The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-24
mrs, E.R.TIITON'S STATEMENT
She Afflrms Mr.. Tilton's Ha.
tired to Mr.. Beecher for
more than ten years.
His 0candalous Defa-
nation of Herself.
His ATOWed and Persistent De.
termination to Ruin Mr..
Beecher.

NEw YoRK, July 22-The following
Is the statement Of Mrs. E. r. Tilton:
ITO pick up anew the sorrows oI The
last ten years, the stings and pains had
daily Steeled myself to bury and forgive,
makes this, an imperative duty as called
forth by the malicious statement Of my
husband, the ssddest act Of my life.
Besides my thought Of following the Mas.
ter contradicts this act Of my pen. and Q
sense of perversion Of my life and faith
almost compels me now 10 stand aside
till God himself delivers. Yet l SEQ in
this wanton act an urgent call and o
privilege from which l shrink not. To
reply in detail to % articles Of arraign-
ment. l ahsll not attempt at present, yet, II
called on to testify TO each and all Of
them, I shall not hesitate to do 90. SUI.
hee 1t for my purpose now that l reply TO
ten or more Of the most glAring charges.
Touching the ieigned sorrow Of my hus-
bands compulsory revelations solemnly
avow that long before Mrs. Woodhull's
publication, l knew him by insinuation
and direct statement to have repeated to
my very near relatives and friends, the sub.
stance Of these accusations, which shock
the moral sense Of the entire community
OF this day. Many times when hearing
that certain persons had spoken Ill Of him
he has sent me TO chide them for 90 doing
and then and there learned that he had
been before me with his calumnies
against myself, so that l was speechless.
The reiteration in his statement that he
had persistentIy striven to hide these So
called facts is utterly false as his hatred
to Mr.. Beecher has existed these many
years, and a determination TO ruin Mr..
Beecher las been the aim Of his life.
Again, the perfdity with which the
holiest love a wife ever offered has been
recklessly discarded in this publication,
reaches well nigh to sacrilege, and
added to this the endeavor, like the early
scandal Of Mrs. Woodruff, to make my
own words condemn me, has no parallel.
Most conspicuously, my letter, quoting
the readings Of Griffith Gsunt." Had
Mr.. Tilton read the pure character OF
Cathsrine, he would have seen that /
lifted myself beside 1t as near as any hu.
man may affect an ideal, but It was her
character, and not incidents otfiction sur.
rounding 1t, to which I referred. Hers
was no sin Of criminal act or thought.
A like confession with hers I had made
to Mr.. Tilton, in telling Of my love to my
friend and pastor one year before, and /
now add that Notwithstanding all the mis-.
representations and
AHGuIsH OF SOUL
owe to my acquaintance and friendship
with Mr.. Beecher, as to no other human in.
strumentality, that encouragementln my
mental life and growth toward the divine
nature which enables me TO walk daily
in a lively hope Of the lie beyond.
THE SHAMELESS CHARGES
in articles Z, 8 and Q are iearfullY false in
each and every particular. The letter
referred to in Mr.. Tilton's tenth paragraph
was obtained from me by importantly
and by representations that 1t was ne
cessary for him to use 1t in his then pend
ing difficulties with Mr.. Bowen. / wa
then sick nigh unto death, having suf-
iered a miscarriage only four days before
l signed whatever he required without
knowing or understanding It's import
The paper have never seen, and
DON'T KNOW WHAT THR STATEMENTS
CONTAINED.
In charge 1s a letter OF mine addressed
to Mr.. Francis Moulton Is quoted to prove
that never desired a separation or wai
advised by Mr.. or Mrs. Beecher to leave
my husband. Ireply that the letter wa
Of Mr.. Tlton's a~.e.l -5s
OWN ooNcooTIoE, cr. H,
which he induced me to copy and sign Al
my own, an act which in my weakness
and mistaken thought to help him I hAvt
done too often during these unhappy
years. Theimplication that the harmony
Of home was unbroken till Mr.. Beechei
entered 1t as guest and friend 10
A LAMRNTEBLR sATTRE
upon q household where he himself year
before laid the corner stone OF free love
, and desecrAted It's altars up TO the time o
my departure, SO that the atmospher
was not only 81. -
aoDLKss, But IMPURE,
for my children. And in this effort AMI
throe Of agony l would fain lift N.
I daughters and all womAnhood from tn
, insidious and diabolical teachings Of thes
latter days. His frequent efforts to prov
, me insane and weak-miIded, inSlgniacan
and Of mean presence, all rank In tn
category Of
/ HEARTLRssNEsS, sRITnHNESs AND FALaH
8 al HOOD, aea#
i having It's climax In his present endeayo
}; to convince the world that ] am or eve
y y have been unable to distinguish betwee
\ an innocent and a guilty love. In sum
3 ming up the whole matter,
IAFPrRM NYSRLF BEFORE GOD
"a ha tnnnnant NJ tha cri,,, a. IoJd ,,Tn,, mi