The Hawaiian gazette., 1875-04-07
From the New York Hsrald.1
Sitting the Scandal.

Mr. and Mrs. Beecher came into Court
as usual about the time the audience was
all collected. Mrs. Beecher wore black
cloth dress, quite warm and elegant, and
a blue shawl, which she removed after a
time, and also her bonnet, wearing for a
headdress blue and black cap, which
gave her the appearance as we have pro-
badly said before, of Nine. rArchiduc.
She has not changed her quiet, household
manners, tritie censorious as the varying
shades of the evidence affect her incredu-
lily or resentment, but her grown up sons
grouped around her, sometimes exchange
words and smiles with her. They are at
tentive good-natured boys, particularly
the younger ones, who do not seem to
have any melancholy or awkwardness as
to the revelations so closely touching
their father. One of them appears to be
reporting, and does it very soberly, with
clear, conscientious face. Another young
Beecher sits by his mother, sometimes
with an arm around her, like the pet lamb
of the household. Colonel Beecher who
is more mature, but not so interesting to
look at, being grave and staid, keeps very
closely by his mother, and has once
brought his wife to Court. A few years
ago these young men were familiar friends
and pets of Theodore Tilton. Between
them and himself now rolls strait, invisi-
BILE but wide and stormy, and strewn with
bitter words, souvenirs condemned and
dark insinuations, which will descend t.
posterity, and divide the judgment and
wonder of succeeding times.
NOBODY PREsUMEs THAT THIS TRIAL WILL
BE DETERMINATIvE.
1t is not so regarded by any household
in Brooklyn. If by any powerful evil
dence the reliability of Moulton could be
completely broken, and Tilton's private
life proved grossly immoral, still there
are the documents which have puzzled
the world. On the other hand, the plain
tiff and his friend are indissolubly mixed
with the chicanery of the case, and for
generations people viii discuss the pro-
priety of husband condOning an adul-
ferrous wife's offence, and even taking din
ner with her seducer, and friend who
the subtle task, in the inter-
ests of honor, to compel truce and cover
over such a crime. 1t has been suggested
that, aware of Tilton's combative and per-
severing nature, Moulton measuring up
the chances was more afraid of his enmity
than of Beecher's; but this is not proba-
BILE. The testimony of Mr.. Beecher before
the Church Committee, identifying Moul-
ton with Tilton, and using the term black
mailers, brought on the open rupture.
But for newspaper interviewers last Sum-
mer Moulton's second statement might
never have appeared. The heated parti-
sanship of the newspapers, driving each
Of the three men, was powerful retroac-
tive instrumentality. Moulton was inter-
viewed out of his hidden feelings in the
case and placed in position where he
could not deny them. Then the lawyers
directed Mr.. Beecher to tell the whole
story, discriminating neither man from
he other. 1t was perfectly consistent
with the state of his mind that he should
nave beheld Moulton, at the moment, to
be the cunning capturer of his correspond
snce and most confidential writings, and
still all the while the chum of Theodore
Elton
Probably no case ever occurred since
he trial of Alexander, alias the Earl of
Stirling, for forgery, related in Warren's
Memoirs" where there are