Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 18, 1880, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES. LIBERALISM, The Fourth Annual Meeting of the National League. A Hundred and Fifty Mem- bers Gathered in Her- shey Hall. Llizur Wright, the President, Makes a Tew Introduc- tory Remarks, Mrs. Coleman Announces Herself as a Firebrand, and Blazes Away. A Wrangle as to Whether Ool, In- gersoll Shall Bean Ad- viser. H. L. Lake Favors the Audience with a So- cialistic Speech. Mrs. Tho Many Glorious. Things Which the Liberal League Ought to Accomplish. The Veteran Pillsbury Assails the Christian Religion at Great Length. A Number of Othor Spenkors Mako Short Addresses—There Will Be a Ses- sion To-Day, ELIZUR WRIGHIS REMARKS, ‘Vno fourth annual Convention of the Na- tional Liberal Leagte began Its Iabors yea- terday at Hershey Hall, in accordance with aresolution adopted at the meeting held a year agg. There were delegates fram branch societies in Rockford, UL, Saginaw, Mich, Washington, D. C., atthe Creek, Mich., Deo Witt, la, Boston, Mich, Pittsburg, Mil- waukee, St. Johns, 1, New York, Gules- burg, Johnson, Vt., Denver, In., Bawrence, Kas., Kansas City, Mo., Baltimore, Harlan, In., Detroit, Mich. Rochester, N. Y., Burr Oak, Mich., Migin, Lanslug, Mich.. Norway, In, Florence, in., and Madison, Wis, By. actual count there were 188 delegates pres- ent, among whom wero the Hon. Ellzur Wright, of Boston; Parker Pillsbury, of Ver- mont; A. J. Rawson, of New York; A, Ue *Wher, of Rockford; J. P.Mendom, editor of the Inucalignior, Boston; I. 1. Wakeman ad T. C, Loland, New York; Mrs. Amy Vost, Rochester; Mrs. Lucy N. Col- man, Syracuse; LE. C. Walker, of Iowa; J. H. Burnham, Detroit, Mich,; and E. C, Spencer, of Milwankee, Owing to the failure of some of the officors of the League to reach the city In tine fora morning session, tha formal grthoring of tho Convention was postponed until the after- noon, ,The Congress was calted to:order at $ o'clock in the afternoon by the. President, ihe ony Elizur Wright, of Boston, who said: ‘Tho hour has arrived to which the Lengo’ adjourned. ‘This morning L was unhappily provented from being present to grect you by a detention of tho train, It is a great pleasure now to greet this assembly,—to Welcome thom to the fourth Congress of the National Liberal League. [Appiause.] This association is one of pertect Inunan liberty. Various as our opinions may be on a thousand subjects, we are united herd ina league to inake practical the self-evident truths on which the Government of our Re- public is founded. [Applause.] [tis for us io show that liuman charity of opinion only ean make this world really worth living in, LApplanses| We must have freedom o: thought, On that all virtie, all human happiness Is founded, [Applatuse. ‘he slave can never bo happy,—whothor It is worely his physieat frame that is in bondage or his soul. ‘His mind—the centre of lls conselousness—is really hin or her, and- every individual should have the right of thought; and.itis for the right of thought that “we assemble here, And the first thing for us to consider ts to accord to others’ nll that we ask for our: selves, fAppliuse.} I need not remind you of tha real object for whieh our League ‘Was organized, noi of the means by which We expect’ to reallza that object. It is tho separation of Chureh and State. In nino propositions wo say distinetly what we moun; and when we go abroad and meet the leaders: ofthe political parties we present to them. these ning propositions, every one of which isfounded in reason, appeals ta the cone selenee; however wo mny differ from them, or thoy from us, in other things, on this the: mist agres with us ff they are honest an free. But they are, uithapily, enslaved, Mental liberty is.a thing which ‘fs only Just. spreading in’ this country—whieh has only just Ludded; and itis for us to develop the Great germ tll it becomes an over Bhadowlng tree. [Applause.}) On a later ocension inay wish to address you a little more at length; but I can’t well do that until wo completo our organization, We Must have in an assembly of this kind some defnit order, or wo shall not, xet through with our busiiess—we stall effect nothing, . THE LABOR OF ONGANIZING In closing, the President suggested the ap- Polntment of Conunilters of Credentials sul Business, hy order that the League might know who were properly-authorized delo- Bates and proceed with whatever it lad to do in an orderly, business-like manner, Mr. 'f. 3. Wakeman, of New York, moved tho appolntocnt of a Committeo on Creden- tlala and Members, and tliat, on its report, tho League further appoint Committecs on Order of Business, Nom{nation of OMlcers, Platform and Resolutions, and Future Busl- hess, He also move to add to the Connult- teca thus to be appolnted tho President of tho Lengue and “our well-known, well: Wisher, and friend, Ingersoll” [ape Plauso), ng advisory member thereof, he motion prevailed. and the President Appointed Messrs, A, 1. Rawson, HH. Ta gieet and I’, I, Follett a Committee on Cre- entials, ‘ ‘The President remarked that the Leagno would be glad to hear short speeches while the Committee was transacting tts business, Mr oH. TE. Green thought it would, sivo thie if the Seeretary were to cull the list of Eaugues, and find out which wers repro- Sented, * pont suggestion didn’t appear to strike any- Mr. J. P. Mendum, of Boston, wanted to kuow ifn League would be excluded entire- Jy, becansy i iad nu scredlentinls, Gadiesated he President sald he supposed delegates Would by trusted on their word with the Bec- Tetary, and dayited all who had no creden+ tals to announce thelr names to the meeting. Ir, Meudom said he had been appointed a Tepresentutive from the Palne Mall Eiberat League, and, the Sceretary huving fallen sick, 9 Was tunable to get his credentials before leaving lone. Tho Seerctary told Mr. ofendom that he knew hin, and wouldn't reject him, thereupon moved over tothe left of the stage, seeblishod temporary headquarters there, Sudinvited the members to come and see hit. ‘They did go, turned uver to him their tredentlala, and the documents were in turn anded over to the Committee. be President aald there were doubtless Nes and .geutlemon present who were in ‘the babit of addressing auxillary leagues and other assembiles in behalf of the League, and Hguized if a certain Mra, Lake, or a Mra, Robert HE. Spencer, was present. Neither of | to the “Oso, Ue: these individuals responded, and there was n very awkward palise for a fow minutes, when Mr, Jolin Gage, of Vineland, N. J., ro- ported that he was the Secretary of the now defunct league in histown. Te knew that there were many people there who would taku n lively interest tn tho proceedings of the Convention, There were loud entis for Mr, ‘I. 3. Wake: man to make a speceh, bub he declined the Invitation, Ar, E.G. Walker was called for, but he failed to respond. A FEMALE FIREBRAND. Mrs, Lucy Coleman, of Syracuse, Ne Yu hoped that the time would not be wasted, but flat somebody would open the ball She thought {t Impotitle for the Convention tocall pon her, for sho wasn perfect fires brand, and always starting trouble, “She be- lieved the mission of the Lengua was not only to proclaim freedom, but to act; not only willing {0 snetifice others but theme selves on the altar of Iberty, ‘The Conyen- tlon met to settle the question that men and Women cowki say what they pleased, and send through the malls just what they pleased. [Applause] ‘There should be no subject so gncred, so deliente, that