The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-03
EXIT BEEOHER AND TILToN.

lie Telegraph informs US that the BeecheI
Tilton jury have failed to agree, and tina
Judge Nelson has discharged them. H
could scarcely have expected that a verdic
would result from their deliberations, aud i
is possibly just as we'll that the Judge did no
carry out his threat Of keeping them locked
up for six weeks unless they agreed on a YER
dict before that time. Many think that the
case will be re-opened and tried anew, q. it is
claimed BY Tilton's lawyers that they have
newly discovered evidence which bears mate.
rally upon the case. We doubt very much
whether twelve intelligent men could be
found in the State of New York who were
sufficiently unprejudiced to act as jurors, and
even if found it is matter of serious ques-
ton whether even then any decision could be
arrived at.
The entire matter, long before it was SUBJ
mitted to the jury, had become a nuisance
and bugbear to all persons in New York and
to most people out of the State, and it will
be considered somewhat in the light of a
benefaction if it is allowed to die out, now and
forever. The public have become satiated
with it as sensation and disguised with it
altogether. 1t has been one of the most de-
grading and unclean suits ever instituted in
court of justice, and neither plaintiff nor
defendant will ever entirely recover from the
effects of it, and the disclosures which have
been made during its course. Whilst the
lawyers engaged have had opportunities pre-.
sented of displaying their legal learning and
oratorical abilities, yet we feel certain that
the action they have frequently been COM
PEELED to take during the trial must have been
not only distasteful, but highly repugnant to
them.
Now that their labors are, it is hoped,
finally en- ded, they retire worn out both physi-
cally and mentally, with not sufficient honor |
to recompense them for their great trouble |
and labor, and without having worked out |
he problem which they, together with the
ury, we're expected to solve. Let US hope
hat the revolving scenes rehearsed during
he trial Of this case will never be re-enacted.
md that the entire matter will be consigned
o that forgetfalness which it would be
harity for the public to give it.
The stain which has been fixed upon the
reat preacher can never be washed awsy,
nd though, with his magnificent and un-
qualed oratorical powers and his wonderful
ersonal magnetism, he may continue to
reach to- vast audiences, his power for good
, the world is gone forever, and nothing but
1e boldest effrontery and the most shameless
lsregard Of what is due to the opinion of the
orld can enable him to stand in his pulpit
moral teacher and an examplar.
Theodore Tilton, whatever may come, will ,
8 whelmed in the contempt and scorn of q
7ery honest and true hearted man and wo- !
an in the world, while his wife will occupy
position scarcely more enviable She was :
lse and unwomanly, and confessed to having +
ID to humor the whims of her husband. :
be one pure woman, the one steadfast wo-
IN, the one human being in this trial who y
3 shons like star is Mrs. Beecher. Her h
fidelity and love for her husband, =
. beautiful and perfect trust displayed by n
r in him, throughout all this long and hor- b.
'le trial, is something for us all to rejoice at
d be proud of. We turn from all the other 90
aracters in this wretched drama, and a :,
ling Of loathing gives way to one of ad- II
ration. Her face may be severe and harsh, M
some of the reporters say it is, but her II
art must be beating with love and tender :,
80. She is the only human diamond in the ;,
, and she shines all the more brilliantly =,
m that fact. l.;