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Show Edward Everett. on isola~cd plantations; in the hou c, the factory, and the £eltl; . n1m.g l. .d together with the dominant race in t11e \. art·o us put"utts o£ hfc; the latter amountinn· in the aO'rrrcrr'lte t · 1 . . . . . . o ' ob o' o etg 1t or. mne null~ons, 1f I nghtly recollect the numbers. Upon tlu: eotnmmHty, thus compo ed, it was the de 1' o0' 11 of B rown to let loose the hell-hounds of a servile in urreet1 • 01 .1 . · 1, anu to bnng on a struggle which for maO'uitude 'ltrocity a ·' 1 o ' " , ' nu lOlTOI' would !Ja ve to~d alo~~ in the hiiStory of the wodd. And these et~bt or nme mtlhons, against whom thi frightful war wa~ lcncu, are our fellow-citizens, entitled with us t tl . . 0 te protectiOn of that compact of government which 1 . ...,. · I . . ,_,cogntzcs t 1e1r rclat10n to the colored race - 'l co1nl)'lCt 1 · L , ' c ' W llC CYCry swoI rn o(hccr of the Union or of the States. i , bo 1 1. 1 · U11( uy liS oat l to support ! Among them, sir, i a l:lir proportion of men and women of education and culture -of 11101 .. \l .... 11 .1 1- · ] • • ' c tt u l'C JITJOUS dt'v es and characters,- virtuous f•: tthers ' motll e'i:"-;, s. ons, and aughtcr ' persons who woulu adorn any tatt.Oil of' , . . . 4 :sOell'l y lll any couHtry,- men who read the same Bible th·\t . I ' ,, in th f 1 ' we uo, n.nu e name o t le same .1\laster, kneel at the throne of tl same G d £; • te .L' o ' - ormmg a clas of men from w hieh ha vc "One JOrth some of the rr ·c· t t 1 ° . ot .. ~ e ant purest character~ w llich '\do. our lll~tory,- lYa ·hington, Jefferson, l\1adi ·on, JUonroe «.1\I·:t~ shall, m the sino-le Stat , f y· . . . ' . - bl o • c o Irgm~a, agam:;t which the iirst ~w has been ~truck. These are the men, the women for ~ o e bosoms ptkes and l'ifies are manufactured in New EnO'lanu, to be placed in the hands of an ignorant subject rae~ bsu ppos.e.d ' mo·t wronOo' f'u lly , as recent events have shown to' e ':'aitmg only for an opportunity to usc them! ' d Su·, I have on three or four different oecasion::; in early li~e aSnt m~ ore,· rece n tl y, · · d ' VJ l.te all the Sonthern and Southwestern ates, "Ith the exceptiOn of Ark ·m ·n~ ''nd Al· ,, I I • < • ..., (4 clu3ffi'l 1nre l enJoyeld the hospitality of the city anu the count;·y· . 'ltl',l I uwe l'lU tl . 'I ' • \. < lC ]H'l VI egc, beiore CJ'OWded anu f· . .· l' ence to 1 ld 1 • ,l\ 01 mg au< I- ' lO up t Ie character of the F·ltl e . £' l . C anu t ' 1 ' 1 1 0 HS OU 11 I 1')' o mcu cate the blessino-s of tl e U . . ' o 1 mon, m the same Edward Everett. precise terms in which I have done it here at home: and in the other portions of the land. I have been admitted to the confidence of the dome tic circl , and I have sc n there touching manifestations of the kinde t feelings, by which that circle, in all it' members, high and low, ma t 'r and crvant, can ue bound together; and when I contemplate the horror~ that would have ensued had the tragedy on which the curtain rose at Ilarper' Ferry been acted out, through a ll its scenes of fire and sword, of lust aml mnrder, of rapine anu dcsolat ion, to the final catastrophe, I am filled with emotions to which no words can do ju tiee. There could, of cour e, ue but one rc ult, and that well des rving the thoughtful meditation of tho.~ ·, if any uch there be, who think that the welfare of the colored race could by any po sibil ity be promoted by the succc s of such a movement, and who arc willing to purchase that result by so costly a sacrifice. The colored population of' St. Domingo amounted to but little short of hnlf a million, while the whites amounted to only thirty thou~and. The white population of the Southern States alone, in the nggregate, outnumbers the colorcu race in the ratio of two to one; in the Union at large, in the ratio of seven to one; and if (which Heaven avert) they should be brought into conflicb it could end only in the extermination of the latter, after sccnrs of woe for which language is too faint, and for which the livclic. t fancy has no adequate imnges of horror. Such being the case, some one may aJc, 'Vhy docs not the South fortify herself again. t the po ible occulT 'nee of such a cata trophe, by doing away with the one great source from which alone it can pring? Thi i a question easily a. ked, and I am not aware that it is our duty at the North to answer it; but it may be observed that great anu rauical changes in the framework of society, inYolving the relations of twelve millions of men, will not wait on the bidding of an impatient philanthropy. They can only be brought auout in the lap ~c of time, by tho ~teady operation of physical, economical, and |