men and women could tot write nou it, and, having. written on It, thoy should have the right to send it where they pleased. Thoro was a woman present in the Conven- tion who. had written a book for which her publisher was put In jall, as was Sennett, their friend and co-worker, When the speaker was a girl tho anestion of the sexital relations was Kent gone eealed from her. {t was left entirely aloneta the discussion of the men. But times find changed. Women were discovering these things because they were the mothers of Atnerica, and, so far as she was concerned, sho would talk on tho subject when she pleased. Sho had been mobbed, but that made no difference. She would persevere In the exerelse of her personal liberty, Look at the jatls, poor-houses, hospitals, and other public’ inst{tntions, ‘They wers what the preachers enlled the outgrowth of Christhin elvilization, She was aid thoy called then Christlan, and she hoped they were filled with Christians. A new era had come, When she was o girl she read the Bible, and one text she al- ways remembered, “It is nat yood for man 1 alone.” She would wmend it by weit read, “It Is not good hor for women to live alone. ‘Th necessary to the other, Sha w the laws as thoy existed wore tho wo! She was glad that, no woman had a hand in making them. She did not believe that Wonen alone could make better laws than men, ‘The exporietiee of both was needed to inake good laws, ‘The questlon of the sexual relation was the questlon of the hour, and when that question had been determined by the Inw produced by the joint labor of men and women, there would be an cud of the ob- seenlty Inws., ‘This Inw ta put down the right 0 genic and write would: then pass away. Many of thosa present undoubtedly remembered when the temperance moye- ment began to: denounce what Is called aleohotic intemperance, ‘Thirty years or so ago it was shocking for a chureh to open its doors to 2 tempernnce lecturer, Now they gloricd in itand did It every day, But we hud to encounter a greater eyil than al- coholic intemperance, Jt was the evil of sexual intemperance. ‘This was the ques- tlon of the hour, and as soon as the horrible extent of the evil was understood, then would cone the beginning of the thus when obscenity would be no more. Then there were the clubs, these men clubs, and that greatest of clubs, tho Freomasuns, Wero they represented at the Brussels Congress? The Secretary—They sere, Mra. Colman—Did thoy: havo thelr God with them? I hope they td. ‘The Sceretary—Tho Masons who were rep- Tesented nt Brussels didn’t have auything to any about God, Irs, Colnian—I am glad to hear it, ‘Tho speaker at this {uncture, in looking around the room, caught a view of Mrs. Amy Post, of Rochester, whom she called Jatform, nnd introduced as “the orig- Inal abolitionist, woman sulfragist, splritu- alist, Wberal loaguer, and everything else.” rs. Post—Excont speaker, The benign-looking old Quaker indy was the recipient of many cheers and o vigorous pounding of canes and umbrellas, for mei GREEN'S GRIEVANCES. Hi, L, Green, Chairman of the Executive Committee, was pressed Into service pending the reappoarance of the Committee on Cre- dentlala, Intended this to bo a free country, but ittook along war to make itiree. Now there was another tyranny to bo gotten: rid of,—the union of Church and State. Churches wero exempt from taxation, and the taxes thus lost were thrown back, on the people. Protestants were thus conipelled to support | Catholic churches, and Free-Thinkers to sun port all sorts of churches. More than thnt, the Biblo and the Lord’s Prayer wore Intro- duced Into the schools, and he and all others were compelled to pay taxes to support this “mummery,” for it was nothing clse, Church and State were also united In wary, hs was seen in the Inte Rebellion, where the peoplson one side paid the Chaplains to pray for Jeff Davis and on the other side for Abe Lincoln, while the same Chaplains skulked in the rear, abstaining. from fighting, but coming out strong on tho praying business, While the hobbies of the incmbers of tho Leagno were many, thoy could all unite and dld all unite on the one great and pressing uestion of freeing the country entirely froin tho dictation of the Church, leaving every inan free to worship or not worship, pray or not pray, read this buok or that book, go and hear whom he pleased, and giving perfect imental Hberty to everybody, lis own sis- ter, for instance, held and promulgated views with which he had no sort of sym- pathy, Buton this great question of sepa ration of Church and, State thoy wero all . united. = Its justice was 50 apparout that — nobody = could op it, and) it would cut alike on all classes, Chirtations argued that where thay were na majority they had a. right to have the Bible read in setiouls, ‘Tho Kree- ‘Thinkers, on the other side, might claim with equal force tho right to have Tum Paino'’s *Ago of Reason” read tn places where they were In the majority every morn- ing on the pening of school. Oo only furs fico lay in entirely separating Church and Stato and placing all on an equal footing, But it was suid that the churches were God's property nud ought: to taxed, "Shouldn't Gad Almighty pay taxes on Js own property if that bu the fact,” asked the speaker ina voice of indignation, “just as wellas the poor min? What wo want Is supple Justlea to all, Injustice to none,” The remurks were highly neceptablo to the mixed audience, who applauded vigorously, COMMITTEES, Mr. Rawson, from the Committee, reported. that representatives of elghty-two Leagues had passed In their credentints, but thore were others present who were withholdhig the documents because they expected ather delegates. Ho had also recelved twenty-five prosics, Some lity Leagues had requested 1 him to supply proxles, and he would ba glad f porsons Willing to serve would report to him, ‘There were In all 200 Leagues; about 100 were represented, Dr, Humphrey suggested that the Presl- dont appuint the committees, so as to begin business, Varker Piabury said it seemed desirable that the Committee having chargeof thebusl- nese should determing ag soon ay possible whether there was to be a night session, Mr. Green sald Parker Pillsbury was to speak inthe evening. (Applause.] The President announced the following counnitteess Resolutions—T. TN, Wakeman, Parkor Pillé- kury, ie. O. M. Hechtman, 8, 8. Crackon, Mra, my Dost. Order of Husiness—T, O, Loland, Matthow Far- rington. fominations—H. L. Greon, B. O, Wulkor, Sirs, HLS, Lake, Loy N, Column, Future Work—H, O, Spencor, J, P, Menduas, INGERSOLY AS AN ADVISER, Messrs, Elzur Wright and Robert (i, Inger- soll were appointed advisory members of all cominittees, | °° : Mr, Woodhouse, of lowa, moved to recott- sider the voto by which Col. Ingersoll ond President Wright were added to all the com- inittees. While he had great respect and esteem for the gentlemen, he was ontirely opposed to the principle of their being puton as advisers to every Commmittes, He believed amen and women who caino to take part Inthe deliberations weye able to transact theif own ousiness without any supposed in- tellectual superiors belng pul on them to watch them as if they were children. fo Betis id fre yes ng suck ught or propose; object was the con- tra simply Yo honor those who had been serving them.'