New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-25

ance ofa BE- mace Justly permissible for n SINGLE year
or in any Sste community. The idea 81 Christian
being capable Of calmly considering such wicked
ness d vested right system 70 endure FOR ages,
seems incredible. The idea Of sneliorafIn9 s1eh n
system, the iuiquity meanwhile peunifted to con
tnue ard increase, The moral ASSASSINATION
all the while gong on, involved IN the claim
~ prop eriy in man, II erimnally Wild. The claim IT,
sei NUT instantly be relnguI-hed the man raain-
tairirg Il is a rlan-stealer. The power Of enforcing
tie claim ought, without delay TO be tsken away ~
tie Government, the Government and the people,
sanctioning ard perTetuating such wckedness, are
Tiratca Tie plan of treating the abuses and evils
growing out Of such system, and applying the IN
struceIs Of tie GOSPEL ahechonaiey U shareholders,
N Iersuade them TO Chrsanize IT, they all the while
holding the infinite fountain wickedness Of the claim Of
property in man, holding slaves properly maintain
ing and permitted 10 maintain such property as their
vested righthe idea of the Gospel sanconng for one
nneni such right, is not merely an Absurdty, bat
an inpiety. The claim Of property in man cannot be
dvested Of s wickednes, discharged OF the essen
tia element Of n-stealing involved in it, though all
the churches on earth should receive into their
uuIion and all the preachers earth should nurse
with angelic charity and love.
We come next to the legal and constitutional mean
which God hss put in our power for the abolition
this wiekedness. If there s spirit in the people to
obey God and do justly, there win be found nothing in
the Constitution forbiddng such obedience, but every
thing convenient for il, and all the means OF IT, unde
the Interpretation OF justice and equy-he only inter
preers OF our Constitution that ought TO be endured TO
ut in judgment upon il. BY all that Is just and rghte-
GUS BY the holy attributes Of God, BY he saeredness
of conscience, by the nature Of law which u OF no
authority when against God and nature; BY the ma
jesiy Of English law, which is the parent Of American
freedom BY the justice of law, which both IN
England and America is the safety of the citizen and
subject by the truth and sClemnity of civilized and
Christian Jurisprudence the world over, aibrm-
rg that human law against the law OF nature
ard OF God can have validity whatever, but that
every man is bound 10 oppose aud destroy II, by the
exauIl- Of tie greatest, wsest, profoundest, most
Christian Judge in the world declaring that inquity
in law hsth no sandng-psce ia duty, and that every
technicaiy a. well as the whole spirit of law, ought
10 be pressed the extreme in behalf Of justice and
rigbteouncss and the Interpretation OF righteousness
ought TO he pressed in behalf of Freedom and justice
20 every extreme against any letter of wrong BY the
authority Of obedience 10 God and mercy toward man,
we call upon rulers, magistrates, our men IN
authority lawyers and legislators to labor for that
return OF judgment TO ghteOusnese, which II the only
condition which we can be brought back TO God,
ard can receive bis forgiveness and hs blessing; the
only condition which Christian man can stay with
safety in the country. And wo 10 that land whose
laws are such that they compel the good the high
prnciped the Of stern conscience toward God TO
abandon IT, seek refuge in flight rather than set the
example either Of violent resistance of boOtessy
LAYING down their neeks for the worst form OF despot-
lem TO ride over.
Tie rer,ersons of the word Of God and of the Con-
siitution of our country the great srsagems by
which the defenders OF Slavery have enthrOned Il as
legitimate power and laboring to establish II, in
the Government and the Church 10 politics and the
ology. There charters of our freedom, the COnstu-
ton and the Bible must be resoued from such perver
sion. We are bound 10 resst Slavery everywheTe-
first with the truth OF God which Is irresistible, over
ruling, overriding, and sweeping down everything
before Il; and, second, with all the constitutional
legal and moral appliances which God has put IN our
power. We are bound 20 make the most of every
weapon and every advantage and 10 stretch taut every
principle and truth TO the ullermos-ia fdgorea ber-
tatis. We are bound to interpret the Constitution in
4. l.Na - ODD asrs4sRa
lieye has aways been the conviction freely and firmly
ayowed, Of noble friend and brother IN behalf OF
human rights in this city, Mr.. Greeley, whose powerful
journal has again and again smten the oppressor and
The sayeholdng interest to the heart, and viii con-
tuue TO do 70. lie said, and admirably sid, that
"uo one can doubt that If ours were the Constitu-
ton of forgotten republic Of antiquity just re-
covered and submitted TO learned .pubicists, 20
determine its true character they must unani-
nously pronounce il incompatible with the ex-
istence Of Slavery. Let the American people come
to hate Slavery they ought, and shall need no
Abolition acts, for the Judiciary viii deal with il az
Portia did with Shyiocks pound Of flesh. There must
always BE- law enough IN republic to sweep away
Slavery whenever the Judges can afford 70 discern and
apply NJ
suppofiton that there is anything wrong in the C0ns
tuition and that, suppOsing there were, We should be
forbidden from interfering with that wrong the
germs Of atheism and despotism lie III this habit; the
worst men under the worst government on earth could
desire nothing better for their purposes than such
logic The principle Of being bound b. any Constitu
ton TO a moral wrong Gods law against II, nowlth-
standing Is atheism. Garry that principle into action
let the people suffer their rulers To act upon TO inter-
pref the Constitution by it, and it creates tyranny,
soon toiuerfeited into the compieies, most remorse-
less most hopeless despotisn that the world ever saw
IL If now, therefore, the duty Of our moraliss and
Statesmen to take the Constitution and apply and drive
every article and principle OF freedom in It TO tho
utmost extreme for the accomplishment Of is declared
purpose the securing to every human being under iis
authority the privileges of life, liberty, and the pursuit
CLEANLINESS for the protection of which il framed
No Constitution with such an object possibly in
any OF its articles, deprive any clasof human beings
under of their rights None can he rightfny under
lis authority, but for the protection of these ghs Ii
such horrible enormy could be supposed, then the
class 20 sacrificed 50 deprived Of their rights, so
brought nnder authority Of the Constitution only TO be
sssassi mated by il, must have been named, must
have been described with the greatest expbcnesS and
,saruess and the exact sacrifice Enthusiastically marked
and distinguished, for which they are doomed. II
there could be supposed such a dabohe bond. 1t
must be drawn with such eXactness, such lneAor-
able cefneness IN the very last letter az TO leave 10
rocm for peryeraion or doubt. ii the destined sac
rice were capable OF name, by when also
the victims themselves were designated If i had
title word, an epithet in morals and IN law, by
which il was customarily, nay, always, named and
known, then must be named and described Ia NE
Constitution. II tina. sacrifice and the term by wheh
Il il known were SLAvERr, then inevitably must be
uentioned and the Constitution would then be, ~ 70
that whole csss Of human beings consigned by II 10
living tomb, diabolc indictment for definite, unuls-
rakahle state Of cruelty and misery.
IL the indictment by which such consignment TO
moral assassination il effected, certainly the actual
thing INTENDED mnst be named; since all know
thar for an Indictment 70 hold agost criminal, with
out the exact crime being named, woud be- such
monsirosty a. has been committed or suffered
in any civilized nation under heaven, noj even N VIZ
GINA. But much where II Is sn indictment con-
signing an innocent person 10 a condition which ~
deemed the most dreadful penalty executed even on
criminal; have innocent person consigned to sneh
a condition By virtue Of an indictment 10 which me
condition itseif was not named-this would be such