The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-20

Anoahsr Manifesto from Ger,it Smith.
10 THE ABoLCr-oNIsrs AND PzoHIBrrloSIsrs OF THs
COUNTY or MADISON.
word with you, my neishbors ere leave ncue tnls
morning TO attend the county meetings, which my isss
CT acceptance promised 10 attend
ccnfefs my disappointment in you had hopsd tns
you would be eager e. identify yourselves with this move
ment 70 elect 70 the office OF Governor recognizes
rights OF property In macdsning liquors when they
offered for sale for beverage and who knows no law
for slavery any more than for any other pirscs
Ii true that some or you wos king aud soul"
for my election But II 10 sso true thai OF you Ike
many OF friends in other parts Of tia State wait
ing to see what nominations the Republican Aud Tenn
perapce Cony entions Will make. To this wise waiting
will 1t be owing our movement TO elect prohibition
and abolition Governor shall fail With truth might
add that the failure will be owing 10 sucb waiting the
part Of friends In this county for only these had
all united with when &C septed the nomination there
tbs triumph in our State Of prohibition and abolition
6ow absurd is this waiting, II the Temperance or
Republican Convention shalt present true name for Go
vernon, how easy 70 drop mi. and adopt that. But
neither shall ard IN the gnt Of tie past have but too
much evidence thai neither wl-then how deep will DO
Q enlist the public ssniimeOt r favor Of my nominauon
Then you Will feel ~ you ought TO feel that II Ii de-
iessed viii be responsible for the defeat a.
election Of = man unfrendly TO your principles
admit that you desire that the Republican and Tom
ctfer real and earnest abotionist and pchibons But
what are you doing to induce them to DO R Nothing at
al On sns contrary you are sirngly iniasncins them
with rum or deeply darkened with slavery those nor,ira
IONS nay DO, will very reasonably he expected that
waiting and hapang on attitude. Tie men Of iais te
pepdens and vnfartd attitude hth srso been drawn
.rto the support OF such nominations, aud why should
Hite Republican ard Temperance Convent ons shall In
deed nominate nan for Governor who will fully aud
faithfully represent your profsssed principles no thinks
viii be due you who give yourselves up TO the tempo
rzpg policy complain Of All the credi. OF such pcin
nston viii belong to those who by their irde pendent
Ian and &ko
tons to make il.
is nevertheless, with hopeful and courageous heart
that this day enter upon great labor Of carrying into
every part o our widely extended State those great truths
which this rAton ust speedily sccpt be loft 70 persh
The inadequate support OF my nomination at home
the only shadow upon the constantly brghtenitg
poets or It's success All around me haAs the wise
wcfds"l shcud be very gai to vote or Gerri, Smith
but nus. wait 10 What the Republican ana Tern 20.
rance Conventions dcO How sad that By this settrg up
CT conventicn above cur carseor parties above our
prineipes,bis chance which has nox como TO us, may
possibly be loEtths precious chance for making ef
fsctve az well as demonstration the mighty
powers IF rum and slavery.
Icould wish that you might be Informed through the
press Of the character and spirit Of the meetings
attend But the prees is against ne-and very small
part OF il will asrepfesent tne meetings accepted my
nor aton, knowing that ret daily weekly
newspaper in the whole State hsd out for the
So great my faith IN the power OF The tongue
ard the truth 70 overcome the types Never before
was there opened to me 20 favorable "a opportcry ,or
bringing The truth Into hopeful contact with
miLcs. Ny first meeting s TO morrow, and ir 0svego
ehcyc the weather be pleasant ehAli have thousand
htareis The newspapers will quito likely reduce tac
number to hundred neao such esspApers have
sought 10 create the belief tina! in the convention which
dominated me, and in which there thirty persons
from county and also persons from sxesn
veuaeen other countless there we're only seven in favor Of
the nomirlticn.
