s1; ‘ fife; ‘j ‘ ~ I ' ‘ - 417 ayg/u ‘$4M “ £745 ' PREMIUM REMEDY HIREL'ING SLAVERY; CLASSIFIED PRINCIPLES AND ELEMENTS OF RIGHTS AND WRONGS; DIAGRAM OF ToWNsHtP AND VILLAGE, . AND REVOLUTIONARY HYMNS, BY LE\VIS MASQUERIER. ~ // 5* ' _ “Truth crushed to earth will rise again,” iii From State and priestcraft massacres, 3;’ ' “But error wounded writhes in pain ‘I: And dies amid its worshipers.” There is no Man, no God, no Ism, g’: ' T 00 sacred for fair criticism, No institution, church or law, The liberty of speech should awe. to‘, _ Treat vice and error with no ruth, And sift the universe for Truth. —L. 1'1.‘ O _ v NEW YORK: ’*' PRINTED BY JOHN A. LANT. " 1877. Q ' INTRODUCTORY. 19 evils which now afflict the race. The land reform movement, and the suggestions herein set forth, would usher in an age of peace and prosperity, and make earth a Paradise and mankind one happy brotherhood. And the‘sincerest desire of the author Is that the day is not far hence ‘ere such a millennium may be realized ‘by his fellow men. The following diagram of a township of quarter sections of a160 acres each, and as population increases, into 40 acres, and then rsubdivided into four quarters again, down to ten acres, the least number of acres possible for ‘family support. The mile square'ié for the public buildings, but .perhaps less ‘will do. The four roads {running from the center with the car- dinal points, may be the only straight ones, and the intermedi- ate ones running obliquely through the squares may be left out—zizgzagging in the roads that will run around every home- stead. This diagram was used in our agitation 'under Evans. and was applied to the settlement on the public lands. A Township of Six Miles Square. ‘ A Square Mile, ibr Park, Public Ediflcea. 'I. "llllllllllllllllllllw :- w -r = a ' I _ J H "l&.ul_é;uuumuwauuluuzm s ‘ . . muuumummumumumwmumuu '.' ..¢'!:;i;//"‘=; ‘t?’ - ,3‘ ’ III A lllllllllllllllllllll _ . V ' ' ' 1 a‘ - 7' ‘ 11711 I‘ i m ‘ "'9 _ Ill lllllllllll ""“IIIIEJ < ' mm -m mmur CONTRIBUTORS do LABADIE MRS-LABADIE H. BOOL \J- GHEN ELL H. KREIT d‘ MEYER R-OAKMAN H. RICKEL C-E-SCHMIDT me mu m l TI'ZE GIFT OF - ‘rm [TIM'IIJI it hit in‘ " (vwwfig//-/agg. PREMIUM REMEDY FOR EIRELING SLAVERY; CLASSIFIED PRINCIPLES AND ELEMENTS OF RIGHTS AND WRONGS ; DIAGRAM OF TowNsHIP AND VILLAGE, AND REVOLDTJONAEY HYMNS. )- “Truth crushed to earth will rise again," i From State and priestcraft massacres, "But error wounded Writhes in pain And dies amid its worshipers.” There is no Man, no God, no lsm, Too sacred for fair criticism, No institution, church or law, The liberty of speech should awe. _ Treat vice and error with no ruth, And sift the universe for Truth. —-L. M.. NEW YORK: PRINTED BY JOHN A. LANT, " 1877. mmvmtmmr or srmmrmsss. ‘4: Principles of Rights. ’( ' EQUALITY or INALIENATION or QUANTITY. PERPETUITY. SCOIOLOGY. AND ANALYZED RIGHTS AND WBONGB. R I G H T S . . Orders. Generas. Species. ,3- Peace, 33 Body. Personal Security, , 3 Health. 0 VITALITY Potency, Limbs. Skilfulness, LIFE. Virility. p‘. Paternity, L3 : Reproduction, Maternity, g ‘ Monogamy. U! ‘is: Self-ownership, ~ h Manhood. Self-employment, o MOBILITY, Citizenship. g INDUSTRY, on ' g: LABOR. Personal Liberty, ,3 , Locomotion. Exercise, , - (H Emigration. O :3“ Democracy, or §ozynshlip COIII‘I‘IIIJIIB -~ Peopledom. a Iona- ‘11 MENTALITY, International “ gom'rron, on O _ _ OVEREIGNTY. , . pinion, 'lézggzlzitor Reputation, 3/‘ Philanthropy. Land or Nat- { Soil,Minerals,Water, ural Elements. Air,Light,Electrioity HOMESTEAD OR MANSIONRY. or Garden, Field, Dwellings, Improvements Barn, Shop, Store, :1’; Farm. Orchard, Forest, :53‘ Fishery, Poultry. :3 School Museum t: PUBLIC PRoP’TY and Bmmz’ngs' Town-Hall, Wharfs, ° FOB ' ,2 COMMON USE. Eghways or 12251113318 Roads, (1) s :1“ Roads Bridges, Depots. 04 Q r FOOds, i . Products? Materials, 3’ Tools. m . F‘ . Clothing, MOVEABLEB Fabrics. Ornaments, OR Furniture. PRODUCTS, Specie, Currency. Equitable Exchange, Note. {Public Grounds; Parks’ squares, \ Princz'g'iles of Wrongs. / INEQUALITY or “mi/£511), DISPBOPORTION. 1 3 ‘i l ALIENATIQN or \ TRANSITORINESS. PARTYISM 0 Q COMMUNISMk W’ SOCIOLOGY, AND ANALYZED RIGHTS AND WBONGS. ‘5 WR 0 NC: 8 . Orders. Generas. - Species. - Aggressive War § Homicide. Murder, , 5 Capital Punishment. VIOLENCE ' Mayhem, OR - Mutilation. Emasculation,‘ _ BATTERY. Maiming. n 3 ' Polygamy, E Prostitution. Polyandry, o Promiseuity. 