Year: 1859

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and intoxicating drinks increasing so rapidly. AL
that have any dscernmont must see that it this


boundless Inconsistency and unprincipledness al


the ballot box which has killed this dear cause


and that it can never be revived by temperance


societies and temperance newspapers and temper


ance lectures that go for the election Of rum


drinkers. Such stapendouS and shameless hypOc
risies must give place to agencies characterized
by sincerity and self-denial before temperance can
come to life.


Oh no, let not the history of either the tenn.
perance cause or the ant-Slavory cause be written
with the view of honorng their prolessed friends


They hare both been Killed al the ballot boa by those
friends. If written at all, lei it be with the pur
pose of warning the world against hypocrsies.
To return from this digressior, let me, my friend
again say that we had better give up the celebra
ton of the Rescue of Jerry. The thing is quite
too great and good for US. Earnest and honest
men are alone suited to it. We Jerry Rescuers
are mean men and sham men. Dear Jerry's saint
ed spirit can take no pleasure in this our grand an
nual hypocrisy. The Savior whom he so heartily
chose and faithfully followed ir his last years
can have no sympathy with it. The cause Of
freedom is disgraced and hindered, instead of be-
ing honored and promoted, by it.


Let us stand aside: and then perhaps consist
ent men and honest men and high-souled men will
ere long come up to take our place One of the
most beautiful scenes that could bless my sight
would be Jerry Rescue Anniversary conducted
by men who would as soon stay in brothel as in
a church that recognizes a law for slavery, and
hn f,r u,lo
law for sheep-stealng as for men who acknowl-
edge that judicial decree statute, or even
a Constitution create any obligation to protect
and honor man-s'ealng.


In short, let US who talk we'll against slavery
stand aside for those who will vote we'll against
it. Let our professions make room for their prac-
tees, and our hypocrisies for their sincerity.


Men make light of the crime of voting wrong,
and yet there is other crime full of the heav-
lest oppression. Quite bad enough is it when, in
my private or individual dealings with my fellow.
men, oppress him. But when vote against his
rights as [ do when l vote for candidates who
hold that there may be valid and obligatory and
real law for his slavery, or who hold tha. there
can be such law for dram-selling, such
such a law for making and keeping him drunk
ard, then vote to array the government and the
collective people against him; then vote not that
may wrong him-not that with such compara-
lively insignificant powers as an individual can
summon, may Cypress him, but that whole State,a
whole nation. may fall upon him and crush him..
Churches and parties may be stone blind to it ;
nevertheless Heaven that this voting against
human rights, and this voting temptation in the
way Of the weak, constitute the mightiest wrong
that men are capable of perpetrating.


Much is said and written against the breaking
of human laws. But they are entitled to obedi-
only SO far as they are one with those Divine
laws which cannot be broken, 1.-The law Of his
God" was Daniels only law. No friend of God
knows any other law. Apostles answered and
said 1--WE ought to obey God rather than mon;"
so too, Whether it be right it the sight Of God to
hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye."
How senseless and wicked is this defamation
against trampling under foot these human laws.
To such tramplng are the nations indebted for
their instances of their greatest progress. Often,
indeed, have the nations found it their only saliva
tion How shameless the hypocrisy of our coun-
trymen While glorying in the historical fact
that our fathers were ready to take up arms
against laws imposing petty taxes on tea and pa
per they nevertheless rolled up the whites of their
eyes in holy horror at refusals to obey laws, if
laws they can be called, which sink honest men,
women and children in the hell Of slavery.


The rescuers of Jerry were called rebels. But
the rebellion in the case was chargeable not on
them, but on the government. 1t was the govern
ment and not the rescuers who were guilty OF re-


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every innocent man to his personal liberty, That
law the rescuers upheld, and against it did the
government rebel. What if its rebellion was car
ried on under the form of law meme the less was
it rebellion.


People are won't to regard every enactment as
law. But many an enactment is not law. Squat
ter sovereignty is much extolled and now and
then there are signs that even the Republican par
ty is fast coming to acquiesce in it. Nevertheless
squatter sovereignty is not law. The liberty Civ
en- by the Nebraska bill to enslave men was not
liberty to set up law-quite as EN- phatically such
as if it had been liberty to murder men. The in
vasion of human rights by government can no
more than such invasion by an individual be law.
The Invaders, be they governments or individuals,
are the rebels and they who resist them the
law-abiding. The passage of the Nebraska bill
afforded ample justification to the people to enter
the balls of Congress and hurl the rebels from
their seats. A poor chance of any other than
hempen elevation would such rebels stand were
the rebellion of this country Christianity and it's
politics democracy. As things are, it is the man
here and there who dares to live Christian life
on whom the American Church pounces and it
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whom American politicians American Democrats
show no mercy. "ra


tits, perhaps, vain, as respects its effect on sla
very, for me- or for any one else. to demonstrate
against voting for those who believe in a law for
slavery, or, in other words, against the pro-save
voting. 1t is, perhaps too late to bring slavery to
az end by peaeeable means-too late to vote il