Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-10-14

Charles T. Torrey, by the Rev. E. II. Suyles,
in indication of the Higher law, or of obeying
Gods law instead of mans law. wish every
freeman and every slave could read that dis
course. The text is the whole law laid down
by God himself, and shall wo obey God rather
than man? II the Lord be God serve-him if
Baa serve him. AS have said, the text is the
whole law. Read it. As ye would that men
should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this
is the Luz fear it will be said of us as it
was (of old time) in the days of jeremiah : the
Lord could 10 longer bear, because of the evil
of our doings, and because of the determinations
which we have committed, therefore is our land
desoation, and an establishment, and curse,
without an inhabitant, for they are moi humbled
even unto this day, neither have they feared nor
walked in my Linz, nor in my Statutes that set
before you and before your fathers. How do
our law makers at Washington read Gods Law
or rather, how do they interpret it? (if they
read it at all They say, by the Fugitive Slave
Law, that man shall serve his fellow man, and il
he flee into any other city or place he shall be
given up, and be returned back God said and
D when he doth flee unto one Of those cities they
shall take him in unto them, aud give him a
place, that he may dwell among them, and they
shall mol deliver them into their hands. The
r Diblo SHOULD DO law upon ihis subject as
well as upon any other and if so, does TINT
book teach us TO hold slaves, to sell men, wo-
men and children, as cattle in the market Sup
pose, if you please, slave from the South should
be among us, upon the Lords day or when the
sacrament of the Lords supper is administered
to his people, and an Invitation is given by the
good minister that all who love the Lord Jesus
Christ and are in regular standing in the chulch
to which they belong, are invited to take seat
with his flock. He receives the invitation with
Joy, lfor he is Christian, and belongs to the
church,) Could any one say that he is slave,
! and cannot be admitted? | think not, but ali
would admit his right to seat among the Saints
In short time you are called upon, by the slave
: catcher to help bind and feter your brother in
y The Lord, and to deliver him over to the tender
= mercies of the slave driver, and the cry should
It come up from your brother for help, what is TO
> be done? Shall we obey the command Of God,
who said, " As We would that men should do 10
" you, do ye even so to them? But you say that
:, the Fugitive Slave Law will not allow you to
y aid your brother, when he shall cry unto you for
- help. We are informed from the Statute Book
of Heaven that inasmuch as ye did it not-dd
:, not do what?-help your brother when he cried
y unto You've did ii not to me. Thereby we
diso5ey the law of God we set at nought that
law OF love, commanding us to love our brother
as ourselves, and stand by and see God 8 image
- trampIed under foot before cur face. Why al
this because of the penalty attached to the law
Of Slavery? some say, is there no penalty at
tached to the breach of the law Of the Bible
Certainly there is, aud he that is guilty of break
" ing that law forfeits all right to any claims tC
: heaven, whether it is by not doing what it is il
y his power to do, to relieve his brother in distress
as much as though he helped maize his condi-
ton more ntoerabIe Now what is the duty OF
Y one man, in relation to any bad law. s the duty
- of all. We should all obey that law, and try to
= make it honorable; or we should disobey it, and
~ mike it contemplate. There is no other way
u to get rid OF a bad law only 70 repeal it, or
r trample it under foot and disregard aI;ogeher
and vote for men only, who will vote to repeal
y all such laws. G.. B.
WorcsSir, Oct. 6H, 1852.