The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-15
More of Everett's Record.

completely establishing their unsoundnes
upon the great issues in which the slayehold
ing members of the confederacy are vital
interested E
We have shown that John Bell voted an
spoke in harmony with the Abolition enc
mics of the South, upon the following mea
sures-
The reception of Abolition petitions.
The annexation of Texas
The repeal of the Missouri restriction.
The admission of Kansas.
And we have shown that he holds tina
Congress has full power to abolish slauey'y Il
the Distrid Of Columbia, which if carried Out
according to the deliberate opinions of Messrs
Sharkey, Lake, Johnston, Watson s. Co
would furnish ample cause for dissolution
of the Union. This is an awful record an
it is in view of it, that the New York Tribun
prior to the assembling of the Chicago Con
vention, did not hesitate to ayow its willing
ness to support John Bell in case he should b
the nominee Of that body.
If fpossible the antecedents of John Belps as
sociate, Edward Everett, are still more objec
tiOnable to the opposers of agitation and to th'
friends of the South.
1t will not be forgotten that in 1889, HI
committed himself unequivocalIy in favor o
the entire abolition policy; the destruction o
slavery in the District of Columbia; its ex
clusion from the territories; and the interdic
ton of the trade between the slave States
| These Uiears he has never get Tecanted. Or
the contrary, his subsequent career, leads *
the inevitable conclusion that they have growr
upon him with each revolving year. TX
speak plainly, Edward Everett has beer
throughout life, consistent Abolitionist.--
When he was appointed Minister to the Court
of st. James, the Committee of Foreign
Affairs in the Senate, Of which the patriotic
and conservative w. R. King was Chairman
reported against his confirmation on &C.
count of his anatical zeal in the cause o.
Abolition.
And look to later period of his life. He
was member of the United States Senate
pending the movement for the repeal OF the
Missouri restriction, and took the side of the
Abolitionists. He gave the Black Republi-
cans their shibboleth in 1856, by stigmatizing
the Kansas Nebraska bill as an act of pcrfdy.
And It was he who presented to the Senate
the celebrated petition of the three thousand
ianatical New England clergymen, with warm
commentator Of their piety and virtues.
There is another leaf in the chapter of Mr..
Everett, which must not be left unturned-
We aHude to the part which he bore in the
Brooks Sumner affair-to the sympathy which
he expressed for Sumner, the foul-mouthed
calumniator of the Southland to his invec-
tive upon Brooks for chastising the slanderer
Of the statesmen, and OF the mothers and
daughters of South Carolina and her Southern
sister. True to his antecedents he did not
hesitate to endorse the amain line of argu-
ment'' employed by Sumner in the speech
which provoked this merited punishment.
The facts in this case were fully brought to
light in 1856 in card by the Hon. William
II. Sneed of Knoxville, Tennessee, who at the
time (of the Brooks-Sumner affair." represen-
ted the District in which he resided, as an
Opposition member of Congress. Mr.. Sneed
had refused to join in an invitation to Mr..
Everett to visit Knoxville, and his course
having been objected to, he published a
statement of Mr.. E's conduct as his justifca-
ton.
Mr. Sneed's Card opened as follows:
The subject of the propriety of inviting the
Hon. Edward Everett to the South, and glo-
rifying him here, is again the subject of public
discussion. highly respect that Southern
delicacy, which is prepared to revolt at dis
courtesy to distinguished men, and am
therefore unwilling to be supposed capable of
having wantonly or improperly objected to
having my name SO used. / did not approve
of Mr.. Everett's invitation here yet the pro-
ceedings of public meeting here, exhibited
me as so approving, and inasmuch as I had
very recently before that time, been required
to act as representative IN Congress on taoo
subjects each of which, of great importance
TIE Sumner onslaught upon the South and the
very qsiitessence of A5oEiaonisna, as 0O1lcentra-
ted in its rebellion and laClessTe8s IN Kansas,
on ,0l4iclb I kneto Mr.. Everett fully identified
scitb and cooperating s0ith, If not leading these
movements, l could not remain silent yet /
simply published subscription paper which
Mr.. Everett has signed and referred to a
speech he made for similar sentiments.
Here Mr. Sneed charges that Mr.. Everett
was fully identified with, if not the leader Of,
the Abolition movements at the trying and
critical period referred to; and then he pro-
ceeds to give the following extract from the
testimonial to Sumner which was signed by
nearly all the Abolitionists of Boston, includ-
ing EdacaYd Everett. It in these words:
''Being desirous of expressing to Hon. Charles
Sumner, in some permanent and appropriate
form, our admiration ofhis spotless public and
private character-our lively gratitude for his
dauntless courage, in defence of freedom on
the floor of Congress, and especially Our ua-
qualified appreciation of his speech an behalf OF
Free Kansas, delivered in the Senate on The
20h Of Nay last-a speech characterized by
comprehensive knowledge of the subject, by
logical acuteness and Spartan intrepidity in its
chastisement of inquiry, for which he has
hand of a creature far sclicA, 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 senti-
mentS. For this purpose, we subscribe the
several sums set opposite our names"
About this time, Mr.. Everett delivered
eulogy upon Gen. Washington which he in
troduced with the following allusion to the
affair which called forth the above testimonial
to Sumner. This extract is also embraced in
the card Of Mr.. Sneed:
"An irrepressible sadness takes possession
of my heart at the occurrence of the past
week, and the most serious apprehensions
force themselves upon me, that events are
already in train--with an impulse too mighty
to be resisted-which will cause our beloved
country to weep tears Of blood through all her
borders for generations to come. The civil
WARRIOR such it is-with its horrid train ofpil.
lage, fire and slaughter, carried on, without
the slightest proyocation, against the infant
settlements of our brethren on the frontier
of the Union tho worse than civil war !;
which has for months ragged unrebuked at the
OuDllOL OuOup uAiN AANo esA ASH6sA-3 " eSs"
act of laaoless uiotence of soich ksaoso no par
alel in the history of Constitutional government,
stained the floor of the Senate chanaber aeith the
blood of an aenarnaed, defe'acesess man, and a
Senator Of Massachusetts,. Ah, my friends,
these are events which, for the good name,
the peace, the safety of the country-jor the
cause Of free iasttutiog,s throughout Tie ico,ld;
it were worth all the gold Of California, 10
LII e-ay. fta racnrd Of the mast week - Il 55a
In the course of publication dated Oct.
81, 1858, Mr.. Everett endeavors to explain
the insult which he had offered the South by
his disgraceful agency in the Sumner-afIair.
From this paper, we make the following ex-
tract: tsfst
Others who subscribed the paper did it, Is
am informed, either without reading il, a
all or 90 hastily - '.0t e y wen aware otits
| hers was called, It was agreed-partly as ]
understood for this rsason--snd in accordance