The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-04-01
HALLIDAY AND SnEARMAN.
The Disreputablc Tactics Of Jim
Eisk,s Lawyer.
Correspondence Philadelphia Times.]

BROOKLYN, March 19.-Three days ago
I wrote to you that some Of the evidence
put in for Mr.. Beecher had mystifed me.
Yesterday, after hearing the Assistant
Pastor of Beecher's church testify by the
aid of the lawyer clerk Of the church,
Tom Sherman, I have backs]id. This
as assistant is named Halliday. He is an
old, bald, hook-nosed man, with an ex-
hortative grey eye, cold as an empty !
Congress-wate bottle. He bears the APP |
pearance Of one created to attend funer-
ais and add to their desolation by drop
ping in the clods and making the hope
less prayers. Beneath this obdurate,
hard exterior he failed to conceal lively
conceit of his own importance, and JUS
tice does not subdue his desire to harangue
the Court, illumine the jury and make a
knowing witness. He is the curate of
the church, the personal stipendiary of
Mr.. Beecher, who orders MIN to be paid
the handsome sum, for clergyman of no
talents, Of $4,000 per annum. This.
believe, is very nearly the full salary of a
Methodist bishop.
If Mr.. Halliday had answered the gen.
eral expectation Of his meek relation to
the Church, and his mediocrity other
wise, and testified simply, candidly and
with docility, he would have assisted to
relieve the Plymouth Society of the i'm
putation which Beecher's indictment and
Shearman's unscrupulousness have put
upon it. We should have said: ''There
is good, humble old man, whose un-
affected piety must guide his story In
stead, we saw an uncandid, am bitlous.
arrogant old parasite arguing with the
Judge, refusing to answer questions
without paraphrases, lodging the truth
: and still neither wise nor witty. Shear
man completed the picture of Halliday S
r hypocrisy by asking protection of him as
l a clergyman. Considering who Shear
r man is-the most unprlncipled and
q unmannerly person around the
: New York bar, a dwarf
4 boar in appearance, and the notorious
: legal attendant Of the late Jim Fisk-the
d appeal for the clergy was complete. Mr..
t Sherman is a singular object to be the
n official clerk of great orthodox congre'
r CATION. He is an Englishman by birth OF
!, extraction, about forty-fiye years Of age
! and par renue in every gesture and act
l. He has decidedly Hebraic features and
S complexion, is slight, low and wiry, and
= one of HE brothers is said to be a Nor
a mon at Salt Lake. and one of the Godby
n faction of spiritualistic apostates there
T, Shearman's ruling qualities are rapacity
: and desire Of prominence. He went int
e q rich and democratic religious society
&c like Plymouth church for the latter pur
If pose, and as its clerk has managed thi.
case. as an investigation and as a trial
= with the same intrigue and sinister
If practice that he has instanced il
|, Fisk's cases. The church record
is were fixed, and garbled papers
r published from them. and at this mo
,e ment they are held inviolate by subrG
n nae. Showing into the case as its attor
<. ney proper, Sherman has guided the de
re Tense solely to acQuit in form, wifhou
re any consideration for such all acquital il
b. honor as Beecher's age, fame and callin
st should require. 1t is for this reason tina
o, worldly-eyed men look with suspicion up
TO on his witnesses, and observe that he
Id ever conspiring to prove conspiracy; i
re short, that what Tilton and Moulton ar
Ia charged with the clerk Of Plymouth
H. Church is doing-saving Beechcr by
he plot as they were said to have plotted
- ucstIoy uAiu.
C. As attorney in charge, Sherman pu
= out such evidence as he pleased from tn
: Church investigation, suppressing othe
OF evidence. As attorney. he led that brt
Nc tai newspaper crusade against Tilton las
n July. the injustice Of which, whateve
nc the facts, inspired many q fair-spirite
nj man to leap in the dark to the other side
up If three-fourths of the American press
We against Beecher to-day he owes it +,
us Sherman, who cast q sinister and ty
10 annous character over all the initial pr,
e~ ceedings, and has repeated in this tri.
the very tactics he used in the suits /
on defended for Fisk. There, also, he a
OF cuscd Stokes Of blackmail, which CO.
on Fisk his life. and he demanded . bill
es, particulars there. which was the onl
American precedent for asking for bi
oh of particulars in the present case.
srs There are persons of good judgmel
Tor who do think this course Of Tiiton ",
he begun in conspiracy for money, but the
ed are staggered when they know that Shea
his man made the suggestion.
zen II Judge Nelson entered upon the ca
ne with a particle of bias, it may have bet
ae' because Sherman had indicted his jud
MS ms cial purity by seeking for two days
me take the case from his hands and have
lor tried by one McCue, the same who ha
re granted the bill Of particulars. And
AZ Beecher is acquitted by the jury n
20 still not acquitted by the great majorii
of his countrymen, it will be because th
tn man Sherman is incapable Of unde
ms standing moral verdict and of thinkiI
On it worth while obtaining. There is
ay gipsey and impecunious style abect b
er- witnesses, which always suggests subord
Il nation The other day preacher nam,
ing Gay testified for Sherman, al the v,
rus from Indiana, and swore that be had n
.ist received cent After he had sworn Til
III, and the court had adjourned and 4
ZEN nom had hem cleared. Mr.. Barr