Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-06-28
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to the mob. They bad but to say the word and
that fatal event would never have taken. nlscs
Now, is it nothing that man called upon To as
sist IN carrying out law Of the land should be
shot DOWN Ike dog, and his family made DESC
.Ste!s is that bereaved family consoIsd at all bv
tne reflection that those who instipsted this mur.
ees were not "cowards, or that they have saeri.
need wealth and station for what thew cons;derad
rlghti Would our correspondent, as Cbrstisn
minister seek to dry up the tears Of the widow
y teiilng her they must rpardon something to
the spirit Of libertyl" '-'.s "
=. Whether Messrs. Parker and PbiIIiua AID q,
md not apply to the Boston police e. .s.. e'u or
is OF little consequence. We have
authority both ways. But we do SnIs i.
ootn tnesc men are constant recip;erts ~ .h.
Jaw protection. They do not lie down =, n;t,
put with sense that their safety is grardads ~
sne I "1Icniui Vlgience OF such men as Batehei-
uer. 1ney DO not own rood Of land but what ia
projected oy the law. They win not receive a
dollar for their preaching or oratorv ~. .,
law stamps its value and guarantees its ger,,;ns'
ness: They do not allow their wives sr ,ha;-
children to be from their sight, cxcent .s thoI
DeileVe that wherever they are The Ia, -.;iI
project them. Are these men to teach the vnl-
gar moo that they may resist law, and thai Il 4
reht to shoot down policemen?
we accept all that az b." chooses n cav, -
the personal character of the men he sno.L: ~
and still we must be allowed to saw tbst Ia.-,'D.
ness IN them is no better than lawessnas. Z; ~.
ers' Their teachings are essentially revolnt;on-
afy and their practices encourage murder NJ.
warmth OF feeling, no holy zeal, no personh
courage, no "charms Of persuasive elonYenre -
Sou pirate tneir participation in the late riot
once aamit tnelr conduct was justifable, and we.
'aAe Ieave OF order and regulated liberty. and
plunge at once into an abyss of anarchy anT Co.
fusion, political and social such as the world Las
never witnessed Permit every man m ssv Nh.
laws shall he executed, and what shall NOT al 80.
nave no longer any government. The 1lyeai,
may DC trampled under foot as weeds. and the
srong VIII be left to prey upon the strong This
IS tne piratical and inevitable tendency of IaJyD
iessness in government like ours. PonpIar o,,,-
oreaks and resistance to the law in monarcb;sI
governments may tend towards liberty wbiIe -
republics they as inevitably tend to unreguIated
incense ana anarchy. A monarch who wieIds b;s
sceptre over thousands of unwilling subjects sov
De oethroned and destroyed without harm to the
peoPlei out TO destroy the power Of a government
~ whcn uie people are sovereigns,is for the peo.
pie to destroy themselves! Let il alwavs he ~
membered that "the greatest practicobIs l;bo..,-
ing gulf is beneath"
We have to say in regardto the copcIudno mar
agraph of"E. b. that while, perhaps. we have
done quite too little to aid the anti-slaverv roforr
we think our labors in that direction have been
caIcuiateo TO tell with as much effect un,n tbo.o
'oao oDn Std0eS, who alone have the Doa,er N e.
then' as have the Incorporate denunciation. ~ III
the Boston Abolitionists combined. We intonJ
70 keep ourselves in position that we can IL
ana reason on perfectly friendly terms with those
whose lot is to own slaves, and we do NOT in.
'enu, Dy any manner of means, to imna;r tho
weight OF any influence we might otherwise hsno
1y joining the company of Parker and pbilins
.: ~ - 10" more than twenty years since the Abo-
n'lon movement commenced in Boston and with
M .e exception OF running off few slaves to Can
ada, what has the movement amopntaJ -, oan-
the South were slavery is, has il any moral ;na,.
ence whatever! Most certainly not And9boa,
Is II In the North, where slavery does NOT av;st,
is the anti-slavery sentiment here anv stronno.
now thah II was fifty years ago, when we voI5r.
tarily abolished slavery! '0Au"-
1he movement, after twenty wears exnar;n,ont.
mas proved melancholy failure: and We have
painful evidences that the leaders of 4 are ,ha,,
selves convinced that its final success can he 20
allied only when they have overturned tba oou-
eminent, and, as one oe their orators exnresse.
1t, Americans have celebrated their last Fourth
o' 1uiy. IL is this conviction which has taken
hold OF the minds Of the Abolitonists of the Bos.
ton and New England school, and the conviction
hnds natural expression in their illberal. denun-
c'a'ory ana imperative language towards those
who differ with them, and occasionally in acts of
reasonable and bloody violence. Being some
what hopeful in temperament-with no feelings
embittered by an unsuccessful and ll-starred cru
sade OF twenty years duration-and believing our
own government, with oil its faults, is the best
that the sun shines upon, or the wisdom Of man
mas ever yet devised-we cannot join these men
IN thelr EFFORTS to destroy it, or failto denounce
them, when, by overt acts, thew seek to snbyert
the Constitution, and put in peril the lives of
their fellow. men.
The Boston Courier says:
III Is Is proper to state that Mr.. Parker did ask
protection OF the city authorities, both for his
house and church, and it is said, not in the most
digfihed manner"