The Yazoo Democrat., 1860-06-02
HON. WALKER BROOKE FOR THE DE MO.
CRATIC TICKET,

to Southern rights and Southern institutions
would vote the Democratic ticket. We felt con
fdent at the time that if Mr.. Brooke would stan
up to his pledge, we would have him among tn
supporters of the Democracy. Now, to the reCOr
of Mr.. Everett. We can only give a small speci
men this week.
! The infamous and notorious Sumner deliv
cred speech in the Senate in which h
sandercd the South generally, and heaped upol
Mr.. Butler, Senator from South Carolina, VIII
was absent at the time, such vile personal abuse
that his nephew, the Hon. Preston s. Brooks
felt called Hpon to give him personal castiga
ton. The craven wretch who was willing to as
sassnate the reputation of an absent Senator, die
not have the courage to resent the Gaming be haC
received at the hands of Mr.. Brooks in mani,
way, but like whipped spaniel, raised piteou
cry and dOorious whining in order to excitt
the S5shpathies of his abolition friends. Under
these circumstances, his partisan friends put il
circulation subscription list, headed as follows
and Mr. Everetts name appears as one of thu
subscribers:
"Being desirous of expressing to Hon Charles
Sumner, in some permanent and appropriate form
our admiration of his spotless public and private
charaeter-Our liyly gratitude for his dauntlese
courage in defence of freedom on the floor Of
Congress, and especially our unqualified appro-
baton of his speech in behalf of Free Kansas,
delveredin the Senate on the goth of Nay last
a speech characterized by comprehensive knowl-
edge Of the subject, logical acuteness and Spar
tan intrepidity in its chastsemeIt of iniquity,
for which he has 90 well nigh lost his life Mt the
brutal and cowardly hand of creature, for
which, thanks to the rarity of their appearance,
the English tongue has as yet no appropriate
name, we deem it alike privilege and an honor
to participate in Offering him some suitable token
of our sentiments. For this purpose we sub
scribe the several sums set opposite our names. "
1t is true Mr.. Everett attempted to palliate tbs
guilt of the act like Sherman did his endorse
ment of the Helper Book, by saying that he did
BOT know what he vas signing. Althoagh we
consider this plea Of very doubtful merit, we
will give him the teneft of it. At the same
time we will look little further along, and see
what he said in reference 70 this matter When
Mr.. Everett was invited by srme' of tTe citizens
of Knoxville, Tenn, to deliver his etfiogy upon
Washington in that place, many of them objected
upon the ground that Mr.. Everett was I'm sooli-
ZIONIST, and they considered his endorsement of
Sumner's speech in the Senate, on the occasion
referred to, as sufficient proof Of the charge.
Mr.. Everett, in trying to explain this mattgr,
wrote as follows:
"Others who subscribed to the paper diji'i ms
am informed, either without reading it Mt all
or so hastily as not to be we'll aware of 4, char.
acter When meeting Of the subscribers was
called, it was agreed-partly, MS | understood,
for this reasOH-ana'in accordance with the ex
pressed wishes of Mr.. Sumner, to take no fur
ther steps in the premises, shd to apply the sums
subscribed to the relief of the sufferers in Kun.
sas, which was accordingly done. This meeting
WAS held at the time was absent Mt Newport,
but fully approved its dOfngs | ousht W add
that ii is well known that have condemned from
the outset, and still most decidedly cand fnn the
policy of the late administration towards Kansas.
opposed tie Kansas Nebraska bill in the terri
torial committee, of which was \ member
voted against the amendment to the bill. by which
the Missouri Compromise was repealed. ap
posed the bill to the best of my ability in
speech delivered in the Senate on rhc Gfh of Feb
ruarv, 1854, of which send you n copy, aud
should have voted against it on its passage, ms
stated in my place at the next meeting of the
Senate. had not severe indispostion compelled
me, at haf-past three o'clock in the morning. to
leave the Senate chamber before the vote was taken
I Informed my Southern political friends when
the bill was brought in, that it ought to be en-
titled, bill to "annihilate all conservative feel
ing in the non-slaveholdng States
'With these views of the subject thouth, as
trust, for reasons higher than any effect upon
party politics. Tfully co,rcurred in The MIN line oil
aJyumeat in mr. SaTaner's Speech. Abstaihng
however, habitually myself from all personalities
in debate and believing that they ALWAYS irritlte
and never persuade nor convince, could not, of
course, bestow my unqualified appreciation on
the manner in which he treated the'suhiect, nor
give my sanction to the violent and
offensive language of the subscription paper al
uded to and inadvertently signed by me-"
Now, it is well known that the speech alluded
% was as vile an abolition speech rs was ever
made in the halls of Congress- tha! twas replete
With low, vulgar abuse of the South and her in
ttutons; that he opposed the extension of
lavely upon the assumption that it was n moral
nd political evil, and Mr. Everett L" fulLy con-
urs in the main line Of argument in Mr. Summers
pesch." Further it seems that after Mr. Everett
ubscribes his money to Mr. Sumner as a salvo to
is bleeding wounds, which, in the eyes of every
ian of spirit, disgraced him. at Mr.. Summers
uggestion, thsmOney was appropriated to " the
ufferers in Kansas" which, ofcourse, were those
HON the Emigrant Aid Societies had sent out
rmed with Sharpe's rifles, to prevent the citizens
the South from participating equally in the
enetits of the common territory, and who be-
anne in this conflict the "saferGs in Kansas"
IT. Everett says he ''fully approves the doings'
the meeting that thus appropriated his money
hich he had coutributedto Sumner. Mr.. Ever |
It's explanation involves him in deeper trouble |
would have been better for him II he had never !
tempted to make it. Now, we submit the ques-
on to any fair-minded man, if the Hon. Walker
rookie is not bound by his pledge to support the
nominees. The very first page Of the
cord of Edward Everett that our eyes have
lien uponafter Mr.. Brookehad made the pledge,
ows that bis candidate for the Vice Presidency
sympathisihg with the free sOilers and aboli.
'nists, and that he has actually contributed his
oneyto their eause
W. 80 ,..o.,d - L -. II