The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-02

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Mr.. seecher, .The world win never forgive you
for having been the friend OF the seducer OF
your we.r L. was Tor taking hack the
man 10 ms Irendchp If he believed him guilty OF
/ adultery, and not for taking back the woman that
I the world would never forgive him. IL Is improoa-
! BILE that the husband should destroy the original
| letter. the charge on which they accused Henry
Ward Beecner on the night OF December 80. IL Is
Improbable that this letter. the most important OF
all the documents, should be destroyed, and that
they should damn their present case If they ever
mad one. by dong so. IL Is improbable That the
husband should make threats and vet remain
silent on the subject OF adultery and that for four
years he should refrain rom saying anything OF
the charges OF adultery
Now being his enemy the question Is whether,
lying TOUR years, ne VIII lie one year for himself
NONE OF MR.. BEEcHER's LETTERS EXPRESS GUILT.
on the contrary. they Will show his innocence.
Mr.. Moultons statements require corroboratOn
not yet produced. nlton and he have destroyed
have been lying about this case for four years.
Mr.. Moulton says the papers were prepared IN his
says:-"If the whole truth were told you could
stand" Tilton would not have written this let.
ter; he knows the use OF words too well for that.
No, 1t was written TO Mr. Beecher by Moulton in
the absence OF Tilon and taat was the only one
written or compared himself and taken an part IN
the composition. Mrs. Moulton has shown she
sus against w'f heny s @af SE1g
while her husband was holding these
% ns e ssa told Mr. sSas
they were going TO sue him In court OF law ana
that she knew OF TINS intention as early as that
time; that she was to be witness against Mr..
Beecher IN court and not before the Church Inves-
tigating Committee. How came she to be in pos.
obtained every one OF Mr.. Beecher's secrets un-
der the guise OF friendship, had given them
the A past p''i Jour years. .' Tnis mans vile
knew, days before there was any breach between
Moulton and Beecher. that he was to be sued In q
court OF law and that she to be a witness. 1t
would be difficult to realize, then, that there was
but sincere and honest friendship on the part or
Moulton toward Mr. Beecher. There had been
OF Mrs. MouIton's evidence. 1t showed malice
and plotting Tor the overthrow OF this defendant.
The charge OF lncontinence has always been
THE FAvORITE WEAPON OF ATTACK UPON CLERGY
MEN.
The enemies OF ST. Athanaslus by such an &C.
the orthodox faith. 1t was by similar means
that the name Of St. Francis de Sales was
|, kept under a cloud for four years, during which
Nne maintained the same silence Tor which my
client Is so sharply criticised. IL was on such q
Archbishop of Cambray, was attempted. 1t was
under such an mputaton that the "Judlclous
Church, renamed dumb as the dead" though
innocent az babe, Tor SIX years OF bitter anguish
te Wns % ali
estants most nearly approached the spirit and
lapors Of the Apostle Paul suffered 10 pass without
any public reply Tor twenty years, and. by a yet
more remarkable coincidence 1t was by means
OF an insnuaton that he mad made i'm
kinded against him in Georgia. which
resulted in driving him out OF this country
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verdict Of the Jury which found that indictment?
Where Is John Canton, the magistrate who In
Ii Jew lines OF wesley's biography and escapes
oblivion only because the unsullied and venerable
name OF the man whom he thought he had crushed
makes IT. impossible for him to escape from iniamy.
THE CLOSING EFFORT.
General Tracy then concluded his four days adj
dress OF opening TO the jury as tollows:-l have
laid before you, gentlemen. so much OIL this case as
tue ,b pest Gould put into words
beyond adequate expression by feeble words
Of mine; nor III think, could d. any single
OF that influence which radiates through.
out the world and time. and beyond the grave,
IRON the loving centre OF good mans life. There
are facts wnicn are not spoken from lip to ear,
hut from heart to heart. There Is treasure at
stake in comparison with which even the good
name OF one innocent man and one innocent
woman, however sacred and precious this may be,
Value OF established character. what IS the use Of
an honorable life Al 1t Is no barrier against false
~ in the lace 81 oa n Its
TO be counted as worse than nothing--merey the
DISCUSSES OF rotten hypocrisy Against this most
ties. has been made. Three thousand
MEN AND WOMEN OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH
have nted TO this community spectacle un-
paralleled or faith in goodness and IN God. These
people are your fellow citizens; vrtuous, In
love their wives and daughters; tney cherish the
purity of their households. Foremost among you
and KIND; good nelgnbors. good cltizens they
have stood many, many months unshaKen IN their
n ao
him: because for thirty years they have
looked through his clear eyes into MS
upon them ana their children has
the example OF the Master, to lear God and aonor
evil. This multitude OF Witnesses bear testimony
to the value OF good mans character as read in
q good mans lie; and IL Is the lesson OF the value
of character which you are called to impress upon
the world. You Will save Brooklyn. already too
mucn disgraced by the existence or such scan
DIAL, from the far greater disgrace OF permitting
tality.
An eagle. towering in his pride of place.
You would tell the American people that when
innocence Is assaIled by INSCRIPTIONS and cum
ming malice however successful for time the
assault may seem, 1t must hnd It's barrier when
1t reaches an American jury. And you Will say TO
this neartiess and goddess prosecutor Thus FAR
thou shalt come, but no iurther-here all the mid
night pottlngs OF cruel craft must cease forever"
l ASK OF YOU for this defendant nothing but
that justice which you would mete out to
the humblest citizen. Yet you cannot but
feel as | do overwhelming sense OF
the solemn importance of TINS trial. 1t will loom
larger In history than any which has taken place
for eighteen centuries. No man OF this defend
ants lame mas ever been called upon to answer
such charge in court OF justice. What spec
tace has been presented In this City OF Churches.
Every day Tor elgnt weeks this aged man. VINO has
ture OF our English tongue, ana who never wrote
word That vas not inspired by the love OF God,
! Of nature and OF his fellow men; who mas moved
with sublimest eloquence greater multttudes than
any living orator, and who never spoke save Tor
! justice. truth and virtue; who has convinced,
rescued, instructed and comforted unnumbered
| thousands OF erring, struggling, suffering souls.
! counting has own life, fortune and reputation
as nothing, II by their risk or sacrifice he could
save the humble and the weak. This man, whose
/ fame encircles the earth and whose name Is hon
! Ored ana beloved Wherever Christianity bears
/ sway, has been dragged by malignant conspirators
into this Court 10 answer the vile and Odious
charge which the evidence OF a long time outside
! OF these walls. no less than the evidence produced
within them, brands indeliby as u lie.
Day by day he has passed along our streets with
his brave and true wife to meet the unmerted IN
dignity OF this arrangement. Strong men have
been todched with mingled pity and wrath at the
sight, and women nave turned aside to weep. 1t
Is an outrage which posterty Will avenge.
| This falr city Will yet boast among
her proudest monuments the statue OF MIN VINO
conferred upon her such glory ana received
| within her pafas sncn fnrfnres All VINO mad part