Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-31

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senator Hunter, Mr.. Brownson, and REV.
Theodore Parker, agree, on the Higher
Law.
The Richmond Examiner badgers Commo-
dore Saunders about bulletin addressed by
the latter to the Democracy Of Virginia, warn
ing them of certain dangerous tenets held by
their Senator, Mr.. Hunter. Our attention hav-
ing been thereby attracted, we return our
thanks to the Rum old Commodore" for hay
ing "signalled the feet so OPPORTUNITY,
upon this important subject
The opinion attributed to Senator Hunter is
so startling, 50 fatal to those interests of which
he is deemed trusty guardian, that we will
offer theory for its explanation, before pro-
When in the Virginia, panic, every Democrat
who held office was summoned to the field,
when general CONSUMPTION was made upon the
masses, and even the household troops Of the
President were despatched to plumber with the
skill Of much practice the routed Americans,
the two Senator'S Of Virginia tucked up their
respective togas, and took the stump with an
activity scarce to have been expected from
the years of the one or the deliberate dignity
of the other IN
Now, although i'll times past an opinion might
be proclaimed in Virginia, with no more dan
ger Of being known elsewhere than If whis-
pered in the recesscs of the Mammoth Cave,
yet such is no longer the case. That State is
awake, educated, active; it is intersected with
new railroads, instinct with new telegraphs,
and animated by press at once able and
progressive. So, when Senator Hunter came
into this new Virginia, he thought only of that
army of ignorance which was published by
the census, or Of those famous congratulations
of Governor Berkeley and Mr. Wise, that free
schools and printing were comparatively un-
known. Senator Hunter did not think Of this
pestilent facility for reporting in one section
what may have been confdentially stated in
another He will, like General Pelissier, cut
the wires hereafter, when addressing one audi
ence upon that which he may not wish over
heard.
For no sooner did he declare in a speech at
Petersburg:
"All Christian Churches and individuals believe
that the allegiance which they owe to God is higher
than any obligations to man and, that in conflict
betDeen human and Dvins aacs, you naust SERGE God
rather than man,
than it instantly appeared upon the placard-
board ofthe Abolitionists, in terrible conformity
with the doctrines Of Higher-law, as avowed
by Theodore Parker, Senator Sumner, Wendell
Phillips, and Mr.. Giddings. Nay, more, it
justified, with prophetic accuracy, the doctrine
of Mr.. Orestes Brownson:
Tho Pope is the proper authority 10 decide for
schether tie Constitution of this ooutyi or isno re-
pugaant TO tie Laus Of God. If he decides that it is
not he has decided, then am bound in conscience
TO obey every law made in accordance with it, and,
under no circumstances can he absolve me from my
obligation TO obey or interfere with tue administra-
ton Of government under it, for the civil government
is free TO do according to its constitution whatever it
pleases that is not repugnan to the laws of God or
to natural justice That ii is free to do more than
that presume man in this country viii pretend"
Senator Hunter, in his zeal to save an cleo
ton, has made an admission fatal to those
rights of which he is peculiar champion. He
affirms that all "Christian individuals believe
that in a conflict between human and divine
laws you must serve God rather than man."
Now let us make practical test of this
principle Mr.. Hunter believes that the Fugi-
tive Slave law is constitutional, and ought to be
executed The Rev. Theodore Parker con-
scientiously believes that it is unconstitutional,
and that its execution ought not to be per-
mitted within the non-slaveholding States.
Mr. Hunter reads the Constitution to show
the direct obligations to pass and enforce this
law The reverend Theodore takes the fol-
lowing text from Deuteronomy xiii:
"l5. Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the
servant which is escaped from his master unto thee
"l6. lie shall dwell with thee, eUsn among you, in
that place which he shall choose in one Of thy gates
when il liketh him best"
In discussing this text, VIC viii imagine him
TO say:
"Ny friends, this case presents simple conflict
between the law as made by fallen man and the law
rs given by Jehovah himself Upon the compare.
tive obligations Of these two statutes am glad to
see there is difference of opinion, among the
most emideut authorities who have heretofore main
tanned the supremacy Of that federal lic the Const
tuition. Senator Hunter, of Virginia, has admitted
that in conflict between human and divine law,
the allegiance which Christian individual owes TO
God is higher than any obligations TO man.
Now, my hearers, here you have the human law,
commanding you TO tear the painting fugitive from
the horns Of your free affairs and deliver him over to
the tormentJ Of whip, chain, and faggot prepared by
his inhuman pursuers On the other hand, you have
the humane law of God, forbidding you to deliver
him unto his MASTER and commanding you TO per.
nit him TO dwell with YOU in such place as he
may choose whether Boston, Fall River Pittsburg
or Ch,lcothe.
Between these laws you are required to choose.
Will you obey the human law Righteous God
Can any advocate of that covenant with hell, the