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obedience is degradation that its principles do not allow, nor require, anticipating all as clashing.

Whom can the world apply to, to appreciate religion?

Not to the priestocracy, whose peculiar concern is with peculiar faith. They are mere creatures of despotism, always from the days of superstition, their department. They are mere hirelings to promote the public's morbid taste. What originality of thought could we expect of serfs?

Genius alone can burst all the bars of usurpation and monopoly. Not less than genius can do justice to this universe subject.

No monarchical as unconstitutional government, presents religion. It gives always a part of its own despotism, a most contemptible substitute without truth or reality.

No peculiar faithite can pretend to talk of principles before monotheism; he is estopped thereby, as he has to change his circumscribed position.

Where there is so much violation of all principles by the world, to whose tender mercies of all the profligate, can the world trust?

The world can never trust to any thing less than principles. By this position, is the only responsibility. Hold all the world responsible. As to codifying principles, the more difficulty, the more triumph we secure.

But the world-priestocracy-sophistry is eternally uprising in messiahship fictitious claims.

As to all the blessings of liberty claimed for Christ, where were all such prior to his advent?

The priestocracy fabricate all such. In no respect, priestocracy, can your peculiar faiths, missions, messiahs stand before the brilliant light of rational religion. What do the unprincipled care for bibles, for any thing less than the world police, all instituted by rational mind?

The whole family of priestocracy bibles is as false as they, both creatures of despotism; all will be silenced before the tribunal of principles.

Britain, all monarchies have to look to the destitute, their whole population, to which no monarchy can do justice. This is the point of correction.

What a fine thing is it of creation, that continental empires should be ocean bound. Come, monarchs of the world, a few short years may be yours, in dominion usurped, and empire monopolized. To continue them you err with your eyes open to the facts, that the good of your people can be thus better advanced.

You were chosen not to oppress but to uphold; not to crush, but to elevate to the sublimest aspiration, your people. Sovereigns now have no excuse. They have been taught a lesson for the world by the statesmen of constitutional government, and they should seek the best lesson of true government, else the people will finally seek them. Monarchs will appreciate the worth of constitutional statesmen, like whom no autocrats were ever in such lustre. They will have to seek out what is true government, for their people will have to do it for themselves. As a conservative revolutionist, I say, the world has to come to this.

I seek to expel anarchy and bestow order, law, and constitutional government for all the world.

Cannot republicanism be established in France ?

Why so much faithlessness among the presumed better circles? Is Louis Napoleon the traitor?

Is faithlessness always in the circle of those taught peculiar faith, that has no principle, but always the creature of despots? Is this the very doctrine to forfeit all principles? The world people must be no more gullible, but hold responsible all public officers, who should be at once, on first transgression, impeached or dismissed.

The world must have no superior ranks to adulterate its virtue; no despots to butcher up mankind, but must have all its rational wants supplied.

This is a time in the age of the world whose maturity is reached, and cosmopolitan rights developed, when all nations not recognising this truism should be arraigned before the world. The world has the full right to impeach all aggressive nations, all tyrannies in commanding it, before the enlightened tribunal of rational mind. No one power, or set of powers, have the right, by the prowess of arms and the subtlety of mind, to exhaust the strength of mankind by insidious means and policy.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Bright "looked to the condition of the people of India, which was one of extreme, abject, and almost universal poverty. The East. India Company, in fourteen years, had collected a revenue of £316,000,000 !”—one and a half billions of dollars.

Spare, Britain, thou first of monarchies, this foul and iniquitous despotism; trample not upon the rights of empires to the bitterest dregs; crush not the souls of so many

millions. Call you what you please, it is the most degrading slavery that the most barbarous times have ever seen. Spare this age of the world the accursed sight of such detestable depravity. Be consistent, and what you seem.

Give no such example to posterity, much less the present age, of national depravity. What have the natives to thank christians for now? For any humble mission, to teach what they have been awfully taught by not less than three dynasties of peculiar faith? Are they to be taught through the loss of all their earthly treasure a polytheism, whose prototype they had a thousand years in advance of its origin most clearly taught?

Your East India Company has tyrannized over one-eighth of the whole world. What is your peculiar church faith to that world, when it fattens itself on its spoils with worse than priestocracy fury and ferociousness? Has the whole nation turned into a popular priestocracy?

Better had your island sink to the bottom of the ocean, than to give this despotism to the world. Can you escape the recognition of your provincial injuries and sufferings?

Is your national justice only measured by the capacity of your provinces to sustain next to the last feather, that broke the camel's back?

