Frederick Douglass' Paper, 1858-06-04, vol. 11 iss. 25 no. 545

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ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 4, 1858.
WHOLE NO. 545.
PAPER
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Mtde&.
rt from His Word, and His grace
s Word cdddual, and to keep it
re is no hope in the heart of "any
arty, nor any Christian party
ior slave. We have seen that
'ioty,     age,    gray   hairs,    exper-
oftbe Word of God fi
ifOodso pervert the saltofUht
u addi-
dunghill  of
■
We  have
the   will ii
Vuril  i
whose sagacity and
«ou> not to do it. 1
the answer of God:
■    '.    ,
nds due
•b of Paul ii
Before such d
of righted
;ouosel   of God.
Pauli
rebuke such dcclai
; not miLTi, we should have
:;■(!., or life, or courage left
i hope, apart fr
d they, the nee,
the  -in ami  its
treble io another.
:.., : .
niipnid   lor,   witliiiui.   eon-
it of father or mother, or the
■-born babes of this system,
dteies! year by year udded
capital, which thus doubles
next generation, and must
We nude use of the most
ilTeclioiis, of maternal, filial,
mbial love—L)ut
ipid   and,;
production ofthe iniquity, as shall be.ii
\\   .-/id-i'i-
hat the fundamental laws of Chris-
ould be recognized and obeyed, or
.'oiiimotily acknowledged   and   most
The laws of God for husbands,
Iters, mothers, sons, daughters, child-
it he applied, cannot be   ooeyed,  in
md of i:
,..     fro
tho lowest, every fit
a new   violence against   the oppressed,  only
have to refer to the Dred Kcott decision, nnd I lie
and cruelty ore  converted   into righteousness.
grooves, moulds, channels,
■   '
sold:
:r on  the. children,
aling them as chat-
;efted, netted and
ipeting are cut from
Husbands, beware   ol ima
you have any rights, any authority,
...-.;        .  . .      ...
'   t, the necessities of you
rod rule of your domes
What?    Obedie
parents, except only aa the
such law,
■     '.■: : ...■' ,:
dheniily iriiiei
at    black
......
,„t,y   cu
product of domestic  :
■ ■ :..; ;
iety. This is the peculiarity of th
" e foremost Christian eout
ne earth. In this branch   ofn"
a   protective   policy  in   id
superiority aud abundance of thi
native product
ther tho
in the
rptsand 'fulfil
Instead of one.
the.  children of the   needy
iidiired by tin
oppressed with equity,
e bleaching of it
God in di
the 721 Csalin.    Instead of ooeyinj
foredoom them
red fc
id of judging the poc
" :1ms oi.
ights   thi
, aud perpetuate the yt
preme domestic law—
and policy of the house,
el God in the s
.  of
e    :
italogue with
racy"' nran-stediug and guilt, Unit hy the law
not of God only, but man, is worthy of death.
Where shall such an element be found? How
shall it be created, quickened, trained! Not
in the school of political self-seeking and expediency; not
your husbands.-
ind this divine la
.rents.    But slavi
d the factory, whe:
all and only
: '■ ■'■ ■:■:' i   -:     ,
■operty they are, ana
Ida log every faculty, c
:■   ■    .'■',:  e
'.' ■■,'.
"' "h dictum
political
i   have    no    ri
id to respect.   This dicti
of the Constitution and
by presumptuous, unauthorized inter-
iury, hy
is refused tho privilege of
in a Re
i
Idpddd
Our
-general and local,
.ivl   Secretaries, of State'are hunting up ex-
.iioile.- of old injustice, for  precedents of I
They    thus
emeilv in the :
its elements wid
:■ of their  m
ing dead dogs into  thc.n.o:
cats and skunks.
As God declared in a cai
they have Ir.
wood, and the I'
lock.    They hunt every ma
a net.   That they   mav  c
hands  earnestly,  the priac
: d,  a reward ,
stiee, infecting all
gbbors by throw-
fearfully similar
his brother with
, evil with both
asketh, and the
:■ ■■      is! .1!
1 l''1":"
I blessedness of the establishment
jess aud freedom as the funda-
res of society, If thou take away
i   best of them is as a
ist in vanity and speak
schief  and bring forth
liat eateth of their eggs
no judgment in their
e them crooked paths,
s of falsehood, so that
, is turned away backward, and justice
afar off.   They are never so happy
absolute   mischief, tho
il ignorance, pitddde
itvity,   framing mischief  by   a   law
ne   ■
round social i
ng fire the lightuin
most have burned
id hissed along th
mght that oven me
if tho very Billies
along the cougrega-
eveu men whose lips
hat time would have
er, and directed the
against such   fearful
inanity and falsehood.
; and the men that did
f God's appointed dig-
Instead   of denouncing  the s:
ras'ldda
sin, there both
wasted, and the i
of our national justice aud equity brand:
for tho slave-pen, aud separating yot
the manhood of all mankind; by this robbery
from God and man we become a nation
of meu-stealers—a community of baptiaed
Thags for the kidnapping of the children of
four millions of people, and the assassination of
a nation by themselves; if we made descent
upon Allien, China, India, or elsewhere, and
carried oil'into hopeless .shivery the, children
°actCbj
if slaves shall be slaves
law that the offspring
the State
:n oflhose
labor should from the birth be taken and
ty of those
Conld
ailed.
tunder
the school of unrighteous and oppressive
statutes; not under the law of silence on the
Word of God—silence in the pulpit—silence
in tho Tract House; but under the law of flie
and thunder in the manifestation of the truth
in every man's conscience in the sight of God
—by revealing the wrath of God from heaven
dty  s
.inl
and malignity, mi
miserv, the elements and securities of national
ruin. Our only hope is ia the revived, living,
faithful religion of a free, out-spoken, consistent Church, and a fearless, unmuzzled, Tail hful
ministry.    Our only hope   is in  a conscience
ing with its sacred firej a popular Church and
ministry, holding forth the   word of life, and
icnt of all tfcf—   '
but God's sovereignty), that it may hai
course and be glorified.
