The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-01-08
TERMS-IN IDT1NCH

Lon rs 80
Drcchcr'S Negro Trap Slated With q White
Woman"
~ newspaper, of the straightest
mgro politics. denies that Beeoher
'dviscd the chatting of u trap with a
white woman," to catch negro suf-
iHuge. But if reference be made to
r"gc lifty of the Official Report of
the Equal Rights Association for
lSG7, it will DO found that ho did 80
;dvise. The speech in which it oc-
r"rs was made in thc Church of the
Fhritnns, May 10Th, 1867, and the
"Aolo paragraph is rs follows: "Tho
"'y to get man u position is to take
n; IN advance Of it, and then hc
vail drop into the one you want him
- take. So that if, bong crafty,
d sire to catch men with gallo, and
'c>ire to adopt suffrage for colorcd
."cn, as good trap as I know of is
- claim it for womon also. Boi
car trap 'ciih wAHe monann, and I
'ai"A you ariW cuich the diach, man."
y white woman who could receive
'rto her family man who uses such
nlthy language ought herself to be
'amcless. According to all accounts,
Mr. Becohcr knows all about the
lower Of "trap baitcd with wo.
man )" but when he prostitutes tho
nlpit with the language of the broth.
=, he ought TO be banishod from all
re. pectable society. Tho wretchcd
"an's brain is slop-pale for all tho
lsn's that we're ever invented by the
Hngodly and tho profano. "Frco
Owe" and "frec negroes" arc twin
s. sters i'll the politics of many men of
his class. y few years ago he did
not blush to marry a woman to her
raramour while her husband was liv.
i"g, and we'll known to Bccchcr.
lis loose principles in morals, poll
''cs and religion have bcon perfectly
we'll known for nearly quarter of a
rehtury-so we'll known at least, that
the most respectable aud prudent
clvrgymcn of his own communion
"Hvc long since withdrawn their oon.
iidsncc from him. The infamous
women who arc in prison for publish
lnS an account uf amours, havo been
his associates for years, aud his pul.
PIT III the Church Of the Puritans has
has been the fountain of most OF the
loose notions with which these "strange
women" have s"andalizcd the public.
Ills very popular talonts have been
wholly devoted to loosening the
bands of morality and religion, and
10 the opening a Pandora's Box of
'smiS, which have completely suppcd
tho foundations Of the Government
e'tabli'hcd by our fathers. In lis
latest published sermon, or speech,
he "ha.lcd the coming of tho Chiucsc,'
to help do the voting aud share in tho
government Of our country. "IIe
dill not fear their religion. If their
Joss, which they worship, is more
powerful than our Jehovah, he ought
+" reign" And, proceeding in this
vein OF tho same inlidel proximity, ho
compared our holy religion to game
cock, saying, he "was not afraid to
pit the Christian religion against any
other religion in the world" Thus
has tho pulpit Of this exceeding mis-.
chlcvous man been n strap buited,"
not only "with a white woman" but
with every conceivable glittering
abomlnation, to "oatch' all that por-
ton of the community which is natu-
rally inclined to looscncss of opin.
ions and morals. The husband of
every virtuous wife, the mother of
every pure and spotless daughter,
and every patriot father, should shun
this den Of all demoralziug isms as
they would a pcstiIcncc. The morals,
religion and p"litics of the "Church of
tho puritan," may be properly de-
fined by tho general term of spcculu-
ftre (oosensss. 1t is n hybrid pulpit,
or something between church and a
theatre, but lacking tho dignity of tho
former as much as it docs the classic
taste and consistency of tho latter
Day Book.