The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-27
BURLINGTON, May 90.
The Tilton- Beecher Trial.
NEW York, May &c.

presslvc. All the parties To Inc suit were
present After the jury were assembled
Judge Porter continued his summing up.
He said the first object of Tilton and Monl-
son was to reinstate the former on the In
dependent. That failed, the Golden Age
was established and the friends of Mr.
Bcocber were asked to contribute, A sum
of money was needed to keep the paper
afloat, and the Golden Age article was pre-
pared. 1t brought not only the money,
but, in the language of MIR. Tilton, it
brought the spoils and in the meantime
the $4,000 had been got from Henry Ward
Beecher for Bessie Turner'S school bills,
and the $4,000 for the support OF Tilton'S
family, for which latter Mr.. Beecher had
to mortgage his house. The Bacon letter
had then been published. Containing
garbled edition of the letter of apology, 1t
was put forth to the world. Mr.. Beecher
thought il called for an investigation, but
Moulton said that would be breach of
faith, and yet these men were the parties
who published the Bacon letter and the
letter of apology. Were these the men
who advised silence? 1t was policy to
10 observed by AIr. Beecher and broken
by Tilton and Moulton. If Beecher was
guilty and had debauched one Of his own
commandments, if he had confessed to Til
ton, Moul!on and Mrs. Moulton, If he
had authorized Moulton to tell
Judge Morris and Judge Tracy, or
any person, why did Beecher refuse to
sign the card prepared for him by Tilton
and to be read in his own pulpit ? Mr..
Porter then read the card in question,
which admitted that Beecher had commit
ted an offense, but no crime, and was will
ing to resign.
In speaking of the testimony of Mrs.
Moulton, counsel said that she uttered
poisoned words against her pastor, not
poisoned by herself but by her husband
her pastor from whose hands she had taken
the sacramental bread and wine. Counsel
would exercise to her the forbearance due
to her sex. 1t had been suggested by the
enemies of Mr.. Beecher that counsel had
dealt discourteously with the perjured
blackmailer. But Mr.. Porter said he
would leave it to the convictions of the un
Outstanding of the jury. They had heard
the severity with which Mr.. Morris hat
spoken of his client, but they would ye
hear the deadly but polished eloquence o.
his learned friend who had yet to speak t.
them on the other side. The counsel thei
reverted TO Mrs. Moultons testimony, il
which she urged Mr. Bescher to go dow
to the church, kthat he could never appea
in the pulpit with this on his mind
and, counsel continued, she relate
that Beeeher replied that she seemed t.
him like section of the day of judgment
Was this latter expression, said Mr.. Porter
like Mr.. Beecherp No, continued counsel
1t was framed by the same lips as ''paroxy
small kiss" and "the brink of mora
Niagara" 1t was the expression O
!, Theodore Tilton, for Henry Ward Beeche
never thought of splitting the day O
Judgment into sections. There is graf
of truth, said the counsel, in her narrativ,
1t is true that there were conversations b,
tween them, but no one saw all as anoths
saw it, nor can any two persons give I'll
same account of anything that has occurre
at which both were present. Few me
) could report even conversation of a
hours length after it had taken place. N
two commanders gave the same account {
I a battle at which both were present. Ho
difficult to repeat a conversation correct
3 between which and its repetition q nun
Der years had elapsed. How difficult
c was to decide between the impressions
one party and those produced upt
another. How easy it was for the memo
to be misled We often saw how Il
q memory of honest men led them into mi
r takes, so that they came to believe certa
n stores The faculty of the memory rest
e on shifting sands, and how would it
= changed after the elapse of certain nut
e Der of years?
IT Judge Porter continued speaking up
the hour of recess, when he closed
argument and the court adjourned oy
until tomorrow.
), He sand, suppose Mrs. Moulton had te
n, you to the best of her ability what has {
CURED between her and Beecher, a mista
= upon this point would be destruction of
| Tharn oaxara1 N
lures in her testimony which were of
90 portance, one was the fact that she wa
90 jealous friend and partizan of the def
90 dant, until some time in July, 1874, WI
7, Tilton and Moulton communicated W
80 Beecher through Redpath. The TESTING
so of Mrs. Moulton was kept from the chul
- against Beecher. We had the fact that
early as July. 1874, these two slipp'
70, rogues Tilton and Moulton, contempla
EN- proceedings In the courts against Beecl
" were confdipg as TO witnesses who wo
~, be required in the case he must be permit
ck to say however, that witness swore 4
he which was untrue, was to be fully relie'
Of from censure, though she did II from fore
o., Of conjugal love. She could not swerve fl
INST her allegiance to her husband. This
o old band (Aloulton) sent his lady to bring
Id, apostle of free love to conference v
csc Tilton and Moulton. Mr.. Porter I
,rv commented on the testimony Of \
Monitor as to Beecher's reference to O
(. hitting suicide. If this powder was on