The New York Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1857, Page 2

WHOLE NO. 7526. W YORK HERALD. MORNING EDITION—THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1857. INCITEMENT TO REVOLUTION. Religious Onslaught om the Government and Supreme Coart of the Unked States. Rev. Dr. Cheever’s Fourth and Last Sermon on the Dred Scott Decision. RESISTANCE TO TYRANTS IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD, Unjust Judges in General, and Chief Justice Taney and Associates in Partioular. SHALL WE HAVE CIVIL WAR? &., &0., ae. ‘The Rev. Dr. Cheever preached last Sabbath even- img in his church in Union square his fourth and Inet sermon against what he denominates the “ ini- quitous” cecision of the Supreme Court of the Uni- ted States in the Dred Scott case, The regular fre- quenters of that church must be highly gratified at the conclusion of this course of sermons, if for no other reason than that they may henceforward hope to be able to obtain ingress to and seats in their pews, a matter of rather diflicult attainment on the evenings in which Chief Justice Taney and his associates came in for the denanciations of the reverend gentleman. His audiences have been going on increasing in numbers from the opening to the close of the course; and really if the sermons bad not thus been discontinuad, it ~ would have been necessary for the preacher to have moved over the way to Irving place, and secured dhe Academy of Music as the theatre of his elo- quence. That necessity, however, has been obviated by the preacher administering the final blow—the | coup de grace to the unfortunate judges who pro‘ | voked his resentment. Henceforth, we are to have | no more of the maledictions and fulminations | against unjust judges, except, perhaps, by way of parenthesis or ride kicks in future discourses on | morality, theology or religion, in the Charch of the Puritans. The text from which Dr. Cheever preached last Sunday evening was one which he had been chal- Nenged to take up and handle. It was that famous text from Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, which has been in all ages, within the Christian era, resorted to to enforce obedience to authority :—‘ The powers that be are ordained of God.” He accepted the challenge ard handled the matter with great skill, as is shown in the following report of his sermon :— DEFINITION OF GOVERNMENT. The great truth here tanght is this, that human ——— is of civine origin and sanction. From context we also Jearn the object for which it is ordained—the ground and duty of obedience—the duty of disobedience, and when, and on what ground—the rule for the government, as for inci- viduale—the responsibility of the governmeat to the people and to God, as well as of the people to the government and to God—and the restrictions aud obligations upon its different branches. We shall consider every one of these points in succes- sion, and we shall then apply the whole train of in- struction to our own form ernment, with the menner of God’s institution of it for us, and our re- sponsibilities to God for its right administration. Tke first truth is this, that human govern- ment is of Divine origin and ‘ion. ‘The very obligation to form such a government is from God; the constitution of tie human mind is created with such a prefigaration of government, and xecessity of taking it on, and it does inevitably take it on, and grows with it, and is developed un- der it as the sou! assumes its dress and grows with that, and is developed under tiat. The po vers that be are therefore as truly ordained of God as the faculties of the human mind are ordained of God. But unjust powers are no more ordained of God than unjust passions, The powers of and for injustice and oppression ave no more ordained of God then the passion of drunkenness or avarice or murder is ordained, or the faculty of standing on one’s bead instead of walking. + I—Govern- ment being thus ordained of God, its necessary over- ruling authorities, whatever would they be cast in, of King, Emperor President, Governor, monarchy er republic, LY clothed with his — igo 4 same purpose for which he has appointe ordi- pmol s and that purpose is the good of mankind. | Governments and their authorities are ordained of | God as his instruments of justice, for his objects of | love; because this world is a world of probation un- | der bis government, and without these instramental authorities under him there could be no application of the remedial powers of hia word, grace and pro- vidence to bring men to repentance. The powers that be are God's providential screws, pressures, God's enclosures, fixtures, and penfolds, for keeping his creatures within reach and under the power of moral ogencies. They are themselves agencies to hold the entjects ef his moral government for the pape of redemption, under the convergency of divine trath and grace. The institution of government ig of infinite mercy, and its purpose that of restraint | from evil and the discipline 41. Good not evil, | holiness not sin, justice not injus ice, are the only thing! wT and sustains. 