrial improveinents and to the general progress of so- ciety, if the vast sums now absorbed by interest were devoted to really great and useful enterprises, and the capital created by them distributed equitably and more generally among the producing classes. ' These two examples are suﬁicient to enable the reader to make further comparisons for himself. If he will examine the subject carcliilly, he will see that the two Currencies, based on exactly opposite principles, must, when they Work out their ultimate effects, produce exactly opposite results. The one concontratesthe: property of Nations in the hands of a few. The other will disseminate it among. the entire people. ‘ — The one builds up everywhere an aristocracy of wealth. The other will create a wealthy, and, as a consequence, an . educated and intelligent Democracy. ‘ The one gives rise to a limited demand for luxuries for the few, and lor the commonest necessaries for the many. The other will give rise to an unbounded demand forthe necessa- ries and luxuries of life forall, as ‘all will become con- sumers. ' ‘ . ‘ ' I The one places obstacles in the wayiof the development of Industry by limited consumption. The other will en. , courage Industry to the fullest extent by creating a univer- , ~ ~ sal demand for its products. ~ . I j The one is a source of servitude, monotony and dead rou- tine in Industry, and of ignorance and stolidness on the part of the laboring classes.“ The other will impart the greatest energy and progress to Industry, and call out a. new life and \ a new mental activity among the masses. I » v The one creates populations of poor hired laborers, work- ing for a few idle rich. ‘The other will create Nations of / I \ ' .x.. V" ~‘‘‘~‘ ,, .,..5n3,mI,,,.,..\.,gsmg...,,,.,,.w...,..V. .-.. ., ..,....-..._....»»7.-&,,_.....,.,,l..,%.,.._ . _ , - ., . ::-.r’f ~’, speculation. 7. It will furnish a. currency that will always‘ ' tions of the country, expanding with production and coil: wealihyproducers, and develop intelligence to a highdegree by the scientiﬁc prosecution of Industry. C Other causes, no doubt, concur in producing. the ﬁrst named of these results; but -our false Currency exercises S9 powerful anfinﬂuence——an influence now‘no_t at all under- stood—that we leave them aside to concentrate attention on the main cause. I - < If some fundamental changes, some new principles are not introduced into our Industrial system, the entire property of our country will, in a century more, pass into the‘ hands of a small minority, forming a compact and powerful moneyed Oligarchy, ruling the Nation by the power of capital. This Oligarchy will organize all branches of Industry, as well as Commerce,‘ in joint-stock companies, and will operate through them, as they are the safest and easiest. method of prosecu- ting extensive enterprises; it will engage in its service the active minds, the men of talent that are poor, who will thus be enlisted in the service, and will aid it with their capacitye It will control the Press, as it will own it. With the aid of the Press and its active employee, and also with that of the lawyers, who are commonly the servants of the moneyed power, it will ‘control legislation and public opinion. We shall then see a powerful and wealthy Oligarchy controlling the destinies of the Nation, while the great body of the peo- ple will be poor and dependent hirelings, working on the great estates, in the manufactories, the mines, on the rail- roads of the powerful Corporations, or the joint-stock Corn- panies. It will, in fact, be an INDUSTRIAL FEUDALIsM, some- thing like the military feudalism established at the beginning of the middle ages by the Great Barons. ‘ I The reform we propose is, we are aware, a -revolution-—a far-reaching and radical revolution. It will take the control of the Currency andof Creditoout of the hands of classes and Corporations, and place it in those of the State; it will destroy the powers of capital to accumulate wealth by in- terest and rents, and to absorb the surplus product or surplus proﬁts of industry without labor or intelligence; it will pre- vent the accumulation of colossal fortunes byﬁnterest, usury, monopoly, stock-j obbin g, commercial proﬁts, ﬁnancial operations and the innumerable schemes of speculation and spoliation which are now carried out by means of the con- trol of the Currency and of Capital; and in so doing will thwart the growth, the building up of that vast moneyed power which now threatens to establish itself, and to obtain the control of Society. It will establish equity and justice in the Industrial sys- tem, in the domain of Labor; it will secure equal industrial . rights and opportunities to all, and will inaugurate what we may call an INDUSTRIAL REPUBLIC, in which the reign of universal prosperity and intelligence will be secured. We propose a revolution, but it is a peaceful one, and will save many bloody commotions in the future; for the masses in our country will not sink into poverty without terrible strug- glesg Let those who can look half a century into the future, and are inter€.sted;in— the progressive improvement of the great body of the people, study the problem» of the encroach- meﬁtol capital upon labor, of its future usurpation of power, and they will be convinced that a radical change in the industrial policy of society, effected by constructive and peaceful means, and securing equal industrial rights and op- portunities to all, is the just and wise course to be pursued. . MONEY AND CURRENCY. To the Editors of Woodhull &; C’Zaﬂz'-n’s Weekly: The indiscriminate use of the terms money and currency . is so common, and at the same time so dnischievous, that I trust I shall be permitted to make one more effort to. show how they may be kept distinct in our minds, and much confusion avoided in our treatment of ﬁnancial questions, which are becoming more and more important, and must be settled upon some enduring basis, before we can safely pro- ceed to other reforms which are constantly pressing upon our attention. ' We must come to some intelligent understanding as to the necessity for a standard of value, and agree upon some one product of labor which shall best serve our purpose. And the product will be gold, as that, of all other things, has the qualities which we desire. It cannot properly be silver, or any of the baser metals, so called, as all these are too bulky, and" cannot be transportedllike gold to meet a sudden de— mand, which, it not readily supplied, would unduly enhance the price. / Gold ﬂows promptly to "any required point, and thus, like the ocean, preserves a general level, from which we can safely measure the altitude or price of all other com- modities ; and it is by this standard that we do practically measure all our mercantilatransactions, though theoretically there are many persons who take a different view. But it will be found, upon careful investigation, that not a single transaction is effected which does not directly or in- directly refer to the pound sterling, a money of account at London, the great central clearing house of the whole com-. mercial world. Not a single note is given, or check drawn, promising to ‘pay dollars, francs or ﬁorins, without considering in one way or another the relation which it does, or will bear, to a bill of exchange on London, which has a paying and pur- chasing power all over the globe, such as belongs to no other t-hing—not even golditself. We all know that gold has a purchasing power or value near- ly uniform everywhere, and that this power does not depend upon legislation, nor essentially upon the form in which the « gold at the clearing house. metal is presented, so long as the weight and ﬁneness of the mass is known, and therefore, in seasons of distrust, ‘we pre- fer that to any paper, whether private or-public. But every‘ _ person of tolerable intelligence also knows, that to attempt to carry on the immense business of the world, and "make payments by using gold as currency, or, the representative of other useful things, would be simply absurd, because ab- solutely impossible. “ . It is true that our ‘government omcials for many years ..professed to use only specie in their ﬁnancial‘ transactions, . though sensible business men could never understand why their interests did not require as good currency as could- be . contrived for the government. I And now we ﬁnd France and Germany attempting to fol- low the same stupid course, and use coin where paper would be as much better as it is safer in handling, and more con- venient every way. \ « . ' All such transactions, in fact, all payments and pur- chases, should be made by the use of paper, and all paper so used is=—as Daniel "Webster said in one of his most striking speeches on ﬁnancial . questions——currencg/. Paper is not money, nor can legislation or any other power make it such. It is either debt, payable at a future date, or currency, which 'means, if it means anything, that the holder shall have as much for it as he could, obtain for the number of dollars or ’ pounds sterling named on the paper. I , ‘V Bank notes are not money, nor in any material sense Vdiﬁ‘cr- ent from the check of the cashier, each being payable or re- deemable in current funds, having a certain "relation t6 Private checks, drafts and bills ofexchange all have the same character sofar as they are entitled to credit, and all these are currency, and nothing else. Now what we insist upon ﬁnally is, that there shall be but one monetary standard, andthat gold; and there mujstfoe provision for identicalweight and ﬁneness, and thus commercial value, all over the world, so that there shall be no more confusion or ‘ambiguity in kecpingour accounts.‘ But we are not to use gold as’ currency ; on the contrary, it must be the duty of all governments to provide banking systems which, while the business of banking as such shall be left entirely free, shall give us just the right quantity of just the right kind of currency in the form of notes or checks, which shall in all cases, under a. heavy, penalty for failure, be convertible into funds as good as gold at the clearing house or trade centres, toward which all paper naturally ﬂows, and where it is most valuable tothe holder. Let the banker be compelled to redeem his paper prompt- ly, and pay a reasonable proportion of the proﬁt on its cir- culation into the treasury, and we may be quite certain that no dther paper can obtain currency, unless it_,'conform.s to the same reasonable conditions. The banks are as they should be—the commercial centres of their respective localities and the character of their notes and transactions will assuredly be imparted to all the busi- ness with which they come in. contact. ‘ _ In a future communication I shall attempt to show how" a true system can be inaugurated, and that the same system . will serve perfectly not only for our own country butifor I all the world. _ DAVID WILDER TO THE PRESS. - i It would be a particular favor, at this time, if our editorial friends would say to the public (for us) that, although the presses and all the material used by the Western Rural and Young Folks’ Rural were entirely destroyed in the great Chicago ﬁre, our subscription lists were rescued, and -that within one month from the ﬁre/we intend to be out again in old form, style, etc. I I The Western Rural is afarm and family weekly, that has attained the largest circulation of any agricultural paper out of New York city. Terms, $2 per year. The Young Folks’ Rural is a. large newspaper of eight pages, for young people and children, at $1 per year; started a year ago, and has been pronounced “ the ﬁnest thing ex- tant for the young.” . All who subscribe at this time will aid us in recovering our losses and in getting on our feet again. New yearly subscribers, for either paper, will receive the I whole of 1872 and the remainder of this year, tree, after the resumption. We give splendid inducements to get up clubs- , Address H. N. F. Lewis, Chicago, Ill. — AN exchange remarks : “If the next generation of women do vote, will they be educated to the. proper standard to do so intelligently? They seldom or never read political news- papers, history or works on political economy. It may be said that our young men do the same. That may be ; but from their earliest days they hold intercourse with men, or hear them talking on such topics. Young women have no such opportunities ; how, then, can they, as a class, he edu- cated up to a true voting standard ? It would be well for female reformers to look to this.” _ g [This is boshi Practically and in the wayggour elections are managed no one but a few politicians and wire-pullers know anything of the personal merits of the candidates. They are selected not because they are good citizens,—but thoroughgoing partisans. As to the average young woman, she is as intelli- gent as the average young man. She studies history and gram- mar and algebra just-as he does, and in private life the wo- man actually does take a livelyinterest in politics. Else whence all the stories about womanspatriotic devotion during the war and her earnestness in times of political ex- ’ ci_steme11t.] , \ ~ Nassau’ street. New York. . . —- Page. Page. 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Woonnum. will for the ﬁrst time deliver her argument upon the Principles of Social Freedom, in which all the ‘questions involved, such as Free Love, Marriage, Di- vorce and -Prostitution, will-bejanalyzed, and the true sepa- rated from the false, in the crucible of principle by the ﬁre of ;reason—separated from all conventionalily and time-honored practices. It is high time that those things upon which the greatest and dearest interests of mankind are based s. ould be stripped of all hypocritical pretense and pharisaical holiness and their conditions shown up just as they are. Until this is done the world will go on producing all kinds of abortions of nature, from the simple kleptomaniac to the hydra-headed murderer. When people are compelled to know that all‘ dominant traits of character are born with them, they will begin to realize the importance of the conditions in which they are produced, and learn better than to vilify and blacken those who invite attention to them. — . , THE NEW YORK TIMES OPEN TO THE FAIR F PRESENTATION OF ALL SUBJECTS. , The following letter speaks for itself : THE RIGHT on WOMEN T0 .VOTE-A PROTEST FROM MRS. A WOODHULL. To the Editor of the New York Times .- I have been, refused the right of voting by the Democratic siring to receive my vote. Under the ‘elaction laws’ of the State, the inspectors are, or I am, “‘ guilty of felony,” since either they prevented a legal voter from voting, or I at tempted to vote illcgall y ! an_d either they or I shall be con- victed of the crime. . , Section 1, article 2, of the State Constitution provides : “. All male citizens, &c., &c., shall be entitled to vote.” Sec- tion 1, article 1', provides : “ N 0 member of this State shall‘ be clisfranchised or deprived of the rights or privileges se- cured to any citizen, unless by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.” - I am a. ‘member of the State, and no law has been enacted to-disfranchise or deprive me of any right or privilege se- cured to other citizens. Nevertheless, I was deprived of the greatest, of all rights—the right to vote. Moreover, if a single citizen of the State of New York has the right to vote, every other citizen has the ‘same right, with the exceptions referred to. The -point involved can by no possible stretch , be made ‘to cover the right of the State to exclude women A citizens from suffrage, since no law is better established than that a. right secured by positive terms cannot be taken away i by implication ; and to take away the rights secured by ar- ticle 1, section 1, of the Constitution in such terms by article 2, section 1', because it -fails to provide for female citizens in Constitution of the United States is -also equally clear‘ in se- curing the right to vote to all persons. The Fourteenth Amendment, section 1, provides 2 A 'All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and ot the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens of the ‘United States. The right to vote is recognized as a citizen’s right by the Fifteenth Amendment, as follows : “The right of citizens of the_United States to votefshall not be denied,” etc., etc. The right to vote, then, is possessed by citizens of the United States. Women are citizens, hence voters. But if there is any doubt aboutthe right to vote being secured be- yond the power of abridgment or denial, by the Fourteenth Amendment in the provision which forbids the States to abridge the privileges of citizens of the United States, upon the ground that the right to vote is not included in privi- leges, I beg to submit thatthe Supreme Court of the United States has already settled that question. In delivering the opinion of the Court, Justice Bradley said : F It is possible that those who framed the article were not themselves aware of the fdr—reac7u'ng character of its terms. Yet, if the amendment does, in fact, bear a broader mean- ing, and does extend its protecting shield over those who were never thought of when it was conceived and put in form, and does reach social evils which were never before prohibited by Constitutional enactments, it is to be presumed that the American people,.in giving it their rlmpﬁmatur, I understood what they were doing, and meant to decree what ilnfaclthey have decreed. The privileges and immunities se- cured by the original Constitution were only such as each State gave to its own citizens. * * * But the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits any State from abridging the privi- leges and immunities ofcitizens of the United States, wheth- er its own citizens or any other. It not mei-tly 1'1 quires equality of privileges, but it demands that the privileges and immunities of all citizens shall be absolutely unabridged and uninzpulred. These prlvilegis cannot be invaded without sapping the very foundation, of republican government. A. 1'<p11bliCan government is not merely a govarnment oi the people, but it is a tree government. * “' * It was very ably contended on the partof the defendants that the Four-’ teenth Amendment was intended only to secure to all citi- zens cqual capacities before the law. ’Thdt was at first our view oflt. But it does not so read. The language -is: “No State shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” ’Wliat are the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States ? Are they capacities mere- ly ? Are they not also rights? ' The Supreme Court has, therefore, already decided that the privileges secured by the amendments are something more than equal civil rights; in fact, that they include all political rights. In an opinion delivered by Justice McKay, he declares the law as follows : All persons recognized by the Constitution as citizens of the State have equal legal and political rights, except as other- wl-e expressly declared. , Also, in the same opinion : - It is the settled and uniform sense of the word “ citizen,” when ussid in reference to the citizens of the separate States of the United States, and to their rights as such citizens, that it describes a person entitled to every right, legal and political, enjoyed by any person in that State, unless there be some exp ess exception: made 13/ positive law conoer/may the 33221-- fl'0'Zllj7" persons whose rights are in questzbn. Justice Washington makes the case still clearer when he says : k‘ The privileges and immunities conceded by the Consti- tution of the United States to citizens in the several States are to be conﬁned to those which in their nature are iunda- mental and belong of right to all free government. Such are the rights of protection of life and liberty, and to acquire and enjoy property, and to pay no higher impositions than other citizens, and to enjoy the electoral franchise, as regu- lated and established by the Constitution and laws of the State in which it is to be exercised. If ‘any question what is involved by regulating and estab- lishing the elective lranchise, desiring to argue that it can be regulated and established out of existence, as in the pres- ent case of woman, I call attention to the meaning of these words: To regulate is ‘j‘ to put in order,” not to put out of ezz'stonco; to establish is “to make. stable and ﬁrm,” not to nullify or mt/zhold. . ' Finally, the act of Congressof May 31, 1870, known as the “Force Act,” to enforce the new amendments, makes it a penal offense, punishable by ﬁne and imprisonment, for inspectors of election to prevent citizens of the United States from voting, when they are-properly registered and qualiﬁed. , So much has been said-in the daily press about my claim being “ a farce,” while journals persistently shut their col- umns to all rebutting arguments, that I trust you may do your women readers the justice to publish this outline of the posi- tion by which it_ is claimed that women are legal voters under both the State and Federal Constitutions. One-sided and dogmatic journalismiis too common, and I shall hail the day when a free press may be inaugurated. _ ' VIC1‘ORIA.C. Woonnnnn. No. 44 Broad street, Tuesday, Nov. '7, 1871. - -—-—-——--—--9 PROGRESS OF THE CAUSE. Victoria C. Woodhull spoke upon Suffrage in the Court- house at Bordentown, N. J., November 9, to a packed house. This place has been remarkably conservative, but it contained our eminent, earnest and faithful co-laborer, Susan 0. Waters, than whom no citizen there. is more highly esteemed, and she called “all the people .” together. Of the result she-says, in a private letter (and she must pardoﬁ us giving an “ extract” to our readers, since we are desirous to let them know how “ the leaveu” is working in New J cr- sey) : “ The recent lecture in’ thislplace hasexerciscd a- pow“-. erful inﬂuencc over the public mind. To say, that it gave 1 universal satisfaction is entirely too little, for both friends , and opponents of woman suﬁrage were delighted with the force and conclusiveness of_ thy arguments, and are enthusi- astic in praise and admiration of thy eﬁbrt. I fu‘ly believe that thee so reversed the public opinion of this community that today our cause stands far in advance of its position last week.” i _ , _ On the, 10th she spoke on the same subject in Institute Hall, Philadelphia, to a.- still larger and more entliusiastic audience, which ﬁlled the hall to its utmost capacity, every seat, aisle, window and antelroom being crowded. A From the growing enthusiasm everywhere manifested for this "subject, it is plain that it is "‘ the question” of the day —-one from which the public attention cannot be diverted until it shall be settled, and settled in favor of equality. , —---—---¢———-——— DESPOTISM ENFORCED—TAMMANY HIRELINGS PREVENT LEGALLY QUALIFIED VOTERS FROM THE EXERCISE OF A CITIZEN’S RIGHT. REPUBLICAN INSPECTOR ACCORDS THE RIGHT DEMANDS‘ OF HIS COLLEAGUES BY WHAT AUTHORITY THEY DENY A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES THE RIGHT TO VOTE. The Election Laws of the State of New York provide as followsi_ V _ SEC. 25. Any person who shall knowingly register or cause , himsell-to be registered as a voter in any election {llS!l“lCi. in which he is not at the time a qualiﬁed voter, and in which he is not- legally entitled to vote, shall be adjudged guilty of a felony. - _ SEC. 26. Any person who shall knowingly vote or offer to vote at any election in any electir-n district in which he is not at the time legally entitled to vote, or who shall more than once at any such election, or who shall pets n-ate ' any other person, or pretended or ﬁctitious person, and vote or offer to vote in the name oi‘ such person", or in any as.-ruined or ﬁcti-iious name, shall be adjudged guilty of a felony. _ SEC. 31. If any officer on whom any duly is enjoined In this act shall be guilty of any willful nrglect of such duty, or of any corrupt conduct or practice in the execution of the same, and be thereof convicted, he shall be deemed guilty of a felony. _ We registered to vote in the Twenty-third district of Twenty-ﬁrst ward and knowingly endeavored to vote. The two Tammany Inspectors refused to permit us to vote, saying we were not legally entitled to do so. If this be so, then are we “guilty of felony.” But if this be not so, then are those Inspectors “ guilty of felony.” (We propose to demonstrate so clearly that the wayfaring man though a. fool may understand, that we are not guilty of felony, and that the Inspectors are so guilty.) The Constitution of the State of New York, arlicie two, section one, provides : K That every male citizen, &c.,&c., shall be entitled to vote , V Article one, section one, provides: No member of this A State shall be disfranchised or deprived of the rights or privileges secured to every citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land or the judgment of his p('€l‘,S. Every male citizen, then, having the requisite qualiﬁcations, is entitled to vote, and it follows that every member of the S ate is en- titled to the same right, secured past all abridgment by the said ﬁrst section. Language could not be framed making the fact more positive than thisof the Constitution of the State, since there has been no law ofvthe land enacted to make it otherwise. . To deprive a citizen of the right to vote under the Con- stitution of the State it is necessary to enact a law inalring speciﬁc provisions of disfranchisement or deprivation of the rights and privileges secured to other citizens. There has been no law passed to do either of these things, and _ nobody can show there has been. The statutes do not contain them. 3 Therefore we have been deprived of the legal right by which we are invested by the State of New York by two so-called Democratic Inspectors of Elections, who are thus “guilty of felony.” ' But a greater power than the State of New York has also been ignored. The Constitution of the United States recog- nizes women as citizens, and the right to vote as a citizcn’s right, which no State can abridge, as follows : A Section one of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Consti- tution of the United States declares positively that “All persons” (not all men) “born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, ‘are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens of the K United States.” -- The Fifteenth Amendment recognizes the right to vote as a citizen's right in the following language : , ’ “ The right of citizens of the United States to vote,” .etc., etc. Now, the only question which it is possible to raise is whether the right to vote is one of the privileges mentioned in the Fourteenth Amendment which the States shall not deny or abridge; and this question has been-already settled by the Supreme Court of the United States. l-he~°Pml0D bell: g delivered by Justice Bradley. ' It is possible thatthose who framed‘ the article were not , themselves aware of the far—rcaching character of its terms, yet if the amendment does in fact bear a. broader meaning, l I l l .. x -A, ,Nov.f25,l:871. - iwo-olbfnuntntaion-AsLin’s T and doesextend its protecting shield over those who were - never thought of when it was conceived and put in form, and does reach social evils which were never before prohib- ited by constitutional enactment, it is to be presumed that the American people, in giving it their imprzi/natur, under- stood what they were doing and meant to decree what in fact they have decreed. , , K The “privileges and immunities” secured by the original Constitution were only such as each State gave to its own citizens, * * but the Fourteenth Amer dment prohib- its any State from abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United, States, whether its own citizens or any others. It not merely requires equality of privileges, but it demands thatthe privileges and immunities of all citizens shall be absolutely unabridged and unimpaired." In the same opinion, after enumerating some of the “ priv- ileges” of the citizens, such as were pertinent to the case on trial, the court further says : These privileges cannot be invaded without sapping the very foundation ol republican government. A republican government is not merely a government of the people, but it isa tree government. * * It was very ably con- tended on the part of the defendants that the Fourteenth Amendment was intended only to secure to all citizens equal capacities before the law. That was at ﬁrst our View ofit. But it does not so read. The language is, “No State shall abridge the privileges oritnmunities ofcitizens of the United States.” Wliat are the privileges and immunities of the cit- izens of the United States? Are they capacities merely? Are they not also rights ? In the opinion of Justice’ McKay, among other proposi- tions, he lays down the following : 2d. The rights of the people of this State, white and black, are not grinted to them by the Constitution thereof; the object and (ﬂeet of tl1 ll? instrument is not to give, but to re- strain, deny, rcgulata and guarantee rights, and all persons recognized by that Constitution as citizens of the State have equal, legal and political riglzvts, except as'oﬂwrwz'se expressly declared. . 3d. It is the settled and uniform gtense of the word “ citi~ zen,” vthen used in reference to the citizens ot the separate States ot the United States, and to their rights as such citi- zens, that it describes a person entitled to every right, legal and polzticul, enjoyed by any person in that State, unless there he s tme express exceptions made by positive law cov— ering the particular person whose rightsare in question. Also by Justice Wztshington, as follows : The privileges and immunities conceded by the Constitu- tion of the United States to citizens in the several States are to be conﬁned to those that are fundamental, and belong of right to the citizens of all free governments. Such are the rights of protection of life and liberty, and to acquire and enjoy property, and to pay no higher itnpositions than othercitizens, and to pass through and It side in the State at pleasure, and to enjoy the elective franchise, as regulated and established by the laws and constitution of the State in which it is to be exercised. If we inquire what it is to regulate and establish the suf- frage, we learn that to regulate is “to put in order,” and to establish is “to make stable and ﬁrm.” Thus all that we have ever claimed is not only granted by the constitution of the State of New York, and by that of the United States, but our position is also fortiﬁed, not only by the decisions of the courts quoted, but also by every other decision ever rendered in which the points in question are involved. _ I The two inspectors referred to said they were acting under instructions--had been told to refuse all votes offered by women. They would neither permit us to show them the law nor take the election oath. They could see but one word, male citizens, forgetting, ignoring, or, which is more proba- ble, not knowing that all such terms in law are used in their general sense, which, if not .so, women cannot be held ac- countable to a single penal law, since no law of them has theword she or her, except those where men and Women are specially involved, as in marriage and divorce. The R- publican inspector was a person evidently acquaint- ed with constitutional law, since he desired to receive those’ votes and declaredhis belief that we were entitled to vote as we claimed. We are also informed that the same position was assumed by the Democratic and Republican inspectors in other districts where women desired to vote. Can it be that the Republican party will thus rebukeVSenat.or Car-. penter? ;}..__.——j——- “SAUCE for the gander is sauce for the goose,” quotes a contemporary, and applies the proverb to the even—handed justice that in the matter of political fraud should be meted out equally to Republican as to Democratic rogues and pec- ulators: There is,,truly, not much choice for the citizen in the matter 01 wire-pulling, rings,lobbyists and administrative scoundrclism. The official watch-dogs who make common cause with the wolves and rend the shcep_ intrusted to their charge. The recent elections are valueless if they are taken only as a rebuke to the rascaltty of the Democrats. The Republican otﬁce-holders throughout the country are just as bad, with this added iniquity, that whereas the Democratic thieves and wolves acted in deﬁance of law, the‘ Republican rogues pretend to be supported by the law. To give full signiﬁcance to public opinion, this latest expression must be taken as the determination of the community to make war on all evil in high places. Let not the Republican 'lay the ﬂattering unction to his soul that his party is accounted guiltless. The very immunity of shoddy, contractors, thiev- ing commissaries and conniving generals, who shut one eye and hold out both hands for their share of the plunder, has led to the corruption of official morals and the acceptance of wealth, no matter how obtained, as the evidence of honor and respectability. Those citizens who voted at the last elections will have done only one-half their duty if’ they withdraw -their hand from the plow and refuse to continue ‘the good work. ‘ .s1’1frINe in It/roses’ share. A‘ What a blessed thing it is to live in a country where the laws are so simple that he who runs may read, where a thing once written in plain words can have but one common sense meaning, and where, in the want of difference in opinion» the referee‘ shall give judgment according to right, and render good and wholesome reasons for his decision. Yes, it is a blessed thing l And we congratulate the dwellers in the Dis- trict of Columbia on having such perfect laws and such able magistrates. The women have been before the courts; judgment has been _given and right hasﬂbeeni done. It is not the ﬁrst time women have been in the courts. There are two or three -memorablelldecisions in books of the law. King Solomon made himself famous by a concise summing. up, which went to the root of the matter and admitted no quibbling appeals. The disputants were both women. A certain Daniel achieved greatness by a judicial decision. Daniel himself was a model of deportment in his day—so virtuous and orthodox as almost to be eligible for full mem- bership in the Young, Men’s Christian Association. The parties to the suit,.were an estimable married lady and two elderly gentlemen. The elderly parties- got the worst of it, thanks to Daniel. Since that time the Daniels have been few and far between. The District of Columbia boasts of the last and greatest. This time, too, there is an estimable lady in the 'case———the other parties may or may not be naughty elders. The cause has ended differently ; the mod- ern elders have managed their affairs -better. ' Seen the new Daniel, perhaps, and have triumphed. 7 Dred Scott, it may be recollected, was not a citizen, not even a person; a nonentity in law; consequently the luxury of law was denied him. Mrs. Sarah A. Spencer’ is a person; she is born in the United States ; therelore is a citizen of our glorious country; and being a person so born and a citizen so constitutionally declared in express words, is entitled to vote. All this is expressly and clearly set out in the printed law by which the country is ruled. The modern Daniel is otherwise known as Chief Justice Cartter, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. This new Daniel has given a very luminous decision, not less remarkable for its sagacity thanfor its patriotism. Firstly-——He_decides that though what is written is written, still it was not meant. I ' Secondly—-He decides that the whole system of law under which he and the rest of us Americans live, and by virtue of which he is what he is, is an iniquity and a disgrace to civil- ization, and ought to be improved oil‘ the face of the earth. Thirdly—He declares that because men misuse their polit- ical privileges women ought not to enjoy such privileges. Fourthly-——That when that great legislative body, the Con- gress of the United States, expressly enacted that certain persons should have certain rights, Congress did not mean that such persons should have such rights, but only that Con- gress should have the power to pass another law to give such rights to such persons, if, upon further and mature con- sideration, it should appear to Congress that it would be ﬁt and proper for such persons to have such rights. The value and profound’ utility of such admirable reason- ing are so apparent that elaborate comment on this monu- mental exposition of judicialgwisdom is superﬂuous. Let our readers study for themselves, particularly noting the eulogy passed on the rights of suffrage, the -corner stone and main pillar of our national ediﬁce: i We do not hesitate to believe that the legal vindication of the natural right of all citizens to vote would, in this state of popular intelligence, involve the destruction of the civil government. There is nothing in the history of the past that teaches us otherwise. There is little in current history that promises a better result. The right of all men to vote is as fully recognized in the population of our large centres and cities as can well be done short of an absolute declara- tion that all men shall vote irrespective of qualiﬁcations. ’l he result in these centres is political proﬁigacy and violence verging upon anarchy. The inﬂuences working out this re- sult are apparent in the utter neglect of all agencies to con- serve the virtue, integrity and wisdom of government, and the appropriation of all'agencies calculated to demoralize and deb-ase the integrity of the elector. Institutions of learning calculated to bring men up to their high state of politi- cal citizenship, and indispensable to the qualiﬁcations of the minds and morals of the responsible voter, are postponed to the agency of the dram shop and gambling ht ll, and men of conscience and capacity are discarded to the promotion of vagabonds to power. This condition demonstrates that the right to vote ought not to be, and is not an absolute natural right. The fact that the practical working of the assumed right would be destructive of civilization is decisive that the right does not exist. As regards the question of the constitutional right of woman to ‘ vote under the provisions of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States the opinion continues: “ It will be seen by the first clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that the plaititiﬁs, in com- mon with all other persons bnrn in the United States, are citizens thereof, and if to make them citizens is to make them votersthe plaintiffs may of right vote. It will he in- ferred from what has already been said that to make a per- son a citizen is not to make himor her a voter. All that has been accomplished by this amendment to the Constitution, or by its previous provisions, is to distinguish them from aliens and make them capable of becoming voters. In giv- ing expression to my own judgment this clause does advance them to full citizenship, and clothes them with the capacity to become voters. The provisionends with the declaration of their citizenship. It is a. constitutional provision that d( es not execute itself‘. It is the creation of a constitutionali condition that requires the supervention of legislative power in the exercise of legislative discretion to give it effect. The constitutional capacity of becoming a voter created by this amendment lies dormant, as in the case of an infant, until made eﬁective by legislative action. Congress, the legisla- tive power of this jurisdiction, as yet, has not seen fit to.’ ‘ carry the inchoat e right into elfect, as is apparent in the law regulating thefrancliise of this district. A When that shall have been done it will he the pleasure of this court to ad- minister the law as they ﬁnd it. Until this shall be done the considerationsotlﬁlness and unﬁtness, merit and de- merit, are considerations for the law-making” power. The - demurrer in these cases is sustained. _ HORACE cnnrrnnvis Brnron THE Nontuivrroix OF THE LABOR REFORM PARTY. If there ever was astrange transformation made by amor- tal man, Philosopher Horace makes it in the Tribune, in an article from his, own pen, entitled, “How to Reduce the Interest on the National Debt. ’,’ In this editorial Mr. Greeley adopts- and approves. that part of‘ the platform of the National Labor Union relating to the money of the people» ‘Hewould have greenbacks made receivable for all governmental dues, and convertible into bonds bearing a low rate of interest, adding as an argument that such a convertibility, at the option of the holders of money, into bonds, and of bonds into greenbacks, will regu- late the volume of the currency, which is so palpable that everybody who has common sense must see it. But hear him : . _ M Mr. Boutwell’s plan of funding the National Debt has had a pretty fair trial. True, the times ‘havebeen adverse; but we have generally found them so when we needed to borrow money. ~ The sum and substance ofthe Secretary’s s_ucc_ess is the funding of $200,000,000 at ﬁve per cent, on the pay- ment of a bonus of 1%} percent. to the “ syndicate” of loreign" bankers who have agreed to take the loan. We would not disparage this achievement, for we regard it as decidedly better than nothing. Add to the interest ($3,000 000) $1,000,000 more tor the aggregate cost of prin1‘it.g the new bonds, advertis ng, explaining and contlnencltng the loan, and the entire cost of tunding the $200,000,000 at live per cent. for ten years is $4,000,000. It seams to us that this does not justity a hope ‘that our $1,500,000 of instantly or presently redeemable Sixes can be promptly funded even at live per cent. Having given to the Secrctar_v’s efforts a hearty support throughout, we urge that a radically different plan may next have as fair a trial. Before we send another bond abroad to he hawked from banking-house to banking-house through- out Europe, we ask the government to try-—just earnestly tr;/—to fund the-bulk of our debt at home. We could not have sold our bonds, during the dark hours of our civil war, to Europe at any price, no matter how ruinous, if we had not ﬁrst shown our faith in them by taking hundreds ofmil- lions of them ourselves. So now, having seen how reluc- tantly they take our reissues at ﬁve percent. with a discount, let us showthtm that we stand ready to take a larger amount; at a lower rate of interest at par. Here is the gzst of our proposition. . Let Congress make our greenbacks fundable at the pleasure of the holder in bonds ol $100, $1,000 and $2,000, drawing inletest at the rate of one per cent. per day on each $100 (or 3 65-100 per annum), and eavchcmgeuble mto green- buclcs at the pleasure of the holder. Now authorize the Treas- ury, to purcha~e and extinguish our outstanding bonds so fast as it is supplied with the means of so doing by receipts tor customs or otherwise; and to issue new‘-greenb lCkSWl1':I1-' everlarger amounts shall be required——ever’y one being fund- ahle in sums of $100, $1,000 or $10,000, as aforesaid, at the pleasure of the holder, in bonds drtwing an annual interest of3 65-100 in coin per annum, and these bonds exchangeable into greenbacks whenever a holder shall desire it. ' The beneﬁts of this system would be these: 1. Our greenbacks, which are now virtual falsehoods, would be truths. The government would pay them on de- mand in bonds as aforesaid, which is in substantal accord- ance with t e plan on which the greenbacks were Iirst au- thorized. II. Every person having greenbacks for which he had no present need would present them at somelSub‘-Treasury and exchange them at par for these bonds. $10,000 which he expects to use a month hence: he can make them earn him $30 meantime, without incurring the smallest danger of loss by bank failure or otherwise, and with a positive certainty that the money would be ready for him whenever he chose to take it. . ' III. A merchant leavcs New,York with $1,000,000 which ‘he purposes to invest in wheat at the West or in cotton at the South. He calls at our Sub-Treasury, exchanges his Chicago, St. Paul, New Orleans or Galveston, to -be ex- changed for use when needed. After looking about for a month, he buys half the produce he originally-intende,d, con- verts half his bonds into greenbacks, receives$50 pet-"day,_ or $1,500 in all, as interest, and makes his payments. After traveling and looking for another month, he invests the re- mainder of his capital, receives $3,000 as interest thereon for the two months he has held the last half million of bonds, Suppose he has I ‘greenbacks for these bonds, and takes or sends these to l— and lays his course homeward. His bonds may have lain ‘ nearly all the time he owned them in the vaults of some thank, but they were earning money not for that bank but or um. ‘ IV. Our greenbacks, no longer false, but convertible at. pleasure into bonds bearing a moderate, gold interest and’ ex- changeable as aforesaid, could not fail to appreciate steadily until theynearly reached the level of gold. Indeed, they would, unless issued too profusely, be really better than .g« ld. “Drawing a higher rate of interest than British Consols, and convertible at pleasure, as these are not, they would in time obtain currency even in the Old VVorld. ’ V. The trouble so inveterately borrowed by thousa.nds with respect to “ over-issues,” “redundant currency,” &c.,— would (or at least should) beqhereby dispelled. If there were at any time an excess of currency, it would tend to precipitate itself into the bonds aforesaid. If there should ever be a scarcity of currency, bonds would be exchanged at the Treasurylor greenbacks till the want was fully sup- plied. Black Fridays and the locking up of greenbacks would soon be numbered with lost arts and hobgoblinv ter- rors. , . VI. Though the demand for these bonds might for months he mode-‘rate, their convenience and manifest utility would soon diffuse their popularity and stimulate an ever~ 0, , widening demand for them. They would be a favorite in- vestment, with guardians and trustees who should expect , ,} .. l is Q - . 13; *vv*oen,s:t:.s.r. c;:r—.,.» yr an-‘rs 3"‘:-='rv‘1T‘«.=:,*r“ jjjliis .%§’>--:‘_§f,si‘:-.. . gm . « -' \ . i.r.‘“ S .- ' Nov. - y to be required to pay over the funds held by them at an early day, -whether ﬁxed or uncertain. They would say, ‘_‘ Though I might invest or deposit these funds where they would comm-.n1d a higher interest, I choose to place them where I know they will be safe and at hand when called for?’ ’ . i — VII. Ultimately we believe they would become so popu- lar that hundreds of millions of them would be absorbed at or very near the par of specie‘, and that withthe proceeds an equal amount of our outstanding‘ Sixes might be redeemed and c.-mceled without advertising for loans or paying bankers to shin for us throughout Europe. The interest thus saved to our country would be an important item. Sucli are the rude outlines of a plan which we did, not originate but which we he:»2'rtily indorse. Why not give it a trial We should dearly like to inform Europe that,since she seems not ‘to want any more of our bonds at ﬁve per cent, we have concluded to take the balance ourselves at three and two-thirds. - i We wish wecould hope that this conversion of Mr. Gree- ley were genuine. Nobody would rej oice more than our- selves to ﬁnd him once more ranged upon the side of the rights of the people as against tyranny, tvlibthei‘ political, social or ﬁnancial. This position places him in direct oppo- sition to the bondholders and the gold propagandists, and ‘consequently against Grant for the succession. If Mr. Greeley has done this upon principle, because it is. the truth and the right, and he will come out as boldly and indepen- dently as in his other declaration for the equal rights of citizens, irrespective of all arbitrary distinctions, then might ‘he really be considered as the nominee of the people. But we fear that all this is policy, and that seeing Grant is the necessity of the Republican party, he throws himself into the arms of the National Labor Union. We await to see if he will next adopt the same principle in regard to the and system, which really lies. back of and forms the basis of all other monopolies andloligarchies. ~ The slave oligarchy has been dethroned. The male oli- garchy remains to be dethroned, as well as the money and land oligarchies. Let Mr. Greeley pronounce himself on all of.these points, which relate so nearly to the interest of the common people’, and nothing can prevent him from being the choice of the people forthe next presidency. But let him ignore either of them and he is without hope. Nv “ WHY STAND YE HERE IDLE ALL THE DAY?” -We propound this question in seriousness’and in earnest- ness. _ The times are pregnant of great events. But ‘those who should have most interest seemguntouched by their prophecy. They stand callingfor justice when it is within their reach, and yet they either do not or will notsee it. It is almost thrust upon them, but another question blinds their eyes. The old saying is again veriﬁed: “There are none so blind as those who will not see.” It is time, however, for everybody who pretends to desire suffrage to come forward and get It is theirs for the mere asking. . “We confess to not a little curiosity to see. if people“who are ’-intolerant, bigoted and self-righteous will for once disrobe themselves, leaving the real men and women to act, as the occasion requires. Let us all lay aside all V pride, jealousy and bickering, andwith a common effort move upon and capture the heretofore considered impregna- ble position of manhood suffrage. We desire it to be distinctly understood that we make this appeal entirely in the interest of woman, separate and apart from all personality. There is an opportunity for us to wrest our rights from those who withhold them, and no mo- tives of personal interest should prevent the hecessaryac-— tion. ‘ If suffragecome to woman, she will use it as she thinks best. No self-appointed leader can control its use. As it is Gods-given, so also will it be God-used, nor can human hope, to "divert it. Far be it from us to even desire,- much less pretend, to do so. What women will do with the ballot must be determined by them in grand and solemn con- clave. First let them win it. Then let them meet in Na- tional Convention and determine how to use it; and none will be found more zealous in advocating its behests than ourselves. _ The time came when it was necessary to make the demand which is so nearly granted. It was necessary that some one “ should make it. Some one must champion the movement ; but when the cause shall have progressed beyond the sphere of that championship, when a more worthy and better qualiﬁed leader shall appear, then will all recognize and up- hold the newer and the better. We trust we are understood, and that none will hold ,:b£LCk'”fi‘OlI1 ‘performing what we hope to be able to show is the dutyoof us all, because of any previous or present supposed or professed leadership. But what is the duty which now devolves upon women and upon men who desire to be just to women? Plainly to unite tosecure ’ A DECLARATORY ACT. Wliy ? T It is not yet a year since a demand was made upon Con- gress, as the proper custodian ofthe rights of citizens of the United States, for the necessary legislation to secure to women, equally with men, the exercise of suffrage. This de- mand was met by a stern rebuff from the very person who drafted the language declaring women to be citizens. He declared that women were not citizens——-simply women. But that position was untenable. In a few weeks it was deserted, and the greates: judicial authority announced that women were citizens, since the Constitution expressly made them so; but that Congress had no powerto protect the rights of citizens as against State legislation. Buta great step was gained. it was conclusively proven that one class denied another-class of citizens’ rights which were exercised by themselves, simply because they had the power to do so, regardless of all fundamental iight or law. But this even was not" the greatest advantage gained. Wo- men came to know that they had the right to vote, and began to try to vote, and up to this time enough women have voted to forever settle the question as to whether they desire to do so. Before, none had thought of trying to vote. But trying and being refused made cases for the courts, several of which are now pending, and some decidcdu Chief-Justice Howe,.of 'Wyoming, alearned jurist and upright man, has declaredin broadest terms that women are voters under the Constitution of the United States. Justice Underwood has done the same in an unofﬁcial manner; while Justice Cartter, of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Columbia, has in substance done the same thing. The qualiﬁcation he has seen ﬁt to make only renders more plain the duty which we say is incumbent upon women. _ A The decision is : “ That the Fourteenth Amendment, con- sidered alone and independent of any other law on suf- frage, gives to women the right to" the ballot ; but,” he adds, “ this privilege camwzf Z2e_secm=ed witizout arlditiomtl legis- lation.” . * , ' Now what is the eﬁect of this ‘decision. The acknowl- edgment of the existence of the right could not be more plainly made. “Independent of any other law on suffrage, the amendment gives to women the right of the ballot.” What other law is there—can~ there be——on suffrage? If it is given by this ‘amendment to the Constitution, there surely can be nothing previously in the Constitution" conflicting with it. Therefore, so far as the Constitution itself is con- cerned, “it gives to women the right to the ballot.” No- body will attempt to gainsay that. All Congressional legis- lation, then, must be in favor of, instead of against, woman suffrage. Nothing that they have since/done could invalidate that right, while all previous legislation, if conﬂioting, was rendered null and void. So far, then, as Congress or the gen- eral government is concerned, it is impossible that su_fl'rage is restricted to men. If there is any legislation which impairs the right to the ballot, it must be in the States, and consist of the qualiﬁcations required of electors. But do those who profess this position know what they do ? The Federal Constitution contains a provision that it is the “ supreme law of the land, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.” How, then, can the States make or enforce any law to dispossess citizens of rights granted them by the Constitution itself ‘P It seems to us so plain that all persons ought to be able to see the unten- ableness of the position : that there is authority to invalidate the grant, even in the face of Senator Carpenters remark- able eifort to the contrary. The Constitution gives women the right to vote. No State can take that right away, but it must stand absolutely unabridged and unimpaired. It is not probablc,then, that the legislation Justice Cartter speaks of is State legislation, but Congressional, such as the “force” act, to carry out the provisions of the amendments in regard to negroes. We do not wonder that States do not recognize the right, as secured, since that women possess it is a so recent proposition. It is necessary, then, fbr Con- gress to simply declare to the States that this right is granted to women, in the language of Gen. Butler, “ as against‘ all State laws whatever.” It is plain, then, that the decisive point--the key to the whole matter~—is to obtain from Congress a declaration expressing the eﬁcct of the amendment. The States will not think of opposing it. It will settle the whole matter, and women can do whatever they please with their right-«exercise it in supporting those who have abridged it, or for those who have labored with them to remove the abridgment. No one can forestall their action. It will be such as they shall severally decide. « And we are unwilling to believe that it will be found upon the side of any injustice. We feel that we know that every woman’s ballot will be cast in favor of reform and of equal civil and social rights, excepting, per- haps, those whose action is religiously given into other hands, or who obey other than political masters. . Maywe not hope, then, to see the several conventions that will meet before the assembling of Congress passing resolutions and taking action looking to the concentration of all their forces upon Congress, until they shall make such laws as shall secure womtn the free and full exercise of the right to the ballot given by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. . _.__..._.__.___9~—-—-————— ‘HORACE GREELEY A CONVERT TO IMPARTIAL ENFRANCHISEMENT. In an editorial ‘ written by the philosopher himself, en- titled “ A Plea for Amnesty,” he gives in his adhesion to im- partial suifrage in the following comprehensive terms 2 l “ We pray that two bites be not made of the cherry” (of d£sf7*a1zchz'ssme72t0r ecrrlusionfront suﬁrage). “Either remove ' the disabilities of all,” men and women, “now ineligible to oﬂice, or of none. For partial enfranchisement will only in tensify the demand for a measure of amnesty, which leaves no pretext for seeking another. Let the year 1872 be ushered in with rejoicings that the hateful past is forgotten and that every native or naturalized citizen, white or black, high or low, once rebel or always loyal, will henceforth know the -Union as no harsh step-mother, but as the generous, loving, trusting guardian and protector even of her once wayward, hostile children.” ’ , ‘ We cannot believe that Mr. Greeley has made use of the above broad language without knowing just what he says, sincewe remember it isnot long since that Mr. Tilton called. his attention to the inconsistency of making . use of the term "‘_all citizens,” when he really meant "but half, and those the male half. And since Mr. Greeley stands so strenuously for the use of words only as set down by-- Sam Johnson & Co., as demonstrated in his recent on- slaught on our social thcories,,we cannot, suppose him to be so unwise and so thoughtless as to use such sweeping terms without regard to their real signiﬁcance. ‘ .,Therefore, unless Mr. Greeley retract or qualify this lan- l guage, and say distinctly that he only intended to include one—half the citizens, and to exclude all those who are so C much more guilty of treason to the Government than are those who attempted its destruction, as to be women, we shall be compelled to accept his language for just what it says, without limitation or qualiﬁcation. And WIT. Greeley cannot escape the responsibility by any quibble regarding the “deﬁnition” of words- -- ———:—1—— WHAT ARE THE QBJEOTIONS TO SPIRITUALlSM?, It has always been a source of wonder to us that the va- rious sects of professed Christians should so persistently oppose the theories, doctrines and facts of Spiritualism in its modern aspect. That they do so is especially inconsist- ent, since, if we go backward to the origin of their own doctrines, we ﬁnd them descending from “A Revelation.” It is too late in the age for people to profess the belief that God as a Personality everspoke to anybody, except in His methods of manifestation, by the immutable laws of the universe; and in thisway He speaks to everybody, just so far as each comprehcnds what is seen. It is also too analytic an age for people to profess to be- lieve there is any such entity in the universe as a personal God, resident at any particular locality, as separated and distinct from all other localities ; since to what does a belief amount that professes a God living nobody. can-tell where, or what are His modes ? Such theories are worthy of the time and men who put to death the person who first made the discovery that the earth was a globe, in opposition to the theory then generally held. —. And these very persons who profess a personal God tell you in almost every sentence they utter that they do not know of what they speak; since they say the same God is “ Omnipresent.” If He is so, and is a personal being, having parts and character separate and apart from the universe and nothing more, why do we not perceive Him ; why does not their belief rise into demonstration ? But if -they are “ pinned” by logic closely to statement of what they really intend to be understood to say, it will be found that they agree with the only comprehensible idea we can obtain : that God is the Life of the “World, being its entire Motor Power. It is impossible to separate the idea of - God from the facts of manifestation. Wherever in the wide world there is a result of applied power there is God mani- festing Himself. We have thus brieﬂy alluded to these things to be able to oppose the claim of Divine revelation, in the church sense, by the inevitable conclusion that what is claimed as such, obtained immediately from God, is simply writing given by inspiration ; the means or the medium of it, perhaps, sup- posing it was God speaking to or through him. Now, if all writing is inspiration, it must stand upon the same rule of judgment—its real merit as contained in the ideas or thoughts conveyed, perfectly separated from and unmodiﬁed by any supposed or real source other than the immediate and appar- ent one; that is to say: It matters not a whit whether Jesus or Confucius, Brohma or Mahomet, Nero or Caligula ﬁrst gave utterance to “Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.” Admitting the personality of both God and the Devil, it would not matter which of them had given “ the Golden Rule ” to the world. Its real merit—its only authority is contained within itself. It appeals directly to the religious nature of man and to the sense of justice of who- ever listens to its wise simplicity. It is quite time that the idea of authority Bqstripped from everything, so that intrin- sic values may be seen and appreciated. All our current ideas have been so dressed up in sacred mystery and time- honored associations that we have come to consider the dressing to the complete ignoring of the interior essence. Therefore, if there has been anywhere in the world any revelation to man coming from an unseen source, that- ‘ source was some intelligence other than the sum total of all intelligence, which would not only include the subject, but also the object of the revelation, which would be absurd, since an intelligence cannot convey intelligence to itself which it did not previously possess. All Christians profess to believe in a future existence. If there is such an existence there must be individuals in it ex- isting, and according to their own statements, those persons must be intelligent, that is, they are the people whom they say ‘once lived, but are now dead; while ‘everybody, uncon- sciously perhaps, oftentime admits the love and presence of unseen friends. It is impossible to separate the idea ofin- dividualized life, after the death of the body, from that of the continuance of spiritual relationship once expressed through the physical body. That the real life—-the real per- son is not the body which we feel and see, seems to be ig- norcd. We forget that it is only the clay tenement in which we live our brief earthly life. - \ Then why the bitter vindictiveness on the part of Chris- tians to the facts"-we no longer say theories-—of Spiritual- _ -v-ewﬁ-_.5. : ‘ l j.,,-_as.:.-_::.- rt-,=<”:'») ism? ‘- W herein is the justiﬁcationior persistent denun- » eiation constantiy huried at those who know that they have had i communion with the loved -who are not lost? Is the‘ simple fact that they live and love us, and have made. use of recently discovered methods of making themselves known, so terrible a thing as to warrant all this o11tcry—-all this pious judgment? Worild they have it understood that it is wicked and of the devil for people to converse with those who once ministered to their earthly happiness? Why should it not be equally sinful for our friends on a European trip to communicate with us? ' What are their objections? The fact is they have no valid ones, since they fail to give them. It is the mere fact that Spiritualists are not of their ﬁock——that they are not endeav- oringto reach heaven or escape hell by their methods. It would be all right enough, if these spirits, who come,brought tidings of the truth of the peculiar dogmas and theories to which they cling, losing thereby all sight of the in-dwelling life. If they came with a highly wrought story, that they had‘ seen the God the church worships, seated upon “His great white thro e, judging His people-—-inviting a portion to enter paradise and consigning the large remainder to the lake of hell-ﬁre, then the intruders would be welcome. But they do not so come; hence they are “false spirits, and those , who tamper with them are equally with them of the devil.” But one by one—~group after group—are the objectors brought to a. knowledge of the facts, since there is a rule of evidence which no person can escape ; though in the case of spirit communion the common rules of evidence are sus- pended. A person who is passed by society as perfectly honest, honorable and truthful in all other matters, is not believed in this. The same kind of evidence that would hang ‘a man is rejected as insufficient in the case of spirits. " If a half dozen persons were to testify that they saw a cer- tain other person commit murder, there is no court that would not convict the murd«:-rer. But; these same six per- sons might testify equally as pointedly to the fact of having seen aspirit whom they all recognized to be an old friend, and our opponents would set them down as objects of de- ception. There are thousands upon thousands of recorded cases, each one of which, if admitted as evidence under the same rule as all other evidence is admitted, is sufficiently potent to prove, not only spirit existence, but also spirit identity. Nor does it weaken the case to admit, that identity is not always established. One fact stands boldly out; they all assert that they are the spirits of persons who once lived in the body. There arcmillious of as good people as ever lived, and as truthful, who Will make the most solemn oaths that they know they have converged with and positively identi- fied individual spirit friends. Will the Church continue to " call all these people insane and dishonest, when the very re- ligion they profess rests largely upon similar evidence ? Spiritualism, as a distinctive religion, is but a score of years old. But witliin that comparatively short time it has spread until it now claims eleven million converts, six mil- lions of whom are outspokenbel‘overs. Did ever any other new religious belief make such alarming ($9) headway ? Even more than this immense showing : there are millions more» who admit the facts claimed, to their own souls, but do not yet publicly avow their belief. ‘ Now what is Christianity going to do with this vast body of honest and earnest people ? Does it comprehend against what it contends ? Is it realized that Spirituulists are nearly as numerous as all other Christian denominations combii_eci? VVe are conscious that this fact is not yet felt, since Spiritual- ists are constitutionally predisposed against organization, and consequently their united strength has never yet been exerted. This, however, is no evidence that it will never be -' united and accomplish a purpose. It is only evidence that nothing of sufficient moment has been developed to prove a solvent to the individuality of the masses of Spiritualists. . But let some great thing come up for settlement, some great humanitarian work be proposed, based upon the principles of scientiﬁc or religious truth, aud they will crystallize as if by magic. * » . i . V -No one who knows anything about Spiritualists doubts, if a grand re.‘orm.-ation, either in politics or society, were to be launched upon this world, by an organized spirit movement, that every Spiritualist in the land would give it his adhesion and support. At this time, everything points to such a movement, and the spirits themselves say it’ exists, and Christians may count for certainty that, ere long, the whole body of reformers, not Spiritualists alone, but all other branches and issues which build upon principles, will unite, and in one grand phalanx march upon and overthrow the last ixmnant of ignorant conservatism, despotic usurpation and unequal relations among the people. Every day new evidence comes from some quarter of the globe testilying that the equalization of humanity is abroad in the world. VVG hear it in England, in the mutterings of the laborers and the willingness of the Lords to listen. » We hear it in Germany, where Bismarck speaks for the pro- ducing masses. While even in Japan the work has already begun in earnest. The untold wealth of the few is taken from them and restored to those who produced it. And can this country hope to escape ? Be wise, and in time, for “ blesszd will be those who, when it comes, shall not impede its way.” Decrees are sealed in Heavens own chnncery, Proclaiming universal liberty. Rulers and kingswho will not hear the call, In one dread hour shall thunder-stricken fall. \, tifoionnuh:-gsot;Arr.is’.svrtEnkLr.i i six AND new A DOZEN: A Linn sroar, wire - ‘ T‘ A raonan; - BY MRS. A. E. BARB. Slain in thebattlc of life. Wounded and fallen, trampled in the mire and mud of the conﬁict, then the ranks closed again and left no place for her. So she crawled aside to die. With a past whose black despair was as the shadow of a starless night, a future which her early religious training lit up with a lurid light of hell, and the strong hands of a pitiless death dragging her to the grave--—still she craved, as the awful hour drew near, to see once more the home of her innocent childhood. Not that she thought to die in its shelter—~any one who knew David Todd knew also that was a hopeless dream; but if, if her father should say one par- doning word, then she thought it would help her to under- stand the love of God, and give her some strength to trust in it. ‘ Early in the evening, just as the sun was setting, and the cows were coming lowing up the lane, scented with the burst- ing lilac bushes, she stood humbly at the gate her father must pass in order to go to the hillside foldjto shelter the ewes and lambs. Very soon she saw him coming, his Scotch bonnet pulled over his brow, his steps steadied by his shep- herd’s staff. ' His lips were ﬁrmly closed, and his eyes looked far over the hills ; for David was a mystic in his own way, and they were to‘ him temples not made by hands, in which he had seen and heard wonderful things. — Here the storehouses of hail and lightning had been opened in his sight, and he had watched in the sunshine and the tempest. bursting beneath his feet. He had trod upon rainbows and been waited upon by spectral mists. The voices of the winds and waters were in his heart, and he passionately be- lieved in God. But it was the God of his own creed——jeal- ous, just and awful in that inconceivable holiness which charges his angels with folly and detects impurity in the sin- less heavens. So, when he approached the gate, he saw the dying girl who leaned against it. Whatever he felt, he made no sign. He closed it without hurry, and then passed on the other side. “Father ! Oh, father ! speak one word to me.” Then he turned and looked at her, sternly and awfully. “Thou art nane 0’ my bain. I ken naught o’ thee.” , Without a glance at the white, despairing face, he walked rapidly on; for the spring nights were chilly, and he must gather his lambs into the fold, though this poor sheep of his own household was left to perish. But, if her father knew her no more,the‘ large sheep-dog ather side was not so cruel. No theological dogmas meas- ured Rover’s love; the stain on the spotless name of his mas- ter’s house, which hurt the old man like a wound, had not shadowed his memory. He licked her hands and face, and tried, with a hospitality and pity which made him so much nearer the angels than his master, to pull her toward her home. But she shook her head and moaned pitifully ; then throwing her arms round the poor brute, she kissed with those passionate kisses of repentance and love which should have fallen on her father’s neck. The dog (dumb to all but God) pleaded with sorrowful eyes and half-irantic gestures; out she turned wearily away toward a great circle of im- mense rocks—relics of a religion scarcely more cruel than that which had neither pity nor forgiveness at the mouth of the grave. Within their shadows she could die unseen; and there next morning a Wagoner, attracted by the plaintive howling ofa dog, found her on the ground, dead. There are set awful hours between every soul and heaven. Who knows whatpassecl between Lettie Todd and her God in that dim, forsaken temple of a buried faith? Death closes tenderly even the eyes full of tears, and her face was beautiful with a strange peace, though its loveliness was marred and its youth “seared with the autumn of strange suffering.” At the inquest which followed, her stern old father neither blamed nor excused himself. He accepted without apology the verdict ofsociety against him, only remarking that its reproof was "‘ a guid example 0’ Satan correcting sin.” Scant pity and less ceremony was given her burial. Death, which draws under the mantle of Charity the pride, cruelty and ambition of men, covering them with those two narrow words, H2'cjacet/ gives also to the woman who has been a sinner all she asks——oblivion. In no other way can she ob- tain from man toleration. The example of the whitest, purest soul that ever breathed on earth, in this respect, is ignored in the church He founded.‘ The tenderest of human hearts, “ when lovely woman stooped to folly,” found no way of escape for her but to “ die -,” and those closet moral- ists, with ﬁlthy fancies and soiled souls, who abound in every community, regard her with that sort of scorn which a Turk expresses when he says, “ Dog of a Christian.” Poor Lettice I She had procured this doom-ﬁrst by sacri- ﬁcing herself to a blind and cruel love, and then to the im- portunate demands of hunger, “ oldest and strongest of pas- sions.” Ahl if there was no pity in heaven, no justice be- yond the grave, what a cruel irony this life would be! For, while the sexton shoveled hastily over the rude coﬁin the obliterating earth, there passed the graveyard another woman, equally fallen from all the apostle calls “lovely and of good report.” One whose youth and hopes and marvel- ous beauty had been sold for houses and lands and a few thousand pounds a year. But, though her, life was a living lie, the world praised her, because she “ had done well unto herself.” Yet, at the last end, the same seed brought forth the same fruit, and the Lady of Hawksworth Hall learned, with bitter rapidity, that riches are too poor to buy love. Scarcely had she taken possession of her splendid home be- fore she longed for the placid happiness of her mother’s cottage, and those evening walks under the beech—trees, whose very memory was now a sin. Over her beautiful face there crept a pathetic shadow, which irritated the rude and noisy Squire like a reproach. He had always had what he wanted. Not even the beauty of all the border countries had been beyond his means to buy; but somehow he felt as it‘ in this bargain he had been overreached. Her better part eluded his possession, and he felt dissatisﬁed and angry. Expostulations rew into cruel Words; cruel words came to crueler blows. es, blows. English gentlemen thirty years ago knew their privileges; and that was one of them. She was as much and as lawfully his as the horses in his stables or the bounds in his kennels. He beat them, too, when they did not obey him. Her beauty had betrayed her into . the hands of misery. She had wedded it, and there was no es-_ cape for her. One day, when her despair and suffering was very great, some tempting devil brought her a glass of brandy, and she drank it.- It gave her back for a few hours her departed sceptre; but at what a price ! Her slave soon became her master. Stimulus and stupefaction, physical / \ . J _ , , / exhaustion and mental horrors, the abandonment of friends \ and the brutality of a coarse and cruel husband, brought her‘ - - at last to the day of reckoning. She died, seven years after her marriage, in the delirium of opium. There were physi- cians and servants around her, and an unloving husband. waiting for the newsof his release. Ithink I would rather , have died where Lettice did—under the sky, with the-solemn mountains lifting their heads in a perpetual prayer around me, and that faithful dog licking my hands and mourning my wasted life. ~ Now, whereindid these two women differ? One sinned through an intense and self-sacriﬁcing love, and in obedience to the strongest calls for want. Her sin, though it was be- yond the pale of the world’s toleraticn, was yet one accord- ing to nature. The other in . a cold spirit of barter, volun- tarily and deliberately exchanged her youth andbeauty, the hopes of her own and another’s life,for carriages, jewels, ﬁne _ clothing and a luxurious table. She loathed -the price she had to pay, and her sin was an unnatural one. For this kind of prostration, which religion blesses and society praises, there seems to be no redress; but for that which results as the almost inevitable sequence of one lapse of charity we, the pious, the virtuous, the irreproachable, are‘ all to blame. Who or what? make it impossible for them to retrace their steps? Do they ever have reason to hope that? the family hearth will be open to them if they go back? Prodigal sons may return, and they are welcomed with tears of joy and clasped by helping hands ; but how few parents would go to meet a sinning daughter. Forgetting our Master’s precepts, forgetting our own weakness, we turn scornfully from the weeping Magdalen, and leave her 9‘ alone with the irrepara- ble.” Marriage is a “holy and a necessary rite. We would deprecate any loosening of this great houseband of society; but we do say that where . it is the onlydistinction between two women, one of whom is an honored matron, and the other a Pariah and an outcast, there is “ something in the world amiss”-—something beyond the cure of law or le is- lation, and that can only be reached by the authorityo 8.. Christian press and the inﬂuence of Christian example.——;’l’7te Indepemmtt. ..._.__...__.__¢.._.____._. ENGLISH BRUTALITY. I don’t know anything more -lamentable and shoclcing than the steady increase of a. certain class of deeds of vio-~ ' lence in England. I mean the brutal treatment of wives, and, indeed, of women generally. Of course these offenses- are conﬁned to a very low class, but they are rampant there.. Take up any paper any day and you can sup full of horror: on such stories. The London rough comes home drunk, and the mere sight of his wife is enough to madden him- He beats her on the head, kicks her in the stomach, knocks. her down and jumps upon her. A series of kicks in the: abdomen is as familiar a rebuke to one of these wretched: women as a box on the ear to a naughty child. A brute wins the North of England the other dayset a ﬁerce bull dog at. his wife and kept the sport going until the animal had torn; lumps of ﬂesh out of. the woman’s arms and shoulders; then the husband ﬁnished up by beating her on the head and breasts. He got six months’ imprisonment ! The woman’s life was at one time despaired of ; but she did not die, and so he escaped any serious punishment. A man in London - quarreled with his wife because she complained of his going to a public house. He beat her to death with a bludgeon. A. lazy scoundrel out of work was coming out of a public house; his wife met him. Without waiting for her possible reproach he knocked her down and stamped upon her le s and stomach. Another fellow came home drunk to the begi- side of his dying wife. He struck the woman on the face. I am not inventing or exaggerating; all this appeared in the papers last week—and when the poor woman’s father and sister remonstrated he knockedthe father down, seized the sister in his brawny arms, ran to the window, openedit, and hoisted the shrieking young woman on to the sill of it, re- solved to ﬂing her into the street, twenty feet below. The woman, with agony and terror, clung to the frame work of the window with frantic clutch. While the wretch was de- liberately endeavorin g to unclasp her ﬁngers the neighbors rushed in and saved her. Of course he will get no adequate punishment. The British rough has got it thoroughly into his head that his wife is his property to beat and‘ kick ‘as he pleases, ' and unless he deliberately kills the woman, having formally announced his intention beforehand, he never suffers more than a few weeks’ imprisonment. The beast would be more severely ptfnislicd if he were to break a pane of glass in a shop win- dow. The papers positively overﬁowwith, these crimes just now. It is almost superﬂuous to single out any particular case as an illustration,_for they are all just the same. In no country of the civilized. world, save England alone, do such things occur to the same extent, and the fact is a hideous disgrace to our laws and our society. We need for these cases either special and exceptional legal punishment or -Lynch law. Either the law must deal with’ a man who does his best to murder his wife as with a murderer, or society, outraged by these crimes, must become a law unto itself. This very day——-since I began to write this paragraph———I read in the police reports an account of the doings of a ruf-: ﬁan, whose brutality almost sickens one to think of. This‘. man——he is young, only twenty-two-—comes home to his young wife, who is described as very “ clean, neat and at- tractive in appearance,” and who is “ far advanced in preg- nancy,” and he begins by beating her and blackening one of her eyes. An hour after he begins, a.gain—-he beats l1__er anew, and. blackens the. other eye. Later, on this same happy evening, she goes to bed, whereupon he pulls her out of bed by the hair and kicks her until she lies insensible, and her mother ﬁnds her stretched out apparently lifeless. iWhat punishment is awarded to the husband? Three months’ imprisonment! Again I say, the only remedy for this sort of thing, while we wait for the working of ournew system of national education, is exceptional legislation——or Judge LVI10h- _ Jusrm MCCARTHY. [What a beneﬁcent institution is marriage for these poor women. Day after day,week in and out,until they roll into ’ months, and months into years, and years,‘ complete a life, are they bound to such endurance from such brutal beasts. Nor need it be imagined, because there are but a few cases of extreme violence that come to public knowledge,‘ that these are all there are existing. Patiently and uncom- plainingly are hundreds of cases of all degrees of brutality endured, since they know it is useless to’ complain and worse than useless to "rebel. ‘Nor does the above even tell the whole, nor the worst part of it; for, after all the cruelty these human devils can inflict bodily upon their necessarily subservient slaves, they then complete their brutality by de- ﬁling their souls by their lust. And. yet --marriage is too holy a thing to be questioned.——ED.] actually and . ‘v ' J" .- -, it if -iwnnrnzxi nnLLieTif.rtt‘ OF Elﬁ- ’ PA-NTARCl—lT’.