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HOW HARRY DELL fl LOVE
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All the fdrls in 1 7 Yowervale were in
lvith Harry Vernon. That is to .
ray. they admired him excessively,
were ready to I'4l in love if he
should lead the way. Funny Somers,
the little witch, Ara.; the only excep
tion. Merry, dancing., and pretty as
a I:dry, it was a tineAirm whether she
had ever yet thotieht of love; if she
find. .he had never talked of it.
Ihrry's Ihther was a Senator iji
C'imaress, and he himself was a younL;
lawyer of brilliant talents, finished
tibicatioa, and handsome fortune. It
wa s Inteiwn that his father wished him
to 'marry, and did not as is (Alen the
rase. insist on his selectim; an heiress.
Th, now i o rrey-h;ireil statesman had
made a love-match is his youth. and
Mill worshipped the memory of the
wife he had too early Let
yortr heart.choose, my son." he said.
Marriage without true affection. holds
reit hat-`a poor show for litopine"."
Moq oftimse, not directly interested
in the event. thowTht that:lsabel For
te cue carry off the prize. She
wa-: decidedly the belle of the village.
Haling received her education at
n la , hionable Seminary, there was
t , carcelv an accompli=hment of which
nlce could not boast. licsides-. the
families of Vernon and Fottescu,
had_been the leading ones in the
country for two generations; and
f- aid that the union of the two
fortunes, and f the united influence,
would ~ ice Harry a position almost
Certain it is that Harry vi-iced
Isabel very often. Those who envied
her accused her of maneuvring to win
Throw s herself in his way
4:omi:in-Mr: said one. • Did ever any
body,' cried another, 'see a air] make
Inve hare-favedly'r She ontrht to
get Lim. I'm sure,' sneered another,
for she has trietl.hard emaah.'
crtheless, as hone-t chroniclers. we
must rccc.rd the fact, that conic of
the , o very young ladies. such is th
intirt:'.'ity of human nature, did their
VPry out-maneuver L-abet
and c, t Harry for themselves.
had tot seen Fanny since
•child. It was only a month
left school, and returned
;...:in; and the first time she
;chi- -; in the villar , e social circle was
Ih•lT her bloominz
gracithl deuce and ringino•
: been the theme of admira
•-•the beaux, and the envy of
:Iles. Harry had been. her
•-r is a dance or two, and in
;.n nith others. felt it would be
it :o call upon her. So the
Liter the party, he sallied
• tnai,r the round ~f th e village
EMI
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: visited She was
rt. IL L! ease, charmingly dresr-ed.
a novel. All she could
v.-as her fati , ue. Y t -t she
,vitchhodv, it - was incofte:;t- '
11, , subdued light of that
qtr :glue, with elegant pie
-11- r walls, boquets of flowers
%-oa an atmosphere of ex
-1:1:-..ment around. Never had
't much t:-mpted to be in
love. it aid nearly an hour, \viten
lie had I.::.eided to stop for• only a
few mini.tt-s; and would not perhaps,
have Then, if other gentlemen
had not : " pt in.
From Is_bel's he went to several
other 1:‘,1,, , e5. Everywhere he fbund
ti:. Noting ladies dressed to receive
company. Some- were reading nov
els, son:: had a book- of poetry open
before them; and one, who had a
pretty hand, was coquettishly knitting
a purse. Not one of them appeared
to have anything serious to do. :Most
of them ;fleeted, like Isabel, to be
quite languid, and talks eas if the
fatigue of the day before Thad nearly
killed them.
When lir try reached the pretty,
but unprmehding cottage, where Fan
ny resi&d with her widowed mother,
ho fend the hall door opened to
admit the breeze, and so, just tapping
at tl - •e parlor entrance, he entered
Lcilvii!g. In the shaded light of the
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cool, fraganted room, ho could not
for a moment, see ; but he noticed .
immediately that no one atswere . d. his
salutation ; • and directly _he beheld
that the apartment was empty. Just
then, however, a fresh, liquid voice,
as merry 'as • a
in
June, was
heard warbling in an inner apartment.
Harry listened awhile charmed, but
lindhrg, that his knocking was not
heard, and recognizing, as•he thought,
Fony's voice, finally made bold to go
in search of •the singer. Passing
down the hall, and through another
open door, he suddenly found - him
.self in the • kitchen, a large, airy
bpartmem, scrupulously clean, with
Fanny' at the. and opposite to him,
:,tanding before a dough-trough, knead
ing flour mid carolling like a lark.
