Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-09-28

D-An interesting letter from Ceresco, from
our friend Chase, will be found on the outside of
our sheet That beneficial results would flow
from the establishment oftle institution there al
luded to, we never doubted; but its final fate we
predicted at the time of its ablishment; fate
the cause of which is indicated in that passage
of the letter which reads ''we have proved that
individual character is not changed very rapidly
in association, that individuals will exhibit about
the same ruling motives in such society as in Or
binary civilization"
We look upon it as inevitable, that any isolated
attempts having in view the realization of bet
ter condition of society than the mass of those
around them are enjoying, will prove failure
in its practical operations. Such an effort must
of necessity be based on an untried theory. No
theory having in view better condition of socie-
ty thar then existing, can be put in operation ex-
cept by general elevation or lettering of the
minds of those whoare called on to operate in il.
Such being the case, we hold that no man can
tell exactly, what relations men will hold to each
other, or will desire to hold to each other, when
their minds become thus elevated and bettered
because he cannot tell the nature. character. or
wants of IDEAS not yet developed, and hence no
theory OF association or society can be laid down
with any degree of certainty. Our savage an
cestors could by no possibility have planned the
edihces and laid down the relations of men to
each other in the present what is known as the
commercial age of the world, nor can the COM
merclal age any better lay down an organization
for the approa hing age, because W. have not the
social minds ard cons Qucntly cannot compre-
bend nor lay down the socal relations. Nor
would the ait mpt made by the best minds of So
ciety, be any more successful than if made bv
common minds, tor the reason that no minds can
construct perfect social relations-they can be
had only by the natural grOrh. Our social re-
latons are the offspring of the common mind lust
as the leafi the offspring of the tree, and when
we find cunning artihcers who can clothe the TO-
rest in verdure surprising nature, we may hope
to find those who can construct a society better
than the outgrowth of the common mind.
| The business of the Reformer is not with these
things. His mission is to labor to secure to men
their rights. These secured we may look for
an expansion and growth of the popular mind
and with this expansion and growth will come
just such social relations as are natural to and
correspondent with it 1t may be the palace and
domain of Fourier, and it may not; no man can
now tell. All the help the masses Of mankind
want, is simply to secure to them their rights
The first and most important is their right to the
earth. When this principle is acknowledged, il
men prefer to exercise this right in the isolated
condition, let them do so. The great right has
been acknowledged and secured. Out of its DOS.
session will grow comfort for the mass, and free.
dom from dependence and debasing toll From
this will come leisure for thought and study. and
from these come progress in the law of love- and
justice and humanity, and as by this process mems
hearts run together, perhaps the material barriers
which separate their homes, will melt awav and
their homes will run together but to take awav
these material barriers when the barrier of un-
enlightened selfishness exists in the heart. under
the impression that all will be harmony and pros
perity, is idle.
| But this effort has not been without its good
results, nor will any effort where love of the
race and an earnest desire to benefit them, is the
leading impulse.