New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-23
aI,.. Everett's Position.
LETTER FROM HON. LEvERErr sALroSsrAI.

Mr.. Everett, says the New York Times, has az
parently been authorizing a declaration Of his
present views on the slavery question. A gentle
nian in Eutaw, Alabama, seeing the charges of
unsoundness made against him by some Southern
Journals cut out several of these notices and sent
them to Mr. Everett, asking that some notice might
be taken of them. In answer to that communica-
ton, the following letter was received not from
Mr. Everett, but from the President of the Massa-
chusetts State Central Committee of the Constitu-
tonal Union Party, Leverett Saltonstall, and this
is, we presume, the same letter read by Mr.. Tay-
lor on the stand during his speech here
BosroN, June iS, 1S6O.-Denr Sir: Your letter OF
the 18th was received by Mr. Everett this day. When
he accepted the nomination of the Baltimore Union
Convention it was in the understanding that the
correspondence which might grow out Of it should
devolge on the Union Committee here. Your let
ter Of the 18th has accordingly been placed in my
hands, and as you request an answer that will
reach you by return of mail, have but few mo-
ments to prepare it
The Compromise measure of 1850 were regarded.
and have been supported by conservative men at
the North, as fair and practicable basis of united
political action between the Two great sections of
the country. To these measures Mr. Everett gave
his full concurrence.
The papers inclosed in your letter, viz: the re-
solves OF the Massachusetts Legislature, Mr.. Bor-
dents letter. and Mr.. Everett's reply, date from
tile year 1853. 1ney were Df0uSnt De1Ore tHe SEN
ate of the United States in ls4l at the time Of his
nomination as Minister to England, and made the
ground of a motion for its rejection. Henry Clay
opposed that motion with great warmth. and said,
sthatif, through the influence OF the South, the
appointment Of man of MIR. Everett's known con-
servatiye opinions was rejected, the Union was
already dissolved" AT the close Of fervid speech
by RUFUS Choate in support of Mr.. Everett's APP
pointmenf, the Hor.W q. Preston exclaimed, Il
am afraid have committed myself to vote against
him, but by Heaven he shall not be reiectear Mr.
Preston was afterwards heard to say that "he re-
gretted that vote more than any ever given by
him. MIR. Eyerett's nomination as tho first Minis
ter to China, years later, was, believe, unan
mously confirmed in the same Senate, of which Mr.
Vice-Pfesdent King and MIR. Calhoun were mem
bers. His nomination as Secretary Of State on the
death of Mr.. Webster was unanimously confirmed
in 1852. In the following year he was elected by
the conservative members of the Legislature of
Ma ssaehuselts to the Senate of the United States
Mr.. Eseretts views with reference to the Sec
tional agitation disracting the country, if left
in any doubt by his own course, are sufficiently
shown by the bitter hostility Of the entire anti
slavery press. They were reaffrmed to the great
acceptance of the good patriots throughout the
Union in his speech at Faneuil Hall on occasion of
the attempt at Harper's Ferry; and they are re-
stated in his letter signfyng his reluctant accept
ance of the Bait more nomination.
will only observe, in conclusion, that as it seems
to us here no good can result from review of all
that has been said or written North or South, for
twenty or thirty years, on the question which now
more than ever distracts the country. Reasonable
will not, in either section, expect to find entire
concurrence in the other; and Ill sentiments like
those entertained, and on all proper occasions
ayowed by Mr.. Everett, fail to win the confidence
of Union-luyng men at the South Mr.. Claws EN-
phatic exclamation in ls4l may well be repeated.
Iienlain, dear sir, in haste,
IEvERETT sAEToNsTAIIe
Presi lent sats Central Com Committee at of the
/ To Joseph W. Taylor Esq. Eutaw Alabama.