New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-26
MRS. MORSE DESCRIBED.

| In passing from this branch of the case, per-
NIT me 10 aude, for moment. 10 a lady whose name
has been Indignantly traduced, in your hearing In writ
ing and on oath but think no man will hold her in
lower estimation in view Of the fact that the man who
raduoed vAed her also the traducer of the wife
of his bosom and Of her hOnOred pastor Tton had the
same opportunity respect the mother OF his wife
Which used unscrupulousy in his evidence to
oath and in writing for the purpose of at
taching faint, dshonor and infamy to the name OF
woman who had no protector, and was therefore
the lawful prey of chvarous leader of free love-
That Mrs Morse has led unhappy life. that she was
cursed by the alliance of her only her beloved and her
idozed daughter with one who had no more sympathy
with her than he had with the swine upon the SIDES or
the mountains, that the domestic difhcutes IN that
house shattered her health and even affected her I'M
derstanding that they have thrown her into nervous
condition alternately of crcdulity and unbeef, which
have led her to say things which have been injurious
10 others no less than to herself, and 10 her
own child. is all due 10 Theodore Tllt0n, the
man who had the efrOntery 10 say IN the
True Story that a woman whom he admitted 10 De
one of the purest heart of the most fascinating in
manners and address and of the most brilliant intel
lectual women whom he had ever met, was at heart
murderess. 1t calumny as vile as any OF those
which have ever coined by the man; and you VINO
know something of Brooklyn something OF the ladies OF
Brooklyn something OF the estimation IN which charae
ter is held here will not he surprised when say what is
known to you, but is not known 10 the public
that the woman whom he defames, commands
in this community degree OF respect even IN her mis-
fortunes which Theodore Tion Will never command
from this hour either in this city any city or refuge on
earth In one Of those letters written by her IN the ex
cited nervous condition. which she driven by his
dastardy charges against her daughter, when she
accented from him without inquiry, and which she felt
earned with them the dishonOr of her own house no
less than Che infamy OF the man who claims tn nave
been himself participant IN the onense-he does "rlIe
in one OF these 10 Mr. Beeeher, which was SUD-
it,ed 70 him and his friend Frank Moulton in consult
tion by Mr.. Beecher, for an appropriate answer ana
the answer 10 which given by him in the terms they
prescred-in that she says speaking OF fon ad
hitting all he says the invention OF his half drunken
brain still effect upon her is the same he Is doing
all he can kill her by slow torture And yet these
eager fishermen whose nets were ready for Whatever
cond be found floating in the water catch at this pre-
serve this letter which has been submitted 10 them IN
order IN enable them 20 Judge what was TO do with
this nervous and excited womanhs letter If preserved
A. one OF the muniments OF title TO the Slooooo winch
Theodore Tlton claims to-day In court held Dy 'he
Chief Justice and in court IN which you slt as jurors
II there can anything more dastardy thah 10 dea
with "A woman, a mother, alone, unprotected feeble In
health driven almost 10 madness by her love TOT
her daughter and the erue.ties OF her nus
pand-if anything more dastaEuy can pe
conceived than the calm ana cool preservation
for the day when money can DC nianc out vi IL,
M such letter and its introduction on the stand even
nv the man Who in his maigny Mrs Morse was ca
naI,lc NJ swearing she WAS "a marGerons maniac, you
NAV conceive tit cannot II Is IN keeping with the
character Of the man. who another of his moods, ana
in speaking of that unhoy. wicked libel pcnned by the
bandof stephen Pearl Andrews but conceived III the
brain OF Theodore Tlion and melted through the SIEVE
of the Woodruff. when / was dong my best 10 sup
press one earthquake that s Bowcns SANDERS against
Mr. Raecher Mrs woodruff suddenly STOOD before me-,
poreut GUS with another" TINS suppresser VI earth