, 1874-08-30

SOUND OF the encmy6 dru1nH Els OWL uatollnl
naturo required every surveillance he could put
upon it, md for him to play with the dclusigo
TnpporiBma OF perfcctibil1ty was like Samson
making 8 tender OF his hair to Deilah. Aud 80.
as h:h brother sad, on slippery doctrines of
e1pedieucy he found himself led OIL to
and it is to be quericd whether
he did not find the first bold man he had wronged
in Mr.. Tilton. He has confessed to doing this
man as much wrong Us one msn could do auoih-
er !: breaking up his family, stopping hls suste-
nance. permitting his wife to SANDER him and
his friends to bsckbite him, and finally over
uhctmiug him with the lowest criminal CHARGE
something as foreign to the nature Of Titon as
IT should be to tho tongue of Beecher Black-
mail.
THE pErr1roaoEn's FLEA.
The lawyels who pushed this plea on tho moral
wreck OF Henry Ward Boecner arc to be num-
nored amongst his enemies, if ho ever had any
be did not provoke He has levied blacknall for
thirty years Of that kinds money from the
opulent to do missiouary-work. II Mou1-
ton blacklnailcd Beecher in sum OF
money to give Theodore Triton the standing he
was entitlcd to before Mr. Deeche7 broke his pen
and his heart, Beecher is the great blackmaller
of tile age. He blackmalled his friends Of sums
Of money to give competence to Herbert Speu-
Ger; he bIackmailed his congregation fc= Sharpe i
rifles for Kansas; wherever be did good, he
wrung blackmal to do 1t with. And, when Tracy
and Shearman advised Beecher to accuse these
two young nen-frlends from boyhood, friends
yet despite OF hin-of getting blackmnll, they
dlsbarred themselves from the court OF public
opinion, and added another evidence to the
nourDful belief that Plymouth Church is moth
ing but club to show Off the lyoeum splendor
OF one mau and that tho black ball has been
too infrequently used there.
Amongst tie devices set in motion, one after
the other, to break down both Tllton Aad Liz
friend, is
THE AsTUTE pIHCoTEHY
that for Moulton TO permit Beechtr to contribute
to the Golden Age, Of which Illton was editor.
Was dishonorable. People who make these fine
distinctions, I haye found to be seldom gentlo-
men. gentleman il not mRn OF the code.
A man Of tho code is person Of brutal pur-
''Scll all that thou hast aud give to the poor,
and como and follow me, u WAS earlier code !;
and let US chari'ably hopo it WAS Beec'er's when
he gave in secret that money to Moulton III
bui not the same interest in lifting to his teos.
The Golden Age was not the property Of Theo~
dorc Iilton. Gnloes guess wrongly, it waa es-
tablished with l0,00U from tho house OF Wood
rntI l. Robinson, $40, ,000 from Theodore Iilton,
aud other money from operatives and working
members OF the new newspaper firm. l would
liAe to know of Manton Marble, and Whitelaw
Reid If they think, from their knowledge OF how
a newspaper is stocked aud supported, Mr.
Beecher as auybody's victim or Mr. Tlton any
body's blacomai}er. have been at the birth Of
two newspapers, aud caa truthfnlly say, in the
caee Of one OF these. that I mover
knew specifically from whom the funds
came, except that I was told, III 4
general way, that part OF the money was sub
scribed conditional upon my receiving an inter
amongst my galaxy of friends has ever reproact-
ed me on that subject, and hope it is not be-
Cause thore vas not Que clergyman amongst
them.
Blackmail to establish the Golden Age! A
paper with such name, devoted to high
thoughts and the search for good and right, and
only edtorlally lntrusted to 3 young matl strong
enough to have been Mr. Bcecher's editor for
vcurs! Blackmail to 20 right on in DeechcrB
course of what I believe to be-Tlltou did not
fictitious progress and vlndlcate their idea OF the
intent OF man! Great Uoavcn! what Kind Of
lawyers has Beecller got? Is it so short
descent fro,u the Sreatest pulpit IN Chrlstendom
to the Tonbs Court?
The foregoing thoughts came to me as I stood
At tho Fulton slip aud the forTy-bont plunged
out for tho Brooklyn shore What repetltlons OF
human story do these crimes bring us. wrapping
around their few personalities the morals Of
great muls1tudes? !? Beecher Ii tho invitation to
observe BROOKLYN.
Across this deep, salt, narrow flood, the great
est city of the Western World is confronted by
ONE OF ITS EMERGENCIES,
itself the third city Of the Republic. In dftv
years, Brooklyn has lcapcd from 900 to 4yo, QUO
people. Yet, it is mere Dirkeul,ead to Liver
pool, less than Surreyside to London: 1t has
neither q public life nor antiquities. 1ts press
Was until recently of no consequence, and now
Of Indifferent consequence, because o press is
called forth by something to which it responds,
and nothing but sleep the normal life Of Brook
lyn, except Of Sundays On Sundays, the great
suburb rcsounds to the tread Of professions, and
the bells of 245 churches jingle over to the less
Sabbatarian New York. Weekdays, the morning
is aroused with the mighty exodus Of $4,000 peo-
ulo to New York; and, soon afterwards, Ok, 600
children retire within the 250 private schools:
Mascu.nc life scarcely exhibits itself again until
the afternoon, unless fifty mole professions
come up from the ferry to add their butdens to
172, 600 bodies already lying in Greenwood.
Behind the city, on the heights. noble park
gives views of the Atlantic aud points tho way
10 that beach at Coney Island where the ocean,
in ragged edges of despair, booms up to tho
hoyden feet OF ragged metropolitan constit-
uency. great Nayy-Yard aud so1le broad
docks lndent the r1ver beforo tho city, DUE
THE 1NIEnDEPESDEScE
OF Brooklyn and New York Ii best oelinea'od
where the channel grows raging and narrow IN
two lofty towers, pierced each Win tau l1ncet
arches, Which are to support caeles 1ot o5loge
between these cities. !acse stately eathedra!s
OF the slssa, yet unhnlsheu' hke 1endai ruloa,
tower above both citles, ana gSe a
mutual character 10 them. oeneato tue!1
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