Selections: Speech Of Mr. Giddings, Of Ohio: Upon The Propos...

(Coniinncd f rom our last.) There is nnother point tó vvhich I wl?h ld e.il! tlje atlenlion of the committee for a ïev minutes. The gentleman from Missacbusetts, (Mr. Crs; ing) has alledgéd that we havo a ques'ion' of honor betwpen tlr.s Government and that of Groat Brilain, arising out of Iho Creóle case. [ Inkc issue with the gentleman on this point. f insist thut this Government neither has, nor c;m constitulionally have, any concern whatever in fchat wse. I regard all attempts, made' jv the Éxecntive or others to involye the Federal Government in thé support of the" slave trade, as subversive of the conetitutional rightB of the free States, and injunous to our lational honor. In iny opinión that case' o'.!L!it to not be considered as a cause for reaining a singlo soldier in Bemce. I urge that io aulhority hns bren delegatetl to us by the }onstitutiön to in-'ohe the people of the free States in a wnr to support the slave trade or lavery. For this Govrrnment to assume the )ower of supporting the flave trnde would be is dangerous to the rights of the South as it 'ould to those of the North; for, sir. if we ave a right to support it, we surely have, to ie same extent, nn pqual right to destroy it.f you once deliver the subject into our banda 'o will dispose of it as we tliink just and ght, and not. as you ma)' desire. If we have' riglit lo lend our national influence in favor' f it, it follows tliat we have an equal rirht to end our influenoe ngainst it to precisely the ame extent. Tho subject cf slavory Í9 one vhich bolones exclusively to the States, over hich tliey have the entire and exclusive conrol; nor was there any power over it delegaed to thp General Government t the forrnaon oftlie Conítitution. Tlie righta of ririnia over the institution of s'avery within'her" erritory is nlisolute and indisputable: she may oniinne, or abolish it nt her own pleasure, tlioiit iiiterference from any other State, or om the Federal Government; but her right and power to continue siavery is not more absoJuíe or indisputable thaa the right of