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Excerpt from An Address, Delivered December 22, 1837, in the Village of Lockport, N. Y: Commerotive of the Martyrdom of Rev. E. P. Lovejoy, Who Was Killed by the Mob, in the City of Alton, Ill;, On the Night of November 7, 1837
God has placed every intelligent being under Law; He has given to the human family a wise and benignant government and he holds, responsible, the men who are appointed to admil nister this government; It is his declared will that law shall speak, a terror to evil doers - to them who do well, peace: and when she thus speaks, that the majesty of her voice be regard ed, and the whole import of her testimony be respected.
All this was felt deeply by the Son of Imlah - his grief was strong, in view of the gross invasion of human rights by the frenzied cry and onset of the populace but in a deeper cur~ rent ¿owed the tide of his sorrow when he saw, in this prostra tion of Law, the rights of god invaded.
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