Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-05-21
ulNlFESTO OF ROBERT OWEN.
TO ALL GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLES

has sent us the following address, which
we insert, as it relates to n tnnlter of some
curiosity u, this time: tN y Eu. Post.
A great mornl revolution is about to be eff.
fectcd for the human race, aud by an uppa-
rent miracle.
Strange aud Incredible os il will ut first mp
pear, communications, most important and
gratifying have been made TO great num-
bcrs in America and o many in this country,
through manifestations, by invisible bur aud
ibe powers; purporting to he from departed
spirits, aud TO me especially, from President
Jefferson, benjamin Franklin, His ROYAL
llghness the late Duke of Kent, Gruce
Fletchcr-my first and most enlightened
disciple e-and mnny members of my own
family, Welsh md Scotch
No one who knows me will attribute su-
perstition to me, or want of morni courage to
investigate truth, and to follow il wherever il
may lead.
have honestly aud fcnrlessIy applied my
best faculties 20 examine the religions, laws,
governments, institutions and clusslicatons
of all nntotis and peoples, and have found
them ull to be based OH fundamental prin-
ciple of error, which pervndes the whole,
aud which, in consequence, produces, in
each Of these divisions of society, evil instead
of good.
| have applied all my powers of mind as
honestly aud iearlessly TO investigate these
new manifestations said TO he made by de-
parted spirits, from another advanced state Of
our existence.
Until the commencement Of this investign-
ton, few weeks since, ! believed that all
things are eternal but TINT there is constant
chnnge in combinations and their results, and
that there was no personal or conscious exis-
tence after death.
By investigating the history Of these man
liestntions IN America, and subsequently, as
viii bc nnrrnted, through the proceedings Of
an American medium, by whose peculiar or
ganzntion manifestations are Obtained, |
have been compelled, contrary to my pre-
viOus strong convictions, to believe in fu-
tlre conscious state of life, existing in re-
fined material, or wllut is called spiritual
state. Aud that, from the natural progress
oicreation, these departed spirits have attain
ell the power TO communicate their feelings
aud knowledge to us living upon the earth,
by various means.
From the communications which hive
been mnde to me, through the mid of this
American mediuin,s from jefferson, Frank
lin, Grnce Fletcher, and the father of our
present sovereign. nm informed that these
new manifestations, or revelations, from the
spiritual, or, more truly, the refined material
world, nre made for the purpose of changing
the present false, dishnited, and miserable
state of human existence, for true, united,
and happy state, To arise from a new univer-
sal education, or formation of character, from
birth, TO bo based on truth, and conducted in
accordance with the established laws Of hu-
lnan nature.
Were it not for these new and most extra
ordinary manifestations, there would arise a
conflict between the evil spirits of democracy
mud nristocrncy, which would delnge the
world with blood, aud would create uniycr-
snl violence and slaughter among all nations
Bnt these manifestations appear to be made
nt this period, TO prepare tho world for uni
versal peace, and 10 nluse into all tho spirit
of charity, forbenrnnce and love.
These new and extraordinary manifesto
iions hive not changed my confidence in the
truth of the principles which have so long
advocated, nor my assurance of the benefits
TO be derived from their universal appica.
ton to practice. On the contrary, the GER
tainty OF theinmense permanent advantages
10 he insured by tue adoption OF this system
by the human race, has been confirmed 10
me 10y the spirits Of Jefferson, BENJAMIN
Franklin, the Duke OF Kent, mud Grace
Fletcher.
Those who arc wise, and who are not op-
posed to the universal happiness of mankind,
will mark, learn, aud inwardly digest these
things. ROBERT OWEN.
LoNDoN, March 30. 1853.