New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-10

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Oppression. and by their example teach the peo-
ne 10 desp % the poor and helpless The great hesh
az the Church has warned Us against that fear Oh
man which bringeth snare, and demands that M.
ubassadors shall deliver his message OF mercy and
Love regar,ess alike of the displeasure OF such a.
are In HIGH places and Of the SCOTS and camor OF
:. the CODES multitude. The tree Is known by =.
" fruits, and that il not the religion OF the Gospel
which fails to iIculcate glory 10 UOd; anu peace snu
" good will TO men,.
There il profound eternal argument ard philosophy
of benevole and reform in the song OF the angels
and il was exactly in the line and spirit OF that song
that Judge Jay wrought upon society Ills religion rs
well a. his natural humanity made him The advocate
of peace. He believed that in giving us the Gospel,
God has bestowed all that is necessary to secure peace
all the power for this object that We need we VIII
be faithful with II.
He Insisted on the Christian duty of dsobedience to
any law tina. compelled men, or commanded them, TO
violate the Divine law, and holding II as thing papa
be 10 every Christian conscience that the Fugitive
Slave bill re uired such violation he counseed an open
and resoute defiance and detestation OF the law. He
left the following grand and just legacy: bequeath
TO my son 81 900 in trust, to be applied by him. at
his discretion in promoting the safety and comfort OF
fugitive slaves" wiring to friend in 1914, be said
that the Of human rights American abolition,
SIS never absert from my thoughts. 1t is engrayen
| " on my heart
The false and wicked principles and measures evow-
ed and adopted in Governmental policy, have been
exposed and rebuked by Judge Jay with amost remark
able drectness. You have bat toread has work entitled
"A View of the Action of the Federal Government IN
behalf of Slavery and you feel that if God would but
bless our land with few such intrepid patriots might
be saved There is the truthful and solemn sever
y and faithful ess in his inquiry into the character
and tendency of the American Colonization Society his
address the violation Of the night OF petition MS
letters on the of Compromise and the Fugitive
Slave BILL and on the fail Ires of the Tract Society the
American Board, and other religious and benevolent
associations. A friend and supporter of every, good
cause he did not shrink from the duty Of publicly re-
buking the departure from duty and betrayal of prn-
cipe in regard to the rights of the coored race and
the inquity of Slavery of which nearly every popular
Society Of pTofessed Christian sentiments has been
guilty. To the Bible Society, the American Sunday
School Union the ColoniZ alton Society, the American
Tract Society, and the American Board of Commits
soners for Foreign Missions; to every association In
turn when il came TO this trial. and swerved from the
path Of truth and justice he applied the Word of God
and the pummet Of his righteousness in the measure
ment of the transgresson. He was certainly severe,
but with the majesty of truth, in behalf OF
the oppressed and injured, against the depressing
aad the proud, and always in the exercise OF true
Christian charity. With him, to the wrong was in
stanty to strike for the right He could not be ndii-
ferent he could not be nsensible, he never asked,
- Am my brothers keeper :" He never pretended,
81 knew il, >" but added TO the Roman Homo Sum the
still higher Christians Sum, and therefore nothing hu'
man is foreign from but in Christ is brought nearer
than With such qualities, man of such rmness
was providentia gift TO his country, in period OF
general and dreadful detection. His piety was not one
thing and his policy enother-his piety angelic, his
policy that Of the Jesuit; but the principles that
directed, and impulses that inspired him as Christian,
also guided his determinations as statesman.
In the purposes and progress the Florida and Mex
lean wars Judge Jay traced with fine and mastery
hand our nations guilt. The facts revolving every
step of the way but perhaps the embrace OF war ana
Slavery never was witnessed on earth in disgrace
full and hideOus forms Of tragedy than in the progress
Of the Florida cruelties The Indians were massacred
by the United States Government for the sake OF
Slavery II would scarcely be possible for Christian
IN "a ats n kednp
oftha diabolca discriminating murder under the name
| of war.
Judge Jay was not afraid of his own principles, nor
Of earnestly, and with will and purpose, avowng
them. This calm fearessness, this disregard of ohio
quy this superiority to the shame attached to the adj
vocacy of the rights of the oppressed was an element
of Irresistible power. He despised the odium connected
with the name of Abolitionist, and avowed the name
himself, as the watchword of his own principles.
1t is now just seventy years since Mr.. Jays birth
period unexamped in the development of energy, both
good and bao a period of revolution, discovery,
science progress period in which crimes cast off
and buried by other nations have been raised from the
grave and charged with new life, enlarged TRANSPORTED
and clarified In existence and sorcery. The ad-
yancement of our Government has been first, to n
strength in which it might have fulfilled its obligations
to God and humanity; but, second, to despotism in
the working Of which the very Constitution originally
adopted by the people ofhe United States perverted
for the interests and supremacy of an ohgarchy OF
sayeholders TO the destruction of Freedom and JUS
tce Jay beheld with enguish the progress OF these
and perversions Of re Constitution and freedom OF his
| country. He saw lie very elements OF republican
freedom brbed ana arred, and passing over the bridge
of this Diquity Of Slavery into consolidated despot-
ism. The Government is no longer our property, but
we ourselves the property and servants OF the
| Government. IL is a Government no longer OF us,
but over u.s. Our masters have taken our patrimony
by fraud and throw us the very crumbs from their
| tables as an inef,abe cOndescension.
In consecrating his powers to prolonged conflict
against all this wickedness, and patient, continued
perseverng defense of the rights Of oppressed race
Judge Jay found himself pledged, by an interchangeable
industry and elasticity, in variety OF abors accuInu
atinp 10 the end. He grew himself in intellectual
stature, as in practical wisdom and piety, with the
grasp and variety of his efforts in this He
was reproached as being man OF one idea. But tins
has been in all ages the stale and commonplace remark,
the worthless witless rdiculde of small minds and
selfish pleasure trihers against the persistent
earnest prosecutors Of large and radical reforms.
Ii is impossible TO measure the Importance or the
comprebensiveness the blessedness of the scheme
of the abolition of Slavery II is beyond question the
greatest individual special work of philanthropy ever
proposed entered on and in its issues, connections,
consequences, branching out into ntny, and at the
present hour demanding the application and tasking
the energiesOf the most comprehensive inellingenee
calling for the largest view the greatest wisdom, the
profoundest sagacity the most perfect dsinerested
ness against the greatest array of enemies and obsta
cles ever organized in opposition To any reform. And
yet the Christian spirit that embarks in it is stigma.
tzed even by professed Christians as the fanatic OF
| one idea and not even the combination Of intellect
and piey the character of Judge Jay could protect
him from attempted ostracismby such reproach.
In concluding his discourse, DIR. {. remarked that
nothing is lost nothing forgotten nothing wasted that
is done for Christ nothing defeated incomplete, that
has in il the perfection of aim of disinteresed,
grateful faith and love- II may seem disappointment
and failure here, but in the world Of spiritual light
and glory it is perfect and complete success.
How seldom friend, good srea, man Inherit.