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mm corny.
(‘ll:.sz Ju‘uhs. Judge of Dish-id Court.
DlVld T. Dvnuy. .Connty Judge.
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Gardnrr Erna-. 12.. Auditor. 1
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“‘xlliam H. Shundy. Asst-35011
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Frmk Wallximi.l'wrli« P. Stone, Amos Brown.
Sanmvl F. ("10:378. 'S. P. Amlr-ws. L. B. An-
Lin a“. ('llan Mantra Councilmen.
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1 1w:
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01mph, Tw-onm and Stl-ilacrmm Arrin- Mon
dnyn lull Thursdays. o'rlask. n. Dryarl
Turmlsy“ and Fridays. 10 r. x. Close 9r. x.
Hum-u. via Pans )lulison, Gable. Ludlow
nnvl Tawny nd. Tursdnyi wd FridnyS. 10 P. x.
lhrpm Mondays. 6 15 A. 31.: Thursdays. 5 15
A. I. Close OA. M. and 9P. x.
Winn-om. n'a Mnl-rltm. Snohomish. Tuldip,
(amp. ville. Cnvoland, Visually. Llconner. Fi
rl.l;,'o Ind s.lmm: Arrive. Wrdnesahys, 8 r. x.
Dv‘parr. Mundtys. 9A. X. Close BanA. 1.
Franklin, rid. mm:- Biver and Slaughter
Arrives. Wrdnwsdays, 7 r. x. Departs, Tues
dsyi. T .l. \l. Cluscs G 30. A. 11.
Hummumie. rid. Black River Ind Squak Ar
rives, “Educ-91.13:. 9P. x. Dcpu'ts. Tuesdays,
T .v. (‘lovurs 630 A. x.
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'l'n. days. 11 at. Doyarts. Mondays, ll A. x.
('lmln: 10 45.
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--uxxs 1m x.u.'ua'r. mus LEABY.
,McNAUGHT LEARY.
‘tttorncys at Lavv,
Seattle, W. T.
Will pmtivu- in Supreme sud Dlstﬁct Courts
0! “'xshingtnn Trrritury,
_ ~,,,,._, ~,-_ V‘
JOHN J.'McGILVRA, I
Attorney at Law,
SEATTLE, W. T.
Will mum] to bn>inu=s in all parts of thr-
T--rri:ory. _ 20
I ﬁrm-nu}: :1 iv ruxjru. ELISE}: J
McCONAHA YORK,
('rm rim-lam, .U-torneys. Salim?-
ors 1' n Clzanccry. an r] I’ruc
furs in, .lrlmiralfz/.
OI"('EF—NO.’S l and 2 Displtch Buildings,
SEATTLE, “21‘.
«.31. you, sown Wow- 20
IRVING BALLARD.
Attorney d’: Counselor at Law,
Steilacoonn, W. T.
‘11.... 11. 1.41114“; CIR}???
LARRABEE WHITE.
Counselors, Attorneys at Law,
AND
Solicitors in Chancery,
(Dispatch _.]lm’lrliugs,)
SEATTLE.
Will practice in the Supreme md District
Cuuns.
McNAUGHT LEARY.
SEATTLE, W. T.
Real Estate and Tax Agents,
REAL ESTATE bought and sold.
LOANS negotiated.
CLAIMS collected.
FOR- SALE.
LOTS IN CITY OF SEATIIE, im
proved and unimproved.
Also. LANDS in King. Kitsap, Sno
homish and Island Counties.
Tracts at BOLMES‘ HARBOR, CA-
MANO ISLAND, MUKILTEO, PORT
TOWNSEND. PORT DISCOVERY,
NISQUALLY. etc. etc.
Also. several Bottom Land FARMS.
undencnltivaﬁon, on the White, Black,
Cedar. And Duwamish Rivers.
Auras—For Remington and Osgood,
New}? York; Benjamin Flint, San Jose,
Cahfomia, etc. etc.
RONAUG“ LEARY.
