New-York daily tribune., 1861-02-19

ana not one virtue, Is inst that unmtgated wront
which most emphatically there cannot be possible
element nor eemblance Of element Of law. DO not sup
pose me TO be an advocate of the Higher Law Doc
tripe. haze ever regarded il as very demoralizing
A higher law implies q lower law; and where two
laws are recognized men are wont to hold themselves
,'uenable but to the lower and to deride as we'll al
ds1wn the higher. There is but one law. The same
law Ss for both heaven and earth
"Agai2st such" says the Apostle, =" there is NO
law" Agaiuet liberty there IL no law. Against the
flave there is no lawneiber against him who hneied
from the great Southern preon-house, nor against him
who still remains In it. On The contrary, all law Is
for liberty, and an law is for the slave.
Not only then, in virtue of ths letter on ne Constl
tuion-that letter which is clear Of all slavery; not
only in virtue of the spirit of Liberty, which informs
the Constitution; not only in the name of the Constr,
tuition, do call you TO enact statute which shall
throw the strong protecting arms OF our c'ale
around every slave who shall come within its Jur1sdlc
tiona statute which shall eecually forbid any per-
ron in this State from claiming any person in 1t as
slave but call en- you in the name Of Justice also
that Justice which is the one law OF earth ana
Of time and eternity, and with which the true rergon
is identicalto render this service to man and this
honor 10 God scarcely need cay that do not mean
by this true religion the superstitious ana snam re-
Heion which infests every part OF Chrlstendonl. L
scarcely need say that mean by il the religion OF the
Bible Of Reason, and Of Jesus Chis-the relgion, In
other words of doing as you would be done by Ii Is
this religion which teaches that no man can admin
lister the law of Slavery, and yet behones For what
legislator or Judge executive would not, were ne
so unfortunate as 10 be shut up In Slavery break out
he coud, and that too, though he might thereby De
violating and dsbonoring ten thousand statutes ver-
cicts, and Constitutions In the name oi sueh
religion is it that I call upon you TO
enact the Personal Liberty law, which 20
vain is to call on men in the name Of this religion.
hope, however, that il is not in the case oil your
Legislature. Few have this religion Of doing az you
would be done by-of doing as yon unde. the suppo.i
ton that you are in your right mind would haye Others
do unto yoC. Yes few have this which is the whole
Of Chrsts religion, and in which all his teachings are
summed up. Many believe in il more or less earnestly
am, myself of their number. But only few have it.
never shall be. Who have this religionl Not the
church members-for they, with comparatively few
would not bear with ministers who should
preach ard pray against returning the fugitive slave
Nevertheless they in the sad changes of life to
become slaves they would desire to have all the pulps,
aye and all the PEOPLE, on the side of every slave.
Nor have the political parties this rehgion-for
they all resolve in favor Of returning fugi-
tive slaves. Yet should any Of these parties fall under
he yoke of Slavery they would deeire all political par
ties TO stand forth for the slave. fear that even my
old ierd Gov Seward the great favorite OF his party,
has not this religion. Indeed, he seems to be oven
further than myself from having it. For wihh the
three doors TO Be- kept open TO Tie slayethe door by
which he might away, the door Of deliyerance by
natiCoal action, and the door OF dehyerance by
State action. But the first Of these doors the
Governor would IN enect nave closeu, Iphs-
much az he would remove impediments lsuch
are Personal Liberty laws) out of the way OF re-
turning the slave who had escaped by this door, DO
not forget that it is only unconstitutional Personal Lab
erty laws that he woqld have repealed. Nor 90 l.
forget that were he slave lie would have every lazy
stand whether constitutional or unconstltuii9nai,
which might favor bis escape and that be woulo nave
even the Constitution aye, and tho Bble 100, cast
asde If politicians and priests were uslng them 10
hinder lis escape. Hence whether the Personal lab
i'm arc
10 no wise affect the argUnent which am making
It this point AS have already said: Agaln,t TIE
lave there is no law" add that what is for him 10
aw All Personal Liberty laws, far as they are Tor
lim are law. Thank God, the day hastens on when
he will no longer be called statesman who outrages
is brother and shrivels his own soul by recognizing
Slavery as law and when he, and he only, Will be
counted worthy Of the name, who amidst all the
,onsJrcies in both Church and State against human
nature doth Jesushke bravey vndica'e its claims IN
The person of the poorest and doth JesuB-lke gener
ousy identify himself with the most loathed and hated
outcasts. As to the second Of these doors that by
which the nation could deliver the slave Gov. Seward
proposes to have it barred and bolted anew, and 30
strongly as TO forbid and fown down every proposition
o open it, Nevertheless, were the Governor himsefto
become slave he would want as many doors as posi-
lie cut in the kies OF ms prison. and be would count
hat man his woIs; enemy, who should propose TO
hut up any one of them, even the smallest, or that
which woald be as unlikely to be opened, as in his
Tbereoree sPeh RGpal ss
moi have this religion of doing 80 be would be doneby
But stop! have not been DONG injustice 10 1oV-
Seyard and 10 the political and church partes May
Il NOT he that thew after ALL have this religion OF
Cbristhis religion of doing as we would be done oy
and that they suspend its operation but AT lhe point
Of pOhticstha point where near! n an ogs sSord
beloved in his family and neghborhood, and ought
10, in charity TO have assumed that ne mas ms re-
lQion and that he makes 1t practical hVe t tbs one
ont where 10 nearly all men II seems TO be utterly
imnractigablel Perhaps in common with 20 many,
lie 80 consirues CbTsts words, Render 70 Caesar Tie
things that are CTsars, and 10 Goo INC t1es trat are
Code" as 10 set human laws above the DIVINE where
they come in conflict with each cher. j remember
that in the first speech made in Congress had occa
sion 10 notice and criticse Goy Marcy suspension OF
the golden rude at this point; In his Correspondence
in the kOszta case with MIR HnI-ehihl, the repre-
tentative Of the Austrian Government ne SAID that The
BbIe "enioins upon all men everywhere, trhcH not
f;po under legdi restrOiHt 10 do unto others what
ever they would that others should 20 unto them'
Uonbtless Gov. Marcy sincerely bciev'd that such
qualification is necessary III order TO sVe the nJunc-
t;on from beaTnc perilousy on Slavery imputed no
irsinceri,y 10 him. impute none to Gov Seward
nothing " worse than lamen,able mistake. My own
Of this injunction to 90 as we would be
done by is, that 1t covers inc Whoic VI
human relations and is no less commanoing IL than
ont of tho sphere Of human egiflaion. IL II ice all
nual6caon; and il is not merely the higher law, INT
II Ia in the presence Of oil contrary laws the oY iaW
1t binds men as well when on as on tnc thion' ns
well when on as of the bench; az well when IN o. ont
az Parliament, Congress or State Legislature; Ju,
Jcioi decrees statutes and Constitutions all yJid
70 far as they conflict with this injunction to do's
we would be done by. ...
For the sake Of guarding myself against misrepre.
sentaon, lot me step aside for moment 20 say tit
though night is always law ad wTSe Tarv c vroDe
bsb ,S comes to us ard challenge our obedience and
enbmis,on in the name Of law. we are 70 ge Pal,en'
With all iegazed wrongn vlici are at all bsaFaoie
ONLY euch as are absoiFey unDeafaop, !I anu
and among these Slavery d eOuiS' N"' 'N0 pi''--