EXPLANATIONS

OF

GOVERNMENT.

The Numbers heading the following Explanatory Notes, refer the reader to particular pages of the preceding Constitution.

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(A) Is it a wonder that the majority has failed to govern from the fall of Adam, since to mother aristocracies of personal and geographical discriminations, is owing the difficulty of instating the divine preponderance of the weak many, over the powerful few; the many being reduced to ignorance, poverty and evil necessity, and the few priding in power, forgetful wealth and oppression, is the shameful reason; but as though all men were at this moment equally wise and independent the majority should rule.

To illustrate this sacred principle, supposing a town having in it one hundred farmers, each worth one thousand dollars, the question asked shall one hundred thousand dollars be collected from these one hundred farmers, and given to only ten of them; if the majority rules the answer would be only ten yeas, and ninety nays, and the farmers each keep their thousand dollars and remain equals. While on the other hand, should the minority rule, for raising the one hundred thousand dollars, there would be ten yeas, and not a single nay, because the ten who would have all the money, of course would vote for it, and the silent ninety would vote against it were they allowed their right

to vote; thus the ten become worth ten thousand doliars each, and the remaining ninety worth nothing, making of the one hundred who were at first equal farmers, ten noble lords and ninety miserable paupers.

This is a true principle, because all governments flow from interest according to the law of their liberties, either absolute or relative; the liberty of going relatively wrong from their true interest, and the absolute liberty of getting right, is all liberty; there is no other, all things not relatively wrong, are absolutely right.

Morality lost in civility is found in divinity.

As the liberty of the moral one, is lost in the charm ing liberty of the civil few, so is the charming liberty of the civil few, lost in the millennium liberty of the divine whole..

Continue in the rough road of civility from the mother of iniquity, and our liberty leads us relatively wrong unto darkness and war, while to observe the great field of divinity, our heavenly father of divine liber. ty directs us absolutely right according to our true interest unto peace and salvation, where all is order.

There is nothing in being but what acts from the impulse of the love of interest; the power of God and all his works of opposite parts to each other, have no other liberty; an elevated stone falls to the ground. from no other impulse.

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(B) It is of the greatest importance that Columbia is the name of our country, and not America; what other idea has man of things in regard to the end of their existence, as to their external meaning of the Almighty, except their names; while we know nothing of substance, we only know, that of names a world consists; without which all would be a homogeneous same. Not a human object or kind could be but for distinction.

A true name consists in right and utterance; what-ever most simple sound, sufficient for distinguishing any thing from others which does not infringe upon the

original proprietor and common rights of others, is a true name. True names given for the distinction of original good, by hypocrisy lose their original meaning, and become evil. Because hypocrisy, that wretched deformer, rebelliously hides himself in the bold utterance of the true name of right as a thief at night, and disguisedly converts all its original fill to self and leaves it empty of all its meaning of right. A false name is a

mere utterance of sound emptied of all its original fill ; and the change of a wrong name for the recovery of original meaning, is necessary to the recovery of original right.

Between the distinction of good from evil fluctuates all the revolutions and backsliding falls of a human world. The hypocritical devil cheated our first parents out of the fine country of Eden, because the true names of Adam distinguished good from evil, and the devil wanting the prohibited good, he rebelled for the sake of his own existence.

The greatest of all the revolutions of a lost world towards the redemption of liberty is the return of the true name of country, for with it returns the citizen to his endowments, who had lost his country in the confusion of rebellion, and become the dejected subject and property of hypocrites.

All countries, the whole human race are at first lost by disobeying the original meaning and purity of the name of country, which had signified liberty to the citi zen, which never returns but with the penitence of rebels for the abuse of original right in the true name of the original glory and meaning of the first compact.

The true name of country is greater than all the things of distinction; it is of so great good in right that its impressive utterance is the best cloak of the devil; all the hypocrisy of worldly power, originates in the disguise of its repeated utterance.

Is a ruined country ever restored in the same utter. ed name which disguised it into parties of ruin; a rev olution always instates another, for the distinction of friends from foes for mediating their union; otherwise a complete revolution should never take place.

Although seemingly inconsistent, ought we not to omit our polluted party predilections, from our partial extremities of hypocritical deformity; yield to right between each other, and fly together in the penitence of acknowledged wrong, in the friendship of general union, and in the name of our glorious founder, from which our new world's first compact wandered astray. All countries are lost, because hypocrisy, that ill deforming wretch, instates rebellious deranging attachments to wrong; by which the true meaning of origi nal names are confounded by the opposite constructions of the powerful, pressed into parties and parts of ruin; both uttering pretended good, yet both acting really wrong. One part of a union backsliding from general obedience, makes the other wrong of necessity; and that is of what the very devil consists that both are wrong; because right consists in the complete union of all parts or parties to the same thing or country; perfection consists of a complete whole general union of all adjoining country, and nothing short; to which the nearer a people arrives, the nearer they are to right, because they are nearer a union. A restored country therefore consists in a general union of all par ties and parts of country, to the same government, in the original name of right.

As paradise was lost, Columbia was lost. As the hypocritical Evites dethroned Adam from the finest country of the old world, the hypocritical Bovadillites dethroned the great Columbus. Hypocrisy erected her charming standard of rebellion, around whose faction deluded proselytes grew up to the strongest party of deforming power, and overthrew the order and command of the great Columbus; that Bovadilla and his rebellious followers of pomp and splendour, might rise on the ruins of charming good; the great name of Columbus was thus in sorrow emptied of its rightful meaning and forgot.

Thus among devils, ruined was the popularity of the great Columbian name, while the confusion of European darkness instated the arbitrary name of America, after the most popular idol of kingly pomp and splen

dour; because the unseen snares of hypocrisy had trampled under the feet of Bovadillite rebels, the great name of Columbus, forgotten by Kings, degraded in chains of midnight solitude, while the name of Americus, in his own selfish written books, was open in every tyrant closet, and himself exalted to stations of kingly notice, in whose name also, New Spain, New France, New England and British America, divided and lost have been the Columbians ever since, clashing in the stubborn darkness of foreign parties, of war and woe, thus the new world had fallen amidst the sins of iniquitous east, is it a wonder that we have trouble.

At last, as iniquity is its own detector, Spain growing jealous of British Cabots and others, least they might enjoy all the new world; she accounted for the ill treatment and abuse of the great Columbus; abused, because he was the friend of man, and enemy of kings, like the great Washington.

By woman Columbus was sent to save a world that woman lost, where magnetic wisdom directed the blessed seed in heaven's equatorial course; it was Columbus that first kissed the medial land and thanked his heavenly king; in whose name his brother first settled a new world well begun; a northern semi-continental union, in heaven's engraved name of Columbia; her joyful sounding phrase of glory; exalting is its poetical praises. But alas all was lost. The hypocritical snares of Bovadilla's faction, instated Canada, New England, and southern states of trembling commotion, can it ever subside until we return common friends of the same Columbian Union, against which we rebelled in the new garden of Eden.

Because Columbus was the friend of man, a parliament of sinners, after he had shewed them a road to wealth, denounced him in forgotten disgrace, and appointed Bovadilla, the ravager of the rights of man, for the sake of more gain to the more powerful, with orders to drive Columbus from his own discovered abode. A banditti of insignificant robbers laid too, and sent the great Columbus back in chains to the shores of sin, absent from all his friends, there to pine in lamenting