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mean needless dress, one thousand dollars for a gam bling table, meaning wrong spent time, and one million of dollars for a house built so much too high in magnifi cence, that others cannot equal them, will find if they are ever so rich, that they live beyond their income, in which case would not they live more frugal and be more industrious least they become poor, will not this. make men equals and friends, will sinners buy the devil when he is too dear, least they become humble like christians; and why should we tax the poor laborious farmer and mechanic, when in fact they have not got near their proportional part of God's world, which he had provided more equally for his human family why has God any more respect for a robbing king than for a robbed beggar? how is the millenniumi to come, with equal and exact justice to all the children of men, unless the devil is bound in chains, that is the many democrats govern the few aristocrats, until they are humbled to the obedience of their God. Delegate the true interest of the people, and the agent delegated is not only a nominal representative, but he is really the true representative of the people, for his interest at the bar is the collective interest of all his people, his yeas and noes are not for him, but for them, the voice of towns, counties and districts, delegated general in Congress, speak the general law of all the people collectively, of course they know it is their interest to obey it individually, because in that case the higher powers of impartial authority, is superior to rebellious partiality, and when a law becomes enacted by the impartial voice of the general whole, and not by the will of the partial few, it is the holiest of all law, of course it is an awful sin to disobey it, for it is not only against the interest of the rebel or rebels, but their life and liberty is thereby jeopardized. Let every law enacted by the general whole, be always put in force and every partial law annulled, and the rights of man lost from Adam's morality, is again restored in the millennium of divine redemption, through christian obedience.

The division of the Columbian union into districts, counties, towns and companies, explained in

the Columbian constitution, is not a division of its general union in regard to general law, but a division of the people into collective parts, for their regular and equal organization into particular society, in relation to general society, whereby each individual can equally act, in delegating his particular voice for general legislation, without a jarring or clashing of parti cular interest, with the general will, so as not to im pede the general law, from operating with equal uniform and full force on every individual, company, town, county and district of the Columbian union, in such a manner that the relative parts of Columbia, shall observe faithful obedience to the law and will of the absolute whole.

To avoid war and trouble, make of the great western world the grand fund of Columbia, the common stock of freemen, with which as God has intended it, pay the debt of enslaved nature, bring on the millennium of God, change the hearts of men; thus bury in oblivion that which ruins man. Have pay for all who possesses those western farms, that for receiving which as a common fund of freemen, the united obedient people of great Columbia by their numbers, power and wealth will guarantee to all individuals thereof, a true title to their lands and liberties, in which case in return all the western farmers become faithful patriots in sup port of the first call of their country (cities are the last to obey) as the Ohioans and Kentuckians, prove first to support that great Columbian government which supports them. Instead of their dreadful enmity, as the Britain's Canadians now prove to lay waste in dreadful flames and torturing misery, our western country for lands without cost. What trouble the Ca

nadians encounter, for settling land as the pretended presents of kings, held out for deluding them to inhabit the snares of hell, at last to be enforced to draw the sword against their own relation and themselves to bleed and die, and those who escape death to remain the slaves of kings on land held by masters and not their own; whereas had they of right owners purchased their land, they would have purchased their freedom, but slaves are slaves of destruction to themselves

and their friends and relation's country which joins, was there no value and guarantee of rights collectively confirmed by equals on land no title to freemen and chain of order or connection of government, can ever uniformly extend for the protection of the title of freedom, for all the western world would be like the open sea, a crazy aristocratical wavering, and impossible to govern, for all the country is subject to sinners dominion, that is the devil, and not susceptible of property and equals, but endless war and confusion of kings, and all the people be slaves of merchandize without order; thus an unjust disregarded claim is the property of no body, but a common hell-way of ravaging aristocracy and eternal war. Aristocrats

only settle along the vales and water ramifications and build up principalities and colonies, for the slavish labor of the many for the few, in which manner all the new land's rural blessings of the world, have always been converted into the slave fields of kings his foreign majesty's dominion, without the least regard to the rights of man.

