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Show THE ItLIX IlKlt SCAN D A I. T, Miss Ciuhorlne It. Proves H W. B. luuocent by a 11 tasj ICule. New York, G. Miss Catherine E. Beecher has published another letter on the Brooklyn Bcandal, in which she says: There is a sure and immediate immedi-ate remedy for the slander, which has alike disgraced Brooklyn, some of the congregational papers and not less our country and humanity. This remedy iB the application of certain principles of common sense which regulate common com-mon people in all business aflinrs. The first and chief is that on practical questions that which has the balance of evidence is to be assumed as the truth. Established moral character I is the highest kind of evidence and the circulation of accusation contrary to it is slander unless proved by the balance of evidence. Contradictory assertions by an accuser nulify hb testimony; writings equally capable of two meanings are to be interpreted so as to be consistent with the character char-acter of the writer and his own declarations, declar-ations, self accusations of crimes contrary to established character that involve evil and no good are proof of temporary insanity or monomania. The ordinary customs of a family or a community are to regulate the decisions. de-cisions. The remedy for this hideous outrage on decent society, continues the writer, can be immediately applied ap-plied by the clergy and editors, , especially editors of religious papers, maintaining these principles of common com-mon sense in the pulpit and by the press, for on applying these rules it will be found that practically there ib no evidence at all to support the accusations ac-cusations against the clergyman and that the accuser and all circulating his accusations are guilty of slander. |