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Show THE BEECH ER TRIAL. New York, 24. Tho court appeared ap-peared more than usually crowded this morning, a large proportion of the audience being gathered to hear the opening address for the defense Tracy began the address by saying there were great interests involved in in the case. They could not be estimated es-timated as they involved the religious and moral interests of society. His client would go out from the trial either fully vindicated or with a stain ' on his life and character and he took the aland here alone, but supported ( by his God and ihe justice of hisi cause. Tracy then drew an elegant s picture of Beecher's life and career, as a preacher, friend and citizai' and referred le his eminent servitve 1 in the cause of religion and for f country. The counsel then proceel- t ed to relate the history of Then-1. t Tilton, who, he said, began his life a a reporter on a newspaper, embrace! the wildest views and believed ;hc world would follow in the way h: led. He became a deist, and ie nounced marriage as a fraud and as hindering the advancement of L1r world. Having attained a hip eminence he fell to the bottom of ;le abyss and in the blind impotence tt rage he determined to visit his anff on Henry Ward Beener, on its ground that be hid been the caue of his destruction. Beecber hd been a friend of both Tilton and lis I wife, but the friend of his wile aid children must be trampled down o secure tho vindication for which le was willing to barter his soul. Tracy said when Tilton a-rolled a-rolled himself a member of Ptymouh , church, Beecher had nod dm; to gun from him, and he tad evervthingto gain from Beecher; and a friendship grew which was made stronger by the marriage of one of Beechr's dock to Tilton. The latter becam; a writer for the huUptndet, and son began to feel jea'om ot Beec'.er, though Beecher didn't suspect it! Early in '61 or '(32 Tilton began irg-ing irg-ing Bescher to dine at hi huse while his family were away from the city. Because of his (Tiiton's) wie's regard for her D.wtor, Beecher partially par-tially complied. Mrs. Tilton, who waB the real defendant in the case, wat a woman of email stature, of a child-like nature, and morbid ro-lii;i:LH ro-lii;i:LH enthusiasm. Sl.e was entirely entire-ly devoted to Iut hiiahand, consulting i-t every wish: she watched his course win priJe. but was doomed to the sorrow of seeing him lose his hold on what she b-lieved a foundation of religion. re-ligion. She tried in vain to save him, and loeked to her trust'ti pastor to aid her, yet we were asked to believe be-lieve that while she was trying to save her husband's virtue he, committed commit-ted the very sin against which she was warning him. Ju 'G3 Beecher sailed for Eur pe, leaving Tilton in Hole charge of the hid'ptii'tenl. This jealousy still hiereasi-d though out-want out-want ly Tilton was friendly. In November No-vember '6o, he wrote Beecher, begging beg-ging him to forgive him for any word or deed of bis which had given offense and also spoke of his religious depression. de-pression. In the BAme year he became be-came managing editorof the Indfpen-den', Indfpen-den', and took every means of showing show-ing himself independent of Beecher, which dually o' lined the latter to dissolve dis-solve his connection with the paper. The pretense for these attacks was Beecher's Cleveland letter, which had been read in evidence in advocation of a moderate policy toward the south. Being surrounded by extremists extrem-ists of all classes a marked chango occurnd in Tiiton's religious view. According to his own testimony this caused great sorrow to his wife- Tracy here read from letters iu evidence of this. Mrs. Tilton Appealed Ap-pealed to her pastor, who talked kindly kind-ly to Tilton and wrote him the beautiful beau-tiful letter put in evidence. Tiltnn'l views also changed greatly in regard to the sexes, believing a great Bocial revolution was impending. This was the subject of a conversation with his associates who frequently visited at his house. He took the ground i that every relation between the sexes was propor wuicn was attended oy i mutual love. These views were ex-1 tremely offensive to his wife. In '66 j he induced Mrs Tilton to invite to her house, treatly against her wish, a young lady whose acquaintance he had maae in the west, and with whom there was no doubt he was desperately desperate-ly in love, as appeared from his letters. let-ters. It was his own intimacy with this woman which nearly drove his mother-in-law to insanity. Tho lady, seeing the danger to her from Tiiton's aamiration, finally left and broke her relations with him. In his letters to J his wife Tilton spoke of his friendships, friend-ships, as he called them, for various women, with a freedom which was astonishing. In a letter to his wile in February, 1S69, ho referred to his intimacy iu a certain western family he hud visited, and said his whole Hfo had been different if ho could have been sheltered under such a roof as Mrs. s, instead of breathing the atmosphere of Livingston Btreot. Thia family, Tracy said, was one from which the young lady referred to came. In Jnuuary, 1S6S, Tiiton's criminal conduct was so notorious that his wife taxed him with his sin; he fell grovelling at her feet and she gave him free forgiveness. Letters showed tht he made confession and pledged rt-peutinceon January 26th, 1868. She even blamed her own conduct as the cause of his transgression. transgres-sion. Tracy then read the "Whited Sepulchre" Sep-ulchre" letter and Mrs. Tiiton's reply, re-ply, calling herself the chief of Biu-ners, Biu-ners, and othera, including the one in which she asserts no fascinations could ever induce her to yield her womanhood, which Tracy said had u a" B""' " xUluu.e etatemeni. as lo appear like a confusion. Ke-cess. Afser recess Tracy resumed and continued the line ot his argument on which he was proceeding pievious to recess. He read from letters of Tiiton to his wife, and I'rnm her to him in '6$, to show that Tilton was acting badly, and acknowledged tho fact to his wife, and that she etiil bore with him and encouraged him to reform. Tracy next referred to the Btartmg of the Christian Union I newspaper, and Beecher's accession 1 to the editorship in 70, and said the rapid increase in the circulation of this paper alarmed both Bowen and Tilton; that subsequently rumors of Tilton'a immorality reached Boweu and caused him to desire his dismissal. dismis-sal. Tracy then referred toTilton'e vews relative to love arid marriage, aad declared that he was a pronounced free lover, and for five years had been Lie companion of people of easy virtue. vir-tue. Ho read editorials of Tilton snd bis correspondence with Greeley prove his pernicious doctrines in re-, htion to marriage. Tracy then related the cirenm- fan ues of Beecher's hearing of Mrs. Tiiton's intention to separate from ler husband through her coming to aim for advice, the statement being i repetition of Beecher's statement before the committee. He- then referred re-ferred to the interview of Bowen and Ikon when the former told the latter of the avalanche of stories circulating ifcout him, and said Tilton mounted a high horse and demanded an invalidation in-validation : that, tho mnvoni; m tien turned on the Christian L'nior j did its influence on the Independent' t circulation, when Tilton fold Bowen le had a npite against Beecher, and elated to him the story of his wife's idultery. "An now, gentlemen," aid Tracy, "when you begin to in-d in-d 'eatigate you will see that the Rcan-jf Rcan-jf lal, if any, rests on Tiiton alone.' tr Tracy said Bowen suggested the Iet-5. Iet-5. :er to Beecher demanding that be g should resign his pastorate and leave Brooklyn, and Tilton was perfectly ,. willing to throw this firebrand into s the camp. s At this point tho court adjourned. |