New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-01

cities her SOVEREIGN deserts hi capital her treasure
carried Thousand miles inward the western teets block
AIDE lfr 1orfs and sweep her from the Bat
Russa La. no mi ike ours England has danger
great that which threatens us Tins day In the darkes
periods Of the American Revolution when Washing o.
army without blanket without coats without shoes reI
through tie Jerseys when they marked the Ice OF the
Delaware ard let revolutionary track IN frozen boOi
w. w-r. not III such peril a. to-day When Gen e. igr
had the throat oi Boston El hand and periiOusy
aimed The People We we're not IL such danger. lea
when four bundled houses yOnder iown went in
great cloud Of smoke toward heayeL the lberie, of
America not Ia such pen. a. they are to-day.
lien we were called 70 fight with sword--sAd when that
work was 10 he done America found waut.ng
lien adversary was the other side OF the and
wicked statutes enacted az inst in Westminster
Hall. Now ouI enemy q; home, and something far
cosilier than swords Is TO be called into service.
THE HIGHER LAW AND TIE TATJTE LAW.
The moral value Of statute is that while II embOdes
Justice a-O represents the free conscience OF the naon
Then aisO Il OF the nation moral prOgress
showing how far II has got II likewise pass ior
future progress beng night rule ot mora, c9nuu,t a'
when the only embodes injustice ana 20 Vo.aes
the conscience forced on men by bs!oht's t-h u,
moral value IL al gone Is agns the conscience
the people consent suffer it, II because they are weak
and If they consent obey H. II because 'he! are also
wicked.
When tho foremost moral men make statute 10 al
OF the people. and then ateihp 10 enforce ms
law against the OF the majority OF the people
an effort in the right direction ana Is educsonal then
supIoee the bet viii try 10 execute the law and will
aliCa 10 the best tie resi- OF men. But even
here If ever th- is is attempted IT houd always be done
with the greatest lest the leader should 60 too
fact for h followers undertaking to drag the nation 10
stead Of leading them. You may drag dead oxen, drive
living hu nation il not TO be dragged not 10 be
Driven, even ia the right direction, IL il to be led.
grown father SIX feet high does not walk five miles the
hour with bis Chd two old II he does he must drag
bis boy II he wants 10 lead him he by slow and
careful step, and then taking him over the rough
places in bis arms. That must be done when the Law.
meker very fr in advance Of the people be mus lead
them gently 10 the right end.
Blu, when wicked statute is made by the hindmos;
III morals far in the Of the average OF the
people, aI0 urging them IN the wrong direction when the
Oend the conscience of the people aud the rulers
undertake by violence 20 enforce the statute then II can
be only mean who will desire its execution, aud they
must appeal TO the lowest motives which animate
men, and viii thus debase the people further and further
The priest makes creed against the mind Of the people
ard says, There is truth above my creed Down
with your reason il asks terrible questions SO the
Catholic s always taught by authority. The priest does
BOT aim 10 convince the reason not at all lie says 10
the philosophers, "Ths Is the doctrine OF the church IL
true doctrine but you must believe it, not because
is rue-you have no right to ask questions,-bu be-
cause the church says So. The tyrant makes statute
and SAYS There il law above this The subject IL
not 10 ask Is the statute right does II conform to the
Constitution of the Unversel TO Gods will reflected IN
my conscience He is only to inquire " Is 1t statute
law? What does the Judge say There Is no Higher
That is the doctrine which is taught to-day in almost
every political newspaper in this country Wing and Dem
cac and in many of the theological newspapers But the
theological do not teach II Principle and all
at once they teach in detail as measure telling US that
nls
science what it may. 1t is assumed that the legislator Is
not amenable TO the rules of natural justice. tie only
checked by the Constitution OF the land not the Constu-
ton OF the Unlverse.
See how the principle once worked. Pharaoh made a
statute that all the newborn boys OF Hebrew parentage
should be killed they were born That was the
statute; and instructions were gwen 70 me nurses II
be a SON then We shall Kill him. DID 1t become the
moral duty of Nurse Shprah and Nurse Puah TO drown
every new born Hebrew baby in the River Nile was II
the moral duty of Amram and Joehe led 10 aow oSes 10
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cine laid down by the highest authorities IN America
what are called the highest though reckon them among
the lowest.
himself Should the worshipcrs of Jehovah hold back
their pray er TO the Creator Daniel of rather DIT
ferel opinion. few years ago minister OF proni-
lent church in this city told OF another minister VINO
Ind eXhOrted persons dsoOey the Fugitive oaVe D De-
cause il was contrary the Law of God and the primer
pies Of Right. What do you think OF II 2! Sala me
aucsoner who was woman, TO the Doctor OF DIVINITY
Very bad replied he tins minister ought 10 Keep ths
e.ante and he should advise men to disobcy H.
Ent said the good woman, Daniel We are told, when
the law was otherwise prayed 10 the Lord prayed right
out loud three times day, with hs window wide open
Did he 90 right or wrong Would not You have done
tle same The minister said, " If had lived IN those
times-I think l should-haye shut M w'udo"'
There was no Higher Law -,
King Herod ordered all the young children in Bethe-
hem TO be slain. Was right for the magistrates 10 exc
cute the order for Justices of the Peace to Kill the
babies for the fathers and mothers to do nothing against
the massacre of those The person who wrote
the account of il seems have been of rather different
King Henry the Eighth of England ordered that 10
man sbould read the English Bible Reading the Blble
IN the kingdom made aftony punishable wh Iea'n
without benefit of clergy Was the duty Of Dr. Frank
lin humble fathers refuse to read Their oies ihey
aid r.ad Them aud Your fathers and mne also, trust
King Pharaoh Darius Herod, Henry the Eighth, could
not make wrong thing right. If mechanic puts ms
wheel OH the upper eide OF the dam do you suppose le
Merrmack is gong to up into amshre 10 turn
his MILF lust as soon the great God VIII undo MS own
moral work TO accommodate foolish and wicked legs
l0ior.
Mr.. Parker enumerates the sources OF danger az
follows: l. There comes the danger from our excu'
siye devotion to Riches. .. The danger from the
Roman Catholic Church, established in the midst OF
us 3 The danger from the idea that there Is no
bicher law above the statutes which men make 4.
The danger from the institution Of Slavery which ID
based on that atheistic idea last named
After descanting at length the respective perIli
TO the Commonwealth, the preacher brings his dis
course 10 close with the following characteristic III
terrogatories and appeals:
Wall !; this 70 be the end Was for this the Pilgrims
came over the sea Does Foreiathers kock assent 70
Mas II for this that the NewEngand clergy prayed aG
tr nrayers became the law of the land Tor nuhdreu
yoars Was II for this that cotton planted IN boston
Ettle branch of the Lord vine, and Roger la7 au
Uirgnson-he still lives IN an undergraduate son I'I W,
n,e in the city which they called OF peace, salem
II M This that Eliot carried the Gospel to the Indians
that Chauncey and Edwards and Hopkins ana Ma!ne"
J CbauIine and are abored and prayed for this thai
orr fathers the Adamses Washington hsncoch
for thi. that there eght-yeas war ana
battle fields for this the little monuments a'AS'on oo
CORD Lexington West Cambridge Danvers and the grea
one over there on the spot which our fathers blood made
| 40 red Shall America become ASIA MINOR new
ID Ita,v Rostou such as Athens-dead and rotten
Yes if we do not mend and speedily mend len YEAR
more and the Liberty of America rs all gone; we shai
fajl-the laugh the byword, the proyero the SGorn '
mock of the nations who shall cry against us Hell roil
beneath shall he mo, ed to meet Us at our coming ana
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