The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-06-18

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l >Sic-SiiNnS IN D. overlooked. aud were
iise r,mSrss NJ the other side to over
tN,ric Ihe>' views Ut the case. and was
| This nlan In his holy rohe>--this poten-
/ tate vi the pulpit-to overturn all the
| rules by which evidence was In be guided
/ by the law.
| Beach then referred to the offer of the
prosecution IL admit Mrs. Tilton as a
witness. and argued that the wiie's dis
ability IL appear was an incapacity which
could le waived ny both parties consent
| ing. and ii 10th sides had agreed To the
admission OF either Mrs. Tilton or Mrs.
| Beecher a. witnesses, there was no
power which could exclude their tcsti-
inony. Why was not Mrs. riton called:
! The Jury must consider that She was n
pure. " tie aud spotless woman In the
ewes of Bccchcr and Tilton. The Jury
would sec that Mrs. 1'ilton
| take the stand. and with the name of her
Maker on her lips. deny the accusation
which she had so often repeated. Mr..
| Beechcr had. over and over again, denied
| the fact of his improper connection with
| Mrs. Tilton. but counsel did not depend
alone on oral testimony: he had written
confessions aud papers sustaining and
UNFOLDING the oral proofs which must be
taken not alone or collectively, but also
separately. and these must be taken In
connection with the character of Beechcr.
Moulton, Tilton and Mrs. Moulton bear
testimony to Beecher's confession, of
guilt to them. and Moulton and Wood
ruff testify that adultery was the charge
talked about with Gen. Tracy. and IL
thi, We're so. Bcechcr was a forcsworu
| man.
| Here recess was taken.
After Recess.
Mr.. Beach continued his argument and
took up the subject of the letter of con-
triton, or the letter of apology. either
name, he said. was appropriate for the
| document. The question was whether
Mr.. Bcechcr's ideas at the time were repre-
scnted fairly by the paper. 1t was main
| tanned by some that this document was not
good English and could not have been
| dictated by a master of the language like
| Mr.. Becchcr.
| BEECHEH ALL OVER.
Persons differed on this point. One OF
| the most cultivated editors in the city OF
| New York, when this letter was read to
1 him for the first time, exclaimed. THAT
| Is Beecher all over" Shakespeare might
us well deny the authorship of lIamlet's
| Soliloquy, IA Beccher deny the author
| ship of that letter. lie did not know
that he could retutc the charge that the
letter was ungrammatical any better than
by reading it. Beach then quoted from
one of Beechcr'S lccture-room talk, some
remarks to the effect that extravaganza
of language was natural and .iustifiable
at great crisis of feeling, and at
these moments men did not
stand upon grammar and nicetics OF cx-
preston. 1t was not rich though, Mr..
Beecher said. to adapt To common cir
cumstances the language of those par
OXysmal moments. Here was that word
paroxysmal again. Mr.. Beach then quo
ted the passage in the letter of apology,
referring to '',ha, poor child lying there
| with folded hands and pointed ont the
} ~-.~---f S..s'o..s, s.,",,n tfii> description
and q passage referring to Mrs. Triton in
Mr.. Beecher's statement. He also quo.
ted from the statement Bcecher'> dies.
cIiptiOn of the manner in which he pour
ed forth his soul to Moulton like water
and cited then Il passage m a letter from
Beecher to Molilton, 1873, speaking of hi.
letter to TiltOn through him. Moulton
Beecher, the jury would see. did not de.
ny the authorship of this letter of contri.
ton in 1873. Mr.. Evarts ridiculcd the
idea of confession. Mr.. Beach said, and
declared that criminals did not confess.
Counsel here quoted Il celebrated pass
age on the power of conscience in Mr..
Webstcr's speech at the White murder
trial, in which he declared that there
was no resource for the guilty but
CONFESSION OR SUICIDE,
and that suicide was confession.
The letter of February. 1871, to Moul-
ton. and others of Mrs. Triton from Mr..
Bcccher, We're read To the Jury, and coln-
sci said: Why did Mr.. Beechcr fear in
vestigation. il he was so conscious of his
innocence: What made Beecher write
that MOultOn was the best friend that
was ever given to man in an emergency
like this: Was not this almost virtual
confession on the part of Beccher: What
made him write that MOultOn was the
best friend God ever gave man. If he
was not serving him in some way. Who
wss 1t that was ''holding the storm in hi,
hand, and preventing Ii from bursting on
their heads but Francis ID. MOulton
Why did Beccher say that the letter Ia
Mrs. TiltOn should be returned to him
and not be permitted to miscarry, If there
was no secret In IL. Counsel then called
attention to Bcechcr's letter OF February,
1872, In which he stated he was willing
to
STEP DOWN AND OUT
il that would serve their purposes. Mr..
Beccher, said counsel, was willing to de-
scend from his high position on account
OF the darkness which surrounded him /:
that man Offering to abandon his great
mission offering himself sacrifice tn al
Tilton might he saved. Counsel could
not make this more emphatic or appeal
ing to the sensiblities of the jury than
the language in which this letter wa.
clothed. What was there in it which
led this great preacher to offer himscl
rs Il sacrifice to repair the In
Juries he had done to a woman who ha,
east herself involuntarily upon his love
: What was there that caused Mr.. Beeche
: TO say that he was living ON the ragge,
: edge OF rcmorsc and despair. Their
must have been some reason that force,
: inns strange, yet meaning expression
: from his lips, and yet the other side lei
: us that 1t was used by Mr.. Becclcr n
e random and was utterly without sense a
:, meaning. Webster tells Us that remors
Il Is the keen piercing anguish caused b
Q the consciousness OF guilt. Henry War
!. Beecher, said the speaker, was
u PENITENr To his GOD.
s. but timid and lying towards his fellow
= man, and that was not the form of pcn
tcnce which would save Il man. III
language In his letter is: II have +,
o pcntcd. am great, but the bitterness ,
r death Is on me, and my whole being
Il tortured on the ragged edge of death an
II despair" And when this man In,
N broke ont in the agony of his great sou
10 was there no significance to be attacht
ii to 1t, and was this man who uttered the
words TO his God, and the man he ha