Gerrit Smith And Thurlow Weed

Mr. Smilh says that he met with his 'oíd friend Thurlow Weed,' the columns of whose paper 'show that he is on the side of slave'! Mr. Weed is the editor of the AlbanyEvening Journal; and we copy a sentence or two from the latest article we have sent from his pen, on the subject of slavery, to Ilústrate his friendliness to our cause. After copying into his paper the nonsensicnl declaration of the editor of the New Orleans Picayune, that 'if a man desires tomake slavery perpetual, the chenpest way to accomplish that object would be for him to contribute an annual sum to keep the abolitionists in motion,' the friendly Mr. Weed says, 'there is more truth and good sense in this senïence, than we usually find compressed into five lines. Ultra abolition hos grently aggravated the horrors of slavery (!) - The most invetérate oppressors of the African race hive found their best auxiliaries in the mad and reckless teachings of Garrison and Birney, &c. &c.' Only think of Gernt Smith puffing such a man and such a paper as being on the side of the