The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-03-07

Hack ana shs Higher Law.
The slave power knew its enemies,
=. .s. BY instiincsheS Boz aed Payne Su.
sio7 ~ NO. old N<th>rn dough-
faoS II most,exfink attacks
the q MOI q lincoln r. anton or
instinct. "a latest ll1lk1se may may BE- Be-
found in published letter addressed
TO Charles Francis Adams by Jefe.
miah s. Black. Some people will re-
member Mr.. Blacks bitter attack ON
Mr.. Stanton soon after the death Of
that great War Secretary. Others
believe that Mr.. Black inspired that
venomous book, '.IdnioRs Lite 81
Lipcolp.o.. Many passages Of that
work bear the mark Of his polished
bat Jesutical pestsshih it - known
that Lamon and Black were associ-
ates and paftaesaE0s lawyers and claim
agents while the book was in prepare
ton. Mr. Sewaydcis nov the object
Of defamation byltha busy jaekal. AZ
Ian Exponent OF the principles Of the.
Democratic party Mr.. Black is the
highest authOrityg .trG aaios m i---el
1t is this which gives the subject
the greatest importance, Can the
leopard change his spots9 SO z
Our attention is chiefly directed
now to his attack q the higher law
and the astou1dina ignorance display.
ed by the writer, of what Republicans
regard as the simplest principles Of
moral philosophy applied to Govern
ment. The ;tmefe lawyer W know,
who essays to dispose ofpths higher
law in the way Mr.. Black attempts TO
! do Il in this letter to Mr.. Adams, II
apt to reject such philosophy as too
refined and too spiritual Men Of Mr..
Blacks class recognise as them only
religion the worship ofthe Stats. I'm
like that party, the great men, the
leaders of anankind, ever maniieetedl
supreme faith IN God and humanity.
Adams denounced the Apologies Of
the Stamp Act az enemies Of human
nature" The authority of British
law, rs laid down by Blackstone, was
quoted against the act in these words.
'ssThe law of nature being cOeval with
God himself, il Of coxYse, superior to
any other. - No human laws are Of
any validity if contrary to this.'
y Alexander Hauiton, the framer Of
the Constitution; af6rms that 1.-THE sa-
cred rights of mankind are not to be
rulnmaged for among old parchments
or musty records They are written
as with sunbeam in the whole vol-
ume of human nature, and can never
be erased or obscured by mortal pow.
er." adtaa6 s I'll 3a.j aae ~
Happy, thrice happy said Wash
ington, Hshall they be pronounced
hereafter who shall have assisted in
protecting the nights Of human ma.
fure.n ifIg .sm4G8r. hiaR 10 SIS afs
| Is The Revolutionary Congress, in its
last act, enjoined upon 'posterityil to
remember isthst it has ever been the
pride and boast Of, America that the
rights for which she commended werC
the rights of human NATURE 80 ianes
Cicero wroteithat denial Of . higher
law 'tsubvertsIali union in State and
destroys the community of the human
race. "lim q aliw 9gsoaSJ t Il
1 Locke inculcated the doctrine that
b...there is = divine law which 10 over
oil society and allstates, and which il
the only touchstoHe of moral racti-
| tude."d as8ni2r p0y Ii ssa ~ Ftaa e
r. MiltOn,sf Defense Of the People of
England" although at the time bum.
ed by The public etecutioner, its au-
thor only by good fortune escaping
the same fate.Nas but a promulgation
r0f the same philosophy so derided by
ex- Attorney General Black. i II
g0uizot, in writing of the decline Of
/ Ronlan civilization, arrives at thin
momentous1 conclusion: 1.-THE only
4 foundation Of our hope for humanity
islin the great truth that there exists
| law which, by whatever name it may
be called, whether reason, the law q
EGod, or what not, Is It nA times and
| in all places the same.
i Is it strange that the advocates o.
| this philosophy are still prosecuted
land denounced? Adams, Hamilton
and Washington escaped the scaffold
only by, the success of their cause
while those from whom these states
men derived their philosophy-Locke
Sidney, and YAne-perished as felonl
or sought refuge in exile. Socrates
who first incnlcatea it, drank the
fatal hemlock, and Cicero fell by til,
sword of the assassin.-The Republic
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