through Kentucky and Tennessee, meeting with some droll adventures on route.
Assuming another name, he had no sooner landed in Quebec than he stumbled upon old Giddings, to whom he was perfectly well known in Washington.
"How d'ye do, Mr. Tucker," said the old wretch.
"Oh — ah," said Rev.," staring him directly in the face, aaring him directly in the face, and speaking in a broad English drawl, "Weally, my dear sir, you mistake the individually." "I beg pardon, " said Giddings, whereupon Rev. walked off and saw no more of the Consul to Canada.
Had he betrayed his identity by a moment's forgetfulness, Giddings would have had him arrested at Detroit. aring him directly in the face, and speaking in a broad English drawl, "Weally, my dear sir, you mistake the individually." "I beg pardon, " said Giddings, whereupon Rev. walked off and saw no more of the Consul to Canada.
Had he betrayed his identity by a moment's forgetfulness, Giddings would have had him arrested at Detroit.
, unless Lincoln turns square about, kicks over his present Cabinet, sets every negroite now in it afloat, reverses his policy, and submits to the decision of the Supreme Court.
He must either do this or resign the Government.
If neither, then the present effusion of blood is but an instalment of what is to come.
Years of war will desolate our land, and misery fill our homes, all for the purpose of enabling the Abolition party to place their free negro construction upon the Constitution.
When these men say that this war is for preserving the Constitution, they utter a falsehood as infamous as man can conceive of. If it was war for the principles our fathers contended for, it would be worth all that it might cost to triumph in it; but when it is a war upheld and instigated by such free negro traitors as Giddings, Chase, Sumner, Isoveioy, &c., &c., it is no less than sacrilege to mention it in the same breath with the glorious Constitution of Washington, Jefferson and Madison.
nd such the insignificant and idle subjects which keep up strife among ourselves, which divide the loyal people, which array patriots against each other instead of concentrating their united, moral, and physical strength against the common foe.--And to what end are these discussions continued?
The war is upon us. We are not dealing with the dead past but with the living present.
Suppose it could be demonstrated today beyond all question that the "Southern heart was fired" by Garrison, and Giddings, and Greeley and their disciples, would any sane man regard the absolute demonstration of that fact as a reason why the nation should lay down its arms?
Or, if it could be made mathematically certain at once that negro slavery is a moral, political and social evil, would that certainty remove the obstructions in James river, batter down the defences of Richmond, or induce Jeff. Davis to surrender at discretion?
If not why should we continue these unprofitable and vexatious discussions?
I
ed at every step by these ghouls and harpies, who armed at power through "free speech," "free wool," and "free Kansas." that they might carry out their damnable purposes of dissolving the Union and gorging their rapacious and hungry maws with the spoils and plunder of the Government.
And now they have succeeded, and what is the result?
Precisely what any sane man would have predicted from the beginning.
The John Brown raid — the logical result of the teachings of such men as Garrison and Giddings, who were proven to have been its instigators and co-workers — has culminated in revolution and civil war on Southern soil, and the blood of the thousands of Northern men that has drenched the sudden ground of many a battle-field, and the bones that lie bleaching in the sun, cry aloud for vengeance and retribution on the heads of the guilty authors and abettors of this "gigantic rebellion."
Let us take all these truths home to ourselves.--Let us take the beam out of our own eye before
mach for the fight.
Mr. Boutwell having been appealed to, Mr. Grinnell said that Mr. Harrington first said that the soldiers of Massachusetts have no stomach for the fight, and next the people, and in the third place the representatives on this floor.
Mr Grinnell repelled the base slanders on New
England, and remarked that the Western soldiers think that the soldiers from that section fight as well as any others.
He referred to the action of the House in 1842, when Joshua R Giddings was censured for offering resolutions declaring that the slaves of the Creole had a right to rise and assert their native freedom.
The Democrats voted in a solid body for it, and he reproduced the case as a Democratic precedent in regard to an Abolitionist.
We do not hear so much of the crack of the slaveholder's whip as we did four years ago. The gentleman, from Maryland, (Mr Harris) said that he was willing to take all the sins of slavery.
Every one of the slaves of that member had
ensation with his "Vie de Jesus," has published a series of theological and metaphysical essays, which are attracting the attention of the critics.
The fourth volume of Carlyte's "Frederick the Great" is announced, also Reade's "Savage Africa." Parton, who manufactured the biographies of Burr had Jackson, has published "the Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin," The Yankees are rejoicing over a "History of the Administration of Abraham Lincoln," written by Raymond, of the New York Times Giddings, who died here lately, while the Yankee Consul General to Canada, wrote a "History of the Rebellion," which is just out. Gen Scott is understood to be writing a memoir of himself.
Charles Dickens's new story, "Our Mutual Friend," has reached seven chapters in the Cornhill Magazine. It is rather dull so far, but gives evidence of a very intricate plot.
A number of Dickensque characters have already appeared.--There is a ruffian, of the Bill Sykes species, and a wretched girl, who remin
housands of persons.
A most stormy scene ensued, which ended, finally, however, in the adoption of a resolution--135 yeas to 60 nays — to lay abolition petitions on the table.
On the 28th January, 1840, the Twenty-first Rule was adopted — ayes, 114; noes, 108--that no abolition petition shall be received by the House or entertained in any way whatever.
On the 3d of December, 1844, the rule was rescinded on motion of Mr. Adams-- ayes, 108; noes, 80.
On the 25th of February, 1850, Mr. Giddings, of Ohio, presented two petitions from Abolitionists, respectfully asking the House to "devise and prepare, without delay, some plan for the immediate, peaceful dissolution of the American Union." It was decided by a vote of yeas 8, nays 162, not to receive the petition.
Upon the 1st of February, 1850, the same petitions, praying a dissolution of the Union, were presented in the Senate by Mr. Hale, of New Hampshire.
But three Senators voted for the reception of the petition, viz: Me
