The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-07-14
THE NEW YORK PRESS ON
THE BEECHER CASE.

I
The New York papers are divided
in sentiment respecting the result of
the Beecher case, some claiming
that it amounts to a vindication of
the Plymouth pastor, and others that
it leaves him attained. We give be-
low the expressions Of the leading
journals of that city:
The Times has an editorial six and
a half columns in length. reproduc-
ing and enforcing the strongest
points in the testimony against
Beecher, and assuming, of course
that he is guilty.
The World, which has been not so
much pro-Beecher as anti Tilton.
Moulton, etc., says:
THE great BROOKLYN scandal has en-
ded, as it began, in a moral quagmire,
| out of which, as in the beginning, so
now at the end also, no man can hope to
| find his way, alive and unsmfrched, save
I along the solid, unmistakable path Of an
| honest, masculine contempt for Beech
er's accuSers.
This suit has been protracted to an
antedeluvian length, and it has now en-
ded in formal disagreement of the jury
impanneled to try it. Such disagree
ment after such a trial is beyond all ques-
ton a substantial verdict of acquittal for
the defendent. No man in any suit can
be deccntly held to prove his innocence. "
The Tribune, which has all along
been a strong supporter of Beecher,
and a virulent enemy OF Tilton. now
treats the case as though the latter
and not the former had been on trial.
1t says:
considering everything. IL does seem
that as if IiLt0n had made a very ndTrOte
esczbo, while the friends of Mr.. Beecher
have good reason to regard the end Of
the trial as a substantial justification of
the confidence they have repOsed in their
pastor during his troubles-a confidence
which is sure to be manifested now with
redoubled warmth Enthusiasts are
infectious, and SO we may expect to see
the number of Mr.. Beecher's supporters
increase with great rapidity, and his in
fluence-at least for time-to become
greater than it has been at any day since
the scandal was first dragged into the
light.
The Herald, anti -Beecher, says
Through the case fails, there is in one
sense result: 1t may fairly be said that
in an endeaver spread over one hundred
and twenty days, the greatest lawyers of
this country land one of them, perhaps,
Al ~
been unable to convince jury of twelve
commonplace men that the Plymouth
pastor is innocent of the offence for
which he has been on trial Out of all
the dust and furry and conflict of this
trial that is the one plain result.
Tilton has at least justified his position if |
he has not sustained the charges. More !
than this he can scarcely promise himself |
He can never make case that will give |
public sympathy to a person of his ex
ceptional demeanor for the people cam |
not be less pleased 10 contemplate the |
whited sepulchres of fashionable pulpits |
than they would be gratitied at even the |
apparent triumph of Il man of the TIlton |
type.
The Sun, strongly anti-Beecher,
heads its article on the result, mir.
Beecher's Temporary Escape by |
Disagreement" and says: ut was
simply impossible to convict the
Plymouth pastor in Brooklyn"
Continuing, the Sun says:
'sThe disagreement substantially pro-
claims that man who so conducted him I
self undera charge of base practices as |
Beecher did for four years, and who /
made SO poor a defense on the trial, de- /
serves ut least to be attained with strong I
suspicion of guilt. On whatever theory I
YOU explain his cowardice and deceit, 7
the result is fatal 10 his integrity as a +
man amt destructive of his power is a I
minister III he had been man +
Of sensitiveness, we should have been I
spared his hippancY during the trial, +
36ih ia Che court room and in Plymouth !
Ghufcn That he has tAe efIrontry 10 1
Show Almselfin thc pulpit after the eevc- 4
lations 81 tAe last year, shows that he +
mas the hlde - Tie TlliaoCeros WHAT f
ever d. docs, however, he il q ruined 4
man, and very sadly We sly 1.-THE de
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