The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-02
THE BEECHER-TILTON INFAMY.

To the credit of the press Of this city, Du
little space has been given to the disgusting
disclosures paraded before the public in the
New York and presses West. Say what they
please about New Orleans, there is purity suff
cient here to prescribe any paper which woult
dare to spread broadcast the illicit lovers, oc
casionally brought to light by the panderers
to the depraved taste of New England.
Beecher, with his brilliancy, went up like q
rocket, bursting and spraying its glittering
columns for moment. and then falling a
mere stick.
| Beecher preached war from the pulpit
again the South aroused the worst passions
Of the North justified pillage and destruction,
sacrilege and crimes, and all in the name Of
God and humanity, to extirpate the Southern
race.
He was a success-his impious zeal brought
converts and gold. He preached the doctrine Of
vengeance, and no one South, under his min
istrations, woull escaped the halter. He has
read much and all to no good purpose. He
has not read to learn wisdom and purity, but
to interlard his discourses with brilliant
thought He never understood the full mean
ing that knowledge is not power unless it has
for its substratum the broadest foundation Of
moral principle.
His chief book has been the Decameron,
without doubt, enjoying the immoral, without
deducing the moral from the stories He has
read with lecherous lust the Decameron and
ministered unto them after the manner Of the
pious Rustico. He was close observer of
from the well rounded neck and full form,
whether any of the timid sheep of his fold
were in danger of hell and if not fully salts
fed from external appearances. his duty to his
God and to his flock convinced him of the
necessity of making love to the beautiful wo
men who sat under his ministrations. A
plump, lucious, beautiful woman, in his
sight, was an angel alone worthy to be saved,
and only to be saved through his peculiar
He has fallen and no one here
regrets it. save for the disgrace which such
fall brings upon Christianity. He stands forth
now, stripped Of his genius, as the most dis
gushing and revolving hypocrite of the nine
teenth century.
And as to Tilton, what can be So id of him. |
brilliant, but weak-a flash and then darkness
a believer in his own theories, and ut war |
with the purest instincts Of human nature
advocating free love and free divorces. doc
trines which, if practiced, would destroy fire.
sides and all its comforts and happiness. In
his examination he says: ''She, Mrs T., is
almost an enthusiast on the subject of the
divinity Of her Saviour She is the best Chris
tian know OF, barring her faults; better than
my minister. She is winter than ourselves"
for himself he says: If had been min
ster none of this trouble would have come:
she was always in sorrow that I was not a
minister, which is the only virtue that pos
'ess; thank God do not belong to the priest
hood or the church.
Here are two men, both what the world
,alls brilliant; both, by their writings, have
arge circles of friends and acquaintances;
10Th brought at last, by the weakness of
riton, to the bar Of public opinions bar
which will condemn both to scorn and con-
empt Tilton, with balanced mind, would
ither have lett his wi or with pistol taken
he life of the debauchee. The only good he
las done to the cause Of Christianity and
morality, is that he has stripped the silver
all from the countenance Of the most heinous
ypocrite America has yet produced.