N. E. Religious Sentiment On Duelling

The arronnce and rc-cklesness wliich hns led oiie of the grcat ptfliticnl porties ñ chussetts to nominóte n elayeholder oud Lned dueüwt M their candidato for the fitst lionore nml the "living embodiment of the-r principé," will appror the more osfotlnding the more it isexamined. JNoihinsr can be mote explicit ftnd f uil thnn the evidences whwb are at band, the seltled opinión of New Lngland Chrislians hns been in favor of the exclusión of duellistf from office under evciy possible circumstance. At Amherst I feil in with n copy of a sermón preached by President Humphrey, on ocension of the duel in which Cilley was murdered, in 1838. The Doctor's text is the 6th cornmandment.and he shows tht the duellist is guilty of the mostaggravated species of murder. That duellists are nmch more guil'.y end much worse than common mmderers he argües hecause they nre generally better educated, hold a more'influential rink in society, commit the deed with deliberntion, and genei - nlly kill their associatcs and friends. He proceeds: In the fifth plnce; There is one nther confciderallon which enchances the criminnlity of avowed duellists, beyond that of common raurderers, more than any thincr wliich lias vet been mentioned. THEY ARE MÜRDERERS BY PROFESSION. Not only do tbey cherish the purpose in their neart?, for a long course of years, of defending their honor with deadly weapons. but they proclaim ït pon the house tops. They give every body to iinderstnnd, that they hold themselvcs in Teadiness nt all times to wash off nn insult in the blood of him who offers it. Now whnt is thie, in the eye of Him who hath said, hou shalt nol kill, but habitual malice afokrtuoüght? And how can a holy God regard him in any other liglit than as a murderer, from the moment that iris contingent purpose [to fighl] is furmed? Ts it not, in the languoee of the law, general malice, or malice against all mankind, wliich ho cherishes in his heart, from youth to grey hnin?, wliether an opportunity offers t o shed blood or not? If the man who always stands ready to defraud his neighbors is an habitual cheat.or to etenl his property, is an habitual thief. why is not he who always stnnds rendy to siioot his neighbor, an habitual murderer? He thus states the effect of this duelling system upon the freedom of debate in Ongress: "It may nor, thciefore, for nny thing that appears tó theconlrary, be considerad as good luelling law, that nny representativo may be called to account foi the free utterance of his opinión in the hall of debate, and that he puts himself in jeopardy nf personal violence, n 'is denies the right of any one to make the cal,. How long then will the representaties of the people be safe in SDeaking their tpinds in one of the freest deliberal ive assemWies in the world? How long will any bnt accotnphshed duellists be willingto occupy ihe pcat ofDoraocles under the dome of the Capítol, wilhthe naked sword of Dionysius suspended by a single hair over their hcods? who but the men that carry their rifles and pistola along with their cred'entials to Congres?, will consent to place themselves in sucircircnmstances, that, at the peril of their lives, they must certify to the honor and integrily of every desperado who may choose to break into their lodgmgs, and offer them his bloody alternativos." Dr. Humphrey evidently cnme short of a' rail exposure of the'causos by which dueiling is perpetuated in onr country, by his perpetual caution in avoiding inquiry into the effects of elavery. Duellinff is now, in fact notlunjr but a part of the grand overf.eer system, by which the elaveholders keep Northern Representátives in such abject subservionce. Anti it is only by etriking at the canse that duelliug-can ever be effectually 6iibverted in our land. - And henee the remedy which Dr. H. propused for duelling- the same that Dr. Beechcr had so euccessfully urged thirty years before, in the State of New York, has come to nothing, from the impracticability of iheapphcation or moral influences so as to effect any moral reform connected with the government, untn you firet subvert the usurped control of the overseers in all poHticaUffairs. Dr. H. suggests the remedy as follows: "With whatever incredulity the suggestion may at first be received, I have no doubt, that could only one-tenth part of the people of this country be united m a serious and settled determination to put an end lo duelling, they woulddoitinn very short time wiMiout the aid of criminal law. It is my eolemn conviction, thot the means are within their reach.- The only difficulty is in pursuading them to unüein'theuse of these means. Do you aak me wherein their ffreat strentö Jieth? I willtcll you, It lies m the gesioa.of.Qiqr-go.vernment, in the workingofour free irslitutious- in the all conlrolling power of the elective franchise. Let those who abhor honorable mnrder, as much s they fc gt hpmicide, resolve, itrt they will NhVEft g.ve n vote for any man, for any office, who shall be concemcd in n duel, as principal second eurgeon. or friend. be his pohlics or other qualificaüons what they may. And then, if we cannot hinder the etectfop of dueliste to Congress beyond our own hmits, then: is one electton, and that is the highest office m iht country in which the Constituí ion gives us a voice And who can fnil to see.'tl-at if Nw Enpland.or New York were to say we VVII.L NFVFRGÏVEAVOTE TO ANY CANDÏDATB FOR THE PRESTDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES WHO SHALL HEREAFTER BE ENGAGED IN A DUEL, it would opérate as n powerfnl check upon the miiltitude of candidatos who do not regard the office at all above their reasonablc anticipations? At any rate it will nevor do for professors of religión to mourn over the sin of duelling, as jftbere were wasno hopo. and flatter themselves that though t should fester till it destroys the body poht.c, they areguiltless when their mitnber is so grea that thev might make their influence feit in erery important election from Arkansas to the disputed boundary of Maine," There ia ihe Riiptrestion of tho Doctor s not quoted bere, which I quote by itself, beggmg that he wffl teil m at the present moment, Juno it can be done1? He ("ayfl, " Let lyrennis frpolv disenss the subjpt." which is nll riffht, and T hope Mie bint will be taknti hv eysry Tycpnm and debntinef Bnnetv in tho frep States. Anrï then he Pavs. "And attovenil. Iet n-rry tnovemrnf te Jcept H-aven-ide of the tJisfiir. hing irtflv enees of party pnHtk?." T Rhóuld like to'know how a mnml mnvemont nmonothe religión pcoplo of Mawáehneetf. vrhwh nhonld blnf=t the political propnorts of TTenrv Ciar or .Tohn Davis and of thr Bnpnorfem is to be kept Heavpn-wldp from the dintarbing influences of party politics." Why. the nrmehintr of thic verv pprmon, at this time, in anv nulnit in Massnchnwtte, would raie a hue and erv n everv whjff caiicw m thp country, against the interference of the clprey with pnrty politics. Here is n great pnrtv, which two yeart ago controlled the majonty in 19Stntos of the Union, and now h;s staked it3 hopes of éhicccos, nay, of existcncc, upon iuitbitity to elcvnlc tlie greatest áuélist of llie na r ion to thé fiit oíh'je i. üie repablic. Keep il out bf politics! it ciui ncver be out öl poüi.ics, so Iojijt asiil! poiltics an.; oyerneiil by slavory, tmd so long a eluvcry g-overns by dueüng as cue of Uu in9tn)inönls of pnver. - The Liberty Party, ir" eIiciontly suppórted, will alone, by sut.vérting tic dominio of slavery, give adeutli-b!ow to the reign of blood over tiic freedqm of debato and the indepen ence of action, in Congress.