The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-11-01
Edward Everett ~ Favor Of Negro Equal
ity...IIorrIbIe DEVELOPMENTS,

ENWdIu EVereu IN raVOr oil negro Bquai.
ity---IIorribIe Developments.
The Washington Constitution contains
a startling and dreadful article. under the
l. cad "Negrc Equality--Mr. Everett Sane.
tions It," The Constitution, ir tie course
of long, virtuous and indignant article,
says:
1t may not be Mr.. Everett's lot to re-
ceive as many negro votes as will be thrown
for Mr.. Lincoln; but that the Bell candi-
date for the ViceP Presidency sanctions the
general ideas summed up In the phrase
''negro equality" has never been denied
How could he do otherwise, seeing that
he has put upon record his sympathy with
the general scope of an abolition harangue
delivered by Summer Some fihe Bell
Everett party in the South, however. have
been, unwilling to recNgpiEe the fact. Mr.
B. E. Nc Craw. Bel eIeGtor in Alabama,
was Of this number; bat, not satisfied with
hearsay evidence, he addressed Mr.. Ever
ett direct, seeking an answer to the ale
galion that he had practically endorsed"
negro equality By sending his children to
school with negroes. MI. Everett did not
reply, but his Boston chailm-n did in his
behalf; and the reply amounted to an ac-
acknowledgement aud defence Of the cir.
cumslapce involved. Thoreupon Mr.. Nc
Craw ropudisted further alliance with the
Bell party. withdrew his name from the
ticket, and announced his adhesion 10 the
cause Of Breckenridge and Lane. :, ...
The correspondence in this case is pub
liehed. The following are the important
letters:
DADRvIpLE ALA. Sspt 25. 1860
DEAR SIR: The Hon. S. f. Rice, in a
speech delivered here to-day ach'rget you
With being an advocate Of the doctrine ol
the equality OF the two races, the white
and the, black, and attempted to prove il
by showing that you had practically EN-.
dorsed it in sending your children to
school with negroes. am an elector on
your ticket, and, therefore. feel deep in
leres, in tha success Of the Bell and Eyer
EFT ticket, and ardently desire its success
Are you in favor, of this doctrine of th'
equality of the two racesY Please to an
swer me yea or nay, over your own sig
nature, that Imay successfully reiute ih'
SANDER. Very truly yours.
B. B. McCRAW.
To Eon. EDWARD EVERETT, Boston.
REPL Y. - ~
.,.s BosroN, Oct. 3, 1860.
DEAR Sir: Your letter of the Q 5th Sept
addressed 10 Mr.. Everett, was received
last evening, and Immediately placed ii
my hands 10 be answered. .1-., ,...
By the laws of Massachusetts,, the school
|, are open 10 all. without distinction OF col
or, and any exclusion on that ground
forbidden. Mr.. Everett has not, at pres
ent, any children at school; his younges
having graduated at the University in thi
neighb6rhood, is student at the Univer
sily of Cambridge, England. Nine year
ago this young, man attended the hgl
school at Cambridge, in the female depart
ment of which there was colored girl
Ten or twelve years ago another son at
tended an endowed school at Cambridge
at which there was colored boy. Their
) were two youths from Georgia in the sam
. school at that time. The coloIed populO
Q ton of Massachusetts,, as you are probabl
, aware, is very small. By the census {
1S5O'it was about one twelfth of,one pc
S cent. They have been free for three ger
elaiions, and though they employ them
( selves mostly in menial occupations, the
. are placed by the law on an equality wit
s. the whites. Such being the case, th