The Placer herald., 1866-04-14
Beecher on the President.

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Henry Ward Beecbsr delivered lecture
on public affairs last week, and some Of bis
former friends do not like it. Mr.. Beecher
claimed suffrage for all the negroes. as
right which the country owes them. and an.
proved the Presidents veto of the Freed.
mans Bureau bill, though he regretted that
bill had not been framed which would not
have been open to the weighty and we'll
founded objections which the President set
forth in his message. Of Mr.. johnson he
said. "He may be mistaken in his judgment.
but am greatly mistaken in my judgment
of men if. since the earliest and best days of
our Presidency, there has been man there
who was more honest, more single minded.
and who, without bias of his party. withou,
bias Of any kind, has thus endeavored to do
that which he thought to be for the best in
terests of the country-of the whole coun
try" The Southern people, Mr.. Beecher
thinks, have shown as good spirit since the
close of the war as could be expected from
any people in their situation, and as they
have full share of human nature in them,
it is rather unreasonable in the North to ex-
pect them to fall down and worship those
who smote them. Referring to the Treasury
agents he said: ''If the President would call
home every Treasury agent that is d;sgracing
the North, and the government, and human
ity, and alternating the South, for one
should he g ad. Here and there are no
doubt men that stand above bribery and sus.
picion Of corruption, noble men and true;
but all through the South, taking them com
prehensivsly, they are as locusts eating up
the land. They are predatory nusances, and
degrade the North from which they come
and the Government which they serve."--
There is marked difference in the respect
i've telescopes through which Mr.. Beecher
and Wendell Phillips view the South
Metropolitan Record.
BEAST IN HUMAN FoRM.-Audrew NJ.
Jackson. the old muIatto who married a
little girl l2 years OF age, was convicted in
the Police Court last Saturday afternoon,
Of an indecent assault upon another little
girl about 5 years DID, whom he had entired
into room for an improper purpose. Yes
terday he was partially tried in the Police
Court for mayhem, in DESTROYING the eye.
sight of his child wife. The testimony
showed that after their marriage, he endeav,
ored to asser, his rights as a husband, and
that she repelled his advances, when he
struck her twice, once on the side of the
head, and the other time in the right eye,
heavy ring which be wore, cutting and
bruising the eye so as to completely destroy
the sight. The little girl, mere child not
out of short clothes, testified to the facts in
clear and straightforward manner, her
story exciting the sympahes of the specta.
tors in her behalf and Indignation at 'he
base wretch who SO fouIIy injured her. AT.
ter having seen The little child W ho was mar
red to this infamous old wretch, we have
no hesitation in denouncing the marriage as
one of the greatest outrages that was ever
perpetrated in the city, and for which the
Justice who performed the ceremony could
have 10 moral excuse. His friends say that
be was right in marrying them, because the
mother consented, which NAV he an excuse
in law, but the appearance Of the child her,
Sc 81. oulI he sufficient TO Arouse feeling Of
manhood in the magistrate sufficient to over.
come his greediness to earn paIiry fee, and
to cause him 20 refuse to become party ~
such vi llany. 1t this case is TO establish
precedent that heartless mothers can sell
their offspring To the er,prares of lerherous
Williams, and be assisted in their infamy by
legal process, then our society has come to
such pass that Ca foruians may be as AIMED
of their State jackson is not the only par
ty whose connection with this outrageous
affair demands investigation before the
Courts. S. +. Bulletin, april 10th.
Baker the notorious and pre-eminent'y