Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1875 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY. M AUCH 2 1875

FOUTT-TUIRD CONGRESS. SECOND SESSION. HOUSE. EXPORT OF THH LOUISIANA OOMMITTK-DE-riATOrTHE ORIGINAL REVENUE BILIAND PASSAGE OF A SUBSTITUTE THE BILL AS PASSED. Washington, Feb. 23.

G. F. Hoar, ol Mass., chairman of the 8 pecial committee on Louisiana aöalxs, made a report, cicsmg wnu 0 tlona: Wherbab. Both branches of the legisla

ture of Louisiana have requested the select committee of the Honso to investigate the ' wmm!Hnpfla attendinz the returns and

election thereof In that stale ior tco yci Wkavola Th ( committee has unani mously reported that the returning board of that state, in canvassing nu cuuipinus aaid returns, and in the promulgation cf the result, wrongfully applied, an erroneous inle of law. by reason whereof per sons were awarded in the House of Ropre eentatives seats to which they were not en titled, and persons entitled to seats were do nrtverl of them. Resolved, That it is recommended to the TT of Representatives of Louisiana to .vo i mm ah ut. Ittels to remedv the said in Justice, and to place the persons rightfully .... . A entitled to meinie i!nWA(). That, William P.Kellog be recog f the state of Louisi ana until the end of the term of office fixed bv the Constitution of that state. "The majority and minority reports wero erdered printed, a the result of a colloquy between the members as 10 which was the majority report and which was the minority. It may be stated that all the members of the committee report against the action of the returning board; that Mes3rs. Foster, Pbelps, Potter and Marshall unite in a majority report that there was no Intimidation In the state but a free and lair election which resulted in favor of the conservatives, who were deprived of the result by the wrongful action of the returning board; that Mes-rs. Hoar, Wheeler and Frye unite in a minority report, and that Foster assents with Hoar, Wheeler and Frye, to a compromise, recognizing Kellogg as governor and giving a majority in the Houso to the conservative delegates. The House at 12 o'clock went into the committee of the whole on the tariff bill. Mr. Lougbridge offered an additional sec tion, imposing an additional tax ot 3 per cent on all incomes between 53,000 and 110,000, and of 5 per cent on all incomes exceeding f 10.000: Mr. Hoskins.vf N. Y.. declared that such a provision would recessitate 1,500 additional officers and $1,500,000 adiilional costs. Mr. Butler, of Mas., offered an amendment providing that the tax on dividends, etc.. shall be paid by the corporations Adopted. Mr. Doughridge'a amendment, as thus amended. wa3 adopted 114 to 86, Mr Cotton, of Iowa, moved anew section taxine tea and coffee 10 and 2 cents a pound. Rejected, 35to 113. Mr. Phillips, ol Kan., moved an add! tional section imposing an additional tax of naif ot one per cent, on national Dank notes, and one tanth of ono per cent, oa tbo sales of gold. Mr. Buckner. ot Mo., offered, as a substitute for Mr. Phillips' amendment, a section providing that afler the first ot July next, a tax of one tenth per cent, shall be imposed on all sales of Btocks, bonds, gold and silver bullion, coin and ether securities. Thesubstituto was asreed to. 105 to 58. Mr. Dawes, of Mass.. then moved, amid much excitement, to strike out the exacting clause of the bill. Carried llü to SI. The committee then rose and reported that action to the Hons. Mr. Smith, of O., moved to recommit the bill to tee committee on ways and means, with instructions to report it back with two sections, one imposing an income tax, and the other taxing whisky S3 cents a gallon. Rejected 65 to 23. The House then pro ceeded to vote by yeas and nays cn STRIKING OUT THE ENACTING CLAUSE, and it was not agreed to, yea3, 1C6, cays, 150, as follows; Yeas Messrs. Adams, Aicher, Arthur, Ashe, Atkins, Banning, Bass, I!ck, Bell, Berry, Blounr, Bowen, Bright, Bromberg, Brown, Buckner, Burchard, Caldwell, Chit tenden, Clark of Mo., Clarke of N Y., Clayton, Clymer, Comingo, Cook, Cotton, Cox, Crittenden, Cross land, Crufchfield, Davis, DeWitt, Durham. JIdridge, flock, Old (Imps, Glover, Gunter, Hamilton, Uaocock, Harris, of Oa., Harris, of Va., Hatcher, Haven?, Hereford, Ilf-rndon, Holman, Iluntoa, Keiley, Kntpp, I.,inar, Liach, ljoughridge, Lut trell, Magee, Marshall, McDill of Iowa, Mc Lean, Milliken, Mills, Morrison, Neal, Nesmith. NUalack, O'Brien, Orr, Parker, of N H. Perrv. Fnelps, Pierce, Potter, Randall, Read, W, R. liiberts, Savler ot Ind., ayler or Ohio, Scbell, Scudder, of N. Y Sener, Smith of Va., Hnyder. Southard, Speer, S:aodiford, Slevets cl Mass , St. John, Stone. Storm, S.owell, Strait, Swain,' Thomas of Va., Vance, Waldell. Wall. "Well, Whitehead, Whitth rne Willard ot Vf., V illürd of