Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-09-16
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non delivered IN Boston by Chai.es sam
ner. 1t was mainly IN argument 10 nrove
The nseiessness aud wicseoness Of war in A.
ny and every point Of view and under any
q every CT cumstances. II was no, very well
received generally, being considered entire
" too ultra for present views, but j, seems
10 Us whatever we may think of his sen,i-
men's as connected with the present age
and present people, there are but few think
ing men but will admit Mr.. Sumner has ia
{ Ken correct view of what constitutes in re-
atty the grandeur Of nations and what true
christianity demands Of mankind; and we
know not how many may think so. but be
they few or many, we are among those who
believe that the time is approaching, when
humanity will SO far prevail in the common
mind. that the brutal ri,ctce of human
bu'eheFy will cease. and the flashing sword
and laundering cannon be no more the ar
blter between nations and between brethren
OF the same parents. The following extract
which we make from the grafton will let our
readers more fully into its character. We
trust they will find as much satisfaction in
it as we have:
"Who has told you, fond man! TO regard
that as glory when performed BY nation,
which is condemned as crime and barba-
rism, when committed by an individual? In
what VAN concelt Of wisdom and virtue do
you find this incongruous morality? Where
is ii declared that God. is no respecterofper
sons but of multitudes evidence do YOU draw
these partial laws of powerful and impartial
God?Mans immortal; bu, States are mortal.
He hasa higher destiny than Slaes.-
Shall States be less amenablc 10 the great
moral laws? Each individual is an atom Of
the mass. Must not the mass be like the
individuals of which il is composed! Shall
the mass do what individuals may not do?
No. The same moral laws which govern in
divIdulls govern masses, as the same laws
in nature prevail over large and small, con-
trolling the fall of an apple and the orbits
of the planets. 1t was the beautiful dscov-
cry OF Newton that gravity is universal
property of matter, a law obeyed by every
particle III reference TO every oti er particle,
and connecting he celestial mechanism with
terrestrial phenomena. So the Rule ofrighf,
which binds the single individual, binds two
or three when ga.heiei togeiher-binds con-
ventlons and congregat oas of men binds
villages, towns and c,ics-binds States, Ma.
tons and pres-clasps the whole Human
Family IN is sevcnfold embrace: nay more,
"Beyond the flaming bounds of place and time
The living throne, the sapphire blaze"
il binds the Angels of Heaven, the Sera-
phlm, full of love, the Cherubim, full Of
knowledge; above all, it binds, in sclfim-
posed bonds, a just and omnipotent God.
1t is of this, and not of any earthly law, that
Hooker speaks in that magnificent period
which sounds like an anthem: of Law no
less can be said, than that her seat is the
bosom Of God, her voice the harmony of the
world; all things in Heaven and earth do
her homage, The very least as feeling her
care, The greatest as not exempted from her
power; both Angels and men and creatures
OF what condition soever, though each in
different sori and monncr, yet all with UNI
form consent admlring her as the mother
of their peace and joy
1--WE arc struck with horror, and our hair
stands on end, al the report OF a single muir
der; we think of the soul that has been hur
red 10 lis final account; we seek The muir
derer, and Tie LAW puts forth all lis ener-
gles Ia secure his punishment. Viewed in
tie cleaF glt oilruh, what is war aud bat
liz bu' oT-an " murder; murder Of malice
aiotcth9ugh'; III cold b.ood; through The
ope:atCn of n eXtens We machine Yotcgime;
W tn nautoeta-!o hands: Il Inca!cuiabe
cos OF money; Trough Sable coniivances
o, cunning and SIX Il; OF by he savage bra
lal assault |tas not VIC Scy,b.aH 1ga',
when he sad 10 Alexander, Thou boas,cst
that tho only design Of lily matches is TO cx-
tirpaIe robbers; thou myself art the greatest
robbcr in the woId? Among us one
class OF sc Robes is hanged as raes;in-
othcl Is hailed with acGlamat;on:
lille crucem sceiers pretium, ,ut, hc diadema.'
I'll was amidst The thunders which made
S mai tremble, that God declared: Thou
Shalt not kills and the voice ofthese thun-
ders, with this commandment, has been p:o-
longed to our own day in the echoes of
Christian Churches. What mortal shall re-
strain the application of these words? WHO
on earth is empowered TO vary or abrdgo
the commandments of God? Who shall
presume 10 declare that his Injunction vas
directed, not 20 nations, but to individuals
only; not TO many, bu, 10 one only; tia, one
man may no, kill, but that many may; that
il is forbidden to each individual 10 destroy
The life of "A single human being, bu, that
it is not forbidden TO a nation 10 cut off by
the sword whole people?
"When shall the ST Louis of the nations
rive? the Christian ruler or Christian poo.
pie, who shall proclaim to the whole earth,
that hencelorward for ever the great trial
By battle shall cease; that il is the duty and
policy of nations TO establish love between
each oihet; and in all respects, 1t all times,
towards all persons. as we'll their own peo-
pie as the people Of other lands, to be gov
ernod hy the sacred rules Of right, as be-
tween man and man! My God speed the
coming Of that diyn
Tue SHow.-The New York papers state
that the agents of the steamboat Great
Bitsin: while she has been lying IN that port,
have received near five thnnsand dollars, as