The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-06-05
THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
rsefF~ g SCANDAL,

We publish to-day part of the Bowen
Tilton .Beecher Scandal which has
been agitating the publica part Of the
public-for months past. Until now we
have purposely avoided saying or publish
ing any thing in relation to it, believing
from the first that the charges against
Mr.. Beecher would sooner or7later have
to undergo a public investigation and
were waiting for that time to come before
introducing the subjectto our readers.
Suffolk" having published the agreement
entered into by FL. G. Bowen, Theo-
dore TiltOn and H. w. Beccher in April
1879, and Plymouth Church proceeding
to the investigation of the charges of
Henry G. Bowen against Henry Ward
Beecher we are no longer at liberty to re-
main silent. From the beginning we
have been satisfied that the agreement
between Bowen, Tilton and Beechcr would
could not be suppressed but would have.
to be Investigated and become public.
OF the truth of the charges against
Henry Ward Beecher we know nothing
believe nothing. We incline to the
opinion that the investigation eliciting
the truth will bring him out clear of the
charges against him, and that the great
preacher will come through the ordeal
without blame and with his good name
unsullied and his great fame untarnished
Whether he does or not we shall not be.
lieve the charges till the force of evidence
compels. belief. But if the charges should
prove to be true what of it? He has done
and ga great work No man in
the country has done or is doing more for
humanity, than Henry W.rd Beecher'
And be the charges true or false,his pub
lie labors have not been in vain and
will have their reward. A.
There may be at least three sides to the
Beecher part of the scandal.
TIE charges may be entirely without
truth or the semblance of truth and
Beecher's private life may De as pure and
glorious as mis- public life has been use.
full and popular. This side would be the
most satisfactory to Mr. Beecher's many
friends.
Mr. Beecher may be full believer in
marriage of one man and one woman and
yet from the strengta of his passional
feelings and the We akness of his powers
Of resistance he may have been unable to
live in accordance with his belief and
may have yielded to the power and cir
eumstances controlling him,withnut his
approval. This side would be the most
satisfactory to the lovers of gossip and |
scandal.
Mr.. Beecher may not be believer in
the present marriage relations, but may
be expecting q. better, higher, a purer,
holier sexual relation awaiting HUMANE
ty, and may believe himself to be in
transition preparatory for that relation.
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to those who are expecting the old to
pass away and all to become new in the
sexual relations where they neither marry
nor are given in marriage bat are as the
angels in heaven.
That Mr. Beecher sees many evils con-
nected with the present marriage rela
tions and has thought deeply of what the
result wonld be if the marriage relation
was entirely abrogatedawe think there
can be.no doubt. And we hope and trust
that the investigation of the. charges
against him now or about to be init
ated will elicit the truth in relation to
them, and bring from him declaration
of his belief as to the true sexual relations
of the future of humanity. But whatever
the result of the investigation may be SO
fer as Henry Wand Beecher is concerned,
something more will come If it. From
the now seeming evil good will come.
And in due time the good will bscome
manifest
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has
hitherto preserved an unbroken silence
with regard to the charges repeated so