Mich., Willie, Wilron, cf M.i., Wolfe, Wood, Young ot Ky.. and Youcg c..f Oa 106. Seen Mepsr. Albert, Albright, Averill, Barnuui, Barrere. Barry, Begole, Biery, Bradley, Kutnnton, uundv, Kur leiab. Burrows, Butler ol Mass.. Cii'iion Carpenter, Ca-on, Cese na. Clark cf N. J. Clement', Cabb of Kau. Coburn, Conner, Corwin, Crooxe.Cronnse, Curtis, Uanlord, Darrall, Dawe, Dobbins, D nnan, Duell, Dunnell, Lains, f srweil, I ield, ord,Fos ter, Freeman, Frye, Garfield, Gooch, Gunkef, Hagans, 'Hale o( Me., Hanrmer, Harris ot Mm, Harrison, Hawthorne, Hawlev of Uli., Uawley of Conn., Hazelton of Wis., Hazleton of N. J., E. It. Hoar, O. F. Hoar, Hodges, Hosk ins, Houghton, Howe, Hubbell, Hunter, Hurlbut, Hyde, Hynes, Kasson, Kellogg, Killinger, Lampert, Lawrence; Lawson, Lewi, Lowe, Lowndes, Lynch, Martin, Maynard. McCrary, McDill ot Wis., MacDougall. McNults, Merriam, Monroe, Moore, Morey, Myers, Negley, Nibs, Nunn. O'Neil. Orth, Packard, Parker, Parker, of Mo., Parfous, Pelham, Pendleton, Phillips, Pike, Piatt of N. Y., Poland, Itauey, Rapier, Ray, Richmond, E. H. Itobeit, Robinson ot Ohio, Ross, Rusk, Sawyer, Sccfield, Judder of N. J., Sessions, Shanks, Sbeats, Sueldon, Snerwood, Shoemaker, Sloan, Small, Smart, Smith of Pa , Smith of L., iSoiith of N. Y., Smith or Oaio, Sprague, Stanard, Starkweather, Strawbridge, Sypher, Taylor, Thompson, Thornburgb, Todd, Tuwnsend, Tvcer, Waldron, Wallace, Wtrdof N. J., Wheeler. White, "Whitley, Wilber, Williams of -Wis .Williams ot Mich., Wilson of Iowa, Wilson of Ind.,and Wocdworth 150. Mr. Dawes ottered a substitute for the bill, taxing whiky herea'.ter at 90 cents a gallon, tobac 1 and sugar as In the amended bill, and restoring the ten per cent, tax on manufactured g'Kxis, and on that he moved the .previous question. The previous question was secorded, and the, msin question ordered yeas, 133; nays, 114. ILesubstltuta was agreed tc yeas, 131; nays, 111. The question then recurred on ordering the bill to be engrossed and reed a third lime, on which he moved the previous question. The previous question was econded by the necessary two-thirds, and the bill was then passed yeas, 123; nays, 113. The following TEXT OF THE BILL AS PASSED: Sectios 1. That from and after the date of the passage of this act there shall bo levied

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and collected on all distilled spirit thereafter produced in the United States a tax of 90 cents on each proof gallon, or wine gallon when below proof, to be paid by the distiller, owner or person having possession thereof before the removal from the distillery or bonded warehouse, and so much of section 3 251 of the revised statutes of the United Slates as Is Inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed. Seo. 2. That section 3,368 of the revised statutes te, and the same is hereby amended by striking out the words "twenty cents a pound," and (.Inserting in lieu thereof the words "twenty-four cents a pound," provided that section 3,391 ot the revised statutes be, and the same is amended by striking out the word "five" wherever it occurs therein and Inserting in Ilea thereof the word "six," and by striking out the word "sixty," and inserting the word "seventy-five." increasing the duty on cigars from $5 to $G a thousand, and on cigarettes from f2 50 to 2 75, provided that the increase of tax herein provided for shall not apply to tobacco, cigars or cigarettes oa which the tax ander the existing law shall have been paid when this act takes effect. sm. 3. That on all molasses, concen trated molasses, tank bottoms syrup of sugar, cane juice, melada, and on sugar, ac to the Dutch standard of color, im ported from foreign countries, there shall bo levied, collected and paid In addition to the duties now imposed iu schedule G. section 2.504 of the revised statutes, an amount t.jMl to 2o per cent. 01 me saia duties as levied upon the several articles and grades herein designated, provuea mat tne mnoentrated melada or concrete shall here after be clsed aa sogar dutiable according to the color ot the Dutch standard, and melada shall be known and denned as an article mads in the process of sugar making, cane Juica boiled down to the sugar point ana cunvaiim:; the sugar ana moiaBas lesuiuu from the boiling proces? without any process of purglDg or clarification, and any and all productions 01 sugar caneimportea in Dags, not baskets or other than light packages, shall be considered sugar, and dutiable as 6uch; and provided further, that of the draw back on refined sugars exportea auoweu uy sflctlon 3 019 of the revised statutes of the United States, only one per cent, ot me amount so allowed shall be retained by the United 8tates. Seo. 4. That so much of pectlon A003 ot the revised statutes as provides tnat only 90 per centum of the several duties and