The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-08-13

Dg strurk BY n Sc m'ss.les from The cloud.
Chronicle.
'LAERTIs- on BEEcHER AND TILT0N
The Shattered Household and its Fearful Les
soma Pathetic Picture Drawn BY Master
Hand.
FROM ,hs Daily Graphic.
SARATOGA, July l9.-I have read with an |
interest never took in newspapers before,
the touching, dreadful story of the desolst on |
Of Theodore TiIton's home. Tha, to me. is |
of mere COZ sequence than Beecher's fate.
Mr.. Beecher has les, no home, no wife.
20 salary. He is rich, gorgtd with friends,
by his egioLs. The other man
has LIST the LIT lie home which was his all.
His wife is Voluntarily in the enemy's camp,
where she raises her voice aeain-t him. He
dare no, t,y again to earn HIS bread by his
pen, les, he be called mere m.rcenary in
this little hour of the trial of his honor. II
he stand before n lecture audience as he
used to do be will be paraded cuckold. All
is gone from hiUi-the plesent name he earn.
ed, the sweet sleep that minis,ered to him
but yesternight. In tie hour and beauty
of his youth he is dead man compelled to
1--we. Nature will not permit his heart to
irg there, like the dead Cid in the front
of battle, | feel for him as one who has fol-
lowed his profession and know its trials.
live in the hope that his dishonored house
will be rebuildsd, and have a presentment
that, unless one or the other die in this quar-
rel, that man and his wife will live to-
Is, IL l..
both ahjured, under the influence of Mr..
Beecher, its sublimest example Of forgive
mss, for they are both the moral and men
tai offspring Of that deluded priest who has
been twenty years painting out the austere
face and mangled body OF Christ to give to
Us inste nd a harlequin representation. Til
ton and Mrs. Tilton were brought up at
Bet cher's feet; their souls were trained by
him. If, in the finality of tina. vicious
teaching, the boy turned out socialist and
the girl NJ .gdalens, let the prayers Of men
and women be made for their return along
those years of seduction to the spot Of be-
ginning, where they shall fad not the pas
tor they worshipped but tie Chri-t he be-
t,ayed.
As to Beecher, have no sympathy for
his pain. To me the evidence is in. He
has led the hspDiest life these many years
that can be afforded to human creature.
Universally praised, idealized, almost trans.
figured; in ab4oluie health; very Cardinsl
Wolssy in beef and possessions: stster man.
morslist, and churchman in one, he hes LED
a frivolous life, wasted the gifts Of Pf0vi-
denCe, and helIei the dissipation OF the
tune. lie has seen the great Bohemian OF
cur period, The Puritan Heinrich H.ine,
rolling long from faith to Jolly, from cub
limuy 20 baffoonry; and all that facile
genius he possessed ter making nOthir g seem
something will be without Liter azure or a
puIil 1t was in the DIS 10y Of things that
this career should not proceed to lis end
without teaching its Lessen
But l would ell the public attention to
the case of Mr.. 1iton, whom / do not
kno =, and always looked assant at until this
bitter hour has come, in his capacity OF the
editor of the Bescher- Bowen organs. He was
the working man of that concern; Bsecher
VI the .tar that drew the crowd; BIwen
10 K the monty IN many ways, Chic fly va
rious. In my view the only bonsst man 81
the three was Tiiton, in this: He was not
wo king for Mammon IN er the rsligi us
cloak. Roh the others were. Bsecher was
Opposing OF his Sa,bitls. hucksiering cut
III. apologies for the behaviour Of Col, and
Bowen was disposing of Beecher. The paper
might well have been edited by john let
z-Ii, the merchant in indulgence., and while
NJ m nally reli. ious, pcs live unbelieveis did
much oil is work.
Now, between these two men, eaInirg a
ssla,y and no more. was an anxious, amb:-
tons literary youth, 20 confounded III course
of time with B.echer's name, that he could
not keep bis balance, and, being worse ac-
tor than his exemplar and with lees respon-
sibiiiy. he undertook to Guido the latter in
radical sm. and made that amusing journal
wild and hi uself emp ,pular. The nterary
temp rament is ap, TO b. bervous and 4uer-
ulous, sni Mr.. Tilton probably thought
more If himself in those halcyon times than
of his wife. She therefore withdrew to the
pastoral spring of consolation tnat, like a
flowing oil well, never gave out, and with
her emotional nature che gradually began
to fell home repellent in the exaltation Of
tina, great good mans sympathy. Unnatural
relations, more intimate than any prudent
p stor would permit, grew and grew; and
.Lc who loves any man more than Ter bus
band has alre dy wropged him. There we're
the days, no doubt, when little family din
took the importance OF outrage. Besides,
there was mother-in-law in the house.
But ell this time, like bondsman, vet an
egotist, the husband was hard at work in
that employment of composition which pers
NIT, none to divide bis attention. Up to
the time of the discovery OF strange, appa,-
ling relations between his sssoci.te and his
wife, there is every record that Theodore
Tilton was honestly earning his bread; that
his literary style was not lowered; that he
had gone of into no at.ocious doctrines, and
he was even engaged for long term Of years
at high salary to etraddle the East River,
and edit fer Mr.. Bowen a secular paper in
Brooklyn and religious paper in New
York. This was 4 success. Ii was no ben
tfsction from Mr.. Beecher. 1t IVES quid pro
quo from Mr.. Bowen. Inever heard any
body in those days call Theodore Ti!ton
ANYTHING wore than a conceited felIo~, al |
though two or three unprofe<sional newspa-
per writer's have OF late searched themselves
10 fed mud to bedaub him. To me his be- !
haviour in these perilou,, wretched hours is |
70 brave tina: Only conscious injury and
desperate intent for re;ribuiion have nerved |.
him.
Then came tie convic ion, il moi the dis
may have followed ter-of
he per6dy of both friend and wife. Do
women ever feel what that means to q man?
Il means the building Of . consuming FIRE
n his stomach, pain forever and ever At
be throat, a captivity IN world where
,othlng can satisfy. The pic,ure Of the
,er6dy will not p1s away; il clrnot be
IL sed down; il returns in all is revol ing
throu. h years Of suffering. as
the husband were comp lied - be present
n q e tody through Lille AMI see every dsy
be ire achery and lechery performed. To
dr. TIL on's ardent temperament, made ner ,
ous by Ii.sra,y oserwork, the tor ure mu.t
ave been ind. s;ribabiy greater than tbis
,ere r OK Of pride, not conscience, which ,
ienry Wsri Beech.r feels. And this hu- ,
ian pain and sgory for m re luA's cake, q .
astOr could make a hn-bsnd feel,
The marvel is how Mr.. Tilton could have !
lsde his liviig with his brain in the psst :,
,res years.
vt he did not proceed at once with his !.
'senge. say many. He prevMica.ed ant |,
Id his story TO people and did not kill the
ducer. In NY judgment he did what .
IS nstsral for him under the circumstances. /,
Ie never hat had the ocular demon stra ion: =.
ntil her confession there fingered the hope ,
his pind that he vas deceived. Mean .
me there vas lis family on his own hsnde, ,
% dear reputation, his productive literary ;
'zseement. What c.uId he do? He could
,ie6y be miserable. drink little to drown y
oCgst, pratile in his c1ps, possibly sep !
'er the line of virtue himself. Such q
an Of such name might Be the prey to