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needed to enforce the laws against an organized and armed rebellion. It is not strictly war, but a legitimate effort by government for the enforcement of its laws, and the maintenance of its proper and indispensable authority. The principle is the same with that which quells a riot in one of our cities, or seizes an assassin or incendiary, and brings him to condign punishment. We should be tender of human life; but we must ever keep ourselves on the side of the government against all wrong-doers. If the Christianity of Paul would not let him resist hy violence even the despotism of Nero himself, it surely becomes every peace-man to throw bis entire influence against the gigantic crime of attempting to overthrow the frcest and best government on earth, in order to establish upon its ruins an oligarchy of slaveholders for the extension of slavery over a continent. million of men were mustered to put down by force this climax of all offences, it would still be in form, as it ought ever to be in spirit, only a simple, rightful enforcement of the laws the very laws which the rebels themselves helped enact-against a combined, wholesale violation of them. It is, or should be, a work of Justice, calm, impartial, awful. God grant it may not kindle among our people the fierce, vindictive passions of war!

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RESPONSE TO OUR VIEWS.-We seldom report what is said about us ; but we may just now be excused for copying a single specimen from the N. Y. Evening Post.

"The Enforcement of Law is Peace. The magazine called The Advocate of Peace, which is devoted to the diffusion of the gentler principles of human duty, argues with much force that the mere sentiment of peace cannot control or cure all the evils of society. For that we must look to government, which embodies the powers specifically requisite for the protection of society. When any wrong is done or attempted by disaffected classes or persons, when pirates infest the seas, or miscreants fire and steal, when à mob prowls through the streets, or rebellion lifts its head in a State, the only method of meeting it is by the rigid enforcement of the laws. The Advocate says:

"Here, then, is the province of government, which was made on purpose to keep peace, by a prompt, energetic exercise of its authority. Is not this just the way, as all experience proves, to keep peace between families or communities? So on the largest scale. It was Gen. Jackson's firmness in upholding the authority of our national government, and his inflexible purpose to enforce its laws at all hazards, that restrained nullification in 1833; and had the same hand held the reins when border ruffianism attempted such abominable outrages in Kansas, it would doubtless have averted nearly all the enormous evils that ensued. So of the wholesale nullification that now assumes the form of secession at the South. It is, in its origin and its essential character, a question of obedience to government; and a judicious, yet energetic, unflinching enforcement of its laws, would have been precisely the measure of peace needed at the right time to meet the case.'

"The Advocate only expresses the opinions of all law-abiding citizens in every part of the nation."

ELECTION OF PRESIDENT.-Rev. Dr. Wayland having resigned his office as President of our Society, HOWARD MALCOM, D. D., has been chosen his successor; a selection in which all our friends will rejoice.

THE NEXT ANNIVERSARY OF THE AM. PEACE SOCIETY-will be held in Park Street Church, Boston, Monday, May 27th. The business meeting, at 3 P. M., at which a full attendance is requested. The public exercises at 7 1-2 P. M., at which we hope our new President will preside, and ELIHU BURRITT, and other distinguished friends of the cause, are engaged to speak. WM. C. BROWN, Rec. Sec.

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ADVOCATE OF PEACE.

JULY AND AUGUST, 1861.

ANNUAL REPORT.

Every year is showing more and more fully the magnitude and the difficulties of the reform in which we are engaged. Touching at almost every point the chief interests of mankind both for the present and the coming life, the Cause of Peace will be found, as age after age passes away more and still more indispensable to the world's steady progress towards that golden era, "foretold by prophets, and by poets sung," when nations shall beat their swords into ploughshares, their spears into pruning-hooks, and learn war no more. Of such a consummation, we cannot, as believers in the Bible, allow ourselves for a moment to doubt; yet every month is disclosing more and more the difficulties that lie in the way of its perfect accomplishment. No reform is so difficult. There is not one that encounters so many obstructions from prejudice, passion, and the world's immemorial practice; none so fortified by use and habit, prestige and power; none so wrought into the whole frame-work of government, so wov. en into the web and woof of society, so widely, deeply rooted in the strongest, foulest, fiercest depravities of our nature. It is the grand crime and curse of all nations. It stands in Christendom prominent over all forms of mischief to mankind, and everywhere enlists in its support the leading agencies and influences of society - the sanctities of religion, and the powers of government, the hearth and the altar, the school, the pulpit, and the press, history and philosophy, poetry and eloquence, the most effective kinds of talent and skill. It wields a vast and terrible power. The ablest minds are its tools; and for its support in Europe alone there is expended even in peace, an amount of money and moral power more than sufficient, under God, for the world's evangelization.

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