New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-04

The Hon. Gerrit Smith Independent candidate
for Governor, will this week address the citizens
of the southeastern portion Of our State on sue
cessiye evenings as ioIows:
AZ AiJan, Monday Oct.
A. Pou9hke,psie Tuesday Oct
At Neto-iork. Wednesday, Oct. G.
A. Brooklyn. Thursday, Oct Z
Al Ty0g. Friday. OCT. g.
Also a. Hudson at II \. m. on Frd,y. Oct.
We regard Mr. Smith as good man engaged in
a very bad business just as in l-l4, he and
few like him, by drawing of $1,000 Antl-Slayery
,otos from Clay cad Trci.ughuysen, elected Polk
and Dallas and secured Texas to the Slave Power
in our Union at the cost to the Republic OF most
needles. aud unjust war with Mexico, ne is now
doing all in his power to throw New-lork once
more under the wheels of the Juggernaut of
Slavery Propagandism, eeyating to power the most
debauched and uuprincipled faction that ever ex-
listed, to wit, the soft Democracy. This is
what Mr. Smith is doing, whatever he may mean to
do. Every vote he receives over thousand will be
subtracted from the poll of the Republicans as he
and his hackers must know. Hence the Democratic
wireworkers through their presses aud otherwise,
are magnifyng his efforts and his prospects, rightly
regarding him ss their practical ally and stool
pigeon in the canvass When the contest shall
have ended, he VIII awake from bewilderng
dream to find himself worse beaten than hc has now
any idea Of He seems TO fancy that he can poll
something like One Hundred Thousand Votes; We
confidently assert that he will not poll Twenty-Five
Thousand Should be reach this number, how
ever he will have helped Parker at least Twenty
fh,ua h. him. ht-
fatterng at once his vanity and his ambition fully
understand. HIS fingers may be ever So badly
burned but this Will not at all diminish thar en-
iOymeut of the nicely roasted chestnuts which they
will Herewith have scratched out of the fire.
There is not sayetradev from Baltimore to Gal
weston who viii not chucke over the service that
Mr.. Smith will thus have rendered 10 National
Democracy" and take heart from the reflection
that Slavery is safe enough while Anti-Slayery men
defer 10 such leaders as Gerrt Smith.
We lave said that Mr. Smith will be bitterly un-
deceived by the returns of the election. He really
seems TO think that he is running for Governor,
when in fact he IS only running as a tender to
Amasa j. Parker. He viii not have one hundred
votes each IN half the counties in the State; while
the Irish Roman Catholics, whom he supposes be
is winning by procaiming his unqualified hostility
TO our Common School s!Stem-in fact, to any
School System supported and controlled by the
State-snd by advocating the extension Of the
Right of Suffrage to Unnaturalized Immigrants
who shall have been one or two years in the coun-
try, viii uot give him fee hundred votes in the
whole State. There are five times as msny of
them who would vote tc uiake Abolitonism State
Prison offense as will ever vote to make an Abo-
litiOnst Governor. The Soft managers who throng
TO and cheer at bis meetings would not give HIM
vote 10 save his life, unless they could see how 10
make him OF further use 70 Slave Democracy. In
short he Is only serving that cause which he
would seem 10 hold IN the deepest adherence. and
our only consolation is that he cannot do half
much for il as is champions fondly anticipate.
There are Republicans WHO say that they should
gladly vote FOX Mr.. Smith if they thought he would
be elected. With these We have no sympathy.
Mr. Smith S Skmd generous, Nell.mcaning man;
aud 80 are many others whom We deem most unfit
for Governor-hardly one Of them so i'll adapted 10
that station a. Genit Smith. His opposition 70
Common SchooIs-cr. as he would express il, to
State Schools supported by compulsory taxation-
is of Itself al insUPerable objection. We have no
patience with the babb.e Of leaving the education
e children 10 the uu,iimuatod, undircctcd care Of
tn, IT parents We know ilat no voluntary system
ever did and we believe none ever will educate
community So generally aud thoroughly ss the