Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-01

NJ our institutions. Those are enemies who
are constantly warning upon slavery, and
seeking to disturb the compromises OF the
Constitution, with a view to free our slaves
or TO make use of the power and patron
age Of the federal government, to restrict our
rights and finally crush US. There ale
enough of these, and IL il suicidal policy, on
the part OF Southern people. by illiberal and
ungeHerous delunciation of men holding
more conservative views, to weaken their in
Aaence, and to deprive them of the power to
render u efficient aid against fansticism.-
Born and educated in free State, Mr.. EVER
EFT imbibed, the general sentiment of oPpo-
sition to slavery, in the abstract; yet he has
never j'ined the eoemi' of the South in their
crusade for the abolition of slavery. He
has never gone so far as Gen. CAss, Mr.. b.
CHAxAS, and other leading Northern demo-
Gratis, or even so far as Mr.. JEFFERSON. the
father of the party. in eOndemning the insti-
tuition as a political and moral evil
Indeed, in the earliest declaration OF
opinion We have from him. made on
the floor of Congress in 1926, he an
nounced that domestic slavery was not
In his Judgment. to be set down as an i'm
moral and irreligious Telation"-and de-
cIared that there was no cause in which
he would sooner buckle knapsack to his
back, and put musket on his shout
der, than in putting down a serEile
Instruction in the South,"* and as late
as December Sth, 1859. in an eloquent
and indignant remonsrance pronounced
in public meeting at Boston, against
the sympathy which had been shown in the
North for the brutal and bloody rufians who
had, under the lead Of JOHN Brown, invaded
Virginia. he spoke of the abolition of slavery
as an oil ct .'manfestly impr acticable." Had
the invasion resulted ia a formidable insur-
rectiOn, and it had been necessary, age would
not have prevented him from shouldrring his
musket and marching to the aid of his coun-
trymen Of the Old Dominion. As appropri-
ate to an exhibition of the good feeling and
loyalty of Mr.. EVERETT, and TO defense Ut
him from the imputation OF abolliionism, we
mu,t make quotation or Two from the re
moustrancc OF which we speak. Alter giving
an extract from history of the bloody Incl
dents attending the ST. Domingo massacre,
be presented picture of the South, and re-
marked-"U pom this community. thus COM
..posed, it was the design of Brown to let
loose the he.l-hGunds of a serVile insurrec-
.tion, and 10 bring on a struggle which for
magnitude, atrocity, and horror, would have
stood alone in the history OF the world. And
'.these eight or nine millions, against whom
"this frightiul war was levied. are our fflIosD-
'.cit,zsns entitled rah as to tie protection Of uha
compact Of goueTanent, schich recognizes their re-
.Iation 10 the cOLored rdce,-G cOnlpdct Th.ch every
's,rora officer ofhe Union or Of the States isbound
..5y his oath 10 support Among them, Sir. is
"a air proportion of men and women of edR-
cation and cuiture,--of moral and religious
Lives aud characteTs,-virtuOus fathers,
..mothers, SONS, and daughters, persons who
"would adOrn any station of society, in any
.country,-men who read the same Bible that
I'VE do, and in the name of the same Master,
'.kueel at the throne of the same Gcd form
Ing u class Of men from which have gone
forth some of The greatest and purest CHAR
.-act,rs which adUrn cur history,-Washing
ton, Jefferson. Madison, Monroe. Marshall.
in the single State Of Virginia, against
which the hrst blow mas been struck. These
are the men, the women, for whose bosoms
pixies and rifles are manufacture in New
England. 10 be placed in the hands OF an
ignorant suii CT race, supposed, most wrong
fully, as receut events Lave shown, to be-
waiting only for an opportunity to use
..IhemI" Alter abiding To his visits to the
South, he conuinued-"I have been admitted
Ito the confidence oi the domestic circle, aud
Il have seen there touching manifestations
..of the kindest fe iings, by which that circle
lin all its members, high and low, master
land servant can be bound together and
when contemplate the horrors that would
have ensued had the tragedy on which the
curtain rose at Harper's Ferry been acted
..out, through all its scenes Of fire and sword,
s'of lust and murder, OF rapinc end desola-
.'tion, to the final Catastrophe, am filled
with emotions to which no words can do
..just:ee."
For the sentiments he uti cred in 1926, he
has been stigmatized by the b'litionists. and
the chief organs of the republicans, amongst
the North, and servile apologist for human
slavery; whilst his Boston remonstrance drew
down upon him the bilterest maledictions of
the canting bypOcrites and negro worship
ping fanatics who hold their orgies under the
lead of PHILLIPS, GARRISON, EMERSON, BEECH
L. satf,- .,rI
ciless enemies Of the v ite races of the South
No man in the North has been more suij .ctrd
10 the licentious ribaldry and abuse of aboli
tiouists and republicans. They have beheld in
him u consistent aud powerful foe, one whom
they could not Intimidate by threats, or win
by f.rors. They have ever found him, 'noble
and true" barrier between them aud the
progress of their wicked aud malignant pur-
poses.
But, interpOses some democratic opponent.
EVERETT in 1889, express his concurrence in
the following resolutions, adopted in 1887 by
the Legislature of Massachusetts:
ResoEoed, That Congress has, by the Consti-
EXTRACT from q spe- CHI made in Congress in 1875
by Hon EDWARD EVERETT. [See Gal & Seaton' g
Register Of debates, vol. page 1871
ssIfthere any members this House Of tina c,ss
of n iiticans whom the gentlem IN frum S0uh Caro-
ina CNr. Saunders) ded as having the disp tom
though not tie power to drturb the pro
tanned the nstt ton on this point h three fths
represcn; tive principle, am not of the nuniber.
her ! one of those citizens of the No. ii to
" HON another honorable member late refe red in
a pnbc ton to which bus name subs bed who
woud think ii immoral and irregi US TO join in put
NJ down a servile Insurrection at the South. am
soldier, Fir my hab 10 and edu-ation unnil.-
tary; but there is no cause III which ould r
buckle a knapsack TO my ,ck, aud put musket
nv shoulder than that. ] would de the whole
tIuent any one tho w"u d take ito England 70
France, Spain would sunk in The bottom OF