The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-05-19

great mass of the people, i'll all countries,
have been so trained by the circumstances
around them, that they have been forced,
unknown to themselves, to receive notions
which are opposed to the great and import
ant truths which have placed before you.
and, in consequence, the most lamentable
ignorance of human nature universally pre-
walls, and poverty, and injustice, and vice,
and mist ~, at this hour, every where supei
bound
Vast numbers of men, and more particu-
larly women, in all countries, have been
forced, from genertion to generation, to re-
ceive, in infancy, as true, various immagln-
AIRY notions, long prevalent in those countries,
and they have been taught that their happi-
ness or misery depended upon their belief or
disbelief in the truth of those notions. In va
rious countries, these notions differ materl-
ally. In some they are in direct opposition
to others, and, as all AZ. trained to think
that the notions taught in their own country
are so true that it is impossible they can be
deceived, and that those in opposition to
them are so false that none but the most ig-
norant and weak will be made to believe III
them, and that such false and wicked notions
must produce vicious conduct: In this man
ner, every immaginable bad feeling, that can
be implanted in human nature, is generated
and tostered. National, sectarian, and ndl-
vidual antipathies necessarily follow; divis-
ion and counteractlon, OF every description
succeed, and the world is thus forced to be-
come chaotic scene Of confusion, disorder
and misery.
1t is so At this moment, and, strange to say,
it has been made to be so through those orig
inal qualities of our nature which, whenever
/ they shall be rightly directed, and justice
shall be done to them, will produce the full
ness Of charity, and Kindness, and sincerity,
| from each to all until we Shall become, III tact
and in reality, new people, having but one
common interest; and then ali the benefits OF
the world will be freely open to every one
and in consequence, all will be gamers, to
all extent that no imagination has been yet
trained to be competent to conceive.
4 fne Original f.cu!tics OF our nature, which
have been thus abused, are the natural love
Of truth, and the desire to benefit our fellow
creatures to the greateHt possible extent.
These are the genuine feelings which no7Y
actuatc the conscientously religious, in all
the countries throughout the void. These
are the sole motives which animated the real
religious of all the pass times, and which
gave AN iueXprcsslble pleasure to the diving
moments Of martyrs of all sects iu every aye
and country. Why should these incstima-
bic qualities OF the human mind be longer
abused and forced to become the instru-
mCnts Of universal discord, confusion, and
suiferng' Is it wise in those that govern
to allow this wretchcd error TO continue.
Are there not men around me, even now
in the actual possession Of ten fold more
power and influence than are requisite to
stem this torrent Of error and misdlrection Of
the finest feelings and best faculties of our
nature?
know there are, and trust they will
now manfully and promptly step forward,
and place themselves in the gap between
the present and the future, and from this
Capitol, in their collective capacity, say to
the world, "Now shall the government of
force, and fraud, and disuulon Cease, and
from henceforth truth, and sincerity, and
charity, and kindness, and union, Shall taxi
their place, and superstition aud prejudice
shall no longer have dominion herc"
, This IS the mighty deed that the intclli-
gent part OF the population of this country
| and the enlightened men among all tho ma
tions OF the earth, will expect at their hand
And can any position be conceived so im
portant, or, at this moment, so highly to b,
! desired for the accomplishment Of the great
est good to this country and to the world. Il,
empire has been just appointed.
. Knowing well the favorable circumstan
ces hich, in the most extraordinary man
= ncr, hayc been combined, and are in full
force TO aid It's attainment, coniure them
ON account Of their own future feelings an.
! reflections, but conurc them, most partic
uiarly, in the name Of those innumerah
7 beings throu, ,hont the world who arc noy
= affected with penury and want, with ignor
. ancc, and vice, and superstition, with til
8 inferior motives which have been instile,
8 into their mind from infancy, and the conse
s ouent misery which they suffer, that the
= viii not allow thi, inestimable opportunit
:. to escape. If the leading men of thes
i States, forgetting every little and unworth
party and sectarlan distinction, will now cor
!, diaily uniAe, they may, with case, break as
! sunder the bonds of ignorance, superstition
and prejudice, and. by thus acting, tho
r. could not fail to dspel erroe, and to give an
n secure mental freedom and happiness to tn
~ world. 10 effect this change, the create.
- ever yet made in human affairs, no sacritiC
- on their parts will be necessary. If the
!, possess, as | trust tncy do, sufficient nor;
=! courage to will this deed, and without della
- to express that will openly and dccisivel
i, to the world, then will mental slavery SOC
-, cease every where, and the victory over i,
n norancc and poI erty, and sin, and miscr
u. u, viii be achieved. Here, fort, nately for yC
~ and for the future destinies of the humq
.a race, no regal or legal power sustains igno
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