Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-06-05

for having produced that great hero of the
Senate-Mr. Allen. We are not certain
about Mr.. Gidding's politics; he has occa-
s%ionally fancied himselfa Wing, and at other
times proved a good loco foco. He is the
victim of the most outrageous hallucinations,
and above all men, is deserving of the uni
versal compassion of mankind. We cannot
conscientiously class him with either of the
recognized parties, nor yet as the founder Of
any new political sect; we consider him
10 be an unique specimen of the human
ertra (Which, like the extras of now-a-
days, are nothing very extraordinary. Mr..
G.. was the '~make-welght' thrown in-the
thirteenth in a bakers dozen Of doughty ma
turals. 1t is a fact, (and we claim the merit
of discovery,) which in the course of a few
years will be universally acknowledged by
Psychologists, that there is in this funny world
of ours, numbers of wretches who have only
got here by blunder, and who betray by their
unvarying tendency to lunacy, that they were
originally intended for the moon-the grand
asylum Of natures l%una;ics. We don't by
any means wish to insinuate that Mr.. Gid
dings belongs to these unfortunates, but We
aver that he is by far too good-too amiable
too philanthropic for this world.
As a philanthropist, Mr.. Giddings is une-
qualled. The ruling passion of his life is a
measureless love for the colorod race. This
is worthy of all praise. We, too, love our
unbleached brethren and sisters; we once
upon a time lost our sensitive heartt to a cream
colored angel in the South, and our commits
s~eration has always been excited when we
have reflected upon the outer darkness which
envelopes our fellow-creatures-those unhap-
py specimens Of humanity in eclipse. But
if we love a black man much, we love a white
man more, nor could we consent to offer up
our fellow-citizens of the South as sacrifices
to our philanthropy. But Mr.. Giddings is
different; he is a fire and sword phildnthro.
pist, and would convince the world of his love
of his kind at the lannon's mouth. We are
not much given to gravity, but we will try tc
be serious for two minutes, while we call tc
mind the delivery of his philanthropic speech
on the Oregon question. We never saw such
a piteous exhibition of frantic hatred-mali
cious and nervous spleen. The vicious yell
of a toothless hound, or the bootleSS fury of
fangless snake, would best compare with Mr.
Gidding's manner. For such blood-thirstl
twaddle, he would have been hooted from tn
wigwam of an Indian. The deep damna
ton of such infamy would cancel the gooC
works of a lifetime, and outweigh the FAINT
of a Washington. We would not enter OF
our list of friends the Isan whose heart wa
black enough to conceive, or whose tongue
was vile enough to utter such devilish schemes
we would turn aside, though he was dying
choked in uttering his latest malice.
AS it regards personal appearance, Mr.. G
is about the middle height, and like I'll thu
members from Ohio, is very far from being
dandy. With respect to beauty, he is a first
rate specimen of complete failure, and you
would Judge him at first sight to be the mos
ul-tempered and woe-begone philanthropis
that ever longed to shed blood. His princi
pal use in the House is 10 stand as a large
fundamentally for the chivalrous and ardent
folks. The chief point in his speech is t.
get called to order as often as possible, anC
in this he succeeds to admiration.
1t is worth a Jews eye to see the porse
verance exhibited by young Southernors il
insulting him every time he is rash enough
to rise; (this is a harmless p~astine, for al
though Mr.. G. is very blood-thirsty in thu
abstract, he has a horror of shedding BLOOD
personally, or of having his own persona
blood she'd so that there are few opprobiou
epithets in the language which have not beef
applied to him. He is not a great orator.
the mans mind is made up of metaphysical
angles, which don't fiji into each other: it il
besides cramped and rheumatic-so that hi
thoughts are not altogether healthy-they arr
tinctured by 'raw-head-a ad-bloody-bones
dreams, black milleniums and "amalgdma
! ton" horrors. IL short, it is our humble be
lief that if Mr.. G.. does not speedily retire
from public business, a few more years o
philanthropy will render him an e~xcellen
scolored' gentleman, and Ohio will exult il
a chocolate-hued Representative.