Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-11-23

Grsahssn aid the woman The other put 10 me 10 my
natural character man, this Will you help punish
Greahear with fine and imprisonment for helping
to obtain her unaliensbe rights If have exiingushed
my manhood by my jurss oath, then shall do my official
business and find Greaheart guilty, and shall to be
true but If value my manhood, shall answer after
my natural duty love and not bate him. to do him
ustce not Injustice allow him the natural rights he has
not aiensted, and shall say mot guilty. Then men will
call me forsworn and ia but think human nature will
justify the verdict"
we should certainly call such juror forsworn
and lar and deserving all the penalties which be-
long 70 the most fragrant form of perjury. Aside
from the sin of breaking an OATH the tendency of the
act sseli would be most disastrous. If every jury
man were to be at liberty to determine whether the
Penaiiies OF the law, in particular case, were too
heavy or whether the judge was likely to be too
severe, ana should take upon himself 10 find YER
dlct rather upon the justice injustice Of the law
than upon the facts which applies to, the trial by
jury would be a farce. Indeed to state the promo
sition of the speaker is enough to demonstrate it's
criminal absurdity.
Mountaineering any personal disrespeet to Mr..
Parker, whose motives and abilities alike we hold in
the highest respect feel compelled to say that the
ayowal of sentiments like those contained in his late
address, by citizens Of the Morrill, have done more To
strengthen the interests of slavery in this country
than any other single influence which we can now
call to mind. To make all the other interests of
society secondary to any one which is not vital to
the very existence Of that society is fanaticsm il is
sadness especially in representative Govern
ment like ours, where the laws are constantly un-
dergoing modification at the hands of the people.
The counsels Of such men are very properly dis
trusted by the mass of men who prefer to await the
gradual formation and constitutional expression of
public sentiment in favor of their cherished reforms
rather than peril far greater interests by resisting
and thereby weakening, the moral strength of the
Government. II is upon this feeling that the whole
system Of political representation is based and no
people ,cho cannot patiently abide the constitu-
tional legislation Of a representative Government
are fit to enjoy sueh Government, nor will they
ever haze such Government for any length Of
tme unless they constitute, as they do in this coun-
try, very uncomfortable minority of the popula-
ton.
Since the preceding article from g free-soil"
print was put in type, we have met with the fol-
lowing remarks on the same subject in Whig
paper Of the city Of New York, which we are glad
also to transfer to our columns:
FROM ronK "xxRaEss" OF SovxMBER l9.
PROGRESS OF ABOLITION
I've have scotched the snake, not killed it," We are
disposed unnecessarily to alarm the people BY the
frequent ausion discussion Of questions connected with
the institution Of slavery. But when, at moment like the
present. the demand is made from than hundred nu-
entail presses the North, and from majority Of the
pupis OF the Free States that law must be repealed by
Congress- and that Congress must be flooded with petitions
that repeal it is time to speak ont with one voice
for the sacredness Of the constitution which required the
Of the law and for the supremacy Of the law ITSELF
There would be less occasion for this political questions
confined political parties, voting for public
officers and who hold public Offices but the pulpit in many
parts land is turned into the forum. Instead Of The
gospel Of Jesus Christ human laws and human governments
made the main topics Of pulpit Nominations The law
of hate is made take the place Of the law Of love- The
polemcs Of the divine turned into the bitter denun
Citations Of that constitution which gives religion its free
DOM to the press power Of utterance, and to the
freedom Of speech Instead of the theology Of the Bible
have theology of body Of political priests who set ,he
selves up as the advocates Of ga higher law than the Bible.
OF Of the Of those human decees which every
where sanctions and commands Alas for pure and undeed
religion when the examples of the Saviour Of mankind and
all the holy preceps of religion thus set at naugh and
trampled under foot No wonder that true christian
the places Of the EARTH and over the luke
warmness Of those calling themselves christian teachers Not
taught the prophets Of the Old Testament the apostles
Of the New. Not taught the who escaped from the
political and religious prosecutions Of the old world in order
pant kingdom of liberation and righteousness in the
new. When George Washington, in April, 1889,
menced his civil service to the Government the FIRST Chief
Magistrate Of the naion he commenced the abors of bis
high Office by fervent applications to that Almighty Being
who rules the Universe who pesdes in the councils Of
natons and whose provdenal aid supply every human
defect that bis benedcon might consecrae to the liberties
and happiness Of the United States Government instituted
by themselves for these essential purposes The Giver Of
all Good then invoked by the great civilian, the Father
of his Country bless the Government which the people
had created and the Constitution which they had adopted
Good in the high Office from that hour 70 the pre-
sent, have mploed protection from the same omnipotent
arm but how stands the with many who are set apart
as the teachers Of Gods laws They've speak Of course
only Of the that Gods law is epugnant
to the very Government which makes God supreme BY
making respect religion and religious rights and duties the
very basis Of s action They believe not only in higher
law than the constitution, but 10 higher than the Divine
law which commands obedience to human laws. Fsrewe
to all true religion If the spirit Of the pulpit refer to it
is 10 be interpreted the spirit Of true religion Instead of
prayers for mems welfare, eternal temporainstead Of
that love God and which the genius Of christianity
instead Of rendering Cesar the things which Cssa
and God the things which Gods-we behold the spirit
Of aena dscord hate, vengeance, and moral as well as
political dissolution. faE st8feaa fy ata5
These remarks have been drawn from the perusa Of
mon from Rev. Theodore Parker Of Massachusetts, which
has only been preached from the pulpit, but which has
been printed and scattered far and wide the land We
l.