- ‘ 7 NATIONALIZATION or LABOR, ON THE BASIS or EQUAL RIGHTS, OPPORTUNITIES A v ‘ ANn cOMPnNsATroN. snowrne IT TO BE THE MOST FE-ASIBLE AND RAPID METHOD . A on ATTAINING UNIvEnsAL CO-0I’EBA'1‘IOVN—--A1‘? AD- / " nnnss BEFOI{E- THE COSMOPOLITAN OoN- L ' A A S FERENCE, isv enonen B. ALLEN. L [CONTrNUED.] EIGHTH—-MAN WILL NOT BE A FIXTURE IN THE ONE LOCAL- - ITY, \ * as he now necessarily is, by virtue of possessing la. homestead or a-business"which is the growth of years of steady nursing, and which he cannot abandon even temporarily, perhaps, without pecuniary detriment; but he can round out his being by travel, always sure of employment wherever he goes. How much better it is to have the world for your home, to visit different latitudes at diﬁerent seasons of the year, to en- joy all the varit ties of climate and scenery, to meet with the , conveniences of home everywhere, than to be ﬁxed for life, _ ’ perhaps, to the narrow limits 01 our bodily vision. Individ- ~ uttl ownerships necessitate such a condition, narrowing and contracting cur sphere in life. How can man in such a state hope to emerge from the fragment that he is into the com- _ ‘ plete cosmopolitan that he should be? A - L NIN'l‘H—OTHER BENEFITS FLow’iNo FROM NATIONALIZATION ' ' ~ on LABOR WOULD BE THE SUBSTITUTION on GENUINE ARTI- V CLEs OF FOOD, DRINK AND MANUFACTURE, IN THE PLACE OF BASE ADULTEB.ATioNs AND sHAMs, ALSO STRLCI‘ DEAL- INGS BYWEIGHTS AND MEASURES. ’ * In considering the many evils of the competitive system of trade, we cannot blind Ourselves to the enormous frauds -to which society is at present exposed, and which yearly in- creases as science and skill are developed. Hardly an arti- cle of food, drink, medicine or wear, but what is fraught with deleterious adulterations, often injurious to the health of consumers, that their vendors may either be able to under- sell their rival competitors, or increase their already excess- ive proﬁts. From poisoned liquors alone we can hardiy’_ compute the extent of disease and crime resulting from . . th--ir pernicious effects. Armies in all countries suﬁer from = the inferior quality of food and clothing iurnished by con- _. - t1‘.2.Cl;Ol‘S. Not alone are the people defrauded by adul- terated foods, but Often by scant weights and meas- A ures. Coal dealers buy 2,240 pounds of coal for a ton, and - - . sell (nominally) 2,000 pounds. A recent case came before - ' - the court in which it was proven that 1,600 pounds were de- livered for a ton. , Under the present system -there" can be no remedy, but L’ these evils will continue to increase. Gas companies will , continue to furnish inferior gas at extortionate 1‘-ates. ‘Will - there not be a culmination sometime that will necessitate a, different commercial s5 stem ? Were competitive labor to - , cease there-would be no incentive to adult:-ration. The peo- , v - . ple would produce and manufacture for themselves so that 2 ' everything made and sold would be good and substantial. TENTH—THE CAUSE or QUARRELS AND LITIGATIONS WOULD BE REMOVED. The present multiplicity of owners and claimants of prop- .. erty cause an, endless sea of litigation. The leading feature of government is its vast mstclitnery of tribunals, police and prisons, professedly to administer justice between man and - man, and to protect them from each other. Wei‘e the nation; the proprietor and employer, the bone of t _ contention would be removed, and but few occasions for C’ L ‘ ‘ litigation could. possibly arise. The multitudinous laws ' which are now upon the statutes would be swept away, and with them the fraternity of lawyers would lose their ﬁeld ot avocation and become extinct. The occasion for coercion ‘in the affairs of men being past, there would be no govern- ment such as now exists, but in its place a N._,AarIoN, deriving its powers from all its people, and whose legitimate func- tions would be to develop the wealth and resources of the - ” country by superintending labor and dismibuting its pro- A ducts. ., - , - _ - ' ELEvENT1=.(—IT WOULD REGULATE THE CURRENCY on THE -‘A’ ’ . COUNTRY so AS TO PREVENT ALL PANICS AND FLUCTUA- TIoNs.1N THE MONEY MARKET. At present we have a complicated system of banking and exchange, depending for its support upon usury, the evtlsof , p _ which are almost incalculable, it bring a base fraud upon —— ’ ’ labor, absorbing and controlling it without rendering an equivalent. It is through usury that enormous fortunes are accumulated in the hands of the few. It opens the door to 7 4 ~ every species of legal extortion, and tempts adventurous - - minds to seek for‘suttden wealth by devious paths. Under ,, , L its inﬂuence ‘there is no security in business relations ; de- ' falcations, frauds and reckless speculations cause an ever- lrecurring rise and fall in the money market, perpetuating it- self by adding fuel to the fevered minds of infatuated gam- blers. - L _ - - Under national proprietorshipsthere could be no transac- tions in real estate, and little or no borrowing of money. * As there would be no occasion for hoarding, the material of currency would be of little consequence. National labor - ’ .. notes representing an equivalent of a certain amount of la- ? - 7 l bor, and bearing no interest, would answer all the purposes 1 L of a;mediu:'n of exchange. ; . L "We have referred to some of the most prominent evils that would ﬁnd their remedy under the national system. Further ‘ , examination will show it to be equally conducive to the re- generation of: society in every form, and the banishment of nearly every species of ,crime,;injustice and conflict that the — A _ ‘j’ ‘ - world is now afflicted with. , * L; g ‘ Let us suppose that by absorption, one department Of...bl1S- A 1‘ iness after another has fallen under national supervision . 1 until at least it has become the entire owner and controller, ’ ~ , of every branch of commerce and industry. As individu- ’ als will depend upon the nation for everything they have, it . clearly becomes the duty of the nation to supply all their -, ~ ., neefs. ’ " ’ * , ‘— ’ i Let us inquire, then, into some of these needs. Firstrof “ all is a guarantee against any possibility of want for every \ l x wooinn-UL-L :lCLAE?Lil?Zi’-%S TwinnxLr.i,’ C A S .N1mr.2s,‘i.ssiL.L .and also that tsiis body produce children in greater abun- , ‘dance than those who -live in the enio ment of wealth and V J ease. - The main burden of the support ofthe rising generation therefore has always restedupon the shoulders of the poorer classes of community. How unjust it is that children should be born into the world to endure privationslrom their birth up, when society has the power ofpreventing it. A national guarantee must cover every possible contin- gency in life before mankind can rest free from care. It "must begin then at birth, and only end with death. In equity, the rising’ generation is equally entitled to the fruits of the accumulations of the labor of past generations, and, as these are held by the nation, for the good of its citizens, children should come into their inheritance at birth ; in other words, he wards of thelnation, and cared for, sup- ported and educated by, it. The ch:-trge upon the nation would not be ended until the youth had acquired some use- ful occupation. Thus far society has performed its duty in fostering and preparing them for usefulness, and is now to be repaid by an addition to its productive force. When, alter years of active service, by which the nation has proﬁted, man has expended his physical powers, he ag:-tinrests in the lap oflsociety, and passes his declining years in ease and comfort. _ > When the principle of justice prevails, the age of charita- ble institutions will have passed away. The duties of man to society, and society to man. are equal, so t.h;-it man labors for soci.-ty. In sickness and old age he lives upon the boun- ties which his benefits to society have guarantted for his use. Under such conditions there will he no need for man to accumulate his savings as a provision against want for him- self or lamily ; he can enjoy the proceeds of his labor dzty by day, as he receives it, for there will be no “rainy days ” ahead to take into account. Should a man perchance accu- mulate it would be no more than justite that, at his death, his property revert to the nation, and thus prevent accumu- lation in families. Society under this system would have a -better right to the property than the children of the deceased. Insurance of the necessaries of life is not all that a man needs to make him happy. T reedom from care is not posi- tive happiness, unless it comes as a relief - to one overtaxed. lie not only desires physical preservation, but the rational gratiﬁcation of all the app:-tites not only of the body but of the mind. Complete ha; piness would be the full enjoyment of every faculty that he possesses. Man desires a beautiful home and surroundings, elegant garments for his person, a great variety of delicate foods for his table, besides every facility for travel, instruction and amusement. All pei'st.:ns would like comfortable ho:nt—s if they could get them. As society COI1Sl.ll3D.itS all persons, there would be but one voice in desiring society to construct ﬁne residences for its members, especially as all would be equally able to become tenants. In the course of time the nation would be able to erect elegant and capacious hotels for those who wanted them, having every convenience pos- sible to attain. Those who prei.‘e1'r».:d isolated dwellings would doubtless be also accommodated. In the present order of building, especially in cities, each house stands upon a narrow lot, and to ﬁnd suﬁ‘lcient space tor the family it is necessary to pass to different ﬂoors above and below, making it inconvenient and tiresome. Instead, then, of forty or ﬁfty houses upon a.\block, covering only part of a lot each, society could erect a hotel, comprising the entire blot k,‘ ‘thereby ecouomizing valuable ground. Apartments suitable for the largest families . couldbe upon one ﬂoor andeasily accessible. ‘Were the upper stories as complete in ﬁnish as the lower ones, and provided with con- venient elevators, the top ﬂoor (however high the building might be) woul t be rendered as agreeable to live in as any utlicr. One culinary department would be suﬁ”1ci=.nt, having railways to convey provisions to dumb waiters, to be llUlSl}LCl to any part desirable, that all who desire a private table may be accommodated. A public refectory would be a necessary p.-trtof the lt]Sl3llutl0l’1. One heating apparatus could warm the entire block, and one laundry afford convenience to all its inhabitants. By being entirely disconnected and reached only by ele- vaiors, the stilts of rooms ,would be equivalent to a separate house for each family, with the aclvant-age of being more commodious. Many persons have a repugnance to com- munity life as it is generally understood, feeling that their privacy would be invaded; but under a plan of this kind, while the common interests of all are subscrved, each as an individual may be as exclusive as cltsirable. Weire the na- tion then to build and furnish its hotels, and run them at cost, it would be a great economy to the expense of living, and very convenient for those who ate fond of change or .tI'rlVL1, or who desire to avoid the burdens of l10l1St:'l{et¢j_)ing. It is well known that mortality is much greater among the poor who live in crowded lCHCl;;«C3DtS, subject to vitiated air and unwholesome food. Thinly clad and shod, they are ex- posed to the inclemencies of the weather, and when they become sick," are unable to obtain proper mtdical advice, medicines and nourishing food. Besidt s they are rendered incapable of perforating their daily labor, and so a compli- cation of D)lS81‘l€S IS heaped upon them. What a change in the hygienic conditions‘ there would be under the national plan, where none of these evils would appear. As a person’s‘ pay would continue during sickness, it would be the iuterestfof society to pixserve the health and lacilitate the recovery of the sick, that it may not be de- prived of their services. It has been sometimes remarked by. unthinking persons, that were all guaranteed a livelihood there would be no _in- centive to man’s ambition,-and lite would become obj cctless. Let us in-quire wherein the present institutions impel ambi- tion. ls it not in the acquzsition of wealth and power; and does a man become wealthy from honest, single-handed labor, or is it by defrauding others of the benent of their labor ? This question easil y answered. And what is power that man should want it ‘.9 Is it not exercise of ,force income direction upon the minds of his fellow men ? What natural right has he to use this force, and what right has one man to be considered superior to another, merely be- cause he may have lived under more favorable conditions? Is it not a perverted and selﬁsh ambition to desire aggran- dizement, and does it not foster -the spirit of caste, which makes masters and slaves? Should public applause, ova- tions, hero-worship and wealth be the absorbing motives of lite? , if not, why should we desire these ambitions to pre- vail ? Instead of monopolizing the advantages of lite, to elevate ourselves above our neighbors, would it not be more laudable to wish every tellow being to be .our.equal? ’Tis true, that were talse systems swept away, the avenues in which ignoble ambitions ﬁnd their sway would be closed. This, however, would not pre- . * ‘ ‘ A l man, woman and child. As society is now constituted, itis ’L — , ,. the rule that those who-toil the hardest are the least paid, vent. the activity of the human mind, but send_ it into broader "and more legitimate channels, from wh1ch present systems forcibly exclude it.‘ The arts and sciences would be pursued for the love of knowledge and their uses "to society, and reason cannot suggest more powerful or worthy motives. Now, art is often debased and sole nee used for nefarious purposes; mercenary temptations continually struggling for the mastery. When society becomes homo- geneous, the good ofone is the good of all, and each knows that beneﬁts rendered to society affect his own welfare; Each working for~~all, all are recipients.’ ‘ L L With national colleges, schools, libraries, museums, labo- ratories, zoological gardens. theatres, &c., the people would not be in want of opportunities of instruction and amuse- ment. Many a scientiﬁc mind of the present day finds itself hampered by lack of facilities for research. Many an in- ventor is too poor to test the worth of his invention. Soci- ety could amend this by having spacious laboratories con- taining all that is necessary for scientiﬁc experiments free to th<>se.wlio are interested in the developmentof cheinistry, with like facilities for other branches of science ;' also work- shops, tools and materials free to the inventor, for building and testing his models. All expcrimtntal labor and ]‘t search belonging to individual enterprise, however, would be pur- sued tor the pleasure of the persons so engaged, and would occupy the hours not appropriated to paid productive indus- try. Were land common property and necessary labor only nominal, leaving people ample time to be devoted to embel- lishmentof various kinds, they would take pleasure in beau- tifying their surroundings. Landscape farmiiig would bring into requisition all the artistic talent-in community. Armies of people would be employed in grading the land, draining, swamps, planting forests, etc., so that when population sufliciently increased,the whole country would become upon agrand scale as equally diversiﬁed as our Central Park. Each township would vie with its neighbor in producing beauty and variety of scenery. VVell—graded avenues, shaded by overhanging foliage, would lead to stately palaces, the home of the husbandman. Rich fruits by the wayside would freely offer themselves to be plucked by the passer-by. No landmarks or fences need deface the scenery or ob- struct the free passage of agricultural engines as they move over the broad acres. The pasture lands requisite for the township could be in a body, and one dairy with cheese and butter f.-ictory supply the inhabitants: The people, educated and skillful, through agricultural chemistry would rapidly develop the resources of mother earth, and fertile ﬁelds and teeming crops would bid deﬁance to want, and be a lasting contrast to the barren soil and starving peasantry that now pertain to some portions of the world. What more could we ask than “ that the earth shall blossom as the rose?” T Many readers may be led to observe that this represents a very beautiful and desirable state of things, but th it the na- tion could not be trusted with such enormous power, for its oﬁicials even now’ reek with corruption, and are on all hands plundering the people to subserve their 1 rivale inter- ests; that the nation would become a despot at; cl the people be reduced to the condition of serfs. This may be easily avoided by referring all laws to the people for l'£t'.J.l'lCEtll011 or rejection; thus making the people sovereign and therel’ore one with the nation, and depriving their I't‘pI'€SPl’1lHtiV(.‘S of the power of usurpation andcorruption by speciallegi.-la ion. In April, 1869, several of the cantons of Switzerland adopted this plan in their new constitutions, after having practiced it to a considerable degree in. local matter for nearly a century. Twice a year, and often:-r if nectssary, copies of the laws are furnished to the people to be voted upon. - This measure, called by some the “Referendum,” would enable the people, if they chose, to take into their own hands the control of the wealth of the country, regulate the com- mercial and industrial pursuits, and establish a uniform sys- tem of remuneration. ‘ It has been proven by the experience of all the past that a change ot'.oﬁﬁcers is no remedy for a corrupt government, for it is the corrupt system that generates corrupt 0fﬁCl2ilS. Systems that are unjust cannot be justly adminiztered. It is not to natural depravity that we may trace the evils that men in ‘power exhibit, but to that condition of things that permits one person to obtain rule over others, and thus ap- propriate to individual uses the power belonging to another. At present, we invest our legislators with power to vote away our money and rights, trom which there is no appeal ; thus they become our masters instead of servants. Were they empowered only to draft‘ laws, to be submitted to us before becoming such, they igight be useful citizens, and we, the people, might be sovereign of the nation. That great source of political corruption, oﬁcial patronage, would be obviated were important oflicials to reccite their commissions direct from the people; while their subordinates may be selected by drawing the names of qualiﬁed appli- cants from a wheel, thus avoiding any favoritism. Until those conditions which give power to individuals- are abro- gated, we can only be a Democracy in name. - Our senatorial bodies are elected to deliberate upon» the acts of Congress and Legislatures, so as to be a check and safeguard. The same services would be performed by the people, were the laws reterred to them, and there would be no lurther occasion for these digniﬁed bodies. A democracy cannot exist without expression is given to the lull voice of the pepple. Every man and woman, irre- spective of race or color. has an equal interest in the ;.ﬁ"airs of society. The peace and happiness of all persons are alike dear to themselves, whatever their mental or physical capa- ' cities,‘ therefore the same opportunities should be extended to all; not only that, but equal compensation for equal hours of labor, whether itbe ot the brain or muscle. OHTCTZLIS should receive no more than non-olﬁcials; why add wealth to honors? ’Tis true, that under the present system, high official positions require a more profuse expenditure, but were all in the national‘ employ, the President (providing there would be one) should receive no more than the person engaged in the humblest department of labor. None would decline honors on account of insufficient salary, for all occu- pations would be alike remunerative. -Wliile it is necessary to keep armies, they also should be conducted upon democratic principles. caste might be destroyed in the army and equal rights pre- vail, rotation in oﬁlce should be practiced until every private -soldier, by passing through the various grades, becomes qualiﬁed, as far as his capacity will allow, to command a regiment, and when so qualiﬁed returning again tothe ranks. This could easily be accomplished’ during peace, by dividing the regiment and companies into smaller ones, thus making room for a greater number of officers, to be consolidated again in time of war, when the divisions, regiments an 1 companies should elect their oﬂicers by ballot. Their experience would determine them whom they would prefer to serve under. Equal pay and rations should be awarded to olﬁcers and privates. i That the spirit of’ ’...-.-oz-is-i‘ .~ : l .1)‘ r -r.~i'.-..-., w;!‘\'.~).' ., v. 4.‘ ‘>V:‘<‘-I» v. _ ;i_'_ 1..-.6.-.., \ :32: Egg‘ -.35.-, ,4 p 1‘ név. 25, 1871. measure. it » woonuurm. siet.u~L:s=s- wanker‘. ; f g .13" “ The same principles should also prevail in the navy, the vessels-during peace, instead of sailing objeciless from one see. to another; their officers and crew being supported in idleness by the nation, in the interchange of vain - compli- ments and hospitalities with the omci-us and dignitaries of the’d:iﬁ‘erent ports, ‘should be employed in useful commerce in the service of the people. i From the above statement it has been shown that the ulti- matum of co-operation, complete solidarity, may be worked out successfully and rapidly by the deductive process of be- ginning upon a political basis, by uniting the efforts of the people on ’ﬂ’l(l.986, in the cause of cooperative indusiry. So many reforms are agitated that cannot possibly be put down, that society will soon be willing to settle its conﬁicts by accepting all together, instead of by piecemeal, can it but A see a peaceful transition out of the eflete. institutions, into a young and vigorous era, where the reign of happiness and harmony is the legitimate result of even-handed justice. LABOR AND CAPITAL—TlIE SIGNS OF THE TIMES ' —TI:lE COMING REVOLUTION. French Socialism has given to the world a grand contri- bution to its lingual riches in the single technical Word, “ Soliclcmtg ;” the Solidarity of the people wilizin tire izaiicm, and the Solidarity oftlte nations. By this majestic term is meant the intcrworking Unity of the interests and wellbeing of every one with the interests and well-bein g of all others ; the intimate relations of self-sameness, the almost ctbsolzwe identity of the conditions ofmy happiness and of the conditions of yourhappiness, throughout all the intimate ramiﬁcations of - the social aﬁairs of humanity. If Paul has the smallpox, ‘Peter is compelled to resort to vaccination. If James gets the itch, John, too, must scratch. Health and disease alike are a common heritage.» Humanity is one, in ten million different senses. § The whole world, of mankind is one Grand Man, with eﬂux and inﬂux of many common fluids which visit every Individu_al—each Individual being an atom, or at best a Primitive Cell in the constitution ofthe Great Being. Health for one individual in a community is a physio logical impossibility, as ‘health for an organ or a ﬁnger in a body that is tainted with virus is impossible in the smaller sphere, and as health for a community or a nation, in a world which is diseased, is, on the larger scale, a similar impossibility. There is no health and no real happiness for any, until there is health andhappiness for all. We are tied K neck and heels together in a common destiny. No one tiring can be rigltt in the world, until-every/tiring in the worlol is right. All this complicated idea is contained in the meaning of the single word Soliclarity. The Sentiment of Solidarityis con- tained in the doctrine of the Christian Religion. Thought outinto a Social Dogma, and now, for the ﬁrst time explieated into full deﬁnition, it pertains to Social Science. As a mere instinct it has always existed. ‘v - In Rome, in the days of the Republic, it was felt, in this blind, instinctive way, that the whole people had an equal right in the natural wealth of the world. ‘This feelin g found expression in Agrarianism, a ﬁrst crude impulse towards universal justice. The first Christians were Communists, and Christianity strictly interpreted is pure Communism. Struggling up through the ages, the sentiment, and ﬁnally “the. distinct thought of the Solidarity of mankind has been coming steadily to the surface ; and to-day it is getting itself pronounced as by the voice of one having authority. Socialism is the rising ism of our day. The demand for the recognition of the solidarity of human interests will now never be abated or all-ayed until equity abounds and justice is established on the whole earth. There is such a thing as justice, and it is possible ofrealization, and it will be realized. The world moves, and moves - now in that direction; and the end is within view and will be attained. Signiﬁcant concessions "to the claims of the workingmen are occurring on every hand. The New York Times gave an account last week of a noble and successful experiment made by the Messrs. Brewster, carriage manufacturers, in this city, to adjust the claims of labor and capital equitably. The programme of cooperation between the English Nobility and the Workingmen’s Party of Great Brit-tin is questioned or denied; but where there is smoke there~—is apt to be ﬁre; the prophecy sometimes leads to its own fulﬁlment; and what is fanciful today is real to-morrow. Mr. Brassey, an English employer, proposes that, as machinery never tires, 3. stop be put upon the discussion of the eight-hour question, in a way advuntageousto all parties, but keeping all the machinery in the country running through the entire twenty-, four hours, by the aid of three relays of hands, each working eight hours only. — But by far the most signiﬁcant concession to the demands of the workers is now about to be made by the Colossus of European Conservatism, \Bismarek himself. Under the head of “The Social Problem in Germany,” the Eumiing Post has the following : Bismarck, it is said, has hit upon a startling measure for allaying the discontent of workiugmen. It is reported that he intends to prepare a bill “for the regulation of the proﬁts of manufacturing associations,” providing that when the proﬁts reach a certain percentage the surplus shall le divided among the workingmen employed in them. The bill applies only to manufacturing companies, but most of the large manufacturing establishments in Germany are in the hands of associations, so that the importance and bearing of the bill are obvious. It is a bold step towards socialism. Five yearsago no one in Germany except the followers of Ferdi- nand Lasselle would have ventured to advocate such a Today the social problem has assumed so thren t- ening an aspect that even reactionary organs, such as the Berlin I1’/reue-Zeitung, freely admit that something must be done. and done very quickly, to prevent a general social con- _vulsion, while even -such cautious liberal journals as the -y .7 4 r factory measureseof the great capitalists and executive/men, Augsburg Allgevmeine Zeiluiig and theﬂamburg News advocate laws to secure the workingrnen some share in the proﬁtsof their labor. The German government announces that it will not interfere in any manner whatever betwt en the employers and their ‘workingmen as to the hours and wages of labor, but will leave these questions to be decided by themselves. This of course will be welcome news to the manufacturers, but they will oﬁl»-r,a most determined resistance to -the bill of the Chancellor. . The debate on this bill will certainly attract attention throughout the world. i . Thus, while threa.tening on the one hand to suppress the internationals, the Governments of Europe are beginning wisely to consider the alternative-of conceding some portion of their just claims. The capitalists have their choice, now to intervene voluntarily, and solve this problem of justice by social science and practical skill, or to submit, at an early day, to the dictation of governments, and of none with so much rigor as ofea republican and democratic Republic like our own, the moment the People, the real Governors, are better informed of their rights and their powers; and a few such Socialist teachers as Mr. GEORGE ALLEN, in this and the last numbers of this paper, will soon take them through that step in their education. In the end, nothing does but the Scientiﬁc Organization of Labor, in every department, from that of the household to the great public works. The real question which remains is whether governmental intervention, by force, the ballot and the bullet, ordinary government, or the attractive and satis- functionating in lieedom, in behalf of justice, sell-elected governors serving the right from the love of truth and hu- manity, the Oarclivzargij Type of Government; or whether both of these combined and cooperating with each. other, the Integral and Pantarchal conception, shall prevail. I have surrendered my special columns to Mr. Allen to sketch his idea, that of the New Democracy, of -the authori- tative intervention of Government in the ordinary spheres, with this subject. I shall take some other occasion to sketch the Fouricristio theory of a purely attractive industrial or- ganization. In the meantime, the internal polity of diﬁerent nations is gradually conforming itself to the idea of justice. ~ ‘Within ageneration s§avcr'y and serfdom have been abol- ished in the British Colonies, in the United States, in Mex- ico, and now partially in Cuba, and in Brazil. All this is merely preparatory for the great Social Revolution all over the world. _The light of civilization is bursting on the East after having encompassed the earth. The civilian King and Royal Philosopher of Japan, Srorsnssnr, compellccl by revolution to abdicate his office as Tycoon, stipulated for the steady progress of reform, an abolition in part of the feudal system in the realm. - The Alla C'alifomici has the following interesting account of this recent great revolution in Japan: The late Tycoon, when his enemies resorted to force to overthrow him, consented to the destruction of his dynasty, not on condition of some personal gain for himself, but if the nobles would promise to establish liberal institutions. This -promise was given, and seems to have been kept, although the reforms have gone too tar to suit inany of the nobles; and perhaps the danger of disturbance lS not yet entirely past. Under the old system the chief nobles were hereditary governors of the three hundred and odd prov- inces, and the owners of nearly all the revenues of the em- pire, while the Tycoon and Mikado were supported to a great €Xlent by contributions, which were regarded as pres- ents. As sureties for the ﬁdelity of the nobles, each had to send at near relative as a hostage to be krpt by the Tycoon. After the abrogation of the iycoonate the imperial authority Wf1SiI1VeStedtil1 the official who had been the mikado, or spiritual emperor, but the title of his tflice has been changed" to teuno, a.nd there is no longer a mikado. The ﬁrst want of agood government. is a secure revenue, and Satsunna, Cll0:‘1n, Toza and Hjzv n, the tour leidingpr=inces, offered to transfer their entire revenues to the crown. The Tenno ac- cepted the odor, but returned to them one-eighth. Seven- eigiitlis of the revenues of other nobles were also taken. The annual revenue of the imperial government is now esti- mated at $120,000,000. The next clizinge was ellected by an act of Parliament, which deprived the leading nobles of the hereditary right to the governorship of“the provinces in which their families have been eSi¢‘l.bllSllCd for centurus. Henceforth the governors are to be appointed by the crown, and the Tenno has exercisrd lllS power by appointing several civilians, to the great disgust oi the disgraced nobles. VVo have not been able to learn in what manner the P-arlianient is constituted, but its overthrow of one of the chief privi- leges oi the powerful nobility indicates that the middle class, at least, is well represented. These are the main points of the revolution, so far as we have been able to learn them but the are accompanied b other facts indica- tive of a revolutionary spirit. The Japanrso people. are try- ing to learn European languages, and become. familiar with European modes of thought. Japanese students are numer- ous in American and European colleges, and European and American artisans. engineers and professional men of expe- rience and reputation are invited and employed at high sala- ries bylhe government to assist in teaching the people of Japanihe various useful arts, as practiced in the capital of Chrstendom. Physicans, military oﬁcers, professors oi agriculture, geology and mining, and oﬂicers familiar with the workings of a constitutional government are sent for ; and the men obtained are generally (llSllDglllSh€Cl in their several branches. . The steamship, the railroad, the tele- graph, the best pattern of breech-lo.=tding ﬁrearms, and many other of the most valuable productions of modern skill are already naturalizi d by these enterprising islanders. Japan lS advancing with a speed unexamplcd among heathen na- trons. . So, also, the solidarity of the nations, as between them-' selves, is steadily and rapidly progressing. All nations are, in a sense, ﬂowing into one‘. That no nation is really and permanently beneﬁted by themisfortunc of another is more and more clearly understood every day. The preparation forapantarchal unity of the nations is nearly complete; mundane, is the crowning tendency of the hour. Another year will hardly pass without new and‘ su‘rprising,e.vents . bearing on this point. * " ‘ p . J . \ STEPHEN PEARL Annnnws. vm» . A CARD. Mrs. ANNA Kins.-.LL PARKER, Clairvoyant and Magnetic Physician, 257 VVest Fifteenth street, New York. A COURAGE TO DO l‘tlG-HT. You may have courage, all of you, To start at honorjs call, To meet a fee, protect a friend Or face a cannon ball I To show the world one here livies. ’l‘h'e foremost in the ii_y,lit~ But do you always manifest The courage to do right ?' To answer, “_No,” with steady breath. .» And quick, unfaltering tongue, ' When ﬁerce temptation, ever hear, Her syren song has sung; To cafe not for the bantering tone, The jest or studied slight: Content if you can only have The courage to do right. To step aside from fashion’s curse, Or custom’s*favored plan; ’ To pluck an outcast from the street, Or help a fellow man. If not, then let us nobly try, Heneeforth with all our might, In every case, to muster up . The courage to do riglit. _ -, ' Philadelphia, October 3, 1871'. ’ Man! Cnonn. m ONE of the most ‘interesting subjects discussed at the recent annual meeting of the British Social Science Association in Leeds, was the inﬂuence of imprisonment as now practiced in repressingcrime. Mr. Tallack, Secretary of the Howard Association of London, read a paper on the cellular system of Holland and Belgium, which is neither solitary conﬁne- ment nor a gregarious system. The writer declared it to be the best systi m of which we have any knowledge. A sub- sequent speaker said that it had justiﬁed itself by a trial of thirty-nine years in the Bristol, England, jail. lilr. Taliack said that the system was simply one of separation among the prisoners, and that each prisoner had very much more communication than in England with instructors, chaplains, prison oflicialsand visitors. He summed up its advantages as follows : - ‘ “More deterrence than the congregate or semi-congregate system ; inﬁnitely more of reformatory effect and of freedom from corrupting influences ; more economy to the State’ or the ratepayers by reason of the much shorter terms of con- ﬁnement necessary ; less breaking up or ruin of the prison- er’s family by reason of~shorter separation from them ; a. better reciption of religious and secular instruction in prison ; a greater impetus to activity in useful and remun- erated labor; general exemption from contagious and epi- demic diseases ; greater security from escapes ; far fewer causes for prison punishments, with entire ind-tpendence of treadwheels and cranks; greater facilities for the observa- tion and prompt detection of disease or insanity ; protection to the prisoner on his discharge from future recognition by other prisoners, and a greater eligibility for employment, _ and a- far more effectual qualiﬁcation for a career of honest usefulness. But inasmuch as the best of systems might be liable to the worst abuse if not rightly administered, so the cellular system, to be accompanied by success, as in Bel- gium and Holland, must be as vigilantly and unceasingiy guarded, as it was there, against the neglect or mistakes ‘ wliich would convert it into the rigid solitary system—a sys- tem as evil as the other is good.” . - The Rev. W. Field read a paper on the English treatment ——which is.the «American treatment—cf prisoners, and its result. He said that short imprisonments zvre fertile sources ofcrime. First offenses, he thought. ought to be dealt lightly’ with, but the penalty should increase With each conviction, and a third sentence should invariably be to penal" servitude. He gave some striking examples of frequent offeudx rs whose punishment on the fourth conviction was 1 ghter than on the third. Sir John P-akington having expressed the idea that Mr. Field’s rule that no person should even be conirnitied for a shorter period than three months was excessively cruel, Dr‘. "Wines made some ra marks on the question, which were frequently interrupted by cheers. He said that if the object of imprisonment was punishment, Sir John was per- fectly right, but the true purpose of prisons should ‘not be‘ puni:ive but reformatory, and" in that sense three months, was too short rather than too long a term. Dr. \/Vines said further that of all the prisonsin both Eurore and America that he had visited, he found but two in which he thought the vital and predominant endwas reformation—‘.he prison of Louvaiij. and the House of Correction in Detroit, Michi- gan. He could not even, recon1me_nd the adoption of the Belgian system’ to its full extent. The section adopted no resolution on the subject, but the discussion was full of in- teresting points. i I , ‘ . I eorvonnnn that the principal reason that city people have fairer complexions, a freer, more elastic step, brighier eyes and a more genteel appearance gene:-ally than those who. pass their lives on farms, is because the former are not tempted by pure air and much exercise to gern1anclize—not having very sharp appetites, but a better knowledge of the laws which govern good health, they are more moderate and nicer in the selection of their food, being careful to partake only at proper intervals when required, while country peo- ple est ravenously whatever is set before them, Vtll1hO1'll} re-‘ gard to time" or digestion. ~ Pork, and other f&i],Etl‘ld greasy provisions, often badly cooked (the cook being gent-rally badly paid for ﬁlling it dozen situations in one, “for life”), enter largely into their supply and used in such quantities that often a tired system, after a hard day’s labor, fails to’ properly perform its ofﬁce, throwing impurities to the sur- face ol“~the skin, causing it to become yellow, rough, and often red and pimply~—the persons dull, heavy andspiodding in appearance. ' . The beautiful city belle would prefer to die by the slow, tortures of fashion and starvation than spoil her beauty-by and, inﬁne, the solidarity of the two worlds, spiritual and z eating hearty, late and unhealthy meals. NELLIE W. . W,‘ Islam. “\ ,woonnUL*L a Chis-E“LI‘N’S -WEEKLY. - I ov. 25, :i_‘ié?"I. TWO IFS. If it might only be That in the singing sea, The living lighted sea, There were a place for you to creep Away within the tinted weeds, and sleep, A cradled, curtained place for you To take the happy rest for two I And then if it might be Appointed unto me, (God knows how sweet to me I) - To plunge into the sharp surprise, ’ Of burning battle’s blood, and dust, and cries, And face the hottest ﬁre for you, And ﬁght the deadly ﬁght for two 1 ELIZABETH S'rUAIs'1' Pnnnrs. .._..._____,...__=.._.... WOMAN ITEIVXS. The authorities of Harvard College have refused the application of a Nashua lady, who desired to at-‘ tend the law school. - " Theex-Empress Eugenie has been for some time engaged on a life of Mary Queen of Scots, which will shortly be published. Miss Kellogg has received a splendid ‘offer to go to California for twenty-eight nights. Fifty thousand dollars and all expenses paid is the price. “ Does the train start this evening at thirty-ﬁve minutes past six, as usual ?” asked an elderly dame of a railroad employe. “ No, it leaves at twenty- ﬁve minutes to seven," was the reply. “ Dear me, dear me, how they do change these trains.” A young lady-—Miss Kitty Anderson—voted at the recent election in Taylor County, Iowa. The Bedford Southwest says the judges of election decided that she had a legal right to vote, by virtue of the Fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of .- the United States. InEngland, a majority of the persons signing the marriage register of the parish make their mark. A clergyman explains in anewspaper that this is not due to illiteracy wholly, but that one in ﬁve of the persons who thus sign‘ themselves in his parish, do so because they are too drunk to write. Rev. Olympia Brown has begun a third year of suc- cessful pastorship in Bridgeport, Conn. Evidence of prosperity may be found in an increase of the Sunday School from twenty-ﬁve to one hundred and twenty- ﬁve members. - Thirty new pewholders have added to the ﬁnancial condition of the church. » An independent young woman, Josie Mitchell, poor herself, but having a number of rich relatives in Missouri, determined to make her own livelihood rather than be supported by others. She accordingly became a telegraph operator in St. Charles, and had not been there two years before she received a legacy of two hundred thousand dollars left her by an uncle. Marry! marryl marry! That’s man’s eternal cry. ‘ Marry and settle down. Settle down into a house- two-story back perhaps—-settle down into a kitchen, a cook-stove‘, a wash-tub, a cradle! and so -keep set- tling into a weary, Worn, faded woman-—on whom the -male importuner, after ﬁve or ten years of his exclu- sive companionship, may look and congratulate him- self on having accomplished a successful ruin 1 German women ﬁgure prominently in business life. In Brussels, the sisters Everbert have the most exten- sive house in the world for the manufacture of ﬁne lace. The wife of Dr. Dela Pierre, the chief of the Dental College of Belgium, is her husband’s partner /and associate in his professional labors. Dr. Henri- etta Heischield, of Berlin, is also a well-known and successful member of the dental profession. All through Germany the wives of professional men are bookkeepers for their husbands. At a trial, not" long since, one of the witnesses, an old lady of some eighty years, was closely questioned by the opening counsel relative to the clearness of her eyesight. “ Can you see me ?” said be. “Yes,” was answered. “-How well can you see me?” per- sisted the lawyer. “ Well enough,” responded the lady, “ to see that you are neither a negro, an Indian nor .a gentleman." The answer brought down the , house.’ . The following marriage certiﬁcate, drawn up by the Paris Commune, may be considered a valuable con- tribution to the history of civilization in the nine- teenth century: French RepubZ1'c.—Citizen Aret, son of Jean Louis Aret, and Citizeness Marie Saint en- gages herself to follow the above citizen wherever he may. go, and always to love him.——ARn'r. MARIE SAINT. Done before the undersigned. Paris. 27th April, 1871.——FACHAU. Lsnocnn. This is republican simplicity. Nnw Socrnry.-—Louisville has a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Wives. Upwards of thirty members have been enrolled, and they propose to raise a fund to be used in enforcing the law to its fullest extent against wife heaters. If this does not e_i_fect a cure, the offender is to be treated on homes- opathic principles. ,Whenever a man is known to be guilty of whipping his wife a warning notice is to be sent to him, and a repetition of the offense will in- sure him the kind attention of the society. Spurgeon delights in the story of the genuine con- -version of a servant_ girl. When she was asked, on , joining the church, “Are you converted?” “I hope , so, sir.” “What. makes you think you are really a _ child of God 1?” “Well, sir, there is a great change in me from what there used to be.” .