f God's preaching angel in its flight
through the skies.

"Alas--alas! ye that count as little this bond of blessed
brotherhood, wrought by our fathers' mighty hands and
bleeding hearts--we tell you, sorrowing and in tears, that
your pretence is foul hypocrisy. Ye have reversed the first
precept of the gospel, for your wisdom is a dove's, and your
harmlessness a serpent's. _Ye have not the first principle
within you either of religion or philanthropy, or common
human benevolence._ Your principle is the principle of Judas
Iscariot, and with the doom of the traitor ye shall go to
your own place."

"No, Sir--no, Sir," concludes the Senator thirsting for his
constituent's blood, "'There is no gospel in all this treasonable
fanaticism--for treason to my country is rebellion to my God.'"

Judge Grier charged the Jury;--but as _he stuck out from the
phonographer's report_--of which the proof-sheets were sent to
him--_the most offensive portion_, Gentlemen of the Jury, I shall not
be able to enlighten you with all the legal words of this "consummate
judge." So be content with the following Elegant Extracts.

"With the exception of a few individuals of perverted
intellect in some small districts or neighborhoods whose
moral atmosphere has been tainted and poisoned by male and
female vagrant lecturers and conventions, no party in
politics, no sect of religion, or any respectable numbers or
character can be found within our borders, who have viewed
with approbation or have looked with any other than feelings
of abhorrence upon this disgraceful tragedy."

"It is not in this Hall of Independence that meetings of
infuriated fanatics and unprincipled demagogues have been
held to counsel a bloody resistance to the laws of the land.
It is not in _this_ city that conventions are held
denouncing the Constitution, the Laws, and the Bible. It is
not _here_ that the pulpit has been desecrated by seditious
exhortations, teaching that theft [a man stealing his own
limbs and person from his 'lawful owner'] is meritorious,
murder [in self-defence killing a man-stealer] excusable,
and treason [opposition to the fugitive slave bill] a
virtue!"

"The guilt of this foul murder [the shooting of a kidnapper
by the men whom he intended for his victims, and whose
premises he invade