The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-29
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'1h1 Jouxna1 Va Mr.. Chase on
Higher Law" O. Divine Law.
Ma. RDlroa s--Is see yoa ere ksepi1g
Eshs Sditors@ef the State Jqpv4ak and
.C~iariassatS Ccataseycial adoaging "a
about IKEA duck in . thunder shower,
to avoid the Effects of their own article
on Mr.. Ch6ssS Observance Of tss High
err or Divine Law: Let us see if Bias
com can dodge these " bricks"
a HIoHER LAw-DIvINE Law
These phrases are used ENTHUSIASTICALLY
By some an If they meant the same thing.
We do not so understand them. Dr.
vine law if unehangeable truth, revealed
or uhreTealed, and q mans Subsection to
that at all times aud under all circum-
stances, ses admit and even adyoeate-
Higher lac is the epinieH of the indi.
yiduai, and varies With his whims, capri
ces, education, interests. wishes. That
such = higher law should be assum-
ed as the governing decisive rule of ao-
ton in cases where Il disagrees with the
legal enaetments Of the land, we deny.
This higher Law may coincide in many
instaneest exactly with the Divine Law,
and again they may disagree entirely.
The HisHER Law" not the Divine
Las0, is the TstLe Of action urged for uni
yeTsdk ndoptf0n 6y Chase and Others of
has school, when they urge the duty of
every individual to judgesof the laws as
veil asEthe evidence Against the APP
p~lication of such . test to the laws Of
the country, as q rule for obedience or
aisobedielce, we protest Ohio State
Journal, Bascom Editor, August IA,
1855. tsI
What dodge has Mr.. Bascom for this ?
Perhaps he did not mean s. p. Chase.
How is it? .oid0 ,bartash 81.
But again. The Ohio State Journal
Of the some date says: same editor
On the 25th Of June last, a conVen-
ton of Free Sellers assembled at Ra-
VIENNA Speeches we're made by Senator
Chase, Mr.. Giddings, Samuel Lewis,
aad Judge Spaulding. g" They
very. eharitably vote that everybody else
IS corrupt aud p~ro-slavery but them
selves. They have come under the in
fuence of Chase, Spaulding & Co, SO
far as to adopt the name of " Free he.
naOcracy.n They recommend
. thorough organization of the Free e.
mocracy," The Higher law doctrine is
endorsed ss follows: v-rrf 81 t,g.as t5
I" Rc<0Aued, That We cannot respect,
nor can: we confde in those LOGGER Ats0
doctors of divinity, who hold human
laws above the laws of God; horcan we
concur in. their teachings that the Di<
vine law il subject to Congressional
Compromises Y T4Astxa
I" The men down in South Carolina
and Mississippi will be z ad to hear
they have so brave and numerous a band
of eo-workers in Ohio acho refuse to sub
NIT to The lac Of the land, aud who thus
openly counsel a Disregard vi its require
ments." =
!" Once throw open the door, broad
and wide, and proeluim from the house
tors that We are under no obligation
moral or legal, to respect or obey any
lzw rbat may happen to be regarded as
wrong or IN u way, aud We shall have
q nice time of it. II is possible that
any body of intelligent men, qcho claim
to be same, can really and seriously put
the idea that every man in the
.cenimaaity is at liberty to judge wheth-
er a hixNaH law is in opposition to some
divine law or not, aud to justify his dis
nbedieBce on this ground 2"
But We have expressed our opinion
on the folly and readiness Of this notion
SC frequently that it is necessary to say
more: I've r6er these toikd dis0rgan-
izfng and Janatica< sentiments to the
sober seeond tho tght of The prople Of
Ohio. They cannot stand the test
They must be ~repudiated or there is a
practical end to all Law, oil society, all
all goyernrncnt."e