The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-05-03
VOL. ), NO. 2.-WHOLE NO. 2lO.

all crime and makes Jehovah Its patrcn
Deity. | do wish that Slavery would leave
Us an ideal Of the Supreme Being that j
not polluted with it, Shiny touch. Il is
said Of Goldsmith. as a writer, that there
was nothing that be did not touch, ana moth
ing that hc touched that he did not boaut-
fy. And II can truly tie said Of Slavery.
that there Is nothing that il does not touch.
and nothing that it touches that i; doe, not
dehle. II has perverted the Government.
violated the rational faith, muzzled the
press dehaUched the church. corrurted
Chritianity. and seeks 10 change the glory
OF the invisible God iuto a Noloch, aud
trautorm the eternal and loving Father into
patron Of cruelty, lost, and injustice aud
then, witt IT," impudence Of the strange
woman. wipes its mouth. and SAYS. | have
committed no sin. | should be ashamed
of such God rs ,har II is To me utterly
incomprehensible that any one can sincere
IL believe that the Bible sanctions the svs.
tenn Of American Slavery, aud | leave that
point.
But this fsuaticisln goes still farther. and
arrogates to Itself Irerogativcs which God
himself never claimed. and what, hc it spo-
ken with reverence. the Supreme Being
himself eaunct do: and that is 10 make
right and wrong Before all Iaw aud above
all law, human and divine, Is the idea Of
right and wrong, eternal, indes;ruc,ible- -
The Omnipctent does not claim the right
or power to annihilate this distinction He
himself bows 10 this idea, which SITS Ell
throned, absolute aud supreme, higher than
the Highest. The Supreme Legislator
never undertook, By mere arbitrary enact
ment, to obliterate this distinction, and put
darkness for light, and light for darkness
bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter HIS
own conduct is controlled by Ills perccp-
tons Of what is right and what is wrong
Human statutes canno. do what Divine ie-
glslation never attempted to achieve Can
yUu, 10y Congressional onootuiont, ,honSo
the laws that govern the material world
Can you make the Potomac roll back TO its
sources amid those far-off hills, or calm the
ocean, when, moved from It's depths, it lifts
its crested waves on high, and dashes them
in broken spray against the beetling crags
Much less can YOU annul the eternal dis
tinc,ion between right aud wrong The
attempt is and must forever remain utterly
vain and impotent.
The gentleman from Georgia the other
day called your attention to the sublime
spectacle Of State after State emerging from
a Territorial condition, and wheeling into
line as sovereign States in this Confedera.
cy. In this process, according TO the gen
lemen, were united the two principles OF
of expansion and popular 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, aud the voice of the tbunders
and the voice of the Almighty, and the ut.
terance Of ocean and thunder Of Jehovah
was, Tor P0puH ror Dci' Sir,
claim tina: toe voice ot truth aud iustice
and liberty, j. the voice Of God. When
hear the voice Of thousands and thousands
and ten time ten thousand, swelling UP
ward, like the voice Of many waters ana
the voice of mighty thuuders aud the voice
Of the Almighty, it l. that other and better
sentiment, " Let justice prevail, ,hous!, til,
universe c-umbles. Aye, sir | t" hear,
the voice Of the people, and it wcm, -lrsn.
through the streets Of Judea's proud me
tropolis. 1t swept through the pnrte'- g
, Pilates Jud gment Hall, and echoed aion;
its arches, crying, Cruelty him :" Wa
Tor Popptj roI DE then Did tn
gentleman from Georgia hear the voice 0
the Almighty, responsive to the popula
will, demanding the cruciixion Of his ovl
Son Did their cry Of blood have the ID
! vine sanction, simply because they had vo
. ted it, and because they bad law by whicl
the Man Of Nazareth must be put TO death
, What an impious dogma
But let Us follow this expansion and rol
{ 7opuh doctrine We already embrac
/. Utah there the voice Of the people sauc
b. tions aud demands a mulJiplity Of wives =
b.. l. it the voice Of God We acquire Cuba
. and there the voice Of the people demand
, the union Of Church and S,ate, and forbid
d. a prayer to be uttered by the open gray
. Of friend who breathed ont bis soul be
f yond the pale of the Papal church; an
: the voice Of the people is the voice Of God
. Expansion We sweep onward, and tax
!. In Mexico; and IN some seIuestered val
o there is a remnant of the old Aztec rae,
. with their Teocalli surrounded with huma
;. skulls The voice of the people here lead
5 forth pampered young man, the fairet
4 and best Of the nation, decorated wit
> flowers, up to the consecrated bin, layin
"a him on the sacrifcial stone, and wit
i breast raised. the priest seizes the knlt'
Y and drags it craunching through tie rib
!. and tears out the heart, all reeking an
>. quivering; and this is the voice Of God
But we hare taken in the continent, fro
, Esduimaux TO Patagonian, and still y
y must expand We ride forth on the p
!. cifc wave, and annex the Feejee Island
; and the voice Of the people here is to fea
i human flesh, and the voice Of the people
: the voice Of God Isthis an insape asylum
l. the Democracy struck with lunacy
: well as filed with fanaticisrn
D. The Slavery Democracy prates and cha
le ters about negro equality Black r
a. publicaDs,' and niger stealing" to u
= its classic phrase and improved orthrogr
e. ply. II has. or atfeetst TO have, great no
m ror Of "nigcers.' And anv one who a