The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-06-30

breast shall be debsrred from receiving,
directly or indirectly, any pecuniary or
other favor nj your hands.
The reaaon for this feeling on my part
you know 80 we'll that / will spare you
the statement Of It, Yours truly,
THEODORE ELTON.
Furthermore, regret TO point you to
the evidence that Plymouth church, or
rather tho attorney who now acts Ms iis
| clerk, is Attempting to rake up false
but plausible record concerning this case
| for the purpose of appealing TO it in future
to nv disadvantage. 1t was TO this end
that Mr.. Sherman ing'niously incorpor-
sted in his letter TO nr, dated May is,
1874, the following words;
| We do not undofattd your letter as
| implying that you haT charges to make,
but the contrary. II Dc committee had
SO understood 1t, they tould have readily
entertained and fully Investigated them.
The manifest objectPf the above record
is to enable the churci TO say,a year, or
five years hence, thadi ever had any
charges to make sgaiRt Mr.. Beecher, the
church had long ago ,iyen mo an album
dant opportunity IL make them. Mr..
Shesrmsn Is etill mte bold in bis COM
munication to tho Independent, dated
June Is, 1874. Ie therein says Of the
church:
ats officers have In tho proper way,
without parade, give, every facility tor
| investigation that cofld reasonably be de-
| sired. evan NY tho inost eaptious critics"
The above statepcnt ty Mr.. Shesrnan
Is made in letter which was put form
BY him ostensibly ID my interest, and
which l am already accused or having
inspired This leads mo to disavow the
declaration which haro last quoted as
insincere and at var nee with tho truth.
Not to multiply instances needlessly,
there is one other 3 which my self-re-
spoct compels mo to alludo with painful
explicitness. In you New Haven speech
| you characterized Mr.. Beecher as the
most msgnanimous Of men, and in the
| context referred to ne as knave and
dog. You lett the piblic infer that had
| become in some despcable way the crea-
| ture OF Mr.. Beecier's mAgnanimity.
Early in April last lcallcd Mir Beechers
attention to tho oileniveness and injuri-
business Of your abatement, and informed
| him that / should insst on its correction
either BY him or me. In order to provide
him with an easy wayto correct it, involv-
ing no humiliation to his feelings, / adj
dressed TO you tho following letter:
BRooKLYS, April 3, 1874.
Rev. Leonard Bacon, ID. D..
My DEAR SIR:-l have Just been read
isg tho 'Tribunes report OF your Yale
speech on the Brooklyn council, in which
occurs the following paragraph;
Another part Of my theory 10 that
MIR. Beecher's magnanin.ity is unspeaka'
bic. | never knew man of larger oil
more generous mind. One who was in
relations to him the most intimate posi-.
BILE SAID to mo IL / wanted to secure his
highelt love | would go into church
meetitg and accuse him of crimes. This
ia his ipirit. But / think be may carry il
too far. A man whose life Ia a treasure
to ths Church Universal, TO his country, &c
his are, has no right to subject the faith
in it to such a strain. Some one has said
.hat Plymouth Church's dealing with
blenders is like Dogberry's. Tho COM
paison was apt. If any one will not
stall lot him go, and gather tho guard
and hank God that you are rid of such O
knave' So Of Lance, who went into the
stocks md the pillory to save his dog from
execute, for stealing puddngs and eeeae
l think hewould have done better to lei
the dog die. And think Mr. Beechei
would nave tono better to have let ven.
geance come ohNho henas IS s"s -'--da-
/ ara -
Stating aside tie satlru ana mirtb |
there DO any critichn directed toward M,
+, in these words in stbriety and earnest
ing act oil Justice:
Please forward TO Nr. Beecher tho lot
ter which am now writing, aud ask hin
1 | TO mr. hia unrI nf
, whether l have been his slanderer
whether ! have treated him other thai
with the highet possible fairness, ant
/ whether he has not acknowledged to me
in large and ample terms, that my cours
toward him in thf sorrowful business ha
been marked by tho magnsnimity whicl
YOU apparently Ultimate has characterize
] his toward me.
II YOU will wSte TO Mr.. Beecher "a
| have indicated, will thank you for
/, line as to tho words or substance Of hi
reply. With gies. respect l am trul
yours, THEODORE IILroS.
. In reply to The above letter you sen
D me the following
B Theodore Tiltor, Esq:
DEAB SIR n OF being in Mr.. Beechcr'
I
to do with your lettr written o week age
was not-and an not-.willing to de-
mand of him that 10 shall admit me I
4 his confidence in a matter on which b
chooses to be retlcent. But as tho lette
seems to have ben written for him quit
4 as much as for ne, have now sent it
him without eking or expecting an
1 reply.
, With the hes wishes for your welfare
am yours trult LEONARD BACON.
1t 10 now telween two and tire
; months since received from you tn
G foregoing lettet and as i have not hear,
that Mr.. Beec1r has made reply, eithe
q TO YOU or to md ! am at last forced to tn
dissgreeablo I'd cesnty of borrowing a re
| ply IN his OWL words, as follows:
! BR&KiYN, January !, 1871.
= l ask Theodoe Tilton's forgiveness
: and humble mysef before him as do be
| fere my God. 10 would have been
better man in m, circumstances than
have been. l cal ask nothing except tina
no will remsmbr all the other breast
tSsy.e ""' sc sSa sh Sas nS %er SG8 Sssd 70
ii. W. BEEcHER.
: Tho above brsf extract from MI
l Beecher's own testimony will be suilicien,
c without adducinglhe remainder of tn,
i document, TO shot that 1 have Jus
h grounds to resist t,e imputation that
a am the creature of hs msgnanimity.
In conclusion, tbs common impression
that have circulate and promoted scan
: dals against Mr.. B,eCher ia not true