The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-03
COLUMBIA.
Sunday Morning, February 3, 1867.


the proceedings of the meeting held
IN the city of New York. for the pur-
pose of raising funds, &c, in aid of
the suffering and destitute OF our
section. The originators of the pr,
ject deserve much credit, and will
receive the thanks and gratitude of
our poor people, be the contributions
what they may. 1t is evidence that
there is still humanity, charity and
benevolenee among the people of u
section lately arrayed in hostility
against us, which assert their mild
and beneficent sway over the pas
sions and prejudices of the hour, and
affords pleasing contrast to the
action of their! representatives in
Congress.
But while we cheerfully pay this
tribute to the true hearted men and
women Of New York, the proceed
ings of the meeting referred to was
blurred by that apostle of abolition
and fanaticism, Henry Ward Beecher,
Reverend, "so-called." He made n
speech, OF course, and, in the course
of has remarks, is reported to have
said:
"The bread they (thc Southern
widows and orphans) would not give
our poor boys in prison, their own
lips crave for. Give them the loaf
give the loaf. The .raiment they took
from our boys, leaving them, in the
chilly winter, to- shake and die for
cold, as long as your looms are fruit
full, spin off the yards, and send the
clothes to their shivering limbs
More unmitigated falsehoods never
fell from the lips of the worst un-
anointed profigate than these, from
this polished, reverend hypocrite.
We well remember the time when he
and the other sleuth- hounds of Zion
preached, from their desecrated pull
pits, fire and sword against the unof-
Tending people of the Southern
States, and took up collections from
men and women within the sacred
walls OF Gods temple, to purchase
rifles for the gang Of outlaws who.
under the lead of John Brown, in
vaded q peaceful State on a mission
Of wholesale murder and arson. AS
to the charges made in the above
paragraph, it is unnecessary to say
more than that they are false; but
they doubtless had the effect that the
speaker designed they should have
and that was, while bawliug "give
the loaf" he brought mp his lying
accusations, to seal up the fountains
OF charity among the faithful OF his
flock. ''Give them the loaf,'' but
they starved your sons and brothers;
send the clothes to their shiverinc
limbs but remember they took or
stole the clothes from ''our boys. "
How many dollars such a DucAiuq
appeal as this kept om of the chari-
table fund and IN the pockets of the
faithful we cannot tell. Out upon
such hypocrisy!
But we cheerfully turn from the
cant Of this preacher to the words of
man, who. whatever his faults
otherwise may be, we believe has q
kind heart and n sound Judgment
At this meeting, Horace Greeley
made some remarks, and, among
other things, said that ten millions of
dollars diffnsed over the South inn
medlately in the form of food, and
seed, and implements, would return
one hundred millions in the crop of
the present year There is more
charlty-the greatest of the Christian
vlrtues-more sound sense and true
philosophy IN this brief paragraph,
than in all the politico-religious IL
rades that Beecher may have
preached and published for the past
six years.
There is wisdom and charity com
bined in this advice of the philoso-
pher, for we know, down here and