Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-18
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Our reporters have furnished us with the
abstract of an address said to have been de-
livered in Brooklyn last evening by Henry
Ward Beecher, In which the Democratic
party Is scandalously abused, and the people
urged to vote the Radical ticket at the COM
ing election. Although our employees gen
orally understand their business, must we
not believe that this time they are mistaken,
aud that they have been humbugged by
some impudent impostor who has assumed
| Mr.. Beecher's name to iDjure his good re-
| pute among honest men of all parties!
Any one who has read the letter to the
| Cleveland Convention, and the subsequent
one to the congregation of Plymouth
Church, will see that the same person couiu
not be the author of the address We give
elsew here. This last seems to us the most
| ingeniously cruel and malicious attack ever
made uDon the reputation of public man.
| When Bennett whirls about nc. one is sur
prlsed, for he aims no higher than to De a
weathercock; when Raymond trims, IL Is
considered a matter of course; Dut Mr.
Beecher is supposed to be governed by
higher motives, and what would be Venlal
In them is infamous in him.
Just look at his position. A Christian
minister of great talents and influence, VINO
first followed, then led the rising tide OF
public feeling against African slavery, sees
that, after desolating war, his country
men are disposed to forget the teachings OF
magnanimity and Christian forgiveness. In
their treatment of their late enemies.
While the latter show manly acquiescence
| in an adverse fate, the former, still con-
yul,ed with passion, are in effect saying !:
| "Curse you Ihave got You down, ana now
am going TO beat and kick you." This
exhibition of sectional hate becomes so Of
fensive to Mr.. Bcecher that he appears pub
licly to rebuke it. He writes letter to
convention called to help defeat the party
of revenge at the polls, in which letter he
commits himself fully to the object OF the
gathering. His position is so well defined
that the organs and oraCors of the party OF
hate turn upon him and try to stab him to
death with poisoned weapons. A forged
letter, purporting to come from his dear
friends in his Church, rebuktng him,
is published far and wide, and when
ne exposes and complains OF the forgery,
he is further subjected to personal insult
by the Tribune, which first set 1t adrift. 10
make the wounds rankle, the wretches at
tackled him in his very home. His feelings
as a father were lacerated by story that
his son had dishonored himself, and that 1t
was to shield his offspring and secure him
some paltry promotion that the Cleveland
letter was written. So persistently was
this villainous SANDER circulated, that Mr..
Beecher was compelled to write letters to
the public journals denying that he was
the mercenaTy wretch his late friends would
have made the world believe him. Yet the
person who assumed his name last night
would have us think that MIR. Beecher has
struck hands with the would.be assassins
of his character, and, after lite marked by
courage, manliness, and sturdy adherence
to principle, has weakly yielded to storm
of unjust obloquy, has become, in the very
zenith of his reputation, a coward and a
sneak, and surrendered himself to liie-
long, singing sense of self-contempt.-N.
Y. World, Oct. l6.