The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-17
MOULT0N AGAIN.
His Final Statement.
A MosT STAsTEING PAPER.
The Old Charges Reaffirmed, and
New Ones OF the Most shocking
Character brought Forward.

Meantime Beecher had been engaged in
preparing his own statement for the COM
mttee, and had, the night before, come
down from Peekskill for that purpose, and
also to attend the Friday evening prayer
meeting, the next day, and suppose, mad
not learned what had been done. Very
early Friday morning | received the follow
ing note, which | here insert, marked G..
BEECHER TO MoULToN.
FRIDAY, July 10, 1874.
Ny Dear Frank-Can YOU be seen this
morning and if so, when and where
Any time after ten would suit me best, but
any other hour will make do, Icame in
to town last night Yours ever,
III. w. BEEcHER.
replied to him in substance-for have
not COMPLAINING been up very late, the
night before-indeed, believe / was still
in bed when | received it-that / was quite
tired and would have to be busy, expecting
to meet Tracy and Tilton again that day
before Tilton should go before the COM
mittec in the evening. In response to my
reply l received from Beecher the follow
ing reply, marked d:
BEEoHER TO MouLToN.
My Dear Frank-My papers are all here,
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have you here, if you are not too tired.
Yours, II. w. BEEonER.
Ia reply to this informed Mr.. Beecher
that l was to meet Tilton at my house, that
] would be in consultation with him, and
advised him to come there and meet him
also, as | hoped matters were in process of
adjustment, and received from him on the
same day the following note, marked L
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My Dear Frank do not know as it is
necessary to trouble you. | only wanted
to read you the heads and outline of state
ment. When | do speak | intend to be
believed. OF course | shall not publish
The crisis is at hand. will not 20 for
ward long as heretofore. When l say will
not, mean cannot Events are masters.
| just now.
There is no earthly reason for conference
with Tilton 1t makes nothing better;
everything worse. The matter is in nut
shell. No light is needed, only choice
Gratefully yours,
July 10, "a. H. w. BEEcnER.
frankly confess that | felt hurt at this
note, because believed that | had been
acting for the best in his behalf, and that
matters were in process of adjustment. 1t
seemed to me to be another cry of despair
on his part, whereas believed instead that
he should have conferred with Tilton, as
his counsel had done.
During the day of the 10th Tilton's re-
port, drafted for the committee above
quoted, was submitted to Mr.. Tracy, who
said that, with few alterations that were
not material, he thought he could have it
adopted by the committee.
| In NJ of ha Il flo
of July-in response to the invitation of
the committee, and in pursuance Of the pol
| icy that had been marked out in our con-
ference with Gen. Tracy, Tilton appeared
before the committee and made a brief
statement. Neither Tilton nor myself
knew at that time what were the terms OF
the commission of the committee, or what
were to be the extent and purpose of their
inquiry, but both supposed that its purpose
was to endeavor to settle the trouble be-
tween Beecher and Tilton, and not for the
full investigation of all the facts. Tcis
idea | had got from Beecher in the CONVEX
sation which have before related and |
had therefore supposed, as l stated to him,
that thought we could get along with the
committee.
The first statement of Tilton before the
committee not having been made public, |
me the substance of it as find 1t made by
him in his preface to his sworn statement
of July 90 to the same committee, and as
he was addressing the same individuals as
to the facts which taken place before them,
/ assume it to be true statement. 1t is as
follows:
l call you to witness that on my first brief
examination before your committee |
begged and implored you not to inquire n-
to the facts of this case, but rather to seek
to bury them beyond all possible reveal
ton.
On the morning of the next day, the 11th,
new and double complication arose. 1t
consisted first of the sudden and unexpect-
ed announcement by Mrs. Tilton to her
husband at 6 o'clock a. M, that she meant
to desert her home and family and in
few moments afterwards she carried this
intention into effect by going to make her
abode with Mr.. and Mrs. Oyington; next,
by the simultaneous publication, in that
mornings newspapers, of the letter of ap-
pointment of the committee by Beecher,
dated the 9th of June previous, but which
letter had been kept back and not sent to
the church until Tuesday,fJuly T. That
letter called to have ''some proper investi-
cation made by the rumors, insinuations or
charges made respecting my conduct as
compromised by the late publication made
by Tilton. / desire that
when you have satisfied yourselves by an
impartial and thorough examination of all
sources of evidence, to communicate to the
examining committee or to the church such
action as may then seem to you right and
WISE"
On the same day Tilton came to see me,
and, announcing to me his wife's desertion
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LEGATION, was excited by these simultaneous
events, which seemed to him to be part of
a preafranged plan of action, and also ex-
cited him to great Indignation. He said
that Beecher was again playing him trick
as he had done before when he attempted
to settle the matter, by now appointing a
committee to make examination of the
facts, then getting his wife surreptitiously
to go before the committee and eXonerate
him fully from the charges of adultery,
then tempting her openly to desert her hus-
band, so as to show that he CTilton) had
always been in the wrong, and was simply
the creature of his magnanimlty; and now
Beecher should have full statement of all
the facts and documents If it destroyed
him, his wife, or his family; that Justice
should be done at length and the truth be
known; that if Plymouth church chose to
accept an adulterer for its pastor, they
should have the opportunity to do it; and
that he was going home to prepare his full
statement, and wanted me to give him doc
uments and evidence with which to do it,
Upon my refusing to do so, he said that l
was traitor to him, because had gone
into this controversy in the beginning as
his friend. I tried to pacify him; said
everything / could to quiet him, assuring
him that although we had been mistaken
as to the purpose of the committee. yet, as
Beecher had named them all he had done
so in his own interest and would be surely
able to control them. He said that Beech
er, by the terms of his letter of appoint
ment had challenged him before the world
and he accepted the challenge. told him
that saw nothing in the letter which pre-