[Rarebooks] FS: 1875 Henry Ward Beecher Scandal/Song Broadside

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

American Broadside, 1872-75 - "The Beecher Scandal! - Sung by Dick 
Brown"

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 a sa 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 and wear, several light spots. Nice wide 
margins. $200

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