Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-09-01
MIR, EVER EFT,

| MIR, EVERETT.
Erfra,f i,ohn $peeeh Of Ed.eard Ere,eu, at
he lnion NtanS IN tanueH Hall, Boston,
| IsidnH, Dcrember M, 1859
The subject of the speech was the John
Brown raid at Harper's Ferry. After read
ing some extracts from the history of St. Do
iningo, Mr.. Everett proceeds thus:
Such, sin. as matter Of history, is ser
we lns4irectIon Now let us cast a Glance
at the state of things in the Southern States
| cn-fiembefs as they are with us in this GREAT
| republican ccntederacy. Let us consider over
what sort OF a population it is that some per
Sors among us think it not only right and
comuendabIe, but in the highest degree he
roic. saint-Iiks, God-Iike. to extend the wfu
calamity which turned st. Domingo into
! heap OF bloody ashes in 1871. There are be-
tween three and four millions of the coIvred
race scattered through the Southern and
Southwestern States in small groups, i'll
cities, towns, villages, and in larger bodies
OH isolated plantations in the house, the fac
tory and the field: mingled together with
TIE dominant race in the various pursuits of
Ille-the latter amounting in the aggregate
to eight or nine millions. il rightly recollect
| the numbers. Upon this community. TINS
composed, 1t was the design of Brown to let
loose the heil-hounds of servile insurrec-
ton, and to brlng on a struggle which for
! atroclty. magnitude and horror. would have
| stood alone III the history of the world. find
! ht=e "Shf or ntne maftous, against uit0.t this
i'1shtf"f "ar mas ler'ed hre our feNo,y- citizens.
enlMe" 'rAh as 10 tie protection of that compact
~ torc''"o'cn Thtch recognizes Meir relation to
me ro1tfc" ''a"e-a ronpoct uhich epe,y s,cs,n
| b'rc' of the iniom or of the Sfates is bound bu
ms oath 10 support. Among them. sir. is a
! alr proportion OF men and women of educa-
| ton and cnlture-ol moral and religious lives
and rnaTac1ers--vIrtuous fathers mothers.
sons and daughters, persons who would adorn
any station OF soci ty in any country-men
who fead the same Bible that we do, and IN
the name OF the same Master kneel at the
throne off same Conforming a class of
men from which have gone forth some of the
greatest and purest characters which adorn
our history. Washington, Jefferson, Madi-
son Monroe, Marshall, in the single State of
Virginia, against which the first blow has
been struck These are the men, the women.
for whose bosorns pixies and rifles are manu-
factured IN New England to be placed in the
hands OF an ignorant subject race, supposed
most "rongiully," as recent events have
shown, to be waiting only for an opportunity
to use them.
SIT, have, on three. or four different oc-
cas,ons IN early life, and mo:e recently. vis-
tied all the South and South western States.
withthe exception Of Arkansas and Alabama.
have enloyedfhe hospitality of the city and
the country, and have had the privilege
before crowded and favoring audiences, to
nofd up the character of the Father of his
country, and to inculcate the blessings of
this Union in the same precise terms in
whlchI rave done it here at home and in
the Other portions of the Hand Il have been
admitted to the confidence of the domestic
circle, and have seen there touching mani.
festatlons of the kindest feelings by which
that circle: In all its members, high and low.
master and servant, can. be sbouni together:
and when l contemplate the horrors that
would have ensued had the tragedy on which
the cnrtan rose at Harper's Ferry been acted
our, through all its scenes of fire aud sword.
OF lust and murder. of rapine and desolat;on'
to the final catastrophe.I am filled with emo,
tlons to which no words can do iustice.
mere could, of course. be but one result. and
thas well deservingfhe thoughtful meditation
OF those, If any such there be, who think that
the welfare of the colored race. could by anv
posslb'I1ty be promoted by the sSccess OF
such movement, and who are willing to
purchase that result by SO costly sacrifice.
ne co'oied popnlation OF s.. Domingo
amounted to but little short of half a million.
WhiIe the whites amounted to only thirty
thousand. The white population of the
Southern States alone, in the aggregate, out
numbers the colored race in the ratio Of two
TO one and 1t (which Heaven avert they
shouldaRe brought into conflict, it could end
only IN the determination of the latter, after
scenes OF woe for which language is too faint.
and Tor which the liveiest fancy has no ado.
quate images of horror.''