The weekly Mississippian., 1860-10-24
From the Montgomery Nail
Negro Equality---Mr. Everett Contends
for It.

Negro Equality---Mr. Everett Contends
1t seems strange-very strange--to us, that
any men are found in the South to advocate
the claims of politician to the second highest
Office in the gift of the Government, who is an
open advocate Of the claims Of negroes to intel
lectaal equality ieih the qGkite race!
And yet Edward Everett, the great orator
and the profound Greek scholar-the beau
ideal of the Bell men, Of craftsmanship and Of
contend according to the
report of a speech of his, in an authorized
edition of his works. that the negro is intel
lectually the equal Of the white man; and he
actually boasts that negro boy, in certain
school in Massachusetts, scas the sehOolglate
Of his otCn son and the "best Latin scholar in
the class 9'
White men oftbe South! are you ready for
the doctrine Of negro equality, as advocated by
Edward Everett? Do you believe in sending
your sons and your daughters-aye, your
daughters!-to s.hool with negroes, and in
asserting that the negro is their intellectual
equal?
1t seems to us that this ought to settle the
question, one way or the other, at once Ir
man, Mr.. Planter, how dare you keep dozens
Of them at work in your fields, as your slaves.
your property? Depend upon it, if Mr. Ey-
erett is right, and if the negro is the equal of
the white man then slavery must 20 down
and that speedily. If the negro is your canal
in race, is he not entitled to equal position under
the laws-to equal social rights-to live in the
same house with you and to intermarrv in
| your family?
| II the negro is the equal Of the white man
as Mr. Everett, candidate for the Vice Presi-
dency, contends-then are not you, Mr.. Plant.
er, a God-defying tyrant, subiugatine yonr
"equai" and keeping in bondage those that
have the same right to be free that YOU bayel
And this is, in effect, what Mr. Everett saws
to YOU in his speech, to which we reler. He
| (Mr. Eyerett) believes that the millions OF
Southern slaves are the "equdls," in all save
cultivation, Of their masters!
Will the white men Of the South stand this
sort Of Bell Eyerettism? We know that in
sentiment, nine -tenths of the p~rty in the
South are opposed TO SO horrible doctrine
Bnt will they submit TO practical endorse.
uent of IL, for the sake Of pd7yg That is the
question, and a most serious question it is, f0l
g,e,, aoho sntead to Hue an the Souttl
In some places, we understand, the Bel
men deaaa chat Mr.. Everett ever made such Q
speech in favor of the equality of the Negro
with the white man. Alas! that party should
drive men to such extremes! Judge Rice, in
his speech Monday night, read portion o.
the speech mentioned from an authorized edi-
ton of MIR. Eyerett's works. No respectable
paper or speaker on the Bell side will deny the
existence Of the book or the speech These
are the burning words Of the glijte mans de
gradation and the negro's equality! And q
vote for Mr. Everett endorses both. As Judge
| Rice said Mr.. Everett had made this negro
equality doctrine practical; he had sent his
son to school with the negro! Will our plant
ers follow his example? If it is right to mix
negro scholars and white in Massachusetts, is
| it not right to do it in Alabama? Who will
set up such a school in the city of Mcntgome-
~? Let us hear on that point! Mr.. Everett
is said to be sound; let us try his soundness
| Erect school house in the city OF Montgome-
Z ry and place over its door the substance o.
Everetts. aoctrine-THE NEGRO Is THE INTEL
LEcFUaL EQUAL OF THE WHITE MAN-and will
YOU eaIl for patronage for it from the Southern
/ people Of this city? Is it not as near rght
here as It is in Massachusetts?
The Everett negro equality doctrine is righ
and true, or it is hellish and damnable, in the
eyes of Southern men! Men of the South
say which!
| Now for the proof of what we have said
4 We introduce no less parsonage, and no othel
than Mr.. Everett himself In September
1859, Mr.. Everett issued a new edition Of hi
orations and speeches. In the preface to thu
third volume, written by himself at Boston, h,
says:
with the orations and speeches contained
in this volume, have included two or thre
articles of different kind, such as the Memoi
4 of Abdul Rahaman, the Obituary Notice O
Mr.. Abbott Lawrence, and the Memoir of Mr.
P. C. Brooks The first of these seemed t
furnish suitable illustration of the speech be
fore the Colonization Society,"" &c.
In the speech above referred to, Mr.. Ever
EFT, speaking of Abdul Rahaman, an Africal
chief or prince, who was captured and sol
into slavery, says:
"If there was ever natve-born gentlema
on earth, he was one He had the port an
the air of a prince, and the literary culture {
scholar The learned blacksmith of Ala
Dama, now In Liberia. has attained celebrit
scarcely inferior to his white brother who
known by the same designation. When
lived in Cambridge, few years ago, l used :
attend as one of the board of visitors, the ex
aminatIons ola classical school in which ther
was colored boy the son of a slave in Misss
sip ] think. He appeared to me to be O
pure African blood. There were at the sam
time two youths from Georgia, and one of m,
own sons, attending the same school. mus
say that this poor negro boy, Beverly VII
liams, was one Of the best scholars at tn,
school, and in the Latin language he was tht
best scholar in his class. Pages 1928.
In the Memoir of Abdul Rahaman, append
ed to the speech made before the Colonization
Society, Mr.. EveretI saws:
abdul was no doubt person OF superior
endowments, but it is clear that he belonged
to a people not essentially below Europeans
and Americans in their capacity for intellec.
tuai improvement And how few Americans
or Europeans, after forty years bondage, would
have come out like Abdul, unbruken in BODY
and mind Let us all learn by this example
10 respect the African race, as one whose best
specimens will not suffer in comparison with
our own, and remember that there are rae s
in Europe. which fall far below the boasted
standard of Caucasian blood."-Vol g. DID.
! 1928.
Another reflection, and that of the most
| painful character, is, that Africans belonging
to these superior are just as likely to fall
into the hands of the slave trader as any others.
| The traffic in human flesh makes no distinc-
tions."-Ib., p. 1913.