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Show • Edward Everett. into a village, put a corps of the Fr nch army- thou ands strong- to flight. A hundred and fifty men over turned the French monarchy, on the occa, ion to which I have already alludeu, in 18-l8. vVhen the circurnstances of the ca. c arc taken into consideration, I suspect it will be agreed that any other community in the country, similarly situated, would have been affected in the same way. A conflict of such an unprecedented character, in which twelve or fourt een persons on the two ides were shot down, in the course of a few hours, appears to me an event at which levity ought to tand r ebuked, and a solemn chill to fall upon every right-thinking man. I fear, Sir, from the tone of some of the public journals, that we have not made this case our own. Suppose a party of de pernte, misguided men, under a re olved and fearless leade r, had been organized in Virginia, to come and establish themselves by stealth in Springfield in this State, intending there, aflcr pos essing themselves, at the unguarded hour of miunight, of the National Armory, to take advantage of orne local cawe of di affection, say the feud between Protestants and Catholics,- which led to a very deplorable occurrence in tit is vicinity a few years ago,- to stir up a social revolution; that pikes and rifles to arm twenty-.five hundred men had been procured by funds raised by exton ive subscriptions throughout the South; that at the dead of a Sunday night, the work of de truction had b egun, by shooting down an unarmed man, who had refused to join the invauing force; that citizens of the first standing were seized and imprisoned, -three or four others killed ; and when, on the e ntire failure of the conspiracy, its leader had been tried,- ably defcnued by counsel from his own part of the conntry, convicted and executed, that throughout Virginia, which sent him forth on his fatal errand, and the South gen erally, funeral bells should be tolled, meetings of sympathy h eld, as at the death of some great public benefactor, and the person who had plotted to Edward Everett. put a pike or a rifle in the hand . of l\~cnt y-fiv.e hm~~lrrcl men, b - ,.1 nrr•1'1 to e u. u ''n~ n · t their fellow~, mbah1tant:; o. f th. e ~.un. c town, inmate: of the same houses, with an u lt •nor mt<·ntwn and purpof:e Of 'vl·"a r)pin(oT the whole o. mmu.n ity in a c,_i Yil , w_ ar of the de~ullie t and bloodiest type, m wh1 ·h a man ii foe should be tho. e of his own hou hold; suppose, I say, that the person who planned and plotted thi ~, and with his own hand, or that of hi~ associates acting by hi.· commaml, hall tak c t~ the lives of evcra.l fdlow-being~, should be xtolled, canont:iwtl, plac d on a 1 vel with the great ~1ero s of hnm~t~ity, nay, assimilat d to the 1 aviou1· of mankmd; and all .tl u:;. n?t the effect of a . olita.ry, indiviaual impul=--c', but the npe fr111t of n systema t.t C :1 0rr1't ·~1 t'1on JHir • ned in tlt' South, unrebukcd, for ., t Wh·\t Sir , hould we feel, think, ay, und •r ~neh a yeat:; . ' ' ' · 1· state o f tl u· ng:-, ?· SllOLtld we weigh e\'cry p. hr. a.'c of llH tg. nan. t rem on t ranee with critical accuracy, and dtvidc o~u· muti.nuJ s W·ltI I lll· Ce u.1l·. . Cl:l 1111·n,".", t'1011 'a monrbr tho·e whom we 1111ght be. lieve, 11 0WeVCl' Ull.j llS· tly' to be directly or indir~.;ctly concerned m the murderou ::~ nrrrrrc·:ion? . . . l\Ir. C hait~~an, those who look upon the ext. tmg cx~tlc-ment at the South as factitious or extravagant, h:w ' I f •ar, r• ormc<1 . ·y I·nadcqt•atc idea of the nature of ueh an nt- a ' 1 ' - ~ • tempt a that w Il l.C 1 1 wu In adc at IIa.rl)er's Ferry was mtend-eel to be and would have been, had it proved succcs~ ~ul. It is to wa~t of reflection on this point that w~ rnu ~t asc~·tbc tl~e fact, that any civilized man in his right mmd, and st.Ill mote f intcllirrence and moral discernment, m other any man o o . · 1 · t I respects, can l >e 1r 0und to approYe and sympatiHze Wit l I . L • • d · ... e l.f SLtch per ons will bring home to their mm s, m am sur d . 1· · rr any dt. st.m ct conccp t'w n, the real nature of the un Cl ta -.. mo, ld b tllcro elves amazed that they had ever g iven they wou e • d it thc1. r sympa ti 1Y· It 'a ppca' t·s from. his. own statements an· 1 f ] . , _, cluclcd associates, of ln~ bwgraphcr, and of hts t 10. ·e o u:; u ' .. · · · d ] wrctc1 1 e<.l WI·t ~c , that the unhat>PY man who lm Jn:t •p at l1e r1 or1r c.1· t o f l 11. s, 1'u re', ll'ld for years meditated a general msurrec- < 21~ |