Your resources are vast, and your prowess is immense, but let it be a high moral dignity that rules in your realm, to the greatest good of the whole, the world.

The question now arises, which is preferable, the cannabalism of a few savages for food, or the immense butchery of lingering victims by supposed refined civilization, through poison of opium, to create greater wealth, at the expense, too, of the most degrading demoralization, national smuggling, or treaty despotism? What is the difference between cannabalism of the mouth and the sword; between fierce and genteel savages?

A bright and brilliant prospect is yet yours, to master much of the world by the noblest attributes of mind. You have helped to lead the way in arts and science, in commerce and manufactures.

Not only have the conquests of crusades exploded, and their martial prowess faded, but a holier spirit breathes over the enlightened world.

The great channels of commerce are opened, the ruinous policies of perverted mind are being superseded, and the mind is rising to her elevation, dignity, and intended benefits.

England, the duty devolves on you to aid in the union and exaltation of the world, of Asia especially, not that you should gain a greater ascendancy, but that conservative principles should maintain the supremacy.

Tell your rulers, liberalists of the world, that they in good, the only faith, should aid you and all mankind in solving the comprehensive problem of religion, to render it expansive as the world; that they should help perfect the book of monotheism, rational religion, as God wrote it, to the highest that rationality of mind enables.

The time will come when no nation or individual will be entrusted with the little brief authority, as all public trusts must be on constitutional basis. Are not nations now preying on the very soul and marrow of the world, inveigling by their policy, bullying by their brutal force? How many are defrauding the world, worse than that, their citizens, by all the sophistry of peculiar faith? Is the world delusion never to end?

You vainly seek to keep nations of the world at peace, till you seek to make them rational. It is very evident the whole cannot be, when its constituent parts have the elements of disturbance. Tell us what is the relative state even in America, England and France, three of the freest countries on earth? Does not peculiar faith defile the whole? How many general churches have split, or are about to split in two in America? Has she not had a war of two faiths, the Christians and Mormons, and has the end yet come?

Where are her riots of Protestants and Romans? Her expulsion of Quakers and Baptists by even brother Protestants? Her witchcraft murders? Where are the English feuds of Episcopalians and Romanists now renovated, more or less continued for centuries? Engrafted on Pagans, the Druids, once the despots of peculiar faith, they have sought as far as mind permitted. What is France, republican France, that has butchered her millions, now doing? Has she not thwarted the Italian republicans and forced them to the despotism of peculiar faith, the worst of all absolutisms? Are these nations holding peace conventions, when they have not established a rational religion, that premises the only proper principles of a world-universal brotherhood? As long as Europe continues as she is, there will be excess of standing armies, and one civilian or citizen will have to work for several-he will have to help pay for his own

oppression. Liberalists, do away at once with all these little petty kingdoms, and then you will have one valuable government, that will foster the highest constitutional rights of man. Go for that now, at once and forever, and the day is your own, the sovereign people's. Why should Europeans, Americans, ask anything of Asia, whose people, men and women, have been so long debauched and enslaved by the worst of all despotisms? The day is the world's, mankind's, if it do justice to religion, that will do the amplest justice to the universe.

With principles, the world can successfully solve its mightiest problem, and can satisfactorily invoke all that is expedient.

The universal brotherhood and sisterhood will be insured the world, by only teaching children rational education, and the aspiration to the practice of conservative principles.

England, for hers is the policy now in Asia, should impart the mighty basis of liberal expansion of mind, then she will have performed the great mission of mind, a duty to God, and a blessing to the world.

England owes one duty to Asia in the name of God, who presides over rational religion, not to let the people supersede one superstition by another.

Hastings was acquitted doubtlessly, from acting in extortion, by the orders of his superiors or employers, the East India Company, who required of him money and power, and in order to get them, he fomented disturbances in a province, and supported the pretender successfully, to whom British bayonets dictated imperiously.

Doubtlessly, Britain would have penetrated to Pekin, and ruled the emperor, but for fear of anarchy in the people, who might have overturned the ruler, and perpetrated a fatal revolution in that vast and populous empire.

Should Japan be treated as India, England would conquer her too. What has British rapacity not done? What has her cruelty not effected? She wades through blood to empires. Her ambition is insatiable. Well for her and the world will it be, to balance the world by equilibrium of principles. The yeomanry of mind in Great Britain can do much, as that country is one of the great lights of the world. As the mother of great nations, she has a mighty influence. Her policy, however, directed by immense power, has not been fruitful to the appropriate intellectual possession. She fought America, like a brave people, and, after failing in her conquest, she was magnanimous to acknowledge her rights as a nation, when this colony, her daughter, became independent. England, influenced by the best appreciation, acquiesced in what was the best policy forever. No less for both than the whole world, is that all should flourish together in the arms of peace and commercial union. Speaking one language, that is spreading with its people over the world, a mighty result must ensue, for the greatest good. Let that be the one universal language of the world.