That the approaching Ia to be uncommony fan
OF bold falls ehoods is already manest see IL is already
oenied-yts and even in the recent State temperance
Ccnyertien-t 7 am irustworthy ca temperance A
POOR return this for my than thirty years OF M and
sacrifice IN that cAuse see too that inu.t again en-
f. hsp.tth hat
brsska bill rhis too, 10 another upgraefui return. Ia.
asnuch Is made by far the most elaborate speech
against the BILL aud was the only member who oppysed
on tue ground slavery piracy ans al oe,isw
certainty dtEsrve very different reward. That this
wicked talsehood should have obtained widely n1l
stange: ] bad rei.ntr party DOR press sod they who
had both able 70 give wns comrexcr they pleas
10 my Congressional tfe.
tsve often thought that the industrious mtg 10 psr
srade tie people that have been Untrue TO freedom 10
Ksrfaz present Ct the mt emarkabls instsrces of
the SUCCESS Of lie against the truth. Haveg
could for her IN Congress came homo to do much
for her Ny ufe OF men and money 10 keep slavery
Of II at Territory has been limited only by my ability
rrrceron tia sie has been preserved from the rrs,
slavery by the skin OF party esders and by speeches IN
Congress as false % common. She hss been pre-
served from BY her bravo spirits and strong arms
10 TO man living there 20 much praise due for besrg
lack the tide OF border ruAnism slavery to my
old and Gear frierd john Brown Ct o,owaone though
he has hsd at tine under his command more than 90
hundred and my nshtnE men, YET by els ursurpAss I'd
csn.s smah !, Ssns ar NV woacers ior sss
which lave saved ksccns, osr nautenarce has never
theles taxed some persons heavily. Ny eye, at ths
several tho ssrd d'nMs TO ihis object what corp,red
With him. has sAseers oatory in cut Of CTgress done
or kaIsAf
Le, not be thought that mere words have
spsoas elsewhere These sggressions can De sue ,ss
fully resisted only by such have ccnsecaad to
The mighty work bead and heart and aud parse. The
dessosuts who ara busy In slauderng them help
n this work.
have Just learned that sres pains are taken 10 revive
sgaiDst your deep oispeasure with the resgnktcn OF
my sea, In Congrts know that you worked hard Tor NV
election was grateful 10 you Ik1ow too that In
worked lard Ter you and that you were bound 10 be
grateful 70 The labofious aud faithful ruler IN
much entitled 70 gratitude from his constituencies they
are entitled to " from him. What member OF Congress-
ever worked harder than did wnas ever msae
many speeches and greasa variety Of subjects in
single sessions BIT you declared that was bound re
main in Congress a. ons a. my constituents wiahed to
remain there. In this Thought you unreasonable Re-
member that put the IN nomination sgsipAt nv will
had entertained no moro Thought OF go 10 Congress
than 70 the moon went there leaving my largo private
Affairs settled and raps unfinished which, at least
own view, were plsns OF use'u 10 my fellow en.
TIE Congress- Of which vas member was
IN session eleven months Perhaps no member
more constantly In his scat for tno first eight moos
,hen resigned and Left my ccrsiitusGis without putting
them 10 the pains Anu expense Of Especial election
ply my place for the remaining three monhs rney did
supply with man ~ talents and esracst friend OF
The slave surely 10 TIE light Of these facts ought no,
To be censored Tor nv resgnsn,1. Pardon this "a
speaking o. myseh bat there seemed TO be necessity
fer a.
ust stop. Ny hcr.es a. the door. You mar s,ll
isllCr, but shall ttl heht You s.l trust party
lssners, but shsll stu trust In truth. may he de
tested in TIE election, Though 10 not 70 be- Eyop
ho~eytr, thal, The honor OF having worked hard
avoid Ire defeat will b. nine; whis All the disgrAes OF
The dsfcsi viii fall on these rho would baye prevented
Il bad they been true TO their protected principles.
leave you to your reflections whilst 70 o. battle
with slavery and rum and parry despoi $40 s1d party
machinery. CEpRTr SMfrd.
PxuHBoRo, August l6, 1873.
The Grain Trade of Chicago
Prom the Cnicsgo Times, August ~