Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-04-09

stitute it for the former, and act under it as
no consistent opposer of a usrrping govern
ment could do. We cannot see that the de-
s%truction of the old, and the formation of a
new union, has effected any very material
change in his political course, except that he
uses the theory for electioneering purposes.
So lightly did the change from one union to
another sit upon him, so little did he regard
it as a call for an immediate and forcible pro-
test, a protest which would be understood
ard remembered by the usurpers, that he
passed into, and became identified with the
representatives of the new union, without
even an oath of allegiance to mark the time
of his transit. 1t is true, he says, when
speaking of the admission Of the Senators
and Representatives from Texas,
"Foreigners, expressly prohibited by the
Constitution, were placed in both Houses of
Congress TO make laws to, govern US, to eff.
feet our interests, and to deprive US of our
rights"
This is an assertion calculated TO startle
his constituents had his action correspondent
with his declaration-had he treated the
Teran foreigners, who claimed a place in the
Hall of Representatives at Westinghouse
he would have treated foreign claimants
from any other nation. Had Great Britain
insisted upon her right 10 seat six or eight
representatives in the same Legislature with
Joshua r. Giddings, think you he would
have quietly sat down to legislate with them,
recognizing them, by his actions, as equal
lawgivers with himself, and, on behalf of
his constituents, conserving to have them tax
their newspapers three cents, and pry into the
envelopes of their letters to ascertain to whom
they are written No, indeed I! The mo-
ment the British foreigners took their seats,
that moment would Giddings have indig-
nantly left the Hall, and the people would
have sustained him in SO doing. But when
Team foreigners take their seats, he quietly
retains his, and the people approve his
"masterly inactivity" Little cares the Tex
an marauders what Giddings, or any others
may sag against their right to seats, so long
as they practically recognize it, and admit
them to the full privileges of membership.
When he asserts that We can have no
feeling in favor of our present union with
Texas. That was forced upon us by the
slave power for purposes the most detest-
able" we are not able to understand why he
remains in a union which he loathes and
which he has the power to repudiate if he
had tho will fnbo nrotoo.o A., :. L.. a $500
forced upon U.S." can only find a parallel in
the plea of the Southerners that slavery was
forced upon them by Great Britain. If it
pere true that it had "been forced upon u-,,I
1t would prove the freemen of the North 10
be the veriest slaves! Forced to form a new
union to which they were opposed! Why
seventy odd years ago, when the entire ma
ton didn't number more than the slaves it
now holds, Great Britain was not able to
force it to maintain the old colonial union
with the mother country, and now we are
told they were forced to submit to just such
a union as the South chose to dictate-forced
to yield TO an inferior number of Southern
tyrants, who, enervated by the idleness and
luxury In which they live, have themselves
acknowledged that they are too weak to hold
without assistance their chained and degraded
captives5fOrced 10 become the white slaves
of Virginia and Texas men-thieves! The
idea is preposterous, and if rightly understood
would be regarded as an insult by the entire
North, unless it is willing to have craven and
bastard indellibly branded upon its brow
Better acknowledge at once to the hypocrisy
Of the people of the North, better admit that
they care more for party than for principle,
that they are traitors 10 God and false to man.
better confess 10 anything which is true, than
attempt to palliate their guilt upon the plea
that they were forced to do so grievous a
wrong.
Abiding to the consummation of the act
of Texas annexation, and the present PROS
pect of obtaining additional territory for sla.
very, he afirms:
We cannot shut our eyes TO those facts
which sad experience has forced upon our
understanding. As | said on that occasion
so | now say, There is no constitutional
political or moral obligation resting upon the
people of Ohio, or any other free State, TO
enter into a union with further slaveholding
territory"
But what, we ask, was his previous decla-
ration worth when there was not force enouqb
In 1t to prevent his acting as commissioner
for the ratification of the new union with
Texas! And if The people of Ohio, and
other nominally free States have seen fit to
form a union with slaveholding Texas
which, in regard to the chattel principle, is
no worse than slaveholding Louisiana or
MlsslssIPPl-withOut being compelled by
any constitutional, political or moral obIi.