Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-07-22


| except that he will remember all the other
breasts that would ache. | will not plead for
myself. | even wish that were dead ; but 9TH
ers must live to suffer- will die before anyone
but myself shall be inculpated. All my thoughts
are running out toward my friends and towards
the poor child lying there and praying with her
| folded hands she is guiltless sinned against,
| bearing the transgresson Of another. Her for
gveness l have. humbly pray to God to put
| it into the heart of her husband to forgive me.
| L have trusted this to Moulton in confidence.
| II. w. BEEcHER.
| orHFR LETTERS FROM THE SEVERAL PARTIES.
| The following il represented as the contents
of letter from Mr.. Beecher to Mr.. Moulton
| DEAR FRIEND am determined to make no
more resistance. Theodore's temperament is
such that the future, even if temporarily earned,
would be absolutely worthless, and render me
liable at any hour of the day to be obliged to
stultify all the devices by which we have saved
ourselves. 1t is only fair that he should know
that the publication of the card which he
proposes would leave him worse off than
before. The agreement, viz, "the tri-
partite covenant" was made after
my letter through you to him. When the
apology was written he had had it year; he
had condoned his wife's fault lie had enjoned
upon me with the utmost eainestness and SOL
emnlty not to betray his wife. nor leave his
children to such blight. With such man
as Theodore Tilton, there is no possible saliva
ton for any that depend upon him. With a
rbiOHb nuuulb, HG uDcb EOJ KNOW NOW 10 govern
it, There is no use in trying further. | have
strong feeling upon me, and it brings great
peace, that am spending my last Sunday and
preaching my last sermon.
MIR. BsEcHER TO MIR. M)uLToN
In a letter written by Mr. Beechsr, in order to
be shown to Mr. Tilton, Mr.. Beecher spoke as
follows;
No man can see the difficulties that en-
viron me unless he stands where
do. To say that L have church
ON my hands Is simple, but to have hundreds
and thousands of men pressing each one with
his Keen suspicious or anxiety to prevent any
one questioning me ; to meet and allay prejudic-
es against L. L. which had their beginnings
years before to keep serene as if | was not
alarmed Or disturbed to be cheerful at home
and among friends, when was suffering the
torments of the damned to pass sleepless
nights, and yet to come up fresh and fair for
Sunday-all this may be talked about, but the
real thing cannot be understood from the out
side, nor its wearing and grinding ON the ner-
yous system.
MIR BEEcHER TO DTR. MoULroN.
In still another letter written for the san
purpose as the above, Mr.. Beecher lid
If my destruction would place him Mr. Til
toni all right that shall not stand in the way.
l am willing to step down and out. No one can
offer more than that. That do Offer Sacrifice
me without hesitation if you can clearly see
your way to his safety and happiness there
rhce on my part. Nothing can possibly be 10
bad as power-the great darkness in which
spend much of my time. look upon death as
swecter far than any friend have in the world.
Life would be pleasant if l could see that re-
built which has b zen shattered by the sharp and
rugged edge of anxiety, remorse, fear, and des-
pair, and yet to put on an appearance of seren-
iiy and happiness can't be endured much longer.
am well nigh discouraged. II You cease to
trust me-to love mol am alone. | do not
know any person in the world to wlom could go.
OUTLINE OF THE DEFENcE-1HE CROSS ExAMINA-
TON OF Triton.
The Tribune, this morning. gives an outline
of what is said b. the friends of Beecher in his
defense, and says that the cross-examination of
Mr. nlton by the Committee, on Monday eve
ming, was very searching and drew out facts
which did not strengthen his general statment.
Already it is said that there is
not IN the whole of il any evidence be-
his own declaration of actual and definite
improperly on the part of either Mr.. Beecher
or Mrs. Titon. 1t is further claimed by some
who have carefully examined the document, that
in one paragraph Tilton expressly shows that he
knew, long before the alleged evil event, that
his wife was experimenting with herself
and testing her feelings for Mr.. Beecher, and
this and the following paragraph indicate that
Tilton, in a most absurd way, encouraged such
improprieties by accepting plausible explana-
| tions.
comparison of paragraphs and 10 of the
statement, it il said, shows that he kept the al
| legged confession of his wife secret for six
months and made no complaint whatever to Mr..
Beecher or any one else. Tho cross-eXamina-
| tion elected the fact that he mentioned it first
to Henry O. Bowen on December 25th, 1870, the
confession having been made on July 3, 1870
Also that his reason for speaking was that Mr..
Bowen had charged him with certain immorali-
ties, and threatened to discharge him.
as he soon after did. He told Mr.
Bowen of Mrs Tiltons confession in order to
explain his own action and save his place He
then told the same thing, it il claimed to Mr.
Beecher for the purpose of inducing him to in
| tercede with Mr. Bowen in his behalf. To Mr.
Bowen he stated that there had been no infdeli-
ty on the part of Mrs. 1ilton, but that a propo-
| sal made to her by Mr. Beecher had been indg-
nanily repelled. 1t is also stated that Mrs.
Beecher Informed Mr.. Bowen of the unfaithful
| character OF MIR. Iilton, Which she had learned
from private sources, and that this fact probably
influenced Mr.. Tilton in his after course in rela-
ton to Mr. Beecher and his own wife.
MRS TILToN's RESEMBLANCE TO cATHARINE
GAUSr
The character of Catharir Gaunt, to which
Mrs. Iilton refers in one of her letters to MIR.
Iilton was that of perfectly pure woman, nev-
er unfathfu to her husband even in thought.
This, it is said, throws light upon the whole sub
| ject, the fact being that the relations between
| Mr.. Beecher and Mrs Tilton were those simply
| of an extreme religious and filial affection.
CONFIDENCE IN MR.. BEEcnER.
MI. IiitOn y character as WllllesH VIII now be
examined, as well as as his statement, and there
are not few who firmly believe that Mr.. Beech
| er will emerge from the smoke without the smell
of battle upon him. and without stain upon his
| character
MIR. Halliday stated, in reply to questions of a
| Tribune reporter, that he wished only to say
that the statement of Mr.. Tilton would not shake
for an instant the faith of the people of Ply
mouth Church in their pastor
THE COUNTER STATEMENT IN PREPARATION.
II is said by persons who are in position to
know whereof they speak, that Mr.. Beecher and
Mrs. Tilton are individually at work state
ments which will certainly be submitted to the
Committee before the end of the week. They
are hard at work on the papers, and will hasten
them to completion. Both will take up Mr.. Til
toms statement and review it in detail
and will make statements of fact which
will be complete and satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION of all the correspondence that Mr..
Tilton has incorporated in his statement or that
| is in existance and of the various complications
Mrs. 1ilton will take the same position as when
before the Committee and will reassert her in
nocenoe and Mr.. Beecher's. Both statements
will make explicit denial of the several charges
and it is said, will utterly overthrow them
Soon after reaching his home last evening" Mr.
| Beecher sent a messenger for "half dozen
copies of the paper containing Tilton's state.
ment" and on receiving them went to work OIL
| his own story.
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