The sublime existence of freedom arose in Britain, the first of popular rights being wrested by the barons, in magna-charta, from King John, in 1215.

The mighty monarchy of Great Britain, that now holds India, with her one hundred and forty millions of people, by her naval and military prowess, has a vast responsibility on her shoulders.

She should not desolate that immense empire by rapine, plunder, or peculiar faith, that has already ruined so much of this fairest portion of the world.

Let England learn the lesson of human rights, for her greatest glory. All this must redound to the elevation of mankind and the world.

The illustrious advocate of Asia's rights, the noble Burke, has told her what desolation has been in India by British oppression.

Would you, England, for it is you that rules, affect Asia, China and Japan, that way? Pause and know your right position, before the world's tribunal. You stand conspicuous for mind-power before the world, let your national magnanimity be correlative. The steam power in Great Britain and Ireland, is now estimated as equivalent to the power of eighteen millions of men! This proves the power of mind. over brute

force.

Kings, monarchs and autocrats, all councils of bible tradition men, have all acted in bad faith to their constituency and the world, to monopolize rights that should be constitutionally vindicated, in every age of mankind, to whom all such questions should be submitted forever.

The world now demands the solution of its problems, and commands crowns and sceptres in their abeyance. The world has to seek more equally diffused blessings. It is advised to have nothing to do with revolution, that is not conservative in its progress or end, if such even be attended with anarchy or disorder or no law, the worst state possible of rational existence.

The world's generosity should now be exerted in behalf of itself, whom it has so mistreated by a policy, that grew up when it was but little civilized.

It now has the means of benefiting itself rightly.

Who to-day is defender of the world's justice? It is high time that all the world was duly regulated. Human nature will wear out, but principles will not. Is brute force to be the law of the world?

It should war no more on distant land.

Come, monarchists, you have a day of reckoning, and act like humanity dictates, while in your power. Rely not on anything less than principles, that will cause you to renounce despotism and all its suicidal doctrines. Rely no more on the military power, for now the stroke of the pen is becoming more potent than the sword. Let the world do justice to itself. Let the year 1852, see the world organized into its five great continential governments, distinguished for principles, brotherhood, and religion.

Then international law and rights will be adjusted.

The internal government of each of the five nations as a unit, must be duly respected and cannot be violated.

No republican is justifiable, by international laws, to interfere.

Good faith in all treaties must be invariably maintained, as the infraction reflects on the deepest immorality of the transgressors.

There will be no cause for intervention, when the whole world shall be rightly installed into its continental governments. Conquests can add nothing, for the uniform permanent policy will ever maintain the integrity of each constitutional governmental union.

Every part of the world furnishes the best of reasons for this most splendid institution, for the general conservation of principles.

It becomes all rational minds to duly estimate the most exalted purposes of creation, and act as speedily as practicable.

The sovereignty, independence, and dignity of constitutional government, legitimately call for the consummation of rational religion. The chaplain of the Revolutionary Congress, implored Washington "to give over the ungodly war in which he was engaged." It never entered into this tory's head, that the illustrious father of his country was contending for the only just principles of government, violated by the aggressor, who refused the proper position of deciding those principles. Peculiar faith is incompetent to the functions of religion in every respect, that must be perfectly fulfilled, as the most sacred obligations of mind, in justice to the world and universe. Had Congress caused this irreligious tory to give over his ungodly profession, then a proper reply had been made by action. There is no sublimity that can compare with the happiness of this union, resulting from the noble constitutional government founded by our illustrious ancestors, the noblest heraldry that the world ever presented.

Agitators are rabid to wish to throw away the third brightest diamond in the universe, and involve all in the category of its destruction. The violation of the first, mind, spirit or soul, transgresses the second, and that of religion which advanced to the rational basis of civilization, witness the third constitutional government, the brightest lustre of which is, that it is clear of all faith.

Faith-bigotry warps the mind in all its circles of duty, political, social and national. Divide the union, and military misrule flourishes with dictatorships, dissensions and wars. Freedom will have her work to do over again.

But for the press, statesmen and patriots, this nation might have split into fragments. Have not much of the present difficulties in our union grown out of peculiar faith dissensions?

The agitators make false capital. Better had all such sink in the ocean, before disunion is even thought of once.

