Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1862-12-12

The HISS OF GREAT CoPPERHEAD.-The
New York Word on Saturday last, contain
ed the following as editorial. 1t may rank
in the class of A No. l, as a sample Of cop
perhead falsehoOd and maleyolence. exhaliuG
poison from every line
"oYLY FEW THOUSAND"
In the apotheosis Of fifteen inch guns aaI lit
any Of battle and murder which the irreyeTend
Mr.. Beecher delivered to his hilarious audience
on Thanksgiving Day as a sermon drawn from the
Gospel Of Peace, that purloiner Of the prophets
and perverter Of the Palms, commenting % tie
losses Of our army by disease, exclaimed IT Is
true that q few have fallen this year, but nov
few - The brutal recklessness Of human lie IN
consciously revealed il this jOcurd ejaculation is
happily illustrated b. the just Published report
Of the aijgtan. general, which gives the fright
ful number Of over one hundred thousand lien as
now lying in the hospitals. II we strike from this
aggregate the total Of those wounded il battle, the
difference would probably be made up again at
once by tie scattered victims Of disease contrast
ed in the fed and in tie camp, H-0 are nov
wearing their sad lives away, helpless and suffer
ing il the homes which looked to them, tW9 short
years ago, for help and cheer ans strength.
Running our computation back from this actua-
aggregate through the proportional probabilities
Of disease and dta.h as indicated by this report,
and verified from other SOURCES n the las; ycars
history Of our armies, shall find that tie num-
her Of the men over whose graves this clerical
mountebank executed his iu5ilaut iandango il
fully equal 10 that Of the whole living population
Of the city in which lie dwells. GLOW few they
are ~ This comfortable shout-Tita a rhet5ri-
cal flourish over the tomb Of a major general as
the one loss really worth his while to mentions
81 ~ rh This clerical 4
rolls out from his pu pit ior myrads Of brave anu
LOYAL Americans sacrificed IN a war precipltaied
BY the madness Of such as he, and pro;racted ~
the soIdid iEcapacity Of men whom such as lie
have helped 10 hoist into power only that they
might thereafter stun them into more than aa.-
ural imbeciiity.
To every mourning household IN the lani,
commend this practical example Of radical phi
Iauthropy.7 It deserves arc will reward Eete'
tiOa.
We were sure that the writer u the d owe
had grossly perverted the import %. tie ser
tsnce from Mr.. BeccAer's sermon, which he
had taken as a text tor his abuse-that he
had omitted something essential to tie
sense, OF had directly fals.d-l Mr.. Baechci's
language. The venom which is brea.hod
out from every line Of the Hgra's para
graph, was enough 10 tel. US that, even il
we were unmindful Of tie daily misse1-c=-,.-
tations which are - Le aaui ia tha; an
E.incilled sheet But We Lad some curiosity
70 see what Mr. Be.cher lii 4c:ul ly say
and mean and therefore We turned TO the
report Of his Thanksgiving sermon, in the
New York Independent. Of which Mr.. Beech
er is himself the editor. anu found oar COM
fieuce Of herascllity Of the man who mace
the slanderous attack on him verifed--vln
to degree which We had not looked for.
Taking f9r his tevt the account Of the
casting out Of a dumb spirit from young
man, as given in Max TX: 25, p, Mr..
Beecher in his introduction I.keued the
struggles Of tie demon of slavery, now in
process Of being cast out Of the body polite
Of our nation, to those Of the foul f=ul
spoken Of in the scripture. AlycgtiuE taen
to the call for US to j0il in Thanksgiving
and the feeling Of iaany who SAG
esWhat have we to be thankful for Tlounuis CT
families are in mourning. A great nation Il beat
Ing itself with war-bl1ws. Livery day, taxes Ike
emerging coral reefs, are Swallowing the waters,
and hemming Us u. Business IL disturbed. The
nation is in con-ulsigas. Foreign peoples are
looking On, z,me in sympathy, some doubtful
and some saying, eagerly, Liberty Is dead -
q" Is this time say many, "ioT Thanksgiving
lie remarks that none the I,s= are there
great reasons Tor thanksgiving. and be pro-
ce- is to eaumerate some u them. The frs,
of those is e. the prevalence Of 4lmls; uli-
varsal health throughout tLe whole Loyal
North, almost without exc option" N9t
only Sd. but Sic .c7arge ot the South, ,1e
yellow fever, winch So often in the summer
months sends death and wiiliHs through TIE
Southern se4b5ar5 cities, las scarcely le5n
fel, Ure is the passage.
D.. Fog continuous months, ana cr-- since Ills
mighty struggle began, 20 icsola-ils Iesl.ence,
40 wasting disease, Aas been among US. It b 80
lie noted. Zoo. that Coz two years t-s urge l- tic
tropics las been mostly wi-4hcil This IS Tie
greater mercy, since our uua--iinati soldiers
/ have been open % its invisible sword, wllcL 20
skill can parry, and lo shield can ward Oh. II b
/ true that this year lew have lallcni but Low
! few Among them WAS the ardent and o-tLusi-
astic Mitchell, who died at his post, in the ripe
ness Of years, with his arm0r On, and fortunate
| thrice fortunate, that the d0or Of heaven opened
TO him. not from among the stars, where be loved
/ to wander, but from among Christ poor and help
I less disciples, whom be was beginning g. teach
/ inspire, instruct, and defend.
The clause which the malignant ibeilcl
in tie World represents as a Isht-hearted
Jolly expression Of d '' clerical mountebark
over the many thousands who have already
persisted or are yet among the suffering from
disease IL the vast armies Of the nation. hai
no possible reference except to the few
who have died from yslio,C tersr-of whom
the gallant Gen. Mitchell was one.-anj t.
our duty to be thankful that that dreadful
scourse Of the tropics had been 50 litt'
felt for the las. two years. OF c5urs
the World did 10: blanier into this misr-
presentation. It could no. DO 90. It cJul,
not find its text without reading the para
graph which proved its commentary to be ,
lie from beginning to end,-a lie told io
the very purpose Of poisoning the minds o
/ thos, whom 1t believed would never see Il
passage which it invested with its own ma
liguant and deyilish gloss.