The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-05


ton Of the Jaw sanctioning the nquy to the same pc
nay that God Almighty has se against the niqui,y itself
God declares that "He that sealeth and selleth
him. or he be found in h hands, he shall surely be put
70 death The State declares that he that steaeth and
selleth he be found in his hands, shall be honored
and arphnded righteous man, and that his &C and
practice shall be carried into perpetual establishment
sem so that not only the stolen beings shall be consi
dered his lawful and sacred property but their children
and their chdrens children shall be stolen and branded
for ever as property from the BIRTH God says, "Thoa
shalt not make merchandise of thy brother man." The
Stafe says "Thou shalt make merchandise OF thy bro.
her, and such merchandise is the most sacred Of all
property, and especially II thy brother be guilty Of skin
not coloured like thine has no rights that white men
bound respect cannot and shall not be- like thy
SELF citizen under any protection for his rights as
man. Of the laws that protect thee God says "Ihou shalt
deliver his the servant that has escaped
from his master unto thee. He shall dwell with thee,
among you in that place which he shall choose, in
OF Thy gates where keth him BEST thou shalt not
Cypress him. The State says, Thou shalt Cypress him;
thou shalt deliver him up, thou shalt refuse him aid and
shelter thou shalt not permit him 10 Dwell among you
II thou DO deliver him thou shalt suffer the penalty,
and If thou aid the fugitive interfere TO protect him
thou art criminal and thou entce him TO his freedom
thou shalt be hanged for treason The niquity is ten
thousand times worse thus concentrated commanded and
perreiuaed in law than was could be, naked
Individual cruelty and CRIME without law and without the
provision OF its perpetual sanction and increase And the
obligation towards God and man. upon every man. TO SGT
man law thus commands and perpetuaes what God has
Forbidden than could be where law enthroned and
protected the vilainy Two crimes in this require
and the the vastest atrocons terrible
For God hath publicly and soeuny expelled from sanction
and fellowship the throne Of niqnty that frameth mis-
chief by law. Now, man has risen up 10 fling Gods
protest in the face Of such State and put the protest
into action God evidently prepared the man, by many
years Of discipline, OF prayer Of instruction in His word
for such protest. for such work. teaching him reliance
solely on God. Having taken His time and his His
and not man seeth, takes this trained servant and
drives him openly against such wickedness such State
such laws II is singular that should do this
by His providence than that He hath done il in His word
II John Milton earth he would show you that as
clearly as God ever sent hud against Egon and his
ny, SO clearly, and much more, was John Brown
iasoned against this tyranny Of slavery and against The
State and the laws that uphold it, And though the man
might mistake as to the manner and method Of the pro
test yet that is Gods protest that ID is Gcds
providence. And the kind Of instrument that God has
taken for this work is most plain sacred indication
that is from Him; plain and sacred, along with and in
the light of HIS acquisitions Of men to act as gapmen in
vindicaton OF His violated law when whole land
given up to such violation Gods thoughts not
thoughts neither are His ways as ways The very
lowest expounders OF all the of apoogss for sin the
ex emest defenders Of the inquy of slavery as right
Christian TO fling this defiance in God name against
both the slavery and the State that sustans it, Obedience
to Gods law instead Of mans, obedience to Gods law
against mans, is Christian work when mans law is
against Gods Now, it is wonder that God should take
Christian to do this work And any evidences Of the
presence of His spirit can be relied upon with the indiv
dual doing this work. certainly have those evidences
For many years the man had walked with God he had
trained up his family in Gods fear; he had maintained the
family altar and all the sancties the instruction. the
careful observant discipline Of household piety He
had been man Of strict, known, undoubted integrity.
