The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-11-01
ARP ON BEECHER.
Cherokee Reflections on Brooklyn Meth.
ods.

MI. Beecher is a smart man. Mr..
Beecher is a thinker, but he doesn't know
everything and is candid enough to con.
less 1t. lie told the Constitutions repor.
ter that he didn't know as much about
the negroes as we do, aud he don't.
"hen northern man who has been
raised and fed on the horrors of slavery
comes down south it takes him about a
year to get his eyes open, and VIXEN he
does get them open he is the poorest
friend the negro has got. The southern
man who grew up with the negroes IN.
cerstand them. He knows their good
traits and their bad ones, their instincts
ana superstitions and emotions and he
knows how to deal with 'em. Mr..
beecher is an oracle, he has been chang.
ing principles and theology all his lie.
lie fell from grace and rose again. lie
Is smart, but he is after all Just human
anu there are thousands Of men Just as
smart who make no noiso in the world.
1 would rather trust Mr.. Leland's mind
and his philosophy to-day on most any
euDJect than Mr.. Beecher's. He is better
balanced and more sincere and less
ambitious for fame. Mr.. Beecher de-.
nounces the confession Of faith and the
ola theology as founded on hate and fan :.
aticsms and saysi it was hel!born and that
now We have religion Of love. 1t has
taken him long time to find out that
our Heavenly Father was God of love
aud that Jesus Christ made love the very
soul and spirit of His teachings. Hate
and fanatlcism! How long has it been
since the reverend gentleman was willing
10 see the southern people butchered,
their towns and cities burned and their
land made desolate and for what was it
hate towards US or love for the union
and the negro. l wonder if he never
considers how much he contributed to
this war Of hate and death and arson and
rape and robbery and desolation. 1t is
time the preacher was discovering that
true religion is love; but it is lute-vcry
late for him.
| don't think there is any more love in
tue world than there used to be, but
there is good deal more fear-tear of
the law-tear Of one another, and hence
there is more consideration more toler-
rance of opinion. Fear keeps the world
at peace more than love, and fear keeps
the peac, between me and my nabor. 1t
Is to our mutual interests to live in peace
and have respect for each others rights.
There is some love and good will, but it
don't go far-and very far outside the
plantation. We are all dependent upon
one another, and we know it, and that
makes us kind. We are sociable by
nature and that makes us agreeable :;
but there is not much love floating
around loose. The tail end of the war
convinced us all in this region that law
was stronger than love, for when we had
no law love was scarce and what little
there was was powerless to protect us.
Human nature is about the same it
was 4,OO0 years ago, the same in instinct
aud passion. Mr.. Beecher is no better
than David. Lord Bacon was the wisest,
brightest, meanest of mankind. We are
all smarter and have more contriyance
and invention because we needed more.
We couldent get along without it,
knowledge is more universally diffused
and the common people are catching up
w!th the Kings and professors and phi
iosophers Of the world, but eyery man is
for himself just like he used to be. We
admire talent and eloGuenc' and genius,
put we think more OF u NAL after he is
dead and out of the way than when he
was living. Even then, while we blow
his trumpet and sing his praise we don't
want to pay for buryiug him, and we
wouldent do it if it had to come out of
our own pockets. 1t was struggle and a
strain to get the State to bury Mr..
Stephens. Praise is cheap but collins
S-e expensive.
Nevertheless we are reasonably kind
TO one another as kind as we can afford
to be. Most of us are poor and live on n
strain, and cant do much for one another.
Tho rich could do more and reckon
would if they knew they were rich. But
is is not one in hundred who knows
when he has got enough and ought to
divide his supplies. 1000 years ago the
love of money was said TO be the root of
all evil, and it is get. There has been
10 change in that. There are good
people and bad people, just as there used
to DO. Some are kind and generous and
some are selfish and unforgiving. The
race is powerfully mixed. There used to
be hewers of wood and drawers of water
and there are now and always will be l
reckon. Some vessels are for honor and
some for dishonor. There is Just as
much crime in proportion to population
as there was hundred years ago, but we
are growing smarter all the time-smar.
ter in crime and vice as we'll as in books
and knowledge. The devil keeps up his
corner pretty we'll.
MIR. Beecher seems 10 have no obiec-
ton to white woman marrying a negro
if she wants to, but he thinks Mormon
ism ought to be suppressed. / don't know
whether it is the religion of the Mormons
that excites him or their having more
Than one wife. If it is the latter, there
ls some atonement in the fact that thew
DO it openly and publicly and not on the
sly. But to the southern mind there is
something more horrible and disgusting
than Mormon;sm, and that is the ANAL
yamation that be says he has no objec-
ton to. We object, and we object 50
that it will not be tolerated.
We know that 1t ia against the order of
the fitness of things, aud
We denounce it. Mr.. Beecher ia still .
fanatic and his sensibilities to public
iecercy are blunted. Mr.. Beecher would
encourage the negroes to aspire to social
equality with the whites, and we de.
nounce that. The temper of our people
10 kind-very kind-to-the north; but
that same temper was exhibited the other
night at DeG;-e'ss, VIXEN the decision af
The supreme court at Washington was
which declared the law
We did not need that
decision for the law has been dead letter
north and south, but it has proved that
the federal court has sense and Judgment.
that we want is TO be let alone and
The negro problem will solve itself. It
is solving now. They have gone to work