3d. Here we find the and duty of obedience. The object for jovernment is ordaiued is the virtue and hap piness of mankind. This benevolent object is the reason given of God for sanctioning it and for re- quicing obedience to it as his ordinance. ‘‘Ie isthe minister of God to thee for good.” The power is of Saint nee He is the ministry of culigntion Ge ohay a, heanen gorerument fe desired @ human governmen' ved, first not from the.svill of man bat of God; and sec- ee, The 8 ne i i § E88 A Fe H I : i : g 2 3 z i 4 nF HE ie E [ i i z i f : i f i fr i E AE g Ey i it i e f ii fi : H F es nH 2 i “e238 aid 2 = ia? 528! Hl F ES | i if g iy 4 Hi £ : Fi : i z 72 i F A [: ee 333 ef? = s = & j = i 3 i 3 i servile theology itse! preme, or you that w! resisteth ordinance cf God, and that every soul higber to the Accor to a Nght ta coodiaoato tation pretation it was murder children; it was an act of obediense to God; and according to your theory, if the chila Jesus nimeelf had been murdered under that com- mand, \t would have been right and jast, and who- ever was commanded to put the Babe in Bethlehem to death, was bound in conscience to do it, and it he had succeeded, would have done a thing acceptable to God. My friends, there is a rule eng ted Obedience to atate policy in such cases—a that ever and anon, inthe case ot any eet wickedness, is heard like the voice of Satan to his friends, * Prepare my way before me ”—a rale 7 terse and comprehensive—‘‘ Go 1t b'ind.” will obey government in executing unrighteous de crees under pretence of obedience to God, you mast “go it olina ”—but remember one declaration of our blessed Lord in such a case—that ‘If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.” UPPER AND NETHRA MILLSTONES OF SCRIPTURES. Now, put these two things together, Paul’s decla- ration inthe 13th chapter of Romans, “Let ever, soul be sabject unto the higher power,” an the same Paul’s declaration in the second chapter of the same epistie, that ‘God will render unto them who do not obey the truth, but obey unright- eousness indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil.” If the higher powers command evil, and a man obey them in such unrighteousness, upon every such soul there is the sentence of indignation and wrath from the Aiaiahty. Why then, you ma; rhaps ask, were these strict injunctions as to o| ice to the powers laid down, and the exceptions not given, so that this part of divine revelation bas ever served as a quarry of despotism in the hands of tyrants and obedient ministers for the building of the Bastilles Co age irresponsible, jure divine tyranny? When they would grind to rs the oppressed, sah break the very uritanic insul ion them between these upp2r and nether millstones Paul and Peter torn away from God's living tem) and whirled round by unjust judges, for grin into powder every imagivation of ce against tyranny. When bef would crush the gra of a ones of ina- le, ful license to oppression, they threw them into that wine press. But wisdom ic jastified of her children. The exception is given, and is part of the rule, and apy conscience, truly tender towards God, delivered from the fear of man, ana jealous for God's right- eousness and the supremacy of God’s law, cannot fail to see it. Obedience to the powers that be, from conscience toward God, does not permit you to doone single thing forbidden in God's ‘word, does not permit you to go contrary, in any zenpect, to the universal law of piety and love. But these injunctions were written especially, in the first case, to persons in the new and unaccustomed freedom of the gospel, who had been commanded in nothing to suffer themselves to be the servants of men, but to feel and realize and cary out their entire independence of all heman au- thority, and their dependence only on God. Tne whole tenor of the Old Testament was to train them in euch treedom. But some among them imagined that in coming into the kin; and liberty of Christ, they were freed from all subjection to hu- man governments, and especially there been a tect among the Jews teaching such insubordiuation, walking after the flesh in lust of uncleanness, and despising government, promising men liberty, but themselves the servants of corruption. And it was necessary, With a strong arm to chy ck such per- nicious heresies, by the strongest possible state- ments of the truth as to God’s own establishment and authentication of homan governments, as clothed with his own autiority, for obedience to just law, and the falfilment of all righteousness. For the sake of God, for the sake of ° gcapel, for the sake of on Christianity as a rcligionof purity and peace; purity first, aud peace religion of order, of obedience to magistrates; a religion, the best possible and only permanent support of the state in freedom and pros- pe, such obedience was carefully to be main- ined, was to of passive non-resistance, wherever it could be done with a good conscience towards God. “Stand fast, therefore in tle liberty wherewith Wi | Christ has made us free, aud be not ‘entangled again with the yoke of bondage. For