The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-03-14

But, SO far ss the Woodruff is con-
eerned, he probably realizes that he is
suffering the penalty of the foIlies into
which he fell last year in championing
her cause. He took a snake to his
bosom, and, when it warmed, it stang
him snd his family.
1t Is not easy to explain the singular
note about this affair which Tlton
published last January. he spoke
about his anxiety to defend the good
name Of his wife and little ones; but
said that the truth was q two edged
sword, which charity required that he
should sheath only at the appeal ei
those who had been tbs vietihsof the
SANDER. Itvould probably have beer
better Tor Tilton n6 to hsVe used thin
language in q pubrc 3etter, for II can
only be understood IN The light of the
narrstive which has been written for
public enlightenment.
Z Beecher gets great many black
mailing letters threatening to props
gate the slanders shout him But he
takes no netiee Of any Of them, and is
never in theleast alarmed about them.
He cannot be driven into defending
himself against such accusations. BE
cannot wage war against the 'pestilent
and poisonous clouds of fies,n but he
can live above them, and smile at the
efforts of the swarming brood to harm
him. Many people thought be ought
to make 8 public defense Of himself m
this particular case; but he knew that.
there we're other slanders in the belly
Of this one, and that q swarm Of them
would buzz out ofrts CARCASS. He had
never, either as a man or . aclerpyman.
been injured by the slander. No
resDonii5ls parties has ever made any
accusation against him. Butshoaldn't
he say something which VIII clear the
lady whose name has been affected? ?
Well, when either thelsdy herself or
her husband, or anybody who has the
right to speak for either Of them,
makes complaints against him or charg-
eshim with guilt, it win be time enough
for him to give the affair such conse-
quence. At. one. time, undoubtedly,
Tilton was incensed against Mr..
Beecber;; but the cause of the offence
was not that which Mrs. Woodruff
published.
1t is very much to the honor of Mr..
Beecher that "a man who lives as much |
in the public eye as he does, and whom |
doubtless, so many gushing and de-
signing women have attempted to VIC
timize, should never have had any
discredltsble conduct brought home
to him. his hospitable life, his tree
hearted ways, his open-handed style |
people, are Just things which |
blackmailers and backbiters would |
be able to use to his disadvantage, and
by which they would try to entrap
him, or which they would take as
ground for building their SANDERS
Certainly every good man and good
woman in the country viii be glad to |
Know that the latest, most widely cir
and worst of all the SANDERS
against him is one which is as flimsy
md false as this is declared to be by
hose who alone have the means of
all about it.
One respectable female busy body, y,of
he sternest virtue, who gave some
annoyance by attempts to settle the
ilton-Beecher scandal, which she
irmly believed, on the authority of
drs. Woodhulls statements, was
hrowninto conniption fits underrather
Iramatic circumstances, aud had her
pinion opinion ofMrs Woodhull's re-
ability somewhat modified to her own
notification and subsequent silence,
Vhen she was suddenly confronted
With the news that this same Mrs.
Voodhull was the authority for a ter
ible tale about the adulterous trans
ctions of this very respectable female
herself, at a hotel in Wash
ngton last year.