The Nation's Trial: The Proclamation: Dormant Powers Of The Government: The Constitution A Charter Of Freedom, And Not "a Covenant With He

THE NATIONS TRIAL l THE PROCLAMATION B R DORlllANT POVERS OP THE GOVERNMENT THE CONSTITUTION A CHARTER OF FREEDON, AND NOT A COVENANT WITH HELL - 1863. - PREFACE. - THE substance of the follon-ing Treatise 1-as delivered as a lecture, first bcfore the Young Xens Association of Waterford, February 18, 1863, and afterwards repeated at otiler places. At thc request of many members of the Bar, and others, it is published, after having been somewhat enlarged. This work is publisl.lecl to awaken inquiry, as the present crisis seenled to cleilarid a brief work upoli the duties of the Iour. WATERFORD, N. Y., Jpril, 1863. CHAPTER I.--Frccdom and 3Iorti Ideas. the 3Ieasure of 3lans Progress ....... 11.-Our Defiance of God and his Justice ........................... 111.-The Constitution no Cloak for Glarery Recognizing Glovcry de fncto does not Lcgtlize or Guarantee it ..................... IT.-The Vnion represents the only Sovereign Power ................. V.-Slavery is TVnr .............................................. XT1.-The Proolauntion the Great Erent of the laet 1800 Years ........ VI1.-The Nation, tlrough Congress, nlust settle this Question ......... VII1.-11 Stntc cannot Lcgally make o Slae ......................... 1X.-The Xational Go-ernncnt bound to Protect crerg Psrson within its Boundaiics ............................................... S.-A Republican Goernrnent . R gurxntced by the Constitution .... XI.-Rulcs of Construction . Tlie Declaration of Independence Estops the Xation from Continuing Elar erg ......................... XI1.-The Present Age calls to it IIighcr Duty ....................... FREEDOI CHAPTER I. AND XORAL IDEAS, THE RIEASURE OF MANS PROGRESS. WAR, with allits horrors, is trying this nation in the presence of the God of Justice. When, in the course of events, a people.apparently prosperous and happy, by domestic convulsions is deluging the country with blood, it becomes us to ascertain the cause.and apply the rendedy. Progress is the law of the universe. Science has demonstrated that animal life has existed on this planet for a thousand centuries, yet man has left recorded history reaching back less than six thousand years. . Although, in the beginning man was created after the image of . God-that is, with a capacity to learn and exist forever-yet man remains but a poor representation of the God-head until his intellect has been cultivated and his affction born anew, so that he shall -perceive truth and toue the right. In tracing the development of the human race, each individual must be treated as a trinity, that is. First, as a pliysical second, as an intellectual third, as a moral being. Until each of these attributes is developed, man is not truly seen in the image of his Creator. Hence triumphs of art, which may call out and expand the physi- - cal and intellectual, do .not necessgrily develop the- moral...