The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-24

moa'ns- Next summer iots can probably De
bought all around Washington Heights for q
third of their present price. Until this political
agitation is at an end, and revolutionary senti-
meats are crashed out and until the Central
Park is finished. and hungry spectators aban-
don their ideas about legislative commissions
to cut UP and destroy the land for their own
profit, we fear that land speculation on Man
haitian Island must break up.
The Extent OF Abolition and Treason at
the North-Senator Wilson Convicted
Out OF His Own Mouth.
In another page of this days HERALD we
publish dish of treason, rebellion and revolu-
ton strong enough for any stomach-even for
John Browns, if he were alive. 1t consists Of
lecture of Garrison, endorsing John Brown
and nominating Seward for the Presidency, and
speech of Senator Wilson, endorsing Garri-
son, together with number of letters from
their friend and confederate, Henry C. Wright,
in which he says they all knew of John Browns
plans for the last four years; that John Brown
is better Saviour than Jesus Christ, and that
it isthe duty of the North to follow him to the
death, and rise up in insurrection at once
against the shareholders of the South; and,
finally, Mr.. Wright shows that those senti-
ments are not merely his, but cherished by
! thousands.
The extent and violence of the abolition
sentiment in the North have been denied in
Congress Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,
in his place in the Senate Chamber on the 9th
of this month, declared that the intelligence of
John Browns raid twas received, almost
unanimously, with disapprobation and regrets
at the North that everywhere he heard re-
| gretan condemnation of that movement, and
and that the contrary belief arose from the fact
that zone or two of the leading papers of New
York, for the purpose of affecting the pending
| elections of New York and New Jersey, made
the most violent false and infamous charges
against the public men and masses of the peo-
pie of the free States
This +" honorable" Senator was then cate
chised by Mr.. Brown, Of Mississippi,
| who read the report of the proceedings of a
public meeting at Natick, Massachusetts,
where resolution was adopted that ''resist-
ance to tyrants is obedience to God and that
therefore it is the right and duty of the people
of the North to incite slaves to resist their mas
ters." Mr. Brown asked whether Mr.. Wilson
was present and countenanced such meeting
The high-minded and valiant Senator did not
deny that he was present, but said that it was
merely "a lecture by Henry c. Wright that it
ssoft Inv ND fro,
'only some dozen Garrison abolitionists, who
hired the hail. voted for the resolution There
is standardization here, for the resolution
shows that it was meeting, and not lecture:
and Henry c. Wright, 1.-The alleged lecturer"
fatty contradicts Wilson in letter, which will
be found among the abolition documents we
| publish to-day. ut was not lecture but
meeting for discussion, publicly called But
| the Senator, who is sworn to maintain til cou-
stitution of the United States, admits the was
alresolution; and that he acquiesced in -, t:,c,-
! ly approved Of that reasonable r.. .,satiou
| which proposes to overthrow the const -ltion.
he does not deny. He did not dissent om it, and
we mustregard him as one ofthe Garrison aboli-
tionists, of whom he speaks with suvl contempt
within the halls of Congress. partly from
moral cowardice and partly because the aboli-
ton demagogue feared his admission of the
truth would affect the chances of Sherman for
Speaker OF the House Of Representatives, and
damage the republican party in the campaign
of 1860.
Now, it so happens that we can convict the
Senator out Of his own month In Congress,
before the assembled Senators of the South,
this assembling bastard says one thing-in
Boston and at Natick he says and does quite
another. By referring to speech of his deli
vered in Boston, which we publish in another
page the reader will see what is his opinion of
| Garrison and abolition. Among other things,
| he says
am here tonight sir, to express my love for the great
your guest has advocated for twenty through
the columns Of the Lerator and my profound admiration
and respect for his sesacrihcng unfatering eyo
ton TO it amid obloquy and reproach am not ashamed
TO acknowledge the debt OF gratitude owe him for his
abors In behalf Of three m1ons Of men, and fear Of
censure rdicue reproach shall deter express
ing, all ut and proper occasions respect aud adm
| ration for the man.
| Thus, in Boston he fully endorses Garrison
and exalts him to the stars; in Congress he
| speaks Of him as if he were a contemptibe
! fanatic, without followers. In Natick, his ma
tive town, he attends public meeting of sym.
pathy with John Brown and, as Mr.. Wright
shows, the most reasonable sentiments were
uttered, and Senator Wilson was regarded by
the whole meeting as consenting to them by
his silence. If only dozen persons at the
meeting sanctioned the treason, how was the
resolution carried? If only dozen traitors
were there, how was it that the loyal men, like
Senator Wilson, were afraid to speak:
| Mr.. Wright shows that it was not from curl
osity, but from sympathy with John Brown, that
the people assembled, and in the most conclu-
sive manner he demonstrates from the pro-
ceedings of a meeting of three thousand per-
sons in fremont Temple, from the proceedings
of both houses of the Legislature of Massachu-