Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-18
Nr. Beeeher in Great Eri;aia.
Prom the New YORK Times.7

Every loyal American, whatever his opin-
ions respecting the past words and acts of
Henry Ward BeeChCr, will thank him for his
work across the water. 1t is no exaggera-
ton to affirm that the FIVE speeches he has
deIyered-in Manchester Glasgow Edin-
burgb, Liverpool and London-each pursuing
its own line OF argument and appeal, have
done more for our cause in England and
Scotland than all that has been before said
or written. Mr.. Beecher possesses the facul-
ty, beyond any other living American. OF
combining close, rapid, powerful practical
reasoning with intense passion. His mind IS
always aglow with his subject, and whatever
comes from it, even if it does not flash con
viction, is almost sure to kindle sympathy
This combined with his marvellous power Of
Observation-Disclosures alike for its intense
viyidness and its unerring pcrtinency-and
with his great fexibility, whereby he adapts
himself completely to the exigency of the in
slant, gives him a rare command over com
mon audience. Even those who hate can't
help admiring, and those most steeled with
prejudice have to vince in spite of them
selves.
No better proof of the power of Mr. Beech
er's eloquence need be had, than the immense
efforts made by the rebel sympathsers, after
his first speech, to shut his lips by force
The streets of every city where he was to
speak, were placarded with the foulcst abuse
of him the newspapers were filled with
raiIIery and sneers the halls where he was
to speak, were packed with gangs of rOwdies
in broadcloth and fustian, whose business it
was to browbeat, and If possible, silence him.
Every available resort was used to stimulate
the mob against him; or, if the mob could not
be raised, at least to crush him with public
cOntumelv. Nothing but the fear Of him, or
rather of the truths ceming from his lips,
could have raised the tempest Of opposi-
ton.
And vet how well he sustained himself 1t
was a grand spectacle-in st. Georges Hall,
Liverpool-when he struggled two livelong
hours against that raging sea of insult, taunt,
irony, impairment questioning, blackguard-
ism, curses, Kisses, cat-calls, stampings boot
ings, yellings-eyery possible NANTES alton of
hate, every possible form Of disorder-a brave
sight, we say, this strong winged bird of the
storm matching his might against it-now
soaring up to overcome it--nOw sinking down
20 undermine it-nOw dashing in its teeth
now half cholled in the gust of its fury, but
always moving onward, and in the end riding
triumphant on the very crest Of its widest
pillows. There has not been Ii more heroic
achievement on any of our fields Of battle
than the successful delivery of that speech
against the odds which opposed it.
ana the last speech at Exeter nan, NBicN
We published notwithstanding that Slave
ry was the only cause and the whole cause of
this gigantic and cruel war-how magnificent
II and how completely did it sweep down all
the sophistries, and the whole mass of rub
bi>h with which the SecesSiOnists have clog
geG British thought. And with what sublim-
ity Of utterance did he proclaim to those
Britains the spirit that animates the hearts of
true Americans in regard to maintaining this
war:
standing By my cradle, standing by my
hearth, standing by the altar OF the Church,
standing by all the places that mark the name
and memory of heroic men who poured their
blood and lives for principle, declare that in
ten or twenty years of war we viii sacrifice
everything we have for principle. TCheers I
If the love Of popular liberty is dead in Great
Britain, you will not understand US but if
the love of liberty lives as it once lived and
has worthy successors of those renowned men
that were our ancestors as much as yours and
whose examples and principles we inherit to
make fruitful, as so much seed-cOrn in q new
and fertile land-then you viii understand
or firm, i7tUiaci5le detaminatio1-d,cp as III,
SEA, firm as mountains Jaa calm rs tie Hearen,
ADORE uS-to right Ills 'rar Hr ,lqh at al hazard,
and at every cost" Immense cheering, accom-.
panied with a few Kisses.
L MS ldcl speech " a. blilA cIi-hJiA lHtcIIlb'
ted. 1t was listened to by the vast thrOng,
not only with respect and good nature, not
only with good viii and appreciation, but with
unbounded enthusiasm and no orator Of the
day has ever received such an ovation as avail
tel Mr.. BEECHER at its close. He had the
people completely with him. The eloquence
which had been withstood in the towns with
such desperate fury now eliminated IL the
metropolis in most glorious triumph.
1t Is plain, from the whole tone of the Brit
iSh Press, that Mr.. BEEcHER has been instru-
mental in starting, orat least in Fastening, a
complete revolution of the popular feeling of,
the kingdom in favor of our National cause.
He is the man who ought to have been sent
TO England two years ago TO enlighten and
rouse the people. Had this been done, he
could have hardly failed Of preventing vast
deal of that bitterness which has since, all
the while, been fermenting between the two
nations