The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-29
THE SCANDAL.


cumstances leading to it; the parties sought
each others society, Mr. Beecher's visits being
about once in six weeks during the perlou OF
their most warm regard, and all MADE IN inc
forenoon, with one exception on one social oc,
casion, when there was crowd: Couhsei
thought that when man owned noWei-SaI-
den and farm. and was IN The habit OF distrip-
utipg flowers among his friends, it was hardy
evidence of adultery. He called attehllon W
the want of proof notwithstanding tnere WAS
malignant observers TO watch these persons;
Counsel then referred to the evidence OF Jud-
son that at lunch at Delmonico's Tllton lntro,
duced gossip about the suspicious or seVeral
nersons, and Judson says to him, ut is certain
that Beecher at least has not been suspected OF
irregularities toward women" and Tilton says,
~ have lost faith in man," which was his form
of making an imputaton on the pastor ana
friend TO whom he had been in the habit OF say
inc. ssTbe-e is little woman in my house
loves you dearly" Judson asked him what ne
meant, and he repeated, II have lost 1altn Ia
man." Judson did not like those cowardiy
tbrusts of malice and he goes at once to Beech
er and tells him what Tilton said, and Beecher
went to Tlton and called him to account, ana
Tlton denied it. When Tilton met Jndson
again he said II thought you were my frlend !!
yes" he replied, "but am also freno OF
Beecher." What was there in the mind OF the
mischief maker to imagine because Judson ia
yored him with his acquaintance he would par
ticipate with him in that which is the VIlest
and basest form of emnity known, Tor assassin
alton by slow form of calumny is the basest
form of assassination. 1t has every degree OF
coxardce, malice and wickedness. Strong,
brave characters can resist it, but lt IS LOT Tue
Jury and counsel to protect men ike them
selves. A wave that would be dashed from the
quarter of a man of war would swamp Tug
boat and destroy many lives.
Tilton has not introduced new cuaractef
into human affairs. Men of these evil dlspos-
tions lived long ago. The instruments and
agents of Catiline were men having the sans
traits exhibited by Tilton and Moulton. These
youths, so jointly and go sweet not only prac-
ticed bold gestcuation, but learned to person
with calumnies. Tton showed these brilliant,
gratifying traits but he has not been model.
Such men have always lived. Horne Tooke
said that he didn't see why man should not
thank God for his self complacency as we'll as
his other gifts, and far be it from the counsel
to disturb Titon's self-cOmplacency. You
dou't need to eat the whole loaf OF bread to
know that it is sour These men would alb
stain from eating that batch. But some might
say perhaps the sOurnesS had not struck ln
Envy frets itself because of the prosperity OF
others and pines at their superiority. 1t mas
it's impulses in destroying that superiority.
The very essence of pure love is conferring hap
puess on others, aud of meretricous love self
qualification regardless of the ruin OF others.
Envy is the great wicked monster passion, as
love is the great noble. sacred passion OF our
nature, beginning with a smile when the babe
recognizes its mother, growing when youth
leads the bride to the altar, and through all
purified and intensified until lost on the uni
versatility of a sea of love because IL has faded
as the star fades iu the morning glory of the
lustre of the sun.
The ancepts have stern maxim, Envy
keeps no holiday, and Tiiton spent New Year s
day in preparing VIII vt he calls New year s
present for MoultOn-the letter with which he
said he would stab Beecher TO the heart Ihere
al, t,onr Of NOR W n
boasts of his malguity, or to speculate how
deep the vnlture will thrust It's Oeak INTO the
blood or how deeply the serpent will fasteu its
fangs Now, having cautioned Judson never
to speak to him again, Tilton wrote to Beecher
Nov. 30th 1865 there the counsel read letter.
1t commences ''My dear friend" 1t goes on
to say how be hopes the love between them
wakes not wanes Beecher bias been father
and friend to him. By him be was baptzed
and married. To him he owes reputation, op
portunty to labor &c. He wishes Beeoher to
blot from his memory any Word wnch Ihtou
might have said to cause him PAIN.
