The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-09-24

IS'"0A 'ho" tALhu8s fASsOsSS 0u1v " =
s.ror 8 mans triumph over Ter colscieDce
and will, and through n, wantcnoes or
Of her or.
have b, en- told that / endsneer y sue
c; 8 in the battle which am now fighting
BY making this conce&ion to ny vifss
goodoee Of no,ise. Bot an deternised
in ell this controversy to speak the truth in
all roiufs; and know that 10 ipdelicacy in
Mrs. TiltOn;s behavior esef proceeded ffoo
her own vu'untary impulse or suggestion;
but that. on the coatrasy, her bishly
emotional religions nature Vas made b. her
paste the means Whereby he accomplished
the ruin Of his coSfdin2 vIciia.
take the Liberty to quote here . pa age
from . letter hy Ms. Elizabeth Cady Star
ton to Mr.. Mculior, a. .olloxa:
MRS. STANTON 10 Mr.. MoULTON.
TEsEFLY, n. j., s pit. :. 1874.
Frdneis D. Moulton:
DEAR FRIEND: In your fosthtomire
ststemenf, whatever yoa say sr fail 10 say,
do not forget a. brave kniehtto hing yo0r
s'eel on tie read Of The "Great Preacher''
for b" base eAor9e tka iEisabetA 7lfoa Nrxa
her lore on him x1soxgki.
You know letter than Sussn or ] do. tie
time and Arguments by which he achieved
his purpose.
Alas! alas! how little charity, to say
nothing Of CT mmon justice. ha, keen shown
woman in this tragedy.
Sincerely yosrs,
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON,
That PORTION Il the report which ssys
"ihere is 70 trooi Of any c'ande tine CORES
pontence or attempts in that direction" 10
disposed Of by numerous extracis iron p,i-
vate notes Of Beeehsr to Mr.. Tilton, sp-
point;ng pieces Of meeting, etc. The story
that the Inisssion Of adultery vas ex.orted
from Mr.. Tiiion BY her husband 10 sHec,u-
ally silenced b. 4 letter written by her
when sLe wa, more than Eve hup1red miles
away from her husband. A copy Of this
lett. r was enclosed BY her to her mother,
and this is here made putlic. 10 it she
eonfeses again and sgain her great sin, and
says it is the sorrow she has caused him and
the disgrace she h,s brought upon her chill
dren, that Digs her dovs. 10 the let es 10
her mother, ia which this copy il enclosed,
she rslers 10 the urspeakable aosuish il
would cause her il her crime should bs
made known to her father, - ''his head
would be bowed indeed to the grave.
Refe,riI & 10 this letter, Mr.. Tilton eye:
The brief confession which Nm. Tiltou
wro'e Of her criminal intimacy with Mr.
Beecher, and which vas referred 70 BY Mr.
from him and returned to her to b destroy d
has been falsely called confesion vrunl
from . vile at her husbands command
Bot no such accusation can bold sgainst tn
above letter, which daughter wrote to bel
mother, and which contains ~ Ilais en-
fess,on of Mrs.. Tilton's guilty intimac,
with NJ. Beecher a. Language can expres
q COME sion all tie more ve,i'able b.caus
made without deelen, and in the sbsence o
sny o her controlling inflM nee upon tn
writer fave the pressure Of her own ccn
science and SORROW, ~ evibced in her mel
aIcho'y contemplation of the czlamit!
which Lad fallen upon her no, OF and he
home.
In vi-w Of Mira Til,on's truthful c,nfes
sion in the sEIve letter four years ago. o
what avail are her recent denial. 10 the c I'm
mitiee?
