COLUMBIANS, To honest right, from roguish tricks Straighten the crooks of Politics, That demagogues have shap'd for self, And they consign to lower elf. You of cottage, and of palace, Study the whole, and truth is clear; From man's beginning persevere ; Explore all through, and ever pause On a spirit that always was Freedom. K FREEDO PUBLIC LIBRARY PREFACE. I OFFER this work to a troubled world, hoping its intention will be seriously considered. Styled the COLUMBIAN UNION, from its comprising an exposition of a complete system of general union; advocating the New World's rights to the patrimony of its glorious progeniture, and securing a rightful inheritance to the legitimate heirs of its soil; by a constitution so perfectly federative, that the whole energy and means of a Columbian unanimity of free born patriots, may defy the proud fury of eastern aristocracy, and assert and defend their truest of all rights to a grateful country; repel the endangering storm of oppression; expunge the growing debt of wrong; screen the patriot from taxation; shield the sword of death; perpetuate our glorious liberty; to enjoy peace; above the vortex of parties, and war.. Impelled by a godly dusty which I owe to my injured country, solemnly to observe through all these pages that sacred line of justice which prohibits all that haughty oppression, every where invading the divine liberty of man, for the want of that, which was always shut from the populace, PLAIN TRUTH, that grand criterion, by which the vile aristocrat is ever conquered. · I have impartially and boldly exhibited, in terms so plain and comprehensive, as to be understood by an injured commonalty, general and particular explanations of the most important points of government, and that which ruins man for the want of government. The exceeding great importance of government deserves from the yeoman more attention than all other subjects; for all that which is invaluable-life, true liberty; depends on a knowledge of its righteous principle. To man, true government is yet a stranger system of equal justice to all, practice will complete. livine I I have aimed for the course of general right. have deviated; I have not perfected any thing; posterity will do all. Inadequate to the task of so great a field over which ideas led me to wade through human corruption, I solicit an excuse for the many errors with which these pages abound, |