Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-10-11
THE prIn1rc RY,coRD AND PAST T1sroR'
JOHN BELL AND EDWARD EVERETT
EDWARD EVERETT.

The noson Of Candidate for Vice President although
always rendered new not even seG &c a.
believe The predictions of the supporters OF pei anu II
They argue that the election sure to go no me
House of Representatives, and their hope is, IN case the
Black Republicans viii not come to their aid as tney say
they have promised to do and eec Mr. BEL as lucy eea
him ahead General Lane. and second to hamin ana
that the Senate. according to the Constitution l.? CON-
PEELED to choose between the candidates receVg the
highest electoral votes they will be compelled as CHOICE
take Mr. Everett According to their IDEAS the pos1n
Bell In order therefore, show the southern people what
sort of President they would have IN him. should the hopes
e his followers be realized invite their attention to
RECORD ON THE SLAVERY QUESTION
Mr. the House of Representatives with Mr.
Bell, and voted like him. for the reception printing ana
On the 18th of October 1887 Hon. VIM Jackson of New
ton Massachusetts, Mr. Everett long letter con-
tanning the following questions . 49,
DO justice, humanity, and sound policy, alike require
that the slaves this country should be emancpated!
" Is it the right and duty of the citizens of the
holding States require Of the general the ab
clifton of slavery in the District Of Columbia!
" Is it just safe with regard to our foreign relations
and domestic compact to admit Texas into thu Unon!
10 'HeSe inquiries A' Boston, october 81, 1887
sIR: have duly received your communication of the
14h instant which you desire to be furnished with my
views questions therein prOpounded Under 9TH
circumstances should deem it proper to preface my
with preliminary remarks but my
at the time compel me to reply as concsey as pos
sible.
being universal admission, social POLITICAL and moral
evil Of the first magnitude it is required by justice human
those having conautionay the power to effect that object
be done peacefully and in manner to bet
ter the condition OF the emanclpated -
" In reply to the second question, would remark that all
the considerations i'll favor of emancipation in the States
ions this subject fully expressed in the resolution
adopted by the Legislature last winter with near APP
proach to unanimity, in the following terms:
" ResoEUed That Congress having exclusive legislation
in the District of Columbia the right to abolish
slavery the said District and that its exercise should only
be restrained by regard to TIE public good
last question RropOunded by you refers to the am
most Of its bearings, in a new light.
The whole subject has been ably discussed by Dr.
Claiming in his recent letter to Mr. Clay that 1t would DE
supehuous to enlarge upon 1t. VIII only say 1nat H. at
this moment when all important experiment Is in train
to abolish slavery by legal and eaceabe means in the West
ndes the United States instead of initiating their example
or awaiting their result, should rush into policy of
giving indefinite extension to slavery over vast region
Incorporated INTO the Unon we should stand condemned
before the civilized world 1t would be in vain to expect
to gain credit for any further professions of willingness to
be rid OF slavery as soon as possible NO eXenuaon OF us
existence the ground of its having been forced the
country in its colonial state would longer avail u.s. 1t
would be thought and justly that lust OF power and
lust Of god had made deaf the voice of humanity and
justice. We should be sefconvcted of the crime
evil which, concert with mankind,
had affected to deplore, and that at time when the
former period, is aroused to its magnitude.
- am, sr respectfully, your 0bedient servant ,
" Hon. WILLIAM JACKSON"
In 1882 the following nterrOgatOres prOpounded to
Mr. Everett by the Hon. Nathaniel Borden of Massachu
sets:
j. you of mmed abolition by law of
very the District Columbia and Of the slave traffic be-
tween the States of the Union?
2. Are you opposed the admission into the Union Of
slavery?
The following is his reply:
WASHINGTON Oct. "a, 1889.
On Saturday last only received your letter of the 18TH
propOundng 20 certain interrogaories and earnestly
Iou that vera resolves on the subject Of
these Inquiries and their kindred TOPICS accompanied by
very able report was introduced into the Senate the Com
OF
two Houses, OF which the late lamented Mr. Avold was
chairman.