+ ‘ Mrs. Coleman suggested a way out by sub- atituting honorary Fi for“ advisory.” ts Ho sympathized, of. course, with, the League and'its objects. The fathors had- people learn to resect and honor tho Mr, Walker said that two Indies should also be put on the committees, Mr. Farrington was willing to take advice; it parle done har. Mr. Woodhouse did not belleve fn men Having the theht to give advice until the Con- ventlon asked for it, reen belleved tho President was eapable of giving good advier, Ag Chalr- main of the Convention, he could not be one of the Comimitter, but he could give 1h the benefit of his long experience, Phis same was also true of Col, Ingersoll. Both were towers of strength, and it wns just and propor that they should be given ho honorable position, Mr. McCracken did not belleve in making lords of any one, But Col. Ingersoll was recognized throughout the country asx one of the fenders of free and progressive thought, and for this reason he oped the reconsidera- tion would not prevall, ‘The President stited he would bo glad, to alive whatever advier he could, Hod Col, Ingersoll been present he would haye put. hh on the most. hnportant committee, ‘The Uresome di yo over this: trivind anhject ¢ ¥ half an hour, and ated ih by nearly every one pres- ailrinan put the question of recon- on, and it was rejected, Walker, who fotight tho appolntment |. Ingersoll, on any of the Conimittees, on the ground tint he did not. want any ad- vieo until he asked for It, made a “ big kick,” and ordered the Seeretary to orase his naine HP sramenberioe the Committee’ on Nomina- ng, Mrs, Amy Post was appointed one of tho Advisory Conpnittee; and then she asked that Parker Pillsbury be appointed also. ‘The gentlemun declined the honor, whercupot Mry. Post dil likewise. : Mr. Leland announced that Mra, Lake, of this city, would address the Congress in tho evening on “After Liberation, What?” and that she would be followed by Parker Pilis- bury. ‘itis, Vost, the kindly and the ancient, ex- plained that iis dls proved of the nomina- Hon of Col, Ingersoll becattse she lad never heurd of hls taking any interest or any net- ive part tn the Liberal League. She wag on ndmirer of Robert, but she dld feel as if he was not qualified to actin this position unless he wasn member, Mr. Green subd he had Just handed fn Col. Ingersoll’s eredentinisas the member from Washington, The Colonel was a menber now, and was one last year, and the Leagiie was indebted ta him, among other things, for having pall all the expensesof the Con- vention, which, he addsd, “wns o pretty goad thing for us? An_ old party from Town arose to move something, but was crowded out of tina by Mr, Green, wha fished pn lost kid glove and asked for the owner, ‘There were soveral other interruptions, but the Iowa party kept the flonr, aud finally suc- ceeded In moving that Carl Doerfflinger, of the Milwaukee Free-Thinker, bo added to the Committee on Resolutions. ‘Che motion prevailed. ie A REFORMED METICODIST. Mr. Green said ho thought It would be well before adjoutnimg to have a kind of benc- dletion, [Laughter.] Ife saw on the plat- fornia reformed Methodtst preacher from Michigan,—the Rey. Mr. Burnham,—and moved that, after hearlug from him, the Congress take # recess until 8 o’clock in the eventing, The reformed Reverend from Michigan was well received, and began by saying that reformed ministers seemed to ba the order of the day. ile saw a notice the other day ofa “moral circus’? whieh was traveling around the country, and it was announced, ag a rea- son why Christian people could afford to nt- tend, that the clowns were reformed minis- ters, [Great laughter.) . But the position oc- cupied by tha Lengue to-xlay was above everything that was mirthful. The Nation to-day was looking upon this little gather- ing, composed of men and women who wore trne to themselves, and who must nec- essarily be true to everybody else, Tha reformed Reverend saw in tho modern revolt against ecclestastical tyranny an exact parallel to the revolt which culiniunted 100 years ago in the Declara- tlon of Independenco—a document brought, forth before the Anicrican people without belng damned by anything religious about tt, Great applause] Jefferson and Paine applause) saw full well that It was neces- sury to go before the people with a Constitu- tlon containing nothing religious, Why refer now to these primitlye antece- donts Why organiza such oa learie? Simply because treason had been committed agalnat that glorious charter of Hberty,— treason agalnst the rights of the American ‘people. It was as true to-day as it was 100 years ngo that. etorual vigilance {s tho price of -, Uberty. Ecclesiastical = rulo wns seen’ everywhere,—in tho public schools, in tha. Legisiative halla, and elsewhere, And yeb many dreaded an ngita- tion of this question, though. in agitation lay tho anty possila remedy for the evil, “Go to the old polltien! parties of to-day,” ha con- tinued. “ Ldowtask anybody's pardon for what Lsay. In tho name of the God of Rea- son ask yourselves if. there is any. hope ofour enuse In them? [{Ferventeries of “No,” and applause, Suppose you goto these timura- hends of the parties to-day, and sound then, and find out how much they will give you for your vote,—how much they aro willing to concede, Whnt does It amount to? Do you not know that the party that lics back of ‘the President s tho thing that, controls, and not siinply the President, Thore Isn't 5. man that durst to-day, in the old parties, turn his Toho oe us and’ mean anything.” Cheers. : Onv party was afrald of one branch of the old Church, and the othorparty was afratd of another branch. If favors were be had nono to bestow, ‘Tho spenkor. hoped, tho name of all that was just, that the Leagua souk ask nothing of elther party. (Ap- nlause). : “Ilo referred to the Cincinnat! Congress of n year no, saying it was tho proudest dny of hls life when’ ho saw that splendid boty of men and women, ind, when hoe saw) what thoy were alining at, ho sald to himself there were men and women born in this age that would, In spite of the gods or tho dovils, be true to the people of this country: (Ap- plause,| ‘Tho saddest day of his lifo was when they let slip through their ingors the aplendid opportintty. le wanted a man that he could vote for without his, faeo be- ing covered with the blush of shamo {applanse), -- 1 mon thot was not nglimed to tell to the world that he stood won the formulated ‘principles of the Liberal party. Inthe present condition of things, vvery member could yote for whoin he chose, or not vote at all, “The reason for this was that they liad failed to meet the ex: peetations ofa year axe, ‘Thera was great work for the League todo, He was pleased with the spirit of the movement. No one asked, * WHLIt pay?"—the uppermost ques- tlon fn ecclesinatical brains and hearts, svemeil to him success was ineyltable,—thas It was auly a question of tine when the prine ciples of the League would be recognized everywhere in the country. If they went before the neopla on the Lesguo platform, ha helleyed the workl would be astontshed by tha number of votes polled. Ho belleved 20,000 would ba castin Michigan. All they’ needed to do was to let the people under stand that thoy meant lusiness,—thal they were nota tall to any political kite. | 1 was a question of duty.