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Henry Ward Beecher, abolitionist and rifleman

Posted by David Hardy · 4 July 2021 04:22 PM

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a Congregationalist clergyman and a prominent abolitionist. He and his church shipped so many Sharps rifles to anti-slavery settlers in Kansas that the Sharp rifles became known as "Beecher's bibles" and his church as the "Church of the Holy Rifle."

He was a rifleman, no doubt. I own his copy of Cadamus Wilcox's book, Rifles and Rifle Practice." I just located a book he coauthored, a sort of spiritual self-help book, "Life Thoughts" (1858). In it he reflect, "True aiming, in life, is like true aiming in marksmanship. We always look at the fore-sight of a rifle through the hind-sight."

3 Comments | Leave a comment

L. .J. O'Neale | July 5, 2021 12:03 PM | Reply

In 1856 Beecher was quoted by the New York Tribune as saying that "the Sharps rifle was a truly moral agency, and that there was more moral power in one of these instruments, so far as the slave-holders of Kansas were concerned, than in a hundred Bibles."

Marcus Poulin | July 5, 2021 2:31 PM | Reply

"Bleeding Kansas" with John Steuart Curry's "Tragic Prelude". When the Tornado Came to America and Ripped The Country Apart.

Mark-1 | July 6, 2021 3:13 PM | Reply

Has anyone seen how "Woke" has changed the John Brown story?? Check out Wikipedia.

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