These resolves after having been somewhat enlarged by
amendment, adopted by the Legislature. They az
pear the whole ground of your Undergraduates
Having cheery coopeated in the passage the resolves,
and concurrng in the general reasoning by which they
sustained the powerful report of the chairman of the
mittee. respond to both your inquiries in the affirmative
The first OF the three subjects embraced in your inquiry,
was member. voted in the negative the motion to
lay upon the table the petition Of the American Slave
~ Society for the abolition slavery the District of
Columbia and motions of the like character introduced
to cast off the consideration of this class of petitions.
am, Gear very respectfully friend and servant,
Hon. NATHANIEL A. BORDEN.
Those resolves " referred to set of resolutions
adopted by the Massachusetts, Legislature during
previous when Mr. Everett Governor of the State and
follows:
ResoIced That Cong has, by the Constitution, power
to abolish slavery the slave trade the District of
lumba, and that there nothing in the or circum
stances OF the acts of cesion by Virginia and Maryland
otherwise enforcing any legal or moral restraint on its
| ercse.
ReOUed That Congress ought to take effect
the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia
ReSOued That the tights humanity the claims of JUS
ce, aud the good, alike demand the suppression
by Congress Of the slave trade carried in and through
the District of Columbia.
Resogd That Congress has, by the Constitution power
to abolsh slavery in the Territories of the United States
ReSocad That State shall hereafter be admitted
into the Union whose constitution and government shall per
nit the existence of domestic slavery therein
Resoued That Congress has, by the Constitution power
to abolish the traffic Ill slaves between the different States
Resoued That the exercise of this is demanded BY
q p Of fV md nCfjp
Mr. Everett by his letters and stands pledged
to these doctrines lst The power and the duty of Con
gress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia I'd
The and the duty Congress abolish
the Territories of the United States 3D. The power and
duty of Congress abolish the slave trade between the
States; and The more slave States
He has never taken back or recanted these onnons We
defy Of his supporters point the speech
in which be has taken back of these doctrines
intmated that his mind has undergone change in refer
ence to them We affirm that such document be pro
duced Is it any wonder then, that that infamous Adolf
tionist William Lloyd Garrison, he who declared that the
American Constitution IS league with the devil and
enant with hell despatched Mr. Everett with praise and
hoisted his name for Governor in 1889?
In lS4l when Mr. Everett by General Har
rison Minister to England appears that his confma
ton was delay ed in the Senate and whispered that
would be rejected Instantly the whole Abolition
was in Juror of excitement.
One of Them the Boston Free American was very indig
nant at Southern arrogance and impudence assuming
censorship over Northern opinions Indeed well known
was Mr. Everett Abotionist that the Legislature
georgia passed, IN 1884, resolution censurng he
Senators, Mr. Berren for voting confirm nomination
Mr. Everett in the Senate in 1884, end spoke agains
fotou dSdlust the clauSe re
peang the Missouri Compromise He was absent when the
vote was taken on the BILL but afterwards in the Senate
stated that " had been here my vote would have beer
here recorded in the negative passage of the
congressional Globe LIST sess SD Cong page $50.
We come down to later date TO the Presidential cleo
ton of 1885, The notorious and infamous Abolition Sena
tor from Charles Sumner his place
in the senate chamber and delivered the vlest and mos
yndctive malignant brutal attack upon the outherr
people, calling them hireings picked from the drunken
speW o. an uneasy civilizations and assaling Senators But
sas he said It is the rape of virgin Territory COMPEL
ing to the hateful embrace of slavery And them swell
ing with his subject, he thus launched orth
Already the muster had begun. The strife is no Longer
local. but national Even now while speak, portents hans
on all the arches of the horizon threatening to arken TIN
broad land, soElch aLeaJy Yoons se he n,lutrinas