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Henry Ward Beecher proposed to ap
point a Day of Thanksgiving if
the South would secede
from the Union.
In Nov. 1860, Henry Ward Beecher,
in a speech' before the Boston Fraternity
Association, uttered the following senti
ments in relation to the Southern States
seceding from the Union :
"The question now asked when men
meet each other in the car, or on the
street Do you think the 'South will
secede ?' My answer is, 'I don't believe
they will, and I don't care if they do.'—
(Loud and prolonged applause.) When
I say that I don't care if they do, I mean
that there is no terror, in so far as oar
prosperity is concerned. If you ask me
whether for their sakes I do not care, I
should modify my answer, and say, 'For
their sakes I trust a better mind will be
given them, and that they will remain in
the ship. But in so far as the free States
are concerned, I hold that it will be for
their advantage for the South to go off.'
I cannot reckon myself among those who
have advocated disunion either from poli
cy or from principle. But if, against our
honest endeavor and full intent this does
take place, in the providence of God,then
I say, let us appoint a day of thanksgiv
ing. (Loud applause.) We have never
been advantaged, nor do I see any near
prospect of our being advantaged by re
maining in their company. I would not
have South Carolina think that there
would be a tear shed if she goes. I would
not have any of the gulf States think that
we are unwilling to part company with
them.
"The question neat comes up, 3uppose
the South should secede, what would be
the result ? In the gale on Lake Erie this
week, there came a ship, and many of
Boston's solid men, perhaps, had an inter
est in her, for she was loaded with cop
per ore. To relieve the vessel, they threw
over the copper, and fur every tun that
went down, the ship went up, and they
saved themselves by throwing over the
clipper ore. For every State you throw
off, you will go up an inch. (Loud ap
plause.)
Montrose, Pa.
" Let the Southern States stand by
themselves, and servile insurrections are
just as certain, it seems to me, as explos
ions are where fire comes to gunpowder.
It is the conservative, moral and political
power of the Northern States that holds
iu check that terrible element."
Let us analyze the above speech, and
what are the facts deduced therefrom ?
The first is, that this noted Divine,hefore
one single State had seceded, declared be
fore an immense audience, that he did not
care if the gulf States went off from the
Union of our fathers ; that it would be
fur the advantage of the North ; and that
although be could not, reckon himself
among those who had advocated disun
ion ; that is, although he had not attend
ed disunion meetings, and joined openly
in the treasonable proceedings of Garrison
and Phillips, yet, if in the providence of
God the abolitionists should succeed in
driving the South from the Union, he
would join with them in appointing a day
of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving for what ? Why, accor
ding to their own verdict, and that of the
majority of the Northern people, this min
ister of the gospel and alt those who ap
plauded his sentiments, were going to
thank the Almighty that six millions of
Americans bad commenced the " wicked
est rebellion ever inaugurated since Luci
fer and his rebellious hosts were thrust
out of heaven into the pit of woe."
'A minister of the gospel telling the peo
ple to rejoice and return thanks to God
that six millions of his own American
brothers were committing treason which
would subject them to death, or to ban
ishment from the land of their birth!
Henry Ward Beecher did not believe
thas,,,,secession was a wrong or a crime, or
else he rejoiced that the South was com
mitting a wrong and a crime. He said he
"would not have• South Carolina think
that there would he a tear shed if she
went off from the Union. He would not
have any of the gulf States - think that he
or the people of the North were unwil
ling to part company with them."
He could preach of the awful sin of
holding the black race in servitude—but
he had not a word to say against secess
ion or rebellion. A watchman on the
walls of Zion, be failed to warn the South- -
ern people , of the sword that was to be
unsheathed against them. With Gerrit
Smith, and Garrison, and Greeley, he
cried peace, peace, when he meant " war
to the knife !"
As an inducement to the people of New
England to let them go, be told them
that "they had never been advantaged,
and be could not see a sy prospect of their
ever being advantaged by remaining in
their company." Hetold:them that lithe
Southern people were only out of the Un
ion, be and they would be a foot taller in
the political heavens.
"For every State that these political
aspirants could throw off, they would go
up an incb." Twelve States thrown off
would make twelve,. inchUs, and these
black-republicans wOuld be a foot higher
ialtif:nilitipal oho% of oor conutry.
FOR THE DEMOCRAT
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, JAN. 16, 1866.
it any wonder then, that they have deter
mined not to receive these States back in
to the " ship." They are all in a panic,
and have acknowledged despairingly to
all their adherents that the weight of the
Southern States united with the "copper"
(heads) of the North would sink them so
low that their heads would never be seen
above low water mark.
And they deserve to sink. This noto
rious divine said in 1860: Let the South
stand by itself, and servile insurrections
are just as certain, it seems to me, as ex
plosions are where fire comes to gunpow
der. It is the conservative, moral and po
litical power of the North that holds in
check that terrible element."
Henry Ward Beecher knew what that
"terrible element"—a "servile insurrec
tion" meant. He had read the awful de
scriptions of that " terrible element"
when it raged in St. Domingo. He had
read the accounts of Nat Turner's horri
lile massacres in Southampton, Virginia ;
and yet according to his own confession
before a crowd of fanatics like himself; he
would appoint a day of Thanksgiving if
the South would only place herself out
side of the Union, and stand aloof by her
self, where he was just as certain that
servile insurrections would take place as
that explosions would occur when fire
comes to gunpowder.
When that " terrible element" breaks
forth what are the scenes that take place?
Allison says :
"In St. Domingo the slaves spread
themselves over the country, set it on fire
in every quarter, and massacred the
whites. Twenty thousand negroes burst
into Cape Town with the torch in one
hand and the sword in the other. Neith
er age nor sex was spared. The young
were cut down in striving to defend their
homes; the aged in the churches where
they had fled for protection. Virgins
were immolated on the altar; infants
were hurled into the fires. 'The finest city
in the West Indies was reduced to ashes.
Its splendid churches, its stately palaces
were wrapped in flames, and thirty thou
sand human beings perished in the mas
sacre."
And this was a picture which Henry
Ward Beecher and his brother abolition
ists would rejoice to witness in the South.
Jesus Christ, our Saviour, wept over Je
rusalem. He foresaw the sorrow! and
desolations which were coming upon her,
and his heart was touched with pity.—
The people of Jerusalem were great sin
ners—and he knew all their crimes. Nev
ertheless he wept, to think of the woes
that were to befal them. But this pro
fessed minister of Christ would not have
the South think that- be and his followers
would shed a tear for her misfortunes.
The people of the South might go out
of the union—they might dissolve the sa
cred ties which bound our fathers togeth
er in love and concord—their slaves
might rise and set fire to their dwellings ;
old men and maidens, mothers and their
helpless offspring might all perish by the
sword, yet these abolition fanatics would
not shed a tear. Nay ! they would hold
a day of rejoicing therefor. Henry Ward
Beecher had read of Nat Turner. The
Southern Religious Telegraph of Sept.
1831 tells of his horrible acts in the fol
lowing touching sentences :
"Never has it fallen to our lot to re
cord so 'melancholly a tale connected with
the history of our State as that to which
we are now called ; for never since the
burning of the Richmond Theatre, and
the destruction of nearly a hundred lives,
has there occurred an event in the history
of Virginia that has destroyed so many
lives, and involved so many families in
grief and woe. Seldom in the most un
civilized and vindictive warfare have we
heard of human passions breaking forth
in acts of such wanton and cold-blooded
cruelty upon helpless women and child
ren. Even the infant in the cradle could
find no mercy in the relentless hearts of
these deluded wretches. The blood chills
at the thought and recital of these hor
rors. To contemplate at one moment the
full and satisfying bliss of a lovely domes
tic circle, and then, in a single hour, to
behold them cruelly massacred; the fath
er, mother, daughters, sons, and the cra
dled infant, mangled and bleeding and
thrown into heaps to be devoured by dogs
and beasts of prey. This is a scene at
which the spirit faints l The massacre
commenced on the 21st of August. The
ring-leader was a slave known by, the
name of Nat Turner. He pretends to be
a Baptist preacher, and declared he bad
been commissioned by Jesus Christ, and
that he was acting under inspired direc
tions."
Now there is not the least doubt that
Nat Turner was inspired to commit these
horrid deeds,, and the same spirit that in
spired this negro savage to murder seven
ty white people of Virginia, inspired Aen
rg Ward Beecher and the abolitionists of
the North to - wish the same scenes re
newed. This was the same spirit that
led the-insurrection in Germany, in .the
time of Luther, who said, "These fanatics
veil their crimes with the cloak of the
gospel. The spirit urges them on, they
say,and I reply, it is an evil spirit, for he
bears no. other fruit than ,the , pillage of
convents . and churches. - The , greatest
highway robbers -on earth might do as
much. Christians fight not with swords
and arquebuses, but, with sufferings and
with the cross. Christ, their Captain,
bandied not the sword,"
Thus taught the great leader of the Re
formation in Germany. Not thus teach
the leaders of the " abolition reform" in
America. Henry Ward Beecher says :
" Slavery must die. It should not dis
may us if war comes of the gospel. Fight
ing- is God's instrumentality to end vast
national crime. It is our first duty to
pray, and our second to fight until slave
ry ht ended. God gives the nation blood
to drink. Your blood, my blood, our
brother's blood."