As that wicked custom as kings will have it, that new lands you can have for nothing, if you will settle them, no one will inhabit them but slaves under the thumb of speculators, aristocrats accompanying them as masters and continue closely to ravage them of all they earn, and pretend to govern them, and the greatest speculators get the fattest cuts of both soil and of fice, and head long to ruin all go, thus for free cost land have nothing to remain; whereas let the poor man pay a small sum for his land by enstallments with a trifle down, a certain known annual interest, and a certain known principal, this be all the tax he ever has to pay, and have a certain known title to his land protected him, by a farmer's government of true order, and sure that he is never to be taxed and be always free from war, and never to fail of title to property, he is then encouraged, he foreknows how much he must pay and how much he must do, to make him an independent and happy liver endowed with freedom. What then must be the enterprize of man, instead of hazarding the dreadful lines of Canada, daily to be drove about

in blood by the British sword, does not the British Canada appear like a hell-trap, when compared with the Columbian paradise, where the poor man can settle a known farm with the certainty of protection before him, can go on peaceably in the inhabitancy of society, carrying with him his government of true Columbian order, in all the blessings and duties of life.

Hence the before mentioned three branches of revenue, viz. sale of lands, Columbian currency, and tax the devil, and save the just, are as indispensibly necessary for the equal rights of man, as true liberty is more loved than terrible slavery.

From the solid foundation of guaranteed soil, the uniform and equal privileges and accommodation of true national currency, taxes from extreme folly and access, vain luxury and pernicious superfluites, arises the great revenue of general liberty, that grand ark of safety to all men.

How then are we to secure this blessed point of true Columbian order, but the Columbian people all nationally to enter into an agreement, and if the Columbian constitution does not exactly guard all the points, then amend it, but above all things, had not we ought to individually and nationally stand by each other unitedly as one man, and obey our federal constitution which provides for amendments till the same can be amended, and like so many brothers agree in what manner, we the Columbian free and equal people, will establish our currency, tax the wrong, sell our land and punish the rogue, we ought not to be ignorant of the true and simple principles of a proper constitution, but we ought to know that as it reads, does not always appear to all its true meaning, but as near as honest understanding man can perceive, true honesty ought to consider it in that light. The dead letter of any instrument or article of writing, can be so differ ently construed from its real spiritual meaning by its enemies, as to make it appear directly wrong, as yers can twist and turn an article of agreement between man and man, when brought before the bar of trial. Aristocrats will misconstrue that constitution, which at first appears ever so plain to the farmer, and

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give to it a whole dozen black faces, for the delusion, to make the farmer forsake his rights, and wait on the devil.

A constitution of a nation is like two, three or more men, entering into an agreement for the presupposed united performance of each individual to that agreement, and their heirs after them, unless they can agree to alter it for the better.

But all are bound to perform what that article or constitution stipulates to be performed, and not act contrary to the real spiritual meaning of its intention, and which true meaning be always decided by the wholesome majority of the great body of farmers, and not by the cunning artful minority of the few aristocrats. The virtue of a constitution is never tried but in the time of war or other danger only against which it is framed, as the virtue of an article of agreement is tried before a court.

When three fourths of a people consent to a constitutional agreement, for protecting them with equal and exact justice to all, the other fourth who decline their assent want to be their superior masters if not ignorant of its principles, of course enemies, for they are enemies to the equal rights of man, and they are the few aristocrats, and their deluded are enemies to the many undeluded farmers and mechanics. For the three to one in this case, will be the common people engaged in the common cause of all their liberties, against the fury of aristocracy, and they will succeed, not only according to our federal constitution, but according to the holy law of godly equity, and if the aristocrats don't voluntarily withhold their opposition to justice, the sword of conquering glory of the many patriots, against the few powerful fools of folly, will rend asunder their burthensome gloom of iniquity, and unfurl the banners of freedom, by the conquering battles of holy war. When the opponent poor in the eyes of aristocracy, really rich in heavenly democracy, will be engaged in the common cause of all their liberties under the banners of their mighty god of battles, who will crown them with glorious victory, for the voluptuous army of kings, consisting of indolence and folly,

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