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England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
, while his speeches made during his visit to England in 1863 did much to disabuse public opinion tSouthern influence prevails to some extent in England. (Applause and uproar.) It is my old acquain miles off, and then is afraid to speak to Great Britain when he stands on her shores. (Immense apillustrated by the political economists of Great Britain and by her eminent statesmen; but it seemsm works prosperity, industry, and wealth. Great Britain, then, aside from moral considerations, haustomers is a great deal more important to Great Britain than the doctrine how to raise cotton. Itace Democrats; and the prejudice for which in England you are attempting to punish me, is a prejudits of the colonists the then government of Great Britain--I will concede not knowing what were the say that your own children, the offspring of England, ought to be nearer to you than any people ofdous cheers, and uproar.) I will not say that England cannot again, as hitherto, singlehanded manag[5 more...]
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
paration of America and making the South--(loud applause, hisses, hooting, and cries of Bravo! )--a slave territory exclusively--(cries of No, no! and laughter)--and the North a free territory — what will be the final result? You will lay the foundation for carrying the slave population clear through to the Pacific Ocean. This is the first step. There is not a man who has been a leader of the South any time within these twenty years that has not had this for a plan. It was for this that Texas was invaded, first by colonists, next by marauders, until it was wrested from Mexico. It was for this that they engaged in the Mexican War itself, by which the vast territory reaching to the Pacific was added to the Union. Never for a moment have they given up the plan of spreading the American institutions, as they call them, straight through towards the West; until the slave, who has washed his feet in the Atlantic, shall be carried to wash them in the Pacific. (Cries of Question? and
Brooklyn (New York, United States) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813- Clergyman; born in Litchfield, Conn., June 24, 1813; son of Lyman Beecher; was graduated at Amherst College in 1834. He afterwards studied theology in Lane Seminary. For a few years he was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Indiana, first at Lawrenceburg and then at Indianapolis. In Henry Ward Beecher. 1847 he was called to the pastorate of a new Congregational organization in Brooklyn, called Plymouth Church, over which he presided as pastor till his death, March 8, 1887. From the beginning of his ministry, Mr. Beecher held a high rank as a public teacher and pulpit orator, with a constantly increasing reputation. Laying aside the conventionalities of his sacred profession, and regarding the Gospel minister as peculiarly a leader in social life, his sermons were always marked by practical good-sense, and embraced in their topies the whole field of human society. They were largely made up of illustrations drawn from every phase of life and the in
Manchester (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
, since I have been in England, although I have met with greater kindness and courtesy on the part of most than I deserved, yet, on the other hand, I perceive that the Southern influence prevails to some extent in England. (Applause and uproar.) It is my old acquaintance; I understand it perfectly (laughter), and I have always held it to be an unfailing truth that where a man had a cause that would bear examination he was perfectly willing to have it spoken about. (Applause.) And when in Manchester I saw those huge placards: Who is Henry Ward Beecher? (Laughter, cries of Quite right, and applause.) And when in Liverpool I was told that there were those blood-red placards, purporting to say what Henry Ward Beecher had said, and calling upon Englishmen to suppress free speech — I tell you what I thought. I thought simply this: I am glad of it. (Laughter.) Why? Because if they had felt perfectly secure, that you are the minions of the South and the slaves of slavery, they would have
Litchfield, Conn. (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813- Clergyman; born in Litchfield, Conn., June 24, 1813; son of Lyman Beecher; was graduated at Amherst College in 1834. He afterwards studied theology in Lane Seminary. For a few years he was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Indiana, first at Lawrenceburg and then at Indianapolis. In Henry Ward Beecher. 1847 he was called to the pastorate of a new Congregational organization in Brooklyn, called Plymouth Church, over which he presided as pastor till his death, March 8, 1887. From the beginning of his ministry, Mr. Beecher held a high rank as a public teacher and pulpit orator, with a constantly increasing reputation. Laying aside the conventionalities of his sacred profession, and regarding the Gospel minister as peculiarly a leader in social life, his sermons were always marked by practical good-sense, and embraced in their topies the whole field of human society. They were largely made up of illustrations drawn from every phase of life and the i
