The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-03-01

will be unsettled and productive only Of vio-
lent party agitations for several years to come
Hence, in view of our foreign relations, as
republican majorities of Congress to meet in
council for the purpose Of q harmonious under
standing with the Executive, as the question of
paramount importance to the country and to
the party, at home and abroad.
Lloyd Garrison Hevisiting the Glimpses
or tho Moon.
Some time ago Mr.. William Lloyd Garrison,
prominent anti-slavery agitator, all at once
discovered that slavery was dead, and the
great labor Of his life consequently completed.
Thereupon he ceased publishing his paper re-
fused to be reelected President of the Anti
Slavery Society, and declared, in scriptural
language, that he was ready to depart in peace.
Nobody objected, and he did depart whether
by TRANSPORTATION or otherwise, and 80 disap-
peared from the public view. Tilton, the
Sancho Panza of abolitionism, announced
through the Independent that Garrison had gone
straight to heaven, and although many persons
pitied the saints and angels who were to be
subjected to the plots, projects and speeches Of
the professional agitator, still Tilton's assertion
was pretty generally believed. 1t turns out to
be entirely untrue, however. Garrison has re-
turned to earth, and walked and talked
at Brooklyn on Tuesday night From
the tone and temper of his speech it is evi.
dent that he has not been to heaven at all.
On the contrary, it is equally plain that he has
been sojourning somewhere in the bottomless
pit, taking lessons from Satan in the noble art
Of vituperation. He revisits the glimpses of
the moon upon special diplomatic mission
from his Internal Majesty. He comes breathing
threatenings and slaughters, and anxious to
stir up another civil war at the North. He
presents himself as an incarnate refutation Of
Henry Ward Bcecher's theory that there Is no
such place as hell; for Garrison has been there
and is surcharged with its fire apd birthstone.
Mr.. Garrison began his Brooklyn speech by |
reviewing his former career as an anti-saavery
leader. The point in it which seemed to AZ
ford him the most satisfaction was that he had
so identified himself with the Africans AZ to be
for negro by the English In 1888
The wonder is that--as he could probably
have had his choice of bodies in
which to return to us-he did not choose
. black one instead OF his old, familiar
form He then went on to describe how he
threw down his gauntlet to slavery;
how he challenged 1t to mortal combat, and
how hs finally vanquishsd and extinguishsd It
Oi.~-av, --a--.y l. 80 -~s~-s.a 80 . -Aerit In
the Internal regions. Mr.. Garrison utterly
ignores all other sntislavery men, all our
generals and our armies, and all the legisla-
tors who voted to adopt that constitutional
amendment which really gave slavery Its
quietus, and which the HERALD proposed and
carried through. After this outburst Of sui
phureous egotism, Mr.. Garrison announced
that, having once given up the abolition ghost,
he now revisited earth TO make more speeches,
to incite more agitation, and to find fault with
everybody and everything in his former pecu-
liar style. without further preface he pro-
ceeded to denounce President Johnson. The
President, it appears, has dared to deliver an
address in which he calls Mr.. Garrison's friends
by their right names, and has also been bold
enough TO veto bill which Mr.. Garrison and
his satanic coadjutors wished to become law,
for certain purposes Of their own. These
offences of the Presiden. have recalled Mr..
Garrison fror. the plutonian domains. By
soas underground railroad, or by a submarine
telegraph line across the Styx, the news of
these events has reached Satan, and Mr.. Gar
rison, who shows himself only in storms like
Mother Carey's chicken, Is sent as an agent Of
the dell to consprc with Mephistopheles Ste
vens and his assistants against the constitution
and the government The reinforcement is
welcome. While we are about 1t we may as
well make clean sweep Of all this rebellioIs
crew, above ground and below.
Mr. Garrison commenced his philippe against
the President by abusing him for not hanging
JEFF Davis. The motive for this attack Is not
at first obvious, in the face OF the fact that the
radicals have been In favor Of letting Jeff 20
and that the radical Chief Justice declines to
try him. What is the matteri IL JEFF Davis
"wanted- in Satandom, or Is this merely the
text for Garrison's endorsement Of the favorite
radical plan for encouraging crime by "abol-
ishing forever the gallows In this country, in
all cases whatsoever'r The resurrccted orator
then ranted about the Presidents sober
scnscs"--an allusion intended 10 be severe
and called upon Congress TO resist him, "come
what may" He accused the President Of "dis-
regard Of the constitution, disunionism in spirit
and design, and wish to prevent and over
turn free government" Growing hotter a. the
Internal frcs ragged In his veins, he spoke Of
the Presidents recent address - remarkable
for dts indecency, bombast, malignisy and
reasonable leanIngs," and declared that for
this speech President johnson sought 70 be In
dictsd by the House Of Representative, tried by
the Senate and dismissed from ONCE" We are
Aslonished that Satan IL 10 cautious Why not
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