The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-08-15

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declined a reelection 10 the House, confidently
expecting, probably, an election TO the United
States Senate, which be failed to secure, and
from that moment became dead politician'-too
late 10 regain his former professional practice
In ls43, he represented the town Of Windsor in
the State Legislature. Fancying that bill he
introduced was not treated with becoming respect
he retired to his room in huff, and with brevi-
ty worthy of Louis Philippe Cass, wrote the fol-
lowing Letter, which was promptly delivered;
Montpelier, Oct 27, ls43.
To the Speaker of the Honse of Representa-
tiyes,
SIR resign my seat as a member Of the
House of Representatives, from Windsor.
an, with great respect, your obedient sci
want, HORACE EVERETT"
We next hear of Mr.. Everett, after five years
retirement, as Delegate at large to the Philadel
phla Convention. 1t is in this capacity that he
gives an account of himself in the pamphlet be-
fore US.
The Address, we may as well say at the out.
set, is written in bad temper and bad English
The bad temper was expected-the bad English
was hardly looked for. Ill humor and petulance
have characterized the man ever since he lost the
election to the Senate, six years ago. He has
long been an inveterate snuff taker, in more senses
than one. The bad grammar and bad rhetoric,
it is not our present purpose to descant upon.
Mr.. Everett starts off lin his ADVERTISEMENT
with bitter complaintagainst the Taylor Press.
L have already he says been condemned by the
Taylor press unheard.' He intimates, however,
that the editors of these papers beneath his no.
tice. To them my appeal is not addressed His
sense of selfrespect will not allow him to ask
any favors of such people.-Not a single Wing
paper Of this State had, to our knowledge spoken
of Mr.. Everett in any other terms than those of
respectful disapprobation, at the date of this ad-
dress.
Il was solicitous,' says the ex-Delegate, of be-
ing one of your delegates at large, on the ground
that my extensive acquaintance might give an
additional influence in the National Convention
health and at bis own expensc.'-And now for
the reasons But first, III takes the writer good
while to come at the kernel Of the matter, he is
so anxious to bring his reader to the right point
otvierc,) he thought at the time, that three other
delegates would do as he did! So much by way
of commencing the accuracy of his Judgment
He then proceeds in loose, zig-zag, intertuist-
cd sort of style, Astounding in brackets and dashes
to set forth what in plain English would read
somehow as follows The Wings of Vermont
have passed resolutions opposing the extension
of Slavery. The supremacy of the Slave pow
err will secure the extension Of Slavery. The c.
lection Of Gen. Taylor will secure the supremacy
ofthe Slave power Ergo, l, Horace Everett,
not finding that my extensive acquaintance gave
me sufficient 'nfuence'to enable me to control the
action of tho Convention, refused to give in my
land your) adhesion to the nominations-and,
letting the Vice Presidency 60, withdrew from
the Convention.
Now. it will be seen that this whole matter
turns on a question of indiridunl judgment. Alr.
Everett must therefore make i: appear that he
was either more shrewd or more honest than his
fellow delegates from the Free States, or else his
case is a bad one. Of the shrewdness and sound
ness of his judgment, we have already noticed
one instance. His honesty is not unimpeachable,
as we shall very soon make it appear.-We re-
mark here, that all Mr.. Everett's statements that
represent Gen. Taylor as occupying ground less
satisfactory to the North in respect to the extern
sion of Slavery, than Mr.. Clay occupies, are sole
ly and altogether assumptions and not only o,but
assumptions that cannot be made to harmonic
with what we do automatically know of Gen Tay-
lor's opinions He does, indeed in two or three
instances, pretend to give something like author
ity. And what kind of authority Anonymous
reports of alleged conversationsl The very sort Of
thing against which Gen. Tia, Ior puts US on our
guard, in one Of his letters-and which, as a little
good sense would have suffced to show Mr.Ever-
EFT, makes very feeble link in the chain of
his logic.
As to the honesty Of Mr.. Everetts proceedings,
We attribute his Measurements and misreprcsen-
tations TO illtemper and the insanity of passion
and prejudice, rather than to any more serions
moral obliquity. Two or three examples in sup
port of this charge, must suffice-though they
might be extended to a much greaterlength He
speaks of two shareholders from Louisiana, address
sing the State Convention at odstock,-cither
without taking any pains to inform himself on
this point, or else deliberately missiating. He
that Taylor avows no principles-and
yethc must have seen tho Allison letter He
says Taylor rcpudiates the Wing party-whcreas,
on the contrary, he suffers himself to be nomina-
ted BY the Wings, with the express understanding
that he should not as a candidate, if any one
else received the nomination. And SO on TO the |
md.
We have said more of this address" than such
IN ill-natured and harmless thing deserves. II
nay do something to elect Mr.. Cass, whom Mr..
Everett gays he prefers to the Wing nominee.
Y no is supported by all the leading Wing States
men, and who has been unanimously accepted
" every Wing Convention in Vermont. Allthe
onverts made by this pamphlet. however, may
probably be counted on mans hand, without