Tho intensity oi the plague with ns, the
exasperation and strength of the iniquity and
the evil, are in the provisions for its perpetuity and tho iasuranees of its increase. Not
content with enduring it ourselves, for oue
generation, we have hy law entailed it upon
others; and the generations to come, as God
distributes the consequences, must inevitably ;rise
il   I'orliidrli
rnounced,
such release by death; the evil and
:       .
r   faithfali
ism,"and the security of an unlit
id of the whole patronage  of the
irnment, and forthwith   tho sanc-
itainiagofit become  the Bhiniug
mpromise and expediency, and 1
law that the offtyr'un
law were passed ii
ildrea oflhose engaged in
the birth be taki
bought and sold
have been laboring, could snch a Ii
sanction such a crime?    Con
other thing than  man-stealing?   Could
■stealing?    What is it when these
And if'thcyhavechildren.docB
red this lid for the b
dire, and Secretary C
lor the body, and s
a grow up?
if they'     -
r parents vt
'
n 1   Does the fact t
--,,].:.
e them takeaway
, the!
perty ?    Nothing i
theft; no law can s
i beings, and t
1 and just (
mho
whad
::.■■:;.■    v. .-
he
God.    Th:
guilt.   Tho
up to  Heaven.    By stealing children
in wnich is regarded with sistoni.-htiicnt -.unl
horror but the denunciation ofit as sin! It ia
o longer the perpetrators of such a crime, and
la supporters, who are to bo the objects of re-
iroach and condemnation, but those who cause
he truth to bear against the crime—those
cho call it by the name with which Cod has
irsinded it., e.nd visit it with tho reprobation
hat God has laid upon it
And especially the political world and
il the children
from the birth,
the guilt from generati
,ber that
id then thank God for the success of this prolog, hut all the while
ielty upon fi
.
political quacks,
be only duty'of tho CI
uietly to indorse and
f peace.
The system of slavery if
which must be excluded
i, to bo treated  only by
political drenches, \' '
rch and the miuist
erd.idy fun.
g forward
th ■ i-i,|"i
tions in carrying forward   the great
for the childre
ing and training them as chattels aud  bi
market,   we have  no rival;
this honor.    This is, iu fact, the greatest, v
est,   most pcrse.vi'riii_'   v.'.- ■
we perform.   Our instrumentality in  bint
■     ..i  ■
larged in surface and in quantity, st
:■■..■
liquity in a
ty.    We arc more guilty than
ourselves irnogiui
■ ■■   :,
ised doses ol chloroform
idy and
itals of our piety, while the
the whole system
Lecompton
was a sick and |
pletely at the n
■ precedents, they make them
The Secretary of State dares publicly
ick man's living sep-
ss acts the undertaker
i down the coffin with
inc papers—for by the Id:..]
itful owner and master of his'
perty a man must |
if the rights of a citizen, any
ner of bo much as a plank or
age, the United
e   d   e     .
' ■        '   .        ■
(dice, wi1
■
it
'"■■' '■":, r
, colored skin neither i,
over which the keel of a Christian civilization
plunges, with all onboard grin:
tion of the cruelty. And certainly, if God's
word be not thundered against such crimes
the Church and the ministry do, by their silence, set  thesealofa Christian approbation
in: applied, cxperl !■;.- iln- mdislre, Misiadcd I
I I       1        II U       1        ] i     ■ ■ '
coiltitry —the  whole   possibility   of   u-dempli,
r swallow, through our repre
■ ■   ■''    d"    '
iled
hand land
■.■:■ ■ ■ n
did I',ii-
lle. .Never
d quacks.
political surgery, and we
dead body
roaring medical students, with the:
The body doe
...    ■:        --I     ■■.     ■.
,-.:        . ■    ■   :.
'■:      .1
kick, does i
keep cutting and ct
beyond the people's
■ibnnal of justici
i producing   its
rving,
enthroned in the
is scheme of   fra
b Power be-
■■ . , . :■
ranny, left in
cessor.    And
■ ■'■■•';■
.ve Kept silent up to me present
had their capacity of dumbuess,
if silence, thoroughly tried ; they
timb dogs, that no provocation is
to barking, If they have not
yet spoken, they will forever hold their peace.
What form of this wickedness can be transacted worse than the shapes
the open i
;■■■■,.   fi   .:■"■
ted States, and
mthroned and legalized ?    Would
■ights that whi
hpiiiy, •■
iblicly inaugurated in tl
that the pulpit would h
I    .   ■        :
,■:"■■■ ■.■- : '■';
4 pleasing
but
■    ■    ■
■ judgment seat,
not *mincing, delicate, light notice of
rpiity   that  God   requires, oi- die 1,i-,.,a<f\
.„,,':
:!::;. d
Timiciit   rod  tlic|
:;|
ie begging pardon of the congregation
ca fearlessly,  grandly, and  declaring:.