The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-11-27

'err1t smith

BTUhNAA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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n ,,,r.orsAip Of New York, ead ~ nagniacess
,,sso,sssss, VIII probably satisfy The vaaiti'
Sss;ns or that venerable citixcn for the brisfre'
-,,.der o. he aatarai life. II 10 worthy Of cons
!. up,sssos, not only BY the -dsfsatsd easainsss.
~ u not itkesy seoa 70 forget H. but oy al Tor.
-. ,Ao are fond Of sssdstnS human mature and
tse philosophy o. posisses.
n.r,,t Smith, who has just had the honor OF l
....,,,n, ave- thoN,And votes IL New York for |
nn,.r,or. 8 probably the only honest abolition |
a., n, Ina Empire States very likely, one Of the few
ho..s. ,.es snosK IL politicians Of any kind
~ NJ YORK we're doomed like Sodom Of old to |
as.srresson aud the only possibility Of III saliva
t,on we're that ten honest politicians could be
so..a N Il We do not think itcould be saved.-
no, certainly asrrIt would count one, and
verv likely Be permitted to escape, like Lot from
IN. buruiue city He 10 now an old man, but age,
vhich has covered his head with the SHOWS OF
winter. has not changed the evergreen simplicity
Of his brain. He 10 In ell rcspects ~ verdant at
this mousnt ~ tho day he Was born. He has a
Kind heart gentle manners, and the most fsnatical
head that was ever set on human shoulders. His
propensity for isms 10 ~ much part OF his con-
ssisusion ~ the spots Of the leopard and the Ethis
opesn's skin. Thore 10 not one OF the quixotic
projects Of modern philanthropy of which Gerrit
Saith % not the munifccnt patron. Anti
Slavery. however, is his hobby; he has Civ
On the beat years Of bis life 10 IL, and is the
only propaganda ofthat faith who has been will
ing to prove his faith by bis works, and to put
his hand 10 his pocket and pay the proper costs
and charges Of his philanthropy. To fact, upon
this subject he has OF late years become rabd and
fsroclous dssiriug 70 overthrow Southern institu
tions by The most direct and violent means. He
honestly sutertained the idea that it would 10
quite practicable for the North to put down the
institution, either BY change in the Constitutions
or By nrs and sword, and thus believing, no man
was . filter representative Of genuine abolition
sentiment, 90 certsiuly there is no one in New
York, who, BY long service and devotion to the
oause 10 worhisr Of such hopors as 1t has to give
But when the simple and absurd old man, un-
furled his nag for the chief magistracy of New
York. and found that he could rally but five thou
sand followers, he must have become convinced
himself Of the perfect holowness and unreality
cf the abolition appearances BY which he 10 sur :.
rounded, and which tempted him to take off for
season that beloved "night-cap" for which he has
become famous, and encounter the tolls and perils
of the political arena. The subject of slavery is
one which the politicians Of New York use for
certain purposes, among which that of making
aerrit Smith Governor is not included. Their
stock in trade consists Of the horrors Of slavery,
chains, ccwhides and bloodhounds, which they
dispose of at every election exclusively for their
own advantage, ard with no intention Of abolish
ing tho institution from which they obtain their
goods, wares and merchandise, and which keeps
most Of them frsm the poor house and the peni-
Tertiary. When Gsrrit Smith, knife in hand rushed
idiotically into the field seeking to cut open the
goose which laid the golden eggs, they naturally
looked upon him AZ an enemy Of society, and
abolished" him much sooner than they would
"ths Institution" Even the phianthropic New
York Tribune ridiculed him in column after
column, poking fan irreverentIy at his night-cap,
and painting him a. . wealthy old woman, In the
habit Of wasting money thieving negroes
Since the New York Tribune was established the
prict Of able bodied Africans has increased
three fold, and on the other hand, the Tribunss
financial prosperity is entirely owing to the zeal
and ability with which it works the African
mines. The advance in the value of the white coat.
ed philosopher and Of the black skinned peasant,
has been exactly equal; side by side, and step by
step, Sambo and Greeley have been going upwards
in the money scale; they have been useful to each
other In life, and in death they will not be divi-
ded. IL Gerrt Smith, In delirium of frenzy'
should set FIRE to Greeley's printing house, he
would not do him half as much damage as by the
inoendiary torch be would apply to Southern in>
stitutions; and with the of which, "Othel.
los occupation" would be gone, not only South
of Mason & Dixon, but in the New York Tribune
office. The unsophisticated Gerrit, instead of ma
king war upon tie South, has In fact been carry
ine on most unprov0ked and ferocious campaign
against the capital on which Greeley Co. do bu-
ness; he has been running about, like venerable
Guy Fawkes, in the basement of the Tribune esta-
blishment, trying to blow it and all its contents
sky high, and, of course, has been led at once by
the collar, taken to the political scaffod aud had
his neck broken, with as little ceremony as posi-
BILE. ass .1-t-
The fate OF Gerrit should be warning to all
beneyolent philosophers of his school, of whom
the number is small enough, and not likely to in.
crease. The batent Black Republicans of New
York have no real sympathy with men Of any CO.
Tor; not even the poor whites, who are fouad in
multitudes ct their own doors, begging, in Hea.
ven's name, for bread and even for human sym.
patty. These men, who will not give go much as
kind word or kind look to their own poor,
what care they for the distant blacks, except rs
stepping stones to their own political fortuuesf-
The idea is preposterous. They make no real war
against slavery in the States. When they do, it
will be because they have become as blind to their
own interests as to the interests OF others, and
they will soon be brought to reason.