Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-05-10
patriotic Aadres. OF Edward Everett.

Hon. Edward Everett addressed an over
flowing audience in Roxbury, Wednesday
evening, assembled for the benefit of the fam
lilies of the Roxbury volunteers. He closed
his eloquent address as follows;
The war is for the very existence OF the
| government it is a contest IN winch no eood
citizen can remain neutral. am OFTEN asked
| how long | think it will last; but that Is
question that the south alone can answer. She
makes the war she has seized by surprise
such of the strongholds of the country as she
was able; she has possessed herSeli OF the
| navy yard at Norfolk, which guards Ile en-
trance to Chesapeake Bay OF Harper ger
ry. which commands one OF the great hlgh'
ways from the Ohio river to the Atlantic
ocean and, above all, of the mouth OF the
| Mississippi the outlet OF the most extensive
system of internal communication on the lace
| of the globe. There will, in my Judgment,
never be peace, till the flag ofthe Union again
| floats from every stronghold from which 1t
| has been stricken down. Do you think, tel
| ow,citZens, that Ohio, Indiana and LIMOS
will allow their most direct communication
with the seabuaTd 10 be INSTRUCTED at the plea
sure of an alien state, at Harpers Ferry DO
you imagine that eastern Pennsy wanna and
southern New York, whose tributary waters
flow through the Susquehanna into Chesa'
| peake bay, to say nothing OF the Delaware
and chesapeake canal, will tolerate foreign
master in Hampton roads Above all, do
you believe that the Giant OF the West Will
accept his pathway 10 the Gulf OF Mexico as
a privilege granted by this mushroom Con-
tederacy? Yes, they will submit to this de-
grading yoke, they will acknowledge this
CALLING usurpation but it will be when the
Alleglanies shall bow their imperial heads TO
the level of the sea, and the current OF the
Mississippi and the Missouri shall flow back
ward TO the Rocky mountains
My friends, deprecate war,-no man more
so and, of all wars, most deprecate a civil
war. And this, if prosecuted by the south in
the spirit in which she has commenced it, will
be what the stern poet of the civil wars OF
Rome called beiium plusquam ciUite,-a more
than civil war. ] deprecate, more than can
express, war with the south. You KIN my
political course Logan the Indian Chief,
mournfully exclaimed, --"Such was my love
for the whites, that my countrymen pointed at
me as they passed. and said, Logan is the
friend of while menW l have been pointed
at for years as the friend OF the south. For
maintaining what deemed her constitutional
rights, | have suffered no small portion OF OBJ
loquy, and sacrificed the favor of lar+e por-
ton Of the community in which | was born,
and which, from my youth up, have endeav-
ored to serve laboriously, dutituily, and atfec
tonately. was willing while this ill-starred
movement was confined TO the states of the
extreme SOUTH and they abstained from fur
ther aggression, that they should 90 in peace.
This course, thought, would retain the Dor
der states, and bring back the seceders i'll a
year or two, wearied and disguised with their
burdensome aud perilous experiment. Such
I bnu ho. in ,nst
the programme of the administration. But
the south has willed ii otherwise. She
has struck pafricidal blow at the
heart of the Union; and to sustain
her in this unnatural and unrighteous war, is
what my conscience turbids. Neither will
remain silent, and see this majestic framework
Of government the noblest political fabric ever
reared by human freedom, Frustrated in the
dust to crafty the disappointed ambition OF a
few aspiring men (tor that Mr.. Vice President
Stephens bravely told his fellow citizens last
November was the cause of "a great part of
our troubles, AMI this under cover of a So
phistcal Interpretation of the constitution, at
war alike with common sense, with contem-
porary history and the traditions of the gov
ernment; unsupported by a single authority
among the trainers OF the constitution, and EN-
phaticaly denounced by Mr.. Madison, their
leader and Chief
What then remains, fellow citizens, but that
We should, without unchristian bitterness to-
wards our misguided countrymen, meet calm
ly and resolutely the demands of the crisis i;
that we should perform the duty of good cit-
zeus with resolution and steadness; that we
should cordially support the government of the
country in the difficult position in which it is
,paecs.yIi taii.et we should cheer and encourage
the brave men who have obeyed its call by a
generous care OF their families; and to sum it
all in one word, come veal or woe, that we
should stand by the flag of the Union