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Show TrrE CONTRAST. "W~'LL forco tho tnx, nn<lrulo your tra.de," In tuneR gono by, Orrat llritain suid · "Let Adams, llancock, Ot iR, r rLvt', ' Tho red cross o'er you still shall wnvo." A.'~ll th an .Old Fnnauil Hall mng- out, "•th pntrJOtR' speech, nnd frcctn l'n's shout • "'1'1l OU~ l I war nnd rnpino sc·ourgo the 1 d • W nn, o sconl the laws hy th·svots planned." Another "Old Dominion " now llen t'nth hct· yoko birlt~ llos tou ' ·o . N t . u w , o UniOn, but Rui.Jjcction, claims Of those who L>car heroic names. And, strni~htwny, Funeuil Hnll send t 1'1 '1 s 0 11 " le gt dod sperch and purchased shout Insult, oppress u s, ns you will ' We kias your feet, and serve yo;t s till." BOSTON, December, 1859. I. SPEECH BY HoN. Eow ARD EvERETT.* MR. CIIAIR1\IAN AND FELLOW -CITIZh~S: In rising to address you, on this important occasion, indulge me ]n a few words of p rsonal explanation. I did 110t suppose that any thing coul<l occur which would. make me think it my duty to appear again on tbi ~ platform, 011 a11y occa ion of a political character; and had. this meeting ue ·n oC a party nature, or designed. to promote nny party purpo:'ics, I should. not have been here. 'Vhen compelled, uy the prostration of my health five years ago, to re ~ ign the di ·tingui:-;bcd place which I then filled in the public service, jt wa · with no expectation, no wi ·lt, and. no intention of ever again mingling in ihe seen s of public liCe. I have accordingly, with the partial re to ration of my health, ab tainc<l from all participation in political action of any kind ; partly ueca.u c I have f'ound a more congenial, and, as I venture to think, a more useful occupation in seeking to rally the affection. of my coun trymen, North and South, to that great name and precious memory which i lef't almo t alone of all the numerous kindly a · oC'intion , which once bound the differ ent ection of the country togeth er; and also b ccaus , between the extr •me of opinion that have long di tractc<l and now threaten to convul.-e the conn try, I find. no middle ground of practical uscfulncs ··, on which a fri end. of moderate conn. cl can stand.. I think I do a little good,-I try to,- in my waning years, in augmenting "'Doli vor<•d at tho Union 1\Ioetiug in l!'anouil lfl\11, Docoml>or 8, 1 50. ('l3\.)) |