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gaining ground in the world, but ultimately they must fail, and their isms become as chaff before the wind!

When we look at the state of Hayti, with the emancipations in the Northern States-the Jeffersonian interdiction in the new states N. W. of the Ohio-the Liberty of the Spanish provinces of N. and S. America, and what is now pending in the British Parliament on the subject of the West Indies Slave Trade, &c. we may think about the Spanish Isles, Brazil and our own southern sable population, and ask WHAT NEXT?

Is it true what Poindexter of S. C. said in reply to Webster on Congress floor,—that “"resistance to tyrants is obedience to God:" then may his constituents well look at home, and examine things as they now are, how they should be, and what may be and what will be!

Whilst a cloud of a gloomy texture is in appearance arising to a gust in the South. There is a squally appearance in the North! and its appearances are threatening and very gloomy.

The privations in time of the late war, being severely felt, gave rise to enterprize, and the Manufacturing and Protecting System, in their infancy, as a necessary thing for the public welfare; but its consequences are obvious since, though then

unseen.

1. "Water privileges" are monopolized, and he who occupies the outlet of a stream controls all above, which principle is called law, and make one a superior as a kind of lord, and those occupies above are a kind of subordinate or state of vasselage!

2. Much capitol flung into the hands of a few, and all the rest are dependants.

3. Those dependants are qualified for no other kind of business but the one-hence one can dictate and the other must obey. 4. Obedience or dismissal and starvation.

5. Such dependancy is vasselage and degradation.

6. Destroys the principles of social, and political and personal freedom!

7. There instances where an assumption of power over the conscience, by dictating what religious meetings may or shall be attended; and what interdicted on pains and penalties of dismission, &c.

8. Destroy the freedom of voting, and school meetings, town meeting and elections of different kinds, for town, state and national officers, by being dictated for whom they must vote or be still and vote for none, on pain of displeasure and dismissal by those capitalists, or their overseers as nabobs or their agents.

9. Those who are thus employed work more hours in a day, than the slaves of the South, and obedience is more implicit.For there are instances where they are locked up, that none may go out or any come in, and all by the ringing of the bell to the

minute, under penalty; which is a more sovereign act of tyranny than the black slaves of the south are brought to feel, and moreover they are sometimes even denominated slaves by those of the "UPPER ORDER." Such servitude degenerates health, and those who labour as above, appears like the potatoe stalk, pale, that grows up in the cellar.

10. Those children that are raised in a state of such subordination, have very little opportunity for school education, or any chance for information and improvement-but in point of culuvation must become like the wild ass colt. In one generation would subordinate and degenerate a great part of the society of New England, if the subject is not guarded-if one may judge of the future from the past, within the space of a few years.

11. Girls raised in a factory, from the age of ten to eighteen years, what are they good for but to become Nuns in a factory shut up?

For they know nothing about housewifery, cookery, garment making, &c. &c. Hence are only fit for dolls, at enormous expense!

12. When the Old Ladies are gone, who knows how to doctor, nurse and dictate to others, when these are gone by and passed off the stage. What will the poor ladies do that are brought up and learned to live upon do nothing, except to dress and tight lace, provided they must take the result?

Surely it must become a distressed poor state of society, in strength of body, mind, economy or convenience, or the fitness of things, if the evil be not remedied before it be too late!

The attempt to dictate what meeting those in their employ shall attend, and for whom they shall vote, leads immediately to an aristocracy, with an hard, or a swift race!

And the few capitalists, by associating together, which through interest and self-aggrandizement, would lead them to do it, they would be able with the aid of the U. S. Bank to dictate and virtually to govern America-their will becoming the supreme law of the land!

14. The corruption and chicanery in the elections and choice of officers-the abuse of trust, the intrigue of courts-the partiality of those who ought to administer justice-to destroy the innocent, and to connive and favor the guilty to the manifest injury of the other party-to misrepresent the case by a false coloring and improper covering of facts and circumstances, was what I once never dreamed of or thought possible, and happy would my ignorance have been, if experience and observation had not brought it to my knowledge and understanding by some painful experience!

15. There is a class of men in society who have it in their power to injure and ruin others, by reducing them to poverty,

and also destroy their character and reputation, as men amongst mankind.

16. Such laws as only favor a few, and enable them to domineer and tyranize over the rest, and degrade them into ignorance and ignominy has not a good bearing in society, and should be changed for such rules as would have a more and beneficial influ ence for social welfare.

17. The law to favour the faculty, if the dead are not called for by their friends within a certain number of hours, may be dissected, &c.