rates of duty imposed on certain articles therein enumerated Dy section z,ov, bq'i oe levieu, collected and paid, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and the several dutie s and rate of duty prescribed in the said section 2,504 shall be and remain as by that section levied, without an abatement 01 iu per cantum, as provided in section 2,503. SEC. b. Ill at 1 ue increase oiuuwes provided by this act shall not apply to any goods, wares or merchandise actually on ship board and bound to the United States on or before the 10th day ot February, lSo, nor on anvsach goods, wares or merchan dise on deposit in the warehouses or public stores at the date ot the passisre of this act. Src. 6. Provides that nothing in the act of February 8, 1S75, -'the little tariff act," ball be construed to impose any auty on boltinsr cloths, therefore admitted free of duty. jr to require the use of stamps on en tries of receipts in pass books of savings banks. The following is the vote in detail on the FINAL PASSAOE OP THE BILL: ' Yeas Albert, Albright, Averill, Barber, Barrere, Barry, Begole, Biery, Bradley, Buffington, Bundy, Burleigh, Burrows, Butler of Mass., Cain, Carpenter, Caaon, Cessna.CIark of N. J., Clymer, Cobb of Kan., Conger, Crooke, Crounse, Curtis, Danford, Darrall, Dawes, Dobbins, Düell, Eames, Field, Foster, Freeman, Frye, Garfield, Gooche, Hagans, Hale of Me.,' Uarmer, Harris of Mass., Harrison, Hathorn, Hawley of III., Hawley of Conn., Htzplton of Wis., Hazelton ol N. J., E. R. Hoar, G. F. Hoar, Hodet Hoskins, Houghton, Habbel!, Kasson, Killinger, Lsmport, Lawson, Lowis, Lowe, Lynch, Maynard, McCrary, McDill of Wis., MacDousall, Merriam, Monroe, Moore, Morey, Meyers, Negley, Niles, O'Neil, Orr, Orth, Packer, Pg, Parker of Mo., Parsons, Pendleton, Pike, Piatt of N. Y., Poland, Pratt, Reiner, Rapier, Richmond, K. U. Roberts, Robinson of Ohio, Ros.s, Ruk, Sawyer, Scudder of N. J., Sessions, Shank.", iSheats, Sheldon, Shoemaker, Small, Smith of Penn., Smith of La., Smith ofN, Y., Sprazue, Stanard, Starkweather, Strawbridge, Sypber, Taylor, Thomas, of Va., Thompson, Thornbürgti, Todd, Townsend, Tyner, Waldron, Wallace, Ward of N. J., White, Wilbur, Williams of Wis.. Williams of Mxss., Williams of Mich., Wilson of Iowa and Wool worth 123. Noes Mears. Adams, Archer, Arthur, Asbe,AtkiDS, Banning, Barnura, Beck.Bell, Berry, Bland, Blount, Biwen, Bright, Broniberg. Brown, Buckner, Bu retard, Butler of Tenn., Caldwell, Cannon, C.arkof Mo..Clayton, Clements, Coburn, Comingo, Cook, Corwin, Cotton, Cox, Crittenden, Crossland, Crutchfield, Dwis, De Witt, Donnnn, DanneU, Durham, Eldrldgg, Klnck, Fort, Giddinps, Glover, Gunck6l, Gunter, Hamilton, Hancock, Harris of Gj., Hanls of Va., Havens, Hereford, Uerndon, Holman, Hunter, Houston, Hurlbut, II jde, Kelly, Kellogg, Knapp, Lamar, Lawreuce, LuUrell, Magee, Marshall, Martin, McDillot la., McLean, McNulta, Milllkin. Mills, Morrison, Neal, Ni black, O'Brion, Parker of N. H., Pbelps, Phillips, Potter, Randall, Ray,- Read, Sayler of Ind. SivlerofO., Soner, Sherwood, Sloss, Saiith of Va., Smith of O., Smith of 'N. C, Southard, Speer, Standiford, Stevens of Maj-s., St. John, Stone, Storm, Stowell, Str.,Swann. Vance, Waddnll, Walls, Wells, Whitehead, Whitthorne, Willard of Vt., Willard or Micb., Willie, Wilsou of Ind., Wood, Young of Ky., and Young of Ga. 113. The House then adjourned. From a letter from Prof. Peters dated at Qncenstowu. New Zealand, the 11th of December, is the following paragraph: In the morning telegrams dropped in from all parts of the island announcing rain here, e ouds there, clouds all over New Zealand, clouds alo at Queenstown. It was also overcast at this station till two minutes before the contact. The sun then shone out and continued bright for nearly two hours. By orders everybody did bis duty silently. So silent is all, that in my house. Equatorial, sixty feet off, I can distinctly hear the springing of the photograph slide, every clasp anncuncing one picture more. In my enclosure I continued to measure the distances of Venus and the sun's limit; then, tter the planet had tar advanced upon the disk, took advantage of the occaMon for measuring with the double image micrometer the apparent dian-ete&of Venus. Thus was determined for the first time, as I believe, siuce the creation of the world, the real tizs of Venu, with the accuracy of the three-hundredth part of its value. During the latter part of the trans-it floating clouds interfered, but photographs were taken as often as a gap revealed the sun. In all, 239 pictures were taken in the last 10 minutes before egreee. When all was over I called together tbo assistants, to ive three hearty cheers, and to dip three timesour glorious fig. The Rev. J. Smith Dodge, of Stamford. Conn., Is the latest candidate for the presidency olTafts College.

