The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-09-11

think that the wretch who has twice been
found in arms against his State, and who,
but tori the failure Of his physical courage,
would hRve twice deluged his native city
and State in the blood of their citizens,
involving Rhode Island and perhaps our
whole Union in the horrors of civil war,
and who for these crimes has bean con-
victed OF TREASON against his country,
deserves some punishment. He deserves,
at least, think, to be shut up in the State
Prison till he shall condescend to ask to
be let out, and think l should keep him
there spell after that. Should has an
successful attempt be suffered to go I'M
punished. how long before we might in
some quarter of the Union or other have
similar attempt, which might prove
successful? Hence every State and every
person in the Union has an interest in
this matter. IT'S to be regretted, no
doubt. that the miscreants in other States,
who urged him forward to deeds of trea-
stn and blood-shed cannot in some way be
made to share in his punishment.
Whilst l am upon this Dorr matter,
Messrs. Editors, am tempted to give you
paragraph in reSard to it from the eel
ebrated Fast Day sermon, april, P344)
of the Rev. DR.. BushneIl.-This sermon,
as you we'll aware, seems to have become
sort of textbook with loco focos. The
Hartford Times lauded the worthy author
of it highly, and it is but week or two
since l saw long piece copied from it in
to the New Haven Register with appro-
baton Please then insert this, and ask
the gentlemen of the latter paper how they
like it. JUSTICE.
Says the Doctor -
at is but yesterday, that a rebellion
was on foot against the laws of a neighbor-
ing State "a rebellion that no principle
of obedience to law, inculcated by scrip
ture or supported by the reason of morals,
could justify. Unhappily there were GER
tain popular sympathies, which it seemed
might be enlisted by siding with the move
ment, and the temptation was too strong
to be resisted. Persons in high places
came forward to yield it their favor, ad-
vancing doctrines which, if generally held,
would forever exclude the possibility of au
established government on earth. And
now that something may possibly be
gained Il suppose, to their cause, pow
erful body ofmen in our Congress are en-
deavoring to cover this neufarious project
with their sanction after its fall, and shell
ter the dead body of the rebellian with a
gratuitous and posthumous sympathy
The opposing party on their side speak of
the affair with a just reprobation, but they
are supposed to speak only as partizans,
and their reproofs are destitute of moral
power. Never was there case in which
the moral points stood out in holder relief
1t is nothing less than treason on ons
side and laao on the other. And yet it is
remarkable that the moral sense Of the
country is so dulled, in reference to every
thing that can be called politics-moral
distinctions are so far subordinate to the
owerofparty discipline, that almst no effect
isproduced by the agitation on one side, or
the just reprobation it meets on the other
really do not suppose that hundred votes
have been changed in the whole country,
either by what has been said for or against
this rebellion. And this too, when there
are in the mass of voters probably half
million of professed Christians more or
less equally divided between the parties"