The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-22

| trusted TREND Ills sell cOuueuudtfoH az wv
ruin he had wrought under such circumstan
ces was full and complete, and at times he wa
so bowed down with grief in consequence OF Eli
wrong be had done that he threatened to pu
an end to his lie. He also gave me letter
the first draft of which (marked "a is allow
given in reference to which he said that Bower
had gwen it to him, that he had told Bower
that Tilton must be crazy to write such lette
as that, he didn't understand it. Bowen, salq
II will be your friend in this matter. ~
then made statement which Tilton Ehad mad'
to me at my house OF the charge that Bower
had made to him (Tilton) and said that Bower
had been treacherous toward Tilton as well al
towards himself, because he (Beecherl had nae
reconciliation with Bowen, of which he toit
me the terms and Bowen had never in hI'
| (Beecbersg presence spoken of or referred t'
any allegation of crime or wrong doing on hi
part with any woman whatever.
The Reecher-Bowen Reconciliation.
He gave me in general terms the reconcIla'
ton, and afterwards gave me the memoranoa
which | here produce which show the terms OF
the reconciliation. The first in the hand writ
| ing OF Beecher, containing i've items when
Beecher assured me were the terms which
| Bowen claimed should be the basis OF recon-
Citation. 1t is as follows:
BowEN's TERMS.
LIST, report and publish sermons and lecture
| room talks; ID, new edition Plymouth collec-
| tion and Freeland's INTEREST," Sd, explanations
to church; 4th, write me letter; 9th, retract
| in every quarter what has been said to my
| injury.
| The second paper is pencil memorandum OF
| the reconciliation with Bowen in Beecher, S
hand writing, giving an account OF the affair;
| BEECHER's MEMORANDUM OF INTERVIEW AT
| FREELANDs.
| About February, 1870
At long interview at Mr.. Freelands house,
| for the purpose of having full and final
| toto bic
ances, which were ell either of business
nature, of my treatment of him personally
| Gas per memorandum in his writing.)
| After hours of conference everything
was adjusted. We shook hands; we pledged
each other to work henceforth without jar or
| break. said to him,-"Mr. Bowen, if you
hear anything of me not i'll accordance with
this agreement of harmony, don't let it rest;
come straight to me at once, and will do the
same by you" He agreed. In the lecture
room l stated that all our differences were
over and we were friends again.
This public recognition he heard
and expressed himself greatly pleased
with it. 1t was after all this. that l
asked Mr.. Howard to help me carry out this
reconciliation, and to call on Mr.. Bowen and
remove the little differences between them.
Mr.. Howard called and expressed his gratif-
cation. Then it was that he (Mr. Bowen)
without any provocation, told Mr.. Howard
that this reconciliation did not include one
matter that he (BowenJ knew about
Mr.. Beecher, which if he should
speak, it would drive Mr.. Beecher
out of Brooklyn. Mr.. Howard
protested with horror against such state
ment unless he had most absolute evidence.
To this Mr.. Beecher replied that he had this
evidence, and said pointedly that he Glow
ard) might go to Mr.. Beecher, and that Mr..
Beecher would never give his consent that
he (Bowen) should tell Mr.. Howard this Sc
cret. Mr.. Bowen at no time had ever made
known to Mr.. B. what this secret was, and
the hints which Mr.. Beecher had had oft led
him to think that it was another matter, and
not the Islander which he now finds it to be-
In that interview Beecher was very earnest
in his expression of regret at what had been
| done against Tilton in relation to his business
in connection with Bowen, besought me to do
everything could do TO save him from the de-
struction which would come upon him ii the
sto1y of his (Beechers) intercourse with Mrs.
Tilton should be dIvulged. In compliance
with the directions of Beecher (Jan. l, 1871
took the paper which he dictated to me to Mr..
Tilton, detailed to him Beechef'e expressions
of regret and sorrow, spoke to him OF his agony
of mind and agaiu appealed to him to have the
whole matter kept quiet if for no other reason
than for the sake of the children.
To this Tlton assented l found him writ
ing the letter to Bowen of that date, which l
have before produced. He told me also OF the
contracts he had with penalty when he left
the Independent to be editor of the Brooklyn
Union ald special contributor to the lndepend-
ent at a salary of $100 per week, with another
salary of equal amount for his editorship of the
Brooklyn Union and portion OF the profits.
Copies of these contracts cannot produce. be-
cause both papers were delivered to Bowen
after the arbitration of the controversy OF which
| am about to speak,
These contracts provided that they could be
terminated by mutual consent, or upon six
months notice, or upon the death of either
party, or at once by the party who wished to
break or annul them by paying the other the
sum of $780,
The ssowen-Tilton Trouble.
Tilton insisted that that sum, with his ar
rears of salary, was justly due him, and that
he should bring q suit against Bowen unless
settle his affairs with Bowen, which paper
gave TO Bowen when I went down to treat
with him, retaining this copy:
TILToN TO BOWEN.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 2. 1871.
II. G. B.-Sir,-I hereby authorize Mr..
Francis D. Moulton to act in my behalf in
full settlement with you of all my accounts
growing out of my contracts for services to
the Independent and the Brooklyn Daily
Union. (Signed,)
THEODORE Triton.
Acting il tho interest of B4echer, l told Til
ton that this controversy with Bower, If pos
sibe, should be peacefully settled lest 1T mlgh
| reopen the other matters relating to Beecher' $
conduct in Tilton's family and the charges
| made by Bowen against Beacher,
| To this Tilton assented, giving me the autho-
| rization above quoted.
| AT my earliest convenience l called upon
| Al. -. fA1ls
| him I wanted him to settle with me, as was
authorized by Tlton by this letter (hapding
| him the letter. to settle for the breaking of his
| contract with Tilton as contributor to the In
| dependent and editor of the Brooklyn Union.
l also harded him an article written by Tilton
| for the Independent, which he (rilton) claimed
| was a part performance of his contract, which
| article was subsequently returned to Hilton By
| Bowen through me.
| Bowen said he did not consider that he owed
Tilton any money at all for breaking the con-
| tracts that he had terminated them, having IN
| his opinion sufficient reasons for so doing.
"Well," 1 said, "Mr. Bowen, your contracts
are specific" He said he knew they were,
but they provided for arbitration in case of any
! differences between the parties. L replied II
| substance that the arbitration only referred t.
differences between parties as to articles to be
published as editor and contributor by Tilton,
and as to Bowen's conduct as publisher, ano
that there was fixed sum as penalty fol
breach OF the contracts.
The interview terminated with his refusal.
I reported to Tilton advising him still not to
sue Bowen. The following correspondence /;
with reference to my meeting Nj. Bowen oil
this business:
MoULToN TO BOWEN.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 9, 1871.
Mr. H G. Bower, dear sir:-Referring to
recent interview with you, would state that il
consequence of Illness have been detained a
home, and as | deem it of great Importance t
the interests of all concerned in the affair
about which we talked, that you and shout
meet at an early moment, if you will call a
my house, 143 Clinton street, shall be glad t
see you at any hour convenient to yourself to
morrow.
Truly yours, F. D. MoULToN.
BOWEN TO MoULToN
BROOKLYN, Jan. 10, 1871.
Sir-I am not very well myself, but will tt
to call at your house Thursday evening at
o'clock. | am engaged tomorrow evening.
can 90 this evening if you will inform me thu
it will be convenient for you to see me. Unles
l learn from you to the contrary, will see 20
on Thursday.
Very respectfully,
FL. G. BOWEN.
In pursuance of this correspondence we mt
at my house and entered into negotiation
about the settlements of the contract wit
: Tilton at that time. During the interview