Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-01-12
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Mr.. Giddings faithfully exposed the trick by
which Cots resolution to abolish the slave
trade in the District Of Columbia was first pass
cd, then rcconsidored and shufflcd aside without
being passed. Twenty-six Northern whigs
helped TO play this game by voting against lay
ing motion to reconsider on the table. Mcssrs.
Schenck and vinton tried to cover their .treach-
cry under pretence that the preamble of Colts
resolution was offensive to the South. To this
Mr.. q. retorted
"Does my colleague (Mr. Schcnck) allegc
there was anything in that preamble that was
not strictly truei And was he afraid that truth
would be ofensivci Again he asked his col
league if Southern gentlemen made any objec-
ton TO the prcambles lie believed the South
had at all times been able to take care of thom-
selves. Indeed, he had generally found them
able and willing to take care of the North also.
But his colleague had volunteered TO take them
under his protection, TO extend over these slave
holders pc VI. tal care. Why, (said he,) docs
he not sec that he was going entirely beyond
the shareholders that he out Herods Hcrods
He was sensible that gentlemen could at all
times find some excuse for keeping up this
slave trade; such excuses had been found for
the last forty years. lie entertained no doubt
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that these slavc-dealers ought to be treated with
great delicacy. For his part he had no such
tender sympathies. We held those who follow
that commerce on the eastern shore Of the At
lantc as unfit or human associations, but his
colleagues were for treating those more guilty
with unusual dclicacy."
Mr.. Giddings, in concluding his speech, after
many interruptions, said
Whom last interrupted he was referring TO
the fact that gentlemen were sometimes sus-
pcctcd of endcavoring by votes in this Hall to
propitiate Executive favor He would not say
that gentlemen voted on the occasion referred to
[the passage of Colts resolution for that pur-
pose but il is certain that one gentleman who
voted against laying the motion to recon-
slider ON the table, thereby sustaining the traffic
| in our own species, had received an offer OF
scat in the Executive Cabinet, but declined it,
Another who thus voted, now presided over the
Naval Department, and was one of the Prcsi-
dents constitutional advisers another who
had not voted either way, was at the head Of
| the p. o. Department another was now our
Minister at Madrid; another represented this
Nation at the court of the Grand Sultan of
Turkey; another was Commissioner on Mexi-
can claims another had been appointed Mar
shal Of tho. Western District of Penn. another
was inspector Of hospitals in the U. s. and
| the son-in-law of another was chief clerk in
the Home Department. He could not say that
these rewards wcro given as compensation for
sustaining the crimes connected with the slave
trade but 1t is an extraordinary fact, that so
far as his knowledge extended, no man who
then voted against the slave trade had received
so much as a smile from the President.
Yet he was told that an obligation rested on
him to vote for the gentleman from Massachu-
sotts, because he belonged to this party. He
said that names had little weight with him.
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who protected the slave trade, as for a Wing
who committed the same deeds. lie would
vote for no man who thus sustained course at
which humanity revolts. He would refer to a
fact that transpired the week ON which most of
the members reached this city. 1t was the
week before the present session commenced
Most Of the old members would rccollcct a
| colorcd man who last year waited in the rciec-
tory below us. He, fearing that he was to be
sold under your law, attempted TO make his
escape to land of freedom. He was arrested,
| and knowing his doom, he drew knife from
his pocket, and, in the presence Of his captors,
cut his own throat, and appealed TO the God of
Justice against the law which has been sustain
ed in this District for the last forty years.
But such suicides are common among the VIC
tins of this traffic. He repeated, that those
who deal in slaves here, are far more guilty
than those who follow the African slave trade.
Their victims are moro enlighted and suffer
| more.
And one fact was certain, this slave trade has
been sustained for the last two years by the
| Whig party of this House. The records OF the
nation showed this fact and still gentlemen
urged that he was bound to sustain a man for
Speaker because he belonged to that party
He denied any such obligation. He would be
as willing to go down to the slave pen on the
corner of 9th street and Maryland avenue, and
take tho dealer in human flesh who presides
over that pratical establishment to officiate as
Speaker OF this House, as he would to vote for
any man, call him Wing or Democrat, who
lends hsinhuence to protect and shield that exc
cradle traffic.
We don't think the Wings have gained much
by their efforts to throw the responsibility of
their defeat upon the Freesolers. The attempt
itself is sneaking and unmanly. After trying
to carry water on both shouldcrs-to secure the
favor Of the South without forfeiting that OF
the North-thcy find themselves just where
they might have anticipated, fiat on their backs,
without the confidence of either the one or the
other.