Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-18
BEECHER.
The Gist of His Expected State
ment.
His Sole Offense Advising Mrs.
TiltOn to Leave Her
Husband.
The Reported COunter-Statement
of TiltOn.
He Will Charge Beecher With
PrOmiScuOus LOOseneSS.

NEW YORK, July 1.-THE Brooklyn
EGqle saws: Mr.. BeecheT'S statement, al
though not vet officially before the commit
tee. is in the hands OF his friends and will
be submitted as soon as Tilton's is put in.
Gentlemen who have seen ii, speak OF II
as a frank, straightforward document.
Beecber addresses himself in detail to Til
toms case; explains the nature OF his trou-
BILE with Tilton; denies that he ever made
an impure intimatiOn to Mrs. Tilton, and
concludes with an absolute and unequivo-
cal denial of all other ISLANDERS which have
been set in motion against him. lie ac-
knowledges that Mrs. TiltOn complained to
him of her husband; that she spoke of his
infidelity and cited instances; spoke OF his
going with strange women and proved
that her statement was true and finally
begged him (Beecher) to advise her, as a
man and minister what to do. Beecher,
after long deliberation and considerable
hesitancy, advised her, if she felt she could
not reclaim her husband. TO leave him.
Alter time, Beecher felt that ne had made
a mistake in giving this advice. He
thought that, perhaps, if left to the inn
pulses of his own generous nature, Iilton
would have abandoned the strange woman
after whom he had been running and re-
turn to the peace of his own household. In
this condition of mind he apologized TO
TiltOn for what he had done; promised TO
extend him the right hand of fellowship in
the future and to bury the past utterly.
TiIsOn VIII Make n Wholesale Charge
against Beeeher.
Tilton's forthcoming statement will, it is
said, disappOint the public greatly. The
suppositiOn has been that he would under
take to prove that Beecher had done him
grave personal injury; that he would speci-
fy that wrong and adduce evidence of its
reality. Now it is understood he has re-
solved 10 remain reticent in regard to his
own family, but will 60 iuto the general
scandal. In other words, he will at
tempt to show that Beecher outraged
not the Tilton's, but some other household.
He reasons in this way: "My proposition is
that Mr.. Beecher is not a fit man to occupy
a Christian pulpit. What Beecher has
done to me is my own affair. The public
interest is properly in the main proposition
in support of my assertion. This dOcu-
ment, there Is good reason for stating, will
affect the character of two other women
besides MIS-. TiltOn. The consistency of
Mr.. Tilton's proposition willbe best judged
pears and its contents are compared with
his promises.
Another -Beecher's Statement
not yet Determined en-.
The Argus states that when Beecher re-
dUced his statement 10 writing, he submit
ted il TO a friend with the remark that it
was the paper he intended to lay before the
Investigating Committee. That friend TO
whom the statement was submitted read it
carefully and then returned it 10 Beecher
saving to him 81 advise You not to present
that paper to the committee Beecher ask
inc for the reason Of such advice,
the reply was: Because TiltOn's
statement will shiver il TO pieces" that on
further consultation and comparison Of
views Beecher determined to follow the adj
vice Of his friend; that accordingly Mr..
Beecher's statement was not Yet presented
TO the committee last night; that instead of
the statement Mr.. Beecher sent note TO
the committee in which he announced that
he bad not prepared any evidence to he
submitted to that body.