Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1860-10-27
El3. B. McCRAw, Esq.
DADEy1LLE. Oct. IS, Is

Dear Sir Your note of. this date is be-
fore me, and l proceed to reply to it. Be
lieying it probable that an election for Prcsl-
CIout would not be made by the people or by
Congress, and that it might go before the
Senate to be made from among the candi-
dates for Vice President; after the charge
WAS publicly made in this country against
NIF Everett that lie was i'll favor Of negro
equality with the white man-a miserable
dogma which lies ut the foundation of lbo-
litT0n fanatcism-T thought it my duty, rs
AM elector for this county on the Bell and
Everett ticket, to address Mr. Everett on the
subject, and consequently forwarded him Il
letter, of which the following is copy:
DADEvILLE, ALA, Sept. 25, 1860
sDEAR SIR: The Hon. S. F. Rice, in a
speech delivered here to day, charged you
with being an advocate Of the doctrine Of the
eGnality ofthe white and black, races and at
tempted to prove it by showing that you had
practically endorscditin sending your children
to school with negroes am an elector ON your
ticket and, therefore, feel deep interest in
tbs success of the BELL and Everett ticket,
and ardently desire its success. Are you in
favor OF the doctrine Of the equality OF the
two races? Please to answer me, yea or nay,
over your own signature, that may success
fully roFute the SANDER.
Very truly yours
B. j. MCCRAW.
To Hen. EDWARD EVERETT, Boston.
On the 18th inst. received reply from
Mr. Everett, written by Mr.. Leverett Salton-
stall, Of which the following is copy:
BosToN, Oct. 3, 1860.
EDEAn SIN: Your letter of the 25th Sep
TENDER, addressed to Mr.. Everett, was re
ceived last evening, and Immediately placed
in my hands to be answered.
& BY The laws of Massachusetts, the schools
are open to all, without distinction of color
and any exclusion on that ground is forbid
den. Dir. Everett has not, at present, any
children at school; his youngest having grad
uated tt the University in this neighborhood
is student at the University of Cambridge,
England. Nine years ago this young man
attended the high school at Cambridge, in
| the fel:lple department of which there was a
coloreG girl Ten or twelve years ago an
other son attended an endowed school at Cam
bridge at which there was colored boy
| There were two youths from Georgia in the
same school at the same time. The colored
| population of Massachusetts,, as you are prob
ably aware, is very small By the census OF
| 1870 il was about one-twelfth of one per cent
| They Fave been free for three generations
and th5ugh they employ themselves mostly in
nial:6ccupations, they arc placed by the
law on an equality with the whites. Such
being che case, the legislature of Massachu,
sets has deemed it better that they should
have the advantages of education than that
they sEeuld grow up in ignorance and vice
And rs this opinion, we suppose our friends
in IAlalhma would concur with us.
g l remain, dear sir, very respectfully yours
1 ESLEVERETT SALTONSTAIL,
President State Union Committee.
ITO 3. B. McCraw. esq"
Considering and constituting the letter with
reference to the direct interrogatory PROFOUND,
ed 10 Mr.. Everett-"Are you in favor of the
equality;of the two races ?" [ am left to the
irresista BILE inference that he wholly unsounj
upon this cardinal doctrine, and that the
South would have nothing to hope for in his
| elevation to the presidency. This conclusion
the n1s;re readily arrived at from the ante
cedentS.pf Mr.. Everett, and his opinions ex-
pressed in 1887, and in his letter ofOctobe1
| 4th, 1889, to the Hon. Nathaniel Borden
which epinions, so far as my knowledge ex-
tends ae has never recanted.
UndsF these circumstances, as an honest
matt, az a lover of the Union, which | think
| can onid be preserved by an ingenious and
] manly concession ION the part ofthe North OF
the constitutional rights of the South, as one
( who claims to have the moral courage to do
| what he believes to be right, let the conse-
quences!be what they may, and because /
cannot sbte for John Bell without also voting
for Mr. Everett, l declare to you that hence
forward repudiate the Bell and Evereettic
/ etaRd SHALL giyemy hearty support to Messrs.
\ -Breekil:fidge and Lane. Their platform,
/ explained as it now is, challenges the support
! of ever true man, North and South
Trl4y yours, B. b. MoGRAW.
Hon. ~. P. Chiffon.
Iron the following paragraph, twill
be saen shat Lincoln IL favored 8by the Fno-