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It was a piCture an artist would
have loved to paint. Fanny's faee
was seen partly in profile, showing to
perfection her long lashes, 'and bring
ing out in relief the pouting• lips and
round' chin. The breeze blew her
brown curls playfully about, and oc
casionallv finite over her fare, at
which time she would throw 'them
hack with a pretty toss of her head.
Her arms were bare; and rounder,•
whiter or more taper arms never
were; they fairly put to shame with
their rosy pearliness, the snowy flour
powdered over them. As she moved
with quick stslps, at her task, her trim
figure showed all its grace; and her
neat ankle and delicate foot twinkled
in and out. For a while she did not
observe Harry. It was not till she
turned to put down the dredging-box .
that she beheld him.
• Most our fair readers, We suppose,
w' aid have streamed, and perhaps,
would have run out at the oppbsite
door. Farmv did no such thing: She
blushed a little, as was natural, but
having no fiche shame, she saw no
reason to be frightened merely he
cruse a handsome yt,ung gentleman
Lad caught her at work. So she
carte-ied prettily. laughed one of her
gayest laughs, and said, holding up
her hands:
I can't shake hands with you, Mr.
Vernon, you see. Mamma Was kind
einnu - s.h to let me ,- zo to the picnic
ve•stcrday. and put off some of my
work_; and so I'm doing &utile to
day, to make up for it. If you'll he
kind enough to cvait a minute, I'll call
mamma." .
"No, no." said Harry; charmed by
this frank innocence, and unOcremo:
nionsly takinz. a well-scrubbed chair,
" I've only a few minutes', to stay.
My rail is on you, 1 came to see how
you borethe fatigues of yesterday."
Fanny laughed till her teeth, so
white and so little. looked, behind the
ro , y lips, like pearls set in the richest
ruby enamel. "Fatigued! W'hy, we
had such a charming_ time yesterday,
that ono couldn't get tired, even if
one had been a hundred years old."
"VOu'll never grow old," said Har
rr•, surprised into what would have
I;een flattery, if he had not sincerely
tlinuf4t it: and hbz countenance showed
his admiration for the bright, happy
creature before hint.
The intended, five minutes imper
ceptably grew into ten, and the ten
into halt an hour. Fanny continued
at 'her household 'work, pleasantly
chatting the while, both she and Har
ry mutually so interested as to Ihrget
time 'and place alike. At last the
entrance of Mrs. Somers interrupted
the tete-a-Plc. Fanny was a little
embarrassed, when she found how
hmg she and Harry had been alone;
but the easy, matter-of-course manner
of Harry, as be shook hands•with her
mother, restored her to herself.
If the elegant. refinement about
Isabel had tempted Harry to fall in
love, the hot:: ehold charm which sur-1
rounded Fanny forced him to do so,
whether or no. He went away think
ing to himself what a charming wife
Fanny Would make, and how sweetly
she would look, .in her neat, home
''dress. engaged in her. domestic duties.
Nor is Harry the only young haehelor,
who. remembers that a Wife cannot
! always be in futi dress, and who
naturally wishes to know how she
will look in the kitchen. "A wife
• ought as much to know how to man
lage her house," he said to himself,
I"as a man to . understand business.
I don't wish a wife of mine, indeed,
1 4be maid of all work; but I should
like to have her capable of overseeing
her servants; and doniestics discover
very soon - whether their mistress . is
competent, and obey, or disregard
her accordingly. Besides, Fanny
looked bewitching, . this morning.—
Ah ! if I had such a dear little wife,
how I'd coax ber to go info the kitch
en occasionally, that 1 might - see her
at work." .
It soon became 'apparent that it
would be no fault of Harry, if h e did
not have Fanny for a wife. Never
Was a man' deeper in' love, nor did he
make any effort to conceal it. Had
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Fanny been abolish flirt, she would
have played with his feelings, as vain
"!:irls will when secure of a lover.
But she was too frank and good for this,
and only hesitated long enough -to be
certain 4 . , the 6tutc.of her own heart,
when she made Harry happy by ac
cepting him. •
Two perS•ons More fitted for each
other, inn Tact, could not Though
always merry, because alivays happy,
Fanny was amiable, intelligent,and full
of sound sense. She had rend and
thought a great deal, especially for
one so youn:r. .Her heart ran over
with "unwritten poetry." Had Harry
'sought :for a life-time, he' could . not .
haTe 'blind a wife sii companionable,
and '§.(-) suited in even-way to him.
