The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-21

bottom facts" be dealt with; and indeed,
let him who is without sin among them all
in that regard first cast a stone.
THE COMMITTEE AND ITS REPORT.
do not review or animadvert upon the
report Of the committee, because every one
has expected the result of its labors from
the beginning. No disclosures vera made
to them, and they took care not to cal be-
fore them any witnesses who knew the facts,
except the parties implicated, and have
clearly shown that it was partisan tribunal
organized to acquit as Bcecher confessed
to me on the 9th Of July last 1t was. By
thinking men no weight will be given to its
unsupported opinions, however speciousy
argued, in report which Is but a rehash
of the statements of the accused criminal,
both written in whole or in part by his law
yers.
was quite aware that l was to be struck
down in case did not sign with Beecher,
if 81 did not choose between Tilton's state
ment and mine" as he states he asked me
to do. My friends PIT before me the con.
sequences of my standing firm in what l
knew to be the truth and the right; that l
must incur the enmity, as | have felt the
assaults, of Plymouth church; that great
financial interests were involved il the
gain comes, IN money if from nothing else,
to some favored members thereof; and l
feel that | have right to say that if could
have been swcrved from my sense of duty
to myself and to justice, every outside in
dccenent urged me TO stand by "Beechers
statement" OF course | dscerned that
any statement should make must be ruin
Gus to Mr.. Beecher, and if made it, l must
be taken as siding with the falling cause of
my nearly ruined friend Theodore Tilt n.
And appeal 10 the face and Judgment of all
men, what motive could have in making
myself his alley and the enemy of Mr..
Beecher, except impelled by integrity of
purpose and all that make up the duty"
to stand by the right as knew the right to
be?
THE oBLoQUY VISITED UPON ALL WHO
WOULD NOT SIDE WITH BEEcHER.
| have, however, the consolation of
knowing that only suffer as everybody
else suffers who has dared to say word
for the truth against Beecher. Each and
all in turn have been assailed by every
form of ubOquy and detraction as the new
phases of the case required for the excul-
patton of the accused. First it was heard
through the press that the letters which
Tilton put in his sworn statement were
forgeries, when it was supposed that the
originals would not be forthcoming. Then,
Tilton was insane and labored analysis
of all the malades of his family was pro-
vided before the public to show that he
was insane but the method in his madness
exploded that theory. And then, the last
refuge was that all that he had done was
for the purpose of blackmailing Beecher
and rs all that was done was through my
hand rf I tNo 10
new theory of conspiracy of four years
duration would come to naught. Every
body who should come forward to say
single word upon the subject unfavorable
to he accused has received the same treat
menf. Mr. Carpenter is placarded to the
world through Bcecher's statement as "a
kind Of genial, good-natured fool and
MIR. Beecher's sister, the amiable, intelli-
gent, enthusiastic and clcar-beaded Mrs
Hooker, now, happily for her peace,
abroad, who had become the recipient of
the knowledge of the facts of Beecher's
guilt, was placarded as insane and when
she had advised him to make clear and
full statement, in the interest of truth and
justice, to rescue woman from Jail whom
Mrs. Hooker believed was incarcerated for
having told the truth, and threatened to
disclose the truth from his pulpit if he
would not, by Beecher's authority, and I'M
der his advice, conveyed through me with
his appreciation, TiltOn went to poor Mrs.
Hooker and preached the SANDER that she,
too, was charged with being guilty OF adj
ultery from the same source as his wife
was, and when Mr.. Beecher was told that
his, sister SINK down in tee~s cnd gave m
under such gross accusation, he chucKled
at the success of the 'devicc." Whatever
"devices" We're used to protect Henry
Ward Beecher 10 save himself, it was not
one of mine to defile the fair fame of his
sister And, until it was ascertaned what
part she would take In the controversy, his
wife, Mrs. Beecher herself, was struck at
in his behalf by his elder brother, Rev.
William Beecher, in an interview pub
lished in western paper, from which l
extract the following, the correctness of
which has not been, SO far as | know, de-
MED
Il believe (Beecher) looks upon the mar
riage relation as sacredly as any one. In
fact know he has suffered great trouble
on account of his wife, and has endeavored
to be faithful to her, Notwithstanding the
sore trials she has cost him. II has sepa-
rated him from his kindred, from his
brothers and sisters, who were prevented
from coming to the house on her account.
YET he bore with her, and in every way en-
deavored to arrange matters so that they
might visit him. Still think she loved
him and was faithful to him."
Notwithstanding this, Beecher appeals
in his statement to 'his happy home" as
one of the reasons why he could not have
been unfaithful to his marriage VOW.
Again it is paraded in the newspapers
that Mrs. Beecher produced before the
committee all Mrs. Tiltcn's letters, hav-
ing opened them before Beecher had had an
opportunity TO read them, as she did all of
his other letters, and this report gains Gre
dence from the fact that he wrote to Eliza.
beth after he declares he had stopped all
intimacy, as he had promised to do, ''that
cause he was living alone with his sister,"
and in another letter takes care to inform
her of the fact that his wife had sailed for
Havana and Florida. And Mrs. Tilton,
too, after having said and unsaid every
thing in order to save Beecher after hay-
ing falsifed and stultiied herself in every
possible way for his salvation and so be-
come useless hereafter as a witness or "re-
freshment," only remains in his mind sun
der divided consciousness" that ''she was
a saint and chief of sinners" And she is
thrown aside like a worthless weed in this
cruel paragraph of the report Of his com
mttee
at is not for the committee to defend
the course of Mrs. Tilton. Her conduct
upon human responsibility is indefensble."
MouLToN DRIVEN TO SPEAK By THE At
TAcKs MADE on HIM.
All these attacks were before me- and |
knew | should not escape, and have not,
although all the blessings Of heaven were
called down upon me by Beecher in every
note he ever wrote me, all of which
breathed the fullest confidence in me up to
the 9Th of August, nine days before he
made his statement, wherein he charges me
with most contemplate crime because
refused to give up the papers to him which
knew We're my only protection against
him. for | had learned TO know the selfish
ness and cruelty of the man who sacrificed
| all for himself
And yet, in view of our relations for the
past four years, can scarcely realize the
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