The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-05-09

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hearts are capable of moral improvement.
Art 2. The object of this society shall be.
while we may see all others faults, to feel and
correct our own. To suppress all manner Of
deceit and hypocricy, SANDER and defamation.
backbiting and evil speaking, with all that
tends to iniurc or dofraud our neighbor, either
OF his property or character.
Art. 3. This Society shall be independent Of
aifother Societies-each member shall be vest
ed with full powers and privileges 10 attend to
his W concerns, and he shall make it his duty
70 mine his own business and let Others alone.
And no Presidents, Vice Presidents, secreta-
ries, Spies, Informers, Committees or Delegates
shall ever be chosen by this Society to watch
over the conduct of others or make reports of
their neighbours misdoings, until such a work
Of charity shall have been begun at home.
Art. 4, There shall be no public or private
meetings Of this Society on any appointed days
to manage their concerns, or to hear lectures
delivered before Il, but it shall be the duty Of
every member to meet himself alone every
day, and listen to the lectures Of his own CON
science.
Art. 5. No money shall be raised from time
to time, for funds to support this society, nor
to circulate any s~elf-examining aImanacs, or
to pay ministers or lawyers for delivering ad-
dresses, to convince us how much easier it is
to examine ourselves.
Art. 6. Every member of this society shall
pay due regard to temperance in eating and
drinking, and in eUery thing else. But he shall
be his own Judge what he shall eat, or with
what he shall be clothed = while g%luttony,
drunkenness, and tight lacing, shall be left to
the cravings Of conscience and the consump-
ton, with all that popular reproach they deserve
without the benefit Of clergy, or the votes or
lectures Of a temperance society.
Art. Z. Every thing shall be called by its
right name-men shall not put bitter for sweet,
or sweet for bitter, nor call for beer when they
mean rum, nor for cider or wine when they
mean brandy or gin. And no Inn-keeper shall
put wine into old bottles Of French brandy, for
the use Of his Temperance customers--and no
grocer or merchant shall sell preparations Of
whiskey for Malaga or Madeira wine, or St.
Croix rum.
Art. 8. Every member of this society shall
be allowed to drink tea or coffee, cold water
or hot water, buttermilk or lemonade, as suits
him best, or to 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 b%uffeting Of
cold water Pharisees.
Art. 9. No member of the society shall ever
set himself up above his fellows, or seek to es-
tablish his W character and consequence by
blackening his neighbours good name, thinking
to make his own appear the whittier; but it shall
be the duty Of every one to examine their own
hearts and dispositions, and set double guard
against the sin that most easily beset them.
selves.
Art. 10. This society shall form no christian
party in politics, and no party under the name
OF the selE-cxamining society. 1t shall have
nothing to do with masonry or anti-masonry,
colonization or anti-slavery, missionary. bible.
or tract societies, as being in any manner con.
nected with il; nor shall any religious creed
test or inquisition, councillor synod, ever be
established or countenanced by this society
but every member shall enjoy his own religion
and allow to all others the same liberty h,
elaims for himself, without being pointed at al
aheretic, or branded as an inhdel.
Art. IL. Good society shall not be exclu
sively fOrmed.put Of the aristocracy of wealth
or made out of the popularity of swindlinG
spectators, or of civil or religious profession
1t shall include the poor who are honest, intel
ligent, and industrious, as we'll as the rich.
Art. ~. The members of this society shall
seek to do good and not evil-to love and no
hate each other; and when reviled shall no
revile again; but they shall respect the virtue
and talents Of all men, nor shall that homo
and Difference be overlooked which is iustl,
due to the working part of the community, Il
the farmers and mechanics, and to all whose
labor is a public as wellas private benefit.