What a talk the engagement made
when it "came out ! The haughty Isa
bel, who, withoutheing half as capable
of sincere love as Fanny, had made up
her mind to - have Harry, and whose
vanity wus therefore piqued, even de
graded herself so much as to call. the
bride-elect "an artful,intrigning pussl"
Other disappointed beauties had other
hard names for Fanny. But 'though,
when our heroine first heard of these
slanders, she shed a few teats, she soon
dried her eves; for, with Harry's love,
nothing could make her long unhappy.
It was not until the young couple
had set (eon their wedding tour, that
Harry toldliiS wife what had first made
him fall in love with her.
Evers , other girl I visited that
morning,''. he ".was playing . the
fine lady ; and that, While, as' yell I
knew, their mothers were often slaving:
in the kitchen. I reasoned that the
daughter who would neglect her duty
to a parent, coilld scarcely be expect
ed to be less selfish toward a husband.
Besides, it is a common error with
your se, now-days. to suppose that
it is debasin'g to enrage in domestic
duties. To a man of tense, dearest; a
woman never looks more attractive
than at such'a time: As Wordsworth
writes— . • .
Her houkAuld Motions light and free,
And steps of virgin liberty,
'A countenance to which there meet
•
Sweet recrerds. promises as sweet;
A creature not too bright and good
For human nature's daily food :
For tmuSient sorrow: s, simple wiles,
Pr, =e, blame, e. kii,es, tears art
he.recited these lines • with ear
nest sensibility, he put his arm around
Fanny's waist, and drew her towurds
him: and the
y oung wife, lookintr up
juju his face, with devoted ailhetion,
rested her head on his bosom and
shed happy tears. •
Auil so-We leave them .--:Petcrson's
3.lagazine.
svrtriON, delivered at the Chrictiaa Church
in Ur.iou Spring,3, by Rev. A. Coburn, Jn]S
Ruci,
I'ror. rri r. ii : rri : Er. rriii.
—" When the righ!enni are in authority. the
people rejoice: but when the Wicked beitreth
ru:e. the people mourn'.
" We looked for pence, but. no good came;
1 and for a time ef.health, and behind trouble.
"Thou shalt priavide an of ail the pi.ople.
able itch, finch as far Lind. inert of truth,
hating coveton , neiii; and pace such mer
tht•in to be rulers.-
You ' ‘l - 111 dolt es., my hearerS, an
ticipate the subject, of my discourse
this morning, not - only from my text.
{ a group of passages. }riuct is in itself
a sermon second to none in the world,
perhaps, save that one which fell florn
the lips ti the Divine Teacher himself
on the mount of 'Beatitudes; but you
will also anticipate it from the near
approach of our National Anniversary
—the birth-day of Freedom, that hea
ven and earth-born child, whose cradle
was:rocked by strong hands and noble
hearts, amid the thunder of 'Lexington
and Bunker Hill—whose heavenward
pointinc , column, even now, indicates
.
the celestial origin of the blessed child.
The true .Ainerican patriot and
Christian's heart has been accustomed,
as Freedom's natal 'day approached,
to pulsate more rapidly, and to expe
rience
: a sweeter - . joy and a holier
Calmness, while his eye has lighted up
•with a soul-speaking expression, as its
visions of hope looked down through
the vista-of time upon a happy pos
terity. protected from wrong and
pression by the 'sldeld p,f LiScrty,
borne'firmly up by wise and whole
some laws, and righteous, _able, and
tnahful rulers, in whose bosom's should
continue to burn the spirit of, the
fathers of '76. My own heart has
- thrilled with joy at the praises of lib
erty, which went up from. the deep,
warm heart of some ,July 'assembly,
gathered to commemorate the sacri
fice's:of 3ife and property in' the pur
chase of freedom, or rather Maintain
ing-against the usurpation of tyranny,
the right—the God-giYen right—that
every man has to liberty - and the pur
strit'Of lappiness.
Liberty, then, to 'my - mind, and to
'the minds of 'the northern people 'gen-
WaS a 'real existence—if
life. Its ban‘ WaN'el • its shining
folds Over an honestly 'supposed free
That - as the time
of the Wfiskingtont, The Adqmses . ; the
Henrys, the Otises, the Franklius, and
men of like spirit—yea, the righteous
were in authority, and the people re
joiced: But to-day my spirit is de
jected.• A feeling- of 'sadness like a
dark and heavy cloud hang trembling
on my. hope's horizon. Al seems to
be the general feeling of liberty-loving
souls throughout the free States of this
nation.
