The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-05
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whom were many ladies. Mrs. Tilton
was accompanied by Mrs. Fields, Mrs.
/ Shearman, aud three other ladies. Mr..
Beecher, his wife and two sons, were
present, supported by the usual Plymouth
! Church delegation. Mr.. Tilton resumed
his place 'on the stand and his cross
examination was continued by Mr. Ev-
arts. He was shown a paper, which
he could not identify as the letter
written by Bcccher to the Cleveland
convention, which caused political differ
ences between Bcecher and himself.
/ Witness said: | cannot remember any
thing that would make real differences
between him and me ut that time, nor
can | remember the year of the dis.
cus,ion between him and me relative to
politics: ut that time it was the general
belief in the Republican party that he
mad BETRAYED it; ! was with the general
bulk of the Republican party, and
Beechcr supported Andy Johnsoni from
that period there was no occasion which
brough us together ON public occaslonsi
first took part in the woman :
rights movement after Beecher ;
lecture in the Cooper Institute;
/ | think this was in 1860 before the war;
| suppose that all persons taking part in
that subject have only one side, and may
be regarded as having advanced opinions
on that subject; in that light | may be
regarded as having advanced opinions
ON the uatter; this brought me in contact
with about one thousand speakers and
writers on the subject; General Butler
Chief Justice Chase, Wendell Phillips,
Annie Dickinson, Miss Anthony and
others. were among those ! knew and be-
came acquainted with through this chan
mel; also became acquainted with the
subject through the columns of
the independent, and various tract
! The chief denunciatiOns | have made
against marriage relations are since the
time Beecher invaded my house. Showed
a letter.; am the writer of this article,
and it was published by me.
Love. Marriage and Divorce.
Mr.. Shearman read the article which
was headed Love, Marriage and
Divorce The article opened by analy
zing the substance of Glove" defining the
marriage state, and ended with relation
of the causes of divorce. This article
was contained in volume of the Ladc-
Dsaaeat and when Mr. Shearman lifted
the ponderous book for Tilton to identify
the article the crowd in the court fairly
roared with laughter, as it required all OF
Mr.. Shearman efforts to raise the bulky
volume Witness was shown another
volume which he identified. He
said that the original was printed in
the Golden Age August |, 1873; | can
procure for YOU the original and the pa
per which contaiaed it. The witness
promised to produce the original either
this afternoon or tomorrow.
Mr.. Shearman here read an extract
from AN article taken from the HearH
ant Home and published in the Golde,
.4ge October Is, 1871. The article was
headed ain Mcmoriam Of Theodore Til
ton" Mr.. Tilton's reply to this article
was also read, and placed in evidence as
bearing on his free love doctrines.
Mr.. EvartS read a poetic etiuson OF
Mr.. Tilton's which was published in the
Goidcn Igc August /, 1878. 1t was
placed in evidence.
TiItou and Greeley on Free Love
The witness also identified another ar.
ticle written 10y him and published in the
Goli.H Igr, September 9Th, 1871. The
article was entitled Theodore TIlton 5
rrioindcr to Horace Greeley Mr.
Brcchcr insisted that the paper to which
this WAS reply, should also be put IN
for the counsel to see.
iaI h..
between Mr.. Greeley and Mr.. Tilton
covered that one subject, and they only
desired to read one part of the article.
The controversy WAS settled by Mr..
Sherman reading the paragraph relating
to the subject from Greelcys letter, Civ
ing an illustration of what he Greeley
meant by tree love.
4 paragraph from TiIton'S rejoinder
was read, stating that it seemed to him
(Tilt6n) that Mr.. Greeley inferred by
that paragraph that he was in favor ol
free love, hut this Tilton dsclaimed
Other portions of the same article were
read, referring to divorces between par
ties not noted. and advocating the right
of divorce for i'll treatment and cruelty
The witness was shown another arti lie
published in the Goiden Age, which
was an extract from the Troy Times; he
could not recognize it, stating that some
editors of papers were sometimes parties
who least read them.
Mr. Beach objected to the article being
req d, as witness could not recognize 1t.
The Court ruled out the article, because
he stated that an editor could not always
be held responsible for what appeared in
his paper.
Witness said he never saw the article
until now. and neither with his consent
or against it, was it published; another
Goiden Agc, dated September Il, 1871,
contains another article, which was shown
Tilton,
Responsibility OF an Editor.
Mr. Fullerton objected to this article
being introduced and argued that an
editor codld not be held responsible for
what appeared in his paper, as the cor
rc-pondcncc of n paper claimed to be
heard on certain subjects and that Til
ton could not be held responsible for these
utterances or that they were expressins oi
his opinions.
Mr.. Beach said the plaintiff should
not be made responsible for all express,
ions of opinions IN his paper. This was
not his opinion but were expressions of 4
third party.
Mr.. Evarts agreed he was held liable
for expressions of his opinions in the
editorial part of his paper and he has
got TO prove that he did
not write. but that it was
inserted without his knowledge, and that
when it WAS brought to his notice, he did
/ all he could to eStirpate it. These ex-
presSions were from his office, and were
for the purpose of impressing the public.
The speaker submitted that he was re-
sponsiblc for these utteranccS, whether
he wrote them or not.
The Court ruled that the matter should
be confined to articles written by him.
self or published with his knowledge and
sanction.
Witness was tnen shown the article,
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