—a qyesen of right They should not only oe beral but not oral: and they shoulit go before the couptry on the platform of untversal mental {yerty and justice to every man, woman, and, £ id. (Applouse.) ii URGING ‘THEM ON TO WOBK, Mr. Spencer, In reapotisa to 9 foud call, mounted the platform and said. the Commit teo on Future Work would bo gigd to recelvo advice and suggeations from ¢very membor of the Convention, ‘The wer: to be dono in tho futuro was to deterngne whether tho Soclety would suceced, 10’ enable It to do éo they must study, thé condition of tue popular imtud, It was proper for the orgunization to adhere closely to Its platform, There was great wisdom tn tho saying In the “Old Book,” “He that ts fultbful in few things shall be made ruler of “mans 2 Concentration was what was wanted, Suck to your alm, be continuous of purpose, nnd ‘though there night he temptation to take up other questions of intorest to the people, the Society should not attempt more than Tt could accomplish. in the Liberal League It wis not necessary ta discuss the logicul questions, to do away with the conn ton between Church and State. In MHiwau- kee, and throughout the country, there were devout men and women who wero heartily in favor of the separation of Church {roi State. Many of them would uo doubt be Rl to joln in with the Liberal League were {t not that many of the Lengue were given to afreedam of expression on religious ques | tions that thoy liad no sympathy with, The speaker urged a truly generous spirit a kindly and diberal reward for the religious yiows of others, ‘Then would the religious als, and then all creeds woul be one people for glorious ends. i Mr. P. Mendum, of.’ Boston, urged a Prompt attendance this morning and earnest work during the sessions of: the Convention. Tle urged hls hearers not t@° belteve in the soft promises of the Christian when talkin aboutthe rights of the Liberuls. (Laughter. Neither candidate for the Presiteney dare zo hack on the religtous conibunlty whenever the rights of the Libernly were voneerned. The veople were in danger from on consolidated Catholicism, a) consolidated Protestantism, and a tonsolldation of the two to deprive them of thelr rigiits, The time had come when thd Htherals should Ee ce a third party, and ran it, year in nail yerr out, until vietary perched on its banners. It was the the Boston Jnreatigqator which was the means of -cbnverting Col, Ry (i Ingersoll, {Cheers, and cries of “ Good,” “Good! Give is, Hun truths) Yes, the thine had arrived when it beeame the Liberals to have nothing mors to do. with their op: ponents, but. to stand up for themselves on their own platforin [eheets}: aud on this iatform of the fullost enoyinent of personal Wberty feht it aut antl all the people be came fmbued with tts principtes. (Cheers,] The speaker closed with urging prompt nt: tendatice, enrnest worl, and the absence of “flandoodte ” speeches. Adjourned tls o'ctock. ATTER LIBERALISM, WHAT? When the hands of the Presicent’s wateh annouticad the hour of 8 he promptly called tho assembly to order, aud called upon the “yoluntecr musteian to inaugurate a con- cotrse of sweet sounds, Ib was like calling uplrits from the vasty docp, for he failed to materialize, Eg Mrs. H. 5. Lake, of this. city, was Intro- duced, and said that the subject of her ad- dress was “ After Liberalisi, What?) Sho had two reasons for askIng the question, the first being tho absolute success of the cause, and tho second being the spiritual paralysis that many say Is likély to follow. Suppose the community should change tuto one of Liberalism only; there would be no church; the Bible be Iatd on the shelf along withthe’ Hindoo Vedas. Suppose the old superstitions and «the Christin religion thrown overboard, then, * After Liberalism, What?” What then showld wo do? Did they ask for more than the enjoyment of phystea! pleasure? Did not the white-robed angel of thought beckon us onto an tm- proved growth and cultire? “If 80,” sho went on, “thon wo need thought, speuch, converse, song, tines and places for crowth and cultnre, [Applattse.) And beyond this, havea wd no obligations ? Are there adulterated zroceties in, our mar: Dowe keepany? Aro there unsound fabrics, and are those articics of trade in our Have we shrewd and unserupulots yen? Have we pny. poor, sick, forlorn, or dead in our midst? 1s ry man’s an Wonlan’s word as good as A bond? Have we anybody in our jails? Is anybody hungry down the strect ? “Are we conselous of even moderate indifference to the Interests of our fellow-belngs 2 1fs0,—and these thingsare fret, —if theso exist with a Christian superstition swept entirely away, then L affirm without. fenr of contradiction that after the triumph of Iberalism, after your separation of Churely and State, of which we hear so much, there is work, honest, earnest, Intelligent, per- ststent work for ourselves and for othors, [Applause.| We must cultivate by the im- pilse of nssocintion Nabest charity, syin- pathy, friendship, generosity, justice, un- seltishness.”” Bs _ We would toil to nequire facts relative to art, sclence, Bovernient and religion, We would have no Jesus to help us to be goad; we must, therefore, help ourselves and each other, After Ilberalism came fraternity, which meant brotherhood, All. were mem- bers of ono family. There was not 1 nan or woinn on the face of the globe In whom’ they had not some interest,—interest in his Rrowth advance, health, nnd intelligence, Ve could not. aspire to being tho capstone of ereation—man and woman—unless we grew outof self. Nobody could feed his being on pure Intellect; nor nourish tho spiritual fac- Ulties upon physical food. ‘Therefore, there were other things than. those which per- tained to the matorial worltl, which libarals ng well as others woraconscious of. At Con- cord, for two summors, there had been 9. school of philosophy... The topics discussed: wero ng varied as the m ip Is of the particl., and, the" nec evhour, ‘Cheir. ogres it, was. ‘ominently. good; but in the speaker's optnion it was not tho highest object which could influence a gathering of pcople. -To keop alive tho great thoughts, the herole purposes, tho sublime endeavors for the welfare and advancement of the human race, should be the oblect anl- mating the assembly and all Individuals wherever they wera and under whatever in- tellectual conditions. fApplause.] THE NEEDS OF HUMANITY. She could not concelyeot a worthler object upon which Liberals could bestow thoir at- tention than the pressing needs of humanity which -were to be suppliet by this brotherhood,—this fraternity. These needs were; Tho climinntion from the world of povorty, of crime, of ignorance, of discase, and, possibly, of death, [Applause.] Whon a body of, people engaged in thls, they passed out of the old {nto the new era, ‘Tho old era had taught from tho pulpits that the fils which destroyed the harmony and perfection of the world must bo endured, beenuse, In the Providence of God, they ware never intend- ed to bo removed. [Laughter] We Ind nowhere a pulpit inthe land wlilch tanght the poor man anything else than that hy must accept his poverty asa part of Cod's non. understandable “benetleence. Popes and preachers were continually thundering annthemns against .the Soclalistic Inbor moyemests which = sprang + entire! and whol: out of the growth of thought {appt 80), which, as Hberalism, proclalmed that no man had aright to get hold and keep. what he could not we while hig. less fortunate fellow was hungry, ragged, hoinglesy, and forlorn. [Ap- planse.] Shodutnotmean thatthe Church had hot always had her. boneyvotent and her char Itablo institutions ;-but these were built upon. the presumption (hat: tho fortunate money: getters, howeves they might have acquired their wenlth, wero entitled to: ft, while he who could get nothing was entitled only to the dignity of boggur or charity recipient, "This had beet tho: position of the Church, as to the question of-dudlyidual