New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-03

believe Il the next moment that he opened bis mouth on
the witnessstand after this discussion. he threw bis
counsel bodily overheard before your eyes, crushed their
argument that destruction purposed end with
Mr. Beecher Concurrence and said that in tho heat OF
his presentation OF this to Mr. Beecher he had In
adverteny picked this paper to pieces, and found he
had destroyed this copy Of the confession!
Now gentlemen that was done before your eyes, IN
der the ready wit and the short reckoning Of Mr. Titon.
that If he did put his the open shame Of arg
ing upon his previous instructions, that the paper hsd
been destroyed purposely and with Mr. Beeehers oon-
curence he at would help his cause, az he thought
and invent an nadvertent mistaken, unintentOna de-
structon Well it did not the purpose II ddnt
remove my objection, because the original had boon de-
sroyed and did not satisfy the ground Of his Honors
exclusion, which another point. So much for
that wrggng Of witness and party out OF one scrape
into another.
HOW THE ALLEGED CONFESSION WAS MADE.
Now, gentlemen, we come TO this plalnuH
1.-THE husband Of an adueress narrative to the para
mour OF his wife of the vifes statement 70 him. MIS-
Tiltons confessions not permitted 20 be gwen IN
evidence and have not been given in evidence IN this
cause from anybody Mr. Tilton not allowed To give
them it would be nhdelity to confidential COM
muncatons from wife. Nobody else has given them;
nobody else could be allowed to give them; and
yet you have n long narrative that, at first Wow,
looks II it statement by witness OF what sl'o
confessed; hut you will at the difference, when
il is only WhGt he told Mr. Beecber what she had con-
essed that has been permitted to be given in evidence
nottendng prove that il true, permitted to have
that influence On your minds because it would be equally
part Of his statement the paramount whether 1t were
true or not wouldn't tl 1t would be an engfnery 70
probe the paramOurs conscience and 10 alarm him mo
an admission, whether it was not II husband,
suspecng paramount seiZes him unawares, and nvents
confession OF his wife and puts 70 tie paramour 10 see
how the paramOur will deal with it, why. he uses a
weapon the effect of which the paramOur VIII
be the same whether his wife has confessed
or not II the paramOur knows It h true.
Many a case Of that kind is found in the books The
OF all this permitted testimony OF what passed DC
tween Mr. Beecher and Mr. ItoD is to bind Mr. Bsecher
by what does not TO prove the truth of the state
ments that are made to him by lIr. T0n And YOU viii
see at once the difference l could crossexainine Mr.
Thton as TO whether or be told Mr. Beecner all this
riemaroe II had thought it worth my WHILE but could
not crosse xamine him to what passed between him
and his WIFE could eXpore the secrets OF that In
teryiew and draw from his unwilling mouth per-
haps against his WILL the truth OF what passed between
himself and his wife because be had not been allowed to
swear what passed between himself and his win, ana
I could not occupy a field by crossexamlnaticn
that had not been opened The objection to making
husband OF allowing husband, to reveal confidential
passages between himself and his wife, would have eo
Guided my Examination to the actual occurrence
between them, lust as much az it excluded his direct
timony Therefore, you will that tiis matter OF
whatever passed that July between M TtOn and his
wife remains wholly unexDored; no affirmative direct
evidence has permitted TO be given OF ii my side or
this case has been excluded from probing from testing.
from convctng fsehood and Of folly the story OF
any such interview But part of this Interview De-
tween the husband and the paramour, this becomes
subject 20 DE commented upon and 1t is invaluable This
is the husbands reproduction OF what ne alleges
was an interview between his guilty vile and
himself on the occasion Of his becoming first
informed Of the guilt Of the wife, and when he had had
no SUSPICION up 10 the moment Of the interview Now,
Won would suppose that woman that had made up her
mind to tell her husband OF such course OF LIE as TINS
woman is said to have admitted to her husband would
have lad some emotion there would have been SOD or
a tear there wOuld have been Justification depreca-
ton subsection his mercy on the part OF the wife IN
her own behalf Can you figure to yourself in our circle
OF society and the level Of these people, saying nothing
OF the particular delicate traits of Mrs Ton, her severe
notions about the least approach OF unchastity
her severe condemnation Of all immortality In
others, her hatred, her adherence OF any
approach or exhibition Of the fallen condition OF
woman her sister, which excited such feeling IN her th
while all other people were patient and courteous anu
embraced with kisses Mrs Woodruff in her presence, as
Mr Tlton tells you himself whenever his wife and Mrs
Woodruff in the room their eyes flashed fire at
one another-do you suppose such woman, that had
dragged her body through the prostitution OF sixteen
months and through the longer indgntes OF the coarse
approaches OF three years heforeto be sure one incre
by shuts another; the whole thing Is 40 incredible
that you cannot upon its ever having occurred
but his theory that it had Occurreddo you suppose
woman whose eyes flashed fire whenever they lit upon
Mrs Woodhups face, could have, under the power OF
conscience made long confession Of her guilt OF the
facts it was adultery OF the disreputaDle
facts tnat, unexplained, looked little against
woman certainly laughter. and had the mar
rative begin and go on as this Que does !
All 4! gentlemen witness that Is not 70 be con-
tradeted. when he tells this narrative can make II
match perhaps in cords but the folly Of expecting to
have match human nature in the judgment OF men, in
the Judgment women the judgment of jury, is ut
tery incalcuable and prepOsterous The idea entering
into the shaOwest pate, unless IL shallow pate IN
fated by selfcOncet that he could make an interview
between husband and WIFE that the very OF the
street would cry out against libel on human nature
libel upon that could say it, and libel upon
a man that could hear it! Now how the wife begins
Mr. TiltOn says:
"Itod Mr. Beecher that in the early part OF July pre-
vous TO that interview THAT is July previous to this
Deccmberl Mrs. TOn- had come home ncxpectcdly
from the country and had said 70 that the object ~
her return to communicate to me secret that had
bee long resting upon her mind like burden"-tese
are her words hguratlve, you see Rhetorical which
she wished to throw OF cool, quiet" that she had
on several previous occasions come almost TO the point
OF making such statement 10 me"-StGtenre7H no
confession, no NOTION thdt sue was gOln2 I'd MAKE con-
fcssiOn. but statement and once III particular while
on sick-bed but that she had never until then having
been restored to heat"-well she had been in health
before aud the time she most thought OF II when
she sick" she had never until then, having been
restored health, been brought quite to the point Of
courage-the disclosure"
Now was there ever a cooler adulteress lying by the
OF husband in marriage bed, and introducing the
shameful THAI burns into the soul OF woman.
and she whose eyes flashed hre at the presence
OF inpurity All Mr.. Tlton, you invent speeches
for Ttons you cannot invent them for women
THAT before she would what the secret
was"-vou not anything OF hers, that he
suspected that she had anything TO do with it" she
acted pledge that would do no harm 10 tho
person concerning whom the secret 20 be told"