The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-05

ADVICE TO THE ANNIy ETSARIANS.--The city Is
already alive with the "unco guide from the
rural districts, bent upon carrying on the war
against Satan and all his works with the funds
of metropolitan sinners. During the week.
from the seventh to the fourteenth of this
month, the annual transactions in the business
Of religion, reform and philanthropy-to say
nothing Of niger abolition, women's rights, free
love and spiritualism-will occupy very large,
and, as the world goes, very excellent class Of
the community. We have no reason to believe
that the programme of last year aud the twenty
years before that will be materially changed.
The foreign missionary societies will present their
annual budget Of Asiatic and African enormi-
ties. Reclaimed brothers Of all colors, castles
and creeds will be duly displayed as specimens
Of the work that has been accomplished in lands
benighted and enslayed by heathenish super
stitions. The home missionary societies will
give us terrible array of facts bearing upon the
religious condition Of the HOLSTERS, the Buckeyes
the Wolverines, the miners, farmers, border
rufians and other pioneers in our new Territories
We shall be asked to subscribe freely that the
heroes Of the axe and the rifle, and the hunting
knife, may be brought to knowledge of re-
deeming grace, so that they may forsake whiskey
love the Indians and read pious publications
The Young Mems Christian Association will
ask aid in turning from the error Of
their ways the jeunesse doree of the me-
tropols, so that they shall Withstand the
thousand temptations of city life. The a5oli-
u{s Io n lbo GolJ 80 {bo:r
the unconditional emancipation of the slaves in
the South or the immediate dissolution of the
Union. They will want little money for the
carrying out of this very laudable but not
altogether probable end. The women's rights
philosophers will renew their protests against
the tyranny of trowsers, and put On record their
solemn caveat against the taxing the estates of
women without permitting them to vote as well
as many other terrible things that oppressed
crinoline suffers from masculine despotism. The
free lovers and spiritualsts will renew their
efforts to upset all our domestic relations and
religious ideas through theii newfangled theories
of affinities, separate spheres and similar non
sense. The purely benevolent societies will
bring up their accounts in the usual manner,
putting in two dollars for expenses of the
almoner where one goes to the object for which
it was contributed.
So we shall have, in all probability, the same
round over again. Why not strike out new
path? Why not make grand effort against the
spread of vice and crime within our own bor-
derss Why not pluck out the beam from our
own eyes instead of making such tremendous
efforts to extract the notes from the optics Of
other peoples? Why not try to bring mem
Der Of the Albany lobby, or corrupt Congress
man, or a knavish Alderman, to redeeming
grace, as well as Chinese mandarin, or
Bedcuin Arab, or an Indian thug, who are rarely
brought, and who still more rarely stay redeem
cd, notwithstanding all the pains that are taken
with them?
AT any rate, something new must be done.
There is q very general opinion prevalent that
the anniversarians do very little good with the
money they collect, and we advise them, serious
~, to take fresh start or else prepare to find
their supplies considerably diminished