Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-07-21
Obedience to Law is the Law of God

ODcuAGtlCC w LAW 10 CAAC LeSN VI OOLt'
The Democrat of this week. comes up
nobly in a fancied defence of the above
Fourth of July toast, in answer to the
queries of Quiz" from which we con
cludc it is fayorite bantling of his. He
chcerfully admit: that the old fashioned
! rag of celebrating the Fourth was to
laud the men who resisted the tyranny
Of George Ill, but attempts to avoid
the force of the admission by claiming
that British tyranny was foreign tyran-
ny, unrcpresentcd wrong, enacted with
out the consent Of the colonies, and it is
not the Democratic party that acqui-
csccs in such wrongs, but the FeleraliSts
who did it in the last war. He thinks
there is great difference in the laws
which our fathers resisted and those
which are resisted nowadays. Those
were enacted in monarchial England
ours in republican America. Those
called for three penny taX-ours for
Il human being and his posterity after
him to all eternity. Ancient Democracy
opposed the first, modern Democracy
acquicsccs in the latter! Evidently Il
difference in one sense at least! But
pray what difference does it make
whether the subjects Of law are repre-
Sented or not in the making it. so far as
the truth Of the sentiment Of the toast
is concerned that " obedience to law is
the law of Cod The only question is,
was the Stamp Act the iatc Of the land
in which our fathers resided was il
ordained by the powers that then were
If so, to obey it was the law of God,
however wicked it might be. il the sen
! timcut Of the toast is correct. That our
fathers were lawful subjects Of Great
| Britain will not be dcned-that they
resisted a regularly enacted law is equal
! ~ true, not simply because they had no
voice in making it. but because it was
,rrong and tyroRaicai and because they
! believed i" that resistance to tyrants was
obedience to God" and not iii submis-
sion to law because it was law. They
did not resist the good laws of King
George, but claimed their shield and pro
! lection, though they were unrcprcseutcd
in the making of them. If being un-
represented in the making law is a rea-
son or an excuse for resisting law. rs
the Democrat thinks. then should nine
TENTS of the adult males Of England re
sist her laws. The free blacks Of the
/ Northern States our laws. and every
slave and free black and one quarter Of
/ the whites at the south rise in open re
s;stancc at once: and if it is right for them
/ to resist is it not right for the Democrat
to help them do the right. Men who
practice 50 MoroUghiy what they preach
as do our Democratic friends will not GER
tainly be long in raising the standard OF
open rebellion against all such laws, nay!
embazon on their standard "d;&obedcncc
! 10 such laws is the law of God"
/ The Democrat further admits that re-
s'>tancc to laws, nay, even revolution
may be right las the last refuge from op-
preston belonging to subjects Of arbitra-
~ Governments of course he would adj
nit the right of thu slave to resist. as
his last refuge from oppression and sec
ondly, because he was unrcprcsemtcd in
the laws that govern him, but this
is rank infdelity to the sentiment of the
toast and cannot recognize the right
Of 50 great sinner against his own creed
to lecture me upon the inviolability OF
Law. The Democrat should further re-
member that resistance to the Alien and
Sedition Laws Of our 0lra country was
once the rallying cry Of the Democracy.
QCIz.
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