New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-16
nrwyoBl DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER le 1858.

Smith, " have been carried oh. lhe poor E'u'0
risns. Down with Morgan" is the slogan OF
Smith. Down With this Republican Par'y-1ns
.tup-ndous bypocrite and utter humbus. Is tho
cry Of Mr. Gerrt Smith. Whereupon the hve thou
ssrd get resdy to charge. But are still DUBIOUS.
Nr Smith gsllaptly assures them. 81 said that
my election is not probable" GGroans from tho
6ve thou.and 1--WE are not, however, to despair
of IT," [Cheers from the FIVE thousand. 1--WE
are TO hope and labor for it increasingly" tDu-
bio.ty on The part of the five thousand "fare'
we'll until the election" (Sobs and groans from
TIE FIVE thousand. ITEMS Of thousands Of Repub-
licsns have come out Of their party to our stand
card" Immense cheers from the Eve thousand.
and great looking for the Items Of thousands. J
And so Smith left. For "Tioga and the surrounding
coun.ie.." NEXT week for st. Lawrence, Frank
"lin. Clinton, Essex" "The following week IN
Delaware and contiguous counties" So, with
words of eIhorta,ion and encouragement, Mr.
Smith rides of, with chronometer at his saddle
bow, that lie may slwsys seek his yirtuous sheets
at precisely o'clock in the evening.
Not many days have gone BY, and We again en-
counter Mr. Gerrit Smith. Ia circular. In
rather longer and rather more lugubrious cir.
cular. Where he has been riding. in bis nightcap
or without it. We do not pretend to say. But this
time he does not address the men who are to vote.
This time he Indignantly shouts: ITO the Men
"who put me in Nomination" Aud very just
and proper introduction i, is. Peering from under
The ngh.eap, now in rather looped and win
dcwcd condition, this hero cries out for the men
"who put him in nomination" Says he has beea
holding meetings, at which, we fear, he has not
.een many Of bis godfathers. Saysh he has held fifty
three meetings Zone hundred voters to a meeting
Plus or minus, o GerritD. Says he has travelled
four thousand miles" Says he has spoken "two
"hours and half in each meeting" Audiences
generally large" Frequently not room for
the crowd" Mr.. Smith is not dispirited.
thinks that the meetings :" have exerted consider.
liable influence against the caucus SYSTEM
Hopes that the good accomplished BY these meet
"ings will rot be estimated by the smallness Of
"the vote"-fye thousand ard thirty-three.
People not ready. Vote 90 far below my e1pecta-
tions." People gammoned and humbugged by
Morgan. Who is not "a real philanthropist." As
am. Iexpected to get $4,000. Possibly larger
But the Republicans, some how or other, were
"irspired with confidence" And the Demo-
"crats with fears" The Fifty Thousand, therefore,
stepped out On the very day of the election e1-
pected $4,000. said so to my friends. even
wrote to many that it would bc 10000. "My
"opinion of the result Of political CANVASS says
Mr.. Gerrit Smith, Twill not hencefOrth be valued
Every highly" We think that you are right, Mr.
Smith.
Mr.. Gerrit Smith, having dressed his wounds,
has sent to US Circular No. 9, from bis retreat at
"Peterboro." We have read it with all due con.
.ideration and sympathy. We perceive, after dill.
gent peruaal of it, that his head is painfully broken,
and our suspicious and fears of what-excellent
man that he is-he will be at next, are fearfully
multiplied. We believe that among the virtues
the Christian yirtues-is an old-fashiOned and al
most superannuated one called Charity. If he has
been badly mauled, it is no fault Of ours. If he
will only make decent effort to speak kindly Of US,
we will try to speak cOnsiderately of him. Other.
wse, we had both better retire. We to the soil
tude Of quarter Of million votes. He to his
nishtcap and bis multitudinous Eve thousand.