Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-07-22

would be pleasant IL / could see that rebuilt
which Is shattered, but to live on the sharp and
ragged edge of anxiety, remorse, fear, despair
and yet 70 put on an appearance OF serenity and
happiness cannot be endured much longer I
an well nigh discouraged. If you cease to trust
me, to love me, am alone. do not know any
person in the world to whom | could go,
Mr.. TiltOn yielded to the above quoted aud
other similar letters, and made no defense OF
himself against the public odIum which attached
THE HAPPINESS pEsPoILRD.
SerentesHh-That the marriage union between
Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton until broken by Mr.
Beecher, was of more than common harmony,
affection and mutual respect. Their house and
household were regarded for years by all their
feeling and spirit which this wife entertained
fer her husband up to the time of her corruption
by Mr.. Beeeher, the following letters by Mrs.
Tilton, written only 8 few months before her
loss OF honor, will testify:
MRS. TILTON TO MIR. Triton.
TUESDAY MORNING, January %, 1S53.-Ny
Bs}ored' Dent you know the peculiar phi ise Of
Christ's character a lover is so precious to me
because of conservation and devotion to you?
| learn 10 love you from my love TO Him. L
have learned "a love Him from loving YOU. /
couple you with Him, nor do 1 feel it one whitir-
TCyereDt, AMI as every dag ] adOrn myself, con-
scICCsly ss bride TO meet her bridegroom So.
In Ike manner, i lift implOring hands that my
SOULS love may be prepared. /, with the little
girls, after you left Us, with Overlooking eyes
ard hearts, conseCrGted ourselves 10 our work
and to you. My waking thoughts last night
z
were of YOU l bless you, I honor you, love
You. God sustain US and help us both to keep
our vows"
SATURDAY EVENING. February l. 1850.
well know, a. far as | am capable love YOU.
Now TO keep this fire high and generous is the
ideal before me. am only perfectly conteuted
and restless (restful?l when you are with me.
These latter months Ihave thought, looked and
yearned for the hours when you would be at
home with longtngs unutteTable."
MONDAY, Fe bruary 3, 1868, o'clock a. m
/ bring hplOvp1 ~ hriy
morning? large, thrObbing heart full Of love
single in its aim and purposes to bless and cheer
him? Is 1t acceptable, sweet one?
AFFIDAVIT OF F. Il. CARPENTER.
"HOMKR, ". l., July Is, 1S14.-On Sunday,
June l, 1873, two days after the surreptition-
publication of the triPartite covenant between
HI. W. Beecher, III. G.. Bowen and Theodore
Hilton, walked with Mr.. Beecher from Ply
mouth Church to the residence of Mr.. F. ID.
Moulton, on Remsen street. On the way to Mr..
Moult0n's house MIR. Beeeher said to me that IL
MIR. Tilton would stand by him he would share
his fame, his fortune, and everything he pos
sessed with him (Tilton.l -,
"Sworn to and subscribed before me this lS.h
day OF July, Ia.
Mr.. Carpenter, in communicating to Mr.. TIL
ton the above affidavit, says in a letter accom-
paDyiDg it:
"f have no hesitation in giving you the state
nent, as understood at the time it was for me
to repeat in substance TO YOU, and l did so re-
peat il. IL was at this interview Mr.. Bsecher
spoke TO me of his apology to YOU"
The charge that Mr.. Triton ever ATTEMPTED TO
levy blackmail on Mr.. Beecher is false. On the
contrary, Mr.. Tilton has always resented every
attempt by Mr. Beecher to put him under pecu-
mary obligations.
MRS. TILToN's REVOLT.
T'reHtish.-NOt long after the scandal became
pubic Mrs TiltOn wrote on a slip OF paper ami
left on her husbands writing desk the follow
ing words; NOW that the exposure has come
my whole nature revOlts to Join with YOU or
stand with you"
Through the influence of Mr.. Beecher's
friends the opinion has long been diligently
prOpagated that the scandal was due to MIR. Tti-
ton. and that the alleged facts were malicious
inventions by him TO revenge himself for sup
posed or Imaginary wrongs done TO him by Mr.
