The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-08-02
FREE SPEECH AND FREE LOVE.

FANEUIL HALL CROWDED TO PROTEST AGAINST
THE IMPRISONMENT OF DIR. HAYWOOD For
SENDING THROUGH THE MAILS OBSCENE
LITERATURE RADICAL SENTIMENTS BIZ RAD
IcAL SPEAKERS
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.1
BosroS, August l. 1878.
Faneuii Hall was full tonight It's sacred walls
rang 10 the sounds OF rbadry and jest OF applause
and jeers OF ndgnaton aud rdicus. crowd Of the
advocates OF free love, male ana female with lib
eral sprnkng OF the curious and prureos OF the
general public, in all 10 the number oil some eight
hundred people, dled the galleries floor Of the
historical Cradle Of Liberty. There good deal
Of fun the part of section OF the audience and
indignation the part OF the other The object Of
the gathering was TO protest against the Imprisonment
Of h. d. Haywood for period OF two years 10: the
offence under tho law OF sending through the mails
obscene literature.
THE VENERABLE gLizua WRIGHT
The lrst speaker WAS tho venerable Eizur Wright
He read elaborate speech on the right
OF meu to express their opinions freely aud
openiy-a right which he claimed for all
under our constitution. lie said that thus
freedom OF the birthright OF tho Repub
lie. "Faneuil Hall would be Faneun Hail."
observed the speaker, sif its walls did not become
phonograph Of indg nation tho outrage inflicted
Z. H. Haywood tor exercising tho right guaranteed
TO every man under our system OF governmaui. The
law under which Mr. Comstock acts, no said, de-
stroys tho liberty vi The aud makes tue cons.
tuition not worth Two brass buttons. The law 10 NOT
only unconstitutional, put contrary TO the national
law shown by the sacred writer's III tue Scriptures
The Judge no passed the sentence pande Judicial
prudery The criminaliiy oi words lies In their In
tent. There Is no crime, there can DO NO crime u
usius WORDS to warn away people from inc comm.s.
sion OF evil. But what the people have = right 70
object 10 Is the persecution OF people who arc apos
Ties in the cause OF tree speech and physiology.
solomon, judged by Tho same STANDARD AZ Haywood,
would have been sent to jail Tor his Songs aud
Psalms"
coMsrock A pEAp Wight.
Professor J. II. Toohey next introduced. lie
argued the whole question on the fundamental prin
ciples thar God had right to tempt beings
do wrong; that man had right to do evil that
good might come aud that Professionalism was founded
on the ipeory that entitled to hts
| private juedment rrligion morsla Comstock,
he claimed, dead weight the freedom OF
prose- drug on tho republic Of letters and corrupt.
| ing influence IN religion.
rIlE uScoxsrrurroyALlrY OF THE LAW
Mr. Thuddsus b. akeman. oil New York, was pro-
scented TO tho meeting to provo that law under
winch Comst0ck actei was unconstitutional. His
| arguments were rather vague, but innsmuch the
names OF Webster, Adams, Hancock, Clay and others
| we're brought into the case, the house responded
freely. HIS conclusion that tho liberty OF crcu.
| publication, and II man allowed TO
print book he should be allowed to send II through
the mails. He criticised tho judiciary and assorted
that only conservatives aud retrogrades alone could
obtain tue Supreme Bench. That respectable
oouy consequently Always got on Inc wrong SIDE ne
way TO remedy all this oppression exercised by courts
and Congress- ne said, was To sec that every man who
went to Congress xas convinced that the Comstock
Law and destructive OF the Bill OF
Rights under Inc constitution II the government is
allowed to 30 on III this way It viii gradually curtaM
the liberties OF the press until the most proscriptve
| laws will be enacted and enforced.
A REVEREND SPEAKER
other speeches were made, Including by the
| Rev. J. N. l.. Babcock, OF Cambridge VINO claimed
that Comstock lied, from necessity. but because
he liked II, and that the Judge who convicted Hey.
disgrace Professor A. l..
| Rawsou, OF New York; Laura Kendrick, OF Boston;
John Orvis ana Moses Huh, OF Boston, also spoge.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Alter adopting q series Of resolutions donouncing
the Judge, tho law and Comstock, by whom Haywood
was committed. ana caliing Tor the repeal Of the aw
| and Tho humiliation OF Its agent the meeting al.
lournei.