erican
commissioner or deputy will ever get for a similar service.
How mistaken we are! Judas Iscariot is not a traitor! he was
a great patriot; he conquered his 'prejudices,' performed 'a
disagreeable duty,' as an office of 'high morals and high
principle;' he kept the 'law' and the 'Constitution,' and
did all he could to 'save the Union;' nay, he was a saint,
'not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.' 'The law of
God never commands us to disobey the law of man.' _Sancte
Iscariote ora pro nobis._

"Talk of keeping the fugitive slave law! Come, come, we know
better. Men in New England know better than this. We know
that we ought not to keep a wicked law, and that it must not
be kept when the law of God forbids!

"One of the most awful spectacles I ever saw, was this: A
vast multitude attempting, at an orator's suggestion [Hon.
Mr. Hallett], to howl down the 'Higher law,' and when he
said, Will you have this to rule over you? they answered,
'Never!' and treated the 'Higher law' to a laugh and a howl!
It was done in Faneuil Hall; under the eyes of the three
Adamses, Hancock, and Washington; and the howl rung round
the venerable arches of that hall! I could not but ask, 'Why
do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
the rulers of the earth set themselves, and kings take
counsel against the Lord and say, Let us break his bands
asunder, and cast off his yoke from us.' Then I could not
but remember that it was written, 'He that sitteth in the
heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision.'
'He taketh up the isles as a very little thing, and the
inhabitants of the earth are as grasshoppers before Him.'
Howl down the law of God at a magistrate's command! Do this
in Boston! Let us remember this--but with charity."

"I do not believe there is more than one of the New England
men who publicly helped the law into being, but would
violate its provisions; conceal a fugitive; share his loaf
with a runaway; furnish him golden wings to fly with. Nay, I
think it would be difficult to find a magistrate in New
England, willing to take the public odium of doing the
official duty. I believe it is not possible to find a
regular jury, who will punish a man for harboring a slave,
for helping his escape, or fin