Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1830-05-19
MISCELLANIES.
From the Providence Daily Advertiser.
THE SOCIAL SYSTEM.

will doubtless soon be perigrinating
through the country, to repair the mis-
chief to her cause, which has been done
by her flat disciple, Master jennings
Her beautiful social system is develop
ing itself in New-York. A new paper
is announced there, by some of her fol-
lowers, to be entitled "The Friend of
Equal Rights" These equal rights mean,
that the lazy and profligatc shall have a
right to seize upon the earnings of the
industrious and virtuous part of the COM
munity, and make grand division of
property, "a new division to be resorted to
whenever the most worthless have dissi-
pated their share of the plundcr. The
motto of the paper is, "All children have
equal rights to maintenance and cduca-
tion-all mankind, at the age of matu-
rity, to equal property"
The Newly ork Evening Post gives
the following apt illustration of the bene-
fits that result from this splendid common
stock scheme. 1t is taken from the
"Tales of the North West, or Sketches
of Indian Life and Character :"
"Among the Indians, the indolent
share the provision made by the indus
trious ; and a refusal to give food or
clothes is thing unheard Of This very
generosity is n great bar to their improve
ment. Where the "Social SYSTEM pre-
walls to its fullest extent, as with the Da-
cotahs, it is not to be expected that any
individual will exert himself more than is
necessary to meet the wants of the hour.
1t is no benefit to a squaw to plant corn
field, for the harvest must be reapcd by
hands that did not SOW. 1t is useless for
q hunter to kill more venison than is need
ed for the immediate consumption of his
family las the greater part will be eaten by
those who have been smoking by the
firc-side while he has been freezing and
wcarying his limbs in the chase. The
obstacles to the civilization of the Indians
are indeed many but in the opinion of
one who has had many opportunities for
observation, this is the greatest"
This is the paradise Oh earth, which
Miss Wright and her followers are labor
ing to create. A still more vivid picture
of this delightful social system, which is
offered us as substitute for the morality
ofthe Bible, and the tyranny of matrimo-
nial laws, so pathetically dcplored by the
peripatetic infdel, Miss Wright, is drawn
by French traveller, who gives an ac-
count of a Gipsey tribe, established on the
complete New Harmony system, in Wal
lachia The Evening Post thus translates
this revolving detail. We present it, in all
its disgusting particulars, for the benefit
of those disposed to seek a substitute for
the present organization of society, found
ed on the precepts of christian morality.
Here we see the practical results of the
community ofproperty and all other rela-
tions:
81 soon arrived at the camp of the
Gypsies. 1t was composed of some
wretched tents of goats hair, the door
of which was on the side opposite to the
village from which | came. l arrived
without being perceived. applied my
eye to one of the numerous rents in the
covering of tent, and saw-never did
the eye of a civilized man behold such a
spectacle saw, around vast fire kin
died before the door, human creatures of
whom could hardly distinguish the form,
piled upon each other in disorder in the
midst of numerous quadrupcds mingled
with them. The sole mark of superiority
which the human bpcds could claim was
that of being placed nearer the fire for the
purpose, without doubt, ofsuperintending
more conveniently the important affair of
supper, which was cooking in an immense
chauldron. Naked children hanging to-
the bosoms of their mothers, bare and
swarthy like themselves, formed with the
rest, hidcous groupes ofpoverty and filth.
said their mothers: am mistaken, for
every thing being common in the rcpub-
lie, wives as well as children, there are
as many mothers as wives. The mother
gives her milk to the child whom she finds
by her side; it may be her own, perhaps,