Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-12-26
MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF AS
SOCJATTONE

ISOLATION.
A meeting of the friends Of Association,
as discovered and illustrated by the late
Charles Fourier, was convened at the Village
Hall, in Southport, on Monday evening, De-
cember IL. s. FISH, Esq. was called to
the Chair, and c. CLEMENT, appointed Sc
cretary. The following preamble and reso-
lutions were submitted and adopted.
Whereas, Mankind are free to admit that
there exists in the world vast amount of
human suffering, which they are unwilling
to charge upen their maker, and equally UNI
willing to attribute to themselves; thereby
leaving the source of their miseries wholly
underlined. Perhaps we should except q
certalu few however, who attribute all the
evils OF life TO dark and mysterious Spirit,
Ito whom we think is ascribed more influence
than he ispermitted to possess) and believing
man was created to be miserable on cath,
they look upon every cipI effort to amel;o-
rate his condition, as invading the precincts
OF the Church, whose doctrines they claim
the sole privilege of expounding; and unless
the evils of mankind are eradicated by the
diffusion of the dogmas which itself has es-
tablshed, all attempts to accomplish it must
be visionary and fail of success.
There are other classes whose interests
clash with better state of things; whose in
come will be circumscribed, when ignorance,
vice ,mscIy shall be supplanted by education,
virtue, and happiness, and they therefore op-
pose the progress of Social Reform, as rec
commended by Chas Fourier, either because
1t will IN great measure stop the source of
their uncnvlable gains, or because they do
not understand its merits, and will not invcs-
tgate It's claims
In whatever light VIC view MN in his pre-
sent social condition, we find his greatest
enemy is man. Such state of things is un-
natural, and to say that they cannot be rem
edled, is iibellous upon thetcharacter of the
Deity, and blasphemy for man to suggest.
The world has long been struggling against
the unnatural state of things which the vices
of earlier ages had Induced, but without "A
proper point of union we continue TO fight
like the army which sprung from the sown
dragons teeth of Cadmus, until we are all
slam together. And until we fix upon a
point where our Interests are united we shall
be laborng TO g damn the mountain stream
with sand, and feter fire with a flaxen band"
There fore. we belve, that the new social or
ganiZltion as discovered and illustrated bv
the late Chas. Fourier, is well ad aprcd to re-
move most of the causes of crime and mise
~ which now exist, and TO confer innumer-
able benefits upon mankind. Therefore,
Resolved, 1st That we associate OUT
selves together 10 be known as the Fourier
Club.
Dad Nl,.f
means for the procuring and dssem;n,tinga
full and general knowledge of Fourier prin-
cidles of Social Science throughout our new
and flourishing territory.
3rd That we will meet once i'm each
week for the purpose of hearing lectures up
on, and discussing the principles of this sci
encc.
18th. That in no portion o [ our country is
concert of action and associated strength
more necessary than in the northwest, from
the fact that capital is deficient and the de-.
c'pled the power of ex,orting 10 the fullest
extent which misery avarce will allow.
Finally, That when we contrast. the present
condition of man as viewed in his isolated
household, his unavoidlbly useless expcndi-
lures, his unpaid labor. his wasted and unem-
ployed time, his uneducated children, and
his thousand unsatisfied wants, with that bet
ter state which common sense teaches, will
flow from unity of iuteres;s with combined
wealth and knowledge, we feel it duty
we owe to ourselves, 10 our children, and
the community at large that we lesc no time
in testing lis benefits practically, that we can
better anil sooner recommend If tn tho ,,o,ll
The meeting adjourned until Friday eve
ming next, when lecture viii be delivered
by Dr.. Parnell on the subject of Association.
$. FISH, President
G. CLEMENT, Sec.
OF At meeting Of the Southport
Fourier Glib, holden at The Village Hall.
pursuant 10 adjournment, on the evening
Of the 22nd inst, an able and appropriate
ddrccc ,yoS Ialiyo. cd hy Do.tor ID.