The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-30
TENNIE'5 TRADE.

Lecture by Miss Tennie G. Clanln mt the
Academy oil Elusic-Flain Talk About the
Freest of Free Love and the Tyranny Of
Marriage.
Miss Tennie Claim lectureu at the Academy Of
Music last evening. The house was crowded,
and inasmuch as when the doors were opened
surglnR moo, stretching into the middle Of
Irving place, was doing its best to get
inside, there Is little doubt that q report OF the
police, given subsequently, that the Academy could
have been filled twice over was In all probability
true. There was one conspicuous feature in the
assembly that occupied the seats and crowded the
noors-it was as sombre as the first nights OF
'Back Crook" performance. Miss Claims sex
had very small representation. Wherever the
eye rested on the crowd 1t was to behold cluster
OF masculinity; here and there group was broken
up by the face Of woman; In few OF the boxes
were several ladies, and conspIcuously In
the dress circle there was one lady. at
tired in evening. dress. accompanied by
In plantation Of pines the announced
subject OF The lecture was "Behind the scenes In
either msnomer or wiIinl Intention TO first
catch an audience and then deliver a lecture upon
quite another text. The real subject OF the lecture
THE ETuIcs or SEXUAL QUALITY.
It dealt with The relations Of the
a boldness Of speech that left nothing ior the
Imagination 10 reve In, and which can only be sur
passed by a literature that the police always deem
1t their duty to suppress when 1t Is paraded too
obtrusively before the public gaze. The strangest
part OF the proceedings Of the evening was this,
that these advanced VIEWS" as the free overs'
would designate the statements, or the
IMMORAL UTrERANCES,"
as palmer people would describe many or the prln-
clples, received an evident and enthusiastic en-
dorsement from the audience. Scattered here and
there were clusters OF New York boys ready to
cheer some piquant and broad assertion,
aud generally accompanied the cheer by
q request that the pestllent passage
should be re-read. This was explainabie
on the supposton that this was what the boys
and young men mad come for, and they naturally
desired Is mako the most Of II. But the passages
that received the loudest applause were those In
winch marriage was held up to ridlcule, and that
these should be endorsed so significantly by large
an audience was TO tile ordinary observer somewhat
starting. Miss Claim spoke Tor about an hour and
ten minutes In clear voice, and she Is entitled to
the benefit OF the criticism that she spoke with
an earnestness OF manner that seemed to indicate
that she believed what she said. Inc dnal concu.
SONS OF her lecture, INCONSISTENCIES from which
to show that marriage, as 1t ordinarily exists IN
society, was O deiuslon Of an unenllghtencd age
fraugnt with the gravest evils, and that
woman free 10 love, free 10 disown
ner welded husband, for cause and free TO turn the
tables upon man when ne went alter strange
women, was a millennium In the worlds history
that the lecturer called upon divinity itself TO wit
that dedicated nor life 10 assist In bringing
about 10 actual and living contamination. Miss
Clafin was loudly cheered as she lett the stage and
received quite shower OF Moral offerings.