New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-23

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Unable is conventional and book religion. Bu IN wha
beautiful contras, Va stands the religion OF mature
that reasonable religion 9hlch treats all beings Sc
cordng to their banres-he man according 70 h-, Ard
the horse ace riding 90 his not the a. II he were
horse any more than the horse n If he were mao.
| Our savtholdug religion subjects man to the disci-
ire OF hor,e AMI thus rivals the absurdity OF the
| n memorable attempt in Rome 70 eXat h,rse To the
DIGNITY Of man. The religion 81 ns;Gre does Dot treat
| one uan SIS hog, ard another as Superhuntn, bat,
| recognizing the common nature OF al men, be they
white red or black, u brings them al under common
treatment Hence the religion 81 nature can nave no
f.llow.bin with siavehodng nor with Massachusetts,
New-York nor any other STATE which gives the least
couI tersrc. 10 slavehooing For saveholding hts
| ND the STAKEHOLDER above all the rights oi human
nature and reduces the slave 20 brute. Nor can u
have feo~shp with the selling II intoNicaiin ing drinks
since that iii. The Golfers Of some men al the expense
| of sinking Others below the brute.
Whist an enemy instead If friend of the natural
and ory asonabe religion, must be the religion which
i. in full fellowship Nth these unnatural and enormou.
crimes Base indeed must be the religion 10 which
there il not virtue enough Ia smut the dranshop ans
to afford shelter 10 the pursued slave ia'e inasel
must il have made the people VINO elect ifo'S'"'ey
ard dramsbop Legislatures. -
We pass on TO other illustrations OF the spurousness
If the prevailing religion. The American tract So-
ciey iushts its welcomes, also, On the gronhd Oh s
promise TO be wicked. QUlte recently II mas again,
under the plea Of its virtual promise I" WITHHOLD TINS
pnrt Of the gospel, excused itself Tor refusing 10
nreacb deliyerence' to the slaves. ASH promise,
be real or Pretended express or implied 70 rob tho
OFT pcSecuted and peeled class of men of that Gods
testimony for the faithful PRONUNCIATION of which they
are in pcrishpg need, could excuse the robbers Ana
these superatiyey guilty robbers carry on their ROB
be,y in the name and with the solemn air and long tact
ofpety and fit plainly commanded ana ndis-
p.nsabc duty ana service to Him who has said: "a
the Lord love judgmt ut: hate robbery Tor burnt
offering.
Another recent illustration of the slseness of the
rent religion is afforded in the almost universal SYM
pathy with the murderer of Philip Barton hey. The
/ fay his a
of the re giOus press and so far rs know, no portion
of contended for his conviction. But why should he
have been acquitted Because say his apoloyists, he
was argry when be did the deco. What the ruin Of
his wife be get in him the superficial and cheap emo
ton Of anger A base man, indeed, must he then be-
noble in clrcur stances would be filled, ay
be might be even killed, with grief But the sorrow
of his soul would be too deep and would be too sacred
and select 10 express itself III the vulgar aud brutal
demonstrations of anger.
We proceed tothe most reled.on and popular excuse
for the murder. II that the auteer deserves Ia die
But our law does say The law of Moses does is
the reply; and great parade II made both IN and
Govt of the ouit So does Moses law say that every
one who curseth his father or his mother shall be
surely put to death" So, too does II say that to
gather cks the Sabbsth ofiense punishable
with DEATH And what gross inconsistency and glarng
hypocrisy il is 70 hold up some of his laws ~ obiga
tory and To make no account OF others Moses, how
ever, did hot that perS0i should be put TO death
for these ofenses without having first had trial.
Moreover his code for ignorant and uncivil8ed
people and it is not for Cnnst is our lawgiver,
and he cunfontS Moses the lawglyer. Christ rather
than have the adulterer suffer tue unreasonable pun
i,hment of death, would LAY to him, Go, snd SIN no
more.
VIII the defenders of this murderer stand by their
doctrine that, where the law does not provide penalty
private wrath should Then let them, as consistency
and honesty require look upon the slave, not the
Ouction only of wife and daughters but the foc
bic subjection of them to lust is among everyday ac-
Qualities AZ well as possibilities. Let hem say, look
hun, and ADMIT his duty TO wreak the deep VEN
geance OF his soul upon those who rampei down
his holy marital ana parental rights, rs well rs all the
other ghts of his manhood
Again are the defenders Of this doctrine and this
murderer prepared to have the wife OF the aiul-
terer go forth to shoot the adueressl They are, II
they are honest aud consistent. And again, would
they have the seducei rather than the seducer mur-
dered Who knows that Key not the seiuced
party Whatever Justice at this point he might have
been able to do HE reputation, he not permitted
do. For he was first murdered and then tried
Once Are these defenders willing that all per-
who suspect or II you please believe, that their
copjugal partner is unialthiu shall act pistol IN hand
upon the first impulses of their suspicious, upon
their fuy.ua,uied belles For surely, if this az ion
shall be allowed to any, it must be TO all But in ten
thousand the Inind IN which such suspicious
spring up or such beliefs are matured, would be 80
swayed by snora ce Prejudice and passion "a To be ut
terly incapable of weighing evidence. What however
if il shall be very wire aud good man who shall
suspect Of crime still, and even if IT be acrmo
worthy Of death | must insist the right of
being iried before am killed
In this order of thing whose life is safe Not
mine; not you're Every where there are jealous per-
sons silly or stupid enough to be persuaded, though
without any reason, of attempts deoauch their
wives, daughters, sisters. Hence if this tendency
in country To let the jealous man be Judge, jury
and eAecutioDer in his own case, shall gain much
strength IN few years To come as 1t has in the last
few years, there will not be- another country earth
where murder will be 20 frequent, and the life OF an
Innocent person insecure. II ures will help arrest
the rapid progress Of nation To the lowest barba
rism, they must promptly convict the class OF murder
ers to which the murderer Of Philip Barton Key be-
longs. As things going, they had better let any
other class If murderers escape.
But would not look TO the husband 10 protect the
wife from seduction No-I would look ~ herself.
Her own virtues her only legitimate earthly protec-
tors from such fate. All the aid would require of
husband would be to hive such life before her
should minister strength to those virtues. How de
grading to woman is this doctrine that blood must
be shed in ORDER TO deter from using her upon
their usts To what low place in the scale Of intel
hgeDt beings does il consign herr
But would not have civil government prescribe a
penalty for sexual intercourse out Of wedlOck Ger
tainy would Its office, ay its sole Office is TO pro-
tect The great natural Ilghs OF man: and these
never more hagrantly invaded than by such inter-
Let me here cay that in land il there civil
government. Emphatically true is this in respect 10
ourown land. ls place here Is usurped by bold and
imam rus conspiracy against human rights God made
every man Ia own himself. But this conspiracy which
we call Govern nent allows 10 own another.
Again, our Government Ike Governments in other
ands instead Of prot ctng life and pro 2erty, licenses
the dramsbop-that nmeasuraby greatest manufacto-
ry OF madmen, mnrderers and ncendaries. These
Illustrative Of the spuIOusness Of the religion which
permits them. Another Is 10 be found in land mOnop
oily. Government, here and elsewhere allows ono
man TO grasp fifty homes, and to leave thereby forty
pine homeless. For, beside that we each need
but home, there is but home for each Of Us.
The defect Of the Grow Dended Land bill in the last
Congress shows that the protection Of human rights