f
his sermons, "the miraculous origin of the Hebrew church, or the
Buddhist church, or of the Christian church, nor the miraculous
character of Jesus. I take not the Bible for my master--nor yet the
church--nor even Jesus of Nazareth for my master. . . . . . He is my best
historic ideal of human greatness; not without errors--not without the
stain of his times, and I presume, of course, not without sins; for men
without sins exist in the dreams of girls." Thus, the truth of all
miracles is denied; and the faith of the Christian world, in regard to
the sinless character of Jesus, is set down by this very modest _divine_
as the dream of girls! Yet he believes that half a million of men were,
by the British act of emancipation, turned from slaves into freemen!
That is to say, he does not believe in the miracles of the gospel; he
only believes in the miracles of abolitionism. Hence, we ask, is he fit
for the pulpit,--for the sacred desk,--for any holy thing?

[191] See extract, p. 156.

[192] Spirit of Laws, vol. i. book xv. chap. vii.

[193] Spirit of Laws, vol. i. book xv. chap. viii.

[194] The emphasis is ours.

[195] See pages 155, and 159, 160.

[196] See chap. i. Sec. 2.

[197] Works, vol. v. p. 63.

[198] See chap. i. Sec. 2.

[199] We have in the above remark done Boston some injustice. For New
York has furnished the Robespierre, and Massachusetts only the Brissot,
of "les Amis des Noirs" in America.

[200] This reply is sometimes attributed to Robespierre and sometimes to
Brissot; it is probable that in substance it was made by both of these
bloody compeers in the cause of abolitionism.

[201] See Alison's History of Europe, vol. ii. p. 241.

[202] Encyclopaedia of Geo. vol. iii. pp. 302, 303.

[203] Prov. xxx. 22.

[204] Encyc. of Geo., vol. iii. p. 303. Mackenzie's St. Domingo, vol.
ii. pp. 260, 321.

[205] Franklin's Present State of Hayti, etc., p. 265.

[206] Dr. Channing's Works, vol. v. p. 47.

[207] April No., 1855.

[208] Dr. Channing's Works, vol. vi. p. 50, 51.

CHAPTER V.

THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW.

Mr. Seward's Attack on the Constitution of his
Country--The Attack of Mr. Sumner on the
Constitution of his Country--The Right of Trial by
Jury not impaired by the Fugitive Slave Law--The
Duty of the Citizen in regard to the Constitution
of the United States.

WE have, under our present Union, advanced in prospe