The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-15


tempt with the Mormons the task of re-conver-
sion on point on which they believe themselves
to be socially and morally right In such case
it is evident that the first thing necessary is ex-
ample
The Split Among tho Ranatica-Who are the
@Raa" AbOlita0nlsts3
There Is an old Spanish proverb which tells
us "when cronies fall out truth comes to light"
Its truth is verified in the fact that the fanatical
abolitiOnist cronies have quarrelled among them
selves, and are beginning to tell the truth about
each o her.
During the three days anniversary meeting Of
the American Anti-Slavery Society, recently
held in this city, the burthen of the discourses
ofthe radical abolitionists was Dr. Cheever and
Henry Ward Beecher. 1t seems that DR..
of his own; and 80 he has seeded from the Anne
ican AntiSlavery Society, and with the assist
ance of Beecher has set up Church AntiSla-
very Society," of which he is to stand up, in Con-
gregaional black silk, as the head, with Beecher
on one hand and somebody else on the other, as
supporters. Now, this desertion and attempt at
selfglorifcation by Cheever and Beecher has
disgusted the old leaders, Garrison and Wendell
Phillips, and they do not hesitate to show
it up in its true colors. Phillips, as the
thinker, orator and logician of the fanatics,
has poured out the walls of his eloquence
and wrath upon their heads, and told them q
good many home truths, keeping others back,
however, which will no doubt be brought for
ward all in good time for when cronies fall out
truths are sure to come to light.
In one If his speeches-one which we had not
room to report, notwithstanding our triple
sheet-after describing the immense gulf that
yawns between his position and that of Dr.
Cheever-a gulf which he characterized as
being as broad as the Atlantic and as deep as
its deepest chasm-Mr. Phillips, in smile
which may be studied with profit by every
statesman, preacher, politician and fanatic in the
country, proceeded to give the following pro-
phecy Of the fate Of the seceders:-
am sometimes accustomed to compare nv country to
that vast natural phenomenon upon its Atlantic coast
the Gulf Stream This body Of water flows with strong,
steady and constant current from the south to the nor
fuences from the Capes Of Florida Hateras from Hat
teras to Nantucket from Nantucket the Banks OF New
foundand Labrador and thence spreading them over
the whole western shore Of northern and southern Eu
rope. Like the Gulf Stream, all influences from
the South The South gives US our Presidents and the
politics that guide Them gives us the cotton coffee TO-
bacco and sugar. that create our commerce, quicken
industry, clothe frames stimulate US in languor,
sootbe US In excitement and sweeteu every repast.
But the nQurers and philosophers tell that far down
beneath the surface of this steady impulse that SO
slant and mighty stream of cold calm and refreshing
tiers from the north which return TO the south the
above the surface it's brilliant yet icy head-some Daniel
Webster, gterng, yet grand and gloomy fast anchored
in the calm cool that flow beneath the surface
way steadily southwsrd He southern vi waves dash
against IL and their influences continually work upon IT,
Little BY little 1t melts away before them Is advances;
now q jutdng point gives way, now soaring pinnacle
falls till at last the mighty mass itself bows its head and
overwhelmed by the all surrounding waters TO besee
Grown up under tie pure influences Of the North, and
grounded and anchored in its deepest current they be-
Of the Gulf Stream that flows around and against them
Their influence will melt away like the iceberg, and, like
IT, they win gradually disappear, till they sink and are
Mr.. Phillips is right in his estimate of Cheever
and Beecher, and has used beautiful and truth
full smile to illustrate their career and fate.
But he forgot the grander and more sublime
teaching of hissimilie. Hsfofgot that the cool
and calm Northern current which flows beneath
the surface of the Gulf stream, as soon as it
passes the isothermal line which God has drawn,
rises to the surface, and, becoming Southern in
its Influences, demonstrates the irrepressible
harmony which He has established between the
North and the South.
There is one other change in the ranks of fana-
ticism to which Mr.. Phillips referred, and this,
too, he illustrated by an apt smile. Calling to
mind the old adage of the rats deserving sink.
ing ship, he claimed that the contrary must alse
hold good; and that when the rats came on board
In clustering numbers, the ship must be staunch,
tight and strong, and bound on prosperous
voyage. This was the case with the good ship
Abolition. The rat abolitionists headed by VIM.
Il. Seward, were crowding on board in such
numbers that they were likely to take command
Of the ship. He did not care much for this, for
it was of no Importance whether the true or the
rat abolitionists manned her, provided she was
steered right. This he thought she would be,
according to the glorious chart of Stewards
bloody and brutal Rochester speech. He only
wanted codicil to that speech. He wished
Seward to come home from Washington and
winding his bugle horn at Albany, to call around
him his followers and carry the boundary of Ca
NADIA down to the frontiers of Maryland.
Verify these quarrels among the abolition GRO
MES are good things, for they let truths come to
light. Henceforward we know that Cheever and
Beecher seek only to be like the iceberg grand,
glittering and useless; md that VIM H. Seward
is nothing more than o rat" aboltionist
The CONDITION OF THE STREETS
AHEAD-The hot weather has come upon us
this season at an earlier period than usual, and
it has found the streets Of this city in such de-
plorable state of 9th and denominations that
pestilencc more devastating than war will in all