righttophysleal existence, Liberalism had generated an one tirely naw.thought. It was te the liberal tendencies of the ago that wo awed Soclallatic, nancial, eight. hour, and other Iberal reforms, LApplatie,y ‘To Liberylism wo awed the recognized fac “wad evidently -Bef-oulture, “and T: at dd | -the Bunshine infidel would fu ‘The subject of the lecture was that tha Things of this world were not made more for the shrewd aud the enleulating. the elosg and the alshonest, than they nre for the od, and the true, and. tho spiritual, who, Fee een, Pt it .rgspondingly in the organ of aca eBS, Andi Wary ale belleved, to the last Liberal -Ponvention ut Clnelnnat! that they owed the first public proclamation that hereafter, tm- wense wealth accumulated and owned by one individual, or a few, would be considered by the intelligent not as a inerit, butusa reproach and a crime. One of the duties which they owed thomselyes and the age was to stab with cternal opprobrinm aud reproneh the man, or mien, or women, who, wile thofr fellows agonized, tolled, and wut. fered, held the use of limmense sums of monoy for thelr own personul Regrundlze, ment and their own selfish ends. | Applause, And the fraternity which was to succeed Libernilsm would seo to it that this erling-be- wotting power was Hinited In Its exercise, and the principle ‘of justice entered Into the law now manifestly 60 unjust, ‘Tho voice of the breadleas, the votce of tho houseless, In short, the voleo of the ma- fority, rose up against the voice of the il nority, saying, * We can get nothing, What ahall we take?? And it was for Liberals to study and answer these questions, . ‘There Was something In the demand, but notovery- thing, to know when and where intidellty had“established and maintained hospitals, Wiere Christianity insulted the human race with tharity, it was the withunte purpose of IAhevultsit to substitute justice, |Applause, ) Religion wus responsibly for most of the ex- tremes at both ends of society, for it had ever cultivated charity and ignored justice, (Apptnuse. Jt reared churches pen which God — pald no taxes, and pinched the poor to propitiata ‘anangty Jehovah, [Applayse.J It levied ithes on everybody and everything, making 6 poor poorer, aid God, who owned every= thing, richor, fApplause} Liberalism—in- fidel morality, if anybody chose to call it— empsnsized man’s obligations to man, It told nen to bulld better houses, to obey the Jaws of health, and to live cleanly lives, ‘untih man took his place as the recipient of favo hitherto bestowed upon Go Applause.) ‘The Liberal must carry hla convictlons Into political life, and thore was no principle that could be established In this country except through the ballot-hox, Every Liberal who desired the elevation of tho race would find himself face to face with the great question of the rights of labor as well 8 the xe; Hon of the Church and State. [Applau The datyoet liberalism in relation to the ballot-box waa the: next chapter In the falr speaker's exsay, [ast year, sald she, there was a Liberal confined in, the Albatne Vent Ing shoes, Incarcerated there eof his political lberty, ‘The Liberals took up his cause, and efforts were made to start a party. ‘The Liberallst who hind not fastened his convictions to the ballot for the hnprovement of Inbor belonged to the oll creeds, through which. the Inboring classes had been ground inte wbject slavery, Applause.)] Tiberallsm would not stop sunt it liad: formed a system by whieh, every person, «ripple and capitalfst, could better his conditlon, Honest Jtberalism joyfully accepted tho task set before her, There isan assoetation now in New York, putting forth untiring work for the Interests of humanity. It was common to say that every, man and woman was responsible for his or her own condition, ‘The assertion was not true, for If itwere they would all be Weiliugtons, Grants, Vanderbiits, and Stew- arts, Grant was not more Iuborivus, not more ambitious than Andrew Jackson Davis. Grant went to Europe and was dined and whied by the monarchs of thnt section of the globe, while Andrew Jackson Davis wis paid $8,000 for getting up a code of morality that would satisfy mankind for several ages. {Laughter.) DI. WILLIAMSON'S HELI, Mrs, Luke switched off at this polnt to pay her respects to the Rev, John WHilamson, of this city, who, Ina late sermon, had deliv- ered himself of something which did not ex- actly accord with her own advanced fdeas on things. According to Mrs, Lake, the rev- erend gentleman had claimed that morality —that fs, Infldel religion, if she night coln a word hardly pertnissible—never had made, and never could make, a single man cour- ageous when facing the future; that nothing could do this except faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. [Derision,} It was easy to affirm to the contrary, but thot was not sufliclent. ‘The itberals must prove by their lives that, after Nberation from the creeds, they still had serenity, Joy, and pence, and satisfaction with the awful Unknown; must prove to thelr neighbors, friends, and familles that they Nad that reliance upon the universe of Natura which the Christian had upon his Christ and his God. [Applause] Again, tits snine reverend gentleman had said thet consclentiousness could not be sup- plied by-anythinss but a bellet in Christianity. ‘The lberats must prove to the contrary. In- filels, materlalists, and unbellyers of all Kinds should he so jesious of this element of ‘their character—consclentiousness—that tho Jateat microscope would nat discover a flaw, spot, or blemish in it, [Applause.} 'Thel should prove that regard for humanity was u more mighty incentive to Mpriaitive Ing than the anticipated pains of Flell or the autle pated rewards of Heaven, [Great ap- pliuse, Agali, this Mr. Williamson had dentod to unbeliovers another element of character,— hopefulness regarding the ultimate end of the Individual and the race, contending that nothing but theChristian retigton could sup- ply that ineateulable bellef Inthe tinal good Which had a tendency to inake wen martyrs, heroes, and, philanthropists, Now, if thera was one thing, more than another, which could not be ‘taken away from the man of sclence,—the reflective Iniitel,—it was hope, unbounded faith, in the eternal progresston. of the world and the race. He had no angry and revengefil God to encounter, no devil to avoid, other than the devil of Jgnarance, and so he could not but. hope for the final growth, and perfection, and happiness of the worl [Applauae.] . But they were ugain told by the reverend entheinnn that Interest and sympathy in thelr fellows could not exist outside of Christianity, She aight bring forward a Jong list of Infidel laborers in the world’s be- half, but why, shoukl she be compelled to prove the falsity of this statement any more y their Hves than by the lives of her hearers; sho did not underrate the heartfulness which had dotted the globo with homes, houses of refuge, and “charities, but she did contend that the triumph of liberallsm must and would result in greater and, bet- ter things; tinh, after the emancipation from creeds, the feelings wow be brought into play on the brond Uasls of {uses bat iberals were tha class of people. o build Ubrarios and sustain’ lyenams, to support schools, advance cobperation, Invite sconimunal .experiments, and univerdal: suf Tare, to purify government, and ‘refonn the Individual, LApplanse.] Would they hero- Jeally face the issue? ‘The summer.jiperatand jcoming coniltct shrink from the issue uhavolilable