The Grand Issue

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Excerpt from The Grand Issue: An Ethico-Political Tract When human law comes, or appears to come, into direct and inevitable conflict with the Divine law, which is to control the conduct of good citizens? This, I think, is emphatically the question of our day and country, underlying most of the discussions, which for years have agitated the public mind, and is the main issue between the opponents and the abettors, or passive instruments, of slavery. It is indeed denied that there is any such question now pending. All, it is said, confess the supremacy of the Divine law, even while they contend for implicit and active obedience to those human laws, which are opposed to natural justice, and the revealed will of God. The doctrine, and the argument by which it is sustained, so far as I can understand them, may be thus stated: - "Civil government is an appointment of heaven, for the purpose of securing those social benefits for mankind, which could not otherwise be secured, and such government cannot be maintained, without making implicit obedience to all its edicts and commands a universal duty. If disobedience were ever permitted, it would introduce such a principle as would tend to demolish all government, and lead to universal anarchy. Hence, it is the will of God that the law of the land should be obeyed, even when it contradicts his will." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.