Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-15
PAi.soN BRoWNL0W's PREACHING.
The Colonel Describes n Meeting He
Once Attended at Beecher's Church
in BROOKLYN.

The Colonel Describes n Meeting He
Once Attended at Beecher's Church
in Brooklyn.
3. L. r. Dane i'll New Orleans Times-Dem-
crat.
''But of all the preaching ever heard,
Browllov-,S TOOK the lead. You remember,
Sally, don't yop. aboUt my being in Brook
Ign jas after Lincoln's Assassination? I
heard him there. / used to suffer dreadfnlly
with nervousness there. After the constant
turmoil and exci,o1lslJ o. VTlIE and the life III
the open air, found the coniring city life
almost irs,Ip.,or%al'le. At anv hour of night
o. day tho restless ii5 world s Aize me, and as
iTresisti5iy moved IS Ah&sIclt;-, arose an!
Went. Ononig'lt, about half aftor 8, fdriftad
into beCcAeI church, where Maynard end
BroWn.Jw were to speak Ten minutes after
l was lated the crowd sEirged in, and
were licked in there like sardines.
The organ struck up John Browns Body
and you never did see such state as those
people got themselves into. I've seen many
a negro protracted meeting, but never any
thing 81 wild as that They burst into full
chorus with the organ, and, tell you, it
sounded grand; it's stirring tune and each
one did his best Directly they got wrought
up and waved from side to side, and the
pressure vas awful in that crowded place.
AS the Tegses went on they got wilder and
wilder, and at the end it had grown to a
fierce Dreadful roar. Some fellow changed
the words to well hang JEFF Davis and
then, sir, they grew simply wild; they sprang
up on the benches, they sang, they stamped,
they swore, shrieked, and some finally burst
into loud weeping with rage and excitement
Rpanhar md fba tfxryoS IN,
them, so Maynard came forward on the
platform and petitioned for silence. In ten
seconds you might have heard pin drop. A
great long, Junk creature he was, with pale
face, and sucha stream of acrimonious speech
have never heard before or since; but It
didn't have the faculty of appealing 30 the
imagination. He spoke for some time, for
BrowDlow was in New York addressing an
other r.eeting, and they were waiting for him
to come back. Re did not come after awhile,
and, my dear Basils, he was speakeri With
a big voice, too Why, my dear sir! he could
just bring the dragon ont of hell by his chain,
mouth running with bloody slobber and foam,
teeth ciashing, tail writing, scales glitter
ing, eyes shooting fire and leathern wings
trailing their bony points on the foori He
could make You SO ii I'll plainly. Call upon
all the devils in hell-from the tiniest imp to
the great Lucifer himself-to come, clothed
upon wiz. rage ard diabolical fury, with all
the weapons Internal malice can invent, to
plunge to the black hearts of the fiendish
rebels! Those may not be his exact words,
but it's how the final peroration sounded to
me. I'd had all the excitement wanted, and
more too When the thing was over went
quietly home and slept a whole night through
in bed, a thing I'd not done before for two
months"
''Do, Charles, come to supper" said
madame, plaintively, WHO had been waiting
patiently in the doorway for, the colonel to
finish.