The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-12-31
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chat it would be OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
lators iurglog Mr.. Smith to invest (Which Mr..
SAITH was 100 Wise to dol in some 'patent
r,pht,,; aud q variety of Indians Of the
tribes bis fathcr had traded with. The poor
Tptiians and Che negroes he always aided. TO
the latter lie gave caahto pthem on their
runaway route, anathe former ne burthened
with food. GERRrT1 SMITH and his Abolition,
friends owed both The Indians and the me-
groes great deal. ~-,W While JOHN, JACOB AS
TOR and the elder Smith Tor ScHMpT) Were
growing rich BY probably cheating the In
dams Of their speltries the fathers Of the
Yankee Abolitionists were stealing Africans
and selling them into slavery in tnis coun-
try. 73 ,5!. sai ~ '.
At one period of his life he eatered into q
correspondence with GEORGE FrzHUaa, OF
Caroline county, In this State, who was
relative of Hrs. SAITH ME-. FlTzuuaH was
q, casuist, given to discussion OF national
questions. He hammered his logic upon Ar.
SMITH with ponderous weight, but not at all
to the amendment OF bis views. SIXTH
treated Ri. FITzHUau with marked consid'
Grafton and friendship, but yielded not at
all 10 ssis uuanswerabie arguments. 1t may
be that the disappointment Of our venerable
friend FIrzHuGH drove him to that sweeping
ventilation of his'yieWs styled " Cannibals
] tAA7'aa ,,al,sn.Gz3 800 90"
Y MFR. sxIrH lived to see slavery abolished
/ and, sadly for him, be lived to see It followed
!. IAy troubles be never dreamed of. And he
! also lived to call the party that chiefly direct
II ed the abolition Of slavery towards fol
not doing all that bis mad fancy deemed ne
4 cessary to the liberation of the African ant
Il bis equality with the white man in this coun
i try. His frame of MIND could not have beer
I entirely serene at the close of his long life o
!. seventy-eight years, seeing that all the goot
= be had sought had brought not equality Il
= the African. O., such equality as he hat
/. dreamed of. He died in New York, on Mon
day, of apoplexy, at the house of Genera
JOIN CocHRAsE, who, it seems, was his ne
Iphew. He leaves two, .children-GEEEN
:. SMITH, of peterboro', the family home, ant
Mrs. ELIzABErH MILLER, the wife OF Colone
l. MILLER, of Geneva.
GERRIT SMITH was one of the most-bitte
!, enemies of the South. 1t is matter OF in
terest to consider him as one of the primer
;, pal national disturbers who wrought reVo
luton, furious and destructive, which ia
;. left the country legacy of evils that year
:. will be necessary to eradicate. "
=, GERR1r SMITH was an honest, hospitaole
= amiable, gentle, and accomplished man Il
private life. IN his philanthropy he ha
> co0peration from the descendants of tn
slave-traders on the high seas, who bough
;" negroes in Africa with New England rur
and conveyed them by the "middle passage,
e the most horrible form Of cruelty and bru
. tality ever practised by people in this coun
. try. Having the widest and most errati
. people as well as host of mere adventurer
for his auxilaries, his success would hay
been limited had not the sordid politician
:, Joined him and his mottled army merely t
get their votes. This accession gave then
success and let loose upon this land storr
. the fearful consequences of which have car
: ried trouble and disaster to every section 0
the Union. -
vi bile it would have been better for hi
country had GERRIr SMITH never lived, tn
=. general feeling will be that the grave hide
y all unkindness for his memory.