The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-04-13
YORK HERALD.
New York, saturday, April l3. 1874.
To the public.

To the public.
In the "Courier Il Enquirer" of yesterday, | ind
grossly libel,ous article, in reference to myself
and my wife, signed by Henry Wickoh' ms
statement l pronounce wicked and malicious
tissue of untruth. invention and misrepresentation
throughout
find also. that Charles King, of the :" New ior"
American" David Hale, of the e" journal OF JONI
merce.n Vim. c. BRYANT, of the Evening Post,
and Horace Greeley of the "Dally Tribune, I'm
GLIDING others)-all of whom pretend to be gentle
men men of morals and respectabihty, have
unfinished the same false, malicious and scandalous
statement.
In order to set this piece OF nfamy before the pub
lie in its most fragrant lineaments, shall bring all
those editors before the judicial tribunals, Gncud
ing also the mean and contemplate creature who
has oificiated as their spy,) and prove the
falsehood of these malicious charges, by the
evidence OF Middle. Fanny Essler herself, and
also by the written letters, now in my hands,
Of this self same Wickof, who. soon after he
arrived in London from America dismissed
from her service for certain conduct towards her,
and who wanted afterwards to be reconclled to
her, hut was Indignantly spurned with contempt
and detestation. Last summer saw Fanny Elsser
in London, and heard from her own lips what the
facts were in this matter-and since my return
from Europe l have had letter from her, dated
in Germany, confirming the same thing
The highly moral, respectable, gentemany, and
refined newspaper editors of New York, must be
hard driven for materials to write down the Herald,
when they are under the necessity of prying into
my wife's dressing case, of peepng through key
holes upon her toilet table, OF ascertalnng what
she wears, and OF using the fasehoods and inven-
tons Of discarded empoyt of damseuss, in order
to entertain the fine gentlemen the elegant ladies',
the pious men, and the many moral people, who
peruse the interesting columns of such respectable
journals
more contemplate and disgraceful piece of
conduct towards successful rival, yet sullied
the newspaper press of any country.
Abolition Movements.
We re-publish in this days paper, from the
Commercial ADVERTISER, very extraordinary bue
tin, just issued by the executive committee of the
American and Foreign Anti-Savery Society, IN
structing the delegates from the Free Church of
Scotland, now in this country, with respect to
their duties in relation to the collection of funds in
certain sections of this country. This curious do
cument advises these commissioners not to take
any money from the southern States for the pur-
pose OF building churches in Scotland because, in
slave population, who are, as they say, held in
bondage, and deprived of their rights as human
beings
Ii would be well for these abotionists to inquire
whether the social system, on which the South is
founded, does not secure TO the population there
greater amount OF comfort, more enlarged means OF
enjoyment, and better subsistence, than all the
boosted free institutions of Scotland give to those
who live under them. Ii is certainly very evident
and we speak from personal observation-that
the traveller in Scotland sees in one day more
misery, more distress, more depravlty, from the
terrible social system Of that country, than he
could perceive In a month in the southern
States Perhaps, indeed, no class of human beings
under the sun, of the same grade in society and
the same numbers, enjoy as large share of the
comforts of life, liberal share of the means OF
supplying all their wants, well attended to when
sick, as the much misrepresened colored races OF
the South. Certainly there is no comparison be-
tween their condition and that OF the lower classes
the mechanics and operatives, and laborers of Eu-
rope, especially in Great Britain and Ireland. 1t
would be well then if the Executive Committee
had enquired into these matters before they issued
such an extraordinary manifesto. But tanaiicism,
and the selfish and malignant disurbers OF the
peace and good order of society never c6ndescend
TO inquire or reason.
We mention those facts, however, of which we
are personally cognizant, in order to show how
little these know of the real condition of the
races in the South, and who attempt, by mere alb
slractions and fanatica impulses, great changes in
the structure ofsociey. Whether the ScottishCergy
men now in this country on begging excursion
may go South and solicit aims there wherewlth to
build churches, we know not. The probability is
that il they should go they will he respectfully en-
tertained and receive liberal aims, which we
are very sure they will not refuse. We know
very well that O'Conne to whom reference is
made in the singular manifesto which we have
republished, always took especial care to have
saving clause by which to appease his conscience,
80 that on the arrival of a steamer with remit
lance from the Southern States, he could pocket
the money. lie refused any coppers from
whatever quarter they came. Neither will these
Scottish Clergymen.
This, however, is merely Incidental We look
upon this document only part Of the grand
scheme of these deuded men, who, one day in the
name of religion, and another of philosophy-one
day in the name of piety, and the next of liberty
and equality, endeavoring to disturb the social
relations which exist in the South-relations,
which furnish to the great mass of the lower
clAsses there, higher degree of social happiness
and enjoyment, than even the boosted system OF
free labor does to its subjects in Europe, and the
Northern States of this Union. This is only part
OF the system OF disturbance and agitation which
they are carrying on previous to the Presidential
election, and is intended to operate politically on
that event one way or the other Hitherto the po-
sition of parties in the Northern Sates-their eau
ponderance In point OF numbers, have kept these
deluded men in some degree of check. But we
do fear that the power of the two great parties has
koro nicaly haIa 60.