ticide of families now going on in China, England, and other countries, but the institution of this most necessary obligation, that will best insure protection against abject want and starvation.

The utilitarian must overcome the fanciful, and the beauty of broad acres must yield to the holiest duty of rational mind throughout the world.

I call upon you, landed aristocrats of the world, whether of England or elsewhere, that seek the annihilation of nature's laws by mind's worst perversions of primogeniture, to attain a false dignity on privileges that cannot supersede rights. You are called upon this day to revoke all abused legislation on this subject, and offer up on your country's altars the noblest of all sacrifices for the best of all good. Your Godgiven trusts demand all this.

The paramount questions of population require land laws. Our nation acted on the principle of the homestead with the Indians, who were bound to yield a part, thereby acquitting the nation before the world, as far as it acted justly and wisely.

This nation has started right, with pure principles of government, and can best improve on the liberal principles of practical religion. She owes it to herself to carry out the most expansive acts of mind. That idea of the outside barbarians, heathens in all countries but their own, backwoods-men, all exhibits the deepest-rooted prejudices, that a generous and just commerce owes to the world to eradicate, to solve the worldproblems. This great land question is a vast world-problem, a paramount one, and must be rightly met by the wisest action of rational mind, in wisest organic legislation. The creative genius of mind originates much capital, as the fisheries, that are a source of immense revenue. A generous protection will enlarge the world's capital; then there must be liberal world-policies, adequate to all legitimate demands. The supervision of rational mind will comprehend the whole agricultural problem, and ultimately rule out the cultivation of needless luxuries, in the place of which all the essentials of life are to be substituted. The utilitarian must prevail. A wise institution of organic principles will rule out loungers, vagabonds, idlers, &c., incompetent to support themselves. The most proper police will be an effectual institution of suitable laws, and

their certain execution.

Will not just world-governments appropriate a certain portion, an exact ratio of its land, to the whole denizen constituency? Will the organic constitutional rights of the world tolerate anything less?

Let the enlightened public opinion of the world speak, and rebuke all that contravenes conservative principles.

In China, there are eighty thousand floating huts at Canton alone on its river, a landexcluded caste! These people are not possessed of any land: one step further, had it been practicable, and they had been excluded from atmosphere and water. This position cannot be overlooked. Once the lands were appropriated by military despotisms and primogeniture. All these are now exploded, and the original basis of action

must be.

Make it an organic law, that no citizen shall own more than a certain number of acres, proportionate to the family. The first law of rational self-preservation demands this: this is the primary law of religion the most rational, the conservation of rational world-morals. The land fee-simple titles, under a general homestead law, would do away with much legislation.

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Mankind should put all organic matters beyond man's whims, his will and devisings. Now a proper portion of land should go to every family. The whole world requires, by the highest of all constitutional laws, this paramount right of mind. Every family must have a homestead, permanent, and exempt from any claim whatever, sacred as the name of the family which owns it.

Here then is the sacred, wise potency of the organic law, that cannot be superseded by mind's follies, perversions, or sycophancy to absolutism.

The world needs no vulgar dissensions and animosities about debt. Put all on the best basis to create the least evils of mind's perversions.

The constitutional laws of states and countries are paramount, and must hold all citizens and rulers in abeyance.

Have all the basis of property right by organic laws.

No citizen should be dispossessed of his just portion of land.

Man should be justly dealt with while on earth.

Leave nothing to uncertainty, contingency, but all to a uniform position. Talk not

of charity nor law, when justice will comprehend all the case.

God never made the lazaroni of Naples, much less the inhabitants of eighty thousand water-huts of Canton, not possessed of one foot of earth that nature affords in terra firma.

Give every woman, as well as man, land titles, so that each family may have the

benefit of a homestead.

Let the organic law establish, that when a proprietor or proprietress wills at death, that all their children have an equal portion of the land, certainly, of which they cannot be divested, to give the whole world a fair chance to live. All should be compelled to have rational education, and to recover damages of local authorities to the amount of thousands of dollars on failure of the means to impart it, upon the party injured.

There should be proper employment for all capable of industrial labor. The state has to make right views, as to punish for wrong ones. Head all perversions of mind, and reward directly all rationality of mind.

The world should cut loose at once from old obsolete ideas of the old regime of ignorance, and its outrageous concomitants. Law binds man to man; religion binds man to society, and all to God.

The earth owes subsistence to all the people.

