Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-03-19
Beadle, the able reporter of the

Beadle, the able reporter of the
Cincinnati Commercial, has given
more extended report of SafIord's
Chillicothe speech than We find in any
of the Cincinnati papers, What Bea-
die thinks of this speech may be learn
ed from the following remarks He
says of it:
The first five minutes he devoted to
getting the crowd in order, frequently
declaring that he "Would not speak to
a mob; they must have order" Every
five or ten minutes in his first half Of
his speech he paused to call for order,
and the third or fourth time called on
the police, if any were present, to keep
the crowd still. But the crowd soon
grew responsive, and cheered him on.
Every time he spoke of the ''female
Commune" "deluded women OF ''fa-
natical mob" there was applause; ev-
cry piece of slang and abusive epithet
applied to the clergy ELECTED great
| laughter and cheers, and when he made
the blasphemous parallel between him.
self and Christ, the crowd went almost
wild with delight. At this point the
speaker seemed to lose CONTROL of him
self altogether, and effectually took
leave of decency. He gave a horrible
travesty of the trial of Christ; the
false witnesses, ''hired to lie like the
men that lied on me at Hillsboro >
Peters denial of Christ and the like
and capped the climax of ribaldry
profanity and indecency, by quoting
Testament open before him) Peter a:
as saying, "Tll be id and Cd ID
if l know the man" And the graceless
shameless crowd laughed, stamped
hooted and yelled like so many say
age Indians. mo; I'll take that bac
the Indians respect one another's re
ligion.) This weary and disgusting
performance went on for half an hour
the speaker reading few verses at
time from the Testament, and the
applying the description of the Jew
chief priests and elders to that of tn
ministers of day. 1t was horribl
too horrible for reproduction i
print.
/ trust / am not easily excited t.
anger or disgust. know that I al
not given to cant. And l am pursuade
that those who have read these letter
will not accuse me of too great a re1
erence for religion or temperance. Br
t I know I speak but the simple trut
when I say that this nights perform
, ance has been, in all its particulars,
deep and damning disgrace to Chill
cothe. The last seven weeks compris
l 4 nearly all my knowledge of the rura
society of this Eastern country; br
t in five years in the far West neye
l attended public meeting half so dis
graceful. have heard Brigham
Young swearing like pirate in tt
t pulpit; but that was in rnde countr
i with a rude religion, and he did NJ
? profess anything better. But tn
: such meeting as this could have bee
1 held, or such a speech made by
Judge, in Christian country, is som
thing I never have believed on anotl
4 er's evidence. In one respect only
this better than the Territories if snt
a speech had been made in any of Il
Western towns l have lived in,
: reference to their women, the me
: would have snatched the speaker OIL
l of the stand and hanged him to tt
\ nearest tree. It was at once the m o
indecent, profane and shameful b
: rangue I have ever listened to.
: full report is impossible.