New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-03
MR.. TILToYs APOLOGY FOR HIS WIFE.


Now. YOU understand what adultery is. Take
away pollution OF the soul prostitution OF intellect de-
Element of body and that is transcendena adultery
(Iaughter1 Nothing but tho swallows holes lett {;
nothing of the EARTH earthly; all transcendental Now
penilemen let us what invention ia used here AFTER
the crossexamnation, the redirect, my learned
friends thought il would be worth while for MI
Tilton to explain little what he means by this notion
that his wife pure and never violated her mar
rage vows and all that that he bad been swearing TO-
and they asked him If he couldn't give us little infoma-
tion the same as this layman wanted Of the doctor OF
divinity about transcenaenaism. 1t was pretty long
question by Mr. Fullerton, and Mr. Tltons first answer
is Well, Sir, that is q sad question" "WeuF says
his examiner, and Mr.. Ton proceeds:
can answer only for ~ own Judgments OF her he
bavior NOT for other pcope's opinions IOu must ro-
member Sir that knew Elizabeth when was ten year.
old that became her confessed lover at sixteen tLat
was married her az twenty; and that for fifteen years
Of her married life held her in my reverence perhaps
almost the point OF making her an Idol OF my WORSHIP
The idols are spoken Of you know in the Scriptures a.
lying gods and he has written to her letter telling her
that If she continued lie he should not ideally worship
her. He proceeds:
And when she came to her downfall 1t was the neces
sity OF ny own heart
That was not Elzabeths narrative then, that she had
told him. how she had preserved her purity and merely
lost her matrOnage-
II was the necessity Of my heart-T must find
m TSt pafdon her found that excuse in the fact that
She had been wrapped upi her religious teacher aud
guide she had surrendered her convictions to him she
followed his beck and lead tustnSy she would 20 after
him like one blinded.
That is the suppose she went up to his house
al think she snned her sin as one in "a trance
So nv idea that she had been carried from Livingston
ST. TO Columbia flights in her sleep not much out
Of the way after all Her husband thought she had done
it all in trance
don't think she free agent. think she would
have done his bidding IT, like the heahen priest IN te
N vO-laul
Ganges herself under the JugSGrnaut That was
my excuse for Elizabeth
Good Ueavensl We had supposed that this Eliza
beths narrative that she had detailed to you and that
Won had repeated to Mr. Beecher Now gentlemen, that
shows you where all this talk came FROM Then after
some discussion between the matter comes back In
this way
Well 60 on and answer the question. Mr.. Titon. In
what way did She maintain hernnocence III the presence
BY way Of showing her guilt they introduce evidence
OF her innocence.
She always used to say Sir, that she was mot to be
Judged either by her mother or by me- bat by God she
believed God would Judge her tcndcrly. She said she
loved God and she didn't believe that tod would nave
permitted her to enter into those relations tAey haa
been sinful
60 YOU see the last contamination OF mplety coming
from Mr. Tton's lips-for don't know that it ever
from anybody elses-is that God was responsible
for thsl
She didn't believe God would have permitted her to
enter into those relations If they had been SINFUL
She thought that God mistaken in prOpounding the
Seventh Commandment from Mount Sinai
And she said particularly that neither her mother
what was night and wrong Mr. Beecher did, that Nh
Beecher clergyman that he was great and holy
naw II cppuIT be sinful that he had told her
that love justified all things that love had various
hand, anotl1f ezpres;i5h Was he Kiss q The lps,
very little difference what the expression II that
love was right, the love itself made rightful or jlst
She believed before God that her love for Mr. Beoclcr
right and his love for her was right and therefore
she didn't how OF the various expressions OF IT.
could be sinful. she said she rested on Mr. Beecher's
authority for that that he had told her 50 over aud over
again
Well well gentlemen, that ia Mr.. Tton's mode OF
throwing the Declogue and defending adultery II
old any OF the fasehoois Of the devil 1t is shallow
and contemplate any Of the silly efforts OF country
clown overcome the instructive virtue OF honest
mkmaid; and the milkmaids have slapped the clowns
faces ever the world began, when they have APP
preached them with any such folly as that. But 1t
Ia for the conspicuous clergyman, that deals not
in distractions not In dogmas but In practical faith by
works Of morality OF charity, OF duty Of the elevation
and Identification OF fe is for him to have uttered all
this drlvelng and contemplate nonsense In the OF
woman who, besides the instincts Of chastity great as
any woman had, her husband says, had been edu
Gated into the very santnes Of heart and accompanied
il with practical charity for tho erTng and the lcn-a
woman that had intellect that made her
the companion of all the literary and moral studies and
pursuits and speculaOns OF her husband and who had
the companonship Of all the eminent men that made up
the circle OF his frcndsp Is for him to utter this and
for her to yield, and without consciousness Of sin
violation OF conscience, TO what the mlknaid throws In
the face Of the BOBBY that talks 10 her!
Now gentlemen, when tho necessary case OF this
plaintiff requires that Le should propitatc your under
standings and obtain your verdict TO u particular fact
that external proof whatever and that you know
violates all that the intellect. the morality the
instincts OF all our elevated, Christianzed, as
well rs natural characters demand in con-
duct, to ask you to accept his story is 10 ask
you 10 make yourselves accompccs Of this voty and
to be as great boobies he displays himself in your
presence Why, gentleman. from Indianapolis down Mr.
Beccher has been preacher Of active and actual bene
cence has been conemner Of all the wicked passions,
all the sensual indulgence. Of all the coarse and
vulgar sins My learned brother. Morris, who
does not lack flow OF inyecyc and
tumely, when his cause required 1t, could not
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