The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-13

| Oh Naior; ana no sucn mao ls quallned TO stand
in the shoes of George Washington, Jefferson
or Old Hickory.
II Mr. Lincoln cannot otherwise be induced
to go over and talk to the people of the South
face to face. let Mr.. Douglas lead the way; for,
after hearing from its eloquent apostle what
sqnatter sovereignty is, the people of the South
will doubtless lend a willing ear to his eloquent
Illinois competitor on the Northern side of Cou-
gressional Intervention. Finally, as our cor
respondent suggests that, acting under the al .
vice of the HERALD, Mr. Lincoln may even now
be casting about for his cabinet, We submit
that, in order to discover his most available
Southern cabinet timber, he cannot do better
than at once to make short tour of recon
noissance in the Southern States.
| Free LCve I'm High Life-The New Cur
ncy Plank In the Lincoln Platform.
| Early in the year 1859 English fashionable
society had sudden shock. A married lady
had absconded with her groom. The deserted
husband was great man in Lombard street,
and sat in Parliament for the borough once
represented by Sir Robert Walpole. The
names of the parties-John Henry Quincy NJ.
p. for Lynn-Regis, and Mary his wife-win be
readily remembered. The affair was the more
remarkable from their antecedents. Mr.. Cur
ney is the only son of Joseph John Quincy,
| the celebrated Quaker preacher, phlanthropist
and banker. The elder Quincy came to the
United States about the year 1880, upon an
anti slavery mission, with his sister Mrs Eliza
beth Fry, well known for her efforts to reform
| abuses in the prisons of Europe and America.
| Samuel Quincy, the London banker-likewise
broad brimmed and philanthropic-w the
brother Of Mrs. Fry and Joseph Quincy. The
absconding wife was her husbands second cou-
sin, daughter of Richard Hamburg Quincy, NJ.
p, deceased, first cousin to Quincy psye
above mentioned The head of the Quincy
family-a bright and shining light in Israel
Hudson Quincy, uncle to John Henry, has
been q member of Parliament, Fellow Of the
Royal Society Vice President Of the Society of
Antiquaries, High Sheriff Of Norfolk, and
altogether as splendid specimen of
the old fogy British bachelor as could be
found in all her Msjestys dominions. At
the present moment John Henry is carrying on
the old bank al Norwich, In single blessedness,
while Mrs. Mary, his unfaithful spouse, is living
abroad with the stout centaur whose business
II was TO ride the conventional distance behind
his mistress, but found himself too often at her
bride rein. The parties are all plentifully
supplied with this worlds goods. John Henry
is very rich, and in age rises forty; the lady
inherited FIVE millions of dollars from her
father She is between twenty-five and thirty
years Of age, and said to be physically and
mentally fair type of the English female cha
racter.
We have given these details that our readers
may the better understand very remarkable
document which appeared in the Tribune q
day or two ago, and from which we have made
copious extracts, to be found In another part
Of this paper. 1t is very long, exceedingly
elaborate and deeply interesting letter from Mrs.
Mary Quincy to friend Of her school days. As
on exposition of the dangerous social doctrines
initiated by O school Of dissolute philosophers
in France, and since practically carried into
effect in England and the United States, the
letter is certainly prepared with marked abili-
ty. Every sentiment or passion wherewith hui.
man nature In it highest development has
been gifted is evoked in this document, which
far anscends in power the most elaborate ef-
forts of George Sand. Alphonse Karr or En-
nest Feydeau.
Tie letter Of Mrs. Quincy is, of course. all the
moro da~Derous because of the marked ability
which Il displays. l. is understood that the au-
thentieiiy OF this letter Is beyond peradventure;
that il has been written altogether By Mrs. Cur.
ney's own proper hand; that its publication Il
authorized by her, and riiat she Is at present in
this country. living at one Of the fashionable
watering places under an assumed name. The
| publication Of such matter by the chief Lincoln
organ just at The present moment is most signi-
6cant, and affords the very best proof OF the
truth OF all which has been said and written "a
to the dangerous tendencies Of the black repub
lican party doctrines.
L.. US examine the facts. II Is now some.
thing over thirty years ago that the British abo-
litionis's, having succeeded Ia their scheme of
emancipation. so far as Jamaica and the other
Ecglish colonies were concerned, turned their
attention to the United States. and began to
send over missionaries Of the Garrison school.
AT FIRST these emissaries met with but little fa-
vor, but they persevered. Garrisoa set
up press at Boston, and the Journal of
Commerce was established as the New
York organ of the radical abolitionists. In
New England Garrison gained many adherents-
good people who were moved to pity By the
terrible stories told Of the oruelties prsctised
upon slaves. but who never supposed that the
doctrines advocated by the LiJerdi0r were
ever TO be practically carried out. The abo-
liiionisis were not, however, without extraneous
aid. Side by side with their social heresy
sprang up variety of other 'isms' "a catalogue
SO long that we could never recall 1t without
reference to the Tribune files. The theory Of