Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-01
NEW YORK.
The WOrkingmen's Meeting of Last
January Beecher's Newspaper on
the brooklyn Scandal.

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the brooklyn Scandal.
New YORK, September l.-At meet
ing held in Tompkins Square last even
ing to protest against the breaking up of
the workingmen's meeting in the Square
last January and the arrest and impris'
onment of Christian Meyer on a charge
of assaultinga police sergeant, was an
orderly and comparatively insignificant
affair. John Swintonwas chief speaker.
The resolutions held Mayor Havemeyer
personally responsible for the outrage
of the 18th OF January, and demanded
the immediate removal of Metzell and
Durges from the police commission, and
say the rottenness of our financial sys-
TEN, the corruption and neglect OF our
governing classes, threaten to renew
this coming winter the heartrsnding
scenes of misery and starvation still
fresh in the memory OF toilers. There
fore personal vigilance has become the
duty of the people.
Arthur Clayden, intimately associated
with Joseph Arch in his efforts to raise
the condition of the agricultural classes
in England, has arrived here, and will
make a personal inspection of the most
promising sections of the country for
immigrants. The result of his examina-
ton of Canada last year as a field OF
immigration was not favorable. Clay
den sails for Norfolk to-day.
The Christian Union, Mr.. Beecher's
paper, has an article on the Brooklyn
scandal, in the course of which it says:
Mr.. Tilton, Mr.. Moulton and Mrs. Tilton
have each, on their own admission or on
ample and incontrovertible proof, told
two wholly different stories of the whole
matter. Mr.. Beecher alone has said
always the same thing. The burst of
self reproach in which he carelessly
set his hand to paper which
be had neither written nor read, and
which greatly perverted his express
sions and the tempestuous self-re-
proach and sorrow which he has de-
scribed, and in which it seems he com
mitted himself to the plain course in the
whole matter, is surely easy to compre-
bend. Mr.. Beecher's well known, old
and long affection for Tilton became
strengthened, as he has graphically told,
by the great service which Tilton had
done him, his profound desire springing
from a sentiment which is deepest in his
life, to retain and save one who had
erred. The stern reckoning to which he
held himself for errors that had aggra-
waited the trouble, and the utter for
giveness which he gave to the ofenses
against himself the dread of disaster,
not to himself only but to Mr.. and Mrs.
Tilton, and to public morality and de-
oency in the storm Of the scandal, has
at last been let loose; the utter weari-
ness of life at times under the burden;
the exalted and heroic ministering to
others never. once interrupted by his own
these things, though they
may be forgotten or misunderstood in
the tumult of the present, will one day
shine out clear, and ennoble in the eyes
of the world man who made many
mistakes, but never erred ignobly, who
had carried himself through all pure
and upright and the friend of men and
the servant of God. In note to a
friend Just after Woodhulps attack, Mr..
Beecher wrote: Living or dying, l am
the Lords. He knowsit, and know it.
After that it matters little what happens.
To him, indeed, it matters little. His
noble work will 60 on, and his Master
will care for him and for it, and sooner
or later the world will know the truth.
But each Of us it concerns deeply, that
we do not wrong ourselves by misjudg-
ing in this issue between a true man
and a lie.