The committee themselves have practic-
silly inpugnei tie testimony ~hich thei
own attorneys prompted Mn. Ti,ton 4
make to them; and Mr. Bee cher 's6s n jour
nal, the Ursfian Union, soon after the re,.
de, ing of the verdict, publish el conf leu
Il snIa e., !,
under the stamp Of NJ. Beecher rane
the following offici.l ,ej- ton Of Mr.. ii.
tons evidence by the B-echer parry. tn
Christian Union sage:
This poor CONAN hos been skomn TO be 8
Weak, so xholiy subject to the strongest outsid
influence at the moment, that the general pub
lie can gite but little Teigh to her testimony
either for or against Mr.. Bsecher.
The sb.ve extrsc, from the Christie,
Union invslidaiing Mr.. Til;on's te.,im1y
necess ,rily bios out from Mr.. Beecher',
defense all Mrs. 1ilton's rscept deuia's O
their criminaliiy, and leaves him TO he con
v:cei by Mrs. TlIton's original, hone {, die
psssioust. confession OF their mutual sin
recorded in tire sbove-quotei letter 10 be-
mother!
This Letter, therefore, sfectuslly di-p0 e
cf two principal points OF the commitiee'
verdict. One Of there points the COMMITTEE
state NJ follow:
''Tilton's allegation that abe Nm. T. con
fss.ed to her mother, Mr.. More. 10 pvoasxne
ed faise BY the mother. who testified before tn
CJmmittse."
Mr.. T,ltcn's letter, above aiven, ,ogethe
With the extrsc . from Mrs. Mo,se's letters
chow tina, Ms. None, in denying to Ii
COMMITTEE that her d. lighter Rad ever med
to her conf.s sion Of adultery, was deiib
eruic talsehood-half pasdonsble, pe,hap.
teca, Sc uttered by 4 mother to ave be
daughter. Tie Committee 10 relying o.
Mrs MGR e'e testimony n lied on . ialse b
sis, which now. sinks and carries down will
il the Committees verdict into On uufAth
omsd dsp'h!
TIE ether point in the verdict which th,
above letter eflsctually settles IL the follow
irg;
"she" ms. Tilton). say the Committee,
''has always denied the charges 1k<n C:e,
from, the dominating influence i her Husband. ~
Mr.. 1iiton's above letter 10 her moshs
was written free from the dominating in6x.
snee Of her husband IL "a. Wi en- SIS
miles from her u b,nd's lreaence. Ii VI,
write l, not 1t his ,sqne-t. but f,r III. CON.
demLa,ion. IL was wri''er 10 reproduce u
him the fes lipgs sxci;ed in his wifs's miod
by the contemplation 81 her WING 1oil &, aLd
TO appeal to him. tom snch hsss, sssinst
the moral rsckle.sness which che then believ.
ed that her fail had pr.xisced upon his re-
ligioua views Of daily lie. 1, sas Written
before Mr.. Beecher knew that ste had BE-
esavaA cd ~ l.. A. IL
indited his own equally aeo.iz:ps Letter Of
contri ion" 1t va written before Mn.
TiIton had any idea Of future lublic proceed
ings BY church committee Who w.uld Ssh
her to deny the truth in order 10 ave Mr.
Be- cher. 1t wa written before Nm. Morse
expected to be called upon to add her ows
falsehoods to her daughters for The same
purpose. l, was written With 10 suspicioo
that these joint falsehoods Of mother and
daughter were thus to be exploded By The
counter-records Of their own corr spoodence!
On both these poins the Committee own
witnesses falsely the Committees own ve1-
dict.
In ref renee to the statement Of Mr.. Beech
er and his committee, that the abject apolo-
q 10 which he BUNDLED himself before TIL
ton as before his God, and even wished
that he were dead, vss written because he
had advised Mrs. Ti'ton to separats fnm
her husband. is shown 10 be entirely fake,
BY the proof that he never gave her such
advice; on the cootnry, Mn. Morse. Til
tons mother-ir-lav, ~ho ees ma 70 be . scr:
OF bumsn hyens. and has been striving for
ysa,s to separate T.lton aod his wife. de-
nnunces Beecher in her letter becanse be