ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
fes, martyrs, reformers in t sense, and
men, serve tate heir consciences also, and so necessarily
resist it for t part; and treated as
enemies by it. A wise man will only be useful as a man, and will
not submit to be quot;clay,quot; and quot;stop a o keep t;
but leave t office to at least:--
quot;I am too o be propertied,
to be a secondary at control,
Or useful serving-man and instrument
to any sovereign state t t;
irely to o them
useless and selfis ially to them is
pronounced a benefactor and p.
become a man to beohis American
government to-day? I ans disgrace be
associated . I cannot for an instant recognize t
political organization as my government whe slaves
government also.
All men recognize t of revolution; t is, t to
refuse allegiance to, and to resist, t, ws
tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. But almost
all say t suc t suchey
tion of 75. If one o tell me t this
because it taxed certain foreign commodities
brougo its ports, it is most probable t I s make an
ado about it, for I can do their
friction; and possibly to counterbalance the
evil. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But
o s machine, and oppression and
robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any
longer. In otion of a nation