Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-11-28

arises the neral obligation not to violate
thai comp CT.
We have contracted with the people of
every State to let them alone. We have
promised them. and hence arises my notion
OF the moral obligation to fulfill that pro-
mise.
l don't know what Brown may have
thought on this subject. They say he is an
honest man. Some may doubt it, hut all al
low he may be honest after fashion. or as
Hamlet has it i'm the play. ''indifferent hon.
tst." | don't doubt. by y hat We hear said,
that he suffered much in Kansas. that he be-
came little irrilated. and hence little in
sane. That may all be true, hut be must
have been IA very stFangc moral philosopher.
if he would go to Harp,r's T. Try, in Virgin
ia, and Kill many women and childri n
as could BE- reached with the So pixies, bccause
same vagabond killed his sou in Kansas.
But Brown went on the idea that the whole
system vas wrong. He may have reasoned
l. that way, but think might as well say |
will Hill Mr., Morris, or my friend Smith. sim
ply b'causc one Of my ancestors had a SON
that killed bis brother. 1t il peri cfly GER
tain that Adam had two Sons. and one knock
cd out ibe others brains. We suppose with
club He mast have very imperfect
vision who could not see the difference he
tween the people Of Virginia that staG at
hOlHe. and did not come to Kansas. and those
that came to Kansas and hurt his son.
l will agree that he may be HONEST. Int
ibiHk while he entertained a profound bOrror
ct slavery and felt great Indignation towards
The men who wanted 10 establish it in Kan
sss, and that killed his son, while We may
think that. | think there was something OF
the Old Adam in it, and he went TO revenge
himself upon the innocent, for tue wrongs
done by others.
am judging Of a dead man. for he is as
good as dead. buI | cannot avoid speaking
al this matter, be cause / think there is a
great mistake abroad i'll the country concern
ing it,
brigham Young believes in this miserable
doctrine OF polyga ry-his dl-cipl"s do,
whether he dots or no: they believe that God
Almighty commanded a man should have
many wives. Suppose they were 10 come
here To cut off this generation because we
don't believe that Brigham comes with the
word OF the Lord, what would we do with
him? He comes into your houses and kills
your children, and dashrs out their brains
upon your own heart-stOnes. MahGmet went
over the world in that way, aud he was no
doubt fixed aud honest in his belief. What,
then, would it b. our duty to do with Brig
ham Y ouHg? He has killed your babes-he
has taken your young daughters, that have
jurt left your warm Embraces, the very t. ar
Of affection which you sh, d upon her cheeks
not yet dry aud some man, under the COM
Inand oil God, as he asserts, cuts her throat
Ia your very pTcsrnce. That was Brown r
way Of doing the thing. That was what he
WAS after. What will you do with him? Is
tn, re any law, III HeaVen or on Garth, that
Will excuse him: Is there any nation
among men that would not send such man
to the gallows, or to the peniten,iary? l.
there any man so much saint, so fee from
the imp,riections OF humanity, that would
not Stay him if he could?
Why is it. then, that John Brown, because
hc tells the truth and faces his coming doom
with compOzure. shall be canOniZ, d! Many
a highway robber is just as brave as John
Brown. Many highway robbcr ls just
fee from lying John Brown. Romance
aud history, too. are full OF the account, If
men committing crimes, who " uld neither
Ii. nor finch al sight of the ga lows. What
will you do with such men? You erect peni-
tnliarirs to put such men out of the world,
because you cannot live in the world while
they are in il.
John Brown is a hero. British juriSpru-
deucc abounds in just such heroes as this
man, vino. di-tracIcd by inJ"ri in 'cial life,
and reduced To WANT, g. upon the b ghwHy
with the pistol IN their hand. and meet The
passeng and say, - have no country; all
the laws Ind all the social institutions oi
civilized man are tut conlrivnnces Of fraud
! app,a To God and look Heaven in the
face What will you do with such man.
Hundreds of such men have been killed and
gone /" the gailows because they had their
view Of duty.
What is all your preaching, my reverend
friend. but ii command To oh, y the law &:
ours is the law at God, but these must bc
under that obedience to the law of man.
There must b. order in the world: and when
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this. | hold that upon the codsciruce II
very christian man. upon the conscience If
every honest muI 10 adopts the Christian
morality OF the New Testament his rule,
there IL ne strong AN obligation TO perform
the law Tor the Time being.