New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-13
INDICATION OF FREEDOM Nv THE
TERRITORIES.

SPEECH OF HON. JOSHUA r. GIDDINGS.
Delivered House Of of the United States
Dec. 10, 1856
THE que stion being on the adoption Of resolution
10 mint fifteen thousand copies Of the Presidents
Message.
Mr.. GIDDINGs-Mr Speaker: One thing is estab
I,hea by our current political history, that is that
We are destined to continue the agitation Of the
great question which, according to all past annals,
has ap,ated the world. The rights Of man are
s,in the thsme of discussion. From the time
when the barons of England, under King John,
at the point of the sword, extorted from the Bri-
tisb Crown concessions to he rights of the people,
that question has continued to occupy the att IN
ten Of their descendants. When our American
fathers felt the hand of oppression; when they
saw that Injustice was done 10 these thirte. IN colo
MES; when those )lOnles united IN resistance u
The enforcement Of British power; when Ameri-
cans met Englishmen uptn the fields of Lexington
and Concord and Bunker Hill; when American and
British blood flowed together upon those telds-
the civilized world, the Christian world, demanded
the cause why men, believing in the same religion,
speaking the same language, trusting IN the same
God, were thus butcberiDg each other u ,on those
fields of bloody conflict. 1t was pertinent en-
ouiry-one which the Continental Congress held 10
be important. Then South Carolina and Massa-
chusetts. Georgia and Connecticut, aud all Of the
original States counseled together and made an
sWer " in united voice.
The reason for their going into that seven years
struggle placed i'll letters al living light before
the world, written ny The inspired pen of Jefferson.
Is The member from South Carolina Mr. Kei-t =
who has lust resumed his selt-prepared 10 stand
by the solemn declarations made on that ausplc0us
occasion The Republican party have responded
10 this question; they have rcafrrled those prlncl-
pies, the great, the immortal, the heayen-born
nuhs then proclaimed that all men ere, by their Crea-
tar, endowed with certain inallenaoe nghts-sulOns
wb Oh life, lbery and the psrsui' OF happiness.
Tne.e Tg hts from Creator not from The Pres
dent, IOr from Congress but from the Onnpntent
mind. On this gre al undyng principle they oased Ia IT
yindcaon before the civilized vsrii. l. the member
from South Carolina ready 20 Stand by tIeml Ii he
is rot present | ask any member OF The De noc-atic
party North South whether that party IS ready 10
stand by these doctrines l pause flr 81 Ec-. |
hear no reply. But, Sir. snch is the response ~hlch
always got 10 NY well-dedbed ineuogstolies. Men
from the South unequivocay deny this truth; men OF
thst party in the North dare not speak 10 the afrns
tive here they sit. Ii they we're 10 answer II 'he
negative they would be cat OF by their cOns:i,uou's
il in the affirmative they Will be -epaiGied by
South Thus they vibrae between heaven snd hel.
uncertain in which they VIII land tLlushte'l. From
nv soul pity them; ] pity any m4n 40 esres not
avow honestly the sentiments when Tod hls npianed
in bis bosom.
The sell evident truth that al men are created With
the alienablt right 70 life, liberty srd .he pnrsa, Of
hsrpl e.s was in tle other wing OF the Ceptci %
eedirg member OF thst puty prooonnced ~ b
seltSr,4fHt he" There the members Of ne Denc-
cratic rary ii, IN serce gyipg their tscit consent -
the o.Ie,tness Of this sentiment, which regard -
nothing less than libel upsn those p'tfiot fise's
around whoss homes she glorious recciectons u our
early history row cluster ir this Hal We Sd during
the last 'esson, long Argument fnn me gsa,ehH
from Gco:S MI S'epht1sl 70 he ,teci MI Ss'eY
ras an i3s;-:p:joi Sspcd0Ret O. HssYeH sgd esq