[Rarebooks] FS: In our new Catalog: 1870s Beecher Scandal Broadside

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 From our new Catalog 353 -
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The Beecher Scandal! - Sung by Dick Brown.

No place or date, but American, 1872-75. A rather suggestive & humorous 
song/poem making fun of just about everyone involved in the famous 
Beecher Scandal of the early 1870s.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), Harriet Beecher Stowe's brother, was a 
leading clergyman and social reformer who had first made his mark as an 
abolitionist. After the Civil War he was a popular speaker, a leading 
supporter of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, and an outspoken opponent of 
Victoria Woodhull's "free-love" movement. Beecher himself had long been 
rumored to practice free-love in private with just about anyone in a 
skirt, and had the bad luck to have an affair in 1872 with Elizabeth 
Tilton, who later confessed to both her husband, who told Elizabeth Cady 
Stanton, who told her friend- Victoria Woodhull. Woodhull, annoyed at 
what she perceived as a gigantic case of hypocrisy in America's most 
self- righteous clergyman, promptly published a story in her newspaper 
titled "The Beecher-Tilton Scandal Case".

And scandal ensued...

Beecher arranged to have Woodhull arrested for sending obscene materials 
through the U.S. mails, and Mr. Tilton sued Beecher for adultery. The 
fact that everyone was eventually acquitted did not lessen the infamy 
the cases brought to just about everybody involved. Historian Walter A. 
McDougall ("Throes of Democracy", 2009) commented that the scandal 
"drove Reconstruction off the front pages for two and a half years 
[becoming] the most sensational [scandal] in American history".

Broadside. 4.5"x10". Minor soil. Nice wide margins. [41641] $200


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