The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
TILTON VS.. BEECHER.
Incidents of the Great Scandal Trial.
MOULTON ON THE WITNESS STAND.
rFrom the New York Tribune.l

MOULTON ON THE WITNESS STAND.
rFrom the New York Tribune.l
MouIton entered the room and quickly
took the witness chair, laying package
of papers on the floor beside him. Mr..
Beecher looked him In the face, and dur
ing the remainder of the session rarely
lost sight of him. Mr.. Moulton crossed
his legs, folded his arms in the Napole-
onic manner and looked at the audience,
but so many eyes met his gaze that his
face redeemed and he manifested some
nervousness He swung from side TO side,
took knife from his pocket and played
with it. Strengthened himself and then
drIlnmed with his fingers on the arm of
the chair. His voice was clear at the
outset, and it was evident that he intend
ed, if he could, to answer the questions
with prompt, business-hke precision, like
man of the world. The first impression
which he made was rather favorable, his
answers being frank, unstudied, and un-
affected but the pauses between the
words soon became longer, and some of
his rejoinders were given in Esping,
careless manner. When he identified
the letters he was studiously careful,
subjecting every page to rigid scrutiny,
and only asserting after he had called
them back and glanced at them again.
JUDGE MORRIS PERORATION-AN ELO-
QUENT APPEAL.
Oh 4! gentlemen, what scene is this,
what spectacle we behold here to-day |
On the one side you see q man of vast
prosperity, surrounded by powerful
friends, with unlimited resources. On
the other s1de yeu see man powerless
and poor, coming to you from a desolate
home. Already he has been made the
victim of foul charge, then the victim
of a vile slander, and then again the vic
tim of foul persecution, unparalleled
for power and relentlessness. And what
has he done2 Why, he was the chance
possessor of loving and beloved wife,
of a happy and of an innocent home,
which his bosom friend, his lifelong
bosom friend, his pastor, his spiritual
adviser, taking advantage of that friend
ship, taking advantage of his absence
and taking advantage of his sacred call
ing, has dispossessed and despoiled him
of. That home is desolated, the hopes
of that family blasted, the pillars of that
household have been pulled down upon
the idols of his Worship, and na1ight but
desolation reigns there Oh, gentlemen,
you who have children, you who know
what it is to return from your daily labors
to the bosom of your happy family, can
appreciate the wrongs and the suffering
that my unhappy client has endured ; but
it Is to you, as fathers, and as brothers,
and as husbands, that we come with our
case, and as you love your homes, as you
love your families and your children, as
you regard the sacredness of your homes
and as you reverence virtue and respect
the sanctity of the family altar, I call
upon you in the name of all that has
been violated, I call upon you in the
name of Christianity, by the teachings of
the Savior upon the Mount, by the law
thundered from Mount Sinai, by every
consideration that is near and dear to us
on earth, call upon you to brand the
seducer as his crime deserves to be
branded.
Let it be written on every door
throughout the land ftDeath, destruc-
ton to the seducer - and when you have
rendered that verdict you will receive the
prayers and blessings of every virtuous
mother and of every yirtuous daughter in
the land, and peaceful conscience viii
follow you through Life, win be with you in
the last solemn scenes of earth, and con-
sole you when at last you stand with your
Ge-record before the everything God
Applause