The Litchfield County post., 1827-06-28

Indian character, which indolence, and
 want of cultivation had combined to com press. .....
 ] A shout burst from the midst of them. It was responded to by the young Indian females, hastening to meet them. The 1 warriors joined to the exclamation, and like the shouting of jubilee, the camp rang with praise and triumph. J. X. The following are extracts from the late E. lection Sermon, preached before the Massa- chusetts Legislature, by Rev. Moses Stuart, Professor of Sacred Literature in Andover Theological Seminary.
 On general ground, this may be shown 1 with very little difficulty. It is a fundamen- tal principle of Christianity, that pe should tooe eur neigh5or as owrseLves. Whenever this shall be done, and wherever it shall be done, protection in the most efectuaI manner 10 the fife, liberty and property of men, will ne cessarily ensue. If we love our neghbor as ourselves, it is plain that we shall never de- signedly injure him, in respect to any of the rights which freedom bestows. We never can deny him any rights which we could venture to claim ourselves; we can take ] from him nothing, which we should not will lmgly permit him to take from us.
 Then the gospel has'decided too, the ques. ] ton which is our neighbor. All men are ] neghbors to each other. ''In Christ Jesus, there is neither Greek nor Jew, Barbarian nor ] Scythian, bond nor free;' all are one--one in respect to their native rights, and claims, and rank. There is no difference between the coiOret and the white man, under the empire of gospel truth. God has not only made all nations of one blood; hut he has permitted them all to claim the same relation to him he permits them to share equally in the bounties of his providence and of his grace. ] If they are abridged of any ofthese privileges, ] it is not their Creator who has abridged them, 1 but those who have abused the power which was entrusted to them, and show themselves unworthy of such trust. The Maker of heaven and earth, regards all men in the sim l pie light of mora! aUorth. External circum- stances, rank, condition, form, color, occupa- tion---every distinction of winch proud and l petty men boast, and with which they are tnflated--ls perfectly insignificant in the sight of Him, {" who seeth not as man seeth" In his view, the beggar in the Lazaretto, if pos sessed of a meek, humble and fal spirit, is prince; and prince who is naughty, and luxurious, and oppressive, and un5ratefu, is q beggar indeed.
 ] Christianity, moreover,n its very nature and genius Is republican. It is the genuine una dulterated doctrine of liberty and equality. To all men it gives liberty to exercise their efforts and desires without restraint, so far as consists with the public good; for this results 1 from the simple principle of giving to others that liberty which we may justly cialm for ourselves. There is no one thing, which Christianity forbids, that would not be detri- mental either to the public, or to the individ- ual who might practice it. All its precepts and penalties stand on this basis and they are equally applicable to all men. Whatever men may do or refuse 10 do, about submission to laws made by others like themselves, by the very nature which is given them at the creation. they are subject to the laws heav- eD. None are too high to be made the sub iects of these laws; none too low to be af- 1 fected by their control. Consequently all men are by the nature of their subjectiOn to the same laws, placed on the groun of equal 1 ity ny the Christian religioav
 hesitate not to say then, that Christian ity is in its very nature true liberty and equak | ity. It does not, indeed, teach us that all men possess equal talents of any kind, nor characters equally estimable. It does not maintain that all men ought to have the same influence m community, whether their chars acter he good or bad whether their intellectual powers are strong or weak. No; it recogni- Aes all of these differences among men. But still, from the very natue of the principles which it teaches, it necessarily maintains an equality Q ofobigation among all classes of men 1 to the supreme laws of heaven, and it main Etains an equality of rights among all. This is ! the only rational and true equality that ever will, or can, exist among men.
 Under a government, which is free upon I Christian principles, no man can be debarrcd from privileges which another is permitted to enjoy, or from claims which another is per-
 nitted to make, except by his own default. or disobedience to the laws of his country. Office is accessible to all, wealth is accessa-
 ble to all, wherever and whenever men do to others that which they would that others should do to them. All this is necessarily implied in a Christian spirit. am not ignorant, that am now treading upon ground, which is deemed sacred by a great body of our brethren in the eastern world. They will ise up, by thousands and by millions, in opposition 10 the principles which have been avowed, and demand an an swer to the question, Whether we are not to honor the king as well as to tear God? And. whether euery soul IS not subject to the po.cers aVtich De? These questions although highly important, and (from the connexion in which they stand) fearful we will not shrink from answering. We ought to do this, indeed, in the spirit of respect and affection for many