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The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], H. W. Beecher. (search)
pectable river has long run among the of several men of compared with whom H. W. Beecher is a glow worm to a comet, but has never been in a state of ignition. As an abolitionist, Beecher will be no novelty in England; as a indifferent Unionism preacher, he will leave in "the once of the English public" a certain odor skin to that of the Rev. Mr. Stiggins, and as to his denunciatory, irreverent, not to say blackguard style of pulpit eloquence, he has no chance whatever in competition with Spurgeon. Of course, such English audiences as he can muster, will listen to him with civility, and the morning papers will duty report his speeches; but Henry Ward Beecher will not suit the refined taste of the higher classes, nor the sound common sense of Englishmen in general. He is a pulpit stump speaker, whose antics may captivate Brooklyn Fire Zonaves, but will be regarded in England as mere American bombast and clap trap. A worse time than the present Mr. H. W. Beecher could not select