The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-09-02
4 Curious state ~ society,
Memphis Appeal

Apart from the main question Of
Beeehers guilt or Innocence Involved
In the grcul social scandal Of the day,
there haa been developed out Of II u
most startling phase Of society,
Whether we take Iieecher's or lllton's
theory Of the unhappy controversy IN
belng the true one, We are presented
with II phase Vt social life almost tn
credible In In corruption ana unclenu-
Illness aud when we consider that tho
parties involved ARE among the very
first people Ia the llrsl city Of the con.
tlnrnt, we are lost In establishment ut
the spectacle presented, Mr., Bcechcr
IL tho foremost preacher Of the age,
By The statements of TllIOn aud MOul.
ton he ka honry-hcadcd monster of
wlckednc-s, M ad1ltcrcr u liar, and u
villain, who for years "has stolen the
livery Of Heaven ~ serve the devil
H." liy hls own statement he has
lived for years Ia u condition OF abjcct
and plllNble c0wnrdlcc, seeking TO
cover up innocence ns II II were the
blacklist guilt, aud rcsorling 10 subter-
fugcs, cvnsl0ns aud cqulvOcntions that
seem ~ irrcCOncilnblp with Innocence
~ they nrc contemplate and pusillan-
im0us. Triton, according 10 Bcechers
statement, aud that of his own wife, Is
u prolligNlc dcbnu 'hep, who for years
has left his 0wn family TO squalid want,
while he wasted In II dcbauchery, dis
gushing and sickening, the earnings Of
u genius that all the world admired.
According 10 the same witnesses, he IL
now pcrjurer, who, after having
lived for years upon Money eXtorted
by threats of publishing to the world
II base and wicked lie, has falsely, under
oath, accused his wife Of adultery, and
cruelty aud causelessly blasted the lives
of his half grown daughters. BY his
own showing he has lived for years II
meek cuckold with his wife who had
dishonored him. He has been ex-
tremely sensitive lest the world should
think him wanting IN magnaminity ;
while IN reality he has been holding
repeated interviews with the man who
had seduced his wife. allowing that
wife to attend the preachings of her
seducer, and by her hand he was laying
on the sacred desk written greetings of
"grace, mercy and peace,n for the hy-
pocritiCal minister whom he knew to
be william. AS for Mrs. Tilton, she is,
according TO her husband, weak
fanatic, who lived IN habitual adultery
with her minister, under the firm belief
that she was thereby serving God, and
was only convinced to the contrary by
reading one of Charles Reade's novels.
According to her own tale and Beech
er's, she Is n silly, sentimental fool,
who was only not seduced because no
one attempted 1t, and who wrote down
falsehoods and recanted them Mt the
bidding of the nearest man to her.
According to Moulton's statement, her
sin of adultery is only surpassed by her
genius for lying. AS for Moulton HIM
self, he is, according to Beecher, con-
spirator, II blackmailer, and the cham
pion liar of the century. Accordingto
his own showing, he has been engaged
for four years in cloaking and hiding
the sin of an adulterous preacher, to
whose church his wife belonged, and
introducing that adulterous preacher,
~ well rs his victim, to his own table
and around his own tireside.