Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1883-10-18
Hard on Beecher.
10: Bowers Goes for the Old Man in a
Lively Manner.
Nas6viile Ba3anef.T

SOs bOWefs 6OtS l0f tne Oiu MdN III q
Lively Manner.
Naszville M aBa,nef.i 81
! SAN FRANc1sco, September "a,
In a recent issue ofyour valuble paper
1 appeared 1.-THE following short edito.
rial concerningthe Rev. Henry Ward
/ Beecher: Es
"Rey. Henry Ward Breacher, the
! most eminent divine in the country,
will deliver course of lectures in the
South next fall, and will doubtless in.
clude Nashvillein shis.tonr.s Twenty
years ago the South had no. kind
words for Mr.. Beecher, but time hss
softened The feelings Of the pastaand
he will always beWell'recelved int this
land OF suBehina.,',
! That time has softened tRs ffeSlines..
Of the past, and that the people Of the
South are ready to welcome and shake
in friendship, the hand efs..those awho
wore tkeblue inthedays ofcivikstrife;
| ,is a glorious truth. But while this
| is true ithereis no reason why they
should have any desire for Mr.. Beech.
er to visit them. A few years ago,
Yhens thatg dreadful yettowe2fever
fscourge was dspopulatingE the=cities
of New Orleans, Memphis and sother.
smaller places Beecher was lecturing
in this -clty.--.At-that- time oontsibu--
tions were being raised and forwarded
all over the country to sufferers along
the Mississippi river. A proposition
was made to Breecher by number
| of distinguish ed :citizens Of; San 4sFran-
cisco to deliver one lecture for the
benefit o: the sufferers. I'VE 1!s;; So
He refused to lecture unless paid
Isl 500. Just think of it. A professed
Christian and renowned preacher, who
had wept andp pray ed overIthe curse
of African slavery ior forty years, re-
fuses to wag his tongue in behalf of a
sick and dying people unless ssoiled
with $500 in gold. Again, when
Congresspassedthe Characterization
bill, this same humantarian gets en-
his knees at the feet Of President
Arthur, and implores him, in the
name ofs.ss;ths fEthefhoodsof God and
the brotherhood, 81 man. to veto the
bill. Hi, pretended love for the seris
of Asia is no less hypocritioal than
wasand is his pretended sympathy for
the negroes. Of the South. Were it
not true that he was the author Of
one Of the most damning scandals that
ever 1disgraeed the courts of the
country, be would to-day be5the most
dangerous man in America.
Iu his lectures delivered. in this
city, about week ago,y he in sub
stance declared that he was the friend
of the rich and an enemy Of the poor
that competition between the degraded
slaves OF China and the white laboring
men of America would be blessing
to our country. He practically went
as far in ridiculing and repudiating
the divinity of the Bible as did Vol.
taire or Tom Paine. Indeed, it sounds
strangely to hear the Banner speak
of HIM as an" eminent divine"
Toaspeak of him as a lecherous
.mountebank who keeps his; tongue
for .hfresWoIld be. more apprepriatesyt
but to : g.. ,pasc;siAHith thell
sEasG & ~, O.
/ surd asitswoutds to hear Bob IngsF:
[soll defendingsthe divinity Of ipenta
seuch. In his lectures and preaching
be has no regard for truth. = He had
the effrontery here in San Francisco
and in smelling gdlstance- OF China
town with its swarms of leprous pros
utute and debauchiugio opium-smo oEine
| dena, ,reeking with filth and putr iy
ing garbage, ato tell US that, if the
Oh namen would smoke tobacco
Dirk whiskey and vote the Demo.
ratio iicEet, there would be no OBJ
! :c.ion to his coming here" This as,
tonishing assertion canpot be imputed
to Beecher,si snorance. 1t is notorious
that the CE;naman smokes both opium
and tobacco, and is fond of the mean
est whisky that can be compounded.
As to the D e! e!nocraticS ticket, the Chi
,nese dom I'VE here Yet. .FButiflhe!time
lever come, when the Republicans
5Ishall have majority in .Congsesseln.
| dependent Of the representatives, OF
the Psci6cpoast; ethe ballot will be
pusinto-tbe hand Of these heathens
to vote the Republican ticket, 'Beecher
is the able representative Of a sanu-
ment and political party in the
New England States that would
| gladly open the Golden Gate to the
ipopulous empire of China aand let in
enough to Fill every factory and Gulti-
yate every foot Of land from. the Pa
ci6c to the Atlantic.