New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-26
Gerrit Smith and the In.urrectIon.

Gerrit Smith and the InsurrectIon.
The following letter, addressed by Gerrit Smith
to the Jerry rescuers at Syracuse, shows clearly
| that portion at least of the Abolition fanatics
contemplate systematic effort to incite seryle
insurrection in the Southern States
PErZRBoRo, Saturday, Aug. q, 1880
~ 1"o'''S kq Syrorse C1prirmnn Jerry
ny Dedr Sr--f have this day received your let
;, . s.ena me to preside at the approaching an
the 81 the rescue Of Jerry, and to prepare
trnr apo iol y; Thankful for this honor as
u"y ani, nevertheless am constrained to decline
IT, nave presided at all the anniversaries If ths
linportahs event, and written the address adopted
i;'ad VI .aem put my interest in them has de-
am now decidedly Of the opinion Hat is ,,a,r;se
10 c0ftsnue TO repeat the farce any bonger
me rescue o. Jerry was great and glorious
event. Would to God it had been duly improved
Bat those who achieved it, and include in this
number all who cheered on and rejoiced in ever
step OF its progress, have, with few exceptions,
own hands. We delivered Jerry in the face of the
authority of Congress and Courts and az most of
us believed, IL contempt also Of precision Of ne
| CONSTITUTION. Itself. We delivered him, believing
that there was no law. and could be no law for
slavery On that occasion our humanity was up !:
and in vain would all the authorities on EARTH even
the Bible itself included have bid it down. Our
| humanity owned Jerry for its brother: and so did
would not have suficed to buy it off, tempt it to
ignore and betray him. 4
1t is, perhaps, vain respects its effects on
| slavery, for me, or any one else to demonstrate
against voting for those who believe in law for
slavery, or, in other words, against prO-slayery
voting 1t is, perhaps, too late to bring slavery to
an end BY peaeeabe means-too late to vote it
down. FOR many years hare feared, and pub
leshed my fears, that 1t must go ont in blood. My
speech in Congress on the Nebraska bill was
strongly marked with such fears. Those fears
nave grown into belief. So debauched are the
white people by slavery that there is not virtue
enough left in them to put it down. If do not
misnlerpret the words and the looks of the most
mteilieent and noble of the black men who fall in
pllsn1nent OF this work by the white people. The
ieeilng among the blacks that they must deliver
themselves gains strength with fearful rapidity.
| They are sensible how cruelty they have been de-
ceived by the Liberty party, the Freesoil party
, the Republican party, and the great mass of even
the most loud-mouthed Abotonists. They see
,ae all these instead of voting slavery down. have
voted 1t up. True, the Republican party did not
promise them much; but they did not expect it
would insult and exasperate them by taking the
name OF ,'the white mans party" They did hope
1t lifts not finger to repeal the Fugitive Slave act;
nor to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia
nor to abolish the Interstate traffic in human flesh
Nay it goes so far as to admit that the slavery o
black men (t would not dare to admit it in the case
OF but one white many can be legalized in every
State of the Union. The bred Scott decision ant
the reopening of the African slave trade are proof
that slavery never strengthened itself so rapidy as
during the existence of the new and misnalned Re
publican party.
The Republican writes and orators declaim
. much against the obvious purpose of the slave
, power to overspread the free States with slavery
by the help OF its natural ally the Northern
Democracy. But do not these writers and orators
f admit the right to do this when they admit the le
! gality OF slavery in the slave States? What is
property in Virginia is by law above human
enactments property in Vermont also. He who is
slave or property in Mississippi is slave or pro
perry. in Massachusetts, also. What is property
= anywhere is property everywhere. Moreover, i
will in the end be found to be as vain as it is in
consistent to oppose the extension of slavery int,
. the free States while upholding it in the slav,
= States. Gov. Seward was right in saving that th
States must ultimately all be secured to freedom
| or given up to slavery. But he did not see tina
his standing by slavery in the slave States renders
unavailing his opposition to its extension into thu
I free States. Gov. Seward can do nothing to pre-
vent slaverys going where it is not unless he hold
Il it to be piracy and an outlaw where it is.
No wonder, then, is it that in this state of fact
: which | have sketched, intelligent black men il
n the States and Canada should see no hope for the
race in the practice and policy of white men. Nc
wonder they are brought to the conclusion that NJ
resource is left to them but in God and insurrec
. gear, any month, any day A terrible remedy fol
a terrible scrong But come it must, qnless an
ticipated by repentance and the putting d,cay o
+. | the terrible 1ciOnJ.
It will be said that these instructions will b
: failures; that they will be put down. Yes, blu
If will not slavery, nevertheless, be put down b,
II them? For tr't0t portions are there Of the Sotl
thai .cH cling to sarery after t,oo three conside,
able iasa7econs shall Adue filled the achole Soul
lrnh horror! And is it entirely certain that thes
s Instructions will be put down promptly and be
U fore they can have spread far? Will telegraph
and railroads be too swift for even the swiftes
o instructions? Remember. that teIegrdphs am
/, railroads can be rendered useless IN hour. Re
member, too, that many who would be glad t.
}, their wives and daughters to places where the
would be safe from that worst fate which husband
j, and fathers imagine for their wives and daugh
tiers. | admit that but for this embarrassment
l. Southern would laugh at the idea of an insrlr
recti0n, and would quickly dispose of one. Blu
trembling they would for their beloved ones,
know of no part of the world where, so much il
| the South men would be like in q formidable in
= surrecton, to lose the most important time and b.
- distracted and panicstricken.
J. When the day of her calamity shall have com
to the South and fire and rape and slaughter shall
a be filling up the measure of her affection, then vii
= the North have two reasons for remorse:
II Frst-That she was not willing (whatever til
attitude of the South ut this pon) to share with he
II | in the expense and loss of an immediate and uni
. versal emancipation.
c second-That she was not willing to vote SLAYER
r out of existence.
$ Then, too, when, alas, it will be too late will
seen in the vivid light of the sufferings of on
Southern brethren, both black and white, ho'
. shameful and of what evil influence was the apo
y tacy of those Jerry rescuers,' who were guilt
of falling from the GERRY level" and casting pr
d slavery votes.
r But why should l have spoken of the sorrow
y, that awatthe South? Whoever he may be that for
!" tells the horrible end of American Slavery is hel
both at the North and South to be lying prophet
L. another Cassandra. The South would not respe.
rs her own Jefersons prediction of seryie insure.
. ton. How, then, can it be hoped that she wi
IL respect anothers! If the South will not with he
in own Jefferson, !" tremble'' when rejecting this
es 'God is just"--if she will not see, with her ow
Jefferson, that the Almighty has no attribut
which can take side with" her in ga contest wit
,e her slaves--then who is there either North o
is South that is capable of moving her fears and pelE
Of GERRITT SMITH.
l. BATHING IN THE DEAD SEA.-The Dead Sea ha
IN nothing of the dcsolaton which it has been tn
Is pleasure of travellers to describe and seems
smile at the secret dread it inspired. l. of
f. took a bath here, and for swimmer who has
a fancy to keep his legs as well as his head out
{ water, can imagine it must be quite pleasan
My French friend who is not little inclined |
- corpulency, complained that he could not g,
% down into the water, and floated about now OF
!, side up now another, for all the world like an il
IL fated bladder, On emerging from the water