The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-19
HENRY WARD BEECmER.

His Latest Political CtterAnce--.NoI
50 much OF n johnson Man as ne
WRS..-.The New York World De.
nOnnCeS him ns OF OId.-- HIs Eloquent
Presentation of the Points in Issue
before the People.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has
lately been extensively patronized by
the CoPPerhead press throughout the
country, because of a letter written by
him two or three months ago favorable
to the supposed policy ofthc President.
The ''bread and mtter'I wing of the
army that met at Cleveland last month
elected him chaplain of their Couven-
ton, "a position he did not fill, and all
their orators glorified him as a bold
national, liberal, honest, outspoken
man. Great was Beecher for the first
time In his life in their eyes. Upon the
appearance of his letter in the New
York World, fOrgetful of tho fact that
in 1854 Mr.. Beecher had recommended
Gen. Butler for the Presidency, COM
pared him to Mr.. Greeley and others
the-like-hasty, and incontinent politi-
cal leaders, and said:
'tNIr. Beecher has this faculty of a
statesman: that he can discern great
changes in public opinion in their be-
ginningsj as 1t were, in their very
seeds. Five years hence, the simple
souls who grieve over Mr.. Beecher now
will be passively swept along the move
ment on which he boldly launches
when the tide begins to rise. They will
then admire his wisdom, as discerning
men do now"
Sucb uvou NJ Raaobo- ,I,roo ,,oo,+b.
ago In the estimation of the leading
copperhead organ of the country. But
all at once see how great the change.
We have seen nothing equal to it,
unless 1t be the case OF the rebel organ
here, in regard to Andrew johnson,
who, instead of being a slow bred
braggart," and "tyrannical pimp OF
power" is now declared to be wise
statesman: and a great and good man.
The trouble is that Mr.. Beecher made a
stirring speech at Brooklyn, New
York, last Monday night, in which he
arraigned the Democratic party as hay
ing been unfaithFul and dlsloyal to the
Government throughout the war, and
therefore unworthy now to be entrust-
ed with political power. The editor OF
the World could endorse Beecher no
longer after such an utteranee, and ac-
cordingly declares him to bc n bogus
Beecher, and further speaks OF him
thus:
CATER life marked by courage,
manliness, and sturdy adherence 10
principle, he has yielded to n STORM OF
unjust oblOquy, has become, in the
very zenith of his reputation, n coward
and sneak, and surrendered himself
to lifelong, stinging sense of self-oOn-
tempt"
Thus stands the great Beecher 10 SO
short time in the eyes of tho cham.
pion organ of the copperhead party.
After having exalted him to tho very
heavens, it now consigns him to the
bottomless pit. And all because he
made the following remarks:
'TYou, yourselves, are witnesses that
during the first three weary, dark and
disastrous years of the war, there was
an utter want of outspOken sympathy
Democratic party as "A party. You
know they pursued n policy embar.
rassing to the Government; that they
hung ike dead weights; that they re-
sisted the raising of money!; that they
discouraged volunteering; that they re-.
sisted drafts; that they encouraged and
shielded desertiOns; and in every way
that they could did seek to thwArt the
Government. The elimination of this
course of conduct was found In the Chi.
caRo Convention, just previous to the
! last election OF Lincoln. There, by de
liberate platform utternnCe, they nd.
vised the American people to give over
war aud submit TO Acknowledgement
Aftar 1t become plain, in Tho process Ol
this conflict, that the abolition of slav-
ery was Indispensable, the Democratic
party opposed the ,Prolam9tion Of liber.
negro soldiers, 200, 900 of whom turned
the tide of victory, for us end turned
back the hosts OF slaYerY., Fellow-citi'
zens, we confer no liberty as boOr
upon the African citizens Of our coun.
tFy9j Their o*n brave hands received
their emancipation. Our votes have
only ratified their deeds of liberty; We