brethren ye have been called nnto liberty; only not a liberty tor an oc casion to the flesh, but by love to serve one another. For ali the law is fulfilled in one word, even in thie: Thou shell love thy neighbor as thyself.” their freedom under God and the gospel, a freedom of righteousness and love, and a freedom of obedi- ence to human government and law so far as it fal- filled God's own law of righteousness and love. Notafreedom of the government to bind and op- press them, but a freedom for them to sustain the government and en obligation to obey it for the sake of liberty and love, and to advance the kingdom of God, which is ri¢hteoust ess and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. These principles constitute the only steadfastness and permanence ot anthorit: The security both of constitutions and of laws is in the fearlessness and independence of a righteous conacience; it lies in the fear of God, and not in the fear of man. So that one of the noblest mart liberty, Algernon Sidney, rightly declared, in his discourses on government, insisting on a fect conformity to the laws of God,“ that it hat been | sely ever a observed, that they who most adhere to the laws of God are least solici con- cerning the commands of men, unless they are well | lo- | Israel which they j pressed and broken in jadgment, Wecause they | ruption an God's law, and prevent them from taking the reins | h voltae hends, ard whirling the nation into got his legs around Sinbad’s neck he made bim a gu racy a despotism. committed the power to the trained them for such a commi: to habits of self-government, in the knowledge their counsels, that love of civil as well as social) grounded; and those who most delight in the rious liberty of the sons of God do not only subject themselves to him, but are most regular observers of | commands of man, according to the will of DISORFDIENCE A DUTY. The nsurpation of adie oe selfish pow 9 waright, on: jects, for reesion, injastice cruelty, Soh Se cetlanesd of Got, bat of sin and Satan. In g +t if ie 1 i He ie Ha 35 258 tae | i ii i i fH #3 F } 5 —— commanded ae reese they yee for au intoxicating eenued of i in consequence; a be carried even to an extreme | This was | ng, but to love one ano her, hath fulfilled the law The whole law ome bended in this saying, “Thou shalt love thy neigh- bor as thyself.” Love worketh no ill to his neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the law, the whole law, human and divine. PUTTING THE CASE STRONGLY. Uf the human law commands you to do one single ig Bad any Shape daicss fe contrary fo is law of love you are to ¥ ‘The eame rule of love that bindsthe indiviiual binds the govern " the ment was never instituted for iteelf, but for God and society— for God’s love and man and happiness. The government has no right to seek its own, but its sul e government is the and the servant of the le for God. In e case it is iteelf under ww, and is bound t2 obedience and cannot rightfully exist except under the law of love and for of the governed. The moment, therefore, the gov- ernment sets out in a carecr of selfishness, injustice , tbat moment its claim to allegiance under ceases, and it rests no more on con- | usurped every man in opposition; it oe the repent rests ppon, entirely freed from allegiance every respect which Tniquity is commanded. ILLUSTRATIONS OF HIGHER LAW. The rule of goodness and of love, which the Ma ernment, by its very essence, as ordained ot God, is bound to pursue, extends to all classes equally, and to the equal rights ofall There are pono Tights, powers and duties inwronght in, imposed upon and growing out of the constrsction of society and the nature of man, as God bas framed it, and appointed governments for it, which, if government violate and oppose them, much more it it prevent and de- stroy them, set society itself rightfully against the | government, and torbid men, under the authority of God, from obeying the government. Such are the rights, powers and duties of the family relation, as constituted and ordained of God, before all gov- ernment, higher and more sacred than all, and | forming the great object and interest indeed of gov- ernmenta! protection and care. Now, any govern- | ment that breaks down that relation, or destroys its | sacredness, or renders its freedom, points and sa- | credness impossible, and the fulfilment of its duties and bin Pap epic impossible, and the attainment | of its objects equally ppp sets itself in open | and essential detiance of God and enmity against man. It crosses those sacred and landmarks that God has drawn for the very existence and | well being of society itself, and comes instantly in conflict with God's power and wrath. From bein, God's appointed guardian of society for its good, i becomes the thief, robber, villain, murderer, be- trayer. From being the minister of God for good, it beeomes the tool and executioner of Satan for evil against society and God. It sets acoil of anguish, guilt and misery at the heart of ten thousand honse- holds—a coil ‘not unwinding for the ruin of the present generation