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TINS SERMON, preached hy the Rev. Joshua
Young, from tine ,ayiu. OF Peter - Then the
other APOSTLES answered and said, wo ought
to obey COD rather than man." was directly
caused by what the author SAW and heard in
I Boston during the week when Burn, the flu
gitiye slave was sent back to Virginia. under
/ the order Of Commissioner l.prins A, might
be expected Of any man loving freedom and
Righteousness, and hating slavery and oppres-
sion, the author speaks out with holiness and
decision his reprohation of slavery and of the
| inquitous act Of l>in. The discourse is an
earnest and good one. The authors main posi-
| ton, plainly expressed in the text, We do not
see sec how anyone can dispute Every human
being is held under the law of God as SUI
| preme, and when he sees that he cannot obey
human enactment without violating the
| plain law of his Maker, he must obey the lat
ter and abide the consequences to himself of
| disobeying the former. Yet it is not to be de-
MED that all men, even of those earnestly de
| sirous to know what is right and to do it,
find it difficult to decide what is right for
them 10 do--that is ichaf outpard a,ts thcv
oUgh 10 perform, under many conditions of
social and individual relations. This may be
true in respect..to the fugitive slave law, as
well as many others. We think the author
in "A mistake when he ntmutcs the universal.
lty of sentiment that the United States
Constitution is an instrument whose wisdom
is never in any respect to he called in ques-
ton We believe rather that the opposite
sentiment about that instrument is the pre-
valent one throughout the Union, and has been
increasingly 80 for many years. But it Is
more difficult to alter the Constitution than
it ought to be. On the 9th page, We take it
there is slip of the pen or Of the type, in
saying " forty years " when it should have
been four hundred years
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