Is it any wonder that this abolition re
former, (as he lately said,) " shut my eyes
and tremble with horror when I think of
hell ?" The fanatics in Luther's day gave
rivers of blood to their nation to drink,
and this blood was likewise for human
equality. "Luther continually repeated
that it was immortal souls which Christ
emancipated by his word, and firmly
maintained the distinction between secu
lar and spiritual things. A Christian, said
he, should endure a hundred deaths, rath
er than join, in the slightest degree, with
the insurrection of the peasants."
To exhibit still farther the contrast be
tween the doctrines ofLuther and the re
formers of America, an extract is here giv
en from a speech of T. W. lligginson at
an anti-slavery meeting in Massachusetts
in 1860. He says :
"Every day confirms the position ta
ken by the disunion Convention four
years ago, that the free and slave states
are not one nation, but two nations, be
tween which separation is inevitable.—
The Union being dissolved, the fate of
slavery is in the hands of the slaves them
selves, and it is impossible to show why
insurrection is not as much the right and
duty of the negroes as of the Italians—
and this carries with it the duty of aiding
the insurrection in both cases."
Thus it is too plain to admit of a doubt
that. Henry Ward Beecher and his fellow
abolitionists desired the dissolution!of the
Union for the express purpose of having
the horrors of St. Domingo repeated in
the South. If these men are Christians,
then Martin Luther was not a Christian.
If these men are teachers of Christianity,
then Luther was a false teacher, and we
must look for Christianity among the
German fanatics whom Luther declared
were led by an evil spirit, and among the
Jacobins of France whose deeds are re
corded in history under the title of the
Horrors of the French Revolution.
What were the consequences resulting
from the .French and German nations
drinking the blood spilled by these fanat
ics ? D'Aubigne says :
"The most flourishing and populous
districts of Germany exhibited nothing
but heaps of dead bodies and smoking ru
ins. Fifty thousand men bad perished,
and the people lost nearly everywhere
the little liberty they had hitherto enjoy
ed. But equality of rank was established
in aristocratic Germany."
A military despotism was reached in
France through oceans of blood which
was shed to reduce all men to an equali
ty. Four millions of negro slaves have
been made free in America through fire
and sword, wielded by the same class of
fanatics (as will be more fully proved
hereafter,) and the blood which has wash
ed away slavery is now being used to
wash away the liberties of the white race
bequeathed to them by their patriot an
cestors, who loved their posterity so well
and bad so high a regard for the dignity
of their nation, that they placed an im
passable barrier, as they believed, against
the white race ever being placed upon a
level with the negro.
These fanatics, having overturned the
government of our fathers, are erecting a
despotism on its ruins. So plain is their
work to be seen, that even a Republican
paper says of Charles Sumner's bill, that
"instead of making the blacks and whites
equal before the law, it elevates the ne
groes into a privileged class, making them
the especial pets of the government.—
Most of his amendments are entirely at
variance with Republican principles, and
destructive of the syste% on which our
government is founded."
Let the people take heed that their
otvn boasted liberties are not finally lost
in giving freedom to the negroes Whom
our patriot forefathers declared could not
live with them in a state of freedom and
equal rights. Jefferson said "the white
and black races cannot live equally free
wider the same government ;" and Hen
ry Clay, once the idol of the Republican
party, said : "The liberty of the black
race is incompatible with the freedom
and liberty of the white race in America."
FRAUDS ON THE REVENtrE.—The atten
tion of the Revenue Department has been
called to the frauds which have for a long
time are still being perpetrated in N. Y.
in the matter of cigar stamps. It, is sta
ted that parties continue to flood' the
market with bogus stamps, selling them
at $2 per thousand, and then procuring,
the cpnruication of tho goods stamped
with the,irforgeries, thus getting full pay,
both ,as Government informers and. Gov
ernment cheats.
How Mr. Keith Managed.
" Man's work is from sun to sun, but
woman's work is never, done," quoted
Mrs. Keith. '
She had just finished her work for the
evening,' everything was tidy, and she
was taking up her sewing, when Mr.
Keith upset a vinegar bottle and a bowl
of gravy in the kitchen cupboard, ruma
ging after a knife which was in his pocket
all the time. Mrs. Keith relinquished
her idea of a little season of quiet, and
went out to set matters in order again.
Mr. Keith followed to oversee her—a
habit some men have.
" I wish you would try to be a little
more careful, Henry. You do not real
ize how many things I have to see to."
