New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-20
upROB,BlITTIES IN THE CASE.

IllPROBABlLITIES IN THE CASE.
This man who don't read his own letters
who don't pay his bills, who don't receive his own
salary who gives everything to the charge OF the honoied
wife, who is equal TO the task this man performing
labors Ike modern Hercules hut like Christian
man, abors the thought Of which most men would
stand abasheI this man has the leisure and the oppor
tunity and the devote year and half OF his
life to low debauch Why, gentlemen, even Theodore
TiltOn too Conspicuous man 10 Keep Ms ainouis
concealed and they would have you DcheYe that the
foremost man in the American pulpit, who lived IN the
blaze oi MONDAY, who was known by every man AMI
woman in Brooklyn, known to the school children, known
serving girls known 10 each poor negro that pur-
sled his calling IL the streets-that man Ike TINS cOuld
he pursuing secret amour III open day. that he should
be debaucned and live year and hail III dehauchery
with "A woman who worshIped God at his own altar. who
took the bread Of tho covenant from his own hand,
that such an intrigue could be carried on through
a wear and half and no eye it, and hear II.
until the last woman earth 10 tell il ia said 10 have
told IT, aud the last man on earth TO tell II ~ sad 10 nave
told IT, that woman is represented To nave tod IL 10
the last man on earth would have told 1t TO- and
Henry Ward Beecher have told II to the very man on
earth whO OF all others he would have shrunk from ta
ing il to! IL it probable rationale Do believe III
What shall be- required 10 commend sucn story 10 your
cOniid nee, against OF hitherto unspottad life and
morality Of hitherto unbcmshed name against the oath
OF nan who never fDrswJrn against the pre>ump-
non or Innocence, Wllcn tDe ulrcc'S ~
against accusation!
Now, et ns look AT tn, probabilities with reference to
the woman Whatever else in tins case may be doubtful,
thny is agreed npon. II down TO tAe lOth day Oh
October, lSGs, there one woman IN al BROOKLYN VINO
could command the good word, the earnest eonn"hll
ton the warmest love OF all her sex. and all ons her
name was Elizabeth r. rton woman wooded when
she WAS 20 years old 10 whom she made the SLID
jet of IN idolltry that was almost impous woman
who having many severe and trials always ac
ceptcd them the just penalty OF her own weakness ana
nirrny and never the blame upon the husband w
whom she yOked by woke 80 nara that "heh her
end did not follow it was dragged il she stran-
gled a faithful To her children so iMthlul
10 her church. faithful, reverent, so trusting
| in her Father; who AZ hbOred to
bring back her husband to the faith of her youth and 81
| her womanhOpd; woman 80 earnest FOR those deaf
children whom she attempted 10 BRING up IN the way IN
which believed the Savior would have led them n ne
had been upon earth-ths S0min with all her feeble
OF health, and the letters that lac has introduced
| show that It ran "A steady thread through the wh0lc
structure Of her life: but woman, ~ he would nave
you believe unfortunate IN her mother ~ she was I'M
fortunate in her husband, and yet whose heart was so
full OF generous and noble sympathy and affection that
when could Of sick, she az the side of
the sick bed when she could hear OF tue destitute she
there with her poor loaf TO divide with them ami
could not ind private families the means 10
satisfy her craving for relieving human inhnity addhg
her other the charge of that Bethel which she was
continuing during the very period that Theodore lllion
says she the arms OF paramour! Doy you believe
It'll woman pure that the very maa who, to strike
eecer would send the lance straight through her heart
even he stands before you with the oath Of God his
lips declares her 10 be the whitest soul he has ever
| known; a WON A who, he tells yOn, had no last
woman OF clear intellect. of high sense Of duty faithful
every relation loyal 10 him. loving her children and
yet, without ust without passion fresh from the grave
ofb herr aa1 hov WALL nj tO ne
and rendering him the Of her body In prostitu
ton. Why, the very hcnds would laugh TO
scorn an accusation 20 horrid and coutemptble.
And yet gentlemen such accusation you have given
months u the very hest OF your lives each OF
you, to satisfy the malignant hate of the Who sit
ting within 20 his wife, dares to her life and
her chldrens lives And then again. the foolish asser
tion that this woman. who had lust and no passion
that this woman debauched upon the shallow pre-
tense addressed her by the same man who had pro-
the God upon the dulterer In her hear
ing Sabbath after Sabbath and year after year. the
from that that love innocent and that
any expression OF love just harmless kiss
| or a caress Gentlemen the idea that who
could such letters the husband has put in ev
dence before you could be deceived by such bald and
paltry statement
Oh but the infamy all lies behind this This language
which he and Mouton put the mouth OF Mr. Beecher
as the means OF seducing his wifeths s the language
which he used in the bedchamber Of Bessie Turner
the night when he put his hand in her bosom and told
her that these things done in the highest society
and that they expressions OF love- and that
any form Of expression Of love innocent kiss
or caress. You see the min; from which the alleged
confession coined.
Gentlemen there IL another feature which goes TO the
probability the narration and to the degree Of evil
you will require override understandings
into the acceptance Of what both Your intelligence and
conscience rejects. Now suppose that by OF those
sudden denominations. Of which We have example
! in this direction. but Of which have
\ IN the other, when the pentent thief the
! Cross was changed from darkness 10 light but
1t only blythe power Of the crucned God who
Suffered at his sdcsuppose that this monsrous and
Incredible thing did that the who all his life
had been teaching The precepts Of his Master making bad
gooi good better. had suddenly. when he had
turned the edge Of threesoore years. been translormed
from Christian minister 10 q vulgar hbertine. suppose
another equally extraordinary coincidence; ay, pure
benev client, generous beloved, faithful man. faithful