THE LOUISIANA QUESTION.

MAJORITY REPORT OF THE - COMMITTEE. PIKDIHOOP PHELPS, POSTER, POTTER AND MARSHALL THET RECOMMEND THAT THE PEOPLE BE LEFT TO GOVERN THEMSELVES VIEWS C M KELLOOO'S ADMINISTRATION. Washington, Feb. 23. The undersigned, a majority of the committee on the state of the South, respectfully report that they can not agree to the report made to the committee by Messrs. II 3ar, Wheeler and Frye. The laws Inimical to the colored people ol Louisiana referred to in this report, have been repealed for years, except during the schism of Gov. Warmoth In 1872. The republican party aas long bad control of the machines of the state. The state registration shows an exc? ss of the colored over the white voters, giving 90,781 colored to 70,823 whites. Ia the absence of any direct evidence that the late election was not free and fair, the assumption of the minority that enough colored voters must therefore have been prevented from votlDg at the late election by the recollection of the Colfax and Coushatta killlncrs. the cases and circumstances of which are disputed, and by other riots which occurred years before, to have changed the result of the election throughout the state, is an assumption so violent, when it is recollected that both these parishes elected the full Kellogg ticket by an Increased re publican majority, as not to be received, if any other causes lor the vote of the state can be found. Such causes exist, and are op vious. Among Ibem are: First, the registration was incorrect, and exceeded the true colored vote. The registration was wholly in the hands ot the Kellozg officials with whom arspubllcn committee, with United States Mrshal Packard at thoir head, co operated. In only three parishes did the republican super- visoisof registration make any complaint of unfair or INSUFFICIENT REGIS! r.ATI ON. On the other hand, very great complaint was made by the conservatives, who specified with proof, 5,200 cases of conceded false registration in New Orleans alone, and those conservatives who had -been cooperating in the joint-party committee to secure a lair registra tor, ave rp In despair. The census of 1870, correctness of which is not im peached, suowed 87,070 whites and 86,913 colored males over twenty-one years ol age. All the statistics and evidence before us indicate no change in their proportion in favor of the colored voters. Yet the registration of the colored voters exceeded by 4.000 the total number ot colored adult males returned by the census, while the registration of white voters was 10.000 less; 2. The whole number of vcte registered was 187,604, of these, 143,523 voted. This is a larger proportion ot registered voters than usually vote iu any ot the Northern states. In an agricultural state sparsely settled, where long journeys had olten been made to reach the polls, it is unreasonable to suppose that a greater proportion of tbe registered blacks would have voluntarily turned out to sustain a government under which the prosperity ot the state and their wages and the value of their shares of production had steadily declined, thau usaally vote at elections North or South. Third, the year 1874 was a year of political change, in which the vote throughout all the states was seriously AFFECTED AGAINST THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, a change resulting largely from the financial distress of the people, and which should therefore naturally have been even greater in Louisiana than elsewhere. Fourth, it became tbe interest of the conservatives, at least at the last election, not to intimidate, but to acquire by every fair means colored votes. Parties who wero alleged to have threatened the blacks, even with a refusal of employment, were subjected to prompt arrest. It was known that pretexts would be sought to deprive tbe conservatives of the result if they prevailed in the election. It was therefore, their interest to avoid giving any such pretext. Accordingly they determined everywhere to cooperate with and to conciliate the black.. They voted down the propositions or suggestions which were made in the early part of the campaign for a refusal to employ those coloied voters wfco would not co-operate with, them, and generally sought, by combining with the colored voters, to carry tbe elections. Local combinations against tbe Kellogg candidates were made in many parishes on men of all parties and colr. In many parishes a union ticket of colored and conservative voters was voted for and elected. An intelligent colored witness testified that be desired abetter government, and to that end was willing to swallow tbe white man if tbe white men would swallow the colored. These causes and feelings very naturally united to SWELL THE CONSERVATIVE VOTE in such localities as are indicated by thereturns. Fifth-, the entire want of any direct evidence to show any general intimidation of the colored voters. Of coiirae In bo large a state it would be impossible that there should be no instances of a refusal to employ or of intimidation. Such occur in every state, but the ev-idence certainly indicates no general intimidation of the colored voters and that such intimidation as did exist in the state was rather in the interest ot the re public! s than of tbe conservatives. The United Stato marshals, whose etiief was the chairman of the republican stale committee, armed in some cases with blank warrant of arrest, and aided by federal troops, made constant arrests before tbe election, but not alterwards. The oversight ot the election and the returns were in the hands of Gov. Kellogg's officials. Their account and return did snow twentynine majority of the members of the lower bouse elected by the conservatives without anjr protest whatever, except in three paribSes, although it was their province and duty to proUsc in any case where violence and intimidation or fraud existed. Indeed the direct evidence as to election ol 1874, as well as tbe circumstances, clearly indicate a peaceable and fair election. Iu fact, after tbe visit of the first cammitteo, the KVllogg party, with all their machinery for collecting evidence, were unable to produce in the entire state more than half a doten persons to testify to anything impeaching the freedom and FAIRNESS OF THE LATE ELECTION who were not office-holders or connected with office-holders. Against such faces it, seems to us idle to assume that the disturbances so vividly pictured by the minority could have kept up throughout their state such a feeling of intimidation as would justify the assumption that but for that feeling the state would have gone republican. AH experience shows that tbe result of the election of 1874 iu Louisiana, as re turned to the returning board, was natural, and to be only accounted for by the reasons we have given. We hold, therefore, tCat in November, 1874, the people of the state of Louisiana did fairly have a free, peaceable and full registration and election, in which a clear conservative uiejority was elected to the lower house of the legislature, of which mj irity the conservatives were deprived by the unjust, illegal and arbitrary returning board. To the resolutions reported to tbe House from the committee, as to tbe action of tbe returning beard, we are all agreed. We understand the committee to be unanimous in finding tbe fact tbat tbe action of tbe returning board has defeated the will of tbe people, as expressed by

them at tbe polls on tbe 3d of December.