" Humph ?" said Mr. Keith, sitting
down in a basket of freshly ironed clothes;
" I never would complain of such a trifle
as that ! If I didn't know, I should think
all the women were in slavery."
" You would be correct, Henry. You
haven't the faintest idea—"
"Nbnsense, %lary I Why, I could do
your work, ana three times as much more
and get all through at ten o'clock."
" Could you, indeed ?"
"To be sure, if you would only give
me the chance of it.
" You shall have it," said Mrs. Keith,
quietly. " I have long wanted to visit
my Aunt Susan. I will do so now, and
you may keep house. I shall have to
cook up. something—"
"Asit I couldn't cook ! You will do
nothing of the kind, Mary. I shall live
like a prince, and you will see how nice,
I will keep everything. You will hardly
know the house when you return."
" I dare say," remarked Mrs. Keith,
" but when can I ?'
?"
"To morrow, if you like."
" And you are sure you can manage ?"
" Sure !" what a look he gave her;
"you shall see."
Mrs. Keith laughed a little to herself
when her husband left her at the depot,
and turned his steps home Ward to clear
the breakfast things and prepare dinner.
She only wished she could be there invis
ible, and see him manage.
" Let me see," soliloquized Keith, en
tering the kitchen; "I'll wash the dishes
first, and I'll put one of Mary's dresses to
keep me clean."
He fastened it around his waist with a
pin, rolled np his sleeves, and looked
about him. The fire was out, but after
much trouble he succeeded in rekindling
it, and then began the dishes.
He took them to the sink, plugged up
the spout,and put them to soak in a pail
of cold water.
" There, they're washed," said he to
himself; " now for something to wipe
them on. I'll take the table cloth. Such
a fuss as women do make about work.
Why, I could wash all the dishes in the
neighborhood in half a day. This stew
pan smells of grease ; I wonder what's
the matter with it ? There, I'te got
some smut on my hand ! there it goes on
that China saucer, deuce take it ! I wish
there was no smut !—Oh, there goes the
cream pitcher ! And I've stepped into
that potato dish that I sat on t \ he floor to
dry, and that's gone to the shades ! Nev
er mind, accidents will happen. I guess
11l trim the lamp next; mother always
trimmed the lamp in the morning.. Con
found e'm how black the chimneys are?"
Thus conversing with himself, Mr.
Keith put the chimneys into thebasin and
cogitated a moment. He bad heardit
said that boffin.. '' water was cleansing. So
he scalded the chimneys, and the result.
was about a hundred different pieces to
each chimney.
" Good gracious I?' he cried, ‘ 4 who'd
have thought it ! There's somebody at
the door. I'll just step out as I am. It
can't be anybody that I care for, so early
as this."
A small boy presented himself eyeing
Keith with ill suppressed mirth.
" Be you mistress of the house ?"
" Yes—that is, I am the master !"
said Mr. Keith, with dignity, " what can
I do for you ?"
" Nothing,' I guess; Marm sent me
over to see if you—that is—if the mis
tress of the house would take care of the
baby while she goes shopping."
"No 1" thundered Keith, I've other
fish to fry."
The boy put his thumb•to his nose, and
Mr. Keith after slamming .the door—as
men always do when they are out of tem
per—returned to the kitchen. The-fire
was out and the room decidedly smoky.
" I'll go down cellar and 'bring up
some coal," said be, and started briskly
down the stairs. On the second step he'
put his foot through a rip,' in his' dress
skirt—stumbled and fellto the bottom of
the cellar—smashing a basket' of eggs,
and knocking over a shell' loaded with
pans of milk.
"Deuce take it!" exclaimed:he, scram
cling to his feet, and rubbing his head,
" bow do the women manage' :With thetie;
infernal long dresses ? I Shall break Mt
neck with this ydt • .!
The fire ,made again,. Mr , Keith be
thought him of dinner. ES looked at. his
time piece; it was • oiiecololock: 1
time for, milers. What slienlee'be'bave
for dinner He had heard - his '-;Wife day
that a rice'pnading and 'boiled ItittitOds;'
and broiled steak.
He filled the basin •Witbirictl, Rtiired i;l3
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a little sugar, dropped `inanegg,nna r il e le
the vessel into the 'oven. The radii
he washed in soapsuds, that ther:nerf
tainly might be clean, and put.them into;
the teakettle, because they would i tnA
quicker. .
The steak was frizzling hi the . ' 641'0
pan,and he was was proceeding' tent the
table, when the bell rang. 7 1. , )Y
He caught up the pan from ,thafire..f.t
to keep it from. burnino•—and,made baste
to the front door. Then he remembered
it would not bd just' the thing la
the door with a frying -pan in hid hand;
so he deposited it on the parlor sofaiand
answered the ling.
