The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-06


Ma. SHERMAN BEFORE i LONDON AUDIENCE.
from the London Echo AT the close OF
the MONDAY service at the City Temple yes
terday (Juiy 22d) the Rev. DR.. Parker init
mated that there had just arrived from Anne
RIGA, and was present among them, Mr..
Thomas G. Sherman, member OF fly-
mouth church, :nud one Of Mr.. Beecbers
counsel In the hate trial. DR.. Parker intl'
mated that those who desired might remain,
when MIR. Shcarman wouid answer any
questions on the subject Of Che trial. Some
hundreds Of Roth sexes did so. Or. Parker
introduced Dir. Sbearman. who, after e1-
planning that the invitation extended to him
was entirely IL mex pected, said that If his re-
| lation to Mr.. Beecher's case bad been merely
professional, he might not have felt at liberty
ia speak of it on such an occasion. But ne
had been friend of Mr.. Beecher for
TWENTY-FIVE years, aud 8 member OF Fly.
mouth church for many years, ana
when he took charge OF the case be did so
unon the express condition contrary 10 tue
wishes of MIR. Beecher and his other friends
that he should receive for his twelve months
services no compensation whatever. MT.
Bcecber had given him the trecst access 10
his house and papers, and he had made 1t bis
business to know the whole truth upon
every point, and to base the defence upon
that alone. In this determination Mr.. Bee
cher had always most heartily coDcurred.
MIR. Shcarman referred to an impression
which he thought existed in England, tDat
Dir. Beecber had admitted some "Improprl.
cites" This he entirely denied, unless II
was an improperly in Mr.. Beecher TO KISS,
on a few occasions, lady whom ne Dad
known from childhood intimately, whose tlS'
tmpd constantly kissed Mr.. Beecher blmsch,
and expressly desired bis wife to Kiss
him. IL such things were necessarily wrong,
no doubt Mr. Beecher was wrong; but
if 50. vast proportion of American society
must be condemned, for MIR. Beecher was
really more cautious in his relations with
ladies' thus brought up in his church, and
looking upon him as father, than was usual
among the clergy in America. Mr.. Sherman
said that the expressions OF grief and re.
morse in Dir. Beecber's letters were based
upon his long belief that Mrs. Titon had,
by some thoughtess over-attenIlon On his
part, been beguiled into o passion for him
which had supplanted her husband in Der
heart and produced the utmost misery ID the
family. He appealed to every gentleman to
saw whether, if thi, had been true, MIR.
Beccher would not have been unworthy of
respect if he had not felt profound sorrow.
But, in fact, Mr.. Beecher was deceived by
Tilton and Moulton on this point, as on
many others, and Mrs. Tllton bad really been
faithful to her husband even ia thought
Mr.. Shearman explained that the failure OF
the jury to agree was caused by one man
only, whose unseemly intimacy with Moul-
ton while actually in the jury.box bad ex.
cited general remark. He said the COUNSEL
for MIR. Beecher were not merely procession
ally but personally satisfied Of his entire IN
nocence, while at least two of MIR. Tilton's
counsel were privately of the same opinion,
one of them having. just before receiving
delainer, denounced the prosecution as "the
most Internal conspiracy of modern times"