Jun XCSAUGB‘B,
may Lmr, I
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STUART CRICHTON,
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PBOPRIETOR.
EAR, Beer,
E Porter and
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Bottles.
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Call and sample me- almvr.
I; (‘all for (‘rirhmn's Ale. Porter or Luger
Bu 1- win-u you want a good drink, Ind be >un
you m-t it.
Seattle, Nov. 13.1571.
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thr publn' ma: tlxv- almvv .-srnhli~hnu-ut
having Imdvrgunu vxzcuuvc rruuvauou, is n-.
upward.
FREE LUNCH. l
Haﬁz): mad» urnngnmcuts for I must-ml
supply of Smcig Brown's
PREMIUM BEER, 1
He will hr luppy to serve his cmﬁomern‘
with that favorilc- beverage by (ha Qnm. m.
He, or single Glass.
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Ever Draught to Puget Sound.
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With or without extension. and for 1
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4139, g (39mm! Assortment of
Kitchen Furniture 1
1F rench and English Wares, I
Japan, T in, Copper and
Sheet Iron IVares.
1771 and Jlemlic Rooﬁng,
Lead and Iron Pipe.
Iron Pipe cut and ﬁtted to suit.
A GENERAL ASSOBTMENT OF
PIPE FITTINGS.
All work pertaining to the business
done at short aches and in a workman
liko manner.
GIVE ME A TRIAL.
Orders from 81110“ promptly attend:
ed to.
PRIGES TO SUIT THE ms.
g-cul ml swim baton purcha- 3
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S. P. ANDREWS.
L August 28, 187;, 1511.
gm gtpartmmt,
Babs “Equity-
I.
An appeal to the Supreme Court
from thin! degree in Chnncery, shall
hetnken by saving and ﬁling the no
tice of appeal within sixty days from
the rendition of the decree by the Dis
trict Court. Such service may be made
in the manner and by the persons au—
thorized to serve a summons.
11.
1. The appellant hv himself or attor
ney shall cause a notice to be served on
the adverse party or his attorney. and
ﬁle the original, with proof of service
endorsed thereon, with the Register of
the District Court. Such notice shall
state that the appellant appealst the
decree.
2. Within ten days from the service
of the appeal, the appellant shall ﬁle
with the Register of the District Court a
bond as hereinafter provided, and with
in ﬁve davs after such tiling, the adverse
party shall except to the suﬁiciency of
the sure-ties in the bond, or be deemed
to have waived his right to any such ex
ception.
3. The qualiﬁcation of snreties on an
'appcul bond shall be the some as in case
inf bail on arrest, and if excepted to, they
shall justify in like manner.
4. [pan the expimtiou of the time :11—
i lowed to except to the sure-ties in the
bond, or upon the justiﬁcation thereof.
if excepted to, the appeal shall be deem
ed perfected. It shall thereupon be the
duty of the Register to attach together
all the original papers in the case on
ﬁle in his ofﬁce, and a transcript of all
the journal entries in said case, and ap-
pend thereto his certiﬁcate under seal of I!
the Court that he has so done, and
forthwith transmit the some to the Clerk
of the Supreme Court at the expense of
he appellant, by mail or by a sheriﬁ',
marshal or deputy marshal of the Dis
trict Court, or by some other person
specially by the District Court or Judge
tppointed. The Clerk of the Supreme
Court shall immediately, upon the rev
ceipt thereof, ﬁh each paper separately
in his ofﬁce, and if the appeal shall have
been perfected more than twenty days
before the ﬁrst day of the then next
succeeding term of the Supreme Court,
he shall place the cause upon the calen
dar for such term, for hearing. The
cause shall then be for hearing in its or
der, without other or further notice;
Provided, That by stipulation a cause
may be placed on the calendar for hear
ing by leave of the Court at any time;
and provided further, that the appellee
shall have the right to procure the pa
pers to be transmitted to and ﬁled in
the Supreme Court at any time after the
perfection of the appeal. and to have
the cause brought on for hearing at the
next succeeding term, if the papers have
been tiled in said Court on or before the
second day of said term.
