 He was probably the best-known Protestant minister in the United States at that time, earning an immense salary of $100,000 a year as a minister at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn.A leader in the anti-slavery movement, Beecher gained fame as an orator.One hundred thousand copies of "Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly" were published on November 2, 1872 with "The Beecher-Tilton Scandal Case" on the cover.