The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-24
= with good
Still overcoming evil and by small
AccCmplishes great thIngs and worldly aims -

Acccmplishes great things and worldly aims"
BY these means the path of progress would
have been travelled more slowly, but we should
have reached the mark more surely and N IRE
safely. Many hundreds OF thousands OF lives
none know how many--would have been spared.
We should have saved vast expenditures OF that
monev which should be so contemplate a consi-
deration in the hands of HIM who has plenty of
it, but is so truly important to the daily laborer
whose toll it represents, and who is now con-
demned to work longer for less food, less cloth
ing, and higher rents, and lower position in the
social SCALE The negro himself has not so far
been protited by the sudden change. Mr..
Beecher we believe expressed al opinion that ten
years must elapse before the material condition
of the former slave would be greatly improved.
But all these issues are those of the past. We
cannot recall them if we would. They are dead
and have no life in them. Let then, the dead
bury their dead" All legislation is tor the future
only, and it should profit by the experience and
lessons of the past.
We have sincere pleasure in observing the
moderation and practical wisdom of Mr.
Bcecher on the real questions of the present
times. 1t ls true he still clings to certain pecu-
harly Yankee notions, more than we think is
correct IN reason or useful IN Its tendency. 1t
certainly served his purpose with his audience
| to assure them OF their great and remarkable
| intelligence. 1t is quite the common custom OF
| legal advocates, in addressing a jury, to con-
| gratulate themselves publicly on having hearers
| so peculiarly intelligent. No other universal
| dodge endears pleader so tenderly to the hearts
OF his hearers, and soothes their reason so gently
| into acquIescence with his appeals. So many
! men would rather be told they are shte Wd,
astute, and knowing than that they are honest,
| Virtuous, religious; but when Mr.. Beecher
! ascribes the great prosperity OF this nation to
| its Intelligence without recognizing, by SO
| much as one word, the i'm mense resources which
Providence, not Our own cuteness or smartness,
| has placed at our disposal, he teaches men that
wisdom in their own conceit" which Is pro-
verbally untavorable to any high degree OF in
| telligence.
Mr.. Beecher, we are sure cannot fail to see
| the error of Sir Morton Peto, who, on his re-
turn to England, cooily advised the people of
his native country to ''imitate the resources" of
the United States. 1t would be well, certainly
Tor that nation to manufacture chain or two of
lakes like those on our northern frontier. Its
prosperity would be much increased by creating
three or four territories of rich land IKE linois
two or three adequate and appropriate rivers,
and few hundred miles of Rocky Mountains
full OF gold and silver, and locating them in the
middle of their little island. 1t would be well
done If il were done quickly. VIII any "ntell-
GENT New EnglandeT undertake the contract !?
| If it could be done either in France, Germany, or
England, the prosperity OF those countries would
be greatly increased And yet we have all these
temporal blessings, and far more than these, to
aid prosperity, with little exercise Of our own
intelligence" and far too often with ut best a
dim and imperfect recognition of the Superior
Intelligence which made them all aud gave them
to us.
But we cannot regard Mr.. Beccher with any
prejudice. We will not stop to inquire whether
own nature, or Christian principles, that he now
heartily advocates the happiness, honor, and
welfare of our common country, and wisely and
honorably yields, In some degree, his own
opinions and his own wishes, in certain partcu.
lars to n better and stronger desire for the well
fare and genuine union of the nation.
Mr.. Beecher boldly proclaimed his own de-
, sire for the extension OF suffrage, not only "a
all men, but also to all wOmen-meaning o
course ell women as we'll as men of every
color, though this was implied rather thar
elaborately asserted in his discourse believing
the exclusion OF the ''gentler and purer SEX
to be relic of bygone and barbaric ages. The
freedmen, too. should have all the rights o
right Of suffrage. "But," said Mr.. Beecher in
one of his confidential and impressive whispers
t 'shall we insist upon that Is it now toC
| lateT'
"If l." said he, with one of those humorou
] shrugs and intoDa'ions which would have mad
!. his fortune IN apother line of life which is no
Q popular in New Eneland, "had been President
9 would have done differently But as he woul
n not be President he would submit, for the SAX
!, OF aiding the cause of peace and the welfare @
n the South. And then Mr. Beecber led of in on