The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-07-24
Beechcr Fully UP to the Demand.
New York Evening Mail July 231

nj. beecnerS statement III reply 10 Jne recent
charges made against him comes fully up TO the
demand, everywhere expressed, that he should
frankly meet and squarely answer all damaging
accusations. "Only let him do this, said most OF
our leading journals, "and there will be a uni
versai sense Of relief, and the burden OF proof win
be put upon his accusers." He has not at all come
short OF this demand. He neither equv0cates nor
beats the bush. His denial 10 both general
and particular; unqualified, direct and earnest.
pabllc q rest. We can patiently await the
result Of the investigation now going on.
The gentlemen who are conducting 1t know all the
parties to the controversy their peculiaritles and
surroundings, their characters and their respec-
high standing to be able to AFFORD an unjust or
hasty verdict, even II they were disposed TO thus
ruin themselves, which no one suspects or could
be made 10 believe. They have their own reputa-
ton to maintain: They Will not now lessen the
esteem in which they have been held. When their
verdict comes the public Will accept 1t as the end
Of most unfortunate, demoralizing and disastrous
controversy. Let us wait in the confidence which
their characters and positions inspire. and give
the gossps wide berth and cold shoulder.
Mr.. Beechcr's Denial Comprehensive.
New York Evening Express, July 2Sl
Mr.. Beecher's defence, copied In full elsewhere,
is comprehensive and complete. IL meets in a
general way the general and specific allegations Of
Mr.. Tilton, and its defence OF the purity of Mrs.
TlltOn and OF his own bearing towards her, is all
the answer, short OF evidence. which words can
give. The specific charges OF Mr.. Triton are to be
met hereafter before the committee. Mrs. T1ltOn's
statement will be quite as complete as that OF Mr.
Beecber and the public are to judge between In
uendoes circumstances allegations and, perhaps.
belief upon one side, and broad, manly and timely
denals upon the other
There are several kinds of people in the world
Uhey used to be divided into the good the bad,
and the Beeeser am VINO are
ready to believe and like to believe the worst OF
man, especially II he is clergyman. Such persons
not proved 70 be all that Mr. Tiiton alleges Men
and women. especially of what the world calls
good society, are sure suffer from these SANDER
Gus tongues, ana the personally criminal If
tempted, will often be even more unmercnui than
the pure and innocent.
Another ana better class will always deplore DO
nestle strife and the publicity given TO troubles
between man and Wife. II IN any way they are a
party to them, as IN the case OF Mr.. Beecner they
VIII be ready to so to almost any length OF self
modification to undo the mischief wrought by
sufferers. Mr.. and Mrs. Beecher's sympathy for
Mrs. Tiiton was carried far to produce posi-
memoranda taken down by Mr.. Moulton, was de-
plored In the most self-abasing and repentnQ
! words
The Beecher- Tilton CAGE is now where it never
should be, and where Is never would have been
but for vicious curiosity and injudicious friends.
The offence, whatever 1t was, was committed years
ago. The alleged cause OF It, as admitted by all,
rs lar removed as to time. Friends long separated
had been reunited and might have remained SO
forever, in form at least. Mr.. Beecher had re-
pented in dust and ashes all he had done to en-
courage Mrs. Triton III her discord with her hus-
band. Years had passed since the serpent OF
jealousy and the Ill nature OF an ambitious If not
Dadhearted man entered the paradise OF once
lovely home.
A restless. curious public then heard the whis-
perings OF an infamous woman, the disciple OF ree
| love, and wanted to know more. Then and as the
antipodes OF TINS walking embodiment OF vice
me AN Ecclesiastical Council, and they too,
wanted to know more and sat in Judgment upon
MIR. Beecher, VINO was acquitted, though wholly de-
FAINT upon the question OF the authority OF such
council over Plymouth church. Then Rev, DR..
Bacon wrote and the journals published and the
world read. Then came Titon with his
| Golden Age filled to the brlm with eX
torted, ca parte. wicked innuendo. spiced
with the text torn from context memoranda o
| Mr.. Beecher to Mr.. Mouton, and now the begin.
ning OF the end OF a scandal which fills the cOun
try, breaking the hearts OF many, reaching the
innocence Of children, injury to the Church and
ministry, digrace to decency, series OF broken
promises and an outrage upon society: II any
body can find pleasure In sucn record or In II
any cause TO sneer at virtue and religion, or any
wish to prolong the scandal they are rather to be
| ptied and desplsed than defended. The sooner
therefore, the curtain falls upon the past the bet
ter Tor those who suffer, and for the public who
as spectators, now look with wOnderment upon
trdth which Is stranger than all nc uOn, not ex
cepting Catharlne Gaunt