Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-02

Boston. IL would be TO Justify the celebrated
Rescue in my own neighborhood- mean the
rescue OF Jerry ut Syracuse. 1t would be to
Justify the bloody rescue at Christiana. For,
not only is it true, that all men would be res
cued from Slavery, but it ID also true, that very
nearly all men would be rescued from Sla-
very, even at the expense Of blood | add,
that for the Administration to justify on naked
Bible ground the rescue of Rosetta, would be,
in effect to justify the deliverance Of every
slave. Now, for, an Administration that sold
itself in advance to the Slave Power, and that
is indebted for oil it's hopes and for its very
being to that Power---for such an Administra-
to take the position of simple Bible truth, and
thereby invite the subversion of all Slavery,
would be to practice the cruellest ingratitude.
Such ingratitude could not fail to exasperate
the Slave Power-that mighty and dominant
Power, before which not only the Admnistra-
lions Of the American People, but the Ameri-
can People themselves, fall down rs abjectly as
did ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS people before the image,
which he had set up Nevertheless, however
important it may be to maintain Slavery it is
far more important to maintain Christianity;
and the Administration is therefore to be con-
demned for giving up Christianity for Slavery
| add, that if American Slavery is, as the ia
NOUS John Wesley called it, the sum Of all
villaniesn then it is certssply very poor bar
gain To exchange Christianity for it.
Sir, this doctrine OF the Administration, that
human enactmants are paramount to Divine
law, and that the Divine authority is not to be
allowed TO prevail against human authority, is
doctrine as perilous to man as it is dishonor
able to God. In denying the supremacy Of
God, it annihilates the rights of man. trust
that better day will come, when all men shall
be convinced, that human rights are not to be
secured by human cunning and human Jug
gles but solely by tho unfaltering acknowledg
ment of the. Divine power. This crazy world
is intent ON saving itself by dethronng God
But, in that better day, to which have refer
red the conviction shall be universal, that the
only safety Of man consists in leaving God
| upon HE throne.
| To illustrate the absurdity of this atheistic
doctrine Of the Administration, we will sup
| pose that by statute Of Turkey, any person,
Hungarian-born, ought to be Kidnapped. Then,
| according to this athestic dcctrine, Capt In
graham had no right TO rescue Koszta, for his
kidnappers in that case, We're acting under
| legal restraint
| Mr.. SoLLERs, of Maryland Mr.. Chair
man, what is the question before the House
| The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Orr, Of South Carolina J
Docs the gentleman from Maryland rise to a
| question OF order
| Mr.. SoLLERs do.
THE CHAIRMAN What is the gentleman's
question
Mr.. SELLERS. want to know what is the
subject before the House
THE CHAIRMAN. The subject is the refer
ence of the Presidents Message.
| MIR. SELLERS. The gentleman from New
York is making an Abolition speech, and do
not see its relevancy to the question before the
House.
/ The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from New
1 Yoik is entitled TO the floor, aud he is in order
| Mr., SMITH. The gentleman from Maryland
says, that am making an Abolition speech
| am and hope he win be patient under it
|, in my turn, will be patient under an 4nti-
Abolition speech.
| But will proceed in my illustrations of the
absurdity of this atheistie doctrine of the Ad-
ministration What, too, if there were a stat
ute OF Turkey, declaring it right to kidnap any
person, who is American born. Then, accord
ing to this corrupt theology of the Admins
tration, we should not be at liberty to rescue
an American citizen, who might be kidnapped
in Turkey And what, too, if acting under
human authority, or, in the language Of the
Administration under legal restraint" the
people Of one of the Barbary States should
Pierce hmsele-thep, ALSO according to this
God-dethroning doctrine of the Administra-
ton, our hands would be tied /; and we should
have no right to reclaim these distinguished
men, The supposition, that such distinguished
men can be kidnapped, is not absurd The
| great Cervantes was slave in one Of tho Bar
barry States So, TOO was the great Arago.
| And it is not beyond the pale Of possibility,
that oven the great Secretary and the great
President may yet be slaves. | am aware,
that they, who stand up 20 stoutly for Slavery,
and for the multiplication Of its victims, dream
not, that they themselves can ever be its vic
TINS. They dream not, that this chalice which
they put to the lips Of others can ever be 70.
turned TO their own. And, yet, even this ter
rible retribution, OF one still more terrible than
any, which this life can afford, may be the ret
ribution of such stupendous treachery and en-.
| nifty to the human brotherhood Little did
| Napoleon think, when, with perfiy unuttera.
BILE, he had the noble but i'll fated Toussaint
L'Oaverture carried across the waters to perish
in prison,
| That no himself, then greatest among men,
Should, in like manner, be soon conveyed
Athwart the deep
to perish, also, in prison.
! Ia that great day Qur which, as il has been
sublmely said, oil other days were rnace) when
every man shall receive the things done in bic
body" let me not be found Of the number Of
those, who have welded civil Office to bind and
multiply the victims of oppression. When
witness the tendency OF power in human hands,
be il civil or ecclesastcal, or any other power,
to such pcrversion, I shrink from possessing it,
lest l. too, might be tempted 10 lend it TO the
| oppressor instead of the oppressed !" So re.
turned says the wise man, "and considered
all the expressions that are done under the
sun aud behold the tears of such IA we're op.
pressed, and they had no comforter: and on
the side Of their oppressors there was power
| but they had no comforter
| proceed to say, that this detestsblo doc
trine of the Administration goes to blot all
over that page of history, Of which Americans
arc so proud. | mean that page, which records
the famous achievement Of Decatur and his
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