12 ‘I? » Chattel Slavery, g Mancipation. Hireage Slavery, a SMVERY Banisllment. B on *3 BONDAGE. Captivity, m Incarceration. False Imprisonment,- g‘ 1 Inquisition. - 0 g Monarchy, . Arii‘tocracy. Hereditary Oligarchy Elee’d Olig'y or Rep'c ‘ Gov’t) on _ URSURPATION. Pagamsm’ Hierarchy. Ohristiandom, Oonguest 01' Land Robbery Primogeniture. LANDLORDBY on MONOPOLY. Debt, ' OFFIeEBY (Oflice holding . Speculation. Bequests, Rentage. Incendiarism, Vaesalagc Burglary, or Mahometandom. N on~cul tivation, Non~occupancy, 53 3 p. 8 .(p‘ .5 T ENURE on - b Thievery, 3, LEASAGE' { Feudary. Mutiny, 5?; Robbery, 5 Banking, 2 Usu'ry. Government Bonds, an Duties, Tarifis. o 4 § PBOFIT—MONG’Y Default, on Peculation. Forestallery EXTOBTION. Stock-gambling. c Embezzlement, Counterfeiting, Forgery. Fraud. s a . ‘3 Taxage, Land Trafic. {Mortgage l l i l A PREMIUM REMEDY ' FOR HIRELING SLAVERY. The cure of the physical diseases of the body must be un- derstood, before it can be efltected. The same must be the case with social evils. As depravity or vice are Wholly acquired through the bad organization of the body, and its training, the production of its opposite virtue or.morality must be effected by the application of the opposite prin- ciples. Inherency ‘or innateness, is also a thing of acquisi- tion, and gives a tendency to virtue or vice. This shows the importance of surrounding institutions, and forms of things in society must be improved to reform the character of man. As, then, both physical and social evil are acquired,‘ they must be the result of the operation of certain evil principles and practices. Asthe organs, natural Wants, and productive powers of human beings are so remarkably equal in quantity, they give rise to the necessity of an equal right to the means of subsistence and existence. But if this equalness in the quantity of the right is violated by the opposite evil principle of unequalness in the quantity, the equality of the right is destroyed, along with life. But the active principle which has destroyed the equality of each one’s natural wants and rights, is destroyed by the evil principle of alienation or monopoly. Any alienating principle, instrument, or practice that violates the perpetuity of right of natural Wants and means of existence must be removed. As the lungs of every human being, are perpetually connected with the oxygen of the air, so must the stomach be perpetually connected with the carbonaceous products of the earth, to burn with the said oxygen, to give heat and sustenance to the body. Any law, custom, or practice, that monopolizes more than any ones equal share of the soil, and equal power of production, creates a landlord and tenant, and robs some one of a home- stead, dependent upon a fellow-worm for leave to toil, instead of having the power of self-employment upon it. And with this the independent power of volition in government is de_ stroyed by forcing the producing masses of mankind to‘ a condition of physical and mental slavery. But this evil prin- ciple of alienation and monopoly, not only violates the \- 2 PREMIUM REMEDY FOR HIRELING SLAVERY.- . equality of rights and property, but violates the thorough private ownership by them, by means of credit, debt, sale, tax, mortgage, and other instruments of trafiicry; so there is no thorough ownership of property; what is one man's to- day, is another’s to-morrow. Because the principle of an equal, inalienable or perpetual homestead has never been understood and established among mankind, and- _that makes all rights and property stay with each one, up to the latest ' posterity; Ehfis there is nothing permanent in the holdin , exercise and enjoyment of rights and property. There has never been a thoroughly private ownership of property in any age or country, except in the estates of the nobility in the Old World. The holding of property has ever been too transitory, commixed, circulating and communitized in so- ciety. This thing of allowing any personwho has more than his ‘share of capital, property, or- money, to buy up anything he pleases, is what monopolizes and curses society‘, and fills it with _1andlordry and tenure, profit-mongery, and hireling slavery. The monopoly of sovereignty or power of government by officers has gone hand in hand with that of the soil, until the masses of mankind have become nothing but the slaves of ~ property, and that legislates only for property, and the aristo- cratic classes. The evil principle of alienation and monopoly has been through all ages passing through the phase of feudal- ism to that of landlordism,tenure, and hireling slavery, and) can only be remedied or cured by perpetual ,ho/mesteads gin) ing the power of sglizgmrient EHH an independent voli- tion in the exercise and enjoyment of government in proper person, thus showing that rights cannot be exercised and enjoyed even in universal suffrage of voting for oflicers, but directly for the law, showing that rights cannot be enjoyed by proxy, delegation, or representation. ‘ All the institutions of nations through all ages up to the present time, have been founded upon the laws of alienation and monopoly, which have been continually making the-43%}; A!