WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE: For the Signal of Liberty

Washington-, May I, 1844. The efficiënt working of ihe Slavb Powcn is feit oven in the smallest detall? of business. Let më give you an instance. When the gag law' was under discussion Mr. Giddings and J. Q. Adnms wished to spcak. You no doubt think this was very easy. But the member has to "catch tha speakers eye," to entitle him to the floor. Now the speaker, Mr. Jones,of Va., happens to. be .from the South, a species of accident that has happened for every ono of the lastro years with a single exception, and will continue to k'happen" until Liberty shajl take the place of slavery as the dominant power of the nation. The gag disscussion Insted about 6 weeks, and it so ''happcned" that the Southern speaker cöuld neither sec nor hear either of thd abo've gentlemen. Day after day thej' watched their opportunity, but in vain wduldthcy roar "Mr. Speaker". --....., wuuicui ccs a.iiu. ouuiimru ears nou sonie peculiar! íy in their construction, and unfortunatcly he "happened" to bo lin'able to see or hear either of them. - Old John, the champion of petition, was chöked out altogethcr, but oring to the fact that the occupánt of the floor terminated bofore his allotted hour, and that his cessation was unnoticed in the din of the house, Mr. Giddings started up and made so much noise,as to penétrate Southern ears at last. He got a hearing. - This control of the speaker over speech is one of the many instances of practical possessibn of power by the South. Another instanco lies in the nppointment of committees - and a 3rd is.fhe fact that he can declarp a speaker out of order, and stop him, and his decisión is certain of being sustained by the party who placed him io the Chair. IIow long then will it be, before thofreemen of the North willright all these matters? They never can do so by returuing.whigs and democrats: no matter good aiitislavery men these may be, they will ahva)-s. support their pnrty in preference to every thing else: with antislavery, neither party has any thing to do: on the contrary, tliey take pains to asgyre the South of their entire absence from it. To be sure there wil! always be in a body of ovcr-200 men, individuals, u-ho will wander a linie from the rest. Such are Adams and Giddings. To both . ire due a just tribute for their antislavery sfibris, but especially to the Intter. The ■ 'ormer is so singular in his views - so full )f quaiat distinctions - and so fond of a ►trange originality, that on many subjeels10 stands perfectly alone: no one can bersure of hm: he will have a distinctioiv. and imd a principie, where none bui himself could have discovered one: of Jatehe ■ bas yiclded a-little io pedantic display:1 he has mari-ed his anti-slavery effort by limiting. it to abstract theories: n. detester of slavery, and an adorer of ibeTty, he is vet neither a Jiberty man, nor even an abolitionist: he has openly pronounced their proceedings to be wrong: he would riot even abolish slnvery in the District of Colurabia,until the District petititioned: pretty comfortable southern doctrine this! . A devotee to petition rights, he would re- coive all,, hut not grant the prayer of one-.. While he is thus splendid in theory, irt intoHc-ct - in speech - and attainment, ,h'e yet fails to give practical eilect to any of his anti-slavery views. I agree w".th Mr. Hirney that he has retarded the antislárerv har vest. His dazzling efforts have enraptured multitudes: tliey almost idol'7.c, the inan: while I will freely unitewith them all in admiration of the matcfci less talents ad mind of this relie of revDlutinnary times, I can vet clearlythatthis idolatry has kept back aniisJavery fruit. Mnd his admirers sent to Congress a few men to represent sturdy antislavory principie - the good old feeling of New England: - had they sent men not politicians - nor party devotees,. but the reflection of "Pilgrim" feeling, I be- lieve thnt far more practical resulta had this day been achieved for the slave. I have always regarded the effbrta of Mr. Giddings as more valuable f4r antislavery. He is consistent ia principie, speech and action. No nice apun thread of distinction intervenes in his strong mindj as a bar to emancipate the souls and bodies of the wreiched victims of siavery around the Halls of the nation'a capital: no exquisitely refined position places him,in a startling novelty : you always know where to find him: you find him at his post: you always find him at work for the slave. And see what he has done: with a patiënt labor incalculable to fhose at a distance, he rootod out the cansos and