The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-07-31
THE nRooALYN .cANbas.
aGRseEAenG- Of 'aflGsss. Gseeehes.
and Nars. I,ilaom.

Ind 1t grown to such proportions as
o compel synopsis limited to the
main facts. Our paper would not
lold all the statements, counter
specuIations and theo-
hes in reference to the case. 1t
seems TO have settled down to as
'ertions on the part of one side and
denials on the part of the other, and
hose who are impartially seeking |
the truth to base thereon candid |
and permanent opinion as TO the
guilt or Innocence of the actors in |
this unfortunate affair. are IS much |
At sea as ever. Were it possible to
do so we would prefer not to al
Jude to the disgusting revelations
so far made. Tilton swears that
Beecher committed one of the
gravest crimes known to our laws
against him and his wife, and the
oath is sufficiently backed by cir
and documents to
shock the moral sensibilities of the
country. 1t is true that Beecher
hatly denies, and that the cooler
portion of society will hold him in
nocent until proven guilty, yet it
is patent that the public confidence
in him is shaken. So far as we are
concerned we hope Beccher may
come out of this trial with clean
skirts. There is q good deal of
strong sense in the saying of an
honest old Dutchman we used TO
know in Ohio. He used to say,
''some folks says one story's goot
till the tndder's heard, but l say
one story's goot for nothing till
der oder's heard" 1t will not do
to condem until the testimony is
all in.
Mrs. Tilton Joins Beecher and
publishes long statement accusing
her husband of wilful and malicious
lying, and an attempt to ruin her
pastor and herself Mrs. Beecher
is also brought into the disgraceful
business of throwing nastiness.
Had David of old read all the stuff
which hiss been published he would
have had more reason to exclsim,
"How have the mighty fallen" than
he had over the result of the battle
on Mount Giiboa.
Tilton's course throughout seems
to have been one of strange incon'
sistencies at best, and this has hurt
his influence. Had he kept himself
free from suspicion--had he beer
more careful of his associates-had
he cut loose from Beecher and hi
wife and acted toward them az
though he believed them guilty, af
ter LEARNING OF their crime; hC
would have commanded universal
sympathy, and his statement, I'M
supported almost, would hav'
crushed Beecher. People are very
slow to believe that he would tame
| ly submit to the treatment which
he says he received from Mr.
Beecher and his wife, for years af
ter finding out their criminal con
duct. This he did for some year
according to his own testimony
forgiving them for the grea
wrongs which he swears they com
mitted at different times.
TILToN's STATEMENT.
We give below a brief synopsi
of his sworn statement:
After defending himself for hi
action in bringing this case agail
before the public, and protesting
that it was not his desire to expos
Mr.. Beecher and his wife by hi
sworn statement; after throwing
the blame upon them for the un
welcome task, under oath, he make
over twenty charges.
The first recites the marriage o
Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton in 1855, q
Plymouth church, by Rev. II. w
Beecher, which marriage, Thirteen
years afterwards, he says, was dis
honOred by this clergyman. Thu
second recites the long standing ant
intimate friendship between Beech
er and himself and the consequen
great wrongfulness and perfidy o
the crime charged. The thlrC
charge states that Mr.. Beecher ever
came Mrs. Tilton's moral and re
ligious scruples about nine year
ago, and that the guilty relation ex
isted until 1870. The 4th charg,
specifically states that tho frs
known act of adultery was com
mitted at Beecher's residence OIL
the 10th dev of October, 1868; tina
it was repeated at Tilton's resi-
dence on the subsequent Saturda!
evening; and that these acts were
repeated at various times ant
places until the spring of 1870.
These acts of wrong being on he
part from the first to last, not wan
ton or criminally wicked, but arts
ing through q binding Of her NOR
al perceptions, occasioned by TIA
powerful influence exerted on hel
mind at that time to this end b,
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, as he
trusted religious preceptOr anC
guide.
Passing on to the 18th charge Mr.
Tilton testifies that improper con
duct took place between Br. Beech
er and Mrs. Tilton in It's library
On still another occasion Mr.. Til
ton, soon after leaving his hous
early in the morning returned to i
in the forenoon, and on going t,
his bed-chamber found the doc
locked, and when, on knocking a
the door it was opened by Mrs
Tilton, Mr.. Beecher was seeI
within, apparently much confused
and exhibiting q flushed face
Mrs. Tilten afterwards made
plausible explanation which, frOn
the confidence repOsed in her b,
her husband, was by him deeme,
satisfactory.
The eighth charge relates Mrs
Tilton's confession of the crime
above set forth, after extracting
from her husband q promise that b
would do Beecher no harm. Tn
: circumstances of this confession ar
given so infinitely as to bear gEes
weight in the case, and many pee
, pie will accept Tilton's statemen