New-York daily tribune., 1844-11-27
Hon. Alex. H. Everett.

The Morning Neios, III the midst OF rare ols-
play of frothy rhetoric intended to be witherlng,
intimates that the exalted Statesman above
named will not cundescend to honor us with hls
indignation. Perfectly right--indigna,ion is not
even change for unmitigated contempt and loath-
ing. Alexander must Try to despise US if he de-
sires to pay in kind.
We have no personal knowledge of this MIR.
hEverett, and indulge no feeling toward him but
such as his Political career has excited. We
first heard of him many years since when ne
was getting much pay for little work at the
Court of Madrid. Returning thence, he dipped
into Politics as most vehement opponent Of
Andrew Jackson, his party and his measures.
He was most Industrious and determined as
sailant of them through the Press and, plau-
sibly as he now writes on the other side, we are
sure he wrote great deal more forcibiy and
heartily on ours. His diatrlbes were the most
sweeping and bitter that we remember. In 1892,
we were nearly turned out Of the house of
Jacksonian uncle for attempting to read to him
one of Mr.. A. H. Everett's scorchers upon jack
son, the then recent Bank Veto, and the general
downhiu course of his policy, his base attempts
to excite Poverty against Property, &c. &c. We
have said hard things Of Jacksonism in our day,
but none so hard as have been repeatedly put
forth by this Mr.. Everett, whose opposition was
based on considerations which have been increas-
ing in force and cogency in every year since then.
Yet one of the earliest results of the reelection OF
jackson over Clay in 1882 was the summerset
of this same Alexander into the Jacksonian
ranks! r Tins! more perter!']
After changing his residence once or twice
the Boston papers said, in order to get into dis
trict which would send him to Congrcss-if so,
with the worst succeas-Mr. a. H. Everett went
South, and was employed in Louisiana College,
whence he returned some year or two since. His
most notable experiment on the public since then
is a Letter on the Texas Question, to the Demo-
cratic Review. That this letter is ably written
and specious, we readily admit. It's author learn
ed how to write well before he turned his coat.
But that it is dishonest, deceptive, knavish let.
ter intendcd to drug the conscisnces of those who
wanted to believe that they could vote for Texas
without incurring the guilt of extending and for
tifying Human Slavery, we cannot help believ-
ing; and, SO believing, we are strongly moved to
say it, in defiance of the spluttering indignation
of the Morning News.
For do but look at it. MIR. Everett, who under
stands Slavery and Slaveholding full well, grave
" argues that Annexation ,could hasten TIE Abo-
lition of Slavery in the Union Can this be
honest This man has read Calhoun's despatch
es, and Duff Green's budget of (half anonymous)
letters; and seen by what machinery and what
men the Texas bubblewas blown and Polk nomi-
mated for President; and witnessed the remarke-
bic summerset of McDuffie and Carolina from
ultra hostility to the ertravagant partisanship OF
Texas--in short, no man can have intelligently
watched the current Of affairs in our country, and
not realized that the ultra Slavery Interest In the
South regard Annexation as vital to the mainse-
nance of Slavery and SlaveholdiDg ascendencyin
the Government. Are these men all fools? When
did John C. Calhoun become SO utter an idiot as
Mr.. Everett would make him
And now look at Mr.. Everett's fundamental
assumption that the drain of Slaves from the
more Nor,horly Slave States, which re admits
would follow the Annexation Of Texas, would
have this effect;
vEna Masns ksnucsg ssss and Deaare would ss
Would become 2 Why Because new
and vast market has been opened for Slaves, the
price of them raised, and the profits of Slave
breeding enhanced Is this to abolish Slavery in
the States you mention7 No, sir /; you we'll know
be,,er. Iti. this accursed raf:c-it is the demand
for Slaves in more Southerly markets and on yet
unexhaustea soils, that has kept Slavery alive in
these States for the last twenty years Stop the de-
mand for export, and siave-holding becomes un-
profitable in these States directly. Delaware 1--WE
nresume Mr.. Everett did not know stopped the
Trade some time ago; and in consequence Slave
~ is now but shadow within her borders, and
will yery soon be abolished. A SIMILAR law, or a
similar state of things produced by the cessation
of Southern demand, would Danish Slavery from
yirgnia and Maryland very soon. But SO long
as Slaves will sell at round price for Alabama,
Mississippi. Louisiana and Texas, SO long they
can be pro6tably raised in Virginia and Mary
land; and SO long, we apprehend, will personal
interest retard the proclamation of Freedom to
all Men in those States. Allthisis perfectly un-
derstood.
Bu, MIR. Everett saw fit to close his Letter
with paragraph which proves him equally fit for
the service of his new idols, the South Carolina
oligarchy, in that humber capacity to which his
aspirations must naturally lead hum. Witness
these extracts:
srt which cannot be dhpned and need not DC DIS.
yu hal on all the great questions thai have n%eSeSaIy % ny
stn;ed the country, the South has taXen ne ce wn men %
Ssly carried the People with it and what s & s more s
account it may the slae mos
ic Ssry auds Of cour 70 eh emu grew ,
es o the foundation and Of The tedsIa s IN
, eyosionary struggles Of Eu9pen the disputes VIII.
Ss, Rr,ni rssp<cng eutrai rghson the gfent i1cai
est;nns cf The Bank and Protecsewe hnd INC N9.'h
oa fops uniformly on side of Powef-te South on
thai OF Libesty.
Think Of this as the language, not OF some
Edpefeld Pomp or Draah, bat of Boston boy !.
al c.-n;htas oe,1s,ye aud yiOlatlOn OF