Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-11-23
Candor.

Of late the Democratic press in this Vi
cinity have been giving some rare speci
mems Of eandor and trathfulnesS Tn
Trumbull Democrat of the 10th gives
g~arblod5gztract from the late SPECIFIC Of AIt
Giddings at Philadelphia, in the course Q
which Mr.. C. quoted the memorable word
of John Quincy Adams, spoken at Pitts
burg, Nov. is, 1913, as follows
Our emancipation from the Slave pewei
must come; and, in the words of my illus
trous and lamentcd friend John Quincy
Adams, LET me say If viii e0me-whcthcl
in peace or bReea II know not-but Ebeth.
CT in peace or blood, let 1t come
OF this the Democrat says
II. emancipation can not be effected
pcaecablS, then GTBDINGs would resort ia
forcca and violence, even tothe shedding OF
blood. q Did he, belle his nature when he
,said he was ready for a carnival of blood.
as the price Of negro emancipation?
The Dcmpcrat wei knows that never, at
any time Or place hasN Giddings said,
or insinuatcl that he would resort to force
or violence to effect emancipation. That
MI. Giddings, believes (as does every one
who is free, himself, and deserves to be
free that any man has the right to regain
his own liberty b any means whatever,
unless that liberty has been forfeited by
crime, no man doubts That every Slave
has this right is as. certain as That 'erery
man Is endo,cea ariM certata iacheaaUe
rights, among aOhicH are Efe, E5ery and
tie pursuit Of Ag2piness;" as certain as
that God lives But that Mr.. Gid4ings
ever said tkat de Eoull resort to force or.
violence TO effect the emancipation Of slaves,
is simply nos true. Every man hes the
right to resort, 70 force to eject las o,rn
emancipation, though he nay not have The
right t., do it to efect The emancipation Of.
others. This is what Mr.. Adams meant;
it is what Mr,, Giaiings means
In that same speech deferred by Mr..
Adams. in Pittsburg. in 1913, he alluded
to another point connected with slavery, in
which the citizens of the free states have
some interest but upon which the Demo
crat and its FLOWS arc, silent as the grave.
Mr.. Adams said:
But as it effects this government, tic
great evil Of the slave system IS the proper
ty representation IN Gongress. Twelve
hundred millions of this sort of property is
represented by abcuteighty-eight members
IN the last Congress the slave states had
one hundred members in the present Conf
gress. I think the number is ~eighty-cight,
who have seats there based in part uponl
property qualifications, q basis which is
itself a violation Of the pripGples of the
Constitution, which is unknown in the free
States. and upon a species. of property which
has no existence and can have none, in the
States lEi .sf2E1E gg a12
Let the northern defenders Of the system
of slavery answer this. 81
Two weeks since the Canfeld Sentinel
published the speech delivered by Wendell
Philips at Brooklyn, IN full, without giving
the name of Mr.. Philips, at all, but stated
that it was BY a leading Republicans. IF
the Sentinel knows anything whatever res
the anteoedents of Wendell Philips
it must know that he is not, and never was
a member of the cpubfcan party. Whcth-
or the Sentinel wilfnliy made a false state
ment, or only erred through gross ignor
ance, is matter for its editors to decide.