Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-01
THE RADICALS in COUNCIL.


FREE LovERS-SrIRTuAiIsr MEDIUMS
Northumberland ALL SORTS OF QUEER PEo-
PIE, &c, &c.
We noticed, the other day, that the odds aud
ends, rag, tag and tail of all sorts of isns had
congregated at Rutland Vermont, to take into
consideration the general state of all the agita.
tons of the day. We find in tie last n. Y.
Daily Times, graphic report OF what was said
and done by the flnatics. We learn that the
platform brought forward for the consideration
of the convention was as follows:
INDIVIDUALITY.
/ Resolced. That the authority of each indi-
vidual soul is absolute and final, in deciding MI
questions as to what is true false in principle,
and right or wrong in practice. Therefore the
individual, the Church, or the State, that at.
tempts 10 control the opinions OF the practice
of any man or woman, lay authority of power
outside of his or her own soul, is guilty of
tlagrant wrong.
SLAVERY.
. ReSaire,l, That Slavery is wrong which
no power in the Universe can make right; there
fore, any law, constitution, court or government,
any church, priesthood, creed Bible, any
Christ or any God that by silence or otherwise
authorizes man 10 enSiave man, merits the Scorn
and contempt Of uuanklnd.
sPIRIrUALiSN.
s. ReSolresl, THAT the phenomenal of what is
called alc,1eFH SpiritualiSm have abundanIlv de.
monStrared the fact that an Intelligent inter-
course between embodied aud 6isembodied hu-
man spirits is both possible and actual That
the conviction Of the possibility and actualjtV
of spirit intercourse Is opposed 10 all deSpotisIn,
impurity and SenSua'lSin, and conduces 10 the
Inauguration OF the only authority consistent
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atty.
WAR ASD DEATH PuNlsusrNr.
/ ReSolre5, That 1t is always wrong aud in.
eNpedient for man 20 take the life of man; there.
fore capital punishment, war, and all prepare
tionS for war, are wrong and Inconsistent with
the interests OF individuals and society.
AARsIAGE
d, ReSalcssi That the only true and natural
marriage Is au exclusive conjugsl love between
one man and one woman; the only true hnme is
the Isolated horne based on this exclusive love
MATERNITY.
9. Resolcsi That the sacred and infArtant
right of woman Is her right to decide for hcrsslt
how often, and under what circumstances, size
shall assume the responsibility and o, objected
tn the Su;teringS am! cares sF mate ;tv; aud
man can commit no s-rr1ter crime Inst wo-
man wife and mother, against : child,
against society. and against hu;nauit, than 10
impose on her maternity whose res. visibility
and SutieJingS she Is not willing Ia 5,..ccpt and
endure,
woHANS RIGHTS
:. Fzereas, The assumed superiority of nan
over woman has held her IN submission and en-
tailed slavery and dependence ON the sex, and
consequently, misery on the raer; therefore,
hsSetcod, That immediate steps should lie
taken u remove that error and its consequence,
AMI place woman politically, induStriallv, etiu-
catiOnally aud socially on perfect equaiiSy with
man
TRE BIBLE
S, Reso!seyi. That nothing IS trueoor right, and
nothing is false or wrong because il iSsanctinnei
or condemned by the Bible; therefore the Bible
is powerieSS TO prove any doctrine to be true, OF
any practice To be right, and it should never be
quoted for that purpose.
FIRE. TRADE
2. Reselct5. That natural justice. individual
ana social morality, the peace and material
wealth and prosperity OF the nations, the spirit
Of human brotherhood, demand that sill inter
national tariffs be Immediately AMI forever
abolished, and slse Governments IN all their
various departments be SUPPORTED by direct
taxation,
LAxp xEroxx.
10, Resided, That the earth, like the air sud
light. belongs In common 10 the children 1T
men GU II; each human being IS alike iudepest-
dent; each child, By virtue Of his existence, has
an e9Gal sRd i,,siSeaSble RICH, 10 - much Of
the earthS surface as Is coayeuieut by proper
SdituTe II his SsPpor; and pei &c, dcvelupineaJ,
aud none hiss = right 10 any .ncre; therefore all
laws authorizing and sustaining private proper
" IN land Eor the purpose of Speculation, and
which prevent men and women fryeui possessing
any and without FsNit:s for e, are as unjust AZ
would be laws compelling them u pay for ar
anu hight. and oushs 70 be AZ caes forever re
poaied-
Tue SABsATH.
FSerols. The Jewish Sabt,ath Is coafeSSeilr
abolished by The Gospel Di>peHsaIiun: sn6