‘ richer, and the- pgoorm oorehr; It is therefore impossible 0' remedy the evils of society Without changing these laws of alienation, and monopoly, to the o posite laws of ‘inaliena- tion and perpetuity. It is impossib e to amend or patch up any of the present false institutions of mankind. , Home- steads for all can never be acquired under the present. laws, nor can legislatures composed of men equally ignorant of a ' the thorough principles of rights and wrongs, of the masses of ~ the‘ people ever reform the thorough institutions ‘of society. It must be a woigmrétions, to-produce an adequate public sentiment on the su jeiét'f‘iand even-then the whole amais of the. people must be equally’ instruczted before they %{:3:2'T jisdafi 2' i “P‘ “Tn”- .455 a fit, ($21.51;; V54 ‘Z’JQ’ZegZ; , r PREMIUM“ REMEDY ‘FOR HIREL'IHG' SLAVERY. s can vote directly'in' proper person for the'thorough scientific system'ofsociety. 1T he public mind must -be educated ‘so as- to 'get outside "of the “ring" of the present institutions ‘of mankind. ' I'know scarcely a ‘reformer at the present time who‘ goes outside of it and who is capable of saying the relation of conqueror and hired murderer, of master and chat- / tel-*slave,"of capitalist and hireling slave,.of lan’dlordf'and tenant, and that‘ both elective or hereditary oflicers,‘ and vassal constituents’ should ‘be abolished. ”They all seem 1toibe roused o‘nlyjatithe ‘extreme suffering and destitution' arising front-these} relations, without seeing that they themselves should be annihilated. And they seem, too, as self-confident, even ‘to-‘the point‘ of bigotry, as ‘if they! had reached the tho- rough principle,*as" I‘have laid ‘down here. - Iv believe ‘from my’v experience as to-the extent of men's ideas of reform, that the'working millions Carr-not yet‘ be induced to give their attention ‘to such a reform‘ as this. ‘These principles/then,’ of right and-'wrong declare'that something-like the following form of society,-gove_rnment andproperty must be instituted among mankind. The prin- ciple'of equality or quantity, of perpetuity and time, and of individuality or separateness of ownership'cannot be applied in the, present ‘society,’ but 'we require that ‘all nations must - be stead'democracies,voting in proper person for law, and ‘with ' ( divided into townships of- self-governed inalienable'home- theb ower of ~ self-employment, in ‘farming and ~‘mechanism \csm ined. These principles ‘then ‘give to every human being {homestead of- a‘ quantity inproportion to population/in different nations. , But as itlincreases, homesteadsimay be i so I ivi ' " o n to the minimum of tenagris for a family sup- portfiwhen't e earth gets its complement of inhabitants'an‘d opulation must. keep production at a stand. * ‘1" propose townships of six *miles square, subdividing the territory lying between’ the even numbered degrees of lati- tude'and? longitude. iThe title of every one of these home- steads of - ten'acres is to ‘be divided .north and south,- into two halves, ‘the east half in the man, and the west half in ‘the - woman. The dwelling,'barn, and shop, must be built two ~ hundred; feet'apart, so’ that the burning of one will not endan- ger the other, with a’ party-wall upon the line; between the two halves, with the same range of rooms in every building. .fEvery homestead must have a graded walk on the boundary around it,jn"o other enclosure being-needed, asstock is to be ‘raised at Yaadistancqiin regions appropriate'for them. ' B'o-th :fr'u'it,‘ forest, and other trees, are to‘ be‘ grown near the‘ boun- ‘dar'y of eachi'homestead, with the'horticultural and farming “grounds ‘also equally divided-‘between:theitwo halves. lAs 4 ‘P'R'EMYII'IM REMEDY FORAHIRELING SLAVERY. H16 fdw'elIi‘hg'baylr'nf‘ ‘and 'shbp' upb'n everyften acres; WilPb'r-ifig the’jhonses ‘in ‘evei'yj téwnship with the public' biiil'dings‘j'in the'eia'clt Centre, it'will Intake‘ a ru'ral~ citybf the’whbjle earth; and