The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-08-18
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why should not such potent spells a. these
work virtuou-ly at the planet-struck hour
of u presidential election? ! have great
comfort IN Gen Lane
But, then. if he should fail me, | can
fall back on his rival of the Constitutional
Union (or Old Gentlemen > party. In
deed. Mr. Curtis assured the Old Gentle
men of RoXbury that II the next election
can only be jockeyed into the House OF
Representatives, their Vice President VIII
be the next President Now all the read
ers OF the Leig.r know that Mr.. Everett
knows how To write. that Is, unless the
prevalent report be true (Which for one
don I believe it i-.) that the Mount Yer
non Papers were really written by Mr..
Sylvanus Cobb, junior But, whether he
j. competent TO write al present or not, he
ha. at any rate reiinquished the danger
Gus accomplishment and refers his pollti-
. cal letters to his committee TO answer Tor
him This i a wise preCaution. Tor 1t Is a
melancholy fact that he did once know
how to write letter. and made such reck-
/ less use of those edged tools that he not
only cut his own fingers but seriously
wounded the Wing party OF Massachusetts,
which suffered temporary syncopc III con
sequence. \ Mr.. Taylor, of Eutaw, Ala
bama having got hold of these incendiary
documents sent on to Mr Everett to know
. if he. really had east abroad these fire
/ brands. arrows and death, and what he
meant by IL Mr. Leverett Saltonstall, the
Grand Worthy Patriarch of the Order OF
the Old Gentlemen in these parts, was de
puted to answer this Epistle-nOt General
but very Particular And | must do him
the Justice to say that he did it very Gle
verify indeed He did not undertake to
I denv the charges contained in the indict
ment or even to eXtenuate them. lie
simply pleaded the Statute of Limitations
in bar thereof-which he might well do
as more than twenty years have elapsed
since the crimes were committed-and
brought forward evidence of good charac
ter at the time and good behavior ever
since Mr.. Clay at the time Mr. Everett $
nomination to England was III peril, be,
cause of these very eXcesses, was Vlrtuous
lv indignant at the attempt to defeat it.
and Mr.. Choate played such fantastic
tricks of rhetoric before the high Senate
as to make that South Carolina angel, Mr.
Preston, weep, or nearly SO, that he was
obliged to vote against him. Then he had
bathed himself in the Lethean waters OF
the Compromises Of 1880, which, though
his sins had been red like scarlet, must
have washed him white as wool And be
sides his whole conduct since has shown
him to be worthy of the clcmency then
extended to him, no offence of later date
being alleged against him, as is proved by
his confirmation to Offices since then
with no rebuke even from King of Ala
bama, or Calhoun of South Carolina
Mr. Saltonstall's management of his eli
ents case was very creditable to his inge
nuity as lawyer, which, believe he is
This defence Of Mr. Everett was substan
TALLY that which Lady Mary Wortley say:
the married ladies of the time of George
l., when the holy state OF matrimony wa.
in great disrepute, used TO make of them
selves. to wit: "that it was done great
II while ago, and they We're very young wher
s they did itI' He might have further
urged, if he had thought of it, that much
worse Offenders in this kind than Mr. Ev
n erett had been received into the full com
munion of the Slaveholding Church, anC
that it was unfair to open these old scores
ior him while they were allowed to remaii
!; balanced and closed for such offender a
y Caleb Cushing and Benjamin F. Hallett-
i These two patients certainly had the NAL