Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-03
TILTON-BEECHER,
The Eject of Mrs. MOultOn's TestiuiO~
ny RridRS-Scenes I'm the court.
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ny RridRy-Scenes I'm the court.
Special to Cincinnati Commercial
BROOKLYN, Feb 2l.-The reason
my feelings revolted at the evidence of
Friday, which | presume you will
publish simultaneously with this dis
patch, were not from any excitement
over It's criminatory revelations.
There will be different opinions about
these, according to the intelligence,
rigor and discrimination with which
they are read, and perhaps, also, &C
cording to the prejudices which read
ers bring to their perusAl. What dis
gusted me was the atmosphere OF su-
per-sentimentalism, flummary and lu-
macy with which all these revelations
were surrounded.
To sit all day and hear the lady wit
ness tell of Beecher's weeping and
wailing, his remorse and self-upbraid
ing, his incredible foolishness of tongue
and demeanor, his alleged twaddle, so
mawkish and fiat, about killing him
self, his wishy -washy gabble about
Elizabeth ard Theodore and himself,
and his misdeeds, his pitiful pUltroon-
cry uHder the damnatOry denuncia-
tions addressed TO him through so
uldliN llblAdl libulEt anu III ~ many
delirious intervals 10y the lady witness
I say that to listen to these volumin-
Gus stories was almost intolerable.
felt that the whole thing was revolt
ing to my manhood, to the bearded
manhood, muscular virtue and cohe-
rent brain, which some of US ought to
possess. 1t was
NAUsEATING IN THE LAST DEGREE.
Aud made my head ache till | got
away from the sickening scenes, and
passed out into the hard headed world,
where people were trying to make "a
few dollars, or drinking their rum OF
spanking their dirty babies, or taking
their wives to dance.
Beecher sat beside his wife all day,
listening to the evidence, and he GER
tainly seemed to be as placid as an ele-
plant. Some of the reporters tell
about
BEECHER'S INTERNAL FRENZY,
And purpling face and glaring eyes,
and twitching necktie, but these
stories, though evidently pleasing IL
newspaper readers, are alluumitigated.
bosn. They describe Tilton acting
like maniac, and Mrs. Beechcr look
ing like laughing hyena, and Mrs
hun NNNo ~ SAitAohlli 2
teeth. All these things are in " the
minds eye, Horatio," of the crazy re
porters, but nowhere else.
People whose only knowledge of thi.
trial is derived from some of The pub
lished accounts of it must imagine 1t Il
be carried on in madhOuse, by ma
MACS, who are perpetually making
faces at each other, and who alttruat,
their lugubrious Iemorse witt
hideous grlns and indescriba
BILE contortions. My dispatches Il us
seem tame to you, when your blood i
curdled 10y some Others that are sen
from the Beecher trial. II seems tina
Beecher must possess some remarkabl
self-sustainiug power. Instead o
having his liver turned like the rest o
us on Friday, he rose at the close q
proceedings, chatted and laughed will
the people who crowded around him
and is said to have made but ON
sharp remark to the uncle of the lad.
who had testified, when he said tina
her evidence had " some truth in it
foundation, but was in effect "a lie.n
Beecher hadn't much more thai
time to get through with his Dime
after the adjournment, When he ap
peared at his
REGULAR FRIDAY PRAYER MEETING
Which was attended by over thou
sand people. All ! know about it /
from the reports in yesterdays papers
and particularly from the Sun report
which describes him as being in th
best of humor at an old time -cene il
the famous lecture room. He sang
prayed, and talked about prayer, wit
all his felicity of illustration and rich
ness of language. He is certainly
psychological phenomenon, but you
readers must judge for themselve
whether he is sustained by the " spir
its above or the spirits below"