The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-19
Our Canadian Correspondence.

TORONTO, Apri >, 1871.
George 1hompsom-H,s abuse of the United States
General IatAigcnce-Lafomaiaes Retirement, &c.
l have already supplied you with an outline Of
the principal points advanced by George Thomp-
| son, at the commencement Of his campaign in this
city, on yesterday Sc might. Since then we have
nightly had demonstration" on the same sub
ject, and to have the grand finale tonight At
the outset, only three meetings were contemplated
to each Of which York shilling charged for
admission. The exhibitions took wonderfully. The
capacious ~. Lawrence Hall was crowded by sim
pletons, male and female, who paid with aacrity
to hear their own righteousness extolled, and that
Of their neighbors most unrighteously abused.
The receipt Of 900 Workers per night was
temptation not to be resisted by gentlemen "whose
kingdom b not Of this world" and an extended
programme was accordingly prepared to bring
more fish 10 the net. Even plous avarlce may
oyerreach itself, and 80 Geerge Thompson and his
confreres havo by this time learned On Monday
night there was terrible falling of; and last
night the wordy representative of Tower 1lamlets
discoursed most sweetly to beggariy account Of
empty benches
In his speech on Monday, Thompson counselled
and INDICATED direct interference by the Canadians,
in the question of slavery. lie referred to Daniel
Websters correspondence with the Austrian gov
eminent, to show that America claims the right to
interfere with other countries; and he maintained
that If the civilized world were to deal out the
measures to the United States which Mr.. Cass
commended towards Austria, the states would just
ly be cut of from all international intercourse ex
cept with barbarians.
Last night, Thompson outdid all his former eff
forts in the way of abusing the clergymeD and poll
ticians Of America. lie ayerred that in your coun-
try slavery has converted Christianity into abso
lutte curse, which cannot be too soon annhlated.
The worst enemy Of freedom, Che sad) is the min
lister Of religion, who declares that the institution
was originally ordained by God. lie went on to
say-"All this is sheer hypocrisy. | do not believe
there il minister in the United states who be-
lieyes what he says. | know enough of ministers
in that country to believe that they preach, de-
signedy and wilfully, what they know to be false.
These deliberately go to their closets, and, Tor
purely political and pro-slayery purposes, write
mons for the Sabbath day, which they all the while
know to be papably and damnably untrue" Ac-
cording TO Thompson's h)wng, there are but two
really christian ministers in the United States one
Of these Is the dcistic Theodore Parker from whom
he quoted approyingly passage likenng Yankee
10 Judas Iscariot, the only difference between them
being, that the latter required 30 pieces Of silver
he became murderer, while the former requires
but ten.
lie branded the American confederacy the
fOuest dc spotsm that has existed, and declar-
ed that ever since the declaration Of independence,
the policy and governmental tendency of the c0un-
try has been downward New York he considers
is worse than Sodom and tiomorrah; its merchants,
minister's and politicians being the most infamous
on the face Of the earth. In such place, an angel
would be tarred and fcathcrcd. if he bic anti
slavery trumpet. The only holy spot in America,
in his opinion, is the state Of Vermont; and the
only holy piece of legislation in the nion Is the
Vermont Notification law. Daniel Webster, once
godlke, was represented 10 have fallen lower than
I.ucifcr.
. old countrymen'' in America came In for their
share Of abuse. The Irish he said, uniformly rush
10 the polls for slavery; the SCOT h, hanging be-
tween prudence and piey, sell their souls for pot
tage, and cschcw abolitionism; while the English
refuse to participate in agitation o. the subject.
For these back .lidings. the judgments Of heaven
WIRE inv Ok cod against them.
our readers will stand aghast 1T this baderda.h,
this Llssphcmous impicty, this miserable dcma.
goguei.In 1t i Mr.. Geo Thompson's, not mine.
douglass has not been here this week, Rev. :.
]. Mny, o. syracuse, preached abolition sermons
on sunday, and on Monday glored IL he fact that
he i striving 70 break the American lnion sla-
very ! essential to the maintenance oi the Union.
the Mon should, in his opinion, b. destroyed forth
with.
AZ far a. ! can Judge Of the effects of an these
gatherings should say that they are discarded ~ ~
out Of every 100 Of the citizens Of Toronto. The
G0be continues 20 be the only paper which actually
advocates the movement. Other and more iufuen-
tial journalists roprobate Ihompson's violence aud
discountenance any attempt TO interfere with Anne.
rican institutions: The Christina Geordtv,, the
organ of the Wesleyan Methodist J. down unon
Thompson for his abuse Of American religion. and
the Roman Catholic Mirror may b. cxpected to
follow on the same tack.
General intelligence u sconty. u Is now an bat
certain that the Provincial Parliament viii re.as.eln.
bic on the 9th Of May, for brief bu, stormy pc
Rod. At the commencement of last session, batch
of reporters crossed the lines but they were hardly
Of the right sort, and were, moreover, somewhat
too late. Good men will again have a chance, IL
on the ground early.
4 he rumOr Of Lsfont aine's retirement from the
ministry and from parliament, at the end Of the
session, y revived If this event occur an import
ant change will in oil probability follow, With re.
gard to French Canadian influence and the s,.call.
Cd liberal party.
The ofhcial do-d,c contains notice of intended
application 10 the legislature for an act to ncorpo-
rate certain persons Us the Lake Superior and Pa
ci6c Railroad Company sort Of rival to Whit
ney's project. ASsLo.AMErIctS.
Marine Affairs.
Mr. McKsy has ON the stocks NJ Fast Bo-ton 4 shiptO
be- called the American Union sho u -, feet long on
dtct ~ =, q breadth q beam - feet depth u hold
-, v TOM She viii IL. tllrn.- lar