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'Revolutiomary.'

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
April
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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Hy an nrticle in anolher columrij t lic rrader will perccive timt tlie Jackson Gnzette declinas answerinj; otir iaquuje? respccting tlic law of 1793 for resturing fugithe slnves. We are iorry thar. our neighbor has dedinpd. He first held us up befure the public ns Rcvolutioniats on nccoiint of a .single sentiment, snd when we ask him to eay _ven or nay, whetbr we were rifflit, ie dccliicd discussing the propricty of that vory declaro tion for which hit assailed U5, !;ccau6e "it is striclly a moral qvestionV1 Ato wb !o uncicrsfand froni lliis that "moral qnstions'' are not lcgfi;imate pubjects of poütical nction? But we tnppose oar neiglibor will not discuss even this qacstioii of "political elhicü," fundamental though ïl be. We rogret his silence tbc more, as he has written tlius far in a pood spirit. Butwccannot let his article pass without noticing c ne abominable sentiinnit nnd false maxim it contains. He says, "It is pometimes bettc-r tbot an individual sbonld be sacrificcd than tbc nalioa ruined.'' That it iti sometimos bet'er that an individual should voluntarily sacririce hiniself o r his interest?, and the loas be gencrously rompensatcd by the public, than that a wholc nation should be ru ined, may be tnie: bul that it is bctter that thenation shonld Jay violent hands on one of its own citizens, nnd bind the struggling victim, and ent his throat, or otherwisc destmy hitn ordeprive him of his rightsj (o save tl.e nation, tce utlerly deny. We deny that such n sentiment is si net ion - ed br any principie of law, natural or revealed. It would open the door wide for every I;ind of oppression and wickedness under the plea of the pullic good. And in thi3 very nrtiele ihe üitor shows the latitude of injuslice and wickedness to which his mie reachcf, by affirming that "it is belter that the i-lave be rclained in bondage tbnn thal the goverrunent should bc trealcd as of no binding force" - by individuals peaceably helping him to escape. We onght to state, however, that Ihe Gaxette is sustained in its maxin by one eminent person, whose amhoritv will, perhap., have much weight. About eightcen centuiios ago, a poor working-mnn, the eon of a carpen ter, whosc name was Jesus, wns brought before the Jewiah Sanhedrïn fora'lcdgrd crime, He was fbtmd innocent; btit befure he was dism:6.ed, the High Priest Caíaiiias declired that lest the Romans should lake awny thcir place and nation, it was expedient that one mnn ehould die for the whole nation. The nation selected this carpenter, the most innocent and inoffensive of ihe whole people. He was accordin.ly ecotirgcd and crucified for ensons of state policy, to preserve the Jewish "place ond nation-" Were the same Jesús n working slave at the South, tlie Editor of the Michigan Slaic Gazette, if "ie followed out his own principios, wou'd lay violent hands on him in race he should escape to a freeblnte, and re-cnslave liiin nndnll his poslenty. Caiaphns would cmcijy h:s Lonnnd the Juckeon Editor would enslavc liim, andbotli wculd do t Ie6t the national govcrnriiciit Blnild be overtLrown, ad the nation ruincd! Tlnis it ïvill be een ihat lliough Cninphas 8c the Editor pfthe Gozette livcd ciglilccn ccnturies apart, there is a striking it'enlitj in their fcel)tg% and manner of' rensoning.The weatjier is still quite cold, and since oiir last, wohayo liad ano:l:cr fall of snow. - We shnll have good slcighitig to town meetings this year- something hiiherto unheard of in Michigan. We cannot do justice to the nrticle sent ns by G. W. B. without extrncting largely from it, and should we do en, its iusertio would interfere with the vauety we intcud to preservo jte paper.

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Signal of Liberty