Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-11-09
From the Boston Post. What is Evil"

What is Evil"
 The strong minded females and the phi lanthropic, cold water, abolition, free-love, sociallstic, hairy'stocratic males, have been holding a convention in Buffalo. The chief object of the assemblage is said to be to offer an opportunity to the progressive friends of humanity to deliberately exam inc and finally solve the greatest problem -" What is Evil?" The largest portion ot the convention was composed of BIoo- mers A. J. Davis presented synopsis of the deliberations of the Utica Phian- thropic Convention, in the form of resolu- tions:
 Reso'oed, That the primary cause of evil is relerable to parentage, by which we re- ceive both body and soul.
 ResolUed, That the evil in its last analv- SIS IS ignorance; an organic fact incident to human existence
 ReSotged, That the monogamic marriage is a divine relation springing from uni versal and immutable law of Natures God and that the evils and suferings experience ed by the married are relerable not to the law, but to mans ignorance and therefore abuse the sacred relations which grow out of it.
 Reso7ped, That sin results from evil, evil from error, error from ignorance; and that ignorance is the first estate of an immortal being whose individuality is eternally to be swayed and regulated by the laws of asso- ciation, progression and development
 Wm. Denton, of Ohio, IT ade the open ing speech, first offering, however, the fol- lowing resolution:
 Resolced, That the cause of all evil lies in the lack of perfect development, and that 1t can only be cured by harmonious development of mans whole nature
 This gentleman offered a few remarks in explanation of certain sentiments he had previously advanced, and then made an au- dacious assault on christianity and its foun- der lie asserted thnt Jesus was guilty of great many errors; that business men would go to ruin in six months if they should adopt the impracticable precepts of Jesus of Nazareth; that the whole idea of salvation by Christ was utterly false Mr. | D. was several times hissed by portion of the audience, though the majority present applauded him.
 The attendance at the afternoon session of Saturday last was larger than at any previous time-the increase being princi- pally Tn the numbers of curious spectators. Upon the opening of the meeting by the chairman, Mrs. Mary F. Davis read series ot resolutions of anonymous origin, CO., vering the whole ground of evil, as exist ing Tn church, state, society, marriage etc, etc. The Troy Harmonists sang Q quar- tette song in very fine style, and Mrs Stowe of Michigan, took the stand for trance speech. Apparently, when she came for. ward, she was notthoroughly possessed;" but after a moments twitchng of the fea- lures, her eyes closed, her face assumed an eXpressionless immobility ,andthe speech commenced flowing with monotonous volu- bility. The speaker is described by the reporter of the Buffalo Express as a hard featured, bold looking woman-a fair type of the class of female reformers. She spoke very rapidly, in high tone of voice, and as the controlling spirit' warmed with the theme, the vehemence of the somnam- bulist speaker increased, and she hammered the desk with q reckless disregard of her knuckles that was extremely painful. The leading subjects of the speech were land monopoly" and a !" harmonal physical development. Its essence might be dis titled into a few words. If land was given to all the "landless," and if the world was filled with we'll developed men and wo- men," then evil would indubitably be over- come. She, or rather the spirit in posses sion of her, was savage upon parents for raising so many children, or for raising any Ii they could not populate the world with sound and perfectly developed specimens of humanity. Where was the need of bring ing forth children to fill the poor houses. and state prisons, the pauper and criminal institutions of the world? But the speak ing spirit failed to inform the parents how they should find out whether they could raise good boys and girls without trying the experiment. Mr. Stebbins, of Alichi gan, Mir. Brown, of Vermont, Mrs. Cole man, of Rochester, Fred Douglass, $. s. Foster, of New Hampshire, and Mrs. Thompson, of Toledo, were also present. Parker Pillsbury very ungallantly inter- rupted the last mentioned lady's spirit me- dium poetry, characterizing it as a waste of time, etc. She accordingly " "dried up" at once. The scene created some excite ment which was soon dispelled by pathetic remarks from Mrs. Davis. The session then closed.
 The above proceedings answer the ques- tion at the head of this paragraph. Such a convention is about as great an ''evil'' as we have had the melancholy pleasure of chronicling.