Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-13
MR.. EVERETT.

The New York Mirror, after half column Of
excuse or apology for Mr. Everetts course upon the
Nebraska bill, says;
We have not taken up our pen in defence Of
Mr.. Everett's character or course. The former is
pure and spotess, and the latter will bear the test
Of history"
Mr. Everetts political character is far from "pure
and spotess," and his course as public man will
not bear the test of history"
In 1925, he delivered an address at Concord, full
of deserved praise of the martyrs who fell in the
American revolution. In speaking Of them, he
said:
Should the foot of tyrant or Of slave ap-
proach these venerated spots, the noble hearts
that bled at Lexington and Concord all dust as
they are,' would beat beneath the sod with indig-
nation.
Near the close, he said:
"And ages still further on, when the monument
itself, like those who built it, shall have crumbed
to dust, the happy aspect Of the land which our
fathers redeemed shall remain one common, eternal
monument to their memory"
Within q twelvemonth he was in Congress, rep
resentative Of the people who lived upon the battle
grounds of Lexington and Concord, and we fEd
this young devotee of Liberty defending and eulo-
giving Slavery in u manner which brought the
blush of shame to the cheek of every Northern
man, and called forth an indignant rebuke from
more than one representative Of the South We
give an extract from his speech of March 9th
1854.
=" Sir am no soldier. My habits and education
are very unmilitary; but there is no cause in which
would sooner buckle q knapsack on my back,
and put musket on my shoulder, than that of
putting down a serve insurrection at the South.'
"The great relation of serritude, IN some form OF
other, with greater or less departure from the Meo-
retic equality Of men IS inseparable from nature
Domestic Slavery is not, in my judgement, to be
set down as an immoral or irreligiOus relation. No.
Sir, the New Testament says, "slaves, obey your
masters / cannot admit that its duties are not
pre-supposed and sanctioned by religion" al
know Of no way by which the form Of this servi
tude can be fixed, but by political Institution"
lie was followed by Mr.. Mitchell, of Tennessee
"a stakeholder and the representative of slave.
holders-who said, with the earnest tone of ndg
nation;
"Sir, do not 60 the length of the gentleman
from Massachusetts,, and hold that .he existence OF
Slavery in this country is almost blessing. On
the contrary, / am firmly settled in the opinion
that il is great curse-one of the greatest evils
that could have been interwoven into our system
| /, Mr.. Chairman, am one of those whom these
poor wretches call master. do not task them;
feed and clothe them well but yet, alas, sir they
are slaves, and slavery is curse in any shape"
The base and abiect tone Of Mr.. Everetts speech
reused the indignant scorn Of the celebrated John
Randolph, who fastened his fiery eye upon him.
stretched forth that long and eloquent finger, and
said, with indeseribable scorn and contempt;
"Sir l envy not the head nor the heart OF that tho
man from the North, who rises here to defend Ola
very upon principle" 3H -l,.d M -
Churchill c. Chambreleng. of New York, ashamed
of this recroant representative Of the soil OF Lox
ington and Concord, hurled the Give. thunder Of
] indignation at him, as follows ~esni .'-1 a'if