, 1842-05-28

SiIleSS and let Others mind their DuSl-
ness. And no Presidents, Vice-Presi-
dents, Secretaries, Spies, lnlormers,
Committees of Delegates, shall ever
be chosen by the Society to watch
yer the conduct of others. or to make
reports of their neighbors' misdoings,
until Il thorough reformation shall
have been commenced and complet-
ed at home.
ART. V. There shall be no public
or private meetings of this Society,
on any set days to manage their con-
Germs or to heat self:applauding adj
dresses or lectures delivered before
it; bnt it shall be the duty of every
member. to meet himself alone every
day, and listen with becoming polite
ness to the lectures of conscience.
ART. VI. No money shall be rails
ed from time TO time, TO defray the
expenses of this society. circulate
seIi-eXaming tracts, selE-examining al
manacs, or pay peop.c Tor delivering
addresses. 10 convince Us how much
more easy and pleasant it is 10 exam
inc others. than to examine ourselves.
ART. VII. Every member of the
Society, shall pay due regard TO Tenn
perance in eating and drinking and in
crayy thing else. But he shall be his
own Judge what he shall drink, and
wherewithal he shall bc clothed
while gluttony, drunkenness, and tight
lacing, hustles, high stocks, tight
boots, slim shoes and soaP-locks, shall
be left, in the first instance, To the
cravings Of conscience. but if this
monitor be despised, the contemner
shall be consigned at N to the ten
der mercies Of L regular bred physi-
clan. receive the benefits Of the ortho-
dox clergy, the lectures of a Tenn
pelancc Society. and the popular OPP
probrium 50 richly mcri'cd.
Arr. VIII. Every thing shall be
called by its ri.ht name, and every
thing shall be done rightly. No one
shall put bitter for sweet; call for
Beer when he .wrnts Rum, or for CT,
der or Wine when he wants Brandy
or Gin. And no inn-keeper shall put
drops of wine into bottles of brandy.
for the use of Temperance custom
crs-nei'hcr shall grocers or mer-
chants make preparation of whlSkyor
Jamacia Rum and sell them for Sher-
~ or Madeira Wine.
ART. TX. Every member of this
Society shall be allowed 10 drink Tea
or Coffee, cold water or hot water,
Buttcrmilk or Lemonade, as suits him
best; or 10 chew or smoke tobacco,
or take snuff, when not offensive to
the company he is in, without being
accommodated from good society.
or delivered over to the bu!ictlngs OF
long faced Pirarisees.
Arr. y. No member of the So
ciety shall ever set himself above his
fellows, building his own character
and consequence upon the runs OF a
neighbours good name. True 1t is
that two blacks Will not make one
white; and no member must ever at
tempt to foist his own dingy charac-
ter INTO society as white by meddIlng
with his neighbours character. which
may happen to be a shade blacker.
ART. XI. This Society shall form
no christian party i'll politics, and no
political party under the name of the
SelfExamining Society. it shall have
nothing to do with Masonry or Anti
Masonry, Colonization or Anll-Colo-
nization, Missionary, Bible, or Tract
Societies. as being in any manner
connected with it. MOI shall any
religious Creed, Test or lnquisition,
Council or Synod, ever be establish
cd or countenanced by this Society,
but every member shall enjoy his own
religion, and allow to all others the
same liberty he claims for himself,
without being pointed at as a hereto,
or branded as an lnfidel.
ART. XII. Good society shall not
be formed out of the ~aristocracy oil
wealth, exclusively, 10 made out OF
the popularity of swindiing specula-
tors, or of civil or religious profess
sions. Ii shall include the poor who
are honest. intelligent and industrious,
as well as the RICH.
ART. XIII. The members Of this
Society shall seek to do good and not
evil; love and not hate each other;
and when reviled they shall not re-
vile again; but shall bear with the
faults and infirmities of others, know
ing that themselves are men OF like
passions and imperfectlons. They
shall respect the virtues and talents OF
all men; nor shall that honor and
Difference be overlooked which is
Justly due to the working part of the
,.,,n,,n,,r g. tho E,r,na.c and Me-