ded in injustice and cruelty, and highly dangerous to our
liberties." JEFFERSON pronounced it "an injustice and enormity." The
present Chief Justice of the United States, Mr. TANEY, who acted many
years ago as counsel of Rev. Mr. GRUBER, who was indicted in the State
of Maryland for preaching a sermon on the evils of slavery, spoke as
follows in his defence:

"Mr. GRUBER did quote the language of our great act of
National Independence, and insisted on the principles
contained in that venerated instrument. He did rebuke those
masters who, in the exercise of power, are deaf to the call
of humanity, and he warned them of the evils they might
bring upon themselves. He did speak in abhorrence of those
who live by trading in human flesh, and enrich themselves by
tearing the husband from the wife, the infant from the bosom
of the mother, and this was the head and front of his
offending. So far is he from being the object of punishment
in any form of proceeding, that we are prepared to maintain
the same principles, and to use, if necessary, the same
language here in the Temple of Justice, and in the presence
of those who are the ministers of the law."

"A hard necessity, indeed, compels us to endure the evils of
slavery for a time. While it continues it is a blot on our
national character; and every real lover of freedom
confidently hopes that it will be effectually, though it
must be gradually, wiped away, and earnestly looks for the
means by which the necessary object may be best obtained.
And until it shall be accomplished, until the time shall
come when we can point, without a blush, to the language
held in the Declaration of Independence, every part of
humanity will seek to lighten the galling chain of slavery,
and better, to the utmost of his power, the wretched
condition of the slave."

Mr. JOHNSON, of Maryland:--Where did you get that?

Mr. GOODRICH:--I got it from a printed sermon recently preached by Dr.
ORVILLE DEWEY, of Boston.

And Mr. CALHOUN, in the United States Senate, in 1838, said that "many
in the South once believed that slavery was a moral and political
evil;" and Mr. BUTLER, late a United States Senator from South
Carolina, said in the Senate in 1850, that he "remembered the time
when slavery was regarded as a moral evil, even in South Carolina."

In such a state of pu