New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-03

That she said He wanted all these things to be in ov
donco there was way OF getting them in evidence
his views how no would like to have this thing
displayed before the public. "and that had written to
her"-now listen to this she tells her husband all these
things, that he know
And that had written to her in her absence letter.
saying that unless she told the TRUTH that she ever
lied TO she had done in reference to few minor
matters that never again could hold her In any respect
Wen. now, what an extraordinary thing. After tho
day and The night that the talking To him no
had had the least suspicion of anything wrong
about itnothing yet she moved In conscience by
feeling that there litte duplicity, little double
dealing having bed-fellows at the samo tme That
to mind sensitive to truth and openness, produced
sense OF uneasiness; and besides she says:
THAT had written to her in her absence letter,
saving that unless she told the TRUTH that she ever
lied 10 me"ths Is his own language, in his own letter.
that she repeats 10 hnI II she lied to as sho
had done in reference to few minor matters, uhat
never could hold her in any respect
An, gentlemen, what was that letter' What Is this
mode OF an ideal happiness undsturbed up to July when
this statement was made between this man and his wife,
in which he had written her letter that II she hed 10
him as she had In few minor matters he would not hoid
her in respect3 He thinks 1t shame that the obligation
Of forensic duty should require us to point out false
hoods and describe them alsehoods but he thinks II
consistent with an ideally happy homo that husband
should write to wife "If you ever lie to me as you
havo done, won't hold you in respect" All,
gentlemen, long stories require considerable power
OF reasoning well as memory when they
are oil falschoods, and every now ana then
there peeps sclfconvction OF the utter ncongry
with the whole fabric Of his case OF his little touches
OF nature and womans nature he thinks it, that he
throws in Now what an admirable characterfo for novel
this would make How all the good people OF Europe
and America how all Christend0m ito use the planuns
favore phrase) would admire the penetration that had
seen further into human nature than the inspiration
which had made the Savior say, "A these evil things
come out Of the heart" that had spoken with greater
authority regard to sin than tho great author OF the
rules ofhuman conduct Mt Sinai who had
hecdlcssy rashy, foolishly undertaken to say Thou
shalt commit adultery. when he had made II evident
that pety duty left the heart and soul usulied I'M
der the pollution of the body But still lying; that that
was wrong That letter had rankled in her thought ana
heart But that letter this poor woman never would
have awakened this side OF the judgment seat to know
edge OF tine sin OF adultery.
That had ranked in her thought that she felt that she
never could look honestly in the face again until she
had made full and free c0nIessOn mat she Lau cOne
down from the country on purpose to make It,
And now suppose there is little break and the wife
stops here though this witness don't make any break
and he goes on, then, TO describe to Mr. Beecher:
And that she had made with great modesty and deli
cacy and womany feeling without glvlhS evluehee ta
the great fact which she confessed was wrong but that
the wrong which she wished to throw from her mind was
mainly the necessary deceit with which she had hitherto
concealed 1t from her husband
Now, the husband says referring 10 lis statement 10
Mt. Beecher:
1t was a long story. told 1t from little memOran
dun which had made of dates and matters, extracts
from etters-a little memorandum made on the back OF
the white envelope uuaddresSed in which Mis-. TiltOs
statement that evening had been lodged had made
the memorandum of dates and OF letters.
Wen, he don't to have referred TO any dates or
letters and he had made that memorandum not with
auy letters or facts or records before him. but in the few
minutes that elapsed after Mr. M0uton left the house to
go Beecher until he got back In other words ne
was going TO deliver address, address TO Mr. Henry
Ward Boecer and he reduced to the form OF notes the
heads and points OF his argument Well. Mr. Moulton,
the sexton, wac sent to bring in his audience what
silly storyi Now, look at it-this narrative OF sixteen
months adultery of three years seduction, OF all this
fondng and resistance and final prostitution "She had
stated with great modesty and delicacy and womany
feeling" Well there was emotion about it that is
plain She had played this difficult fantasia with all the
skin of practiced musician. She had told this narrative
with all the delcacy of touch and sentiment that be-
longed to novelist speaking of third person. and you
are to take that real narrative of real occurrence
between a real wife and real husband