Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-06

sharp Correspondence Betw cen Moul-
ton and Beecher.

sharp Correspondence Between MouI-
ton and Beecher.
Correspondence which recently paseed be-
tween Henry Ward Beecher and r. ID. Moul-
ton, in reference 10 documents said % be in
possession Of he latter, has been made public.
BEEcHkR TO MouLroN.
The first letter Is dated July 2Sth, from Mr..
Beecher TO Mr.. Moulton. He says :-"The CON-
mittee Of Investigation are waiting mainly for
You before closing their labors. 1 do earnestly
wish that you would come and clear your mind
and memory OF everything that can bear on my
case. L pray you also TO bring all letters and
case. trust that Mrs. NJ. has been reinvigor-
atsd, and that her need of your care will not be
so great as to detain you.'
MoULToN TO BEBcHBR.
Mr.. Moulton, under date OF August ith, writes:
81 received your note of July Z {, informing me
letters and papers In my hands. and asking me
TO send TO you for the purpos extracts OF copies
made from them, as the RI q may be, that you
ton. / should be very glad to DO ANYTHING that
may do consistent with my sense of what Is q ne
10 justice and right 70 aid you, but you will re-
70 me at the desire and req uest and In the con-
hdence OF both parties TO this unhappy affair.
You Will see that cannot, In honor, give them
to either party TO aid him as against the other.
L have not given or shown to Mr.. Tilton any
documents or papers relating to your affairs
since the renewal Of your controversy, which
had been once adjusted. L need not tell you
how deeply L regret your positions as foes
each to the other, after my long and, as you,
L have no doubt, fully believe, honest
ana faithful efforts to have you otherwise.
will sacredly hold all the papers and informs-
ton have until both parties shall request me
TO make them public or 10 deliver them In the
t hands OF either or both or to lay them before
justice, 10 produce them, n can be 90 CON-
PEELED. Ny regret that am compelled to this
course lie softened by my belief that you will not
nv m for
all the facts are, of course, known 10 YOU, and
am bound to believe and assume that in the
statement state you are preparing you win only set
when produced, will only confirm, and not con-
tradlct what you may say, 40 that you will suffer
no loss. III, on the contrary, which 4 cannot
presume, You Will only desire the possession Of
the documents that you may form your state
ment by the facts set forth in them, aiding you
to the disadvantage OF Mr.. Titon, should be
the strictest and nrmest friendship for you calls
upon me to do"
BBkCHER TO MoULToN EXPRESSING RBGREr
AND AeTONIeHMBNT.
On the same day MIR. Beecher wrote a second
letter to Moulton, follows" Your letter
bearing date August 4, ls7i, is this moment re-
ceiyed. Allow me TO express my regret and as
constituent that you refuse me permission even
to zee certain letters and papers In YOUR posses
sion relating TO the charges made against me
by Theodore Tilton, ana at the reason given
for the refusal. On your solemn and repeated
assurances of friendship, and with the unques-
uoniDg confidence you inspired me Of your
safe-keepipg, various letters addressed 70 me
from my brother, my sister, and various other
parties; also, memoranda Of affairs not imme-
diately connected with Mr.. TiltOn's matters.
also from time to time addressed you confiden-
tial notes relating to my own self rs one friend
would write to another. These papers were
never placed in your hands to be held for two
parties, nor to be used in any way. They were
TO be held for me. / did not wish them to be
subject to the risk OF loss or scattering from my
careless habits in the matter of preserving
documents. They were to be held for me.
In so far as these papers were con-
cerned you were only a friendly trus-
tee, holding the papers subject TO my wishes.
Mr. Tilton has made q deadly assault upon me,
and has used letters and fragments or letters
purporting TO be copies of these papers. Are
these extracts genuine? What, if anything, has
been left out, and what put III? You refuse
my demand for these papers on various pleas:
That, If speak the truth in my statement, | 90
not need them; If make successful use of
that you, as friend OF both parties, are bound
not TO aid either in any act that shall I'M ure the
other. But do not desire to injure any one,
but to repel an injury attempted upon me by
care. These documents have been seen aud
copied. They have been hswked for sale in
the New York newspaper offices. What purport
to be my confidential notes TO you are on the
market; but when 1 demand a sight Of the
originals Of papers of which you are only
trustee, that 1 may defend myself, you refuse.
because you are q friend to both parties. Mr.
Tilton has access to your depository for mate
rials with which to strike me, but am not per.
mitted to use them in defending myself. 1 do
not ask you to place before the committee any
papers which MIR. Tilton may have given you,
but 1 do demand that you forthwith place
before the committee every paper which have
written or deposited with you"
MoULToN "sTICKs."
This ELECTED the following reply from Mr..
Moulton, dated August 5th:
"In all our acquaintance and friendship 1
have never received from you q letter OF the
tone OF yours Of August 4. IL seems unlike your
self, and 10 have been inspired By the same Ill
private affairs before a committee OF your
church and thence before the public. In reply,
let me remind you that during the whole OF the
past four years all the documents, notes and
memo rsnda which you and Mr.. Tilton have en-
trusted to me have been 90 entrusted because
they had reference to your mutual differences.
hold no papers either OF yours or his except
such as bear on this case. You speak of memo
randa OF affairs not Immediately connected with
the Tilton matter. You probably allude here to
the memoranda of your difficulties with Mr..
Bowen, but these have q direct reference to
your present case with Tilton, and were depos-
tied with me by you because OF such reference.
brother and sister, and am sure ysu have not
forgotten the apprehension we entertained lest
Mrs. Hooker should fulfill the design which she
to your congregation q confession OF your init
macy with Mrs. TIlton. You speak OF others
which 1 hold subject to your wishes. 1 hold
BOUc suCDs nOT OO EOlQ any euDJcCt 10
Titon's wishes. The papers which hold, both
yours and his, were not given to be subject to
the wishes Of either of the parties, but the very
object OF my holding them has been, and
still is, to prevent the wish Of one party from
being injuriously exercised against the other.
You are incorrect in saying Mr.. Triton has had
access to my depository OF material. On the
contrary, refused Mr.. Tilton such statements.
He came to me and said lis case would be in
complete unless permitted him the use of all
documents, but refused, and all he could rely
upon was such notes he had made from time
to time from writings of yours which you had
written to me to be read to him, and passages
of which he caught from my lips in short and.
Tilton has seen only part Of the papers in my
possession, and would be more surprised u
learn the entire facts Of the case than you can
possibly be. What idle rumors may have
existed In newspaper Offices know not, but
they have not come from me. In closing your
letter. you say did not ask you to place be-
fore the committee any papers which Mr.. Tilton
may have given you, but do demand every
paper I have written or deposited with You.
In reply, 1 can only say that cannot justly
place before the committee the papers OF one Of
the parties without doing the same with the
papers Of the other, and cannot do this honor
ably except by legal process compelling me, or
else by consent in writing. not only Of yourself,