Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-16
is BEECHER INSANE?
Shameful Stultificati0n-Playing the
DOughface in the South.


Henry Ward Beecher has made tour
of the Southern States down fiat on his
belly before the rebel element. In his
lectures and interviews he has talked
like Northern Copperhead of the war
times, having a reunion with the straight
out rebels on their own ground. He
abuses the Republican leaders of the
the North, praises the rebel leaders of
the war. declares for Lamar, the de-
fender of JEFF Davis and the eulogist of
Jake Thompson, for the next President,
virtually approves the frauds practiced
by the Democrats to carry the Southern
elections, and grovels around on bis bel
ly like cunning serpent, to the delight
of all the old rebels of the war and all
the later enemies of the North. He ex-
presses sympathy outright for the Dem>
ocrats in carrying the elections by fraud,
and expresses his great wonder that the
white people of South Carolina did net
rise up and massacre the colored people
en- masse." and says such forbearance
was never shown before" that they did
not do it.
To show what Beecher has had the
groveling cowardice and trucking to
say. we quote from his interview at
Louisville. as published in the Courier
Journal of March 80, in his own words:
What have yon to say as to the COM
plants heard in the North of Southern
electionS?"
Il can not sltgether approve of refusal
of the white people to count the colored |
vote in their local elections, when, by
doing so, they would place their local
government in the bands of this class
bat l think that if ever people was
justified in such methods the Southern
people are. They regard it as absolutely
necessary for self-defense, and sympa+
thize with them. Take, for instance,
South Carolina. Why, it is sheer mad
ness to place the government of that
State in the hands of ignorant negroes
and vile carpet baggers. l do not mean
to say that no good men went down to
the South after the war; but take that
man Moses, who is now in the penitenti-
AIRY, where he should have been all |
along. To put those men in charge of
State was madness. There never was
such system of taxation and general |
government as South Carolina endured |
under that colored Legislature. The
colored people should by no means have |
been allowed to become the dominant
class Immediately after the war. Just con-
ci1 ba cta Of thinnof
the South, that had sunk all its property !
in war that had been bravely fought.
Its property had been burned up, its
young men were decimated, but they set
themselves honestly and sublimely at
work to recover the order of things.
They endured nobly. The class that was
suffering all these ills found itself sud-
denly governed by a majority that lit
tie while ago were slaves. There was
never such subversion in the history
of the white people. 1t was monstrous!
Were it not for the fatal mistake South
Carolina made in fomenting the rebel
lion one might have pardoDed its white
Inhabitants if they had risen against the
blacks and massacred them en- masse.
The heroism of the Southern people in
enduring this state of affairs, and the
manner in which they quietly reasserted
their rights are unequaled in history such
forbearaDc9 was meyer shown before.
The old mans brain must be retting
before his physical death, or else he nev-
er was the Beecher that he seemed to be
during the war. Here is justification of
of the Southern system of murder and
fraud to disfranchise the negro and
overthrow the majority, also clearly a
regret and a wonder that the whites did
not rise and massacre the blacks en-
masse." The fact that the Government
of the rebel States after the war was not
wrested by force from the loyal blacks,
and given over to the minority of disloy-
al whites, he prononces "mOnstrous."
After this it is no surprise to read
that the old renegade, in playing lick>
spittle to the South, went ahead to deal
in blackguard's SANDER of Blaine. We
quote:
"Mr. Beecher spoke of the recent Pres
idential campaign, and said that he re-
garded Mr.. Blaine as the most corrupt
and dangerous man who had appeared
in politics since the time of Aaron Burr.
He said that some time ago the editor of
one of the great New York newspapers
had told him that when Blaine was Sec
rotary of State, man had brought to his
Office paper giving the details Of a
scheme to acquire S1eO,O00,0O0 in South
America. This amount Was to be divi>
ded among a number of men whose
names appeared on the document, the
amount each man was TO receive being
set down opposite his name. Blaine's
name and the amount be was to receive
appeared among the others. Tie scheme
was to be worked through the Govern
ment. The editor offered the bearer of
the paper $4,000 for the document it.
self or copy of it; but the man refused
ii, saying that he had taken the paper
from the safe, and must return it at
once" I
Old Beelzebub himself could not tell
blacker lies or at a more reckless pace
than this There will be no liar in hell
guilty of blacker false witness than
Beecher is in these atrocious and demo. I
MAC lies against Blaine. The old fellow, q
not content with this broad-sheuldered
sort of lying, went on to say that but
for the treachery of Tammany Cleveland
would have have had 10000 majority in G
the State" adding: But for the vile and
false stories told about him he would
have swept the Northwest like whirl-
wind"
1t is clear that Beecher has never been
the man that the North has thought him
to be, or else commission In lunacy
should be issued in his case, and the old
man kept from going about the country
exposing the falling down and disap-