Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-07-28

the one man Moses as the highest authority. |
The heather refers you to the history of men
as your last authority. 1t is Protestant as
distinct from Catholic. For in the Catholic
theory all depends upon the authority of the
church and state. The central power, the
government, is the main thing, and it aims
to do Tor the people, but nothing in their
name. Nothing is above the governments
BY the Catholic theory government and leg
~islation are thought good things in them
selves. SO there must be much government
and Legislation to think for the people and do
for the people. BY the Catholic idea, the
rule is, obey the existing authorities and God
will bless you. With them obedience to
outward rule is thought TO be good in itself.
4 Now in the Protestant theory all depends
upon natural right and duty, and the way TO
get at this is TO take the minds Of the people,
not OF the pope. In the Protestant theory
every man is his own state, his own church,
his own sovereign. And so the sovereignty
Of the pope, the sovereignty Of the king, and
the sovereignty Of the mobiles, give way to the
sovereignty Of the people. Theory, mon
archy and aristocracy fade away before de-
mocracy. The people is the main thing
government subordinate All is to be done
in the name of the people, by the people, for
the people. AS far as possible the people
are 10 do for themselves. The rule is, help
yourselves, and God will bless you. To
obey the internal authorities, right and duty,
is good in itself, not to obey the external au-
thority. That is the state of ideas.
We have by no means established such a
Democracy in America. A good deal of the
satanic character still appears. These three
ideas were violated in the Constitution, and
the violation Of these three ideas make what
are called the "compromises of the Consti-
%tution." which were not merely compromises
between the North and the South, but be-
tween right and wrong. / say these things
were violated in the compromises of the
Constitution. New ideas have since dawn
ed on man which have not yet become sta
tutes or Institutions. 1t will take a good
while to found such a government. How
ever, II will come just aS soon as the people
are ready. You cannot build a brick house
until the bricks are made and brought to the
spot. So you cannot build a democracy till
you have democratic men and have got them
on the spot. The problem is TO make ideal
/, democracy actual and then historical. We
want an ideal democracy in the shape OF
men. In other words 10 realize Christianity
we want Christian men and democratic men
e Now, in every country there are two par
n ties. The first consists of men who are oil
the sid 1of mankind, who want freedom 70
e all, education for all, comfort for all, politi
d cal power for all, religion for all. Thes
men are democrats in the best sense of tn,
word. | do not mean to say that they vot
y with the democratic or the wing party, bu
e they are democrats. The second consists o
n men not on the side of mankind, but sects an,
fractions of mankind. They want religion
If for all men. They want every body to hav,
Y religion, for never knew a man SO bad tina
y he did not wish his neighbor 10 be good bu
they do not wish every man to have freedom
l. education, comfort, and still less do they wisf
that every body should have political power
Thsee men are aristocrats in The worst senst
of that word !; they are tories. Now, such
I. men are found in America, in both parties
& 1t is not an thing for a man to ap
IS pear a democrat in the beginning and turn GU
IN an aristocrat in the end. They belong tc
e. both parties, Wings and Democrats. They
D. have no confidence in the people, no love fol
Is the people. They do not love our form OIL
le government. They have no confidence in it.
Mt They want limited suffrage, a strong central
government, hereditary honors. They wan
is not a democracy but an aristocracy, a monar-
of chy, or a theocracy. They have the Catho.
is lie theory of government as distinguished
il from the Hebrew, or Heather as distinguish
IS ed from the Christian. They deny first, in
ID alienable rights. All rights, say they, are
al alienable. And they deny that men were Gre
v, ated equal. And in the third place they de-
ID ny that the government was established FOX
to the purpose of securing to every man justice,
e. but only justice to some men, injustice to
m others. They have a right to their theory,
al an undoubted right TO it. They have a right
10 ,alt ahont IL in Con0rasc in tho Houeo N,
10 in the Senate, and TO do all that they can &c
Is get you and me to believe it, and to put oul
of neck into their yoke. Such men are fount
S. mainly in large cities. There are a goot
many such men at the North; in New Eng
d. land. At the South they are the p~revalen
le men, but an oligarchy, an aristocracy. 1t il
e. these tories of the North who league with tn,
n tories of the South, and so there is sympath,
ct between the two. There is no sympathy be
tween the majority of Northern men and III,
en- institutions Of the South. But between Nor
~ therD tories and Southern tories there is O
S. course a sympathy, and must be. There il
ca this difference between the two: at the Soutl
Ie they speak out and say, "The laboring clasi
n. must have no political power-educaiion il
at not a good thing for us-for the public-sla
II very is a necessary background for republi
IL can Institutions. There are no such thing
ee as inalienable rights" Some Of you hav,
ut doubtless read a recent speech of Calhoun
sp in the Senate, in which he says all men wer
a. not created equal, for there were but two ere
T. ated, land one Of them was a woman.) IA
a general smile. They were not created equal
ne for they are not equally tall, equally black o
20 equally white, therefore there are no sucl
things as inalienable rights and equalit,
A. among men. One must certainly honor tn
"a frankness which leads a man so TO speak,
At the North they do not speak out, and tn
nj reason is, they do not dare. 1 am not indini
an fault with such men for having such theories
m | only stale the fact and hope they came a
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