Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-08-15

the last Democrat, comes to the rescue of the
slave law; which, by a tortuous course of an
unreasonable effort at reasoning, he calls Goods
Law
1t appears TO us rs though that was not the
first time we have had the misery of listening to
these identical ideas We don't mean to say
they were uttered in Church last winter, when
this ahominabe law was under discussion-but
1t they were not, we then heard something very
much like them. There are so few in this COM
munity (who indulge such horrible and nhu-
man notons) who have the ability to express
their ideas, that guess at their paternity is mar
rowed nearly to an individual.
Blu; (the writer out of the question: we were
taken by surprise at the heavy draughts made
upon our credulity, by the flat and contradicto-
ry statements of the article. Hear him for a
couple of sentences:
As regards what called giving up fugitive slave it
really nothing but remaining neutral Jt~cen the
GHdhis siGcc.'
"ReaIiy," is that all 2 Let US hear the next
sentence:
The State is not to prohibit the recovery Of fugitive
init them to be recovered it does require any
do a moral wrong"
QUERY--What Is it then--an immoral
"wrong?"
1t takes lawyer though, to show this up in
clear light such active passveness,
such passive activity. Such reason, and such
logic! With such a high appreciation of the
Higher law, and such angelic views of the low
cr law we are dumb(ounded, and we may as
well own it. Let us 90 to the oracle again, or
we are lost The sage goes on to remark.
"God universal Sovereign ordains civil government
CLONES win authority to govern within the limits of His
law, and lis enaCtmens within these limits are in effect the
law of God And being His law, there higher law
on the matter they include. They the will OF sod SUI
prme IN their province and bind as laws Cod And
they can more be dsobeyed without sin against God
uah thcy can without crime against the State
Now let us take breath again. This matter
as above laid down, is explicit full, positive, and
to the point. Here is Theology, Logic, and
Law. We are told that all civil governments
are instituted by God and, therefore, every law
OF such government is Gods law Then the
tho law of Darius, about praying, was Gods
law, and Daniel rebel against God-yet God
encouraged and assisted by miraculous interpo-
slton, this very rebellion in Daniel. The laws
of the civil governments of Heather nations,
which require human sacrifices, and the exposure
and slaughter of infants (are Gods laws accor-
ding to this sage and tho churches of the land
are flying in the face of the laws of God in dis
seminatlng the principles of the Gospel of Jesus.
And this very Washington whom we are so pa
thescally called upon to contemplate, was the
greatest rebel against the laws of God in all mod
ern times.
According to alpha the civil government of
Great Britain is instituted by God, and no man
can oppose the laws of that land without COM
hitting sin against the State, and, of course,
against God, who instituted that government.
Yet Washington, and his compacrs, arose in
arms, and beat down the insolcnce of British
enactments, which, we are told, were the laws
of God. And then this Washington as though
the cup of his rebellion and infamy was not full
said IN regard to the eXtingushment o f slavery,
that: $50 far as his suffrage could 90 in abolish
ing it, il should not be wanting" There is no
need now of any individual being at loss to
whom We are every day asked to endorse The
editor of the Democrat takes pains, in another
place in his paper, to recommend and endorse
the article above spoken of.
OF the inhumanty of the article in question,
we have no disposition to speak. The man who
can speak of slaves and laws in the connection
and terms above mentioned, shows, that if he
had man for father, and a woman for mo-
ther, his associations with them were so early
sundered, that they not only left no impression
upon his Substitute for heart, but that his asso-
Citations since must have been as unfortunate as
the infancy of the founders of Rome
And yet we are told that the democracy of the
North endorse these sentiments, and to this feast
are we invited at Madison. We are asked TO sit
in counsel with men who calculate in dollars
and cents the price of man. We are asked to
go into convention and nominate officers who
endorse National party who endorse and pro-
mitigate these senuments-and they expect we
can look in the glass after such conduct and not
feel for the horns in our forehead and not expect
our lower extremties TO taper into the serpent.
These men wish us to go into convention with
them to assist in elccting delegates to go to Bal
timore who shall endorse the party that endorses
these sentiments, and nominate a President IN
enforce these laws.
NJ 4 sDnrial form of tho ariDn Cir.u;, g..