Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-02-25

I laws. Or, WneD lne semi DarOarlanS OF
Algiers committed precisely the same
outrages, when they seized and enslaved
our people, we did not remain silent,
with our arms folded, but we sent an
army and feet there. and butchered
those Shareholders without mercy. The
civilized world pronounced them barba-
rians, unfit for human association, and
fully justified us in waging an extermi-
mating war against them. But now,
when the slave States perpetrate the
same outrages upon our free-born citi-
zens, the President does not even refer
to the fact. On that, he and his whole
party, including the whole race Of
doughfaces. remain silent, while he en-
deavors, with whatever influence his Of
fee has clothed him, to cast reproach
upon free ate Governments, who refuse
to assist in returning the flying bondman
to the PlutOnic regions of Slavery. 1
rejoice that Massachusetts, has stood up
in the dignity of her own sovereignty
and refused to permit her prisons ,r her
officers 10 be polluted by rendering as
sistance to brutal slave-catchers.
Mr.. BOYCE. ask the gentleman
from Ohio, whether there is any law
in any free State which prohibits the in
PRODUCTION of free negroes into such
Slate?
Mr.. GIDDINGS. believe there is
such law in the Democratic State of
Indiana.
Mr.. BOYCE. AS l heard no COM
plant of such law in any Of the North
ern States, l thought perhaps none
could Rave existed
Mr.. GIDDINGS. 1 am very sorry
that such laws were enacted by Demo
Gratis, even in my own State; but we did
complain OF them; and when the Repub.
licans got the power. they repealed them
in Ohio. They only existed during the
darker ages of Locofoco rule, but disap
peared upon the daWning of Republican
civilization. Laughter.
L was speaking of the undignifed
spectacle presented BY this message
| suppose its authorship cannot be mis-
taken by any one who served in this hall
with the present Attorney General. The
asiute sophis'ry and carelessness. not 10
say disregard of facts, are characteristic
of that officer, whose sincerity of pur-
pose ON behalf of Slavery ought not to
be doubted. He established that fact
fully while here. l recollect on a cer-
tain occasion presented resolutions, de-
claring the right of the people of the free
States to be free and exempt from the
disgrace and crime of supporting the
slave trade; and that distinguished mem
Der pronounced such resolutions "an 0p
prorimotioR to treason" He doubtless
fees that anything now said in behalf
of Freedom, is an advance towards trea-
son." Nor is the President destitute of
provocauon to speak on this subject
New England has blotied out the Slave
Democracy from that land of the Pill
grims. He and his supporters have been
discarded; and now, as he is about to &C.
part, conscious that the places which ~
know him shall know him no more for
ever, he exhibits ''his ruling passion
strcng in DEATH
But The President again resumes his
lecture TO the people Of the free States
They appear to be the cause of ali his
trouble. Again he reproaches and scolds
those who gave him political life. who
raised him 10 power and place. As he
is retiring from the Executive Chair to
that political grave from which there is
no resurrection, he does not exhibit the
ordinary Christian resignation He ut
ters no prayer for the people, for the lib
critics of mankind; he inYokes no bless
ings upon his native land. He exhaus!s
his dying breath in calumniatinr the
people for their devotion to Freedom, and
denounces them for not assisting the
slave. catcher in securing his victims as
they flee from bondage far worse than
death. Sir, with what circumstances
are we surrounded? in what age do we
live? that the Chief Magistrate of the
nation should thus condemn The best
sympathies of the human heart, and seek
to change the law of our natures, to Grad
icate from the human soul the law which
was written upon it by the finger of God.
Why, sir, ! never saw painting fu.
gitive speeding his way to land of Free
dem, that an involuntary invocation did
not burst from my lips, that God would
aid him in his flight Such are the feel
ings of every man in our free States,
whose heart has not become hardened
in iniquity. l do not confne this vir-
tue to Republicans, nor to Anti-Slavery
men; l speak of all men, of all parties,
in all Christian communities. Northern
Democrats feel it; they ordinarily bow
to this higher law of their natures, and
they only prove recreant to the law of
the ''Most High" when they regard the
of the Democratic party as SUI
perior to Gods law and the rights of
mankind.
Gentlemen viii bear with me when I