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The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Edward Everett. (search)
Edward Everett. The following is an extract from Edward Everett's letter accepting his nomination for the Vice-Presidency by the Union Convention at Baltimore. After expressing his regret that by the acceptance he shall have to retire from any further labors in behalf of Mount Vernon be refers to the angry state of feeling in the country and the necessity for the revival of the kindly sentiments which once existed between the North and the South, as sufficient excuse to warrant his sacrificing his own inclinations. He thus proceeds: I suppose it to be the almost universal impression — it is certainly mine — that the existing state of affairs is extremely critical. Our political controversies have substantially as an died and almost purity sectional character — that of a fearful struggle between the North and the South. It would not be difficult to show at length the perilous nature and tendency of this struggle, but I can only say, on this occasion, that, in my opinion, <