Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-09-15
Correction.


 mistated what he said of MT. Everett in speech he made before the Union club We would not wilfully misre,resent any one, and are glad that our mistake is cor rected.
 The position then, which the editor of the Gazette took in his speech, as he ex- plains or repeats in his correction of our re- marks, is this:
 tThat Mr. Everett had near quarter ot century ago, held unsound views upon the slavery question; but that they we're no wohe th"n the views of Washington, or Jehetsoh upon 'ne same subject. That since thenfhough times had chang ed. and men had change. and now Mr. Everett Is T sound man on the sla,ery question, holding that the constitution recognises the institution, ana that it is entitled to the protection of the government As evidences of his siundness we cltel parhcuiar lv. the letter of Mr. T., as Mr. tllmoeS secretary of stae declining enter into the tft-fdrtne trea tv, by which Englald and France proposed to bihh the government O the United States, in common wish themselves. never to purchase n acquire the ist bd of Cuba, IS well as his speech on the John Brown raid.'
 It is of record, that MT. Everett express ed himself uiequivocally in favor of abolish ing slavery in the District of Columbia; times h.ve changed and men have chang ed," sine then, but has Mr. Everett chang ed his sews upon the subject? It is of record that Mr. Everett was opposed U the admission of any more slave States, and that ie was in favor of Congress prohibit ing davery in the territories; times and men haze changed it is true; but has MT. Everett changed his opinions on this subject?
 What does Mr. Everett's refusal to enter into the hi-partite treaty with England and France show? Why, unless he has recant- ed his views upon the extension of slave territory, (and we believe he has not) 1t shows that he would favor the acquisition of Cuba at some future day, as free territory; for he has said that no more staue territory should be admitted.
 Does his position on that treaty, then, prove that Mr. Everett Is a sound man on the slavery question?
 But we are told, if we do not admit his soundness, we dispute the veracity of MT. Breckinridge, who said:
 sThere is another element at the North not laroe. but NOBLE and TRUE It consists of the scat tered cohorts of the old whig party ot men like Ev- ERETr Choate, and their associates. whose conser- yatism culture, and patriotism, Te6etted agdlnSt ue republican alliances"
 Mir. Everett may have rebclled against the republican alliances" and yet have been unsound on the subject of slavery. We may indorse the conservatism, culture and pa triotism" of Mr. Everett, and yet not be willing to trust him as safe man for the South; he may not, nay, has not, openly azl;ed with the black republicans, but he said in referring to Mir. Summers speech: "Ifully concurred in tue main Ane of aryu- aaent ;n IMr. Sumner's speech." 7hat was not merely question of q quarter cf C century ago."
 Tn 1S4O Gen. Harrison nominated Mir. Everett as minister to England, and the nomination was resisted by the democratic Senators because of his antislavery senti- ments. Hon. James McPherson Berrien, of Georgia, voted to confirm the nomina- tion. which so displeased the people of Georgia, that the legislature of that State adonted the following resolution:
 " Resolped, Thatthe opinions publicly proclaim od bv Edward Everett minister to England, of the mower and obligation of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Colunba to interdict the slave trade between the States and to refuse ad' mission into the Union of any territory toleratng slavery. are unconstitutional m ther character, snhyarsve of the rights of the South, and if carried out will destroy this Union; and that the Hon.. Iames MePberson Berrien, in sustaining for an im-a nortant appontment, an individual holding such pphnoxious sentiments, has omitted proper occa- sion to rive an efficient check to such sentiments, and in so doing has not truly represented the opin- ions or wishes of the people of Georgia of either political party
 Now. does the fact of Mir. Everett de- clining to enter into the trs-partate treaty, or the compliment paid him by Mir. Breck- inridge prove that he is now an acceptable
 
 candidate to the South? Has he changed, with the change of time and men! Or docs he not still maintain the same anti slavery on;nions? Will our neighbor point us to the time and place, when and where, MT. Everett has repudiated the Massachu- setts resolutions which he once indorscd over his signature, and which resolutions are in the following words, to-wit;
 "Resolred, That Congress has, by the Constitu- tion, power to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and that there IS noth, ing in the forms or circumstances Of the acts oi cession by Virginia and Maryland, or otherwise, enforcing any legal or moral restraint on Its exer else.
 ResolDed, That Congress ought to take measures to effect the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
 Resolued, Thatthe rights ofhumanity, the claims