Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-30
Mrs. Woodhull's Views.

n. Y. %. Woodruff 4 Cafin's Weekly,
issued to-day, contains long review of the
BeecherTilton matter, the substance of which
outside of the reiteration of peculiar doctrine
as to marriage, of the publishers is annexed.
Mrs. Woodruff asserts that the scandal is
very like that originally recited in their pa
per, that Tilton is guilty of talsehood in tes-
tifying that he did not originate, and that
her statement was grossly exaggerated. Had
Titon's testimony, she says, been the whole
truth instead of part of it, ha he not at
tempted to make himself out a saint had he
frankly acknowledged his harsh, and on ac-
count of his own errors uncalled for treat
ment of Mrs. Til,ou, his statement would
have carried the conviction of truth upon its
face, but his opposite course, his utter neg
lect in his discrimination to admit any of
his own ungallant acts, and his far fetched
attempts to show that his connection with the
editors of the Weekly was entered into to
prevent their publishing the scandal, has so
complicated matters that had it not been for
the new evidence and that which will be given
when Moulton speaks, the final decision might
have been indefinitely postponed. 1t is not
Mr.. Beecher, Mrs Titon and Mr. Tilton who
are the real subjects of terrific scene; the So
cial system is on the defensive, and the cir
cumstaAces have made these persons its asso-
ciates.
Mrs. Tiltons course seems dctatOrial by
her fear for religion. Mr.. Beecher's position
has been and is a most trying one; knowing
and living in the truth he was not yet strong
enough to teach it, and thus giving his vast
influence against old and rotten conditions
and in favor of new order, but now that the
thick veil of hypocrisy has been rudely torn
from his face, may we not hope that his man.
hood will come to his rescue and give to the
world the usefulness of one of the greatest
men that ever lived" She says, 81 have the
power, | think, to compel Mr. Beecher to go
forward and do the duty for humanity from
which he shrinks, and | believe that when
forced to the encounter he Will rise to the full
height of the great enterprise, and will aston
| ish and convince the world of the new doc
trine of freedom by the depth of his expert
ence and the force Of his arguments. 1t is
Mr.. Beecher's friends Tho have managed the
affair." may it not come out after all that Mr..
Bcecher has been consistent in his own acts
| commit no breach of confidence as no con-
| fidence has been made in me except as | have
compelled them with free knowledge that
was endeavoriug to induce or force the par
ties to come to the front along with me in the
announcement and advocacy of the principles
of the social revelation.
| Let me add that in my view BeCcher is to-
! day good, as pure and as able man as he
ever was in the past, or the world has held
him to be, ard that Mrs. Tilton is still the
pure, charming, cultivated woman, and
know that Mr.. Beecher, passing through this
cruel ordeal, retrieving himself, and standing
upon the most radical platform, will gather
around him an army of glorious and enamel
pated spirits, and that the new social republic
will have been forever established.