f ordered to take human
life, in the name of God to take it;" and he concludes by admonishing
the fugitives to "hearken to the Word of God, and to count their own
masters worthy of all honour."

The Rev. William Crowell, of Waterfield, State of Maine, printed a
Thanksgiving Sermon of the same kind, in which he calls upon his
hearers not to allow "excessive sympathies for a few hundred fugitives
to blind them so that they may risk increased suffering to the millions
already in chains."

The Rev. Dr. Taylor, an Episcopal Clergyman of New Haven, Connecticut,
made a speech at a Union Meeting, in which he deprecates the agitation
on the law, and urges obedience to it; asking,--"Is that article in the
Constitution contrary to the law of Nature, of nations, or to the will
of God? Is it so? Is there a shadow of reason for saying it? I have
not been able to discover it. Have I not shown you it is lawful to
deliver up, in compliance with the laws, fugitive slaves, for the high,
the great, the momentous interests of those [Southern] States?"

The Right Rev. Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, in a Lecture at Lockport,
says, "It was warranted by the Old Testament;" and inquires, "What
effect had the Gospel in doing away with slavery? None whatever."
Therefore he argues, as it is expressly permitted by the Bible, it does
not in itself involve any sin; but that every Christian is authorised
by the Divine Law to own slaves, provided they were not treated with
unnecessary cruelty.

The Rev. Orville Dewey, D.D., of the Unitarian connexion, maintained in
his lectures that the safety of the Union is not to be hazarded for the
sake of the African race. He declares that, for his part, he would
send his own brother or child into slavery, if needed to preserve the
Union between the free and the slaveholding States; and, counselling
the slave to similar magnanimity, thus exhorts him:--"YOUR RIGHT TO BE
FREE IS NOT ABSOLUTE, UNQUALIFIED, IRRESPECTIVE OF ALL CONSEQUENCES.
If my espousal of your claim is likely to involve your race and mine
together in disasters infinitely greater than your personal servitude,
then you ought not to be free. In such a case personal rights ought to
be sacrificed to the general good. You yourself ought to see this, and
be willing to suffer for a while--one for many."

If the Doctor is prepared, he is quite at liberty to sacrifice his
"personal rights to the general good." But, as I have suffered a long
time i