Carroll Free Press

Mr. J. R. Giddings.

This restless and aspiring gentleman, on his way homeward from Washington, made a harangue to the populace at Warren, Trumbull county, wherein he arraigned the President of the United States for an alleged interference in a measure pending before Congress, charging that the influence, personal and official, of Gen. Taylor, was brought to bear to produce the result."

The first and only effect of this declaration, so far as we have been able to observe, has been to bring the credibility of the person making it into discredit. His reputation in this behalf suffered "some" during the presidential canvass last summer. He was very frequently detected, not indeed in uttering downright falsehoods, but in a system of misrepresentation scarcely less detestable, because evincive of the deliberate purpose for which they were uttered. It was by a studied and ingenious utterance of a part of the truth, and a cautious suppression of the remainder, so as to give a distorted and perverted view of the subject which he professed to present, that distinguished his public addresses in the southern portion of the State, during his electioneering pilgrimage to promote the cause of the great Van Buren Whig party!

The truth of Mr. Giddings' declaration at Warren has frequently been brought into question; and he has been called upon in the public prints of his vicinage to specify the particular occasion, and with whom, the alleged improper interference by Gen. Taylor was practised. We venture to say he will not justify himself by any attempt of the sort. We incline to the belief that Mr. Giddings knew he was falsely maligning the President when he uttered the calumny. The National Intelligencer of Tuesday last, disposes of this statement of Mr. Giddings in this wise:

"It is very natural that the President and his friends should, in common with all the country anxiously desire that some law should pass Congress to enable the Executive to govern California; to prevent those scenes of riot and bloodshed which have disgraced the new territories in their present state of unbridled anarchy; to subject the people, and especially the multitudes now proceeding to the gold region, to the salutary restraints of law and order; and to redeem our solemn treaty obligation with Mexico to maintain a government for the protection of the country we had obtained from her. The President and his friends were doubtless earnestly desirous that Congress should fully enable him to see the laws faithfully executed in California and New Mexico. But we can take upon ourselves to say, that it is untrue that either he or they expressed any preference for Mr. Walker's amendment over Mr. Webster's or any other proposition equally effective with either to attain the desired end. His object was the establishment of government of some sort, and either provision would have satisfied him which appeared most acceptable to Congress. It is unfounded and malicious to represent him as having sought to throw his weight either for or against the Free Soil party.

Should the Free Soil party, or any portion of it, hereafter be detected in any act evincing a deliberate purpose to prevent the formation of any civil government in California or New Mexico, so as to keep up this agitation between the North and the South for sectional party objects, the President may find it to be his solemn duty to frown indignantly upon that, as not merely the first dawning, but the "perfect day" of an attempt to alienate one portion of the Union from another."--State Journal.