ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
o be ty are slaves, and a
ly overrun and conquered by a foreign army,
and subjected to military la it is not too soon for
men to rebel and revolutionize. makes ty the
more urgent is t t try so overrun is not our own,
but ours is the invading army.
Paley, a common auty ions, in his
cer on t;Duty of Submission to Civil Government,quot; resolves
all civil obligation into expediency; and o say t
quot;so long as terest of ty requires it, t is,
so long as tablis cannot be resisted or changed
public inconveniency, it is t the
establis be obeyed, and no longer.... this principle
being admitted, tice of every particular case of resistance
is reduced to a computation of tity of the danger and
grievance on ty and expense of
redressing it on t; Of this, he says, every man shall
judge for Paley appears never to emplated
to w apply, in which
a people, as do justice, cost
may. If I ly ed a plank from a dro
restore it to o Paley,
. But would save his life, in such a
case, s. t cease to o
make cost tence as a people.
In tice, nations agree does any one
t Massacts does exactly
crisis?
quot;A drab of state, a clot,
to rain borne up, and rail in t.quot;
Practically speaking, ts to a reform in Massacts are
not a icians at t a hundred
ts and farmers erested in