The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-03-11
TO THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, AND 70 HIS NEW CABINET.

GENTLEMEN; The writer addresses you 10 the
character OF one whose business, through long life
has been to place the prosperity and happiness Of tn,
human race upon an mmoyable foundation. Thh
base Is the eternal laws Of nature, not known tC
change during the history Of mankind.
As society, from its known commencement, ha.
emanAted from crude and insr perienced Imagination,
OF our ancestors directly opposed to the established
laws OF nature, the writer in his preparations to eff
feet change from an imaginary, false and most in
furious system Of human society, to another mode Of
existence, based upon the ascertaned laws Of
nature, has been compelled to pursue a course which
at FIRST, of necessity, aroused in opposition his pro-
ject the deeprooted .prejudces Of nations districts
and minor localities and of the mass of mind formed
by education in particular classes creeds or parties
BY patience, forbearance, and the universal charity
which knowledge of the laws of nature will i'm.
plant in every mind, he has succeeded after many
years OF unremittng devotion to the cause OF truth
in opposition to error to live down the violence and
much Of the error, Of misguided humanity, and to
prepare the public in the more civilized part of the
world to listen to bis experience for their benefit
As men Of station influence and business have their
time greatly absorbed by their daily efforts carry
on, with some appearance of nationality the IRA
tional system in which, statesmen professors or
men Of commerce, they are engaged he has en-
dearored so to simplify the subject, immense as its
ultimate consequences will prove, in such manner
that men of strong natural mind and extensive ex-
perence in the affairs of the world may, in a short
period, perceive the fundamental cause Of the
errors and evils Of society, it has been and is
and comprehend the Laws of Nature on which
alone rational system of society can be based,
and the easy mode by which the change may be
now made, from every thing erroneous in practice
to all that will be consistent and beneficial The
singular life and history of the writer has enabled
him to discover, that society has aioays emanated from
three errors each unsupported by fact from the com
mencee Of history, but zach directly opposed by every
knoon fact that each Of these is Of necessity pro
ducing hourly throughout the ,oorid crime aud misery in
epry class and among oil crseds aud that as long as
these fundamental errors shall be maintained by the au
horiiies who gorern, and thus continue public opinion in
their faror ,cH be impossible for h,man nature 10 be-
rational in feeling, thought conduct.
He has been enabled also to discover the la,os Of
humanity uheh alone system Of society can be found
3D. 10 make rational, intelligent and happu and
give him the genuine spirit of universal charity and
friendship, without limitation of class creed country or
cline.
These divine laws Of nature are proved to be SUCH
BY their accordance cih srsry kno,on fact through III.
past history Of race aud being consistent ,c each
other Without admitting exception to this unversal
| rule.
The consequences arising from these divine laws
being applied to practice and the institutions of
cety being made consistent with them, will be uni
versal rapid progress TO another state of human
ls,ehce, in which ALL without regard to the difference
made by nature at birth in the organization Of ndi.
vduals, will, Of necessity, become, by comparison
with the past present generation, superior beings
physically mentally, morally, and practically, in the
full enjoyment Of health, liberty, wealth, knowledge,
and the rights of humanity
These privileges can be obtained only in society
based these divine laws, and in which there shall
be real equality of rights
In society, as hitherto constituted, equality OF rights
has been known in words only Equality of rights
and the present system of society never be made
TO co.exist. And il is only by practical equality Of
rights that these can be made to become Just wise,
charitable to think and act nationally, and be per-
| mqnently prosperous, without the chance of being
otherwise.
Now all that will be required to effect this glorious
change, from all that is erroneous in principle and
most irrational in practice, for another state Of hu-
man erisenee ,ohich all shall be true in principle aud
most consistent aud beneficial practice may be stated
in lew lines. 1t is merely to abandon three Demon
,rabe errors wheh lead continually endless misery o.
bodu and mind and 10 adopt three opposing principles Of
nature phich uiH lead continually TO that ,chie tciH be
permanently beneficial TO all, and will insure excellence
and happiness TO each.
These errors are lst, That man has the power by
his will to form bis own individual qualities pbysi-
| cal, mental, and moral. I'd, That he can be ieye
Or disbelieve at his pleasure; and Sd, That he can
like dislike, love or hate, or create his feel
ngs for persons and things, according to his will
| The three truths or laws Of nature the reverse
of these errors. lst, That has no knowledge or
power to enable him individually to form his physi-
cal, mental or moral qualities. ID, That he must
believe or dsbelieve according TO the strongest i'm
pressions made upon his mind; and 3D. That he must
like that which is most agreeable, and dislike that
which is the most disagreeabie to his individual ma.
ture.
In consequence Of these errors, man is made by
all institutions Of the world responsible to his equally
isnorant fellow man for what be has been made to
be by the power which created him. physically, men
tally. and morally. In what he has been made to be
Ieve or di,believe by the strongest evidence acting
upon hi, mind, and what by the laws Of his nature.
he has been made 10 feel or not to feel, These err