THE BEECHER SCAANDEL.

Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 27, 14 July 1875, Page 3

THE BEECHER SCAANDEL.

Mrs Tilton writes to the Judge: « Sir } By the law's peculiar phase lam debarred from appearing before yon as a witness, because my husband seeks a fortune at the price of my dishonour. I am a mother and have several children, I am a woman, with no legacy to leave those children save a spotless name. - Judge for yourself, then, whether I can tamely submit to the taunting lies of him who lias sworn to love and cherish me, whose selfish slanders have torn mo from hearth and homo, blasted my name, and turned me penniless upon the charity of friends. I demand to be heard by the jury to whom has been told the falsehood of my protects. Surely if he can ad- . dress the jury for days, aided by cunning and unscrupulous counsel, that he may ruin my reputation cast obloquy and reproach, upon my name, and make me • the by-word and s orn of all the world, I, too, have a right to bo heard ; I, too, have a talc to toll 1, too, have a revelation to make. Untaught by counsel, unaided by friends, without the stimulent of companions, I come alone and stand at the'bar of justice. I ask no mercy. I seek for no favours. 1 simply ask " that a wronged wife ami injur- d woman ■may be permitted to meet Uie eulumnms of a perjured man and an unfaithlul husband. Midnight is daylight, when contrasted with him. The father of Lies is an angel of purity when contrasted with this monstrous hypocrite. I crave no mercy ; hut for my sale.', and for the sake of the womanhood throughout the world, I ask this precious boon of self-defence against the brutal onslaught of a brutal husband.”