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Britain must go, from ruin to flames, rural Columbia is far superior to the great palace of London. Every business rightly adjusted equally apart in order, as an orchard of trees by the farming interest, renders to all parts of community its due proportion of advantages of all the good things of God's world, and domestic commerce and manufacturing villages to extend to all the proper shores and rapids of the world, for the common good of the general whole; making every countryhouse, a free cost experimenter, and every town-house a temple of knowledge; and all mankind rich and poor, free students of wisdom's school; which never can be uniformly extended to all, but through that one invariable interest, that truest and greatest one, which is immediately dependant on all others, and all others immediately dependant on that one; which is that farming one, that greatest one, that God of the soil, that brilliant sun shining daily into every man's mouth, should govern. How faithful is the farmer's interest, to keep all the wheels of gencral life rolling with the tide of common good.

Farmers although ever so selfish, if absent in government from foreign speculators attempting personal wrong, still have no interest but in national right. They annually elected, cannot wilfully enact a bad law but against themselves and own interest, for it immediately returns a deadly weapon in the power of the serpent, to beat their own brains out; farmers consisting of the most part of community, their doings cannot act exclusively for their own superior happiness, but inclusively of all; all the publicans to be as happy and free as themselves, should farmers enact a law against the interest of any necessary profession, in the general good of common life, they enact it against themselves; for they consist of the general good, and depend on other professions; because they form the commonalty; all good flows directly from them, their interest is the real God of the soil, which produces all things necessary to all men, and without them nothing can be.

Farmers have no interest in usurping the rights of others, for all others are born farmers, and can remain so or turn speculators; they only learn their profes

sions of speculation, then get proud and foreign, for dispensing with that which their God by nature endowed them; and after learning their professions, those who happen to be rogues in wrong pride, turn foreign robbers of rebellion, proving that humans like the devil best." Man may remain a farmer if he pleases, and go and lerislate or send republican servants, who go to Congress if they are in the tiller's interest, and a man in that interest arguing equal and ample suffrage, he if elected can certainly govern, while the aristocrat who always gets office roguishly as thieves get horses, only ravage. The art of farming as of true governing, is simple, it is born with man, one and the same equally simple with the wise republican, when connected are the handmaid of all arts, farming is so easily understood, that even fools can perform good in it, otherwise a clog in society, though they cannot govern, but with the wise to direct all govern; the cunning aristocrat is a fool to the fixidity of the soil, but active with its products.

Even wild beasts are of the soil, all the people of the world should do the soil, as the soil doth humbly unto them, the farmer walketh not on pavement, even the fouls of air and fish of the sea have interest in the soil, commerce cannot float but at the command and interest of the soil, commerce is so crazy in itself, it sinks to the bottom, it is only directed by agricultural shores, agriculture is its only guardian parent. If farmers, and their mechanics and republican servants, so much the majority of the world, why not really govern, free from foreign tyrants?

It is easy impartially to discern of the two great parties of America, which now shake us in the arms of calamity, which forms the great farming interest, and which the great foreign commerce of terrible rebellion; the agricultural sword of wrath raised to enforce obedience, as reason cannot convert the deluded from the king's delusive policy; nine cities and villages of America out of every ten, grown so haughty in rebellion and ̧ delusion, in the love of great some body mighty aristocrat, as to give a suffrage majority to the foreign serpent, great and mighty enemy, Britain of the foreign clime, against their own country's government, against

the farmers who built them high in mighty prosperity, and now all the thanks the farmer gets for granting them power, is the loss of their support against that still greater and haughty enemy, which they also built on the royal island of delusion, several physicians to one, several priests to one, several lawyers to one, and several merchants to one, have in rebellion forsaken and deluded them to foreign favor, leaving only a few to tamper in their cause, and why all this cunning majority of foreign speculators to turn aristocrats, on the pivot of pride? than that lust and folly loves rebellion, and hates their God of soil, who gave them great professions, the greatest of blessings. Oh ye social few! idle publicans, why club in secret speculations collectively, for each others individual advantages, exclusively using for implements against the farmers, those heavenly blessings endowed you, to act only as individuals within the bounds of your professions, equally for your common country with yourselves?