1874. The people then elected to the lower house of their legislature ' A MAJORITY OF CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS. A portion of the conservative members thus elected were refused their certificates. This is an act of great ic justice to individuals and of tbe greatest danger to tbe state and free government, and oneht to be immediately corrected by any power competent to correct it. The resolution recommending the recogni tion of Gov. Kellogg is based upon the general impression, not upon evidence. On this ooiot no testimony was taken either by th committee or any part of it. Kellogg may, cr may not, have been elected in 1872, but there is no evidence to show the fact, or if there be it has been neither sought nor louna oy this committee. Messrs. Foste and Phelps think that the popular belief, taking both conservative and radical circle, Inclines on the whole to justify Kellogg's and Peun's claims, and aa Kellogsc ia and has been act ing governor of Louisiana for tbe past two years, to deny his right and to install another in his place after this lapse of time might involve Incalculable mischief to tbe loyal political interests of the state. To avoid the mischief and confusion of change. A majority of the citiz?ns of Louisiana seem willing to accept IS A COMPROMISE Kellogg's recognition, and the restoration to the conservatives of the control of the lower bouse. For these reasons Messrs. Foster and Phelps do not wish to oppose the recommendation that the administration of Gov. Kellogg be recognized. Neither In view of the fact that they know nothing of the merits of the case, as judged by competent evidence, do tLey wish to be understood as urging it. They only wish to record their agreement with those of tneir associates who believe that such a compromise might be making a termination of tbe dirficultles, certain in Louisiana, be on the whole less intolerable tbat the present situation of that distressed people. But to any resolution recognizing Kellogg Messrs. Potter and Marshall are utterly opposed. They find nothing to justify the belief that Kellogg was elected. That he seized tbe government Dy the aid or ieaerai troops, tbrougb a void and fraudulent order which prevented tbe counting and return of votes, should be a Btanding presumption against him. When the people outraged by the abuses of his government had successfully regained the office he had usurped, he was again reseated by faderal power through tbe forms of law by which be had Intrenched himself. He once more sought to nullify tbe choice of toe people at the late election, and to that end callel in tbe federal troops to break up the meeting of tbe legis lature. For congress to recognize an usurpation, so grots and so oppressive, is, they think, to establish a precedent by. which, under pretexts that can readily be found, say Hate gorernment msv be over thrown, tbe will of the people nullit' d, fraud and violecce made permanent, and republi can forma perverted to destroy liberty. Iu their judgment all tbat Is needed iu Louisiana is to withdraw the federal troops and leave tbe people of thit state to govern themselves. Chas. Foster, William Walter Phelim, Clark'ON N. Potter, Samuels. Marshall. THE DEFENSE! BEGINS. GEN. TRACY'S PLEA. BEECHES 8 BIOGRAPHY THE PLAINTIFF HIS EGOTISM AND VANITY HIS JEALOUSY OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS DEFENDANT THE TALE OP TlLTON'U SINS HIS PURSUIT OF STRANGE WOMEN AND HERESY IN RE LIGION AND MORALS. New York, Feb. 24. The Brooklyn City Court seemed more than usually crowded this morning, tbe greater number of those persons being lawyers gathered to bear the opening address for the defense in the great scandal trial. The principals to tbe suit were early in their seats. Gen. Tracy, of the counsel for the defense, arrived a quarter of an hour afcer the formal opening of the court. When a faw preliminaries bad been arranged he arose and said tbe time bad arrived for the defense to open the case. There were great interests involved in this trial. They could not be over estimated as tbey involved the religious and moral interests ot society. Either this defendant was to go forth vindicated from this court room, or with a stain upon bis li.'? and character. His client toi.k hi Msnd here alone but supported by bis God and the justice of his cause. Tbe defendant erly devoted himself to the ministry i t God. It as no bed ot roses. He struck out lor the wild west and rung the bell in tbe iorest giadf s assisted by his dear wife, who accompanied bim. He is now tbe same true, elm pie, unail . cted man as be was then in bis western home. There was no pain or human sorrow but had found in bim a reliever. Among hi great congregation ho had intnHered for over twen'y years un tiringly, lie bal been the icdefnt gable teacher of tbe people for all tbee years. It was because his preaching wa-i known by those who knew the man that be was guarded around in this trial by so many warm beans. When danger threatened from abroad he was Grat to lead the musses in defense cf tbe union. His courage in tbat struggle won tho admiration of tbe whole world and tbe earnest gratitude cf bis own people. One of the motst striking characteristics of tbe man, was a profound and earnest Interest in young men. This prosecu tion was the reward rec?ived for the love and devotion be had lavished upon a young man. The speaker then went on to relate THE HISTORY OF THEODORE TILTON, who, he said, began life upon the staff of a newspaper as a reporter. He embraced the wildest