The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-12-23
The Union Meeting at Boston.

The Union Meeting at Boston.
On Thursday of last week, Faneuil Hall
in Boston, was densely crowded, by a
meeting of the friends of the Union. The
meeting was presided over by Ex-Governor
LINCOLN, assisted by 129 Vice Presidents
including four Ex-Governors of the State
and six Secretaries. The principal business
localities in the State were represented in
the organization. The hall was packed in
every part, and many hundreds were unable
to gain admission.
Hon. EDWARD EVERETT made the first
speech. In the .course of his address, he
spoke as follows:
Mr.. Everett next proceeded to point out
the enormity of John Browns Harper's
Ferry raid, and the terrible consequences
that would have ensued had he been success
full. The people of the North who treated
the affair with levity, did so from want of
reflection as to the terrible consequences.
To talk of the pixies and rifles not being
intended for offensive purposes, is simply
absurd. Applause. The first act almost
of the party was to shoot down free colored
man, whom they were attempting to impress,
and who fled from them. One might as
we'll say that the rifled ordnance of Louis
Napoleon, was intended only for self defence,
to be used only in case the Austrians should
undertake to arrest his march. Loud
applause. No, sir, it was an attempt to
do on vast scale what was done in Saint
Domingo in 179l, where the colored popu-
lation was about equal to that of Virginia /;
and if any one would form distinct idea
what such an operation is, let him see it
not as matter of vague conceptiOn-a
crude project-in the mind of heated
fanatic, but as it should in the sober pages
of history, that record the revolt in that
island; the midnight burnings, the wholesale
massacres, the merciless tortures, the abom-
nations not to be named by Christian lips
in the hearing of Christian ears--some of
which, too unutterably atrocious for the
English language, are Of necessity yelled in
the obscurity OF the Latin tongue.
Mr.. EVERETT here read from history a
short account of the horrors attending the
servile insurrection in St. Domingo, and
then proceeded to address the assemblage as
follows
Now let us take glance at the state of
things in the great Republican confederacy.
Let US consider over what sort of popula-
ton it is that some persons among US think
it not only right and commendable, and in
the highest degree heroic, saint like, god
like to extend the awful calamity which
turned St. Domingo into heap of bloody
ashes in 1881. There are between three
and four millions of the colored race scat
tered through the Southern and South
western States, in small groups, in cities,
towns, villages, and in larger bodies on
isolated plantations in the house, the fac
tory and the field E; mingled together with
the dominant face in the various pursuits of
life; the latter amounting, in the aggregate
to eight or nine millions, if rightly recol
lect the numbers Upon this community
thus composed, it was the design of Brown
to let loose the hell hounds of servile
instruction, and to bring on struggle
which, for magnitude, atrocity and horror,
would have stood alone in the history of the
world.
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whom this frightful war was levied, are our
fellow citizens, entitled with us to the pro.
lection of that compact of government
which recognizes their relation to the color
ed race-a compact which every sworn off
Ger of the Union or of the States is bound
by his oath to support. Among them, sir
is fair proportion of men and women oil
education and culture-of moral and reli-
gious lives and characters-virtuous fathers
mothers, sons and daughters, persons who
would adorn any station of society in any
cOuntry-men who read the same Bible that
we do, and in the name of the same Master
kneel at the throne of the same God-form-
ing class of men from which have gone
forth some of the greatest and purest char
acters which adorn our history-Wa shing-
ton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Mar.
shall [Applause.] These are the men,
the women, for whose bosoms pixies and
rifles are manufactured in New England, to
be placed in the hands of an ignorant sub
ject race, supposed most wrongfuly, as
recent events have shown, to be waiting
only for an opportunity to use them.
| Sir, [ have on three or four different
occasions in early life and more recently,
visited all the Southern and Southwestern
States, with the exception of Arkansas and
Alabama. l have enjoyed the hospitality
of the city and the country have had the
privilege before crowded and favoring
audiences, to hold up the character of the
father of his country, and to inculcate the
blessings of the Union in the same precise
terms in which l have done it here at home,
and in the other portions of the land.
have been admitted to the confidence of the
domestic circle, and l have seen there
touching manifestations of the kindest
feelings by which that circle, in all its
members high and low, master and servant,
can be bound together /; aud when l con-
template the horrors that would have ensued
had the tragedy on which the curtain rose
at Harper's Ferry, been acted out, through
all its scenes of fire and sword, of lust and
murder, of rapine and desolation, to the FINAL
catastrophe, l am filled with emotions to
which no words can do Justice.
There could of course be but one result.
and that we'll deserving the thoughtful med
itation of those, if any such there be, who
think that the welfare of the colored race
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