Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-08

who was eight times publicly beaten, thrice
shipwrecked: and in peril of waters, of robbers,
of the heather of false brethren-that worst OF
all peril Nav, ask Christ,-let the Crucihed
repIv.-whetber when wicked law IS made,
and we are commanded to keep it, God means
we shouldl Ask the men who, with their ocean"
wearied feet consecrated the rock of Plymouth
forever! AK the patriots of the Revolution
What do thev saw? will not give the answer.
Even the maTtyred Jesuts say NO. Who IS 1t
that says yes Judas and the JUDGE Let 'neli
go each "to his own place"
This attempt to keep the people down oy
false doctrines is no new thing. But to say that
there is no lsw higher than what the state can
make is practical atheism. 1t is not denial OF
God in his nerson that is only speculative A
tbeism. Il il denial of the functions and at
tributes of God; that is real A'helsm' n tiele
is no God to make law for me, then thefe Is
no God for the.
ride the law of God, must 1t 7 Let US see II all
the laws of the United States are Kept every
where. Lets black man go to South Carohha
in ship, and we shall see. Let the BRUSH
Minister complain that South Carolina puts Drt
ish subjects in lil for the color OF their skin
Mr.. Secretary Clayton tells him, We cannot ex-
ecute the laws of the United States IN South
Carolina. Why not ? Because the people OF
South Carolina wont allow IT.
Are the laws Of Massachusetts kept IN Bos-
ton. then? The usury law says, thou shalt not
take more than six pei cent. on tiny money Is
that kept? There are thlrty-lour millions OF
banking capital in Massachusetts and | think
that every dollar Of this capital has broken this
law within the past twelve months, and yet no
complaint has been made. There are three or
four hundred brothes in this city of Boston, and
ten or twelve hundred shops for the sale OF rum.
All of them are Illegal: some are as well known
to the police as is this house indeed great
deal me- 4 atlanted by some of them than any
house of 65d. Does anybody disturb them
No! 7 haze letter from an alderman whc
furnishes me with facts Of this nature, who says
, that "sonle Of the low places are prosecuted
some broken up" Last Saturday night, the
very men who guarded Sims, | am told acer
pLaIi,g cards IN his prison house. contrary to the
laws of Massachusetts. In Court square, II
front of the courthouse, is rum shop, one OF thu
most frequented in this city, open at all hours
the day, and for aught know, Of the night, too
.. never passed when its fire "was quenched
and its SWORN" dead. Is its owner prosecuted
How many laws of Massachusetts have beef
violated this very week, in this very city, by thu
slavehunters here; by the very officers of tn
State What is the meaning of this? Ever
law which fayors the accumulation of none
must be kept; but those which prohibit The I'M
just accumulation by certain claSses-they nee
not be kept.
, No doubt it would be great pity to have tn
CITY government careful to keep the laws OF tn
city, to suppress ram-shops, and save tn
citizens from the almshouse, the Jail and tn
,, gallows. Such laws may be executed at True
and Wellheet, but it is quite needless for I'll
officers Of 1the Athens Of America" to atter
, to the temperance laws. What pity for ii
! magistrates of Boston to heed the laws OF tt
, State No, it is the Fugitive Slave law that the
, must keep.