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Show Edward Everett. tion in the Southern S tates; that he thou()'ht th . now come t o c fT'r et 1· L; t 1w t th e laves wer e l°'" ac, tc tn.n r hn' d tl . . '-• 'Y o n .-r 'l l tc notH·;]aveholdin ()' wlutc to J'oin the . 1 ' ' IH o • m , an< both 'td were prcpar ·d to form a n ew C ommonwealth f I . lllll t' t . · • ' o w 11ch the con, ItutiOn was orrranized and the fT' . 1 . . o ' o rcc1 s c w ~· cn ,V. 1 tlus wild, but thoroughly matured plan he . .· 1 · Jll {; I ' pl o' H. cs w e~lpons 1o r t 1. 0. e. oI n wNh ose rising he calculated at IIm . ·' : per s } cnv . lC scrzc::; t te ational Ar"'cnal where tl . J , r ' l CI c wa a SUJ)J>ly of arms lOr a hundred thousand men . and lie . ~ 1 1 . bl ' c ll1tCJl( <'< If' t e to maintain him elf at once in the 0 "" · ' ma- p...:t1 country tor 't . 1 t to the mountain~, and from their fa ' tnc sc 1 .. ' I ea d t ] ' 1 · . ·' lai ~1 s, paralyze an u cngt 1 r evolu tiOnize the South. 'I... 11- . . ' d ·n o ta \. of th , l)Ike an ri c. not bein ()' int IH.lcd for offi ' .· 8 o t n t~ I VC purpo-c.:: is i 1 ab unl. The first act almo. t of the pa ·t , '' mp Y .fj I .. I y w.ls to shooL clown a rec co orcd man, w1wm th ey were attcm tin ()' . . and who fl >d from them One . 1 p o to Hnpt e .. s, ·n i . mig tt a well r;;·ty th ·:tt tl ri ec ordnance of I..~ouis Napoleon wa. intcndc.d o;tl fo~r l~e defence, n~t to be u. cd unless the Austrian should ~nd ,. sckto arre~t ]us ma rch. c1 ta e N o, ir, it wa. an attcrnr>t t d d . S D o o on a vast scale wll" t ''V"S one 111 t · · .. • u . omrngo m 1791, where the colored . wa ' about equal to that of v· . . . . . p opulatron form a d' , . . JJ gmra ; and If any one would • ' tmct H.lea what such an ope ration is let 1 . . -not a a matter of va ()'ue con . r : ~ 11m . . ee It u. ::l . b cep Ion -a Cl ude proJeCL lC mm.d of a hc~ted fanati c, but as it stand , in tile sober p .be~ of Ius tor!, whrch r ecord the r evolt in that I ·land. tl midni()'ht burmnO's tl 1 I ' lC t t o 1 b'' le w lO csalc mas""''•'l "~ I' 's ' t llc m e n·1'I c s . or ures, tIe abominations not to be named by CJ .· .. . ]'. m the hcarin f Cl . . ll J ti.tn Ips , . g o 11'1 tran car.-., - some of which, too unut-terably atrocious for the Enry]' ·I ] veiled in tl . o I::; l a nguage, arc of ncce ity , I ~ c obscunty of the Latin tong u<'. Allow me to r c.u you a few senten ces which . 1. • Of tl c.ln ue re:ul from the hi::;torhn 1c c events : ~ r' In t he town i tself, the n-cn er·tl b 'r •f .r . r evolt was b no b ~ . c 1 c.; .1or some tunc wa~, that the y means an exten s!Ve one, but a sudden and partial Edward Everett. 247 insurrection only. The laxgcst su gar plantation on the plain was that of 'Mon s. Gall ifet, situated about eight miles from the town, the negroes b elonging to which had al \\'ay:.; b een treated with such k indness and liberality, and po. se sed so many advantages, that it became a proverbial expression among the lower white people, in speaking of any man's good fortune, to say, Jl c.,t l~e urettx comnw wt 11egre de Gallij et, (He is happy as one of M. Gnll ifct's n egroes.) M. Odclnc, an attorney, or agent, for this plantation, was am mber of the General Assembly, and being fully per sua<led that the n egroes belonging to it would r emain firm in their obedience, determined to r epair thither to encourage them in opposing the in. urgents ; to which end he del'ircd the assistance of a few soldiers from the town guard, which was granted him. H e proceeded nccordin O'ly, but on approaching the estate, to his surprise and grief, he found all the n egroes in arms on the side of the t·ebels, and (horrid to tell) their standard uas tiLe body of a tohile iufant, w!tic!L they !tad ,·ecmtly impaled on a stake ! Mr. Odeluc hnd advan ced too far to r etreat uudi: covercd, and both he and a friend " ·ho luul accompanied him, with most of the soldier~, were killed without mer cy. Two or three only of the patrol escaped by flight, and conveyed the dreadful tidin gs to the inhabitants of the town. "By this t ime, all or most of the white persons " ·ho had been founcl on the several plantation s, being massacred or for ced to seck their safety in flight, the ruffians exchanged the sword for the torch. The buildings nntl cane-field were every where . et on fire ; and the confla gration s, which were visible from the town, in a thou sand different qu1.1rters, furnish ed a prospect more shocking, and l'efiections more di ·mal, than fancy can paint, or the power s of man descr ibe." Such, sir, as a matter of history, is n. servile in urrcction. Now let us cast a glance at the state of things in the outhorn States, co-members as they arc with us in this great r epublican confederacy. L e t u consider over what sort of a population it i , that some per ·ons among us think it not only right and commendable, but in the highest degree heroic, saint-like, god-like, to extend the awful calamity, which turned S t. D omingo into a heap of bloody a -hr in 1791. TIH' I'C arc between three and four millions of the colored race scat tered through the Southern and Southwestern Stnt •s, in small groups, in cities, town , village , and in larger bodies |