merely, but reprodacing itself, a8 the mainspring and propagating spriog of the same incessant misery for all future generations. Now I say that ‘this is forbidden | of God, and that such a government is outlawed, and by an uprising of the whole human race against | | it, ought to be put out of existence, as a piracy agyinst mankind. AN OUTLAWED AND AGCURSED GOVERNMENT. Any government that dare take any cla s of its citizens by pretence of color, race, compact, consti- tution, or avy other pretence or reason under hea- ven, and say, “ You, as @ race are slaves, not citi- zens, and being such are property, not men, and being such, cannot have, and shall not be permitted to have, any of the rights, or to assume any of the responsibilities. sacred aud inviolate that inhere in God's institution of the family, that belong to his | creatures as husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, parents and children; but your children are not yours, be- ing the property, the chattels, the merc! lise of | | others, and wpm te ht and claim of the family is | feconcary and sul imate to that of the property, | and of the master and owner of the chattles;” any | | such government is outlawed and accursed of God | | by the very nature of bis own constitution given to | the race, and his own laws for their developement | and training. Ay, sach government is in essence | @ most diabolical tyranny, and exists, so far as | | that tyranny goes, only in defiance of God's law, | and in opposition against him. The laws of such | @ government against the nghts and social and do- | mestic happiness of its subjects, are as complete a | treason against God, as traly an invasion asur- | pation, as the action would be, if a fort command- were served by pirates, and ns of the fort instead of being employed against | the enemies of the country, were turned gariison for their slaughter. The powers that be are | perverted from God's ordinance for man’s good to a malignant and God defying ordinance for man’s evil. “Bat judgment shail retarn unto righteousness and the throne of iniquity shall not have fellowship with thee, which framcth mischief by a law. Yea! | surely God will not do so wickedly, neither will the Almighty prevent judgment. Shall even he that | | bateth right govern’? God striketh them as wicked | men in the open sight of others; and when he hide:h | | his face who then can behold him? Whether it be | done against a nation or againsta man only, that | the hypocrite reign not lest the people be ensnared. His eyes are with kings noes the throno, and if they obey and serve him, well, bat if they obey not they It is clear from these passages that God abhors | the uvrighteous ruler and unjust laws, and wholly releases the people from all obligation to obey any commander of iniquity. The very indictment against Judah is that the; the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of | made. “Ephraim is op- willingly walked after the commandment; therefore 1 will be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house o Judah as rottenness. The princes of Judah were | like them that ~ gata the hound: ——e wae pour out wrath upon them like water. For Katates of Omri ave’ kept and all the works of the of Ahab, and ye walk in thee a desolation hissing ; the inhabitants the imposed the government. | The powers that be are ordained of God, but not the perversion of those power of the law- giver is ordained of BV RATT a hy it, not wrong. The power of the is ordain- ¢d of God, but for good, not evil; ie not unrighteonsness; and the moment | sons to be peor, mize able wretonos, who may be to siavery sha perish by the sword and die without know- | organs ot the body politic, which the elective ho- ledge.” nesty and virtue of the people, appealed to and PROPLE RELEASED FROM OBLIGATION OF OBE- | ronsed up, may purge away; but the conscience DIENOK. once gone, all is gone, and nothing remains but perdition. government, and our own responsibilities to God for | kept not the commandments of | its right administration. No small of obedience to the powers that —— are not and for such bility in the chargeed Gk enn chan 4 our for ordained as & power of equity and truth, aad not of | subtlety and palo e ket me call your attention to the very solemn na‘are of the oath of office a8 administered to the judges of this country, and especially ita promise, so help me God, to ad- minister lee without respect to persons, in con- trast with the recent judgment of the Supreme Court, senting & whole race, out of wo their persons, of all the rights of human beings:— ons bs, 8 @ and do qu.) right tothe poor and to the rich; |, taerefore, | solemnly set apart alt black persons, bo persons oO the A'rican race as mere merouandise . at og in @ Court of jnstice, no Ot, as Citizens, to the av minteiration of jusiioe, never Baving been intended to be tucluded {a the conetitation for the OD panto any it ewear thai I wiil do equa! Fiob; ane, therefore, Laeci 1d adjudge all blac per- reduced ought and eo!d, end tsert:d as an oriawry yenandtse, ard thre | docqial right towce them or