Freedom's liirth-day approaches,
wearirw the badges of mourning and
sorrow. Her eldest born lies appar
ently in the agonies, of death, with the
seeming prospect, of a Speedy disco-
lotion. Whv the tolling of those bells,
which recently sounded 'out from the
metropolis of New-England. and '-her
sister cities . Why is the court-house
of Boston • turned into barracks for
soldiers ? Why are her streets filled
with armed men—why are the citiiens
sent , out of the - judgment hull—why
are false witnesses brought in—why
all this parade and force—what wretch
ed malefactor, Nwhat bloody criminal
stands 'arraigned before some bribed
Pilate . to bear sentence of condemna
tion passed against him Have the
sober, safety-loving people of New-
England. lost all their sense of propri—
ety, and turned barbarians, that they
should wish to rescue from the timids :
of justice a vile, bloody, and' danger
ous criminal ? Is it to execute jus
tice, is - it to protect human rights, is it
to punish wrong,
.that . Bilston thus
bristles With , bayonets? Have' :the
courts of-Massachusetts aver before
been guarded - ,by troops, to se
cure, a fair and impartial trial of a
murderer or incendiary ? Never was
the like known before among the staid
people of the old Puritan" State. But
what is the offense at which the mul
titude connive, and the . penlity from
which they seem anxious to rescuer
the accused, should- be chance to be..
found guilty l i How stands the in
dictment ? Why, the ' complaint is,
that Oile Anthony Mims, a man with
an intellect and a soul, endowed by
the great
. and good Creator .with an
Unalienable rivht to life, liberty,. and
the -pitrsuit of happiness, wishing to
exercise his poWers of locornotion-ac
cording to hi:: mvn taste, as others did,
peaceably and quietly left the State .of
Virginia:and established himself as a
citizen, ammo- the children of the
PAritans in Boston: And for this 'of
fense—for thus obeying the prbmpt
ings of a principle, which God had
planted deep in his nature, he must
be seized and sent to an intolerable
bondage,
.to wear out his. body, and
stultify his intellect, and dwarf his
soul in umenuited toil, for - one 'who
rlaims. and has the power to
,enforce
the claim of ownership to a LUman
But by whose authority is this seiz
nrr made, and this-claim established
TS it by the. authority of the claimant
himself ? No. Is it by the authority
of the Governor and those that ride
with hint in Virginia I No. A higher
authority must be appealed -to. The
Chief Magistrate of the Nation must
7,ive command. And as common modes
of commithication are too tardy to
carry on this work of hell, he gives his
order's to the lightning's:: wings, and
in an instant he speaks across the 'dis
tance from WtishingtOn to Boston. and
the troops of the T•ttited States are at
the man-stealing, kidnappings slave
holder's service.;. •
• And this is why the people mourn,--- .
1
this is why the streets are hung in
black—this is why the bells are tolled
—why an insolent soldiery guards the
courts of iijustice; and the city of Bos
ton is put under martial law. • '
The same citv.once before witnessed
a similar scene, but for an entice dif
ferent oltject. Her purpose then was
to protect Liberty, now to protect
Slavery. Then the people rejoiced,
110 W they mourn.
0, My country,.bew art thou Men!
Fallen from the glory and honer of
.freedom to the shame and disgrace*of
oppres;ion. Can you wonder, my
hearers, that the heart feels less light
and joyous tlin it was wont to do as
the anniversary of freedom draws
nigh ? How true it is, that when the
wicked beareth rule the people mourn.
Nut only is one poor BUTTS the doomed
victim of Oppression, but millions are
experiencing the . ..same fate in a land
clanning•to be the freest in the world.
The • governnient of this country is
entirely under the control (if the'Slave
Power. When and where:have her
demands ever been denied f From
7 the •President down to the . deputy
'marshal, through all the government
officials . the strife seems •to be who
shall stoop the lowest to, do: the slave
power's bidding. The post office even,
is desecrated to the vile purpose of
'revealing the- hiding place of the fu
gitive, who se*
ecby 'flight to' escape
oppression, and sure the natural and
inalienable right,, and priceless boon
of liberty. : It washy means of 'a let
ter Which poor Burns . wrote to a
brother in l t irginia, detpiling.-an ac-
count of 'his escape, and which. he had
taken the
: precaution to, send, first to
Canada, that it Might there be post
marked;'and .Wtisl afterwards opened
by its-brother's master in Virginia—
which in ease.of,a white man would
be a State-prison crime—that his pre
tended .owner learned where his hu
man chattel had taken refuge. Thus
is the machinery- of government turned
into an engine of oppression. Does
slavery desire morel territory to curse
with itS tyranny; the .nation finds a
pretext for war, : and freely, gives her
treasures and. her soldiers, her blood
.
