Portrait Of A Modern Democrat
- SaidMr. Giddings in Gongress, in hia late speech on the proposition to pay the ovvners of certaiu shipwrccked 6laves $7,000, for which the jovcrnment had negotiáted vvith Great Bntian: "lï I were to dictute a subject for the pencil, ït should ho the one on which I ara now commenting. I should select a Northern Dkmocrat, holding a gag. in the mouth of ;is constituent with one hand, while the other is cmploycd to examine his pockets to pay the expenses of tuis slave agency; at the sume time most solemly saving to his constituent, 'l'OU HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SLAVK TRADR, you have no rigkt to intereferc with the matter!"'
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