New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-26
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.

THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Court met at 2 p. M, pursuant to adj
journmont.
Mr. Porter-Gentemen there is a single point in the
multitude of those which had noted in connection with
the testimony Of Mr. MoultOn to which wish to call
your special attention, relying in the main upon your
memory of Lis general testimony unaded by any sugges-
from aude to it because 1t is one OF those
little significant earInarks Of fasehOod OF truth, as
the case may be- which enable you judge Of great
many other matters in regard 10 which the proof may
be indstinct and obscure. You remember that
alluded this morning to the extraordinary fact that
an American gentleman and merchant, man OF
social position and literary pretensons, who, &C
cOrding TO his own theory, knowingly, deliber-
ately, desgnedly delivered TO the cOmpanOnshp
OF bis wife infamous, hyp0critcal debauchee that he
should have hung in his parlor portrait which did
belong him. and that portrait the counterfeit SIM
ilitudc such debauchee. say 1t to the credit OF
the manhood that is within him, that he himself saw
even in the evidence and without the aid of the sugges
zion of adverse counsel that it feature OF the case
which called explanation, and when Frank MoultOn
wants an explanation tits always forthcoming II he can
give it, and IL all other explanation fails 1t will be found
in ready forged e And he tells us in order to explain
the fact that he had the picture Of aduterer hanging
in his paror. for every guest to look tuon as
an ornament OF the drawngroom at which a virtuous
woman presided the hOspitaes OF his house. that
though was there it only for little while that it
1871 that it only after he and his wife had become
accustomed TO the idea of the companonshp of lber-
tine and he deliberately swOre before high Heaven that
that portrait hung in his house until his removal to
Remsens May, 1872 1t is said that liars should have
more than the faculty of invention; they shonld haze
good memories had forgotten that in his presence
Theodore Iilton, for another purpose-May' leH' 1
should have sad-Theodore Tton had for another pur
pose already in the bitterness OF his anmosy 10
Mrs Morse that that portrait taken from his mousse
I'm the Fall Of 1870, to the house of Frank Mouton,
for the purpose of preserving it from the threatened
violence of this crazcd he pleased to call her.
He swore to that believing that it had not been contra
dicted by Ton for that TO have escaped hisAt
tention and he swore undoubtedly in the belief that in
matter minor Importance there would pe no Wilt
ness TO contradict him. and yet this faseho0d uttered
by him at the OF the trial. his return to tho wit
nesssand the purpose of contradctng one OF our
witnesses-ths fasehood was nailed 10 the counter by
two witnesses both speaking from absolute knowledge
both fixing the fact that that portrait hung In his
paror in Clnon-st, in the Winter before his removal TO
Rensens One the owner of the house of which no
was tenant, who 1t when he went there to collect
his rent; and the other the usher of Plymouth
Church. that church which he hates, and which he would
unroof If it lay in his feeble power; but he then,
as the friend Henry Ward Beecher, sat through long
hours by day and by night watching the sickbed of
Francis d. MOutOn, while he lay lowering between life
and death flsehood itself is comparatively unim
portant, but oh, what revelation it is OF the
character of the nest in which such vipers are
bred FOOLISH little seryiceable in the cause, invented
by a cunning and plausible man as the circumstances
that would give to the truth the false complexion of lie
MR.. MOULTON TURNS UPON Mr. BEECTIER.
Gentlemen, | shall deal no more with this
man. except another relation. had prepared notes
the purpose Analysing his evidence but it
through days and days and would be, perhaps To
weary reorganization. You remember its general
effect but my observation OF jurors has been that they
form their ud 1nents OF man rather by tho apparent
sincerity of his uierance and the probable crcdby OF
his narration than by this minute analysis which taxes
YEARLY the time OF court and the patience OF jury
But mast advert to aspect of the case in connection
with him before close my argument. What is tho pre-
text Of this nan as an apology for his betrayal of trust,
his fasehoOd 10 honOr On the 18th of August he said
Henry Ward Beecher, in public statement alluded TO
the fact that he had received for Theodore TOn money
exaeted by him in the interest Tlton and for the pr-
poses OF backma Gentlemen it false as any utter
ance that ever fell those smooth and oily lips you
will remember the first day OF his examination You will
recall the fact which still further pressed upon him
during 10y absence in the continuance OF that
examination by my friend Gen. Tracy that even by his
own concessions he had betrayed that trust In the inter
val between the 18th Of July and the 4th OF August
deliberately, without motive, without provocauon On
the Oath of July, Gen. Tracy, in behalf OF Mr. Beecher
called upon him with written note In KIND ana cor-
teous terms from Mr. Beecher, saying that inc Cncn
Committee were waiting for his statement and asking
the privilege OF looking at the documents which had
been left in his hands for tho purpose OF Keeping
them safe II occasion should arise for their use"
When Gen Tracy came to present that demand he re-
fused 10 receive It, why When Cen Tracy pressed the
demand and insisted upon his reading the letter OF MI
Beecher he said 90 haven't time TO answer It," When
the demand still further pressed by Gen Tracy, VINO
read this through and through, lie says cannot
furnish to Mr.. Beecher these paper; they must DC
secure" ado you mean to say, Sir, that suppose
that Henry Ward Beecher and are not safe cusodans
q se papersi" "Go, but am going to Nar1agausett