Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-05-19

speech delivered in the Senate on the Sth of Feb
rnary. 1854, of which send you a copy and
should have voted against it on its passage Gas L
stated in nv place at the next meeting o.. the
Senate), had not severe illness compelled me- at
half past three O'Clock in the morning, to leave
the Senate chamber before the vote was taken
informed my Southern friends, when the bill
brought in, that it ought TO be entitled bill
to "annihilate all conservative feeling i'll the nom
slavehOlding States"
With these views Of the subiect-though, as
trust for reasons higher than any effect on party
p0ltics-I fully concuired in the main line OF ar
gument in Mr. Summers speech Abstaining,
however habiiually. myself from all personalities
in debate, and believing that they always irritate
and never persuade nor convince | could not of
course, bestow my " unqualified appreciation" on
the manner in which he treated the subject nor
Intentionally give my sanction to the violent and
offensive language of the subscription paper all
luded to, and inadvertently signed by me
In conclusion, think it would be a sadly un-
profitable tack to eudeavor to trace the successive
steps OF that mischievous action and reaction of
North and South upon each other, which has
brought the country into its present dangerous
position, where few more steps forward in the
path of mutual desperation will be fatal to the
Union The ground on which have endesvored
to stand is we'll known-it is that Of Cancellation,
in the spirit OF the Constitution.
certainly shall not be suspected OF seeking
apologies for the manner in which the existing
sectional agitation is carried on at the North,
one feature Of which has been most violent war.
fare against myself and which is even now seek
ing to load me with obloquy for not dragging the
name Of Washington into the vortex of this en-.
FILTERED controversy. But truth compels me to
say that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
the subsequent events in Kanzas, and the assault
on Mr.. Sumner, have more than any thing else
more than all other things taken together-to
furnish materials and give effect to that agitation
md tn oil oil
For the same reasons which have led me to
furnish you with the foregoing explanation, you
have my permission to make any use of it you
may think expedient.
remain, dear sir, with friendly regard, yours,
truly, EDWARD EVERETT.
To Richard Yeaaon, Esq.
We think that Gov. Everett's best friends
must regret that be should have written this
letter, and still more must they regret its pub
LEGATION. If there ever was time when
strong expressions were justifable, or an oc-
currence which demanded plain talk, it was
the time and the occurrence referred to in Mr..
Everett apoogetical letter.
How different was the course pursued BY
the people of South Carolina in regard to
Brooks and Keitt, who had committed the
crime in the Senate chamber They were re.
ceived with open arms. Barbecues were got
ten up for them, where oxen and sheep were
roasted whole. that the hungry might be fed
who had come to do honor to the two assas-
sins. Speeches were made embaming their
deeds in imperishabe eloquence. Congress
censured them, but the people of their dis.
trlcts returned them, by unanimous votes.
They were regarded as heroes. They had
cudgelled a Yankee. They had dsgraced
free State, and that State Massachusetts,
therefore South Carolina pointed to them as
her jewels. She had no apologies to make
to Massachusetts, and she permitted no
one to apologize for the act Of her repre-
sentatives. She applied no critical test
to the language she uttered. But she
used the strongest that could be used to ex-
press her satisfaction, of the eastigation given
to 1.-the Yankee abolition Senator" For the
speeches delivered at the Brooks barbecue in
the Edgefed district on his return home
speeches. which blistered all over with insult
to Massachusetts and treason to the Union,
South Carolina stood sponsor No son of
hers wfote letters to distinguished men in
this State, apologising for their coarseness
and brutality, or expressing regret that they
had been present and taken part in the ova-
ton. The South, to its honor be it spoken,
don't do things in that way. Her people
have the merit of being outspoken, and new
er desert their friends or their State.