The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-11 00:00:00

THE ,SPEECH OF MB. EVERET7 AT

Mr. Besley's Knowle ...... . ............. (Mr. Rich) 1
Mr. Turner's Rector (Mr. Blake) 2
The betting at first was even, and at last 4 to 1 on
Knowle, who waited on'Rector for nearly two miles, when
he took up the running, and staying with his opponent to
the, distance, quitted him there, and won in a canter by a
dozen lengths.

LATEST BETTING.

GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
7to 1 agst Dulcibella (taken)
9to 1 agst Makeless mare (taken)
10 to 1 agst Invader (taken)
ST. LEGER.
sto 2 agst.Marqtga (taken)
9 to 2 agst Ikekstone (taken)
7to 1 agst Carisbrook (take Bto 1)
12 to 1 agst Exchequer (taken)
12 to 1 agst Argonaut (offered)
13 to 1 agst Hurricane (take 100 to 7)
20 to 1 agst Johnny Armstrong (taken)
10010 3 agst Old Calabar (taken)
2000 to 18 agst Carmen (taken)

THE DERBY.
2000 to 30 eget Deerswood (taken)
1000 to 20 eget Overstone taken)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-WEDNESDAY•

Offers were made to take 6 to 1 agst Dulcibella for the
Great Yorkshire Handicap,.—For the Doncaster St. Leger,
8 to 1 was taken about Carisbrook, and 100 to 8 against
Exchequer. The presumed defunct Old - Calabar was
;backed to win upwards of 6,000 at 100 to 1, the backers
finishing the stronger party. Even money and, in a few
.cases, a trifle odds were laid that he did not run. Closing
prices ;--

GREAT TORREIRIRE HANDICAP.
6to 1 agst Duleibella (wanted)
1 agst Carisbrook (taken)
T. LEGER.
100 to 40 agst The Marquis (offered)
4. to 1 agst Euckstone (offered)
1 agst Argonaut (wanted)
I.'" to 1 agst Exchequer (taken andoffered)
1 apt J(131113' Armstrong (offered)
16 to 1 eget hurricane (offered)
1156 to
to

BOSTOIV.

