Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-03-18

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gressional enactment, change the laws
that govern the material world +! Can
you make the Potomac roll back to- its
sources amid those for-off hills, or calm
the ocean, when, moved from its depths,
It lifts its crested waves on high, and
1ashes them in broken spray against
the beetling craes? Much less can you
annul the eternal distinction between
right and wrong. The attempt is and
must forever remain utterly vain and i'm
potent.
The gentleman from Georgia the 9TH
er day called our attention to the sub
lime spectacle of State after State emerg-
ing from a Territorial condition, and
wheeling into line as sovereign States in
this Confederacy. In this process, ac-
cording TO the gentleman, were united
the two principles of expansion and pop
ular sovereignty, and the gentleman was
reminded of that grand chorus which an
ancient exile heard when there was
poured upon his ear the voice of many
waters, and the voice OF the thunders,
and the voice of the Almighty, and the
utterance of ocean and thunder and of
Jehovah was, Vog P0puh Uor Del"
Sir, claim that the voice of truth, and
Justice, and liberty, is the voice of God.
When hear the voice of thousands and
thousands, and ten times ten thousand,
swelling upward, like the voice OF many
waters and the voice of mighty thunders
and the voice of the Almighty, it is that
other and better sentiment, " Let justice
prevail, though the universe crumbles."
Aye, sir | too heard the voice of the
people, and it went surging through the
streets of Judea's proud metropolis. 1t
swept through the portals OF Pilates
Judgment Hall, and echoed along its
arches, crying, " Cruelty him J Cruelty
himW Was " Por Popui UOT Del"
then? Did the gentleman from Georgia
hear the voice of the Almighty, respon-
sive to the popular will, demanding the
cruciixion of his own Son? Did their
cry of blood have the Divine sanction,
q simply because they had voted it, and
h because they had a law by which the
p Man of Nazareth must be put to death !!
What an impious dogma
But let Us follow this expansion and
UoqyopuH doctrine. We already en-
brace Utah; there the voice of the peO-
ple sanctions and demands a multiplicity
of wives. Is it the voice of God? We
acquire Cuba; and there the voice of the
people demands the union OF Church
and State, and forbids prayer to be ut
tered by the open grave Of friend who
breaihed out his soul beyond the pale of
the Papal church and the voice of the
~ people is the voice of God Expansion
We sweep onward, and take in Mexico /;
" and in some sequestered vale there is a
remnant of the old Aztec race, with their
!" Teocalli surrounded with human skulls.
- The voice of the people here leads forth
a pampered young man, the fairest and
Il best of the nation, decorated with flow.
= ers, up to the consecrated hill. laying hin
- on the sacrifcial stone, and with breas
raised, the priest seizes the knife, ant
- drags it craunching through the ribs, anC
o' tears out the heart, all reeking and quiv-
o' ering; and this is the voice Of God
es But we have taken in the continent
es from Esquimaux to Patagonian, and still
ID we must expand We ride forth on th'
al Pacific wave, and annex the Feejee Isl
be ands, and the voice of the people here
ks to feast on human flesh, aud the voice 0
Cd the people is the voice Of God ! Is thi
al an insane asylum? Is the Democrac
u struck with lunacy as well as filled wit
th fan aticism?
IN, The Slavery Democracy pirates an
NJ chatters about negro equality" "Blac
Of Republicans" and "nigger stealing" t
" use its classic phrase and improved or
m biography. 1t has, or affects TO have,
rs great horror of "niggers.' And an
/ one who advocates the principles of ht
man Freedom, as they were enunciate
er, and laid down in enduring forms BY th
,es Fathers Of the Republic, is WOOL
nd head" and these same Democrats haV
the learned to speak Of them with a pecnlia
md nasal twist. Baso eontfmneTe ddunc
all You would suppose that these gentlemei
di- whose oliactories are so sensitive al
er- acute, never saw a niger, unless in
ent menagerie. And yet, would you belie'
an il the very first service rendered bi
,elf on earth is performed by a niger; as
ed. infant, be draws the milk which max
the his flesh and blood and bones from 6
ey- breast Of niger; looks up IN her Ia
act and smiles, and calls l,er by the endearil