to him, who bravely stoot lis 2xround ‘and battled for the rico, aud who would gain n rund reward,--his own souls? approval, Fxpplaused “Sho could not promise ‘nore thin this.” “I cannot tell, you,” she went on, “that God will smile, and devils frown, on your tffarts to bless your fellows, but I can'say that the consciousness of duty -nobly done will ba rewsTt enough to men sand wowen who, though: they Iny no clulm to baying found 2 Gad, have done a better thing—«destroyed the Dovil.” [Laughter and applause.) iE ft tho year to come, there would bo seen a world belaliter thiyt the Christinn’s hope or the philosuphior's Hepa. Thero will bono poor, Ho erlme,. no disease. It will be we blessed time when mn shall work not for God, but for Mbarty; not for Christ, but for IL}s brothers, [Prolonyed ‘Applause.] PARKER PILLSBURY. Mr. Parker Pillsbury wis the nextspeaker, and opened his speech with o graceful trib- ute to Mrs, Lake's addrass, In which he “quoted largely from the Bible, particularly those passages describing how the young women engaged In the work of prophesy!ng, ‘After this he drew from his pocket a roll of manuscript, from which hoe began to read at the rate of about 200 words ‘a minute, and the audiguce wero afforded very few oppor- tunitles to Indulge in any applause, “Eyo- lution in Morals and Politics,” a8 il- lustrated in the history of the United States. ‘The essay was dovoted. ta the two themes of Woman's Rights and Female Suffrage” and * God in the Constitution,” After n brief allusion to the doctrine of Evolution, as described Darwin, Huxley, and other philosophers, Mr, Pillsbury sald’ thers was In this country 0 National: Board of Health which was ‘trying to vacciiute the Constitution (laughter); to inject a cowpox Into It with the hope of cradleating hnag- inary evils; but. the actual ovils exist- ing “under the Constitution this National Board of Health studiously avolded. Al- though tt was clilmed to be 8 Government of tho peuple, for the people, by the people, yet one-half of the Inhabitants, and the best half at that, were donled the rightof suffrage, und kept {na state of serfilony, Suppose women were people, a part af the people mentioned in the Constitution, why wero they not elect. edas well as electors? ([Cheers.| Women pag taxes and were Ilable to be hung, but hoy had no voice in the making of the laws,- ‘The doctrine of | Mberty sald no taxes should bo levied unless with the consent of the taxed. liad the consent been asked? Women wero somo times illa- bolically divorced, us they were sometimes allabolleally: married, Women mado no divorce Inwa, ln some countries there wero Jaws regulating houses of prostitution, to which muy poor women wore une italy driven becalise they could not earn enough to lye upon. These women wore registered, but were thelr inale visitors registered 1 City-Hall? In the City of Hamburg thero wore 10,000 licensed wonien of the town; und it thay were pullgal to produce cers ificates showing that they regularly attended church and partook of tho sacruinent, {Laughter.)} ‘These women of ‘the town were subjected to occasional surgical ex arntnations, but thelr mule visitors were ox- eh Whi was it that women were so treated, ‘Tho hod-carrler got twice th salary of the skilled hougomald. ‘The woman who sit fered the pangs of maternity without the rites of the church was, never forgotten. The man whose wife died could marry, and use tho funeral baked meats. for the wedding feast. Th woman whose husband died could not i da so without being madv the subject of satire aud scorn. ‘omen were taxed, but they had no voico in determining the amount et the taxes ta be ralsed. aut the. Brith isters, of Glastonbury, hui moral sup- porkot ‘a Lafayette, a3 ‘in the days of the tution lo. He » would the tyrant have fo nd ils eéxington? {Cheers na AUKE rs, SY] these Doctors o| Piahetand God het suck divinity) had 9 Infidels had set tight of protection Divinity ( ald that 60) a: claim to in thelr belleft! The good Doctor denied ht to such claim, any right and = was in favor of crushing any such fellows, at- tempting to overturn soclety, like « viper. Cries of pune Hl The viper-crushing had already begun. One victim had gone to Europe, he was sorry to Bay sorry becatse a trip to Europe reniinded him too forcibly of the proverbial ministerial sora throat, of which he had never heard of go desperate a case but that a trip te Europe would cure It provided the parish paid the expenses rut supplied the pulpit during the minister's ab- sence. [Great laughter} But why this talk about Godl in the Constitution? Certainly in fact, Hf notin form, He was already there, and wornn, lie supposed, by the grace of God and Garfield, was to be Kept out, If pos sible, (Loud Inughter.] CHURCIE MAXA'TION. Mr. Pillsbury next turned his attention to the question of church taxation, pointing to the fret that in his own native State of Mas- sachusetts one-cleventh of the entire taxn- tion of the whole Commonwealth was placed on the women of the State. What did tho Church know about lard times? Gol was Tich, and {lis children seemed to be heirs to the estate quite before their Father's death. {Great Jaughter.] Christianity ruthlesly plundereil the peopte and. picked their pock- etx of millions and millions of «dollars every year for its own exclusive use and beneflt. | Forty years ago this very month ho! began publicly and privately to warn this Nation against linpending peril nso just punishment for tho crimes and crucities of Southorn chattel slavery, No word of bls, no thunder tone of Garrisott, no mellow ele. quences from the golden lips of. Wendell Phillips, no softer persuasion of womun's’ heartand voice availed. ‘The Church, the priesthood, both the then great politleal par- thes, every public religious denomination, ry college and university. and especlally every well-endowed theofogtenl semincry, was conunitted to slavery and welronec slaveholders to its pulplts ‘and srernmentid fens!s, a8 well ag to the public civil ofliccs ta the giftolthe beople, But the flash of cannon aud columblnd, the peal and the appentof tililions of musketry, and the blood and tho #roans of hundreds of thousands of dead and dying young men, availed at Inst, and con- yerted “at Jeast the North, Then who was Tleht? . Garrison, who was denotnced as an Intidel all those thirty years, was hoe right or was he wrong? “Do you remember,” continued ,the vet- eran ngltator, when he appented fora spot to stand on to plead the cause of the le pressed, and was denied every place avall- able, and when he mlvertised that he wont address the people from Boson Common? Do you remember who ft was that sent him word ‘We haven little room; its a lune ble place, but the best we have, an ff you will. aceept ft ig yours for an anti-slavery lecture, - "It was Abner Kneeland who made that response. [Great applatse.} And Garrison and Kneeland from that day until slavery was abolished were only known as infidels. God be thanked for that? [Great applause) ¢ But now the people were asleep again, and a worse than Southern slave power was clutching at the Naivonal heart-strings. [Applause.] Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, who was notlong azo gue of the aspirants for the Presidency when there was such a Hoattide of patriotism, and whole platoons of them were ready to come forward and serve the country for $50,000 per nn- num, introduced ‘an’ ainendment to. the Constitution in 1t¥ fayorahle to the Goil- in-the-Constitutton Soclety; which indorsed lilm by resolution gt its ext inceting and des clared that the adpption of Iiis amendment would settle forever the Christian character of the Constitution, ‘Chat ninendinent was Jost in the Senate by only four votes, nil the yotes against It belng Democratic, and all tn Its favor Republican, .