Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-05-20

His ancestors were in

working people. His ancestors were in
Connecticut from the beginning, and he
came from the poorest part of that State.
He had no objections to the cream in
society, but his sympathies are with the
milk. He wanted the laborer to raise
himself, net by drinking lager beer and
by grumblng in trades unions, but by
better knowledge, better work, and more
fidelity to their employers.
Mr.. Beecher said chnrch liberty could
be developed in this country as it could
not be in Europe, and here no one is so
humble that we dare oppress him.
Through the rags and dirt and uncom5-
ed hair of the newly arrived immigrant
he sees the future sovereign and would
raise his lat in respect. We Protestanls
talk of the bibuous habits of this class,
their rude festivities, and what we call
the snpersttions. But unless you live
with them on terms of amity there can
be no unity. If you treat them i'll, when
YOU 90 to the ballot,box they are on the
other side and will vote against you.
Mr.. Beeeher said he is intensely radl-
cal in favor of universal suffrage, because
it is dangerous to have 4 population IN
our midst that has no interest in the ad-
mlnistratlon of affairs. Nothing brings
a man up so much as giving him re-
sponsible burden to carry. The natural
lied citizen will at first be poor voter,
but after awhile he gets dim idea that
he is helping his party, and in five years
he will vote as well as you do-it he
votes for your party. Laughter. Mr.
Beecher spoke of Baltimore as the beau,
tiful garden city, lying between the cold
North, and the torrid South. lie hui
morously referred to the fact that he
could now say things to Baltimore
audience which at one time he could
not have told them without danger OF
being mobbed. He said the entranchlse-
ment of one million cOlorcd men was
the most audacious act that was ever
done in the world. He said during the
war. when whole interior districts OF
the South were bare of white men the
colored people did not revolt, and there
were no murders or arsons charged TO
them. Since emancipation they have
earned two thousand millions Of dollars,
and when they have voted wrong the
fault he freely admitted was 10 be
charged to Northern carpet-baggers.
Applause.
MIR. Beecher strongly advocated te-
male suffrage. When a grog-shop Is
opened over from her house, he said, 1t
is shame that the mothers hand has
no. the ballot with which to beat 1t
down. Loud applause He said that
next to the household the most impor-
tant institution to the country is the
common school. lie said the Bible Is
not the best reading book for the schools,
and it is never read through as book.
For competent persons toseIect portions
of the Bible to be read in schools where
it is wanted would be proper. But in
mixed schools, where there are Protest
ants, Catholics, Jews and others. it is
not right that that creed which has the
voting ascendancy should insist on the
reading of book that the others object
to as matter of conscience. lie does
not want Goddess schools, but the best
black board on which to teach truth,
patriotism and religion is found in the
teachers heart The school is the worst
sphere in which sectariansm can be in
volved, and he protests against imbroiI-
ing the children of the land in sectarian
strife
Mr.. Beecher was applauded at the
close or the lecture, and left the stage
without any other demonstration from
the audience. lie reached the city at
p. NJ, and was quartered at the Car
rollton Hotel, and will lecture III Wash
ton toni sht.-Bah. Sun.