The republic., 1851-07-16
From The Boston Transcript.
The Peace and Dignity OF tho Common
yoalth.-N0. Xxx.

Tlllty at the ,MelOdeon. And alter ass0clatlng
the name of Judge Sprague, whom, little
while before, he calls ga good, excellent, aud
honorable man" with that of Judas Iscariot, he
disposes of both in a summary manner Judas
and The Judge. Let them go, each to his O,rn
place" meaning, of course, let Judas IscGriot
and Judge Spraglle go 10 he'll Such is the
construction OF the passage In Acts, l., 25, adopt
ed by Bloomfield and other learned expositors.
What sort of teacher Of pety have we here2
Let me present another passage:
'sWhat shall we do2 think am calm man,
and cool man, and have a word or two to say as
to what we shall do. Never obey the law. Keep
the law of God. Next ! say, resist not evil with
evil; resist not with violence Why do ] say
thss Will you tell me that am a coward? Per-
haps am; at least not afraid to be called one.
Why do say, then, do not resist with vio-
ence? Because it is not time just yet. It would
not succeed
Again:
'sLet us wait our time. II will come-perhaps
will need no sacrifice of blood.
Resist, then, by peaceful means; not with evil,
but with good. Hold the men infamous that exc
cute this law"
have rarely encountered a more glaring ex-
ample of impudent hypocrisy. Here is the
beautiful and almost superhuman principle in
culcated by Jesus in his sermon on the Mount,
employed by this teacher of piety with pro-
vso that utterly destroys its import. Now,
neither travesty nor mutilate the meaning of
these passages when present them thus
am q calm man and cool man; mind achat
say; those Of you soho haze stoorn to support
the Constitution must violate uoan oaths; there
is nothing in perjury; l haze taught you that
before. Resist not eUa toith epii, Just nolc; it
,oont do. But the time tciU come tchel you
may resist euiL teith evil, as much as you hare
mind to-there may be blood shed on there nay
not be.
worthy citizen this! A most valuable
teacher Of piety
There is clearly an important omission in the
thirty ninth verse of the fifth chapter of Mat
thew. Let me amend it for the use of the ris-
ing generatan at the Melodeon, whose mothers
take them there to gather gospel truths from
the teacher Of piety.
But | say unto you that ye resist not evil;
but whosoever shall smite thee on one cheek
turn to him the other also, so long as you are
unable to give him thrashing; but so soon as,
by diet and training, you are in suitable con-
dition, then you may punish him to his hearts
content. 1t may not be necessary to break his
neck, but Of this judge ye. Thus shall ye re-
sist epil with good.
Can any reader of these articles reconcile
the injunction of this man--"ReSist then by
peaceful means; not ,oith eviI but acith good"-
with his declaration at the late "Unitaria,l
ministerial Conference" as | find it reported
in the Daily .adsertiser of June 6, upon any
other theory than that he is mad2 His words
are thus reported:
''He himselfwas no non -resistant-he believed not
in such nonsense; and when, therefore, his pa
rishoners sought after to be sent back to the
hell of slavery by parisbioner of Bro. Gannett
Geo. t. Curtis,) he took them home to his house;
from its place on the wall in his study was taken
the we'll used musket with which his grandfather
did service at lexington; beneath his table lay the
sword that in ancestral hands honors in the
period Of the Revolution; besides his desk, all ready
for use, pistols. trophies of the April contest
at Concord; and with these about him, and the
word of God open before him, and his flying pa
rishioner sheltered by him, he had prayed his God
to give him strength to resist the operation of
that law, at whatever sacrifice and whatever
COST
ask the reader if the principles of this
teacher of piety are not the approved principles
of the buccaneers2 | ask the ladies of the Me
lodeon if, in all their experience, foreign or do
nestle, they have ever encountered an exam
pie of more barefaced hypocrisy than this? Did
the very genius of duplicty ever stalk abroad
in bands and cassoc and with vizor so scanty
and transparent Here, then, we have the
true exposition of that nOn-resistance which
these people profess. The command of our Di
vine Master, which is a precept of universal
application, not to resist evil with evil or vio-
lence, is made to depend upon our ability to put
down our opponents by force Perhaps" IL ,oiU
require no sacrifice Of bloodi-"Of morality l
do profess to know somethiagl"
Let us see how much he knows of morality.
Mark the following passage:
"Well, my brethren, know Boston has seen sad
days before now. When the Stamp act came here
in our fathers time, it was sad day; they tolled
the bells all over town, and yhcw wished sthey
were cut off that trouble you.''
In former number referred to Mr.. Charles
Summers preposterous effort to screw up an
analogy between the Stamp act and the Fugi-
tive Slave law, and to excite the people, by
this absurd comparison, to the commission of
high treason. In that connexion / alluded to
DR.. May yhew's abominable conduct in pervert-
ing Scripture, and his well known repentance
for having done so. Now, this man Parker
holds up this very act of DIR. Mayhem, and re-
peats the oery teal, as though Dr. .Mayhe,c had
not repsnted Of has madness and folly TO the last
hoar Of his life.
1t is the better way to deal with this teacher
Of piety categorcally, and to address him per-
sonally: You profess to knolc something of
morality. If you have not read Hutchinson's
History of Massachusetts, your reading must
be limited indeed. Doubtless you have
read it. Do you not know that teacher of
piety who, while stating point of history,
suppresses a fact which, if stated, would pro-
duce an entirely different impression on the
readers mind, is uery great rogte2 Have
you not done this very thing? Have you not
stated this matter about DIR. Mayhem as though
it were to be accounted to him, as something
was to Abraham of old, for righteousness
sake" Now, you know perfectly well that
DIR. Mayhem grossly and purposely perverted
the meaning of St. Paul, and that he expressed
deep repentance for what he had done.
You have read the following notes in Hutch
nson's history: 1.-THE verse which follows
For brethren yc hare been called unto liberty
only; use not liberty for an occasion to the
fesh-if properly enforced would have been
sufficient to have kept the people within bounds.
DR.. Mayhem, the preacher, in letter to the
Lieutenant Governor, few days after, ex-
pressed the greatest concern, nothing being fur
ther from his thoughts than such an effect; and
declared that if the loss of his whole estate
could recall the sermon he would willingly part