Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-05-18
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TUESDAY. MAY Is. 1883.
Edward Everett.

fect master Of the rhetorical graces, and of the
art Of delivery, Mr.. Everett at the same time is
sinpularly lacking in courage, pluck ana nrm-
ness Of purpose, in reference to any of the moral
81 Dolitieal questions of the day. When treating
Of them, his great desire is, SO to give ut'eIanee
to his own idessas not to give the least ohenee
a. ,bs mist sensitive and refined nerves on the
o,nos;,e side-ir short, so to serve the Lord as
MI 10 offsnd the devil. If by any mischance,
ANYTHING he has said OF done has caused the least
upeasiness Of feeling on the other side, he seeks
Immediately to make the most ample apology
Going even so far as to put himself in the most
ludiorous light before the community for sup
pleness Of purpose, Aexibifty Of backbone and
p,oneness to doughfaceism" generally when
but in position where he has to confront any Of
the giant evils or popular sins Of the day,
We all remember the apologize manner in
which Mr.. Everett presented in the Senate IN
1854. the demonstrates of the three thousand
clergymen Of New England, against the passage
Of the Nebraska bill, and how old Sam Houston
Of Texas went and begged Of Mr. Sumner the
privilege Of defending the remonstrants against
the attacks Of the ultra slavery propagandists--a
duty which Mr. Everett had not the backbone to
perform on the occasion, in becoming manner
Again. it will be recollected that after the bru-
tai attack Of Bully Brooks upon Mr.. Sumner,
testimonial to him, subscribed to BY many OF the
most eminent conservative men Of Boston, as
well as by the more immediate political friends OF
Mr.. Sumner, in the State at large, was started,
which Mr. Everett, in the honest simplicity OF
his heart, as a protestant, in common with the
rest. eainst the fendlike outrage upon the Mas
sachusetts Senator, signed. But it seems that
when he found what commotion SO moderate
and unauestionable an act was causing among
the constituents of Bully Brooks, where he pro-
posed delivering his Grafton on Washington, he
authorized it to be announced that the indiscreet
and ineonside1ate act Of putting his name to the
Sumner testimonial was done while he (Mr. e.
''was under the influence Of an anodynel' Was
there ever greater spinal weakness exhibited, than
by the distinguished Massachusetts orator and
scholar, on this matter r. mara M
We append, below, the comments Of the
Springfield Republican,, thereupou, as being very
pertinent and appropriate, coming as they do
from source where the ptejudices would all be
in favor Of rather than against, Mr.. Everett;
Edward Everett is a scholar, an orator, q good
hearted, quiet, well meaning gentleman. He does
not love to be abused. He does love to be popu.
lar. He has great many genteel personal
friends at the South, few II the same kind at
the North--that is, SO far as Northern man who
does not own piggers can be genteel and 10 the
good opinion OF these he delights to sit enshrin-
ed. He has been all over the country, delivering
lecture on Washington, and devotlng the pro-
ceeds to a worthy purpose. Wendell Phillips
thinks he ought to have said something about
the good mans emancipation of his slaves, but
that matter of taste. On the whole, it is an
inoffensive address, and should secure good treat
ment from all parties. His enemies, if he has an
enemy left in the world, weTs done talking about
him and against him, and he seemed to be going
along finely and very smoothly.
In this state of things. his friend. Mr. Rich
ara Yeadon Of the Charleston Courier, who has
the worst habits Of talking and writing Of any
man in the country, comes out with an edtoTia
explanatory Of our fellow citizens real views OF
the Brooks assault on Sumner, and the Negro
questions generally, most humilating in its char
acter. and we'll calculated to disturb the equanm
ity of sterner man than Mr.. Everett. Mr.
Yeadon undertakes to defend his Invitation o
9 Mr.. Everett to deliver his address on Washington
in Charleston, against the Richmond N0ath and
other amiable Journals Of that class. The special
charge against Mr.. Everett was that he signed a
paper commissioning iJutHuci attcL tuS atlhCh
OF Brooks. and offering him a testimonial The
defenceis that Mr.. Everett signed without read
ing it, when sick, and underline confusing iuhu-
enee of an anodyne;" that when be saw what he
had signed he was "greatly panied, mortified,
and chagrined !" that he not only addressed a
letter to friend in Charleston saying as much,
but that he addressed one of similar import to
Mr.. Sumner himself. So far as Mr.. Everett's
present position on the subject Of slavery is con
eerned, Mr.. Yeadon says that he ''holds the in-
stitution Of slavery to be alegal one, entitled to
the protection of the constitution, and to be
neither sinful in itself nor anti scripturat" All
this and much more Of the same sort, il not worse
is said by Mr.. YeadUn, in his own and his
friends defence. - 1850 y 81 Ell
Now we believe it to have been generally an
derstood, among gentlemen and Christians, that
Brooks acted the part Of brute and coward
in his armed attack upon anunarmed man. tits
known that from this sickening and most fend
ish outrage Mr.. Sumner has never recovered.
Well, we are inclined to think that most of US
who pretend to keep heart would sign paper
expressing in strong language our opinion of so
brutal deed, even when under the influence Of
an anodyne, and that it would take quite mum
Der Of anodynes to induce us TO recall ii. We
are nov SO situated in Massachusetts that harsh
words are not called for, towards aay OF our cit-
Sens who may happen 20 have spines with more
of the cartilaginous element in them than the
mass. We have, therefore, only to say that the
Violence uOne Oy the cltlzens OF COuLn Gar0iina
upon the citisens OF Massachusetts becomes
harder ana harder TO bear. Brooks caned Mr..
Sumner, and the friends of the latter were indie-
Dant, and signed paper saying so. MIR. Everett
signed it under the influence Of an anodynes II
the friends of Mr.. Everett have anything like
common humanity in them they will get up a
letter Of indignation against Mr. Richard Yea
don, and send it to Mr.. Sumner, for his FIST
The latter gentleman, we presume, will never
withdraw il, even II il should happen to take him
when there was humanity in his heart and NOR
phine in his stomach a4 aala msf
But Massachusetts, people have got to bear
with this kind Of thing few years longer. When
freedom has the control Of the government, and
slavery becomes Questionable; when the North
shall assume her true position, and slavery ey.
erywhere shall be recognized and denounced as a
moral evil, foul sin, political curse, and So
cial scourge il will be easier to be men and to be
manly, than now. We have no occasion for
hard words We have only 70 preserve our
equanimity, and allow the propagators Of slavery
to defend its defenders and ap0logists. Thatwill
be sufficient for all practical purposes, Mean
while the loss Of all political influence, and the
unwilling but sure withdrawal Of all personal re-
speet, are all that conservative gentlemen should
be called upon to bear.
The REJEcrED TRAcr.--rhe New York Tri.
bnae Of Tuesday (todsy) will contain the cele.
brated tract upon The Duties Of Master to
Slave, T" for which premium Of two hundred dol.
lars had been awarded BY the COMMITTEES Of Elk
animation, which consisted Of Rev. DIR. waylapd,
Bishop clarks Of Rhode Island, c. stoddard
Esq Of this State, and Rev. DR.. Brown Of Scot.
laud The Author, Of the tract is G. X. whippls
Of Boston. The Tract Society refused 10 publish
e. bseause they we're afrad it would displease III,
slsveholdipe . Christians" IN the South. i
would seem from the action OF the Tract societ,
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