The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-27
Henry Ward Beeeher.

God who made him, and departed from
God his Ssviour."-Deut., XXI, XIV.
Don Pistt said, some time sgo, that
God Almighty might have made worse
man than Oliver 7. Morton, but de
never did. Yes, God Almighty, has made
worse man, and that man Is hehry
Ward Beecher of Plymouth Church'
Brooklyn. The only possible way OF
placing Morton lower than Beecher, Is to
consider HIM (Morton) rs outside OF the
human family, and place him IN the
bestisl kingdom.
Both have strong animal propenslties.
As it is, they are on the verge OF the
human kingdom. Ii the Creator of the
Universe had placed on this earth many
more such specimens, l should consider
the Darwlnisn theory hard TO dIsproVe.
Morton has no heart, but he has n soul
-. in the keeping Of him "who wa
kicked down the back stars oil heaven.
Beecher HAS HEART, but be has no
soul, or if he has, 1t is q soul without
God "He forsook God who made him,
and departed from God his Saviour.
Use his own weapon against nm ana
quote from Deuteronomy, although TO
please him, should draw from the Can
ticle OF Canticies.
| said. "he has q heart w here is 1t!
Does sny one ever see 1t going out To the
poor ana the hungry, to the afflicted and
the desolate, TO the widow and the or
plsn7 1t might go out TO the WIDOW as
did DavId's heart TO Bethssbee, the wife
of Uriss, the Hethite, or rs the heart OF
Tarquin went out to Lucrece.
Beecher is q minister OF the Gospel,
but he has little love Tor Gospel msxims.
Divine precepts are mockery IN his
mouth. BLESSED are the poor in spirit"
fiads no re-echo IN his heart. From
the first he has been worshipper of the
golden calt-presching to nabobs. His
sycophsucy and fulsome sdulation have
made him what he is to-day the slave
of the rich!
He created religion OF his own, it Is
ofthe materiahstic kind spiced with free
love and "nest. hiding" sort of pslla
dunn for the sensual In that religion
thete IRE no poor, there is no judgment,
no hell, and, fear, no heaven, although
ne has heaven with golden gates. Well,
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hereafter 1t is here below.
When Beccher delivered his address
over the lifeless body OF Horace Greeley,
he said: Horace Greeley was feet tor
the lame, he Was TO Igue for IKE dumb, he
was al eye for the blind. Horace
Greeley was all this, and besides he was
lore for the poor. There was Lazarus
in Greeley's gospel as well as Dives.
Beecher has no heart for the poor.
Bread and water tor them? When they
fall by the wayside, let the dogs
lick their sores, and when they die
let the wolves have their Carcasses.
Bread and water TO men and women
struggling for sustenance OF body, and
the wretched eking out of miserable
lifel Bread and water from the Ply
mouth church Shyiock, the ministerial
libertinel Bread and water TO keep off
the rain, to keep out the cold, TO battle
with the quaint demon hunger, starvation
and death, and TO protect the parting
thread OF very existence. Is 1t to be
wondered At that gilded godliness reach
ing down from Its sOrdld pulpit is spurned
struck in the face and spit upon by men
with hearts in their bosoms2 And yet,
Henry Ward Beecher is teacher OF
morality. He sat on the same platform
W tn Moody and Ssnkey in New \ ork city
andlpreached what? Ask Moody. Wheh
Moody WAS in Chicago he preached
economy to Charley Fsrwell's clerks
Poor devils, they had but mere
pittsnce and Far we'll stole thousands. He
WAS Republican Congressman, mind
You.
| never did believe that the members
of Plymouth Church cared tig for their
pastors religion. Ii seemed to me that
they looked, and do look upon him MS n
boy would look upon megatheridm in
the Smithsonian Inst, ute-ss q wonder.
full something, smonster on exhibition.
Plymouth Church is 10 Beecher what
carpet. bsg Mississippi WAS to Morton.
How Morton weeps (?) over the dry
bones of the carpet baggers in the land
OF cottonl His love for the robbers down
there was al outgrowth OF his hatred of
honest men. He, too was bIblicslly III
clined, ior out Of evil he brought good
for himself. Mississippi was Morton's
Plymouth Church; his audience was not
so genteel rs Beechers, being made up
of the worst elements Morton waved
the bloody shirt to suit himself Beecher's
bread and water tor the worklngmen Is
the prescription of the capitalists. lie
hiss TO suit them. In that he is unlike
Morton.
But why speak of Beecher when his
very system is held up TO Us by the
fra ldulent man in the White House. He
J. robber; he too is hypocrite. The
American. people spoke their will through
the ballot box, but they were spurned and
struck in the face by such misCreants as
Bradley, Morton and Garfield Their
liberty WAS taken from them. They
held up the Constitution, but they were
jeered. They argued their sovereignty,
bat they were accounted slaves. Hayes,
too, has his Plymouth church. He re-
forms like Beecher, by pandering to the
ts,tcs of villaiRoas politicians. The
American people, cheated At the ballot
box, take his bread and water prescrip-
ton. Like cousorts with like. Hayes
and Beecher are warm friends. They
were hobnob5ing in Washington not
long ago about some appointments.
These are the men to reform.
The beloved grew fat and kicked; he
grew fat and thick and gross" Says
the New York Sun, editorislly: Few
men are tonder OF the tat things of life
than he (Beecher); but we believe that
il he had his deserts he would to-day be
confined to the diet which Is furnished
by the State NJ Sing Sing. II he had
met with justice, therefore, he would have
kaown practically how it dread and
water Diet is himself Whilst there is
only one Henry Ward Beecher in the
world there are several Plymouth
churches in the United States.
CHARLES SELBY.