Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-18
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MONTGOMERY Oct. l5 1860.
Editors Nail: If you thiGk the folio wing CORES
pondence will tend TO advance the OF truth
and correct principles 1t is at your service for pub
LEGATION. If your readers desIe to know VINO b. b.
NcCraw is the subjOined article from the Daily Post
Of the 9lh instant, VIII furnish the necessary IN
W. P CHIFFON.
TIllapoosa-A private letter froom TallapOosa
gives TO understand that things progressing
finely in that county. Our correspondent is OF OPT
MON that the Bell and Everett majority cannot be
less than four or five hundred.
Our young friend, McCraw, Is ardently at work,
and his efforts tell with sensible effect upon the
ranks of the Brcckinridgers Mac Is a natural ora
tor, he is young man Of fIe natural parts, per-
fecty conversant with the questions at issue. and
entirely capable of meeting any disunon champion
that has yet made his debut in that county. The
glorious Constitutional Union flag viii never trail in
the dust long as he is its bearer.
If Mac can possibly come TO Montgomery, and
will send Us word what night he can be here,
promise him rousing meeting Of our club We
hope to hear from him.
DADEyLLE, Ala, Oct. l3 1860.
B. B. NcGrclc. Esq.-My Dear Sir : l. is reported
that you addressed letter to the Hon. Edward
Everett, in regard to his views the subject of
slavery and the equality of the two races. White
and Black, which Hon. f. Rice attempted to de-
duCe from certain passages his published OrstCns,
and that you have received his reply, with which
Won not satisfied.
If said letters are not private. and you have no
objection to their publication, should be pleased to
have copies Of them, with the impression which the
response he made upon your mind, for publication.
Very truly your obt sevt W.P. Chiffon.
DADEvnLE Oct Is, 1860
Hon. 1TP. ChiBOn-Dear Sir: Your note of this date
is before and proceed to reply TO it. Believing
it probable that election for President would not
be made by the people or by Congress, and that it
might 20 before the Senate TO be made from among
the candidates for NicePresdent; after the charge
publicly made in this county against Mr.. Ever
cit, that he was in favor Of negro equality with the
white mana miserable dogma which lies at the
foundation of abolition fanaticsm-I thought it my
duty, elector for this county, on the Bell and
Everett ticket, IL address Mr. Everett on the sub
Ject and consequently forwarded TO him ! letter
Of which the following Is copy
DADEyILIE. Ala Sept. p. 1860
Dear Sir: The Hon. 5. 7. Rice, in a speech deliv-
cred here to-day, charged you with being adyO-
cate of the doctrine of the equality Of the two
the White and the Black and attempted to prove it,
by showing that you had practically endorsed it by
sending yOur children to school with negroes. am
electOr on your ticket and therefore feel deep
interest IN the of the Bell and Everett ticket
and ardenty desire its success. Are you in favor
OF the doctrine Of the equality Of the two races
1 =.
signature that may successfully refue the SANDER.
Very truly yours, B. B. McCRAw.
To Hon. EDWARD EVERETT, Boston
On the I2Jh inst, l received reply from Mr..
Everett. written by Mr. Leyerett Saltonstall. of
which the following is a copy
"Bosroy. Oct. ;. 1850.
"Dedr Sir: Your letter of the 18th September adj
dressed tG Mr.. Everett. was received last evening
ami Immediately placed in my hands to be answered
he Of ai,,,
open TO all, without distinction of color. and any eX
ciuslon on that ground is forbidden. Mr. Everett
has not 1t present any children at school: his
youngest having graduated the University IN this
neIghborhood, Is student the University of Cam
bridge, England. Nine wears ago tins young man
attended the high school at Cambridge. in the fe-
male department Of which there was a colored girl
Ten or twelve years ago another son attended an
endowed school at Cambridge. at which there was
q COlOrcd boy. There were two Youths from Geor.
Cia in the same school at that time The colored
population Of Massachusetts, as YOU are probably !
aware. is very small By the census of 1850 it was
about one-twclfth of one per cent They have been
free for three generations and though thew employ
themselves mostly in mental occupations they are
placed by the law on equality with the whites |
Such being the case. the Legislature of Massacbu
etts has deemed it better that they should have the
advantages of education. than that they should grow
IN in ignorance and vice. And in this opinion we
suppose our friends in Alabama would concur with
US remain, dear sir, very respectfully yours.
[Sgnedl "LaIEEhTT SALToNsTAlIr
President State Union Committee |
TO B. B McCEAw. Esq
Considering and constituting this letter with refer
once TO the direct nterrugatory prOpnuHded to Mr.
Fyerett-"Arc you in favor OF the equality Of the |
two races 81 am left 10 the irresistible inference
fbat he is wholly unsound upon this cardinal doc !
t-ina and that the South would have nothing 10 |
hon. for in his elevation to the Presidency. This
the more readily arrive at from the an
tece5ents Of Mr. Everett and his opinions expressed
in IS37 and in his letter of October 24th 1889, to
the Hon. Nathaniel a. Borden, which opinions. so |
far as nv knowledge extends, he has never re- !
canted.
Under these circumstances, as an honest man. as a
over of the Union which think can only be pre-
serysa by an ingenious and manly concession on
the ra, of the North of the constitutional rights of
he South Is one who claims TO have the moral
courage TO do y@t he believes to be right, let the
consequences be what tley may, and because can
NOT vote for John Bell Wtdout also voting for Mr..
Everett declare 10 you, thst hepeeforward, l re-
pudiate the Bell and Everett ticket and s} Il give
NV hearty support to Messrs. Breckenridge I'D
LEne Their platform exclaimed as 1t now is, chat
enges the support of every true man North and
south. TTBy yours, B. b. AcCRAW'