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! The Goapel Herald and Che Fugitive Slave Law. Jij ! The last number of the Gospel Herald,!-----1 published in this city, by B. F. Foster , Co., J ^ j contains a very ably written leader on the j ^ow ^, subject of the Fugitive Slave Lr.v, from son ! which we make the following extract. We Pur commend the subject matter to the serious j ® consideration of all those who would counsel' Co11%.ill * 1 *, disobedience to the law : ; ■T ^ We have purposely abstained from cx-:Sev ,-j ’ i pressing an opinion ‘pro or con’’ in re£ar(l to j (-the merits or demerits of the Fugitive Slave theI aw. Wo lt;!• not snv that it is a good or a ’ ge ° ™ '......; it°t had law. Tiiis i= not the point at issue, it r] sufficeth us to know that it is the low of the I t0 land. It has been solemnly enacted, by all Pcn ro- the means and ffinns, that the people of this ship nd, whole countrv have ordained; and lias all thc;A., i binding force of anv other law of the nation. Qe i To sav that this is mo law.* is to deny all law, p0] ter to repudiate tie' compact into which we have \\r lay entered, and resolve society back into its ori- i j ^ cn- gin a! elements, where there is 110 law, but the | j0], ,n(] individual u hi of each man. j Oe;I I\lt; MU t ..... • - • |Tim nu-.-!ion is. therefore, not morehvGrot '»• I --wheth-r thh low U t he obeyed, but it ‘sweeps joii:i- the whole circle* oi law. It is the question ; im of g •vernmcnt, or no government; and it asks \y us To decide, whether the individual will, is to j \ set. at nought the will of the people, as rm-jj, ] I) .'died in the laws of their enactment. We jjA( cannot hesitate a mm.-mnt in regard to the : joI; side of this question on which we shall be j . found. While we are citizens of this rouu- {{ trv. and parties to the compact, hy which we p , are made a nation; with every item of ability j,(1 *n that we possess, and to the utmost tension i./,, of f'ery nerve, we will veil old t 1 i l laws: ^Iffe-ami when the lime comes, that the- ' laws are so oppressive, as to he past endurance, jwa; a we will either leave the country, or if v\c re- icec main, pronounce the original compact a mil- - M:1Ar.n Jitv, and raise the standard of revolution. ' vJ;] - It is of no avail to say, that no violence is jii! counseled. If. hy your example of dis.ffiedi- \ ^once to law, ami hy plain words. al-o.vouas-111lt-sort the principle tlr.it a solemn law of theland is “no law,’ and ought “to he d'sobeyc !.* \V5, people who believe you, will 7H'ih)tai? the : principh' in to.a;* own way. The lew who e.s i'i» fur an force* and •non-ro-dstaiice* mavint
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Madison Daily Tribune
Madison, Indiana, US
Mon, May 12, 1851
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