The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-02-01
MIR. OWENS LETTER
To the members Of The Senate ofthe 2Sh Con-
gress Of The United States, now met in SEES
sion IN The City Of Washington. -

To The members Of The Senate Of The 2Sh Con-
gress Of the United States, nop met in SEES
sion IN the City Of Washington. ..
HONORABLE SIRs: have 10 propose TO the
present Union Of these States and Territories
which, il is now evident, is destined TO become,
at no very distant period, the future "federative
Union Of the western hemisphere" measures
so new and extensive, that TO bring them under
immediate beneficial consideration Of the proper
partle, requires. not ordinary, but extraordinary
means. IL is, therefore, address this letter 10
the Congress Of the United States, 10 inform its
members that have TO propose, not for the ad-
vantage Of any individual class, party or coun-
try, but for the permanent interest Of all now
living, or who may live hereafter, to recommend
the immediate commencement Of an entire
change, IN principle aud practice of the present
state of society for another for one as far su-
per,or 10 that which has been alone known, as
this & to the most crude and degraded condition
in which human nature has been found to
exist
1t is no less than TO change that which is fun
damentally erroneous and perpetually injurious
10 all, for that which is Fundamentally true, and
which, as long as humanity shall continue 10 be
created, will be practically bene6cially in high
degree 10 all.
This change will introduce those divine
means Oor that which is true is alone divine
which shall make truth the only language OF
mankind, and charity, justice and kindness,
the practice which will be alone known among
them.
BY this change the sole causes Of ignorance,
poverty, division, vice, crime and misery will
be forever removed, for these all proceed from
the same fundamental errors and by this
change, man will be trained and educated
from his birth 10 cordially love his brother TO
practise, at all times, real virtue, (now only
known in name, y and in consequence, to enjoy
such an Increase Of happiness as those whose
characters have been formed under the present
crude and irrational state of society have not
yet had Their mental faculties Sufficiently cult
waited to email lie them even to imagine.
The causes OF ignorance and poverIy in the
mass, OF dlsuuion, crime and misery among all,
will be made evident; those causes will be re-
moved, never TO return; they will be replaced
by other causes, which will continually produce
wealth, wisdom, union, and happiness most
benrhcially Tor every one OF every rank and
condition. ...
BY this change, there will be, ere long, no
complalnlngs IN your streets no distress known
IN your States or Territories, except that which
Is unavoidable 10 human nature from the death
Of beloved persons.
You, perhaps, and very naturally. may doubt
the possibility that it is practicable to effect so
great and glorious change in the condition of
the human race. Before coming to such copcu.
sion, II would be well TO call to recollection tina,
the time H. not distant when j, was universally
deemed an utter impossibility TO travel safely
twenty miles an hour, and still more so, if prac.
ticable, 10 transmit our thoughts TO others nj n
greater rate than hundred miles second.
IL Is well known to you that ignorance pow
cry, dlsunion, crimes, and misery, now extend
In all directions, through every ramifcariop of
your Union and surely it must be most desira-
bic to stay these evils IN the shortest possible
time.
In this era Of mans history, when the signs
OF the tunes evidently indicate that some great
change in his condition is about TO lake place, if
any inventions or discoveries have been made
through singular and rare experience. calculated
TO remove forever the causes which have pro
ducsd and reproduced continually his greatest
evils, and the discOverer is willing and prepared
for the benefit of ALL without advantage 10 him
sell, except that arising from the great pleasure
OF accomplishing lasting good for all, to make
these causes known, with the easy and earIv
mode OF removing them, surely the most fit Mace
Tor their first full and open PRONUNCIATION Is
before the government and Congress of the
United States of North America, while the Con. |
gfess Is assembled IN session before the exec
utVe and legislature of the first people who call
themselves freed among civilized nations free |
TO hear free TO investigate free TO adopt what.
ever can be proved TO be eternslly true in prin |
c'pie, ana permanently beneficial in practice.
After long life ofVared reading, deem r,a =. |
ton, extensive practice 10 all the most essential
divisions OF The business that will be required in
rational state OF society, much personal corn.
nunlcaiIon of a confidential charac err with msny
u the most advanced and prominent men of m,
asst hall century, having also been admitted be-.
lnd the scenes Of government and of the pro-
essions, as well as into the arcsna of the com.
nerclal and manufacturing mind and interest,"
moving, likewise, the causes OF the oppre..ioo,,
Hantsl and desires Of the lndu,irions nl,..s.