New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-16

Mr.. Gerrit Smith is an excellent man. He is
also peculiar man. He rises at certain hours.
He goes to bed at certain hours, irrevocabe, fixed
as the knOckings of Death, fixed as fate, no mat
ter what concerns Of life or the Otner thing may
be- pending. At home at nine, with the nightcap
we'll on, with the snorc well started, with the con-
stitutional sleep well underway! This, We may
cay, in this age Of sunset polls and OF midnight
declarations, Is q peculiar man. An excellent
lDan, but still peculiar A benevolent man. but
still peculiar. A man to draw his wslet-a man
to give his liberal amount Of cssh, with "God
"bless you - thrown in, to SanbO or Chloe upon
that far-of Northward fight Of theirs toward that
Northern star, running from incredible crueties
and deysh temptations But still man who
will be in bed BY nine Of the clock in the
evening! A man, even, who will not run
for Governor Of this State Of New-York,
save upon limits or reservations, which do
eilectualy prevent him from being Governor. As
We read it, FIVE thousand and thirty three of the
people of this State call upon Mr.. Gerrit Smith to
be Governor. Sundry hundreds Of thousands do
not call upon him, but call upon another man.
They do so, in spite of clever manifesto put out
by MIR. GerIt Smith, before the polling, in which
he says that he has visited-whether with or with
out the night.cap does not appear" the northern
land southern, eastern and western parts of the
State"-that he "has held meetings in major.
I" ity of the couDties"-has found general dead
nes., painful to the Smith soul. " Evidence" Of
this he has found, abundant and painful"
"The Republican party is "panyi.ed what
ever that dreadful, abominsbe and most frishtful
verb may signify, the same not being found in
Sheridan, Webster or Walker. But these, "my
rst tours" are not to be taken as conclusive in
tbtir result. 1.-The resuscitation of causes" as
Mr.. Gerrit Smith informed his friends, had
begun" He looks from under his night-eap,
does Mr. Gerrit Smith, in this his primal
Circular, to what he is pleased to term " fuller
"hfe and renewed vigor." He also prophesies,
from under the nght-cap or otherwise, in this
same Circular. "No person." says Mr.. Gerrit
Smith, "who knows what is passing in our State
"can believe that Mr.. Morgan is to be elected, or
"to come anywhere near being elected" An ex-
celent Daniel, We See, is here come to judgment,
reading the handwriting upon the wall with those
sharp eyes of his peering from under the frill Of
that celebrated night-cap. A Daniel in the best
spirits A Daniel who will be Governor, mauger
the croakipgs Of The N. Y. TRIBUNE. A Daniel
who sees that The n Y. TRIBUNE is all wrong,
while he is all right A Daniel who will have
nothing TO do with the Republican party"
"Does it sustain any honest relation TO Abohtionl"
Certainly not" answers the prophetic Smith.
docs it propose to abolish Slavery in the District
"of Columbia :" Certainly not" answers the
prophetic Smith. docs it propose to abolish the
" inter. State traffic in human aeshl' Certainly
mot" ssys the prophetic Smith. docs it
propose to repeal the Fugitive Slave Acti"
Certainly not,' says the prophetic Smith.
whereupon Mr. Gerrit Smith adjusts his lance and
charges at Mr.. Morgan, followed BY five thousand
and thirty three fouowers-the most inspiriting
exhibition Of chivalry afforded in the nineteenth
century. Well, clothed in the nightcap, Mr..
Smith, who has pillow, not pilGon, behind him,
turns in the saddle, s, bis palfrey ambles to the
CD ,rae. and addresses the ve thousand and thirty.
three. He tells them, sill from under the night
cap, that the Republican party is practicing
" shameful deceptions." 1t has carried of, BY
what art, is not stated, the New-YOrk State
Temperance Society,"" also, "a few coored men"
Outraged and trampled colored men," says Mr..