The law of nature is no corrupt law. How can kings exist if there be equal portions of land to each citizen? It was not constitutional in the world to yield up organic laws that protect the sovereign people, and it is its duty to re-establish all such by true conservative principles. But if all have homesteads in cities, the cities must be enlarged. Then that will redound to health. A land law has to be made organic, for all families to have a necessary and proportionate ratio. If we fix the world-society and organic constitutional rights right, then the balance of social duties will follow. It must be done by reason of conservative principles, not radical, overturning the existing order of all things, because of opinions. What is justly conservative, may become radical, if aggression be the rule. Is it best to have all debts on honor? This will abrogate much of irresponsible action of agents. What is responsibility, at a distance? It becomes too often irresponsibility. Nothing but principles will put the world aright. They were instituted therefor by the Creator, therefore let the world establish them throughout its whole theatre.

Let not any violate them.

Give every man his proportion of land: make all debts as near matters of honor as practicable; have all laws, the few that remain, simplified, and the world will see or feel but little of law in courts of justice. The whole difficulty will be more than half diminished, for altercation and antagonism in the world. There can be no contention for faith, land or money, if organic action is established by religion. What else can the world contend for? Make all above want.

Let the state be taxed proportionately to purchase, at proper valuation, enough to distribute the necessary homesteads to its own citizens. Abolish poor-houses, the shortcomings and frauds of commission, the deficiencies, and buy homesteads. Let no family be without a homestead. The rights of the world and its citizens are too often crushed by nonentities, that monopolies and usurpations the most abominable may flourish. The problem of socialism is solved not by abstractions, but by contributions universal. To do all this best, tax for homesteads. If the United States grant the balance of her public domain to the States, after proper sales and performance of stipulations, it should be with the express provision, that all the necessitous families of such State shall receive appropriate homesteads from their respective States.

If the world be right, the mind erect, religion and government pure, mankind can be happy.

Let the whole world do justice, and then talk of the future. Let there be no poorlaws, paupers, or poor-houses. Tax relatively to the whole amount, to buy a homestead and proper commencement to start with. But this homestead law may be severe. Yes, but the requisitions of religion demand it of all states and civilized countries of the world. Either a homestead, or a permanent interest in one, to secure proper comforts of life to the people, and proper protection to mind, to put all mankind under the unifom protection of rational religion. For an odious, absurd and tyrannical primogeniture. constitutional governments rear the universal homestead for all families. What a glorious era of rational religion, when rational mind of the world can be independent enough to think for itself, and to think rightly. The universal homestead is adverse to the law of primogeniture, as much as constitutional government is to monarchy, as rational religion is to peculiar faith.

Give mind adequate protection, by rational education, and uniform means to procure sustenance, as a homestead; then perversion of mind will cease much, and crime wil less preponderate. There will be less means to be operated on.

When the real aristocracy of any country arrest the organic rights of the people, tha aristocracy render themselves the real culprits, as far as the national and individua perversions go.

In seeking this mighty world subject, nothing of radicalism is permissible, when justice can set the whole right on conservative principles, that balance all on ocean or land.

Rational mind has to carry over and above the weight of the priestocracy and of the debased, to rise.

No one person, clique or clan of persons shall buy up all the land, to the exclusion of the citizens. The purchasers must not transcend the organic laws of the world, which are of nature and nature's God, that cannot permit the proper amount of acres to be exceeded.

All ferries and wharves should be public. I am warmly supported in all this by Mr. F. Walthall, an intelligent citizen of Gainesville.

Are you, aristocracy of the world, desirous of cutting down the vices of the world? Then put man on his rights. Prove all by your actions, the representatives of thought's highest sublimity. Homesteads are expedient to clear the world of guilt,--a savage, unnatural antagonism-to promote the world's rights and redress its wrongs-for early marriages-to go to the deep foundations of virtue-to redress vice-the perversions of mind's habits--to correct man's, mind's evils, by mind's providence.

The Almighty's providence is one thing, mind's providence is another. Do you, world statesmen, see all the infanticides? Why all these, in populous, thickly-settled countries? Not only support that high-toned minded sentiment that will do justice to offspring, but give, yield the means to its complete success. What can be nobler than to support a healthy, virtuous, high-toned, moral and religious sentiment on this subject? The world must do justice to organic elements, that individuals may do strict justice to the human species. Do full and adequate justice to offspring.

