The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-15
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1874


Ewing, who desired that exercise for
the benefit OF his own lungs. i sup
posed that we all understood that
It was a purely voluntary class,
sometimes meeting during the third hour,
and sometimes in the fifth, when most ofthe
students and professors having gone TO their
dinners, we had the room and halls 10 our
selves. 1t had been our intention TO go out
to the woods where we could have yelled
and shouted to our hearts content, but the
weather was not suitable during any part OF
The winter term. IL Is hard to get or give q
correct version of the Tilton affair. My re-
buke of the scandal0us lecture was delivered
about 10 at night and not next morning. 1
did not use more earnestness than was be-
coming toward the man and his scandalous
u~tterances. Remember, among other things,
he had travestied our beautiful marriage SER
vice. Thus, we E~piscopalians, got more
of his abuse and ridicule than any
others; hence, it was very natural
for me to feel and express a righteous in
dignation which ZONE others of the faculty
felt as keenly as /. This phase of the sub
ject has never been presented before. did
feel, all the way through the shameful
thing, that the president ought to have
stopped him in the midst OF his lecture. l
felt indignant, too, and justly offended that
he should have been invited and allowed to
lecture in the chapel the next morning. L
felt that he should not have been
chaperoned around the college as he was
by Prof. RhOades, one OF the trustees at the
time. And / regarded it as no honor TO
nave been sought for to accompany
Rhoades, Tilton and wife to the college in
the hack. 1 felt annoyed at the readiness
forwardness ~rather-with which the presi-
dent called a meeting of the Philos the next
morning at prayers. lie could not have
been ignorant that it was, partly at least,
for the purpose of making some demonstra-
ton against me, as well as for passing reso-
lutiAno Of fhanEa IN Tilfnn That WAS the
time 1 expected the vote of thanks, and not
during the night before. / regret to
notice DIR. Nuts apologize tone
for Tilton, and his rough, ungentlemanly
one when abiding TO me. He has ever been
unfair and disingenuous toward me, when
abiding to it. Thus, when he says "Ihe
commendations' 1 received "were based
upon a false version of the affair" Pray,
then, what was the true version? Did not
the Rev. Mr.. McNary apprehend the true
version when he spoke Of me as "the heroic
defender of truth and decency?" Did not
Mr.. Treat apprehend the true version when
he delivered his powerful sermon on the
s~anctity of the marriage relation? Did not
all the ministers here grasp the same idea,
and hold the same unmistakable language
about it? Were not all the decent people of
Bloomington of the same way Of thinking?
No one knows this better than the Doctor
himself. But he thought it polite to humor
such students as were really offended with
me for it. And there were a good many
more of them than one in a hundred. L
should say, judging from the applause
and the vote of thanks, and the open
mouthed advocacy of Tilton's theories,
that fully one-half of them were
so carried away with it as really to believe
that this was the sovereign panacea for all
domestic infelicity and ill-mated unions.
Many of our good ladies here will remem-
Der how shocked they were when even the
best men of the higher classes
FREELY DEFENDED TILTON
and his theories in their parlors. These
were the men who got up the petition
against me, and gave it character and con
sequence. They took this action against M
because they really were offended. True
most of them came to a better mind and goI
ashamed of it, but still the mischief set or
tirely while a certain class remained here
As to my not ans wering him on the Sunday
week following, my answer Is the same "a
above: L was sick, True, the Doctor die
answer fright ''vividly," as he says o
himself-so wildly that one or two SEN
fences were as bad as any of Tilton's. But
for even this vivid answer, he took several
weeks to prepare for it. For myself, the
more / thought of it the less was L inclined
to enter on it on Gods holy day. But the
doctor had no such scruples. Besides, / haC
been obliged to go to my family az Vim
cennes. 1t was herewith no on
to consult with-that l wrote my
card in which the doctor says: / gave my
version of the case and said nothing abou'
time, place and circumstances of the encoun
ter but inveighed solely against the falls
and dangerous teachings of the lecture.
thought l was explicit enough, and any
body who had read the first account knew
very well to what L was replying. Blu
what amuses me most is that / I" proclaimed
myself the champion of the disaffected anC
disorderly students" Nothing can be NOR,
unjust and untrue. When they wer
brought before the faculty for discipline
was glad indeed when they could honorablN
clear themselves of the charges, especially i
they were for venial offenses-and if thei
statements seemed to be truthful and ingen
uous. When that disposition was mani
fested-when they had expressed penitenc
for their faults, and promised to commi
them no more; when they had made a cleal
breast of it, and desired TO be restored Il
their former good standing, why, 1 comics
when L saw that disposition manifeste'
| was invariably tor excusing then
and bidding them Ego and sin no more"
was not a bit more generous and sympa
thetic for the boys than was my beloved col
league, Prof. Owe He and L general.
acted together, and together voted to pu
some of the young men on probation who's
offences and follies were very great. Severa
were put on probation and dismissed with
few kind words and the result always JUST
/, fed the wisdom of our forbearance. i d
not remember that our clemency was eve
abused in a single case. ] remember once
, young man came into my room
! VERY DRUNK AND vERY FOOLISH.
> 1 got him off to his room, and had him pu
! to bed 1t was a solitary case, and the onl
! one that ever gave us any trouble in thi
way, 1 waited till 1 though hs was sober
l went to his room, heard his story, and ho'
he had yielded to a craving appetite 70
> drink while under some mental depression
L believe / knelt down and prayed wit
I him then and there, and when 1 ros
, to go told him TO come before IN
!. fannltHr of the earliest nnnnnnnl