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Sound Moral Lesson From The South

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Day
6
Month
March
Year
1843
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Public Domain
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I have giren a nuniber of nrticles lutely, from Virginio, to show hov little unity ol docirine or concert of action Hiere is, among the slnve-iioJders, at tfiis criiical moment for their cause. Many' ofthe sontiments expressed at the South, show that wilh all t!ie debasing- jjiíhfence of slavery, Uieir oxists among thcm a higher tone of moral reasoniíig, thnn we find in many, even of our Northern cler gy. Compare the fyllowing pnrugrapli respeetmg the Latimor cofo, wilh the rcasonings ot the New England Putitan, on the same case. It is from an editorial of :he Richmond Whig of January 2d."Ifslavery br, ns Mr. McDow:H contended in 1032, a contravcntíon oí' the Di vire will. it rcqtiircs no argument to prov that thcConstitution of the United Stalcs cnnnot mnke that lawful vvliich God condemns WJience it follow?, from Governor McDowell's own principies, llmt they who protectsd the slave Latimei , or who nmv refuse to deliver him to tris owne'r. are rigkt, by the law which is supreme- the will of the Creator." Now just compare that with the glorious period which closes Pierpoint's sermón on 'The Covenant with Judas." 'My brethrcn, ttmch as vo mny vcnernte our fathers, we must venérate stiFI more the Rights of Río n, nnd bis Makcr's íaws. Tho' we m:)y revercntly clierish their memory, and jealously guard their fame, we taust not forcrot tlint there is ONE, whose authoriiy fe higher tfian theirs. And fit be true that, in the laws whichthey have made fir us, they have reqnired us to do any thing-, so incompatiblfi with the commands of the Most High. that we cannol obey them bolh, I most seri - onsly nsk you, which shall we obey, - otm DKAD FATHERS? Or, OUR LÍVING GOD?" This is a higlily imporlnnt admission, by the Whig. In fact it concedes the whole grnund to us. For wliere is the Northern man that wijl not ogree that flnvery is contmry to the rjghts of mnn, as granted him by his Creator, and so a viclaüon of the law of God? The doctrine of Pierpolnt's sermón, therefore, which carne witii tuch a slartling sound on the public ear in Maspachusettf, and wrought a revolution at once in the publicmind Ihere, isonly what the South admits to be the honest and manly conclusión from ihe

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Signal of Liberty
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