The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-08-21

ID of this Office of mediator, unless yol
a. instantly surrender the paper IL
has no moral pluck. How can h
- have, living such life"
D. "Then,' said I ID MoultOn, "yoI
ii cannot see
le A WAY. OF ESCAPE FOR BEECHER 2"
,e Said Monlton: .'He may escape
the penalties, but not the facts.
!, think this council will whitewast
q him, and that Plymouth church will
% take him back; but / have heard
n things from his own lips to revolt
: at" ] forbear to send you the Ian.
a g8age which Mr.. Moulton repeated
: to me as having come from Mr.
Beecher's lips, both on account OF
a it's exceeding fllthiness. and because
Y the ladies referred TO have been in
n no way connected with the Tilton
! case.
1 asked Mr.. Mouiton:. "Will
: you pnt these stories in your evil
a dence 2" BERRY g,.
. s-Nct line," said Moulton, tex
cept the letters bearing on the
! Beecher-Tilton case. l pray the
Lord 1 may never be put through
this ordeal in any other case. Why,
have fed the city, hidden myself,
labored to the last minute to get
these people TO stand aloof, and
save the world . horror and, when
: aIn catching it on every side for
f this sacrifice, Mr.. Beeeher writes
me letter and makes my answer
public in order to. appear to estab-
> I lish point for him.. That resolved
me to make my second answer pub
lie. E' =.
BEECHER's HABITUAL TREAcHERY
since this. crime cannot avail with
me, nor will L see him further tram
pie on Theodore Tilton, whom he
has dragged through the fires Of
hell already" r~
Mr.. Moulton further said that
Beecher had long ago said to him ::
clifton comes no more to church
let us edge him out, drop his name.
You must act with me-"
In another respect" continued
Noulton, fFBeecher has lied. He
gave me his solemn word that since
the discovery he had not had COM
muAicatjon with Mrs. Tilton. Now
read this, which Theodore discov-
cred hiddeR in the pages of Beech
er's Life of Christ his presents-
ton copy.
Then were shown various
r BURNING LovE-LETTERs,
revealing the deep Illicit love of
preacher for another mans wife,
thinly concealed under Scripture
Observation-Disclosures, taken In this
connection-but We (, apparently, the |
| hysteris of love. In one written |
from his sisters house he begs Mrs.
Tilton to write him some comfort
ing letters, and then says, the words |
being deeply underscored, You can |
be admitted here" There was an
other, saying: "COme Friday
night, as I shat be array all the |
fore part Of neat SceeE."
There were no signatures to any
of these.
Now" said Moulton, ''put these
letters by date in conjunction with
this one from Mrs. TiIton, where
she says, We must soon meet, get
consolation, and have nest-hiding.'
Why GATH" said Moulton, "they |
call me conspirator against Beech
er. / can't be fool. Here / have
the papers by which know
where the guilt is. They call
me q blackmailer. What has
Beecher to give me? 1 am a MEM
Der of large business house, and l
have continually given to Plymouth
church as literally as any man there.
l would have spared Mr.. Beecher
with money or blood, but when he
deties me to produce these letters,
surprising will not, and that he
will get point on me and a new
one on Theodore, he has played it
too fine"
Mr.. HoULToN
is a worthy merchant, probably
about 80 years old. He has red
hair and light skin, q mustache, and
q bold, prompt way of speech. He
is the physical antipodes of Tilton,
who is tall, strange, unworldly-
looking man like a great Sunday
school boy. Moulton is rough and
ready. These two men think high
ly of each other, and Moulton says
Tilton's house was a perfect rose
garden, and when he heard of the
skeleton in it, he was more stag
gered than ever in his life. l think
he has extreme contempt for Mr..
Beecher's hypOcritical life, but no
dislike. He thinks, too, that in his
efforts to shake off the coil of guilt
which has SO long enveloped him,
Beecher's remaining graces have
been warped that melancholy has
enshrouded him, and he has become
ungracious, evasive, crafty, and des-
perate.
"What is
PLYMOUTH CHURCH,
anyway ?" said 1.
"Well," said Tilton, at is a kind
of clubbing house, with female at
tendants. There are about 900
members. There are also about if
ty very rich and cordial men in the
church, who look on it in the light
of social club. They are general
ly worldly men, who like Beecher
and the snappy, smartish things he
has to say, his humor and his COM
pany and they put up their mon
ey, rejoice in the institution, and
otherwise play poker, go to the
theatre, or what not. Beecher is a
magnificent preacher, full of things
which touch the sensibilities of peO-
pie, and vast mass OF women go
there for their souls to be comforted
and made good. Now put these
two elements together, the warmth
dHu vi tuCoC WOulGus |
the wealth and public spirit of
those men, and You can make, In a
detached, dullish town like Brook
Ign, an institution equal to a mer-
chants exchange. There are plenty
of men belonging to Plymouth
church who do not care whether
Beecher is a debauchee or not"
81 think not" said the Judge
that is, do not think Beecher, if /
found guilty, will be sustained by
the community. Why, they are al
ready dropping from him in this
city, among his own people; take
out Plynouih church and its influ-
ence and Brooklyn is all Tilton |
now. Two out of the three news
papers here show that. The Eagle |
takes the other side because its ed
itor, Kinsella, is to be tried for |
adultery with Mrs. Field, and this |
case will have bearing upon that"
MoULToN's STATEMENT.
NKw YORK, Aug. 13.-The Ply
mouth Church Investigating Commit |
tee furnish the following report of the |
proceedings of Monday night and last |
night:
BROOKLYN, Aug. 10.