The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-22


journey. For owing 10 this and othel
anXietics of business John had grown
worse rather than better up to that time
though the air of the high Alps was be.
ginning to promote sleep and restoration.
| teleglaphed by cable: "No trouble here
go to Italy," And by recent letters am
rojoiced TO hear of them in Milan in com
Portable health and spirits. From the day
Those letters came the matter has not been
out OF my thoughts an hour. 1t seems to
me an unceaslng prayer has assembled that
! might be guided with wisdom and truth.
But what is the truth | am farther from
understanding this morning than eyer. The
tale as published is essentially the same as
| told me, in fact, it Is impossible but that
Mr.. Iilton is the authority for it since
recognize simlitude and. as understand
it, Mrs. Titon was the sole revelator
The only reply made to Mrs. Stanton
was that If true you had a philosophy of
the relation of the sexes 50 far ahead of
the times that you dared not announce it
though you consented to live by it. That
this was in my judgment wrong and God
would bring all
SECRET THINGS TO LIGHT
in his own time and fashion, and | could
Oni1 wait lDul udu tOlllB 10 see
that human laws were an inpertiHeBee.
but could get no farther, though | could
see gimpses of possible new science of
lie. AT present it was revolving to my
feelings and my judgment that / should
keep myself open to conviction, however,
and should converse with men, and espe
cially women, on the whole subject. and
as fast as | knew the truth i should stand
by 1t with no attempt at concealment. |
think that DIR. Charming probably agrees
with you in theory, but he had the courage
to announce his convictions before acting
upon them. lie refused intercourse with
an uncongenial wife for long time. and
then left her and married woman whom
he still loves, leaving darling daughter
with her mother, and to-day he pays pho
tographcrs to keep him supplied ath her
pictures as often as they can be procured
send you the article he wrote when
abandoned by all their friends. lie and
his wife went to the west and stayed for
years crushed by calumny and abuse, to-
day they are esteemed more highly than
ever, and he is in positions of public trust
in Providence. You will perceive my
situation, and by all that have suffered ]
am willing to suffer for your sake. | beg
you to coniide to me the whole truth. then
L
can. The moment that | can know this
matter as God knows it He will help YOU
and me to bring everlasting good of this
seeming evil IT | could say truthfullv
that / believe this story to be fabrication
of Mr. and Mrs. Tilton's, imposed upon a
credulous woman a mere medium, whose
susceptibility Of spirits in flesh and out of
it is To be taken in consideration, the whole
thing dies. But if it is essentially true.
there is but one honorable way to
meet it in my Judgment. and the precise
method occurred to me in bed this morn
ing and was about writing you to sug-
rest it when your letter came | will write
YOU sistery letter, expressing my deep
that this whole subject needs
the most earnest and chIate discussion; tina
nv own mind has long been occupied with
if. Int ia still in doubt on many points
that | have observed for years thai your
reading and thinking has been profound on
this and kindred subjects and now the
time has come for you to give the world.
through your own paper, the conclusions
Won have reached. and the reasons there
for
II Won choose I will then reply to each
letter. giving the woman's view. For
there is surely mans and a woman's side
to this, beyond everything else, and by this
means attention will be diverted
from personalities and concentra-
ted on social philosophy, the one
subject that now ought to occupy
all thinking minds. 1t seems to me that
God eas been preparing me for this work,
and you also, for years and years. | send
you reply. l wrote to DR.. Todd long
ago a card never yet published. without
my name. which, for the sake of my daugh-
tiers, | wished to withhold. Although
Godkin of the Nation, Hoibrook of the
Herald of Health, Ward ot the Indepen-
dent. ard every mother to whom | have
read it all told me it was the best thing
ever written on the subject, while the men
said they would publish it if they dared,
while Mrs. --- urged me to give my
name and publish it, and said she would
rather have written it than anything OF its
length in the world, and II 1t were hers
she would print it without hesitation. l
sent also copy OF letter l wrote John
Stuart Mill on his sending me an
early copy of his "SubJection
of Women, and his reply. am sure that
nearly all the thinking men and women are
somewhere near you and l Will rally to
your support il you are bold, frank and
absolutely truthful in stating your convlc-
tons.