The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-07-25
ALABAMA POLITICS.
4asper 70 Letter II non. Edward Eperett.

Aaswer 70 a Letter II non. Edtcard Everett.
The following letter, in reply to letter
addressed by Joseph w. Taylor, ESQ. OF
Eutaw, Alabama, to the Hon. Edward Eve
reti, was read at the Bell and Everett Ala
bama State Convention, held at Selma, when
Bell and Everett Electoral Ticket was
chosen for the State, and their nomination
unanimously ratified amidst great enthusi-
asm:
Boston, June Is. 1860.
DEAR SR:-Your letter Of the 10Th was
received BY MIR. Everett this day. When he
accepted the nnninatnn at the Baltimore
Unioa Convention. II Was 10 the understand
Sng that the correspondence which might
grow o1t OF il should devolSe on the Uniun
Committee 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 few moments
90 prepare il.
The compromise measures Of 1850 were
regarded, and have been supported by con-
sentative men at the North, as fair and
practicable basis OF united political action
between the two great sections OF the coun-
try. To those measures Mr. Everett gave
his .ull concurrence
The papers enclosed in your letter, viz /:
Che resolves Of the Massachusetts, Legisa-
tare, Mr.. Bor len's letter and MIR .Eyerett's
reply, date from the year 1899. They were
brought before the Senate Of the United States
In lS4l, at the time of his nomination as Mi
mister to England, and made the ground OF a
motion for its rejection. Henry Clay oppo'
sed that motion with great warmth, and said ]:
that If, through the influence Of the South,
the appointment Of man Of Mr.. Eyerett's
known conservative opinions was rejected,
ihe Union was already dissolved" At the
ciese Of fervid speech by Rufus Choate, 10
support Of Mr.. Eseretts appointment, the
late Hon. WIN. &. Preston exclaimed:
am afraid have committed myselS TO vote
against him. but by Heaven he shall not be
rejected" Mr. Preston was afterwards heard
to say that che regretted that vote more than
any ever given BY him"
Mr. Eserett's nomination as the FIRST Min
lister 10 China two years later was. believe,
unanimously confirmed in the same Senate,
of which Mr.. Vice President King and Mr..
Calhoun were members. HISS nomination as
Secretary Of State on the death Of Mr.. Web
ster was unanimously confirmed in 1882 Ia
the following year he was elected, BY the
conservative members Of the Legislature OF
Massachusetts,, to the Senate Of the United
States.
Mr.. Evereit's views with reference TO the
sectional agitation now distressing the coun-
try, il left in any doubt BY HIS own course,
are sufficiently shown BY the bitter hostility
uf the entire anti.slayery press. They we're
le.affirmed, to the great acceptance Of good
patriots throughout the Union, 10 his Speech
al Faneuil Hall, on occasion Of the attempt
al Harper's Ferry; and they are restated 10
his letter signfyIng his reluctant acceptance
Of the Baltimore nomination.
will only observe, in conclusion, that II
seems TO Us here no good can result from a
review OF all that has been said or written.
North or South, tor twenty or thirty years,
on the question which now more than ever
distracis the country. Reasonable men will
not. in either section, expect 10 find entire
concurrence in the other; and il sentiments
like those entertained. and On all proper &C.
casions svowed, BY Mr.. Everett, fail TO win
the confidence IL Union loving men at the
South, Mr.. Clay's emphatic exclamation in
1871, NAV yell be repeated.
remain, Dear Sir, in haste, very respect
ttlly yours.
LEyERETT SALsToNsTALL,
Prs.;. state Central Committee Of the cOnstiu.
iionsl Union Party.