New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-01

y,,rgntfcr is dcodinltSt ad and @es rs i sis'St
RIM who hes done nothing to alIenate his Iatufii
rights. docs that give li.n any more h4talli fshs
m -nsIaye man than hchai before eau any
,,iccc OF rarcl.!ncut Right wroRa; and Wran;
n ,,,g.t;ve las been slave hcfore; dos tae
,.,,, ,c,; committed Yesterday give you natural
rirfttG cclnnit wrone atrcsh and continually be.
col,ea.,o., ouslaved this mans father Rave You
,,,,,ral ,inlt to eIislayeis child The same right
vow would have to murder q man because you
intchered his father first. The right to murder is
as much transmissible by Inheritance as tire right
oc,slave Il is plain to that It IS the natural
duty Of citizens to rescue every ingltlyt slave
from the hands of the marshal who essays to re-
tnr7l him to bondage, to do 1t peaccahly II they
can forcibly ii they must, but ny Gil means to do
l. VIII YOU stand by and see your conntrymen,
your fellow citizens d Boston, sent Oh to slavery
by some Commissioner Shall see my own pa.
,ishioners taken from under my eyes and carried
back to bondage BIZ man whose Constitutional
business it is to work wickedness b statute
Shall never lift an arm to protect him " hen
consent 10 that, YOU may call me hlreHne shep-
herd an intidel wolf in Sleeps clothing, even a
defender OF slave-catchlne II you VIII, ana VIII
confess ! was poor dumb dog, barking always
at the NOON but silent as the moon when the
murderer comes near.
a1o not n man who love violence. respect
the socredness of human life. But this say, sol
emnlv. that | viii do all IN my power to rescue
ony fugitive slave from the hands Of any officer
who attempts TO return him TO bondage VIII
resist him as gently as know how, but with such
strength as ! can command I Will ring the bells
and alarm the town: will serve as head, as foot,
or as body to any body OF serious and earnest
men who will 90 with me, with no weapons bat
their hands in this work will do itas readily
as would lift q man ont OF the water, or pluck
him from tie teeth Of vol, or snatch HIM from
the hands OF murderer What is tine OF
thousand dollars, and falling OF six months, to
the liberty of man My money perish with me.
il it stand between me and the eternal law OF
God. ! trust there are mani y men enough III TINS
house to secure the freedom of every fugitive
slave in Boston, without breaking limb or rend-
ing garment.
One thing more | think is very plain. that the
fugitive has the same natural right to defend
himself against the slavecatcher. or his constl-
tutional tool, that he has against a murderer or
& wolf The man who attacks me to reduce me
TO slavery, in that moment OF attack allenates
his right to life. and if / were the fugitive, and
could escape in 10 other way, | would kill him
with as little computation as | would drive a
musketo from my face. It is high time this
was said What grasshoppers we are before
the law of men, what GoliathS against the law OF
God What capitalist heeds your law OF usury
when he can get illegal interest How many
Banks are content with six percent. when money
is scarce Did you never hear OF a merchant
evading the duties Of the Custom House When
a mans liberty is concered-we must keep the
law must we betray the wanderer, and expose
the outCast
Mr.. Parker thus discourses Of the conflict be
tween the rights Of Conscience and the obligation
of political obedience
1t seems to mo very strange that men so mis-
nd RIGHT of
obligations to obey their country Not long ago
an eminent man tainted of his opponents
telling him he had better adhere to the higher
law" The newspapers echoed the sneer as II
there were no law higher than the Constitution
LatterlV, the Democratic party, even more COM
petely than the Wing party, seems to have for
GOTTEN that there is any law higher than the Con-
stitution any rights above vested rights An cnl-
inent theologian of New-Engand, who has hither
to done good and great service IN his profession,
grinding off the barb of Calvinism, wrote book
in defense of slave. catching, on Conscience and
the Constitution book which not only sins
against the sense of the righteous IN being wick
ed but against the Worldliness OF the world In
being weak; aud he puts the official business OF
keeping compact far before the natural duty
Of keeping a Conscience VOID OF oilense ana
serving God, But suppose forty thieves assemble
on Fire Island, and make a compact to rob every
vessel wrecked on their coast and reduce the sur
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that brotherhood Of pirates, am morally bound
keep that compact or to perform any function
which grows out oft Nay, am morally bound
to violate the compact, to keep the pirates from
their plumber and their prey. Instead OF forty
thieves on Fire Island. suppose twenty millions
of men in the United States make compact to
cusave every sixth mantle dark men--am
morally bound to heed that compact, or to per-
form any function which grows out of it Nay,
bOnO1 RI
every way that is Just and wise The very men
who make such a compact are morally discharged
from it as soon as they see 1t is wrons me l2ftE
Jews who bound themselves by wicked oatl to
kill Paul before they broke their tast-were they
morally bound to keep their word Nay, morally
bound to break it.
will tell you portion of the story of Fu.
gitiye Slave whom have known. will call his
name Joseph though he was in worse than
Egyptian bondage He was owned BY no.
torions gambler, and once ran away, but was re-
taken His master proceeded to punish him for
that crime, took him to chamber locked the
door and lighted fire he then beat the slave
severely. Alter that he put the branding-ir in,
took knie-l am not telling what took place in
Agiers, but in Alabama-and proceeded to cut
OFF the ears of his victim The owners wife,
alarmed at the shrlcks of the sufferer beat down
the door with sledge-hammer and prevented
that catastrophe. Alterward, two slaves of this
gambler, tor stealing their masters sheep, We're
beaten so that they died of the stripes The
Minister came to the funeral, told the others
that those were wicked slaves, who deserved
their fate that they would never rise" in the
general resurrection and were not fit to be
buried Accordingly. their bodies were thrown
into a hole and left there Joseph ran away
again; he came to Boston was sheltered by a
man whose charity never fails; he has been in
my house, and often has worshipped here with
us. Shall take that man and deliver him up
do it with alacrity Shall suffer that gam.
bier to carry his prey from this city viii you
allow lt-thoug. all the laws and constitutions OF
men give the commandment God do so unto us
if We suffer it.
This we need continually to remember. That
nothing in the world without is so sacred as the
eternal law OF God; OF the world within nothing
is more venerable than own Conscience
permanent, everlasting oracle of God. The Trim
and Thummim were but Jewish and Egyptian
TOYS on the breastDlate OF the Uahrav, ,,riiac+