The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-03-24
NO.13.


1 that any Que can sincerely believe that
e the Bible sanctions the System of Ameri-
:, can slavery, and leave that point.
e. But this fanaticism goes still farther,
L and arrogates to itself prerog atives which
\ God himself never claimed, and what, be
1t spoken with reverence, the Supreme
S Being himself cannot DO; and that is, to
D make right and wrong. Before all law
and abose all law, huusn and divine. is
: the idea of right and wrong, eternal, in
destructible. The Omnipotent does not
} claim the right or power to annihila;e
this distinctious He himself bows TO this
idea, which sits enthroDed, absolute and
supreme, higher than the Highest. The
supreae Legislator never undertook, by
mere arbitrary enactment, to obliteratc
this distinction, and put darkness for
light, and light for darkness bitter for
sweet, and sweet for bitter. His own
Conduct is controlled by His perceptions
of what is ris BIT and what is wrong. Hu-
man statutes cannot do what Divine leg
islatlon never attempted to achieve. Can
you, by a Congressional enactment, change
Can you make the Potomac roll back to
its sources amid those far-off hills, or calm
the ocean, when moved from its depths. it
lifts its crested waves on high, and dsshes
them IN broken spray against the beet
ling cragsI Much less can you annul the
eternal distinction between right and
!. wrong. The attempt is and must forey-
er remain utterly vain and impotent.
The gentleman from Georgia the 9TH
er day called our attention to the sublime
spectacle of State after State emerging
from Territorial condition, aud wheel
ing into line as sovereign States in this
Confederacy. In this process, according
principles of expansion and popular SOW
ereignty, aud the gentleman was remind
ed of that grand chorus which an an
cient exile heard when there was poured
upon bis ear the voice of many waters,
and the voice of the thunders, and the
voice Of the Almighty, and the utteraEce
of ocean and thunder and of Jehovah was
"Ko1 Popuh vor Del" Sir, claim that
the voice of truth, and justice, and iber-
ty, is the voice Of God. When hear the
voice of thousan and thousands, aud
ten times ten thousand, swelling upward,
like the voice Of many waters and the
voice of mighty thunders and the voice of
the Almighty, 1t is that other and better
sentiment, Let justice prevail, though
the universe erumbles." Aye, sir; I 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! Cruelty him. Was "FoE P0puH
U01 Dei' then! Did the gentleman from
Georgia hear the voice of the Almighty,
responsive to the popular will, demanding
the cruciiction of his OWE Sonl Did
their cry of blood have the Divine sane
ton, simply because they bad voted it,
and because they had a law by which the
Man of Nazareth must be put to DEATH
What an impious dogma
But let US follow this expansion and
roc Eo0uS doctrine. We already em-
brace Utah; there the voice of the peo-
pie sanctions aud demands multiplicity
of wives. Is it the voice of God! We
acquire Cuba; and there the voice of the
people dem apds the union of Church and
State, and forbids prayer to be uttered
by the open grave of friend who breath
ed out bis soul beyond the pale of the
Papal church; and the voice of the people
is the voice of God! ExpansionI We
sweep onward, and take in Mexico; and
in some sequestered vale there is rem
nant Of the old Aztec race, with their Te-
ocalli surrounded with human skuils--
The voice of the people here leads forth
a pampered young man, the fairest and
best of the nation, decorated with flow
ers, up to the cousecrated bill. laying him
on the sacrifcial stone, and with breast
raised, the priest seizes the knife, and
drags it craunchiug through the ribs, and
tears out the heart, ell reeking and quiv-
ering; and this is the voice of God!
But We have taken in the continent,
from Esquimaux to Patagonisn, and still
we must expand We ride forth on the
Pacific wave, and annex the Feejee Is
lands, and the voice OF the people here is
10 IeaSt on human uesu, anu tue voice OF
the people is the voice of God! Is this an
insane asyluml Is the Democracy struck
With luuacy as well as filed with faDati-
cisml
The Slavery Democracy prates aud
chatters about negro equality. "Black
Republicans, and ''niggcr stealing" to
use its classic phrase and improved or
biography. It has, or affects to have a
great horror of "piggers And any one
who advocates the principles of human
Freedom, as they we're euunciated and
laid down in enduring forms by the faith
ers Of the Republic, as ''wooly head"
and these same Democrats have learn-
ed to speak of them with pecu-
liar nassl twist. Nt1So cohten1ne1e o.
dtaoo. 1os would suppose that these
gentlemen, whose olfactories are so sem
sitive and acute, never saw a niger. un-
less in menagerie- And yet, would you