The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-30
From the New York Graphic Of Saturday.
MK. BEECEER'S EXPLANATION.
lts Tenor FOreshadONcd-SOm Re
markabic COnfcssiOns-And a ne
mariSabic Defense.

In view of the fact that Mr.. Beecher's
defense may not appear before next week,
over his own name, the following outline of
its character, derived from persons pro-
Tossing to thoroughly understand the situa-
ton, is believed to cover the points which
he will endeavor to make in his statement
of the Tilton case. The document will be
a very powerful and startling one. and will
make some confessions which will create as
much surprise as Tltons now famous pre-
sentation of his alleged personal griev.
ances. Mr.. Bcecher will acknow ledge that
since the beginning of his ministry, he has
been beset by letters addressed to him from
women, expressing great personal admira-
ton for him as a man and a minister. lie
will show that communications of this ma
ture are constantly received by every no.
ted man in this city especially it is the fate
of clergymen, poets and actors to be the
recipients of these abnormal demonstrations
from women who are generally diseased,
physiologc and psychologically.
After this general statement, Mr.. Beech
er will allude to the case of Mrs. Tilton,
who it seems, conceived from him most
extraordinary passion. Knowing the lady
from childhood, having married her to her
husband, and been on terms of close rela-
tionship with them both, he was led by
strange infatuation to submit to her blan-
dishments, and an intimacy was formed
which while it was not criminal, was rep
rehensible, or at least put him in position
which made him ''seem to do great wrong
to Theodore Tilton. lie will confess that
both he and Mrs. Elton were very emo
tional, given to eXaggeration in sentiment,
and that the correspondence between them
was not what should have existed between
a pastor and lady, and that lady the wife
of his friend. But the popularity of the
case was, Mr.. Tilton complained bitterly of
her husbands self suflcency, want of kind
ness to her, and possible intidelity She
looked up to Mr.. Beecher for that affection
and sympathy which she failed to find at
home Mr.. Beecher will acknowledge that
he toyed with temptation, and that he al
lowed kindnesses and expressions of SYM
pathetic tenderness by Mrs. Tilton, and
that the reciprocated them to great de-
gree so much so, that, while not actually
guilty of any wrong to Theodore Tilton, he
so far composed himself and the lady as to
render necessary as it appeared TO his mind
the letters which he subsequently wrote to
Mr.. Mouton and Mr.. Tilton, humbling
himself before the latter as before God for
his extravagant demonstrations of appre-
citation for the wife of his friend Hence
he will declare that, while he was guilty of
indecorum, guilty perhaps of leading a wife
to love him more than her husband, guilty,
possibly, in the depths of his sympathy for
| her and in lowing his impulsive nature to
lead himself away, he will deny any GRIM
inality. He will insist that his relations
with Mrs. Titcn were no more intimate or
blamabe than the religious Irritation with
the prize t, INDUCED in bv "Catherine
Gaunt," the fictitious character quoted by
Mrs. Tilton, in which he will find almost a
perfect parallel for this case
Furthermore. he may be expected to
show that his position has been greatly EN-
barrassed by the fact that malignant rumor
| had already been making free with his
name, and that, owing to the unhappy per-
sonal pecuiarties of one near and dear to
him, whose ungrounded Jealousy was the
bore and torment of his life, stories had
been circulated which had injured his fair
fame, and did him grievous wrong, which,
however. he was debarred from denying by
the fact that in handling these falsehoods
| as they deserved he would necessarily have
been forced to sacrifice one to whom he
was bound by the tenderest and most sacred
| ties which can exist between man and wo-
| man. He will show that the difficulties in
this whole case were due principally to the
eXtravagant Jealousy of this inmate of his
family, whose teeming Imagination had con-
jured up amours upon his part which had
no foundation in fact, and was ever ready
to apply the test of her suspicion to the
slightest Pigment OF apparent facts. until
| his whole existence was filled with appre-
hension. In this connection Mr.. Beecher
will explain why from this course he was
for years compelled to abstain from pasto-
raj visits the families of his congregation,
and forced to demand the appointment of
Mr.. Halliday to discharge this important
part of his duty, simply because he could
not be seen with woman without being
subjected to suspicious which filled him
with anguish. 1t is said that Mr. Beechers
statement Of his domestic troubles, owing
to the dangerous and painful Authorizations
which he has been constantly compelled to
combat, of which, from their very nature,
it was impossible for him to speak openly,
and of the unhappy affair with Tilton and
his wife, will constitute his formal defense,
one of the most curiously dramatic and
thrilingly interesting papers ever presented
| TO the public. Those who already know
the nature of its contents predict that it
will make great revelations, which will not
only settle finally the troubles la his own
family, but will fully account for the pecu-
larity of his relations with Mr.. Tilton and
wife, and set at rest forever the other ter
rible scandals connected with his name
given to the public, and still further
threatened by Mrs. Woodruff and other
| maligners of his good repute.