Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-29
BEECHER IN SCOTLAND.
The London Times ON the Religion
OF the Radicals.
LOO the Lonaon rIme.. oc.ober

Wari Beecher Oh absttining during hi residence
in England from addressing public meetings or
handling controversial topics, has not been proof
against his zest. his love Of notoriety, or his de
sire of no longer keeping under a bu-hel that
tight Of which he believes himself the appointed
holder and dispenser. " A man that Is Chris
tian," according o. Mr. Ward Beecher, ''is in |
Blossom" ana Mr. Beecher has been biossOming /
so long that il Is time he should bring forth lrut
after hi kind. He processes himself an imtatUr
OF the Author OF Christianity. "Wherever there
Is want or sorrow or suffering. there j. 4 beei;"
and the only question with the Rev. Mr. Ward
Beecher i. eau supply hl' IL religion Is
love. Even Temperance and abotiouSm are not
enough for him; he requires something more
Lave is his principle, and the power of saying
things that folks need and don't want i his
practice Such is the amitble being who has
come among Us. and, as there seems 10 he but a
scanty supply OF love, sympathy, and such
Christian graces in America at this moment, We
rejoice greatly that this gifted man has conde-
scended To brelk his Of silence, and a
meeting of the Friends of Temperance. at the
Golden Hotel Glasgow. has given Us all the Op
pOrtunitv of approaching the manner in which
what is passing IN America can be recOnciled with
the theory aud practice of the Christian religion
Mr. Ward Beet her was driven 10 mike an
admission which should be taken note of bv
every uerson who wishes TO understand the
We have been In the habit of supposing that
the party OF which Mr Beecher j. the apostle
and the ornament were actu tied in their support
of a var policy BY sympathy for the negro race:
that. If their hands are stained with OOd, the
motives of this bloodshed though Overstrained
aud f,natical pure and that worldly
ambition. no national pride, no lust for dominion
mingled itself with the convictions which have
led them to call aloud for fresh sacrifces TO re-
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field and 10 adopt policy OF determination. Ac
cording u Mr. Beecher we are entirely mistaken
The first object was the restoration of the Union:
the abolition Of slavery aft sr thou. Int
Rebels became 81 potent, and their aims So
Alarming. that the President obliged to have
recourse 10 the crushing of the rebellion by abOl
ishing slavery, which stuck right into the heart
OF the enemy" What. then. was the war made
| for? elf there is any feeling ia own country
as extensive rs the atmosphere, AS deep as the
/ ocean as immOvable a. the mountains 1t is this:
that our ration shall not De cut in two; we will
rather give the last child we have-the last penny
we possess Ii there be thing count "a
decree of God il is that the Union shall stand for
| God and liberty. We love our
country: it Is religion to 10 so" We now begin
10 have little more insight into Mr.. Beecher's
doctrines of love and sympathy We understand
very clearly thlt the preservation OF the Union is
/ love is not tor his fellow men: his sympathy is
not for human sorrow or human suffering; the
spirit with which he believes himself 10 be filled
and which he considers To tie divine. ne diGnihes
BY the name of love OF country. What he un
derstands by country" we know not; he cannot
mem the mere soil of the merican Union for
there is no danger that IL will pass away. what
ever may become Of the furious antagonists who
tear each other pieces on its surface; he cannot
| naaa thp pf 4 m he would
inhict on them without fnchlng every injury that
| human ingenuity can devise; would sacrifice the
/ North bv hundreds OF thousands the battle
field for the sake Of confSciting the whole prop
erty of the South, burning their cities. making
their homes desoate and their fields desert. in
| order that the survivors of the sword and the
prescription may beg their bread iC foreign lands
as monuments of the vengeance of their vciorl
Gus brethren This ne calls preserving the
Union for God and liberty; and We shall
believe him when he can persuade US
that the Gre,t Being, who is forever in
his mouth, and who he seems to think has Oh
rectly inspired all the follies and crimes Of the
/ American civil war, recognizes the lust OF do
minlOn rs the paramount motive OF humIn con
duet. and all things lawful that tend 10 crafty
that passion. aud when he can show Us that The
cause of liberty is promoted by overthrowing
free government in the North in order TO i'm
poverish To- expatriate destroy FIVE million
men in the South In what page Ot the Bible
was it ever written that the preventing one large
community from dividing into two "a cause 80
holy and sacred that for the sake of it every COM
imminent OF the Decalogue, every Drecept in
| the GOSPEL NAV be lawfully violated and set ut
detiinceg 1t Is unhappily no new thing for men
TO extenuate the evil means which they use by
the goodness Of the ends which they seek. We
can listen with patience To a statesman who
| seeks to demonstrate that the unity OF the Amer
lean republic is an object of such para mount i'm
portance that ali sacrifice must be made TO at
tain IT, We can listen TO any one except a min
lister of religion who blasphemou-ly tells u IN II
this purely secular end-the maintenance of the
American Unions religious end; tina, it sane
titles the means in the sight of Got: that those
who offer no their children to this MolOch OF
merely humtn pride AMI ambition are T. be
Ikened Abrthi m offering un Isaac. ami that
the sorrows of nation thus atf cted resemble
the woe of the garden of GerhSentue. Sill less
are these things eudurtbIe when they are inter
spersed with the ml>t comm nnlace rem rkS Oh
paper currency. the e OF the Trent the gar
rsoning OF Cmain, and we know not how
many other trivial and entirely secular subjects.
This my be the manner ia which The enthuSI-
asm of the American people j. influenced and
supporfei but we believe H. + lgil>h audience
ctn possibly listen - such language with any
other feeling IN IN that of DISGUST II - not "A
question of good taste: IL j. not even CUES
ton of the familiar introduction Of the most
sacred names and most venerated associations
into the arena of party politics. IL i something
far worse than all this. Ii i the deliberately
setting up. not as an object of worldly ambition,
but of religious worship aud devotional venera-
ton. that extravagapt unity and desire of over
whemng power which has long been the main.
spring OF American politics. but which is never
theleSs not more opposed to sound views OF ma
tonal happiness than it j. to the first principles
of the meek humble and peaceful religion with
which 1t seekS "a identity itself To say that
IN Mr. Bee hers view the preservation OF the
Union ! an article f religious belief, l. to do
sem Justice To Nj Beechers views The pres
ervafion OF the Union. according TO him, IL 80
paramount - ,ctrine o; Christianity that rather
than IL >houli be violated, every other principle
OF the religion nav he lawfully set aside The
truth - thtt NJ " lrd Beecher and his brother
wtr Christians are the inventors and propigaiors
of new beliei-religion will not call it-and
may take their place accordingly The formula
of their creed IS simply enough. The Union IS
one aud indivlsibie and Mr Ward Brecher Is us
prophet II Won ak for the evidence ct faith
which seems intended So entirely 10 Supersede the
spirit and precepts OF Christianity, the answer i
the a. 3 r. OF Mahnmet-the sword The belief
i true because Mr Beecher aad hi associates
are prepared u extermiIrtte FIVE million human
beings y no uenv H. IL certainly has not derry Ell
much edfcatiOn from It's prophets: but. on the
other hand il has been beyond almost any reiig
ion on record. fertile in MARTYRS. At the present