rich, Tacy are atul for slaves, rich whites may buy tem. This is exquisitely beautifai justice, refined and perfected toadezree never before known in the world. It outberods Heiod; for that monster never took a whole race by the throat to assassinate their personality. And yet there are editors, merchants | and ministers to be found, who will affirm this judgment to be ordained of God! The power of wrong judgment aud «ppression is not ordained of God, but is a usurpation; and conscience and God 8 word are powers agaist it. The judges are not law givers over the consti/ution, but judges of cases under the covstitution. What a mere lying vanity would a constitution be which the ‘cites could interpret at their pleasure, and pass laws obligatory on the people, though directly contrary to the constitution! There is no such anomaly in the powers that ve, as ordained of God. The He- brews of old hada written constitution and laws, whieh they were bound to obey; and if any statutes were passed in support of any unrighteousness, the people themeclves were to judge of that unright- eousners. They were not to refer the question of the constitutionality of those unrighteous statutes to the unrighteous jaw givers themselves, wader the convenient plea of a mock modesty and diffidence of their own ability to discern netween good and evil, or evasion of responsibility by asserting that it was not for them to express an opinion in regard to the constitution. They were bound to know the constitution and the laws themselves, and to have a decided opinion of their own as to any unjust law, any law commanding injustice and unrighteousness, which they were bound to know at ouce to be uncon- stitutional and wrong. Any law contrary to God’s law was unconstitutional, and so it is with us. It is no more to be tolerated or obeyed by us than the laws of Omriand Abab by the Israelites; itis no more 04's oroinance for us, than the idolatrous ordiaanzes of the government were for Ephraim acd Judah. The throne of iniquity that frameth mischief by a law has no fellowship with God, and is disrobed of all antho- rity over men; the mischief commanded is contrary to God's righteousness, and God disallows and forbids it, excommunicates it among men, and does not per- mit men toobey it. The plea of eonstitutionalits assumed in its Lehulf, or the deciaration of cone tutionality by unjust Judges, is no excuse for it, and gives it no authority. There never was an unright- eons law, and never will be, which the framers of it would admit to be unconstitutional; and if the powers themselves tha’ be, and the jadges under them appointed to carry ont their views are to be the ultimate determining authority, then there is no possible — tyrapny, there is no possibility of freedom, is no remedy against the extreme of evil. The system so clamped and compacted is | the most pertect unalloyed despotism; and to this we are fast driving. It is what one of the statesmen of our Revolution declared, with special reference to the peril from a despotic and irresponsible judiciary above the constitution, a complete felo de se. to God. and grouded in God's word that the State can be permanent in freedom and prosperity. THE POLITIUS- RELIGIOUS CHARACTER COMMON WRALTE. Now glance back over the history ef our country, from the first political compact in “the eabia of the Mayflower, through all change and progress, and follow the couree God has taken in his providence to éstablisb such a free and just government. He be- jan with the people. ‘ore he put them out of the sbip in which he held them over the snow crested waves, tbrough storms and dangers, he led them “Solmenly and mutually, in the presence of (od and of one another, to covenant and combine thea- selves together into a civil body politic,” “and by vtrtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just OF OUR and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.” The carefulness in regard to justice and equity with which this instrument was framed, and the jealousy of reserve ip their conscience toward God, under which they would bind themselves only to such sub- miesion and obedience as were doc ander God, are worthy of ali note and imitation. it was thus that God began in this country his own appointment of the powers that be. He set this great and over- shadowing tree, he brought this vine out of Hgynt, be caused this government to grow to its presen’ form. It is a thing of growth, as everything of life is. We back to its roots,and we find them a | deep and living network ali over the country, on the hills of New kngland, twined about the rocks, in the heart of the soil, and all along the springs and | the water courses. They are ia the cradle, and the nureery, and the village svbool, and the church, and the household, and above all in the family Bivle, at the family altar, woven in prayer. The great tap root was of conscience in the word of God. SLAVERY A HIDEOUS GRAFT. So our government has grown, and the legiti- mate powers of our government are what the roots bear, and not the graits of tyranny. The root was freedom and