The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-06-24
Lecture of Hon. Edward Everett.

Eg- We had the exquisite pleasure of
listening to the lecture of that ripe schol-
ar, finished orator. and pure patriot and
statesman, EDWARD EVERETT, delivered
last Friday night, at Dubuque. The
spacious church of the Congregational
Society of that city was filled, body and
gallery, by fine, intelligent-looking
audience, of whom fully one-half were
ladies. Mr.. EVERETT is silver haired,
but his form is full, rounded, and erect
and his voice exceedingly strong and
sonorous. His manner was animated
and earnest, but his words and express
sions were natural, chaste, and forcible
There was no straiuing after effect, and
yet every word impressed itself upon the
nearer and the audience was many times
wrought up to enthusiasm. Although
the lecture has been many times deliver
ed, the delivery had all the vigor and
earnestDess and feeling Of a spontaneous
effort, and as the honored lecturer poured
forth its eloquent sentences, and touching
illusions to the old flag, to the Union
and to Washington, there was no escaping
the conviction that there stood an hon
est hearted patriot, who loved his coun-
try, and liberty and humanity, with sin
cerity and fervor.
MI. EVERETT, in tracing the rise and
progress of the rebellion, took notice at
the outset of the pretension that Southern
rights had been invaded, and that North
ern aggression had been the cause. This
argument of Southern leaders and North
ern doug hfaces lie denounced as mon
strous imposition. He declared that
the South had always been the petted
child of the Union, and had known it
only in its blessings. He spoke of multi
ticaton in 1882, with the Tarif-a
measure first prompted by southern men
for southern advantage AS pretext. He
contrasted the course of Gen. JACKSON, in
that controversy, with that Of BUCHANAN
at the commencement of our present
difficulties, and stamped the latter with
imbecility in sentences of whitening com
parison Gen. JACKSON knew and said
that the Tariff was pretext for carrying
GU. the schemes Of the secessionists, and
predicted truthfully that Slavery would
be seized upon to give excuse fol the
schemes Of the secession coaspirators
, He regretted now that HENRY CLAY, one
of the purest patriots who ever lived, then
brought forward the Compromise Tariff
to conciliate the conspirators. 1t was
done with kindly intent, but he believed
now, that had the serpent Of secession
then been crushed instead of scotched
we would not now be suffering from this
new conspiracy.
The slavery agitation had been set a
rest before this by the Missouri Compro
mise, measure of sacred character.
supported by almost every Southern lead
err in both Houses of Congress. Blu
events on both sides of the Atlantic gay,
new impetus to the slavery agitation
about the time of the suppression of null
LITIGATION. There was The British aboli
ton on the other side of the water, ano
the Southampton massacre on thistle
latter slave instruction in Virginia by
which some so or 70 persons persisted
This led to a discussion in the Virgins
legislature OF schemes of abolition. Their
came the Texan and Mexican wars
f which, in spite Of the exertion of politi
clans, brought slavery INTO party politics
The South had alledged causes of irrita
ton in the discussion OF these measures
but Mr.. EVERETT said that as much irri
tating matter had been published Soutl
as North, and the agitation of the sub
ject has been as great South as North
The South has made the expression o
opinion on this subject the test of poiti.
cal orthodoxy. She dictated all the terms
of Compromise in 1850, and yet opened
agitation in 1854 in the repeal Of th'
Missouri Compromise, and tried to force
slavery into Kansas at the point of th'
bayonet, and with the power of the Fed
eral Government. Aggression had beer
exclusively her own, and she had suffer
ed in none Of her rights. Mr.. EVERETT
, then traced in interesting detail the par
ticulars of the canvass of 1860, and thu
subsequent operations Of the rebel con
spirators, three Of them members Of the
Cabinet The conspirators woulin'1
wait for overt acts, but withdrew from
| Congress, where they had the power al
within their own hands. South Carroll
ma voted herself out of the Union, anC
made war against the government be