The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-26
SIN Awaiting tho Notwithstanding
Suspense or the Parties.

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unqualified curiosity and deserves no respect
full consideration. BEt we must remember
the other hearts that Will ache, and no per-
son OF humane feelings can withhold his sym
pathy from those whose dearest hopes tremble
in the balance while this jury is celebrating
on its verdict Very little sympathy will be
expended on the immediate parties to the suit
Tilton deserves none, for no healthy mind
can justify his course in giving this scandal
GUS publicity to his real or tancied
private wrongs. Beecher will receive
none outside the circle of his thick
and-thin partisans, because he deserves
none if guilty, and has acted like
moral polroon if innocent But "the other
hearts that ache deserve the kindest and
profoundest sympathy of considerate public.
1 Poor Mrs. Beecher, whose sad and quiet face
has been an object of interest to all the
corners and goers who have visited this pro-
tracted trial, deserves the respectful SYM
patty of all who honor true womanhood.
This faithful and devoted wife, whose pale
| face has become so familiar to the constant
attendants in the court room, is entitled to
larger measure of respect and gentler appre-
citation than any other person who has an in
/ terest in this celebrated trial. Her devoted
loyalty to her husband her deep interest in
| the honor of her family, her love for
the children who have SO deep a stake
in the innocence OF their father and oil the
honorable motives which have impeled her
TO come forth from the domestic retirement
which she loves and graces and submit to
the stare Of thousands OF inquisitive, vulgar
eyes, and demonstrate her unfaltering trust
in the husband to whom she was welded in
early youth, make her an object Of respectful
regard. All Just and generous hearts feel
regret and pam that this honored matron,
whom no breath of suspicion has ever
touched, to whose pure and quiet virtues all
who know her pay homage, should be sub
iected, after long life Of transformations use
fitness, to this fearful trial. Whether her
husband be guilty or innocent Mrs. Beecher
will be honored as a true and faithful
wife, and the sympathies Of the whole world
will 60 forth to her as a woman stanchly and
nobly devoted to the father OF her children
and the love Of her bright and hopeful youth.
If this scandalous trial has revealed some of
the darker shades OF human character it has
also exhibited some of the purest and most
beautiful; and the noble and unfaltering con-
stancy Of Mrs. Beecher to her accused hus-
band is a redeeming trait which sheds pure
lustre athwaft this foul and repulsive scandal.
Our confidence in human virtue cannot be
shaken so long as a woman like Mrs. Beecher
illustrates every honorable quality of her
sex in circumstances so trying as those
which Providence has called her to
meet. We profoundly regret that her
touching devotion to her accused hus-
band is not rewarded by an immediate
verdict Of acquittal, which would have
given such JOY to this noble wife and admira-
bic matron. How her pure heart must ache
at this dreadful suspense BE the verdict
what it may, she at least will remain unfalter-
ingly true TO the bridegroom Of her youth,
and all the world will honor her for her
mistaken trust
Among the ''hearts that will ache at the
inability Of the jury to find verdict Of acquit-
tai is that Of poor Mrs. Tilton, who, if she
has sinned, suffers beyond the measure Of her
guilt Even if the worst be true that has
been alleged against her she deserves COM
miseration. Had she been destitute
Of conscience she would never have
made the confession out Of which oil this
great trouble has arisen. Even supposing
the worst 70 be true which has been alleged in
this trial. il was her conscience and her truth
fitness which brought il to the know ledge Of
her husband II she had smothered her con-
science and kept silence, the guilt which she
is said to have confessed could never have
been detected AT the very worst she is the
victim Of her honest frankness; and as she
made the confession on the condition that her
husband should never arrngn her seducer,
and as he consented To receive the
confession on that condition. and
thought ii consistent with his honor TO
live with her as wife for four
years afterward, no correct mind can justify
him in putting her to shame BY revealing the
secret As q man OF honor, he was bound to
sunder his conjugal relations at once, or else
having condoncd the offence, to have forever
after held bis peace. There is no pretencc on
Tie IdIA ~ AiAt1h that Ah1 ahuittiN WIS IT,
ncwed after the confession, and II was mex
cusably infamous for him TO bring II into ex-
posture and institute a suit after an act Of
forgiveness and four years Of subsequent
cohabitation. II IS impossible for any honor
able mind to feel sympathy with Tilton, or to
regret, on his account that the jury does
not find a verdict against Bcecher In
every view Tilton's conduct in bringing
this suit is infamous. Had he brought
it in 1870, Immediately after tho alleged con-
fession, many would have justified him, not
withstanding the pledge he made to bis wife
4 before receiving her statements But having
I forgiven her then, no bound himself 70 subse-
4 quent silence, unless she should repeat her
! Offence. which Is not preIended. Nobody.