Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-01-21
eERR1T SMITHS SECOND SPEECH,


During the discussion Of the resolutions in com
mendation of the couduct of Capt. Ingraham. at
smyrna, in the house of Representatives Yesterday
the Hon. Gerrit Smith, Of New York, rose and
said MAJ J,ro
Perhaps, Mr.. Speaker, I should not have pre-
sumed to rise, had been duly Influenced by what
the gentleman from Alabama has Just now teld us
OF the characteristics of a statesman For in that
gentleman esteem, the heart does not enter into
the composition ofa statesman. With him. the
statesman is q creature all head, and no heart.
With me, ON the contrary, the heart is of more
account than the head-and that too, in all the
possible circumstances of life, including even the
province OF statesmanship. higher authority
than the gentleman from Alabama makes more OF
the heart thar Of the head. His command as
weIl upon the statesman as upon every other per
son, is, My son, give me thine heart" The
heart first and the head afterwards. The facul-
ties OF man drive on but to mischief and ruin, un-
less the heart be first given to the right and the
true.
find that gentlemen of Alabama agree in their
definition OF statesman. Another gentleman from
that State, Mr.. Philips when reviewing my
speech, fortnight ago, kindly informed me that
am but Il sentamentalist, and not statesman. To
use almost precisely his words: "Though had
attained some notorety in the country as a sem
tamentalist, had never risen to the dignity Of a
statesman" / beg that gentleman TO be patient
with me, may yet become the dignhed, Leartless,
frlg1d, conventional sort OF hcing tnat makes up
the accepted and current idea Of q statesman.-
They say that Congress is capital place for
making a statesman of one. who is willing to
come under the process. They say so, for the
that Congress is a capital place for getting
rid Of all sentiment, and sympathy and conscience.
Now cannot say that am very ambitious to
have realized in my own person, the popular idea
Of a statesman. Nevertheless I beg the gentle
man to be patient with me. When | shall have
been in Congress few weeks longer, may so
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cauddlte for the honors Of statesman. And
then the honorable gentleman will no doubt, be
willing to take me by his own right hand, and in
stall nue. into that dignity which he and other states
man so selfcomplacently enjoy.
But to come to the resolutions. | like them ex-
ceedingly and should rejoice to see them pass
unanimously. ] like them exceedingly and espec-
tally because they avoid all questions of nationality
and citisenship and leave the justification of Capt
InSraham to rest on the naked grouad of humanity
was much pleased to find the distinguished gem
tlcman from Virginia and South Carolina, MIR
Bayly and Mr.. Orr, defending the resolutions in
this light Delighted |, when ] heard the
gentleman from South Carolina Mr.. Orr declare,
in such impassioned language that humanity il, of
itself, ample justification for Captain lngraham's
conduct.
Capt Ingraham, according to the Implication
Of the resolutions, and according TO these gentle
mems Interpretation and defence the resolutions,
obeysl the simple law of humlnty-that law,
against which, to use Bible language "there is no
law Not only is it paramount law, but against
it there can be no law. Capt. Ingraham recognised
no law for kidnapping and expressing his fellow
man. lie believed that law is ior the protection
oirghts and he would not acknowledge as law
what was for the destruction Of rights and, there
fore, without pausing to enquire into any enact
ments Of Turkey or Austria he generously and
nobly surrendered himself to commands of tic law
Of humanity, and delivered koszta.
Capt Ingraham saw in Koszta a mana kid
mapped and oppressed man--and, therefore, he
determined TO set him free. The manhood Of
kozta was all the warrant that Captain Ingafham
needed to demand the liberty of Kostza Captain
Ingrahams sympathies not bounded by State
or National lines. They are not controlled by
question Of nationality and citizenship; but where
he sees his brother kidnapped outraged, thither
does he let his sympathies go out effectively for
the deliyerance of such brother
was glad sir, to hear the gentleman from Penn
sylvana, Mr.. Chandler, in the course of his
eloquent speech quote the maxim Bis daf 9m cito
dat" The gives twice who gives quick, to incite us
to the prompt passage of the resolution. Well
does Captain lngraham deserve the benefit Of this
opposite and happy quotation for he acted bravely
and beautifully under the inspiration, il not OF
another Latin maxim: "NH humani a me dlienuD,,
(nothing that concerns man is foreign to mel Yes
Captain Ingraham honored this sublime maxim
which was coined by a slaye for Terence, its higl
souled author, was Roman slave.
PaSs these resolutions Mr.. Speaker-pnss then
promptly and unanimously. By doing so we shall
honor humanity and honor ourselves; by doing s.
we shall rebuke our Government for having taken
three years ago the dabolical position, that the
who rescue their kidnapped and oppressed, an
outraged and crushed brethern, merit, at the hand
cf this Government, fines and imprisonment. Pas
these resolutions, and you will cheer the heart
Of those who have rescued such poor brethren, ant
Of other whe are determined to rescue them wher
ever they can get the opportunity to do So Pas
these resolution and these future of Ill
most wronged of all men will rejoice in knowing
that upon the principle Of these resolutions, an
upon the principle by which some on this floor hay
advocated them, they are entitled, not to suiie
fines and Imprisonment, but to receive gold medal,