The weekly Butte record., 1863-12-12
Letter from the East.
THREE Rivers, Nov. Q, 1868.

DEAR Rgc0gD:
This is dark, stormy day-a day of snow
squalls, hail and sleet-as unlike as possible
from one week ago, the date Of my lost letter
The Indian sammer is ended. winter is upon Is.
We can calculate upon very little more good
weather here for months to come. though we
may have some yet. for 10 one. not even Ryan,
can predict with certainty, what the weather
sill be three days ahead in Michigan So
sudden are the changes, even DOW while the
ink is yet wet upon the poper, the sun looks in
laughiugly upon NY desk, and is as suddenly
shrouded in gloom.
Bnswhy talk of the weather when ones
country is bleeding at every pore. What
thoogh the chilling blasts Of winter shall reach
many with his icy fingers, and pinch SO hard
that they may never wake, it will undoubtedly
be nothing in comparison with the loss of life
caused BY one slight skirmish where only one
hundred on our side are killed Only one hun
dred killed. only one hundred homes p.de
dosolate-only one hundsed more families
thrown upon the cold charities Of the world.
Oh, would to God We had the power TO stav
the shedding Of iratorFal blood, to ouie. the
excited brain ard cool the heated blood that
drives its victims on to such fearful ends Rea-
son lS dethroned. Passion rules TIE hour
Fanaticism, blinded By avariee and love of
power has full and complete control of the
heart CT the nation. The spell may yet be
broken. The patient is rot yet exhausted, but
must be goaded on to still greater cOntortious.
Witness the result of the late elections The
raving Of the radical press and orators, all
crying for more blood more blood So
march on by platoons of 100000 men, and ill
up the depleted ranks of the Northern and
Southern armies. Let the collision be quick
and powerful. Let the crimson tide flow deep
AID rapid, until it shall engulf the life of the
nation. Then the fragments will be gathered
up by foreign potentates, and our epitaph shall
read "a house that was divided against ITSELF"
The conversion Of the Northern States to
the radical abolition policy being completed,
Henry Ward Beecher has taken it upon HIM
self to convert to the abolition faith the people
of Europe. He does not, however, get on
quite so smoothly as lie anticipated The
Rector Of the principal Church in Liverpool
returned complimentary ticket to bis lecture
with severe re5uke to all political Parsons.
He also met with rebuff at Glasgow. A few
more such disciples will make the world believe
that the North are the real secessionists. But
Beecher is one of those extreme men who
brought on the war, and who can be found in
the pulpit, the rostrum, on the stump, in fact,
almost anywhere, except in the army. They
have left that TO be filed with innocent vic.
Tins. The Liverpool Courier says:
"Mr. Ward Beecher has been giving another
of his iervid orations at Glasgow. Ii was a
good deal interrupted by the expressions of
feeling on the part of the advocates of the
South, and ludricous conflict arose when the
reverend gentlemau propheced a return Of the
South to the Union. Never, lever !" was
shouted by d hundred stentorian voices, which
was met by the same answer; and so the two
comblttants went on for some time, for all the
world like two 9larrelsome children in a nurse
ry. Mr.. BeecheI's fervor is equalled only by
his iHaccuracy. He declared, for instance, that
the Washington government was perfectly
ready TO gse up the Southern Commissioners.
and that it was therefore ungenerous for US to
have threatened the United States with war
in the time of her trial. Mr. Beecher carefully
forgot that the commissioners were detained
prisoners until the news arrived in New York
o5 the despatch OF the Guards, aud that more
than one member Of the Washington Cabinet
declared that tie north would never surrender
the prisoners. and that " likes was the hero Of
the day and publicly feted and thanked for his
bravery. Like most tervid orators Mr.. Beech
er Is more fluent than logical. At the close Of
his address, a gentleman in the body of the
room completely posed bin by reading clause
from the United States Constitution, in which
slavery Is made legal. and by asking whether
Mr. Beecher and his friends were contendng
ict the old constitution or 4 new one. If for
the first they must be coutendug for slavery;
If they were fighting for the second, they had
no right 10 complain of the South for following
the same course We need scarcely say that
Mr.. Beecher's attempt to answer the question
lef' him completely impaled upon the horns OF
this cruel dilemma
Beecher is doing the Union cause the same
kind Of service that Exeter Hall has been do
ing for years. He appears amorg the aboli-
tionists of Exeter Hall and rehashes tc them
the diatribes against he people Of The United
States, ana the government Of the Uuited
States, which their orators years before the
rebellion broke out regaled them with No
truly patriotic or American heart would ia
foreisa country, and among the hereditary en-
ellies Of his people, malign and denounce his
government as Beecber has done IN England
His denunciaiious are no; coaGaed to the reb-
els. He attacks iudiscrimiua,ey the history
Of the government for the past thirty years,
and describes it as being in every department
rotten ard corrupt 1t is duty bird that
fouls lis own nest and Beecher is now engag-
ed il that dirty work.
His2ory has but repeated itself since the
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