Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-11-17
More Aboat the Insanity Of Gerrit Smith
Later from the Utica Asylum.

From the Albany Aurgus, Nov. II.
A gentleman who saw and conversed
with Gerrit Smith shortly after the affair at
Harper's Ferry, told us that he was insane
not merely excited by fear and sgitaicd
by the emotions which his completely in the
affair might produce, but msntalIy derangsd.
HIS eyes was wild, and appearance haggard,
and his motions sPasmodic and uncertain.
but increasingly restless.
He was ia constant fear OF being arcs.
led and carried back 10 Virginia, and sus-
pec.ed his friends 0. an intention 10 betray
him into The hands Of justice. When The
cruel electioneering hoax was circulated
that Gov. Wise had issued requisitlon up
on Governor Morgan Tor him as q fugitive
from iustic, he seems 10 have become SO
frantic that his friends saw no o.hsr hope
than 10 send him to the asylum.
We make an extract from paivats let
Ter upon this subject, which gives some
particulars Of this sad end Of well meant
but msdi-ected career, fatal in its conse-
quences like 10 him, and 10 all with whom
lie involved in this fanaticism:
UREA, Nov. S, 1859.
my DEAN SIR: Gerrit Smith was
brought TO our Asylum yesterday, and is
quite deranged, intellectually as well as
morally; and he is also feeble physically. -
He refused TO take an anodyne, alleging
that they only wanted to pu. him 10 sleep
FOR The purpose of boxing him up and tax
ing him 10 Virginia. When informed that
he must take II, voluntarily or by eompul-
sion, he opened the door and screamed Tin
to the haIi) L protest. He then took it."
ABOLITION PnILANTmRoPY PRAcTIcAL-
LY Northumberland time since,a likely
negro man, twenty-eight years old, slave
on Virginia plantation, having accumula-
led enough 10 purchase his freedom, and
with something aore laid by, was induced,
by pretended friends, TO come 10 this city.
He is sober, industrious and willing TO work.
But where lie expected 10 meet all friends,
especially among noisy AbolitiOnists, he
now finds but little work and many ''cold
shoulders He has expended the whole
Of his small surplus; and, with ii, has dis
appeared the philanthropic sympathy Of
those who were proud to know him in more
aflluent circumstances. A few nights since
he went 10 grocer TO whom he was owing
So, confessed his inability 10 pay the debt,
and touchingly bemoaned his hard lot. He
wept like child; larnented that he had ever
left his former master; said that he was "no
hbolilionist"-that they had deceived, chea-
ted, and now drove him frcm their presence,
that, could he get the money back they had
helped him to spend, he would gladly re-
turn TO the cid Virginia plantation, 60
This is but one Of the many cases where ne
groes coaxed away, and run away over The
underground railroads" so frequently and
significantly alluded TO by Brown Republic
can new spapers, are brought 10 restitution
and want, and that too among the very men
who make such loud professions OF their
sympathy for tbs ''poor slave" When any
OF thess Humanitarian" can be found who
will spend money for the negro, they pay
dollar 10 ''run him off," while they refuse 8
cent 10 save him from want and s!arvstian
Such is Abolition "philOnthropy!"- Bos-
Ton Post.