The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-09-08
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tsERRrT SMITH, u prominent Abolitionist OF
New York. has issued circular letter, adj.
dressed TO the " Chairman Of the JERRY Res
cue Committee" at Syracuse, N. \, In which
he declines an invitation 70 preside at the APP
preaching anniversary Of that "important
event. He says he has presided at all the
anniversaries, and written the addresses
adopted at each Of them but his interest In
them has declined greatly for the last Two or
three wears. and he Is now decidedly OF the
opinion that IL Is unwiss to continn ne the iaree
any longer. The brethren who assisted MN
in thai glorious rescue he declares, nave
fallen back from the faith, and II Is abshfo 70
49,, M tho shadow of a celebration when the
subs lance has esaporated through party anu
ryh,m.h ;oaaenees He declares that nineteen
,wentieths of his associates in the rescue o! ER
nv .,a the celebration thereof, fell imme-
a.a,e,v after under those ecclesiastical or party
,,auanees which had previously swayed and
nara,yzed them. Says this great moralist and
nhilanthropist: "One of the most beautiful
scenes that couId bless my sight, would he a
JERRY Rescue Anniversary conducted by men
who would as soon stay in a brothel as in a
church that recognizes law for slavery ana
who would as soon vote for men VINO recog-
nize law for sheep-stealing, as for men VINO
acknowledge that judicial decree, or a stat
ute OF even a Constitution, can create any 3D.
legation 20 protect and honor man stealing
We sh.uld say, judging from recent iiioS'ra-
lions of Abolition morality, thai III "o"'u
! not he difficult TO get up JERRY Rescue ,oh-
yention, composed of men who wouid not oi'iy
| .as SOON" but good deal sooner, commit the
| offences he describes, than go to ehurch or
| obey the laws.
| However. the philanthropist coniesses that
/ Inns far he has been humbugged ana mat
| Anti. Slavery has been killed at the baiiot-ooN
| nv its friends lie says that the cause oi teiii-
/ perance in this country Is also oNad. Dld III
| ever occur TO Mr.. GERRIT SMITH, thata sihgh-
/ lar fatality seems to attend almost every cause
| with which he is associated twenty-five
| wears ago he was great temperance apostle in
| New York. and rode the thing to death pretty
much rs he has since rode kbolitionism.-
Then, there was nothing like Teetotaism and
every man was a sinner and deserved TO be
damn ned who did not think exactly as GEERIT
SMITH thought on the subject of Temperance.
Now. he says: " In vain all the efforts OF tenn
perance societies. and temperance newspapers
and temperance lecturers, to galvanize the
temperance cause into life. Never was the
use of tobacco or intoxicating drinks increas-
ing ST. rapidly. All who have any discern
ment must see that it is boundiess inconsis-
tency and unprincipledness at the ballot-bo1
which have killed this dear cause"
The white man being entirely unreliable
for the accomplishments of Abolitionsm, Mr.
SMITH unfolds his programme of operations
for he future. He endorses Mr.. SEWARD
ferocious ultmatum at Rochester. His plan,
simply and boldly announced, is to stir up
negro instructions in the South. Hear the
philanthropist:
mo wonder, then is it that this state of facts
which have sketched. lnteIli!ent black men IN tie
states and Canada should see hope for their race
in the practice and policy OF white men, 70 Won
der they are brou-ht to the conclusion that no re
source is left them but In God and lnslrrectlonS-
For inSurfcGttoHS. then, are may TOOK any year,
any month ang day 4 terrible rsmeay J"r q tst-
ed by repentance and the putting array Of fhetefft-
at will be said that these Instructions will be
failures that they viii I've put down. ies, hut VIII
not slavery, nevertheless, be put down b, them -
For what portions are there Of the South that will
cling 10 slavery after two or three considerable in
surrections shall have filled the whole South with
horror? And is it entirely certain that these in
they can have spread far? Will teierraphs and
railroads be too swift for even the swittest lnsur
rectIuns? Remsmber thai tefe graphs and rGuroads
can be rendered useless an an hour Remember,
too, that many; who would be clad to face the in
nd dau .hteFs to places where they would be safe
from the worst fate which husbands and fathers
that but Tor this embarrassment Southern men
would LAUGH at the idea OF IN Insnrrection, ana
n Tsf y ds a qi st s
part of the world where, so much as IN the South,
men would be lie, in formidable insprrectlon
to lose the most important time, and he distracted
and panic stricken.
When the day of her calamity shall have come
to the South, and fire and rape and slau hter shall
he filing up the OF her affection. then
will the North have two reasons for remorse-
First. That she was not wli!lnS tWhntever the
attitude of the South at this point to share with
her in the expense and loss OF an immediate and
second. That She was not willing to vote slave
"Then too. when, alas, it will be too late. will
he seen in the vivid Ii hit OF the sulierin of our
Southern brethren both black and white, how
shameful and Of what evil influence was the apos
taee of those Jerry Rescuers,' who were EuIltv OF
fain from the Jerry level and casting pro slave
rs votes.
that await H'H the soh WhoePer he u NAV ' be h,t
foretells the horrible end of American slavery, is
prophet-another Cassandra. The South would
not respect her own Jefferson prediction of ser
ys b" ee9 a be ho y h1
with her own Jefferson. 'tremble' when refIecting
that God is ust'-if she will not see with her own
Jefferson that the Almi hty has attribute
which can take side with her in a contest with
her slaves. then who is there either North South
that is capable of moving her fears and helping her
to safety!
Such is the plan of Abolition for the fu-
ture We know no more signal illustration of
the perverting and blighting influence of IA
naticism upon the character, than is afforded
by this man, who believes himself Christian
and philan thropist, who, We have no doubt,
was originally man of humanity and be-
nevolence, and who has brought himself to aid
and abet such horrors as are described in the
above-horrors compared with which the
greatest atrocities of the French revolution
were mild and merciful.
The Theatre.
We attended the Theatre on Tuesday night