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the enemy, and enjoy with them the prey of the six, and make their ruin more sure and themselves the more powerful enemy, the two secret deceivers being two cunning aristocrats, wanting the high governing. place of the two honest wise made permanent to them, least they cannot stay there as sin stays in the world, and as the serpent Eve beguiled Adam, told the four ignorant of their cunning, that they would carry them safely through their danger; thus the four was so deluded that they knew not what to do, but to fly to the arms of the serpent, the very danger which stared them in the face, and forsook God's highest powers of safety, and all was lost; thus the article of agreement is broke, that is man went astray from the covenant of God. So it is with us the eight million of the United States' people, have thus been deluded to go astray in the broad road of ruin, where all mankind have gone from the covenant of God, that is from God's federal union, the examples of Christ and Washington, it is against that great constitution of equal justice to all that we have rebelled..

On equal property and privileges depends equal liberty against robbing taxation and rebellious speculation of the powerful few, who have already monopolized more power than their equal part. A constitution of equal and exact justice to all men, is required for the protection from robbing taxation and rebellious usurpation of those who are destitute and deprived of their equal rights, to the privileges of Columbia in common with these eight million Columbians.

In the same manner that eight men shall enter into an article of agreement, to jointly seek, discover,, purchase and cultivate a tract of new land, to dispose: of for gain to their support and protection of their equal incorporated rights in company; the eight millions of the people of Columbia entered into an article of agreement, (that is a constitution) that every man, shall unitedly and equally stand like one man in seek. ing, discovering, purchasing, cultivating and selling of all the land of Columbia, and privileges thereof for their protection, expense of government, and permanent enjoyment of their liberties..

The property and privileges of Columbia, of real value in common stock, far exceed the property held privately by individuals; I say Columbia, because it is the true name of its discoverer, who has been robbed of it, and left no other heirs of possible right to it, than those now dwelling on it, whose common stock it is by natural right, and it is a common property, privilege and safety, to all who is of a mind to flee herein according to the law of its land, they become equal and common owners of the property by purchasing a share, and supporting that government which protects it, and which is when compared to European privileges worth in common stock to every individual now of Columbia at least ten thousand dollars of real intrinsic value, in addition to his private held property. The aggregate amount of the absolute value or real worth of Columbia and all its privileges, as it bears or has relation to the present estimation of privileges and property of Europe, it may be safely said two million millions of dollars; yes, sum up the Columbian intrinsic value and glorious privileges, from this time henceforth three generations to come, even if one hundred millions of people here inhabit, and no doubt there will more in that time, every individual having his equal right, will be worth ten thousand dollars and the Six per cent simple interest of that sum in addition thereto, reckoning it from this time henceforth three generations or one hundred years to come, even if there shall be one hundred millions of people, they will each be worth that sum, if estimated what their privileges of property are then greater than the real privileges of property are really worth now in Europe, if a constitution is had whereby Columbians can be protected in general peace, without the clashing or jarring of individual interest with the will of the general whole, indeed the poorest young man now of Columbia, commencing as an independent and enterprising actor at the age of twenty-one years, is this moment worth ten thousand dollars, had he only a right to vote and act for his true right under a righteous constitution, and in one hundred years reckoning all his children, grand children and great grand children, the aggregate a

mount of wealth and privileges of all these people, as property is now estimated in Europe, each will then be worth ten thousand dollars, and the interest as aforesaid for one hundred years added to that, whose wealth then of each individual thus enterprizing and successful, will be seventy-five thousand dollars, according their relation then to Europe now. Allowing this to be fact and politicians, on making a right estimate will agree with me, that every common farmer or mechanic in Columbia is actually worth ten thousand dollars, when he has established a constitution which will protect him as his real and of all things his most sacred right; and which constitution can be completely established in five years, if only three fourths of the Columbians will act for it, the poorest person among us will that moment in which he has completed that so glorious thing, be worth at least ten thousanddollars, and by the second generation almost put an end to indolence and that meanness of men which destroys their activity, christianity and moral enterprize in society; thus how inestimable is true liberty.

