The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-22
A AisFIash OF southern Sentiment,

A"FIhsh OF Southern sentiment.''
The Mobile Times regards Henry
Beecher's plea in behalf Of the Prosi-
dents very conciliatory policy in this
style:
This obscene parson of Plymouth
Church, who haunts a musk scented
handkerchief before his congregation of
Wall Street moralists, is, howevre, the
same who-ten months ago-before the
same congregation, was preaching (Tor-
give us, Christians, for using that word,
as applied to that man y the beauties of
amalgamation, and his sweet, silvery
voice, with his oily ycountenance turned
up to those heavens he kept insulting,
telling his hearers that when that mil
lenniun ofhuman perfection should ar
rivethe world would witness its fruits.
nCrystal N ore pure-jewels more rare, I"
than could ever be dreamed of.
THAT man, whose every thought has
been blasphemy, whose every act has
been an insult to that God whose gos-
pei his profane hand has polluted, is
also the co-laborer of a woman-his
worthy sister-whose infamous SLAM
ders of the South have done so
muchst shut out the sympathies of the
world from us, and If the hand that
traced the libel known as tUncle Toms
Cabin" is not actually that of the Rev.
Henry. Ward Beecher, his lying spirit is
that which inspired 1t. He, no doubt,
also, but few days ago, inspired that
woman, when, she advised that to every
church in the land there should be
added a billiard saloon, a gambling
room, and a race course.
Twenty-four years of the life of that
miserable. man have been devoted to
bringing on the struggle wherein per-
ished, not only the South, but that
great charter of human rights, the Con-
stitutiun ofthe United States.
: Endowed with no genius, devoid of
any transcendant talent, but possessed
only of that ambition for evil which
fred the heart OF the first tempter of
man, he saw, like the brute who fired
the temple of Ephesus, that, where
fame could not be reached in erecting,
1t could always be attained by DESTROY
ing, and he at once Joined the pigmfes
and myrmidons who were sapping and
mining at the base of our great Nation
al monument. isla!
~. slave tothe luxuries of the world,
complacent tool TO those who WELD
the power of gold, this preacher of Di-
Vinity, this disciple OF God of poverty
and meekness, has reared unto Mann.
mon temple where every vice, every
enormity has in tarn found ready adj
yocate, SO long as the new-faugled no.
ton could please, apdJ sChiehy-pay.
.sI3ut while every tism, found its
asylum under the shelter of degraded
pulpit, its occupant was building up a
princely fortune, rioting in every pos
slple luxury, and moving so far above
the common haunts of man as not to
be ever disturbed by the opportunities
of those in want and distress.
A more contemplate, more selfish
being, never disgraced public or pri-
vate station; a more bitter, more veno-
nous, more lying foe to the good and
great men of the South never lived thar
Henry Ward Beecher, who, desecrating
the mother of Washington, once de-
voted her memory, to the tortures OF
he'll, though afterward, afraid of his
own prospects, he sat out on crusade
TO abolish that place, where his soul
shall finally be lashedp'