Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-03

came TO be regarded rs hia property, and that ma,
cpinm-maHu coptun-tbc sejzed-wos one OF IT
legitimate terms.
| We hence see the rottenncss ofthe whole Roma
system; that the splendid civil code-thc highes
! perfection of Pagan reason, and which alone O
Rome is immortal because 1t failed in the loun
dation of law, because j. ;raversed not the law O
force the basis of property, but sanctioned anC
sanctiicd the robberma zims Of the age, was ut
! terry impotent to save the State. We, hence. can
not wonder that the ancient states met only enc
mics without, while nourishing only enemies with
in. We cannot wonder at the expressions tha
drove men mad, at the corruptions that banisheC
virtue, at the monopoies that converted whole dis
tflcts into slave prlpcipalitss at the dishoror o
labor, and at the idiencss and spoil hunting thai
made Of the people but worthless rabblo. We
cannot wonder that the army bl came the only
stan Of the Stale, and the commander its imperE
Tor, and finally. when the army failed, that the
State itself fed for shelter to that grave lis foo
disease made its only fit refuge
States sh1dld be immortal. Their analogy is tc
the soul not to the body an idea itself immortal
not organized matter, itself perishable Justice
equally administered, rcuyenates society, over
throws abuses, and clothes people with immor
tai youth. But power, welded without justice,
corrupts and oieminates the posscssor inlamos
those who feel its weight; and, sooner or later.
rousea them to successful resistance to the efemi
mated tyrant. Despotic States are hut tower on
the sond-hill. 81 long as active labor replace
the shifting pile, repair the action Of torrent
ana storm, that tower will stand. But, sooner or
later, the laws IF nature viii vindcate their su.
premacy. The laws of nature or of God, which
eTer you term them, are immortal and States, tc
be immortal, must harmonic with them. Those
brilliant Republics and the great power, whose
brightness still da7sics, and The shadow Of whose
greatness nwes the world, ignored those laws, and
.oi course fell IN many respects, modern civiIi'
H. A.. II. r
ocal philosophy, and the GracCs OF dictUu ana cXr
teInul beauty we are itto more than imi,ators
vet in all appreciation Of the objects Of society
IN the dignity Of justice aud the graces Of the soul
not in the sentimentQ!ity that dreams with Pla
to over the :ortnrc5 oC slave, or moralizes with
Seneca at the banquet of lust-but in that dignity
that makes the chief glory Of the State 10 consist
N tho protection Of the weak within. while deal
ing with he strctest honor towards the weak
without; and in those graces that scHd Howard
ana a Nightingale upon their erTands, they were
little better than the savages Of our own forests.
But modern civilization and modern law, i'm,
perfectly they are yet developed have q differ,
eht history, Gna arg based upon different idea.
~ have not been in the habit Of giving sufficient
Importance to the influence Of Chris tianity and
bpe Jewish records. The story Of our common
4sin, Of the origin of al property IA the divine
graut to The comrnon head, both in The beginning
and when tho second father Of man went forth
TVn inc ARK 'no aim s.mPSes OF JHSuce ana
eHuiy' VI oPP".T T''r'n az Tvs Pu''ls"i"rh'' sec"
I.oug" t'le Tp'i VI 'no ch'nteucn an" 'pe eh'lf
the principles of natural law in tie second table
of tle decaloguo; the anathemNs upon injustice
burning in the pages Of the chief prophets; and
the crowning glory of all, the teachings Of the D.
vine man, establishing universal brotherhood as
~ tno nolindi reiat'on' anu uh'Nursa' ho'e ms 'ne
gHeSe med my ha'G 'nrn,sheu t"e srana aea o..
Of nron.rty Tbn 6rst jesSon in modarn law
makes Lrood and in,rossohla tba diStinc,inn lo
rween men md ,hinrs That is rronertv which
God has made nronerty. The STRANGER is no long.
or the oncmvLtbe cnrmv no Ionrer the Slave. -
The law Of IT,. s,ronc La,d vinlIs to rho law oC
Justice; and. as the idea of the artis, brinns cut
the form, gradually, mperfcctlg, according to the
imperfect material, and the more imperfect skill
so the great tcu Of Justice as the basis of proper
iy and end of law. starting out with the overthrow
pf the rubber dogma Of property in one another
is guiding Us onward, though on a rugged road
md with hating steps, yet surely On to It's COM
y,cte realization
| cannot better iastrote the contrast between
the ancient and modern theories Of political NOR.
ais, than hy opposing 10 the maxim attributed 10y
lhucydides to his countrymen, that 80 King or
Commonwealth nothing is unjust which is useful" 4"
llhu. Hist. vel 6) the following declaration Of
the younger PItt, in opposition 30 the slave trodc
"The argument which in his (Mr. Pitts opin.
ion ought to determine the committee: was. thaf
he slave trade was unjust 1t was such Il trade
rs i, was mrossible for him to support. unless it
could be first proved to him that there were no
laws Of morality binding uron nations, and that il
was not TIN dnty of n Lco;lotpre to restrain its
subjects from invading the bonniness of other
countries and from yiolotinc the fundamental
orincinles Of Justice y Cyqyks0n's Iyjoyg q + lie
li6ol1;oo of ibc Stare Tyg9e. roll . 310e 5Ia
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1t was necessary that the ancient civilization
should iaIi. 1t could no more live IN the night OF
The Christian idea than the atars OF the AztecS or
the least OF the Feejees; and the grander the
'ne iiole 'nG g,.o y, '"I'
m lIe Vi hll1un no o"Stt "s 1t N"s upJn M ,ie'
ulon 'nTr". '.,p'o p'o,o ''o