111.
An appeal bond shall be given by the
appellant with two or more snr ties to
the effect that the appellant will pay all
damages, costs and disbursements which
may be awarded against him on the ap
peal; but such bond shall not stay pro—
ceedings unless it further provide to the
eti'ect following:
1. If the decree appealed from be for
the quietiug title to real property, for a
partition thereof, or the foreclosure of a
lien thereon, that during the possession
of such property by the appellant, he
will not commit or suﬁ'er to be commit
ted any waste thereon, and that if such
decree or any part thereof be athrmed,
‘the appellant will pay the value of the
use and occupation of such property so
far as aﬁnned frOm the time of the ap
peal until the delivery of the possession
thereof, and not exceeding a sum to be
speciﬁed therein, to be ascertained and
ﬁxed by the Court, or the Judge thereof.
3. If the decree appealed from be for
the foreclosure of a lien, and also against
the person for the amount of the debt
secured thereby, the bond shall also be
to the eﬁ'ect that the appellant will pay
any portion of such decree remaining
unsatisﬁed after the sale of the property
upon which the lien is foreclosed.
4. In cases not provided for in sub
divisions 1, 2 and 3 of this rule, unless
the decree appealed from require the
transfer or delivery of any personal
property, and the things required to be
transferred or delivered he brought into
Court or placed in custody of such otﬁ
oer or receiyer as the Court may ap
point. then that the appellant will obey
the decree of the appellate court. And
the amount of thebond in cases referred
to in this subdivision shall be speciﬁed
that”, and ﬁxedly the Court or Judge
thereof. 'IV
When the demo eppuled from shell
‘reqnire the execution of a conveyance
36: other instrument, execution of the
decree dull not he stayed by the appeal,
unless, within the time allowed to ﬁle
the appeal bond, the conveymce, or
atlas instrument, be executed and de
posited with the Register of the Distriq
Court, to abide the decree of the appel
late Cont.
If for any reason the appeal shall be
dismissed by the Supreme Court, the
Court may order the papers to be trans
mitted to the Court below, and thereup
on proceedings mny be had‘as if no ap
peal had been attempted.
-——4.>——4——
What are Swamp and Over
ﬂowed Lands.
To reply to numerous enquiries £rom
subscribers we ﬁdreused Hon. J. W.
Bost. Surveyor General. asking his
opinion on the above subject. which we
1 present to our renders—S. F. Examiner.
i Smrnon—szmzn's Omen. 1
Sacramento, November 17, 1871.5
Burro: Exuﬁxxnz—Your letter of the
Bth instant was received several days
ago, and would have been answered
sooner but for the rush of business in- i
cidental to the closing of my term of
0506.
You ask me to state “what I consider
Swamp and Overﬂowed Land. under
the Act of Gongress granting this class
of land to the States.” This isa subject
upon which doctors disagree, but I can
give you my opinion in the premises,
which can be taken for what it is worth:
Congress granted the State of Arkan
sas (the grant was afterwards extended
to this State) all of that portion of the
public domain rendered unﬁt for cul
tivation by reason of overﬂows. It
would seem from debates on the bill,
when it was beingdiscussed in Congress
that they not only intended to grant the
.vmmp land, but also any and all land
made nnt‘it fnr cultivation by being over
ﬂowed or subject to inundation. It is
clear that all land that required artiﬁcial
work of any character, whatever, to ren-
der it. ﬁt for cultivation was granted. 1
and it certainly was so intended.
