Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-09
CIRCULAR.
TO the FRIENDS OF PROGRESSION.

DEAR MARrus:-Wil you publish the following
letter, and oblige many who are interested in hay
ing tho plan suggested in it made public?
A movement is now anticipated by many of the
progressive of the west, the outlines of which We
will now state, in brief:
A company, composed Of as many persons as wish
TO 20, will start early in October, TO look through
Nebraska and Minnesota, for an unoccupied section
Of country largo enough for a County. This conf
pany will do all in their power to find a location
embracing as many natural advantangc as they can
find. Looking first to the matter of health. Then
at quality of soil and timber, proximity to water
power, commercial advantages, beauty of scenery
OTIS, etc.
number OF families who wish to live a higher
life than they can, scattered as they now are,
amongst those who try to crush every effort to i'm
prove the individual or the relations which he
sustains to others. are making preparation to go
to this location early next Spring. Intending to
live the highest life which they are prepared for I;
establishing such relations between each other as
their wisdom plainly sanctions. We say to all who
wish to associate in communities, that this is the
place 10 effect more surely your object by combin-
ing a few families who are all progressed about to
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all essential matters. Several small communities
near the same place or different places, being To-
Gated in close proximity and working together, as
far as economy, equity and humanity should re-
auire, might embrace all Of tho advantages of a
large community, and avoid many of its disad-
v~antagcs. In a large company there would be
moro difference in the organizations of the individ-
uals who might compose it, than in small ones
Then it would be harder to harmoniso large COM
panies than small ones, even though there was no
greater dissimilarity amongst the individual com
posing it. At least one community OF six or eight
families will be commenced soon in the new Co.
Is it not expected that all who go will be commu-
nitists? We think the larger part Of those who
will go there will wish to live on separate farms,
living somewhat, if not entirely on the Warren
plan. Others wish to adopt the principles Of equi-
ty in their relations with others, to live on sepa-
rate farms, and go in partnership, with as many
as is convenient, in library, SCHOOLS. machinery &c.,
We wish then to bring together as many per
cons rs we can, who love justice and humanity
and harmony and progression persons who feel
as much interest in the prosperity, happiness and
progression of others as in their own. Who have
no creed, constitution, or book to ~circumscribe theil
lives, but whose standard of right and duty, is THEA
orn interior conception Of right and duty.
Persons who would not govern or be governed
lead nor be led, and who would be neither rich MOI
poor.
When this class of personc get there they car
look around them, and find their place on the pro
gressive scale. Each one can locate in that neigh
borhood whore he finds the most affinity where
l.. "a, H. ,oo,Jo Jo;or ,rbot Lo ,-antu 10 do -
If any number of persons, who now know eacl
other, and who feel united, wish to, let them CONF
on, and form n family of their own, if they wisl
to associate in some form of community. Let an
other company form an equity village. Then lie
such as do not feel attracted to any of their forms
buy separate farms, and form themselves int
neighborhoods of say four square miles and have
q central house for schools, library, lecture room
&c. Have another building for shops, work house
&c. Let the neighborhood write and get sewing
knitting, pressing and washing machines, to be usec
at this house as their wisdom shall dictate. The,
could, we think, ~proftably unite and buy a thresh
ing machine, hay and straw cutter, and wood saw
and the like.
But this particularising is only suggestive t.
show what the originators wish to see accomplish
cd. NOt tnaJ any one VIII ulclate. we WISH u
sec perfect freedom and individuality. Wish TO
each one to examine closely to find his own place
And then for each neighborhood, group, village o
family. to make its own regulations. The plan j
for the whole county to Join in a union school
store, manufacturing establishments, such as vii
be required to make the articles needed. Inten,
to import our own goods through an agent, AM
thus reduce our store bills more than one hundre,
per cent. We intend to dispense with that grca
body of useless nonproducers which now share tn
substance from every neighborhood, without re
turning any thing. Will have no county govern
mentto draw from the pockets of working men an
women, returning nothing but quarrels, confusion
and hate leaving it with individuals to settle thei
own difficulties, or to get a few women or men hes
known to the facts in the case to do it for them
Will not disgrace the county with any of those re-
jos Of darkness and heathenism, such as iaiis O
places of punishment, or degradation of any kind
We do not want to have any drunk making stu
ever to pollute the plan in any shape or for an
purpose. We are opposed to land monopoly, a
well as all other kinds of monopoly, and would re
greet to see any family or body Of persons occup
large farms. We have tho't of forty acres for
family living in isolation a large farm, and tie
acres (under cultivation to the family, for thos
who live in groups. 1t is probable much less Ian
will suffice.
The common practice, under the old form, is
set as much land as can be bought neglecting tn
cultivation of the mind, and doing without til
most of the conveniences and comforts of life I
effect that silly purpose. Here the aim sill be
End the least amount Of land that will suffice, an