New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-06

Everett's letters In full in Political Tert Book p
205.) On account of these avowas of Anti Slav'
cry sentiment, the party with which you are now
afiliating made q desperate effort to reject hir'
Everett's nomination--Mr Buchanan playing
conspicuous part therein. AL the power anu GU
quence of HENRY CLAY were eIeIted W 'uo Nv
most to prevent the success OF tins iac''ous NV,
mept throu oh the adhesion to it OF Southern
and after il had been thus defeated, the wing
Ion;o,otu,e of Georgia severely and all but unahl
mou,ly censured John NJ. Berrieh ior having 49,
in full view of the above ayowals, 10 conhrm ''''
Everetts nomination. -
ro of course aware Of the above facts, MI
vatobnm, recall them to your mind for this Pur-
,o.e. certainly understood you, in those days 70
:, mnatbse entirely and heartily with the general
scope of these avowals of your present candidate
for Vice President, and am sure that you men
tboupbt the attempt to exclude him from the pub
I;c service therefor an mpudently, outrageousy
fsctous one. Mr.. Everett and yourself were then
each over forty years of age, and may fairly be
supposed to have already formed and matured your
poitcal convict ms. If, then, / may cite Mr. Ey'
erett's public Anti-Slavery ayowals OF 1857
"a embodiments of his aud your sentiments
on the subjects to which they relate,
NAV safely aver that you are both far ahead OF
the Republican party and quite even VITA
THE TRIBUNE in what you call sectlonahsm,
ana because of which you call upon Wings to sup
port Democratic Electors of President in order 70
defeat our Wing brother In the good old days, nov
almost certain of his election. dare you to Silt
MIR. Lincolns record and quote fairly therefron
apy demonstration of Anti-Slavery sentiment which
goes so far as the above declarations OF your ewn
candidate for Vice-President. These declarations
were either honest avowals of his convictions, or
they we're demsgogue professions made to suit
nersopal exigency. In either case how can you
ask your old Wing friends to league with Douglas
ard Breckenridge Democrats to defeat Abraham
Lincoln and (perhaps) elect Edward Everett
III. You proceed to say that you " have heard
"enough of Slavery-are sick OF ii" &C. mat
is like the talk of Benedict Arnold in the Crisis OF
the Revolution. He protested TO have been willing
TO shed his blood in the cause of the Colonies 20
long as their rights were really assaled but since
the mother country had manifested willingness
to redress all their grievances he saw no proptiety
in prosecuting the contest further, merely to az
grandze France and pander to personal ambition.
And you are mean enough (if correctly reportedl,
to descend to the lowest grogshop slang, saying
"The Constitution was made for something else
"than negroes"
Mr.. Ketchum knew you when you could not
have been goaded into so base misrepresentation
Of the position you have deserted. You told your
hearers that you are old enough to have partici-
pated in the Missouri struggle, which was settled
by Mr. Clay's Compromise. Why did you not tell
them the whole truth Why not say that you
threw your whole soul into that contest on the
Anti Slavery sde-that you resisted, to the bitter
| end, the admission of new Slave State formed
out of territory that had been slayeholding long
| before we ever acquired it, and which had now
| formed Slave Constitution in accordance with
the all but unanimous demand of her people. Shs,
sovereign State, wanted to come into the Union
as slayehOlding; you said she should not but must
| come in Free or stay out. You kDOw that Mr.
| Claws Compromise was emphaticaly condemned
| and resisted by Mr.. Webster-and Of course by
Mr.. Everett and youraelf-that you regarded the
fourteen out of ninety Northern representatives
who acquesced in that Compromise as traitors to
their constituents and to Freedom. You
know that you heartily reechOed Mr..
| Webster's avowal, in his Niblos Garden Speech
in 1888, that the sentiment of hostility to Slavery
| Extension had taken deep hold on the religious
sentiment and conscience Of the country, and that
| he fully shared in that sentiment. You know how
vehementy he aud you fought the fight of IA
against the Annexation Of Texas, expressly because
of your repugnance to Slavery Extension, and how
you both execrated Mr.. Clay's Alabama letter as
having uDjustifsby weakened if not turned our high
moral position on that subject. Who can forget the
| thunder Of Black Dams brow at Wing Mass Meet
| ings throughout that memorable contest, as he
made resistance to Slavery Extension the keynote
of that struggle, you always appauding and some
| times reechsng bis burning Words Were you
and he then contendng that the Constitution was
"msde not for white men but for negroes?" Was
| it in behalf of negroes and against whites that you
made that glorious though unfortunate struggle
unfortunate, as you and thought, mainly because
Mr.. Clay interposed to derange our order OF battle
| and prevent our fighting it on the Anti-Slavery
| ground we had chOsen7 Was it in the belief that
the Constitution was made for negroes rather than
whites that you were a steady and stern Free
| Soier down to March, 1850 All, Mr. Ketchum
you only degrade yourself by echoing this sorry
sophistry. You ought to leave it to Douglas and
men of that stamp to whom it is natural and apprO-
pirate They are not debased by it-that process
being an impossibllity. But from you, whom it is
still difficult for your sometime friends to regard "a