The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-08-19
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Bacon. But it is the pleasure of Mr..
Theodore Tilton that We should be
compelled to do 80. Two years ago
Mrs. Woodhull published Mr.. Tiltor
to the world as cuchold. Two
months ago DR.. Bacon, as Mr.. Tilton
can never have done with telling us,
published Mr.. TiltOn to the. world as
ga dog and knave." And now comes
Mr.. Tilton himself before the investi-
eating committee in Brooklyn to prove
himself a cuckold, with the shameless
ness of dog, and with the cunning of
la kDave. These are plain words.
Dean Swift would have used them in
a less imperative case. But no case
more imperative ever passed beneath
the remorseless scourge Of that stern
execntioner. The statement now made
public by Mr.. Tilton of lis domestic
life and troubles is simply an outrage
not: upon his own nome only, but upon
the very idea Of home itself; not upon
his Own wife only, but upon woman
hood and the marriage bond. Plain
men reading it will be tempted to es-
TEEN Daniel L. Sickles in the compar-
ison with this man a gentleman and a
man of honor, and to regard adultery
as venial offence in comparison with
this mans leprous and loatbsome vim
dicatiou of his conjugal rights.
! With the nominal subject matter of
this revolving paper we do no propose
just now to concern ourselves. The
question OF Mr. Tilton's guilt or limo.
cence and ofMr. Beecher's guiltor inno-
cence have now for the first time been
distinctly raised by this statement in
such wise as to make it imperative that
they should be settled. But this, not
because Mr.. Triton now for the first
time, after months and years OF inuen-
do aad malignant insinuation, plainly
charges Mr.. Beecber with the seduction
of his wife. First.hand witness in the
charge though he claims to be, Mn.
Tilton ia worthless witness, for Mr..
Tilton has written himself down dog.
Nothing can be entertained, nothing
can lie affirmed or denied on the evil
dence of a man who exults to show
that with him nothing is sacred, Meth
er his plighted word nor his protested
religion, nor bis self-respect as man,
nor the nuptial chamber of his welded
wife. He claims, indeed, like Mr..
Sickles, to have wrung from his wife
a confession Of her guilt-a claim
which his wife, he it remembered, most
strenously rebuts and repels. But it is
not recorded that Mr.. Sickles, after ex.
tracing a confession from his wife,
fell upon the neck of her seducer, and
with Christian tears aud tenderness
forgave and embraced him as a pre-.
liminary to pistolling him suddenly to
death in the public streets on the
Sabbath afternoon.
The charge now made against Mr..
Beecher rests, so far as MIR. Tilton's
statement enables us to assign to ii
any foundation at all, upon the alleged
action taken in consequence Of it by
certain third parties, and notabl = by
Mr. Moultop, Mr.. Carpenter, and Mr..
Oliver johnson It is but commonly
Just, by the way, to say that letter
given in this statement as written by
/ Mr.. Oliver johnson to Mr. Tilton on
this subject is absolutely the one basis
of manliness and right feeling which
refreshes this else desert waste oil
sentimentalism, pruriency, cowardicc,
and filth. When Mr.. Beecher shall
have been confronted with these third
parties, and Mr.. Beecher's testimony
can be weighed with or against theirs
it will be in order to form final judg.
ment as to the truth or falsehood o.
J the charge which, so far as it rests or
anything now within the range of Wis
ion of the public, rests alone upon then
} and upon their testimony. But as to
Mr.. Tilton We need no further evidence
, than his own. He stands before III
now by his own act, naked, shameless
and unabashed. Or rather he does no
, stand, for that is the characteristic at
titude of manhood; but squats before
IFS, ,eerjng, obscene shape. 10
prophagous and foul, besfobberinl
with tears Of dramatic self-adulatiOl
the letters Of the woman he had sworl
to love, honor, and cherish, and spell
ing ont with gleeful gloatiDg emphasi
: to the ribald crowd the syllables of
/ woman's whispered tenderness. to Ell
nance the picture he would paint O
+ his own magnanimous moral beaut.
and of that woman's wretched laps
from loyalty to him and his grea
heart. 1t is simply horrible N. Y
How They Do THINGS IN OREGON
Justice is sometimes swift in Ore
} goh, even when administered accord
: ing to law. A brawling fellow name
g Gibbons fred & pistol at woman i
Portland. An officer interferre(
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