EDWARD EvERETT'S OPINION ON SLA-

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1st. III opinions in 1926, from speech delivered in the H.use of Representatives, as quoted by the whg paptrs.

 ''If theie any members in this House of that class of politicians to whom the gent from forth Carolina (Nlr Saunders) alluded, as having the dis position llbugh not the power, disturb the c,ul- promise ctaaned in the Constitution on ths f0int,

 the three-iiths representative principle, a4,ugi 0i the number Neither am one of those cit iseiis oi the North b whom another honorable me'"b=g lately referred, id publication to which his name Was -tl- scrbed, wl,p would think it immoral and rrelil ,is to join m putting down servile insurrection al .Ie South l an no soldier, sir my habits and educi- tion are unllilitaiy; but Mere cause ia vhch 'ooald soone1buckie knapsack 10 my back, and pa maska on ni shouider, than that. l would cede the whole confident to any who would take it--tu England, to France, to Spain: would see it sunk in the bottom of the ocean, before l would any part of this fair America converted into continental Hayt, by that awful process of bloodshed and deso- latlon, by which alone such catastrophe could be brought on. The great relation of s9oiflde in some form or oh9 Dth greater iess departures from the

 heortic equaAfy of man, IS asepra6ie from nature lkao0 ef no'Day by ioich tis form of scrutie shall 6e taHed, but 6D political institution cannot admit that religion has but voice the slave, and that this voice IS, Rise against your master.' No, sir, the New Testament says, Slaves, obey your ma sters . and though know full well that, in the benigpant operation Of Christianity, which gathered master and Sia'c "ouiiu plt CDllinu1lOn IdDles tnS unfUr tunate institution disappeared in Europe, yet can. moi admit that while it subssts, its duties are not pre-supposed and sanctioned by religion. And al- though eel taialy am not called upon to meet the charges brought against this institution, yet truth obiges me to say word more the subject know the condition of the working classes in other coun- tres; am intimately acquainted with it in some countries; and have no hesitation in saying that believe the slaves in this country better clothed and fed, and less hard dy worked than the peasanry of some of the most prosperous States the conti- nent of Europe. Consider the checks p0pulation read Alalthus. What keeps population downl Poy- ery want, sarvation diseases and all the ills of life II IS these that check population all over the world Now, the slave population in the United States n- creases faster than the white, masters included. What is te inference the physical condition of the two classes of society," These opinions have long entertained, and long since pabiciy protessed on ths subject and wleh here repeat ia ansioer 10 he n fimation 10 which hape already alluded. But, sir, when slavery to enter into the Constitution as Il political eement-when it comes to effect the dis ributIon of power amongst the States of the Union that Is a matter of agreement If make an agree Dent ths subject, will adhere to it, like man put will protest against any inerences being made rom ii of the kind which was made by the honorable mover of these resolutions"

 Ills CHANCE OF OPINION in 1858, when a CAN DIDATE FOR GOVERNOR of Massachusetts. consent, for publication in Garrson's Lberator of May 4lh, 1888.

 BosroN, 26lh April, 1888.

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