The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-11
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
TILToN GOES FOR THE COMMITTEE
THE OLD STORY.

Plymouth Churcn investigating Con'oO
las. evening, a letter was presented from the
Rev. DIR. Storrs, in which he stated that ne
had no personal knowledge of the matters
which came before the con mittee; that he
had seen statement signed by Mrs. Tilton,
and referred to in Mr.. Carpenters state
ments, and in Mrs. Tilton's testimony
of Friday evening, which contained
charge expressed in these words: On
certain occasion Mr.. Beecher solicited me 10
become wife to him with all that Is I'M
nlied in this relation. This proposition
communicated to my husband" But on ac-
count of lack of personal knowledge, Dr.
Storrs expressed the opinion 1t would not
be necessary for him to appear before the
committee. The Brooklyn Argus says that
the following inter caange OF letters TOOK
place Yesterday between Mr.. Sage, chair
man OF the Beecher investigating commit
tee. and Theodore Tilton:
BROOKLYN, July 81.
T7o,d9re TIH0n, Esq;
DEAR SIR:-I am instructed by the COM
mittee to state that the letters and
statement presented to Us have
not been delivered, notwithstanding your
several promises to furnish them. As your
stat susent in the absence OF these dOcu-
ments is deprived of It's greatest force, we
think YOU should desire 90 place them in
Won the importance Of delivering them T.
US at your earliest convenience.
Very truly yours,
II. w. SAGE, Chairman,
ia Livingstone Street.
BROOKLYN, AUG. 8, 1874.
Mr.. Henry ". Sage. Chairman Of the COM
0tittee:
DEAR SIR: / have just received your
note of JULY 81. four DAYS after date. Unless
oil In mis- n of
nication should have come TO me several
days ago. This leads me to recall the SINH
lar dilatOriness of the delivery of your ori-
ginsl note, first summoniDg me TO your COM
mitee, which / received only four hours
before was to appear, and yet the summons
bore the date of the day previous. But let
these trif1es pass. Your note just received
surprises me by its eOutsnts, for you seem tn
have forgotten that on the last day OF my ap-
pearance before your committee, carried TO
your meeting not only all the documents
which quoted in nv sworn statement, save
those in Moulton's possession, bat many
more besides, making double handful OF
interesting and important papers, vital to
nv interests and destructive TO yours. All
these papers purposed to lay before you,
but 10 sooner had / bsgun TO read them
aloud in your presence, than one of your
attorneys stopped ME in reading, and pro-
posed that / should save the committee
time by referring these papers to one of
your members. the Hon. John Winslow. L
acquiesced in this suggestion, and re-
tired from your committee with the
expect alton of speedy conference
with Mr.. Winslow. Perhaps it was my
proper duty to have called on Mr.. Winslow.
but as the whole committee had previously
set the example of calling in body on one
of the other parties to this controversy, i
took il for granted that Mr.. Win-low would
repeat this precedent by doing me the honor
to call at my house, at which he would have
been welcome guest. But while waiting
for his coming was called upon instead by
a gentleman who arrested me and carried
me at thirty minut S notice before Justice
charge OF libeling the Rev. Henry Ward
Bfecher, against whom | had spoken not a
libel, but the truth Up 10 the time of this
arrest, bad employed no lawyer, not need
ING any. But on finding myself before
police court, and not understanding the
motive of my arrest, nor the methods of
c3ur.s, l requested my friend Judge S. ID.
Morris to answer for me in
TECHNICAL PROCEEDING
in which l knew not how to answer
properly for myself Twice al
ready. l have been before this
unexpected tribunal, and may be called be-
fore it third time on Wednesday next.
Meantime. my counsel, to whom have just
shown your note;instructs me to lay no doc
uments, papers or remaining testimony be-
re your committee, nor to hold any fur
tler communication with you in any form
except to send you this present and final let
ter containing the reasons for this step. These
reasons are the following: First, you are a
committee OF Mr. Beecher's friends,appoint-
ed by himself, expected to act in his behalf,
assisted by attorneys employed expressly
for his vindication, holding secret sessions
inaccessible TO the pulic, having no power
to compel witnesses. giving no opportunity
for the opposite side to cross examine such
as voluntarily appear, publishing or sup
pressing their testimony as you see fit,
and, so far as my own experience
save such were irrelevant to the case. and
emitting to publish in your imperfect and
unjuss report of my testimony all that was
most pertinent TO my own side of the con-
troversy. Second. the daily papers OF
Brooklyn and New York have been artiully
fed day by day with crumbs of fictitious ev-
idence against my own character, as if not
Mr.. Beecher but | alone were the
man on trial, and though 1 have
little right, perhaps, to hold your
committee responsible for this dailv mis-
representation, which may come through
the malice of others, yet the result is tn,
same to me as if you had deliberately de
signed it. and that result is this, namely,
expect no justice either from your tribunal
since you can not compel witnesses to testi
~ uOi lIOiu NtuI reporters. slic6 Ln6y u'
not give impartial. reports. Tnird, can no
resist the conviction, though mean no OF
Tense in expressing it, that your committe
has come at last to be as little safisfactor,
to the public as to myself, and that your yer
dic., If you render one, could not possibly b
based on the full facts, since you have N
power to compe! Witnesses, nor to veriI
their testimony by Oasb, nor to sift IL b
cross examination. For these reasons whic
ought to have moved me earlier, have a
last instructed my counsel to proceed a
once at his discretion to carry my case frou
youriurisdiction to court ofla and in vie,
of this instruction from me, he has I'm tur
instructed me 10 hold no further communi
cation with your committee. except thi
present letter o. courtesy, in which 1 hav
the honor TO bid you farewell, in dom
which allow me to add that the respec