draw-f away ‘the ‘p'pfpulation from’theQpresehwirife‘zfhal 'eiti'es 9f heaped‘u Hhodse's,’ andfieave'theini’in’i‘nins,‘ "I’hns fare‘abblifshed'the'stnall 'c’i'tywlots’ that onlyt‘préd‘u'ce 'paupers 'inf'thjéif ‘shopstwf‘ffhusi'is' :cotnbinéd‘ farm, city,‘ a‘lid~fpafk,“1'i'ke aflan'dsea‘pe over the whblejjeai‘th. There’ ‘will‘be' ~ma'cihifiery ,fdfi pljo’iigh‘i'ngj wi'thoutqho'lrses,’ ‘in ? addition’ to’ spade ~‘--'¢1i1mre. fExprfe‘s's" ‘w‘a'pgéns tej do much ‘ of ' the’ éarrying ‘thf‘ciu'gh‘e'ut" ‘each jtewn'ship, ;‘With_ a‘ 'cemgmbn ":hiatt ‘for‘ ’ equitamdjex'chah‘ge' Yin 'eabhfwithbnt‘jahy "iii'olfitmdngrery. kj’Thus “th'éseItGwn‘s‘hip 'Lqrganiz'ations nQtj hn‘l'y' tége‘ther 'the preps; p'ro'pb’l‘ti'o‘n 10f ' pet-sigma and‘ ;erhplvoytn‘entsi f'olfithe‘ economical‘ fl'jnr'po'ses -of ' ‘all; but ‘give; a’practiltahlefhumber‘bfiibel‘sohs‘td rn'eet 'in‘flle 'tbw’mlhauto di‘sehssjand vote-"directly in~“proper1j‘p’ei'son rfor ‘lgfivQvéjithdUf‘hiiSCétlléd ’t'éhfeSefitatives‘Whqj’ean only t f'e'p're. ‘sent ‘ther‘ns‘el'w‘fesa f ‘Thus this“ systa'm" of 'sbéi'ety ahiilishes' ‘the fbhiberfand’all'fijffiee'hbldirig‘governtnent;as-‘wewas'findlerd ‘ténant',’ "ea vfitaglfst‘ ‘ a'nd"hi're1ihgz ‘s'la‘vefihy cbtfibini‘zig’ 1the ~ ‘tine ea'bit'al‘ '0 'thei soil‘ and‘lab‘or'tin the‘ same‘ hands.- r "5 wafer a slidin Ymeasnre'td‘feadf this'to'r'ml‘bfi‘soéietyfll Rm. “pese’that’all’fhvifig in‘the ‘eity'br ddiint‘ryfvvithflrn" ans 'enou h ‘tdjbpy their‘h'atni'al‘ fight‘ bf'a homestead,’ to’ purchase‘ one, 'in’ some‘, 'to'w'ns'hip "br‘; neighborhpdd "where -' there ;is' already isnta-n ‘f‘far'ni'érsf and agree/swag 1' themselves‘ tomgighgg x'hcrz'rhestg‘gxhijs,’ ‘until therebecohies a_"1a=&"g6’hiaj01‘i_ty, ‘and ' then " y SIgn‘ingfabQn‘stitiitiOn that 'n’lakes thé'n't‘inalienableyiffwill ‘be'cofndthe ‘law'bf‘ that tbWn'shi‘p,‘ and Wh’en‘th‘efe ‘is a’sitn'ilar 'v'bté in‘ every townshi ,’ it’will' becdme' the'law‘of every natidn. "N bthin‘gi short of this will" ever remedy’ ‘the present evyil. “ This, then,‘ is'the only’ ‘thorough remedy‘ for three‘ million idestitute‘jworktnen*hefe,‘ and for those of all. nations. ‘They must net strike for higher wages,'a‘nd destroy p'rdp'erty,'but .“st'rike‘ fer "perpetual "hornesteads ‘siibje‘ct ‘to ' 'no' liability to alienate by‘any‘cr'edit, debt, sale, tax, mortgage,'etc.;'but ‘only ‘ .tdbe'éxchanged-for ‘each other,‘ so' that ‘none can be without :a‘ home. _ The producing millions, as ignorant as the holders bf prbperty, have gone on through‘all time'survilely? begging _ _‘their"‘felldwi-worms "'for'leave toto’il. ’Théy"have. each one .f erhaps earned- a dozent‘homestea‘gis ‘fol-‘others; without ‘hav- 'lng’a ‘single due for themselves. ‘They persist in’créwdihg ‘asftenan‘ts‘bn’the' farms’ of‘ others, ’and inrt‘he tenements of 'éi't'iesa’pi'odhcing ‘a’igfu‘flof 'laber=and{prbducts, slow 1in ‘thihking‘c‘if‘r'giettihg lipbn‘a’share-‘of the'soil with their‘ Shopsq they are as savage as the Indians, in the midst of Civil- l‘iita‘tic‘in;d'epe'n‘c‘lir'ag‘upon-a ‘mechanical employment for‘their PREMIUM REMEDY FOR HIRELING SLAVERY. 5 living, as the Indians depend upon the chase for theirs. They are so demoralized by custom and training, that they depend upon precarious wages, instead of getting upon the soil, where the sun and skies work gratuitously for them. But the gist upon which all thorough reform turns, more than all others, is that of eagyal and _ perpetual homesteads, whereby private ownerships are madehiiore‘i'ndividual and separate, than they have been through all ages and nations. But the easy transfer of property by traificry alienates the homestead so that it stays no longer with the person than any other property, making men think no more of getting the ownership of it than any other. But many reformers are so deluded by the error of communism that makes every- thing belong to all in general, and none in particular, instead of being precisely the opposite, whereby each one should own his share of property, in particular andnone in _\.general, with the exception of highways and public grounds. WORKERS! Your sufferings can never be relieved by strikes, the destruction of property, or by benefit associations, which only tax themselves against their oppressors; nor by trade unions, where all they may save on their products, can be ad. ded to their rents by their landlords. Your only resource then will be to get your minds outside of the “ ring " of the present institutions of societyr and learn that every human being has a natural right to a