Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1845-12-03

holding murdere rs returning TO their own States
have hidden defiance to our laws, and spurned
with contempt tho obligations Of our political
The people Of tho slave States have
b.come go habit dated to commit these outrages,
and our ci,izens have become so accustomed to
endure them, that free white Inhabitants of our
State have recently been kidnapped from our
territory and taken by lawless violence to an
adjoining Sta,c under pretence that thoy had done
acts in Ohio which were opposed to tho laws OF
our sister State The Judiciary of that S,ate
having nvcs,ign ted the subject has approved the
net, and roma nded our kidnapped citizens to Prl-
son, whore they now remain. | have not time to
hint further at the usurpntions OF the slavohodlng
interest or al tho outrnges ana insults heaPed
,non the people Of the free States havc SAID
enough 10 show that our union with the slave
Statcs has proven destructive 70 the interests Inc
ca rost rights and sacred honor Of tho free States
fo,al 10 our Constitution, and disastrous to the
rights Of man, Are unbridled RIGHTEOUSNESS
deoradine oppr ession, violence and bIoodshed
curse? Then has our union with the sInveho'ding
States brought that curse upon US. Arc mere
millions Of onomics within our government, held
in subcction only by physical forcc. a curse!
Then has our union with the slave States brough,
tina, curse upon US. Arc war. rapine and human
butcbory a rsol Then has that curse also
becn brought upon by our union with the slave
Statos. To i'm press these facts upon tho minds
Of our people has been on important object OF
my public efforts for tho last ten years. From
nv first into Congress to the present day.
hnvo embraced all proper occasions TO exhibit
the outragcs and insults hoapod upon the free
North by tho sloveho!ding power. The slave
Statos certainly have no claim on US further to
sha re- tho disgrace, to bear the burdens. or TO
participate in tho guilt. or to hight tho battles OF
an institution oxccratcd by civilized man and
curses Of God. Rathor than do these, would
dissolve our political connex on with those States.
I would maintain tho Constitution in all its bear
ings. Although our fathers made hard bargain
for tho North that is injurious to our interests
and our honor. yet would abide by it. Beyond
that would not 60. would yield moi SIN
constitutional right Of our State to save a union
that has 80 long, and bitterly oppressed and in
sulted us. l would maintain our rights under the
Constitution, leaving tho Union to be continued or
dissolved, as the slave States shall prefer. And
] rejoice that the progress Of public sentiment IS
such as to enable overy man to look forward 10
poiut Of time, hot far in the future, when the con-
sttutional rights Of tho free States will DO vlnd
Gated, regarde of tho effect which such vindica
ton may have upon our union with tho slave
holding States. God speed tho day.
But regard oil discussions concerning the con
tinuanco of our present union as work OF suPere
ropa,ion. Present indications leave no doubt thai
it will DO disso lved within the coming six months
indeed. it is announced by some Of our papers tina
n now Union is already formed with foreign
.lavoholdipg O vornment. Our army is already il
Tcxas. in oil porbobity now opgagod in another
wa: to sustain slavery. This GROWING act OF
.lnveboldipg pcrfdy is attended with ono exten
uotinp circumstancc-the principal actors in the
Mo, have frankly avowed that their object is te
support slavery. The question will soon DO pre-
aenied 70 the people of Ohio, whether they will
un,e in such new union, formed for such purposes
TO .u,h alliance, formed for such unholy pur
noses. hone Ohio will not yield her assent. The
interests and the honor of tho free States forbid
il: Justice and humanity forbid it; respect for the
oninion. Of the civilized world, regard to the
principes Of cur pilgrim fathers, veneration fol-
tho memory Of our revolutionary ancestors, for
bid it. The history Of past ages, our own ex-
pcrionce. proclaim in thunder tones the infamy
and ruin that await tho damnng deed.
J. II. GIDDINGS.
Jefferson, August %, 1915.
PS-In answer to Mr.. Browns note, | car
only say, that recollect conversation with MISS
Keiley concerning the outragea committed upon
the FREQ States in order to sustain slavery. In
that conversation. l expressed my views of the
Union and nv wishes in regard to its continuance
with the same qualifications as nave stated then
above, and not otherwise. ). n. u.
Thew are tho pure transccndentalists, the wri
tors in Turkey. One OF them recently announced