[Applause.} You needn't tell Gen. Hancock and Gen, Garficld anything about this,’? continued the spenker, “ beenuse that night express a preference for one or the othér of them’? [Laughter] Tho saints presumed that the sinners had no rightsthat they were bound to respect. Thely muthority, ws they asserted, reached up to the great white throne. But lt was time the people tookthe part of plaintht, and he, for one Proposed to commence a sult forth- with, Was It not os great sin to enslave our- selves ay to enslave anybody else ? It seemed. to hin that freedom was as inuch nv duty ns Wns penitence or pray LAuptane, _ We, were told tan thousand tines that the negro dtdn't Know enough to be frees but the whits voter-to-day didn’t know too intteh to voto ‘hiself a slave and exccute the law of his own making, The State supported tho Churoh for. votes, and the Church ministered tothe State when it wanted Indulgences,” Sunday Jegisiation. Bible in the public schools, Gad in the Constitution, non-taxa- Hon of church and other religions property,— in such mills the people were grinding them- selves to powder,—In the name of a sorcerer: enlled legisintion, were grinding themselves to powder in the name of religion and for tho honor of their God. dle spoke of the construction of non-chureh taxution laws, Men bought valuable city lots and-reared on them cheap Nttle shanty ehurehes, whieh, by the solemn mockery of a dedication to God, were exempted from the yisits of the assessor and tux-gatherer; hotd- alter 4k profession. Rut ho is barcl, with ba\honith much {nptoved, ho ay chants to have\ years of vatinblo work and de- yelopmen before him, = Hin fathers Dr. Nattntel Langioa Frothingham, was: ‘7 whon héwdied, and hie: mind waa clear and, vigorous ‘to ‘tho Inst, ‘Jtis twonty-ono years sitice tho son vemoved toNew York from Boston, and for nincteen of there bo proached to the soctotyof whics, until Litely, he hail ministorlat chargo. steadily’ growing out of Unitarianiam . | into Matfonallem. Ho topped, a yond while Hae tho prefix of rovorend, nnd ‘hna ever since nimed to be n lecturera guide in ethtcsand life, hot a Gergynnin or pastor. As he fs peountarily intlepaident, he caw better afford than most Mterary mon to follow tho tnenelully unro- Intnerative trade of authorship, He has long bad soveral literary plans on hand, which he has never had thing to carry ont, Inconjunction with his tnlaisterial dutiesyand thoso plans wit! no doubt, chal bis eurtiest attention. Under the circumstances, inany of Frothingham's fol-, Jowers, who. buve been call Frothipg-. hannltes thelr,. medent: ay fa his tenchings, wll, -in all tkelihood, at- tach thomeelves to tho Hoclety for Ethical ing Such property: until the growth of the city and the rise of real estate enabled them to realize fortunes on the very sinallost in- yestinents. Ie hoped a man from Milwan- kes would tell about the vcres upon acres there, whore half-n-dozerr burled bodles kept all tho devils and tax-gatherors olf that holy ground. u spoke of ‘Tremont ‘Temple,: Which. howover, since 1873 hind been taxed for §160,000,—only. one-sixth of its appraised value, and not more than a tenth of Its actual value. aAdverting to a meeting of Abolutiontsts there, In honor of Jotn Brown, he said that the death af Brown, ox- ecuted by the. Government and religion, was more hefole than anything since the tragedy enacted at Mount Calvary, Churches escaped taxation while the humble homes of widows and orphans lind to pay thelr share of the pubis burden, and somo of them wera soli every year by the tax-guther- ers, ‘Town, County, State, and Nation must annually take thelr terrible toll of all available taxable propurty,—from rich and poor, from men and women, ull alike,—yet Jands and houses stamped by the Christians’ signet—uillions on millions In cash amount—were with few exceptions bil- Jeted toll-free, fare-free, tax-free, all down the ages under the monstrous pretense that they all belonged tu an invisible and wn kuowable Gow, But tho. hour of the peopio would come at Inst, ‘They might wait long, batit would come. Itenme in France less than 100 pears ago. “Let tho tiatlons,--lot this Nation remember tt well, for it knows not yet the full meaning of that dread catas- trophe.”: lf it did, It would nat bo 50 soon entering on a return to sinvery. Wo never emancipated the slaves through justice nor through morey, It was to save our selves, ‘They were our forlorn hopo, Hy their blood “and thelr valor our Natlonalit: was healed, Jefferson, Washington, Patrick Henry, wero less enslaved than was the wite of the Presidont of the United States at the present four, If our law-makers, whatever helr party naine, were stich vassals to any forelgn power as thelr wives and mothers were to them, they would wage warfare tobe free, and deluge both hemispheres In human gore. And human blood might yet be the pricy of woman's cnimnelpation, as it was of 10 ciancipation of the slave. “Yea, anil It mnay,—L wish J did not feel Inpelled to Bity It mush be the price of our deliverance, tov, from the dominating despotisin vf a murcl- less religion and (ts) remorseless priesthood, And blood will continue to be the lawful tender for Hberty at every counter, til tyrants temporal and tyrants spiritual shall learn to know that the gods mada the human soul yoleunies and wo to that tyrammy that dares uneap ils deepest fires!” (Appliuse.] After the reading of several announces ments of interest only to the wudience, the Conyentlon adjourned till 10 o'clock this morning, Frothingham Withdraws from the . Pulpit. New York Times. Tho announcement by Octaylus H, Frothlogs ham of bie intent to relliquish bly calling ue preachor, and to pursue hencoforth thy pros Yession of Mterature exclusively, hug caused reat surprise wud Hleappelntinent to tho sneme ers of bis soulety in this alty, and to muny of his friends und adilrers ‘throughout the country, It cau bardly be 8 surprise, hows over, tO some of bia intimates, who have long been aware of big strong Icantny to letters, wreand simple, and of his belief that ta thut Held be could do more good than tn tha palo oron tha platform. —Mepeatedly during tho last Nfwen yours bo nus been, it ts sald, on the point of taking tho step on which ho has Just decided, Hs progont sojourn abroud has, as hu writes to his frlouds, erystallized bla purpose and onsbicd bin to sco more clearly the superior advantages of tho written over the spoken word. Ho confesses that it in very hurd for him to asunder tho ties that have bound bim for #0 many pleusant and froiktul years to bis soclo- ty; but bo Js perfectly contident that ho can Bale. the cause of Ilberatiem and humanity, sub- stantially one, ba gl the change be is about to make, th m's Instincts are unquestions ably Iltorary. Hoe volougs to tho study rathor than to the rostrum, to the departinont of thought and ‘scholarfhip moro than to the world of action, and bo will now be more tn bia own atmosphero than bu bas over secu, lt may sccm to some persons somowhat late for bim to Culture, of which Prof. Fellx Adier Is the front and foundation and bins been from the first. A nitintier of them baye teen attending Prof. Ade lors lecturosaltico Frothingham's departure for Rurope, some eighteen months since, No new soctety wil be formed, at any rte. Tho bul. of its members are too Individual in opinion and character to carv for any organization now that the maf thoy 80 much admire has surrendercd ° his ofite and returned them, sotospeak, to their + puraly philosophic sol yf BOSTON. Lelebration of the 'fwo Hundred and Fiftioth Anniversary of Its Settles ment. Boston, Sept. 17.