piety, not slavery and injustice. Sla- very is a hideous, hortible graft; and if all the limbs that have grown out of it were cut off to-day, the parent tree would be stronger and healthier. THE BIBLE, CONSCIENCE AND SELF-GOVERNMENT. Now as we were formed, so must we be snpport- ed, by conscience toward God, and habits of self- government grooved in and netted with and bolted to his werd, as the shrouds end ropes that steady the masta of a ship are bolted to the deck, the tim- bers. Without such conscience, such habits and such reverence of God’s word, aud independence by it, a peoole cannot be free—are not fitted for free- dom In the great city of Bordeaux, in France, the | people on on2 occasion wanted to make some altera- | ton iu theirmode of lighting the streets, but they | couid not he trusted wit! os to doit, and they had to send up to the central imperial government at Paris for authority to straighten their own lamp posts. They had not learned how to take care of them- eves, and the government did not mean they shouid, but would keep them in standing stoola; and what is worst of all, they did not feel that there was any fp ogee any degradation in this. The deeper was their slavery, tor the government are treating them just as the s!aveholders treat their slaves, preventing them from learning to take care of themselves, and leaving them only capacity and privilege to | work and be taxed on account of their masters. Such | a people cannot be free. They have no stamina. | They are like swimmers on bladders—the instaut | they are pricked they sink to the bottom. What a contrast, whee the people are enlightened by God's | word, ond made dependent Nd an enlightened con- | science only on God. With us the people are | responsible, and in the case of trouble we throw ourselves back upon God and his word, and the elements of our constitution. WHAT WOULD BE TRE KEFECT OF AX OVERTHROW OF THE GOVERNMENT ? Suppore our general government so that a revolution becomes necessary—what then ? It takes virtue to make a revolution, bat God con bring it about. Do we cease to have a government | because we have a revo'ution? By no means; but elements, and if even our State us @ thousand governments would spring up, as of old, in our town mectings. As long as conscience, | guided by the word of God, remains, our life and liberty are indestructible. We are like that singu'ar 4 CORKUPT, ABOMINAULE AND KEPRODATE JCDICIARY. | Tn every justly copstitated government the juii- ciary is emineutly the sacred shrine of equity and righteousness, the sheckinah, where the divine jas | tice should be represented, and to which the miad | and heart of the nation should be able to tara with | gans resume their here i | Gre like Milton's angels, when reverence and confidence. The judiciary answers to the conscience in the human constitation as the Sevate does to the understanding; the House of Re- | presentatives to the feelings, affections and sensitive | oo of our natare,and the Executive to the will. | These are all organs of the conprehensive, na: | tional, responsible life of the Fg A disease | in any of them is dreadful; tut when the conscience becomes corrupt, and instead of cor- recting the evils in the other organs by the law of righteousness, becomes j.self the organ of thore evils, imposing on the pablic “ command- meats of men that turn from the truth;” then, as Paul says to Titus, they become “ abominable and disobedient and to — good work repronate, their very mind and conscience being defiled.” There may have been disease and corruption in the other APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES TO OUR GOVERNMENT. Now we apply these principles to our own form of fi of oar duty lies in our re- to God to keep those powers from cor- —_ of mineral life, the polype; cus asunder | Its body and every separate fragment grows into a | perfect whole; cut off the and the boy sup- plies anotber; turn it inside out, and_not eyen thea is its law of life suspended, but speedily ita vital or- and processes. We the mountains were | thrown aj that their enemies had destroyed them; but they | were unconquerable, indestructible, and speed'ly as- sumed their celestial shape and power uninjured. But without conscience towards (iod all is weakness, | ruin and chaos, RBLIGION AND FOLITIOS NOT SAFELY TO Bg SEPA- BATED. The separation of our statesmanship and policy from conscience, and exclusion of religion from po litica is athvism and death. Nevertheless, this ex- clusion is proclaimed, and we sew in the publ streets the inscription in flaming letters of che party that support slavery, “The consticution for earth, and the Bible for heaven!” And this insulting de- finence and rejection of God's authority do nos want support even in the religious press and the pulpit. Beyond question a rapid change bas been going on in our system, under such teaching, favorable to universal despotism. Heretofore, the people have been the sovereign, and have managed ali things; lut now the government, from being merely our egent, are coming to be our master. They are ra- pidly completing