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Horrors Of The Florida War: The Secret Doings Of Slaveholder...

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Day
27
Month
May
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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horrors of the Florida war: the secret doings of slaveholders to aggrandize themselves & to sacrifica thenorth. Hisdiscov eries were givert to the world in speeches: that these discovenes might yield fruit, be wrote out, and at his own expense got printed and then circulated these speeches through the Union. 50,000 copies of one exposé were thus disseminated. He tevolutionized his congressional district and made it anti-slavery. True lie is a whig but "honor to whom honor is due" he believes that his position is the correct one: his constituents and he believe that anti-slavery principies take precedence of tariff or bank: he is sent to Congress to represent these principies: he is in fact a liberty man, and his district is a liberty one, cali themselves what they may: they occupy jast our position, - antislavery and its incidentals are the leading and the great principie, and for the rest, the will of a constituency. We leave people's old predilecüons just whêre they were - we require orthodoxy but upon one point. As yet Mr. Gddings has been consistent. I frankly, hovvever. confess, that I think the touchstone will soon be applied, in the presidential eleetion. Ifit "be thought that the facts I have tnentioned are arguments for the whig orgamzation, and against that of liberty, the answer is obvious. "One swallow does not make a sunimer." A single aboiition district out of 223, does not make an abolition party, or nat ion. Let the whigs or democrats in everï district send to Congress "a Giddings,n and then perhaps the argument may lie: but while they continue to send as at present a set of liver-hearted doughfaces, ánd doughheads, who skulk every antislavery cliscussion- whoseglib tongues, lighüy hung for everv topic but one. are heard where they should be silent, and silent where they sliould be heard - whose moral spirit quails before slavery, and whose moral courage rarely dares to come up to the level of giving a silent vote, where Giddings has singly breasted slavery 's debate, -while this continúes, and while both parties bow in base submission to the tyrant spirit of the south, I will with heart and voice, with speech and pen, with all such means as God has given, cease not to urge and cry aloud the necessity of a party that will speak and act as freemen in the Halls of our republic.

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