Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1853-05-24
Manifesto Of Robert owens,
TO ALL GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE

The well.known philanthropist, Mr.
Owens has sent US the following address
which We insert, as i: relates to q mat
ter Of some curiosity at this time:
"a great moral revolution is about to
be effected for the human race, and by
an apparent miracle.
Strange and Incredible as it may al
Efst appear, communications most i'm.
por,ant and gratifying, have been made
10 great numbers ia America, and 10
many in this country Though NANTES.
.a,ions. by invisible but audible powers
purporing 10 be from departed spirits,
anil to me especially, from President
Jefferson, Franklin, His Royal High.
ness the late Duke Of Kent, Grnce
Fletchcr-my first and most heightened
disciple-ard many members ofmy own
family, Welsh and Scotch. ........
No one who knows me will attribute
superstition 10 me OF want Of moral cour.
age 10 investigate truth, and to follow i,
wherever it may lead.
have honestly and fearlessly applied
my best faculties to examine the reIi.
gions, laws governments, instutions
ana classifcations of all nations and
peoples, and have found them all to
be basel on fundamental principle Of
error. which pervades the whole, and
which in consequence, produces, in each
Of these divisions Of society evil instead
Of good.
have applied all my powers Of mind
as honestly anl lcarlessy y to investigate
these new manifestations, said to be
male by departed spirits, from another
advanced state Of our existence.
Until the commencement of this in.
vestgation, a few weeks since, | belle.
we'd that all things are eternal, but that
there is a constant change in combina.
tions and their results, AMI that there
was no personal or conscious existence
after death.
BY investigating the history Of these
manifestations in America, and subse.
quently, as will be narrated, through the
proceedings Of an American medium, by
whose peculiar organization manifesto.
tions are obtained, have been compel.
lei, contrary to my previous strong con.
victons, to believe in future conscious
state Of life, existing in refined ma.
terial, or what is called spiritual state.
And that, from the natural progress Of
creation, these dcpar:ci spirits have at.
tainci the power TO communicate their
feelings and knowle lge to US living up.
on the earth. by various means.
From the communications which have
been made to me. through the aid Of this
Amcric II medium, (Mfs Hayden) from
Jefferson, Franklin, Grace Fletcher, and
the father Of our present sovereign, am
informed that these new manifestations,
or revelations, from the spiritual, or,
more truly, the refined material world,
are made for the purpose Of changing the
present false, disuniied, and miserable
state ofhuman existence, for true, uni.
ted, and happy state, to arise from a new
universal education, or formation OF
character, from birth, to be basel on truth
and conducted in accordance with the
established laws OF human nature.
Were it not for these new and extra.
ordinary manifestations, there would
arise conflict belwocn the evil spirits
of democracy and aristocraty, which
would deluse the world with blood; and
would craale universal violence and
slaughter among all nations. But these
manif, stations appear to be made at this
period, to prepare the world lor unvcr.
sal peace, AMI to infuse into all the spr.
it of charity, lorbearance and love.
These new and extraordinary manilcs.
ta,ions have not changed nv CO., .cnce
in the truth Of the principles which
have so long advocated, nor my assur.
ancc Of the benefits to be derived from
their universal application to practice.
On the contrary, the certainty Of the i'm.
mense permanent advantages to be in.
surcd by the adoption Of this system by
the human race, has been confirmed to
me by the spirits of Jefferson, Benjamin
Franklin, the Duke Of Kent, and Grace
Fletcher. ...
Those who are wise, and who are not
opposed to the universal happiness OF
mandnd, will mark, learn, and inwardly
digest these things.
>I,. ROBERT OWEN.
LONDON, March 80, 1853.