Beecher. Many words were spoken from time
TO time by Mrs Til:on 10 the praise and euIogy
OF Mr.. Beecher, which being extensively quoted
through his congregation, heightened the i'm
preston that Dir. IiltOn was Mr.. Bescher's
sl2LdeTer, Mrs TiltOn being herself the author
ity tor the statement.
In this way Mrs Tilton and one of her rela-
lives have been the chief causes of the great
difficulty of suppresSiDg the scandal. They nave
had habit OF saying, - Mr.. TiitOn believes such
and such things" and their naming of these
things by way OF denial has been q mISchieyOus
way OF circulating them broadcast. In this way
Mr.. IiltCn has been made 10 appear a defams-,
whereas he has made every effort in his power
TO suppress the il furious tales which he has baen
charged with prOpagating. On all occasions he
mas systematically referred 10 his wife in terms
favorable 10 her character. Further, MIR, TiItOu
NOUit LOT nave communicated to the commit
Zee the facts contained IN this statement EXCEPT
for the peTyerSe course OF the Rev. Henry Ward
Be6cEer and Mrs. Elizabeth X. TiltOn to de-
grade ard destroy him IN the public estimation.
TVeRty frst.-That one evening, about two
weeks after the publication OF Mr.. TiltOu's let
ter TO DIR. Bacon, Mrs. Tilt0n, on coming home
az a late hour, Informed her husband that she
h2d been visited al friends house By COM
mlttee of Investigation, ami had given saeep
Jig evidence acquittjrg Mr.. Bescher OF every
charge. This was the first intimatiOn which
was then in existence. Furthermore, Mrs III
ton stated that she had done this by the aIyice
or lawyer whom Mr.. Beecher had sent to her
ana 2. no III advance OF her appearing before the
committee arranged with her the questions aud |
answers which were to constitute her testimony
III Mr.. BeecheT's behalf On the next day alter
giving this untrue testimony before the COM nit.
Zee she spent many hours of extreme suffering
from paugs OF conscience at having testified
falsely. She expressed to her husband the hope
that God would forgive her perjury, but that |
the motive was TO save Mr.. Beecher and her
husband, and also to remove all reprOsch from
the cause Uf religion. She also expressed simi.
lar eontriuon TO one of her intimate friends
REHABILITATION.
TJceHty- second.-FinaiIy, that in addition 70 |
Tie foregoing facts and evidences other con-
hrmatiOns could be adduced ii needed 10 prove |
The following Iecapitulated statement, namely, |
that the Rev. Henry Ward Beechtr, as pastor /
and friend OF Mr.. TiltOn and his family tres
passed upon the sanctity OF friendship aud hos |
pltality In long endeavOr to seduce Mrs. E!iz- |
priesuy authority with her. she being his pupil |
N religion, he accomplished this seduction; |
hat for year and a half or Whereabouts he |
criminal intercourse with her over |
coming her previous modest scruples against |
such conduct by investing 1t with false jdstif- |
cation as sanctioned by love and religion; that |
be then participated in a conspiracy 10 degrade |
Theodore TiltOn before the public BIZ loss of |
place, business, and repute; that he abused Mr. |
li!ton's forgiveness and pledge OF pro-
lection by thereafter authorizing series of |
measures by Plymouth Church having for their |
object the putting Of a stigma upon Mr.. |
Hilton before the church and also before an |
council, insOmuch that the mod
orator OF that council, Interpreting these acts |
by Mr.. Beecher and his church, declared pub
iiciy that they showed Mr.. Beecher to be the |
mCst magnah.InOu o. men and Mr.. Tilton to be I
a knaye and dog; that when Mr.. Tllton there |
alter, not IN malice, but for self-protsction, !
wrote letter 10 DR.. Bacon, abiding therein to |
an offense and an apology by the Rev. Henry |
Ward Beecher, he Mr.. Beecher) detiantly aI,- !
pointed committee OF his church members to |
inquire into the injury done him by Mr. Triton |
by the aforesaid ailusion, and implying that he |
MIR. BeecheT) had never been the author of |
such otiense and apology, and that Mr.. TiltOu |
was slanderer; that 10 make this inquiry bear |
against Mr.. TiltOn, he (Mr. Beecher) |
previously cOnnived with Mrs. T.. Il. TIlton 10 !
give false testimony in his (Mr. Beecher's) be- !
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