What is the result but war, then barbarism, let alone military despotism.

Americans are the only people capable by civil blessings to secure those of pure religious liberty, of putting an end for the benefit of the whole world to all the disguises of despotism among them, to lay low all the idle and false pretences of paganism in all the forms and modifications of idolatry. They are to adopt sooner or later the only proper religion of God, monotheism, and will then realize as confer, as the centre of civilization, all the noblest blessings to the world. America will be the favored of nations: nothing less than monotheism will do the world to crush the pusillanimous paganism of all ages, the aiders and abetters of absolutism.

The stars in the flag of the United States present the most liberal comprehension, that they are for universal principles, the most universal polity of rational religionconservative of the whole world.

The peculiar school doctrine is an outrage.

It remains for free, enlightened Americans to elevate themselves to the highest, that of Monotheism, to take the freedom of mind out of the hands of impostors; the false pretences of an ignoble peculiar faith, palmed on the world for religion, is no more that, than its peculiar gods are like the Creator of the universe.

In a country truly freed by monotheism, rational mind is thrown on its own best resources, free agency. The world has not begun to appreciate the sublime greatness of constitutional liberty, the purity, the elevation, the greatness of rationality. The priestocracy are nowhere-they are incompetent to look religion in the face, creatures as they were and are of debauched despotism.

American clergy ought, in a body, see the despotic infatuation of peculiar faith, and control it. They can now take the noblest stand of patriotism, mind, &c., and assert, as monotheists, that religion is the noblest representative of the Almighty Creator. Nations of the world, prove yourselves worthy of this sublime enjoyment, and render the proper adoration to the Author of Creation.

Civilization proves her benefits through the progress of rational mind, that gives America all the elements of true greatness, durable and eternal, as the Union most sacred, the cement of her majestic liberty.

America is one of the model lights of the world. What had bibles of tradition to do with our revolution? They retarded the execution, asking defenders. Now has mind the ascendancy, and the ballot-box is more powerful than all the artillery of absolutism, and more potent than its sword. America has risen on the best aids of rational mind, that will elevate her to her highest capacity. Her policy must comprehend all its best benefits. What sort of uncivilized country would ours be without our blessed Union? Dissolution of the Union would derange the intellectual and moral world.

Let the light of our counsellors, our chief men, be enlightened and liberal statesmen, of comprehensive mind, duty and patriotism. Be the Constitution the presiding genius -let mutual concessions and compromises be the motto-let justice prevail in her councils, and strength will be in her footprints. Let her flag be the harbinger of joy on the ocean, to the distressed of every land, and the satisfaction of all the wise and true at home.

We must look to America that has enlightened the world on true government, so she must enlighten and bless on rational religion, not the miserable peculiar faith of bibles of tradition, or of imperial dynasties, that rule their world by union of church and state. Americans owe it to themselves to begin this mighty conservative revolution. But are all our statesmen politicians, that they cannot commit themselves to the justice of rational religion? The American public is the only one that can properly appreciate this position, that no bible of tradition can give the first letters-the elements of pure religion.

The voice of social intellectuality and dignity ought to speak out.

Peculiar faith, as a part and parcel of kingly or papal government, is then notoriously an injurious organ, oppressive to the mind of the sovereign people.

Can the American nation, the whole intellectual world, over-estimate this glorious constitutional government? Can all the beneficiaries duly appreciate the noble Union? The present age should seek for annexation on the same grand division of the five of the world, not conquest, the moral, not martial influence.

The only universal empire is that of universal brotherhood, founded on the noblest relations of mind, that establishes constitutional governments.

Time was when the old and new continents had no communication. How was this? It was for want of genius, mind, and science, that tower above all faith. Under rational religion the noblest philanthropic associations will grow up.

This Union does hand to the world its constitutional government: let it add also that of rational religion. The banner nation, that gives to the world constitutional government and rational religion, confers a sublime favor that can never be repaid, and will render her the star of light.

Asia is and has been the land of political and faith despotism. It is time that the world caused truth to hold faith in abeyance.

Women, you whose sex has been so long degraded by orientalism, that has taken away or effaced all the noblest traits of soul, and denied even that to you, seek your dignity, and see to the truth and glory of rational religion.

What, then, can be more important to the world, or richer in ennobling materials to its happiness?

The world should now demand as its supreme right, written constitutions of regularly organized conventions, elected by properly constituted electors, as the supreme law of continents. All free intelligent citizens have an interest in constitutional government, rational religion, civilization and universal brotherhood. The permanent, correct

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