Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-08-04
PULITfCiL.
A Rowland for an Oliver.


letter Of Mr.. Everett in 1889, in answer TO
Mr.. Borden, III which they allege that he
expressed anti-sayery sentiments. vi all
men in the nation Edward Everett least
needs any defence against such ridiculous
charge His genuine patriotism ana ha-
tionalitv are everywhere acknowledged
The whole record of his public and pr vate
career is his best yindicatlon. Few OF our
greatest statesmen have ever been aole 70
acquire throughout the length and breadth
of the land such reputation as ne enjoys
for all that constitutes nationality ana lor
unseltish devotion to the purest purposes OF
PATRIOTISM If any man has demonstrated
above all others his love for his country MS
whole country and nothing but ms country
that man is emphatlcaily Edward hVereH'
Of Massachusetts.
The very matter referred 10 was brought
before the democratic United States Senate
at the time Of Mr.. Everett's nomination as
Minister to England, and upon 1t was based
the effort to procure the rejection ol Tue
nomination. 1t WIS then that Henry Clay
INDIGNANTLY exclaimed, THAT If through
the influence of the South, the appointment
of man of Mr. Eyerett's known conserva-
tive opinions was re iected, the Union was al
ready dissolved" 1t was after this that his
nomination as Secretary of State was IMAM.
mously confirmed by !. democratic United
States Senate; and it was afterwards too that
John C. Breckenridge, the present standard
bearer of the Ianceyitcs, pronounced Inn
"nolle and true and worthy OF the conf
dence Of the whnle South.
The truth. the loyalty Of Mr.. Everett to
the Union and the Constitution, his hostility
to sectionalism in every shape, and hls pa
triotic devotion to the best interests OF the
whole country need no yindicatlon; but, IN
the language Of Southern Contemporary, II
democrats will try Mr.. Everett by his an,
cient record, they must take all that RECORD
together and not garble it to make out their
case. Or if they will not admit the posi-
hility of modification Of opinion on ms part,
even in the presence Of the testimony To
that effect, they must make him no eXcep-
ton but Judge all men hy the standard they
have erected That is tair-nuthlng less
would be honest
,Iudoing democratic statesmen by thls dem
oerutic standard, the Natchez Courier asks,
"where would stand Gov. Letchcr, OF Nlr-
gina. elected almost within year; who
within ten years was an avowed cmanclpa-
zionist. Where would stand Charles j.
Faulkner. of Virginia, present Minister 10
France, than whom no man has received
more States Rights eulogy: whose ireesoii
abolition doctrines expressed Within twenty
! wears, would, if now avowed. drive HIM III
: cnntumey from the State OF Virginia
Where would stand John a. Dix. held ny
. twelve wears ago by the leading democratic
press Of the South a. worthy OF the PreSl'
tiency: since that, the frCcso!i candidate i"l
Governor of New FORK. on the Van buren,
abolition ticket. and subsequently to that Il
melted recipent Of democratic favor, ana
now Il prominent ofice-hoider under Mr.
Buchanan? Mr.. Dix was offered some time
since, we believe, the MinisterShip 10 Eng
land. and Mr.. Faulkner is now Minister to
France: and both lreesoilers and emancipa
tionists, since Mr.. Everett was one, II ever
l, and the structures, now quoted against the
latter are those that grew out of his appoint
ment to Il foreign embassy i'll lStl!
GLOW of Mr.. Buchanan; who, in l52G
considered slavery "a great moral ana po
. litical evil" who, in 1886, presented aud
voted to receive petitions for the abolition oi
, slavery: who. in 1914. considered the sub
! iect of slavery the great obstacle to agreeing
, to support the acquislon Of Texas; who ayoW'
ed his repugnance at that time to extend the
limits and the privileges of the Union over
any new slaveholding territory?
How of Benz. r. llallett, OF Mass, tol
. whose rejection in the Baltimore Convention
the sectional Southern democrats made a
month since their second bolt? Mr. Haiictt
in 1919, ten years after Mr.. Everett's alleg
ed offence, introduced resolutions into the
Massachusetts Legislature, oi which the fol
lowing are copies:
Resolved That we are opposed to slavery IN
any form and col, +, aud III fLvur Of freedom and
rnEEsoII wherever man lives throughout God;
heritage.
Resolved. That VIC are opposed to the cNten
sion of slavery free Territories. and III laFoF oil
the exercise Of all Constitutional and necessary
means to restrict il to the limits within Which II
does or may exist by the local laws OF the State.
1t was only few days ago that we pub.
= lishad a record showing that nearly all OF
| the Northern democrats, who were most con
spicuous in the Charleston Convention, had
been at one time or another within the last
few wears identified with the lrcesOll party.
Among these was Caleb Cushing. who was
elected the President Of the Democratic
Convention at Charleston, and Was ut last
the President Of the breckenridge Conren-
tion. Gushing being Il member oil Congress
when til: people Of the territory o! Arkan-
sas applied for admission az State. deliver
ed ii speech, in Committee Of the Whole. in
which he said
"The extraordinary circumstances under which
/ rise 10 address the Committee mpel me I" brew
ty and Succnctness but they would afford Inc no
justification for a passive acqui"scence IN the adj
mission Of Arkansas into the MON with all the
SINE Of it, Constitution upon it head. The Con
stitution of Arkansas, "a ao!i.mnnlratfd 10 Ton.
eress in the memorial of the people Of that Terri
tory Drawing to be admitted into the Union, con-
tains the following clause: The General Assembly
shall have 10 power to pass laws for the emancl
patton of slaves without the consent ol the own
crs They shall have no power I" prevent emf
grants to this stare from bringing "in them such
person, rs are deemed slaves 10y the laws OF am
one OF the United States.
| Thi. provision Of the Constitution u Arkansas
i condemned by those whom | represent on this
occasion a. Anti-R,p"hi'"na, a ~ro"g on general
principles OF civil rolity and unjust TO the in
habtants of the non Slayehoiding siatrs. Ihey
object to il ~ being. in effect. provision 10 rem
der slavery perpetual in the new Stale OF Arkan-
saS. / .opcm in rcpr"d"'i"gt ~"rh "f""s.. |
cannot, hy anr vote Of mine, ratity or sanction Il
Constitution Of government which undertakes. in
this way, to forcose in advance the progress OF
civilization and liberty forever Vol. f. o.
Bcnton'S 20 Years Views.
The Bill passed notwithstanding the opposition