Our Domestic Policy Speech of Hon J R Giddings On the Reference of the Pres
Our Domestic Policy Speech of Hon J R Giddings On the Reference of the Pres
Joshua R Joshua Reed Giddings
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L seem that the President intended to see how fir h*» could impose upon the intelligence of the public. Sir, what protection docs this law lend to the poor, weak, opprestcd, degraded slave, whose fle. Sh has often quivered under the lash of his inhuman owner, whose youth has been spent in labor for another, whose intellect has been nearly blotted out? "When he seeks an asylum in a land of freedom, this worse than barbarous law sends the officers of Government to chase him down — :o carry him ba...ck to chains and sutfering. The People are constrained to become his pursuer. ^. Famishing and fainting, he drags his weary limbs forward, while the whole power of the Government under the President's command, the army and navy, and all the freemen of the land, are on his track, to drag him back to bondage, under this law. And this law, the President tells us, is the only sure protection to that miserable slave. Does the Presi- dent intend to insult our intelligence? Or did he mean to insert in this grave document a satire upon this barbarous law ?
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