views, and believed that tbe world would follow in the way which he led. lie be cp me a deist, denounced marriage as a fraud and as hindering the advancement of tbe world. Tbe leader of men must know how to protect ar d preserve, but Theodore Tilton knew only how to destroy. Theodore Tilton fell from bis high eminence, to which few men attain, to the bottom of an abyss. Iu tbe blind impotence ot his rage be determined to vis-it his anger upon Henry Wurd Beechf r, imsginin tba: he had been tbe cause ct his destruction. Mr. Bsejher was tne friend of both Theodore Tilton and his wife. His frlsnd, wife and children trust be trampled down to necure tbat vindication for which he had bartered his whole soul. Mr. Beecher moved to this city from Indianapolis in 1847, and was lready a matured man of assured fame when Tiitou wan enrolled among the men of Plymouth Church. Ue bad nothing to gain from young Tilton, and the latter had everything to gain from the ountenance widen be affrdd him. Beecnsr's friendship forTilton wa increased by the marriage ot tbe latter to a young girl in his church in whom the pastor bad taken an Interest. Tilton became an editorial writer upon tbe Independent, and was brought into still closer relations with his Kastor, who was a frequent contributor to lall' Journall. Even at the time Tilton began to feel a Jealousyot Beecher, although thi- was not suspected by the latter. Bacher, losing the country residence at, which bis family remained daring certain

seasons of the year, was, as was well known,

n tbe frequent habit of taking bis meals in Brooklyn at the houses of his parishion ers. As early as 1861 or 1862 Tilton frequently urged Beecher to visit his house in this manner, urging the regard which was entertained for bim by bis wife. Beecher at length complied to some extent with these solicitations. Mrs. Tilton. who was the real defendant in this case 'was a woman ot small stature, childlike nature, and of a morbid religious enthusiasm. Tilton himself had said that if she had lived in the early times of the Catholic church her name would nave been surrounded by a halo, fche was ENTIRELY DEVOTED TO HER HUSBAND, looked up to him in everything, and consulted his every wish. She watched with pride bis progress, but was doomed to the sorrow of seeing bim blinded by egotism and surrounded by flatterers, losing his hold upon what abe believed to be tbe foundations of religion. She tried with tears and prayers to turn her husband to tbe rlzht, and she looked to ber trnsted pastor to aid her in this labor. It Tilton had but followed the advice in tbe beautiful letter which Beecher wrote to bim in 1867, be would now have a happy home. Yet we are asked to believe that at tbe very time when this wife was trying to save her husband she committed the very sin against which she was warning him in 1863. Tracy continued: Beecher sailed for Europe, leaving Tilton in Bole charge of tbe Independent. In the absence of his former gnide Tilton's jealousy of him was increased, but he still maintained the outward form of friendship. In 1865, on the night of November 30, be wrote to Beecher a letter, in wnich be spoko of his long affec tion ior i5eecc-3r. or tneir intimacy, and ol tbe obligations which be owed to him. He begged Beecber in this letter to forgive bim for any word or deed of his which bad given ofierss and also spoke in it cf bis religious depression. In this year, 1865, Tilton became managing editor ot the Independent, and in his egotism took' every method of showing his independence of Beecher, whose equal or superior ho now considered himself to be. He took advan tage of political differences to make such violent attacks on Beecher in the Independ ent that the latter was obliged to dissolve all connection with that journal. The pretext for these attacks was Beecber's Cleveland letter, which had been read In evidence advocating a moderate policy towards the South, a letter which read now, nine years afterward, showed Beecher to be no less eminent as a statesman than as a pastor. But tbe views of the extreme men prevailed, and TiPon at tbat time, as be bal testified, found himself with the majority of bis party. TiltoD, in bis editorial chair, was surrounded by ex tremists of every sort, who found In him a mind disposed to take the most radical view of every subject. ALARMING CHANGES took place iu his religious eentiments, as appears from his own testimony and from his letters. As also appeared from his own testimony end irom that of Mrs. Bradshaw, this change was a caute of great sorrow to h:s wife. Gen. Tracy, to illustrate this, read extracts from Tilton's letters already in evi dence, and 1 rem Tilton's testimony before the church committee. Tilton had testified that his change of opinion in regard to the divinity of the Savior had caused ms wne greater sorrow man any other event in bis lire except this scandal, in this extremity Mrs. Tilton appealed to her pastor and the latter talked with bim kindly on the subject. Beecher also wrote to him tbe beautiful letter to which he had alread v referred. Tbe ppeaker read this letter already introduced In evi dence in which Beecher said he thought Til ton's religious views were undergoing a transition state to which many of most thoughtful men were sul jeet at some period of their lives. Brecher gave Tilton wordsof sympathy and kindly advice, referring to bis own experience. At the close ot the letter be said he had given up tbe idea of starting a new newspaper, a statement the importance o wnicn would necome apparent