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Show "'rHE J)rnc li<'nl rn nti <'I' Of Jumg ing- fo u1· nwn who <'XPOfH'cl lh<'!H AC' h rC'R in con- 11i ct. with a u nt innal ('l'ltll<', n111k<'R thiR dny fo r<'V<'I' nH'IHOt'ahlc•, aud r:li Hf'H HOtno C'lcmentnry cp i<' H1io us iu nwralH that an ' nnt l ik<' ly to ~H h :o: idt• t ill1l11•y g'<'i ~ l' ttlccl quite cliflb·c•ntly from 111<' f:t Hhional>l<• lo~· i c · of' ('ougT<'HA anti lhl' li<'W<i)lap c r s . ",John Brown wnH a f\• lo n ," Hays 1lt t' Kbt\' l'lwld<•l', "Xol>ody ju~lili<'s Brown," Anys you1· <li g·uifi t•cl au<l astute Ht at e~mwu. I hPg- )'0111' p .l rclon, t-~ ir, 1 no. :-;o do yon. So dOt'H (' \'Cry man, Whl'll out of' t)l(' fog-. No Jllll ll Hl:tudingin the cl<'n r Aky o r eommon Ac'nAt', <lenid<'A thr ri g-ht or wrong· or AIIC'h a11 net 118 Browu':; by counting the nctOI'H on the two Hidt'R. N o t till p o liticu hnv<' ni:I(Je a fo ol of you, do you IJ<'g iu to think that multiply in g- the JWrpC'tl·ator o r a Hclfcvidt'nt crinH' by t en or twt•nty milli ons, while you l C'ave its zcalouH oppon c•nt Rtill a unit, you llavc tmnsferrccl the crime to th latt<'l'. :No, Ri r, all() forev<' r, NO. "Look I1crc my H on. Proxy for compiling .'tatutc Bookf.l. Jf a man with wit and lim.bA, but too lazy Ot' too mt•au to work out hiH own h onN;t, Jiving-, appropriates to himself tlH' fruitH o f nno thc •· man 'H t o il , he is a t'l'itnina l, isn't )H', wltt• tlter you have ckst•rihetl his crime in your Ht.a t u1t' hook Ot' not? VC'ry we ll. You dcACI'ibo it, and st'nd a sh e riff. H e iR too mueh for tht' HlwriO', and knoeks him down. I t~ h e le:;s a criminal for thnt.? Y ou Ht'JHl a judg-e. Jlo bribes that dig nitary. You send a pnr~on. ll r g-ng-s him with hl't'lld and cheeR<'. You RCIHI Jawyrrs, nnd for a }>in ch of snu rr t h <'Y HW<'ar ldH l>lnrknt'HH is niL wbitc. llc laughs th' very i<len of puuishm<·nt to st'OJ'n, ll11s h<' b<•como leAs n. criminal by all that.? By and hy he allHI'CS HOJtwbocly into n }JHI'1nr rshh> or his iniC)Itity. Nobody interfere'S to ('llf'orc \ the law, nnd the letter the r<'Of di<'H nud is buried. "l\[ultipliecl criminn!H walk nbronrl, and, findin g- it 1oo t ecliouH to npprOJirinto products, llJ)Jlropriatc the produc<' r s . 'l'hoHc that. n'Hi::;t, th t•y kill; adding murd<'J' to robbery, rul libitum; nnd for til(' COII Vl'll it'JH'<' o r doing so, write s tatutes to 1hnt <'fft'CI. Nobody r ebel A. 1 s t.h <' <'rinw g rowing- kss, 0 Anpicnt h'g-i~ lnto r ? J,~w, so cn ll ecl, iH exactly bottom Hid<' up aH to this n ow imnH'IIHC partn<' r s hij) of criminals. l s thr moml natun• of'tlt<'ir eo11d uet (')wngt•d by that fact? They httv<' dil'd 11nd l e ft tht•ir crim • to thl'ir ehildn•HIIll<l tht•i1· childn' n's childrcu, gnmiHh ctl with pi<'t y nncl polite lite rature•. ll aH iL 11H•rpf',) r C' bPcome rig·h1eouR per se '! Out of 111illions who do not thillk it. rig hteo us, there i1:1 n ot one who will ri sk his life to r<'ACtH' one of itH Yietim s . "Dot'S H follow that it ito~ ('riminnl to n 'scuc o ne of' it~ viC'tims? I say it. is the holiest thing- a mau <'ltll do-and ns s ure as lh<' rc is a h <'n•nrt cr it iH the snnrst, provi<ll'd I1c IIllA any talent fo r it. I think Brown, and his ro llowc• r~:~ who nrc to be so coolly murder ed to-day, hnd n•mark:thh' t.nl t'nt fo r it. 'l'hc•y, nt the cost of e nte ring h <'nven som e y<'nrs earlic1·, placC'd 11H•msclvcs on the s ide o f law, OI'rl<'J', and h o nrst y, which other men Alan<! fo •· o uly flO Jitr as hnpJ1l'DH to be con Vl' ni<' nt. 1 think they deserve to be imit nt cd hy all thr morn land phyHi<'nl fo rce in the wo rld, till man-st ealers nrc uot considered m ore ~:~ucrcd thnu Jli<'kpockcts." Dec. lG, 1859. V. SERMON BY REV. GEORGE B. CHEEVER, D. D.* NEARLY two hundred and iifty ycarH ago, in th end of thi ~ pre cnt stormy winter month, a little frail vessel wa. tos lllg on the waves of the Atlantic ncar the New England coa. t. In the cabin of that vc scl, br fore she touched the land, a great covenant of principle was tran1-'act ·<1, which grew out of their church covenant, ".As the L ord's free people, to walk in all his way~, made known, or to be made known to them, according to their be ·t endeavor, WIIATEV ER IT 1\IH: TIT cosT TUE)I." They formed them ·elves, by the compact in that cabin, into a body politic, "to ena ·t, con titutc, and frame such ju::)t and equal laws a. should be thought most meet and convenient for the general goou," promising n.ll due submission and obedience thereto; - ju. t and equal laws, the foundation of who·c authority, and the determination of their justice, wa the Word of God; and due submission and obedience, that is, just o far, and so f~u· only, as God's "\Vord and their own conscienc s, under its t 'a 'hing, would permit them to r ender. Out of the righteou: disobedience of unrighteous law grew that con titution of a rightcou. lib rty. * J~ntitl crl, " 'l'ho 1\lartyr'!:! n c1d h .an<l 'fho l\Tnrtyr's Triumph," clolivcrl'll on tho occasion of t ho l\Tartyrllom of ,J ohn Bt·own, uoforo i be l oloch of Amorimu Slavury, on Dec om l H'I' '~, 1 50, from Mtltt. x. 27, 28. " Whl\t T t l'll you in durknt•f\s, tltn.t AJH':lk yc in li!.!;ltt, an<l_ wh n.~ .\ ~' h Par i1, ' \ho oar thnt preac·h yc- on t Ito h uusl'top:;; and ti•ar nut lit e-Ill whtdt krll t hc- lllltlj' I ut aro' not able lo It ill tho soul ; !Jut rather fotu· !Lim who iH alJlo lo 1lc:stroy IJotlt :;oul noll Lolly in hell .'' |