Year: 1860




is brighter than any getb ever worn ID kingy
crown, namely moral courage to proclaim, and
perseverance to advocate, what he thinks to be
true, no matter what opposition he may encouu.
tor


And will tell you cne thing IL you expect BY
any such prudent course as that to get money 70
build church, | do not want it; do no. want
church that is built at the price Of making men
hold their tongues.


4 see it is reported that cf late have been
growing moderate; but the old failing is in me
yet! | am as warmly in favor Of free speech as l
ever was. | will have it myself l will contend
for it for others; aud | will rebuke that cowardce
which is afraid to let q man speak freely. Man
illness requires that you should allJw open speech.
II you want to meet it, meet il by bouher speech.


Now, you know very we'll that while speak
with great severity and emphasis do not speak
with hatred or anger, but because abhor cowar-
dce-and most in those that love. did not
suppose had brought up church or congregs'
ton to sin in that way.


One thing am perfectly settled about, and thai
is this; myself shall be free, and every one who
has anything to do with me shall be free also, i'll
can help him to be So And if, in the augmenta-





circumscriptiOn of the liberty Of speech, you will
not have my cooperation in the putting up Of a
single brick. You may say that this will stand
in the way Of building. Then lei it! / do not care
for building that goes up on that foun'
dation 1t would be like an old temple Of Egypt
great and grand in outward form, but full Of
dead dust inside. No: nothing is Of any worth
that does not carry with it the vitality of the ib
erty Of the of God in the expression of honest
convictions. So much for that?


In the same discourse, Mr.. Beecher, speaking of
courage among business men, made the following
observations :.


4 have been silent spectator--I think l hav5
said little about it-of the desperate effort which
has lately been made to get up another merchant
fever How many have been Ashamed to honestly
admis themselves to be Anti Slavery men, Aboli.
tionists How many that drank in The dfbp Of
Liberty with their mothers milk have, from an
ignominiOus fear, been attempting to curry favor
with the South These men are fit only to be
cast out, and to be trodden under foot They are
salt without savor They have lost function, Id
losing manhood. Do you suppose there could be
pinned up in hell exquisite roll Of Internal
honor than that exhibited by those men-t think
there some twelve hundred Of them-who
signed petition asking the Les stature to permit
Southern elavebolders to bring their slaves into
this State, for fear they should not be thought to
be sound 10 favor Of slevery-for fear they should
lose custom and reputation but to saving their
souls, / am afraid there is not much to save in
that direction If there is, then there is doc
trine of ;nfutesimals that is beyond any cOrnpre-
hension Of mine. What dastdrds, what contempt
ibls things wearing the form Of men, must they
be. who, outvieng Judas, make haste to sell their
principles and their Master, without the pretenoS
Of any other temptation than that of saving lit
tie peIf-and that, too, when they were rich
enough to retire long ago But it is comforting
TO think that there is some in the worst of
things When things have become corrupted they
are, at any rate, good for manure;and let us hope
that out OF this reeking filth a more luxurant har-
vest OF virtue may spring up


i know these men. | have read their names
have asdred them up. | have no feeling Of
revenge, towards them. But there may come a
time when shall have something to say about thed
and 10 them. l shall never forget that when do
speak under such circumstances, every word is to
be red-hot cannon BALI l will have nothing
TO do with them. My soul, 60 not into their coun.
Gil! Iney are not mereiy co "ardsi Dot pe3Ered
towards, every one Of them; and some of them are
apostates. They were educated to bet:or things,
and have gone back to apostacy, under the palui.
ness and bribery of Interest,"


There is one thing that men ought to Under
stand. and that is, not only that integrity is safe
in business, but that it is the only safety 10 bust.
ness. that is infected in other respects be-
sides his honesty may not be safe merely bsssuse
lie is honest; but where man has industry, and
sagacity, and experience if he has adds to these,
moral principle, it will not only not stand 10 the
way Of, but it will immeasuraby increase both his
saefty and his profits. And the man who from
cowardice throws Gway moral principle, is not on.
ly a villain, but fool Ho cheats himself, as Ju-
das did, who betrayed Christ for silver, and got
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