Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-13

too much vulgar dishonesty, like that of gam
bers, footpads and pickpOckets, about it."
The style Of the present democratic candidate
is also pretty conspicuous in this, which APP
peared in the Tribune Of September of the
same year:
''The people, whose constitution and union
are at stake, win tolerate in their rulers any
thing necessary to preserve them. They will
forgive them for doing almost any act tending
to this end. But they will not excuse them for
hesitation, timidity, laundering, nor, especially
for doing or not doing anything through fear OF
hurting, of despoiling, or even eXterminating
southern traitors, or OF offending their secret
eoadjutors in the north, and their open apollo
gists in the southern states"
And in this, which was published April %,
of the previous year:
owe hold traitors responsible for the work
upon which they have precptated ms, and we
warn them that they must abide the full penal
ty. The rebels of that state Virgin
ia) and Maryland may not tiatter themselves
that they can enter upon war against the gov
eminent and afterward return TO quiet
and peaceful homes. They choose TO
play the part of traitors and they must
suffer the penalty. The WORKOUT race
of emasculatcd first families must give
place to sturdier people, whose pioneers are
now on their way TO Washington, at this mo.
ment, ia regiments. An allotment of land in
Virginia would be a fitting reward TO the brave
fellows who have gone TO fight their country's
battles"
Now Mr.. Greeley said all these things in good
faith no doubt, and except for the coarse and
brutal mode of expression which is habitual
with him, they are much more creditable than
the sort of things he is in the habit of saying
now. But neither his ferocious denunciation of
rebels at that time nor his recent affection for
them by itself proves him unfit for the presi-
dency, so much as the inconsistency of his
former aud present attitude. 1t may be all very
well to preach forgetiulness of past differences
and talk of "bridging over the chaSm," but no
man is fit to be trusted as statesman and chief
magistrate who will persistently call men "per
jurers," "knaves," "Dick Turpins," "thieves'
and "felonS," unless he knows them to be such,
or who, when he has once satisfied himself that
their character is fifty denoted by those cpl
thets, is willing to associate with them and
| "close the chasm" which separates them from
honest and patriotic men.
J. b. FORD & Co., New York have published
two more volumes OF Sermons by Henry Ward
| Beecher They are described as the fifth and
| SIKH series OF tue '1lYmOutn fulFl IneSe
sermons, like those in the preceding volumes,
are printed from verbatim reports by 7. j. E.
linwood. Each volume contains twenty-six SER
| mons which can be read with pleasure. 1t is
| generally known that Henry Ward Beecher has
a very remarkable "gift" for preaching. To say
that he is a great orator, that his eocution is
wonderfully effective, that he Is very eloquent,
and the like, is true enough, but does not fully
| describe what he is as a preacher With all the
talent and culture which qualify men to write
! pulpit essays rich brilliant, and even magnifi
cent in style, he is, nevertheless, not merely an
attractive pulpit essayist, but an attractive
| preacher whose sermons are living discourseS
| spoken TO his audiences, and not finely written
essays read to them from the pulpit And yet
these sermons which deal with the life and spir-
| itual wants of to-day, show his fine culture, and
are quite as readable as the finest productions
of the best pulpit essayists. Mr.. Ellinwood does
a great many people an excellent service by pre-
serving them in his verbatim reports.