. Autographs for freedom. rjlHEEE is nothing in the universe that can deservethe namo or do the work of valid law but thecommandment and the ordinance of the Hving human enactments, adjudications and usages notfounded on these, are of no legal force, and should betrampled under foot. The practice of slaveholding,for this reason, can never be legalized, and all legis-lative or judicial attempts to sustain it are rebellionagainst God, and treason against civil society. To. teach otherwise, would be to set up other gods aboveJehovah, to promulgate the fundamental principle ofatheism, and
. Autographs for freedom. rjlHEEE is nothing in the universe that can deservethe namo or do the work of valid law but thecommandment and the ordinance of the Hving human enactments, adjudications and usages notfounded on these, are of no legal force, and should betrampled under foot. The practice of slaveholding,for this reason, can never be legalized, and all legis-lative or judicial attempts to sustain it are rebellionagainst God, and treason against civil society. To. teach otherwise, would be to set up other gods aboveJehovah, to promulgate the fundamental principle ofatheism, and proclaim war against the liberties ASK no prouder inscription for mj humble tomb,than Here lies tlie Friend of the Oppressed. Brunswick, Maine, September 30, 1853. Miss Julia Griffith, jl^Y Dear Madam, your letter of September 23dI have received. I regret exceedingly that itis not in my power to furnish the article you havedone me the honor to solicit, for the- Autographsfor Freedom. Particularly do I regret this now,when the great conflict betYv^een aristocracy and de-mocracy is about being renewed all over the continentof Europe, and when despots are pointing with exult-ation to the unparalleled enormities of our peculiarinstitutions, and the fiiends of republican equality, inall lands, are disheartened by our example. Wouldthe slaveholders of the south but consent to placethose who till their lands, under the protection ofwholesome and impartial law, and pay them laonest 162 The Mission; of A:merica. wages, it tvouM ere long cause liiiman riglits to be re-spected in every corner of the globe. It should bethe mission
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