St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-22
TALK.


prime Of life sets one musiug on the peculiar
interest be excited in the Beeeher scandal and
trial as the family friend. An entertaining
screed might be written on the family friend
and the clients friend.
Sometimes you win see in lawyers Office
the person anxious for the Intervention Of
the law, and the friend assisting with coun-
teuance and moral support You viii OBJ
serve that the lawyer knows enough OF hu-
! man nature IN such cases TO direct his chief
powers Of persuasion, his tactics Of blandIsh-
ment and his force Of argument 10 the
clients friend-with the calm certainty that
thereby he has an ally with patent, lbzek-
action OF infallible potency on the client.
He makes the effort with the
absolute conviction that he has established a
! circuit Of persuasion-a momentum OF Il In
fact which viii continue aud keep going
long after be has actively dismissed the mat
ter from his own mind.
ONoulton was par enosZalos the family friend
who was victimiErd BY hts unusual capacities
for such relation. BE was warm hearted,
sympathetic, candid, and vet trusty with the
QUEER trio which Ike continent streams, met
in his confidence.
But his worst blunder was in giving ear TO
the forbidden experiences which ii seemed
Mr.. Beecher must confess in his remarkable
conversations, and write down in yet more
remarkable letters. There was the quick
sand which caught poor Moulton. Perhaps,
too, little grathed vanity in being the con-
idsnt OF such bright and renowned mind
was the first snare of his warm
admiration. Every great aud exalted
mortal Graves his friend. Victoria had Bea-
consield to complain to perehanee OF the
Sildness Of Wales, his spendthrift ways aud
bis exasperaiing impeeuniosity, brought to
parliamentary discussion o.tentimes with the
consequent thrusts Of disloyal and ribald
press, that she did not assist him out of her
royal savings, nor turn over to him some Of
the revenues Of his thrifty father. Then, too,
she had Brown 10 join her in drinking COM
memorative and melancholy whiskeY punches
TO the lamented departed prince consrrt.
Beecher turned 10 Moulton with q recogui-
ton that was nattering enough, but bad in II,
TOO, the touch Of fatality. He barred his SEE
crets, bis agitating delights and apprehen-
sions without Hypocrisy and without stint.
ness, and bore down upon the mental health
Of his chosen recipient until he loalhed him,
and his peculiar ministry a, the time blended
with his unprecedented candor in
private discourse, made MOulton regard him
as I power for evil unequaled in the obsery-
alton Of any living man.
Nine. Roland wished 10 write the thoughts
that we're rising in Der as she was going TO
the scaffold, aud MoultOn likewise At the
hour Of death must have had memories AID
impressions Of that fatcful period which
would have made strange, and even solemn
reading; for, TO him had MeKanna appeared
without a veil, in his most nolsome aspect
and with it. as the teacher, leader and guide
Of his people.
There, auent, the most thrilling reference
to Beecher was made by Stewart L. Wood
ford in Brooklyn In the late presidential
campaign.
There lives In this city one Of the most elo-
quent clergymen IN the land, and one whose
services in behalf OF humanity have been OF the
most eminent character. 4 bel eve most thor-
oughly in the honesty and purity OF that gentle
man. My confidence and faith In that man are
absolute. But not mauy years ago there
came an hour OF trial to that gentleman when
there was nothing between him and utter rain
but the confidence Of the loving hearts Of the
people OF Brooklyn. There were letters pro-
duced and read upon public trial then held 10
this city. and which lasted many months. Had
these letters been read AMI interpreted IN the
spirit and by the methods pursued by Mr
Schurz in reading and explaining the Fisher let
tiers against Mr.. Blaine, they would have driven
that clergyman from every pulpit In the land
and from every home aud fresde in the country.
| Immense and prolonged cheering, mingled with
cries Of That's So And why, my friends.
was not that base attack upon the char
| acter OF this man successful. simply and alone
because the good people OF Brooklyn had faith
| in the honesty and integrity OF their neighhor
| IGreat cheering.l We stood firmly between him
| and his slanderers. and we saved him lGreat
| applause. want for my old friend who entered
| the Fremont campaign with me in 1886, who for
thirty years has lived in the fun sunlight OF pub
| lie life, who faced Ben Hill and his rebel col
| leagues, whose name Is forever associated with
all the grest issues which the Republican
party has carried through want for that man
| the same hind OF justice from the people OF
Brooklyn that they have exercised in the past
Let Brooklyn be to-day as just TO the statesman
as she was few years ago 10 the Clergyman.