‘,‘ What is that change?” “ I don’t know, sir; but there’s a change in all things ; but there is one thing, I always sweep under the mats, now i” A good deal of attention has lately been attracted to the number of applicationsfor divorce, or rather legal separation, in France, so that the following sta- tistical statement is not without interest: In 1869 the ‘petitions for separation rose from 2,999, which was the number in the previous year, to 3,056. Of these, 2,611 came from the wife, and only 445 from the hue- band. Four-tenths of the whole number emanated from the working classes, 545 from landed proprietors, 4.90 from peasants and 485 from the commercial classes. In 442 cases the judge succeeded in eﬁecting a recon- ciliation, in 282 the petition was rejected, and in 2,332 the decree of separation was pronounced. The reasons given in support of the petitions throw a strong light on the character of the lower classes of French society, being mainly for marital inﬁdelity or ~ cruelty, _ ‘ A lady in a letter-‘from Liverpool says: “ Here, as in every other hotel in England, I found ladies at the bar, keeping the register of arrivals, and assigning rooms to guests, receiving payment of bills, etc. So in the telegraph oﬂice, and in all the stores and shops, young and well-dressed ladies form a large portion of the attendance. I was greatly struck with it, and be‘ lieve itwould be well for our people to adopt the cus- tom of thus furnishing employment to a large and most dependent class of our people. Whereverthere is light and nimble work to be done, we found uni- versally ladies employed. In the extensive draper es- tablishment of Lee, in Livepool, frequented nd patronized by the nobility and wealthy of the nd, the long lines of counters-were attended by sco’ es of beautiful young girls, tastefully dressed, ar (1 who were waiting upon the crowds of ladies and gentle-, men purchasing supplies.” - The English workman’s wife is, in nine cae out of ten, a woman of very imperfect or of no education, who knows next to nothing of domestic economy. Her principal idea of cooking is to take a joint to the neighboring baker and . have it baked in his oven without trouble to herself. She does not know how to make soups, broths, stews or savory dishes, or how to converta pound of meat, by the aid of vegetables and condiments, into a dish satisfying alike to the palates and stomachs of three or four or even half a dozen people. The Scottish women of the same "class are much better instructed, and can do as much with half a crown in the sustenance of their families, without stinting them, as an English woman can with four or ﬁve shillings. Rev. Mrs. Hanaford is out in a card deﬁning her position on woman suffrage, evidently brought about by what Miss Miles said when Mrs. Hooker called upon Mrs. Hanalord to address the Woman Suffrage meeting at the Temple, last Monday evening. Mrs. H. belongs to the American Association, who desire to enfranchise women by having a Sixteenth Amend- ment to the Constitution, while Mrs. Victoria 0. Woodhull originated the idea that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments already conferred that boon. The remark that “ I have nothing to do with the‘Woodhull ride of the question,” whether in- tended as an insult or not, was considered so hya large portion of the audience, and belittled Mrs. Hana- ford. We have heard the matter spoken of by a score or more persons who attended the meeting, all who expressed themselves thatit would have been in better taste for Mrs. Hanaford to have declined, if she did not wish to speak, and have let the matter rest there. If the women desire to obtain suffrage,- the?ﬁrst thing requisite is unity..—-New Harven (05,) Union. Gardening has long seemed to me an employment in which women would not only gain health and strength, but in which the most modest and retiring might ﬁnd a most congenial occupation, and the pro- ducts of which are ‘never depreciated because raised by a woman. A peek of peas has a. certain market value not dependent upon the hands which raised them. Aman engaged upon the same garment re- ceives $2 a day, not because of the amount or quality of the work, but because/he is a man. It is doubtless true that in many cases the man does his work better than the woman; but it is not less true that in the majority of cases the difference in price grows out of the diﬁerence in sex. So of the school; amale teacher receives $1,000 a year, not because his moral in- ﬂuence is better, not because the pupils learn more, but because he is a man. ' A woman teachesa sim- ilar school, and receives $400, not because her scholars’ learn less, but because she is a woman. Now, happily, all this is avoided in gardening. A man who would sell a beet is not obliged to put a label, “raised by a man‘, ten cents,” and upon another “raised bya woman, four cents," but the article brings its market value. This is a great ad- vantage and one affording a special gratiﬁcation to women of spirit. Besides, gardening is an occupa- tion requiring very little’ capital, and, except in the fancy departments, very little training. N ear any of the cities a woman can earn more upon half an acre of land, with four months’ work, than she can earn by sewing twelve months, saying nothing of the health- fulness of gardening and the unhealthfulness of sew- ing.—Di0 Lewis. THE FIVE POINTS MISSION. . 61 PARK STREET. N. Y_., Nov., 1871. The Five Points Mission is making preparations for its Twenty-ﬁrst Annual Thanksgiving Dinner. The Day School numbers nearly ﬁve hundred regular scholars. The Sunday School crowds our large ac- commodations. If each circular should return to us one dollar, it would aid us very materially. Can you help us prepare such a dinner as will make glad these hundreds of children in our schools, and the, many neglected ones around us? Please look in upon us on the occasion, and enjoy the pleasure of seeing the poor made haapy. In behalf of the managers, J. N. Snnrnnn. . The Trustees of the Five Points House of Industry, No. 155 Worth street, New York, ask earnestly for a liberal response from the friends of the poor to enable them still to carry on the work, which for so many years has been sustained at the Five Points. The Treasury is largely overdrawn. More than three hundred and fifty thousand meals have been given ‘during the past year : nearly one hundred thousand lodgings furnished, and two hundred and thirty—six children are living in the Institution, being a larger number than ever before. The Institution is de- pendent largely upon voluntary contributions, and the average monthly expenditure is nearly three thousand dollars. THE ENGLISH POOR. M.,Taine, in his notes upon England, gives a ter- riblé account of the extremes of human life, as they appear in the most neglected and poorest districts of the metropolis. Speaking of Shadwell, he describes “small streets, dusty courts infected by a smell of rotten rags, and tapcstried with poor clothing and linen hung out to dry. The children swarm. At one moment,” says M. Taine, “I had fourteen or ﬁfteen around me; dirty, barefooted, the little sister carrying the baby in her arms, the nursling of a year old, with its bald, white head. Nothing can be more distress- ing. to see than these white bodies, these iiaxen tangles, these pasty cheeks plastered with dirt of long standing. They come running up, show- ing the.gentleman to each other with curious and greedy gestures. Themotionless mothers look out from the door-waysywith lack-luster eyes. The-nan row dwelling may be seen within, often one sin_g~?e room, in which all is heaped together in the foul air. The houses often consist but of one story; they are low and narrow hovels in which to sleep and die. What an abodein winter, when the window remains shut through continuous weeks of rain and fog! And that this broodmay not die of hunger the father must not drink, must never be without work, must never be ill. Here and there is a heap of street-sweepings. Women were working among the rubbish. One of them, who is old and faded, had a short pipe in her mouth. They raised themselves from their Work to look at_ me, showing bru- talized, disquieting faces, like female Yahoos; perhaps that pipe with a glass of gin is the last idea, which comes uppermost in their idiotic brain. Could any thing be found therein above the instincts and appetites of a savage or a beast of burden ? A miserable black cat, lank, lame and be- wildered, watched them out of the corners of its ter- riﬁed eyes, and stealthily searched about a dust-heap; the old woman followed it with looks as wild as its own, mumbling as she did so, and evidently calculat- ing that it represented two pounds or so of meat!” M. Taine thinks the street—boys of this part of Lon- don more wretched-looking and more repulsive than the P; isian “voyou,” and attributes this to the "climate being worse and the gin more murderous.” THE PROPOSITION. BY A CANDIDATE non THE BALLOT. He asked me if I’d have him, ‘ And I plainly told him no ,' He wanted whys and Wherefores, _ But I would not please him so. A__woman need not—need she ?—~ Distress herself for life, Because some anxious fellow -Should chance to want a wife? He laughed, then frowned upon me. And said I was too curt; That if wit was more than smartness» I was just a mite too pert. * I said it was his dullness—— That my wit he could not see; But I thought I’d make him smart, if He should ever marry me ! He said I’d better take him, I’d miss some other man, Then give the world to catch him When he’d changed his bridal plan I said he medn’t fear it-—- 'l‘here was many a better match To light a bridal candle, When I had one to “ catch." He said Pd better marry,- Life was not always May; That/women don’t grow younger And prettier every day. But a woman-ought notr—ought she F- To Wed a lie for life, Because the right one’s missing, Or she cannot be his wife ? THE NEW YORK REPUBLICAN. " ‘ This handsome and broad sheet is edited by that admirable poet and gallant soldier and brilliant jour- nalist, A. J. H. DUGANNE, who is at the same time one of the leaders of reformatory thought in America and the world. We are not of the Republican party, but We can’t say what we might be if the leaders of that party were all or many of them of the temper » and purpose of this veteran champion of human rights in all spheres. Mr. Duganne believes in the mission of the Republican party as a reform party destined to complete its work begun in the emancipalion of the slaves, by the organiza- tion of ' industry and the establishment of justice throughout the land. We say God speed his efforts to plant republlcanism upon that platform. Ile has a commanding position from which to operate ‘n his work, as the editor and untrammeled director ‘of the weekly organ of the great Republican Party in this metropolitan city and at this hour of Republican triumph. If we do not fully believe in the possibility of accomplishing the radical work called for, within the bounded arena of either of the old parties, that is no reason why we should not recognize, and sympa- thize, in fact, with the best exertions of every true re- former who does think such achievements possible; and if the dead corpses of the old style parties can be galvanized into life, we know of no voltaic battery so likely :to effect the miracle as the fervid earnest- ness, the clarltude and the convincing argumentation of the pen of a Dugannc. We commend the R€17Ltbl’Z' can to all readers, as full of illustrations of what American political journalism should be at this hour. We have neglected a duty in not noticing this new arm of rsformatory progress earlier; and we confess that we felt the reprocf when we read the following splendid tribute to the merits of his fellow-lanceman, in battle of truth : K , THEODORE TILTON vs. “HOLY w1LLrr:s.” “ While Theodore Tilton was content to pull in the traces of usage and dogma there could be no plaudittoo loud to encourage his voice and pen. He might count on Bowen for his Macaanas and on Greeley for his ‘ guide, philosopher and friend.’ But no sooner does Tilton’s independent soul respond to the sage moni- tion—‘Look into thy heart and writc’—than he is Si1l‘t'l.l_0,_;lll’.W£l.y mcmmai/‘La, and a ‘score of ‘Holy Willies‘ bewail his apostacy. And what is his offense? Has he denied his faith in God or man ‘? Has he forsaken the cause of freedom? Is he false in profession, or hypocritic in creed? No’ one accuses him. But he has simply, like a lmight of old, taken up the gauntlet which a censorious world ﬂung at the fa eof afeinale who seeks, in this jostling community of ours, to find a’ busy place. He dares to demand that awoman shall be tried by the business laws and viewed by the business light wherewith we judge and decide upon a man. In recognizing Victoria Woodhull"s right to enter the stock-market or any other ﬁeld of business life, as buyer or seller, he asks simply that her sex shall not be brought into the question at all. The ﬁrm of V\7oodhull do Claiiin. as a business /house, is neither male nor female. A bank or insurance company, having men and women for stockholdcrs, is ‘simply a corporation; no one has aright to go beyond its charter, into the private life of its mem- bers. And yet it is permitted to every cowardly calumniator to go behind the business sign of Woodhull & Claﬂiu in Broad street, and pursue the members of that firm from their otllce to their homes, and drag them out of those homes again into public print and even to the public pillory. Why not set mouchards upon the track of other partners of other ﬁrms? VVl1y not follow the paths of a hundred bankers, and brokers, and merchants, and editors, from their places of business to their (lo- rnestic circles, and with the some pertinacity that (logs the feet of two resolute women, whose only crime has been that they dared to ask judgment on their acts, in the arena of business, under the laws by which men are judged in the same arena ? Theo- (1016 Tilton responds maiifully to that just and busi- ness-like demand; and at once the dogs of conserve.-. tism yelp at him. He is a ‘free-lover‘-«he is an ‘iuﬁdel’—-he is a ‘communist.’ But with a pluck that does him honor, Tilton turns upon his tra- ducers, maintains his individualism, and asserts his right to be his own interpreter of laws that are based on usage, and his own judge of questions that in- volve the choice of right or wrong. He may be en- thusiastic; he may be rash ;' he niuy_be wrong; but he is gallant and frank and must be awarded what he claims, a fair ﬁeld for 9. fair contest. In reply to the charge of sympathy with Communism, he answers as follows : "You denounce me asa Communist. Yes, I am. I accept your indictinent as I would a rosette. and wear it in my button-hole. I never saw l-lenri Dclescluze. but he was a man after my own heart ; and I mourn him as I would any other hero or martyr. Communism is not agrarianism, as many people ignorantly imzlglue; it is republicanisvn, and Anicric-ans ought everywhere to honor it. The Commune oflerccl to France what the Republic refused it—namely,‘ local self government. Among all the se1ni—succ_es.-l‘ul frauds of our time, the greatestis the pretended Republic ofwhich'l‘iic1'sls at the head to-day, and of-which I trust he “ill be at the foot to—morrow. The atrocities in Paris did not come from the Commune, but from Versailles. It was the Commune, not the Republic, that should have tri- umphed. A few writers and spc_akcr:; among us have had the courage to applaud the Commune; such as Wendell Phillips, Charles A. Dana, George Wilkes and John lrusscll Young; and I rejoice to remember that not one of these clear-headed men was ahead of myself, either with voice or pen, in viudicating the noblest attempt at political liberty which Europe ever saw or crushed. But the Commune will yet arise and reign l God speed it 1” RESOLUTION. If you’ve any task to do, Let me whisper, friend to you, Do it. If ygplve anything to say, True and needed, yay or nay, Say it. _If you have anything to love, As a blessing from above, Love it. If some hollow creed you doubt, Though the whole world hootand shout, Doubt ‘it. If you know what torch tollght, Guiding others through the night, L2‘.gf:t_1‘.t. If you’vc any debt to pay, Rest you neither night nor day, Fwy it. If you’ve any joy to hold, Next your heart, lost it get cold, Hold it. If you’ve any grief to meet. At the loving Father-’s feet, Meet it. If you’re given light to see, What a child of God should be, Be it. Whether life be bright or drcar, ' There’s a message sweet and clear Whispered down to every ear, Hear it. ——Harper’s Magazine. -..._._.._ Woonnum. & CLA1«‘L1N’s ‘WEEKLY is one of me most energetic, earnest, go-ahead papers of the time, It handles everything, and is afraid of nothing, and We don’t know whether most to admire the spirit with which it meets depreciation and dis-praise or the bold philosophy which suggests a way out of so many political and social complications.-0iLcm?est0n. Republzcan. I 4 VVOODXIULL & CLAnLrN‘s WEEKLY is a bolclgcformer , and well written paper. Its arguments on the sulfrage are unanswerahle.~—Sioux City Times. » “-3 1”‘ ‘* s 1..; -. ‘J -. .-.i—_.-;‘:- ~ - ,._-......,.- ~ L1: ,_«,..4- r...-..;_..,,.V-....;..._..-..-. ‘ . Nov. 25,‘ 1871. I McNsinnn ANTOINE. By Giconcn SAND. With eleven illusw-ntions. '1‘. E. Peterson& Brothers, Puhlisher- , Philadelphia. Pi. There are very ftw novels equal to this work; in- A deed there are few writers of iiction who can com- .pare with the authoress of “Consuelo" in all that gives charms to romance. Her style” is perfect. As her subjects are grand, for George Sand ever seeks to teach some noble lesson, so her writing never falls’ below the occasion. It seems prose poetry, and yet her imagination never masters her logic, but is sub- ordinated to her common sense. This work has a peculiar interest to us. It portrays the Commune of the intellectual socialists of France. It breathes the warmest sympathy with those who struggle for the equal rights of mankind-—for a uni- versal brotherhood. There is much food for reiiection in this story. The reader will soon discover that the social revolution into which we Americans are entering is but a symp- tom of a general upiising of the people against op- presson and social tyranny. ' A Complete Vinegar-liiaking Apparatus for $5. I A NEW INVENTION. THE Quick WAY. 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ADDRESS no THE wHI'rE;o SE13-' . ULCHRES. TABLE OF CONTENTS : 1.. There is a. personal God, who ordered and rules the universe. We believe in Him-. 2. We are of God—-our bodies of His body—0ur souls of His soul——our spirits of both. 3. We live forever as we are-—death is a change of clothing only. The dead, so called, are living. They walk. about as we do ; in the form, guardand converse with their friends. 4. We are each entitled to as much of the earth as we have nced—no more. Whatever we have in ex- cess is the property of others, and should be restored to the ovvncrs. So also as to self-control and the inan- agement of ai"‘fairs. '5 Every one should be busied in productive indus- try. Idlenessisa crime to the rich no less than to the poor. The surplus of storekeepers, grocers, bro- hers, and other midcllers constitute dead weight, and they should be transferred to useful occupations. Like gamblers and prostiiutes, they keep the people poor. They cost too much. 6. We ought to be just. We wish to be so.‘ But when we know that nine-tenths of the best men, and nearly half of lhénﬁlier women, including many ma- trons,are unch_aste,the few remaining pure men and the many pure women ought to place all the unchaste on alike basis. Why close our doors on a “fallen” wo- man, who fell because she was forced to, and who remains so because she can’t help it,—whi1e we cor- dially invite the “1.-illen" man who fell because he wished to, and remains because he desires it? Why deny to woman a part in public affairs, and the con. trol ot herself in business, notwithstanding a major- " ity of women are purer, better and wiser than men ? 7. There is but one truth._ It is the harmonious co-operation of iiitelligeizces in maintenance, develop- ment and adiniuistrution. Wherefore, let the living machinery of the world, now out of gear, be suifered to adjustitself. It will then operate harmoniously, and with great strength and beauty_oi‘ performance. The propelling power is God Almighty. Fear not. He will preserve its movementsand direct its uses- kecpit oiled, burnished and deliglitfiil to look upon. And men and worn en. old and young——all, everywhere, will be more Christlike, pure and noble, and enjoy more of the good things of_ life than ever yet was known. The sexes will enjoy more, children more, husbands and wives more, teaclihers and pupils more; oiﬁcers, fariners, niercliaiits, divines. physicians, law-— yers, painters, poets, philosophers, artists, and, in fine, all, everywhere, will have that which few have ever had—-perfect enjoyment of everything natural and sound, with the approval of good conscience and of God. JONATHAN EDWARDS. NEW YORK, October, 1871. W”O0DH.ULfL as one-rninis rwnnnnr. CERCUE. are. 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Best Ase for Rearing Children. 3. Shall Sickly People become Parents. 4. Small Families 5. Importance of Physiological Adaptation of Husband and Wife. 6. Celibary. 7. Etfects of Tobacco on Oli"sprin,9;. 8, Latest Discoveries as to the Determining the Sex of Offspring. 9. Eather‘s vs. Mother’s Inﬂuence on the Child. 10. ShallPregnant Women Work. '11. Effects of Intellectiial Activity on Number of Offspring. 12. Important Testimony. " , This little work has been prepared with great care, with the hopevof rendering an important aid to prospective mothers, and to reduce to the lowest ininimumythe sufferings of rearing chi’dren. The directions are all such as have been thoroughly , proved to be good, and they are so simple that they can be easily followed. A very large number ol'culti- vated and distinguished persons in this country and England have adopted the methods here laid down with the best results; thousands moreif they but knew them might reap the same beneﬁt. 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Notes: Original digital object name: wcl_1871-11-25_04_02
Geography: New York (N.Y.)
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage, Women -- United States
Identifier: wcl_1871-11-25_04_02
Is part of: Woodhull and Claflin Collection, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections

Title: Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly., vol. 04, no. 03 (December 2, 1871)
Author: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1926
Publisher: Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennie C. Claflin
Date: 1871-12-02
Place published: New York (N.Y.)
Text: . sion, for cash. /‘W .- VOL. 4.—-No. 3.-WHOLE No. 81. .p_' _ V A...‘ ..u—___. 'H II" C ._%. $2 .- _ ‘_, gr I 32% tr‘ /4-. .—" "“ «s. , _@—=.—_—_ NEW YORK, DECEMBER 2, 1871. PRICE FIVE GENTS. JCIIN J. crsco & son BANKERS, No. 59 Wall Street, New York. . 5 Gold and Currency received on deposit, subject to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING—HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent. interest. ' Loans negotiated. Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. Collections made on all parts 0! the United States and Canadas. THE LOANERS’ BANK, on THE CITY or NEW.YoBI§ (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER) “ Continental Life ” Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK." CAP; 1‘...
Show more. sion, for cash. /‘W .- VOL. 4.—-No. 3.-WHOLE No. 81. .p_' _ V A...‘ ..u—___. 'H II" C ._%. $2 .- _ ‘_, gr I 32% tr‘ /4-. .—" "“ «s. , _@—=.—_—_ NEW YORK, DECEMBER 2, 1871. PRICE FIVE GENTS. JCIIN J. crsco & son BANKERS, No. 59 Wall Street, New York. . 5 Gold and Currency received on deposit, subject to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING—HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent. interest. ' Loans negotiated. Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. Collections made on all parts 0! the United States and Canadas. THE LOANERS’ BANK, on THE CITY or NEW.YoBI§ (ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER) “ Continental Life ” Building, 22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK." CAP; 1‘AL ................................. . . $500,000 Subject to increaseto ..................... . . 1,00,000 This Bank negotiates LOANS. makes COLLEC- TIONS, advances on SECURITIES, and receives DEPOSITS. Accounts of Bankers, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention. E‘ FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CURRENT BALANCES, and liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS. DORR RUSSELL, President.-. A. F.‘ WILLMARTH, Vice-President. HARVEY FISK. A. s. HATCH. ' ' OFFICE OF 0 FISK dz HATCH. .. B A N K E B S , AND T DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, No. 5 NASSAU srannr, N. Y., Opposite U. 8. Bub-Treasury. We receive the accounts of Banks, Bank- ers, Corporations and others, subject to check at sight, and allow interest on balances. We make special arrangements for interest on deposits of speciﬁc sums for ﬁxed periods. We make collections on all points in the United States and Canada, and issue Certiﬁ- cates of Deposit available in all parts of the Union. We buy and sell, at current rates, all classes of Government Securities, and the Bonds of the Central Paciﬁc Railroad Company;‘ also, Gold and Silver Coin and Gold Coupons. We buy and sell, at the Stock-Exchange, miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds, on commis- Communications and inquiries by mail or telegraph, will receive careful attention. FISK & HATCH. RAILROAD IRON, FOR SALE BY s. W HOPKINS a CO., 71 BROADWAY. CALDWELL & CO., ABANKEBE 2'7 'W'a.11 St... New York. Order for Purchase and Sale of United States Securities, Stocks, Bonds and Ameri- can Gold promptly executed at the usual commission. ‘x Collections promptly made in all parts 01‘ the United States and Canada. @“ Interest, 4 per cent., allowed on de- posits, subject to sight draft. O 103. NATIONAL SAVINGS BANK. THE FREEDMANS SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY. (Chartered by the Government 01 the United States.) DEPOSITS OVER $3,000,000. 185 BLEECKER STREET, NEW YORK. SIX PER CENT. interest commences first of each month. Four per cent. allowed from date of each deposit for full number of days, not less than thirty, on sums of $50 and upward, withdrawn before January. DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES, as safe as Registered Bonds, and promptly available in any part of the United States, issued, payable on demand, with in ‘crest due. ' Accounts strictly private and conﬁdential. Deposits payable on demand, with interest due. Interest on accounts of certiﬁcates paid by check to , depositors residing out of the city if desired. Send for Circular. Open daily from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M., and MONDAYS and SATURDAYS from 9 A. M. to 8 1’. M. J OHN J. ZUILLE, Cashier. NEW roar: SAVINGS BANK, Eighth Ave... car. F0_l1l‘iﬁBllil1 St. SIX ran CENT. rnrnsssr allowed on all sums from $5 to, $5,000. Deposits made on or before August 1 will draw interest from August 1. Assets,-$2,403,303 05. . Surplus, $200,272 95. Sun’. & Fa BROKERS, iii 00L, & BGNDS No. 7 NEW STREET, NEW YORK. ADDISON CALIMACK. OSBORN & CAMMACK, BANKERS, N o. 84 BROAD STREET. ’ STOCKS, STATE BONDS, GOLD AND FEDERAL SECURITIES, bought and sold on Commission. BANKING HOUSE OF HENRY GLEWS & Gm, No. 32 Wall Street, N. Y. C.’ J. osnomx. Letters of Credit for travelers, also Commercial Credits issued, available throughout the World. Bills of Exchange on the Imperial Bank of London, National Bank of’ Scotland, Provincial Bank of Ire- land, an _- *."*v" ‘*1 branches. 315 ‘p — Draits and Telegraphic Transfers on Europe, San Francisco, the West Indies and all parts of the United States. Deposit accounts received in either Currency or Coin, subject to check at sight, which pass through the Clearing-House as if drawn upon any citybank; 4 per cent. interest allowed on all daily balances; Certiﬁcates of Deposit issued; Notes, Drafts and Coupons collected; advances made on approved col- laterals and against merchandise consigned to our "care. p _ Orders executed for Investment Securities and Railroad Iron. Cnnws, HABICHT & C0,, 11 Old Broad street, London. TANNER & 00,, BANKERS, No. 11 WALL STREET, NEW YORK, DEALERS IN STOCKS, BONDS, GOLD AND EXCHANGE. ORDERS EXECUTED AT THE STOCK AND GOLD EXCHANGES. ' INTEREST ALLOWED ON Dnrosrrs SUBJECT To CHECK AT SIGHT. Buy and sell at current market rates, the FIRST MORTGAGE EIGHT (8) PER PER CENT. GOLD BONDS of the ST. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY RAILROAD COMPANY. Interest, payable August and February, in New York, London, or Frankfort-on-the-lliain, free of United States taxes. Present market quotations, 97% a 98%c. and interest. . TANNER & CO., No. 11 WALL srnnnr. 56 .107 Rail Road Bonds. ST. LOUIS CITY Whether you wish to Buy or Sell ‘ write to CHARLES W. HASSLER, No. 7 WALL STREET, . New York. 62-74 SIX PER CENT GOLD BONDS. Twenty Years to run. We offer $400,000 at 98 and accrued interest. JAMESON, SMITH .& COTTING, NEW YORK sun RAILROAD BONDS, A First-Class Home Investment. eoLn BoNns NBEUT EVBSWEG RAILROAD. R Principal & Interest Payable in Gold. * .._—..... Seven per Cent. Semi-Annually. a7 . This Road covers 100 miles of the most direct pos- sible line, between the Great Lakes and deep water navigation on the Hudson River, the whole of fore October 1st, 1872, and give a new line of road to Lake Ontario and the West, 25 miles shorter than any line that can be found. It passes through the Cement, Flag-Stone and Lum- ber regions of Ulster County, and the rich, agricul. tural bottoms of Delaware and Greens Counties, all of which have not heretofore been reached by railroad facilities, and from which sections, the formation of the country prevents the construction of a competing line. , v The 36 miles of road operated ‘for three months is already paying net earnings equivalent to 7 per cent. gold, on its cost of construction and equipments . The issue of Bonds is limited to $20,000 per mile of COMPLETED ROAD, the coupons payable in gold in this city. . PRICE OF THE BONDS, 90 CURRENCY. Full particulars of the above may be had of,‘ and the Bonds for sale by Edward Height & 69., 9 Wall Street, NEW YORK CITY. ' 56 Financial Agents of the R. do 0. Company. . MARKET SAVINGS‘ BANK, ss NASSAU STREET; N. Y., . Six Per Cent. Interest Allowed. nterest commences on the list of each month. many R. CCNKLIN, vAN NAME, ' 14 Broad Street Secretary. 60-85 i President. FRET MORTGAGE which will be completed and in operation on or ‘be~A. . as to make his lecture CS2 WOODHULL & oLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. '5 iriosssosi. soosrsooo., T Late’United States Consul to thp Kingdom of Hano- ‘ vcr. Author of “Transatlantic Souvenirs.” Translator of Renan’s “ St. Paul,” etc. >41. “COUNT BISMARCK, THE GREAT PRUSSYAN PRE- mmit.” 2. “NATIONALITY AND Noni1.iTx.” 3. WoMnN’s FACES.’ 4. “Beams.” (New Lecture.) , Although one of the youngest in the lecture-ﬁeld, Mr. Lockwoocl’s success"has_ been most ﬂattering, and press-notices, indorsing ’ his rare abilities, have been , received from all places where he has lectured. The following is a sample: ' Ingersoll Lockwood, of New York, is one of the most popular lecturers in the country. He has been a foreign ministeiyo-f the government (when only twenty-one years old). and is one of the most genial speakers of the present day.-{Evening i\Iail.] . . The lecture was interesting; exhibits a wonderful’ recon-. diteness in the subject, and presents an array of cu- rious facts. Though exhausting the subject, he did not exhaust the audience, which listened to it with leasurable delight.'——[N. Y. Herald] . ...'I‘he lecture Selivered last evening, before the Young Men’s Asso- ciation, by Ingersoll Lockwood, on “Count Bis- marck,” was a very fine effort in.deed.——[TroyEx- press. ....A crood audience- was in attendance at Twed le Hall: last evening, to listen to Iugersoll Lockwood, of New‘York, on Count Bismarck. Mr. Lockwood is a distinct. clear and powerful speaker, ‘ and showed throughout a perfect familiarity with his subject. His presentation of the facts of the E. ount’s life, and estimate of his c‘uaract.er, were so well done full of interest and proﬁt.—[Al- Dany Joni-ual.]....Briliiant and masterly.~—[E. S. *J0u1‘nal,'White Plains.1. . . .An excellent lecturer. An eloquent description ot the life and cliaracter of the reat Prussian Premier.——[S. S. Republican.]....Mr. ockwood’s oratorical powers are Well known.- [Heome-_J_ournal.] Terms, $100. with modiﬁcations. . . -» ’ —u .. . 1% lid), {J-E.;!.i'TE‘..II§, SAFE, F. ‘ It is far the best Csthartic-remedy yet discov- cred, and at once relieves and i.-ivigorates all the vital functions, without causing injury to any of _them. ~ The most complete success has long attended its use in many localities, and it is now oﬂbred to the general public with the conviction that it can never fail to accomplish all that is claimed for it. It pro<du_ccs little or no pain; leaves the organs free from irrita tion, and never overtaxes or excites the nervous sys- tem. In all diseases of the skin, blood, stoinach, bowels, liver. kidneys——of children, and in many dii_ii- culties peculiar to women—-it brings prompt relief - and certain cure. The best physicians recommen-xi and prescribeit; and no person who once uses this will voluntarily return to the use of any other ca- thartic. 0; Sent by mail on receigt of price and postage. 1 box, ‘$0 25 .......... ..<'-....,....Postage 6 cents. sboxes, 1 00.... .... .. “ 18 “ 12 " 2 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-I. “ 39 “ It is sold by all dealers in drugs and medicines. TURNER & CO., Proprietors, 120 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. ‘THE BALTIMORE .3; onto R. R. Is an Air-Line Route from Baltimore and Washington to Cincinnati,‘ and is the only line running Pullman’s Palace Day and Sleeping Cars through from Washing- ton and Baltimore to Cincinnati without change. Louisville in 29% hours. _ — _ Passengers by the Baltimore and Ohio_Railroad have choice of routes, either via Columbus or Parkersburg. From Cincinnati, take the Louisville and Cincinnati Short,Llne Railroad. - ' _ ’ Avoid all dangerous ferry transfers by crossing the great Ohio River Suspension Bridge, and reach Louis- ville hours in advance of all other lines. Save many miles in going to Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Savannah, Mobile and New Orleans. _ The only line running four daily trains irom Cin- cinnati to Louisville. « Silver Palace Sleeping Coaches at night, and splen- _ did Smoking Cars, with revolving arm chairs, on day trains Remember! lower fare by no other route. _ To secure the advantages offered by this great through route of Quick Time, Short Distance and Low ‘ Fare, ask for tickets, and be sure they read, via Louis- ville and Cincinnati Short LineR. R. . 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"i‘llE--BEST IS THE UllEA;?iiSl.” Being con.str§icted,_witl: re ardto scientiﬁc accuracy, are used in all tests of ski by the best players in the country, and in all ﬂrsbclass clubs and hotels. Illus- trated catalogue of everything relating to billiards N, "ch City , ECIll’l3V-Uliill. V ... \ - Theaters.’ T NOISELESS, LINK-MOTION, ' LOC?K-STITCH x. 7 R§.c.\\i‘-xi-.nso\\ pie’ Sewing Machine Challenges the world in perfection of work, strength and beauty of stitch, durability of construction and rapidity of motion. * ‘ Call and examine. Send for circular. Agents wanted. MANCFACTURED BY sires ssivrss pastries ca, site Bngoansvaa, new York. TEEE EAER. ZGEG©ﬁE!» ‘ran new HAIR ssercaarivs Will positively restore luxuriant and healthy growth of HAIR upon the . V BALD BEADED, ' and will prevent the hair from falling out. It has no poisonous caustic or irritating ingredient whatever. It is as harmless as water, and WHOLLY UNLIKE any other reparation for the hair. It never fails. Itihas produced a ﬁne growth of hair upon those who have been bald for twenty-ﬁvc years. Allwho have used it, without exception, attest to its great merits. Persons in New York or Brooklyn wishing to test the ZOECOME, can either personally or by note make arrangements to have a hair dresser sent to their resi- dences and apply it. . ‘ MRS. ELVIRA M. DEPUY, 64 Clinton avenue, Brooklyn. New Piibiisiictl for the First Time ' in this Coiintryz o o s T is egg, Eiective Aﬁinities: With an Introduction BY VICTORIA o. woonnum.-. sates, at so. Sent by Mail or Express, as ordered, on receipt of V the price. 7 “ It is very true that ideas of social freedom and of inevitable law governing the actions of humanity are rapidly spreading in the world at this day, and that I ~may have done something .0 aid their growth. Per- haps my name may not, therefore, be inappropriately associated with this reproduction of the work of the greatest Genius of Germany, the first who promul- gated the thought that there is a chemi~try of the mind, and that Elective Aﬁinities are as powerful and legitimate in the realm of human sentiment as in the realm of matter.” _ - " Themes of freedom on all subjects form the staple public sentiment of the world at this age. A doc- trine like that of Goethe’s is the1'el'oie eminently cal- culated to make progress even unconsciously in this century.” , ' “ But in any event Genius has its prerogatives, and the genius of Goethe is incontest.-ible and uncontest- ed. The American public are entitled to know what ers of Comparative Anatomy, has thought on the more reconditc subject of the Cliemistry of the ltfind. The question is not, in the ﬁrst instance, whether his views were right or wrong, true or false; but simply, What were they? and in none of his works is that question so effectively answered as in ‘ Elective Aﬁinitiesf ”—-Eactmctsjrom Introduction. THE LAW CF MARRIAGE, .‘,i":N EXHAUSTIVE ARGUMENT AGAINST MARRIAGE LEGISLATION, at: o. s. JAMES, Author of “Manual of Transcendental Philosophy.” For Sale by the Author, post paid, for 259. Address __ — ’ Alina, ‘Wis. 75 ...._.... A HESTOREI OF THE NATIONAL , WOMAN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT, FOR TWENTY YEARS, “ With the Proceedings of the Decade Meeting held at APOLLO HALL, OCTOBER 20, 1870, _F1‘0m 1850 to 1870, -WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE msmomz on THE MOVEMENT DURING THE WINTER or 1871, IN THE NATIONAL CAPITOL, Compiled by PAULINA W. DAVIS. For sale by all Booksellers. Price 50c. Alucid and liberal account of the most important political movement of the day.—W. at Cng W, this great leader of modern thought, one of the found- ' SEQUALITY A- RIGHT OF ’W0lVIAN. BY Tmmm c. oinurnm. The object of the author in presenting this book to the public was: '4 ‘ First,‘ To show that woman has the same human rights which men have. " Second, To point out wherein a. condition of servi- tude has been involuntarily accepted by women as a ubstitute for equality, they in the meantime laboring under the delusion that they were above instead 0 below equality. Third, To prove that it is a duty which women owe o themselves to become fully individualized persons, responsibleto themselves and capable of maintaining such responsibility. FourtIL,~To demonstrate that the future welfare of humanity demands of women that they prepare them selves to-be the mothers of children, who shall be pure in body and mind, and that all other considerations of life should be made subservient to _ this their high mission as the artists of humanity. Fifth, That every child born has the natural right to live, and that society is responsible for the condition in which he or she is admitted to be a constituent and modifying pm of itself. W()IVIAN’S BIGHTS—NEW BOOKS. We have received copies of two books which just now possess considerable interest for many people. They are entitled respectively, “ Coiistitrutional Equality, a Right of Women,” by Tennie C. Claﬂin, and “ The Origin. Functions and Principles of Gov- ernmeut,“by Victoria C. Woodhull. We have ex- amined rhese books carefully, not only for the sake ol the subj-rots treated of, but because of the discus- sioii which has been called out in the past few weeks about these two remarkable women. It would seem as though everything conspired at once to bring them and their views before the pub- lic. First, the Tribune paraded them as the cham- pion free-lovers by _way 01 attacking its oid enemies, the woman suﬁ‘rage women : then one branch of the suﬂragistsattacked them. while the other wing as vehemently upheld them, and lastly they were brought bodily before the public in the recent trial. These conflicting elements of notoriety were enough to have made any one famous for the moment, and ought to make their books sell- The chief element of curiosity, however, was in the fact that they’ were denounced so bitterly by the Tﬁbzme as free-lovers. while they were, on the other hand, iiidoi-sod so en- thusiastically by a lady so universally respected as Mrs. Stanton. Careful examination of their books tails to show anything so very startling in the doc- trincs put forth in them, however distasteful they may be to many. They advance many strong argu- Vments for giving the women the right to vote, for a remodeling of the marriage laws, and, in fact, for the general renovating and making over of society. Some of these are new, and some not so new, but they are very well put. and will be found not unin- teresting, even to those who are opposed to the doc- trines advccatcd.—Newa7*k (N. J.) Register. THE, $RIGlN, TENBENCIES ANT? PRIK!