Connecticut western news., 1874-09-18
MOWItOM's Defense.

perusal of the editorial remarks on the same, published in the Now York Tribune of last Saturday. That journal alludes to | it as follows
 MT Francis D. Moulton presents not one fragment of fresh evidence in support of his former charges, and advances hardly one new statement. We can reduce what Mir. Moulton really has to say about the scandal to a very few points. l. He gives (from memory) the words in which as he ayers, MT. Beecher confessed to him his improper relations with Mrs. Hilton. ?. He asserts that the confession has been made in the hearing of another person, whose name he does not give, but it is not Hilton. 8. He reproduces the letters which passed between MT. Beecher and Mrs. Hilton, after the alleged confession-the same letters which were given to the correspondent of the Chicago Tribune and copied into this paper. 4. And finally he declares that MT. Beecher confessed to him that he had com mitted adultery with another woman, men, toned though not by name in Tilton's threatening letter to Mr. Bowen. The first and second allegations rest upon MT. Moul- tons unsupported word, and we have no hesitation in saying that the language which he puts into MT. Beecher's mouth is impos- sible. He represents this Christian preach CT as not only acknowledging his adultery but declaring that God would not blame him for it. That overtaxes credulity. The third point refers to the so-called clandes tine letters. They are not evidences of guilt. Far from it. We challenge any un- preiudiced person to read tho m without be- ing impressed by their deep religious spirit; and if we are to take them for letters of as- signation we must suppose that this man and woman were in the habit of saying grace over their sinful indulgences and mingling all their crimes with prayer-not in hypocritical pretense before the world but in the secresy of their own guilty inter- course. In the malignant earnestness with which Moulton tries to twist an evil signifi- canoe out of these innocent, albeit gushing sentences, there is something of the devils own temper,
 The fourth point also.depends principally upon Mir. Moulton's credibility. But here he brings forward solitary scrap of what he considers documentary corroboration. In the letter from Hilton to Bowen there was reference to an alleged crime of ray ishment. From the lady concerned in this story letter is printed which Mir. Moulton would have us believe refers to Mr. Beech CTS crime. Now we know the particulars of this case. We know the incidents of the trivial quarrel to which the letter does re- late. We know MT. Moulton's charge to be an atrocious calumny without a shadow of justification and at the proper day the truth will be established by indisputable ev- idence.
 But we shall not waste time and temper in analYzing statement which will damn Francis D. Moulton deeper than any reve, lation of baseness and treachery that has been made by Mir. Beecher or his friends. IL is about such document as one might expect from the man who allows his friend to make merchandise of his wifes honor, and acts as broker in the transaction, - brutal, cruel, cowardly, infamous. Be cause his actions have been misconstrued forsooth, this DaYard of Brooklyn must save his reputation for generosity by blast ing the homes in which he has been fa- vored guest, pulling out the private letters committed to his honorable keeping, show ing the world what ugly things brothers and sisters could say of one another, what sentimental phrases wives could write in the absence of their husbands, and drag ging the reputation of ladies whom he has never known and the happiness of families which have never wronged him through the rocking filth of this unparalleled scandal.
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 REMARKABLE PERFoRMANCEs.-Tbe New London Telegram says: MT. Walter A. Brown of Port Hamilton arrived here on the boat last night all well, and regularly enough went into the depot restaurant, where something sudden and stupendous came over him, for he precipitated himself from the chair and commenced thrashing about with his gold headed cane in terrific manner, making deep dents in the chairs and counter. This done he dashed for the crowd, who gave him ground with pru- dent celerity. Next he tore down Water street, shouting and hallooing in horrible monnar Ho halkad raor n r,,oto, L,,l,,.t