The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-07-10
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ELKTON, JULY 10, 1875.
END OF THE SCANDAL SUIT.

On Friday morning, last week, the Jury
which had been impannelled for the past
six months in the suit of Theodore Tilton
against Henry Ward Beecher, notified Judge
Nelson that they could not agree. They
were consequently called into Court and
discharged. The jury stood nine for &C
quittal and three for conviction, when dis
charged. Several votes had been taken in
which there were eleven for acquittal and
one for conviction. Since the jury's dis
charge, they complain that bad the evil
dence and the Judges charge been sent
into them when they requested to have
them, soon after they had been locked up,
that they would have been greatly assisted
in coming to a decision. This seemingly
very reasonable request was, however, re-
fused by the Judge-till the jury had been
deliberating several days-who seemed to
have shrinking fear of the lawyers and
consulted them about the most simple mat
tiers of his duty, submitting to their dicta-
ton with. what appears to us, the most
cringing servility. If the evidence and
charge were not for the use of the jury in
determining their verdict, it is hard for COM
mons sense people to conceive what else they
were for. and yet Judge Nelson faltered
and hcsitated and consulted the lawyers
about his duty. Another matter which was
clearly piece of plain justice, was dis
posed of by Judge Nelson in his usual
hesitatng and placating way. Tilton's
counsel, Mr.. Beech, near the close of his
summing up, made what afterward turned
out to be the sheerest pretense, of asking
to have the case opened to admit new evil
dence. From what afterwards TRANSFERRED,
it is clear enough that this was intended AS
a we'll planned chef de oeuure, of Tilton's
counsel to have an effect on the jury. This
manufactured testimony was, Immediately
after the jury had been locked up, exploded
and the conspiracy exposed, and there was
some evidence that Tilton's lawyers and
Moulton had hand in manufacturing it.
We think it was the plain duty of the Judge
to have informed the jury that the pretended
evidence was false and that the witnesses
giving it were being prosecuted for perjury.
1t was conspiracy and a wrong which
Tilton, Moulton and the lawyers on their
side were attempting to use to obtain YER
dict in their favor; and justice demanded
that they should not only have been de-
prived of all benefit from their own wrong,
but they should have suffered the conse-
quence of exposure.
Without attempting to pronounce on the
question of guilt or innocence of Beecher,
the position that Tilton and Moulton take
in the case, SO strongly impresses the can
did inquirer after truth, with the suspicion
of well-laid and worked up conspiracy,
that it is impossible to dismiss this impress
sion; and the little after conspiracy in
which Loader and Price were made to figure
as the principal witnesses, goes far to con-
firm the impression that Tilton and Moul-
ton were nothing less than pair of grand
conspirators. 1t is impossible to believe
that any honest, sensible, decent man could
engage in, and pursue such dirty mean
business as Moulton took such supreme
delight in for several years. A man who
wasn't utterly disguised with so uncean an
occupation, assumed and pursued volun-
tarily, sis fit for treason, stratagem and
spoils." Aye, he is not only " fit" for
them, but Graves, and will engage in them
to satisfy the craving of an unclean spirit.
The evil. minded, those who always give
evil the benefit of every doubt, and deny
to virtue every thing till slenced by over
wheming proofs, very naturally array them
who envy not, think no evil; who do not
rejoice in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the
truth; believe all things, hope all things
that make for good, incline to Beecher's
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