GENERAL Explanations of Government. THE study of government is the liberty of man and of the greatest importance to his happiness. In these dark days of sin and trouble brought over our heads by the tyrant of parties, it is time for reformation. Has not experience actually proved that for the want of political virtue in this divided people as of all mankind, that our republic has fallen, and fast going, prostrated to ruin, where a lost world has gone. In what else does this want of virtue consist, than in the plentitude of rebellious aristocratical cunning and scarcity of republican wisdom. The constitution of the U. States failed to preserve our union, because the dishonesty of the aristocratical few, and the ignorance of the democratical many, DID go astray from their true interest, in spite of its provisions. And why all this rebellion, except that the constitution of the United States is not general to all, but partial to the disobedience of administration. When we study man in society we behold that from his wants arises all government; the great object then of a general constitution, is the common understanding of those wants generally, in order to their government equal and harmonious, or so that there shall be no clashing or jaring with each other. The civility of aristocracy has ever prevented, like the dog in the manger, the divine moralist from en-joying unmolestedly his common democracy. The want of common knowledge in general government, by which the common people can understand each other's order in general society, that the industrious and faithful might act in general concert for each others true interest against the dark en tangling oppressor, causes all division. The want of this very understanding of each other, is the very political virtue wanted to preserve republican union, in order to the conviction of the deluded, and the detention of the deluding, from wandering astray from their true interest to a cottage and palace party, of stern poverty, and the tyrant of discontented woe, to cut each others throats in perpetual war. Because of the visionary wants of a few aristocrats whose object was never honest gain, but the rebellious pride of glorying on degraded paupery in hereditary trespasses, without regard to the equal rights of other men, whose turn to serve is as equal as the enjoyment of choice is desirable above the hardship of the human world, the world has rolled in corruption. The real wants of men unitedly, form the great democratical pressure of love towards each other; the neighboring farmers of both parties although enticed for the moment upon each others swords, still love each other in spite of the aristocrat to separate them. Ever since the deluge the dupe and democrat have hitched their horses to the same post; they only differ knowing not what; but they differ till truth unveils an understanding and no longer; as soon as democratical wisdom glitters in that light of truth, which swells the bosom of patriots, all is union, for their real wants begin to act. True patriotism consists in that love of others that guards against the tyrant of forgetful self; it defendsevery inch of the holy land, granted for the expanse of freedom, opened to the wants of the deprived. The Almighty throws up to view his wild asyJums for the invitation of the weak from oppression, and the creation of wants for the general action of society-otherwise miserable would be human moralists lost in their own shells of darkness, and strangers to every thing else but the sea board. Nothing but human kings, misers and paupers would men be, were it not for the Washingtons, Franklins, Columbusses, Moseses and Noahs. It is by their re publican wisdom that the divine wants of democratical men, so powerfully and mutually act on all men, that mankind are impelled into general society, for their good action and union together, and as natural as gravitation to one common center, in spite of aristocracy but for the moment; that causes the innocent to flame in war, and waste, what the industrious had erected. Aristocracy only charms dupes long enough for the devil to climb his throne, then all is vanity and human destruction. Though the devil always rides on the wind of civil delusion, obstructing moral reciprocity, yet nations will be at peace and commerce, domestic and free to all. Were it not for the heavenly and mutual wants of democratical men sooner or later, and universally as well as locally, their presence to each other in every vicinity, would be as awfully offensive, as rank poison to the victim it devours. Although robbing commerce hatches up the cold and dejected slave and miser, as all China is jeopar dized, who like the Hermit are clogs to action; yet the great reciprocal wheel of mutual wants, rolls around, aloft and beneath all aristocratical obstructions, the farmer, the smith, the carpenter, the mason, the clothier, the miller, victualler and trader, all mutually and universally, as in one neighborhood, conform to the grand course of things, conducing to life all the convenience necessity invents; by which the great overrunning world from Noah is mutually kept together, but industrious man has ever lived ravaged in aristocratical darkness. Yet democratic man that obedient denizen, every where from the landing ark, has gone forward in the divine duty of inhabitancy, in spite of the civil pull back of all the aristocratical adulterers, murderers, blasphemers and robbers, and formed from the father of beginning, the present great family of yet continuing victorious diviners. Because the emigrant is dependant upon his na tive land, for every thing in life, even himself, his apparel, his beasts, his utensils; the woods affording no manufacturing artists, the aristocrats take advan-tage of this necessity and the world has been emburthened under the original sin of Adam thereby. The population of man, enforcing migration more rapid than invention, the genius discouraged by the aristocrat and those of flight, not endowed with improvement for projecting at once the things really wanted, the necessity of those things, is the mother of their provision of the many not in the power of invention, but only supplied from a mother country, thereby continued the aristocratical yoke of original sin on all posterity-the dissenting colonist pulling up his native post, hazards the distant wave and wilds in quest of new abodes, has nothing for defence, but depends on corrupted mother land. Which government has never protected, but aristocracy has encouraged the speculator to rob the adventurer of all he achieves, the wise man of all he invents, and the laboring man of his earnings in all the annals of the world, from the first magnificent city of waiters, to the new settlement of cultivating tillers; hence the obstructions between nation and nation by the bloodiest of wars. Notwithstanding which a universal correspondence of all nations, sooner or later is unavoidable, otherwise the holy war's sword of necessity is drawn to remove the aristocratical obstructions, the civilian must yield, when he has gone too far, the devil of parts is only bound for periods, the great democratical course of the world must go on, it observes always its invariable principle; the changeable aristocrat only raves more in old nations than in new. There are ten thousand conjured up plans of pretended government, really aristocracies, and numberless terms applied to their officers and parties of enchantment, and all are for no other purpose, than for the aristocrat to climb the throne of rebellion, to sway in robbery, not in rule, the mouth of labor, that the greatness of the few shall become idle sinners and pompous in rebellious wealth, shameful beyond their proper ratio, to be embarrassed with the extreme waste, war, lust and pride, of the black powers of this excessive world, with their own kind kicked down to be their waiters of disgrace. Enslaved for that purpose, under the fictious names of republics, monarchies, oligarchies, and absolutions, and every thing they think of, the devil knows his own clothing better than I do; that of emperors, kings, queens, princes, dukes and fixed governors, no matter for empty names, all are civil kings, unless all branches of government are subjected to the suffrages of the poor as well as rich, to frequent rotations from office and in a manner too, that no one but their God shall know who is governor till after election. Instead of his majesty, his mighty highness, his noble lord, all downy clothing the devil's wrappers, civil covering, mighty honest names held for life by human charms and royal masters. How black the sin! Because the Almighty the fountain of all good, is distinguishable by terms applicable, civilians cover themselves in like phrases, that fools may think them like God, fixed as fate, how many millions of dupes are there, who have forgot their true God, and really believe these little nasty fops of imbecility, to be their Almighty Gods? who to which belief, are trained up from new born youth, that they shall not depart from these sweet human worships. All countries wherein democracy ceases to act, to ruin goes, and slavery, hunger and misery, attends the dying victims of a ruined country. All ruined, aristocrats as well as dupes, all hands, blind leading the blind, altogether are ruined where the wrong pretend to rule; the poor and powerful all together tied into a knot, miserable dying trouble, the very slaves of the oppressed kingdoms are controuled by slaves, all a dependant mass of misery; and with the utmost delicacy the at last mired down aristocrats are forced to manage, to keep up their kingly pow er and gale of ensnaring and increasing evil, or have their deluded in their sinful bowels; is it a wonder that the very earth trembled with its eruptions, till the |