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Title: [1822 Aug. 4 Bey of Tripoli Proclamation]

Description: 1822 Aug. 4

Bey of Tripoli Proclamation

Address. I.

Thus /So/ doing, thou wilt be loved, as Sovereign was never before loved by people: for never before did people receive from Sovereign such gifts as thy people will have received from thee

Thus doing, thou wilt be safe against adversaries from within, as before thee no Sovereign was ever safe: for that safety which other Sovereigns seek in fear, thou wilt have received from love.

Thus doing, thou wilt be safe against adversaries from without, as before thee no Sovereign was ever safe: for, seeing thy people clinging to thee, while their subjects flee from them, they will see that, instead of assailing thee, those whom they would lead or send against thee would throw themselves at thy feet, and sue to be received into the number of thy subjects.

People! I know not as yet whether what it seemed to me that I then saw and heard was the truth, or whether it were but an illusion and a dream. When the men of your choice shall stand before me, we will pray with one voice to the Almighty, and his will shall put aside the clouds, and make the truth manifest to our hearts.

Thereupon comes the Charter containing the Declaration of the rights which it conferrs or acknowledges

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Title: [1823. Jan¼y. 28th. Bey of Tripoli]

Description: 1823. Jan¼y. 28th.

Bey of Tripoli © Proclamation

People! Beloved People! People! whom God hath committed to my care! harken now to my voice, it shall be a sound of sweetness in your ears.

Opening on a former day (for so did God ordain) the Book of life, I read in it this sentence. "Ruler! act not of thy own will purely: that which is of moment, do it not but with advice of wise and honest counsellors."

No sooner had I read these words, than it seemed as if a film had fallen from my eyes. I looked up: and lo! all the errors of my past life stood, as it were in array, before me. I trembled. I should have sunk under the sight, had not the same divine words, which thus brought to my eyes the evil, brought with them, and left in my heart, the remedy.

On a sudden, it seemed to me as if the Prophet were looking down upon me: and that © not with hand, as when he delivered to our forefathers the book of truth © not with hand, but with tongue and lips, he spake to me these words.

"My Son! Adore God, and listen to his Prophet. Thou hast erred; I will set thee right: thou hast been severe; I will make thee gracious: thou hast been selfish; I will make thee generous: thou hast been weak in mind; I will make thee wise: thou hast been in peril, I will make thee safe: thou hast been weak in power, I will make thee strong: thy power would end with thy life, I will continue it, even to the end of time. The power of those that shall come after thee, shall thus be bounded. But thy own power shall receive encrease. Yea, verily it shall receive encrease. For, that obedience which those who went before thee were wont to receive from fear, ”that•, yea and more also, shalt thou receive: receive, from admiration, love and gratitude. Do that which I command thee, the whole multitude of the faithful throughout the earth shall look up to thee: they shall

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Bey of Tripoli. Proclamation.

shall envy thee, until they imitate thee: all generations to come shall bless thee: they shall bless thee, even as a second Prophet, from whose word they will have received a new being, a being, compared with which the state of all who went before thee was a state of affliction, fear, and darkness.

"Ruler! thou takest upon thee to provide for the ”wants• of thy people, and thou knowest not what they are: Thou callest upon them to obey thy ”will•, and they know not what it is.

"My Son! thou shalt call the ”people• around thee, and thus shalt thou ”then• know their wants. Thou shalt call around thee ”men chosen• by the people, and, when thou hast heard their counsel, thou shalt profit by it. Thou shalt cause thy will to be written in a ”book•, and wheresoever the book of ”my• law is kept, the book of ”thy• law shall be heard.

"Thou shalt divide thy diminion into districts, and from each district thou shalt call unto thee a wise man © the man whom the people shall have chosen.

"In each district thou shalt place a ”Judge•. At his right hand shall lie the book of ”my• word: at his left hand shall lie the book of ”thy• word, and of the words of those, concerning whom it is written on the Table of brass, that in all ages they shall come after thee. The seat of the Judge shall be on high; it shall be in the presence of the people. Under him shall sit at all times two men, three men, or, as the case may require, more, also taken by lot among the fathers or sons of families. Without these men he shall do nothing. On each occasion he shall pass such decision as, in his own judgment, shall be according to the law, and according to the facts that have come before him: but, whatsoever these men shall see good to say, shall, in the first place, have been heard.

"Thus doing, thou shalt be loved, as Sovereign was never before loved: for never before did people receive from Sovereign such gifts, as thy people will thus have received from thee.

"Thus

JB_024_002.xml

Title: [1822 Aug. 4 Bey of Tripoli Proclamation]

Description: 1822 Aug. 4

Bey of Tripoli Proclamation

Address. I.

Ruler! Thou takest upon thee to provide for the wants of thy people, and thou

knowest not what they are. Thou callest upon them to obey thy will, and they

know not what it is.

My Son! thou shalt call thy /the/ people around thee, and thus then wilt thou

know their wants. Thou shalt call around thee men chosen by the people and when

thou hast heard their counsel, thou shalt profit by it. Thou shalt cause thy

will to be written in a book, and wheresoever the book of my law is kept the

book of thy law shall be heard.

Thou shalt divide they dominion into districts and from each district thou shalt

call unto thee the man whom the people shall have chosen.

In each district thou shalt place a Judge. At his right hand shall lie the book

of my word: at his left hand shall lie the book of thy word, and of the words of

those concerning whom it is written in the Table of brass that in all succeeding

ages they shall come after thee The seat of the Judge shall be on high in the

presence of the people. Under him shall sit at all times, two men, three men, or

more, as occasion calls taken by lot among the fathers or sons of families, and

without whom he shall do nothing. On each occasion he shall pass such decision

as in his judgment shall be according to the law, and the facts that have come

before him: but whatsoever they shall see good to say shall in the first place

have been heard.