The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-05-28
THE TRIAL.
Evarts Commences His Ar
gument.
He Thinks There has Been a
Lack Of Charity.

Lack Of Charity.
New YORK, May 27.-The Brooklyn
court room was packed this morning
Evarts rose and began his address: lie
said that whatever diversities the trlaI
might present the Solicitudo OF an advo'
cate knew no end. 1t has been true in
this case, from the time when the scTn-
dal first broke out, SO far as individual
facts were concerned, that the defendant
and the lady have not received that char
ity which the Scriptures taught. Europe
had been trying America, and New York
had been trying Brooklyn. When they
came to consider the defendant, at once
there was an expression of public opinion
us to what was right to be done
bv such a man. The result
would be that unless he could prove him.
self rs clear as in the day of Judgment
the doubt of his guilt would remain al
ways the same. Take the point, SAID
Mr.. Evarts, where the scandal, as mat
ter of inspection and wise dellberation,
came in. His client BeecherJ was sub
mitted to judgments which had nothing
to do with the case. The idle profigants
of New York believed .he scandal. Why
that clergyman should err with a woman
| the wicked classes SAID they had Known
always, and were glad to see that their
opinions were being accepted by more
serious classes. Many looked on Beech
ers robust frame ana concluded that his
| physical strength had overcome his
sense of duty and of religion. All over
the country there was IA certain response
bllitv thrown over the case and over
BceCher.
The counsel referred to Il letter which
appeared in western paper, III relation
to this case, and which held that Il man
who had done 50 much for religion, and
had such drain on his moral system,
that he was entitled to indulge, to II lit
tie extent any Of his desires.
Eyarts said this was weak argument.
How many men would have been shock
ed when Tilton and Mou!tUn called
them all adutcrer, but Beechcr continu-
ed in his Master work. The counsel be-
lievcd when this great preacher came -
give his testimony at the last day and
render his talents up, they would not
be found wanting.
The FIRST Important PRONUNCIATION
crew out of the Woodruff trial, and the
publication next that gave rise to pop
ular acceptablity Of its source, was the
publication of the Bacon letter by TIL
ton himself.
Mr. Evarts then referred 10 the ap.
pointment OF the church committee, when
Beecher was examined and croSscXamln-
ed. The verdict of the six men, said the
counsel, forming the committee was one
that should have satisfied all honest and
candid-minded men, at least until We had
come to direct submission of the cause
to tribunal of justice. The plaintiff
takes his choice as to what court he shall
come, and the defendant has to submit to
the course the case had taken. These
eminent lawyers who carried the case
along for the plaintiff had brought great
advantages to bear on his case, apd
Beccher was left 10 take
whatever he could get among
what was left of the legal luminarcs.
They had been here for four or five
months when the weather was as cold rs
the night which introduced Moulton
and Beechcr's friendship and now they
had got into warm weather like that OF
the second of June, on which Mrs. Moul-
ton smothered Mr. Beechor's grief with
an afghan. No offence, said counsel,
could better BE- charged against Bcccher,
bv Tilton, than this and he found wo-
man who was to be sacrificed in his Ill
tons own wife. A woman whom he SAID
was as precious as gold and he, lTilton)
swore that she was pure woman, Such
as the divine grace above could make,
but he swOrc that he would strike
| Beecher to the heart and
Pursue him 10 hts Grave.
and there is no resource like this to
Beecher. The other party, who faced
accusation, stood as city on Il hill in
this community for 20 years, whatever
he was to Christian faith or political
schemes of this country or Europe, he
was to the people OF Brooklyn man who
was prolonged test OF what he really
was. but the jury would find as they went
on with the cause that in every page OF
this business the attack was not against
Beecher but on public morality. Beech
or was known in the community
more than any other man in 1t. lie
never could take n secret walk, or take
a secret drive, or 90 in privacy to any
picture gallery or place OF assemblage
where, whether he knew people or not,
there were ewes or ears that were ready
10 catch whatever might be shown IN ms.
demeanor or address. The pursuerS,
said Evarts. in this case were Hilton,
Moulton and Mrs. Moulton. The law
pave action only to her husband, and he
was the plaintiff in the suit, but many
were the conferences between him and
these other parties IN relation
In the case we were now brought to con-
slider From the nature of the crime
i,nnuted il was seduction. Seduction OF
married woman, during the period
when she bore children to her husband.
Was there any worse crime than That
Was there a crime that was visited with
worse judgment from all kinds of men
than this? The plaintiff left no obscuTi.
tv. He made his charge and left no
improbability as to its nature the words
used we're from his bank which was mex.
haustiblc; words that if he could make
them dovetail together, in rhrazcs and
sentences, he thinks would carry convic-
tion with them. The counsel said he
/ knew when he heard all the plaintiff :
testimony on the stand. that the Devil
Of lies had played him Til
tom the same trick that ne
played all his devotees. intellectual
traits that had framed this charge were
to be di>pised The whole decalogue
was rent asunder by woman who was
lovely and who was aaeader of free doc
trines. The jury began to see that when
q man began with selfworship, what he
came to becomes necessity; that he can
not overturn laws of responsibility and
he there illustrates that short and plthy
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