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and deservedly, too, of professional renown-
instead OF temperate, logical argumen
upon the evidence, spent five days in vio
lent assault upon the opposite party and hi
witnesses? Ii Henry Ward Beecher is in
nocent, he needs no such clamorous and fou
defense. If Theodore Tilton is periurel
and an adulterer, a cold and remorseless de-
bauchee, it can be proven from the evidence
Where is it gentlemen?
TILTON's GRAY HAIRS.
Well, gentlemen, both nv learned friends
with a sort of exultation that they had dis
covered some contradiction between some
body and Theodore Tilton have expatiated
largely upon the incident of the gray hairs.
Mr.. Iilton, when he was recalled as to tine
conversation had with Bessie Turner. made
the incidental remark-not called for By any
| question, but made the remark at any rate.
testifying to the fact of the f,ilsity of the
conversation given by her wherein she repre-
sented him as saying. " All Bessie, nv
gray hairs are coming with sorrow to the
grave most ridiculous and absurd i'm
putation of remark. "Why." Mr.. Tilton
said, Why, had no gray hairs at that
time"
Now, the truth is, Mr.. Tilton really had
no gray hairs at that time, and suppose you
imagine for one moment that his wife, being
two years Older than himself, that gray hairs
had oyertaken her a little sooner, and that
this delicate and sickly woman should have
found gray hairs creeping upon her head
little earlier than Mr. Tilton, and that in
this letter, written to his wife referring to
old times and events, and to the uas,age of
the years, flied with their ineiderts Of love
and affection, with children gathered about
them suppose that Mr. Tilton nal said. re-
ferring to his wiie's gray hairs. Gray hairs
have come upon Us since then" would it
have been any great otfense either to truth
or propriety? But that is Just the fact
This letter by no means asserts that Mr..
TiltOn was gray then, whatever calamities
came over that household, whatever change
in condition or circumstances affected that
wife or that husband. When they were con
ferring in their intimacy Of their relations,
they might well speak OF any change or cir
eumstance in the one aS belonging to the |
two, and OF that circumstance or change as
having overtaken them, or ''u-.
Says Henry Ward Beecher, writing to
Mrs. TiltOn-
III i would he comfort 10 you now ard then to
send me a letter OF true ihuaTdHsss'-
True inwardness" italicized
an outcome of your inner life. It would be safe for
am now at home here with my sstsr. and il is
permitted L. You, and will De e1ceet.ns refresh
nent TO ne.
Well, Sir, what becomes of all your Sc
verify toward Mr. Tilton as the author Of
this phrase, when il turns out that it was
the skilllul linguist. the unequalled clocu-
ZIONIST, the master Of the English language,
Henry Ward Beecher, who used it trans
fer all these structures to Mr.. Beecher.
NEW YoRK, June lO.-Tlc Brooklyn City
'Ourt room was again the scene of crowd
ng, more dense, il possible, than yesterday.
" hen Mr. Beach entered he was received
with perfect storm OF applause. Tilton
was present hut Mr. Beecher AMI hi> wife
we're absent.
Mr. Porter made few remarks di~claim-
NJ any bitterness in his attack on Tilton,
md stating that he had not used the phrase
attributed To him Yesterday, Gown, down
% he'll and say sent thee there.
Beach then continued his address. lie
aid that Porter in his address had stated
hat the words ..plr1x~ymal ki~>" was not
itaIl nl from tlc 4li~ hl DetfNtF, Nul were
'nly used by two witnesses Nuulton and
rilton-who attributed them t, Beecher
'olnsel had taken the trouble q examine
he works OF Beecher and had found in one
# his sermons the word 'paroxyS MAJ - its
meaning signihed impllsiye and warm.
}each then cited several cases from the
works and sermons of Beechcr where the ad-
eetiye "paroxysmal'' occurred in several
Porter say~ that ''-Ilnding on
he brink Of moral Niagarl' was not used
y Beecher but came from the lips Of Iilron.
Now. said Beach, this phrase wa- testified
D by Moulton and not by Tiit0n \ man
igh in learning Is charged wiki an immoral
fence he j. brought face to face with his
ictim. and be j. overcome with remorse and
18th a flow of anguish which ovcrcomes the
eholder, ne gives utterance % that anguish
] words. and says, Il stand on the brink of
moral Niagara" Ii presented To counsel's
Iiud an intense and graphic description of
he position in which he was placed. 1t was
-ue he dii stand on the brink Of moral
niagara, bat it remained % be seen if the
ry would stretch forth their hands and
we him