and fastesing the usurpation; a ew years more, and {t will be accomplished, and cespotiem firmly in the saddle. Like the old man of the sea, in the story of Sinbad the Sailor, wh begged, on account of extreme weakness, to be car. dishonesty, to eali them to account at ‘or God has here » having first | Serre jalpighteousness. At an; | they are not so trained, it is not God's fal, | them the schooling, and if the thi existence, we have exclusively en- | s z i g i i : a i 4 : i dl r : af | and tyranny, from the the overnment as the owner of the 0) ite chan, is as sure as death re not only the di of disease and disor- | ganization are visible, but the Facies Hippocratica almost begins to appear. The ives of go } Younes pa yee rights of OT peed di- | minished; 'y of government, neceasit y of consolidation and centralization, the increase of ried a little while upon his shoulders, but once he his slave; ro the government of a free people on pretence of too grest weakness, the necessity of the consolidation of power, got t» themselves a tyrannic supremacy, and are enthroned upon the 4 18 of blaves. ANOTHER SWOOP ON THR JUDGRS. The indications of this cl break ont in the recent decision of the j , and clally in the course of spe pleading ed. on which it professes to be ground- of blsck men conferred by constiution, as if it were a boon, which we could not have by ir @ the constitution, and as if the ta ct aad perverted | we merely bring back our government to its original | ee pg failed | them, and it was thought for atime | | upon others. | heart's blood of ieenty end man! PRICE TWO CENTS. |. left hand and they shall not be satisfied; they eat every man the flesh of his‘own arm.” curses have been historically fuldled in the fali oppresive nations, and they will be to the letter, our case, if the of this coun! 9 government to e the oppression A race their policy, their expediency, if euch oppression, beeause they themselves are not sul of it they will become themselves the subjects of it when it is too late to throw it off. If they oe heey gen oe tools for others, on the groun their own are invaded, what can God do with su:h allahnesst “TO THY TRNTS, OH I8RARL!” And here I beseech you to mark the very point where we come into extreme controversy God. The very revealed grounds on which Gud has ordained the powers that be show that it is not pos- sible for us to obey those powers when they com- mand us to deprive others of their just rights, with- out incurring the wrath of God for such obedience. If, because we are afraid of the powers, we choose to disobey God, his wrath is pledged against us. The necessity of choosing begins to a8; it is coming to every man’s conscience, wl he will obey God or man—whether for the friendship of the government he will run the risk of Ged’s anger— whether for tbe prosperity of his own business, and the undi-turbed enjoyment of his own liberties and rights, he will agree to oppress others—will enter into the portwarenty, of injustice for the sake of guin—will sustain the government in its wicked- ness. Every man ia now commanded to do this, and God will soon show who are the true patriots and freemen, and who are the true slaves. They are the reatest slaves under heaven who are willing, for the sake of their own freedom, to make slaves of others. The great, and one might aay Cig distinctton between the despotism now advancing in this country, and any that afllicts any other country under heaven, and between the unjust laws here en- forced and those elsewhere, is just this, that we are not commanded to endure injustice ourselves, but to do injustice to o:shers—to take our —_— oor by the throat and strangle him; to take our fellow-bain; and deprive them of their rights,and ‘urn them int merchandise; to take a whole race of men among us, and treat them as having no rights that we are bound to respect. Now, mask you, the essence of des- potism ordivurily is the infliccion of bering ernment on all classea of the governed, the ic- tion of their privileges, the subjection of all the common people into serfs, or the holding of them under the tyranny of an irresponsible dominion, every citizen and family being made to feel the yoke a8 a personal subjection, a personal infliction, a de- struction of their own rigots. But here the tyranny is that of being held to inflict Mo a others, to help make others slaves, while in other re- spects we ourselves may be free. Toe government commands us to sustain and carry into effect laws of cruelty and oppression against our neighbors, commands us to do what God forbids us from doing. It does not, as yet, make us slaves ourselves, bat commands us to help make slaves of others, to tor- ture and agonize the human sensibilities of a class, whom the government have bound down as a sacri- fice to cruelty and power, ordering us to lay the victims on the altar, and having put the knives in our hands, and the iron boots, and the pincers, and the thumbscrews, commands us to tear the flesh, to drive the iron, to act as familiars of the government inquisition, and tostand goard against the