The Nevada journal., 1861-10-18
EDWARD EVERETT kND THE WAR.

Everett, delivered at the Academy Of 5iusic,
in New York City, on the 4th of July last,
is one of the finest expos;tions of the folly
of the South in plunging the country into
q civil war, that has ever come to our no.
tice. fie-proceeds to show in the outset the
prosperous state of-tle country last year
acknowledged as among the most prospe-
rous in tie family of nations-pointed to
as an illustration of the mighty Influence
/ of free governments in promoting the pros
perity of States.
He then proceeds to show tina. the deter
mination of the South on entering Cpon the
last Presidential election, though:going INTO
the canvas with apparent good faith, was !;
if they succeeded in the election, as they
had done in fifteen that preceded it, they
would abide ty il, but unless the North
consented to allow the South to goTern the
country, as they had already governed it
sixty years, they had no intention of acqui-
escing in the result.
NJ. Everett takes up the Constitutional
right of secession IS claimed by the South
and shows its utter want Of foundatior..-
lie shows that Sou.n Carolina, wheA shr
car1e into the Union desied a provision to
prevent the very state of things which she
has inaugurated. He shows that John c.
Calhoun himself did not believe in the Con-
stitutiona. rlgh: of secession by his ovr
admission. Mr.. Everett pronounces the
doctrine, that because the States are scyer-
eign they have the right to secede from the
Union, the most stuperdous non Seq'titur
ever advanced iE grave affairs, as 1t amounts
to nothing more nor less than this. that
the ac. of ratifying and adopting the Con-
stitution of the United States amounts to
nothing because it vas performed BY an
authorized AID competent agent, which IS
the heigh. Of absurdity.
1t is shown by Mr.. E' 'erett, on the author
ity ef Mr. Madison and Mr.. jefferson, the
authors of the Virginia and Kentucky Res
olutions of 1888 and 1898, that those reso-
lutions meant nothing OF the nature cllime1
for them by secessionists of the present day,
in fact they were designed for no other pur-
pose than political. Besides, if they did
convey the idea of the Constitutional right
of secession those resolutions were not en-
dorsed by any of the other States of the
Union, and thus the doctrine was not in
dorsed.
Mr.: Everett comes to the conclusion, as
every body else who has looked a. the gues-
tion fairly has, that there is no Constitu-
tional right Of secession, and that secession
can only be justified on the ground of op-
preston and tyranny in the Government
But has the Government been oppressive or
tyrannical towards the South? Mr.. Everett
examines the allegation of the South that
from its foundation the Government has
exercised its power for the special benefit
of the North. He shows that out of seventy
two years the executive char has been
filled sixty-four years ty Southern Presi-
dents or Presidents possessing the conf
dence of the South, ana that for still
longet period the controlling influences of
the Legislative and Judicial department Of
the Government have been in Southern
hands. OF all the offices in the gift OF the
central power the South has always had far
aore than her proportion. Thus she mt
only revolts from the mildest government
in the world, but from one of which she
has from the first, almost msnopolzed the
Administration. The causes of revolution
as set forth by the South are; interference
with slavery, the tariff, fishing bounties,
the navigation laws, etc,
Mr. Everett shows that the Government
has never iuterfered with slavery at all, and
that the grossest injustice has been done
the North by the South in alleging interfe-
renee The border States make few COM
plants on tbs score. South Carolina, that
has scarcely ever lost slave, is the great
complainant, and she throws al the blame
on the free States, though her runaways
have to pass through Virginia and Kentucky
before they can reach tree State. Why
not condemn the slave States through which
the fugitives pass as well as Pennsylvania
and Ohio?
The complaint of the tariff is shown to
| be ridiculous. Cne of the objects Of form
ing the Constitution was the protection of
manufactures The South was formerly in
| favor of .arifTs, and the North opposed
/ The sugar and cotton culture grew up un-
der the protective system aud no States
more than South Carolina and Louisiana
have been benefited by it. The tariff on
sugar has been such as to amount to five
million dollars annually for the benefit of
the Louisiana planter. In 1889 law of
Congress was passed to create The growth
of cotton. Alexander Hamilton attempted d
to procure the repeal Of the law because it
was serious impediment to the manufact-
ure of cotton goods as the price of the raw
material was increased by the tariff. 1t
was by the genius of Northern man-Eli
Wh;trey-that cotton was raised to the i'm
pol tance it is, enricbing the South
The fishing bounties, that are so great &
cause fer a dissolution of the Union, are
shown By Mr.. Everett TO amount to bu
$500, 900 a year These boun. lies, paltry a: