The Portland daily press., 1875-05-26
THE SCANDAL.
Confirmation of Judge Portsr's Argu-

of Judge POrtar's Argu-
ment.
BROOKLYN, MAY 25-ln the Tilton-Beecher
trial to-day, Mr.. Porter continued his sum ming
up for the defence by resuming his analysis OF
the report drawn up by Tilton, July IA, 4,tor
adoption by the church committee. That re-
port was a recantation of the charge OF adul-
terry which Tilton had made to Redpath the
Sunday before, and yet he has the effrontery TO
come into a court of justice and renew it.. The
counsel continued to criticise the repeated con-
tradictons of Tilton at length.
Referring to Mrs. Morse, counsel said Filton
had blackened her in writing and by oral testi-
money that he might destroy the little woman
who clung to him, but who had SO little to ex-
pect from the chivalry of free love. If domes-
tic difficulties led her to express doubts wnicn
have been no less injurious to her than 10 Her
daughter, counsel would now proclaim What IL
now known to the jury but not to the Puollc
even in her misfortune. that woman Grains
more respect and esteem than Tilton could
gain in any city in Christendom. Driven al.
most frantic by the dastardly charges against
her daughter. this nervous and excitable wo-
man wrote letter, and the bastard clutches | t
and puts it aside as one of the muniments by
which he is entitled to 100000. Tilton spoke
Of suppressing earthquakes and avalanches and
tying up storms, when all he had to do was to
keep closed those lips that to-day even Eliza
beth Tilton worships. Tilton is not only con-
tradicted by his own writings but by Henry
Ward Beecher, Benjamin +. Tracy, and TWEEN
ty-five respected merchants and ladies, looking
up to that God whom they respect but whom
he does not If Titon is false accuser and
untrustworthy the jury need go no further;
yet as the counsel regarded Moulton as dam
gerous man, he felt it his duty to call attention
to some of the more marked features OF ms
evidence; and he proceeded to speak OF the
high position Moulton once held, and the con-
tempt with which he is regarded at present.
If on the 1st of June he believed this story
about Beecher, why did he write on that day to
Beecher, You can stand if the whole truth
was told" This was written by man who
betrayed confidence and who went to a clergy
man and demanded a letter of him, with pls-
tol in his pocket. Frank Moulton was early
brought into relations with that distinguished
man, Geu. Butler, through suits by the govern
ment against his firm, and Gen. Butler was
the prosecution counsel. Two or three things
cropped out on Moulton's cross-examination.
The prosecutor was the informer, one of the
class who are merciless but the relations were
changed, and that suit ended in lasting friend
ship between the informer, the counsel tor the
informer, and Frank Moulton. Then when
these troubles came Moulton recommended
Butler to Beecher as his counsel, but Beecher
did not think Butler was the counsel which q
Plymouth pastor should have. He preferred
Thomas G. Shearman who has since been able
to defy them all. Then Butler, not being ac-
C6pleU, DeCdm6 tu6 ADVISER OI DlOultOu,duu ouo
latter became the publisher of one OF the ablest
papers ever written in this country, and which
was intended to kill Henry Ward Beecher, and
Moulton took all the credit of it. But it was
Moulton who furnished all the materials.
Counsel then referred to the contradictory
statements, Of Moulton and Robinson regarding
the formers connection with the firm of Wood
ruff 81 Robinson. Which of these two men lied.
No man can doubt it was Francis D. Moulton.
Both Tilton and Moulton gave the jury to un-
derstand that Tilton's claim of ~ 600 on Bowen
was one which Bowen never denied. Why?
because right behind any such admission was
blackmail. What, Bowen, who lives in a pal
ace and is not only publisher bnt owner of the
great religious paper acknowledging claim
and leave it unpaid to await an action at law!
Then comes that blackmailing card of Titon, s,
and by mere accident he sauntered into Will
keson's and took out his galley slip and said.
"Bowen owes me $1,000 and won't pay it. l
am sorry to say | must publish this" Wilke-
som was alarmed. Was it to go forth that
Plymouth church was no more than an assig-
nation house; that Beecher had been hypO-
crite and had ravished lady years ago? No,
he said, leave this in my hands; will see men
who would sacrifice half their fortunes for
Beecher The result was the tripartite agree
ment, one which would have bound any one but
a barbarian, and Tlton went away carrying
$1,000 which could be got by no other process,
and which he deposits with the slip, "spoils
from new friends for the enrichment of old"
Does any man believe if the facts were then
known, which Bowen proved here, namely that
there was a breach of warranty by Tilton, on
his unftness for the editorship of religious
paper by his conduct, that he would ever touch
that $1,000 There was proof that Bowen said
he didn't owe anything, and Tilton recorded
his judgment of the transaction on paper, which
he thought would never see light, by deScrlb-
ing the $1,000 as spols from new friends to en-
rich old friends and schoolmates, Moulton and
Tilton.
Itwas pretended that Bessie Turner was sent
away through consideration for Beecher, but
no one who has heard her could imagine that
she would tell falsehoods against mother
whom she idolized. Tilton remembered though
how she could tell about his taking her from
her bed in the sleep of girlhood and telling her
that no harm would come to her if she permit
ted him to love her. That he knew would not
be nice feature in the biography of Theodore
Titon. Yet these men with diabolical ingenu-
ity concoct story that she was sent away for
Beecher's sake. These men produce what they
call candestine letters from Beecher to Mrs.
Titon. What sort of clandestine letters were
they which an adulteress handed to Moulton,
friend of the man he had wropged, or which
were sent through the public mail with the
name and address of the adulteress plainly
marked. But then that card of resignation.
Moulton produced a card which be pretends
was the production of Henry Ward Beecher,
master Of the English language, and Beecher
is made 20 write to his church, Il hereby ten
der my resignation of Plymouth church" That
was very like standing on the brink of moral
Niagara.
1t was a small matter, but 1t was worth re-
calling, that Moulton swore that on the very
first night of their acquaintance Beecher talk
ed with him about his sexual intercourse with
the wife of Moulton's friend, and after that all
through four years Beecher, who apparently Is
a gentleman, who is the husband of respecta-
BILE woman and a grandfather, never meets him
without talking of sexual intercourse. In all
the numerous private and confidential letters
B echer wrote to Moulton he is gentleman
and writes in the purest style, but the moment
he gets under Moulton's roof he begins to talk
of sexual intercourse, to talk as even libertines
would scarcely talk. if there were ladies in the
house. But this accusation was the work OF
the art of Tilton and the treachery of Moul-
ton, and was so well concocted that half of
mankind began to believe there was some truth
in these stories. This mau, Moulton, makes a
confident of his wife and tells her of Beecher's
sin. He tells her it will promote her social po-
sitioD if she becomes intimate with her clergy
man. He trings the portrait of Beecher from
the house of the pretended cuckold to his own
house and hangs it there for his wife, a pure
woman, to behold. He permits an adulterer to
have access to her bed chamber. He permits
an adulterer to kiss her at every visit, though
she can remember only one kiss. Beecher
Swore that every time he crossed that threshold
size SAiuUeu QlI1 Will q KISS III buo pIcSouCo VI
her husband. Moulton and Titon we're recall
ed, but they did not dare to deny that she was
permitted to kiss this adulterous pastor of Ply
mouth church. If for four years Beecher was
confessing to Moulton and his wife that he was
an adulterer, and if Moulton had in his safe a
written confession of adultery, what was the
necessity of getting Beecher to write letter of
apology? Moulton swears he destroyed the
paper which he says was confession OF adul-
terry, but Belcher saw it seven months after the
early as the Sd of July Tilton wanted to send
adultery, but Moulton says no. 1t was still his
part to play the mutual friend.
Court here took the usual recess till o'clock.
Amongst the visitors to-day were w. Morrow,
U. S. District Attorney for California Judge
Dillon of Iowa, Judge Jervis of Westchester,
Pa, H. Flint of New York, Alfred Mills, May
or of Morristown, N. j. There were also in
court and sitting at Beecher's side of the house
Prof o. f. w. Gum of Gunnery of Washing
ton, Conn, Rev. M. Hurst Rev. Dr. Bacon and
brother of Camden, Mr. Dyke and wife and
Mrs. Henry A. Dyke, Rev. MIR. Ingersoll, Judge
Lewis of Pennsylvania Mrs. Henry w. Sage,
DIR. Garrison of Newburgh, N. Y, und L. s.
Burnham.
At the recess great crowd gathered around
Beecher and he held kind of levee, during
which several strangers were introduced to him.
There was large and fashionable gathering in
the court after recess, and the court was gay
with the summer attire of ladies' 1t was 215
when Porter returned from lunch with the de-
fendant and family, and his address was re-
sumed
NonnseI AGAIN referred To the extraordinary