Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-11-03
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DapEvI1dE. Oct. l3. 1880

Hon. JV. ?. ChsAon--Dear Sir: Your note of this date is before me, and 1 proceed to reply to 1t. Believing 1t probable that an election for President would not be made by the people or by Congress, and that it might go before the Senate to he made from among the candidates for, Vice President; after the charge was publicly made in this county against Mir. Everett, that he was in favor of negro equality with the whte man "a miserable dogma which lies at the foundation of abolition fanatieism---I ifhotghtit my dntssas an elector for this county, on the Bell and Everett ticket, to address MT. Everett on the subject, and consequently forwarded to him a letter of which the following is copy:
 DADEvILrE, ALA, Sept 25, 1S60
 Dear Sir: The Hon. S. F. Rice in speech delivered here to-day, charged you. with being an advocate of the doctrine of the equality of the two races, the white and the black, and attempted to prove it, by showing that you had practically indorSed it in sending your children to school with negroes. 1 am an elector on your ticket, and therefore, feel a deep interest in the success of the Bell and Everett ticket, and ardently desire it's success. Are you in favor of the doctrine of the equality of the two races? Please to answer me, yea or nay, over your own signature, that may successfully rifute the islander.
 Very truly yours,
 B. B. MIGRANT.
 To Hon. EDWARD EVERETT, Boston,.
 On the 18th instant I received reply from Mir Everett, written by Mr. Leverett Saltonstall, of which the following is a copy. ~a
 <" BosroN, Oct 3, 1S60.-Deor Sir: Your letter of the 25th September address ed to MT. Everett, was received last even ing, and immediately placed in my hands to be answered. alaf.s9ltut a.f..aa
 By the laws of Massachusetts, the schools are open to all without distinction of color, and any exclusion on that ground is for bidden. MT. Everett has not at present any children at school; his youngest having graduated at the university in this neigh borhood, is a student at the university of Cambridge, England. Nine years ago this young man attended the high school at Cambridge, in the female department of which there was colored girl. Ten or twelve years ago another son attended an endowed school at Cambridge, at which there was colored boy. There were two youths from Georgia in the same school at that time. The colored population of Mas sachusetts, as you are probably aware, is very small. By the census of 1850 it was about onetwelfth of one per cent. They have been free for three generations, and though they employ themselves mostly in menial occupations, they are placed by the law on an equality with the whites, Such being the case, the legislature of Massachp- setts has deemed it better that they should have the advantages ofieducation, than that they should grow upin ignorance and vice. And in this opinion, we suppose our friends in Alabama would concur with us.
 remain, dear sir, is,a
 very respectfully yours,
 [Signed LEvERETr SALToNsTALL,
 President State Union Committee
 To B. B. McCraw, esq.' z.7
 Considering and construing this letter with reference to the direct interrogatory propouded to Mr. Everett-.' Are you in favor of the equality of the two races?" = I am left to the irresistible inference that he is wholly unsound upon the cardinal doctrine, and that the South would have nothing to hope for in his elevation to the Presidency. This conclusion 1 the more readily arrive at from the antecedents of Mr. Everett, and his opinions expressed in 1887, and in his letter of October 24th, 1S49, to the Hon. Nathaniel A. Borden, which opinions, so far as my knowledge extends, has never been recanted. sS
 Under these circumstances, as an honest man, as lover of the Union, which l think can only be preserved by an ingenns and manly concession on the part of the North of the constitutional rights of the South, as one who claims to have the moral cour- age to do what he believes to be right, let the consequences be what they may, and because cannot vote for John Bell with out also voting for MT. Everett, declare. to you that henceforward l reppdiate the Bell and Everett ticket, and shall give my hearty support to Messrs. Bie k nridge al d