New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-03
TEE END OF TEE GREAT TRIAL.

| TEE END OF TEE GREAT TRIAL.
! The Brooklyn drama has been played
Gu: to the inconsequential end. The au.
d!ence has retired, the actors disappeared
and the lights shut of The critics ap-
pointed BY law to make the award failed
to agree, and the whole world, including
the plaintiff and defendant. the sensa-
t;onal correspondents, the scandal lovers,
Plymouth Church, and everything else,
except a few regulations, are left exactly
where they were. It is a most melancholy
and unsatisfactory ending Of a big fuss,
which ough. never to have been raised.
No one is bette. Joy the Beecher trial.
No American is any proudes Of his coun-
try OF account OF it Nothing is settled
to The satisfaction of anybody. The nine
Jurors 10, acGuittal will be sharply criti-
! cised by those who believed in Tilton's
self-pyoclaimed antlels, while all the be.
lieyeys in 'true inwardhess' will condemn
the three who wished to be hard or the
suspected Shepherd OF Brooklyn. The
community a. large is quite as much di::
vided on the subjec: as the Jurymen were.
Probably the majority of those who have
given any attention TO the evidence and
the arguments OF counsel are unable to
make up their minds fully as to the guilt
or innocence Of the accused.
Perhaps this farcical termination will
prove 10 be the best result that could
have been had. I. will divert tie whole
suhjec: 0: any grand Or lofty sentiments
which might have been engendered by
serious or tragical ending. The parties
20 the SUI. will generally fail into rid;cule,
which will deprive them Of the hero's
laurel or the martyrs crown. The dis.
appointment. win no doubt shock great
many good persons who ardently longed
to see something or other done to the great
accused. but they will survive, and be in
good trim for the next great trial.
The jury have endured great physical
suffering, and Beecher and his friends
have suffered considerably in purse
Tilton comes out about even, we pre-
sumo, as we see i: announced that he does
no. pay. Perhaps both the gentlemen
have reason to thank the great ''pal-
ladium," the jury system, for the narrow
escape from disgrace they have just had.
A verde: O: guilty would have brought
obloouy upon ali concerned. An acquit-
tai would condemn Tilton as a persecu-
tor. Everything alleged stands as '.no:
proved. with the reserved right, bu: no
disposition or inter. on eithe: side to re-
new the conflict.
The people OF New Orleans have. SIS g
general thing, taken very little interest in
the trial. and will probably not criticise
the result very severely. They have
rather pitied than envied their Northern
friends who have had the ''Beecher trial"
for breakfast in one shape Q. another !
during the pas. year. They may thank |
their newspapers for this bles: immunity, |
and we hope they will. as in some sort
reward for.:he extraordinary merit, kindly |
overlook many Shortcomings in other re.
spec:s. Weenter a plea on behalf of New |
Orleans journalists generally, that mas
much as they have given :hei. readers as
little Q: the great sensation as possible,
they should be permitted to compound
many O. the sins they are more inclined to.