Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-12-21
UNION MEETING IN BOSTON.

Boston, on the 9Th inst Among other things Mr..
Everett said
"Sir, the North and the South, incudingthe North
west and Southwest have become fercely, bitterly
arrayed against each other. There is no place left
in public life for those who bve them both. The
war of words-of the Press of the platform, of the
State Legislatures and must add, the pulpit p
has been pushed to point Of evaporation which,
on the slightest untoward accident, may rush to the
bloody arLitrament of the sword The great ancient
master of political science (Arisotle) tells us, that
though revolutions not take place for small caus
es they do from small causes. He means, SIR that
when the minds Of the community have become
hopelesslv embittered and eXaspcrated by longcon-
tinued irritation, the slightest occurrence will bring
on the catastrophe.
In fact it seems to me that we have reached
state of things which requires all good men and good
patriots to forcgo for time all mere party projects
and calculations, and to abandon all ordinary poit
cal issues; which calls, in word, upon all who
love the country and cherish the Union and desire
the continuance of those blessings which we have
till lately enjoyed under the Constitution transmit
ted to us by our Fathers and which regard as the
noblest work of political wisdom ever achieved
to meet as one man and take counsel for its preser
vation 1t is this feeling that has brought me here
to-day.
1t will probably be said Sir that those who enter
tain views like these eXaggcrate the gravity of the
we who exaggcrate, but those who differ from US,
that greatly-and soon, fear it will he, fatally
undcrrate the OminouS sgEs Of the times. l fear,
Sir, that they are greatly nised by the one-sided
views exclusively presented by the party Press. and
those who rely upon the party Press exclusively for
their Impressions and that they dangerously ig-
nOrant of the state of opinion and feeling in the 9th
er great section of the country. greatly fear that
the mass of community, long accustomed to treat all
alarm for the stability of the Union as groundless
all protested anxiety for its preservation as nsinccre
or if sincere the result of nervous tmihity. have
untitled themselves to measure the extent and the
urgency of the existing danger. 1t is my own de-
I:berate conviction formed from opportunities
of personal observation, and from friendly corrcspoE
dencc with other parts of the country Though car
ry on none of political nature that on the
very verge of a convulsion, which will shake the
Union to its foundation; anil that few more steps
forward IN the direction in which affairs have moved
for few years past, will bring to the cataStro
phe.
~ have heard it urged on former occasions of pub
lie alarm that it must he grOundlesS because hnsi
ness goes on as usual-and the theatres are open.
and stocks keep up Sir, these appearances may all
be dcuSive. The great social machine moves with
a momentum that cannot be suddenly stopped. The
ordinary operations of business went on in France
in the revolution of 1882 till the humiliation of the
circulating medium put stop to everything that
required its rse The theatre and all the other
places of public amusement were crowded to mad
ness in the reign of terror The French stocks new
or stood better than they did in Paris on the 2lst
of February, 1913. On the oath of that month
Louis PHILIPPE flying in disguise from his CAPT
tai; the Tuilleres were sacked and the Oldest
archy in Europe had ceased to exist.
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I fear Sir, from the tone of some the public Jour-
nails, that we have not made this case our own
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resolved fearless leader had been organized in
Virginia. to and establish themselves by stealth
in Springfield in this State intending there, after
possessing themselves at the unguardc hour of mid
night of the National Armory to take advantage of
some local of dsafFccton, (which led to a very de-
ploralAc occurrence in this vicinity few years ago.
to stir up social revolution that pixies and rifles to
arm twenty five hundred men had been procured by
| funds raised by extensive subscriptions throughout
| the SOuth-that at the dead of Sunday night the
! work of obstruction had begun, by shooting down an
unarned man, who had refused to join the invading
force; that citizens of the first Standing seized
! and imprisoned, three four others killed: and
when the entire failure Of the conspiracy, its lead
/ err had been tried, ably defended by counsel from
his swn part of the country. convicted and executed
! that throug hont Virginia which sent him forth on
| his fatal errand, and the South generally, funeral
bells should he tolled, meetings of sympathy held
as at the death of some great beneactor, and the
person who had plotted to put pike rifle in the
hands of twenty five hundred men, he used against
their fellows. inhabitants of the same town. inmates
of the same houses with an Interior intention and
purpose of wrapping the whole community in a civil
war of the tleatleSt and boodcSt type in which a
| mans foes should be those of his household !;
suppose, say, that the person who planned and
plotted this and with his own hand or that of his
associates acting by his command had taken the
lives of several beings should he cxtoed can
nj Will tbn boro ~
humanity nay, as>imilatcd to the Savior of man.
kind; and all this not the effect of solitary niivd-
ual impulse, but the ripe fruit of systematcagitaon
pursued in the South unrebuked for years! What,
Sir, should feel think. say under such state Of
things. Should We weigh every phrase of indg-
nant remonstrance with critical accuracy, and divide
our murmurs with nice discrimination among those
whom we might believe, however uniustly, to be d.
;, recy or indirectly concerned in the murderous ag
erosion.
Such Sir as matter of history is a servile insur
rection. Now let us take glance at the state Of
things in the Southern States. comembers as they
with us in the great Republican Confcderacy-
Let us consider what sort of population it is
that some persons among us think it only right and
commendable, but in the highest degree heroic
saintlike god-llke, to extend the awful calamity
. which turned ST. Domingo into heap of bloody
, ashes in 1871. There are between three and foul
millions of the colorcd race scattered through tn,
Southern and Southwestern States, in small groups
in cities, towns villages, and in larger bodies on is
olated plantations; in the house, the factory, ant
the field; mingled together with the dominant race
i'll the various pursuits of life; the latter amounting
in the aggregate to eight nlne millions, if right
: ly recoliect the numbers. Upon this community
thus composed, it was the design of Brown to lie
loose the hell-heunds of scrvle nsurrecton, an,
to bring struggle which for magnitude, atrocit
and horror would have stood alone in the history
the world And these eight or nine Millions agains
f whom this frightfu war was levied, are our fellow
citizens, entitled with TO the protection Of tina
compact Of Government, which recognizes their re
y lation to the colored race,-a compact which ever
sworn officer of the Union or of the States is boun
= by his oaths to support! Among them Sir, is fa
- proportion of men and women of education and GU
ture-of moral and religious lives and characters
virtuous fathers, mothers, sons ard daughters, pei
no ado ctai oE ,n