}IP.LES (FF G9VMRNHIENT. BY VICTORIA C. WOODHULL. This remarkable book, just from the press, contains a graphic consolidation of the various principles in- volved in government as the guarantee and protection to the exercise of human rights. ,. Such principles as, from time to time, have been enunciated in these columns are here arranged, classi {led and applied. A careful consideration of them will convince the most skeptical that our Government, though so good, is very far from being perfect. Every person who has the future welfare of this country at heart should make him or herself familiar with the questions treated in this book. No lengthy elucidations are entered into; its statements are fresh, terse and bold, and make direct appeal to the easoning faculties. It is an octave volume of 250 pages, containing the picture of the author; is beautifully printed on the best quality of tinted paper, and is tastefully and substantially bound in extra cloth. No progressive person’s house should be without this conclusive evidence of woman’s capacity for selﬁgovernment Price, $30 0; by mail, postage paid, $3 25. ‘_‘ There is simplicity, freshness and originality in this book which rivers the attention;-and one rises from the perusal with the feeling of being refreshed, strengthened and made better by such a healthy men- tal stimulant. She divests the woman question of all its sentimentalities and places it where it should be, on the ﬁrm ground of justice. Read this book in the morning, when the mind is active, and ii: is a good preparation for intellectual work- it is full of suggestions, and compels thought in the highest di- rection. our advice is get the book and study it.”-— New World. MUTUAL ‘BENEFIT SAVINGS BANK, — SUN BUILDING, 166 Nassau street, New York. DIVIDEND. -A semi-annual dividend at the rate of six per cent. per annum, on all sums of $5 and up- ward which have been on deposit for one or ‘more months next previous to July 1, will be paid on ,and after July 21, 1871. V INTEREST not called for will remain as principal, and draw interest from July 1. ' , BANK OPEN daily from 10 «to 3; also Monday and Saturday evenings, from 4% L0 6‘/§ '0’clock. Interest commences on the 1st of every month following the deposit. ' , CHARLES K. GRAHAM, President. G. H. BnNnmcT,. Secretary. ;gssrssT srnssnis surrosirss .-x . 7 AND L$&.DIESi OPRCTECTCR. , No Menu COLD rnnT——-to~ MORE DEFORMED LIMBS. MRS. DANIELS takes pleasure, in offering the above articles to ladies, with the assurance that they will give satisfaction. The trade supplied at a discount. No. 63 Claircndon Street, ' BOSTON. on MRS. C. A. GAYNOR, @534 Broadway, New Yo-iris. SYPEER & 00., ' , (Successors to D. Marley,) No. 557 _BROADWAY, NEW YORK, ‘Dealers in K MODERN AND ‘ANFIQUF4, Furniture, Eroiinss, CHINA, ARTICLES or VERTU. llstabllshed ‘I826. A I3EAUTlI*-‘UL " I’-I SET Q? ”i“EE'?i*i, With plumpers to set out the checks and restore the‘ face to its natural appearance. Movable plumpers adjusted to old sets, weighted Lower Sets, fillings G-old, Amalgam, Bone, etc. TEETH EXTRACTED WITIICUT PAIN, With Nitrous Oxide Gas. No extra charge when others are inserted. _ SPLENDLD SETS, 510 to $20. I L. l3EilI‘l'II_Al7tD, No.‘ 216 Sixth Avenue, Between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets east side. ROYAL HAV'.ANA LOT’l‘ERY. $330,000 first corn DRAVVN EVERY 1'?’ DAYS.‘ Prizes cashed and information furnished. Orders solicited and promptly filled. The highest rates paid for Doubloons and all kinds of Gold and Silver and Government Securities. 'l‘AYI.-OR & C0., BANKERS, No. 16 wan Street. ‘WM.’ DIBBLEE, LADIES’ HAIR DRESSER, 854 Broatiway, HA5 REMOVED FROM HIS STORE TO THE FIRST moon, where he will continue to conduct his biishiess in al its branches TWEN TY-FIVE PER CENT. CilEA.PER ltlhan heretofore, in consequence of the difference in is rent. I CHATELADIE BRAIDS, LADIES’ AND enNTLnMnN=s mos, and everything appertaining to the business will be i kept on hand and made to order. DIBBLEEANIA for stimulating, J APONICA for soothing and the MAGIC TAR SALVE for promoting the growth of the hair, constantly on hand. Consultation on diseases of the scalp, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9 A. iii‘. to 3 P. M. Also, his celebrated ssnrsnnii enter", or FLESH BEAUTIFIE-R, the only pure and harm-__ less preparation ever made for the complexion. No lady should ever be without it. Can be obtained only at WM. D1'BBLEE’S, 354 Broadway. up-stairs. “rear iEhhisl.€E»diii7‘:s'ii@iri,’l scores are i.. BY WARREN SMITH. OUTSPOKEN, FEARLESS ‘AND RADICAL. Price 10 cents ; $55 00 per hundred. Addres Box 2723, Cincinnati, 0.. 74 ‘V Dec. 2, T f .. . _-2,.»-‘.51.: ' 1-.4, - . I‘ ,3 " .:u.-_'.¢‘.=‘.2L;'!'>_..__-.1. =1:-x. .4.-.;:.‘n=.1..><'12 -——..< ' _‘~,‘gg~a.~zE.¢n.u,:_a.—u..-nn§.'...-x:.~»»::‘;"-_ , I.wooDnnr.L, azpfcnarpnrnrspwnnjnnv. > I I . I was . i. ..- em . .. ' The Books and Speeches "of Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennis C. Claﬂin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the following liberal prices : The Principles of Government, by Victoria C. VVood— Constitutional Equality, by Tcnnie C. Claﬂin .... 1 50 Woman Suifmge guaranteed b the Constitution, speech by Victoria C. WoodhuIl; The Great Social Problem of Labor and Capital, speech by Victoria 0. VVoodhull; ‘ . The Principles of Finance, speech by Victoria. 0. I/Voodhull; Practical View of Political Equality, speech by Ten- nie C. Claﬂin; Majority and Minority Report of the Judiciary C0m~ niittee on the Woodhull Memorial; : Each per copy. . . . . .. . ...--..----. . . . .- 10 per 100.... .-.-.-.. . . .... 5 00 Q vrorouia c. WOODHULUS nnoaonnnnrs. Steinway Hall, N. Y., Monday, Nov. 20, at 8 P. M., on “ The Principles of Social Freedom.” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, N. Y., Wednesday, Nov. 22d: “ The Great Political Issue.” Bartholomew Opera House, Dunkirk, N. Y., Thursday, Nov. 23: " The Great Political Issue.” Case Hall, Cleveland, Oln'o, Friday, Nov. 24th: “The Principles of Finance." Young Men’s Hall, Detroit, Mich, Saturday, Nov. 25th: “ The Great Political Issue.” 2 Wl1ite’s Hall, Toledo, Ohio, Sunday, Nov. 26th: “The Great Political Issue.” » St. James Hall, Buffalo, N. Y., Monday, Nov. 27th: “The Great Political Issuef’. _ Farrar‘Hall, Erie, Penn., Tuesday, Nov. 28th: “The Great Political Issue.” Mercantile Library Hall, Pittsburg, Pa, Friday, Dec. 1st: “The Great Political Issue.” 9 CSUFFRAGE CONVENTION AT WASH INGTON. The National Woman Suffrage and Educational Commit- tee will hold a Convention at Lincoln Hall on the. 10th, 11th and 12th of January, for the purpose of urging upon Con- gress the passage of a “Declaratory act” during the coming session. Friends of_ Equal Rights are earnestly invited to make early arrangements for being present at this most important gathering. ELIZABE‘.’l‘H CADY STANTON, President. ISABELLA Bnncrrnn Hooxnn, Chairman of Ex. Com. J C=SE1“III.NE S. GRIFFING, Secretary. 0 POST OFFICE NOTICE. The mails for Europe during the week ending Saturday, Nov. 25, 1871, will close at this office on Tuesday at 11:30 .1. M., on Wednesday at 12 M., on Thursday at 11:30 A. M., and on Saturday at 11:30 A. M. P. H. Jones, Postmaster: ........____._.¢._...___..__... THE INTERNATIONAL. C It ought to be known that this association is not secret——— It does not aspire to the honor of being a conspiracy. Its meetings are held in public; they are open to all comers, though only members are permitted to speak (unless by special invitation), and none but members are allowed to vote. The several sections in this city and vicinity meet as ' follows : Section 1 (German).——Sunda.y, 8 P. M., at the Tenth Ward Hotel, corner of Broome and Forsyth streets. Section 2 (French).———The second Sunday in each month, 2 P. M., at No. 100 Prince street (especially to accommodate female members) and every other Sunday, 9 A. M., at the same place. Section G (German):-Friday, S P. M., at No. 10 Stanton street. Section 8 (German)—Sunday, 3 P. M., at No. 53 Union avenue, 'Williamsburgh, L. I. Section}? (Amer-ican).——Wednesday, 8 P. M., at No. 35 East Twenty—seventl1 street. ' Section 10 (French).-—First Tuesda and third Saturday in each month, 6 P. M., at No. 650 hird avenue, between Forty-first and Forty-second streets. Section 11 (German).——Thursday, 8 P. 121., West Thirty- ninth street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, at Hessel’s. Section 12 (American).——The second and fourth Sunday in each month, 8 P. LL, at No. 44 Broad street. - ~- Section 13“(German).—-The first and third Tuesday in each month, 8 P. M., at No. 301 East ‘Tenth street. . « Norton non I1\l’I‘ERNA’1‘IONALS.—-_-Section 9 on Wednesday evening, Nov. 22, discharged its delegate to the late" Central Committee, and re-elected him to aid in_the formation of_‘a1n-I other. Let now Section 12 and the other sections, willing to unite upon the principles and rules of _the'General Coun- cil, do likewise, and the I. W. A. will not be without. a proper Executive Committee in the United States. It should be understood, however, that neither the majority nor the minority of the defunct committee have any power to act independent of their sections. A prcliminary_j1:necting of delegates is to be held on Sunday, the 26th insti, at the Tenth Ward Hotel, and merely for the purpose of consultation is desirable that it should be as fully attended as may be prac- ticable. ‘ _ ‘ ~- @ Section 12 will meet on Sunday evening, the 21% inst., at 44 Broad street, andrall members are hereby invited to attend. V\7ILLIAM Wnsr. snorrozv 12 sus'1‘.-uNnD—~rIm DECISION’ on THE GENERAL COUNCIL. The subjoined resolutions of the General Council at Lon- don, and the letter from the Corresponding Secretary for the United States, will speak for themselves or tell their own story. It is a pity that they did not come to hand two days earlier than they did- Theirvpresentation in the Central Committee on Sunday, the 19th inst., might possibly have prevented its adjournment sine die, without provision for its successor, as proposedby the delegate-from Section 12, in the following Words : ‘ 1 Whereas, the functions of the Central Committee terminate * by limitation on the ﬁrst Sunday in December next ; and Whereas, it is not proper that the several sections of the I. W. A. in this country should ever be without representation in some Central Executive Committee; therefore be it Resolved, That the officers of this Committee be directed to issue a call upon the several sections to elect members» of a new Committee, to assemble on the ﬁrst Sunday of January, 1872, the conditions of membership, etc., to be precisely the same as those which govern the'Committee. Under the rule of men entirely foolish, and very small, indeed, namely, those who have no higher conception of the qualifications necessary to membership of the I. W? A. other than that the applicant shall be an alien, of the masculine gender, and a slave, at that, the friends of Section 12 were forced, as the least of evils, to take an appeal to the sections and vote for the adjournment of the committee. Happily, the sections survive their Agents and may call into existence another Agency. Meanwhile, however, it seems proper to notify all concerned that the officers of the defunct commit- tee have no power to act independent of the sections. Any of the sections may take the initiative in the organization of another committee, and there is reason to believe that the English-speaking sections will do so. Especially since the eneral Council has provided that in England the English people shall take charge of the movement, and in France, the French people, etc., it certainlycannot be possible that the United States of America, where tliere is more freedom than-anywhere else on the face of the earth, has been ex- cepted from the general rule. ~ Those citizens of the United States who have responded to the “Appeal” of Section 12, printed inﬂthe WEEKLY of September 23, may, therefore, take courage and go on with the work they have undertaken. The necessary documents and authority promised to them, as will be seen from the letter of Mr. Eccarius, will soon be forthcoming. The new sections that may be formed will, however, see the necessity of communicating with the undersigned instead of the oni- cers of the defunct committee. , VVILLIAM WEST, SD Bowery, N. Y. New York, November 20, 1871. . IrITERNA’i‘fO.-NAL Wosrcruounrvs Assocwrrow, 258 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W. 0. Resolution of the General Council of the International W'orkingmen’s Association in reply to an application of Section 12 of New York: - Cons_idering—— « 1. That every Section. in America has the right of being represented by a delegate at the New York Federal Council for the United States, which by this acquires the character of a truly representative body. . 2. That the organization and progress of the International Workingmen’s Association is, to a great extent, due to the exertions and efforts of the New York Federal Committee. . 3. That there is nothing, either in the rules of the Asso.ci~ ation or in the special organization of it in the United States to prevent any Section from extending the Association amongst their own nationalities; _ The Council advises that the New York Committee for the United States be maintained until the extension of the International in America may render the convocation of a» Congress of all the branches in the United States advisable for the purpose of eleotin g a new Federal Connnitlee. By order of the General Council of the International Workingmen’s Association, J. Gnoncn Econnrus, CorrespondingSecretary for the U. S. A. 256 HIGH HOLBORN-, Lonnorv, I/V. C. November 6, 1871. DEAR SIR: The answer to yours of September 27 has been delayed for various reasons. The first was that it arrived too late on a Tuesday evening to be brought before that week. .When I brought it on the following» week there was too much business before the board to enter into the ques- tion. It was therefore remitted to the sub-committee to ex- amine it and report to the Council. There was likewise a question in which the Central Committee had gone too far, and that had to be taken into consideration. The decision arrived at respecting your proposal of section 12, takin the initiative, is contained in the inclosed resolution. As to the documents of the association, I should have fur- nished you with copies at the receipt of your let.t=~r had it not been that -some arewholly disposed of, the inaugural ad- In’*runuArro_NaL WonKrNcMnN’s AS'~30CIATION,% dress, to wit, and others, the new ones. are not ready yet. The recent Conference (a brief report of which, written by myself, has appeared in the World of O_cto‘oeri12)i instructed, the Council to print a circular containing all the Conterence resolutions wliich it was desirable to publish; and _al.~:.o to‘ issue a new edition of the rules, inclutlijcg the various‘ statu- tory resoluiions passed at the recent Congresses. Thesze things have taken longer than we calculated, but I hope to be able to forward you a. parcel of each at the very latest in the course of a week. I I Your.oﬁ'er to reprintthem and to multiply them for circu~ I lation is appreciated, and will do good service. As far as I can judge, I cannot see any reason whatever why the English speaking sections, if they put their -shoulders to the wheel, should not in a short time, with the present temper of the public mind, succeed to bring about such an auginentation « of the native American force as would effectually remove any possible cause of complaint that may with or without reason he brought against the committee on account of the preva- lence of foreign notions. A separation of any section that is represented on the committee by an accredited delegate would, in my opinion, be a starting point for future quar- ‘ rels. Suppose that a few months hence the delegates of English—speaking sections should become a majority in the committee, then the delegates representing sections consist- ing of recent immigrants would have to fall in with the ma- jority. But suppose, on the other hand, that Section 12, so» ceded now, and really succeeded to establish a Sl1fﬁCi.6n§ number of sections to form a native committee, or Federal Council, the foreign born citizens might claim the right of an independent course of action, and nothing but confusion and animosity would ensue. This is the point of vicwwhich has led to the passing of the inclosed resolution. I In the old world we make rapid strides. The latest ac- quisition we have made is Garibaldi and his followers. in Italy. Mazzin.i’s denunciations of the Commune and the International, instead of turning the workingmen. of Italy against them has had the opposite eﬁcct, and Garibaldi has publicly declared his separation from Mancini and his adhe- sion to the International. ‘ « " p In conclusion, I beg to thank through you, Mesdamcs Woodhull & Claﬂin, for supplying me regularly with their interesting journal. Yours faithfully, . ~ . JOHN Gnonon Eooanms, , Cor. Sec. for the U. 8., ‘ 31 Broadway, Westminster, London, S. Mr. WILLIAM Wnsir. ' I @ CORRESPONDENCE. [Our correspondence column admits every shade of opinion; all that we require is that the language shall be that current in calm, unfet- tered social or philosophical discussion. It is often suggested that cer- tain subjects should be excluded from public journals. We think that nothing should be excluded that is of public interest. Not the facts but the style to determine the propriety of the discussion. We are in no wise to be held answerable for the opinions expressed by correspondents. _ N. B.—It is particularly requested that no communication shall exceed one column. The more concise the more acceptable.’ Communications containing really valuable matter are often excluded on account of length.) I The following is a fair sample of hundreds ofletters we are receiving: from the prominent Spiritualists of the country : c _ MY DEAR IlIAI):‘l.1‘*:I: Since the publication of your Address to the Spiritualists of America, I have been often moved to write to you, yet by some cause, until now, prevented. I do not suppose that in any of your movements you are at all inﬂuenced by the thought that you will, in this or that direction. have the sympathy or the apathy of others ; yet I ieel that it is your right to receive the encouragenient‘ that comes with the knowledge that others see and lznow that you are right, and do not hesitate to express their apprecia- tion. Hence I say, " Thanks to you for the bold, radical advance you have made, the New Departure you have opened, and the high vantage ground ahead upon which you have planted the standard of Reform.” ’ — The principles enunciated in your Address have been adopted asthe voice of the American Association, and their action will be‘ ratiﬁed by an overwhelming preponderance of all Spiritualisis. who fully deserve the name, tobe-fol- lowed, sooner or later, by those whose -timidity and igno- rance of what manner of spirit they are of, have thus far prevented their peri'ect’emancipation. ~ The last paragraph in the body of your address is almost a transcript of my own thoughts during, the hour that followed your election by the association. As a whole the movement was a spon‘:-aneous one, and the majority of ‘those who voted for you were not conscious but a short time pre- vious of any in5:en’!.ion so to do. But for myself, the sug- gestion as soon as i:na:le met with an affirmative 1'l.‘.SjQOI1SS ; and although but few moments were left for deliberation, they were sriiiiclent to enable me to see all that you have your» self alluded to, in the part rallying on yourself as a centre, and to foresee the more potent concentration of forces in the mighty iuture. There£‘ore, aithough the time for delibera- tion was short, my act was a deliberate one, the result of rapid yet mature reflection, and I tread no step bacl<:wa’rd.. I cannot clearlysee all the-consequences to my personal future, but I shali meet them as they come. To me the signs of the times indicate the coming of a great politico-ecclesiastical struggle. Religious _ bigotry is gradually but rz'.pi(lly enirenchin g itself on the polijxiics of our country, and even at this hour is making in safe climctions experimental tests of the strength of its hold on the political ~ machinery and judiciary. Successful in these, bolderefi‘orts will follow. Are we ready tomeet the issue"? This the question of questions with me to—day, and I do not see a sai.is«-factory answer. VVhat of organization? I know from what height our banner waves, but in what form sliajl we 1 rally around it? Today I can seea great_but unorga*ni2:v;j-;l", multitude, some semi-organized battalions, but no evidences of inspection or drill. ' And now to you, in whom I recognize not only a. chosen f leader, but also the voiceof an inspired. intelligence, I turn for counsel and direction-What is there for me to do ? Loyally yours, tor the right of all. » M. K. ~»~v-~—~<s-——--~»-~ -_ , MARION, Ohio, Nov. 10, 1871. Mrs. Mz'¢-mm U026‘, lidney, Ohio : * . It was not my privilege, pleasure or pain to be present at the Arnia Convention, for-which I suppose you and some others will thank high” heaven and Almighty God. I -anticis , pated your attack on Is'I1‘S. Woodhull, and for that reason was the more anxious to be present. I was anxious to know the character of the charges preferred, and was not in the least , < — surprised to ﬁnd bigotcdand“ unjust denunciations, with— ‘ C‘ her premises. :4.“ A A , rW0»OiDHUiLL“& CL,AFLIl%I’S'W1hlEKLY. out rea'so.I1iand_witheut mercy. Upon what evidence you p’ronou'nce-d -Mrs. 'Wcodl1uil and her paper iiifainous neither , »t,he_conventionnor the public was informed. I demand tes- timony, in--the shape or form of actual facts, as to her daily walk and co:=i‘versation. Tell us just here when and where Mrs. VVoodhull is or was infamous. That conven- tion should have been informed, and had I been there it would have been informed, unless it assumed inquisitorial airs. You know as well as I that when such charges, are made’ against any human soul, good or bad, reason and jus- tice demand the proof, andthe proof you had not, and you knew it. The best and purest minds of earth have been similarly treated in every age oi the world. You were born a bigot, and need to be born again, for no bigot can inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. You may denounce, condemn, crucify and bury Victoria C. Woodhull for - the brave thoughts she utters and pure life she leads, but she. will rise again the third day, ascend into Heaven, and from there proclaim the words ‘of. eternal life . and liberty to enslaved womanhood. ’‘‘Mark my words.” “I mean all I say.” The stone you builders reject to—day is Monogamic Free Love, which is simply love freed from law. But it was foreordazned from , the formation of the world that this stone is to be the chief corner in the new Jerusalem which God is preparing for a regenerated and redeemed humanity. The Nazarene pl1i— c lcsopher once said : “In heaven they are neither married nor given in marriage,” and then taught you and I to pray, “ Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” All this is bold, radical socialism, two thousand years old. Ages have rolled away, and we are just begin- ning to comprehend the strength of the “ J udean l£’eas-ant.” He made as short work of priest’s oaths, obligations and legal marital ceremonies as Bolingbrc-ke did of creeds, and we of the Free Love faith have proposed to do. Condemn Jesus as well as Mrs. ‘Woodhull. Demonstrate tliat this pure idealism of his is calculated to promote and propagate vice, before you denounce our teachings as infa- mous. Before the courts of heaven, we have vowed that love shall no longer be the subordinate of law, for out of such a slavery grows lust, and out of lust immortal souls are conceived in sin and sh-apen in iniquity, until sin, poverty and shame cover the face of our fair earth. If children were born out of loving liearts, they would never need to be born again. Through marriage under law we breed vice by the wholesale, and deluge the world with free lust. When love is free, it will be so no longer. ~Yours truly, Tnos. W. ORGAN. ..._.._._...__+ . . , CHICAGO, October 26. T9 the Editor of Woocllmll dé 0Zaﬂ2'n’s Weer7al_2/ .' , My last letter, dated October 10, closed up with this re- mark, in regard to the muniﬁcent donations which were be- ing received on all sides: “The kindness and sympathy proffered will bless the givers as well as the receivers.” If it is more blessed to give than to receive, our poor ill-fated city has adopted an extraordinary means of dispensing bless- ings, this time, however, too greatly’ at her own expense. About ﬁfty miles of streets, 12,000 buildings and $300,000,000 is a pretty safe estimate. None of the rumors aﬂoat as to the origin of the ﬁre are to be relied on. We have a great ' many reasons to suppose that it was merely an accident ; we have also as many more to believe that it was the work of incendiaries. My own house isgthree miles from the burnt district. Immediataly alter dispatching my last letter to your paper on Tuesday, I had to assume the new role of ’ self-con- — stituted policeman to guard my own property during the daytime. At nigbit we were well guarded, the patrolman coming to guard us about eight in the evening; that is, we sent to Sheridan’s headquarters on Wednesday, and obtained a guard for the remainder of the week. Monday and Tues- U day nightthe citizens patrolled the streets. My next neigh—. bor is a German. Himself, wife and a famously savage dog which he owns were our patrolmen on Tuesday night. Across zthe way is some property owned by a German wo- man; it consists of a cluster of low outbuildings, which might be easily ﬁred, at ﬁve minutes’ notice. We had no water, and ﬁre once lighted by an insigniﬁcant cigar—si.ump would have caused a cenﬂagration. The old woman guard- ed her own property all the week, during the ﬁre, night and day, armed only with a pitchfork. But she was a terror to incendiaries, and our district escaped unburnt, or at least it has escaped. Just in the rear and at the north of my house are no less than ten old barns, dry as tinder, two of which are ﬁlled with hay. It was ‘on Tuesday, Octo- ber 10, - about noon, that this German woman discovered two suspicious-looking men lurking about She routed them and followed them across the street, until she saw them enter the alley in the rear of my house, and then came in and gave me warning. VV e had taken the precaution to have the protection of ﬁrearms. Our revolver was loaded and in readiness for instant duty. One of the men passed on into an open ﬁeld, crossed over to Forestravenue, and came back south to ‘Douglas place, the street which he had just left on entering my alley. The others came back tisrough the alley. Both of these men were carefully scanning every inch of ground about the old barns. Two of us were waiting on the back piazza for the man who returned. One held the revolver ready to take aim, provided the man was insulting in ::-is replies, while the other was questioning him in rag-:.1'd to his intentions. Taking a deliberate aim not only quickened his intellect but retarded his footsteps, and his second reply was somewhat more to the purpose. He was informed by your correspond—’ ent that the ha:-use was amply protectedby ﬁrearms, and that ‘ there were women, too, who knew how to use them, and that if his head or any other was seen in that alley for the next twenty-four hours there would be a bullet through it. This was womanlike, to be sure ; but the result was that he stood a little “shaky in his shoes,” and made a desperate attempt to walk deliberately out of the alley. We followed him, saw his comrade join him, and learned that a ﬁre had just been set immediately back of my house on Forest ave- nue, by his comrade, at the very time that this parley was ‘going on from my piazza. I learned, too, that an attempt had been made on Monday night previous, by some sus- picious looking person, to get possession of the empty barn for the night. On Thursday of the same week two men were I again discovered under similar circumstances. There ‘were no questions asked of them, and ‘ no threats made, as in the former case, but ‘we followed them, my sister and I, accompanied by our revolver. These two were young men,iwell dressed, evidently not over twenty years of age. They had been loitering about for an hour or more, and were takenuby some one to be theological ' students from a neighboring’ seminary, whom I met, em- ployed as gguardsmen during the day. I have been thus par- _.‘ tieular in relating these circumstances ‘on account of the tragedy en-actc_d in my immediate neighborhood in regard to Colonel Grosvencr, who met his untiimely’fate at the hands of a guardsman. There has been the most urgent necessity laid upon every person in this vicinity to guard the city from the ﬁres of incendiaries—both night and day—for the last wtek and a half. For several days past the ﬁre-bell has alarmed us, on an average, ﬁve or six times during the twenty—four hours. It has sometimes seemed that it would require but a very slight stretch of the imagination to con- ceive of a ﬁnal conliagration. During the week of the ﬁre these thoughts were continually hovering over me, and again the line, “And the 1.ightning’s red glare painted hell on the sky,” was my constant companion. ‘ thWp hatve ‘El. gregp cigr ilvithout tgas or an5£n1eg.ns of lightiplg - e s res s a rug . n y a cen ury past on onw-as in e same condition. Torch-boys were then at the service of the nitrhtl sedestrian. It is onl about a uarter of a cen- _:= Y l« Y _ (1 tury since gas was used for street lights, and we naturally ask, how did great cities exist without it ? Were there fewer deeds of darkness between the setting and the rising of the ‘u a ' V . .‘ ‘ a sug then tlhangnqw ? f1: kgag anioral if’prc,e ii1f211g:i'egt cityt t of -.hi1%teu5n;e3f“li§ cm.‘3a‘§Z§ rit‘2:,°§o%r, £5; did, the halt and the blind” are seated within those luxurious speci- mens of architecture “without money and withoutprice.” Perhaps it is the ﬁrst time since they were erected that these churches have really been employed in the service of the Most High. I H. S. Bnooxs. ¢ When woman is enfranchised she will learn to think. A new and important responsibility will devolve upon her. She will begin to learn more about the enlarged ﬁeld of use- fulness for which she is to prepare herself and children. She will enlarge her views; be more charitable toward the fail- ings of others. Tracing effects back to causes will cure certain unpleasant evils by doctoring the next generation in “ its earliest infancy,” as well as “providing a balm for every mind.” She will find other trains in competition for the destination of the onward progress, which will stimulate her to exertion in the race. She will haverless time and taste for extreme fashion, and more for the duties of the hour. She will not necessarily “ neglect home duties,” because it is there that the next honest and capable political representa- tives are to receive their normal education. She will conse- quently cultivatc her own mind and faculties in preparation for the foundation of a sounder political and better domestic “ economy.” She will take pride when her duties consci- entiously call her there, in acting as “moderator” (of the bad and boisterous element} at elections, “leaveni,::g and purifying the whole muss.” t is time she has a voice, when she chooses to exercise it, in the laws by which she is taxed, wronged, governed or" beneﬁted. Her reasoning faculties being newly awakened, she will regulate her family and its numbers, with a View to future usefulness; undertaking only what can be well performed under favorable circum- stances. If she learns to acquire, she will know the value of economy, and become a practic:-il “ helpmeet,” a wise counselor, companion and true friend, to man as well as able to help herself. . Philadelphia. M. E. WADE. m SENATOR CARPENTERS ARGUMENT. MESDAMES WOODHULL & ‘CLAFLIN : Permit me through your columns to express some views on the ‘argument of Senator Carpenter against the right of women to vote under the Constitution and laws at present in force. I think the honorable Senator deserves well. of the women of the coun- try, notwithstanding he denies them a fundamental right, for having reduced the political inequality of citizens, by as- serting “ the power of a State to deny the right to vote to any citizen, for any cause whatever.” It may, therefore, deny the right to all male citizens because they are not females, thus placing a negative equality upon the entire population of a State. It is a matter of historical fact, that at the time of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, women in New Jersey, one of the original States, were votable citizens and did exercise the elective franchise. They held that rightand exercised it under the Colonial gov- ernment, and when New Jersey adopted the Constitution of the United States, her women citizens came into the Union, under her State Constitution of 1776, as completely and fully clothed with the right to vote as did her male citizens. These fem ale citizens, then, became complete political citizens of the,_United States. Says Chief Justice Taney,in Scott vs. Sanford: “ It is true, every person and every class and descrip- tion of persons, who wereat the time of the adoption of the Constitution recognized as citizens in the several States, be- came also citizens of the new political body.” The Consti- tution of the United States then, at the time of its adoption, did not only contemplate, it recognized female suffrage. We are bound to assume that those who framed the instru- ment were fully aware of this fact, since female suffrage en- tered into the creation of it. This fact, or this principle, be- came thoroughly incorporated into the Constitution, I hold, in a manner never to be gotten rid of while the present struc- ture of our government lasts. Women were qualiﬁed elect- ors under the Constitution of New Jersey for members of the popular branch of the State legislature—they were, therefore, qualiﬁed electors for members of the Congress of the United States, and eligible for membership of the National Legislature. Nay, more ! A female citizen of New Jersey could have represented her State‘ in the Senate of" the United States, while no language in the Constitution would have excluded her from the highest office in the gift of the people. I ' . ' I mention the above because Mr‘. Carpenter alleges that females were not admitted to suffrage in those State,Gov- ernments of which the Union was originally composed. Let me say further, under the provision, “The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immuni- ties of citizens of -the several States,” there was not a female citizen in the United States who could not have voted, by Dec. 2, l8’t“fl.- removing to New Jersey, residing therein until-she acquired a rcsiden.ce, and otherwise complyiu g with the qiialiﬁcations required for an elector by the laws 0: the State. Under this section, female suffrageliad a pational status, as to its enjoy- ment, of which any female citizen could have taken advan- tage. ' ~ ' — Let us take a step behind the Constitution, and see whether the idea of female suffrage does not pervade the whole instrument. The common law rights were the in- heritance which every Colonist from - Great Britain brought to this country, at the period of the settlement of the re- . spective colonies. (See Declaration of Riglits resolved in Continental Congress.) Among these rights was the right of fema.le suffrage, as recognized and enjoyed in the mother country. Injsupport of the fact that female suffrage did exist in England, and from a remote period, I refer to the casesgof Catharine vs. Surry, Coates vs. Lyle, I-Iolt vs. Lyle, and Olive vs. Ingral1am——referred to in the “Minority Report on the "Woodhull Memorial”——wl1ich fully sustain me. Of woman’s present right to vote in England there is no doubt. . ’ Says Mr. Sheppard, on page 9, section 9, of “ The Consti- tutional Text Bock”: “The charters under which the colonies were settled (except that of Pennsylvania) expressly declared that all subjects of the King, and their children inhabiting therein, should be deemed natural-born subjects, and should enjoy all the ‘ privileges and z'7mnmm‘2'es’ thereof.” The right of women to vote and to hold oiﬁce was contain- ed within these terms at that time. - . It is true, the right of suffrage in England was, and is, based upon property; and so it continued here in the colo- nies, so long as the colonial system endured ; but when we changed our form of government we adopted a broader system of rights, abandoning none, but basing that which before had rested upon property upon the person instead. It was in full view of all the common law rights and doc- trines that the Constitution was framed. It was intended to secure them, extended and enlarged it is true, but still those same rights. There does not arise today a legal contest as to the matter of a personal right, where no statute is made to ‘control it, that is not elucidated, complicated or settled by common law alone. How came it, then, that this par- ticular rigl1t—one of the most in1portant——under our changed form of government was lost? There is not a word in the Constitution itself that will sustain such an idea. The Con- stitution is our great national statute law, and it cannot be interpreted, as to personal rights, without reference to the common law doctrine of those rights. So interpret it that it shall reﬂect fully every right that entered in its construc- tion, and you will ﬁnd indelibly stamped therein and there- on the principlc of female suffrage. Non-user of a political right works no forfeiture of such right, nor are there political statutes of limitation. The common-law right of female suffrage, we believe, inlieres to- day in every woman of the land, based upon a personal in- stead of a property representation, in accordance with the genius of our government. ‘ In full accord with the above views is the decision of the court in the case of Corﬁeld vs. Coryell, as pronounced by Justice lVashington, he holding that——z'me7' aZtw~—“to enjoy. the elective franchise, as regu- lated and established by the laws or constitution of the State in which it is to be exercised, is one of the ‘privileges and immunities ’ conceded by the Constitution of the United States to citizens of the several States.” This de-cision is something more thanmere obt'z‘er dictum, as affirmed by Mr. Carpenter. The point raised before the court was a question of “ privileges and immunities,” d the enumeration of the rights‘ embraced within the term came fully before the court. The-doctrine in this case has been approved by Chancellor Kent, and by him incorporated into the elementary law of the land. I fully agree to the proposition that “ women have always been citizens,” and I affirm that, having always been such citizens, they have always been entitled to vote, that is to say, to one and all of the “ privileges and immuni- ties” of citizens. Mr. Carpenter thinks it safe to say that the cases decided subsequent to the decision in COlllClCl vs. Coryell “had so far followed the theory of Mr. Justice Wasliington,” that “down to the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment” the Supreme Court would have held it as law, that is, would have held that the term “ privileges and immunities” in- cluded the “ elective fr-anchise”—the right to vote. he says, “the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments seem to sanction theidea entertained by the court in Campbell vs. Morris that the right to vote was not included in the phrase ‘ privileges and immunities of a citizen.’ ” In other words, Mr. Carpenter would seem to assert that the Fourteenth Amendment, in utter disregard of the settled construction of the term “privileges and immunities of a citizen,” is to be construed by some overruled and abandoned construction of the term. Now, it isfair to hold, and I believe it is well-, settled law, that where a term used in cm instruvnent has been defined by the ‘courts any subsequent use of the same term, in the same instrument, must be taken, hold and used as so judi- cially defined. - I If this view is legally correct, and I hold that it is so, then the term “ privileges and immunities,” as used in the Four- teenth Amendment, must be taken and held to include the mat to note, which is A exactly the reverse of Mr. Carpenter’s conclusion. If I am correct in the above the entire structure of Mr. Carpenter’s argument falls, for it rests upon this sin- gle point. ‘The language of the Fourteenth Amendment is: (L 37 Dec. 2, 1*3i7il". _ / ’wooDriUlL’L & CI.AFL”’IN’S WEEKLY. r . __ 5 “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.” So far the amendment settles beyond cavil or doubt the fact of un- qualiﬁed female citizenship. The equal legal and political rights of citizens is a well settled doctrine. The amendment continues: “N 0 State shallmake or enforce any law which shall abridge the ‘ privileges or z'mmumtz'es’ of citizens of the United States.” Let us write this latter clause as it stands interpreted by the court: ‘f N 0' State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ‘privileges and immuni- ties,’ which are in their nature fundamental, and belong of right to the citizens of all free governments. Such are the rights of protection of life and liberty, and to acquire and enjoy prop<:rty, and to pay no higher impositions than other ‘citizens, and to pass through or reside in the States at pleasure, and to enjoy the elective fmnehzse as regulated. and established by the laws or constitution of the State in which it is to be exercised.” Will anyone pretend that the term “privileges and immunities” in the amendment does not cover and protect the right to vote when thus stated...- thus deﬁned by law ‘BK What is the “elective franchise” if not the righ.t to vote ? But ijiglit in the face of the constitu- tionaldeclaration that “no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the ‘ privileges or immunities’ ”-—-0726 of which 2'3 the rigitt to col'e——of citizens of the United States, Mr. Carpenter says: “The second section clearly recognizes the right or power of any State to exclude a portion of the citizens from the right to vote,” and when he has thus con- strued the amendinent to its utter stultiﬁcation he tells us that, therefore, it is “ that the right to vote is not one of the ‘ privi_l.cges and immunities.’ ” I submit that such a View is neither professional, logical nor legal. But suppose “the sec- ond section clearly recognized” the right or power of any State to exclude a portion of the citizens from the right to vote, would it not present the anomaly of an article of the Constitution empowering a State to deny to a citizen of the State a 1‘l_-1:,‘-‘I113 secured to him by the United States ? In other words, the Constitutional power of a State to im- ‘ pair a right would be greater then or superior to the power of the United States to protect and enforce the right. This cannot be. p The Fifteenth Amendment, beyond all question, as it seems to me, conﬁrms the view I have taken as to the right to vote having been recognized as one of the rights of a citizen, 1'. e , as having been embraced or included within the term “privileges or immunities,” as used in the Four- teenth Amendment. It is clearly mentioned as “ The right, of the cz';'z'zen3 of the U:-t2'te(Z States to cote. ” Mr. Carpenter saw and felt this difficulty, and only avoided its consequences by reiterating his already exploded theory. that “the Four- teenth Azncndment recognized the power of a State to deny the right to vote to any citizen.” Until he can reconcile that position with the plain statement that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the “ privileges or ininiunities of citizens of the United States,” he must abandon his position. I know that he has claimed that the right to vote is not covered by the term “ privileges and im- munities.” Then I reply again, the term has been deﬁned by law ; he emmozf cgﬂic to it (mother z'nterp7”etatt'o7z. __ The right to vote being one of the ‘_‘ franchises or immuni- ties” of a citizen, which no State shall abridge, and women being citizens, they possess the “franchises or immunities,” .and therefore have the right to vote. This right of all citi- zens to vote——for it has been held that “all citizens are equal- ly possessed of every civil and political right”——can neither be denied nor abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Once the United States (lid deny to an entire class of per- sons, born in the United States, not only the right to vote, but every other right, by declaring them not to be citizens. The Fourteentli Aniendmeiit clothed these persons with cit- izenship, and the Fitteeiitli has prevented them from the loss of -not only the right to vote, but all other rights em- br.-iced within the term “ privileges and immunities” of citi- zens of the United States. J. F. 'BYRNES. uv THE. Brooklyn Eagle ~says : “ V. C. W. wants to vote, not because the law says explicitly that she can, but because she thinks the law neglected or forgot to prohibit her voting,” and adds that “Paul wouldn’t be thrust out of jail in that manner.” What Paul would or would not do is not much in the argument. But for what it is worth P-aul’s example is in V. C. W.’s favor. He relied on the letter of the law. That is precisely what V. C. WV. wishes to "do. The govern- ment in this country is a thing of written creation and ordi- nation. VVhatever is not written is without authority. Under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments V. C. W. says that all persons born, and so forth, arecitizens, and all citizens are entitled to vote. Whether Congress intended such a construction when they passed the law is not the point. The law is passed-—and must be taken as itis writ- ten. If, on the other hand, suffrage be anatural right of man, and, like every other free expression of opinion, in- alienable to the born American, then the woman has it as well-as the man, because Americans are not politically bound by European precedents or by Biblical interpreta- tions—-and what the written laws do not provide for is de- termined by natural law. \ 0 “ Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.” “The absent feel and fear every ill.” “SIC ITUR AD ASTRA.” BY ownn RICE. Hard by the brook, whose cooling waters lave The throbbing temples of the wrinkled town, In physique lank, and temp’rameiit anneal’d To chronic mildness, lifts the visage brown Of gnarled oaks, whose age distemper’d wears The knotted scars of palt’ring griefs and cares. A-near at evening, while the shadows gray, And the lithe breezes troll the lolling air, And quaint old burghers oi the quaint old town Disport their venerable limbs achair, While gesture of the pipe and calm of mind,‘ Heroic patience plead for fellow kind, From out my casement, while in twitt’ring ﬂight The swallows cleave and fret the drowsy air, And all abroad across the glooming ﬁelds Lies the calm twilight, and the shadows bear Resemblance vexing to the fantasies Which glamour’d Hope erst height realities. \ I hear a clamor as of scolding dames. Distract the patience of the languid night, And perk conjecture for a while ensnares My wonderment, ’till learns my quest aright, Forsooth that near the hedge, in conclave vex’d, The oaks assembled predicate a text. And sooth the churl, beneath whose threatning limbs The unleash’d children tame their woritcd glee In eke’d restraint, lest from the rugged girth Should mome an erlish visage’s inuinmery, Commands the rostrum, and the rev’rent boles To silence awe the breeze that frets their polls. “In recluse days,” quoth he, “ when coursed my sap With thrilling impulse and untamed force, At russet tide, the voices of our hills , ‘ Grew tremulous with borrow’d accents hoarse, And crst the striplings of the wondering plain, Their untaught natures lent to wild acclaim. “ But in the forest cow’d their froward glee, When dinn’d the echoes the forereaching whoop Of the ﬁerce Mohawk in his painted rage, And the sot t murmurs of the wild land troop‘d To frighted covert, when the sullen glare Of rites barbaric scoi'ch’d the aﬁriglited air. “ Fierce as the swoop of eagle empyreal, Terriﬁc as the stroke of cumber’d‘cloud, Wild as the shriek that rends the cow’ring night, Dread as the husbandry o_f ﬂame and shroud, Fell the wild tocsin of the swarthy sept ’ Upon the joyous sozigh of vert erect. ' “ But the day sadden’d, and the madclen’d rites Revoked their frenzy, when the Sagamore To unnerv‘d slumbers bade the sodden braves, And in the dark-brow’d bidding proud he wore The majesty of conscious natui'e’s seal Upon a crest to nature’s impulse leal. “ Then clasp’d the sod the knurly chief of all, In form a new life from the breath of God In its expansive power Omnipotent, But the crush’d petals which he proudly trod To suffering fragrance, thi-oiig’d his rest forlorn With images which bow’d his spirit’s scorn. “ The bruised ﬂowers beneath his savage tread Rose in prophetic visions ;—such as these Should be his peop'e’s sorrows; and afar Came surging with the requiem of the trees,-— A client of death. vague sounding through the wail Of troubled dr_eams,—this ashen woe’s entail. “ No more the camp and lodge should wreathe the grove, Nor in the wild the whoop terriﬂc rend The savage rest, but from each bruised leaf Evolved in imag’d grandeur, proud ascend The pale face forms 01 cunning art, and grace Of cultur’d glebe adorn the mountainls face. “'A stricken chief bow’d to the light of morn And shadow’d sorrow on the bruised sod, Where on each mangled holin of vert was writ This new evangel of the wild man's God: No more the path of blood shall track my ﬁelds, But husbandry of nobler life revealed. “ Two hundred years have ribbed these rugged hills,”- _ Fierce from the awful ars’nal of the clouds Empyrean forces rush, and pencil’d bolts’ Spontaneous terrors speech and visage shroud In whelming glare, and the brave oak composed To silence all his memory enclosed. — Two hundred years, quotlial The ﬁres of death Flare not the shealing of the frontiersman, . But cities deck their spires with splendid peace And crown the rugged chasm with dizzy space, And o’er the nodding ﬁelds the gilded plumes Of thought the empire of the globe illume. No longer in the void of Ether gropes, Or paints fantastic terrors o’er the pole The counterpart of mind, not in the deep Of earth’s cimmerian blackness yearning roll The reserv’d energies of God alone, And falls their rhythmic clangor, eke their groan. Nor lone midst awfulsolitudcs which gulf Around the spheres immeasurable, blend Respiring forces in the harmony Of reﬂex worlds,——but to our walks extend The mechanisms wrought by,th’ eternal mind . And pattern’d for the help of creature kind. Nor in the rotting molecules oi ores - Are hidden fabled monsters, but aﬁeld Are thews of iron 1ink’d to subtle might, And gossamer of steel anew reveals "The grandeur of the better life 'ari'ay’d, The giant’s strength by pigmy’s form display’d. And o’er the clashing waters skimming Wild With Freedon1’s self-command and airy ﬂight, Or through the dizzy landscape thundering loud And changing night for day and day for night, All hail, expansive sprite, thou of the cloud Or depths of earth, ennobled conqu’ror proud I And from a thousand hills curls to the morn The tributary fragrance of the zeal ' Of groaning industries, nor shrouds the night A ti-ackless path, while blithely scudding keel Or night-bound train surveysjthe wilderness Of waves or forest in their loneliness. No clash of arms contentious ﬁelds withal Deck with the bays of internecine lust, But fame of noblest rivalries appeals To nobler man e’e1i from the conqueror-‘s dust, And crowns itself immortal, where amain An empire’s dust alone provoked a name. - High in the senate of this nobler life, Instinct with Thought’s commanding stateliuess, Thy presence crowns the glory of thy days With painless sovereignty and high address Of gentlest coniity, whose boyhood free Expanded with the vastness of the sea. Child of no titled lineage, thou self taught Hast climbed the dizzy height of noblest fame, Where, like a beacon clilf upor the shore, Thou rul’st the tumult of the surging main Vex’d by the storms of trade, and stand’st erect. While in the gulf of waters whirl the Wreck’dl Out-titan’d Titans yield thee mastery, Ruling a continent l Thine iron arms Embrace its fruitage; thy far-reaching thought Essays th” antipodes with guileless charms Of kingly commerce ’ne-ath the ﬂag which bears To farthest Ind the sovereignty of prayers. Thou great pathﬁnder for the enterprise Of princely capital, muniﬁcent Of effort and result, in homage lead A natioii’s heart crcwris thee beneﬁcent; When at thy bidding every landscape smiles, And thrift of peace the passion’s sway beguiles. In the broad commonwealth of comm crce great . As kingliest scion of the nation’s dead, The unnamed fame of gentle deeds shall crowd Perennial blessings o’er thy dying head, And Parthenon of fame in deathless gilt Einblazcned bear the nameojf Vanderbilt. Rome City, Indiana, May, 1871. ‘ —-———-——-——'+ SCRIPTURALISI‘«lS;—“ FOUND ADRIFT.” “ Ye gods, Captain, that was a pull, an exhaustive pull—- a pullior life.” . A _ I “Yes, Marvin, it was indeed a life effort. Yet a little while and that slab of ice, with its precious human freight, would have been dashed amid the seething foam of the angry ocean breakers. But thanks to her good angel, the strong arms and stout heart of my sturdy, faithful mate, the pretty gem is saved. How do you feel, Marvin, after so exciting a chase? ” A » “A little stiff in the arms, Captain, but all right here.” Placing his hand overgthis heart, Roger Marvin, with slightly inoistened eyes,=>.+ continuefd, “Indeed, Captain, as you have rightly intimated, the little one does appear to be a rare jewel. Come, let us catch again those gleains of bright sunshine emitied fromlier sparkling, jetty eyes. I’ve just left the laughing sea nymph stirring from a balmy sleep.” _ p f g This conversation between Captain Wesley~Wilson and his shipniate occurred on board the packet Grey Eagle as she was slowly making her way through the broken ice of Delaware Bay, l'ic—-ading toward the city founded by the peace-loving Quaker William Penn. There had been a fearfully destructive freshet along the “upper country, carrying away not only fencesand trees of great size and strength, but in some instances entire houses ﬂoated down the swollen stream, away and out to sea. The little ﬂaxen-haired girl, still enwrapped with her bed cloth- ing, had by a sudden whirl been thrown upon a large slab of ice, and was drifting rapidly out to sea when discovered and saved by Roger Marvin. True, when found she was almost frozen ; the warmth and cordial care imparted by him soon restored her ; and though she never found her.parents,she‘ found a-sympathetic home of comfort without ostentation ‘ with the family of Captain Wilson. Years after the occurrence of this little incident, and when Philadelphia had trebled in area and population, in an upper room in which are three or four men thereis an earnest, sad commotion. A man of medium height, iron- like frame, and well formed head crowned with athickly . crop of jetty hair, interspersed but slightly here and there a strand of gray, is stretched full length upon/the bed; near him the heated physician who has at length succeeded, after much labor, in withdrawing the poison from the stomach of the would-be suicide. The door opened, and the invalid turning partially round on the couch extended his hand toward the new corner, and with a half smile of scornful contempt for life, remarked :- . “Well, Thomas, failed again. I’m glad you’ve come, A though I had hoped to have been done ere now with this aching, disappointing thing called life.” “ Why, Marvin, what does this “mean? What have you been doing?” the other queried, glancing from his friend round the somewhat disordered room. “ Ha! doing but little, Thomas, too little to be effectual; I never did do much ; my whole life is a bald failure, I have bee. 2, W137i. \ ‘ long felt this keenly. (So I thought I would just take in a . reef, tack about, and take another course. But as has ever beenlmy destiny I have failed again, and still an: with you.” “ I am glad, Marvin, you are yet here, and believe it is that you may yet learn that life, all life, notwithstanding much T/"of apparent iincongruity and certainly not excepting human life, is and ever will be a beautiful success.” “ Ah, Thomas, that may answer very well as a picture, to ' look upon, and percbance, if possible, persuade yourself to believe that it is even aweaker reﬁect-ion of the greater,“ more luminous fact. ‘ For there ishope of a tree if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branches thereof will not cease. But man dieih, and wast- eth a.way—as the waters fail from the sea, and the ﬂood de- cayeth and drieth up; so man lieth down and riseth not. Is man less than a tree then? is he no more than a sheep?’ ” “ Old Job had considerable experience according to the record, and his answer appears to be ‘ Yes,’ ‘ No.’ _ ‘ The waters wear the stones. and the hope of men, is destroyed. His ﬂesh uponfhim shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.’ ” ‘‘ Why, Job appears in some of his moods to have been a coniirmetbfatalist, with hopes of ' the race as limited as that of the Latter-day ‘ Second Advent’ ll/Iaterialist. But these people in number are as the grains in ahandful of sand h compared with the millions of men and women whose ex- perience, to say nothing of their intelligence, learning and moral worth, is at least as trustworthy as that of those who trsdazce them and scoff at their coveted evidence of human immortality.” I “ Granted, and Thomas, you are aware of my uniform urbanityand tolerance, if not respect for the religious no- tions and feelings of all differing from me. But the fact of ,i:nmortal.ity granted, still what is all this to _me, if I do not know I shall continue to live on forever as an individual. The doctrine of immortality aflbrdsl but little or no consola- tion, unless I feel that I shall ‘retain thereby my individual identity through an endless life. “Without referring to the Bible, every page almost of which discloses evidence of spirit and its power over and con- trol oi matter there are thousands of livin witnesses amon ' 7 g g us whose conclusions, based upon the every day fact of their communion with their friends already passed on, are as clear, tangible and satisfactory as the existence of their physical wants recognized "by the constant consciousness of their five senses.” , _ “ And I-, Thomas, will not be so. rash, not to say unkind, as to dispute their evidence nor mar in the least the exquis- ite happiness such joyous faith must certainly afford its possessor. But tell me, why, oh! why, it is that one who has slriven to live tl e blameless life I have, has been so long denied the faintest spark of this happifying evidence of my continued, existence—t-hrough the spheres in which there may be opportunity to make amends for the mistakes of this, where we may, by a clearer vision and greater spiritual stgcngth, redeem and purity our life from the errors and failures here?” 7 “And is it so, Marvin 3 Can you with Icahn, quiet reflec- - tion say you have never received something like evidence to of a future happy life? Assurance that if a man die he shall live again.” , ’ “ None. And it is not my indolence surely that has denied to me the precious boon. lbiy own consciousness repels such a. conclusion, for from my early youth, left an orphan, there are none who have been more industrious,either physi- cally or mentally, nor less addicted to indulgence in the social faults and vices of the times. From the sturdy indus- try of, a farmer’s boy to the busy life of a mechanic, that gally-slave of modern days, anon out on the old stirring ocean. And, then, by dint of my own unaided efforts launclicd boldly and busily into mercantile life. Here, yes I must say it, I was successful, rather, for a time only. Rebellion, se- cession, civil war, shrouded the nation in sackcloth, and all seemed engulphed in failure. I failed certainly; business, family -ruined, broken up——scattered. Oh, God ! death is preferable to the contemplation. For years now, Thomas, I have existed, lingered within a living tomb.” , “ I can easily understand, Marvin; may comprehend to a degree the depth of suffering to which a soul so exquisitely sensitive has been go -zdcd and tortured by the uncongenial, unsympathetic conditions cast about you. But how it is that one of your intelligence, moral cultivation, emotional and susceptible nature possesses no salislactory evidence of continued human existence I cannot conceive. And yet your , proverbial deference toward opposing opinions reflects more beautifully the nobility of your nature.” “Soft, Thomas, you will make me vain, and yet persuade me that I deserve the Christian heaven. But, seriously, you I’ know what has been done through me to forward the spirit- ual cause, and thoughl prefer even now not to refer to it, it is only for the purpose of saying, that if the spiritual philos- ophy is what you make and what I have desired tocbelieve, I " why‘ I must think it at least very ungrateful in the band of spirits and a remarkably strange way to reward their patron, by overturninghis aﬁairs, stripping him clear and clean of all i he possessed, and then leaving him in the lurch to die or shift as best he can. May be, however, it is done out of revenge by a league of bad spirits getting control. But are the evil stronger than the good ‘r” . “Our passions are the scources by which we call up spirits of good orévil. Cheer 1.1;), Marvin. ,‘,,Be a hero in the strife.? " ' er. ‘ I ,l/woonnunne omirizrnrs WEEKLY. “ Would you intimate that it is not heroic to die ?.Psha,w! What is there in death to fear 2? , I can fearlessly die even without the least future hope. And this I call /brave,_is it not?” i . _ , “It has been said that suicide. is cowardice. ’Tis coward, ly to ﬂee from the trials, arrows and ﬂings of life rather than to face them.” '- “ And it is no less cowardly to shrink from death. Striven as I have to live a clean, conscientious, upright life, I do not-fear to die, nor yet fear to fall into the hands of the Christian’s God nor any other, and feel equally safe still even if things are not what they seem and life is but an empty dream : L “ ‘ Safe in the hsndszof one all-disposing power, _ In the dying as in the natal hour.’ ” “ But life, Marvin, with all its conﬂicts and ills, appears preferable to the uncertainty of a future yet untried—‘ this something which makes us rather cling to the ills we have, than ﬂy to others we know not of.’ ” ’ ' All owing to the peculiar elemental tendency and charac- ter of the individual organization. There are men who possess greater, a more tenacious, inherent hold on life, re- quiring greater force to fell them. I am not one of those, nor was Iconsulted in the circumstances of my birth.” Time passed on, and Roger Marvin, entering‘ slowly again the busy world, possessed greater strength, doubtless, in the mental composure he now seemed aided to maintain, and more success in the calm, beautiful patience of his chastened spirit. Yes, it was true he had been long drifting on the shoreless sea of bold and liberal thought. Was his troubled, labored life of soul-trying vicissitudes a reﬂex simply of his mental libertfand change ? ’ . ‘ _ Out one day on the bay, a storm coming up suddenly, his boat was overturned, out of sight almost of land. After buf- feting the seething waves in the darkness for many hours he was drifted, in the gray of the dawn, quite exhausted, ashore within distant sight of a little seaside cottage. ‘Thrown by the waves high up on the beach, he lay helpless and weak for an hour or more, while the waters receded and the sun glintcd the wreck-strewn beach with his welcome, warming beams. , In the rosy flush of the youthful mom 9. tall, beautiful ﬁgure, attired in white, threaded her way toward the place where Marvin lay. Pausing at a short distance the astonish- ed maiden gazed in deepest wonder on the death-like form before her, and then, as she took a single step forward, Mar- vin unclosing his eyes met hers ; and as if - magnetized by their piercing gleams, the sudden and pathetic recollection of a former happiness swept his soul with an angelic thrill. With an ecstasy inexpressible he murmured, “ O God, thou hast blessed mc—-I ask for no morc;” and as he again remembered the golden gleaxns of grateful sunshine cast upon him from the jetty eyes of the little one at sea-——she comes again, now grown to beautiful womanhood, to confer a like blessing on him whofhaving rescued, warmed her into lifeiand" joy on the drear, bleak morning he found her so dangerously adrift. ’ REICBNEB. I%r»v "WOMEN HAVE THIS RIGHT TO VOTE. We are very much gratiﬁed to see the rapid acceptance of the fact that women, as well as men, have the right to the ballot. The proposition. that the late amendments secure this end only requires to be considered to be accepted. It is an unavoidable conclusion, and is so being received everywhere. Many who disdained to listen to our argu- ments when first made, andwho laughed us to scorn because we made them, are reconsidering the matter, and are really asking themselves if they were not wrong. No single fact has done so much to invite attention to this position as-the laio decision of Justice Cartter. . His opinion virtually settles this question, though he makes a weak attempt to blunt the force of his own conclusions. ' ‘We are specially pleased to see the Woznavfs Journal fall into line. ‘We have always looked forward to the time when as a unit all who favored woman, suffrage would join in a concentmted demand upon Congress to compel the States in favor of the woman as they did in favor of the negro. But it is idle to saythat the women in the States are differently related to the Constitution from women in the Territories. If," as “Wa1‘rington” says in the extract below made, “the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have given women the right to receive suflrage from the Legislature, they have conferred the right itself, so that it can only be taicen away by further Oortstzlutional action,” which is the position to which we have always held. The opinion of Justice Cartter, that it all persons possess the natural right to vote, it will destroy our civilization, is simply absurd. Such an opinion can only be conscientiously held by a natural-born aristocrat. The whole history of civilization gives the lie to it. It is alibel upon freedom and upon human nature, which no free people will tolerate for a moment. We dismiss the statement with indignation, and so, too, will all honest people who have an idea of free- dom above the brute. . We repeat that we are gratiﬁed, and especially at the fol- lowing extract, which we make from the last number of the VVoman’s Journcol .' i run BALLOT A NATURAL RIGHT. While it is generally admitted that the ballot is a polz'tz'ca,Z ‘right, it is denied by some that is among the inalienable or natural rights of man; We claim that it is both, butshall di- rect our comments. now to the point which is denied. The line of argument for the natural right of the ballot is based on the inalienable rights of man, without regard to condition or sex, as set forth in the “Declaration of Independence” in the following language : A “ We hold these truths to be self-evident 2 that all men are created equal -, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain. inalienable rights; that among these are life, lib- erty and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments areinstituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent 01' the governed." The rights here speciﬁed are not all the inalienable rights with which man is endowed by his ‘Creator. The right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” are only “ among” them, as is here stated; Hehas a right to trial by jury, a right to‘ earn and own property, to participate in in the government, to representation, and to many other things. But it is suﬂicient for our purpose to limit our dis- ’ cussion to the “ inalienable rights” spoken of in our “ Decla- artion.” ._ ~ “ Inalienable” is deﬁned by Webster thus: “ Incapable of being put oﬁ, alienated, or transferred to anotlier." An “ inalienable right,” therefore, is a right which is “ incapable» ’ of being put off or transferred to another.” The inalienable ‘rights to “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness,” inhere in the individual, irrespective of sex. These rights are the natural claims of immortal beings, men and women alike. They cannot be alienated by either man or woman, neither can they be transferred to another. They are not the out- growth of governments, but come from God, and being in- alienable, they exist in the individual, as birthrigbts irre- spcctiveof sex, before the organization of government. If there is no government in existencefcacli individual has the right to protect himself to his utmost ability. If each has an inalienable right to “ life,” each has an inaliena- ble right to defend and protectthat life whenever it is en- dangered. If each has the right to “ liberty,” each has the naturalright to defend and protect that liberty whenever it is threatened. Where there is no eﬁicient government to protect the individual, each person has the right of self- defense. This right to protection and sellldclensc belongs to men and women equally. But for the good order of society, to advance civilization, and for the better protection of all persons in the exercise of their inalienable rights governments are established. Our government was established “ to secure these’ rights,” to use the exact language of the “ Declaration of Indep~.and- ence.” As men and. women were equally endowed with these “inalienable rights” by their Creator, our government was established to “secure” them to the parties to whom they belon ed. It was supposed that ovcrnment could 8 . . . . . 3. . better protect individuals in their God-given rights than could the individuals themselves, therefore government ex- ists. The people composing a. government, instead of using their individual strength in the protection of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” enact laws for the protection I of their rights. Men and women are equally entitled to pro- tection in their God-given and natural right to “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.” I ~ In ordaining government, the people do not surrender their right to protect their life and liberty—that is a divine right, and cannot be alienated ; but only indicate the way in which their natural rights shall be better defended. Instead of depending on physical strength, they decide that the law shall protect them. I The ballot is the symbol of‘ government and of law. It means protection by law. I As the government, through its laws, is to protect all persons, without distinction of sex, in the exercise of their inalienable, or natural r:gl1ts, hence, every individual has the natural right to a voice in the ad- ministration of the government, that they may determine how they shall be protected’ and what ll.WS shall govern them. The ballot, therefore, is 3. natural right, inasmuch as it stands for government and law and protection of the natural rights of all, irrespective of sex. The argument is irresistible, and commands tire/“assent of some of the most eminent writers on political economy. Says John Stuart Mill: All human beings have the same interest in good govern- ment; the welfare of all is aﬁected by it, and they have equal need of a voice in it to secure their share of its beneﬁts. It‘ there is any difference, women require it more than men; since being physically weaker, they are more dependent on law and society for protection. Madison says “ the right of suffrage is certainly one of the fundamental articles of republican government, and ought not to be left to be regulated by the Legislature. A gradual abridgement of this right has been the mode in which aris- tocracies have been built on the ruins of popular i'orms.”-- Elz'ot’s Debates, vol. v., p. 888. James Madison, in an address to the American people, at the close of the war of independence, said ‘: “ Let it ever be remembered that it has been the pride and the boast of America that the rights for which she has"con- tended were the rights of human nature. By the blessing of the Author of these rights, they have prevailed over all op- position, and form the basis of thirteen indepcndent_Slatcs.” ——Jou«mal of Oorntivwnlal 00’7L_(]7‘688, April, 1782, vol. viii., p. 201. According to these statements, the rights for which the American people. contended were the rights of human na- ture, the natural rights of all; the right to representation, tend consequently the right to elect the representative. But there is another line of argument equally conclusive. The third charge in our “ Bill of Rights” brought against th_e'King of Great Britain is this : “He has refused to pass other laws for the accommoda- tion of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish THE RIGHT on nnrnnsnnrmrrou IN THE LEGISLA- TUBE, a RIGHT inestimable to them, and formidable to ty- rants only.” A Representation is here called a “ right inestimable to the people,” which they would not surrender to the king. The people in this country claimed the “ right, of representation in the Legislature.” As they were governed, they claimed a right to a voice in the government, a right to say whatlaws should govern them. They had a ncotmwl right to express assent or to dissent from the laws by which they were to be governed. As all people, without distinction of sex, were to be governed, all had a, natural right to be represented in the Legislature. Women are governed precisely as men are, are counted in representation, are subject to the laws made, pay taxes to support the government as men do, and have the same natural right as men to a voice in the representa- tion. r . In our republican form of government “representation means the ballot. Through that men elect their representa- tives. And Women, like man, can be actually represented only by the exercise of the ballot. Representation means- « K37 as 1 L» W.‘ 7, _m’‘‘,._. I -get their right to vote? amendments will not be needed. ‘Dec. 2; 18/71. woonnutt vii I oltkrtrnis- WEEKLY. A p . _ the protection of the inalir nable rights of the individuahand as the ba_ll<,_>t is the symbol of tllr-.t represeiitation, itstauds fortlie divine, or omtuiml rzgiats which the representative in the Legfisl:-iture is in duty bound to protect. _ l{,ant, the Grei-nian philosopher, says truly that “ a repub- lic is that form of government where every citizen partici- pates, his representative, in the exercise of legislative power. —— i/l_7/zeaton’s H2.9z‘or;1/ of Law of .ZV(l>i5Z'07t8. p. 751. James Oils said, ‘: The Supreme Court cannot take from any man any part of lll/S7 property, without consent m pmson 0:: by 7°5g97*o»ei3oatzo7z. —j he Rights of the Oolomes Assorted and Proiz:e_d, 39. 31. _ This comprehensive and forcible statement of James Otis is e_quu-lly applicable to woman. If the law cannot take fi'oiii_cm_7/ mcm any portion of his property without his Con- cut on. person or by 7"ep7_“o8o2tzf(¢tzon, itcannot justly do so by any woiizcm. And yet-it does precisely this thing by thou- sands Ol womozt. _ Beiijainin Franklin said, “ Every man of the commonalty, except iniaiits, insane persons and criminals, is of common right and by the laws or God, a freeman, en titligd to the free enjoyment of libeity. That liberty or freedom consists in ii./wmg actual s.riare in the appointment of those who frame the laws.”—-,Frmt7cl27n’s V707“/rs, Vol. II, 29 372. By a parity of rcasoiiingwoinen, by common right and by the laws of God, are entitled to the free enjoyment of ' .I_- I _ 1~ , ., _ .. . . ' . libeity. ’liiat iibeity, as Franklin says, consists m itamng cm actuat slzcme in the appointment of those who frame the laws. Vt7oinci::, tliercfoie, have a right to the ballot. Mrs. Vfooclliiill, in her argument delivered in Lincoln Hall, VVashington, February 16, 1871, said : “It is said the amendment does not give any one the right to vote. Sup- pose we admit that for a moment. I think men will desire to disown it. If the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments give none the right to vote, let me ask them where they ob- tain their right to vote ? Do they get it from the Constitu- tion? Nowhere does it say “ the right to vote,” except in this Fifteenth Amendment. Do they vote by right, or is this anothé-r usurpation which they exercise? Where do they I will tell them where they get their right to vote. They inherit it from their God, and every one of the sovereign people in_lierits—it from thesame inﬁnite source, Vtllio knows no such ignoble limitation as that of sex. The riglit to vote is higher than State laws, higher than countries’ constitutions. It can neither be given nor taken by laws or by constitutions. These are but means for its exe ‘else, and when our laws and constitutions shall have been reduced to this staiiclard we shall have a republican form of governnieut, and not till then.” . In the same number of the lV')mcm’3 Journal, H.‘ B. B. says : THE WASHINGTON CONVENTION.——The Woman Suifrage party, like_ an army besirgiug a fortress, should assail the weal.-.er points in the lortiﬁcation. Hitlierto our two points of attack have been the Constitu- tions of State and nation. It has been taken for granted that anieiidments to both are needed in order to establish ‘Woman Stilt":-zige. Such amendments will undoubtedly be needed for the conipleiion of the work, unless the Supreme Court decides that woman is entitled to siifl‘rage as a citizen of the United States—a question already submitted"to the courts for adjiiilicaiion. " ’ ‘ But no sooner has legal investigation been turned to the subject than it becomes apparent tliat there is important work to be done both by Congress and by State Legislatures under the Oonstétiutions as tizey are. The U0i‘istlLuti<)Li provides that “Congress shall have 8 power to make all needful rules and regulations for the Ter- ritories.” Under this provision, Congress enfrancliisecl the negro men of the District without waiting for any constitu- tional aaiiendinent. Th-:'refore Congress has an undoubted constitutional right to enfrzinchise woman in the District of Columbia and iii the Territories. Accordingly, Hon. Henry "Wilson l;-l‘OLlgl1t forward a bill for this piirpose, two years ago, and we hope he will not fail to renew‘ the proposition next winter. The adniirable results of the experiment in iWyon‘iing will be a powerful practical argument in its favor. It is also with the power of Congress to refuse to admit any new S.ate.*, unless its Constitution guarantees impartial suf- 1’ra,;'e without distinction of sex. Now, to confer suffrage upon woman in the District and in the Territories 1‘( quin s only a majoivty of CE quorum of the Senate and House of Repirseiztatives. But to amend the Federal Constitution requires two-thirds of both houses and a Stlbstqlleilt ratiﬁcation by tliree-fourths of the State Legis- latures. Let us undertake the easier work ﬁrst. It is idle to expect to carry a Sixteenth Amendment until Congress is willing to exercise the power it already possesses. There- fore, we hope‘ that the proiiiincnt demand made by the American Sulhage Association at VVashington will be the immediate passzige of a law prohibiting political distinctions on account of sex and COIlfG'i‘.IlIlg'€qLl:.t~lSl1ﬁl‘&lge upon woman in the District of Columbia and in all the Territories of the United States. ’ . * H_ B_ B_ ‘ We reply that nobody but H. B. B. and those for whom he speaks have taken any such thing for granted. Such VV e already have the necessary amendments that have wiped the obstructions to - the right of women to the elective franchise out of existence, , and to-diiy they stand a clead—lctter upon the Statute Books of our States. The people of the whole country have giant- ed women the fullest powers of citizenship, and that, too, by express declaration in the Suprixiiie Law of the land. What business have the States to stand in the way and nullify that 8 power? Will H. B. B. please inform us? People seem to imagine ‘that the days of’State’s rights doctrine have not passed. We know they have. It.is, then, the supremest folly to say that we must do this, or do that, or that, to evade. the direct issue. VVoinen in all the States now have the right to vote; What Constitutional rights have women in the Territories that women in the States have not? It is weakness to ask for less than the Constitution grants, and ‘Congress cannot refuse to enact laws which will protect women in the exercise of their ’ right to the ballot, since they have done the ‘same for ne- It is an insult to American women to say that under s grocs. the same amendment that mcognized both. negroes and women as citizens Congress had the power to protect ne- gjroes-but not-women; and they will not dare to maintain it much longer. The amendment itself confers the power to enforce its provision by appropriate legislation‘. We have asked for appropriate legislation, and we shall demand it. A Declaratory Act is all we need. A Declaratory Act the next Congress can give; and it is their solemn duty to do so, whether on,the eve of a-presidential election or not: This is a matter of right, of justice, before which the hopes and fears of more political aspirations of the party in power must bend. Let the Republican party remember Tammany, and be just, in time. , We appends extracts from Warringtorfs letter in thesame number of the 'Woman’s Journal, which require no com- ment : . ‘ This is all true enough. That is to say-—although by‘ natural law, one sex has an equal rightwith the other to vote, or, to put it in better shape, an equal right to exercise political power in whatever form the weapon or tool of political power comes, yet men, having made all political institutions to suit themselves, have heretofore excluded women from government and the tools and weapons of gov- ernment. So far from denying this, we admit it, and say this is just what» is complained of and must be reinedied. Judge Cartter’s historical st-ateinent is of no more value as an argiiment than was the statement of Judge Chapmaii and his‘ associates in this State, that women never had been justtccs——rna.de as a reason why they never can be l Those who believe that the right to vote is -given by the new amendments say that the “ conventional power” has now been exercised for the beneﬁt of woman. To say that the“ authority of political power” now declares in favor of both sexes, being equally citizens ; and that al- though “the express authority of political power” in the ‘States has heretofore made regulations excluding women, those regulations are now abrogated by the higher authority of the United States‘Constitution. What answer is there to this ? None at least from Judge Cartier. Now, did Judge Cartter ever hear of a Constitution in this country, which in dealing with the riglitof suffrage was in- terpreted to have declared that any class are of “- capacity’ to become voters, but are not voters ? We venture to say, never. The Constitution, State or national, invariably ﬁxes the qualification of voters. It is never a subject of legislation. If to this,they must be rare enough to make it a rule. The governinent could not be carried on unless the quali- ﬁcations of the voter were ﬁxed so that the dominant party could not change them by legislation year by year. The idea is preposterous. If the U. S. Constitution then has gone so far (as the Judge admits) as to make women capable of being ooters, it has made them voters, that is, it has so ﬁxed their status, as citizens and as persons having constitu- tional rights, that no legislative body’ can deprive them of this right. The result of the court’s reasoning would be that Massachusetts could in 1872 give the women the right to vote, and the next year take away the right from them, or from the men, or do any other preposterous and revolution- ary thing, and repeat the process in the form of some new absuidity in 1874, and again in 1875. . No such thing. If the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have given women the right to receive the sul'i'ra.ge flﬂlll the Legislature, they have conferred the right itself, so that; it can only be taken away by further constitutional action. 1 ' vAA TAXATION A TYRANNY. SYNOPSIS OF A PAPER LATELY READ BEFORE THE NEW’ YORK LIBERAL CLUB BY WILLIAM B. SCOTT. A tax is a sum of money taken without the owner’s con- sent, and by armed force if need be, to support the govern- ment. The possession of the power thus to take property is a lruit-ful source of evil, and is the root of a very large share of social troubles. ‘ Suppose that A wishes a basket of champagne. He earns $12, with which to pay for it, and through ordinary busi- ness agencies he can r«. mit his-money and receive his basket of champagne. But at our wharvcs the basket is seized by an oflicial who refuses——backe.