The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-17


the Society, and cannot be discuss ed
ia its publications: that II should MOI
be the organ Of any one system Of
religious or moral reform, such "a temperance,
peace antpopeEy or antislavery," bat should
sustain the cause ftruth and righteousness In al
their departments. This Is admirable policy, Is
well as true religion, and 1t pays The donations
to the Society have been constantly increasing
every year for the last thirty-twc years. During
that which ended the 1st Of April last the
gifts of money and collections amounted to about
$l54 00o ard the eales Of its printed publications
$4,000 more Its operations are very ex-
tensyc in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas
ard ArSans.s where it's trscts aud stories would
have 10 chance whatever II they were imbued
with abolitionism. But all this good generalship
| ard catholic conduct require ~ usual much of
the OIL of palms, the grease of machinery and
ibe sinews OF war. No less than $4,000 are
raid ont annually for salsries in and about the
New York Tract House (ifth of its whole
receipts from Subscribers and the Society begins
the new year with only about $4,000 in the
treasury.
We may, then, with some grains OF allowance
place the two institutions in useful opposition to
each other-the latter as an alkaline corrective,
neutraiizing the corrosive scidity of the former
But the laboratory ia still the same-it is still
New York. Here, amid the fumes and smoke
ard deception Of modern alchemy, the sanity
operators resort to turn their brass into gold; here
they find they can best try the srperimensem crucs
at the expense Of those who go down to the sea in
great ships, or walk the streets in gold and pur-
pie, or oistil the pleasant juices which steal away
the brains or add house TO bOuse and land to land
selling their souls to take their hard earned ease
But they are not go very successful after all
A ball at the Academy will produce more than q
whole anniversary week. There is q suspicion in
the public mind that many of these societies are
got up for effect or for the support of swarm of
6roncs All their efforts seem to end In widening
the differences in the Christian world and not to
close them up The array of dogmas, tho confu-
sion of doctrines the bitterness of opposition
continue from yeac to year. Every association
offers its own specific and pauacea. The SIMPLE
straightfo, ward apostolic method Of conversion
ir now superseded by a complicated machinery,
by mere worldly calculations, by dollars and
cents, by the rule OF thumb How can this
country expect to maintain unity Of purpose,
or a nationality of character, when those who
have taken charge of its religious improvement
are so divided in sentiment and SO mercenary in
their motives?
We have almost come to the conclusion that
these great anniversary shows of ours are too
much like The Jewish Feast Of Trumpets when
holocausts were offered for the whole nation
when calves, and rams, and lambs were indiscri-
minately sacrificed, and -four and wine were not
wanting for the occasion. But 1t was no appoint
meat Of the Scriptures-it was nothing more
than blow cut of the cunning Rabbina
Poor Pierce and His Mississippi Cotton
Plantation.
In the way Of subscriptions for the relief of
poor Pierce, they are doing the thing pretty
handsomely in the South, after all. The effort to
raise him farm among the Virginia democracy
appears to have fallen through but the chivalry
Of Savannah Ga have made him a gift of
beautiful service Of silver plate, whish Is some
thing The still more liberal democracy of
vicksburg, Miss, have subscribed the handsome
sum Of ninety-six thousand dollars for the pur-
chase of splendid cotton plantation in that
neighborhood-th price of which, for Mr.
Pierce's accommodation, has been fixed at only
counts, therefore, only four thousand dollars
were wanted to complete the purchase, which
sum, we suppose, has been since raised, and the
purchase consummated.
In the next place, as it will probably require,
in cash down, at least fifty thousand dollars
worth Of niggers TO work this cotton plantation,
the question recurs what State will furnish the mig
gers 1t is said that Mr. PicrcO, with common
dablc eye TO rainy day, has saved, of bis Prcsi-
dental salary tie snug little sum Of fifty thousand
dollars, or twenty thousand more than was saved
by Captain Tyler, and fifty per cent more than
wGs saved by Col. Polk. This would purchase
the niggers; but then there would b. nothing left
In the hands Of the owner to meet the numerous
contingent expenses incident 10 the removal Of
the ex-Presdent's household goods from New
Hampshire to Mississippi. The duty, we think,
Of furnishing the nggers devolves upon the vir-
einia democracy. Virginia niggers are esteemed
the best in the New Orleans market They are
considered stronger, sounder, healthier aud more
durable than the niggers of any other Southern
State. Compared with these hog and homlny fsd
niggers those Of the sea board Of the Csrolinas,
largely subeisted rice and dsh, very feeble
and inferior set In this view, and considering
the fact that Governor Wise had never more
devoted adsocate Of his whole theory OF the
constitution and the price of niggers than Mr..
Pierce, we think II devolvcs upon the Governor
and the Virginia democracy to furnish the mig
gers for this Mississippi plantation. This duty is
still more apparent when we remember that the
virgnians FIRST startSi this idea Of a Southern
plantation 10 their beloved New Hampshre chief