New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28


God continues the features Of this moral neeo-
tua and, shall show you hereafter, circumstan-
ta charge impossible crime against impossible COM
mission.
The Court here took recess until 2 O'Clock.
THE CHARGE INCREDIBLE UNDER THE
CIRCUMSTANCES
The Court met at p. M, pursuant to adjourn
ment
Mr. Evars-The incredbity Of so fragrant and heinous
imputation upon excellent people, as am justi
fed In pronouncng both these parties irrespective OF
the imputaon under consideration, was sought TO be
parted by this plaintiff by certain qualifying eements
In their crime which approved the act to the coscences
of EACH Well there Is another blow, not at these ind-
vduas but the schemes of morality Of religion, OF tho
theory Of conscience and Of duty Make 1t out that
good people commit crimes and be good In doing 1t,
and in their consciences approving it, and In the
retrospect seeing fault In It, and you have
proved first darling proposition OF the wicked that
the distinction between evil and good mere matter Oh
preension and authority All gentlemen, that Ia tho
final stage Of dissoute immortality in man, in city.
in community. When you have reached that stage you
have exposed yourself to that final denounced In the
Scripture "wOe to him that calls evil good, and good
evil" Why woe to hint Why, he insults the very
majesty of heaven he strikes at the authority Of the
moral governor Of the world Good may do wicked
things; bad may do good things; butwoe to him
that draws out Of those instances and experiences OK
human nature the final insult to the Deity, that there 10
no distinction between good and evil How can you
renovae society that adopts that propositions How can
you redeem an individual soul that accepts that PROPOSE
toni Now they say that this lady never did anythina
wrong that she thought wrong at the time; never did
anything dd-that her conscience DID
not approve She always pure-minded; she hadn'ta
carnal inclination In her frame; she didn't think she
had violated her marriage VOWS and never discovered
that she had committed injury to her husband un
she read novel, In which there was no violation Of
marriage and adultery and no carnal sin OF any
kind but an undue ENHANCEMENT Of the affections for
priest and interference with the supreme devotion to
her husband in the management OF the wife and the
household Now that Is her notion OF guilt laid down
| for her by her husband; her character now,
| after the act as well a. during the act, ana
| before the act and she Is @ woman or strong
intellect admirable, and truthful critic, accustomed
to the best intellectual society not frivolous and weak
not valung men their earthly distinctions, but for
their high moral and intellectual characters cOndescend
ing to those Of estate saving at the bethel
by the hundred from debauchery and vice; bringing
full Of them to the Judgment Seat that she
has saved Her husband did her tho honor to think thas
she was still engaged in that Christian service at the
| moment he was giving his evidence. And then Mr..
Beecher he felt that if he had allcn he had fallen at
ALL as Mr. Mouton puts in @ single passage shall call
your attention to criticalyhe thanked God at least,
that he had snned through lust it nothing but
loye-beautiful chase, elevatinR, purifying, soacng
Loves and there had been any sexual intercourse be-
tween Them merely circumstantal rs 1t werc-a
mere emphasized touch OF the hand and kiss OF the lips
making their benevolence and good still penetrat-
ing to the SOUL more grateful to God Aud then 1t was
| such solace aud food to his mind, as Mr.. TiltOn
reports it, and such q strength to him in his abors
| for the conversion of sinners! Well he an intel
| ecual man. Tlton had at ono time thought he was
man great intellect. greater than his buo
he had outived that but still his siren 9Th was In his
great moral qualities There he unsurpassed and
indispensable; there his hold upon his worship
ers that is what led them from tho te admiration Of
the greater intellect OF Mr. Tlton These great and
warm sympathes with mankind, this magnanimity, this
generosity this bOyish candOr, and warmth and reck
essness, this what made Mr. Beecher greater than
Greeley, and Sumner and Tilton. Well, now you SEQ
you add one thing to make this adultery that
without lust either side, and that this union be-
| tween a sanity woman and an apostolic man, without
the least earthly sentiment, which has sometimes been
supposed to infect marriage little. All you needed
was to give the sanction OF religion and prayer to It.
make It, so to speak, sacramental adultery, in the pres
ence Of God and the holy angels introduced by prayer
and termi mated by prayer.
All gentlemen, look at the folly of the weaving Of this
BRAIN that could expect his charge of adultery be 10
icved, expect his charge OF adultery to
credible, only by the adultery being made immaculate,
to be violation Of conscience only by its being
glorious exhibition Of the power Of human love and
shall show you hereafter that they only could the
connection and intercourse possible by being allowed TO
dispense with all proof that occurred or legally
demonstrable by throwing down all tho rules OF evk
dence that deny hospitality to charges OF this nature
that from the breath Of the nOsis OF men, of wit
Adultery, gentlemen 10 thing that touches tho
institution Of marriage and consenng testimony OF
confessions ever break the bond. Chill
dren, and chidrens children interested that
their fortunes and their future shall not
be contaminated and despoed by the vice in respect Of
ruthfuness Of any Of their ancestors There must be
proof against them, binding them. by people whe
saw the conduct the action tho communion the oppor
tuny the security the subsequent evidence Of the
currence; and then court, and then jury Ind that
fact has occurred to which tho Law impucs the conse
quences Of the dissolution Of the marriage bond; and
it is part Of that moral government Of the world
tended to obedience 70 compel regard for chill
dren for those love, the law that the father eats
And didn't this woman know thats and didn't THE
preacher know thati Now. what occurrence thas
against al human experience. and oil natural laws
whether physical Or mental. or moralt Why, Il 70
Q miracle; that u what n H. That is the den-
nition Of miracle. 30 this miraculous adultery The
like OF which h described In Of the historical or the
symptoms Of given In any Of the PHILOSOPHERS Nobody
guard against this kind Of adultery coming into their
families because It Gomez with the purest and best who
remain pure and best eli the Vhle 10 happening anA
after II 10 over Well miracles need good deal Of tess
mony That agreed. think. from the beginning eomo
writers thought that amount Of testimony could prove
Q miracle bceause aecarded with human sxpeytepsa