Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-02-05

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have stricken him down upon the threshold
81 my door.
I do not speak Of these things to give
thePresident unhappiness. Imentionthem
to show the people of our Free States the
rights which L hold to be clear and sacred
under the Consultation. There is neither
CONSTITUTION nor law that forbids them
to speak their opinions in regard to
Slavery. As already stated, the mas
ter holds the power of life and death
over the slave; he not only robs the slave
Of his earnings, his intelligence, his man
hood. but murders him If be refuses to fog
gedAa tyranny revolving to every sense Of
justice, oevery dictate of Christianity
q tyranny more unmitigated than any des-
potism ofthe Old World.
Mr.. BENNETT, Of Mississippi Iwant the
member from Ohio to draw the distinction
between the slave holderbringing his slave
into subjection by the lash, and the North
ern men bringing their poor people into
subsection by starvation. --
Mr.. GIDDINGS. The gentleman under
stands that the wife of slave held by the
master is liable to his pollutions, and dare
not resist her masters approaches He
sells her children, ay, his own offspring,
borne of his slave, for paltry pelf. There is
no such thing in our Northern code.
But, sir, it is amusing to hear Southern
men attempt to disgrace Northern laborers.
Why, sir, the laborers Of my district gener-
ally are the peers of the member from Mis-
sissippi; his equals in learning, intelligence,
in all those virtues which constitute man.
4,1sir, am one of the laboring men, There
is now living in my county a man for whom
I iabored while youth. I was faithful
then, and / believe he has always voted
for me when he had an opportunity. 1
will continue faithful to him. He labored
with me every day / was in his employ
and, though heis now old, and has divided
most of his property among his children, l
think he has enough left to compete with
the member who now assails our laboring
men As}
Mr.. BENNETT, of Mississippi, I would
ask the gentleman from Ohio, if he is not
aware that in certain case of the sepera-
ton of a child, from its mother, by articles
of separation, a Northern man was the pur-
chaser of the child, and not Southern
man.
Mr.. GIDDINGS. know nothing of
the particular case referred to by the mem
Der from Mississippi; but here in this city,
we have seen enough of thosehorrors of the
slave trade which chill the soul and sp-
peal to the deepest sympathies of our ma
ture. l have often referred to them in
this Hall. Why, sir, during the first ses-
sion of my service in Congress, a woman
in this city sold her slase to the dealers in
human flesh, many of whom vet inger
around us. He was man of family !; and
when he learned bis sad fate, he attempted
to put an end to his existence by cutting
his own throat. q He was prevented by
those near him, but soon broke from them,
ran to the bridge over the canal on Sew
enth street, and precipitated himself into
watery grave, rather than meet the horrors
rather than meet the horrors of the slave
market. think it is near. twenty years
since Mr.. Adams called attention to slave
mother, with her children, confined in the
slave prison on Seventh street and Mary
land avenue; and when, with none but her
sleeping children in the lone dungeon, she
thought of the miserable existence which
she and her children were doomed to drag
out on the cotton or sugar plantation of
the South, her mind became affected, and
her reason dethroned, she murdered the chill
dren Of her own body; and then, laying
violent hands upon herself, she rushed to
the presence of her God, and there made
her appeal for vengeance upon those who
sustain the laws under which she was sub
jected to Slavery. z asFFsgg zagEr
More recently, in Covington, Kentucky,
q father and mother, with their three chill
dren; shut up in slave dungeon and
doomed to Southern slave market, when
there was no eye to pity and no arm 70 save,
by mutual agreement sent the souls oftheir
children TO Heaven, rather than suffer them
to descend to the Hell of Slavery, and then
committed suicide, and burst into the pres
ence of God, and made their appeal against
those who now sustain crimes which rise
to Heaven, and call for vengence. upon our
guilty land, 4 a lai '8
Why, sir, it isscarcely year since Mar
garet Garner, upon the soil of Ohio, bath
ed her hands in the blood of her babe,
rather than permit the slaye-catcher to car
ry It back to life of chains, and sighs, and
tears, and bitter suffering. And those
miserable wretches, subjected to such out
RACES, the member from Mississippi would
represent as occupying position equal
with our laboring freemen of the NORTH
Again I say, may God forgive him. Il
pity his ignorance of our laboring popula-
ton. -----'-
1 return to the message. More than
half of it is occupied in attempting to cast
reproach upon members Of Congress, State
Legislatures, and the people, for thinking
their own thoughts and speaking their own
words. This, sir, has been the theme of
tyrants, .despots, and oiigarchs, in all ages
Of the world. Eighteen hundred years
since it presented the principal difficulty
in establishing cur holy religion. 20 Ius
founder met the intolerant rulers of that
day in language Of stern defiance. He
pronounced woe unto seribes, pharisees,