The ﬁrst bill dmwn granted “the
swamp and over-ﬂowed land designated
on the plats of the General Land Ofﬁce
is swamp land." and it passed the
Senate in this shape, and went to the
House, where it was amended by strik
ing out the words “known as mid des
ignated on the plots of the General
Land Oﬁce as swamp land" and inser
ting instead, “made unﬁt thereby for
cultivation," also by inserting the word
“overﬂowed” after the word “swamp”
in Sec. 40f the Act. Some contend
that hind, upon which grass grows,
should not be classed as swamp and
overﬂowed land. If this is to bethe
test, there is not an inch of swamp land
in California. Others, again, say
timber will not grow on swamp land;
this proposition is equally ridiculous,
for the very ﬁrst swamp land, ever gran
ted to any State, has grown upon it the
largest kind of timber. The swamps
of Arkansas and Missouri are covered
with almost impenetrable forests. A
sure test of swamp land is tales. X 0
land upon which tules grow is ﬁt for cul
tivation, without leveeing or drzduing.
Something of the kind must be done to
render it safe for cultivation, excepting
the driest seasons.
So I am of the opinion that any land
was overﬂowed, or subject to ourrﬂmr, at
the time the grant was mmlv (1850,) was
granted to the States, whether they are
of that character now or not. I would
judge from the debates in Congress.
‘when the bill was under discussion,
‘that a liberal construction of the law
was intended in favor of the States. It
1 was discussed in the senate by Benton,
‘Borland, Badger, Bell, Davis of Miss.
Dawson. Felch. Foote, Hale. Jones,
King, Mangum. Sebastian, Shields Un
derwood and Webster. Of these Bor
lnnd, Felch and Shields. each of whom
warmly advocated the hill, constituted
the committee on public lands to which
the amended bill was referred. After
being reported back fron the House,
here is what was said on the subject:
Mr. Sebastnin stated that there were
large qunntities of land subject to over
ﬂow that could not properly be termed
swamp lands. These amendments are\
designed to cover and convey those!
lands. “There are,” said he, “two‘
chases of lands. The ﬁrst amendment
will embrace all swamp lands: the
second, those lands which though not
swamp, myet overﬂowed so as to be
‘nuﬁt for cultivation."
Mr. Mangum stated that "there will
beinclndedin the lands to which. the
amendment may apply, all that may be
overﬂowed once in ten years." And
again he says, “It will include those
lnndsinthe valley of the Mississippi
which were overﬂowed by the highest
freshets.
Mr. Bell said, "there it: no planter on
the Mississippi who does not know that
the most valuable lands there are those
which are sometimes overﬂow—ed. If
them improvements are made there will
‘be en immense quantity of had of this
character reclaimed."
Mr. Davis, of Miss.. stated that
though a portion of the lands which
weze sometimes overﬂowcd would not
beleas than from ssok: SIOO per
acre, yet neu'iy all tint; class of 18ml
had already been sold.
Mr. Shank-We call those lands‘
“fever nndague lands" in my State.
The sole object in getting possession of
them is to have them drained and im
proved.
Mr. Benton—ln the state of Missouri
there is a great extent of country known
as the “Big Swamp." It is a great ex
tent of country—rich country— covered
with timber-«nimble timber—but also
covered with water.
It willremainasithuremnhedforthe
last forty years a lam to the State, and
an injury to the country unless put in
the hands 0! the state.
Mr. King—Whether the quantity be
small or great I consider as n matter of
no importance, so far as the United
States is concerned.
)Ir. Foote.—These amendments are
excellent. I trust they will be concur
redin by the Senate.
Mr. Hale—l do not object to the hill. 1
Ido not know ns I should object in;
gave all the land to the States. I made
the inquiry simply for the information
of the Senate.
Mr. Benton thanked Mr. Borland for
bringing up the matter, and “procuring
the general consent of the Senate."
“For," said he, “I believe there is
scarcely a dissenting voice."
Son will observe from the drift of the
above discussion, that all land of a
swampy clurncter, or subject to inunda—
tion, v. 15 most’ certainly granted to tilt
States. It isvery clear to my mind that
it was the intention of the Government
to give the States control of all land,
wherever situated, that required arti
ﬁcial works of any kind whatever, to
render it ﬁt for cultivation.