victims, in case any of them should escape. The govern- ment constructs its wheel of torture, and commands us to help break the wretched consecrated upon it, and the judge sanctities the custom of such cruelty a8 a moral axiom, and a law of God, of na- tore, and the constitution. Thus the ment gives us all over to be the instruments of inhuman- ity and oppression; it makes us the mere tools, servants, executioners, of iis cruel policy; a nation of hangmen, ae of the officials of a slave-ocra- cy, @ nation of slave-driver-; and it has a pody of chaplains, indeed Cok peters, eeeerronn en its will, and ready to declare, in the name of religion, that obedience to the powers that be, im these edicts, is | obedience to God. It is a refinement and perfection of deapotiam, such aa the world never saw. Bat no people can long submit to such infinitely base and degraded a position, witoout at length | losing all self respect, and becoming in every point the slaves they are wiliing, against concience and the commend of God, to make others. It is a subtle olson of m, entering into our very circu- jation, our life blood—a despotism sustained by the sacrifice of conscience, not by the patience of on- resisting suffering; for at precent we seem to suffér | nothing, if we are selfish enough to consent to be | the instruments in torturing others; but by a willing complicity with crime, by agre+ing to injure others, to defraud others of their rights. It is as when “a of robbers murder by consent,” and make it the test of brotherhood and condition of partici- patiog in the power and spoils, that every one en- ering the asecciation should first rob, and if need be, murder his man. This is our humiliation. It is Poli {4 Hl | nota despotism under which we can have the con- solation of knowing that we can sufter patienly, and bave our very suffering accepted of God. ‘On the contrary, our submission itself is sin; our submia- sion is Complicity with crime; our submmisseom is an act of robbery and eruelty upon others. As thieves, when they Have caught an honest man, take him forth and watch him to see if be can rob, and if he will not rob others they will torture him, so they administer their tests and their oaths. They make us swear to execute a pirate’s laws, and he that will not do it is marked for proscription and rain. Te that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. The condition of our participation in the sove- reignty is that we agree to make it and maintsin it 4 sovereignty of oppression and of crime. NO SUCH DESPOTI¢M ON Rent. Now I say thet under the whole heavens there ia no such wickedness as this. [con go into sustria and live there, and undergo with a culm avd quiet con- science every one of the oppressions endared there, till I have ran the whole gauntlet, ard never a ey | them all encounter one that is so borribie as that | being required by law to render myself up an in- strument and an executioner of systematic torture I should not be required in Austria to whip, chain, imbrute others, but merely to endare myeelf, in common with others, the galling yoke im- posed on all. And I might bear that yoke, and yet not feel that every moment ia bearing it I was sin- ning against Godand man. | might bear that yoke and yet stand up beneath it,erect, proud, noole, as a man, with my conscience unstained before God. me 18 it ™ crus! very J life in , that lewear to enslave , that I swear to trample upon others as nothing but property—that I «wear to treat others, or help treat otners, or compel them to be #0 treated, as having no rights —— white man is boand to respect—then, every i that I sabmit to that , case in which I do it, Lama traitor to God and to thy beings. I betray and renounce my own dignity, nobleness, manliness, seli-respect, conscience. sign, it were, a compact with Batan in my own heart's blood. I make myself the veriest slave ia crouch- To nm sent of Dur liberties, 16 | tution but simply the instrument of our carry cnr betes into effect, and to serve it as guardian of our rights and privileges? Does the con- stitution belong to the government and the judges, nstitution, government and judges belong — people? In fine, our government is under- going & most vital, most disastrous, most terrible change, and the more terrible, for being so stealthy, 80 anperceived; a change from republican freedom and olmplicity to consolidated governmental weight 3 a of the leas owner of the governmen' "to the jordehtp of Ss conacience, justice, mercy, benevolencs, piety, hu- manity,at tne comi of a government osurped bya p tes driving oligarchy; beyond this in meanness and madness, except it the slavering obedience and adulation of ot en men and newspapers, claiming tha’ such rac of couscience 7 ome | oy act of re- ligious worship, a sacred oblation mos? na and the purest ‘and most acceptable offering of nity to God. And I say ‘und the gospel, our duty to the gooermenent, and to God who appointed it and the hawe for 6 ae to man under its power, constrain us to guilt, and put anay thie libel. 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