share of the soil, which will give him the power of self-employment and abolish the erroneous practice of hiring your labor, whereby four fifths of it goes to pile up the wealth of non-producers. You are demoralized by living for so many generations in crowded cites, producing so often a glut of labor and produc- tion. Oh! strike for homes on the soil, and combine agri- cultural and mechanical labor, for all the natural elements will work for you gratuitously, and give you subsistence from the bosom of the earth. @ To workingmen and women in all nations! Your only re- / (fuge from pauperism isbaiarrnflwitha shop upon ,itnoflyour. own. This will give you the power of self direction, and self employment. You are the rent-racked tenants of landlords, and building stones of manufacturers and traders. You must learn that as your natural wants are equal, perpetual and in- dividual during life, and that they are the foundation of all ‘ you‘: rights, which must be guaranteed by the principles of equality, perpetuity, and individuality, which protects the homestead and sovereignty from all alienation and monopo- ly, from all credit, debt, sale, tax, mortgage, communism, etc., except exchange. You have never yet attained a perpetual homestead, and 6 ‘ PREMIUM REMEDY FOR HIRELING SLAVERY. overnrnent in person, and therefore you must buy your omes upon the soil, although your are entitled to them with- out price; and whenever you become the majority in each township or parish,,sign a constitutionthat makes all your rights inalienable; and thus entirely supersede the present form of society and government; for you will never get your rights through the present ofiioe-holding governments of nations. L1’ t A‘ ‘V Diagram of the Proposed Village. LABOR‘ : A COSMOPOLITAN NEWSPAPER, I BY JOHN A. LANT- Oflice, 34 Park Row, room 46, New .York. Single'eopy, postage paid, one year, . 8 1 00 . Twenty . . . . 15 00 Fifty . 25 00 g - One hundred 50 00 a HYMNS FOR RBUUNS'I'RUUTIUN UP‘ SUBIETY AND PROPERTY.‘ HYMN I. RALLY FOR THE THOROUGH PRINCIPLES OF RIGHTS AND HOMESTEAD. [Tuner Battle Cry of Freedom] ‘ ' 1. From the organs of the bodip flow every want and right Belonging to each human ing. As those organs are dependent on soil, on air, on light, All natural rights on both are founded. Cuonus: The homestead gives freedom, through self- employment; Stop all land-grabbing, strike for a home, All must have a share in homesteads, for it secures their rights, Private, inalienable homestead. 2. Then see here the true foundation of three great personal ‘ rights, - ',._ The two of Homesteads and‘: Products, For man has an outside body, which so encases him, That it cannot be alienated. Cuonus: The homestead, etc. 3. But as natural wants are equal, as all need equal food, Rights, too, in quantity are equal; a Both are founded on the property, ofnsize or magnitude, Securing rights from usurpation. ' Cnonus: The homestead, etc. 144 HYMNS FOR RECONSTRUCTION 145 4. But as natural wants continue, endure as long as life, Rights must be equally enduring ; Both are founded on this law of inalienableness, And guards all rights from alienation. CHORUS: The homestead, etc. 5. But as natural wants are felt by each person separate, Rights must be held in private person, Both are founded on the law that ‘keeps beings isolate, And keeps from all confused commixture. ' CHORUS; The homestead, etc. 6. Then inalienable homesteads must never alienate, Must all be guaranteed forever, From all debt,.sa1e, tax, or mortgage else they who wealth create. ' Will sink to landless tenant hirelings. CHoRUs: The homestead, etc. . 7. Yet the right of self-employment, of manhood, life, and choice, Can only be secured by homestead; ” All these personal rights will vanish, without a share of soil, Without inalienable homestead. ' CHosUs: The homestead, etc. HYJLIN II. REMEDY FOR ALIENATED HOMESTEAD AND SOVER- EIGNTY. ~ ' .[Tane: Battle Cry of Freedom] 1. . We would teach the landless tenant, for landlords cease to toil. To claim his birth-right 'share of homestead; . We declare man’s right of living must be sustained from soil, And prove that life depends on ‘homestead. , 'us mums FOB BECONBTRUTION CHORUS: Man's rights are all inborn, with all his nat- ural wants, _ Come from no godling nor from a king; For the gods become the models, as “King of kings ” above, , And curse the world with king and priest- craft.