Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-28
GBe aaiIg SD.
TUESDAY, MARCH rs, 1854.
Renliniscences.

The Commonwealth gives us the following
"reminiscences of the political career of Ed
ward Everett. They are worth careful
reading
In December, 1925, he entered Congress,
as the representative of the +" plains of Con-
cord and Lexington. 1t was his first APP
pearance in that body; and, March 8, 1926,
he made a speech i'll the House, in which he
defended and eulogized slavery so extrava-
gantly as to shock Shareholders, and to draw
upon himself some of the most scornful and
whitening rehukes ever heard there. Here
are some sentences from that speech:
Sir, l am no soldier. My habits and edu-
cation are very unmilitary but there is no
cause in which would sooner buckle KNAPP
sack on my back, and put musket on my
shoulder, than that Of putting down servile
instruction in the South ''IAe great rela-
ton Of sercitade, ia some form or other, with
greater or less departure from the heoretic
equality of men, Is INSEPARABLE FROM
OUR NATURE" domestic slaveryis not,
in my judgment, to be set down as an immor-
al or irre,lgious relation. No sir, the New
Testament says, slaves, obey your masters
l cannot admit that its duties are not pro-sup-
posed and sanctioned by religion" 81 know
of no way by which the form of this servitude
can be fixed but by political institution
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:" Sir, do not go the length of the gentle
man from Massachusetts, and hold that the
existence of slavery in this country is almost a
blessing. On the contrary, am firmly settled
in the opinion that it is great curse, one of
the greatest evils that could have been inter
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ana regret. was astonlsheo 10 near MN de-
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tion' TINS place, at least, should never nave
Deen tne tneatre OF my eioquence. No, SIR,
II such mad been my doctrines, l would have
turned my PACK forever on my nauve land
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