The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-12

of artistes of the highest order, each o
whom does his or her part to perfection
Your correspondent had his curiosity
gratified tonight, by going to hear Mrs
Victoria c. Woodruff lecture on Mar
riage, Free Love and Divorce" About
eight O'Clock, she appeared upon the
stage, plainly but neatly dressed in a
! brown dress with satin train and trim
ming, her only ornament being a red
rose fastened at the throat. The dress
was the pinback style, and cut marrow
| at the feet. She was greeted with 4
| round OF applause, and without prelude
'dived right into" the subject. / will
| give you an Enquirer reporters verba-
tim report of a small portion of what
she said, which is as follows:
Already is the Monaghan and Afri-
can race being elevated in society by
amalgamation with the Caucasian. in
the end the day will come, when all the
nations of the earth will be but one
people-one people with the character
lStics, physically and mentally. of all
the nations of the world. And, until
that time comes, there can be no perfect
man or woman, either mentally or
physically. Then shall the lion and
lamb lie down together; shall be no
wars, and the swords shall be beaten in
to plOwshares. Then indeed will not
ole man say to his neighbor: Know
est thou the Lord?'"
Preachers and priests may preach the
millennium till doomsday, but thew had
better lay their sermons aside, and tell
us the process by which this is attained.
Death bed conversion, nor all the vaun~
ted powers of religion cannot change
mans nature. 1t is born in him and
must go out with his life alone. To re-
form the world is to begin the work with
unborn generations, and begin it in the
mothers womb. That bundle OF bigot-
ry, oppression and ignorance labeled
christianity does more to retard ciYilizaS
ton than anyone thing on earth-retard
it by keeping back progress and hinder
ing spread of intelligence" OF her
self she goes on to say, "a woman by
the name of VoodhGll has had the au-
dacity to come before an audience and
state that woman has the right to own
her own body, and to require the same
degree of purity of men that they do of
women. Peoples ideas now are very
different from what they were two
years ago. We are beginning to think
upon these. things: The Brooklyn
scandal has helped to open the eyes of
the multitude. The constitution of the |
United States gives to every man(which |
Includes every woman) of this country |
the right to enjoy life, liberty and the |
pursuit of happiness. Then why should |
men be specially favored thus, while wor
men are enslaved and denied the right |
thus granted them by the trainers of the |
constitution to pursue the parts of hap~ |
piness in any way they might desire?"
She futher goes on to say: 81 doubt not |
that there are FIVE thousand women in
this city tonight, who are almost dying
with curiosity to know what l have to
say, but dare not come. The men have
kept them in bondage so long that they
dare not do their own thinking. Intel
ligent men do not make prostitutes;
they have no time to support any other
woman than their own wives. Many
of you men said to your wives tonight,
you had better not go to the lecture,
but l, Big Injin, I'll go, The man who
dare not go to a place that is not fit for
his wife to go, is not fit to share the
same house, or the same bed with her.
You are prOclaiming your own conduct
TO the world"
OF course we cannot think as she does
On these subjects, but l give you the
foregoing extracts, thinking they may
interest you and your readers. Tennie
Q. Claflin and Victoria Woodruff, Jr.,
her, the former acting as
iOOrkeeper. Ann Eliza, nineteenth
wife of Brigham Young, will lecture
lere next Monday night on Polygamy, !
and the event Is looked forward TO with
nuCh interest by the curious public.
On the 22d of this month Titiens will
appear in concert, in this city tor the
irst time. The Eastern press lauds
Ter to the skies, and Cincinnatians will
doubtless enjoy a rare tread. She is
aid to be not very prepossessing in ap-
)earance, but in her singing, carries one
Jack to the days of Jenny Lind.
As your correspondent is not very
young man, he cannot en-
tighten you much as to the latest fash.
Ons. lie has, however, noticed that
he pin back, new style, still holds it's
wn, and is just trifle narrower to
Yards the feet. 1t is said that pin
Jack overcoats will be fashionable this
winter, and if this be true, the street
ar companies had just as we'll make
p their minds and sell out. Until re-
entity it has been IA matter OF wonder
D me why so many young ladies
would much rather walk than ride
] those horrid old street cars" The
lystery, how ever, was solved a few
avs since, by seeing a young lady en-
'r car, and, after several unsuccess-
Il attempts to sit down, ask the con-
uctor to let her out, that she had got- ,
IN into the wrong car. Hoping that
on will pardon me for boring you with
Ich an Internationally long letter, l
II yours, &C., j.