- 2. We will show the toil-worn hirelings, as well as chattel slaves, That they are only freed by homesteads; That to vkeep from being rent-racked to shun the pauper’s graves, Their rights must be secured by homesteads. Ononus: Man's rights, etc. 3. Fortlw'éiie' voting without homesteads, both men and women die, Always, when comes a glut of labor; Yes the voting tenant hireling must on the soil rely To be unbiassed in his voting. ' Cuosus: Man’s rights, etc. 4. But inalienable homesteads must never be estranged, But guarded from all alienation; _ From all debt, sale,v tax, or mortgage; but yet may be ex- changed, -.And swap them only for each other. GHoBus: Man’s rights, etc. 5. All should judge and vote in person, directly for the laws— And never should rule by proxy; ' jFor man's sovereignty, as in homestead, must be self-used * because - None can consent nor use by proxy. Ouonus: Man's rights, etc. 6 ~We would have each man and ‘woman vote for no delegate, -But vote directly for the measure. . OF .SOOIETYqLAND PROPERTY. 1‘? Each in person meet by townships to rule and legislate, To rule through officers is wrongful. .. Ouoaus: Man’s rights, etc. 7. All must organize in townships‘ to farm and fabricate, And barter in central marts their products; Must in person meet in town halls, vets law throughout the State, And form a soil self-ruling people. Onoaus: Man's rights, etc. HYMN III. HOMESTEAD OWNERSHIP IN TOWNSHIP DEMOORAOIES. [Tuna Battle Cry of Freedom] 1. Never live as rent-racked tenants, get homes on larming‘soil‘, And shun the pauperizing‘ city Where monopolizing landlords, its cost lay on your toil, And live by plundering honest labor. Ononus: A man has no'country who owns nota. home; Tenant slave hirelings, till your own farms. With soil-giving self-employment, you truly , own yourselves And crush out tenuiijyiandllandlordry. 2. _ Stop erecting New York cities, and build the rural one, By merely‘ owning farming homesteads'; Stop the swindling grain forestallers—extorting hucksters shun, With tilled inalienable homesteads. Cnonus: A man has, etc. 30 Men and women backed with homesteads, could give a. free- will vote, And be no more the bosses hirelings; 14,8 HYMN S FOR RECONSTRUCTION Demagogues no more could gull you, who but-on riches doat,‘ And make laws only for rich classes. Cnonus: A man has, etc. 4. All must vote in proper person before they can be free, Direct for law in township meetings; As self-ruling landed-owners preserve true liberty, Reforming every institution. Games: A man has, etc. 5. Then secure homes of ten acres, and till your park-like farms, And grow your fruits and vegetables. Oh! make earth a rural city of dwellings, shops and barns, That gleam mid orchards, fields and gardens. ' Cnonus: A man has, etc. 6. ' Where you, too, can raise your children in virtue and in health, * And breathe the scented breeze of meadows; Cease, then, toiling city tenants, to pile up Nabob’s wealth, Who grab most all your labor’s product. ' ' Cnoaus: A man has. etc. HYMN I V. TRANSLIEION FROM PRESENT SOCIETY. [Tune: Battle Cry of Freedom] 1. Let the present smaller holders of soil throughout the land Hold on until the larger holders Sell out homesteads to the landless, who can the means com- mand, ’Till they outnumber in each township. CHORUS: Then let this major number organize their towns, Enact a constitution by signing names; or soomrr AND steam. 149- -And make homesteads all enduring with all‘ the other rights‘, ' ' A great free-soil, self-‘ruling people. 2. Let the country all be laid out in forty-acre tracts, Less surrounding streets and highways, ~ All running due North and South, but may be quartered down,- To give ten acres tor a homestead. CnoRUs: Then let, etc. 3. Let each forty or ten acres be graded with descent, ' To throw all waters to their centers; Irrigate their farms and gardens, creating providence, For rainless skies can bring no famine. CHORUS; Then-let, etc. 4. Then the overcrowded cities would into ruins drop, , And curse no more productive labor; - - Then each family with homestead, dwelling, barn and shop. Should make all lands a rural city. ‘ CHORUS: Then let, etc. -_ HYMNV'. FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF MORALITY-AND H'L'Mltb ITY. RELIGION A DELUSION AND CURSE. [Tane: Battle Cry of Freedom] 1. We are rousing for free speaking, to censure or applaud, And claim the skeptic’s right to reason. We must disbelieve all dogmas, the spawn of priest and god, That curse mankind with crimeand folly. CHORUS; Free speech, man’s redeemer, arouse sk opt) w, rouse; - Blot out all bibles—dare speak'the truth; L 150 HYMNS FOB Bnconsrnuc'rron We are humanizing Christians, we wean them from their gods, - And give them better sense and morals. 