, 1865-02-24

and the Bill passed amid acclamations.
This means that if the Federal Govern
ment despatch q Minister to Mexico, it
Will be TO General Juarez, the late-and
the senators consider the actual-Presi-
dent of the Mexican Republic. and not to
the Emperor Macmillan, the &c fact0, and,
as ali Europe considers, the de jure Sover-
clgn. This decision will place Mr.. Lin
coin and Mr.. Seward in a difficulty, and
the Senate must either reverse its vote or
the acknowledgements will remain with
out a representative at the Court Of its
southern neighbour. Perhaps, too, the
Emperor Macmillan may thiuk it advis-
able, if the North recognize President
3aaseZ, that Mexico should recognize
President Davis, which would be a very
pretty quarrel, and one into which the
North will have thrust itself very I'M
necessarily
Another border State, Tennessee, has
by the unanimous vote of q popular Con-
tt4tfon7 abolished slavery, immediately
and Internationally. As it appears that
there was not a single Shareholder elected
to the Convention, and as the interests
and wishes Of the Shareholders, as d class,
were not in any way set forth, the Ten
neSseans cannot fairly claim in this mat
ter the praise of liberality, whatever
amount Of appreciation they may AFRO
gate on the score Of philanthropy. The
same criticism applies to the recent action
of the State Conventions of MARYLAND
and Missouri, and to that still pending in
Kentucky. 1t costs the AbolitioniSts
nothing but their votes to remove from
themselves the stigma Of all institution
by which they never profted, and which the
war has converted from a social into q party and
political question. According to the census of
1850 the total black population of these States
was 60S,820, Of whom los, 498 were free, and
703 1872 were slaves. The slaves in Maryland
numbered 87,189; in Missouri, la 93l; in
Tennesse, 275,l79; and in kentucky, 225,483
while of the free blacks Maryland alone con
tanned So ,942, or nearly four times as many as
Missouri, kentucky, and Tennessee combined.
The unexpected though not untimely death Of
Mr.. Edward Everett has caused general regret
throughout the North. Mr.. Seward, instructed
by the President, has officially notified 8 that
g The several Executive departments of the
e Government will cause appropriate honours
g to be rendered to the memory Of the deceased,
" at home and abroad, wherever the national
u3lu1 dlu authority are fecOgNlZeu." MF.
Everett was not a statesman, but q polished
gentleman Of the class rarely met with among
Americans except such as have travelled ia
Europe, a pleasing writer, and a very fluent
orator. lie had the art of making beautiful
speeches about nothing and containing nothing
but a flow Of graceful words and well-turned
periods. At the commencement of the war Mr..
Everett, in common with many ADLER and more
earnest politicians, was of opinion that the Nor
thcrn States had 10 right to use coercion tow
ards the South, if the Southern States or any
considerable number of them chose to break up
the political partnership of the Union, and was
put forward as a candidate for the Vice-Presi-
dency under Mr.. Bell, of Tennessee, for the
Presidency, on the strictly Conservative plat
form of the Union and the Constitution, - and
any guarantee to slavery that the Constitution
might sanction. But as time wore on he was
carried away with the multitude, and became
as passionate a promoter of the war as was con-
sistent with the almost feminine gentleneSs and
gracefulness of his character. lie was quiet,
methodical, precise-never in a hurry, and
never excited to overpass either in word or &C
cent, or even in manner, the line of polite pro-
priety and decorous if not stoical dignity. 1t
is related of his eloquent grafton on Washington
which he committed to memory without the
loss or addition of a word, and which he de-
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