.Landher strength to satisfy 'the unre
strained desires of the governments
petted child.,.
.l ,
.The solemn compromise made by
the gOYernnient in 15f2.0, establishing
perpetual . freedom - north of a certain
latitude, must be broken that Slavery
may brunt her bloody standard on the
five soil of Kansas and Nebraska:
Nor even yet is she satisfied. Her
cancerouS feelers are clutching after
Cuba, -and soon 'We •may expect to'
hear the tocsin of war sounded-for the
cor4uest of that island ; nor will her
• desires -be satisfied ,till-• she has eaten
out the IMart and vitals of the Ameri
can continent, and the lil;erly . for which
our fathers fought and bled becomes a
dead and rotten' carcass. The time
was when the will. of the per.Tle was
heeded by our, legislators and rulers,
But hoW: is - if 'now 1 Listen to the
sentiment of a -Senator, grown insolent
by the fattening - F. of- the 'slave power :
, We are.not," , says • Ile, "to be in-
I structedj by. A far constituents, but we
intend to instruct them." The idea
,conveyed is, that the" people are not
capabW of self-governmebt—they are
too ignorant t.O, tell what they want—
entirely tinqualified to judge between
• right and .wrung in reference to great
national . questions—they cannot tell
which is best, freedom or bondage.
The voice of the people is thus un
heeded ;„rtfitN,Will of the tyrant must
henceforth be the law., Such is the
democracy ,of the slave power. In
view of these facts, is it difficult to
decide by whom and by what our
country, is governed 1- -I will not in
sult yotir•good senseony hearers, by
attempting to prove that Slavery is a
• wickedsystem. Thht it - is a violation
of the ilaws of. -nature; the express
commands of God, and the holy pre
cepts of Christianity. That it is a
system:of spiritual wickedness'in high
ilaces,• against which, like a zealous
Paul, we should ever make war.
Neither need I assert that those who
rule by. its authority arc wicked rulers.
He who frames and executes a Wicked
law, must be as wicked, as the law
itself. : The man who should steal
your I)6i-se, rob your house, violate the
chasttiy of your wife and daughter,
and shut out the l light of truth and
knowledge froM your 'mind, your own
sense of-right and wrong would con
demn as a villain, whether done under
the sanction of pretended • laws, or
- done in violation of all legal enact
ments:, All I need say is, when the
wicked bearcth rule, thepeople mourn,
and vice versa in this case; when the
people mourn the wicked bear nile;
one follows the other. .In that system
of slavery, carried on under the .sane
. .
tam of the U.S. government, is:com
prehended. as said a truth-loving and
truth-telling Wesley, " the.sum of all
villainies: . I said that we, as a na-•
Lion, are ruled by the- slave power.
Do not the present 'alarming facts.
..together With the. past history of our
conntry, fur a few years, prove the
statement- correct •V First, the Chief
Magistrate, as all his past precedents
will show, seems willingly devoted to
the interests of-Slavery, Then think
of his power. Every, officer c . ,f the
': goy• eniment. (except Judges.) both
civil and military, are .subject to his
will. He can at - any time, - without
! any cause,- and without givino- any -
reason, diiplace every -civil and naval
officer in the service of the U. S. gov
ernment, and appoint others in their
_places. What, a -chance for bribery
'does this constitutional. provision of
appointment give-the President. The
entire Congress of the U. S. could be
bribed to-his interests in this way, had
he the disposition . to'do it, unless com
posed of the purest and best men,
Men of the most unflinching integrity
and virtue; men who have no price at
which they_can be bought and sold;
(thank God there • are some such in
Clongress,) by simply presenting•one
with- -a mission to the • court of St.
darne; another to some naval' com
mand; and another, of humbler pre
tensions, and a cheaper article, to some
bumbler. authority,
• , And is not this what is done every
day, by the jugglery and treachery:of
the political intriguers ?• ::The govern
ment of this country, in its machinery
and workings of the present time,
looks to me like a.great ear of Tugger
naut,- drawn by the 'slave.•pewer, be
neath whose ponderous, wheels Anniti:-
tudes of aspirants for office sfand ready
10 threw theu,t. , ! , :ei, to hwie the .very
last pulsation 01. justice,libertyi . truth,
and humanity crushed out forever; .
