Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-10-01
ROTTEN PROPS.

1t is now definitely ascertained that Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, the great Plymouth
preacher of Plymouth notoriety and Ply
mouth pleasures, has offered his services to
the Executive Committee of the Republi-
can party, and if not already, he will
shortly be started off to Indiana and Ohio.
Why not? Col. Robert Ingersoll, the bold
and impudent defender of infidelity, the
eloquent blasphemer, is exerting his almost
matchless talent in the support of Garfield.
Gen. Belknap, late Secretary of War, who at
tempted to hide his crimes behind wlfes
dishonor, has taken the stump in behalf of
the Republican nominees. Gen. Babcock,
the private friend and constitutional adviser
of Grant, who was indicted for wrongs which
would have consigned him to prison but for
the influence of the then existing admins
tration, is lending his influence in behalf of
the Republican ticket The smiling Coliax,
former Vice-President, whose guilty connec-
ton with the Credit Moblier consigned him
to soundless depths of iniamy and dis
grace, is stealing from his retirement and
lifting his voice in the support of the Re-
publican nominees. Little Dick Harrng-
ton, the originator and instigator of the
famous safe burglary crime, the blacklist in
fiendish atrocity upon the criminal records
of the country, is bold in his denuncation
of Gen. Hancock and the Democratic party.
Tho nint1c HARLAN f.Np,,nar ITp;taI
tor and Secretary of the Interior, who went
into Office poor man and retired with mil
lions to his credit, says Garfield must be
elected. The fraudulent Pomroy, Sherman
and Eliza Pinkston, all are loud-mouthed in
their support of Garfield and Author.
Why then, we ask, should not Mr. Beecher
be received with open arms by the supporters
of the Republican ticket? He has contri-
buted more than any living man to corrupt
the morals of the youth of the country,
advance the cause of infidelity and conse-
quently is better fitted to defend a fraudulent
party, fraudulent administration and fraud
ulent candidates. His past experience rem
ders him admirably adapted for such work
He has prostituted the altar erected for the
worship of the Great Jehovah to imprisoned
harangues which were vulgar, obscene and
sensational. He has trampled upon virtue,
laughed at the restraints of morality, violated
the sanctity ofthe marriage bed and been con-
fronted with terrific evidence of his guilt in
a court of law. Doubtless his taste, which
has grown morbid and Initiated from splendid
sensuality, will be appreciated by those jolly
companions who are endeavoring to elevate
the nominees of the Republican party.
His finely rounded speeches may answer
for the Congregationalists, Freelovers, Inf
dels, political and religious skeptics and the
vulgar rabble Of the New England States,
but they will hardly find an endorsement
among the people of Indiana and Ohio, who
are noted for their intelligence and virtue
Many may go from curiosity to hear him,
but they will leave him with feelings of
hatred and disgust. His soiled garments
and lascivious imagination and appetite
render him more formidable as an aggres-
sive despoiler of virtue, and best appreciated
in those promiscuous gatherings which are
dead to every instinct of honor and every
refined and noble impulse-the abettors of
vice, the defenders of crime.