Lincoln-Douglas Debates Transcripts

              OF   TUE
CRIMES OF OUR GOl/ERNMENT AGAINST THE SLAVES!
THE
EXILES  OF FLOEIDA.
BY JOSUUA R. GIDDINCtS,
For twenty years a Member of CongroJiS from Ohio.
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This work portrays witli eminent ability tli<^ oritries committed by our Government against the Maroons who fled from South Carolina and other Slave States, seeking protection under Spanish laws. It shows the bad faith cxcrcirfcd towards the Indian?i of Florida, and presents a true view of the long-fought Florida War,
" Tb9 iliitiiiguiitb^^l autUuT of th.U vo1uTO« b&B selected « UtDmQ of {Mculinr int^K^t, liotli oo ac-cuimt nf ju rn_,\ ¦ .-Uj- und its boaring on tcvcr*! qiiestiont inlimatelr rclutcd U> th« cau»* ot liumiinUy.
" No ttQc wIm winltes tv oumpreltuDd tiie poKu/ of tke GoTfrnmeat in tho loc^i^Uon ami couduct of tii« Seminole A'ari, ttboulO fuU to become familUr uUh it» contents.
" Mr. 0{>iiUn£« U cntitlwl to Ibe gratUade of cvciy fden<] of rreedom, for hU faitbful and nturtllDs; Tovelaltonit : w)ille *T#ri- r««t1ci muKt admin; tho coii»tco and xeul witli vbich be baji brought uuwelcome ractii from their hldintc- ¦jUcui lo the light of day."—Niw York Tribune.
" A crotl ntorj thin, Mr. OIitdiriKS tells u«. Too cruel, tiMt too true. II U full of pathetic and trag^lc lnt«rMt„ tnd m«ltK Kn<i 8tSr« tbo h(«rl at onco with pity for tho »ud'ert>ni. and with an^.'^tr thai *iiiid uot. al their tnean nod rutbl«»d upproNtorH. Kverj' Atncilimn cUiz^ii should read it, fi>r U \» «d hidtulinfnt. irbicb reci'.tn nrimcn which havo ncca cumulttfKl (n Uls name, i:^rp«truted by troopji untl ofliciulu iu hid cerrice, ond aU done at U\» <>xi/rUA*.
''Mr. fiiddinxx has done hix tuk Admhably ueU. Il U irorlhy to h« the crowtilu^ work of ti:<( loog life of public KerTtoe. liix *lyIo i< of that host kind whicli in nercr rnraitrkol upOu, hut servft a* a clear nicdhim ;lirooich uMc'i tho cr«ntii h* portrayit ar« twea without dUtnrttou or «xairger»ttoD. Ho ha< dr>no his country one mord Mervtc^;', i» •>ol!r«oouMKl«ucy with tbodc that baro liUeO op tbe wholo^iurwo of hi* bouorubte aud iK-neficent life."—Ailanttc MMitkly.
"Tlie iljle it Jtimpiv and plain, the elucerttj of tbe writw moet obvtouii, and tb« factit of great importancir iu Tuauj polntK of view."—BoUon Jottmat.
'' TtiO' work of Mr. Giddiugs i% written In a iijle at onco fcimplo and <tl«i{aiit. Its etatemeutii lM4r the appearance of uutbeniicity, and arc in moit ca»M euHtained bj extracts fn.<in. And relerence to, oflleial authority.
" Thxt it will b» popular tb*»re in Uttlo doubts kud thai itJ inliuenco will l» heneQcial there Id r6Aeou to lelSeTe.*" — CinctKnati Commasial.
" Tlio hiitory is full of roiHAnttc Sneiilents, of hornic d«riu^ dtud patient ouffcrlng, on tho one band ; and bloixly itarQ«go, cruel duplicity and teugthenod perwrcuttoo, upun the otliftr."—Dwro/t IHioin*.
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