Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-01


ported by the business committee, and subse
quently adopted. Some of them border upon tn,
| utmost verge of ra1calism, on some topics, but
however much opposition there may be to tn,
sentiments contained in some of the resolves
there is in that on Marriage" distinct dsavow
| al of the offensive dogma of free loreism'
which the telegraph imputed to them. We pab
ish them merely in order that the precise sent
ments of that class of ''reformers," as they call
themselves, may be correctly represented;
INDIVIDUALITY.
l. Res0lUed That the authority Of each ipdi
vidual soul is absolute and final in deciding all
questions as TO what is true or false in principle.
or right or wrong in practice /; therefore the in.
divdual, the church, or the State, that attempts
to control the opinions or the practice of any man
or woman, by authority power outside Of his
or her own soul, is guilty of aagrant wrong.
SLAVERY.
2. That slavery is a wrong which no power in
the universe can make right; therefore, any law,
constitution, court, or government, any church,
priesthood, creed, or Bible, any Christ or any
God, that, by silence or otherwise, authorizes
man to enslave man, merits the scorn and con .
tempt OF mankind.
sPlRITUALIsM.
3. That the phenomena of what is called mod
the fact that an intercourse between embodied
and disemoodied human spirits is both possible
and actual that the conviction of the possibility
and actuality Of spirit intercourse is opposed to
all aespotsm, impurity, and sensualism, and
eonduces to the Inauguration of the only authori
ty consistent with the human soul as favorable
to sound morality.
WAR AND THE DEATH PUNISHMENT.
4. That it is always wrong and nexpedient for
man to take the life of man therefore capital
punishment, war, and all preparations for war.
are wrong, and inconsistent with the interests of
individuals and society.
MARRIAGE.
5. That the only true and natural marriage is
an exclusive conjugal love between one man and
one woman, and that the only true home is the
isolated home based upon the exclusive love.
MATERNITY.
6. That the sacred and important right of wo-
man is to decide for herself how often and under
what circumstances she shall assume the respon-
sibility, aud be subjected to the sufferngs and
the cares af maternity and man can commit no
greater crime against woman as wife and mother,
against his child. against society, and against hui
manity, than to impose on her maternity whose
responsibility and suferings she is not willing to
accept and endure.
BIBLE.
T. That nothing is true or right, and nothing
is false or wrong because it is sanctioned or con
oeIuueQ ny the DlOle-tOeTeIOFe our blOle Is pow.
erless to prove any doctrine to be true or any
practice to be right, and it should never be quo.
ted for that purpose. Hr
FREE TRADE.
8. That natural justice, individual and social
morality, the peace and material wealth and pros.
perity, the nations spirit of human brotherhood,
demand that all international tariffs be immedi-
atey and forever abolished, and that the govern
ments in all their various departments be sup.
ported by direct taxation.
LAND REFORM m
8. That the earth, like the air and light, be-
longs in common to the children of men on it.
Each human being is alike independent each
child, by virtue of his existence has an naliena-
BILE right to much Of the earth's surface as is
convenient by proper culture to his support and
perfect development, and none has a right to any
more; therefore all laws authorizing and sus.
tanning private property in land, for the purpose
of speculation, and which prevent men and wo.
men from possessing any land without paying
for it. are as unjust would be any laws compel
ling them to pay for air and light, and ought to
be at once forever repealed.
SABBATH.
10. Whereas, The Jewish Sabbath is confess.
eddy abolished by the Gospel dispensation, and
aohereGs, the same authority sets apart no other
day to be similarly observed, therefore, resolued
that all efforts of church and priests to enforce
an observance Of the Christian Sabbath, as Of ii.
d
vidual right, and must be prosecuted in dishon-
est disregard Of the spirit and positive teaching
OF the New Testament
IL. Whereas, social being depends on his
fellow men for the cultivation and development
of his physical, mental, aud moral powers and
GohereGS owing to the limitation and vicissitu de
Of life, he can accomplish but little for his own
or future generations, therefore, resolUe9 that the
dutiessof man belong to man. and the time, tai
ent and means, spent on and for any other pur.
pose, is detrimental to human progress, and a
robbery to the race. n
II. That the moral law is the natural growth
of healthy condition Of social life, and that a
study of the nature Of man and the relations he
sustains to his fellow man, can alone give him
the knowledge of the laws to govern him rightly
IL. That no system nor creed can be useful that
does not lead to the removal of ignorance, power.
ty, vice, and suffering, and pramote freedom, in
telligence, and happiness.
IA. Whereas, the character of man is formed
for him by the combined powers of organization
previous 70 birth, and influence after birth /:
therefore, reSotved that it is the highest duty Of
society to investigate and remove the causes
which have tendency to form inferior or vicious
character. H 11
10. That the time and devotion spent on relie.
ious services can confer no benefit on an infinite
and independent power, and can therefore be no
virtue. &tke
woMAN's RIGHTS.
10. WheyeGs, The assumed superiority of man
over woman has held her in submission and en-
tailed slavery and dependence on the sex, and
consequently misery on the race; therefore,
ResotUea. That immediate steps should be TAX
en- to remove that error and its consequences,
and place woman politically, industrially, educa.
tlOnaly, and socially, on perfect equality with
man.
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