The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-26
TiIton Urging the Publication Of the
Scandal in the Weekly
II DON'T DARE DO IT."
SPECULATION as to How Much Plymouth Church
Would Pay to Have 1t Suppressed.
MIXED LODGINGS AND FREE LOVE.
! Black Day for the Plaintiffs Reputation
Africa Swears Hard Against Him.

Africa Swears Hard Against Him.
There was q man yesterday who heard the
whole proceedings ana went silently out OF Judge
Nelson's Court he was tacturn sort OF man.
with eyes set lar back and mystery covering him
Ike garment He was interviewed.
"What do you think OF to-day's proceedingsr
Iaid the interviewer
"rhey had ferocious irreleyancy," said the
Mysterious man.
What could the mysterious man have meant?
Perhaps he meant that the motive OF introducing
the testimony was commercially ferocious, nd
tue testimony itsel! not consequential
That was what we all thought, who are con-
lemned to sit in that sweating court room five
lays OF the week and hear human nature run
Dver, pricked to the bone, and lett to bleed In the
nght or the emotional pulpit.
my young brudder," said u negro preacher
whom two OF scribes and pubLcans recently
ried 10 interview, ode wisdom OF dis world is
ooshness. Oar Is Mr. Beecher, preaching de
dictionary Of perfection desc twenty-five years,
md de only way he can save hisself Is to show
das man is a natural consprator and son OF
vtcssitude. Ii dar warnt gospel OF depravity,
whar, OIL war would de greatest pulpit sence
Mars Hill be to-day?"
such was the lesson or yesterdays testimony.
Shall we stop to pour words over the story or two
negroes, who, in pursuit OF o job, went TO live
with che Woodhulls9 That was yesterdays testt-
mony.
Darky number one was Petersburg darky,
who mad lived in the unhappy burg when the
North penned up the slave cause at last and bonn
oarded It, From the site OF that slaughter pen OF
the East jim Woodley, aged about thirty, once a
slave came to testify. He was the Darwnan link
between the field of arms, the field OF antl.savery
n M al
puddle which followed the war.
''By Georgew said MT. Philosopobory, after
court adjourned, 1.-the organized humanity Of this
world, no less than its wisdom, Is fooshness be-
fore Heaven. The Beecher trial Is the trial or the
personal character OF the anti-savery agitation,
Tilton is mun Beecher is wart on Ossa. Mrs.
Tton is tear.bag Bowen is the promenading
phantom OF Shentper-Shent. But where Is the
grand procession Of Puritans who paraded around
the slavery Jericho, blowing rams horns and cry
ing "Grace, graces" "Alas Ahasuerus they are
all on trial."
This would seem to be the case. The Lovejoys,
Philpses. Greeleys, Bsechers, Tiltons and at last
the poor old slaves rise up to mock their cause.
This only shows that prosperity accompanies the
decay OF great and disinterested intentions and
that reputation must keep watch on victory lest
IL lose its decorations. TheSnegroes who swore
yesterday swore nothing Of much consequence ex-
cept that Titon was confidential chum OF the
undesirable and intrusive women whose advent
In New York brought consequences far beyond
their legitimate agency, and that he was, possibly,
aware OF their attack upon Mr.. Beecher before 1t
appeared and might have encouraged It,
The words possibly and .'mightn are here
used because 1t Is not clear what credence Is to
placed In such semt.de tached and nondescrpt
negroes as were yesterday produced in court,
Dnly four or five years resident In the North and
without Identification or register This trial Is
already so involved and long that those who
write 1t up are losing patience. They have been
eating quail for nearly a hundred days, and 1t Is
no relief to change that steady diet here and
there to black crow. Tue following persons were
on the bench and in court neutrality-suspicious.
error Edward NJ. McUook, of Colorado; Colonel
Oonn Fiatt OF Washington; Senator A. A. Sar-
geant, OF California; Mr. Caehan, law publisher
oil Chicago; Lawyer jones' OF st. Paul, MIMI, and
Mr. Clark, OF the BunalO'Bar.
Judge, call a halt on the lawyers some day
THE EVIDENCE
The Court assembled at eleven O'Clock yesterday
morning, and lew minutes afterwards James b.
Wo0dley, q cOOred man OF thirty years, was
palied. sworn aDd examined by Mr.. Evarts He
sald:-I live III the city Of Brooklin; | was a slave
before and during the war, and became Tree on
me surrender OF Lee; Icame North In 1869; am
lvlng now IN Classon avenue, Brooklyn, engaged
n the vegetable business; | have no connection
witn Beecher's church; ! was in the service Of u
q. We're you ever In the employment OF Mrs.
Noodhull! A. Yes, str; was in the employment
lIshed; was arrested at the Post ONCE by MIR.
CONS ock Tor putting papers containing the scan
aal ~ the me Post Once; my employment at Mrs;
Wo0dnull's house was as steward ana waiter; |
was aiterward employed at their Office down town,
folding and mailing papers.
tlr, bat had nothing TO do with 1t except to go
to the office Tor few copies Of 1t; heard OF the
the "Lfe'' around among the BOOKSELLERS; Mr..
i1lton told me to turn over the money 10 Miss
hrst ntr oduccd to Mir TIlton IN the fall OF 1871 by
Mrs. Woohnull. in her ofce, The outer office IN
we're present at the Introduction; Mr. Tllton was
sitting on a lounge. with Mrs. Woodruff and MISS
Claim on sae l slae Of nm; Mrs Woodruff SAID,
ple,n and TOOK great liking
Mr.. Evarts-Stop; we don't want that. What
else occurred 1?
Witness continued-He asked me how / was
getting Oh, whether mad been slave and a few
Theodore Tllton, think was published IN Sc tem-
Der; do not remember me date Of ner lecture; 1t
was In 1871; remember conversation that took
place that ia IN the little room OF the Office be-
tween Mrs. Woodruff, Miss O!ahn and MI Tilton;
the conversation w n,,, row,
commenced by Mrs. woodruff asking me II was
o rec lover; said did not know what she meant;
then she SAID Henry Ward Beecher was Tree
lover; she asked me did ever hear him preach |
sad, MOI she said, lie IS u free lover and the
greatest man that ever lived;r Mr.. Tlton said
something 10 MIS-. Woodruff; Mrs. Woodnull then
spoke TO again on free love and appeared
ANXIOUS TO give more information on it; she
ASKED me If / would ike to know the meaning
OF free love; / said | had no objection:
wnen she said that iIee love was that II one man
nad vile and saw another woman he liked bet
Ter, or Il a woman had husband ana saw man
bhc hked better, each was at liberty to change |
thought Inherent; quoted Tor her the scriptures
AUD said, What God hath put together let no man
put asunder.n
The witness delivered this with much JUNCTION
anc In the regular plantation accent, the eject
being rresstioly comic. The evidence mad re-
iresDing humor and novelty, especially coming
from the ups OF negro that brought the witness
Immediately Into favor with the audience. His
small, woody mead and sbeepishly innocent ex.
preston OF eye made him appear mere unnedged
boy, but he proved to be an uncommonly sharp
specimen OF the lately emancipated race