The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-06-27
Ffom the Eastern Clarion.
Mr.. Eyerefr's Record.

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yice-Presidency, portions of his record have
been produced, going to show that he has here
tOfore taken positions on the slavery question
which perhaps a majority of the Southern people
have forgotten or overlooked The tenor o.
these musty documents is in conflict with the
generally received opinion Of Mr.. Everett's con
seryatism, his hostility to abolitionism, his dispo
sition to accord to the South its constitutional
rights, and to respect its institutions. While he
is entitled to the utmost respect for his purity o
character and his great abilities, Mr. Everett has
placed himself undeniably upon the record as
/ free-soiler, and one who hates slavery with q
! perfect hatred lie is man Of too much candor
and honesty to deny the fact himself though
f his partizans may endeayor, for him, to evade
the meaning of his words, and to break the force
byquibblng over the circumstances under which
they were uttered
1t has come to light that, while Mr.. Everett
was Governor of Massachusetts,, series of the
most ultra abolition resolutions were passed
through the Legislature. One of them was in
favor of the abolition Of slavery in the District
of Columba-another asserted the right and
the duty Of Congress to interdct the traffic in
slaves between the different Southern States
while the scope and tenor of the whole, was to
place the federal government in all its depart
ments, and with all its powers, in active hostility
to the rights and interests of the slaveholding
States. Mr.. Everett gave his sanction to these
resolutions with a cordiality and earnestness
which proved very plainly that they accorded
fully with his individual opinions and feelings
This happened about twenty years ago, before
abolitionism had gained much headway, and il is
thus shown that Mr.. Everett was among the
first of prominent men at the North who lent
themselves to the unholy work of stirring up
the abolition fanaticsm which has since attained
to such formidable strength as to threaten the
peace of the country and the stability of the
government
But, passing over his record for number of
years, we come down to the time when Preston
S. Brooks administered the deserved chastisc.
ment that he did to the cowardly, whining coun-
terfeit of man who represents, or rather de-
grades the sovereignty of Massachusetts, in the
United States Senate. When Brooks caned this
disgusting wretch for his vile ISLANDERS of South
Carolina, and his most insulting language re.
specting the venerable Senator from that State,
who was a near and dear relative of Mr.. Brooks.
allaboltiondom sent up grand universal howl;
Sumner was elevated at once to the dignity of a
martyr, meetings were held addresses voted and
testimonials subscribed applaudng the resigna-
ton and fortitudc with which man over six
feet in height and of powerful physical strength
had submitted without resistance to the degra-
dation Of personal chastiscmcnt Massachu-
sets, Of course, took the lead in this matter of
dci(ying, instead Of scorning her degraded Sc
nator. \ subscription list was handed round in
Boston to raise money to buy some token to
offer to Sumner, and amongst the signatures to
that paper is that Of Mr.. Everett That our
readers may know what that subscription paper
was, We here copy il:
Being dcsirous of expressing to Hon. ChaS
Sumner, In some permanent and appropriate
form, Our admiration Of his spotless public and
private charactcr-our lively gratitude for his
dauntless COURAGE in defense Of freedom on the
floor of Congress, and especially our unqualified
appreciation Of his speech in behalf of Free
Kansas, delivered in the Senate on the Goth of
May last-a speech characterised by cOmprchcn-
sive knowledge of the subject, logical acutcness
and Spartan intrcpidty. for which he well nigh
lost his life at the brutal and cowardlv hand Of a
creature for which, thanks to the rarity oi their
appearance, the English tongue has as yet no
appropriate name, we deem it alike privilege
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suitable token of our sentiments rthis pur-
pose we subscribe the several sums set opposite
our Names"
1t will be seen that it not only condolcs with
Sumner for his well-meritcd Gaming at the hands
of Brooks, and approves the infamous slandcrs
which he uttered against the State of South
Carolina and the gray-haircd old Senator from
that State, but it also expresses "unoualifcd APP
probation of his speech in behalf of Free Kan
sas'-a speech which boiled and sccthed with
the vilcst abotionism.
Nor was Mr. Everett content with signing that
paper. In one of his lectures in Boston, he thus
opened upon the state of affairs at Washington
and in the set phrase and hypocritical cant of
the fanatical Abolitionists, thus denounced the
efforts of our venerable and patriotic President to
put stop to violence in Kansas, as war "of
pllagc, fire and slaughter, carried on without the
slightest provocation," &c. But here is his Ian
yuagc. Rcadit
"An irrepressble sadness takes possession of
my heart at the occurrences of the past week,
md the most serious apprehensions force them
selves upon me. that events are already in train
with an impulse too mighty to be resisted
which viii cause our beloved country TO weep
ears of blood through all her borders for gene
rations to come. The civil warrior such it is
with its horrid train ofpillagc fire and slaughter
,arTicd on without the slightest provocation,
against the infant settlements of our brethren on
he frontier Of the Union; the worse than civil
war, which has for months ragged unrebuked at
he Capitol Of the Union, and has at length, by
m act Of lawless violence, of which | know no
parallel in the history Of constitutional govern
nent, stained the floor of the Senate chamber
With the blood of an unarmed, defenseless man,
md Senator Of Massachusetts,. All! my good
TiendS, these are events which, for the good
name, the peace, the safety Of our country-for :
he cause of free institutions throughout the
world, it were worth all the gold of California to
dot from the record of the past week"
Can abolition can't 60 further than this Was
here anything said by Hale, or Giddings, or
Wilson, that surpasses this in its utter misrep
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