Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-30
.roshun R. Iaiddings Dend.

Joshua r. GIDDINGs, American Consul
General to the Canadas, died very suddenly,
at late hour on Friday night last in the
city of Montreal. His death was probably
caused by one of those fits arising from
heart disease, which twice at least pros
trated him on the floor of the House OF
Representatives. Mr.. GIDDINGs was born
at Athens, Pa, October 6, 1895, and was
consequently in his 69th year at the time of
his death. .Ae-ia... rlf aTl-
We do not purpose to write eulogy on
GIDDINGs. That we leave to those who
were his eulogists while he lived; and to
such others as are willing to take back what
they said in just condemnation of him dur
ing the years of his political and public
lite. Weare unable to see how any patriot,
any lover of his country, can put himself
into ecstasy and go off in eulogy OF such
men as LovRJoY and GDDINGs, whether
dead OF alive. u 1e9 '.r. 11- ~ s'.t
We can add nothing more appropriate
here, than, the following extract from a
speech delivered in the House of Congress,
on the 9th of February, 1861, by Hon.
SAMUEL S. Cox, in reply to Mr.. HUTcH1Ns !:
SO Mr.. Speaker, there are various classes of
Republicans. The gentleman (Mr. Hutch
ins) belongs to the worst of the Abolition
wing; and well may he defend his spredeces-
sor, Mr.. Giddings. That Goddess old man,
after spending public life devoted to hate,
ill will and sedition,lw was retired because he
did one thing that was right-voted for the
nla,. NTI.t,f loc -
been making up for his loss of Office by the
virulence of his spleen, and the outlawry of
his conduct. He has. as l have once shown
here, instigated servile instructions; and
now, at the end of misspent life, which is
scarcely silvered by a ray of benignity, he
finds, as the consequence of his t,aching
and conduct, disrupted Union, terrified
people, and the prospect of unending hate
and bloody strife. If there was mercy for
the thief upon the cross, there may be mercy
for him. God grant him repentance before
ne fills his dishonored gravel But what a
life he has lived! 11r rn io f4.f .-iW
j. He talked the language of love to the
black race only to hide his hate for the
white race who people our Southern States.
He paraded humanitarian phrases and took
upon his profane lips the name of God, only
to cloak his malice and sanctify his hate.-
He has had, in specific wickedness, many
rivals; but If we measure mems guilt by
the objects upon which they are bent, who
can tell the magnitude of that portentious
crime which causelessly dismembers to de-
stroy the American Republic? AS such
Republic has NO parallel, SO such a criminal
has no peer. But my colleague praises
him and commends him to immortal honor
Nero had friend, who placed immortelles
upon his tomb, and the worst fiends of
the French revolution had their defend
ers after death; but were this old man
now dead, and thus ypowerless in
his party at home, even my col
league would shrink from the task of en-
balming his bad memory. 1t will, after
death, only be remembered to be execrated.
His late letters to my colleague (Mr. Cor
VIM and his compatriOt, MIR. Ewing, show
that age, which SO often re0laims the most
reprObate soul, has not withered--nor GUS
tom, which SO often tires of his baleful
work, has not staled--the infinite variety
of his malice and his madness. History, in
its record of this great anti-slavery sedition
of the North, and its consequent revolution
in the South, will only picture the white
ness of his hair, to contrast it with the
blackness of that purpose, which for years
and years has pursued crusade whose ter
rible eeonsummationis upon us, In the crum
bling away of our States and the destruction
of their unity. hEii oaW sa0cia ~