Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-12-22
GREAT UNION MEETING AT BOSTON
Speech of Hon. Edward Everett.
Leiter from Er Presided Pierce.

Letter from En- President Pierce.
The friends of conservatism, the lover!
Of their country, and the old-fashioned pa
triOts, in and around Boston, held large
and enthusiastic meeting at Faneuil Hall
in that city, on Thursday, as an offset 10 the
Brown sympathy meetings that were lately
held by The Abolitionists. The TrareicI
says:
THE Hall was crowded 10 overfiowin2
before the hour Of meeting, So that it was
utterly impossible for any more 10 enter
The committee of arrangements entered
through the dense mass with great Difficult
ty at two minutes past eleven, and among
the rest were Messrs. A. A. Lawrence,
Richard Fro,hing CHAM, Hon. Edward Ever
eff, Rev. DR.. Blagdon, Rev. DIR. Nshemi.
ah Adams, Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Pc
ter Harvey, Hon. William Appleton, Ex-
Gov. Lincoln, Col. Isaac H. Wright, Hon.
B. F. Hallett, Mr.. Sturgis, and others
Their appearance was hailed with great ap-
plause.
Hon. WIN. Appleton called the meeting
10 order, and presented list of officers for
the nesting-numbsring over one hundred,
which were adopted without opposition, Ex-
Gov. Levi Lincoln being appointed Presi-
dent.
Es-GOv. Lincoln was warmly received.
/ He thanked the audience for their welcome.
Il was grave occasion which called us TO-
ge,her, and il was proper that The Divine
blessing should be invoked OF lis proceed
ings.
Rev. DR.. BlagdOn, therefore, by his il
vitatiOn, offered prayer.
Gen Cushing entered unperceived just
before the prayer, probably by the private
way, and took his place on the platform.
After the reading Of long list Of highly
conservative resolutions, the Hon. Edward
Everett addressed the meeting at consider
able length. We make the following ex-
tracts from the full report Of his address in
the Courier:
The Demands Of the present Crisis.-sir,
the North and the South, including the
Northwest and Southwest, have become
iercely, bitterly arrayed against each other.
There is place left in public life for those
who love them both. The war of words
of the press, Of the platform, Of the State
Legislatures, and, must add, the pulpit?--
has been pushed TO point Of evaporation,
which, on the slightest untoward accident,
may rush 10 the bloody arbitrament Of the
sword. The Great ancient master Of polit-
ical science (AristOtle) tells us, that though
revolutions do not take place for small eau
ses, they do from small causes. He means
sir, that when the minds of the community
have become hopelessly embittsred and ex-
aspersted by long and continued irritation.
the slightest occurrence will bring on the
catastrophe.
In fact, it seems 10 me that we have
reached a state Of things which requires all
good men and good patriots 10 forego for q
time all mere party projects and calcula-
tiOns, and TO abandon all ordinary political
issues; which calls in word upon all who
love the county and cherish the Union, and
desire the continuance of those blessings
which we have till lately enjoyed under the
Constitution transmitted 10 US by our Faith
ers, and which regard as the noblest work
Of political wisdom ever achievsd-to meet
as one man and take counsel for its preser-
vatlon. 1t is this feeling that has brought
me here to-day.
The danger not erdggerated.-It will prob
ably be said that those who entertain views
like these, exaqgerate the gravity Of the cri-
sis. l wish | could think so. But | fear
it is net we who sxaggerate but these who
differ from us, that grea,ly-and soon, fear
il will be, fatally underrate the omnious
signs Of the times. fear, sir, they are
greatly mislsd by the One-sided views sx.
presented by the party and press,
and those who rely upon the party press
exclusively for their impressions, and that
they are dangerously ignorant Of the state Of
opinion and feeling in the other great sect
ion of the country. greatly fear that the
mass of the community; leng accustomed to
treat all alarm for The stability Of the Union
az sroundIeys, all profesked anxiety for its |