address the audience on the subject of delicacy. It is needful to show people what delicacy is, and what is its proper office. Deacon Grant gave me $3 towards defraying my exMrs. W 12 cents; Mr. M penses; 19; Troy, July 27th.-Called on a physician, who told me he had practiced several years in the country, and knows that the country is as corrupt as the city. Once had a deacon of a church and married men, as patients, from the coun try. Stated some facts that cannot be mentioned. Saw some other physicians, but as their statements coincided with those already given, I shall not record them. I was received with civility and courtesy by the medical gentlemen on whom I called, with one solitary exception; in this case the physician was on his bed; he let loose a tirade of abuse against M'Dowall's Journal and the American Seventh Commandment Society, and then contemptuously and violently threw himself over on his bed and refused to say any thing more. B In the evening, about 9 o'clock, walked as far as Mrs. . As I came opposite to it, I heard a woman's voice saying, in reference to my sermon and attack on the Troy brothels, "that I could not have known any thing about Mrs. B ; somebody must have told me." Thus this old hag had her comforters about her, laboring to ease her guilty conscience. 28th.-Making preparations to return to New-York. Called on Mrs. Prescott; she told me there was trouble among the brothel-keepers; and the ladies of the Moral Reform Society were blamed for having told me any thing about these poor guilty creatures. Mr. Yates, the lawyer, advised me to call on the Mayor and state to him the facts I had obtained. He accompanied me to his house, but he was not in. We saw the Recorder, and he coincided in opinion with Mr. Yates, that it would be well to call a select meeting of citizens and lay the facts before them. July 30th.-The state of my business required me to leave the city, and I took passage on board the steam-boat United States, for New-York. Was kindly and hospitably entertained in Troy by Mr. P. Allen, Mr. Gilbert, and Mr. Town. As to the general appearance of all the harlots I saw, they were filthy in the extreme. I saw but two or three such as are called genteel in New-York. Friday, July 31st.-Arrived in New-York at 4 o'clock, and found my family had left the city; they had gone to Newark; went there and towed down to New-York again. Much profanity and obscenity among the men. On seeing me exhibit a phrenological chart, they gathered around and wished me to describe their characters. I lectured on each man's head on the subject of Moral Reform; several of them needed to refrain from their folly and ruinous sin. A good moral influence was exerted over their minds. One man, who had been outrageously profane and indelicate in all his allusions, would not let me place my hand on his head; but, some time after this, he was standing in the cabin-door, and beckoned me to come to him. He led me into the cabin, and desired me to examine his head. He did not wish the crew to hear what I had to say to him. I had an excellent opportunity to instruct him, and did not fail to improve it. He listened attentively, and during the remainder of the voyage I did not hear a profane or vulgar word drop from his lips. He was sedate. There is something in phrenology which may be happily adapted to man's best interest. It is not the art of telling fortunes, but of telling what are one's natural abilities. It is based not on conjecture or caprice, but on the observation of facts. Six months ago I ridiculed the science. A friend induced me to examine its merits. I have done so to some extent. Having carefully read Combe's lectures on it, and Fowler's Chart, and heard Fowler's course of lectures, the result is a full conviction of the truth of phrenological principles. The science is not witchcraft, nor juggling, nor necromancy, in any shape or form whatever. It is a plain system of principles gathered from the careful observation of undoubted facts. Every body has it in his own power to test the truth or falsehood of phrenology. It considers the brain as the instrument the mind. uses to acquire knowledge-that each part of the brain, like the body, has a specific office, and that observation alone ascertains what office is performed by the different parts of the brain. But I will not go into a discussion of the subject; I dismiss it for the present, merely adding, I believe it will contribute much towards rendering the science of intellectual and moral philosophy intelligible to ordinary minds." His visit at Troy was, like himself, thorough in research and minute in detail. He wrote an address to the Moral Reform Society of that place, which has never been published. Some extracts are here made, vividly portraying the horrid sin of licentiousness, and his own abhorrence of its practice. Should the reader find a sameness in the address with that of his Journal elsewhere, it should not be censured, as the scenes he constantly witnessed were alike in nature and practice, and the thoughts necessarily flowing in the same channel must at times send forth the same language. CHAPTER XXVII. Address to the Ladies of the Troy Female Moral Reform Society --Visit to Connecticut for the Seventh Commandment SocietyScene at a Tavern. To the Ladies of the Troy Female Moral Reform Society. 64 RESPECTED LADIES,-On the 15th of July, 1835, in company with my brother, I arrived in your city. In accordance with your wishes, he engaged to labor for a few weeks under your direction. He left about the 22d of July. At his request, I promised to give you a written statement of the result of our investigations. In proceeding in the task before me, I state first, that there are in Troy nineteen houses of prostitution, and a twentieth of dubious character. A list of these houses is in my possession. A copy of this list accompanies this document, for the benefit of your missionary. "Public sentiment occasionally acts against these houses, and then they are indicted. Rich and influential men afford them less protection than the same class of persons in New-York render to brothels there. Less direct evidence seems to be required here to prove that such a house is a nuisance, than is demanded in that city for a similar purpose. Not that legal evidence will be rejected there, or innocence sacrificed here. Let public sentiment be purified on this subject, and the existence of such a house will be considered a most insufferable evil. 66 The only shelter the utterly abandoned finds is in these houses. These habitations facilitate pollution's hurtful traffic. They are the slave store-ships of the piratical plunderers of female purity, honor, peace, and salvation. These are the hecatombs and graves of all that is lovely in woman. They are the burning, galling, diseasing, outer-workshops of the bottomless pit. ་་ "They are the grand mints in which the stamp and superscription of the old dragon are made, in letters of burning fire, on the heads and hearts of lost men and women. They are the forts of the devil; the mustering place of Satan's armies; the parade-ground of Belzebub's legions; the campaign-country of Lucifer's allies; the pest-house of earth-the abode of blood. "Over them hover the fallen angels flap their wings of death. Through them shriek the souls of the pit, whose grating teeth, gnawing tongues, glaring eyes, horrify the virtuous spectator. The bursting fires of the nethermost hell light up the features of those in these caverns of despair, and roast the hearts of once doating parents. "Look at that aged widowed mother. She refuses to be comforted. Her child, a once lovely daughter, is now an inmate of one of these nineteen brothels; is pollutedruined and fitted for the society of the abandoned. The child was enticed there, and that mother tried to reclaim her; but the consciousness of a lost character-the love of idleness-the expectation of subsistence from the wages of sin-the persuasion of her paramours-the influence of associates, and the control of her keepers-the despair she feels the dread of the reproaches of virtuous society, riveted the bands of impurity on her spirit, and chained it to the house of death. But the polluted hag, whose fire is fed with fuel, whose table is supplied with provisions, and whose back is clothed with raiment bought by the price of this child's chastity, pities not that disconsolate mother, but fattens on her groans, and insultingly says "Poor girl! she has no home. Out of compassion I provide for her. Her friends won't receive her. I wish she would do better; but it is useless for her to try.' "So talks this imp; and but for this that mother's heart might be light and joyful. There are one hundred females in these nineteen houses, |