The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-20
BLAINE ON BEECHER.

The Speaker of the late House of Repre-
sentatives is unquestionably, clever man,
knows as well how to avert or confront emer
gencies as any one Of his party, and has an
incisive, direct way Of saying things, which,
| in this day of loose inconclusive talk, is very
refreshing. He did not. at the close of the
last session, quite rise to the occasion, come
from the Speakers chair and openly oppose
the Force Bill, as his conscience dictated !;
but, poor man it could hardly be expected,
in face of the threat that all the Blaine post
masters, from Saco Bay to Aroostook, from
Moorehead to Passamaquoddy, would be dis
missed if he did Still, he lisa clever, bright
minded man, who sees straight, thinks clev-
erly and distinctly, and says what he thinks.
One of his latest dicta comes appositely to
the front Just now. We give it in the words
of the New York journal not Democratic)
where we find it
There looked in for an hour or two yester-
day on the Beecher trial the six years Speaker,
James G. Blaine, Of Maine. It it impossible,
in recalling Mr.. BIaine's presence at the trial,
not also to recall what Mr.. Blaine was report
ed to have said about the scandal last fall.
The ex-Speaker was then recorded to have
said that 1.-THE Beecher scandal had cost the
Republican party its supremacy that too
much progress was the trouble with the party.
We had progressed through the negro and
made him citizen; we had progressed through
the States and made them into provinces, and
| now this internal scandal business threatens
to exhibit Republican chiefs in the role Of pro
crossing clear through the family circle, and
that the people would not stand it.
| Now, here, in few words and from lips
sympathetic, at least in olden times, with
Beecher utterances, We find, what We have
felt and said all along, and what has created
the only interest. morbid, perhaps, which we
have taken in this Brooklyn nastiness from
| the beginning. Here is manly recognition OF
the identity of Repub!icanism with
"Beecher-T iltonism" not so much the man as
the school; here, too, is the recognition Of such
folks as Beecher and Tilton as " Republican
CHIEFS" here, the confession, honestly and
| voluntarily made, that the ''progress" through
| the negro and the States, Of these people is
| the natural antecedent of this destructive
| "progress" "through the family circle. :"
All this, too, without any question as to the
relative or positive guilt Of individuals. We
think of them in their days of fellowship.
when they were hugging and kissing each
other, and talking sentimental abolition, and
one virtue-sympathy with the distant negro
rendered the practice Of oil others needless,
and that this one crime, as they called it, OF
the South, made of no account its pure homes
and spotless family relations.
| Beecher was great power in those days
Like Mr.. Anacharsis Cloots, he was orator Of
the human race, or at least enc color Of it.
He was brother OF the ill-omened Harriet;
thought Uncle Tom work OF genius and the
Byron revelations illusions of pure mind
He was Stewards misunderstanding the
Bishops and Thurlow Weed-.o the British
breakfast tables. He helped to furnish
| EhortY RI
preached a patriotic sermon at rehabilitated
Sumter. This was he in his prime, not rs
now whimpering witness, swearing to his
own innocence. Nor was Tilton in those
days, though in different and lower sphere,
a whit less mischievously active. He, too,
was a Republican chief-not preacher, but
lecturer-and editor, and close in the bonds
of Beecher. Like the two kings of Brent
ford they smelt at ths same rank nosegay,
and were not at all scrupulous as to the per-
tune they snuffed or scattered.
| Mr.. Blaine is to be thanked for at least see
ing all this as plainly as We do and for saying
50. If we mistake not, there is one other
bright minded and disappointed man who
feels it just as painfully in the heat OF
forensic contest as did the Speaker looking on
as a spectator We refer to the leadiu, coun-
sci for Gefense-also ''Rebublican chief
who, in his inner heart, must feel how
or ,nder and prouder might have been the
ending of his professional life, had 70. Ex-
ecu,ive spite frustrated his legitimate aspira-
tons to the seat Of Marshall, and fancy and
Chase, than the wretchad struggle in a sort
OF Brooklyn Quarter Sessions to help the
great sensational Brooklyn preacher, accused
OF adultery, out Of o scrape from the very
edges Of which Mr.. Evarts's instincts must
recoil Aud this, according to Mr.. Blaine j
| nt.aronces and Mr. Eyar.S'S con science, is
Republicanism, and these, Republican
chiefs .'-Bdlimore Gazette.
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