Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-06-04
MIN LETTER.

Although the majority OF respectable
people have long since become Disguised
with the mass Of filth sngendsred by tho
Beeeher scandal. the letter Of James H.
Mix. published in the t~eleeraphic col
umns Of the Nsws yesterday. will cause
a thrill Of pleasure in the hearts OF all
men who are not so utterly degraded as
to take delight in tho downfall OF the
pure aud tho good. On that class Of
people the letter. Of course, will have no
effect. II is for their interest 10 believe
Mr. Beecher guilty, and were an angel
from heaven to descend and proclaim
his innocence. they would still cling
fondly to the foul accusation. and cry
down the man to whose proud position
they can never hope to aspire. But to
men and women worthy tho privileges
which humanity confers. the detailed
s,atemsn, OF Mr.. Mix will appeal with
all the greater force. because Of the de-
rision which will be heaped upon it by
the foul-mouthsd and foul.thinking por-
ton Of tho community. From such II
will at least claim respectful consid-
Grafton.
In order to thoroughly estimate the
value Of the testimony OF MIR. Mix.
something Of the man himself should
DO known. James u. Mix ID now u
elsrk in the New York p~ostoilice. but at
the time OF the Woodruff expose, and
for many years previously. was q re-
porter on the New York Tribune. Al
that time Tilton was at the height Of
his fame " . journalist courted and
battered by tho bon ton Of brooklyn
society. and II was natural that New
York and Brooklyn reporters. should
hover around him M they did. Mix
was one Of the little coterie that circlei
around this man who seemed to bs DIES.
tined 10 become n star Of the first mag
nitude in the literary armament. and he
was one to whom Triton paid particular
attention. lilo was. like Tilion himself.
q protege Of Horace Greeley at that
time, and he did much to make Tilton
popular by frequent mention in the
Tribune. The vanity of the man was
we'll served by Nix. and it is not, there
fore. surprising that he WAS u OF the
first when Tilton attempted to use in
the furtherance Of his villainous plot to
draw Beecher down to ruin.
Whether the story which Mr.. Mix
now tells to the world is true or not. it
is not our province to decide. This
much may be said. however. II is eN.
tremely circumstantial. refers to promi.
nent persons in New York who have
not hitherto been drawn into tho scan.
DIAL, AMI claims to 10 substantiaied by
documents in the handwriting Of Tilton.
Among his friends, Mix was often ridi-
culsd for aping the manners Of tho
Tilton school. but no never was con
sidered n fool, and q fool he certainly
Is, u he has sent forth this document
without possessing ample means to ss-
tablish every proposition which he
makes. The most important feature
Of the letter is the revelation Of
the unnamed SIM" so often
referred to in Beeeher's letters,
but which in oil these years he has
never deigned to explain. lie preferred
to suffer all the tortures which n misin-
terpretation Of those words has forced
upon him. rather than to betray the wo-
man who had committed the Z" unnamed
sim" IL the story Of Mr.. Mix is proven
true, the world will look back upon the
seven years cruciiyion Of Henry Ward
Beecher with a wonder and admiration
which will ever increase. IL he has sui.
fered all this. when one word from him
whould have ended the agony, ho is
more than humAn-ho is n very Christ
in ~self.saerihce and long.sufiering.