Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-06-12

6oWaId everett on tno Recent OutrageS.
Edward Everett, on the occasion of deliver
ing his addresson Washington, atsTaunton, on
Friday evening, alluded to recent Occurrences,
nearly 10 the sfoilowi.lg language:
Il rise 10 address you this evening, my
friends, under strongly co.tcnding emotions II
is certainly most grateful to me, 4 your request
to submit to you those views Of The character
of Washington, which have already been re-
ceived with distinguished favor in many other
parts of our beloved country. But
you at this time are mingled the profoundest
anxiety and grief
A sadness which strive in vain to repress
oyerwhelms me at the occurrences of the past
week, and serious apprehension forces itself
upon my mind, that events are even now in
train, with an impulse too mighty to be resisted,
which will cause our beloved country to shed
tears Of blood through all her borders, for years
to come. r.
"The civil war, with its horrid train of pill
lage, fire and slaughter, carried on without the
slightest proyocation, against the infant settle
mcnt of. our brethren on the frontier of the
Union the worse than civil war which, after
raging for months unrebuked at the Capitol of
the Union, has at length with lawless vio-
lence, of which know no example in the an
nails Of constitutional government, stained the
floor of the Senate chamber with the blood OF
an unarlned defenceless man, and he a Senator
from Massachusetts. Oh my good friends
These are events which for the good name, for
the peace, the safety Of the country, it were
well worth all the gold of California to blot
from the record of the past week.
"Thcy sicken the heart Of the patriot of
the good citizen, of the Christian They
awaken gloomy douLt whether the tolls, the
sacrifices and the suferings of our Fathers, ell
durcd for the sake of founding higher.
purer aud frecr civilization on this continent
than the world had yet seen, have not been en-
dured in vain.
"For myself, my friends, they fiji NE with
sorrow too deep for tears. | am not ashamed
of the weakness, for sorrow not fer myself
My few remaining years are running too rapidly
to n close to allow much Importance to any
thing this side of the grave which concerns me
Individually.
But | sorrow far beyond the power Of
words to express, for the objects of affection
which | shall leave behind--for my children,
for my country And God is my witness, that
if by laying down my poor life at this hour,
could undo what has been done in the last two
years beginning with the disastrous repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, to cmbitter the diff
fercnt sections OF the country against each 9th
er, and weaken the ties which unite them,
would willingly, cheerfully make the sacrifice
| did not think that there is healing
charm in the name of Washngton-that at
tachment and yauera ton FIR his cha r, cter ic n l.
most the only, remaining kindly sentiment that
pervadcs the whole country-and that in the
contemplation OF that character there is a
spirit of wisdom to guide, and Of love to soothe
and unite, would even now throw myself upon
your indulgence to excuse HE from the duty Of
this evening" .<ee-. s......