Supposing a youth going to school by stage, or a merchant for goods, is taken sick and amongst strangers,-his friends hear not in due time to apply to the public house for the body,-What must be their feelings under such circumstances, when they hear? Or the young lady going to see her friends?

Should the law makers be disposed to give their own bodies, or sanction a society for the like purpose, why, it would be their own voluntary act, and not any would be to blame!

But to say the least, it is a poor world, and what is commonly. called law, is but the example and opinion of a poor Judge, set up for a precedent, while statute law lays dormant and absolete, and is scarce ever mentioned at all.

18. In Ireland, 1798, there was a union betwixt the Protestants, Presbyterians and Catholies, called "united Men," for political purposes, but the Romans got the upper hand in the south they made it a religious affair, too serious to be trifled with. Will there ever be an attempt to amalgamate societies in America-a leading few and to sacrifice the rest?

The attempt and conspiracy to sacrifice the METHODISTS through Maffit. began in R. I. and the mock trial in her sister state!

So the affair of "Rev. E. K. Avery" was another Hallucidation of the political sermon of R. I. found in Antism, for political purposes, supposing him to have been a Mason! and also to sacrifice the Methodists through him!

Hence the threatening with fire and fagots for their attempt to allow him a fair chance to obtain justice!

The burning and hanging him in effigy, with the various false and unheard of ways and means, to prejudice the public mind against the Methodists; the assiduity with which the matter was persued, as if God, angels, men and devils were called and excited to action and the archieves of heaven, earth and hell ransacked for evidence and testimony, and the brains of men, strained almost to distraction, as if they were thirsting for blood and could not rest satisfied until the days of persecution unto blood must return, as a curse and scourge to revisit mankind upon the earth.

But after putting the state to about ten thousand dollars expense, and E. K. A. to about 6000 more-not a hair of his head as it relates to his moral and Christian character have they been able to soil or touch!

But will not God, the judge, laugh those persecutors to scorn, and be avenged for all these things! For it is a disgrace to human nature-the proceedings of a judicial court, upon such delicate points, inspected thus to shed blood, and after all, the book of nature exhibits the mischief to have been done or began some six weeks anterior to the Thomson Camp Meeting, and hence to the house of the most officious prosecutor where no doubt some of the evil may yet fall on the principles of equity.

There has been instances of some individuals of a certain profession, in attempting a certain kind of practice, have endangered the life of an individual, and jeopardize themselves personally to the law thereby, which to avoid, have helped the patient off the stage of action in attitude, as if they had committed suicide! But murder will out, and the tub must stand on its own bottom!

If such hallucinations are to be taken socially for law, order and gospel, who can be safe and claim protection by the laws of his country!

The Town House of Providence, if God and man permit, was intended for a meeting, having never been shut on such an occasion before-but the Catholics with the town Council had such influence, as to cause the house to be shut against me! Perhaps they may have Catholicism enough by and by.

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APPENDIX.

The practice of dressing in BLACK, by ministers of most denominations, is a perpetuation of one of the Popish customs, which was taken from the false prophets; who borrowed it from the true Prophets when mourning in sack-cloth, &c. But God declares he will remove the Chemarims (or black coats) with the Priests out of the land! Zeph. i. 4.

SIN and SATAN are represented as black.-Black is a rotten colour, and black will easily shew dirt, therefore there is no reason but pride and the prejudice of education to be assigned for the perpetuation of it!

As it relates to Baptisms, the plural is spoken of by Paul. Heb. vi. there are three elsewhere:-Water, Sufferings and the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. As it relates to the mode,. the Hebrews were Baptized to Moses IN the Cloud and in the Sea; and yet they went through on DRY ground, so that they were not wet all over under water! John Baptized with (not IN) water, "unto repentance," and baptized Christ, (who could not be baptized unto repentance for he had nothing to repent of,) and said I shall decrease, which implies that he knew his own dispensation would come to an end; while that of Jesus, must eat up all the rest and monopolize the world! Paul baptized some of John's people over again, which implies the use of water among the first Christians, and that John's baptism was not the Gospel one! IN Jordan IN the mountain into the tree, &c. at, to, upon, compare Exodus. Luke, and exercise common sense, To gain an ascendancy and exercise a supremacy over others, "moral evil" will adopt any plan to maintain unjust prerogative.

Hence the Pope puts down the Free Mason! Why? Not because Masonry is wrong, but because it admits and requires only Penn's general test, "a belief in one God and future rewards and punishment," "as though a Protestant might be saved as well as a Catholic," and by such all the

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