The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-04-16
Treason In the Pulpit.

4uo I0il0WIHS 8Io SAtIaCtS iTom INC neV.
Mr.. Cheever's sermons, denouncing the recent
decision Of the Supreme Court. According to
the principles here promulgated, each individ-
uaps conscience is the standard by which .
man is to determine his obligations to obey
the laws or submit to the-decrees Of the tri-
buAals Of the country. They abrogate at once
oil authority Of government, and constitute q
man sole judge of his own rights and duties,
and make him the only authorative interpre-
ter Of Gods laws for himself and Of what is
right and just. The Interpretation of the
Catholic, the Presbyterian, and the Mormon,
would be found to conflict terribly in these
matters, and the need Of an umpire would
soon be felt if the doctrines of the Rev. preach
er ever prevail.
The New York Observer, religious paper
OF the same denomination as Mr. Cheever says:
"lt is limited in private circles that Rev. G.
B. Cheever, who has been railing so furiously
in regard to the late decision of the U ). Su-
preme Court, has lost his reason. and so far as
"the slavery question" is concerned, has be-
come monomanlac."
UNJUST LAWS AND GovERNMENTs.-Now
we learn how God spurns from his presence,
with utter adherence, and marks also for
mans contempt. every government, and every
institution of government, based upon iniqu-
ty; every institution, whether judicial or leg
islative, that undertakes by human authority,
or by the pretense of Gods authority, to sane
tion enforce that which is wrong; that
which Gods word, and conscience instructed
hv Shoxy fO b.,u p,rct ~ i,
will. The corporation. or bench Of legislators,
or ofjudges, that undertake to DO the agent or
instrument 10 such iniquity, are excommuni-
Gated of God, are under impeachment BY lis
authority, and all men are not only released
from any obligation whatever, to regard them
in such wickedness, but are forbidden, unier
penalty OF Gods wrath, to yield any ack knowi
ment Of such authority, or obedience TO 4
And so far from its being principle, that lie
moment thing becomes law, that moment it
becomes right and obligatory, though unjust
in itself, chat principle is itself accursed, and
would make hell itself righteous empire
And the truth is that, Of necessity, in reach
ing the point Of law, in enthrOning itself there,
an iniquity which might have been very
small mischief practiced only by stealth, or by
miserable squads of the depraved outcasts OF
society, against the avowed moral sense OF
mankind, and without any legal enactment to
protect and sustain It, becomes infinitely more
outrageous, more mischievous, more accursed,
and the obligation on all men is consequently
greater than ever to resist it. For it is open,
.glaring, positive rebellion against God. II not
only allures and tempts man away from his
allegiance, but commands them under O for
gerry Of his authority, and cOmpelS them by
violence in his name.
WHAT LAWS ARE TO BE DIsoBEYED.-Now
then, inevitably, the deduction, the absolute
demonstration is, that the instant judgment
is promulgated, black with moral turpitudc
instinct and alive in every part with impiety
against God and man. full Of malignity, deceit
and cruelty, such as has been pronounced by
the Supreme Court against the African race
that instant every man under Gods govern
menr is not only released from all obligation
of obedience, but is commanded to reject and
trample under foot such an edict; is cOmman
ded to lift up his voice against it, so that the
nation thus insulted with judgment agains
God, should be converted into ten million liv
ing witnesses for God, aroused and enraged a
such defiance of his authority, proclaiming, a
the sound Of many waters, his great sentence
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgmsn
of she stranger" and ready, in the exercise o
that sovereignty which God has put into thsi
hands, to take down these usurpers, and cal
them to account and punish them God cast
them out from his fellowship, disavows them
strips off the robes Of their authority, an,
gives them over, il such wickedness be persist
ed in, to cursing and contempt and wrath