Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-08-16
Still Harping on TiItOu's ImmOr.
aIity and MOultOn's Base
Less-A "Bad Crowd"
All Round.
Mrs. TiltOn Too Pure for Earth
That Blaek-mail Business
The Old Man Warm
ing his Enemies.
A Very Lame Document Any Way
you Take it-aueh Fine
Writing, but a Weak De-
tense.

I'VE continue Mr.. Beecheris state
ment at the Woodruff connection with
the affair.-EDs. APPEAL.
Mr. Beeeher, in speaking Of the Wood
bull f.ee-lOvers, says: ~ would not asso-
ciate with these people, yet Mr.. TiltOI
aud Mr.. MOulton have the most strange
theory concerning this particular affair,
which always made it, in their judg-
ment, necessary for them TO maintain
friendly relations with a group Of human
hyenas from this circle, and from Mr..
TiltOn's stand in intimate assoeia-
tiOns with il, some rumOrs and sus-
picions arose among my own congregs-
lion, which led them to presume with
questions into original Investigations.
and especially into offsnses, Of which
Mrs. TiltoB, hOm whom alone,
as they generally believed, the
runlors against me originated.
In this was constantly and vehement
lv assured by Mr.. Moulton that they
were mistaken, aud yet their zeal in
up defense made them impatient of my
silence, and anxious 70 deal in a sum-
mary manner with Mr. Tiltom Had l
allowed them to do this II was obvious
that Mr.. Tilton would have been greatly
eng yaged aud that all his former unjust
su-picions OF me would have been con-
firIaed. And that he would have had
everv motive which was necessary to
induce him to break up the peace be-
tween us, and to make the same such
nuh,ic attack upon me as he has finally
made But one thing was constant and
sp. a en- When Theodore, by lecturing
aud h-rwisg, was prosperous, he was
verv genial aud sffectlouate to me, and
ale ever he met rebuff and was in
pecuuiary trouble .E
HE sCOwLED THREATENINGLY
uoon me as the author of fhistronbles, and
M3Hibyn himself seemed at times to ac-
cuze me Of Indifference to TiltOn's mis-
fortunes. 1t was in the midst OF COM
plicAtiOns like these that q part Of these
events happened. Shortly afterward,
in a thoroughly worried and depressed
mood, and discouraged by the apparent
hopelessness of extrieatiug Tiiton from
his difficulties, or of saving his family
from the blight which he mas since fas-
tened upon It, with even more destruc-
tive effect upon its members than | then
feared, wrote a letter to MOul-
ton, Of which Tiilton has given ex-
tracts even more wiekedly garbled than
his other quotations., for he has repre-
sented two extracts from this letter as
constituting the points Of two separate
letters, and has aTtfully given the i'm
preston thar they were written in or
sfter June, 1873, whereas this letter was
dated FEBRUARY 5, 1872. He further says
that this letter was written for the pur-
pose Of being shown to him. l had no
idea Ofsueh thing, it being done as the
letter shows plainly enough on its face,
snd did not authorize any such use Of
that letter, which was supposed by me
ID be Wlilten and received in the most
sacred eonfidenee. This letter was as
fIlows: / am now informed that an
inspection of the original would doubt
less refresh my memory concerning the
circumstances, but this Mr.. MoultOn de-
/ nies.