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Moulton's house. In about half an hour he re-
turned th,ther, expressing his remorse and
| shame, and declaring that his life and work
seemed brought to sudden C. ose Late in the
same evening Mr.. Tilton returnir Q TO his house
iound ms wife weeping and in great distress,
| saying that what she had meant for peace lad
ony gwen pam and anguish; that Mr., Beecher
| nad Just called on her, declaring that she had
slam him and that he would probably be tried
oeIore a council of ministers unless she would
eve MN written paper for his protection,
whereupon she copied in her Own handwriting
a suitable paper for him to use to clear himself
oeiore council of ministers. Mrs. Tilton bav-
Ing Kept no copy of this pap her husband
asked her to m Ike a design aud meaning in
giving 1t, whereupon she wrote es follows:
December 80, 1870, midnight
M dear husboad:-I desire to leave with you
before going to bed a statement that Mr..
| Henry w I'd Beecher called upon me this eve
ning and asked me if | wo llo defend HIM
against any accusation in a council of minis
| lerS aud l replied solemnly that 1 would in
case the accuser was any other person than my
husband. He, (H. w. b. dict ted a letter
| winch copied as my own to be used by him as
agalnstanv other accuser except my husband.
| Inns litter was designed to vindicate Mr.
| beecher against all other persons save only
Yourself was ready to give him this letter
because he SAID with pain that my letter in
had struck him dead and ended his nflu-
| ence"
You and | are pledged to do our best to avoid
oiicty: God grant speedy end to all fur
| tner auXietieS. Affectionately
| ELISABETH,
On the next day, namely Dec. 81, 1870, Mr.
Moulton On being informed by Mr.. 1iton of
| the above mentioned transaction by Mr. Beech
| er called on him (Beecher) at his resi- ience and
told nm that reconciliation seemed suddenly
made impossible by Mr. Beeeher's nefarous
act I'D procuring the letter which Mrs. Tlton
nad thus been improperly persuaded to make
| falsely Mr.. Beecber promptly, through Mr..
Moulton, returned the letter to Mr.. Tllton with
ah expression of shaue aud co row for having
| procured ii in the manner he did. The letter
was as follows:
December 80, 1870
| Wearled with importantly and weakened
~ oy sIchness L gave letter duplicating my
friend Henry Ward Beecher under assurances
| that that would remooe all difficulties between
me and my husband. That let er 1 now re-
woke was persuaded to it, almost forced,
| when L was in weakened state of mind.
| L regret TO recall all its statements.
(Signed) E. R. TnToN
desire to say explicitly that Mr.. Beecher
| has always treated me in a manner becoming
| christian and gentleman.
(Signed) EEIzABETH r. TILToN.
| AT the time of Mr. Beecher's returning the
| above document to Mr.. Titon through Mr.
Moulton, Mr. Beecher requested Mr. Moulton
| 10 MS residence 10 Columbia street or the next
| day, which he did on the evening of Janury 1,
1871. A long interview then ensued ia which
| Mr.. Beecher expressed to Mr. Moulton great
| contrition and remorse for bis previous crimi-
nality with Mrs Titon, taking to himself
shame Tor having msused his sacred Office as a
clergyman to corrupt her mind expressing
determination to kill himself in case of expos.
ure and begging Mr. Moulton to take pen and
receive from his lips an apology to be conveyed
| to Mr.. Titon, in the hope that such an appeal
would secure Mr.. Tilton's forgiveness. The
apology which MIR. Beecher dictated to Mr.
Moulton was as follows:
Mr.. Beecher's Apology in Trust With f.
ID. MOuIton.
My Dear Friend Moutton II ask through
you Theodore Tlton's forgiveness and hum
BILE myself before him as l do before my God
He would have been better man in my cir
cumstances than have been. l ask nothing
except that he will remembe4 all the breasts
that would ache l would not plead for my
self. even wish that | were dead. But others
must live to suffer. + will die before anyone
but myself shall be ineulpated. All my thoughts
are running toward my friends and toward the
poor child lying there and praying with her
folded hands. She is guiltess sinned against
and bearing the transgreSsions of another, and
her forgiveness have. humbly pray to God
to put into the heart of her husband to forgive
me. have trusted this Moulton in coufi-
dence. H. w BEEcHER
In the above document the last sentence and
the signature are in the hand writing of Henry
Wsrd beecher
Eleventh-Ihat Mrs Tilton wfote the fol-
'o"iha ie'ter 10 d TREND:
ia Livingstone street, I
Doov F,;ond a nro5h ayn ian o. loi
formed against my husband in which nv
mother and Mrs, Beecher have been the chief
N0' Ao"i' 1Tu'a, me-
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Ponnt w. $50 ~ " ,'uu wi 1ei'ou auu MI.
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danoa. nun 'ne'i '"o ioio"iuS ooriespoh-
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ny Deof pFeefeo .-iu seVerai Conversations
win YOU you pave asked aDont my feehngs to
warn VIZ. Deecher' anu yesterday you sac the
s s nao couhe wneh you would IKE TO receive
'rohi an Expression Oh TINS kind IN writing. L
lay therefore, very cRsefInNy' that notw,ih-
Htauul''S nIe sreaC suHer'hg "hich ne mas
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Iia 'ce' sha'' 40 DO IN no wrong,Shall discoun-
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III slihiiar circumstances act ioNard me. L
nus sa h " auu '9as your own eood omtes 10 ms
l ILn hrtrE
than might otherwise have reached
Ever yours,
THEODORE.
To Frank Moulton.
o. the same day Mr.. Beecher wrote to Mr..
Moulton the following:
MIR. Beecher to MIR. Mcmillan.
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