Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-08-12
MR. BEKCHKR TO NIB. MOULTON.

NIB. BEEcHER TO NIB. MoULToN.
July "a.
My DEAR NIB. MoULToN 1 am making out
a statement, and need the letters and papers
IN your hands. Wal you send me- byel racy
all the originals OF my papers Let then be
! numbered and an inventors taken, and will
return them you as soon as can see and
compare, get dates, make abstracts or copies,
as thecase NAV be. Will you also send me
BOWens" Heads OF Difficulty " and all letters
| OF my sister, if any are with YOU
H. W. BEEcHER.
| NH. MoULTON TO MR.. BEECHER.
| My DEAR Mr.. BEEcHER Your note of July
"a IS received will sacredly hold all the
papers Stand information have until both par
! ties shall request me to make them public or
to deliver them into tie hands of either ar
| both, or lay them before the committee, or I
am compelled IN coursto produce th ~, if l
can be 80 compelled. T Ny regret that I am
compelled to this course is softened by my be-
| lief that you will not be substantially injured
| by it in this regard, tor all the facts are Of
course known to you, and l am bound to be-
eve and assume that in the statement YOU
are preparing you will only set forth the ex-
! act facts; and IL so the documents when pro-
duced will only confirm and cannot contradict
! what you may state, so that you will suffer no
| loss. 1t On the contrary, which I cannot pre-
sumo, you desire the possession Of the docu-
| ments in order that you may prove your state
|
the facts set forth in them to the disadvantage
OF Mr.. Tiltcn, should then be aiding you in
doing that which cannot believe the strictest
and hrmest friendship tor you calls upon me
| to do
With grateful recognition Of your kind
confidence and trust ID me, l am very truly
yours, f. D. MoULroN.
BEECHER APPEALS TO MoULToN.
BROOKLYN. July %.
Of IN
vestlgatlOn are awaiting manly for you before
closing their labors. [ too earnestly wish that
you would come and clear your mind and
| memory Of everything that can bear On my
| case. pray you also to bring all letters and
papers relating to it which VIII throw any
light upon it, and bring to result this DtO-
| tractod case. trust that Mrs. MoUlton has
been re-invlgorated, and that her need Of your
care will not be 30 great as to detain you.
+ W. BEEcHEn.
f. D Moulton, Esq.
SECOND APPEAL.
BROOKLYN, August 4.
f. D. MoULToN, ESQ SIR: Your Litter, |
bearing date August 4, 1874, is this moment
received. Allow me to express my regret aud /
establishment that YOU refuse me permission /
even to see certain leJtels and papers in your !
possession relating to the charges made |
against me BY Theodore Tllton, and at the !
reasons gwen for the refusal. Ou your solemn
and repeated assurances Of personal friend /
| ship, and IN the unquestloned confidence with /
which you inspired me OF your honor and
hdenty, l placed n your hands Tor safe /
keeping various letters addres sed to me from /
NY brother, my sister, and various other par !
ties. Also memoranda OF affairs not imnledi- |
ately connected with Mr.. 1ilton'. Mates. / I
also. from time to time, addressed you conf
dental rOte. relating to myself as one friend
would write to another. These papers We're
never placed III your hands to be held for two
parties, nor to be used Ia any way. They !
we're to be held tor me l did hot wish them
| to be subject tothe risk OF loss or scattering
from NY careless habits in matters OF preserv-
ing documents. They were to be held for me-.
In so far as these papers were concerned. you
were only friendly trustee. holding the
papers subject to my wishes. Mr. Tilton has
made deadly assault upon me, and has used
letters, and fragments OF letters, purporting
| to be copies Of these papers. Are these
extracts genuine? Are they garbled? What
are their dates? What il anything, has
been lett out, and what put IN? You refuse
my demand for these papers on various pleas,
| that il speak truly in my statement do not
need them; that if l make successful Use OF
| them it wall be an injury to Tllton. AID You as
| a friend to both parties are bound Lot to aid
| either IN any act that shall niure the other.
| But do not desire to lnjure any one. but TO
! repel al injury attempted upon me BY the
| use OF these papers con mltted sacredly to
| your care. These documents have been seen
and copied. They have been hawked for sale
| IN New York newspaper Offices. WHAT pur-
port to be my confidential notes to you are on
the market But when I demanded SIGHT
OF the originals OF the papers OF which you are
only trustee; that may defend myself, you
refuse because you are friend OF both parties.
| MIR. Tllton has access 10 your depository for
| materials with which to strike ME, but am
| not permitted to use them III defending my
self. do not ask yoi to place before the
committee any PAGERS which Mr.. Tllton may
have given you, but I do demand that you
| forthwith place before the committee every
paper which | have written Or Deposited with
you. Yours truly, q. ". BEEcaER.
MR. MoULToN TO MR.. BEEcHER.
My DEAR SIR In all our acquaintance and
| friendship l have never received from you {.
| letter OF the tone Of yours OF August /. It
seems unlike yourself, and to have been in.
spired by the same lll-advlsers who had so
| lameDtably carried your private affairs before
a committee Of your church, and thence be-
fore the public In reply, let me remind you
that during the whole Of the past four years
| ali the documents, notes AID memoranda
which you and Mr.. Tilson have entrusted to
me, have en- so entrusted because they had
| reference to your mutual differences. l hold
| no papers either OF yours or his except such
as bear On this case. You speak OF Elenloran-
da OF affairs not lmmed ately connected with
| the Tllton matter. You probably aliude here
to the memoranda OF your difficulties with
Bowen; but these have direct reference to
your present case with Tliton, and were de-
posted with me by you because OF such refer
ence. You speak also OF letter Or two from
your brother and sister, and | am sure you
have not forgotten the apprehension we en-.
| tertaired lest Mrs. Hooker should fulfill de-
sign which she foreshadoWed, to invade your
pulpit ana read to your congregatlon con
tession or your intimacy with Mrs. Tilton.
You speak of other papers which hold
subject to your wishes. hold none such,
nor DO I hold any subject to Mr. TiIton's
wishes. The papers which h0lo, both yours
and his, were not givea to be subject to the
wishes OF either of the parties, but the very
object OF my holding them has been. and still
is, 30 prevent the wish OF one party being In
juriously exercised against the other.
You are incorrect in saying Mr. Tiiton has
had access to my depository Of materials. On
tho contrary, have refused Mr.. Tllton such
access. During the preparation of his sworn
| statement he came 70 me- and said his case
would be incomplete Unless permitted Linn
the use Of all the documents, but refused,
and all he could rely upon were such notes as
be had made from time to time from writings