There appeared in the Rural Press on
Ithe 4th and 11th of Februmry last, an
‘article written by A. B. Bowers, C. E.
which contains more information on
this subject than anything that has ever
been written. It is by far the ables:
article that I have ever seen on the sub
ject. I uni indebted to him for much
infurmation contained in the above.
Yours truly.
Joax W. Bosr, Surveyor General.
gnlitiml.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Connnmial says that if a half dozen in
dependent Republicans in the Ohio leg
islnture refuse to attend the legislative
caucus and to support Mr. John Sher
man for Senator, other Republicans who
are for him will vote for Mr. Thomas
Ewing or Mr. William S. Groesbeck, in
order to beat the independent candidate.
The Enquirer, however, declares, that
“this trick is eastly seen through, and
it will not win. The democrats are
not to be divided by any such artiﬁce.
unanimously for an independent man
against Sherman, and no such expedient
as that above alluded to can divert them
from their purpose,"
The Republican Spoil-Gath-g
erers Alarmed.
The agitation in favor of a ”passive
policy" for the democrats, and the co
operation of the democratic voters with
the conservative Republicans in the
next national canvass, has already borne
fruit. The wisest democratic leaders
and the ablest newsgaers have conclu
ded that there is abs utly no hope for
democratic succes with democratic tan
didutcs, and have advised the support
of any candidates who would make re
form in the government their rule of
action. Many who at ﬁrst looked upon
this policyas cowardly, because it would
be u surrender of forms and principles
which they had cherished for many
years, have ﬁnally yielded, and the m.-
‘tionnl democratic organization may sus
‘pend its labors and duties until after the
next Presidential election.
This plan, however, ﬁnds the most
determined opposition from a singular
source. Certain Republican politicans
have many homilies to read to the dem
ocrats who would betray their followers,
and are horriﬁed at their weakness.
J'hese Republican politicians are like
lmauy other warriors who would do ser
rice in the sutler’s tents. Their proﬁts
are measured, to some extent, by the
strength of the opposition; when the
enemy surrenders they are exposed the
criticisms and punishments which they
have escaped on account of necessary
party dicipline during a close contest.
These politicans see, in the proposition
to abandon the organization of the de
mocratic party, an indication that their
own mercenary power is failing. With
the democratic party inthe ﬁeld next
year, the Republican party could make
an easy successful canvass;these poll.
ticans would again claim the honors and
obtain the spoils. With anopposition
that combines the reformers of all par
ties they have no such hope. The sur
render of the democratic party would
involve their surrender also, for it is
very clear that Republican party would
gladly get lid of them it its attention
were not dirved by an enemy.
The ﬁrst fruit which this passive pol
icy Increment inthe democratic petty
his borne therefore, is in the Republican
party. Real Republican statesmen are
greatly apprehensive that this plan my
rob them of their title to credit for the
reforms which the party almost unani
mslydsmamb.
1 They are trying to do whet they have
I promised to do, so that the new reform
party will hove no platform better than
heir own; They demand in earnest ef
fort to purify the civil service of the
govermnent. They promise that the
revenue system shall be made more lib
-lernl end more enlightened. They
lpromise, that (Scum-hall adopt uni
l versal amnesty. They promise, in short.
that the Republican pnrty shall he whnt
it pretended to bewhen the last Chicago 1
platform was adopted—honest, econom~
real and just. This awakening of the
better sentiment of the party is what
alarms the traders in political spoils.
The? have sounded the alarm already.
They will not accept the surrender of
the democrats, because their own occu
pation would be gone. They are labor
ing to keep alive the old ptrty animos—
ities in order to cover their own sins.
We have great. faith in the efﬁciency
of the new Democratic movement, be—
cause it will put the Republican politi
cians on their good behavior and force
the Republlcan party td make reforms
which it has always promised but too
on; neglected. The party which leads
in practical reform will win the next
national contest.
The Woodhull Platform.
