The Portland daily press., 1875-06-29

whose 1altn IN Beecher has Waned every time
one of those sensational tricks has been played
by the sharp attorneys who have had the man
agement of Tilton's case.
When Price had consumed the first INSTALL
ment of the purchase money they gave him
more and thus ended for the time being all
chances OF his attaining the requisite degree of
sobrlety to realize what dangerous dilemma
he had placed himself in. Morris was right in
his anticipation that Judge Nelson would not
listen to his new evidence and he would
have been sadly disappointed and embarrassed
if the decision had been otherwise. OF course
neither Loader nor Price could have stood the
ordeal of cross.examinaton, nor is it by any
means certain that the latter would have re-
peated on the stand the falsehood embraced in
his affidavit. He insists upon it that he was
passive tool of Leaders from the beginning and
that he did not tell the Morris conclave, or con-
vey the idea to them that he had any knowl-
edge of the subject he was giving evidence
about, but simply consented to follow the lead
of Loader.
But on the day that the afidavits were pub
lished, the elder Price became seriously
alarmed, as well he might, for the safety of
his hopeful offspring, and resolved to rescue
him from the consequences of his crime by
making clean breast of his temptation by
and colusion with Loader.
To be sure this narrative rests mainly upon
the veracity of the two Prices, and one of them
has shown himself an Enthusiastically witness.
And even if he were so genuinely penitent as
to be disposed to stick to the truth, the maud
lin condition he was in, while the conspirators
were In session, may well have led to some
confusion in his account of what transpired
there. But that the upholsterer's story is an
utter fiction, wilful coinage, from beginning
to end is a proposition supported by common
sense as well as PRICES confession. There are
inherent defects in its construction quite obvi-
Gus enough to ensure its rejection on logical
grounds
The question will naturally be asked, how do
such inventions Originate? 1t is not pleasant
reflection that any creature in human form can
be so deplorably base as to ''lay perjury to his
souP' to inhict injury upon one whom he could
have no possible grievance against. And yet
that seems to be the case of Loader. i'm
agine he has mania for falsehood and that
having grown morbid by three months perusal
of the evidence in the great trial he had an
unnatural itching to become an actor in it.
When he is arraigned to take his trial for per-
jury his counsel will probably plead insanity.
1t will be the only defense available, and there
Is really room for doubt whether a man of
sound mind could do so foolish an act
The thought may arise why Tilton's attor-
neys imperil their reputation by lending their
sanction to such gross imposture confess
that is more difficult to answer. Brooklyn
people say that such things are not quite so
repugnant to Mr.. M orris's sense of professional
pride as they would be to most lawyers do
not know the gentleman, and therefore cannot
pronounce any opinion on that point Justice
alike to Mr.. Beecher and his myriad friends de-
mands that the facts should be laid bare no
matter who is affected by the disclosure 1
presume Loader will be arrested before this let
ter goes to press, though his apprehension may
be delayed till the next Grand Jury meets
which will be on the 9th July.
The "new evidence of the worthy pair is
part and parcel of that great outside prosecution
OF Henry Ward Beecher which some good
folks and many moIe bad ones have been in
tent on following up ever since the case was
taken into court. There never has been
before such general undisguised interference
with the prerogatives of the judiciary as during
this trial. Several newspapers have kept on
summing up the case for five months. Fortu-
nately newspapers do not have so much weight
as they formerly did, and perhaps no great
harm has come of the freedom with which they
have expressed themselves about the matter.
But the anti-Beecher journalists have had
the advantage of numbers if not of moral
strength, and long practice has given them
great proficiency in the art of denunciatiop.
The habit of fblackguarding public men of all
grades, the President more coarsely than
any other, has 30 completely famillarized
them with that sort of business that they serve
up the greatest of clergymen with the appe-
tites of cannibals. The witnesses to whom
neither side would give a hearing in court
found welcome audience in the newspapers.
Then in turn we were deluged with the tattle of
Bowen and Carpenter and last of all with the
lie which Loader told and Price swore to. all
with view of creating such division in the
jury box as to prevent verdict for the defen-
dant. 1t may be shat that object will be ac-
plished. 1t looks so now. But the means by
which it will have been effected are so discred-
liable that the end will not advantage those
who sought it. As soon as this precious Load
er intrigue is thoroughly ventilated the most
superficial judges of human nature will begin
to comprehend the net work of plots in which
desperate plotters strove hard to eutangle
Mr.. Beecher. reaction will ensue, and those
who have honestly but mistakenly assumed
him to be guilty. through want of acquain-
tance with the facts, will be forced to the con-
clusion that there is nothing in the character of
the witnesses or the nature of the testimony,
which will warrant the judgment they too
hastily formed.
hope you all breathe more freely and carry
yourselves more proudly in Maine now that the
State has manifested its power and authority
By the judicial murder of two men. Every one
OF its citizens, certainly every one of its voting
population, is entitled to share in the honor,
glory and majesty of the event. There are
sentimental people who will say that hanging
is relic of barbarism, and there are
practical people who looking at the question
rom the cold standpoint of government policy,
will argue that the State cheapens human life
by admitting that it may be taken under
the sanction of law. But you seem to
be equally Indifferent to humanity or pruden-
tial considerations, initiating the revengeful
poHty vi tue aucieng people OF Israel, proclaim
that killing is very proper thing to do if the
man deserves it and the law allows it. 1 hope
you will not tretrograde too far and introduce the
whipping post and the torture chamber. To be
plain about it hope that the revolving spectacle
of Friday may have the salutary effect of awak-
enng your people to the con ,iousuess that cap
ital punishment is as unnecessary as it is bru-
tai. 1t has been practically abolished in this
state, and everybody is glad of it, some be-
cause the gallows is so hdeous in its structure,
and far more because it was next to impossible
to convict a criminal of murder when such
conviction involved the death penalty. 1t has
not been the wont of Maine to lag behind her
sister commonwealths in the grand march of
civilization. YARMOUTH
L. d. JEwETT s. Co.-The St. John Globe
says that 'as near as can be ascertained at
the present time, from careful examination of
the books by close scrutiny, the liabilities of
the firm of L. d. Jewett & Co. are:
DIRECT l1Dlnlles 63I,UlZ
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