The following speech was delivered by Mr.
Everett, at, Boston, at the general war meeting on
Boston -common, on .WednesdaY; Aug. 27 :--
" I rejoice, fellow-citizens; to beho!cl this mighty
throng. It shows that'the Spirit of 'our fathers-is
again abroad in the land, and thatiyou are resolved
that-the Union which they established ,shallnot be
rentasunder ;,,that, the mildestearid most beneficent
Government on earth shall not be sacrificed to the
ambition of a few disiipPointed. aspirants tO:office.
We have now reached not only the niost important
Week the history of the war up to 'the present
time, but the week whieh will mbst pawertuily in-
fluence the future. The fate of this year's cam-
pa'gn depends upon the manner iu which the call
of the President is responded to by the people, and
this campaign will go far to settle the question
whether we arc to have-a short or a long'ivar. It
is a moment, fellow-citizens,` of wait importance,
pregnant With consequences not merely for us, but
for our latest posterity. Everything is at stake fur
which your fathers and your forefathers counselled,
and . toiled, and, bled, from the day that the pil-
grims crossed the ocean, through the long years of
colonial trial, the sharp struggle of the revolution,
the languor of the eld Confederation, down to that
happy consummation, the adoption of the Consti-
tution of the United States. All—all is now at
sttike. Shall this noble fabrio of human wisdom
be' allowed to crumble into miserable fragments ;
or shall it be sustained through.this dark hour- of
trial? Shall it .sink, into early and ignominious
decay, or shall it stand in its majesty, and beauty
for ages ; so that our children and our children's
children shall be enabled' to say, The rain de-
scended, and the floods came, and the winds blew;
end beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was
founded upon a rock.' There are three courses—
three only—with respect to .the war, which can
by possibility be pursued by the Govern-
went , and loyal , people of the Union, and,
as far as depends upop us, we are called
to choose this week between them: We may,
first, admit that we are unable to carry on the
war, retire baffled and discomfited from the ate-
tempt, and sue for peace.. Are you ready for that?
Or, secondly, we may furnish the Government with
tardy and inadequate supplies, just enough to enable
it, upon the whole, to hold our own; to gain a vic-
tory, here, to suffer a repulse there ; to capture
strong fortresseS and populous cities one day, only
to have railroad passenger cars fired into, and invalid
Officers shot -in their ambulances by murderous
guerillas the next.day, and so let the contest drag
on for 20 or 30 years, like the wars of the French
Revolution, the wars oftheCommonwealth of Eng-
land, or the ThirtY Years in Gerniany ; or, thirdly,
we may give the Government, at whatever cost, the
means which it requires to bring the contest to a
prompt and triumphant close.. Gls not this last the
dictate of humanity ; is not this, my fellow-citizens,
your wish and firm resolye,? Nov, I
.say, fellow-
citizens, it depends, upon the. manner in which the
President's call for reinforcements is responded to,
which of these three modes of dealing with the war
shall prevail.` ''et us look at them I(ff:a moment.
Theie can, I neediectircelf say; be no heiitatien be;
tween a long' and 'a short-war ; but (ight we not
to-prefer the firet-named course to either.? .oaglat
we to yield, to the demands of .Secession and sue for
.peace ? In order to answer that question we must
ask another. , What are those demands ? What,
are the conditiOns'of such a peace "What do the
leders of SeceSSion 'chili:ll'6f us? Let- me point out
to you for a-moment, felloW-citizens, their-stupen-
dous audacity. Eighteen months ago the Govern-
ment of the United States extended its constitu-
tional rule from the north-eastern corner oi Mains
to the mouth of the Rio Grande, and from the
Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean—one might almost
say, froin sea to sea, and from the river to the ends'
of the earth;' an area of 21 degrees of 'latitude.and
60 of longitude." Throughout this mighty domain
there was not a citizen but-vias bound: by. his alle-
giance, and if he was an officer, military or naval, or
a magistrate of the Union or.the State, by his oath,
to obey, the. Constitution and laws of the United
States, anything in the Constitution and laws of
any' State to the Contrary notwithstanding. 'Over
all this vast territory the Constitiitional Government
Of the' United States bore lawful•swayejust as fully
as the Constitutional Government of-England bears
lawful sway throughout the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland. On the 6th of No-
vember, 1860, a constitutional majority of the
people thought fit to pass by John C. Breckinridge,
who was offered by them as the candidate of the
Southern wing of the Democracy, and to elect
Abraham Lincoln as the President of the United
States. For this high crime and misdemeanour on
our part, 11 Southern States (although by entering
into the election they were bound in honour to abide
by its result) have thought proper to declare them-
selves an independent, foreign, and belligerent
Power, and have ordered and are now ordering at
the mouth of the cannon the loyal people of the
United States to give up to this foreign Poiver half
our territory, half our seacoast, and the fortresses
that defend it and protect its navigation; the en-
trance to our inland seas ; and the mouth and a
thousand miles of the lower course of the mighty
rivers which penetrate to the heart of that portion
of the country, which we are graciously permitted,
during good behaviour, of course, to ret&n. Though
we have been on the point of war with England
more than once within 25 years, and that under a
Southern lead, for some wretched fragments of un-
settled territory on the outskirts of the Union, we
are now summoned to give up to a foreign and
hostile Power a domain half as large as Europe,
because Mr. John C. Breckinridge was not elected
President of the United States,'and in order that
Mr. Jefferson Davis may enjoy the blood-stained
and guilty honour of presiding over the Southern
Confederacy. But again, see what a wreck Seces-
sion calls upon us to make of this noble fabric of
confederate republicanism. Our fathers in 1789
framed a Constitution of Government for the pur-
pose, among other high aims of civil polity, of esta-
blishing a more perfect Union.' The wisest and
best of men co-operated in the undertaking; Heaven
smiled on the work. The people of 13 States then
existing ratified, adopted, and declared it the law
of the land. The country, desolated by the war of
the Revolution, sprang into new life beneath
its genial influence, as the frozen clods are
clothed with verdure beneath the gentle showers of
April. Twenty-one States have since grown up
within our territorial limits, and have thought it a
blessing and an honour to be joined to the great
family of republics. For 72 years since it went into
operation the country has enjoyed under this Con-
stitution an amount of prosperity without a parallel
in the history of the world. Cities have sprung up
like an exhalation from the soil ; the savage wil-
derness has been turned into a wheatfield as by
.a
miracle ;an immigration, counted not by ndisrcod:
or thousands, but by millions, of which there
wit..
other example in the annals of mankinde,or.hbanns
at us
ness to the good report which has gone f t
Dot
to the nations. In these 72 yearsf no, and, mak .
blood has been shed for a political o
ferailties of men
ing fair allowance for the hum
anembering
a drop of
that the
and of nations, and especially rem
, be, of the Union,
rase'
one great spot upon the vestal
was., placed and kept
the worse for what it sells,
srencee:sion, it is new l our country has
the noblest
there under the old colontioalitep
thanks Republic ;'
de-
really been what,
e Model
risively termed, th „ wan to combine the equal
attempt ever do
uo-Y
of
a small State with the
home-bred blessing
e of a great empire.
a influenc Shall we
strength an
to make a deplorable wreck of this
allow Secession
of Government •
ework Will we permit
noble frau' the States to be sa 'ft
eed —that Con-
the U°i(ni °f the
was framed by some of the wisest
Con-
stitution
and be" men that ever lived to be trampled under