The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-19

for service that DO one can appreciate who
has not been as sore-hearted rs | have been,
for your honorable delcacy"-what, deli.
cate blackmailing ?--"for confidence and
affection, owe you so much that can
neither express nor pay ii.
Again, mark his promised visit to the
backmnlcr in these words, ITO tell the
truth, am little heart hungry to see You,
not because | am pressed but because love
you, and will ever be faithfully yours"
think may be pardoncl for lingering
over this letter, for in II is my vindicaion
from black charge 10 which Henry Ward
Beecher is driven 10 save himself. io make
against me Not only was | serving him
at this time but my wife Win knew all
and knows all that | know was saving
him from dependencies and threatened
suicide, and this letter gives the thanks he
felt for her efforts, "although." he SAYS.
sometimes her clear truthfuness has laid
me pretty fiat ] Have already given one
of those exhibitions of her truthfuness
when she advised him TO confess his sin,
and ask forgiveness Of man as he expected
forgiveness of God.
Again, produce letter of October 3,
1873, five months after the time when he
says in his statement. he believed that |
was blackn aling him and "felt dissatisfied
with myself that he permitted it, It ia
marked V:
BEECHER TO MOulTON.
FRIDAY NOOK, Oct. 3, 1873.
My Dear Frank have this morning
got back sound and fresh, and want toscnd
my love to you and yours should see YOU
tomorrow, but shall be out of town till
evening. God bCss You, my dear old fell
low. II. W. BErCuER.
Let all the lawyers search all the annals
of the crime of Matchmaking, overhaul
every police report, and produce another
instance where, five months after II was
known TO the victim. he addresses his
blackmailer with a God bless you, my
dear old fellow"
1t will be observed that these letters
which | have thus far produced upon this
question-were subsequent to the time he
learned that he was blackmailed. now
produce letter of previous date. Feb. 10,
1873, nclosing check of that date. which
is marked W:
BEECuER TO MoULToN.
SUNDAY MORNING, Feb. 10, 1878.
My Dear Frank have tried three times
to see you this week, but the fates were
against me. | wanted to store up a little
courage and hopefulness before my three
weeks absence.
/ revisit my old home and haunts, and
shall meet with great coidiality.
l enclose check subject to your dis
cretion.
Should any accident befall me, remen-
Der how deeply ] feel your fidelity and
friendship, your long-con;inued kindness
and your affection.
With Ein1nct ,an,or,t,,,cn, a., NJ \
remain always yours.
II. w. BEECnEg.
This discloses n still more singular trans
action, because it shows that without being
called upon the victim has tried three times
to see me in one week, but failed He was
to be absent for three weeks, going to his
old home, and wanted ''to store up a little
courage and hopefulness' for the occasion,
although his old friends were to meet him
with great cordially. He says: 81 enclose
check subject to your discreton:" that is:
Feed my lambs while l am away" Why
don't Beecher produce the check of that
date among those he paraded before the
committee, and let us see how much of the
$4,000 that made? | wait for his reply be-
fore speak further lest 'other hearts ache.
Not content with expressions of gratitude
while leaving, the note shows that he makes
will. He leaves it as legacy to me In
case of accidental death, that he died with
the memory in his heart of my fidelity,
friendship, and long continued affection.
1t is necessary to my vindication that /
pursue this miserable after,hought of a
charge of blackmail further.
Ii to obtain advantage to oneself by us
ing the unfortunate situation of another is
blackmail, then Beecher himself will come
fully within that description. Beecher
protected himself from Bowen by using the
power that Tilton had over Bowen to get
the tripartite covenant out of him, and yet
he puts the fact in exactly the contrary
light:
The domestic offence which he (Tilton)
alleged was very quietly and easily put
aside, but yet in such way as to keep my
feelings stirred up, in order that might
through my friends, be used to extract
from Mr.. Bowen $1,000, the amount of
claim in dispute among them. The check
for the sum in hand, Mr.. Tilton signed an
agreement of peace and concord, not made
by me, but accepted by me as sincere."
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