—Tho weathor Is beanti- ful, and the streets along which the proces- I sion isto pass.and adjacent thoroughfares | are'so crowded that it fy difleult to move on | them. Business is entirely suspended. ‘The Nterary portion of the celebration was held in the Old South Church at9 o'clock. The Governors of States and Mayors ‘of eltles, the Invited guests of the elty, ocen- pled platform extending the entire length of the church. Mayor Prince delivered tho oration, ‘The delivery occupied two hours, and atits conclusion the Mayors and guests were taken in carziages and escorted Into the line of procession, ' The city is profusely decorated, and’ pre- sents n very gay and attractive appearance. : at preelsely 13 o'clock the grand procession moved necording to program. ‘The procession, the finest snd most com- mete by far ever witnessed here, was : three hours and fifteen minutes passing o given polnt. ‘The sollierly bearing of the Masga- - chusetts troops, nnd the fine marching af the New York regiments, received the npplauso of tha vast throngs on the line of imarch. ‘The reception glyen the Sixty-ninth, Thir- teenth, and Twenty-third New York Regi- nents al along the route was a perfect ova- tion, When the New Yorkregimentscame|n « sight they wero greeted by the wavin handkereliiefs, clapping of lands, and foud*. hurrahs, and as. they passed the cheer was . taken up by thousands statloned along the : Hine, S ‘The Seventh Division, which was made up ; af’ representatives of the various trades of \ Koston, was one of the most attractive feat- ures ot the whole beautiful and extensive SILOM. here were In lina many historic and: hlehly-prized emblems of the past. In the Grand Army ‘ranks was borne a flag which tallled, the colored treous at the assault on Fort Wagner, ‘The exniblt of tire-cnglies, with its engine of 1860 and of 1880, marke the great improvements made in the last twenty years. Musical organs of 1853 and plutios of 1823 and 1890 were shown in com- parison. Shocmaking In the primitive da: was shown by a journeyman at; his bench, and the process of thanufacture employed at the present time by the yarlougs boot and snoo jnachines now fn use, the power. being fur- nished by an engine fitted for ‘the occasion, ‘The old chaise In which Gen, Lafayette rodo j In 1824 was put in coinparisol, with one of : the best pattern,- The blocks used to throw * down the old frigate Constitution occuplad a place, and atfracted much attention, “ The following dispatch was recelyed to-day by Mayor Prince: . .. - ‘The Historicul Society uf Bt. Louls to tho City: of Boston sends yrcetings Honor und congratue * lations for her must, and best wisbos for her fut- ure. Ly voto of the Society. x » ALaKRT Tenn, Vieo-Prealdont. In the evening the inultitslg turned their way- to tho paridg_crounds on 6 Common: to hear the concert by G' Haioke's. band. - “Tho. entlre ground: was ituminated bright-as day by three elect lights, whose combined power of $0,000 candles gave without duubt the most brilliant Uhunination ever scen in this country, ‘The-band gave an excellent concert, mid betore it was ended the ~- crowd had swelled fo enormous proportions, . and probably included over 100,000. people. Yet, with ‘nil thts vast assemblage, there seemed to be 10 decrease in the crowd onthe various streets near the” Common, and . through the route of the grand evening dem- onstration, which was amost fitting closin; of tha yaried exercises commemorative of + Boston's birthd: a “ HUMOR, +. ' ‘Tho iron horse lings but one ear—the en+{ gineer, i A hackman’s {dea of hire education—i Knowledge how to charge, . as Lay up something for n rainy day, if 1 is: nothing more than the rheumatism.” oe The Yellow who picked up the hot penny4 orlginated the remark, “All that glitters Is-| eh not cold,’* a “Yes,” sald Johnny, “lapsis may be the Jutin for ‘slp,’ but when mother Japs us {t+ ustilly menns a slipper.” vd Some unidentitied exchange has discovered: that the god of lawyers ts More-fee-us. | Tho. got of the undertaker is probably A-pall, Of “Now this 1s what I call business,” re- marked a Brooklyn tndertaker, ag an titer fortunate gentleman stepped Into his store: and dled. 3 tue When aman keeps on talking to you after he hus sald A word to the wise fa sufii- cient,” the time to take summary vengeance Nas arrived, gate “You wero not at poor Maurice's funeral??.; “No, I was not thore,” “You did not treat him well? © Balt he will not come to mine, + so We ure quits.” . A modern novel has this thrilling prssago: “With one hand he hold her beautiful golden head above the chitling wave, and with the other called loudly for assissance.” i ‘Tha Bridgton (Me.) Newa calmly says:, “The types last weal made us say that ‘the, showers wore not sufliciont to mect the wants of milkmen,’ ete, Instead of-‘millmen,'” Seven Leavenworth doctors gathered: around a man who fell on tha walk, Four. eniled Ita ease of sunstroke, and the other threo siid It wasafit, Along camo a small boy and proved that it was bananas pool. As they were nbout to hang an Irishman ~~ in London, one of hls friends who had coma to witneas the ceremony erled: “I alwaya’ ' told you you would como to this!” “ And you always Ned! I lave not come,—I was, roughty : ‘ Prof, Redd, of London, has figured out the exact age of the world, which le sets at 600,- 000,000 yenrs, but as he neglects to give the day of the month at which Ut started there Is very little encouragenient to try to getup & eentennial celebration, ; It was tho first experience a couple of Vere mont men had enjoyed with a hammock, and the fellaw who tried to step Into [¢ and then liv down, went over head tirst and got his vose ronted into the ground and scooped a lutof dirt into hig mouth, On getting up he suid (a is drieud:." Don't try it tak way. And the friend indignantly raped You bet L won't! Do you tike me fora ————————_—— A Pen Skeioh of 11 'T. Stowaurt, 'T, Stuwart, now at home peels, {a ous ud uppears to enjoy ber widow. hood, Sho fe animatod and jovial; ts reported, tw have a very extensive wardrobo, including. more than 100 gowns of thu latest mode, for morning, evening, walking, driving, breakfast, junchown, dinner, revoption, thoutres, opera,” purty, and other entertainments it is necessary: to dress for, Bho ty ovideutly renewing ber, youth, for eho ly over 8, During ber buaband's ife sho was kept iu tho background and wus, rircly over In socloty, with or without him, She 13a queereloaking little woman, and {s repro=. sented ag being Very kind and Benovolont, qiv= ing genorously, both publicly aod privately.” Al worthy: porson always rucelvos a hearjng from: her, and she gives without ostentation.. bho ane tertains handsomely when at Saratoga, where. sho bas o spleudid suitoof apartments, Bhe drives out often in a neat coupé with two a ind chestnuts, and coachman and footman in dark groen, She is continually troubled with letters oF inguiey: regarding, Stewart's Beare and the man Stewart dead scems to attract more atten. tion than the man Stowart ever did allve. _ —$— of mourn ff your corns with the © Japanese Corse, rile i wilt surely ouro and end pain. 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