Washington's examples are different, he was endowed with a million of dollars, hazarded the whole of it, he acted collectively against his present individual advantages, he stood not neutral in the aid and danger of the common enemy, to pick up the crumbs of his injured farmers, who built him up, he took not the opportunity of their calamity, to crush them to entire slavery for the sake of office, but he acted as all domestic speculators should; those who are speculators, let them speculate individually according to honest law, but they should act in state collectively, and unitedly in the farmer's interest, against themselves from rising to kings of commerce, and fight with all their might against their collective enemy, and present interest of foreign commerce, and they are true republicans, for then they act and fight for their own salvation, for their God, their common country's rights, because speculators collectively form the serpent of robbery, against which republicans forever act, the aristocratical company of the serpent pulled Adam to parties of ruin, while the republican company mediates general salvation, republicans always acted unitedly with and for the weak farmers, of a God of justice, that is the will of the majority

of that company, against individual interest; for the equal interest of the whole, and all should act for the farmers; who in fact are that majority, that godly majority who produces all good, then let him rule.

Who built you up, who brought you from the cradle? Washington, that patriotism of the west leads you defamed aristocrats, from the cities of British bondage, remember the revolution, the devil flatters, he then destroys, but farmers forever save. If speculators act individually for themselves, and against the farmers, in getting rich and proud, they must act collectively against their present interest individually, and for the farmers collectively, and they save the whole. On the republican preacher, editor, physician, lawyer and merchant, I mean inforined republicans, no matter for their name, whether federal or republican, depend the salvation of our country. However traitorous cloaked under that name, now and then rogues individually may be, these very republican men are the glory of our country, though few, and which are all federals who act for their country, but our pretended federals must be aristocrats and dupes, for they act for the devil, while honest republicans are the light of the world. Those characters whose actions are collectively against themselves and the civility of kings, and well enough endowed with natural and acquired talents, form the only Washington like conquerors, New ton like philosophers, and Isaiah like diviners, for no others are the emancipators of man; no other cover the seas with sails and the wilds with people, though all their proceedings are harassed with devils, frustrated by serpents, yet their principles are brilliant like the meridian sun; for they have ever acted in the farmers interest against the east of evil, and gained their greatness from the voluntary compensations, unknown to them how bestowed by Providence, they are agricultural in national action, God smiles upon the Columbian republicans, beyond those of Israel.

But oh! ye foreigners of rebellion, you get your living, rebels, though you rise, you sink low. Chaff is safed to save the wheat, but chaff is chaff still, devils enjoy the farmer, as well as republicans, christians are

made of them, farmers collectively are perfect love, for they love all professions, and in the millennium keep them within their lawful bounds, when rebellion will be unheard of.

Should farmers enact laws detrimental to other professions, the mad hammer, false writ and sermon of blasphemy, can be thrown asunder; and the plough hallowed the next day for learning to pettifog and sell goods, never will forget that simple art of farming born with man, but his rattling false honor may become a farmer, which is even honorable to an emperor, and the glory of christians, for no business is so agreeable and sweet as that of a gentleman farmer; and if his imperial royalist cannot bow to the earth of God, he can never govern him who raises his bread, with the consent of him who causes it to grow.

If farmers were to discourage other occupations by law, others would immediately become farmers, of course there is no interest in the farmer so to do; because market for produce would fail to be good, were all mortal eaters to become farmers, no surplus bread. would be wanted to go to market; how plain that none should govern but the farming interest, when all the reasons of God and man prove it; and how awfully inconsistent that any foreign mortal of aristocracy should attempt to trespass against his Maker's will, that blessed bar of government, that great tiller's rule of equal and exact justice to all men.

No other interest than tiller's can possibly administer true equality, no other interest can form the delcgated will of divinity, the millennium of justice can never flow, but through the great democratical interest of all the tillers of the soil, equally extending to all.

The science of government in the order of men, rises from the examples of our Saviour, and withholds the earth from the fames of foreign cities, as the soil cursed by Adam's Cain, because overwhelmed in liquid destruction; because the farmers character was trodden under foot, as now about the foreign cities of folly. Men of order under a government of equal justice in society, are like that of a plantation, having all its trees in an equal and uniform manner of an orchard, and so

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