The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-06-19

fofE bEECnEH ON THE CHEyALIER WEBB
Pope Henry Ward Beeeher, Of the Independent
gracefully throws the mautle of CHRISTIAN cha
rity end brotherly love over the shoulders O.
the Chevalier Webb, and 1t fits him like new
shirt. Speaking of the Courier and Enquirer,
Father Beecher says:-"It has outlived its Ole
reputation fer venali'y and seryility to South
ern demagoguisu, and has attained position Of
high respectability and conservative morality"
But bow has il "outlived its old reputation
for venalify?' Has the Chevaler Webb really
become a saint in these latter days. No; b.
he has "outIived his old reputation for venali
y" simply because bspks, spectators, stack
jobb+rs snd lobbyjobbers have discovered that
his services don't begin to pay expenses. Thsts
all. Take, for example, the late Congressional
'free wool' Investigation. The Chevaler Webb
scented out, somehow or other, that Lawrence
Stone Il Go. had set apart large "fiee wool
fund fer lobby purposes And did the Chevalier
wait to be called ons Not bit of it. lie put
In his bid-he fled his petition with Mr.. Stone
for a large slice Of this lobby fund The Chevs-
lier was going to Washington-he was going 10
take house there for the session-he was going
to cut a large figure there in the iobby--he
was in favor of " free woodland If Lawrence,
Stone Il Co. would only advance the cash for
the house rent, the fish, the oysters, turkeys,
chickens, roas: beef, venison, wines, bran
dies, seears, confectionery, music, &C., the
Chevalier Webb would give a succession Of
splendid lobby entertainments, for the express
purpose of convincing members of Congress Of
the wisdom of 'free wool" policy. But here
The Chevalier Webb "outlived his old reputa-
ton for yepality' simply because Lawrence,
Stone &Co. had 'no money to dispose of in that
way" Otherwise he would have given them,
most likely, specimen of venality to the tune
OF at least fftytwo thousand dollars for bis
Stree WOOL lobby services.
But Pope Beeeher says that having "outlived
his old reputation for venality," the Cheyaiier's
improvement is largely due to the infusion
into his columns Of a positive sympathy with
human freedom That means Uncle Tom, or
niger sympathy Of the niger worshipping
school. But VIC suspect that if the Cheyalier
Webb we're to inherit from some benevolent
STAKEHOLDER the bequest of dozen 'likely ne
groee," bis positive sympathy with human
freedom" would soon be illustrated in the sim
PIE process Of the conversion Of said negroes
into hard cash, whereby his positive sympathy"
for good eating and drinking might be satisfied.
The stomach Of the Chevalier Is the ultimatum
of al his sympathies for banks, bankrupt laws,
"free WOOL "human freedom" and eve
ry thing else; yea, verify, oil varieties
of fish, flesh and fowl, principles and sympa-
thies, with the Chevalier Webb finally settle
down into his stomach. 1t is very great thing
for man with such stomach to outlive his
"old reputation for venality,'
Best Of all, however, Pope Beecher Gays that
at affords us much satisfaction to state
that one of the two morning journals Of COM
merce in this city, can safely be read in Christian
families" There Is some comfort in this assur-
ance; and we may add another, to wit: that 80
long as the Chevalier Webb can beg or borrow
o few thousands or few hundreds he will
never scsndalize the Christian families" Of the
Fifth avenue, or any other avenue, with .
butchers bill Of seven dollars a month. His
positive sympathy" with his stomach would
scorn such pitifui allowance Of pork, beef and
mutton.
WHAT CONSTITUTES MunpER.-Thc cases of
Lally and other homicides who have recently
been tried In Brooklyn and this city are calcu-
lated to lead to an inquiry whether there is any