The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-08
From tie RscEmors& Enquirer.
Mr. Everett Still Refuses to RetraeS.

/ we nave SIlpSGT ca lsGt StIE .2Ai VA 4k55L
iutons supported By Blr. Edward Everett il
1e39-asserting the Constitutional power Q
Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trad
| in the District of Columbia. TO abolish SLAYER
| in all the Territories of the Onion, to prohibi
| the future admission of any slave State int
| the Union, and to abolish the slave trade be
| tween Southern States.
Well, since Mr.. Everett's nomination b,
| the Baltimore Convention, Mr.. Joseph VI
Taylor. of Eutaw, ALBANIA, has addressed ;
letter to Mr. Everett, interrogatng him as tc
his position on the slavery question, and espc
cially with reference to his views Of 1859. TX
which Mr.. Everett authorizes the following
answer to be made
BosToS, June Is. 1850.
DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 18th wa:
received by Mr.. Everett this day. When ht
accepted the nomination of the Baltimore
Union Convention, it was in the understand
ing that the correspondence which might grow
out of it should devolve on the Union Com
mittee here. Your letter Of the 18th has
accordingly been placed in my hands, and as
YOU request an answer that will reach you by
return Of mail, have but a few moments tc
prepare it.
The compromise measures of 1850 were
regarded, and have been supported by conser-
yative men at the North, as fair and practi-
cable basis of united political action between
the two great sections of the country. 10
those measures Mr.. Everett gave his full con-
currence.
The papers incloscd in your letter, viz the
resolves of the Massachusetts Legislature, Dir.
Bordon's letter, and Mr.. Everctt's reply, date
from the year 1889. They were brought
before the Senate of the United States in 1871
at the time of his nomination as Minister to
England, and made the ground Of il motion
for its rejection. Henry Clay opposed that
motion with great warmth, and said, that il.
through the influence Of the South, the APP
pointment of man Of Eyerett's known con-
sentative opinions was rejected, the Union
was already dissolved At the close OF u feryid
speech by Rufus Choate, in support Of Mr..
Everetts appointment, the late W. C. Pres
ton exclaimed, I am afaid have committed
myself to vote against him, but, by Heaven,
he shall not be rejected MIR. Preston was
afterwards heard to say that he regretted that
vote more than any ever given by him. Mr.
Everett's nomination as the first Minister to
China two years later, was, [ believe unani-
mously confirmed in the same Senate of which
Mr.. Vice President King and Mr.. Calhoun
were members. His nomination as Secretary
of State on the death of Mr.. Webster was
unanimously confirmed in 1852 In the FOL-
lowing year he was elected by the conserva-
tive members of the Legislature Of MaSsach-
usetts to the Senate of the United States.
Mr.. Everett's views with reference to the
sectional agitation now distracting the country
if left in any doubt by his own course, are
sufficiently shown by the bitter hostility OF
the entire Anti-Slavery press. They were
reaffirmed, to the great acceptance Of good pa
triots throughout the Union, in his speech at
Faneuil Hall on occasion Of the attempt at
Harper's Ferry and they are restated in his
letter sygnifying his reluctant acceptance of
the Baltimore nomination.
/ will only observe, in conclusion, that as
it seems to us here no good can result from a.
review of all that has been said or written
North or South, for twenty or thirty years
on the question which now more that ever dis
tracts the country, reasonable men will not
in either section, expect to lind entire concur
renee in the other; and if sentiments like
those entertained, and on all proper occasions
avowed by Mr.. Everett fail to win the conf
dence of Union-loying men at the South, Mr..
Clays emphatic exclamation in 1871, may well
be repeated. .....
| remain, dear Sill, in haste,
Very respectfully, yours,
LEVERETT SALTONSTALL,
President State Central Committee of the
Union party.
To Joseph ". Taylor, Esq, Eutaw, Ala
bama.
From this it appears;
LIST. That Mr.. Everett gave his cordial sup
port to the compromise measures Of 1850 not
one of which conflicts in any respect with
Mr.. Eyeretts platform of 1889. Indeed, in
two signal instances, they endorsed that plat
form in letter and in spirit. They abolished
the slave trade in the District Of Columbia
They hurried California into the Union under
a free soil constitution, dictated by the militia
ry authority of the administration Of Willard
Fillmore.
I'd. That in 1911, when arraigned before
the Senate of the United States for his course
in 1882 Mr.. Everett offered 10 apology for
nor recantation of his abolition doctrines.
3d. That, in 1913, his nomination as minis |
ter to China e. post where It wnuld have been !
very difficult for him to do injury BY abolition
was confirmed by the Senate
4th. That in consequence Of his adherence
to the Compromise Of 1850 Mr.. Everett was
appointed Secretary Of State by and with the
consent of the Senate
9TH. That certain Of The anti-slavery
presses arc at this time bitterly hostile to Mr..
Everett.
N. B. A number of these presses arc equal
ly hostile to Horace Greeley.
9Th. That reasonable men" at the South
ought not to expect Mr.. Eyerett's 'entire
with their views as TO the Con-
stitutional rights of the South
It'll. That "if sentiments like those enter
tanned and on all proper occasions ayowed by
Mr. Everett, fail TO win the confidence of
Une loving men at the South then, the
Union is already dissolved n. 3. y strong
spices of the doctrine of the 'irrepressible con-
fiict'' in this last position
9Th. 1t appears that when especially ques-
toned on the point by an elector Of his own
party in Alabama, Mr.. Everett NOW refuses
as he has always refused to utter one aoo'd Of
apology for, Or recontation O has A5olitioaist
~ ~ Eny,a, 49, 1870