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Show Edward Everett. for the country on hard-fought fichls; when the South s~nt her 'V n hington to 1\Ia -sachu.-etts, and New England ·" ·nt her Grcrnc to Carolina.- i all this fbrgott 'n? "r~ all the counsel that we two have shared ; " all the joint lalwrs to found this great Republic;- is thi' "all forgot (" anll will we permit this ht ' t great experiment of Con fed ·rate He pub~ licani. m to become a proverb aud a by-word to the Nations? No, fellow-citizens, no, a thousand times no! This glorious Union hall not perish! Preciou ' lrgaey of our Father:;, it shall go clown, honored and cherished, to our ·hildren! Gcn~ orations unborn shall enjoy its privil<'gc~ as we have done ; and if we l •ave them poor in all be id ·~, we will tran mit to them the boundlc.~ wealth of it ble .. sing::; 1 Till~ Il\IPALED WHITE INFANT. It is singular that a writer so familiar with the horrors of servile Revolutionary wars, as Mr. Everett unque[o,tionnhly is, should not see t~1at the more terrible the picture he may draw of insurrectionary atrocities, th~ mor~ ?owerful becomes the argument why the primal cause of serv1le upnsmgs - that is, the cxi~t cnce of , LAVERY _ should. be ~very. where without compromise, and immediately abolished. Lenvmg h1s argument, however, to commit suicide unmolested, it is clue to th: ·cl.1aractrr of the negro race that hiH hi storical . tatcments should be cnt1c1 ·eel. An editorial writer in the Boston Daily 1i·avel/er thus commented on the story of the Impaled \Vhite Infant : ~~Mr. E''?rctt, in his eloquent spcrch nt the Fnneuil Hall 1 nionsavmg ~lcetmg. ~1rcw. n most powerful picture of the con. equenccs of n sla~e msur~·ect1?11 ' Jl!u-;trating hi.· point by citinO' the fact th·tt ~n a cclr~at 111 . ofccaswn, m • t. Domingo, the N e!!rocs had for th~ir st·1n' cl1 w a1·cl " 1l c ll1 'tilt 0 1 ' OJ L ( ( •• Tl . .d' n n spear, t l<:y bnvmg previously impaled the "hild 1 i, 1 \ mc1 cnt ":as an :nyful one, and serves to show how O'reat n~ cvii ~ 1•. ~v?ry, scemg ~hat 1t could debase human b eincrs to " ~o ndition in l;suc . lt 1~vas )osslbl~ to perpetrate so horrible a 1~ece of~ utterly u se-s ciue Y· t remmds us of an incident of the St. Dnrtholomew Edward Everett. mnssacrc. A child of one of the mnrclrrrd Prote~ tnnt.4 wns taken up hy one of the Catholic soldiers, nnd i'lllilecl on the soldier, nucl put one of its little hands out and r--trokl'd hi" l011~ beard, whi('h flO\\'C'cl far down over his breast, whereupon the soldier drov<• hi~ dagger through the child':; hody, and carried it nbout on the weapon! This wns <lone, not by a R".lddenly liberated slave in Hayti, hut by one of the followers of the Valois or the (j uise:; in. chivalrous }'ranee. There wa ~n't a 'nig~er' in the whole lot, slayers or slain, that • did' the , 't. Hnrtholomew. Had the ltcformn.tion n ever O('turrcd, and had the Frcn('h l)rotestnnts 1·emained quiet, this incidl'nt never could havr hnpprne<l. Pcrhnps the reader may have hearcl of the massacre of the ini'an ~:-~ of J3cthlchcm, by order of H erod the Great, which order that lllOnnrch issued in the hope of involving the infant Saviour in the general tllasr- mcre; and if the . 'uviour hnd not bct•n born nt that tim e, tlw ordt·r '''oul<l not have been issued. Thcr wasn't n ' nigger' in that lot rither, Jlerocl bciug dcsccnclcd from Jo:sau, while hi ~ victims W (' l'<' descended from Jacob, an cl thr n<'ti ve m urdcrcr s were mercenaries of European or A~iatic origin. It may be that the r cadt•r r eco llect:-~ the mas. acre of the Protestants in Savoy, when the 'n.tholici', as Milton says in his 18th . onnet, ·rolled mother with infant down the rocks.' T11rrc, too, we grieve to :-;ay, the 'nigger' kept him:<clf most repn·lwnsibly absent. Then there was the l~reuch Terror time, when infnntfi were torn from their mothC'rs' breasts, and thrown from pike to pik<', in the hands, not of 1 ni~gers' in Hayti, but of white men in the plaisant pays ~lc } 1rance . . The trca.tmC'nt of the Dauphin~ n. little hoy, was inexprcs::nbly shockmg; and 1t was the work of wlute men, who nctcd under the orders of persons of education and good social rank. The infant who was torn from its mother':; breast, at " ·hich it was in the act of nursin~ at the moment, in order that that mother mi~ht he hanrred up on Tyburn tree, was not torn away by black hmtds, the hellish deed bcinrr done when Mansfh•ld waf\ at the head of En~lish law, and George the Third wa.-. king. \\'hen little children were killed at Delhi, nnd Cawnpore, and elsewhere, in 1857, there was not n 1 nirrO'er' concerned in the butcherier:;. The men who sold 1 the tawny littflt prince' into tropical slavery,- Ki1~~ l?hilip's son, a~1d grandson of that Ma~saHoit who welcomed the l>1lgnms to New England, and the last of that nborirrinal roynlrn.cc,- were our ancestors ; nnd Mr. Everett has depicted ~heir comluct in words that will endure and be admired us long as humanity shall exist on car.th. If we. ca~t no st~ n cs until an innocent race :-;hall he found. there w1ll be as httlc of ln.ptdation now ns there was in Palestine, on a eertain occasion, in the days of long ago." A correspondent of the Boston Daily Transcript thus disposes of M. Gallifct's happy Ncgroe : "Mr. Everett, in his ~pecch nt Fnneuil Hull, Dec. 8th, requested leave to read n few sentences from the historian of the H.cvolution of St. Domingo. He read the following paragraph : "' 'l'ho largest sugnr phlotntion on tl1e plniu wnR M. Onllifct'fl, situated right mllrs from tho town , the Negroes l.Jclonging to which hntl always lJOCII trcatctl with surh )dudness and Jibcl'ldity, n.ud po!:!sosscd so mnny ntlvautn.gcs, tbat it l.Jccmno a provorl.>ial 22 |