Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-11-24
New York Charity.


those who make themselves so by afecution. Fools
sometimes excite our disgust, hut when we remem
her that they are true to their nature, they receive
our pity We can never, however, do anything but
despise the hypocrite, fr hypocrisy is mans own
voluntary act, and Is condemned by both nature and
virtue. Perhaps the most disgusting form of
hypocrisy is the alectation Of beuevolence and per-
haps the most despicable example of such aifecta.
ton ever recorded was that lately furnished by GER
tain citizens of New York, in the Of the slave
holder Lennon.
True charity consists rs much in the selection of
objects worthy Of its bounty, as it does in slowing
gifts He who beslows money a man who's he
knows will dispose of it for bad purpose, makes
himself an accessory in that purpose. lie, only, is
truly benevolent, who bestows his aims worthy
ohec-on the poor who are ready to perish-on
the good, struggling with penuy and unmerted adj
versy. Who was the person, and what was the
case, that caused the purse strings Of the rich
Of New York to relax? What muckery Of merit,
and what parody true charity, must the answer
to his question be! Lennon, Shareholder,
ried nipe men, women, and children, from Virginia
to New York, intending to carry them TO Texas,
where he meant they should support him, his wife,
and his family forever, by their unrequted toll lie
and his had eaten the bread those slaves had earned
had worn Their clothes, had dwelt in their mansion,
had slept on their downy couches, rode on their
horses, and had spent their money, whilst he and the
State of Virginia condemned them to live on corn
cake, dwell in novels, and remain in the most illt-
crate ignorance After years Of this fashionable
robbery in Virginia, he determined to proceed with
his victims to Texas, and WAS on his way that
Saie, when justice arrested him in New York, and
gave him the chance Of becoming vr.uous, indus
trious man. by restoring his slaves TO themselves
But those no have been accustomed to live by ra-
pine least qualified repair the of for
tune, by honest industry; and Mr. Lennon, deprived
of his slaves, was like wolf in desert, where
there were no lambs. He howed in despair, at The
decree which made his slaves fee to toll for them,
selves. He refused TO be consoled by the fact, that
the same privilege was bestowed on himself by that
act. HIS poor ignorant, cheated slaves could live
without him any time, but he did not know how to
live without them But, if Lennon had lost the
slaves which he had leeced through life, he had not
after all, lost all. There were woody headed slaves
Of cotton, in New York, to pity and sustain him.
| There were ''sayiors of the Union" standing by
him. ready to do, in the name of charity, what they
felt called upon to do, only in the name Of politics
and trade Five thousand dollars were presented to
Lennon, in the of charity, ia order that be
rnrTusrfIu uUfTs urrvr, reory E TO
the slaveocracy, in order TO win then favors and
hatel them out Of their trade. There was no pitv.
no dollars, charity, for the roor and needy slaves
God would have accepted such benevoence as a true
manifestation Of charity, but slavery would not; and
the "saviors Of the Union" in New York prefer to
give their gifts where they can feel the rewards of
them with their bodily fingers, rather than to Law
them up as treasures in Heaven, where slaveholding
and commerce have no reciprocal political advan-
tages TO bestow upon each other.
What melancholy illustration of the perversion
by slavery, Of public morality is this case of the New
! York doughfaces and Lemmon! Charity, the car.
dlna virtue of virtues, is perverted into mere spec
ulaton of business and the greatest of all crimes is
exalted into the greatest of social rights, and Justice
is condemned BY public sympathy Tor a great social
criminal.