Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-08-13

keep perpetual truce, and yet, Mr.
Beecher, you are already intriguing.
shall go out OF this Office Of mediator
unless you instantly surrender the pa
per- He has no moral pluck. How can
he have, living such life?"
Chen" said ] to Mr.. Moulton, 'yoU
cannot see
AWAY OF ESCAPE FOR BEECHER:"
Said Moulton: "Ife may escape the
/ penalties, but not the facts. think the
council will whitewash him, and that
plymouth church viii take him back
but l have heard from his own lips
things to revolt at" | forbeer To
send you the language which Mr.. AIoul-
ton repeated to me as having come from
Mr.. Beecher's lips, both on account OF
its exceeding filthiness, and because the
ladies referred to have been in no way
connected with the 1iltOn case.
/ | asked Mr.. Moulton: "Will you put
| these stories in your evidence?"
"Not line" said MOulton, "except
| the letters bearing on the Beeeher-Tilton
case. pray the Lord may, never be
| put through this ordeal in any other
case. Why, | have fed the city, hidden
myself, labored to the last minute to get
! these people to stand alocf, and save the
a
! ing it on every side for this sacrifice,
MIR. Beeeher writes me a letter, and
makes my answer public in order to ap-
pear to establish point for him. That
resolved me to make my second answer
public.
BEECHER's HABITUAL TREACHERY
since this crime cannot avail wi, h me,
nor will see him further trample on
L, a 4
through the fires OF hell already"
Mr.. MOulton further said that Beech
er had long ago said to him: "Tilto1
comes no more to church: let US edge
him out, drop his name. You must act
with me.U |~Etsg GI
"In another respeet,' continued
Moulton, "Beecher has lied. He gave
me his solemn word that since the dis
covery he had not had communication
with Mrs. Tilton. Now read this, which
Theodore discovered hidden in the
pages of Beecher's Life of Christ, his
presentation copy"
Then were shown various
BURNING LOVE LETTERS,
revealing the deep Illicit love of a
preacher for another man's wife thinly
concealed under scripture phrases
blasphemies, taken in this connection
but yet, apparently, the hysteria of love.
In one written from his sisters house he
begs Mrs, Tilton to write him some
comforting letters, and then says, the
words beng deeply underscored, /" You
can be adm tied here" There was an
other, saying: "CoBae Friday night, as
/ shall be dt0Gy all the fore part Of Rert
aUeek u
There were no signatures to any of
these.
"NOw," said Moulton, "put these let.
ters by date in conjunction with this one
from Mrs. Tilton, where she says We
must soon meet, get consolation, and
h0Us nest hiding Why, GATH" said
MoultOn, "they call me a conspirator
against Beecher. l can't be a fool.
Here [ have the paUers by which l
know where the guilt is. They call me
a blackmailer. What has Beecher to
gve me? l am member of large
business house, and l have continually
given to Plymouth church as literally
as any man IheIe. i would have spared
Mr.. Beecher with money or blood, but
when he defies me to produce these
letters, suppOsiHg will not, and that
he will get point on me and a new
one on Theodore, he has played it too
fine."
MIR MoULToN
is a wealthy merchant, probably about
thirty-eight years old. He has red hair
and light skin. a mnstaehe and bold,
prompt way of speech. He is the phys
ical antipodes of Tilton, who is a tall,
strange, unwOTldly-lOoking man, like a
great Sunday-school boy. Moulton is
rough and ready. These two men think
highly of each other, and Meulton says
Tilton's house was a perfect rose garden,
and when he heard of tha skeleton in it,
he was more staggered than ever in his
life. l think he has extreme contempt
for Be, cher's hypocritical life, but no
dislike. He thinks, too, that in his ef-
forts to shake off the coil of guilt which
has 80 long enyeloped him, Beecher's re-
manning grsces have -beeu warped; that
melancholy has enshrouded him, and
he has become ungraci0us, evasiye,
crafty and desperate.
THE GIsr OF MoULTON's STATEMENT.
Judge Morris knows nothing of Moul-
ton's statement, but l do. The state
ment viii show by Mrs. Tilton's own
letters that she was not wholly averse
to being misle d, and also that Beeeher's
apology was the work of Moulton, his
attorney, on whom he relied, signed by
LSSlself. He sought Moulton's stronger
nature to bear him through, and Moul-
ton never said a word against Beecher
until the latter tried by his subtle tactics
10 destroy the custodian of the secrets,
or force him to give up the papers. Then
Moulton spoke, and think he will be
believed, Notwithstanding the attempts
already begun to excite a prejudice
against him.
WHAT TILToN SAID.
"What is Plymouth church, any
way2" said 1. Ern r.
iWell," ssid TiltoD, sit is a kind of
clubhouse with female attendants.
There are about twenty-five hundred
members. There are also about fifty
very rich and cordial men in the church
who look on it in the light of social
club. They are generally worldly men,
who like Beecher and the sDappy,
smartish things he has to say, his hu-
NOR and his company; and they put up
their money, rejoice in the institution,
and otherwise play poker, go to the the
ater, or what not. Beecher is a mag
nificent preacher, full of things which
touch the sensibilities of people, and a
vast mass Of women go there for their
souls to be comforted and made good.
Now put these two elements together,
the warmth and belief of all these
women, the wealth and public spirit of
those men, and you can make, in de-
tached, dullish town like Brooklyn, an
institution equal to a merchants ex-
change. There are plenty of men be-
longing to Plymouth church who do not |
care whether Beecher is q debaucher or
not" - -
The man is as tender of his wife's |
name now as he was before he was COM |
PEELED to traduce it with this tragedy. !
He did it when he found that Beecher.
in his effort to make her the victim of |
his dreadful secret, was Overthrowing |
her character, leading her into deceit,
and poisoning her mind more than he |
had defiled her body. He never spoke !
to BAecher after the confession, for good |
or i'll, until December 18th, six months /
after Elizabeth's confession; and then,
that she had told Beecher of 1
that confession, told her TO notify him !
that they understood each other. He |
had commanded her to do that. She |
said she had Obeyed, but she feared |
uphrsidal, the curse of her
bishop, as he hac become. When Til |
ton found that Be- cher was still going |
on unblushingly, he took
AN IMMEDIATE LINE OF ACTION.
He went straight to the elegant resi- |
dence of his friend Frank MOu1ton, ana
told the story Of the griefs he had carried