The jury would now understand what the
words referred to were. Three days before the
slanderer had spoken words against Beecher
and with pomp of fidelity to the truth and un,
what it was, answered 81 have lost faith in
manr' Oh serpent's heart, exclaimed counsel,
hid in a fowery vase! The evidence OF the
plaintiff himself, by placing in juxtaposition
the Things said in private and the things SAID
in public, shows his true character. Truth
COMFORTS with every fact. Error with few,
sometimes by skilfully or fortunately getting
hold of few facts. The cross examiner is
able to discover the falsity of the witness but
when the cross examiner IS perfectly instructed
and undertakes from the immediate statement
to show its incompatibiity with an array OF
facts around it, Then it is that he follows that
rule.
When Tton wished to convict Bessie Turner
of a lie, he wanted to prove the falsty of her
testimony about his talking of his grey hairs
10y saying that he had none at that time. lie
had forgotten that it is written, Thou canst
not make one hair white or black, and every
hair in thy head is numbered" and he had for
gotten that he had written to his wife, Gray
hairs since our marriage have grown IN my
head" Bessie's story matches all around.
There was another instance of it. We hac
Martin, who thought he could d. Mrs. Tilton.
He testified that he and she went out on the
piazza for GOODNESS at 2 o'clock. and remained
there an hour but he forgot that the sun bazes
on that piazza at o'clock. The collar system
was against them. Then he said that the wall
their heads against wall, but the trouble was
with Martin he dashed his brains out for the
want of wall. (Laughuer.) The next time
Martin comes on the stand he will study the
solar system and masonry. daughter 1t 10
not the first time the counsel had had to OBJ
serve the difficulties of testimony, and this
observation is settled in the rule OF law.
'.FalSus in uno, fdlsus in omnibus IN
one statement, false in all. When man tells
YOU he lied in one circumstance and did rot lie
in another, then it is for the jury to ask, since
you have confessed you have lied, how can we
trust lying tongue?" He lied in one set OF
circumstances, and for motive. He doesn'
lie, he says, in another, but his motive? Oh,
yes, he is pursuing the pastor of plymouth
church for damages. In this cause aus, we 90 not
false in ALL" The record of this case In its
web of falsehood and prevarication, only
requires us to take this reverse of the PROPOSE
ton: "False in all, false in one" false in open
ptevarcatioD, open falsehoods and written
fa!sehoods. 1t is terrible thing to have a
web Of falsehood laid across the character, and
then have us asked to find some truth in it..
They say, 'sFalse in all, true in one instance,
for 1t isn't in human nature always to lie.
(Laughter) Tilton as early as 1865 was in the
attitude of a watcher Of his wife in his own
household. In November, 1872. he wrote that
Bowen told him ten years previously that
Beecher had committed adultery, commencing
in Indianapolis and continued in Brooklyn
He either did or did not believe Bowen, but
if he lid, Mrs. Tilton and Beecher must have
baen under sharp observation by the man who
hated Beecher, and then if he loved his wife,
he would watch her, and if he didn't love her,
he would watch her. Yet he says he hasn't an
idea there was anything wrong in Beecher's
VISITS until DlS VIE udub TIC COluuiuu
to him in November The material circum-
stances of this alleged seduction are as incom-
patible with the idea of guilty as the moral
ones. 1t is one of the singular traits in the
manners of the English people and ourselves,
that we have not single word to describe the
husband of an unfaithful wife that isn't full of
the bltterest contempt for the husband. There
are but two words, 'cuckold' aud 'wittold,"
"a man who knows his wife's inhdelities and
submits to them"
The Romans refused to keep in household
a prostituted wife, for if they did, where was
the honor of manhood. however credtable it
might be to the charity of the particular hus-
baud to keep her, still, the law would not allow
him. for it was subvesvlye of the institution.
Tllton stood on a dangerous place, but counsel
intended to save him from the consequences of
an ancient law or the application of the con-
tumelious word used to describe husbands of
unfaithful wives. Tilton has looked into the
soul of his wife, iuto her eyes for years. He
watched Beecher's coming in and going out.
He has spoken in restaurants of his want of
faith in Beecher, and now in two households
such as Beecher's and Tilton's, there is not one
TACT to cause a doubt or a fear in Tilton's heart
and the crcumstantial evidence produced by
that vindictve and audacious man is of a most
contemplate character. He watched and
watched for years and found that Beecher was
pure. If broker shows you sample from
cargo of grain and You find it full of weevil you
will refuse to buy even though the broker says
THAT is the only part OF the cargo in which
there is weeyiI," Why didn't they show any
e ~, load r., 5ripI On