Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-07-03

Mr.. EvsRsrr ON rHs vExRD QuEsfioE.
By request we republish the following ex-
tract from speech delivered by the Hon.
Edward Everett In Congress. in 1926,
which is reported in Gales q seston's
Register of Debates, vol II, p. 1879.
"Ifthere are any members IN this House
Of that class of politicians to whom the
gentleman nom North Carolina Mr..
saunders) alluded az having the disposi-
tion, though not the power, TO disturb the
| compromise contained In the Constitution
on this point the three -flfths representa-
tive principle am not Of the number
Neither am one Of those citizens Of the
North to whom another honorable mem
Der lately referred, In publication TO
which his name was subscribed, no would
think IL immoral and irfeligious to Join in
putting down servile insurrecuon at the
South. am not n soldier. sir my habits
and education are unmilitary; bet there IL
no cause IN which would buckle KNAPP
sack TO my back, and put rnusket on my
shoulder, than that. | would cede the
whole continent TO any one who would
take ito England, TO France, TO Spain
| would see IL sunk In the bottom Of the
ocean, before 1 would see any part of this
fine America converted into a continental
llayti by that awful process of bloodshed
and desolation by wbeih alone such eat
sstrophe could be brought on.
The great relation Of serv'tude In some
form or other, with greater or less depar-
lures from the theoretic equality Of man,
IL inseparable from our nation. know Of
no way by which the form of this setvi-
tude shall be fixed, but by political insti-
tutions. Domestidslavery, though con
fess not that forrs CT sersitude which seems
TO be the most beneficial to the master
certainly not that which IL most beneficial
TO the slave-is, not, In my judgment, to
he set down as an immoral and itreligious
relation I cannot admit that religion
has but one voice TO the slave, and that
this voice is-'Rise against your MASTER
No, sir the New Testament says. Slaves,
obey your masters' aud though know
full we'll that IN the benignant operation
of christianity winch gathered master and
slave around the same communion table,
this unfortunate institution disappeared
In Europe yet | cannot admit that while
IL subsists, and where II subsists, its duties
are not pre-supposed and sanctioned by
religion. And though I certainly am not
called upon to meet the charges brought
against this institution yet truth obliges
me to say word more on the subject. |
know the condition Of the working elias
Sea in other countries | am intimately
acquainted with IL In some other countries,
and I have no hesitation in saying that
believe the slaves in this country are bet
ter clothed and fed, and less hardly work
ed, than the peasantry of some of the most
prosperous States Of the continent Of Eu
rope.
To consider the checks on population
read Matthers. What keeps population
down Poverty, want, starvation, disease,
and all the ills Of life; it Is these that check
population all over the world. Now the
slave population in she United States in
creases faster, than the whites, masters in
cluded. What is the inference as 10 the
physical condition of the two classes of
society. These are opinions | have long
entertained, and long since publicly pro
fessed on this subject, and which here re-
peat In answer to the intimation to which
have already alluded. But, SIR, when
slavery comes to enter into Constitution
"a n political element-when 1t comes TO
OBJECT the distribution of power among the
States Of the Union--that Is q matter of
agreement. I'll make engagement on this
subject, | will adhere TO II like man (;
but will protest against any differences
being made from IL Of the kind which was
made by the honorable movers of the
resolutions