Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-10-17

JOHN BELL AND ABOLITION SENSIBILITIES.-John
Bell used the following language in his speech in
the United States Senate in 1850 the abolition of
the slave trade in the District of Columbia:
There are some very fair and reasonable consid-
eratons which should dispose the South to liberal
course on this question of the slave trade in the
District This is the seat of the National Govern
ment The gentlemen of the North are compelled
to meet here at this common and central point of
legislation 1t is not matter of choice with them,
whether they come as members of Congress, or up
on business connected with the Government They
must come or renounce the benefits of the National
Government They complain, they appeal to U.s.
they say that this traffic is offensive to them
"The idea Of human beings, not criminal in chains
or kept in these slave pens within the verge of the
Capital, wounds their sensibilities."
If anything should disgust Southern men, says
the Montgomery (Alamba) Adpertiser, it is such
miserable pandering of John Bell to the abolition
sentiment of the North. He is even so unworthy
Of the South as to adopt and repeat the abomn-
able cant and clap-trap BY which the abolitionsts
habituay stignatize and fasify the great and be-
ni6cent institution of his section. Pity that any
Southern man should be so lost to all love of home
to say nothing of his own manhood and self.respect
as to be willing at all times to surrender the rights
OF the South to the mere morbid sentiment of the
North! But such has uniformly been the course of
John Bell and still Southern men asked to sup
port him without platform, and without pledge
on his record, as it is. Our countrymen will you do
this thing? Pause and reflect upon the consequences
ere you do thing which will be reproach to you
as long as you live.-Petersburg Bulletin.
Nix EvERErr.-It is of no avail to eulogize the
scholarship and eloquencc of Mr. Everett That he
is both scholar and orator none attempts to gain
say; but these alone are not qualifications for the
Vice Presidency. Of vastly greater moment is it to
enquire what Mr. Everett has done to stem the tor
rent Of abolitonism which has swept his State.-
When did he employ his oratory to denounce the
fanaticsm which disgraces Massachusetts, On
what occasion did he exert his influence to counter
act the exerons of Garrison, Phillips, Sumner and
the horde of mschief-makers whom Massachusetts,
delighteth to honor? Can an instance be named in
which Mr.. Everett abandoned the pleasures of his
library and the ease of elegant society to labor in
the ranks of those Of his elowcitizens who battled
for the rights Of the States in the presence of RAM
pant sectionalsm? To these enquiries there can be
no satisfactory reply. Instead Of working to check
abolitionsm Mr.. Everett has, at divers times, given
It substantial encouragement And the most recent
occasion on which he degned to touch politics, dis
played him the classical sympathzer with the in
cendary Sumner, with whose "main line" of aboli-
ton argument he declared that he Z" fully con-
Cured"
Mere scholarship will not suffice, then. If that
were to be candidates test, Sumner and Everett
might be equally qualified More than that is need
ed now. The country needs men who have boldly
resisted fanaticism IN the past, and pledge them
selves to crush it in the future; and assuredy to
this class Mr.. Everett does not belong Washinq.
ton Constitution.