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to quote the following language, as uttered some time since by the Reverend Theodore Parker, in a strmoe of Conscience : The man who attacks me to reduce me to slavery, in that moment of attack alienates his next to life, and if were the fugitive, and could escape in no other way, I would kill him with as the compunction as I would drive a mosquito from my face.” fle (Mr. C.) then commented as follows : -- I should bike to ask the Reverend Preacher, when he goes into Court and holds up his hand, and calls on his Maker to arrest the sincerity of his vow to render a true verdict, according to the law and the evidence, whether he does THatr as a man, or in some other capacit T—And should also be to ask him, in what capacity he would expect to receive the punishment which would own him here and hereafter, if he were to do what he recommends to others? “Is it not time that they who love their coun try, and respect the laws, should come together and soberly ponder these things? * In case exists which demands a breach of a fundamental law of the Government and justi fies armed resistance by individuals it is a case for revolution, and it is time we knew and acted on it. If there is not such a case, then this lan guage, and the feelings that prompted it, and the conduct which accompanies it, disgrace our community, and endanger its safety and peace, and should receive the rebuke of every good cit izen. * There is no middle ground between these two alternatives. If there is a case for forcine resistance of law, for refusal to execute one ar ticle in the compact which constitutes the Gov ernment, for villifying this compact by names which should be unwilling to repeat, for stir ring up the angry passions of men, and carrying one part of the country against another part, it can be nothing less than a case for revolution, and in a revolution it must end, if its progress be not checked.” His speech throughout is very able, and the proceedings possess marked interest. They can not be circulated too widely.— Petersburg Jat.
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Milledgeville Southern Recorder
Milledgeville, Georgia, US
Tue, Dec 31, 1850
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