The Port Gibson reveille., 1853-12-07
Another Enemy of the Administration


G. Edwards Lester has recently become .
pet with the Southern Scott Wing press, on
account Of his opposition to Pierce's admins
tratiOn, and on account of his violent anti-ab'
clifton tenets This Lester long since dis.
graeed bimself by a course Of infamy, and per-
haps does not now deserve even a notice Of
his rascality but as he is backed by the press
which favored the claims of Fogg and Foss to
gentility and honesty, it Is we'll enough to
show him up, and let him shine in his trle
eolors. If VIC mistake not, this G. Edward
Lester, lrhikOme a Reverend, was defended
in this community not many weeks since, and
his vituperation Of the Pierce administration
produce as evidence Of the corruptness Of the
President and his Cabinet. Greely, of the
n. Y. Tribune, gives some interesting re-
miniscences Of this man Lester, and shows
what manner Of man he once was, and with
whom he was won't to associate. Can Lester
again be paraded as having sacrificed to his love
of the South and Southern Institutions all
chances Of advancement by the Federal ad-
ministration? Can he be called the man
who is for his whole country, and who, regard.
less of his own personal advancement desires
the South to enjoy her rights under the Con-
st.tution! We copy from the n. Y. Mirror:
The Tribune rakes up some rich reminis-
cences. The Rev. q. Edwards Lester figured
as a Delegate from the Bleecker-st. Church,
Utica, N. Y, to Worlds Anti-Slayery Con-
vention, held in London, in 1910. In the re-
ported debates of said Convention, the follow
ing passages occur from the lips Of Lester
Il would beg leave TO suggest one thought,
whether it might not be proper for this Con-
vention TO present very respectful remou-
STRANGE 10 our Minister at the court Of Sc.
James, that he set better example to Others,
when he comes here, than by keeping his vas
sails in bondage at home"
81 know him IA certain fugitive savc) well,
and, for the last six months was in America,
he sat under my preaching, in the church
where The first Anti-Savery Convention was
held in New York. in 1885, when a mob Of
gentlemen Of property and standing broke in
TO our temple, and tore down the altar of God
then it was that Gerrit Smith, the great
apostle of American Abolition, who had new
er Joined US because be did not like our mea-
sures was won to our ranks. is it true,
said he, that freeman cannot open their voice
in Gods house then they shall in my own
to Peterboro, to Pcterboro" We left the
temple, and en- nsasSe, went 80 miles to his
house. That Abolition which is Graded in
the storm is the only kind that has ever been !
worth having-let me point to my noble
friend in the gallery, William Lloyd Garrison,
whom delight to honor"
"For we have chains Of posts all through I
the free States"
"Ah. Sir, | wish she could be our Queen .
long enough 10 make our subjects free.
II am perfectly satisfied that every mob
that has ever threatened our cause has done /
us good We are then much Indebted to the
mobs, and more especially TO those mobs which
threatened our friend George Thompson"
As gentleman Of like name with the above,
SAYS tue Tribune, (but who seems to have shed
. Reverend" prefix as inconvenient or insult
able,) is now figuring in our city as a most
determined foe Of Abolition in all its phases,
the public would naturally like TO know
whether these two antagonist Testers are re-
ally the same individual. Improbable as on
abstract principles the presumption might
SEEM we rather guess they are.