Office Of The Colonization Society,
Washington, March 13, 1826.
My Dear Sir:
Mr. Everett's speech in the House of Representatives last Thursday was an
exhibition of talent and eloquence which I have never known equaled in that
place. It has crowned him with the glory of the highest genius. But will you
believe that he gave us his creed, uncalled for, unnecessary to his argument,
on the subject of slavery, and such a one as would have branded the advocate of
the allied despotisms of Europe? If he dares to publish these sentiments, which
go to sustain a most iniquitous system, our friends at the North must not be
silent. There is a great battle to be fought, not in Turkey only, or in the old,
kingly establishments of the East, but in our republic, in the cause of justice
and for the defense of what are in the city of Washington much ridiculed,
imprescriptible rights. Have you read John Randolph's great speech? and if so,
did you ever find such a medley of wit, absurdity, genius and wickedness bound
up together, before? * * * But I have more apprehension of the consequences of
Everett's influence. You and all the faithful at the North will, I hope, be
prepared to counteract it.
SOURCE: Publications of the Connecticut Society of the Order
of the Founders and Patriots of America, No. 7, Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Anti-slavery Before Garrison, p. 27-8
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