The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-25


music, and in some of hel ommon branches,
as arithmetic, geography and spelling.
- SEMINARY, Dec. Is, 1873.
L. ID. Moultnn, Esq, Dear Sir-Yours
containing check for 5000 in full for Miss
******'s school bill is received This pays
all her Indebtedness to this date.
Very truly yours, --.
Beecher was very anxious to ascertain
through me the exact condition of Tilton's
feelings toward him, and how far the re-
Cancellation was real, and to get statement
in writing that would seem to free him
[Beecher] from imputation thereafter. l
more than once applied to Tilton to get
statement of his feelings toward Beecher,
and received from him, on the 9TH of Feb
ruary, 1871, the following letter, whlch
"a vi..se, ~ ~-ired ga :"
Taking advantage of this lull in the con-
troversy, it may be as convenient here as
anywhere to state the relations of Mrs
Tilton to the matter, and her acts toward
the several parties. | shall be pardoned if
| do it with care, because my statement,
unhappily for us both, must be diametrical-
y opposite to one published as hers. had
been on terms very familiar, visiting at
Mr.. Tilton's house. | had seen and known
Mrs Tilton well and kindly on my part.
and | believe wholly so on hers, and, as
have before stated, | had never known or
suspected or seen any exhibition of iDhar-
mopy between her and her husband during
those many familiar visits, and of course |
had no suspicion of infldelity on the part
| of either toward the other.
The first intimation of it which came to
me was in the exhibition of her original
confession, of which have before spoken
| The first time saw that confession was on
the Both of December, 1870. The first
communication | had from Mrs. Tilton
after had read her confession on the Fri
| day evening. as before stated, was on the
next morning, the 31st of December, 1870,
the date being fixed by the fact cited in her
letter that she gave her retraction to
Beecher on the evening previous. The
letter from her is as follows, marked
| "CC":
MRS. Triton TO MoULToN.
| SATURDAY MORNING.
NY Dear Friend Frank want you to
do me the greatest possible favor. My let
ter which you have, and the one | gave
Mr. Beecher at his dictaton last evening,
ought both to be destroyed.
| Please bring both to me and | will burn
them. Show this note to Theodore and
Mr.. Beecher. They will see the propriety
of this request.
Yours truly, [Signed]
E. X. TILroN.
| could not, of course, accede to this re-
| quest of Mrs. Tilton, because | had
pledged myself to Beecher that her retrae-
ton on the one side and her confession to
Tilton on the other-which are the papers
she refers to as my letter which you
have, and the one gave Mr.. Beecher"--
should not be given up, but should be held
for the protection of either rs against the
other.
learned in my interview with Beecher
on the first day of January, 1871, that he
; had been told by his wife and others that
Mrs. Tilton desired separation from her
husband on account of his supposed inf
delities to her, and that Mrs. Tilton had
applied to Mrs Beecher for advice upon
that subject. This being the first ] had
heard OF any asserted intidelty of Tilton
to his marriage VOWS, either the next day
or second day after | asked Mrs. Tlton il
it were so and if she had ever desired q
separation from her husband on that OF
any other account, wishing to assure my
, self of the facts upon which | was TO act
as mediator and arbitrator between the
parties.
She stated to me that she had not de
sired a separation from her husband, bu
that application had been made to Mr.. an6
Mrs. Beecher through her mother, upor
her own responsibility, to bring ii about
,, and ON the 4th day of January she sent m,
the following letter, which, although
dated Jan. 4, 1870, was actually writer
Jan. A, 1871, and dated 1870, as is com
3 mon enough mistake by most persons a
the beginning of new year. But it bear
e internal evidence of the time of its date
} and also know that l received it at tina
a time, it being impossible that it shout,
D have been year previous. produce it
Q marked "DD":
, MRS. TILToN To MoULToN.
. ia LIVINGSTON STREET,
BROOKLYN, January IA, 1870 (O.)
5 Mr.. Francis ID. Moulton.
, Mr. Dear Friend-In regard to you
I question whether | have eyer sought
, separation from my husband. indignant
: deny that such toas ecer the fact, as hay
!, denied it hundred times before Tn
d story that | wanted separation was d,
liberate falsehood, coined by my poo
mother, who said she would bear the ~
possibility of this aud other statement
IS she might make and communicated TO n,
: husbands enemy, Mrs. II. w. Beeche
v and by her communicated to Mr.. Bower