The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-29
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The Tilton- Beecher Trial.

| required as legal certainty. lnere were
some relations between Beecher and Tilton
which were part of this case. These
relations partook of the nature Of those
which should exist between clergymen and
his parishioners. The number of visits,
during many years of confessed intimacy,
were limited to but one in five or six
weeks. In regard to any visits of Mrs.
Tilton to Beecher, there was no evidence
of any at all. Counsels learned minds
never asked Bcecher If he saw her at his
house, and there was no evidence that
Beecher saw her there. To say, however,
that the presence of married woman
at clcrgyman's house in day time
was wrong, would shock not only
any sense. of decency, but also of
fairness. Beyond this, what other seduc-
tive acts and what corrupting influences
has this visitor used Why, they ranged
from books to flowers, sent to the chamber
of woman in confinement-howers sent
to lady in her own house-iowers whose
perfume delighted every person in the
house. / do not think, said Evarts, that
you will find that these flowers, gwen in
full and open form in which the evidence
has shown, will tend in any way to affect
your judgments. The counsel then said
he would call the jury's attention to the
want of affirmative fact, the want Of any
direct evidence, bearing on tue criminaliiy
of these two persons. The counsel then
commented on Judson's testimony in rela-
ton to having lunch with Tilton at Del
monico's when the latter stated that lie had
lost all faith in the man, in reply TO Judson
who spoke of stories touching Mr.. Beech
er's sexual immortality. Judson went to
Beecher and told him what Tilton
said Beecher went to Tilton and called
him to account, but he denied it and
abhorred it, Triton then wrote two letters,
one TO Becchcr and one to Judson,
in the latter of which he said :" | thought
you were my friend? ?" so l am," re-
turned Judson, "but am also friend of
Beecher." Assassination carried on by
means of calumny was base and ignoble
form of assassination. 1t was full of cow
ardice and was full of wicked results. 1t
was tor jury and counsel to protect men
in the lower walks & life like themselves
from such trumped-up charges as this.
Calumny took its effect IN a greater degree
on those against whom it was aimed if their
lives and purposes were hidden and never
came out until cases like this The traits
of chs racter displayed by these men, Titon
and Moulton, were not new; they were
the same as distinguished friends and in
struments of Catalina, described about
1900 years ago by learned advocate in
better language than counsel could describe
them. Counsel did not propose to enter
into the character of these men. People
did not need to eat a whole loaf of bread
to know that it was sour, but some people
would eat on, thinking the sourness had
not struck in; but if loaf of
sour bread was taken into the stomach,
people would find how indigestible 1t
was. Envy was counter passion of love
in every sense; it flaunts itself because of
the success of others it finds its occupation
and work in debasement of this prosperity.
The ancents have n stern maxim that
envy and malice keep no holiday" and
Tilton spent Christmas day in preparing
the letter which was to strike to the heart
of Beecher. How manifold and how
noiseless was the fold of the serpant when
1t entwined its victim. Having cautioned
Judson never to speak to him again, or TO
be friend to him any longer, Tilton wrote
letter 10 Henry Ward Beecher speaking
of friendship between them since their
boyhood, and declaring that the debt he
(Tilton) owed he could never pay; dwell
ling on hours that they had spent together,
and intermingling OF laughter and tears,
and asking whatever he (rilton) had done
to offend him (Beecher), to blot altogether
from his mind, and that if he (Tilton) were
taken away, exhorting him to love Eliza
beth. Now, gentlemen, said counsel you will
understand from this letter what the words
were that were spoken three days before.
Now the jury would understand what led
Mr.. Tilton to say that he had lost his faith
in the man wien pressed as to what were
the stories of Mr.. Beecher's immoralities.
There was something in this conversation
that would lead the jury to form an esti-
mate of this mans CTilton's) character. 1t
showed them that, when they were dealing
with particular line of conduct, If they
could only get hold of map of their
character, they could form an idea of
which of these men were to be believed.
Error may confuse and distort but never
will altogether hide truth. Counsel here
discussed the character of the cross-ex-
animation and dwelt on Tilton's denial of
his having at certain time. when he had
forgotten having written letter before
that period about his gray hairs having
been brought down in sorrow to the grave.
He had forgotten, said the COUNSEL the
saving that even the hairs of the most
worthless head were all numbered. Coun-
bel alsO tOucLcu vi thc tSotiuiony VI MAI
tin in relation TO the piazza of Mrs Owing
tons house, and said there were instances
of cases where men dashed their brains out
against brick wall here was an instance
where man dashed his brains out against
brick wall which was not there. There
was an old Latin motto, "Falsis in unum,
falsis m omipia"-"Satisfy yourself that q
man was false in one thing, and you could
satisfy yourself that he was false in all. I"
In this cause they did not need to trust to
maxim so firmly established as this one.
The record of this case only required that
they should reverse this proposition. Til
ton had shown himself false in everything,