The New York herald., 1874-08-02
THE PRESS ON THE SCANDAL.
An E1travagant View OF Tilton.
TFrOfn the Mohawk Valley DemOcrat.1

AS the famed wind OF the Arabian desert not only
produces death but causes the most rapid decOm-
position OF the body, so calumny affects ame how
ever much integrity, worth or virtue may abound.
The base blackhearted, triple-tongued, Janus
faced, clOven-iooted calumniator. Ike the loath-
some worm, leaves his path marked with the filth
OF malice and scum Of faisenoOd and pollutes
the finest nOwers the choicest fruits, the
most delicate plants in tue greenhouse
OF character. Living, he is a travelling pest
house; dying impenlent MS Sonl IS too deeply
stained for hell and should be driven to that lmag-
mary elementess blank beyond the confines OI all
worlds, shrOuded all darkness OF nOnentitys
there to roam alone through the ceaseless ages OF
awful monotony OF that dreadful vacuum. o.
reader, never calumniate the name or 0nOtherf
sooner plunge dagger tn1ougn ms or me- her near:
waters OF degi adation and ihfainy, that could An
angel apply an archimedian moral lever to him.
with heaven for a lulcrum, he could not IN q thou
sand years raise him 70 the grade OF . convicted
ielOn Such Is Theodore rLton.
A Rock OF Faith TO the General Public.
From the Mobile Registcr.]
We fear MIR. Beechcr's LIE and character ana
preaching will not prove rock OF faith TO the
general public. 1t is not everybody that has be-
leved that Plymouth church and the Plymouth
pulpit have been nursing mothers to the pureso
godliness. although the latter has been likened to
that OF the Apostle Paul IN Athens. We do not
see why very pure man of God, VINO can give
rifles and Bibles TO a band of ruilians to invade
and convert distant Territory with fire and
sword, aud admOnisn them that while the BiOlo
was a good proseyte tue rifle was a better; and
WHO, In marrying a pair OF adulterers with the
aid of the Rev. Mr.. Frothingham, "thanked
God for what these two had been to
one another,n should be held to b0
particularly scandaized were he SUSPECTED Of
yielding to ''5olt daance" with some one oil the
hundreds OF scrdzy women' who made love to
him. We suppose good Christian might refrain
IRON incting bloodshed i0r party purposes and
might possibly abstain IRON calling Gods blessings
on an adulterous marriage, but we have the testf.
monv OF one OF the purest of Bishops in series OF
lectures on the Ten Commandments oil the dfii-
Guilty OF keeping one OF them. When he came to
the seventh he opened with the remark, my
friends this is the hardest of all the laws OF the
decalogue to keep" We think 1t pretty plain that
the background or the evidence won't clear Mr..
Beecher OF the last charge. lie has to dsprOye tspe
CIfcally or the st. Paul sime will fail. II nc does
not, 1t will be a fall OF the Humpty Dumpty sort,
and ''aI the Kings horses and all the Kings men,"
including Plymouth church. will not be able to put
hun up again.
Mean while, the New York press continues to be
lenlent and merciful to Mr.. Beecher. Not so to
Theodore TiltOn. They wait Tor proof to condemn
Mr.. Beecher, but they have used the rope with
short shriit on Tilton and hung him with DOG"
placarded on his carcass.