Columbians, then let patriotism constitute you one and a happy people, rouse and ward off the impending cloud which threatens unto you eternal misery, to which Columbians if we submit, you even you, who are now wallowing in the wealth of all of fifty thousand dollars, were we this moment to shield our swords, and lie down and sleep at British footstool and dominion, as great, as proud, and as much as you shine, will you be worth one single cent, and all of that for which our humble fathers fought, bled and even died for us, to all of us even to those who now possesses not a cent, as dear as is true liberty, it is gone forever, but proud Britons among us, where is your shame, oh how your pride must fall.

The Canadians have not a spark of liberty, they own nothing, they only possess, they live only at British naval mercy, and all that mercy now shown them is wholly in consequence of the adjoining independent government of the United States; was Canada not held forth the flattering bait for the return of these states to colonies, every iron chord would be strained

without regard and without mercy, and almost every man be a pauper, the people of a kingly nation have nothing and all is vanity, while the people of an equal republic have all and permanently so.

Had we never revolted, the possession of the American lands would be given without price, to those who would swear allegiance to the royal family of England, though we should possess we would not own a foot of land, but toil among musquetees to cultivate it for English masters, but since we have revolted we pay a price and own the land really, on the ground that our constitution presupposes every individual of the United States, unitedly to vote and act with all his power to support that property, and the attending pri vileges of every individual and of the common coun try in common stock; that every individual might hold his equal share to the common stock of this so essential prize, and it is our own; then why quit it to stand on foreign ground? why give all back to mer chandize, and ourselves to be slaves? why not hold sacredly these Columbian privileges, this glorious prize, by nature vested equally in ourselves, and all Columbians as equals establish a currency and sell this vast Columbian soil, for a consideration in com mon fund equal to all our liberties, and all the people unitedly guarantee an independent title in every 10 dividual who shall purchase at a stated price, what is necessary for private use, enjoy the equal blessings of our own currency, free from the taxation of kingly aristocracies. Then Columbians let us awake up against taxation, and adopt a constitution of equal and exact justice to all of us not the owners of our equal parts, and tax no others than those whose pursuits are pernicious to the fundamental principles of the equal rights of us all, that all can equally enjoy the blessed privileges of Columbia.

The grand empire of nearly all North America, the best of soil, situated in the best of climate, and except the short distance of the south, surrounded on all its sides by the ocean, forms a grand uniform national character, abounding inhabitable territory of nearly a square form; including with the United States,

New-Brunswick, New-Foundland, Nova-Scotia, the Canadas, the Floridas, the Louisianas, and the western woods and waters, a grand field for liberty and heavenly glory, and shall it bear that godly name of its pregenitor, that language of God, under our glorious prospects, and an entire escape to freedom from eastern snares and troubles; shall the free born sons of Columbia unitedly stand forward like one man (Washington) under a free, equal, uniform and scientific government of life, light and liberty, constitute ourselves one people, a free and happy people, forever free from the commercial war, crimes and misery of Europe, according to the advice of Washington.

Which great concave form of inhabitable Columbia, including with its proper domain its capes, bays, rivers, lakes, marshes and mountains, comprises in oblong squares, equal to the degrees of latitudes and longitudes, about twenty-two thousand, each of which oblong squares, being sixty miles in length, and about forty in breadth, including in each about two thousand and four hundred square miles, making in all five millions, two hundred and eighty thousand square miles, and three thousand, three hundred and seventy-nine millions, and two hundred thousond square acres of land and water, of which one thousand and six hundred millions of acres, may be said to be feasible good uninhabited soil, worth to the people of Columbia, under a government wherein all their rights are equally protected, say fifty cents per acre, amounting to eight hundred millions of dollars, whose interest at six per cent. per annum amounts to fifty millions of dollars yearly, and the rise of which land, sold for never less than two dollars per acre, some more, on an average say two dol lars and fifty cents per acre, in which case the amount total will be four thousand millions of dollars, leaving three thousand and two hundred millions, not to be reckoned any thing, but as an offset for continuing the eight hundred millions, estimated from the land at fifty cents per acre, the same as though the land was now actually sold for that sum and now on interest, which from this time henceforth forever will yield that annual revenue, fifty years hence, fifty millions every year,

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