He was q man whose conscientious of right and
| wrong flame Of fire, where in common men it
was merely spark in sluggish embers His sensiveness
to injustice extremeinjusce against Others the iron
entered into his SOUL he was accustomed, with
grave steadfasness and holy principle TO rebuke prone
ness and wckedness in high or low. He learned from
whatever skim and old the verge of eternity
could say with the simplicity Of child and the majesty
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OF Gods word. He made it the man Of his counsel, and
sought the guidance Of Gods spirit in bordering its sacred
pages He seems TO have been familiar with every part
OF IT, but by Gods peculiar guidance of his mind and
hoaTt was baptised especially with the fire Of its benevo
ence against oppression and its sacred sympathy in be-
half of the oppressed His tender sympahv and practical
charities abounded towards the poor needy course
in the practice Of such virtues indicates the man
OF God, even II his profession of religion had been
known and read Of all. "For by their fruits We shall
know hem for men do not gather grapes Of thorns nor
fruit while corrupt tree brngeth forth evil fruit" He
| was man of prayer. He walked with God even amidst
fe that s at the beginning Of his Christian career des
tined TO the ministry and there is nothing that know
aside from such preparation and such vocation incon.
sistent with the baptism Of Gods spirit for the mnistra
ton Of the Gospel On the contrary in great point
fitness for that work, ne seems to have been always
creasng in the knowledge OF the word of God
al submission TO it, in and living experience it
as fire and power for thus God evidently training him
Now with these Developments Of character these pos
sessions OF grace under these many of discipline,
into fame, and rises out of obscury into light tina.
ILLS the whole atmosphere AM the eyes OF the
spectators of whole nation to the spectacle This
man OF God breaks out in the most daring venture
against the most consolidated seless powerful an
coDquerng system of niqrty that any civilized country
ever saw or endured; breaks out Ill act, that while
some declare by Gods Word TO be the venture OF man
in Gods behalf doing Gods work against the vastest OF
human crimes others declare to be the act Of mailman;
others the Authorization of good man; others the
Of man possessed with devil. But amidst the out.
break he is the same man that he has been and
after the conflict amidst his wounds, amidst his enemies
overpowered, apparently unsuccessful he is calm and
confident in Godand in the justice and sacredness
Of the cause he has ind ,raken And the disastrous
failure Of his enterprise, in his prison, through all the
mockery OF his trial and sentence, and in all his words
speeches, etters-in all his intercourse with menn all
his department, he is the beore-tbe same
Christian conhding in Cod He stu seen walking
with God, and God does not desert him. Nay, the evi
dences o. the presence and power of Gods spirit in his
heart brighten and increase, TIL they are sublime at
tractve, wonderful He speaks and writes with an al
of feeling restraint absence Of all rhetoric ostenta
ton and false emotion Transparency of character
profound thoughtfuness, peace OF mind God
quite impossible TO be assumed in such position at such
an hour-qute impossible indeed, under such cir
cnmstances TO be pamed Off and credit gained for them
| by a self deuded man, wicked man and impostor
Alter the battle Is overater this mighty crime some
call it, for which he sentenced 10 death-n the soed
| and tattered garments bathed in blood chained
more manifes,ly the Christian hero in pos,
session Of the spirit Of love and power and of sound
mnd And thus daily he Is preparing for death and
daily God with him. II there be any evidences Of
this they are granted There those, in the
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that declared that he cast out devils Beelzebub the
prince of the devils and blessed Lord said that If
they bad called the master Of the house Beezebub much
more would they them Of his household Now fnethinks
none but such basphemers could deny the evidences
John Browns Christian character since his overthrow
Maniiesty God was with hm-wih him To the end-with
nm maintaining his confidence in the justice his cause
and the righteousness OF his effort even unto deathhe
righteousness OF the very act for which he God
was with him s0susainng as to enable him To say
that be willingly gave himself TO the the law
counting 1t privilege to be permitted 10 die in behalf Of
nrai iit-aa
for whose deiverance he had ventnred with death in
view When has there been in the world anything like
thisY 1t has properly been marked in regard to the
brightest names in the historic records sell acrdcpg
PATRIOTISM in the pages OF the struggles liberty that
their ventures were for their country kindred
homes every thing; and ye love them that love YOU
what thank have yer II We salute your brethren only or
defend your own caste, do not the pubicans so2
But this self sacrifice of John Brown for despsed
and hated race, condemned TO perpetual slavery. Well
and truly has il been averred that Washington and War
rem never rose 10 the height of such virtue 1t is
sublime and solitary instance in all modern history
man in his senses, in age Of prudential wisdom wor
shipped as religon-in an age Of self interest and