The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-05


some details, but more yet in the philosophy by
which the facts of religion are to be explained
put l am at hearty agreement with them in the
Divinity of Christ, the Trinity the Sinfulneee
of Man, the Universal Need Of a Change of
Heart OF the Holy Spirit as the Efficient Agen
| In Conversion"
Tough Cuss.
IFom the New York Times.l
Moulton's testimony was given by him
IN his usual style. His coolness never
deserted him. When Gen. Tracy asked
him when he heard the sstrue story
read, Moulton said that he did not exactly
remember, but that Gen. Tracy was in
his house at the time and fell asleep
| while it was being read. This reused Mr..
Everts, who protested against the answer.
Moulton, with the utmost GOODNESS,
craved pardon for his inadvertence, and
said he only wished to fix the date.
| Counsel laughed heartily, and Mr..
Evarts looked very glum. Moulton kept
on worrying the cross examining counsel
| in this way through the entire day. He
was asked about taking down portrait
of Beecher hanging on the wall of his
parlor. Moulton first managed to state to
the jury that the picture had been given
him by Tilton, and that his own and
Tnton's portraits were also hung in his
parlor. When the examination verged
on a letter Moulton said he wrote while
in bed, Gen. Tracy assumed an air of
incredulity which Moulton noticed, and
se at once added ssmy wife brought me
the paper" Gen. Tracy, angry at being
again baffled, said ssWe don't care about
your wife, sir, and Moulton smiled that
pleasant and deceptive smile for which
he Is noted. Gen. Tracy then asked
Moulton if it was not fact that, by
reason of his late hour of rising on
Sunday, his wife had been prevented
from attending Plymouth church service.
Moulton did not get angry, but smiled as
usual and said, ssWell, really, General, I
do not know" Again, when Mr.. Evarts
got In passion, and said, eve don't
want to know what your wife did,
Moulton, remembering Mr.. Evarts' pre-
vious injunction as to telling the whole
truth and nothing but the truth, said,
''Mr. Evarts, your instructions as to tell
ing the truth are SO peculiar, / find
difficulty in observing them"
Conclusion Feared.
[From DIR. Syntaxs Letter in Chicago Tribune.l
| / feel, sometimes, that tragic conclu-
sion will abruptly and terribly end this
matter. AS it progresses, the theatric
mantle of heroism drops off, fold by fold,
from its shoulders, and presently all viii
be wholly undraped, lewd and hideous
| TRANSPORTATION of Priapus. To be the
laureate of such reeking annals might
crafty the hot ambition of Swinburne
| but, to impartial nostrils, the whiffs and
stenches of q widespread RIGHTEOUSNESS
are nothing else than sickening. Its
| tableaux are as vile as the encaustics of
| Pompeii its episodes fit only for the
| prurient contemplation of a Messalina !;
| and its actors seem tc have lost their apt
est opportunity in the suppression of
| Aphra Behn. The argument of the de-
| fense, on the moral question at issue, not
| between Beecher and Tilton, but between
Beecher and the world, is no loftier than
a grinning g tn quoque." If Beecher
be hbertine, Tilton is free-lover; and,
| If Beecher seduced Elizabeth Tilton,
Theodore Tilton permitted and extenu-
ated that seduction by his adulterous al
| lance with the Woodruff. So far, it
looks Like match at mud-throwing, with
fouler ammunition, however, than the
| cheap ordure of the streets.
All manner of beastly condolences are
| to be torn from their graves, and shown
up in the witness-chair. A true Corinth-
ian orgie is promised, in which every
brutal appetite shall be nakedly repre-
sented. We are only on the threshold
of the scandal. IF it be necessary to
save Mr. Beecher, an exhibition SO mon
strous may be made that the anger of his
countrymen Will rescue him by promp
| and wrathful extinction of the whole pro-
ceedings. Other adulteries, other seduc-
tions, other bestial incidents in the un-
written history of Plymouth, are to be
paraded before the puzzled jurors and
the stupefied world. At least two dead
women are to anticipate the Last Judg-
ment by confessing, through the
mouths of their own kindred, that
they were false to their marriage
VOWS and one of them, that her filth
ness was beyond even the awful picturing
of Juvenal. At least one incest viii be
dragged from under the protective
shadow of Mr.. Beecher's church, and
stripped bare and putrid for the consid-
Grafton of these Christian States. If
Henry G. Bowen ever reaches the witness
stand, there viii be squeezed from his
lean person such stream of poisonous,
recommendations knowledge, that the
whole country viii stop its nostrils and
its ears, and cry 't Enough !" Testimony
win be produced upon this trial, and
may, perhaps, be spread upon it's records,
| to which the feculence of all extant litera-
ture win be as SabHan odors. I know of
| one tomb which has already been ram
sacked to prove prior guilt on Beecher's
part and know of another grave into
which Beecher's lawyers viii presently
descend to grope for the shameful affec-
tions of TiIton. Human dust and ashes
cited to demonstrate the wickedness It
committed In the flesh Is one of the cor
tainties of this, our tedious Dies IrR.
But, though the horrors which have
family outlined-and which are as well
known to q score of persons as to myself
form an irrefragable chapter in the lewd
record of this case, yet do / firmly believe,
without being able to give q reason for
my belief, that sudden and mortal stop
page of this trial VIII be made by one or
both of its principals. I dare not predict
that Beecher viii take flight from this
Terrible arena dare not predict that
sudden death or dramatic confession will
startle his worshipers, and silence the
process of his accusation. But though
It would be something worse than audac-
ity to conjecture the form In which the
end VIII come, yet do i verify and earn
estly believe that some other climax than
the verdict of q jury VIII conclude this
appalling religious tragedy.
LENT.-Lent viii begin this year on
the 10th of February, much earlier than