later In the spring. Gen. Tracy then said tbat Tilton's views, also, underwent an important change.in regard to tbe relations or tne sexes, Believing tbat a great social revolution was impending in- regard to the matter. Tilton, according to his usual custom, em braced the radical side. He made this sub ject a matter of free and full consideration with his associates who visited at his bouse, casing iDe ground tnat every relation between tbe sexes was proper which was attended by mutual love. These views and these associates were extremely offensive to bis wife, and a source of even greater apguish to her than the changeJn bis religious opinions. In 1866 Tilton induced his wife, against her will, to invite to her- bou?e a yooug lady whose ac quaintacce he bad made in tbe West, and witn whom, mere was do doubt, he was deeply in love, as appeared from bis own letters. It was his own inti macy with this woman which nearly DROVE HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW TO INSANITY. The lady in question, seeing the danger to her from Tilton's admiration, finally loft and broke eff her relations with him. In his letters to hi wife Tilton spoke of his friendships, as he called them, for va rious women with a freedom which was as tonishire. In a letter written to his wife on tbe 12'.h of February, 1867. be referred to his intimacy in a certain Western family which ho had visited, and said that his whole life would have been different If hla wife's mother had been a woman lie Mrs. , and if be could have been sheltered under such a roof as that of Mrs a instead ot breathing tbe atmos phere of Livingston street. He also spoke of having carried the Livingston street mildew on his erments for years, and said tbat if be returned to Brooklyn at all he should return a better man. Gen. Tracy then said that the family referred to in this letter was tbat in which "tbe young lady already referred to was onecf tnedaugbters.the young lady whom he af erwards took to bis own borne. Could a husband inflict a greater cruelty on a wife than by writing tuch a letter? In Jauuarr, 1SG8, Tilton's criminal conduct bad become too notorious for concealment, and his wir iu one ot her moet exalted moods taxed bim with bis sins. Conscience stricken be fell grove'ling at her feet and she gave him ber free and generous forgiveness. The letter read in evidence Showed hat at an interview between tbe two on the evening of January 26, 1S6S, Mr. Tilton made a confession to his wife, and that she accepted his pledges of repentance. She went further than this. and blamed ber own conduct as the cause of his transgressions, continuing for a long time after to lash herself tor this imaginary fault. Gen. Tracy then read a letter, alrea.iy in evidence. wriKen by Tilton to bis wife in January, 1868, in which he speaks of himself a a hypocrite and a wbited tepu)cbr, filled with dead men's bones. He then read Mrs. T.'s reply, in which she blames herself for unfeeling conduct towards her husband and calls herself the chief of inners. The speaker then said tbat this last let er, dated Jan. 31s', 1868, was written long be'ore a breitb ol suspicion had been breathed against t is woman, evtn by h'r husbaud, and at a time when Tilton was himself guiliy. He then read a letter in which Mrs. Uli on spoke of ber mistake in having tried to repress tbe expression of ber great love tor ber. husband for fir tbat sne would make bim selfish. She also said in it that she thought bis influence over a woman whom he loved must be

like his influence OTer an audience, that to love was praiseworthy, but to abuse bis gift of influence waa a Bin, that she was strong, and that no fascinations oould ever induce her to YIELD HER WOMANHOOD. Tracy said that this was the letter which had become somewhat famous in the cause through the fact that it had been so garbled by tba plaintiff in his statement as to appear there like a confession of a wife tbat waa struggling against temptation. In fact she was referring to his abuse of his Infi uenca over other women, and to bia oonle&sioa to her of bis infidelities. a recess was here taken.' Atter the recess Tracy resumed bis address to tbe jury, taking up the subject of which be was speaking at the hour of the adjournment. He read a letter written by Tilton to his w if on February 9, 1868. In this Tilton spoke of her purity and devotion as filling him with lov and humility. He said that her conduct towards bim on the last evening be bad spent at home had made him a new creature, that be was once more a man among men, and a Christian among Christians. She was fcorthy his love, and he was pledged to her forever, and that for bim there was no more loss of self respect. Gen. Tracy then read a letter from Mrs. Tilton to her husbacd, on February 18, 1868, in rep'y to a letter of Tilton's, In which be spoke of bis visit to the family. He said that, despite the cruelty of this letter from her husband, and although Tilton had forfeited Eeveral lecture engagements In order to make the visit in question, tbe wife was resolved to exhibit no jealousy. The speaker said that in the following summer Tilton had returned to his home

