Excerpt from The Little Clincher: A PamphletWith a moments thought, the writer could not help, perceiving the great variety of moods, to which Henry Ward Beecher is subject. While reading of his very moody remarks to the committee, during his whitewash examination, his acknowledged susceptibility to such a great variety of moods, according to his delineation of them, must surely prove him innocent of the amorous charges. For the benefit of the reader, is given a description of a few of the lovely preachers particular moods. At the starting point he must have had a baby mood; after that a boyish mood; then a growing manly mood; like other boys he had wild-oat moods; a courting mood; a marrying mood; a worldly mood; religious moods; noble priestly moods; holy rational moods; very sympathetic moods, for his ewe lambs; troubled moods; careless moods; pleasant moods; angry moods; good moods; bad moods; rich moods; poor moods; happy moods; desponding moods; hypothetical moods; and I wish I were dead moods; a five thousand dollar mood, for Tilton. We would like to ask if the giving of that seven thousand dollars, was during the process of hypothetical, generous or selfish moods, to coax Tilton to be quiet about his amorous callings? When that great big spider, Woodhull was after him, he had a fly-like mood. At the point of Moulton's pistol, he must have had a fearful mood, when Woodhull wanted him to preside at her freelove lecture, he had a cowardly mood, and during the Woodhull trial, he had a very innocent appearing, mum mood: but things came that he could not maintain that condition; so during his examination, he had various equivocal moods and judging from what we read, he must have had some lecherous moods; and then he has moods for shedding crocodile tears. When advising Mrs. Tilton to leave her husband, that was a cruel mood; then he would have loving moods; so he had more moods than an old maid. When in the presence of Mrs. Tilton, he would have amorous moods; when preaching to his congregation, he would have this mood and that mood. He would preach in favor of spiritualism, in one mood, and against it, in another mood. When he said in one of his sermons, that the story of the Garden of Eden was but a parable; he was in a doubting mood.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