Edinburgh (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
s to be civilized, he raises another story. When you Christianize and civilize the man, you put story upon story, for you develop faculty after faculty; and you have to supply every story with your productions. The savage is a man one story deep: the civilized man is thirty stories high. (Applause.) Now, if you go to a lodging-house, where there are three or four men, your sales to them may, no doubt, be worth something; but if you go to a lodging-house like some of those which I saw in Edinburgh, which seemed to contain about twenty stories--( Oh, Oh! and interruption )--every story of which is full, and all who occupy buy of you — which is the better customer, the man who is drawn out or the man who is pinched up? (Laughter.) Now, there is in this a great and sound principle of economy. ( Yah, Yah! from the passage outside the hall and loud laughter.) If the South should be rendered independent--(at this juncture mingled cheering and hissing became immense; half the audience r
America (Indiana, United States) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
ponses broke in, that it was worth our while to consider both alternatives. What will be the result if this present struggle shall eventuate in the separation of America and making the South--(loud applause, hisses, hooting, and cries of Bravo! )--a slave territory exclusively--(cries of No, no! and laughter)--and the North a fre people of strange tongue. (A voice: Degenerate sons, applause and hisses; another voice: What about the Trent? ) If there had been any feelings of bitterness in America, let me tell you that they had been excited, rightly or wrongly, under the impression that Great Britain was going to intervene between us and our own lawful stru cheers, and uproar.) I will not say that England cannot again, as hitherto, singlehanded manage any power--(applause and uproar — but I will say that England and America together for religion and liberty--(a voice: Soap, soap! uproar, and great applause)--are at match for the world. (Applause; a voice: They don't want any more s
Dixon, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
orld. The system of slavery. The following is Mr. Beecher's address in Liverpool, England, Oct. 16, 1863, the feeling of his auditors towards his subject and himself being clearly indicated parenthetically: For more than twenty-five years I have been made perfectly familiar with popular assemblies in all parts of my country, except the extreme South. There has not, for the whole of that time, been a single day of my life when it would have been safe for me to go south of Mason and Dixon's line in my own country, and all for one reason: my solemn, earnest, persistent testimony against that which I consider to be the most atrocious thing under the sun — the system of American slavery in a great, free republic. (Cheers.) I have passed through that early period when right of free speech was denied to me. Again and again I have attempted to address audiences that, for no other crime than that of free speech, visited me with all manner of contumelious epithets; and now, since I
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
t burdensome tariffs, without imposts, and without vexatious regulations. There must be these two liberties — liberty to create wealth, as the makers of it think best, according to the light and experience which business has given them; and then liberty to distribute what they have created without unnecessary vexatious burdens. The comprehensive law of the ideal industrial condition of the world is free manufacture and free trade. ( Hear, hear! A voice: The Morrill tariff. Another voice: Monroe. ) I have said there were three elements of liberty. The third is the necessity of an intelligent and free race of customers. There must be freedom among producers; there must be freedom among the distributors: there must be freedom among the customers. It may not have occurred to you that it makes any difference what one's customers are, but it does in all regular and prolonged business. The condition of the customer determines how much he will buy. Poor and ignorant people buy little,
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): entry beecher-henry-ward
of Bravo! )--a slave territory exclusively--(cries of No, no! and laughter)--and the North a free territory — what will be the final result? You will lay the foundation for carrying the slave population clear through to the Pacific Ocean. This is the first step. There is not a man who has been a leader of the South any time within these twenty years that has not had this for a plan. It was for this that Texas was invaded, first by colonists, next by marauders, until it was wrested from Mexico. It was for this that they engaged in the Mexican War itself, by which the vast territory reaching to the Pacific was added to the Union. Never for a moment have they given up the plan of spreading the American institutions, as they call them, straight through towards the West; until the slave, who has washed his feet in the Atlantic, shall be carried to wash them in the Pacific. (Cries of Question? and uproar.) There! I have got that statement out and you cannot put it back. (Laughter
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