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


"cuckold" and the other "withol," but
both signi6ed contempt. Under the old
Roman law prostitutes and people who
pandered to any licentious passion were &C.
verely punished, and If a husband took
back and lived with wife who had COIN
mitted adultery, he was punished with the
woman as being pandercr. Tllton, said
counsel, knew for years that Beecher was
dangerous man to visit families Of pure
women, and yet he encouraged Beecher to
visit his family and wife, and invited, nay,
almost forced him TO do so, and there did
not enter one thought or fear into the vic
TINS heart. Twas contemplate TO see the
petty evidence that was offered in this case
after Tilton had watched his wife for ten
years, after he had been put on his guard
by Bowen Tilton brought them sample
which was scraped from the whole life
of Henry Ward Beecher. How would
Titon. if he brought this charge truth
fully as he believed, against his wife, take
to himself the dark stain If the English
approbrium or the strong contumely of the
Roman condemnation. A witness has
been brought forward, Kate Mcdonald,
an old family, half servant and half friend
and who occupies Mr.. Tiltons house now.
devoted to his children and wife, but no
doubt belonging to the fathers side of the
house, and she sided with him now. The
jury were TO judge of the facts in this case,
the witnesses and their answers; these men
Mrs. Titon, were to be judged as men and
women of our day and our life, so far as
their relations went; where their charac-
tiers were to be considered, they were to
be considered fairly, but they must be
| judged as men and women. If they were
spirits we had no means of judging them.
There had never been trace of suspicion,
declared the counsel, against Mr.. Tilton's
wife; it was not her fault and he was not
the husband of an adulteress. The jury
have been kept in expectation that Beech
er, even, when he came on the stand, if he
did not fear God he feared man that he
would not fear to contradict the
oaths Of these witnesses. Mr.. Beecher SAID
the counsel came to the stand to confront
an array OF lies but they were not too
many for true man to confront and over
come. He dwell ON the testimony given
to show that Tlton had marched in CON-
munist procession, and evidence given by
the chief marshal of the procession that
when he turned around he could see Tilton
| and the Woodhulls at one glance. Coun-
sci was disposed to doubt this fact. This
procession was in honor of the commune
which made the sacrifices at Paris. Mr..
Evarts then proceeded to discuss the ques-
ton of the moral evidence of the case.
Errors of memory were as likely to happen
to witnesses on one side of the case as on
the other, and among intelligent witnesses
as well as conscientious. Counsel pro-
posed TO test Mr.. Tilton, Mr.. Moulton and
Mrs. Moulton with as much candor and
good will as the witnesses on his side were
to be tested, and the witnesses on both
sides might be compared for contradiction
or affirmation. The theory of the plaintiff
was that up to the time of the breaking out
of the differences between him and MIR.
Beecher his wife and he held such relations
TO one another and the family as to convey
the impression of an ideal happy home
that the only ruptures and discords
came from her seducer and through
his debauching her. In connection
with these disasters he became irritable in
connection with the good name Of his wife
and the fair fame of his children that he
should come into friendship with Beech
er to prevent rupture between Beecher
and Bowen to prevent his disgrace be-
coming public through that source. There
then came to be a necessity of suppressing
any hostile PRONUNCIATION of this secret on
the part Of some interests looking to tue
public good, and there came to be a pro-
longed and intricate series of efforts and
falsehoods to keep the secret, that had
thus been communicated and had run
down the streets like water. There came
10 be consultation with Moulton and Mrs.
Moulton, and with parties who are de-
nounced by the plaintiff in very great de-
gree that this prospect failed, and in 1879
came out the first of the Woodruff Clafin
publication that this suppression as it ap-
preached success, again met with defeat
that this forced Tilton to give up the hope
of saving his wife. Then in the Bacon
letter came the final PRONUNCIATION of the
scandal then by bold, irrcpressible ac-
cusation in the public press, after the trial
ton and Tilton. This was their theory
They thought that the Nervousness
of charge together with selected writings of
| Beecher would strike death in the minds of
| public justice, would demand trial and
| investigation. Beecher had stood the test
that no man would care about standing
the general theory of defendants was that
the relatives of Becchcr and Mrs. Tilton
were faithful, moral and true in Beechers
opinion, and wholly above suspicion. Both
understood the duty of avoiding being led
into any thing that was not as open and as
clear rs day, and that their sentiments to-
wards each other should be those that the
best and most indiscriminating of persons
could find no fault with. That there came
to be new assault upon Beecher by
Theodore Tilton, brought by Bowen to
him on the twenty-sixth day of December,
in which Mr.. Tilton, with the air of an EN-
peror, ordered Mr.. Beecher to quit further
preaching, and leave Brooklyn that on
the Both of December Titon opened to
Beecher the grounds of complaint he had
against him, which excited serious consid-