-i, if need be, by the army and navy—to let A bring his property into his own country till he has paid $6 for that privilege. A must hence earn $6 more and hand it to the official before he can get an ordi r on the custom house for his beverage. If he adds the duty to the price and sells the champagne to a neighbor, the buyer must pay for it out of the results of his toil or the toll of others. This principle ‘holds in large and small transactions. In this city real estate istaxed about $20,000,000 yearly. The capitalist pays the tax, but he always reimburses him- self by including in it the expenses of business, so that it comes out of the production inthe end. if taxes tend to diminish capital, capital will depart to more favorable places. If they go beyond incomes and trench on real es- tate, improvements will cease. lt is through taxation that» laborers are robbed to enrich a few speculators; and nothing short of the abolition of the power of government to collect money without consent of the owner (that is, by force) will destroy oﬂicial patronage or corruption, or stop this robbery of the workman. Nor is taxation needful. What people desire they will individually and freely combine to get; and as long as peo- ple desire government they will pay what they think is needful. When government; uses this power to eﬁect social results, it costs more to reach them, and they are reached in a hurtful‘ mode and order. -When this government was organized it refused to subsidize a church party. Well would it have been if it had also refused to subsidize a po- litical or a ﬁnancial party. Let us hope it will yet do so. A party in power requires subsidies from foes as well as friends. No true‘ title to property can be gained except by producing, or by exchanging product for product, service for service, by consent of both parties. ' will increase tenfold, and we shall be ten times as able to create a navy in. case of need. , i We want freedom to do what we will, if we do not tres- pass on the same freedom of others; but even for this pur- pose legislation is useless, and all that is needed for social happiness is to observe freedom as a rule of life. “ All women, let them be ever so homely, are pleased to hear themselves celebrated for beauty.” there are any exceptions, When_a1l forms of taxation are removed, our commerce ., run cotrino mat. _ [From the Irish Republic.] Hiirral hurral for thecoining fray, let your banners be unfurled I world, Let the fearless North send her legions forth to the roll of thovoiceful K drum; _ l , And the West ring out her thunder shout, ’till the parricides grow’ dumb. ' Acrossthe land God’s glowing hand doth wave us to freedom on; Let nationsgsink in our shoreless souls and races blend in one ; Let us chant this song as we march along and God smiles over all, “ If Freedom lives, all lands shall live ; if she fall, all lands. Will fall.” ” The might of the Lord upheld the sword that smote them hip and thigh ; , _ i Our cause was ﬂanked by deatliless Trﬁtli, theirs by a crimson lie. In vain they met the ﬁerce onset, all banked by the devil’s shields- The great red roaring sea of war swept over their riiinerl ﬁelds, And cleansed their plains from the gory stains that cried ’till the out» raged land , , Rebuked the worshipers of crime with a devastating hand. ‘Twas they ﬁlled up the burning cup from the elaver’s poisoned bowl, That brought hot horror to the breast, damnation to the soul. ‘ The storm is past, and the waves at last sink into quiet sleep, _ And the cloudless stars, in their olden light, ﬂash out across the deep: Love lays his hand. on the throbbing land and bids herpassions cease, And the winds that fan her fevered brow seem whispering words of peace; The nation sings, as she proudly ﬂings back grief from her vocal throat, ’ A victor song that thrills along to the nations most remote ; ‘ feet, ‘ ' . But Freedom‘s fruit springs from their blood for the suffering world to eat. V ‘ When the cannon’s breath belched ﬁery death, and the hordes of trea- son came, . Like the red waves of the desert whipped on by tongues of ﬂame, In the horrid front of /the battle’s brunt, with shouts that rent the skies, The Spirit of Hell rode jubilant, ﬂanked by a thousand lies; For the olden fight of Wrong and Right seemed sloping to defeat, And the conquered world, a captive bound, seemed rolling to his feet. - , But Freedoms host, like the rock-ribbed coast that fronts the angry Waves, , — Oh, ye who led the mighty dead—in their graves of victory- Who gave the current of their lives to nurture Liberty, __ From whose hot graves Secessi_on‘s waves were back into darkness hurled, " V S ' That, unsubrlued, in their onward ﬂow would have swept the wakening world ; » ' Now Labor calls from her outraged halls, and her voice rings through, the land Like the trumpet-call of the nienaced days. Obey her high command ; Fall into line with nine times nine and banners to the wind. , That was the tug of bone and thew, but this is the ﬁght of mind. , Come hand in hand, from Fat‘nerland——ﬂing, out your ﬂag as of old, And by its side shall ﬂoat in pride old Erin’s Green and Gold ; And France shall soar her Tricolor in Freedom’s cause once more; Like lovers ’round the Starry Flag, come, rally as of yore. The weary lands, hands clasped in hands, like "stars about-the sun, v Swing ‘round this land. Oh! let us keep her burning brightlyon; For if her ﬁres are Freedoms pires, the lesser lands must die, And darkness lold the suffering earth beneath a sunless sky. , Now, mighty hearts, act well your parts in this dread hour and rise Above your little spots of earth, your ﬂags and heraldries. There is no place for creed or race .wit.hin our giant souls. Where the great sea, Humanity, in boundless beauty rolls, Cold Prejudice—a sea of ice—melt.s in the genial sun 01" Freeclom, and our wakening souls into each other run ;' We soar above all rzicial love——our creed is Libertye Our nation is the boundless earth—our race humanity. Hurra l hurra l for the coming fray, let your banners be unfurled’; world. drum; And the West send out her thunder shout, ‘till the parricides grow ' dumb. ' V ' ' Across the land God's shining hand doth wave us to Freedom on ; The hordes of crime must be rebuked, the world’s salvation won. Let us chant this song as we march along, hand clasped in brothefa hand, A ‘ “Our race is all l'1um9.l’1it3-' ; the earth our native land.” 1 M. S. ..._._......_...9.-.-—-———-——-—- T0 THEODORE TILTON. ', BY MISS NJS. EMERSON. In the name ‘of all womanhood brave and true, pr mothers and sisters and daughters, too, Intlie name of all names that are dear to you—- All names that to us are dear-~ - We thank you, friend, for each earliest thought Your pen has written, your brain has wrought ; For the logical truths your words have taught, A " That he that hath ears may hear. For now is the hour of our danger and doubt, The battle is opened with ruin and rout; , Our protest is given, our banner ﬂung out, Old theories are dying or dead. Our women are few who have courage and power, And many who shrink from the struggle and cower To the men who are strangling themselves every hour By-eating the words they have said. D But we know there is work in abundance to do, And we need all the hearts that are loyal ‘and true, '1‘herefore, oh friend, we have need of you ; And we thank you again and again, In the name of all womanhood, far or near, Who rise in triumph or shrink in fear, In the name of all names to true manhood dear, For your brain and your heart and your pen. In the truth and strength of our loyal souls lie the hopes of the darkened ,_ Our children’s graves,’ like a sea of waves, stretch red at our bleeding . Met the roaring force and ﬂung them back to their 1 unrepentant graves. In the truth and strength of our loyal souls lie the hopes of the darkened- et the fearless North send her legions forth to the roll of the voiceful . 3 I .. g i,WOOD«HUL.‘—L la otarninfs WEEKLY. ._ /, 9 J Dec. 2, 1871. TERMS o risuBsc:~=.sPrma. , Cr.-ivnnnn IN an}TAncr'. ‘ _ One copy for one year - - $9 93 One copy, for six months ' - ~ - 1 59 Single copies - - - - - ' - T5 . 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We know that we cannot know Crod.“ We know that his existence is utterly beyond us, yet we have a consciousness that tells us that He exists ; arid we know it in the same way that we know that we exist ;’but we can prove neither absolutely. We cannot even prove that we know. anything, since no man has been able to show how the simplest fact rises into his consciousness. Yet we rest content upon the undeﬁned presence within us’ of the consciousness that our faith is not in vain; and this is the result of the presence‘ of the religious elements. There are a class of philosophers——professed scientists—-who appear to desire to prove that the intellect is the greater when com- pared with the religious nature; but they forget that intel- lect divorced from this nature is a form without a soul. They are both equally important parts of humanity. The existence of either, with the other absent, gives a poor sam- ple of God’s handiwork. It is when there is a perfect unity and balance between them that wisdom is developed. iWis- dom is the result of a marriage between the affectionate and the intellectual, and is the ultimate condition in which man shall develop. , Therefore the purely intellectual man, though he be a God among men, is not the ideal man. We must unite his wisdom to the great sympathetic inspirational soul to ever render his intellect available to humanity. Separate it from that, and his life will be vain. It is the living of but one half the real man. It is the male element of humanity separate and acting apart from the female. It can never conceive and bear fruit meet for human needs. Every human soul must be met and counterparted by its , U opposite in sex, before the highest mission of either can be --VICTORIA c. WOODHULL and TENNIE 0; cnarnm, EDITORS AND PROPRDETORS. rannn or conrnurs. . Page. Page. International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 3 Demosthenes Once More . . . . . .. 9' Correspondence: Women Have the Right to Vote 6 Senator Carpentcr’s Argument. 4 Savings Banks ................ . .12 ‘ Scripturalisms——“Found;Adrift" 5 Letters from Victoria 0. Wood- ‘ SIC Itur ad Astra.” . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 hull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9. 10 Taxation a Tyranny . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 The Coming Fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. '7 Sparks from a F(ire) brand . . . . . ..11 To Theodore Tilton . . . . . . . . . . . . .. '2 Social Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..l2 Editorials: Theory of Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..13 The Religious Element in Hu- Just as It Happened . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 manity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8 Art and Drama, Woman Items., .. 4 ,_ Balaam or Balaam’s, Which?. . . 8 Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1, 2, 15 THE RELIGIOUS ELEMENT IN HUMAN ITY. There is scarcely a soul so constituted as not to have in- voluntary longing for something above itself, some inherent and unaccountable outreaching for the better, the beyond. Every heart feels it has unseen connections, and frequently lives in and obtains comfort from them. There is an invol- untary reverence for the majesty and power exhibited in some of the more startling manifestations of nature. The roaring tempest, mingled with the muttering thunder; the terriﬁc outporing of the pent-up furies of the earth through some volcanic escape; the. rendings of the earth’s crust by the movements of the powers it conﬁnes——-all speak to the soul in unmistakable terms, and it bows before them and worships. And there lives not the man or woman so self- isuﬁcient in his or her denial of a supreme power, but will stand awed before these mighty exhibitions which no ma- terialistic theory has yet satisﬁed the consciousness about. It is this sentiment universally existent within mankind , that we call the Religious Element. It is necessarily a com- R ponent part of their being. A personality with this senti- ment utterly divorced, would be merely an intellectual ma- ’ chine, without soul, without any of the higher attributes of our natures. It is equally true, however, that if this senti- ment is not united and modiﬁcd by the intellect, the posses- sor becomes an idolater. - The religious sentiment is inherent in man. It does not require to be planted, nurtured and fostered to have an ex- istence, though its highest action is only possible when the intellect shall guide it to rational ends. The world believes that Tom Paine was an inﬁdel ; that is, that he did not be- lieve in the Supreme..Power. But it seems to us that he had is deeply religious notion. He had a consciousness of a power -that manifested itself through nature by ﬁxed laws, though he did not accept the Christian’s God of his day, seated ona great white throne, nobody could tell where. He regarded people who without reason worshiped a god -of their own make, as idolaters, as Christians regarded those —who made unto themselves gods of wood and stone; and we say he was right. a / The true and healthy religious element of man does not I require that he shall worship the God of orthodoxy; But it compels the adoration of that God, omnipotent and omni- present, who is seen everywhc-re——in the sunshine as well as in the tornado; in the lovely violet as well as in the haughty red-rose ; in the sleeping child as well as in the raging mad- man ; in the refreshing shower as well as in the elements that sweep a city out of existence. When the human mind attempts to reduce God to a form, or to limit Himto comprehension, that moment the true idea. of God is destroyed; since the ﬁnite can neither grasp nor fulﬁlled. Nor do we mean this as related merely to present opposites sexually. The counterpart may be, as it often is, in spirit life; and yet it breathes into its other self all the modifying power and inﬂuences it demands. Undoubtedly, how ever, the greatest and best results must ﬂow from coun- terparted existence in the same sphere. And this condition is"what the world is unconsciously striving for to-day. From all quarters the wail comes up out of the heart of humanity for something, they cannot tell what, Freedom has germinated within its Womb, and the premonitory labor pains are even nowbeginning. But those subject do not yet know what is to be born unto them. They know they are pregnant of some great idea, but with this the knowledge of most ceases. Yet they endure with a ﬁrm faith that they shall see the travail of their souls and be satisﬁed. ‘ This faith is born of the Religious Element and succors the human spirit when all things else fail. Behind everything we are, and everything we do, then, stands this part of us. Though neglected and overgrown with weed—with briers and thorns—it nevertheless cannot be quenched out. When all things else come short, to this inﬁnite source we ﬂy and rest our wearied, careworn souls. Shall 'we, then, trample hpon Religion ? Never! Let us the rather cherish it as that which is nearer and dearer to us than all else we possess. “ But desire wisdom. Get understanding.” These built upon faith will make you per- fect, even as the angels in heaven are perfect. But let no effort be spared to dethrone Man-made Gods. ;.._.____.._._ BALAAM OR BALAAMS; VVHICH ? Whenever persons in responsible positions are called upon to decide questions that deeply and gravely affect the human family, for weal or woe, they either rise into greatnessvand to grand humanitarian heights, or sink to the level of and into the mud, and they either develop the proportions of a man or descend to that of the animal. Justice Cartter, of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Columbia, was called upon to perform a duty, which gave him his opportunity. But he failed to comprehend it ; or he prostituted his po- sition to unworthy uses. No one can have observed the late movements of the Republican Party and be unconscious that they are preparing to play a deep and bold game, which to one who loves liberty must be prophetic of national woe. What have the Republican Party done" ? They opened wide the gate of frecdom——indeed so wide that those whom they had not considered were likely to get within the fold. Find- ing out too late that they had overreached themselves, they seized upon the only pretext possible to remedy the error; and that pretext was the stultiﬁcation of every act they have ever performed. But it was necessary that something should be done. Not to act was, as they thought they foresaw, destruction. It became necessary that the legitimate fruit of their self-proclaimed theories should be averted. First they thrust Senator Carpenter into the gap to announce a new departure, and then Justice Cartter followed up the van- tage by a decision which attempts to completely overthrow the doctrine of individual or popular sovereignty. These eﬁort.s, considered with the bid for the support of the “ Church” by the Utah movement, plainly indicate a ma- tured plan to ultimate in still greater trespasses upon the rights of the people. But we prgpose to discuss this at another time and give attention to Justice Cartter. In giving the decision adverse to the‘ plaintiffs, Sara Spencer and Sarah E. VVebster, he quotes from the Organic Act, to show that it only permits males to votes. ‘But he forgets that there is a higher au- thority than that act, even if Congress did establish it ; and which he is oath-bound to support, as against every other. If this act was found to be antagonistic to the Constitution, it was his duty to have decided it unconstitutional. No one can know better than Justice Cartter should know that what the people of the United States have ordained in their Con- stitution cannot be nulliﬁed by any lesser authority. If the people have declared that women are citizens, as they have, and as Justice Cartter himself admits they have, and a higher judicial authority than he has held that one of the citizen’s rights is to exercise the elective franchise, how can Congress step in to nullify it : and how dare Justice Cartter to uphold them in such transcending of authority ? Justice Cartter must know, or ought to know, that the doctrine he attempts to overthrow is that upon which our gov- ernment was built—the sovereignty of the people, not of a. portion of the people. The right to vote does not “ rest upon the authority of political power.” Instead, it created all the political power there is, and it rests upon this right.‘ This right may be regulated and qualiﬁed, but not out of ex- istence or into dormancy. ' The idea that a part of “ We the people” have granted to another part rights for which there never was any authority for discrimination and, then, that those rights must remain dormant until the same part of “ We the people” shall see ﬁt to call them from their involuntary resting, is an ad- mission of ignorance and stupidity that, to us, seems im- possible for any sane professor of democracy to entertain. It is at once assuming to be republican and advocating its op- posite. Do away with the principle of s_elf-government, and what have we left of our theory? Do away with the proposi- tion that a just government should exist by the consent of the governed, and whathave we left to which to cling? If we, at this age of representative government, admit the idea of exclusiveness into our practice, the next age may extend it until there will be no government -by the people and for the people. In short, Justice Cartter has made a departure en- dangering the safety of our institutions. But if his exposi- tion of the law relating to the subject is dangerous to our institutions, the proposition upon which he decides as to the _ existence ot the right to vote is simply ridiculous. It has been left to.Justice Cartter to discover that “ the legal vindi- cation of the natural right of citizens to vote would, at this stage of popular intelligence, involve the de- struction of ‘civil government” as well as that “the result in our large cities is political proﬁigacy and violence verging on anarchy. The inﬂuences work- ing out this result are apparent in the utter neglect of all agencies to conserve the virtue, integrity and wisdom of government and the appropriation of all agencies calculated to demoralize and debase the integrity of the elector. Insti- tutions of learning, calculated to bring men up to their high state of political citizenship, and indispensable to the quali- ﬁcations of the minds and morals of the responsible voter, are postponed to the agency of the dram-shop and gam- bling-hell; and men of conscience and capacity are dis- carded, to the promotion of vagabonds to power. This condition demonstrates that the right to vote ought not to be, and is not, an absolute right. The fact that the practical working of the assumed right would be destructive of civil- ization is decisive that the right does not exist.” That specimen of reasoning should be preserved" in some art museum as about the most curious thing that ever had existence. From the ﬁrst sentence to the last word it is one tissue of misrepresentation and illogical statement. In the ﬁrst place, there has never been an opportunity for a vindi- cation of the natural right to vote. The very fact that ex- clusiveness has been practiced, when impartiality should have ruled, has contributed largely, if not wholly, to the conditions cited in proof of his statements. There is not a sensible child of twelve years of age in the city of New York_ but knows that the demoralization of Tammany is the result of the exercise of the greatest talent and learning, which framed laws under which a few men could rob the people and almost certainly escape detection. But the his- tory of the downfall of that monster seems to have dazed Justice Cartter, since he forgets" that when the people took this matter in hand it was remedied just as“soon as they could exercise this right, which he says does not exist, be cause there were previous frauds and abuses. - The fact is, and unless Justice Cartter is insane he knows it to be so, that the people have had too great conﬁdence in those who, while it was supposed they were serving them, were ruling instead. Instead of being servants, they sought tojbe and came near being masters. And just this is” what the Republican Party are endeavoring to accomplish to-day. - They are determined to divert the will of the people to their own ends, aims and to the maintenance of themselves in power. But let them beware lest, like Tammany, the peo- ple learn their intention, and, asthey did with that gang of thieves, thrust them out of power and compel them to re- treat to their -holes. It is not true that men of conscience and capacity are discarded for vagabonds. If such cases do exist, they are the exceptions. It may be one of these in the case of Justice Cartter. If he urge that it is, we shall not attempt to deny it. But we do most emphatically and ‘unequivocally deny, and we hurl it back at the Judge in his seat, that the abuses in political circles are the result of the l extended exercise of the suffrage. Justice Cartter knows better, and this lie with which he insults the millions of hon- est votcrs will some day strike him a blow that will kill him judicially. But the true and full character of this indignity with . which Justice Cartter has insulted American male citizens, becomes doubly base when we remember that he makes use of it to prove that women ought not to have the right to fr / Dec. 2, l871. ./ ~- D wooDHULL la-. cLAEL1N’s ‘WEEKLY. , T , I“ i ‘ 7 9, vote. That is to say, Justice Cartter says, that already poli- tics are debauched enough by men, but if women were to be added our civilization would be utterly destroyed. Look at this, would-be-free women and American citizens; take it up ' carefully and analyze it closely, and then see in what company you are placed by this latter-day Daniel. It is the most atrocious libel that could have been invented. Men are bad. enough, says this personiﬁcation of wisdom, but women, oh, no! that never will do; they will ruin us. Since some people abuse their stomachs ‘through their appetites, therefore the right to eat and drink ought not to, and does not, exist, argues this learned Judge. Since some people commit suicide, therefore the right to life ought not to, and does not, exist. Since some people steal, therefore the right to own anything ought not to, and does not, exist. This method of arriving at conclusions has at least the advantage of originality, since it was left for Justice Cartter to invent. Let him now. hasten to put all jurisprudence upon the basis of this new method, and we shall hastily arrive at the ulti- mate of justice and equity. But this expounder of constitutional law has discovered that the three amendments about which there has been so much said—that they had no application to women—have affected them. It has done so much, as to distinguish them from aliens 2 that is to say, Women were not distinguishable from aliens until the amendment was added to the constitu- tion. “ To be an alien,” Webster says, “is not to belong to the same country or government,” “belonging to one who is not a citizen,” “estranged,” “foreign,” “not allied,” “ adverse to,” “ one not entitled to the privileges of a citi- zen.” N ow Justice Cartter says, by this amendment women are distinguished from aliens. But We submit that his state- ment makes them aliens, since he says women are not enti- tled to the privileges of citizens, which describes an alien. Instead, then, of being distinguished from aliens, women are nothing but aliens. So ‘it appears that an analysis of each of his propositions, taking them up one by one, eluci- dates the fact that the reasoning powers of this jurist are inverted. We desire to call Justice Bradley’s query to the attention of Justice Cartter. He very impertinently asks, Are these privileges merely capacities ?\ Are they not also rights ? To clinch the argument, which he seems to have - thought conclusive, Justice Cartier reminds us that the ﬁrst section of the Fourteenth Amendment ends with the dec- laration of their citizenship, which declaration, he assumes, has “ advanced them to full citizenship and given them the capacity to become voters.” Women previously, then, did not have even the capacity to become voters. Remember that, women of the United States, and what you owe to that amendment ! And he goes on to add : “It is a consti- tutional provision which does not execute itself. It is the creation of a constitutional condition that requires the su- pervention of legislative power to give it effect.” Against. all this verbiage we have only to oppose all the theories and decisions of courts in which the rights of citi- zens were involved; and ﬁrst, last and always these have been that to be a citizen is to be a voter, unless forfeited by the action of the individual himself. But this decision of Justice Cartter, ignoring all precedent, has evidently been made in the interests of those who desire that women shall be prevented from voting at the next presidential election. % DEMOSTHENES ONCE MORE. To the Ech'zfo7' of the Brooklyn Eagle .° I thank you for having published my reply, but ask a little space for a rejoinder to your “Demosthenes at Bay.” You say : “ We propose to refute Mrs. Woodhull out of her own mouth. She says: ‘There must be laws to regulate the exercise of the right of citizenship.’ Granting this, she bur- lesques her claim to vote in this State whose Constitution in article 2d, section 1st, says : Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one, &c., &c. This is the law which regulates and establishes the elective franchise in the State where Mrs. ' Woodhull claims to exercise it. Her own premises and her pet decision, whose language she quotes, fall together.” Has any law been passed excluding me from the same rights secured to yourself ? There is nothing so" graceful as when in argument 9. person i is fairly hedged, as for that person to squarely admit it, instead of ignoring the very points which decide the ques- tions involved; which I think I can, when you have done your siege upon my declaration that suffrage must be regu- lated, and claim that it is regulated by the clause“male citizens ; ” but you neglected to quote me, giving the deﬁni- _ tions of these words—regulate and establish. The suffrage in the case of women is regulated out of existence, and established by being nulliﬁed and denied. If that is really regulatingand establishing suffrage, I say let it be applied to , men as well as to women, so that we may have equality some- where and some way. But _how is it that the same law makes one class of citizens voters,while it disfranchises another equally worthy class? You also ignore the logic of exclusion." I say when I am excluded from the suffrage, that it is not by a regulation. You say that I am excluded from suffrage by a regulation. Either you or I am wrong. Now there is nothingbetter established in law than that a thing given in positive terms cannot be taken away by implication. According to your argument, the rights granted to all members of the State by article 1, section 1, of the Constitution of the State, in positive terms, can be taken away by article 2, section 1, by implication. The ﬁrst says all persons, women as wellas men, shallhave equal rights. The second says males may exercise these rights. It by no means follows that women shall not also exercise the same rights, because in the last instance it is not said that they may. Try the same question in some other matter, and its ridiculousness will become transparent. Suppose an incorporative company is organ-, ized, having men and women stockholders, whose constitu- tion. should provide that each stockholder shall be entitled to vote the number of shares respectively held I; but that in a succeeding section the men should club-together and intro- duce the regulation that all male stockholders shall be en- titled to vote "at elections. Do you think that would be a constitutional right sufficient to deprive the women stock- holders of their votes ? And now be candid, Mr. Editor, for once in this business, and tell ‘me what you would say of such an operation ? Our government is a stock company in which every citi- zen has an equal interest; and our State Constitution pro- vidcs not only that all members of it shall have equal rights, but that they shall not be deprived of any common right or privilege secured to any citizen unless by law or a judgment. Nevertheless men have banded together, and, without con- sulting women, have enacted that males shall be entitled to "vote under certain conditions, but neglecting to say even so much as that women shall not vote, completely ignoring their existence, but on election day preventing them from the exercise of rights secured to them, and in no wise im- paired by any laws, as I shall hereafter show. I do not know what you may call such an operation, but I call it an unwarrantable usurpation of power even more intolerant than that against which our fathers rebelled, and against which I do rebel, and will incite rebellion until men are com- pelled to admit that women have some rights which men are bound to respect. But admitting that women may be ex- cluded from suffrage, it must be done by positive law, and not by inference. And here we also have numerous de- cisions of the courts. I will quote but one, and leave the subject to “the jury.” In an opinion rendered by Justice McKay, he laid down the following law 2 I “ Second—The rights of the people of this State are not granted them by the Constitution thereof; the. object and effect of that instrument is not to give, but to restrain, deny, regulate and guarantee rights, and all persons recognizedgas citizens of the State have equal legal and political rights ex- cept as otherwise expressly declared. “ Third——It is the settled and uniform sense of the word ‘citizen,’ when used in reference to citizens of the several States and their rights as such, that it describes all persons entitled to every right, legal and political, enjoyed by any person in that State unless there be some express exceptions made by positive law, averring‘ tire‘ particular persons whose. rights are in question.” Now I submit that suffrage is one of those rights; that there is no law, National or State, that excludes me from it according to that rule. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL. 44 Broad street, N. Y., November 15, 1871. .._.___.._..__¢.___.._._.._.. [From the Hartford Times.) LETTER FROM VICTORIA C. WOODHULL. HER STATEMENT on DocTnrnEs—“ FREE LovE ” AND THE FREE LOVERS—-—THE “ PROGRESS on THE AGE.” 44 BROAD STREET, N. Y., Saturday, ' Nov. 4,1871. To the E’d2'to7*s of the Ha/rzford Times : GENTLEMEN——Trusting to your liberality and respect for fair play,‘ I transmit to you, with this, a letter in reply to the late attack of the Hartford Omlmant upon me——respectfully asking for it a place in your columns, for the following rea- sons: My reply was forwarded to the Ooummt oﬁice, and after two or three days’ delay, is returned to me accom- panied bya note from the Editor, in which the offer is made to “ extract fairly such parts ” of‘ my letter as give my views on‘ the suffrage question, the marriage question, and any editorial responsibility ; and, publish such “extracts ”——or to give me space for a reply one-half as long as that which"‘I have thought best to make. This is all perhaps which the Ooumnt can aﬁ’o7=d to do. (I do not know its circumstances.) At any rate I do confess that is a quite fair offer to proceed from a source which does not hesitate to vilify and traduce others from differences of opinion with it. C I would not charge that the Uou/rcmt’s “ fair offer” is-only a piece of “ gallant diplomacy ” to practically forbid me the hearing which is my right under its attack~—but as I have expressed myself in my reply as I desire to be understood, in as short a manner as possible, to cover the whole ground, and preferring my own manner to any condensations of my . reply by the 0om’cmz>—I am obliged to decline its “ fair ot- fer;” and I write to ask of you the courtesy of publishing in an mt-garbled form my reply to that paper, in order that it may be read by the iniinediate community into whose midst the Coumht launched its late bitter and unwarranted attack upon me. Very respectfully yours, VICTORIA C. WooDHULL. To the Edilor of the Hm/‘y“o7‘d C’ouromt .' I seldom depart from the even tenor of my way to notice, or to attempt to answer or refute the abuse with which so many newspaper columns have been loaded since my advent as an exponent of the principles of Social Freedom. To abuse, 1 am indifferent. For all honest. criticism, I am thankful. For all ignorant misstatement, I hope to be char- itable. For wilful misrepresentation alone, do I care to render justice. A person who, out of pure malice or to in- jure a cause with which he does not agree, willfully, delib- erately and intentionally lies, deserves the worst of all fates. Such a crime as that is as much worse than physical murder as the loss of that which is murdered by it, is more than the loss of life itself. A person who will publish tothe world- that a brother or sister is morally an abandoned person, when he can by no possibility know but celibacy itself is lived instead, is, to my mind, as much below the murderer in the scale of being as he is below an angel. The Hartford - Oouramt regularly receives the paper which I edit, and you have no possible excuse for ignorance of what has appeared in its columns. If you are really ignorant of what has been said, time and again, you are still more culpable for your late attack ‘upon me. But having stated my opinion of the various phases of tirade which it has pleased my most hon- . L‘ orable brothers of the press to level at me, I do not propose to repay the Oourzmt in its own coin, nor by any mere pas- sage of words.‘ But‘ I do propose to place recorded facts side by side with your assertions, and then let the public decide which is the more “ disreputable ” journal——thc WEEKLY or the Ooumnt. L - We challenge you to produce 'a single editorial article from the columns of the WEEKLY that is immoral in its teaching”; that is false and wicked in its social theories’; that is “ blas- phemy of religion and the exaltation of impiety;” or one to show that our .“ columns are open to anything, without re- gard to decency;” and I deny that the “editor practically or theoretically repudiates marriage.” These are the points of your impeachment, and upon their maintenance you must stand and prove’ us guilty, or fall and be condemned as set forth above. . . , To support your allegations you make a quotation from a correspondent, and hold me responsible for her statements. How disingenuous. this is becomes palpable when I call to your mind that I have again and again stated editorially that I am only responsible for the sentiments and principles of articles appearing as editorial or witliotft signature. I have often invited the most adverse opinions that I might the more pointedly compare the higher with the lower truth. And I now say, to make my, position impossible of misconception, that the columns of the WEEKLY are open to the communi- cations of even a Madam Restell to advocate the beneﬁcence of her institution, of which so many of my self-constituted ” judges have occasion to make use, and of which, if they were to tell the truth, as they feel it, they would be obliged to say it has been a blessing to them. I should not, however, feel called upon to follow such communication with a lengthy editorial, lest I might be held as advocating the practice of abortion; since whoever has read the WEEKLY knows I hold abortion (except to save the lite of the mother) to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder. This was made the sub- ject of aspecial editorial in the number of date August 8, 1870, entitled, “ When is it Not Murder to Take Life ?” Neither should I feel especially called upon to give edi- torial dissent should a mistress of one of the fashionable houses of prostitution frequented by Doctors of Divinity, Medicine and Law, present the beauties of a life of prostitu- tion in its columns, since I have too frequently endeavored to show that “ prostitution is anarchy” to leave any doubt as to my position upon that question. ‘ Therefore, when the Ooumm‘ makes this single quotation, ’ and bases its sweeping denunciations upon it, Iam,com- pelled to think it dishonest and desirous of unjustly preju- dicing its readers against me. And with the more apparent candor and fairness the attempt is made, the more dishonest do I hold the intent; since you know you must make use of them the more completely to mislead your readers. ’ Lest it should be said that I shrink from the point you at- tempt to make against me by this quotation, I reproduce it, entire : “ As far as any accusations of rebellion against the ordi- nances of society can be brought against me, I will wrench from my accusers their own weapons by acknowledging them all. If my ideas are to—day abominated and execrated,I, _ must, as did my patron saint, Madame Roland, unflinchingly work on and appeal to posterity. “ How grandly you are laboring in the cause ! Angels are directing your every step. Have courage, sister I The true women who are to come in the true age will call you blessed. What we have to suffer to-day is the natural lot of those who are before their age. . “ From one imputation I desire to defend myself. I am aware that a certain lady said of me to you-‘that I was a sen- sualist—attaching the low meaning to the word which is common to ordinary minds who see not the deeper and more spiritual signiﬁcance of words. I am a sensualist in no other sense than that I worship the senses, as the only out- ward means by which the soul reaches perception ; but I am more sensuous than sensual. I love, like every poetic spirit, whatever is grateful to the senses and exquisite to the taste, the aromatous and luxurious, deliciousness which na- ture oﬁers to every appreciative consciousness. “Ul‘he gentleman to whom ~l\/Iiss McDowell refers in one of her notices of me I have known for some time. I love and esteem him. He is one of the noblest and most culti- vated persons it has been my good fortune to meet. If all men were as good as he, this world would be peopled by gods. The statement in regard to him is, to my knowledge, a tissue of libelous falsehoods, as the lady may learn by ask- ing any one who knows the truth .of the story. He never deserted his wife. She refused positively to live with him on account of his belief in Spiritualism and his friendship for a lady, which never exceeded the limits of the purest Platonism. So much did he, from a pure sense of honor, obey the conventionalism of continence, that he was true to it up to the age of thirty-seven, when his guardian spirit taught him its absurdity. In parting from his wife, he gave her every cent of money he possessed in the world, about two thousand dollars, and the income she now has was a de- liberate gift from him, and not a legacy from his mother. “For my part, I would rather be a true-hearted Magdalen of the most despised type, than a woman chaste as ice, but with so little charity, the only real virtue, as to defame by false statements in a public print. This chastity which Miss ‘ McDowell considers “the best gift of God’s Providence,” I consider the greatest curse of the Devil, Ignorance. Chastity is not a virtue. It is rather a crime against nature- —-feeding life’s ﬂame with self-consuming fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies. , It is peevish, proud and made of self-love, the most inhib- ited sin in the canon. ’- It is either want of capacity or op- portunity, want of a heart or a bigoted prejudice, or else a mere sham and pretence, a cover for the grossest crimes against the body.” The ﬁrst paragraph is an exact statement of my ownfeel-' ing. I do rebel against all the social ordinances by which society seeks a seeming it has not, and which would compel me to conform to ceremonies which I deprecate. But the desire. evinced by the writer in the third paragraph to de- fend herself against the charge of being a sensualist, is evi- dence complete that the rebellion against ordinances does . _,»-*“':\‘: l T,-isfr. I g -iiiiiiwioionnlnrr s oLA;sLriN*s ivnfnknv. .4 Dec. 2, 18531. a "not in mind, anymore than it does in mine, cover jus- ’ tiﬁcation for sensuality, oran acknowledgment of any charge of that charactt-r. And I join with herin her worship of the sense. s. They ‘are our God-given means of happiness ; and. he or she who cannot or will not. discriminate between a high and low development of them is not ﬁtted to sit in public judgment-over those who have risen into their spirittzal ap- preciation, in contmdistinctioii to the merelyammal. And this interpretation is still further maintained by the .3.cce_s6~.ing paragraph, in which she extols the virtue of him » ,_ “ whose iriendship - never exceeded the limits of the purest Platonism.” So far, then, I conceive there is nothing but the most poetic expression of purity and lioliness; and the highest devotion to truth, honor and principle, which, stand- ing alone with no. deprecatory or insinuating remarks ap- pen.ded,_w_ould be considered in this light. But you know how to act upon the minds of those to whom you are con- stantly addressing yourselves, and who involuntary come to see througli the spectacles you present to them. I-Ience your introductory denunciations that our readers should become thorn ug .;ly imbued with the idea that they were to read somctniiig terrible beforehand; as well as the cuttingoﬁ‘ of the quotation atthe only possible point where an unpleasant indznerence is possible; which is done most ingeniously to effect your purpose. I grant you all the cunning you may claim; But let me -restate this paragraph: “ For my part I would rather be a true-hearted M:-igdali-n” (does not say she is) “ than a woman chaste as ice, but with so little charity as to defame by false statements in a public print.” This chastity (this defaming), which——-considers “ the best gift of God’s Providence, I consider the greatest curse of the devil, ignorance.” (I wonder she did not say maliciousness.) “ Chastity”——Celibacy-“ it is rather a crime against na- turc”—— ‘ "' Feeding Lifels ﬂame with self-consuming fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies.‘ “It is peevisligproud and made of self-love, the most inhibited Sill in the canon. It is either want of capacity or opportunity, want of a heart or a bigoted prejudice ; or else a mere sham and pretense, a cover 101' the grossest crimes against the body.” * , - Now, if tor the word “ chastity ” you substitute celibacy, which, from all that precedes, as well as from all what fol- lows, it is perfectly plain is the sense in which the word is used, what» becomes of, your indictment ? It melts in thin air ; it vanishes as a mist before the hot sun, leaving the animus stripped of all pretense and cover, standing in its true light, a. hypocritical skeleton. But. admitting the construction which“ you would have put upon it, your first remarks completely stultify what you would stamp upon me; they destroy your whole case. You I say, “There is never in this VVEEKLY, which prints this stuff, an editorial dissent from it. It not only goes unchal- lenged, but with (OIOF of indorsement in the editor’s lax- social theories.” 0 I Now, here is a positive assertion, which is either true or false. If true, and your inferences are warrantable, then you are justifiable in making them. If false, whether your lDft‘.1‘€llC€S are justiiiable or not, you stand convicted of a willful falsel1oa_:d,.\uttered for the purpose of deception. Nor will I, as you do, assume this without the proof to sustain it. As long ago as October, 1870, I had occasion to reprove the press in general in the following terms, which appeared in the paper of date October 29, 1870: “ No such forced associations as present systems compel can ever r«:c_eive the sanction of God’s marriage law. ‘What- ever God hath joined together let not man put asunder’ applies to no such abortions of nature as compel a delicate, sensitive naturecl woman to endure the presence of a beastly constitutions-:l man. Many men are really brutes in nature. and what woman, except she, too, is a beast, can be by God joined to any such ? Thismatter mightjust as well be con- sidered now as to be forced off ; the attempt may be made to put if off, but individuality is being developed in woman too rapidly" to make it successful. “ While assuming ‘this ultra position we also occupy the other extreme, and declare that of all relations that cxistdn the universe there are none that should be so holy——so sacred --so revercnced, honored, worshipped-as the true unity- the true marriage~—1.he marriage by G,rod—of two pure, trust- ing loving, equal souls. Before the shrine of such devotion no impurities can kneel; within the inﬂuence of such holi- ness the highest angels come, and around its temple heaven lingers. Never were any more wide of the mark than when they think we would reduce the relations of the sexes to‘ ’c~:;mmon loosener s. To us, there is nothing more revolting in nature than such a condition implies. What we would do, and with all our might is, to bring the attention of he wor_ld——and especially of woxnen——to the realities of mar- riage, that no relation it presupposes should ever be entered upon except after the maturest deliberation and the acquisi- tion of the peifect knowledge that God will oiﬁciate at the nuptials and approve the union. "Of what necessity would laws, then, be to compel people to live together." “ Are we understood ? If not, let those who open their mouths to condemn, or those who use their pens to de- fame, show that they possess the least bit of consistency, by -withholding the evidence of their ignorance and incapacity. The time is passed for any to manufacture lasting capital by resorting to such methods in the place of reason; and let those who call this a “ dirty sheet” examine their specs to see if their surface is not somewhat soiled. ~‘ To the pure in heart all things are ‘pure ;’ to thevile in heart all things ;are_vilc, and to the ‘dirty’ in heart all things are dirty. Take this home and consider it, and sleep over it, and wake to the conclusion that we can neither be frightened nor in- jured by the dirt thrown at us. ‘We shall continue to deal with the conditions of society which we consider behind the times, th ugh its self-constituted conservators do array themselves in opposition and denounce us according to the rnostnapproved and respectable style of pharisaical godli- ness. If you had any right to make the sweeping allegations you -have published to the world, you had read the above article. If you have not read it, then you had no right to make such statements, and you may accept either horn of the dilemma, you choose. One you must accept, and either is your dis- comﬁture. If I do not “dissent” from the inference you would have drawn from the quotation you make, then it would be difficult to frame words and sentences that could be called dissent. If such writings as these are licentious, I submit that the world would be the better were they re- peated every day to everybody. “ Marriage is the holiest of - i all relations in the universe.” “ Before its shrine no impuri- ’ ties can kneel; within its inﬂuence the purest angels come; and around its temple heaven lingers.” ./ Ponder these words well and then republish them to the world, and add ‘hat I hold to lax social theories+that “ we are lewd women ’?—‘‘far gone in the downward road of social deinoralization,” and be justified by your readers if you can. But your ignorance or maliciousness about my morality might be easily -iorgiven on the score of hoary-headed and time-lionored bigotry, which admits -nothing as truth except its dicta ; but when you make assertions which the common public know to be false, I must think you presuming almost too much upon the credulity of your readers as well as upon my forbearance. You repeat, in substance, what the Springﬁeld Pepublfcan some time-since said :‘ “ Thetime came when the woman suffrage movement could not afford to carry this woman and her load of vicious thieves.” I am inclined to the opinion that this assumption was rebutted rather severely by a simple array of iapts, taken from the public journals, a copy of which I shall take pleasure in handing you. But your discretion passes all limit when you assert that the time came wl en the suffrage movement could not carry me. I pray you tell me when the suffrage movement ever carried me. But since you are as ignorant of facts as you are incapableof principles of freedom, I would take the trouble to inform you upon this subject. The original Suffrage or Woman Rights movement has been in existence for about twenty years. Up to one year ago I was not known to the movement. It did not recog- nize me as belonging to it; and with the exception of Miss Anthony I was never even honored with the acquaintance. of‘ its leaders. Certainly the suffrage movement w as not car rying me then. It became a duty that I owed to humanity, however, to go before Congress last winter with a demand for my rights as a citizen under the Constitution, guaranteed by the amendments. To-that position thus first brought to the attention of Congress and the country the more intelli- gent part; of the woman suffragists, in fact all except “the B-cston exciusives,” have come. It has received the support of many of the best informed members of Congress, as well as decision in its lavor by a. chiefjustice. of the United States Court, and the unofficial opinion of Justice Underwood, of Virginia, of the United States’ District Court. And to—day the suﬁrage movement owes the rapid advance it has made during the past year, as well as its present promising atti- tude, to this movement thus inaugurated by me in Con- gress. If this is being cast overboard as dead-weight by the sufli'age movement,,we hope the operation will be repeated frequently. A few times, with like results, will enfranchise Women. s Now, can you review your course and not feel a contempt for yourself. Youhave not injured me, but you have in- jured yourself just to the extent you hoped to affect me. Verily, you shall have your reward. But lest you may say that I have attempted to condemn you by facts that are too old, I will recall to your memory a very recent utterance of mine made bgfore the Convention of the American Association of Spiritualists, at Troy, N. Y. —a body of honest and earnest citizens of the United States, whom the 0om*'ant has abused as it now abuses me; The Troy Times made my election to be their President the occa sion of an attack similar in manner and character to this you now make. Under any other circumstances than the special ones that existed I should not have replied. I do not care to spend my time in answering slanders. I have all I can do to advocate principles; besides, I know that is the best refutation slander can possibly have, and I am willing that every act of my life shall be tried by them.’ But I did reply to the Times, as reported in the Troy W/227g of Septem- ber 18<:h, as follows : “ I thank the Troy Times for the opportunity it has given me to say a. word to this convention, which has honored me so highly. Agitation of thought is the beginning of wis- dom. Hence I like it. Whatever others may think of it, I know that the social question lies at the base of all reform. It is the great question and we can’t shrink it if we would; and I wouldn’t if I could. But our friends of the press cry free love. Yet it doesn’t frighten me, for I have never known any other love than free love. They may be ac- quainted with some other kind. We have laws that give the lie to it, but for all that sensible people know that it is the law that lies and notploee. I spoke, to you yesterday of chil- dren. I now add that we can never have perfect children born in hateful conditions, and we might just as well meet this question right here and now, as to delay it, since it must be met sooner or later. I have boldly proclaimed these doc- trines ever since we started our paper. The Times may call them “nastiness,” but I call them religion, and I am as ready to die for it as. were the early martyrs for their re- ligion. If proper generation is not a good religion to preach, what will you say for regeneration, which is widely discussed? I tell you, my friends, that they who preach regeneration are afraid that their occupation will be gone. If I am asked do you believe in promiscous intercourse for the sexes, I reply I don’t believe anything about it. I know that it exists to an alarming extent, and more I know, that many of those editors who write me down are among its best representatives. -Butif you ask me if .I believe such a condition a high one, I will say, I think it to be that which the Times calls “ nastiness.” I hope it does not view my doctrines through colored glasses. I believe promiscuity to be anarchy, and the very antithesis of that for which I as- pire. I know that there are all degrees of lust and love from the lowest to the highest. But I believe the highest sexual relations are those that are -monogamic, and that those are high and spiritual in proportion as they are contin- uous. But I protest, and I believe every woman who has purity in her soul protests against all laws that would com- pel them to maintain relations with men for whom they have no regard. Ihonor that purity of life which comes from the heart, while I pity the man or woman who is pure simply because the law compels it. If to hold and practice such doctrines as these is to be a Free Lover, then I am a Free Lover.” ' I also spoke to similar effect before 4,000 people in Cleve- land, Ohio, and my speech was reported at length in the Cleveland papers; also before a large assembly at Plymouth, Massachusetts, which speech was also reported to the pub- lic, and with that from the Cleveland papers has been widely copied; and especially by those papers whose. columns are governed by a sense of honor, including such papers as the New York World, the Troy W/rig and the Springﬁeld Republican. You must have seen it in some of them. It has been too widely circulated to permit ignorance of it to be set up as an ‘excuse. And y,et you seize upon the pretext you have to stab at me. The stab cannot harm me. Beware lest it wound yourself. ‘ 01 one thing, however, you may rest assured: It my enuncation of the principles of Social Freedom are illogical and untrue to the common order of the universe, they will come to naught. If, however, they are derived from the iinmutable laws of God, your worst denunciations the world.- But I trust you may see the propriety of ad? dressing yourself to rebutting my arguments, I'3.‘.h€I‘ than to traducicg me for entertaining the ideas upon which they are based, which are as honestly and conscientiously mine as any that you hold are yours. It is this spirit of slander of which I complain as ungenerous, unmanly and cowardly. If I see propositions set forth which I ftitl. con- scious are erroneous and damaging to the public welfare, I do not denounce their holders as all that is bad, but fairly and squarely oppose argument to argument, quoting them and leaving my readers or hearers to decide for themselves- which is truth and which error. I think the general press would make a better exhibition of the Cli1'ist—spi2it which they so loudly profess to follow, were they. to adhere a-little more closely to the same rule. Ifa person lie, I do not hesi- tate to call his conduct by its right name, as l have in your case; but I will never descend to vile names to arouse preju- dice, even if they are warranted. As much as in me lies, I desire to deal with "others as I would be dealt by, and I have never made a personal att'ack'upon anybody in the columns of my paper. I do not claim any credit—I only assert the power of principies—-the power 01 the g‘l"t'£1t\?1‘ over the lesser truth—when I say that some of the most stubborn and big- otcd opponents of the principles of Social F1‘t=C(lt:1Il l1a.v’e been converted into advocates, by my presentation of them; who were also men and women, the peers of the best people in the world. And I have not the slight- est doubt that even you would be compelled to admit their truth, if you would for once remove yourself from intolerance and examine them as you do other sub- jects. Truth is mighty and will prevail whenever admitted to consideration. And the ,<rrcater the truth the lat: 1' it comes for consideration. First was Re'il_51l0uS Freedom; next Political Freedom, now Social Freedom ; and each evolves by like means; while all constitute one G<-11ei'alFree- dom, which forms the basis of my religion. For its advo- cacy I have been dragged to the stake by my self-constituted judges. True, I have not b-. en burned by literal ﬁre; never- theless by a fire from which people shrink with quite as much dread as from that. And you have added fuel to th ﬂame to increase my torments, but the manner in which it was done was cowardly and unworthy of a man holding your responsible position. You cannot justify yourself; but I intend that you shall make the effort and lall, you have failed to damage the cause of a Common Equality, for which purpose you enlisted in this cause. In conclusion, permit me to predict that you will be ashamed of this attack before the present decade is past, if indeed you are not so already. - Yours for the truth and right, Vrcronm C. WOODHULL. 44 Broad street, New York, Oct. 31, 1871. ~—-IIa7'I_’:ford "1z'mes, Nos. 7. ~——-———:: STATES RIGHTS vs. HUMAN RIGHTS. [From the Brooklyn Eagle] To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle .- I cannot pass unnoticed your articles of the 10th instant, entitled “ The Law,the Voting Women Evaded” and “Will Women Ever Vote in the United States?” since you C11- deavor to fasten upon “voting-women” the stigma of de- fective intellect as the solution of their action. Permit me at the outset then to say that any defect there may be in this matter does not rest upon “ our side of tue house,” but I will not be so unladylike as to prejudge you; yet, if you dare, will submit it to the decision of your own readers. Of the claim that all citizens are voters you say: “ There is a plausi- bility about this which captivates: all persons of ardent im- agination and defective reasoning powers. The fallacy of it can be made plain in a minute if we consider that the same construction can be claimed in behalf of babies, criminals, paupers and lunatics. Are women born in the United States? So are babies.” Now all of this may appear very charming t3 the opponents of woman’s equality, but it seems to me it is I BEMARKABLY BAD LOGIC, and I will show you that it is. The same claim is made and nobody can dispute that babies, criminals, paupers, lunatics and women are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. But you forget that there must be laws to regulate the exercise of the rights of citizenship. The ballot must be guarded against abuse and misuse, and citizens must conform to such regulations as are necessary to effect it. These regulations‘ should be such as to prevent “repeating" of any kind, either by citizens of the same or different States. Nobody that I know of objects to the State of New York requiring a year’s residence before permitting the exercise of the right to vote. But this passivity DOES NOT IMPAIR THE nroi-IT. . It is for the purpose of proving that the removal is a genuine one-«not made for the purpose of voting at a special elec- tion. The exercise of the right is simply held in abeyancc until the object has shown that he is entitled to vote; since he may have voted in the State from which he removed the day previous to such removal, and hence would have no just right to vote again within a year. .But the objecttion does come in, in this wise : Two citizens, a man and a woman, remove from the State of New Jersey to N ew York. After residing in New York a year, the man citizen is permitted to exercise his right to vote; but the woman is denied, not be- cause she has not complied with all the requirements which the man has, but because she is not aman—a “ qualiﬁcation” she can never attain; hence it is not a qualiﬁcation, but ac- tual disfranchisement. The Supreme Courts have distinctly passed upon this point. In the case of Corfleld vs. Correll, Justice IVasl:ing- ton, delivering the decision of the court, in enumerating the rights of citizens which could not be trespasscd upon, said: “ Such rights as those of protection of life and liberty, and to acquire and enjoy property, and to pay no higher imposi- of them and me will only assist in m:-<.ki:ig tln-ni -apparent to ' ,) ..,,..-v... ‘ I-W2» ,) ha... 2.. Dec. 2,01%}..- tions than other citizens, and to pass through or reside in the State at pleasure, and to enjoy the elective franchise, as‘ i regulated and established by the State in which it is to be exercised.” Now let us see; what it is to regulate and estab- lish the elective francliise. To regulate is, “ To put in, or- der,” not to put out of existence. Toestablish is to make stable and firm, not to withhold and deny. To regulate the ‘elective franchise, then, is to put it in order, and to estab- lish it is to make it stable and ﬁrm. ‘Women, equally with men, enj oy each of the other rights enumerated by the court; but the elective franchise. the most potent of them all, she is deprived of altogether. Can you, 0M1‘. Editor, show your readers “the defective 1‘e?:soning ” in this ? It seems to -me like an t*gi.*egiious inequality, unworthy ol: a free government -—one which pretends to be Republican in form. But THE‘ FALLACY DOES NOT STOP ' Infants consist of male and female persons.‘ You leave it to be inferred that there are no male infants, since you ask, “Are women born in the United States ?” and reply, “so — are babies.” Male and female babies are both born in the United States, and consequently both are citizens, and each possesses the right to vote ; but the regulations prevent its being exercised, until they have Rnsmnv IN THE UNITED STATES TWENTY-ONE YEARS. On arriving at that age they have the requisite qualiﬁcation of age, and both arrive at that qualiﬁcation by the same pro- cess—by living twénty-one years. But just at that point the disscrlmination between, the male and the female, as against the latter, begins. The male is permitted to begin the exer- cise of the right to vote, while the female is quietly informed that no age to which she can attain will ever qualify her to vote. This is an unequal exercise of power against which I rebel. It is neither a regulation nor the establishment of the oi1.izen’s right to vote, but a flat and unqualiﬁed denial of it. Is this “defective reasoning?” Again, criminals, paupcrs and lunatics are citizens, but by the common law by which all legal construction of law is governed, are held to be incompetent to exercise the suffrage. But there is no inequality here. All criminals, all paupers, all lunatics, be they ‘men or women, are alike excluded. To make your logic sound you should have said that these classes of citizens being women should, while those being males should not, be excluded from suffrage. This would make your reasoning consistent, if not logical. Now, will you say that adult women are to be placed in the same cat- egory with these classes of citizens and excluded from the suilragc for the same‘ reasons that they and infants are ex- cluded? I scarcely think you will thus insult your readers, your women friends ; your wife, mother and daughter. They may not feel the insult, but the greater the pity if they do not. But if they are not excluded for the same reason that these classes of citizens are, pray tell us what the reason is for which they are excluded. I have never heard one given. It may ltave been lcf t for you to declare one, perhaps to invent one. For my part I cannot see if A MALE BABY, on arriving at the age of twenty-one, becomes entitled to the exercise of the sitfiiuige, why the female baby should not also become entitled by the same reason. You may be sufficient ly wise to give a good reason. I hope you may. I am sure none will be more ready to give you credit than I. But if you cannot give a good and lawful and constitutional reason why women twcnty—one years of age cannot vote, then I shall hold that your assumptions do not amount to as much as my “defective reasoning,” and I am inclined to think your readers will so regard it. But you say there was “no intent” to enfranchise women. There ought not to have been any need. of intent, and I do not know how you can say there was any, but since, as you say there was, I pre- sume both you and I will be compelled to leave that matter as the Supreme Court of the United States has decided it. Justice Bradley, in delivering the opinion oftlie Court in the case ‘of The Live Stock Association vs. The Crescent City, said : - “It is possible that those who framed the article were not themselves aware of the far-reaching character of its terms yet if the amendment does in fact bear a broader meaning and does extend its protecting shield over those who were never thought of when it was conceived and put in form, an d does reach social evils which were never before prohib- ited by constitutional enactment, it is to be presumed that the American people, in giving it their imprimatur, under- stood what they were doing and meant to decree what, in fact, they h we decreed.” You may have all the forceof your argument of intent that this decision, which is a late one, will leave you, and still I am forced to ask you for the “ defective reasoning” -and the “ inability to COD1]_)l'(:hl:‘11'Cl this meaning which has led to such deplorable and demoralizing effects.” ' mssrne TO THE snconn ARTICLE, I will presume to ask you by what authority you pretend to say that only the proportion of women you name desire to vote; and how do you know that Legislatures, Courts, Judges of Elections stand in the same proportion, “ for and against?” Have you canvassed them, or have they all deigned to inform you? I/am perfectly satisﬁed to stand- classed among such people as Stanton,Mackinlcy,Tilton and VVilcox, whom you name as not commanding the re- spectof the Americaii people, or singly and alone, if you prefer. But 1 would ask why you did not name some other well known persons who claim. the ballot for women; for instance, Livcrmore, Stone, Burleigh, Ballard and Mott among women, and Underwood,;Howes, Blackwell and Hig- ginson among men, towhom I might add the 500,000 men andlwomen whose petitions will be laid before Congress? I am fearful this part of your argument smacks almost too much of tirade to carry conviction. But you evidently feel the weight of “impending events” whose shadows have already fallen upon you. It is, therefore, disingenuous in you to affect to make it appear that . “ rnconrau socmr. Tn'non1Es” , have damaged the cause of suffrage. If my memory serves me right, a year ago neither you, the Nation nor any other paper of importance, felt called upon to combat this “new heresv.” But lately, almost every paper that can be taken woonuunn \ up has sornetliing to say on Woman Siiﬁrage. ‘illfhat, my dear sir, has raised this question into so sudden and greatim- portance, that you project two editorials in a single issue of the Eagle agaizist; it? “ If these execrable people, who de- mand the ballot for woman” are so far from commanding the respect of the American people, as you have asserted, what is the danger you fear? Your vitupcrat-ions about “slavery” and “bayonet force” are too staleto require com- ment. That. question is given over by the party who fought it so long, as obsolete; it. has no application to the present. VVl1at women cleniancl and intend to have is Vfoman Suf- frage——even if their reasonings are “ defective” and their character so execrablc as in yourjudgment oughtto deprive them of the equal right to the ballot which you possess. - In concl.tisi-on, permit me to call your attention to a small’ matter which you have apparently overlooked, but which it seems to me has-a slight bearing upon this question : Article one, section one of our State Constitution says: “No member of this State shall be disfranchised or deprived of the riglits and privileges secured to any citizen unless by the law ofthe land or the jutlgmeiit of his peers.” Permit ‘me to ask ii'I am a member of this State, and if any law has belefn passed excluding me from the rights secured to your- se 2’ ' I The same Canstitution secures to all male citizens the right to vote. If lam a “member of this State” and there has been no“law of the land” passed otherwise excluding me, is not the same right of suﬁrage secured to me that all male citizens possess ‘.9 It universal, or rather impartial suffrage, which is all we demand, is so prophetic of disaster, why will not a little PRUNING AND EXCLUSIVENESS AMONG YOUR own snx do something for the purity of the franchise exercise ? Why not exclude everybody who gets drunk, who cannot read and write, who has ever tampered, either directly or "indirectly, with the b.:i.llot—box, so that none but honest and honorable persons shall vote ? I do not care what regulations are enforced, or what qual- iﬁcations; but I do ask that none shall be required of women that are not also required of men. 1 ask that every man shall be excluded for the some reason that a single woman is excluded; and that if a man is entitled to exercise the elective franchise by having resided a year in the State, and in the district a month, that every woman shall be entitled by the same reason. And, that if males are only excluded from suffrage on account of being criminals, idiots, lunatics and babies, that women shall be excluded for the same, and no other reasons. , The admission of the above to your columns, with answers to my itiquirics, so that your readers may not be compelled to accept your dogmatic assertions without the opportunity of comparison with opposite views, will prove your sin- cerity, while the refusal to publish it will at least leave room for the inference that your sincerity is questionable. Yours, for equality, justice and right, I VICTORIA C. WooDuULI.. 44 Broad street, N. 35., Nov. 13,1871. ¢__.—.._—_._—.-.. QUERY. t. a VVOODHULL & CLArLm’s WEEKLY: A writer in your paper says the precious metals are unfit for currency, need- less as a basis for currency ; and _‘,—"';'=i,-llil the same article, he contends that gold has a more uniform relation to the value of labor than other products, is easily transported, and should be 1‘ec0gnizcd as a mer~.sure of value. All these, ex- cept the ﬁrst, are meaningless assertions. ,, ,The diliiculty with many persons appears to be to divest their minds of the prejudice acquired by habit. A little re- flection should convince any one that gold has no more con- nection, nccessurily, with currency, than any other product. Ninety-ﬁve per cent. of the circulation, as that Writer admits, is paper, based on the credit of individuals and corporations. IVhy not, then, base 5 per cent. on the credit of the nation, whose weal th exceeds the amount by billions, instead of basing it upon gold and silver, the entire volume of which is only one-t nth oi the amount of currency used, and not a twentieth of the amount required‘ ? ‘ ‘When, in ’57,’ the banks suspended specie payments, and their acts were legalized by the Legislatures, we were with- out a speciﬁc i basis to our currency ; and if its temporary adoption prevented the ruin which followed a contrary course in ’37, why could it not have been continued ad inﬁn- ztmnt?‘ The necessity of a specie basis is therefore disproved by experience. ~ The equilibrium between gold and labor is certainly an obscure suggestion; perhaps it means in one scale all the proﬁts, and in the other all the work, to keep up the equi- poise between labor and capital. The expense of transport- ing gold, in comparison with other more bulky products, is certainly favorable to the fermt~*1' ; but if we estimate the losses by abrasion, and perils incurred by the folly of using this metal for our ency, we should find that a vast amount of labor was y-.ai*ly wasted to replace it. . The necessity of a standard or measure of value is a false idea; the pcrnianent value of gold or _silver is a fiction, the result of an arbitrary law making a certain number of grains of either to represent a unit of value. The price of the pre- ci.ous metals ﬂuctuates in spite of all laws, and we have no more reason to say that one product appreciates than that the other dcpreciates, when they show values relative to each other. If we abolish the gold standard, any attempt to depreciate paper cu rrency by monop olizing gold. would be fu- tile, and end in disaster, for the value of other products would advance in the same ratio with gold; and the reason is simple, for it here several products are consumed for a cer- tain purpose, and one of them fails, all the others appreciate in value; and if we dispense wit-l1 gold in connection with currency, like all the rest of our surplus it will depend for its value upon the demand abroad.- All nations have the right to make their own money. G1'aritecl. The people may choose the material they prefer for the purpose. Yes. They will naturally select that which costs them least. Wliy not? And if all the people consent to use a valueless material for currency, whence comes the right to compel those to’ pay interest who desire to use this intrinsically valueless currency to prosecute‘ in- dustrial enterprises which are a public beneﬁt? Capitalists iorcsee this, and while they can control the councils of the nation they will p1‘*<1f€1‘ that we should pay vast sums as a tribute to foreign nations for interest for the use of their cap- ital rather than forego the specie basis,.wl:iich secures to them a small share of the plunder. It is a singular fact that the ea1'liest reforms become fossil- ized as the movement they inaugurated progresses; and this is remarkably true with many advocates of money reform. Either interest is right or it is wrong. If it is right then a cm-.sr,~iiv*s, iivnnkrr. , p I Vii capitalists only contend for justice when -they demand that usury laws should be abolislied and every Shylock ‘enabled to secure his pound of ﬂesh; but the freedom they demand is all on one side. Yet we say abolish usury laws, but at the same time abolish the -law which compels the payment of interest, and provide anational currency. Many industrial operatives are unwittingly advocating the“ cause of capital, erroneously supposing that their interests lie in that direction. Wlien the workingman begins to accu- mulate a surplus, he seeks for it a high rate of, interest, not realizing the fact that while he only draws interest on his surplus wealth, and is receiving his industrial capital, and his labor is burthened with dollars to niaintain in idleness » the drones that infest society, and who but for this means of subsistence would be compelled to ‘perform the obliga- tions which all owe, to provide by industry a sum equal to their own support. , _ , , . ‘ Every person is seeking a competence to provide against want. That accomplished for themselves, they strive to preserve their children from the degradation of labor. If there was no interest all persons would the sooner secure a competency by their own toil,’ by the increased reward of labor in proportion to the cost of subsistence, and labor would no lenger be dreaded as an evil to be avoided. Wort: is not the degracling thing our social condition makes it. Its joys are not only pure, but necessary to the enjoyment of all the other blessings which a bountiful Creator has provided for our use. i The delight of the savage is the hunt, of the farmer his growing crops. The painter and sculptor become enamored by their own creations, and the heart of the mechanic ’ throbs with delight to see the designs of his brain growing into shape under his hand. The tottering babe persists in assisting its mother at her labors. Then why should we pervert that beautiful allegory in Scripture which commands ’ all men “to earn their bread by the sweat of their brows” . to reconcile the degraded laborer to his sex-vile condition by’ teaching him the monstrous doctrine that his suﬁbrings are the just punishment of the sins of others. ,, _ The abolition of interest would necessarily follow the adoption of a paper currency. Having no other basis but the wealth of the nation, and secured by the consent of the peo- ple, it would bring us to a condition of national and indi- vidual prosperity never before secured by the people of any other country ; and indeed it becomes a question of grave inquiry if we are not rapidly driving toward that condition which followed the centialization of wealth in the ancient, republics. , V .. The question is, shall we be warned by the fate of the Roman Republic ? Have we not already arrived at a con- dition of serial‘ corruption unequaled in Home during many centuries 01‘ her existence ? it is well known that in all countries the masses are the last to become corrupted. Throughout the, civilized world they are making a mighty effort to throw off the incubus engendered by our servile condition. On them" and them alone must we depend for our serial regeneration, and in this country only can its in- ception ever take place. When ‘the thirteen States of this Union separated from the mother country, the rights of human beings, though enun- . ciated in that immortal document, the declaration of our in- dependence, were imperfectly understood. Eighty years were required to throw off the yoke of human bondage, which had to be conceded to keep alive the young sprig of liberty. With the example before us of that dauntless band who have achieved their glorious purpose, shall we falter who demand the rights of labor ? C. B. S. SPARKS FROM A. F(IR-E) BRAND. No. 1. There is nothing in our free America more false to the, principles of justice and equality than our pre ent social system. I . . It is hardly expected that a man will remain pure and vir- tuous until lie marries. i It is not admitted that a woman is ﬁt to marry unless she remains pure and virtuous previous to entering that state. It is not conceded that a woman has reason to refuse to marry a man because he has been wild. ‘ It is not expected that even a respectable (?) libertine would marry a woman who had been wild. Mark the dif- ference! ‘ . , — A man wants a wife; various reasons may exist. His home needs a housekeeper; a wife can ﬁll that oiﬁce. A hired housekeeper must have a salary; awife none. Certain‘ houses have been freely patronized by him, for which enter- tainment he must pay well. A wife will remove that neces- sity without pay 1 Consequently a double purpose is served. Housekeeper and tool in one is more econoznical. Besides, his shirts must be made, his meals prepared, his spittoon cleaned, his clothes washed, etc., etc, and to pay for each separate item would ruin him. A wife will do all this for what he chooses to give her, and be glad,.of the chance C?) ‘What fools! Illegal prostitution demands its price. a A wife’s demands must be governed by the husband’s generosity. A woman’s work brings wages before marriage; after mar- riage none. A beautiful woman who sells her body may command remuneration that will bring every luxury. . A beautiful wife may command nothin g. A mistress lives in case, surrounded by every comfort. A wife may not only be wife, but mother, nurse, seam-. stress and common servant, and must not complain if she be deprivedof comfort. For a man to say “Marry me” means “Fulﬁll all these olﬁces, and in return hear my name. 1’ Paltry gift! What a. ’ plea in favor of our marriage institution. Mothers of daugh- ters, listen! Men with wives, beware l The world 1S waking l The ﬁre-is kindling! Even though love may instigate the .marriage it brings no equality in law. Is a woman more reﬁned than man, less passional, still marital rights must not be refused. ‘Noe ! be unto the wife who is not obedient. ‘ Who rebels, she is a “ termagant andshrew l” ’ _ Woe be unto the man who is obedient, he is “hen- peckedl” , . ' Is a woman in business, she must give it up at marriage, or any time after that the husband requires. Her time, money, service, health, happiness, are all in his keeping and for his use. Should she demand the same of him society would combine to pity him because his wife’s extravagance was seeking his ruin. ,. i ~ , This is only a flash. More will be forthcoming. Who dares deny its truth ? ’ — . . . _ 6 I.-.1..r.-_-a..._ , ---~ a-«’-,.:..i».- . . .- __,....~;,..«-,- —. .. ., ‘ . time in this or any other country of an outspoken analysis I of two Sl3l‘=’:;“<1111S; and for precisely the same reasons: that it is I human law as perfection is high above imperfection. _ conditions in the present rmarrisge state. By no means do I status of society makes possible. » on “The Principle of Social Freedom, Involving Free Love, .Marriage, Divorce, etc.” The asseinblage embraced repre- ivast portion of it, it must be confessed, was undeniably com- --doctrines enunciated, and the still greater novelty of their wOoD,,I-IULL a C.LAFLl'N’S wnnxLv. ~ Dec.ﬁ2,i.l8'i'1.i socIAL FREEDOM. If there wereany evidence wanting to prove that the pub- lic are ready and waiting for a new departure in our social systems, it is found in the demonstration at Steinway Hall, Monday night, on the occasion Of the delivery for the ﬁrst of all our present social relations. T-hat Steinway Hall should have been literally packed—-no other word describes 'lt—-O31 a night when to go out was to be drenched by the pouring rain, by an audience at once intelligent and enthu-. siastic, is a fact that the press cannot but describe an extraor- dinary-one, It is true there Were a few people who went there expressly to create a disturbance, and also true that they made the attempt; but it is still more true that they signally failed. Filty, malcontents would fully number those who manifested disapprobation, while their efforts at each repetition were-drowned by enthusiastic applause. In spite of all the prejudice and the pandering to supposed popular Opinion on the part of the press, the following ex- tracts from the Tuesday's papers, which were followed in them by copious extracts from the speech itself, must con- vince the most skeptical that even they see the beginning /of the end. ' The World said: An overﬂowing as well as a dripping audience crowded Steinway Hall in every part last evening, on the occasion of Mrs. Victoria'C. Woodhull’s lecture on “Marriage and Di- vorce, Free Love and Prostitution.” The attendance was about as equally divided between the sexes as is usual on an inclement evening. " MRS. wooDIIULL’s srnnon. . ‘Mrs. Woodhull was neatly attired in black, and read her address with great volubility from printed pages. The read- ing Occupied about two hours, and beyond a few interrup- tions which will be noted, secured a marked attention from the/vast audience. The passageslin favor of the abolition of all legal restrictions upon the sexual relation produced mixed appiause and hisses, until everything that could by possibility be turned into a double entendre was productive of lahgliter from a body of men who. seemed to be rather pruriently inclined. They were evidently disappointed at the high moral ground, and rather chagrined at the limited license which the speaker’s deﬁnition of free love would al- low. Mrs. I/Voodhull opened as follows: “ MY BROTHERS AND Srsrnns : I come before the public at this time, upon this particular subject, notwithstanding that m

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