The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-28
want another long separation. While we are
in the flesh let us abide together.

in the flesh let us abide together.
WEDNESDAY, MORNING, March, 1868.
Oh. how almost perfectly could l minister
to YOU this wintry day. My heart glows so
perpetually. am conscious OF great IN
ward awakening toward you. II l live
shall teach my children TO begin their loves
where now am. can't conceive OF any
thing more delicious than life consecrated
TO faithful love. insist that | miss you
more than you do me, but soon snail see
nv beloved.
fSionedl Your OWN DEAR WIFE.
Tn addition to the above many other let
ters by Mrs. Tilton to her husband prior TO
her corrup.ion by Mr.. Beecher, served TO
show that christian wife, loving her hus-
band to the extreme degree above set forth,
could only have been severed from the pain
OF rectitude by artful and powerful per
suasions, clothed in phrases of religion and
enforced by strong appeals from her
chief christian teacher and guide.
eighteenth. That the story purporting
to explain Beecher's apology as having been
written bscau-e he had offended Mr.. Tilton
bv engaging his wife in the project of sep
aration from her husband is false, as will be
seen bv the following letter, written only
three DAYS after the date of the apology:
MRS. TILroN TO MR.. MoULToN.
IA LIVINGSTON STREET. BROOKLYN.
January 4, ISL.
Mr.. FRANCIS ID. MoULToN:-My dear
friend: In regard to your question whether
have ever sought separation from my
husband. indignantly deny that such was
ever the fact, as have denied il hundreds
of times before. The story that | wanted
q separation was a deliberate falsehood
coined by my poor mother, who said she
would bear the responsibility OF this and
other statements she might make and COM
municate TO my husbands enemy, Mr.. III.
w. Beeehsr, and by her communicated to
Bowen. / feel outraged by the whole pro-
ceeding, and 1 am now suffering in conse-
quence more than am able to bear. L am
yours very truly,
ELIZABETH r. Triton.
Nineteenth, that during the first week in
January. 1871, a few days after the apology
was written, Beecher communicated TO Til
tor, through MoultOn, an earnest wish that he
(Mr. Tilton) would take his family to Europe
and reside there for term OF years at Mr..
Beecher's expense. Similar offers have
been since repeated by Beecher to
Tilton through the same channel. mes
sage of kindred tenor was brought from
Beecher TO TiltOn last summer by F. b.
Carpenter, as will appear from the following
affidavit:
HOMER, \. Y, July Is, 1874.
On Sunday, June L. 1873, two days after
the surreptitious publication of the tripartite
covenant between D. w. Beecher,
III. G.. Bowen and Theodore Til
ton. L walked with Mr.. Beecher
from Plymouth church to the residence of
Ed. Moulton on Remsen street. On the
way to Moulton's house, Beecher said to me
that ifTilton would stand by him he would
share his fame, his fortune and everything
he possessed, with him, (Tilton.)
(Signed.) +. u. CARPENTER.
Swsrn to and subscribed before me this
Sth day of July, 1874.
(Signed.) WIN: L. HIcocK,
Notary Public.
Mr.. Carpenter in communicating to Tilton
the above affidavit says in letter accom-
panying it:
have no hesitation in giving You the
statement as / understood at the time IL was
for me to repeat in substance to you, and L
did so repeat it. 1t was at this interview
that Beecber spoke to me of his apology
to you. The charge that Iilton even
attempted to levy black mail on Beecher is
false. On the contrary. Tilton has always
resented every attempt by Beecher TO put
him under pecuDiary obligations.
20, That not long after the scandal became
public, Mrs. TiltOn wrote on slip ofpaper
and left on her husbands writing desk tie
following words: "Now that exposure has
come, my whole nature revolts
ing with you." Through the influence
of Beecher's friends the opinion has long
been diligently propagated that the scandal
was due To Tilton, and that the alleged facts
were malicious inventions by BIN to re-
venge himself for supposed wrongs
done to him by Beecher. Many words were
spoken from time to time by Mrs.
Il. to the praise and eulogy oil
Beecher, which, being extensively quoted
through his congregation, frightened
impression that Tilton was Beecher's Sian
derer. Mrs. 7. being herself authority tor the
statement. In this way Mrs. I. and one OF
her relatives nave been the chief causes Of
the great difficulty of suppressing the scan
dial. They haYe had habit OF saying thai
Mr.. Tilton believes such and such things
and their naming of these things by way o.
denial has been mischievous way of
CIRCULATING THEM BROADCAST.
In this way Tilton has been made to appear
a defamer, whereas he has made every
effort in his power to suppress the improper
tales which he has been charged will
propogatiug. On all occasions he has sys
tematically referred to his wife in term!
favorable to her character. Further, Tiltor
would not have communicated Il
the committee the facts contained in TIN,
statement except for the perverse course o
the Rev. H. w. Beecher and Mrs. Elizabeth
r. Tilton to degrade and destroy him in
public estimation. Twenty-first, that one
evening, about two weeks after the publica
ton of Tilton's letter to DIR. Bacon, Mrs. Il.
ON coming home at a late hour, informed
Tilton that she had been visited at friends
house by a committee of investigation
and had given sweeping evidence acquit
ting Beecher of every charge. This was the
first intimation which TltOn received thai
any such committee was then in existence
Furthermore, Mrs. T. stated that she haC
done this by the advice of a lawyer whom
Beecher had sent to her and who
in advance of her appearing before
the committee arranged with be-
the questions and answers which
were to constitute her testimony in Beecheri
behalf. On the next day after giving tn,
untrus testimony before the committee, sh,
spent many hours of extreme suffering anC
pangs OF conscience at having testified
falsely. She expressed to her husband thu
hope that God would forgive her perjury