The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-24

To pick up anew the sorrows of the last
ten years, the stings and pains had daily
schooled myself to bury and forgive, makes
this an imperative duty as called forth by
the malicious statement Of my husband.
THE sADDEsr ACT OF MY LIFE.
Beside my thought of following the
Master contradicts this act of my pen. and
almost compcls me now to stadd aside till
God himself delivers me, yet see in this
act an urgent call and privilege, from
which l shrink not.
To reply in detail to the twenty-five ar
ticles Of arragnment shall not attempt ut
present Yet if called upon to testify to
each aud all of them shall not hesitate 20
do so. Suffice 1t for my purpose now that
] reply to one or more OF the most glowing
charges. Touching the feigned sorrow of
my husbands compulsory revelations.
solcmnlv avow that
LONG BEFORE THE Woodruff PUBLICATION
| knew Inn by insinuaton and direct
statement to have repeated to my very near
relative and friend the substance of these
accusations which shock the moral sense of
the entire community this day. Many
times when hearing that certain persons
had spoken i'll OF him he has sent Inc to
chidc them for SO doing. and then and
there lAearned he had been before me with
his calumncs against myself, so | was
spcechless The rciteration in his state
ment that he had constantly striven to hide
these so called facts is utterly false as the
hatred for Mr.. Beecher has existed these
many years, and the
DETERMINATION TO RUIN MIR. BEECHER
has been the one aim of his life. Again
the perfidy with which the hottest love
wife ever offered has been recklessly dis
covered, in this publication reaches well
nigh to sacrilcge, and added to this the en-
deavor like the early scandal of Mrs
Woodruff to make my own words condemn
me has no parallel; most conspicuously
my letter quoting the reading of Griffith
Gaunt." Had Mr.. Tilton read the pure
character of Catharinc he would have seen
that lifted myself beside il as near as any
human being may affect an ideal. But it
was her character and not the incidents of
fiction surrounding it to which | referred
Hers was no sin of criminal act or
thought. A like confession" with hers
| had made to Mr.. Tilton in telling of my
love to my friend and pastor, one year be-
fore and now add that Notwithstanding
ALL MISREPRESENTATION AND ANGUISH OF
SOUL.
| owed to my acquaintance and friend
ship with Mr.. Beecher as to no other human
instrumentality that encouragement in my
mental life and that growth toward the III.
vine nature which enable me TO walk daily
in lively hope of the life beyond. The
shameless charges in articles seven, eight
and nine are
FEARFULLy FALSE IN EACH AND EVERY PAR
TICULAR.
The letter referred to in Mr.. Tilton's
tenth paragraph was obtained from me by
importantly and by misrepresentation that
it was necessary for him to use in his then
pending difficulties with Mr.. Bowen.
was then sick nigh unto death, having suf-
fered a miscarriage only four days before,
and
l SIGNED WHATEVER lie REQUIRED,
without knowing or understanding It's
import, the paper l have seen, do not
know what statements it contained. In
charge eighteen a letter of mine addressed
to Mr.. Francis Moulton is quoted to prove
that | never desired separation, or was
advised by Rev. Henry Ward Beechcr to
leave my husband reply the letter was
| of
MIR. Triton OWN CoNCoTION,
which he induced me to copy and sign as
my own act, which in my weakness or
mistaken thought to help him, have done
too often during these unhappy years. The
| imputation that the harmony of my home
was unbroken till Mr.. Beechcr entered it
as frequent guest and friend is lament
able satire upon household where he
himself years before laid the
CORNERSTONE OF FREE LOVE.
and desecratcd its affairs up to the time of
my departure, so that the atmosphere was
not only Goddess but impure for my chill
dren, and in this effort and throe of agony
| would fain lift my daughters and all wo
manhood from the insidious and diabolical
teaching of these latter days. His
FREQUENT EFFORTS TO PROVE Me INSANE,
weak-mndcd, insignificant, of mean pres
cncc, all rank in the category of heartess
ness, seltishncss and falshoods, having it
climax in his present endeavors to convince
the world that am or ever have been una
BILE to distinguish between an innocent ant
guilty love. In summing up the whole
matter affirm
MYSELF BEFORE GOD TO he INNOCENT
of Ike crimes laid upon me; that neve
have been guilty of adultery with II. w
Beecher in thought or deed, nor has he eve
offered to me an
INDIGENOUS OR IMPROPER PROPOSAL.
To the further charge that | was lee
away from my home by Mr.. Beecher'
friends and by the advice of lawyer whom
Mr.. Beecher had sent to me, and who, il
advance of my appearing before the com
mittee, arranged with me questions an,
and answers, which are to constitute m,
testimony in Mr.. Beecners behalf,
, answer that this is again untrue, having
, never seen the lawyer until introduced t.
him, few moments before the arrival O
, the committee, by my step-father, Judg
Ware, and in further reply
SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT