The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-04
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ton of early days comes out nowhere more
strongly than in his cross examination.
We see everywhere the generosity of his
intentions and the pettiness of his
cunning. He apprehends himself truly
when he says II am not very
great man." but his whole examination be-
trays no meanness in him. 81 thought
did a crafty thing, she says speaking of
his letter to a complaining friend, intend
ing to hush up the scandal but which only
added to 1t. Again, his persistent equivoca-
ton in representing his wife "a pure wo-
man" though in fact he believed her to be
guilty of adultery, certainly cannot be stig-
matized as a common lie. He meant to stand
between his wife and the world, and his
loyalty to her even is characteristic of the
man. Even when asking advice TO guide
his own steps, be would not so far confide
and divulge as to blacken her. However
men may judge, that is an offense that will
rest lightly in the eternal balance. Again,
speaking of their early relations to Mr..
Beecher 81 think she looked upon him
very much as she would upon the Apostle
Paul. And, in fact, looked upon him so
in my early life. / loved that man as well
as ever loved woman" It is entirely
consistent with this sort of man that the
cross examination, in endeavoring to trace
his first communication with Beecher on
the subject to his desire to get aid in keep
ing his place, broke down entirely. Under
every gulse in which the question was put.
he insisted that his first move toward Mr..
Beecher after her confession was inspired
by bis wife, and TO prevent an open scan
dial. 1t is very conceivable that this fine
animal broke his VOWS of fidelity to his
wife, it is inconceivable that he cherished
for years a deliberate and reasoning DUR
pose to pull down Beecher or to avenee
business slight. He is incapable of that
continuity of enmity or purpose.
Mrs. Tilton, the fearful mismate of this
nature, was scarcely less striking in char
acter. She is plainly no mere soft thing,
tckled and upset with few Illicit caresses.
Theodore was deeply religious man, as
Donatello was religious, and as the primi-
tive men were religious, when they saw
gods in the trees and the stars. He would
have made splendid pagan. Mrs Tilton,
on the other hand, was true daughter of
the church. She ought to have been nun.
She came to have horror of her husbands
rank nfdelity, as it seemed to her. Said
Mr.. Tilton in his testimony =
= don't suppose day ever passes over
Elizabeth, that the sun, If he could peep
through the windows, would not see her
on her knees, and my oldest daughter,
Florence, though she looks like me, is like
her mother here has come this great ca
lamity on my house there was that publi-
cation, last night she saw it and, this
morning, what did she do? / heard noise
in the house, and found that she was down
in the front parlor playing on the melodeon
like a heroine, standing in the midst of
this calamity like a rock in the sea she
gets that somewhat from me | can stand
all storms ; she gets also from her mother
the religious inspiration Florence, this
morning, had genius for religion, when
you would suppose that lshc would haye
been crushed YOU Gen. Tracy are not
stronger in the courtroom than she was
this morning, at that musical instrument"
So stern is Mrs. Tilton's orthodoxy that
she does not, according to her husband,
allow her children their playthings on
Sunday, and was once greatly shocked
that John G. Whittier should APP
point meeting at her house with
MIR. Greeley and Oliver johnson on a Sun
day evening. She was not, says Theodore.
a silly woman taken captive; she would
not feel fattered by call from President
Grant, for instance, ''but if she regarded
President Grant as a man of high religious
nature, coming with the Gospel in his
hand, and devoted to the evangelical re-
nglon, then, whether he were famous or
lowly, she would reverence him." Like
many high-church natures, she had a horror
of radicals of all sorts, and especially of
radical women. When she first saw Mrs.
Woodruff and when the latter was merely
a spiritualist and woman-suffrage lecturer,
the eyes of both flashed their repulsion.
Mrs. Tilton regarded Mrs Stanton and
other irreproachables with no less aversion.
But it is too painful to dwell on the
noble natural traits of these wrecked lives.
The strong man and the religieuse. the
happy founders of new home dozen
years ago-to what heart-ache have they
come ?-Sp'7nGfeld Republican.