Is it wise, is it .right for a christian
people, professing to believe in equal
rights, professing to subscribe-to the
doctrine that. God bath -made of .one
blood all nations A3fTnen to dwell upon
all the face of .the - earth; taking for
the charter of our liberties the self
evident truth, "that all men are-en
dowed with certain inalienable rights,
among which are life; liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness:" Is it wise or
is it right, tamely to submit to -the
oppression of. any of God's children;
to see our brother despoiled of his -
manhood; to see a human being bear
ing, upon his brow the impress of di
vinity, stripped of his dignity, told
reduced to a chattel, a thing—and
make no effort to save him? By quiet
ly submitting to this system of oppres- .
sion, are we doing to ethers as we
would wish them to dd. unto us under
1 similar circumstances I If-the spirit
I of elitist dwells in- us we shall,mcirt)
and weep over. Abe degradation an
q
1 wickedness-of our country as Christ -
' did over Jerusalem. We shall not
only mourn. and. pray for its deliver-
ante, but we shall work for it.
We have been told that in comprce
mise lies our safety. That by yielding
somewhat -to the demand of oppression
land tyranny, the ship of state would
continue to ride upon a calm sea.
That thus alone could the Union be
preserved. The comproniiSe of 1850,
which made every freeman a slave
hunter, was said to be a finality, aud
agitation upon the subject must-Conte
to an end. Behold, "we looked for
peace, but no good came; and for
time of health, and -behold trouble."
Yielding the right never did, and
i never can satisfy wrong; Satan cannot
`cast out Satan. Ever since the first
I compromise with slavery, the trouble
Ilics increased. It is like the parent
compromising with the child, when
the child is manifestly in the wrong.
Peace for a little time may be the
result, but with the next demand the
linsolence increases ; the demand be.
! comes more imperiouS, until the - parent
! compromises away all his authority,
I and the child becomes both. the master
and the tyrant.
ISo by making concessions, by enter-
I ing into compromises -with -slavery.
and yielding the right for the sake of
peace -and union, she has grown morn
arrogant; the trouble has increased,
• and now a peaceful settlement of the
I question is almost hopeless . . In re
' ference to this vexed question of. hu
man wrong and oppression, we can
say, us said a patriot in -reference .to
! the oppression of King George the I I] ,
HGentlemen may cry peace, •peace,
hut there is no peace.,' Conscience
will speak. The voice of justice and
humanity cannot he stifled forever by
compromise with,ivrong. These eter
nal principles are like volcanii.' tires.
they mast find vent some where. 'Thy,
will eventually upheave the deep.-,,t
strata .tif wrot , that -can he henn: , .l
upon theist, and hare the wrong-dais
:. the ruins. Any taw. the execu:mo,r
o winch make- men violate the-it
v i
natural sense- of right, roust necesszp -
rift- meet n;itli opposition, so I;eiz 1:-:
G oil speaks in the hunt- r: soul by the •
-voice of con s cience. i ':. best.. sea .
timents of th- human In •,-; must and
will find utterance somehow. • The
people once were forbidden to ihottr
hosanna to the son of Darin. When
Jesus rode. in triumph into Jerrisalem.
He replied to them, "If these should
hold their peace the very stones would
cry.out." So.it is with regard to Ini•
just and oppressive laws. If men
should hold their peace in regard to
them, inanimate nature would speak,
and her voice would he heard. • ,
There ore. men, peaceful men, ju'l,
and wholesome, law-abiding men,Who
rather ' than violate their conscience
and their sense. of right, will resist
narighteous laws and suffer the con
sequences. There are -thousands of
the best citizens of .the country, who,
will not obey the compromise of 18.50,
called the Fugitive Slave law. To
their minds it is a violation of natural
right, and• hence of no binding. force.
They must either viidate - conscience
an d th e higher law of God, or.disobey
this wicked enactment— and they
•choose to . oboy God rather than man.
But it is' aid ive .ought to obey the
laws of bur country, while they remain
Jaws.; the only remedy is in'tireirrez. ;
peal. ' But if ire go back a long ways ,
in the history of the world; .and trace
it down to the pregent time, we .shall
find many instances in which
,individ
uals, and sometimes communities,
would riot yield Obedience to the'. en
- aetments of -men in authority; and tVe
honor them' for % their disobedience.—
we admire their courage and respect
their, candor. We say they did ..right.
Daniel of ' old refused to obey, the
corm - nand to fall *doWn and -worihip-
SEE FOURTH PACE,
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NO. 16.