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Show 110 TU.E LTDEnTY DELl•· 'l'ho doctrine of vicarious atonmuent received a now application in the notion of national sins,- a contrivance for shifting off the blnmo and rosponsi~ bility of Sbvcholding from tho s::mctified individual Christian Slaveholder, to tho unregenerate commu· nity at largo ; the natural compliment to which was presently added in the doctrine, that there is no law higher or more binding than the Constitution of the United States, and such enactments of Congress as tho J udgcs of tho Federal Courts may pronounce to be authorized by it; impious substi· tute of human compact..:; and conventions,- disposing, too, of tho rights of third and unrepresented parties- in tho place of God, Justice, Mercy, and Truth! But in spite of the great union compromise party for the suppression of free discussion, in which w-e find Pharisees and Sadduces, priests and scoffers, lawyers and publicans, Whigs and Loco Fooos, reactionary conservatives and progressive democrats, so zealously and harmoniously coOperating, TilE AP!'ROACIUNO CRISIS. 111 tho .i dea of tho wickedness of Sl avehcld.m g still s~rVIVCS; and numerous and unmistak . . tJOns go to show that it is a· k' able mdtea- 10 mg deope d deeper into tho intellects and consci.C nces or f atnh very· Slaveholders themselves'. a thm' g that ca ot contmuo without prod . nno which 1 il . ucmg a moral upheaving, . ' w 1 o It overwhelms Slavery w'th . agitated surges h ll . 1 ' s a Its tnlSO up, as if out f very depths of tho sea' a now expanse of g od dth e land, fresh and fertile , wh creon tho plants ofo loi b rrty shall tako root and ft . h 0 Duris abundantly. Y |