Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-04

sweetness. His eyes, of the color of
the morning sky-a pale, clear blue,
are now raised in confidence and en-
treaty to the armament, and again are
closed as if to shut out the vision of
this long and uncongenial warfare. He
has never, save once, in his defense be-
fore the church committee uttered
threat or a defiance to his younger as
sailants. OF course he was compelled
to do so when he swore out the affidavit
requisite to bring the SANDER suits.
1t is this which intensifes the pail of
darkness and the long nightmare of
this mystery. The oaths both sides
have taken in support of their positions,
unless there can be right on both
sides of such a question, or one side be
the victim of horrible hallucination
which has diguised falsehood in the
vainest of illusions, there must be per-
jury somewhere in that court, and per-
jury is one of the wardens of the Jail.
Who is it that is looking through the
gates? Whicn is the desperate side?
TILToN AMONG THE LAWYERS.
The plaintiff, uncovered among his
counsel, is an elderly Tilton, preserv-
ing in his beardless, but somewhat fluffy
face, traces of the slight, tall youth
who ,,caJ - xpo1l- 4ba ,+.aoI, &c D,ool-
lyn a social idol, his head like Saurs, a
salutation for him at every turn, and
stride the stage of the lyceums to lee
ture with all the confidence of one well
learned in worldly estate, public opinion
and public intentions. Suddenly the
news grew vaguely that he was astray
and on false paths. Next, that he was
out of relation with every former asso-
citation in politics and religion. Finally
story was blurted upon the world
which, if true, might have been either
the cause or the consequence of such
alleged willfulness that in his home
there was serpent's egg, and that an
inevitable destiny was driving him on
to admit the imputation and couple it
with proud mans name. Around this
temptation were assembled every class
of seducers. Vice cried aloud, "Re-
veal! reveal!" Clerical jealousy stung
up the self-conscious injured man to
retort upon him who appeared to have
done the injury. From the free love
lotteries up to the Yale Theological
School, from newspaper interviewers up
to contemporary pulpits in Brooklyn,
from at home and without, every rest.
less curiosity and spite of human So
ciety demanded the secret between Til
ton and Beecher to be produced, and
for nearly one year these men have been
before the world more conspicuously
than they ever were in better days or
ever can be again. Z
MUTUAL FRIEND MOULTON.
The trial has placed Mr.. Francis d.
Moulton on oath, and given the awe of
an oath to the great series of consecu-
tive and collusive correspondence,
memoranda and composition, which is
on one side declared to be proof of an
adultery, and on the other of nothing
more than magisterial interference by
clergyman with distracted and war
ring family, which interference he
afterward keenly repented of, and in
the effort to repair the fortunes of the
house was entrapped into a series of
admissions, which, arranged together,
seem to confess sin never dreamed of
by MIR. Beecher.
ARCHIVES OF THE TRIAL.
The originals of all these letters are
in. Not one was rejected of any mo-
ment whatsoever. They will be part
of the archives of justice in the State
of New York as long as we have bis
tory, or until the Court House burns
with fire. In any event they will be
the relics of either the greatest con-
spiracy againsts hallowed character, OF
of the greatest human Authorizations,
or of one of the greatest crimes known
to the period in which we live.
Some of these documents are new,
among them Beecher's draft of a resig-
nation, written May 81, 1873, and ad-
dressed to the trustees of Plymouth
Church, based on the necessity of
shielding from shame certain house
hold" This is said to have been a
novelty to the defense, who imagined
that Moulton had lost it because he
had not included it in his statement
nor in Tilton's statement.
Some of the friends of Mr.. Beecher
appeared to he disappointed that his
attorneys were unable to prevent the
solid admission of these autograph
letters and publications as testimony.