Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-03-05

Asylums, and houses for Paupers, to benefit WHITE
Scholars, Lunatics and Paupers, while the colored
Tux payer has no right to their benefits, or voice in
the construction OF management, and yet his prop.
erty is taken for their maintenance 10y due process
Of iaw," in violation of the Revolutionary princi'
pie that taxation and representation should be in
sepcrablo, and with Mr.. Giddings approval too, as
appears by this very speech.
The Imprisonment Of debtors, not very common
now, and other cases might be cited, 1t necessary
to establish this proposition, but it is unnecessary.
The fact is indisputable, as is also the fact that
the sldres are held in their bondage by the "duc pro.
cess" Of Tie td,cs ofHe Stare States. This is some.
times disputed, but those who will study "Stroud's
Slave Laws" will find il demonstrated beJo nd
question. But it is said by some that every slave
is entitled to a jury trial. Suppose that it is adj
mitted, and that by habeaS corpus the slave with
his master is brought before q jury, and they should
hear tho case and tho law, would they not by their
oaths, he bound to return him to his bondage,
as held by due process of the State, enacted, en-
crossed, and executed with due formality, and thus
would not the fact be better established, if posi-.
BILE, than bofore2
But says Mr.. Giddings, no government or law
can destroy or take away these inalienaJte rights.
OF course they cannot do it rightftlly. And yet
he is constantly quoting as his highest political
maxim, the statement, that by irresistible deduc'
ton says as clearly as anything can, that "ece'y
man MAY be deprived Of his life, liberty and proper
ty, By due process oflaw."
His absurd ption that the Republican
party is planted upon a "moral and religious la
sis" the basis Of mans equality and inalienable
rights, is entirely dissipated by a reference to the
first sentence of the very next paragraph of his
speech in which he says that they "do not say the
black man is, or shall be the equal of the white
man or that he shall vote or hold Office however
Just such o position be ~ That is the moral and
religious basis of equal and inalienahe human rights
with q vengeance ! And then look ut Mr.. Gid.
1ings' select examplars of this morality and relig-
ion, the pro slavery negro'hunting Gen, Har-
rison the slavcholding compromiser Clay the
slaveholding and slavery.extentionist warrior, Gen.
Taylor and, flor aught that appears to the con-
trary, though he does not quite say it), Gen. Scott
who stood upon a platform pledged to discounte'
nance the whole anti.slayery agitation conclu'
ding with Col. Fremont, who, in his letter of ac'
ceptance of the Presidential nomination, made on
ly one pledge, and that, to attempt the suppression
of the slavery discussion and agitation. And who,
as Senator, voted against the abolition of slavery
in the District of Columbia and again against
9 giving the people of the District the privilege oil
abolishing it, if they desired to!
AMI yet Mr.. Glddings claims that tho party with
which he acts denies 'the right of any State OF
Territory in forming a State Constitution and act
ing within our Federal powers, to authorize it,
people to enslave a portion of mankind" and ther
Immediately admits that they voted to Kansas tina
right at the last session Of Congress, as a 'St'dta
qem," q moral and religious" stratagem proba
t bly,!
0 lie claims that j @. Adams stood on this ground
o and made it the basis of his Congressional action
o But did Mr.. Adams stand there when ne declared
e his opposition to the abolition of slavery in ih'
. District of Columbia, without the consent of tn,
: people of the District? thus taking fully the doc
| trine Of squatter sovereignty, that Mr.. Gliding
repudiates and declares Mr.. Adams to have al
e ways opposed. And finally, Mr.. Giddings know
!, that himself and his "moral and religious" PARTY
constantly admit and guarantee the right of th'
d slave States to hold their fellow men in bondage
e and although he sees and appreciates true princi
Piles, he apparently knows that he lives and acts il
open reputation of them. All this absurd specia
t pleading and tortuous squirming, is but the at
n tempt to gloss over AMI conceal from his constitu
ents and the world, his real treason 10 humanit,
r and true principles, apparently presuming tina
r they are SO simple that they can be deluded b.
d such sophistical twaddle. Would to Gol that W
could believe that they were not j. A. IL.