Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-02

him as a sacrifice to appeaso the anger OF
an unknown God, that we might then 60 TO
our homes in the hope TO dwell there in
peace and safety
Here comes sermon preached in Provi-
dence, April 9th, by one OF the most ac-
compshed scholars in New England, Rev.
+. II. HEDGE. lie says
For what shall we say of government
or body of legislators that should wiliully
enact law which they know to be immoral,
to meet some pressing exigency, or TO secure
some present advantage? Such govern
ment would not only be guilty Of deliberate
and awful wickedness, but would act suicid-
ally, and perpetrate egregious folly. This
would be substituting bare force for reason
and right, which scarcely an eastern Pacha
or Russian Auocrat will dare to do. No
government that does this can look to be
obeyed, except by aid of the bayonet and
not long with that. No government can cx-
pect obedience from its subjects while con-
scious to ITSELF in the very law which is
over all.'
'The individual conscience is one of those
| rights TO which society has no claim, and
which no government can lawfully force me
to surrender. For if have such n con-
science-if / really believe in law of God,
in my accountabeness TO that law, then my
obedience to that law is more TO me than
society, or anything that society can giye.-
No government, therefore, has right TO de-
mand from me that for which it can offer
me no equivalent
Remember, that those conscientious and
determined characters, who love the praise
of God rather than the praise ofmen, g. who
| regard the law of God more than the enact
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best securities Of the State; a. none the less so,
that they are not active politicians, but have
stood aloOf from the caucus and from party
strife, aud sought no share in the manage
ment of public affairs aud none in the Ilsu-
fruct of public money. 1t is on such men
as these-mcn of high principle and firm
sense-men who fear God aud love the
right--t is on such as these that the best
interests of State must always depend
And in its day of visitation and dearest per-
il-when its enemies have nssuiled il from
without, or fiery mischief has broken out in
the midst of lis welfare and its very being
is IN Jeopardy II few such men will be found
20 he better than an army OF loose, unprin-
cipled, vacillaIng spirits, who know 10 alb
| solute law, and no eternal right, aud no
guide but opinion and interest, or the base
counsels OF some Ahitlophe, whose voice,
with the vulgar, is the oracle OF Cod
'Other governments besides that of Rome
assume 10 disregard the moral scruples of
their subjects, and affect to despise the
Christians within their borders. | mean the
genuine Christinns--few enough in every
age, few even in countries that are nolninally
Christain-those who stand on moral aud
Christian principle, and would make that
the rule of politics and the measure fright.
Il
guns of government characterize them as
"a few fanatcs'-thHt is the favorite desg-
naion-a few fanatics who obstruct the
course Of the law, aud would rend the ma
ton in twain with their radical and incendi
ary principles. Yet, mark them well, these
Christians, these ianatics-yet governments
and government organs! Impractical us
they seem, aud inpracticable--these are the
men who are bound to prevail or rather,
they are the organs aud representatives OF
that which is bound to prevail and TO rule at
last, if lie that stteth in the highest has
aught to do with human affairs. II it is
Gods world in which we live, as we fondly
trust, and not BeeZebub's, then moral truth,
in the final result, must guide its cOusse, and
not cotton or iron, or the stock exchange, or
the foreign trade, or the home uade-nor all
these together
These are all Untarians. But Justice is
of no sect. Here is a sermon from one who
bears the honored name of BEECmER. lie
is the brother of Henry Hard Beecher; he
has many more brothers worthy of the good
old stock, in other cities besides. The title
of his work is lesson for the day The Du-
W Of diSobedience 10 wicked Idirs.' 1t was
preached in Newark, N. J. Hear the son
of Lyman Beecher:
If this law is to be obeyed merely be-
cause il is law, no matter how diabolical its
spirit, then farewell to liberty, farewell to re-
ligion. There is henceiorth no barrier to
the encroachments of corruption. Men of
debauched character may buy the votes of
demagogues and worm their way. TO Con-
gress, and, with unabashed front of infidel
RIGHTEOUSNESS, ordain by law whatsoever ini-
quity they please, and we must obey, and
never question. II they may repeal the
golden rule TO day, and fine me for Obeying
Christ and doing TO the fugitive us ! would
be done by, they may repeal the decalogue
tomorrow, for the golden rule and the deca-
logue are one. They may strike down the
Sabbath, close all Protestant churches, for
bid us TO read the Bible, or command us TO
worship the Virgin, or the golden image of
NebuchadneZZar, and we must not dare TO
disobey.
If this law must be obeyed, then are we
nation of slaves; Congress is an infallia-
ble hierarchy-an iniallible corporation of
political pontilis, whose doctrines we must
believe or die
Here is "a Bundle Of Myrrh,' from Dr.
WITHINGToN, offered as nosegay on
Thanksgiving day. DIR. W., am told, once
wrote an article in the Courier, wishing to
send me to the States Prison for plasphemy.
Listen to him:--
'Now you must judge for yourselves
But my rule is, when | am cooped up be-
tween two contrary obligations, arising from
my municipal standing, shall always choose
that which lies on the side of truth and eter-
nal justice. 1t was maxim among the