What good are the world's laws going to avail man, unless he have some regular means to be identified with them? When one has more land than a proper portion, he has what does not belong to him; he is a monopolizer and usurper. All mankind are entitled to a proper portion, as of fire, air, earth and water-no more, no less; and gov ernment is constitutionally correct, that protects their citizens in their just rights and equitable possessions. The homestead is on the side of rational religion; the priestocracy, with their millions of church livings, on the other, a great cancer of demoralization, the worst of all to the world.

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Virtue and independence, the strength of the world, are best secured by the homestead, for its honest yeomanry. The other presents a degraded clique, corrupting and defrauding the world of all that rightfully belongs to its legitimate benefits.

God has elegantly divided the earth into five grand divisions, that must cherish appropriate, universal, constitutional governments, to give each state its constituent, equal, maratime and other universal rights and prerogatives; and such government must give or see that each family has a homestead, an indispensable pre-requisite to equal rights and justice. The earth is for the people. There must not be any poor family on earth without a homestead-not one. A homestead must be possessed by all. It must be done; nothing short of it. It will be an everlasting disgrace for any country, not to yield it, as it is to any that the government should not confer equal rights to all citizens, doing "the greatest good to the greatest number."

There is but one kind of government beneficial to the most--the whole, and that is constitutional; that is so, first and last, in sparse or the most compact population, securing the homestead and the inherent honor of the population in all.

Raise all rational minds to practical business, to do themselves justice. Let them not depend on any relations or friends to do them justice, independent of their own high resolves and best exertions.

PUBLIC ECONOMY-GOD'S FUNDS.

But you do not liberally expend on the really indigent, a part of your superfluities. Nations as well as individuals, must seek to do this. The world must institute appropriate organizations therefor.

There are great expenses about matters that are encumbered with needless pomp. The mind is ever liable, unless guarded by the liberal principles of education, to be perverted by custom, and then the tone of morality will not be up to reason.

The world cannot think or act rightly on its thought, until it waits for others, the leaders, to form a judgment, and then it can follow right or wrong. Those leaders may have self-interest to mislead the world.

We need to be free from the despotism of absolutism and the dynasties of society the greater and less tyrannies.

The world cannot go amiss for lofty enterprises.

The benefits of commerce to Liberia may redound to this country most satisfactorily, and may aid America in carrying out the most beneficent system of liberal constitutional institutions. That is an object of world-importance.

The school-funds should never be misappropriated or misdirected in any country, but should be adequate for all the just demands of universal rational education of the citizens.

This matter should ever be of the first class of relative duties, for mind's consideration.

VICES-EVILS-HABITS, PERVERSIONS OF MIND, THE NEGATIVE OF GOOD.

Who can overlook the effects of vices, in their thousand wiles? How many deceptions are practiced in the world, about its thousand and one influences, especially about money, &c. The very best are apt to deceive themselves and others; money is a power that too many idolators worship.

What does not avarice do in her thousand tricks, reckless of the world's safety, intent most franticly on the degraded gain. She adulterates the choicest viands of nature, to gratify her fiendish appetite of ungodly profit, that oftenest eludes her greedy grasp. She sells grain and meats that are enjoined, that injure the health, and disposes of rotten vessels that destroy life. She sacrifices the world, everything, to her brutal degradation. Void of conscience, which she has buried in her purse, she riots over the world, and binds every interest to her vitiated encroachments.

The acts of those who betray friendships in general practices of every-day life, are false and faithless, and render to the world a false position in society. Trust never to faithless man's promises, but show mind and have no needless proxy. But all this is not practicable in the universal union of society. All that the world can best do is to act on the noblest principles for life, to act for the greatest peace and benefit of the world, to get on without turmoil, trouble, and vexation; to put all things on a firm and uniform, not loose ground of benefit. Much rests with the mind of the individual.

The proper check to ambitious aspirations must be used even in study of science, much less in military glory, when the mind may be inordinately affected, and tranquillity sacrificed to vain and idle triflings never to be gratified. The wisest will take nothing for granted, when science can elucidate the truth and facts of nature. It is the interest of too much of the world to be deceived, or to deceive others. It is one of mind's greatest glories, to expel the world's delusions.

But credence can be entertained in the word of truthful men, who adopt principles, as confidence can be hazarded for their pledges. How can this be known beforehand. Their position is the only one to create a just confidence. They cannot be convicted of treachery to word, or affirmation of word, in their constant conversation. them all such is sacred, and will be invariably treated as such. The highest obligations, as the marriage vow, will be so held. All such are held subject to principles of God; they know no other.

