The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-17
TEE STATEMENT.

Henry Ward Beecher's statement, or de-
Tense, has been presented to the world and
has received that consideration, we pre-
sumo, which It's importance demands. We
have read it and re-rcad it, and at each
time with pleasure and with pain. We
know not, we care not what Moulton may
Ward Beechers statement could have been
written by man burdened and oppressed
with guilt Any one at all familiar with
his manner and style of writing and speak
ing knows that it is thoroughly emotional
and somewhat sensational. He deals in
and produces his effect by hyperbole.
THIS, taken in connection with the hypo-
chondria with which it is known his father
was afflicted and which was inherited by
the son, is sufficient, in our judgment, to
account for all the accusatory sentences
which appear IN the published letters.
From the very constitution of his mind,
from the manner and style of writing and
speaking which he has cultivated to per-
lection, it would seem an absolute neces-
sity that his letters or "talk" should par
take Of the mood in which he was in, and
that in the highest and most sensational
if such word is proper in this connection,
degree. If those of us who only know of
him by reading his published writings, or
from hearing him speaF, can detect these
peculiarities in him, how much more ap-
parent must they have been to men holding
such intimate relations with him as did
Tilton and Moulton. They observed it
only too well, and took advantage thereof
for their own benefit and if needs be, for
his ruin. Then again, if Mr. Beecher were
the guilty man he is charged to be, would
he not have been ready with plausible
tory sentence contained in his letters? All
must admit that he is a man of sufficient
ability for this and that he has had time
enough for its preparation. Its very alb
nocent man. 1t is painful, however, tc
find that Mr.. Beechcr has been the weak
man all these years that this statement
shows him to have been. 1t has been said
that man cannot be fully known until he
has been tried by trouble. This is true OF
Mr.. Beecher so tar as the world is concern
ed. No person, until now, would have be-
licyed him to be the weak, yielding mar
he confesses himself TO be. But such he
is, and as such we must consider him here
after We have so often considered this
case in all It's bearings, having nothing tC
take back or alter now, that we have but
word more to add. We would for the SAKE
of q carping, disbclieying, scandal-lovng
world, that Mr.. Beecher had made THU
statement Immediately on the appearance,
of Tilton's charges The scandal has grown
and taken root and we fear that it is nov
too late to eradicate all the seeds of suspi
cion and dstrust which have been so widel,
sown. The publication of this defens
six weeks ago would have prevente,
doubt in every mind, but nov
while the great majority will h
satisfied OF Mr.. Beecher's purity and entir
llhNAtUif, Ntl Ull4'lN VIII iNilNlll UlltOl
, WINGED. Tho case should have been 81
, managed as to convince not only plymouth
church lut the whole world. He belong
? TO the country rs much as he does to tina
church, and his reputation is as dear to III
) one as to the other. These words spoken q
} the right time would have destroyed the las
seed of distrust, but we fear that too man
will remain still unconvnced. If so, il
due solely to the delay. In this delay, W
see the same weakness that Mr.. Beeche
has displayed duringithe last four years an
which seems tated to follow him throug
life. We are satisfied with his defense, W
l are, as we always have been, convinced o
his innocence, but we deeply regret hi
= weakness and the delay in the presentation
: OF his statement
Henry Noble, of the Cambridge, n. Y.
rost, is in town stopping at the Bate
Y | House.