The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-05-11

both rivers, and the fleet OF steamers which
ply upon their waters. This will be sight
the grandeur OF which they never conceived,
and the record Of which they will carry back
y their own people, to be remembered for all
time.
The Abolition Anniverssrlss-Declin In
Garrisonian Stock.
Perhaps, unless we called especial attention
to the fact, the majority of our readers would
quite overlook the circumstance that the Anne
rican AntiSlsvery Society has been holding its
usual anniversary meetings in this city during
the week, and that the speeches of Garrison aud
other leaders among the radical abolidonists
have been as extreme In their theories and ss
savage In their manner Of expression a. ever
before. The Church comes in for Its usual
share of denuDciation; 1t is charged with Sc
ducipg our public men to their ruin and self
degradation, and particularly with the political
destruction of poor Pierce, "who wanders like
Cain, with the blood of Kansas on his hands,"
The South is o "Sodom and Gomorrsh;" "slavs
holding religious revivals make jubilees 10
He'll and mourning in Heaven" slavery is a
stencil and q nuisance, which the American
government ought to abate;" "John Brown
was the King of Virginia." "his execution
wss bloody murder, and the executioners
ought to have suffered In bis place" The
speakers generally denounced the constitution
and the Union a. a covenant with hell and
compact with the damned, quoting the elegant
words of Mr.. Wendell Phillips. Yet all this
attracts little or no attention from the
general public. who will not even 60
TO the meetings from curiosity; and even
scme of the faithful have fallen away from
grace, as is apparent by the diminution in the
society's receipts. Time was-and that not q
great while sgo-when the abolition and anti
abolition fever ragged to such an extent that the
halls where the meetings were held would be
overcrowded night and day, and the doings
thereat were the universal topic Of discussion
in the press and private circles. Then the
faithful, excited by the opposition of the anti
abolitonists, poured their contributions into
Brother Garrison lap, and all the other brothers
and sisters in Office were fed with the stalled
OK, drank the wine of gladness, and waxed
adipose upon the fat things of the land.
But this is all changed now. The philoso-
piers and martyrs who stood the tar and
feathers, the understandable eggs, the con-
tumely, the stripes and the prison, for the sake
of the colored man In bonds-the apostles who
suffered, like the original Twelve, ~ things for
the faith which was In them-have been super
seeded by more practicable persons. Garrison,
Phillips 4 Co. have borne the burden and the
heat Of the day; but 1t will not be for them to
enter into and possess the vineyard. When the
harvest is ripe it will be gathered BY Seward,
Greeley, Weed, Blair & Co.
The reason for this state of things Is very
simple. The abolitionists Of the Garrisonian
school belong to the imprscticable order OF po-
liticians. Like Yancey and the extreme fire.
eaters Of the South, they go for the immediate
dissolution Of the Union, and q war Of races
for the determination Of slavery, and the con.
sequent destruction of the material interests Of
the confederacy. On the other hand, the new
lghts-the republicans although they hold TO
the doctrines Of the Garrisonians In their es.
sence, do not propose TO carry them out by VIC.
lent measures. The republicans are for slavery
within the Union. They purpose TO devote the
patronage Of the government TO the free States
chiefly; 10 change the organization Of the Su.
preme Court, and TO enact Law giving slave
the privilege of having his case passed upon
by that tribunal The republicans also con-
ciliate the religious sentiments Of the North.
In fact, the Seward party, slthough abolition
lists, draw Il much milder than the G Arrisonians
The republican motto Il the spoils first and
the negro aherwards To the Gsrrisonians, the
Negro ID God-he ID before all and above all.
A very large number Of aboliionists have seen
the absurdlty Of the Garrisonian theories, and
have cast their lot in with the republicans.
The interest, therefore, which was formerly at
tached to the anti-slavery meetings, IL
now directed to Chicago, where the re-
publicans have their quadrenniAl meeting
next week, and put the Almighty Niger
through his PAGES In . practical way. There
are rumors, too, Of coquetting between the
Garrisonian leaders and certain very prominent
republican Senators; and these stories may
have caused some Of the old soldiers to drop
out Of the ranks and button up their pockets.
Altogether II would appear that the small
treason shop Of Phillips, Garrison 4 Co. Is on
the verge Of bankruptcy, and the business,
enlarged to Wholesale proportions, Is now TO
be carried on by the nrn Of Seward. Weed 4
Co. They open q new stock Of political dry
goods at Chicago next week, and win be pre-
pared to sell for cash or approved credit any
time between June and November, when they
viii either 90 into bankruptcy or move their
shop TO Washington. As for Garrison and his
friends, they will be left out in the cold In any
event.
AMERICAN DEGENERAcr AND ENGLISH PERFrc-
rroS.-In the picture drawn by Earl Grey of
the degeneracy Of the American democracy,
few persons will be disposed to deny that there