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Show II 120 NOTES ON No more? 1 beg pardon. Mr. Sumner <locs bring fonvard two other objections, but he surely cannot expect a. ser.I~us answer to them ;-one, thnt the Jnw "sends the fugitwc back at tlte publie expeuse," and the other, that it "b1·ibes the commissioner" to "pronounce ngainst freedom," by givin(f him a fcc of jive dollars for making out the ~' ccrtifi~ ca.tc"0 ! rl,his last objection is unworthy of Mr. Sumner: he should have left it to Horace 1\Iann, who would bring it fonrnnl with a. rcli:.:.h; for J.etroction is his "fifth clement:" he enters into it, con a1J10re, as if he Intel received from "Protestant J csuiti:.:.m" :m B indulgence" to break the ninth comnlandment, ad libitnm. I ha\'C now, I believe: uoticcd all the oLjcctions tha,t have been brourrltt forward, except one, anrl this one lies, not m<'rcly ng~inst the law, but ;1g<1inst the sendin[J bac/c t~w fugitive in any ease. Here we come at once on the domam of the hJTighcr Law." .And what ·is this "higher hw"? A '' la.w," says 1\Ir. \Yebstcr, "that exists somewhere between us and the third heaven, I never knew cx~1ctly where." (Speech at Albany, May, 1851, p. 43.)-I can toll him whcre:-in nubibus. Sa,mbo would say, not so high ;JS tltat. Samba met Cuffy one (_l:ty, in front of the scvon-story "pagoda," (corner of "'ashinrrton ancl S tate streets, ])aston,) then just completed, and the 0 cock-loft of which \Yas to be the ofTice of the "Commonwealth" newspaper, t.!te _?rgnn of the Frce-Suilers .. I say, Samba, says CmT.}\ :tfter .ha \'ing gar.ed for soro~ t11~~ in wonJcrment nt the afon:'SaHl cock-loft, what be tl.tt ru .. 'V!ty, Cufl)' ! you no know (lat, snys Srunbo; l's 'stonishcd you so ignorant; you be more ob n. nignoramus dan de white niggcrs! (meaning the a.bolitionists.) D~t ar? d~~ be Mas'r Sumner's Ilij;he1·-La'W ojjice. The "lugher law, then mounts only to the seventh story, not to the seventh heaven. UNCLE TOMS CABIN. 121 Mr. lloracc Mann charges Mr. Webster and others with saying that thoro is no higher law than the Constitution; yet he knows that they say no such thing, but only that tlte "higher law" is not higher than the Constitution.* They admit,-thoy maintain,-that the law of God is higher than the Constitution,-than all Constitutions; but the practical question is, Docs tho Constitution conflict with that law? ~rhis question was put to l\fr. Mann, in the course of the speech before referred to:- " l\Ir. SuTIIE!tLAND. I ask the gentleman if every Amer. ica.n citizen docs not obey the higher law of God when he obeys every part of the Constitution? And can any good result come from discussing these immateria.I abstractions? Is not the spirit of the Constitution in accordance with the higlwr law ? Can you point to a clause in the Constitution which, when fulfilling to the best of my ability, would make mo violate tho higher bw of God? "Mr. MANN. That is not to the point." (p. 11.) I_Ior? wo have him at his old tricks again; wriggling and sqmrmmg, m order to shirk the question, because he dare not answer it, either way: if he should say tho Constitution was against the law of God, then ho would convict himself * It mn.y be well to place the ti.Jrcc laws side by side:- Hwu LAw,-" No person held to sel'\'ice or lnbor in one Stnte, under the ln.ws thereof, escaping into another, shall in eonse((ltcnco of nny law or rcgnlation th(:rcin, be dischn.rg:ed from such aen'ice or Ja.bo.r, but shall be deli\'crcU up on claim of the party to whom such :~::~~~~ or labor may be due."- u: S. Uonstitution, Al'ticle IV., &c· " Hwn•:n LAw."-" Block the locomotives !-Tear up tho rnils !Law or no law, Constitution or no Con~titution, resolve that this Ia.w shall not Lc enforced."-JVen.dell Pftilips's Anti-Slavery Oration. II !GUEST L .... w.- " The powers that be arc ordained of God. Whosoever, therefore, rcsistoth the power, rcsisteth the ordinance of God: ~~~it~h('y that resist shall t('ceive to themselves damnntion."-lloly JG J. |