Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-25
Hon. Edward Everett on the Czar's
Letter of sympathy with the q.

Letter of sympathy with the o.
s. government. - Is--ess - q 80
We lay before the readers of the
Patriot an articl. contributed by Hon.
EDWARD EVERETT to the N. Y.Ledgr. on the
letter which the CAR of Russia, through his
Minister. causrd 20 be read to the President
of The United States. We have already re-
published the letter referred TO. =
MIR. EVERETT is filled with admiration of
the ..wisdom," and "liberal feeling" of the
Autocrat, and exhibits unfsigned delight in
the expression Of his sentiments touching The
imperial State paper. THIS need not sur
prise any one, since from the Russian Despor
alone, of all the rulers in the old world, has
proceeded an expression of sympathy with
the Federal Usurpation at Washington. As
the only ray of encouragement, it ought to
afford pleasure to the enemies of Southern
Independence. AS Southern men, We can b&e
no objections to the manifestations of de-
light which Mr. EVERETT chooses to indulge
in. But We do object to his incidental per-
version of the causes sand objects of the
Southern revolution. There was time, and
not.rery remote, when Mr.. EVERETT entertain
ed ulster ideas of the progress of events which
eliminated in the dissolution OF the Union.
He fo-esaw, and deprecated the unholy war
of the Abolitionists and Republicans, upon
. the constitutional rights of the South, be-
cause he foresaw, that if pushed to the ex-
tremity of placing the Government in the
hands of party pledged to the extinction of
slavery, the result would be revolution. He
advised and advocated moderate measures
stood up manfully for compromise and con-
cession-and received as the measure of his
termerity, the bitterest denunciations of the
anti-slagery men of the GREELEY and
BEEcHER, and PHILIP stype. he received in
the South In the late Presidential contest,
the support of a large portion of the peo-
pie of the Southern States. because they be-
lieved be was Just and true, and could not
be induced to side with their enemies in
sectional contest against them. They be-
lieved that they had in his high character,
ara love of justice, a guaranty that he would
not see them shorn of their rights. The
course which Mr.. EVERETT has deemed it
proper to pursue, since the revolution COM
menced, has taught them how utterly unreli-
able are all calculations based upon the
frmness and friendship of Northern states
men, and fortiies their convictions of the
overruiing necessity of an eternal separation
Of the slave and non-slaveholding States.
One by one, all the eminent men of his Sec
ton, who. like him, were regarded with affec-
ton and numbered amongst our friends, have
suceumbed to the pressure of relentless
and remorseless fanaticism, and we can but
feel that if they have fallen we can never
trust again. It is well that friendships built
upon such unsafe foundations, and union
which permitted only such hollow alliances,
should be broken up. We part with Mr.
EVERETT with sigh for confidence mis-
placed, and q deep regret that We cannot ex-
punge forever the records of the past which
preserve the evidences Of our support of
him for the Vice Presidency. 49,