If rightly directed by the principles of the order of universal brotherhood, they would negative all opposition of accusation of clannish, selfish, and unjust efforts, of siding with secret lodge companions in thwarting justice.

One of the great means of universal conservation, is adequate protection on principles. Any accused persons, however lowly, are entitled to call for proof of accusation against themselves, else the accused fall otherwise, and society is unhinged. One person is as good as another, no matter how low in worldly possessions, until valid proof is brought; no matter how high the accuser, or lowly the accused, we must have just proof to reach a proper condemnation. Thus, one cannot go to sleep on any reputation, as all are held responsible for good reputation and deportment till death. No kind of peculiar education and habits, its result, can intrinsically excuse interested prejudice and corrupt views. A counteraction of malign influences is the best management in all the circles of one's duties in life.

Most of all social malign influences arise from the peculiar influence of peculiar faith institutions. Abolish all such as world-nuisances.

Many may have not a proper calibre of intellect to resist the delusions of the world, unless duly prepared by a suitable independent code to resist temptation of vice, and the wiles of sophists.

But few can appreciate their absolute world condition.

But steer as clear of vice as you can, still, part of the world extremely corrupt itself,

will not do you justice. Then you must do yourself that duty to justice. The best way to counteract libels and calumnies, is to let your actions triumph over all libelerslive them down.

If we study mankind in this unenviable feature, we shall find it one of the worst of perverted mind. It is certain that conservative revolutionists invariably exasperate by their position, the most legitimate of the world, all monopolists of exploded systems that are in antagonism with the world's true interest.

This position of this world, so mixed in ignorance and fraud, that renders perversion of innocent mind, should cause you to define and maintain all your position.

The world affects to treat proper accusations of some people, impugning them as unworthy of credit, as it suits the interest of cabals and factions, because the influence of these people has been in society, factiously great. It does not try the issues on the facts and merits of the case.

If any employment of males or females make them worse, or endangers their morals, drop them entirely. Public sentiment being right in the world, promotes a sound state of morals, religion, and government.

MURDER.

WHEN murder is perpetrated, by insulting the party killed, who may have resisted on the noblest principles of mind, it is nothing but assassination.

The lives of the community should not be sacrificed for the omission of capital punishment by the state, that will find it the least of evils. It cannot be omitted the present age, at the same time all the proper exertions must be made, to elicit the best promotion of the soul-problem. The reward of promotion, solitary confinement, and industrial employment of all classes, may advance the solution.

The murderer causes much perjury, the violation of principles. Murder is only justifiable, when one individual kills another in pure self-defence, that is, to prevent being killed, and this construction involves the noblest principles, not those of provocation. How often is it, that one provokes another by language, and acts to resent an insult, and then the aggressor takes advantage, planned designedly in his foul crowd, and commits assassination.

But what is the life of such a murderer? Not prepared to die, and unfit to live, abiding a few more years in misery, and dying in horror and remorse.

How often have the innocent been punished, by an imperfect system of jurisprudence. No individual can be presumed murdered, until certain proof of death, by which alone we can convict of murder. What murderer sees peace of mind? Even an Emperor must feel for the wrongs of blood done nations. It is a severe matter of temptation, to be exposed to all the malign influences of power and tyranny that enslave the tyrant and usurper, worse often than his victims.

Provocations of persons to extremes, and then pretendedly killing them in self-defence, is assassination, and must finally produce conscience guilt and remorse. All the delicate and paramount rights of mind must be duly respected.

RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE.

WHAT evidences have we of retributive justice? They are too universal over the globe to be misunderstood. We observe many clear facts in the severe domestic tyranny of individuals, who have committed deliberate maiming of subordinates, murdering others, and violation of the nuptial vow, of an unhappy life, and a miserable end, as death by suicide, or by others.

Seduction has rendered all the families unhappy and miserable, the daughter of the seducer a prostitute and an adulteress, the cause of her husband's death, and the eternal disgrace of the best relations.

There are rights and vows that are sacred, and cannot be overlooked but by the worst stock of human nature, of no account to themselves, relations, country, or the world.

In the sacredness of vows, the mind of both parties has to do its part, to render abeyance to the dignity of virtue, above all, duty, and not give an imperfect copy. Mind owes, above all, justice to itself, that the most exalted thought, habit, and practice-bestow.

Prostitution of mind is fearful and retributive, as when the precipice is once passed, the downfall is continuous.