New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-25
NEW YORK DAILY 1RBuNE FRIDAY JUNE g.

arrangement arc In dispute You win inquire whether
attentions paid Mrs woodruff to conciate her
at the instance with the appreciation OF the defend
anti whether before Miss Turner was sent on to school
he favored that q precautionary measure, or con-
trbuted money in that view nnd whether he repressed
the presentation and prosecution Of the West charges
II find that Mr. Beecher did not thus act those ques-
tons will give you no trouble. But IL you find that he
took such part In those transactions OF them then
you will inquire whether he did 20 In the apprehension
that his sexual intercourse with Mira Tton might be ex-
posed, or from some other and independent cause.
You win also inquire whether the defendant refrained
nom publishing denial refutation OF the allegations
contained in the paper known as the woodruff Scandal;
from answering the particular inquiry made by Mrs
Bradshaw In her letter to which he sent reply was
held in the bondage of fear to Mrs Morse from sense Of
the guilt charged You will remember In this con-
necton that the several acts Of repression admitted
by the defendant his examination, two views mo-
tves Of action put FORTH the that having agreed
with Mr. Moulton, 10 whose sagaety he deferred that
silence should be observed he merely acted on that the
other that in those instances he governed by sypa
thy for the plaintiff and his family. The learned counsel
sought TO qualify somewhat the pressure resting upon
the defendant from this policy Of silence, applied to
the Woodruff scandal by showing that the church shared
that view thought that due to the defendant and It
appeared that at stated meeting Of the official represen
taves OF the church. held soon after the publication the
subject mentioned and the OF those present
that action should be taken 1t also appeared
that such had been the opinion OF the Rev. Mr..
Halliday gentleman entitled TO great consideration IN
his relations to the church You have before you the
evidence 10 what done and suffered by the de-
fndaDt under the policy Of silence and suppression and
the question Is TO his motives. The inference you
might be justified in drawing could be readily applied II
the wrong he Was conscious Of having committed and
which he sought 10 conceal clearly identified as
10 exclude the idea OF any other wrong But II there
were series OF other than that now charged as
to or Of which he might court conceal
men the application Of the principle requires serious at
tention. person 10 whom several crimes imputed
be guilty Of onse and sensible Of that seeks TO
cape and avoid arrest, it would he perverson II the
inference or suspicion which would attach used 20
exc the clrcumstantial evidence TO convict him OF
Of the other crimes imputed. You might wish TO
punish meretrfcous lover who visiting his mistress,
caught night hiding under bed but you would not
because offenders often caught thus concealed con-
Wet him Of burglary with intent to steal These sugges
tons may indicate the with which the real question
before should be considered. They are the moro
proper because any view OF the case you may be dis
posed to ask why Mr. Beecher il innocent, should have
garnered up his heart all that pain and fear long
when he might have made proclamation to the world and
t.ampl,d out the scandal as with iron boots.
But gentlemen the spirit which characterizes and
chastens judicial investigation should I've distinguished
from that which prevails IN other FORMS OF pubic inquiry
and debate Notwithstanding all the appeals you have
heard to the experience OF life, you should not
adopt opinions as freely, reach conclusions readily
% in your ordinary business affairs When you make
bad bargain, You repent and make up the loss' III we
neggenty commit an error here may repent but the
wrong rreparable The question, upon all the
proofs is whether the defendant understood that he was
charged with the adultery and spoke, wrote acted and
suffered FROM and in consequence of that; whether
laying that OF vew he understood the charges to be
that he had made the improper proposals or advances
and had robbed the plaintiff OF rich inheritance In the
love OF his wife; and whether, coupled with those
charges he believed that he had wronged the plaintiff by
favoring a family separation and the dismissal by Mr.
Bowen and for those reasons spoke, wrote acted and
suffered a. described II the wrong was the
adultery, the solution OF what followed Is easy.
But il the wrongs or ofenses actual or imputed
were OF the other character stated, then, a just
apprehension OF the relation between the defend
ants state OF mind and his conduct involves several con-
alterations What his personal estimate Of his rea
ton TO the church. to the world to literature, and OF the
reputation he should leave behind him what his con-
cepton OF the and gravity OF the charge OF impure
solicitations, of alternating woman's love from her
husband and OF the effect OF such accusations, publicly
made what his notion OF the extent to which Mr..
Tlton had been injured az journalist, in his family, and
az to their means of subssencel The learned counsel
claims that upon the evidence Mr. Beecher had no occa
sion for grief his advice that Mrs Tlton should sep
arate from her husband not followed or as to Mr..
BOwen's action, "a that not influenced by Mr..
Beecher You will consider the evidence and that view.
But did the defendant, under misrepresentation believe
that he had instrumental in INJECTING those injuries
upon the plaintiff and what If any effect hal that upon
his conducts