The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-05-08
Volume B.


New hampshire Politics.
The following letter was written March /
16, to the Ashtabula Sentinal, by Hon.
J. r. Giddings:
The election Of last week has demon
strated the permanent Republican asc n
dancy in New Hampshire, In no part of
the Union has the present revolution
been more marked. have had reasons |
for observing it with intense interest.
During my early service in Congress,
the Representatives of that State were
regarded as the most servile of Northern
funkeys. They appeared to glory in
their political shame. They were never
so happy as when STOPPING down to I'M
loose the latchet of some Shareholders |.
shoe.
shall never forget their vote on a bill
to pay for slaves stolen by the followers
of Gen. Jackson's camp, when he inva-
ded Florida, in 1874 To most North
ern men, the idea of taking money from
the pockets Of their constituents to pay
for human flesh, stolen by Southern des-
peradoes, was regarded as insulting ]
led OFT IN argument against the bill, and
was followed by two or three slavehol-
ders in favor of it, when Mr. Adams clo-
closed the debate in a most able and lucid
expose of its true character. pickens and
Campbell, of South Carolina, and all the
most respectable Shareholders, voted
against the bill but the New Hampshire
delegation, and perhaps dozen other
doughfaces, and some of the more obscure
shareholders, in all thirty-two, stood up
recklessly to the work, and voted fer the
bill, appearing to regard tia privilege to
tax their constituents to pay for slaves,
stolen in Spanish province thirty years
previously.
need not refer to the fact, that one
of New Hampshrc's most dist uUished
sons of that day won for himself an I'M
mortality of intamy by presenting GER
tain propositions, which have for twenty
years been characterized as 'Athcrton's
gag resolutions" He actually became
popular in his State, and was elected to
the Senate Oh account of bis efforts to
suppress the freedom Of debate which
the Constitution had clearly guaranteed
to every member. 1t was we'll under
stood at that time, that he acted as the
mere instrument of the layeholders that
his resolutions had been drawn by Mr..
Calhoun; yet, while thus acting as the
slave of the South, he made speech
which will long constitute a n ouument
IN commemoration of the stupidity, the
arrogance, the servility, of New Hamp-
shire Democracy of that day Athorton
has gone to his final account, but bis base
serviity ought not to soon be forgotten
1t should be kept in remembrance until
our country shall be fully redeemed from
that servile depravity, of which he was
most perfect manifestation.
When, in 1912, was arraigncd before
the House of Representatives for deny
ing the right of Congress to make war
with England in order to sustain com
merce In men and women upon our
Southern coast; to compel the Democrats
of New Hamshire to die on the battle
field, that Southern pirates night con
tlnue their vocation of buying and sell
ling better Men than those who then
represented the Old Granite State 10
Congress there was great indignation
manifested by he doaghfaces against NE
As | entered the Capitol on the morn-
ing of tie second day OF my trial, met
distinguished member Of the New Hamp.
shire delegation, who if he should read
this article, will reco,ect the remarkable
emphasis with which he declared, that
if he had the power, he uould hang me
and every other r,oa rho uttered the doc
triaes to uhtch | held" | left him with
perfect conviction Ct the total depravi-
ty Of New Hampshire Democracy. The
entire delegation from that State voted
for my censure, ia consequence Of my
having declared them SO elevated a. to
be unwilling to die for the maintenance
of "a pir4tical commerce in mankind. in
Justice to them, fec! constra ned to say
that think they we're sincere.
IF a certain honest and honorable slave
holder, who represented one Of the dis
trcts of Georgia n the Tweuty-seventu
Congress, be yet living, aud recollcct the
events Of that day, he might tell how a
distinguished member from New IIamp.
shire, aud distiugu sned Democratic
member from my owa State, cUnspircd
to remove NE from the post Of Chairman
OF the Committee Of Claims, IN couSe-
anence OF opinions which ! held in re-
gard 10 Slavery. | was generously it,
formed that | might avoid the mortihc;.
ti3. Of removal by resigning NY posi-
ton. and asking the ComI.itte 10 appoint
another man. This Standardization j
declined, and the day for my remoyal vas
set. was at the Committee. ro,ss. il.
the morning, promptly At the Aour o:
meeting was 1"et By 4 majority #
the committee, and We proceeded /, The
ordinary business before Us bat y iii r
nv Democratic friend fro1 New Il4u.r
shire, nor my Democratic Cologne fiona
Ohio, were there 1t was whispered t.
me that they had given ~ the idea Of
removing me, in consequence Of the
stockholders of the Committee having rc.
fused to act with the doughfaccs for the
accomplishment Of such an object.
Shall not soon forget the dawnng Of
the first moral Improvement in New Hamp.
shire politics. Our home squadron Fad
been organized principally for the assis-
lance aud protection Of the coast-wise
slave Ira l.. And when slaves from Flori-
Ga had attempted to cross over to the
Bahama Islands the Home squadron fur
nished meu and craft 10 pursue and bring
them back While considering the bill
making appropriations for that service, |
spoke Of the management Of the home
squadron with some disgust and con-
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