The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-04-19

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marks ON the Present Aspects
OF the BeecheF Case.
Cincinnati Commercially
We must remember that BeGChcr has
just about Us much common sGnse in his
intercourse with men rs Horace Greeley
had, and that the women have always
been trying to pet him, and have made a
great spoiled baby Of him. He Is a SON
timentaIist; an enthusiast, man Of ex-
alterations and dCprcssions-a Switzer-
land ola fellow-with wonderful ca
pacity for describing all his moods, a
man Of exaggerated emotions and picIur-
esque phrases.
Cincinnati GazeIlc
The reader Of BeechCr's testimony is
continually impressed with the glhhing
and stopping nature Of the parties to the
mysteriOns affair, Of whom }eechCr him
self seems to be the sloppiest Of all. Til
ton and BCcclier arc continually slObbcr-
ing over each other, Mrs, TiltOn is like
a form of Jelly in warm weather, tremu-
lOus and melting, BccCher writes to the
managing and plotting MOulton, as a
lover TO his mistress. Mrs. M0ulton cod
dies, kisses, wecps over, and takes most
tender interest IN BCcCher, because, nc
cOrding to her account, he hasbecn found
out with TiltOn's wife. Even tho CalCu-
lating "man Of the world" MOultOn, con-
Cciyes most romantic, heroic friendship
for BeeChGr rs soon a. he finds hC has &C.
duced his bosom friends wife, and there
upon he becomes no tender, susceptible,
and sympathizing friend that BeecheF
unbosoms himself To him in all things.
Isl. Louis Republican,
The man we want 10 hear from Is Hem
ry q, Bowen, proprietor Of the New
York Independent, founder Of Plymouth
Church, prominent member and liberal
paying pew-holder in the same institu-
lion, and tho sworn enemy Ofboth Beecher
and Triton. II Henry q, Bowen goes to
his grave unChallcngcd and silent the
world will never know the central pivot
upon and around which the mighty wheel
OF monslrOns mischief las rcyOlyed. lie
holds The master key to that secret cham
bcr in the Brooklyn tabernacle, where
lodges the demon which all fear to evoke;
demon that was potent and dreaded
long before . whisper Of the Tiltonian
story hontcd in the air, viii the key
ever be used? viii that chamber ever be
opened? viii we ever know the truth,
and the whole TRUTH
New Haven Palladium,
We arc inclined to think that Mr.,
lIcCcher's testimony has had very little
effect on public opinion. Mr.. BGpChcr's
friends needed no explanation, those who
had made up their minds against him
would not accept any, and that portion OI
the public which had determined 10 re-
main impartial IL still waiting for evil
tlence, and places very little valne upon
sentiment or gllsh.
fsL Louis Democrat.
And yet, with all these strong points III
IIeechers favor, and with oil the weight
Of his own testimony, II still seems al-
most impossible to believe that three peo-
ple have deliberately manufactured such
a scandal Ms this, one Of them against his
own wife, with no stronger motive than
has yet appeared Even more dlIllcnlt is
| II to believe thnP Mr.. BeechCr aud Mrs,
Tilton shcnld both aid the conspiracy by
writing and acting as they have done. II
will be wonderful triumph II the testi.
mony and character Of Mr.. Beecher sue
coed. in OverpOwcring, In public estima.
tion, such evidence ny has been arrayed
against him.
lF'rom the Springfield tAIasIl Republican,
The difficulty Of Mr.. lIcecher's defense
ia that il requires people to believe ihai
after having discovered, on the night Of
December 8Olh, 1870, that tTilLOn had been
guilty Of the most infamous ollenSe
against hin--an ollimse for which II has
not been claimed that he ever expressed
the slightest rcgret--he wrote Of him, two
days later, that "he would have been u
better man In my circumstances tlian |
have becn;' that the next month, he
characterized him as "CapAhle Oflhe mob
lest things" that, while his basC conduct
was fresh III mind, he kissed him, and snt
On hisknpC; and, finally, that for years he
devoted his utmost elIOrls--"mOre thought
and Judgment and earnest desire than
ever did for myself hundred iOld'-tO
reinstate an Infamous wretch III u posi-.
tion that il would have been crying
shame for him 10 occupy