2. We Freethinkers should be honored and pensioned by the church, For having stopped it’s cruel warfare; Having snatched the Christian’s fagot, from his fanatic clutch, And stopped the burning of each other. Ononus: Free speech, ,etc. 3. They now catch religion easy, old Sate creeps out in haste, And never tears their sinful bodies, - While the ghost creeps in more easy, to nestle in his place, But never purifies their nature. - CnoBUs: Free speech, etc. 4. Oh a God is but a phantom, that never can be That never interferes with Nature, That operates by law and order, as by all science shown, Transforming, never making matter. CHORUS: Free speech, etc. known, H'YM'N VI. NO sPiBrrUAL‘wonLn. [Tune: Battle Cry of Freedom] 1. - 0h! in vain has priestcraft striven to sever mind from brain, And strove to build a world with spirits. Mind, no more than life or motion, canlggever live again, But dies forever with its organs. 4 1‘ Gnonus: There is no world of spirits, nor creating gods, Nothing but matter and properties. There is one primordial substance, that modi- fies itself; I Transmuting into many worldoms. 0F SOCIETY AND PROPERTY. 151 . 2, 5 ti” There is then no world of spirits, no supernaturaé;gh§lk£Fiji With which poor humans hatch delusions; , it Destroying bliss and mental freedom, destructive to their rights, And cursed by state and pious priest-hoods. CHoBUs: There is, etc. H YMN VII. CURSE OF THE JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN BELIGIONS. LTmw: Battle Cry of Freedom] 1. Yes, religion blights true morals, it’s thunder meanly steals, Claiming its merit, deeds and glory; ' - Yes, religion makes none happy, but nature’s bliss conceals, Dampening man’s natural thoughts and feelings. Cnoaus: But Nature gives virtue, while bibles give vice; Spurn Jew Jehovah, read Thomas Paine; With the crucifix and cresent, see how fanatic priests Have drenched the earth with blood of mar- tyrs. 2. Then denounce the Christian’s Jew book, an outrage on all truth; _ Come strike for virtuous natural knowledge; Cease the worship of Jehovah, so destitute of ruth, Who ordered the Jews to slaughter nations. Caonus: But Nature, etc. 3. 0, such bloody deeds belittle New Orleans massacres, Who made his chosen people demons; Yes, the Christians, like all others, are heathen worshipers, Adoring pagan gods remodeled. Cnonus: But Nature, etc. 4. Yes, the crosier, cross, and cresent, the banners of the priests Who herd their converts into churches; ' 152 senseless "it'nco'ns'raucrion There they feed on Gospel fodder, while they are being fleeced, And yield their consciences and fleeces. Cnonos: But ‘Nature, ‘etc. HYMN VIH. BOTH VIRTUE AND wen ABE ACQUIRED. Elude? Battle Cry of 'li'reedom] 1 Priests declare mankind are hell-bent, as being born depraved; Are» Satan’s vconvicts till Christ-pardoned- .' But it is a stupid slander, that they are lost or saved, Can be whitewashed with blood of’ Jesus. Cnorms: Men’s thoughts ‘and emotions,r acquiredr-by ‘the _ brain, (N ever inherent, never '-God.’svgift. There can .be no washing power‘ of blood upon man’s vice; Good ‘works valone is his Redeemer. 2. Men’s virtues and their vices, engendered by degrees, ‘And grow by habits oft repeated; If well organized and balanced in all their faculties, Bight practice williever give them virtue. Cnonus: 'Men’s thoughts, etc. —_ I HYMN 1X. THE CRIMES OF. PBIESTS 'AND GODS. ‘ [Tune : Battle ‘ Cry ‘of Freedom] _ i. ' _ See how priestcraft has engendered with theologio minds Triunes of gods in every nation} Named creators, "savio‘rsj’dembnsflthat ‘only curse‘ ‘mankind, And sit enthroned on‘trasliy'bibles. or soornrr AND rsorsarr. 155 wax‘ -.v>:- y,‘ Cnonos: Burn up all sortsiof bibles, their dupes have burnt man; Scorn Jew-Jehovah Christ ahd the ghost; They inflamed‘ a cruel priesthood with crucifix and stafi' , - And burned with horror, zealous martyrs. 