Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-04-30

trust? None! They know of none; they
scarcely dream of any. As to the majors.
ty of politicians, absorbed in the contempt
IDLE sqabbles of self-seeking parties, they
have lao sympathies with the mass of the
people, and are destitute of right method
of assisting them if they had.
The utter inefficiency of Political re-
forms is exphibited by the fact that so long
as Society remains in its present incohe-
rent and warning state the contests of its
political parties must parlake of The pre-
va;ling antagonism. Accordingly, we find
that these contests every where are the
mere conflicts of opposing material inte-
rests. They are dignified, it is true, with
the name of battles for principles, but in
reality they are not so; they are battles on
narrow selfish grounds, Of class against
class, OF locality against locality, OF bust
ness against business. The only sense in
which they can be regarded as contests for
principles, is that in some instances a large
body of the people are more interested in
the measures of one party than they are
In those OF another: consequently. the tri-
umph Of that party may be Looked upon as
triumph for the Majority of the People.
In general, however, the success of any
OF our political parties consists of putting
one set of men out of office and ano-
ther in, and substituting one series Of
selfish interests for another. 1t is on this
account that the contests of political par
ties are perpetually renewed, that their ap-
parent progress is nothing more than
movement in a circle. Will any one pre-
tend to say that either of the parties in this
country are one lot in advance of their re-
specflve founders, Hamilton and jefferson!
Alter oil the turmoil of fifty years Of in
cessant debate, excitement, and election,
precisely the same questions are agita,ed.
The arguments, the appeals. the con,ro-
versles of the earliest days Of the Repub-
lie, with a few unimportant changes Of
names, would be just as applicable at this
day. Now one party has been in the as
cendant and now another; vet both ring the
same eternal changes on the question Of
--Tariff--Public Lands; Public
Lauds-Tariff-Bank. We do not mean
that there has been no progress in Society;
for, thanks to Industry, Science and Art,
there has been great progress. 1t is our
Politics which has been smitten with
shameful barrenness. What has been
gained one day has been lost the next; what
was established yesterday is demolished on
the morrow; what one class has acquired
has been at the expense of other classes
And the only reason Of this unceasing
fuctuatlon we have seen, is that the mate
rial interests, Of men, which are alone
brought into the dispute, are for ever fluc-
tuating' with time and place. They move
'his slide and that, hither and ihiiher, now
up ana now down, shifting with every adj
verse or propitious wind, modified by a
thousand irregular influences, and always
exhibiting the characteristics of caprice ra-
Their than of any settled law.
This very instability and fruitlessness of
our political controversies might have led
our statesmen, had they been wise enough,
INTO discovery OF the cause Of the evil
The cause, we have seen. is in the uniyer-
sal and utter DrvERGENcY OF INTERESTS,
which marks the processes Of all civilized
societies; and, therefore, the remedy indi.
dated. in the nature Of the complaint, is the
adoption of some method by which we can
produce CONVERGINCY OF INTE-
RESTS. Yes, we proclaim it boldly, con-
lidently, with emphasis, that the only cure
for our social distresses, that the only
means of real, true social progress, that
the great want Of the age, is Plan Of So
cial Organization on the principle of Uni
ty of Interests. Unity alone can save US
from the tangled incoherence and Earring
seltishness of existing divisions. Univ
alone can introduce order and freedom IN
to the wild, weltering chaos Of the social
world. Unity is the grand reconciler, the
source of all strength, the fountain Of all
Joy. 1t is the enemy of Discord, OF Con-
fusion, Of Duplicity, and of Wrong. 1t is
the highest conception of the Mind; It is
the synonym of Harmony and perfect JUS
tice; it is the Central Truth OF all sound
Philosophy and religion. God is ONE,
and all his creation, visible and invisible,
must be ONE. There must be unity Of
man with man. Of man with the Universe,
of man with God. All the deductions of
human Reason, all the teachings of Sci
ence, all the aspirations of the heart, all
the promises of Scripture, point to the re-
alization of Universal Unity. Gods word
is Pledged TO it; Mans soul demands it.
He'll is hell, because it is not there, and
would become heaven the moment it was
found.
As the beginning Of these grand, COM
prchensive and holy Unites, we must have
Unity in Society. the method Of bringing
about which, we think we discover in the
doctrine of Association.
iilI. THE ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRY.
By Association, we mean the organization
of industry in the township.
Industry includes every productive cxer-
ton of humln faculties and forces, and INV
be distinguished, for the sake of precision,
into L. Domestic Services, 2. Agriculture,
3, Manufacture, 4. Commerce, 5. Educa-
ton, s. The study and application of the
Sciences, 2. The study and application of
the fine arts, All these branches OF human
industry must be combined in unitary or
ganization.
This process of combin1tion must be be-
gun in the township, or in bodies OF men
equivalent in number and extent to an ordi-
nary township-Jccause the township is the