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press, in opposition to the extreme Pro-Slavery
party, he assumes that such an exercise of thai
freedom is calculated to awaken discomfort in
the slave population = favors the assumption
that the black race has republican capacities
therefore is calculated to lead to the establish
ment of State within State, a Power within
a Power, anarchy within the State-therefore
is treason, And the exercise of this freedom
of discussion, he says, originates in diseased
condition of the intellect or affections. This
is his wire-drawn, tortuous argument, put in
straightforward, palpable terms.
"Then The adds) the aro,cal of all rrinci
pies and the effect Of movements originating ..
these diseased conditions of the affections ana
the intellect, that contemplate this race as republ
can an their capacities and qualifications, are
directly at oar Uith the Just relations schick
erist betscecn the taco races and the harmony o.
the States"
Finally, he reaches the point at which he has
been aiming-namely, that the tendency of what
he calls "seditious writings and speeches" if
to generate State within State.
~ shall now speak of the third class of often
ces have mentioned, seditious language and
writings.
"The direct tendency of an infraction of these
laws is to bring about that spirit of insubordi
nation which must ultimately end in the estab
lishment of State within State, or the over
throw of the present order of things, or the sub
stitution, eventually, of despotism in someshape
or another, as an escape from the freedom Of
the emancipated race, as is 80 practically de
monstrated by the rise and progress of fanati
cism in England, and by the present condition
st. Domingo"
The publication of the Wellsburgh Herald
the serving as Fremont elector, the holding
of Republican Convention, or sedition, tend
to the establishment Of State within State
or the overthrow of the present order of things
and is, therefore, Treason. But, the Judge is
divine, well as jurist, and would have the law
of Treason, as defined by himself, applied as a
correction of errors in Theology. We have al
ready seen his classification of Atheists, Unita-
rians, and Black Republicans. In a subsequent
part of his charge, he presents Unitarianism, as
one of those agencies calculated to produce in
subordination, generate State within State
of course, it will be the duty of the grand jury,
entertaining the Judges construction of the law,
to indict the Unitarian organization as treason
GUS. Recollecting what he said about the
atheists, the Unitarians, and Black Republi-
cans, uniting for the breach of the solemn cove
nants of the Constitution" read the following
at is remarkable that precisely as Atheism
advancedin France, philanthropy of Anachar-
sis Clootz, and Robespierre, which was as sim
cere as any American fanaticism, who murdered
their own citizens by Wholesale at the gullotine,
became more fercely excited in behalf of the
negroes of st. Domingo. This exemplifes the
whole current of Decorating philanthropy.
at the North, in those pulpits iolaere the d.
cinity of Christ is most openly condemned, the
humanity of the negro is most highly ertolled
and on those platforms where the precepts of
order and obedience taught by the Bible are
most recklessly assailed, there the state of ma
ture and the rights of man, irrespective of vir-
tue, intelligence, and obedience to law, if these
are not synonymous, are insisted ON with most
zeal. 1t is none the less injurious to society
and destructive of government, that these con.
Predictions are not apparent, and these moral
conses uences are not foreseen."
Black Republicanism, Atheism, Philanthropy,
and Unitarianism, we see, are all indictable, all
tending to the generation of State within a
State, or the overthrow of the existing order of
things. But the Judge is not yet satisfied.
What is called Progress, awakens his alarm, and
Locke's Philosophy, is treasonous.
ain national life, an honest intention to ex-
tend liberty may degenerate into RIGHTEOUSNESS;
liberality of sentiment may encourage infidelity.
The most remarkable in the history of the race,
of the bitter results of this fact, is the wide
spread and devastating infdelity of France,
in the adoption of the fundamental
principles of Locke's Philosophy-that all our
ideas originate through the senses. This led
to materialism - materialism to Atheism
Atheism to murder, rapine, false philosophy,
and widespread and horrible desolation. And
the terror and enormity of these again are in
creased, when they are associated with those
alterations ftheintelIectan the affec-
tons which make and mark a national frenzy,
which dethrones reason, subverts order, con.
POUNDS intelligence, perverts social regard, in.
flames passion, and infuriates motive"
The charge of the Judge is comprehensive
one: the grand jury will have an unprecedented
work to perform. Still there are other treason.
GUS matters which he has unfortunately over
looked-for example, the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, the writings of Thomas Jefferson
against Slavery, the will of George Washington,
his slaves, to say nothing of the
declaration of James Madison that he could not
bear to admit into the Federal Constitution the
idea of property in man."
We said, that the Richmond (Va) Enquirer
the document. Why not Is it not
the organ of the Democracy of the South, and
does not Democracy 60 for the largest liberty
to the largest number? One paper in the
State, however, is old fogyish enough to denounce
the Judge and his atrocious dogmas-the Peters.
burgh, (Va.) InteHigencer, whose manly rebuke
we copy:
Gan this monstrous outrage 90 by, unrebu-
ked and unpunished Is every consideration of
public liberty, personal rights, and private hap
piness, to be merged in Presidential election
and the means of carrying it? Far better .could
be for the man Fremont to be elected bu &C.
ctdmation, than the damnable doctrines of Judqe
Thompson should 1Dreraa. Aye, more than that,
far better that this Union, blessed as it is, should
be sundered in pieces, and that the chance should
be left US of reconstructing with its fragments
some other structure of government favorable
to Freedom, than Judge Thompson's opinions
should prevail. We therefore call upon good
men everywhere OH patriots and freemen, to rise
up, and with US deaounce this odious and tyran.
nical charge to grand jury of one of the courts
of our State, and more than that, we call on
the legislature of our State to impeach Judge
George W. Thompson, for the offence of at
tempting, in his official capacity, to put in prac-
ticee, In this State, one of the most tyrannical
and oppressive doctrines ever invented by the
wit OF bad man, to crush liberty and murder its
advocates"
THE POLICY OF THE PEOPLE OF KANSAS.