New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-29

from what Affirmative fact that there constant
Observers that there wachfu Observers that there
were jealous Observers that there hostile and mag
Observers that watched personshe wife and
the cergytnan-during these years You will remember
little item of proof In which Mr. Judson gave evidences
that at lunch Demonico's Mr.. Tton introduced sub
ecs Of gossip suspicion about this that and the other
person for the general subject and the general indu
gence Of words and speech such subjects does not
seem to have been foreign to Mr.. Tilton's DISPOSE
ton; and Mr.. Judson says to him: "well, there 10
one thing certain, least. that Mr. Beecher has not
been involved suspected Of any irregularities towards
women !" and Mr.. Tton says: have lost my faith in
man." Well, that is pleasant form of meeting i'm
putatlOn upon friend-this in 1864 pastor,
visitor at his family man that for years he had been
telling that little his house loved him dear
ly and Mr. Judson pressing II again, Mr. Tlton still re-
plies 81 have lost my faith in man." and for third
time this solemn hypocritical " dare made to wait
upon would" is repeated by this stawart man. Well,
Mr Judson, intimate friend of Mr. Tton, also
friend. acquaintance at least, Of Mr.. Beecher and
believer in hmhe doesn't like these cowardy threats OF
malice and envy and instead Of allowing the subject TO
breed the mischief it intended 20 breed he brings
1t to the light at once, and has 1t smothered forever
very wise has said: Suspicious that the mind OF
itself gathers but buzzes but suspicious that ar
ciay nourshed and put into mems heads by the tales
and whisperngs Of others have stngs." Now my plain
tiff here-your paintd-our paintif-has read Lord
Bacon, and he knew that these suspicious that tale
bearers carry with their whsperns have sngs He had
read the Proverbs too lin his YOUTH and he knew-and
he lived up to "where there wood the fire goeth
out and where there taebearer there end Of
strife" And he took care that these fires should
not lack fuel and these strifes should never
miss tale-bearer. But Mr.. Judson goes at once
10 Mr.. Beecher-goes TO Mr.. Beecher and tells
him what Tton has said, and Mr.. Beecher seeks
Mr.. Tton and calls him TO account, and Mr. Tlton
denies it, abhors it, and does two thingsOne TO Mr.
Beecher-he writes him letter that has been read to
you, and TO JudsOn; finding him again, he
thought you my friend;" II your friend, but
also friend of Mr. Beccher" Well, Tton repeats,
II thought you my friend" What there in the
knowledge Of Judson that entitled this tale-bearer and
sremaker to think that Judson, because he favored
him with his acquaintance. and you please, with his
good feeling would become willing participant in what
in every right thinking mind, in every honest heart is
condemned the vilest and basest employment
to which any man, any one, man woman, can
stoopi When the assassin faces his enemy or
least the risk OF the resistance of weapon by
weapon and by force braves discovery and the
opportunities Of proof and exposure to punishment
it still is the basest form OF enmity that is known-I
of that deadly enmty that seeks destruction Of the
life. But that assassination by the slow poison OF
caluny secretly infused into every vein Of the society
in which the illuminated character moves and known
that baser and vler form Of assassination. it has
every degree Of cowardce amount Of malice every
wickedness Of purpose, and every mischief Of result
Great characters known characters strong characters
resist it, but 1t is for gentlemen OF the jury for
you and for me. 10 protect men in the level
Of life, like ourselves from such caluInniaton.
that would be dashed 10 pieces on the quarter OF
q man-ofwar may swamp her cockboat and destroy the
lives that are in it. All the peting with which Mr.
Beecher has been followed through and years has
produced no effect upon him. But caumny, calumny,
whom is aimed just in proportion their general char
acter hid from observation and INFESTED by
great opportunities trial. Now, gentlemen might
well start here with understanding the character not
Of Theodore Tilton-he has not introduced eharGe
ter into human afrs-men Of these evil dispositions
Of this wicked conduct have lived long before him
This union OF open and outward display, this pre-
tension, this selfsatsfaetion that Mr.. Tilton
and Mr. Moulton exhibit themselves before you as clad
mare the very traits that associated in all conspr
cies Why the companions the instruments the agents
Of Catine were Of the Same kind. They long ago
described-these men, TiltOn and Moulton-by great
advocate much hattaS than could describe them, al
though what he said was said 1000 years ago, and OF
others. Hi pueri, tam Lepidi ac deiicaa non soiun
amars ct anlar1, neque eantare ct saitare. sed
etiam sioas ribrare, ct spargere ,enena d.
dlccrt: these youths, sol annty and so slick, not
only practiced the Of freely loving and freely
being loved, the races OF an airy rhetoric and bold
gesticulation also have they learned to ply the
dagger Of the assassin and scatter the posons of cau
niators.
1t is very well to think with complacency Mr.. Til
ton obviously does of the snowy the brilliant the
compsned, the gratifying traits that make the snowy
external OF base motives base conduct and wicked pur
poses but he has not the credit Of being the model and
the type Such have lived always, and always viii
live and they have been understood always and always
will be understood Far be it from to disturb his COM
70 hi,n
able now than ever Horne Tooke said that he didn't
why man should not thank God for his selfconcet as
well any of the other good gifts of Providence, and
certainly does carry through the world
with a pretty high head, and with considera-
Bile enjoyment which is lost by the modest
and pure. Now what passions Of our kind are
there that we trace motives To, q for
NAV as well apply the criticism at this earliest instance
Of maignancy and hypocrisy at any other You don't
need 10 whole loaf OF bread TO know that 1t sour
wise cschews further experience OF that batch
But some people will keep eating and eating, thinking
that re has not struck in lIaughterl that it
has not least reached the bottom crust and that you
may get little healthful nourisment, and had bet
ter not discard the bread until you have hal full trial
OF it. Well, IL you take loaf OF sour bread in your
stomach you will be apt TO find out enough about that
indgestble fabric try another Now, envy az we
call IT, in its true sense as 1t is by the great classic
dramatsts and in the Holy Scripture, either in the Old
or the New Testament is the counter PASSION 10 love
and charity in the sense OF the embrace IN
brotherhood OF all mankind Envy frets itself
because of the prosperity OF others and pines at their
periorty" II finds its compacency 1t finds its oecupa-
TONS 1t finds goading impulses in the destruction OF
that prosperity and the abasement Of that superiority
Emulation which is the noble competition and the great
and benehcent that great characters have on
those who are their contemporaries who follow Them
is turned into wicked passion of envy And az the
lts delight IN In the happiness
NJ others for the others sake as you 10 the
sexual relations the love OF marriage is distinguished
from meretricous by that distinction that the love
il Of the person loved and beauted, and goried In
vour affections, and In merericious connections II
il the qualification Of selfish appetite, regardless