North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1839-05-08

10 die Is hestands speaking the ruth: L
die Whenever he NAV BE- caught, or how
ever be may be attacked; to DIE; 10 az
with Gods word .-Go5's undving word
falling from his Ups. eaFfied BY ihe iouI
winds Of Heaven II the ends 81 ihe earth
! white his toneur lies cold, ard his bonr'
are mingled with the ciods Of the valley
Ornrcss not the widow nor The father.
/ less, the stranger nor The poor; aud lei
none Of you imagine evil against his bro
! Their in has heart" have not 50 much n
say against anY one law in England. II
would matter but little, comparatively
speaking, though had we bat one bad
| law, we ought never 20 rest tail il was get
| rid Of IL would not matter much, COM
paratisely speaking, had we only orr,
Two, three, or bali dozen, or dozen,
bad laws ia England. What complain
of, what | object 10, what | deaounce,
what wifi never res: till see destroyed
ia, tina. the spirit of our laws is a spirit
breathing hatred 10 the poor. The weak
est, instead OF having back-stay, goes 10
the wall. {" Aye."l Those that are down
are kept down, and sent lower, and lower,
and ower: and below the lowest depths,
these devils contrive 10 find a lower still.
That is what complain of; and wish
the people OF England 10 keep this constant
ly before their minds for little or no good
will ever accrue by the enactment of one
good law for the reformation or correction
Of bad one, unless we breathe another
splrt INTO our legislation. We must, as
individual men, and every one TO his
eighbor-we must have clearer, and
a sounIer knowledge of what Gods law is,
and what his commandments require Of US;
and havin" found that out, we must carry
H--where! 10 the counter--to the work
Shop--to the lennies--to the looms, 10 the
cut chamber-to the pay tabe-to the
fire side-to the exchangc--to the hustngs
Ito the polling booth-to the Parliament
TO the cabiAet-to the council--to the
throne. 1t must be one and the self same
spirit; and that is the spirit which leads Us;
to " DO unto others as we would that
others should do unto u.s." and that spirit
must pervade the whole land from tie least
even unto the greatest. Hear, heaE) We
shall never be right until we get it.
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Now we haveGod's command, Gods threa-
tenng, Gods awful anger, all uttered and
sent forth against us If SO be that we OPP |
press the widow and the fatberless. And |
shall 1t be wrong-shaIl it BE- held to be
it be accounted siaful in th use
times pre-eminentIy Christian--in those
times boastingIy and conspicuously declar-
ed to be the " latter day glory Of the
Church Of Jesus Christ"-shal we in these
'''"co, those doys of the Son Of Man.when.
as our ministers tell us, the Gospel is taxi
ng the wings Of the morning and Hyinp to
The ends OF the earth, SO that nation IL
born in day-shal we, in these DAVIS of
Gospel light, and Gospel privileges, and
gospel power-Shall we, in England. the
lion o; our Israel, the citadel of Gods au-
horlty and dominon-sha we. in this
ana oil all other lands in the world, shall
We oppress the widow and the latheress.
M alillct the stranger and the poor as we
ave done IN that amnabIe-that arrocj.
us roor Law Amendment Act? (Hear.
ear.) vi that Act have not a word 10
ay' l have now done. Again and again
nave brought it to this book; again and S
gam have brought the base metal 10 the h
'uchstone, and have found it was not
oid. have put it into these scales (tbe
IbIe); have weighed it before you, and O
has been found wanting. have but il If
10 the balance OF the constitutional law. t,
al common law, and canonica law. and
'minon sense, and universal experience d
10 universal feeling; and, in all those bal "
ices having been weighed, you have O.
und 1t wanting. That law wars AGAINST o
cry manly breast-everv womany bo- n
NJ; that law wars against a fathers
aFt-agalnst a mothers love: that law ,
afs against our babehood, our childhood. =
r ,girIhood, our boyhood, our maiden ol
o. our manhood, and our old age. That al
v wars against the green sod Oh Which u
tread; and against the blue sky that
ans miIdneSs, and peace, and love upon q
;. 'Ihat law wars against tie earth and {"
a'nst the heavens-against man and a.
INST God; and, therefore, that law is n tn
resisted by all who fear God. even untn sa
death. CLEAR, hear. hrar.) Ihave an
n wen understood BY yon on this sub, NJ
t; and / hope shall make myself nm %
stood by others on this subject. thouoh an
quite SO soon as you and have been ba
TO expect. - :" re,
lea
/ nation, by its laws and institutions Ell
nlnllS acts OF injustice, cruelty and on
Ssioh upon the poor, and especially ma ~