Gazette and sentinel., 1860-08-18

mower to Abolish the lTduIC VI slaves
between the States of the Union, and
that the exercise of this power Is de-
manded by the principles OF humanity
and Justice. ,
Let it be remembered, that Edward
Everett has been addressed by citizens
of Alabama, in the hope that he would
repudiate this record, and he has not
failed, but refused to do it.
Let it be remembered, that John Bell
of Tennessee, a native of a slave State,
but all his life long a friend and ally of
the North. has been selected as a tit
and proper candidate to run on the
ticket with Edward Everett, whose re-
cord is fairly stated in the foregoing
paragraphs.
With all these facts staring them III
the face, can Southern men vote for
Bell and Everett ?-Sarannah Nc~s.
But this is not all, by a great deal, of the
black record of these gentlemen whose names
are now before the people of the South for
the highest honors in the Republic. In a
letter to Hon. Nathaniel A. Borden, Mr.. Eve.
rett admits that he ''cheerfully co operated"
as Governor of Massachusetts,, in the fellow.
ing resolutions, submitted to the Senate OF
that State by Mr.. Alvord, and which were
adopted by the Massachusetts, Legislature.
Here they are:
ResOired, That Congress has, by the
Constitution, power to abolish slavery
and the slave trade in the District of
Columbia, and that there is nothing in
the terms or circumstances of the acts
of cession by Virginia and Maryland, CT
otherwise, enforcing any legal or moral
restraint on its existence.
ResOtced, That the rights of humanity,
the claims of justice, and the common
good, alike demand the suppression by
Congress of the slave trade carried on
in and through the District of Columbia.
Rssoired, That Congress has, by the
Constitution, power to abolish slavery
in the Territories of the United States.
So strong was the indignation in Georgia
against Mr.. Everett for holding these senti-
ments, that when he was appointed by Pres.
ident Harrison as Minister to England, the
Legislature of that State passed a vote of
censure on Senator Berrien for 'having sus-
tanned for an important appointment an indi-
vidnal holding such obnoxious sentiments"
But hear what Mr.. Everett says about Kan
sas, and about Summertime blatant black.
guard and libeler of Louisiana. In q lecture
delivered in Massachusetts about the time
that that State was sending on her Abolition
emigrants to Kansas Territory, he says:
The civil WARRIOR such it is-with
its hOrrid train Of pillage, fire and
slaughter, carried on without the slight
est ~provocatiOn, against the infant set
Elements of u brethren on the frontier
Of the Union (; the worse than civil
war, which has for months ragged unre-
buked at the Capitol of the Union, and
has at length by an act of lawless vio-
lence, of which | know no parallel in
the history of constitutional govern
ment, stained the floor of the Senate
chamber with the blood of an unarmed,
d~efenseless man, and a Senator of Mas
sachusetts. All! my good friends,
these are events which, for the good
name, the peace, the safety of our coun-
try-for the cause of free institutions
throughout the world, it were worth all
the gold of California to blot from the
records of the past week"
Mr.. Everett also signed the card Of con-
dolence to Sumner, in which he deemed it
"alike a privilege aud an honor" to partici-
pate in such offering.
This much will do for the present. We
will continue to show up the anti Southern
acts of these gentlemen, who are called by
the opponents Of Democracy, the men, par
excellence, for the present crisis in the affairs
Of the nation and the South