Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-12
UNION AND AMERICAN.
DR. HUSTON'S AOQUIFTAL


Verdict Of the EccIesiastIeaI Court
Diversity OF Opinion as % Its Jns.
dee-Ehe DOctsr Overwhelmed With
Congratutations-The American LII
bel Buit. r.a--l 81,
Correspondents of the Cincinnati Commercial.
BA Who're, June SIN these dispatches
OF la light, the Ecclesiastical Committee
that 5 been In session for nearly tbree
wees investigating certain grave charges
against the chastity Of Rev. DR.. Huston.
was iett in session, celebrating upon their
verdict. Al night long the committee pur-
sued It's labors, for every word of The testi-
mony taken during the long, tedious INQUIRY
had 70 be read over and digested anew. and
1t was not until fifteen minutes after seven
O'Clock this morning that the sleep-weary
preachers who composed the court finally
determined upon the following as the re-
suit OF their deliberations:
%We, the undersigned, committee ap-
pointed TO Investigate the charges and
organizations preferred against the Rev. L.
". huston, ID. D, find the said charges
are not sustained, because the said specif-
cations are pot sustained.
Screw. NELSON HEAD, ID. D..
sRev. L. NJ. CRENSHAW.
~ ''Rev. j. n. SPANGLER, ID, D.,
- ssRev. p. III. WHTsNRR.
'sRev. THos. z. CARSON
The committee then adjourned sine die.
after directing the Presiding Elder, Rev,
Mr. Rodgers, TO notify the accused of the
result Of the investigation.
Hardly had the committee adjourned.
when the news Of the acquittal spread over
the whole city and friends at once FASTENED
70 congratulate the Doctor upon his
triumph, and all day long his quarters,
az the Eutaw House, have been thronped.
Indeed, So constant have been the
visitors, that he Tas Obliged tonight TO re-
move to the house of friend, to ret the
rest that he sorely needs. The Doctor re-
ceiyed the congratulations Of bis well-Wish-
ers with considerable feeling, and al dav
seemed to hardly comprehend the good for
tune that had come to him; because be well
knew the influences that had been brought
20 bear to secure a conviction Were very
great, and the prosecution had been waged
with all the viRdictiveness that attaches TO
any criminal prosecution IN a court Of law.
But be bad stood the storm and come
out all right, and while be and his immedi-
ate friends rejoiced as well as those who had
Oeen on the fence, the accusers were CORE
spondingly sad. They denounced the Court
- sAA4AAOo1lLCU duu blo UlOI6 &cIiVe
OF them at once set about to invent some
new scheme TO give the acquitted reverend
more trouble. 1t was first proposed to get
the young school girl, who preferred the
charges, to 60 before magistrate and make
oath to her statement, so that he might be
arrested en- the charge Of adultery, but for
some reason this was abandoned, aud this
evening they declare that on Monday they
will have him indicted by the grand jury.
The american, which is the brains and
spirit Of the prosecution, the proprietors of
which DIR. Huston has sued for libel, lay
ing his damages at one hundred thousand
dollars, had an editorial In the afternoon
edition charaeterizing the trial as mockery
Of justice, and declaring the whole eommu-
nifty to be shocked by the unexpected YER
dict.
There Is a great diversity Of sentiment
IN regard % the investigation, but the jus
tice Of the verdict may be considered when
1t Is known that every one Of the commit
teemen were comparative strangers to the
accused. The friends Of the Doctor de-
clare that be viii push the suit against the
ATsaeTicdn for further vindication Of his
character.
Thus we have the end Of an investiga-
ton the ike Of which has never been heard
in this country before, and, for the good Of
Christianity, should never again be brought,
especially when the basis is the idle gossip
OF vindctive neighbors.