The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-15
THE TUTON-BEECHER SCANDAL.
Continuation OF gscccher's Stltc-
mcnt.

We give below II continuation of the
statement of Henry Ward Beecher before
the committee OF investigation, as begun in
our telegraph columns of Friday morning
Tltons assumption Of superiority and
magnamity and his patronizing manner
were trtles 1t which | could afford to
smile, and which bore with the greater
humility since | still retained the profound
impression made upon me, as explained in
the following narrative, that had been a
cause of overwhelming disaster to him, and
that his complete restoration to public
standing and household happiness was a
rcparaton justly required of me, and the
only one which could make But with
peculiar genius for blunders, he fell almost
at every step into new complications and
difficulties, and in every such instance his
policy was to bring coercion to bear upon
my honor, my conscience and my affections
for the purpose of procuring his extrca-
ton at my expense.
THEODORE Triton KNEW NE WELL.
lie said again and again to his friends
that if they wished to gain any influence
oyer me they must work upon the sympa-
thetic side of my nature. To this he has
addressed himself steadily for four years,
using as a lever, without scruple, my at
tachment to my friends. to my family, to
his own household, and even my old affec-
ton for himself not blind to his faults, |
| resolved to look upon him as favorably and
| hopefully as possible, and. ignorant of his
deeper malice, labored earnestly, even des-
pcrately, for his salvation. For four years
| | have been trs'ing to feed the ;us"r'm,nr
| egotism, to make the man as great as he
conceived himself to be, to restore pros
perity and public confidence to one who, in
the midst of my efforts in his behalf,
patrsnized dsreputable people and doct-
rines, refused, when l besought him to sep
arate himself from them, and ascribed to
my agency the increasing ruin which he
was persistently bringing upon himself, land
which | was doing my utmost to avert.
A TIIANKLEss TASK.
1t was hard to do anything for such a
man | might as well have tried to fill a
sieve with water. In the latter stage OF
the history he actually melted and created
difficulties, apparently for no other pur
pose than to drive me to fresh eXertons
refused to indorse his wild views and asso
ciates. The best | could do was to speak
well of him, which | still believe him tC
possess, in his higher moods, and, keeping
silence concerning the evil things which
was assured, and believed, had been great
, " exaggerated by public report, | coul,
not think him so bad as my friends did.
trusted to the germs of good which
thought still live In him, to Mr.. Moulton'
: apparent power over him and to the powe
, of my persistent selfsacrifice.
, BEEcHERs CONFIDENCE IN MoULToN.
: Mr. Moulton came to me at first as til
schoolmate and friend of Mr. Tilton, dc
i termined to reinstate him, always suspect
Y ed without regard to my interests, but o
h further acquaintance with me he undertoo
= and promised to serve his friend withor
doing wrong to me. He said he saw clearl
It how this was to be done to restore peaC
G and harmony to Mr.. Tiltons home, an
bring a happy end of all misunderstanding!
y Many things which he counseled abs
. lutely refused but | never doubted h
l. professional friendship for me after Il
It friendship had grown up between us, an
whatever he wished me to do did unle
. it seemed to me wrong. My confidence
10 him was the only element that seemt
y secure in that confusion of tormenting pc
N plexities. To him / wrote freely in tn
troublesome time, while felt that seer
!" Vaccinations were going on around me al
nc echoes of the vilcst ISLANDERS concerning Il
" were lltulN III hhNAINttSb IuuitNio VIZ
10 some of my near relatives were set again
- me- and that tattle of a crowd of malicio
i women, hostile to me on other grount
al was borne to my ears when had lost I
he last remnant of faith in Theodore or no
70 hope for him. when heard with unspea
~ able remorse that everything had done
~ STAY his destruction had made matt,
er worse and worse that my attempt to Ike
ss- him from public trial 'involving sucl
&c flow Of scandal rs has now been let loos
81 had been used by him to bring up M
On troubles that his unhappy wife was unt
zen his dictation signing papers and recan
nat tions, and know not what that, in she
everything was breaking up, and the
~ struction from which had sought to So
SO the family was likely TO be emptied
lch other families, the church and the co
M, munity, with infinite horrors of woe
' me- that my own innocence was bur
'ier under heaps and heaps of rubbish,
one nobody iut my professed friend, if e.
q 81 he could save us, to his assurances that
81 could still do so gave at least so mi
oo'- faith as to maintain under these terri
lion trials the silence which he cnjoined.
ack until Tilton, having attempted thro
ami Frank Carpenter To raise money from
r friends, openly assailed me in II lette
-hal DR.. Bacon, did break that silence, s
aph by simple denial of the slanderous
ave mors against me a year before.
his MIR BEECnER CALLS FOR AN INvEsrIGAT
ost When on the appearance OF the first O
,,,, attack from Mr.. Tilton | immediat
wy without consulting Mr.. Moulton, called
ram a thorough investigation with comm
| all of my church. | am not responsible
rom the delay, the publicity or the detail
-. that investigation. All the harm viii
have so long dreaded, and have SO earn'
3 re- striyen to avoid has come to pass ] c
road not further prevent it, without full
,,,,, render of honor and truth. The time
''"s arrived when can freely speak in vinC
&c OF ton of myself
III III HIS DISADVANTAGES.
orly labor under great disadvantages in
SC to ing statement. My memory of statl
nont the mind is clear and tenacious, better
.,at my memory of dates and details. d.
'h'' four troubled years, in all of which !
any | hopn ainpularly burdened with public II