The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-01-25

the Constitution, as it will be gone cas-
with you should you stir while on that sa
cred instrument! You go 10 abolishins
slavery while you have the Constitution
under your feet, and your Bell would no
give its sonorous sounds great. while
Take my advice, then, and keep still under
such precarious circumstances.
il2) That would be too much savorine
of infdelity to obeyEGod rather than.man
and hence the Editor of the Galaxy, who
is professed christian, would stand By, OF
on the ConstitutionIand defend. it, although
it should .contravene. every part of the great
moral law!
(l3) If the moral law''is so plain that all
may understand it; and if the Constitution
of the United States iplainly contravenes
the moral law, on what principle shall those
who profess to take the law of God as their
guide, support the Constitution Will the
learned, logical and comprehensive minded
Hon. Harvey Bell, inform US?
(14) 1t would SAVIOR of exclusiveness, to
form church, unless some shareholders or
their apoogists were in it. And TO talk,
too, on the Sabbath, about Harvey Bells
political action, the six days preceding,
would desecrate The day.! If civil govern
ments are ordained of God, and men are
bound 10 elect such rulers as will rule in
the fear of God, can see no dissertation
of the Sabbath, should ministers explain
the duties of their hearers on this point.
To repeal the laws which bind the slave,
is the object aimed at by political aboli-
tion.' Ministers must, then, according to
neighbor Bells logic, be very cautious as TO
what parts of the Bible they read on the
Sabbath o. as many passages talk about
binding up the broken hearted - letting the
oppressed go free, &c. But why appeal TO
the conscience of STAKEHOLDER in regard TO
the sin of enslaving men, while it is. fairly
inlerable from question you propounded,
that you do not believe. any stakeholder
ever relaxed his grasp on his victim, from
love of justice and religion? You talk
about the shift judgments of heaven be-
in brought down, on account OF the wrong
of slavery. Yet after it has existed in this
country two hundred & twenty'three years,
you ask the people TO stand gaping twenty
Eve years longer, to see slavery fast crum-
bling; that this saoit judgment may be
stayed. Why, really, my obluse mind Tor
bids my comprehending such logic. 1t is
not strange, then, that you should not
greatly admire my logic, learning and
mental comprehension, when you go to
such depths in your profound arguments.
mother idea advanced by Mr.s.Bell will
present, VIII ch is, that Of appealing to the
conscience, BY holding over him threat
If swif Judgment! had. supposed that
he principle of appealing TO the.couscience,
vas TO induce a man to torsake certain |
,ractice, because%.it was wrong in itsell,
egardless lof punishment 10 be INFLICTED. |
3ut it seems my mental comprehension has |
,een TOO limited to understand Alright.
(15) have neither time nor room to go
nto the consummate logical deductions Of
eighbor Bell, throughout his whole article.
really hope this Editor will be calm, and
ct get frightened, thinking abolition prin-
iples will bring destruction,on any useful
lstitution of the land, or scatter the shin
~ fragments of the Union all around Us.
IS friend Bell has appealed to Cesar (the
ublic,) TO Cesar suppose we must 60 {
;ut of one thing will now warn him, and
lat is, the mass of the people have not
imbed so high on the literary and logical
oder as be. has; and if their mental COM
rehension is not above or beyond their
her altainments, they may in few years
,cide that he does not know as much as
; seems to think he does, about anti slavery
alters. Friend Harvey, let us hear the
,und Of your Bell once more, and if you
IN not call me back from the mist OF ultra
N, ! hope you will put ahead and help in ,
caring away the fog so as to aid The vision {
the ulras. }. HoLcoMB.
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