The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-07-21
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the benefit d Henry Ward Beecher's pc
litical lucuI nations. The Independent
has every week given US sermon unex-
ceptionably orthodox and earnest, bat so
far az nationa issues are concerned, these
have been as4uiet as Beecher's worst en-
smies could lave desired, two years ago.
When he deserted his lifelong comrades,
and went over to the support of "My
Policg,'' be must have placed unbounded
confidence il his great personal popular
i:y; and wheh he reaped the fruit of his
folly, in the teprobation aud indignation
of ali honest men, and the aduIatiOn Of
man stealers, no wonder that his spirit,
greedy Of appreciation, was stuDg and
shamed into silence. Too proud to with
draw from The position be has assumed
he once more enters the field in behalf of
johnson, but he does it with trembling
voice and hesitaling step. The last num-
Der of the independent contains one of
his sermons, on the text, Overcome evil
with good" of which we quote part of
the closing words:
81 am aware that have not been very
popular among my people during the past
year. Ny position in public affairs has
not carried my friends with me. am
sorry for their sake. The
doctrine which has been propounded by
Mr.. Stevens, in Congress, regard to
be the doctrine of Belial. The i0orst doc
trine Of which I can conceive, dwelling in
a Christian land, is the doctrine advocat-
ed by him, and / thank God, by only a
few others. The true Christian course
was to have kept union between the Pres.
ident aud Congress, and instantly to have
made such propositions of change as could
have been effected without delay. restor-
ing to their original status all parts Of the
Union. | feel that il
was great mistake that such course
was not pursued"
Good bye to Henry Ward Beecher
He has dug his own grave and broken
his own sceptre. He talks as if the man
ly stand which Congress has made in be-
half of the freedmen, were dictated by
mere sentiment of spite and revenge.
The spirit of Stevens and Sumner is "the
worst be can conceive of"-"Lhe doc
trine of Belial'-Worse than that which
instigated the sack of Lawrence, the MUIR
der of Lincoln, the butchery of 10000
helpless prisoners in the dens at Sails
bury and AndersonVille, we must sup
pose! The brave men who for many
years have stood beside Beecher in oppo.
sition to the aggressions of slavery, are
denounced as worse than Forrest. Wirz,
and Quantrell. We should have except
union between Congress and the Presi-
dent"-that is, to bow our necks in meek
submission, while the renegade now acct
dentally in the Executive chair, rides
rough-shod over law and liberty, and
hands over the Government to Southern
felons once more! Mr.. Beecher knows
better than to so denounce the highest
Christian sentiment of the North. The
magnificent rhetoric which he wasted up
on the reprobate John Mitchell, few
years ago, applies, with startling accuracy,
to his own case to-day. Plymouth
Church has become the haunt of the
"chivalry," who beslaver its pastor with
praise through the columns of rebel news
papers. If its income amounts to S4O,-
900 next year, as it did the last, we shall
be wofully mistaken. What Mr.. Beech
er's motives are, no one can tell; perhaps,
weary of the pulpit. he sought political
honors also. However this may be, he
must repent, and do the former works, or
his candlestick will be removed out of it's
place. If he continues ia his present
course, his record, if written at all, will
be written beside that of Arnold and An
draw johnson. He may be acting from
the most purely Christian motives; but
from our Kansau stand point, it is hard
to recognize them as such.