New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-28
REASONS FOR MAKING THE CHARGE.

Now, the plaintiff leaves no Obscurity here !;
he has made his charge will show you his reasons for
making it az he did He thought he could commend it to
probability by the shape in which he worded it, for
words are to him everything He has what is called
exchequer Of words; he banks upon it, and never re-
deems any OF them, and his stock banker is mex
haustibe. Or to take another phrase from the same
great master OF language and OF human nature he is al
ways able to deliver fine voley OF words but they arc
words and don't know, according to the proverb, how
many words it takes to I'LL a bushe basket. Words
which, If he can make them dovetail together in SEN
fences and synax, and hover long enough for him to
close his lips and leave the stand, he thinks
will carry conviction; but when I come to take
I'D the narrative OF his accusation, II don't show
you that 1t came out Of wOmans mouth to him,
nor out OF mans mouth to Mr.. Beecher will lose the
case didn't by crossexamlnation, seek to disturb
one word of his narrative, which fills two columns
OF a newspaper. knew when heard 1t all that the
devil Of lies had played the same trick with him that he
always plays with bis dcvotees Their fasehoods bring
them into the accusation Of the Divine Intelligence and
the means 1t by its mercy has provided for the moral
government OF the world and then deliver the vic
tim Of the great temptation and the author Of that
temptation for the punishment which Divine justice pro-
vides for such cases. Well, then, not only this
seduction, but 1t is seduction Ofmany meditation,
prosecution, defeat and final triumph over reluctant,
weeping unsympathizing, corresponding partner Of
guilt Well. Is that probable occupation Of the time
and mind aud thoughts OF the busiest man In Brooklyn
the man whose energies taxed in the open day
and eyes all the utermoet, that the
wonder Is how short life and one single energy
pour these fountains OF spiritual life and gladness
that adon this city with their freshness and flow over
the whole land What becomes Of all the maxins Of hu
nature by which credit evil by occupying with
good What becomes Of Dr. wats's familiar proposition
that finds mischief still for idle hands to
dol" What becomes Of the universal experience Of
society that these oenses which do and must come
however great the woe denounced upon him by whom
they come, that these 0fenses bred out OF idle.
ness and luxury and opportunity, and allure
Here again you have feature Of the accusation that flies
right the face Of all the propositions by which Idle
dsolute always cassed together by which the
parent his and protects his daughter by keeping
them Of the company Of the idle lest they too may
become dissoue. Why II your Honor pleases, gentle.
Of the jury the intellectual traits that have framed
this charge are contemplate as the moral. odious
traits that have prompted It, Well seduction, in Its du
ration Of four year at last produces adultery and that
continues for Is months Well, how great crmc that
Is! Within the &c months o child Is born The
maternal instinct Of grief at the death OF
the infant, and the maternal instinct OF JOY
ut o manchd begottcn during the period OF
adultery, begin and end this domestic transaction And
what greater srminay - there that can be framed for