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Show Edward Everett. the funds of the charitable in. titutions - con1mc . r . . ' moratmrr Jl'Om tmlC to 1mlC 1hc honored dead ancl lhc g·· t . ~ • • 1 ca. e-vents of past days, and cln fly 111 my humble c·fTurt, 1o . , , [' . . • • 1 L cue rom dcsecratwn and th, e YICJS ' JLtttles of ])riv·•t tc J)I'OI)C' J . j ~1 1 I y, I tc tome a111l the g rave o( 'VA IIINGT N. These sir C>C' •11 t . . • ' . ' ·~ l l o me to be mnocent and appropnate occupations for the de<..:! in, of' life. I am moro than contented witlt the f~· n·or wi~lJ 1 \\· JI J·C 1I t 1l e C my humble labor. arc ~·cganletl by the great majorily of my c1o untry· men ; and knowmg. by experience lJOw un ·at· ·f' · · ~~ ymg m t 1c en.Joym~nt arc the br1ghtest prizes of politic·al ambition I gl~dly r cs1gn the pur uit of them to younger men. ' u·, the North and the Soutlt, includi11g the Northwest and the • outhwc~t, have become fiercel)r Littcrly a1.1._, 1 · ' < .. yc( :1rrn1n t ca ·h other. There is no place left in public life for nw -~ \rho love th em both. The war of word · - oC th<· l>l'C . of' ~1 1 t ' • • , t. IC Jl fi - form, of the State L cgi8latures, and, must I add, the pulJ'it? -. ha been pu hcd to a point of exasperation, which on the sl1ghtest untoward aceidc nt, may ru ·· It to the 1u- loo~, ly ....-. ru~.i.i: l'amcnt of t~1c · word. The great anci nt master of political seiencc (Anstotle) tells us, that though revolutions do not take place fm· small causes, they do from . mall causes. Ilc means sil' that when. the minus of the community have become h'ope~ lc. · ly. embittered and xa~pcrnlcd by long-continued irritation, the l1ghte t occurrence will uring on a convnl 'ion. . In fact, it seems to me, that we have reached a slalc of thmgs, wh.ich requires all good. men and good patriots to forego for a tunc J~ rc party projccl. and ealculat ions, nnd to abandon all orclmary political i ·.· ucs; whi<·h call~, in a word, up~n aU who love the country and h eri~h the Union :md desJrC tl t' f ' · 1~ con muancc o tho~c blc . in g:-> which we have till l~tcly enjoyed under the C01rtitution tran mitted to u · Ly our 11 athc~·s,- and whiclt I rcgnnl as the noble t work of politi-cal WI 'clom ever [tt•J • ' .1 l ~ "' tJcvcu,- am lo mret a.-; one nwn :tn(l take coun el for it•. 11re· e.1 .v.,1 t1' 011. I t 1.s Llu.s f.e elt.n g that l1as brought me here to-ua.v. "' Edward Everett. It will probably be said, sir, that those who entertain views like these exaggerate the gravity of the crisis. I wish I could think so. llut I ~'ar it is not we who exaggerate, Lut tho e who differ from us, that greatly- and soon, I fear, it it will be fatally- underrate the ominous signs of the times. I fear, sir, that they are greatly mi.'led by the one- idcd views prcseuted by the party pre. s, and those who rely upon the party press exclusively lor their impt·cssions, and that they are dangerously ignorant of the stale of opinion and feeling in the other great section of the country. I greatly fear that the ma s of the community in this quarter, long accustomed to treat all alarm for the stability of the Union as groundlcs., and all professed anxiety for its pre crvation as insincere, or, if sincere, the result of nervous timidity, have unfitted thcmsclve to measure the extent and the urgency of the cxi::;ting <.lauger. It is my own deliberate conviction, formed from some opportunities of pcr~onal observation, and from fri udly correspondence with other parts of the country, (though I carry on none of a political nature,) that we are on the very verge of a convulsion, which will shake the Union to its foundation; and that a few more steps forward, in the dit· ction in which affairs have moved for a few years pa t, will Lring us to the cata. trophe . I hav' h ard it urged on former occasions of public alarm, that iL mu:-:t be grouudless, because business goes on as u · ual, -and the theatres arc open, and stocks keep up. Sir, these app ·aranccs may all be delusive. The gt·eat social machine mov<: with a momentum that cannot be suddenly stopped. The ordinary operations of business went on in .France, in the revolution of 1780, till the annihilation of the circulating medium put a top to every thing that required its usc. The theatres and all the other places of public amu cmcnt were crowd ><1 to madne 'S in the reign of terror. The 'French Rtod~s nev r stood better than they did in Paris on the 21st of February, 1848. On the 24th of that month, Louis 2l |