Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-02-25

testify, on the witness stand, that the
marriage relation YVES not above law
! but was regulated by law, and the only
/ fault he found with the law was that the
! law touching divorce, in this State, wa:
| not liberal enough. The counsel quoted
I from the correspondence which passe
between Mr.. Greeley and Tiltor
with regard to the laws o.
marriage and divsrce. If you
should, said the counsel, believe
that these views differed from those tC
which he testified in the witness-stand
then, you might discard his other testi-
mony given on that occasion. In the
early days of December, and before the
publication of his yaledictory in tn
Independent, message was brought Io
the defendant that Mrs. TiltOn had left
her home and wanted to obtain separa-
ton f,om her husband. Counsel quoted
from the examination of Tilton before
the church committee as to the relations
and visits of Beecher to his family about
which Tilton had spoken to Beecher,
chiding him for not coming oftener to
the house, and asking him to visit his
wife when he was away on lectuT-
ing tours. In 1869, said counsel, Til
ton had paid as much as five hundred
dollars for a portrait of Henry Ward
BeecheT, who had been more than
friendly to him. In 1870, Beecher was
shocked at hearing that Mrs. Tilton
had left her husband. He went to her
mothers to see her, and there he
heard the story of her suffering from
her own lips. He asked permission
to bring his wife to see her, to which
Mrs. Tilton consented, and the meeting
took place, and Mrs. Beecher told her
husband the result OF the conversation,
and he advised separation. Here was
the picture of woman going to her
alleged paramour for advice, and he
gives it, advising separation. Would he
have advised this if he were guilty?
No; for this would not have been the
action of guilty man; she never told
him of her confession to her husband, and
he never knew Of it until the interview
between him and plaintiff in MOulton's
house on the twenty-second Of Decem-
ber, when his contract with the Union
was signed, Theodore Tilton seized his
child, sick and suffering, and thus forces
his wife to return to his house. She re-
turned on the twenty-third, / think,
and on the twenty-fourth she suffered
and was laid down on q
sick bed. The stories of Tilton's i'm
had now come down on Bowen,
as the plaintiff describes, like an ava
lanche, and led to an interview between
them. AS to the truth of these stories
Tilton mounted a high-horse and de-
an investigation. Then came
up a conversation about the Christian
Union and the influence it was having
on the circulation of Bowen's paper, and
Tilton told Bowen that he had spite
against Beecher, and related to him the
story of his wife's adultery. Now,
gentlemen, said the counsel, when you
begin to investigate the case you will
see that scandal, if any, rests on Tilton
alone. Bowen suggested the letter
written by Tilton, demanding of
Beecher that he should resign
his pastorship of Plymouth church
and leave Brooklyn. Mr.. Tilton
was perfectly willing to throw the first
firebrand into the camp if it was fol-
lowed up by Bowen, at the same time
to save his two contracts with
Bowen. At this point General Tracey
paused and began searching through his
notes. Mr.. Beach, after a short confer
ence with him, stated to the court that !
an accident had Mapped to some pages |
Of his address, and as it was near four
o'clock, he would suggest an adjourn |
ment. The court adjourned.