Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-23
JOHN QUINCY ADAMs's TRIAL.
BY JOSHUA Il. GIDDINGS.

The following is the Tribunes Report of Mr..
Giddings lecture in New York:
Mr.. GIDDINGs said that his peculiar subject
would be to consider the trial and triumph of John
Quincy Adams before the House of Representa-
tive in 1872 That event should form prominent
chapter in the history of that great statesman
yet, in no published biography of Mr.. Adams has
any allusion to it appeared. 1t was to supply that
deficiency that Mr.. Giddings took up his present
subject He gave a rapid view of the state of this
Republic at the time the trial of Mr.. Adams The
national existence had them only reached its 5Oth
year, and the star-spangled banner, the army of
the United States, and the treasure of the Govern
ment, were employed in cooperation with the
bloodhounds imported from Cuba in hunting down
the painting fugitive. Still, no Northern man was
found to raise his voice against this peryersion of
the Constitution of the United States, taking it to
mean, what the men who composed it, said it
meant. The public money taken in pro-
portion from the free arzens and laborers of the
North, was applied to this abomnabe purpose
forty milii2ns of dollars were spent to recover
543, 900 slaves! AT the same time the slave-trade
was egalized by the laws Of the land! Not a
man of the Wing party voted against that invasion
of Northern rights ali fed the Senate Chamber
but one; that one voted for MIR. Calhcun's meas
ure and him Mr.. Giddings appauded more than
the men who were unwilling to meet their duty in
the face; rather vote wrong than eyade the duty
of voting at all. Applause. When some yes
sells were stranded on British islands, with their
freight of human chattels, which, by the magic OF
British law, were at once converted into free hui
man beings, the Government, by misrepreseuta-
tions, obtained from the British Government a
compensation for the bones and muscles Of these
men; yetno Northern man raised his voice in the
Legislative halls against this outrage! In the
case of the Creole the same attempt made
and that by an Executive Through his Secretary
of State) whom he, Mr.. Co. and his audience had
voted for-Mr. Tyler; for which he prayed God
to forgive him and then, and if he did they would
never sin so again. Laughter. lie had but one
thing to be thanked for-they had not fallen so low
as to vote for Franklin Pierce. (Applause. In
1901 the slave trade was made legal in the Dis
trict of Columbia; and northern men had the op
portunity of seeing the horrors of the system
horrors which drove many slaves to desperation
and suicide rather than meet the horrors which the
Representatives of these States New York among
tie rest) had consigned them to- Petitions were
forwarded to Congress TO abolish the trade in the
District of Columbia, but the southern men flung
them out, and shut the doors against the people O
the North thus violating the Constitution. Il
was under these circumstances that John Quincy
Adams stood forth as the champion of the Consti
tuition and tho rights of the people, who he main
tained were the supreme authority in the nation
and whose voice, when respectfully uttered theil
servants in Congress were bound to listen to witt
attention and difference He alone, breasted tho
STERN cf sayeholding yitupcration; although ther,