Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-05-26
LAUs DEO.

twill soonIbe over. Our dispatches
state that Porter was to close his argu-
ment for the defense yesterday. Ev-
arts was to follow upon the same side,
and the probabilities are that the case
will be submitted to the jury about
Saturday. The public, which this
scandal has so long forced to hold its
nose. will soon breathe freer. The
case will soon be in the hands of
the undertakers, and they never had a
more loathesome undertaking. This
trial has not only revealed the moral
turpitude that pernieates Plymouth
Church, but it has disclosed a marvel
Gus capacity for lying. From h first
falsehoods Fave swarmed around the
Judge and jury like a legion of Hum
boldt mosquitoes around a freshly ar
rived emigrant. The Memphis Appeo,,
upon the closing of the testimony, pub
lished an article upon the character OF
the evidence, from which we make the
following extracts. They may be
somewhat severe, but not more so per-
haps than is warranted by the circum-
stances:
Perjury, rank, gross, notorious and
methodical, has loomed up in colossal
proportions. Where so many have
developed such startling and astound-
ing genius for lying, it is difficult to
tell who has won the belt; but the
general impression prevails that Henry
Ward Beecher has dwarfed into insig-
nificance everybody That has been pit
ted against him. He has been con
fronted and exposed by several unim-
peachable witnesses. His venalities,
his lies, his hypocrisies and his bald,
brazen perjuries will certainly point a
moral for many a year, and smirch
our annals for centuries to come.
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1--WE have nothing else to Offer"
said MIR. Evarts. And he has offered
nothing which vindicates Beecher's
furnished name. There will, i'll all
probability, be no agreement on the
part of the jury, put the verdict OF the
country is hat he has failed, signally
failed, in the effort to reconcile himsel
with himself. Indeed has she been
the chief architect against himself, II
he has not been able to destroy his
own work" He has failed to break
down the worst testimony against him.
self, that pesky and memorable wit
ness, Henry Ward Beecher. He has
shown two entire, distinct and differ
ent traits of character in this scandal.
Since it has been made public, and he
has determined to DraZen 1t down, his
heart has been rammed with ruptureS,
but his bosom was cramnied with az
onies while he was ''nest-hiding." He
plunged from despair into a jaunty de-
fiance. 1t has well been asked, "What
was he so long on the run for if he did
nothing?" While on the run he wrote
with the agony of one whose forehead
must express the blood of his pen, but
when he faced about it was with the
audacity of one caught with another's
goods. They say he is a good actor.
Then he is destitute of an actors per-
ception of effects; for, after he resolved
to permit an investigation, he plunged
despair to Dumas novels, and
has ever since tried to laugh down that
which, if he were guilty, was
his best form of devotion. Where was
high human tervor and pain in Mr..
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gave dignity to his situation. We saw
Promethean sufferer afflicted beyond
the justice of punishment, and the
tones and entreaties wrested from him
had the diclion of a lofty spirit, and
brought echoes of compassion from
his species. Moulton scarcely injured
Beecher by publishing his letters. If
they carried conviction, they also ear
ried an interior view of a great man
precipitated by temptation which did
not reduce his mental stature. He still
illustrated the m~agnificence of our
nature in a state of frailty, and pre-
sented a very proper subject for the
tolerance and charity of his congrega-
ton. But when Junius Brutus put on
the air and carriage of low comedy to
disguise his treason, he played no
more the fool than Mr.. Beecher when
he sailed out against Don Quixote
Moulton and Sancho Panza Tilton.
There is a voluntary renouncemert of
a great and thoughtful sorrow for the
chicanery CT a client and the nonchal-
ance of a m~ountebank.