New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-21


there this hinges The complaint puts forth thoae
two az the only known and ascertained days OF long
continued and infamous criminal intercourse They are
days well = cted by the conrivers OF this accusation,
and the fogcr and fabcators of these pretended con-
LESSONS. We find by the evidence that they had the
means OF knowing, by consulting the public Journals
that on the night of the 9th of October Henry Ward
Beecher delivered OF those magnificent addresses Mt
the Academy Of Music which have associated his name
with the first orators OF all the ages The day selected If
between Of the Friday night prayer meetings, the lee
lures Of which have been for years reported by The
Christian Union in The independent the case may
be- and Sabbath morning service where every utter
Of his Is caught up by these reporters who the
veins and arteries OF intelligence through the world and
circulated this and other lands They safe IN
fixing on that day. unless against unusual contingen
ces, for II scarcely probable that If on Friday night
he delivered his usual Friday evening lecture aud on
sunday morning he otciaed in the presence Of 1000
people 1T Plymouth Church, he could prove alib The
next occasion is equally well chosen II if the inter
venng day between the next Friday evening and Sunday
morning service ! can imagine the searching OF
amanacs by Tton and by Moulton ~ncn the days were
fixed upon You imagine the ransacking OF news
payer files TO that by unlucky chance there had
been exchange but 10 being aseertaned that Mr..
Beecher there Friday night and there Sunday
morning was fair that he could prove
abb on Saturday, and so on the Saturday following
The theory is that your honored tOwnsman
haired hypocrite, who has stood at the collins OF
your wives the hearses Of your children and at the
heads of their graves who has Joined your daughters in
wedock. who has preached TO your feow-ctzens-men
and women boys and maItlens-whO has baptized your
children the fear not of the Supreme God but in the
fear OF that devil whom Theodore Ton with equal
tice has dethroned he mas dethroned the Redecmer
You told that this has been rotten all his life
that though all mankind beside dcce ed the secret
was a viper that found westinghouse In two heartsin
tho hear, ~ &.
, Bowen; that this is who Is capable
of giving the blood OF the Savior on the
Sabbath day the lips of wife and matron and mother
and COMMUNICATE OF his own church, and OF prosntlng
her within the week man, of whom they Will tell you
that he is capable of committing corrupt deliberate per
Jury that he CARDS neither the God whom he serves
nor his felownen nor his conscience, neither the
sanctions OF religion Of public law, nor OF private mo-
raity that he ready TO betray the honored wife OF his
youth, to disgrace their children and their grand
children, and now. the decline Of life when his head
is blossoming for the graveand already you see the
marks OF that sad day. which will be n dark day for
Brooklyn, when Henry Ward Beecher is carried to the
grave-at this man is periured villain Well, here Is
"A temptation, is there mott He IL told, on
the 10th day of October, at your house, one OF
your practitioners sought you, and yielded herself
10 your in the embrace Of base debauchcry seven
days aterward You sought her house and again. rs you
had before rendered 70 her the communion OF the son OF
God. you rendered to her the community OF ddbOical
lust" What should be expected Of such a mani II be
be the pcrured villain that lie is described whore will his
abb bel VIII be On the "a of June, 1873 No; It
VIII be there years ago this crime rs said 20 have
been committed. There IS an Immunity for perjury.
They tell you that these Of Plymouth Church who
arc not because these walls would contain them
that these men OF Plymouth Church, who love and
honor him. are capable OF perjury to him. How.
happens IT, then that of the three thousand vOlun
teers his testimony TO prove that on that day he
rode with Henry Ward Beechcr TO Coney Island to battle
that on that DAY he went with Henry Ward Bcecher on
fishing excursion to Sandy Hook that on that day he
Joined him after breakfast and walked arm IN arm with
MIN from picture gallery picture gallery the City of
! New-YOrk. according TO his wel-known habtnde
Nothing Of the kind nothing OF the kind Yet they
ten you This is hypOcrite and hbertne-in the
! language Of Moulton, "a bertine and a liar" Yet.
there is not word from him. not from his house
hold from his church, by way Of alib on those
DAYS He frankly tells you the stand, b" know OF
nothing that occurred either OF those days that en-
abes me 70 distinguish them from any other Saturdays
| in the year"
Gentlemen do you believe that a man goes, at the
Of sixty time in his life, commit act OF
dcbauchery and does remember the day, and where
was and what he doing and how the sun Of that
morning n light hut Went down upon him in dark
ness for time IN darsno or eternity In order enable
Theodore Tion 10 walk the body Or ris wife IN
order 10 reach the heart Of his enemy he will you
through his counsel to believe that fifteen witnesses
th have committed peruryfor II either Of the
fifteen have sworn The truth. Theodore TiltOn is a man
sworn a liar-and yet tie who command these
witnesses fifteen men, many Of them those whose bare
word is good In every commercial mart on the globe ;
fifteen men, many Of whom connected with The inter
cs.s OF commerce. Of literature, Of finance in the capitals
of the world; fifteen who, il they were 10 be
stricken down in one day in your midst would clothe
BROOKLYN in mourning fifteen men who stand sustaining
the magnificent fabric OF your commercial prcemnence
among the cities Of the globe the who can com
and such friends such Witnesses calls 10 prove
that the charged upon him these days could not
have been committed, because he elsewhere.
pass those two days II would be he for me TO
enlarge. l. there that Jury who does not
and feel that those selected by the cOnspirgtOr
because OF the probability Of the defendant being VII
he could have had two such Interviews one upon this
jury who entertain doubt that II he were the
ured villain he If described and surrounded by hosts of
Others equally ready sell their sonls Tor him. there
would have been albi the other of those
days. which would broken the back Of this
prosecution
AT this point Mr. Sherman made whisperrd sucges
ton 70 Mr.. Porter Mr. Porter fresnmingl-My ass0ci-
makes suggestion which il valuable, but have 70
look 10 your time, gentlemen, and mine.
PRAISE OF BESSIE TURNER.