2. Oh see how this sham J ehovah, the special ‘Jewish god, - Did choose a special Jewish rabble; ‘ Who lead them to ravage neighbors, declaring them outlawed, ~-To slaughter; Canaanitesas heathens. CHoBUs: Burn up, etc. 3. Asttheir gods command, priests not only butchered Israelites, vLike fiends exterminat'ed 'n‘ati’ons; . But killed'women, men, and childrem‘the'tribefofiMidianites, Made ‘earth a battle-field and grave-yard. Ononos :L'Burn up, ‘etc. 4. This example since is followed with Christian ravages, With ruth crusadesand inquisitions; ' With racks, gibbets, prison- tortures, with crimes and wretched- ness, . They ‘cursed ‘the earth‘with- Christian demons. CHoRUs: Burn up, etc. - 5. But the dawning: light of science has pierced the Christian’s' brain, _ And tamed his pious orthodoxy; His hard-hearted,= pious conscience is now- more humanized And changed for one more conscientious. CHoBUs: Burn up, etc. 154 HYMNS FOR RECONSTRUCTION HYMN X. NOTHING LIKE TRUTH. [Tune : Home Sweet Home] 1. While mankind in religion’s dread maelstrom are whirled, There is nothing like Truth in this priest-slandered world; Truth gives Nature’s refined—not a Holy Ghost grace, That but stifles the conscience and saddens the face. Cnorws: Truth, Truth, Savior Truth! There is nothing like Truth in this priest- slandered world. _ > " 5. Oh! behold the deluded adorers of God, Driven mad with Hell-fears—by his threats overawed: 80 hard ridden by priests and their jockies, the elves, Then confined in mad-houses and hanging themselves. Cnonus: Truth, Truth, etc. * _ , 3. Oh! that all could beware of delusions so fell, And examine those dogmas of Heaven and Hell; . They would findthern but maggots by priestcraft fly-blown, Where pure Nature and man were but too little known. CHoRUs: Truth, Truth, etc. 4. OhReligion saves none, for it damns every race, It is Virtue’s stained counterfeit, dubbed holy grace; It has barbarized man with its bloodshed and fraud, By the practice of mandates ascribed to a God. CnoRUs: Truth, Truth, etc. 5. The foul fib of bloodshedding has drawn from the veins Streams of blood from fool martyrs, death-tortured with pains-j Oh! yes, millions of humans have been sacrificed To atone for the crime-breeding dogmas of Christ. CaoauszgTrnth, Truth, etc. OF SOCIETY AND PROPERTY. 155 6. Oh! then give me this life, with true freedom and love, The sky-domed, sunlit earth— we know‘ nothing above: How the mind without body can live and aspire— Can be blessed as an angel, or damned in hell-fire. CHORUS: Truth, Truth, etc. O HYJKN XI. ANNIVERSARY HYMN. [Tana Star Spangled Banner.) Written for the ninety-ninth anniversary of the birthday of the philanthropist, Thomas Paine, in New York, on the 29th of January, 1836. 1. Come ye friends to all truth and of freedom arise, Let us honor the man on whom Christians heap curses; Who has proven the Bible a Jew book of lies; ”' Who inspired our fathers to conquer reverses. Should we not then commend Such a hero and friend. Who so ably their perilous cause did defend? Then his deeds never should by mankind be forgot While the heart throbs emotion and rouses a thought. 2. When the fleets of their foes on the seas did uprise; _ When their armies upon our shores were seen pouring; When the burning town’s smoke was ascending the skies, And their cannons within our harbors were roaring, He dld fearlessly write, And the soldiers incite, And was truly the man who inspired the fight. Then his deeds never should by mankind be forgot While the heart throbs emotion and rouses a thought. 3. As a light-giving sun to the great moral world, 156 HYMNS FOR RECONSTRUCTION He has tutored and humanized states and religions; Now kings from their thrones by the people are hurled, And priests are shamed out of their fell inquisitions. For his writings have shown None has‘right to a throne That only belong to the people alone. Then his deeds never should by mankind be forgot, While the heart throbs emotion and rouses a thought. 4. All pious fanatics, his fame try to stain, Though they are preserved from each others persecution By his doctrines, which human opinions unchain, And show the true cause of all wrong and pollution. Like thawed vipers, they bite, At a file, and thus fight Their true friend who contended for every man's right. Then his deeds never will by mankind be forgot While the heart throbs emotion and rouses a thought. 6 HYMN XII. EULOGY ON THOMAS PAINE. [Tune : Braces’ Address.] 1. Let us friends, commemorate One whom all should venerate One, who was most truly great. Patriot Thomas Paine. Paine who wrote in Man’s defense "Rights of Man ” and “ Common Sense,” Let not pious virulence Stain his brightening fame. 2. Paine did kingly rule deride, “ Mad King George’s ” threats defied; Though the tories joined his side He did not despair. SOCIOLOGY: ' OB, THE RECONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY, GUVEHNMENTE PROPERTY’, UPON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE EQ UALITY. THE PERPETUITY. 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