The New York Ibraltl of Nov. Slst
gives the report of a lecture by Mrs.
Victoria C. Woodhull in that city the
evening before, and editorially says of
it:
The lecture of Mrs. Victoria C. Wood
hull at Steinway Hall last night isn
atartling instance of the progress. which
the infamous socizilistic notions of the
Free Lovers is making in our midst.
For an audience of three thousand peo
nle to applaud, and even to listen pa—
tiently to the Sentiments expressed last
night, is a deplorable state of aﬂ'nils.
The following is extracted from the}
Herald’s report of the meeting: 1
TEE LECTURE.
i As Mrs. Woodhull came forward to
the front of the stage to read her lecture
which she did in a clear and pleasing
1 voice, the audience cheered her With
1 much gallantry. particularly the young
men about town. who were quite noisy
and vociferous. She spoke in substance
1 as follows:
Mr Bnornzas AK!) SISTERS—I appear
before you to-night to discuss the most
delicate and diﬁcult subject in which
human interests tra involved; one in
which everybody is interested, as well
as directly and intimately concerned;
but which, on account of its delicacy
and dimcnlty, almost everybody in
stinctively avoids. I refer to the prin-
ciples of social freedom. love, marriage 1
and divorce: or the relations betweenl
the sexes. There is no escaping the
fact that the principle by which the male 1
citizens of these United States assume 1
to rule the female citizens is not that of
self-government but that of despotism;
and so the fact is that poets have sung
songs of freedom and anthems at liberty
have resonnded for an empty shadow.
Over the sexual relations marriages
have endeavored to preserve my and
hold the people in subjection to what
has been considered the standard of
moral purity. Whether this has been
successful or not may be determined
from the fact that there are scores of
thousands of women who are denomina
ted prostitutes. and who are supported
by hundreds of thousands of men. Who
should, for like reasons, also be denom
-3 inated prostitutessince what will change
In women into a prostitute must also ne
cessarily chmge a man into the same.‘
This condition called prostitution, seems
to be the great evil at which religion arid
public morality but] their special wea
pons of condemnation, as the sum total
of all diabolism; since for a women to
be a prostitute is not only to deny her
all Christian but also all humanitarian
rights.
As this passage was uttered there was
great applause and cheering by the fool
ish young men in the audience who
were on the alert for anything that
might sound like an equivoque. Mrs.
Woodhull continued:
Now I will put the question direct.
Are not these eminently proper subject:
for inquiry and discussion; not in that
manner of mudlin sentimentality in
which it has been the habit; but in a
digniﬁed, open, hcnest and fearless my,
in which subjects of so great import
}nnce should be inquired into and dis
fcussed An exhaustive treatment of
these subjects would involve the inqui
ry what should be the chief and to be
gained by
nmma mm mun. mass.
This I must simply answer by saying,
“Goodohildren, you will not nerdto
be regenerated." :an pass to the consid
eration of the relations themselreu. Al
the xelations between the sexes ﬁlm: are
recognized as legitiimbe are denomina
ted matrix 39.12 at of what does mar
riage consist This very peatineni;
question 113111.53 settlement before any
real progress can be made as to what
social freedom and prostitution mean.
It is admitted. by everybody ﬁlm! mar
tinge is a union of the opposite in sex;
but is it a principle of nature outside of
all law, or is it a law outside of all im
tnre? Where is the point before moch-
W
No. 47.
“ting which is not marriage, but havinz
reached which it is marriage? Is it.
where two meet and realize that the love
elements of their nature are harmonL
oas, and that they blend into and make
one purpose of life? or is it where a
soulless form is pronounced over two
who know no commingliug over life's
hopes
Marriage must consist either of lore
or of law. since it may exist in form with
either term absent; that is to say, peo
pie may be married by law and all lovo
be lack ml theyulso be uniﬁed by
love and lack ali sanction of law. ’Tmo
marriage must in reality Cﬁllrini entirely
either of law or love, since there can be
no compromise between the law of na~
ture and statute law by which the form
er shall yield to the latter. Law cannot
change what nature has already deter
mined. Law cannot compel two to love.
