New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-24

Mr.. MOULTON ASSUMES THE OFFENSIVE.
STATEMENTS MADE TO GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND
HOW MOUITON BECAME THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN
BEECHER AND TILToN-EXTRACrs FROM MIR.
BEECHER's SECRET LETTERs-MLEGED COMES
sIoNs OF CRIMINAL ACTs-MR MoULroN SPEAKS
IN THE uARsuEsT TERMS OF TIE PLYMOUTH PAS
TOR.
Chicago, Aug. 23.-The Chicago Tribune this
morning prints long Geographic dispatch from us
correspondent George Alfred Townsend, in which MI
Moulton details more fully than he has yet done the
confessions which Mr.. Beecher made to him OF MS
adulteries with Mrs Tton and others. He also makes
some interesting statements concerning Mr. Beecbers
conduct IN other matters In explaining how he had
become the mediator between Beecher and Titon, Mr.
Moulton says:
Tilton had been wearing kind Of woful, wretehed
face for some time. Tae night drew Beecher TO see
him the night he told me his trouble NY near. at
once Jumped to those poor children, myself peihg d
prIyed OF as much family as have desired ana l
struck right ont line or policy natural as " seemed
70 me TO rebuild and compel harmony had no need OF
n curiosv as 70 their secrets The reason
make the evidence exOnerato Beecher Is that ne Is tne
he ~ now liar aud sneak No word can be coined
until day OF eternity to describe me-, tno mar hs
has brutazd issue to the last degree and made the
only noble deed of years. snoee, OF @ nnt 81 b
clasped his and called the noD'cst Iiehu uoo
o. Do Won mean that in assisting Mr.. Tton's paper
surreptitously through yop he was serving lusAcei
A. Yes; say that, having crushed that man ike cow
ard first abusing his hospitality and his 0usehoIu anu
then meany having him discharged by Bowen 10 Keep
him poor and unnfuential, Mr.. Beecher could DO no
to get OH He has sworn away that solitary
act OF s @ a not ny aroused II LIE believes the Chris
tan religion he Is q damned man.
Mr. Townsend asked Mr.. Moulton what Mr.. Beecher
had related to him OF tho direct adultery with Mrs.
Triton; how he explained himself the subject of de-
friau -xrifa aplif W
that cried out such anguish only cowardce for his
reputation Said Moultoa:
In all his talk that question he proclaimed that he
Rad aDS sa loved by her and hat he could not
feel the enjoyment Of this love to he sim He said that
Neither her appreciation nor sympathy, and that she
drove his relatives and her own family away.
disked his popularity. and followed HIM like Nemesis.
He found pleasant bower at TLons house, where ne
his manuscripts Mrs Tlton, had the benefit OF her
criticism which, such topics, good and finally,
they fell to the earth IN the very oxaaton OF pety
Beecher said God could not punish a man who LED
such comforter as Elizabeth. He told me they botn
prayed their sim and were assured that 1t mad not
ton Beecher held lying his bed He seemed to think
on had any original rights In the matter OF ms
wife, who had made Inisaance with nature not
spiritual enough Tor her.
10 the above description Of Mr.. Beecher's confession
the secret letters Of Beecher adjust themseyes-impas
stoned remorseful, poetca, and yet with twinkle OF
intrigue as where he says, being absent somewhere,
underscoring the words "you are admitted here;"
again, "God made o very sweet thing In
you:~ again, after ali this weary agony
I know we shall walk together In Paradise"
The letters Mr. Beecher from which these extracts are
given were found by Mr. Tilion Saturday two weeks
ago. He found these letters In Mrs. Titon's copy OF
The Llfe OF Christ, presented by Beecher Tilton as
bound by his pledges to Mouton, took them immed
i'm I'm
Townsends Moulton at the breakfast table,
Townsend continues:
Mouton burst out. saying that Mr.. Beecher had now
played false with him. by renewing correspondence
with Tltous wife. MDuton handed the letters over 10
me, as IN gesture. mpetuously read them wit hout
knowing what part OF this drama they belonged 70,
and teegraphed them 20 Chicago NO WONDER
Beecher's lawyers looking anxously for those
letters, and l presume that at this stage
of the game, Tton's counsel has them. The Beecher
lettors ire written that OF unearthly sentiment
which permits the good man's idolatry 10 say An
nothing ia this quito pastoral aud seraphlc " but tbey