Litchfield enquirer., 1851-01-09
UNION MEETING IN NEW HAVEN.
| REMARKS OF NArH'L w. TAYLOR, D. D.
From the Palladium.

| REMARKS OF NAFH w. AO"' ~ ~
From the Palladium.
The Rev. DR.. Taylor, Professor of Di~
dactic Theology in Yale College, was
loudly called for, and came forward to
address the meeting. He was warmly
received, and a death-like stiffness pre-
vailed, while he delivered the following
speech, in his peculiarly solemn and inn
pressive manner:
Mr.. President and fellow Citizens: I
should be extremely happy to say some-
thing on this interesting subject, that shall
subserve in a trifing degree, the inter-
ests of my country. l am happy to be
here. am glad to listen to what have
heard. I am glad to witness peculiarly
the indifference to party ties, when the
great interests of the nation, as these de-
pend upon the spirit Of the constitution
and laws Of the country, are in issue.
Long enough has this subject been trified
with. Long enough have the enemies of
law and order had this subject all on
their own side, and reasoned it all the
wrong way. am therefore most ready
to express my hearty appreciation OF the
resolutions on the table, and as heartily
my entire dissent, and unqualified disap-
probation of all those attempts to de-
grade that article in our constitution, up
on which so much has been said, and to
trample ON the law, which all northern
men are bound in good faith to stand by
and support to the very last. (Cheers.)
I say in good faith and I ask if the
compact made between the Northern and
Southern States-independent sovereign
ties-was not lawful compact? Had
not the North interests at stake to justify
them? 1 will not 60 into the question
whether slavery is sin. Be it 50. if you
please. Had they not reason, and good
reason, for entering into this compact?
I will make q supposition: suppose Rus
STA with her hordes combined with Ger
many, Austria, Prussia, France and Eng
land, were threatening to conquer and
devastate your country; and there is
slavery in Spain; suppose for our own
protection and safety, we deem it neces-
sary to enter into an alliance With Spain.
Now there are slaves in Spain and in Gu
ba, and if this combination is made for
our protection, Spain says some of her
slaves will get among our people, and
our people will not deliver them up.
War is coming, desolation is coming; it
is sin, if you please, for Spain to have
slaves may we not lawfully, and for our
own safety, enter into such compact.
and agree to deliver up these slaves I?
We have not made the slavery she is
independent, and it is made by her own
local laws, in the enjoyment of those
rights which she as an independent SOW
ereign has right to exercise SO far as we
are concerned. Whether she is right so
far as her responsibility to the Judge of
the earth is concerned, is another ques-
ton. But so far as we are concerned,
she has right to make thess laws.
What! may l not buy piece Of meat of
butcher because he is profane? May
l not make contracts with men whose
characters, in some respects, are marred
by evil May I not consult my own
safety by numerous acts of defensive
and confederate character, because the
men who are engaged with me are not as
good as / wish they were? Is this the
principle in neighborhoods? Will it do
in the family? Will it do better among
nations? What right have we to make
laws for the Southern States? l am the
friend of slaves; l am sorry for slaves
I wish them we'll with all my heart and
soul and as wish them well, I say
cease these agitations Who are. the
friends of the slave at the North? The
agitators of this subject do more to
iniure the slaves and perpetuate their
chains at the South, than their true friends
can do to terminate the evil for half a
century. Cheers.
AS to the higher-law principle You
expect me to admit of course that we are
all the subjects of him who reigns amid
the grandeur and glory of eternity, and
that when bis will is known, that we as
moral beings are bound to submit. There
is no question on that point; here is the
points that article in our constitution
contrary to the will Of God contrary to
the law of nature, of nations and the will
of God? Is it so? Is there shadow
of reason for saying it is? I have not
been able to discover it. Have I not
shown you it is lawful to deliver up. in
compliance with their laws, fugitive
slaves, for the high. the great, the mo-
mentous interests Of these States? And
if it was lawful TO do it. is it not in accor-
dance with the constitution to make a law
providing for that result Is there any
law of God against this ? Is there any
law of God against doing lawful things,
which every man must do in the course
of his life? / do not SO understand it.
When learned in the newspapers the
novel doctrine that ths consultation Of my
country was in conflict with the law Of
my maker--when ] first learned il, said
to myself. is il possible that from the
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