Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-08-23

! wild region, who inquire why he is i
} chains;--and being informed. they, in
+ stead Of feeling oatraged. consider th
man a. being abpsed for doing tha
which their religion tolerates. The.
are co1scientiously impressed that th
bigamist is an innocent sufferer ant
4 they make war upon your legal agents
and restore him to liberty.
j Again: Among all civilized commu
mites, we are taught to guard and pro
vide for our parents. in their declining
years; to love those who cared for us il
our infancy and childhood;-but ther,
are those-inhsbitants of some of tn,
South Sea Islands-who believe it i.
their conscientious duty, when parent;
become old. their sight dull, their limb:
trembling and their energies relaxed, to
relieve them Of trouble and suffering,
by taking their lives; and. accordingly
become the conscientious murderers ol
their parents.
With what CONSERVATION and horror
would the parricide be here regarded ?
The more infrm the parent, the more
beIlish the offence. How the public
heart would thrill with disgust and in
dignation at the crime; and, when your
citizens, with rage and horror, scatter in
all directions, to arrest the 6end who
did the bloody deed, and. after long
pursuit, few find him, and, in carrying
him back, are met by body of these
South Sea Islanders who believe that
the criminal, instead of perpetrating an
outrage, performed his duty consistent
H-acted with their conscientious belief
Of right--and, accordingly, give him
his freedom, and scourge those by whom
be was held in bondage.
But, if the parties resisting laws be
operated upon and stimulated by con-
science, then may those who enforce the
law, be actuated by the same; and, the
consequence is that, when the different
parties meet, a strife ensues; weapons
and bludgeons are used; bloodis spilled;
life is taken; communities are conyulsed;
and there is no remedy for the riots and
bralls that shall make noisy and hideous
human existence. If you take the par
ties before your juries. into your courts,
and resolve that the law of conscience,
under which they have acted, is superior
to human statutes. your juries and your
courts must decide that neither party is
culpable, but that all are commendable
and good citizens. for having SO faith
fully obeyed the behests of conscience,
to the detriment of their individual COM
fort, and all are released.
How extremely interesting would be
the community in which each man de-
termines his course, and makes his own
rule of action; where ''might is right"
and the strong, in violence, trample upon
the weak and helpless;--where there is
no superior power to which the oppress-
ed and injured can appeal and be vindi-
Gated; where the boarse voice OF riot
and the barred arm Of murder
is red; where the talismanic word "cOn-
bursts assunder all restraint,
tramples upon all human enactments,
and iustifes the most heinous outrages.
The m1nu nies, sirudderiug, frUm such
spectacle. 1t is the irresistible majesty
Of the law which sustains you and me in
our positions, and gives US individual
protection;--which throws its power
around our wives and little ones, at our
hearth th-stones;-which secures individ
uals the enjoyment of life, liberty and
property;-which gives to communities,
harmony and justice; to States, charac-
Ter and power. Under its might every
thing which leads to advancement, pros
perity and felicity, is intended to be fcs-
tered; and, without it, earth becomes I
the waste on which human devils howl
or desolation reigns supreme.
That Salmon P. Chase is an aboli-
iopist in the odious sense of that term,
,e will not deny, and that he stands up
IN the outer verge of their ultraisms
lis conduct clearly proves and let me
establish his being Disunionist by ex-
libiting the doings of his brethern
which explain themselves SO fully that
have no inclination to comment.
The Pennsylvania State Abolition Society,
1 Westchester, in October, 1851, adopted the
Glowing resolutions
Reselued, That the Americen Constitution,
"a of ovt-o -onrHlUaru n0lIfIrql I
,ower to the STAKEHOLDER, N that right which
{ gives him to represent three-fifths Of his hu-
nan property. by its pledge of the power of
he nation to strike down the slave, if he rises
n arms for his liberty, and its provisions for
lis recapture and restoration, If he attempts
o secure the same boonby fight, is compact
With injustice, and league with oppression |;
nd deserves to be repudiated by all true Abo-
itionists, and all true men.
Resolved, That the American Church, as a
'ody, in the sanction and support which it
ives to American slavery, by receiving to its
communion tables and into the pulpit these
tealers of men; by its reproaches, excommu-
Iication, persecution Of those who plead the
ause of the dumb, and him that hath no help
r; hy comforting its honors upon the oppress-
r, whilst it refuses TO be refuge for the op-
,ressed; BY allowingits members, unrebuked,
0 elect Shareholders to theoffces of the nation,
nd promise allegiance to the pro-slavery Con-
titution of the United States, has proved itself
Utterly unworthy of the name of Christ, and
ughtnot to be regarded or treated as Chris
ian.
.Resolued, That those persons in the Free
states. who give any voluntary support to the
Constitution Of the United States, are slave
folders and idolaters.
The following are extracts from the Report
4 the Massachusetts, Anti-Slavery Society, by