Mrs. Dr. Mudge was on the AM,
dressed in her best.
tg ' dare say," stammered Keith;
"my wife is absent, and I am playing
Bridget, Walk in." ,
Mrs. Mudge sailed into the parlor,
which was darkened to exclude the sun,
and without stopping to lookat her seat,
sunk into the frying pan on the sofa. ,
" Jupiter !" cried Mr.. Keith, ." yori
have d DI3O it now !"
Mrs. Mudge sprang up, the greasedripi
ping from the rich silk on the carpet. 14 1 , 1 r
face grew dark. She was tempted to
say something cutting, but managed 'to
control herself; bowed haughtily, and
swept out of the house.
Keith returned to the kitchen . a little
crest fallen, for Mrs. Mudge was a lady,
before whom he desired to appear par
ticularly well.
There was a tremendous cracking in
the oven. He thought of his pudding,
and looked in. The burnt rice bad hopp
ed all over the oven; the basin had %et,
ted apart, and the pudding was not done.
He 'shut the door upon the - ruins
gust and looked after his potatoes only t 6
find them boiled to a perfect jelly.
And just as he made the ditcovery.,
there was a sharp peal at the door
" Creation ! there's that abominable
bell again. I wish folks would stay at
home! I'll lock all the doors, and curall
the bell wires, after to day."
At the door he found Mr. and Mrs.
Fidget and their children.
" My dear Mr. Keith ! how do yogi
cried Mrs. Fidget. ,!" We were in town;
and thought we'd just step in to dinner
Where is Mrs. Keith ?" .
" She's gone away," said. Keith, rueful
ly, wondering 4itt; he should "fdeif On;
" walk in, do. I am housekeeper fd , day."
" Yes, so I should judge.. Bet-of
course yon make a splendid one.. I re.
member-you used to. be frequently telling
Mrs. Keith and myself how very easy
housekeeping must be. It must - be ,roere
play to you. Don't put yourself out, I beg."l
" Put myself out, indeed !"cried Keith,
retreating to the kitchen. ".Gooda
cious ! what shall I do? I'd give iv hut?*
dred dollars if Mary was only .-lhere-I
Where shall I begin ?"
Ile drew out the table and 'set it with
out .any cloth; then took off 'the 'phaieg .
and put on a cloth, Ale very •onegielnid. ,
wiped the dishes on. The task,completedo
be'put on some more potatoes and sem*);
more steak; burned the steak to. a cindery
,
took off his- - potatoes when 'he "aid 'his
meat; and put all upon the table. Thefif
wa.s.a loaf of baker's , bread...ioL.the•enp
boaid; 'he paraded that, 144:called bia
guests te 'dinner:
A quizzical Smile spread " over Mrs.
Fidget's facet - V. the sight of the*repast.'
Keith was in a cold nerspiration; , : 1
"Ma, my plate's alt,greasy, ann.so'smy,
knife. I can't eat on , dirty
little Johnny Fidget...
" And my fork is wet s 'all over with wa
ter that's dropping otrthbiable cloth; and
my tater ain't half biled" criedlittle'datie
Fidget.
A slight noise in the kitchen
,drew . tlip,
attention ofMr. Keith.
" Jupiter !" cried he " if. Mig:olPlah
erty's dog ain't making off with my
steak !"
He jumped tram, tbe. tablecandistarted.
in hot pursuit. The ,dog made tbo best
of Faith's unaccustomed attire , :tras a
sad drawback, and he made but. Hulot
headway.
"Kill him l" Ie yelled to the crowd
! that joined in the pursdit; I'll give fifteed
dollars for his, hide," ,
Mis. QTlalterty appeared hermit on,
the scene with a skillet, of hot water.t...,::- .
." Tea him if yer darer she oried;, 4 ,Tlk
break tbe, bones of every. mother's soda
yees. Stand from tbrninst; ci: yell' 'rile
the day."
Keith took a step forward,-,stepped eti': ,
his skirt, and pitched head
.first into -a
wine cellar, where half a dozen men were
playing cards. .'....1,4,.“-.C.,1
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"The devil in..pettidoattrl":eiotainied
one gamester, :arid the place% etopti*
quicker thanka wink: ~ . ..1 P:., •,L ,- : (:-..‘i
The police picked up Mr. Keith; toil; •
siderably, bruised, - and - tcarriedbint hcii4e,
His company, had , taken , their Bephrtare;• l
and somebody, not having the , fear 0 - the"-
law upon them, had entered 'and 4totatilit
hundred dollars worth of •proF;arts,.•:::f ; er,
....;
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