Mr. Giddings

From the PhilanthropistMr. Giddings is a man about forty flve or forty eeven ycar's oíd. A native of Pennsylvaiiia, he carne tothis state wliile but a bo)T, and was engcged in the usual hard work of a first seUler, until he commenced the study of law with Mr. Whittlesey. He was a member of the legislatura scme yeirs ago, and for the ]ast fouryeara has represented this sfate in Congress. The following notice of him we copy from the correspondence of the New Y. American: JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS. You must understand that the storm which bursts upon the liead of Jodhua R. Giddings, is nothing but ihe long pent-up wrath which the elaveholders desired to vent on John Quincy Adams, but da red not: because the tremendous outbreak of jnclignation from thc northern free press, "frigutened them" inlp "propriety," for the time. The thouht Ihal Mr. Adams1 great name, presented peculiar obstades to íhe undertaking of victimizing him, revenging upon him tlie alnrm he had given Iosltvery. They bnged for a safe opportunity to evacúate Ibeir botiled- np wrath; and when Mr. Giddiugs dared to present tlie views of the Nortli on the slave war qnestion; they eagerly ccized bim as the scape goat of Álr. Adams' sin Mr. Giddings is a rough, plain, unpolished man, without nauch education, characterizod only by hard, strong, practical sense; índoiuitable. Kteady courage, boldness combined with a devoutand cunscientious adherence to his religious profession. as a member of the Presbyterian cliurch. 'J'hosigh a hwyer of wide and extensive pruciice; he has ihe appearance ofa pl.iin, unpretending fnrmer, aecustomed to get Jiis living by the labor of nis hands in the field. He is just sucli a man, as you would expect to eee truly representing iJie genuine democracy of Ohio. lig has ewn ñghUng, too, in lüsyounger daya: and thed his blood bravely, in tlie 'lidian wars of the wttst; in which he underwent toils, dnngera mul snfTenngs, lhat wliile ihey hardened his frame nnd gave him sieadinesa of nerve, mode his hair premaiurely grny: for he ia noi an old man, though lus wliite Kend gives him at firsl view the appearanee of ono. In the House he has nrveraimed af the fume oP partizan debater, though very cnpubln of so distïngoi$h1wr himself. As dinirniiu) of the commiftee 011 claims, ho lias done the state preat service, in úboriously èxamining' aód report ing on a vast number of private cases - n tak vvliicli, nppreciafed by hundredt? of' relieved snfferers, has rot given him the ftrñe thnt n single, nisy, worthless fppeeh wi ns, for many a hinderer of public business. His great sper-ch on tiie Florarla war, n Jannary 1840. (in which he showed Ihat it wholly or.igjnated in the demands of the nlavehoMers for the dostruclïoii of ihe refugees of tlip rnnnway negijoes,) i?„liowever, an eviilence of his hilier powere. This plain, commor, farmor-like mon, the slave party tlionghr a proper and sae object of venirennce. The north p.nd north wost of course wouidcare nothing for the (ate of sueh a person, and the tyrañnical precedent woald therefore be safelv eslahlished! Correspondence óf the United States Gazette. Washington, April 16, 131-2. Mr. Adanis continned his speech io the Uousp yesterday. which ho commenced theday before. In his commencement, he bore down with nnrlenting severiiv npon Mr. C. J. Fíigrsol], took a brief review of the wayward, occentric. nid serpentine counge of tliat frendemon in politica! affitirs; of his hoving declaied that, had he been hvingr d il ring the revolutiouary war, he would not have been one of those who stuod up for Iiberty and the rijrlits of freemen: of his h'aving belonged to the federal party, and his being ïi'iw one of tliat 'democracy' wHfcÜ Clement C. Clay said were 'the na'nal iliies of the South;1 of iiis having wntlen tlie most ulira tariíf memorial ever presented to that House, and of his being now opposed io the ta riff pol icy; of his having been turned neck nnd heels out of the District Attorney's office by General Jackson, and then immediately becoming a Jackson man; and various other eome ersets, 'loo numerous to tnéniioii.' All parties seemed to enjoy this keel-hauling with great zest, bul one - the party puriicularly interested. Well might he have repeated vhat the frog paid to the boys, 'Tnis may be fun for you, but it is death to me.' Mr. A. went on now chiefly in reply to the war ppeech of Mr. Wise, who was for war with Mexico. He took up, and commented on everv cause allcged by Mr. VVísp, and showed that not one ol'them constituted the least ground for war. He handle.l Mr. Wise with grcat severity, and turned the tables of ridicule upon him most successfully. Mr. Wise had spoken in a graudiloqtienl tone, of planting 'the star of liberty.' (the Texan flag.) upon the heights of Mexico, and said that tf Sam Houston did nut do it, he would, at tho head of 20,000 men, from the val ley of the Mississippi, marcli thnre, and plant the flag of freedom upon the walls of that city himself. Mr. A. said that the gentleman frum Virginia, (Mr. Wi?e,) miirht po6s:bly become a Tamerlane or a Genghis Khan; he might perhnps, by holding out the temptalion of robbing churches and priests, induce twenty thousand men to follow him from the val.ey of the Mississippi; twenty thousand men might be femptcd by so glorious a piospect of pluder to enter into his service; and when the flag was nl.anted t was hardly to be supposed that tne ambition Dftherenowed and succcessful warrior would ie content even with that conquest; the Isthmns at Darien would scaicely bom.d h's ambition: be might possibly even aspire to reach Cape [Jorn. But what would become öf Liberty in :he meanlirne? Conquerors were notoften worshippers at her shri.ne. But said Mr. A. in;toad of having his name píácCí' beside those of Genghis Khan, orTamerlane, I think it more ikely that the gentleman will stand on the page :if hiítory wiih a hero rar more renowned than ?iiher of these celebrated warriora and conqueiors; I mean that illustrious hero, whoie explits are so familiar to us all, .Mr. Thomas Thvmb! This irony was too much for the risibles of tlie House nnd galleries, and the most Sfrave gave way, and joined in a burst ofluiighter which followed; even Wise himself could not resist, and seemd to enjoy it as much as xiiy one.