The Ottawa free trader., 1844-02-23

Missouri, filled with negro drivers an
men stealers, go 'unwhipped Of justice
for tcnlold greater sins than France
No verify no While | have powe
Of body and mind while water runs anC
grass grows; while virtue is lovely AM
vice hateful and while stone point
ou, the sacred spot where fragment o
American liberty once was; f; | or my
posterity will plead the cause of injure,
innocence, until Missouri makes atone
ment for all her sins,--or sink disgraced
degraded and damned to hell-'wher,
the worm die,h not, and the fire is no
quenched.'
Why, sir, the power not delegated tC
the United States and the states, belong.
to the people, and congress sent to do the
peoples business, have all power-and
shall fifteen thousand citizens groan in
exile ! Oh, vain men, will We not, if We
do not restore them to their rights and
$2,000,0c0 worth of property rclinquisll
to them, (the Latter Day Saints as a
body, their portion and power that be-
longs to them according to the constitu-
ton! Power has It's convenience, as well
as Inconvenience. The world was no,
made for Cesar alone, bat for Titus TOO.
l will give you a parable; certain
lord had vineyard in a goodly land,
which men labored in at their pleasure
few meek men also went and purchased
with money from some of the chief men
that labored at pleasure, a portion of land
IN the vineyard, at very remote part of
II, and began TO improve it, and TO eat
and drink the fruit thereof; when the
lord Of the vineyard, rose up suddenly
and robbed these meek men, and drove
them from their possessions, killing many.
lhls barbarous act made no small stir
among the men in the vineyard where
the men where robbed, rose up in grand
council, with their chief man, who had
firstly ordered the deed to be done. and
made covenant no, TO pay for the cruel
deed, but TO keep the spoil, and never let
those meek men set their feet on that soil
again, neither recompence them for it.
Now these meek men, in their distress,
wisely sought redress of those wicked
men in every possible manner and got
none. They then supplcaed the chief
men, who held the vineyard at pleasure,
and who had the power 10 sell and defend
1t, for redress and redemption, and those
men, loving the fame and favor Of the
multitude, more than the glory of The lord
ol the vineyard, answered, your cause is
just, but we can do nothing for you, be-
cause we have no power. Now when
the lord Of the vineyard saw that yir,;.e
and innocence was not regarded, and his
vineyard occupied by wicked men, he
sent men and took the possession Of it to
himself, and destroyed those uniaithful
servants, and appointed them their por-
ton among hypocr'cs.
And let me say, that all men who say
that congress has no rcwer 10 restore and
defend the rights Of her citizens, have not
the love Of the truth abiding in them.
congress has power to protect tie nation
against foreign invasion and internal
broll, and whenever the body passes an
act TO malnlain right with any power
or to restore right to any Of her citizens,
IT Is THE SUPREME LAW OF TIE LAND, aud
should state refuse submission, tha,
state is guilty Of inSarrechion or rebellion,
and the president has as much power to
repel ii as Washington had to march
against the 'whiskey boys of Pitsburg,'
or General Jackson had to suppress the
rebellion Of South Carolina.
70 close, | would admonsh YOU, be-
fore you let your caador compel you
again to wright upon subject, great as
the salvation Of man, consequential as the
life of the Saviour, broad as the principles
OF eternal truth, and valuable as the Jew
els OF eternity, TO read in the Slh section
OF the lsl article Of the constitution of the
United States. the first, fourteenth and
Sirteenth specific and not very Limited
power of the federal government, wha,
can be done to protect the lives, property,
and rights of righteous people, when
the administration OF the laws and the
lawmakers are unbought by bribcs, un-
corrupted by patronage, untempicd by
gold, unawed by fear, and uncontamina-
ted by tangling alliances--evcn like Cu.
sars wife, not only unspotted bit msus.
pected! and God who cooled the heat of
a Nebuchadnezzar's furnace, and shu, the
mouths Of lions for the honor Of Daniel,
will raise your mind above the narrow
notion, that the general government has
no powcr--to the sublime idea that con-
gress, with the president as executor, is
as almighty in its sphere, as Jehovah is