The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-05
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UEsDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY $, 1ee
SOUTHERN RELIEF.

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SOUTHERN RELIEF.
Some days ago number Of benevolent gentle
men in the city of New York, appalled, and dis
trossed at the great dostitnton Of great part OF
the South resolved to devise means for an allev1a
tion Of this distress. meeting was called, and
took place ut tho Cooper Institute on Friday night,
tho 25th ult. There were many persons present;
and among them we note the Mun,t1sats OF Gotham
in evcry walk Of life. OIr. PETER CooPEE, the
Chairman, stated the object Of the meeting In q
few appropriate remarks. He was followed by q
Mr.. BRIGHT, ssa Southern gentleman" who enter
ed into some particulars in regard to the scarcity
ofbreadstuhs in certain parts Of the South. Rcsu-
lutions were next submitted and adopted, urging
Une neliof Coan1aiseion
Rev. HENRY WARD BEEcHER then addressed the
audience, and with that happy faculty, SO charac-
teristic Of the man, he at plunged IN 71edtas
res, and before his admirers had well had time to
recover from the enthusiastic greeting they gave
him his appearance, he had them al IN the
middle of theFugitive Slave Law. The reverend
gentleman makes religion his trado, why not
charity? He must hnvo quid pro quo for all that
passes through his hands. He is willing to accord
relief to the suffering aud starving ex-rebels, but
he does it under q protest. He gives them a
lecture along with the loaf. With delicacy Of
taste, which we cannot but ADMIRE and & most
Christian unosteutaSiousness, he takes this occa-
sion to romind these same starving Southerners,
that they once had the upper hand, ,Sbut now it was
otherwise. s'Now, we: tho Yankees are the top
rail, and you, Southern aristocrats, must come to
us and beg for the crumbs that fall from our Ia
nlas.' These arc not Dir. BEEcHER's words, but
this is ccs tcnly the sum and substance Of his
,narls if VIC understand the moaning of words,
and are to draw the inferonccs they naturally bear.
He spoke OF the great changes effected within the
past few years; Changes" he says, effected by
reason, by the deep moral instrumentality that
touched the very ritals OF life." Now, we do not
believe word Of this. We do not belicvo reason
had anything to do with it, but passion and pre-
JUDGE u great deal, assisted not little by envy
malice, hatred, and all uncha1itableness. He next
told the audience that one Of the changes produced
by this late political convulson is the fact now
everywhere acknowledged, that one man is as good
as another. Mr.. BEEoHER hardly stated this pro-
position with sufficient emphasis. To do full JUS
tice to Ills party, he should have said, that if the
zone man. was q black man, and the ssother"
Southern w!,te man, then one man is even better
than another.
He then proceeded to speak Of the sin Of slavery.
Mr. BEEcHER has long descanted on this his
special hobby, that he cannot readily adapt him
sell to the changed condition Of the times. and
still continue. to prate about the sin Of slavery
But Dir. BEEolER well; at least we hope SO.
He says: eve want tie moral and social element
Of reconstruction. The nation is never going to
bo reconstructed by an edict. Sympathy, conf
dence, affection, the interplay Of interests, mutual
respect, at Inst reopening after long, long inter
naiooion, into intorrnutual life" This Is All truc
but VIC do not see how it is to be accomplished.
Certainly not by making speeches like this OF Mr..
BEHcHERs. Perhaps, he is disposed only to regard
tho colored population Of the South, the sloyal-
ists," entitled to sympathy; and thinks the pro-
sent generation Of Southern whites ara not sus-
ccptible Of social and political regeneration. II
this is his belief, We can understand him. Thus,
for instance, he says: s
was ~, plucky old State
tanlsm was supposed to run through that State
and though her soldiers porished at Belle Iule ana
IN othcr prisons, she had built schools near those
very points where five hundred or one Thousand
boys, the children OF those who carried the knife
and pistol, we're educated, aud in this way she had
rcvcngcd herself on their children. ~&
Whose children are these, now 80 tenderlv tanrbt
and taken care Of by Massachusetts school-marms?
They are the freedmen, the nations young wards.
Why mention them in this connection No one
doubted The fact of their receiving full care and
attention at tho hands of the negrophilists
The Reverend gentleman then wound up with
some coarse humor: which ticklcd his audience.
HORACE GREELEY followed, and administered
wel-merited rebuke to The Rev. HESar W.Rn
He said
y, That he did not doom it advisable to bring in
sn' sne SUBJECT OF politics in question which was
supposed self-righteousness and bitterness were
blended ID in With what ought to be . mere kind
There was quarter Of a million Of widows IN t,e
south who we're not accustomed to earn a i've
,,,nre mnood e ana there Was quarter Of million
and who h had families depending on their ex,
ertlons. These were now in destitution and re-
tlr an,red al the assistance that could be given
mem. Our soldiers had pensions which mitieated
the sutfer1ngs OF their farniies we had great char
table funds during the war; but these wer, more
sGaaey n o nne and they had nothing to
the homes Of the South. It made treat differ.
e epce whether tn war trampled down your fields or
movements Of armies and their reouirements'
camp ca nres, &c, greatly destroyed and Kept away
the material Of country In this case there was
ana foundrics We're contributing to the support Of
enese people, and these were burned as means Of
a ~eaakeSSsns the sonth; Cotton, too, was burned,
some way or other. Besides, the South stood ont
80 long against hope that nearly every 70 81 of tha
a1ss xss tssaasa by hest{s aF@iss s5ssB 5fs5B
and millions Ct dollars we're le est Inst vear hecamas
me sced they planted vas so old It would not
,i,ow; .o lag they had fresh seed alone, much Of
avoided. "ouAo o A1'e oeen
re said good deal more, all truo, and all in |
sood spirit; and was listened to with the most in
tsHse interest. That touching allusion to cotton.
stealing came home and seemed to take particular
" well. Who viii again say our Northern hrathr.n
cannot bear to hear tho truth?
nev. II. hESpRIcK also made sono ren.rk.
sussole 10 the occasion. We are sorry to fn7 tht
ne aoes not yet consider himself sufficiently strong
~ tne confidence of his Northern friends. and
aeelned it necessary to tell them that he .d;fars
rom nus many warm friends in tho South on man,
'olnts. als many friends in Charleston viii be
surprised to learn this. HORACE made crest
nls.ake = when he said that they who go beyond
no seas change their skies but not their 1oinda
wen 'coastwise navigation" can produce a
'onoer1ul change Of opinion. We have had 70.
'eated instances OF this within the last few veara
ANOTHER - MURDER, !. q EN- rEnNEssEE.,
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