New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-25
MRS. MOULTON'S ADVICE TO Mr.. BEECHER
TO CONFESS TO HIS CHURCH.


Even when q woman, mother, wife, who
has just turned the border Of young womanhood tells
you that she. lady reared in house Of gentle blood,
taught to revere Cod to love virtuewhen she tells you
that shc girl she was comparatively, calmly looked An
old gray headed man in the face and said to him. SiT,
you have lived four years and this in her own house,
under her own )of, to an American gentleman aside
from his being clergyman" Sir, you have added 10
your original four years of lies and perjury How
have you tho impudonce to expect me TO como to
Plymouth Church and commune with yon1 can hear
you preach commune with youi you, an adulterer-
you q criminal; commune with you, a liar and
perjurerl can't do it, But will tell You what to do,
though WON'T down to Plymouth Church. stand there
and say, 81 polluted covered all over with cp-
rosy; come with the dshOnor of myself and my family
to make proof of it to you; am liar and perjurer
Emma MoultOn said to me this afternoon Sir you are
beast, with whom can't commune she told me in her
own house that only come here and say to you,
women men. children, that the pastor of Plymouth
Church is aduerer though she can't forgive me, Ply
mouth Church will" And Frank MoultOn on that memo
rable LIST of june 1872 pretending now that he knew
this man hyp0crite a seducei, liar, ana lDer-
tine, wrote 10 hm "GO to your own church and tell
the whole truth, and all Plymouth Church, and all
mankind will stand by you; you can stand before the
world" Now gentlemen, these earmarks are earmarks
OF probability that you cannot reject II were to come
before you and lifting my right hand i'll the presence OF
the living God to that since left this court
room my friend Beach and had gone into household
in this city OF Brooklyn and that there by common con-
between him and me- your girls who rose this morn
ing III honor had fallen, ruined you would say Either
Porter infamous he is llar" You would not be-
ieve it you would know that it lie; even although
involved myself in the accusation you would know that
It was false. Now, when lady, an American, OF edu
cation Of culture, of character; a lady who would
scorn to be rudo even TO O stranger that was
within gates; when she is made by her husband to
Ia thc hat al
and talked with him Of adultery, rs if 1t was her daily
+ o lime; told him OF perjury, man who had mover
taken an oath in of justice in his lfe talked with
him Of living lies and perjury; when she was brought
here order prove that he had never lied about this
matter and had been confessing all the while his guilt
gentlemen you don't need TO know more about her than
she tells you You feel feel that that story would
never fallen from her lips If God has not visited
upon her the calamity of binding her here-I hope not
beyond this life-to man like Frank Moulton.
Well, now gentlemen, this is mere episode my allu
sion 80 her. and out of its order but call your atten
ton TO it in order show how it Is that men who mci
tate murder men who speculate on tho question whether
they can safely take human life because they hate an
enemy who talk about their wives lying IOr thcin
men who talk about sexual intercourse, right in the
heart of the City Of Brooklyn In one of those princey
mansions where you would expect culture, refinement,
religion and decency. When you get into such houses
and find such teachings and such utterances as these
You can understand how is that woman in her weak
bend where man in his strength cannot stand
Let lis see what these men in the habit of talking
Take this man, MOutOn, who wants You twelve to be-
lieye his OATH who has the eronery to look you In the
eve and say: ask you to believe me, because have
sworn in the presence of Almighty God" Why, here is
his language to Herman o. Armour at page 149 of the
third yanme. This is the man who appeals to tho
courts to the administration of Justice You Will see
how he talks to witnesses; you can imagine how he
would talk jurors if he had your ears Here is gen
tle1nan who Is stating fact within his own knowledge
Frank Mouton endeavors to intimdate him from enter
ing OF justice to swear to the uth because II
Is convenient for MOultOn TO swear to a lie:
lie said he would make it hotter than hell for me or
anybody that testified against him.
Hotter than hell Are the relative degrees OF heat the
subject OF discussion in that household in Rcmsen-sti
Is there household inhabited by respectable family
where the women talk of sexual intercourse with clergy
men, where the charge Of perjury made by the lips of
wOlnanhOod, where the mon talk OF making 1t hotter
than he'll for any man who fus his duty and observes
his oahi you to expect from such quarters honest
fair unbiased evidenced To return once more TO Mr..
Mouton to show that he is no unworthy consort and
,nin,on OF Theodore Tit0n. He said he Wis
going to drive Mr.. Beccher out OF Plymouth
Church. and out of Broohyn. Who Is THIS man
VINO undertakes to say who shall live in Brookyni Is it
by his mercy that yOu hold your place heref is there
man who has risen to that power and position IN BROOK
lyn that because he happens to be an empoye of Tbeo
dOre Tton an always command the beneht OF his
INSCRIPTIONS craft that then Inc can order men, merely
out of Plymouth Church, hut Out OF BROOKLYN But we
know where he learned the lesson because You heard this
volunteering to say, he sat upon that stand in
answer 10 question at least far the concluding
clause of 1t was concerncdyou heard him say threat
ened 10 drive Henry Ward Beecher out Of Brooklyn, and
will" Did II occur to him that IL needed each one Of
those twelve TO help him TO do thati He thought
that with the assistance OF OF the aest advocates
this country has ever produced that with the aid Of
Frank Moulton ns a witness and OF Emma Moulton
witness IL DEEPEN led his mercy who should be driven
from Brooklyn lie forgot that 1t needed than
Trpare Covenant" for that and that that covenant
coud not be executed until each OF yOu twelve
sworn before God That Is what needful, and no
man should be worthy of belief who, on the witness
stand undertakes US volunteer 10 defy the altar Of JUS