It has nothing to do either with love or
with absence. Love is superior to all
law, and so also is hate, indiﬂerence,
disgust and all other human sentiments
which are evoked in the relations of the
sexes. It legitimately and logically fol
lows that it‘ love have anything to do
with man-ins), that law has nothing to
do with it, and, on the contrary, if law
have anything to do with marriage, that
love has nothing to do with it. And
there is no escaping the deduction.
Considerable dissatisfaction was here
manifested by the audience, but after
1 some hissing and cheering comminglcd.
the speaker continued:
Ido not care where it is that sexual
commerce results from the dominani
power of one sex over the other, com
polling him or her to submission against
the instincts of love, and where hate
‘or dimst is present, whether it be in
the gilded palaces at Fifth Avenue, or in
the lowest pnrleus of Green street. there
is prostitution. and all the law that a
thousand State assemblies may pass
cannot make it otherwise.
I know whereof I speak. I have seen
the most damning misery resulting from
legalized prostitution. Misery such as
the most degraded of those against whom
society has shut her doors never know.
Thousands of poor, weak, unresisting
wives are yearly murdered, who stand
in the spirit life looking down upon the
sickly. halt made up children left be‘
Lhind, imploring humanity for the sake
1o! honor and virtue to look into this
matter. to look in oit to the very bot
tom, and to bring out into the fair day.
light all the blackened, sickening de.
formitles that have so long been hidden
by the screen of public opinion and a
sham morality.
It does not matter how much it may
still be attempted to gloss over these
things, and to label them sound and
pure you. and each and every one of
you. know that what I say is truth, and
if you question your own souls you dare
not reply: it is not so. If these things
to which I refer. but of which I shudder
to think, are not abuses of the sexual
relations, what are?
You may or may not think there is
help {or them, bntl say Heaven help us
if such bmbarism cannot be cured. I
would not be understood to say that
there are no good conditions in the pre.
sent marriage state. By no means do I_
say this; on the contrary. a very large
proportion of present social relations
are commendable—are as good as the
1 present status of society makes possible.
‘Bnt what I do assert, and that most
positively, in. that all which is good and
commendable, now existing, wonH r‘on
tinue to exist if all marriage laws were
repealed to-mor'row.
At this last remark about muting!
relation nearly half tho immense anal.
ence rose to their feet and hissed moat
vehemently, while the other belt cheers
ed hunultuonsly. Subsequently Mn.
Blocker, the sister of Mrs. \l'oodhull,
interrupted the speaker with the ques
tion—“ How could you expect to be re.
cognized in society unless you knew
who your father or mother mas?" A
policeman attempted to put Hrs. Brook:
er out, when a tremendous uproar en
med.
Mn. Woodhull. who Ind shmn‘x back
timidly with her manuscript ﬂaring the
inpronr, came fomxd und 9;] boldly,
3"Yes, I am a free 10':ch I bc'deve I
have an “enable :v'qlzt to elm-. 59 my
husband evezy day if I like. I trust I
am understood, for I mean 171:th I say.
and nothing 6158. T. 032533 Lint freedom.
means to be free."
Mrs. Fair killed Crittenden. Why?
Because she believed in the spirit of the
marriage law; that she had a better
right :0 him than had Mrs. Cdttenden,
to whom the law had granted him; and
rather than give him up what. to whom.
‘he evidently desired to go, and where.
lfollowing’uis right £0 freedom, he did
go. she killed him. Could a more pen
fact case of the spirit of marriage lav ,v‘
be formulated? Mont assuredly, n 1 ,1
Now. from the standpoint of m u.
riagerevezee ghis use to that of free
love and see what would have "been: the
result had all those parties '00”! believ
-53m in and pnotixrm of that theory.
[We have not mom. fox further ex.
track. The fwd)“ is summ‘w
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