und was surrounded with his old temptations, which he wna nn&h'a tr malet in Ka following November Tilton wrote a letter lrora bis offbe in New York, in answer to a note from bis wife, in which he expressed his regret that he could not make his wife as happy as bo wished. He said in it that he bad th best of intentions and the mit nf nru that bis wife was the kindest of human beiegs and tbat all his troubles were ot his own making, but tbat to inflict them on bis wife and children doubled his sorrow. Gen. Tracy then read a letter from Mrs. Ti'.tnn to her husband on Feb. 20. lS6ft. in whirl) ahet ATnrcart rarr. tVisf ,ha could not manage her household in accordance with his wlshea. Ia another letter written In Marcb.lSGS, she spoke of her de termination to uo EVERYTHING WHICH HE MIOUTH WISH. The speaker said that the correspondence of Mr. Tilton in 1SG0 showed his failure to keep the promises which be made to bis w ife. In January. 1S63. rumors of his disso lute life filled the air aroand him, and in December. 1870. the storm burst upon bia head. Tilton then feared Beechcr'8 power and he was continually disparaging Beecher. In 1SGS a new paper was started in New York called the Ciiistian Union, and in 1S70 Beecher became its editor. The rapid increase of thia paper alarmed both Bowen and Tilton, and the latter's views became wilder. In lb70 rumors of Tilton's immorality reached Bowen's ears, and details of the Winsted affair. The young lady was no mere child, as he say, but was a larger woman than Mrs. Tilton. This reached Bowen's ears, and there ateo appeared in tbe New York papers a report that Tilton was going to elope. It was these stories that caused Bowen to detire his dismissal, culminating in the publication of an editorial in the Independent, which committed the paper to the doctrines of free loye. In a letter tohis wife, Jan. 9. 1S65, Tilton says: Were It not for the love of the woman for her child and of the husband lor bis wife society would be destroyed. The Droper place for a man was in the bosom of bis family." Such were bis views before be emancipated himself from his old associations. For five years he bad been a companion of people of easy virtue, who burnt incense to him as an offering. The counsel here read the editorial referred to, published in tbe Independent in December, 1870. Of course, said tbe counsel, this publication roused the indignation of every person in the land. The jury had heard him testify on tbe witness stand that the marriage relation was not above the law, but was regulated by the law, and tbe only fault he found with them was that the law touching divorce in a state was not liberal enough. The counsel quoted from the correspondence, which passed between Mr. Greely and Mr. Tilton with regard to the laws or MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. If you, said th9 couns?l, should believe that these views differ from those to which he testified in the witness stand, then yon might discard bis other testimony jz'ven on that occasion. In the early days of December, and before the publication of thev&ldictoryinthe Independent, message was brought to the defendant tba'-Mrs. Tilton had left her home rr.d wanted to obtain a separation from her husband. The counsel quoted from tbe examination ot Theodore Tilton before the church committee as to the relations and visits ot Beecher to bis family, about which Tilton had spoken to Beecher, chiding him for cot coming offener to the house, and asking him to visit his wife when he was away on leoturing tours. In 1869, said the counsel, Tilton had paid as much as $500 for a portrait of Henry Ward Beecber, who bd been mor than friendly to him. In 1S70 Beecher was shocked at hearing tbat Mrs. Tilton bad left ber husband. He went to her mother's to Bee ber, and there be bard tbe story of her suffering from her own lips. He asked permission to bring his wife to see her, to whica Mrs. Tilton consented, and the meeting took place, and Mrs. Brecher told her husband the result of the conversation, and be advised a separation. Here waa a picture of a woman going to her alleged paramour for advice, and he gives it, ADVISING A S EPA RATION. Would be have advised this if he were guilty? No, for this would not have been the action ot a guilty man. She aever told bim of her confession to ber husband, and he never knew of it until the interview between bim and the plaintiff in Mr. Moulton's bouse, on the 221 day of December, wiien his contract with the Union was signed. Theodore Tilton seized his child, sick and suffering, and tns forces his wife to return to his houe. She returns on the 23J, and on tbe 24th she suffers a miscarriage and Is laid down on a aick bed. The stories of Tilton'simmorality bad now come down on Bowen as tbe plaintiff describes, like an avalanche, and led to an interview between them. As to tbe truth of these stories, I ilton mounted tbe hieb horse, demanded an Investigation and then came up a conversation about the Christian Union and the influence It Was bating on the circulation of Bowen's paper, and Tilton told Bo we a tbat be had a. spite against Beecher and related to him the story of his wife's adultery. Now, gentlemen. said the counsel, when yu begin to Investigate tne case, yon will fen that the scandal. If any. rests on Tilton alone. Bowen suggested a letter written by Tilton, de manding of Bsecherthat be should resign his pastorship of Plymouth Cbmrb, and leave Brooklyn. Tilton was rf-ctly illinnr to throw the first firerran i into the camp, if it was f llowed up by Hoen. at the same time wishing to save hi contract with Bjwen. At this point Tiacv paused, and bagan searchiLg through i.t noies. and afcer a short conference I h B uch, stated to tbe court tbat an accident had happened to some pages of hit d ir--, nd as it waa near 4 o'clock, he suggested an sojournment and the court adjourned. -

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