This _religious_ paper says,--"To the fugitives themselves ... this Law is no Law ... and to resist it even unto death, is their right, and it may be their duty.... To each _individual_ fugitive, to every man or woman, who having escaped from bondage and tasted liberty, is in hourly peril of being seized and dragged back to slavery, we say,--Be fully prepared for your own defense. If to you death seems better than slavery, then refuse not to die--whether on the way-side, at your own threshold, or even as a felon upon the gallows. Defend your liberty and the liberty of your wife and children, as you would defend your life and theirs against the assassin. If you die thus, you die nobly, and your blood shall be the redemption of your race. Should you destroy the life of your assailant, you will pass into the custody of the criminal Law ... under an indictment for murder; but the verdict of the community, and the verdict of almost any jury will be, justifiable homicide in self-defense.... Or should a different verdict be found, and you be condemned to die as a murderer, your ignominious death shall be luminous with the halo of a martyr, and your sacrifice shall be for the deliverance of your people." Such are the _religious_ principles, and such is the _religious_ advice of these _religious_ ministers! I am sorry to see this. _I never read more wicked and abominable principles!_ They deserve not only the reprehension of every Christian, but the entire indignation of _all civilized mankind_! They advise private arming with bloody weapons--they advise violent resistance and murder--the murder of officers of civil Law engaged in the discharge of the duty which they have sworn to perform! I have no words to express my abhorrence of these wicked and outrageous sentiments, so directly contrary to the whole nature of all civilized society, to the precepts of the Bible, and the whole spirit of Christianity! I speak not of the _men_. Good men may err. But these principles, which these ministers have published as religious ones, are horribly and outrageously wicked!