The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-09-24

eA~8' OeS<mue1 ~, toxC0Gh /
v'oIeof vistry storm, which Mr.. Beecher !!
diGurbed hour.
VII. The interview which followed be-
tween Mr.. B-cehsr AMI ne shall relate |
nmev bat in detail, becsuss his recent dis- |
torted dekrptioa oft is mainly . pretspse,
aid not the uu:h. NJ. BECKER ills his fal.e
occount With invented particulars of what I
b CALI ny compliant to him Of my bus:-
MSS trouble" Hos Of pace and salary"
and the like; 9th coRna comPlsirt sgainss |
bun for his supposed setncy in bringing |
about their results; whereas he forge.s that |
l bad not yet lost my place and salary"
and nod not yet come into my business |
trouble" nor did sh-n dream that be had |
cunspired 9Th Nc. Bowen to displace me =!
IRON tie lndeps ndenf aud the Onion, or that |
snv such dis.stes vas then pending over my
bead-psr,icularly is had few days be-
fore signed two new 'htr,cte securing to me
. 10 rstive Connection with thoee two jour- |
rals for years 10 con e!
1t was not beCan had first "loet my
place" that held Ills iuiesview with Mr.. |
Beecher, for did N '';ose my placs" until
aftef this inars;e~ vas held. Mr.. Beecher
cnn!esae' to an "imi e.stct memory Of
dates" This
INPERFECTioN OF MEMORY
has betrayed him here. Ny interview
with him. rs he acks Owledges, vas on FIJI
day evening, DEC. 80, 1870. This is cor
rect. But il va. not until Saturday even
ing, DEE. 81, at 9 o'clock at night, during
the clo ing hours Of the yesr. that my noii-
6cati0n OF d'smi.s sal came from Mr.. BOxen.
See the Graphie's fac simiIe of my letter to
Mr.. BOwsn, Jan. l. 1871. in which said:
] received tat ereniny THAT il, not Dc
~, bat 81 your sudden LOtice breaking my
two contracts, one With the Independent, and
the other with the Brooklyn Union.
IL Is thus P'ainly proven, as by ma,he-
MATES. ihd my interview viih Mr. Beech
sr-ah, Oh he 'ays occurred ON account Of
my having ut my place and sala.y''-
occurred byore I''loet my place and salary"
aSd before imagined that nv two contracts
since to h were new and fresh, and hardly
. week O'd!-were to be summarily broken.
Indeed. even when received, on tie
night after my Interview with Mr.. Beecher,
MIR. BOvenis notice Of ,h,ir fracture, | had
no suspicion then that Mr. Bsecher had
meanwhile tesn using what be nov admits
TO have been ''kis decisive influence 10
orerthrOr me-" and to ent.il upon me .'loss
Of place snd salsry." On the contrary. /
sfM supposed that Mr. Boscen was more the
enemy Of Mr.. Beecher than of me, for he had
gires me abxndont rcuson to beiiere so.
Nov, in the light Of these facts, thus
proved, note Mr.. Beecher's false statement
Of them, as follow:
SIT Wa not until Mr.. Tilton," he says,
"had "a len INTO disgrace and Il 5. his salary
that he thought 1t necessary TO ss.ail me
With charges which he pretended to have
had in mind for six mOnths''
Against the above fallacious assertion. l
have set the counter testimony OF
INCoNTRovERrIBLE FACTS,
which i'll recapitula.e, namely.
When l received to NEE, Mr.. Beecher on
Friday, Dec. 80, 1870. had Just made two
new con'racts with Mr.. Bowen, signing them
only lev days previous, from which !
looked fer ssrd to au iGcome az large Is tie
salary Of the pastor Of Plymouth Church.
When sat ~aitlng for Mr.. Beecher on that
night, wss in inds p -ndent circumstances,
and expected TO be increasingly so for years
to come. When Mr.. Moulion brought him
to me that light, hsd no ,hough,-not the
remote st-of financial d. ficullies," or bus
ininess troubles, or ''los, Of place." for
had not yet come 10 these dirasters nor did
then iore,ee them. When !, as he said,
talked calmly" TO him on that night, il
va, because l had previously demanded hi.
retirement from the pulpit, aud because thi,
demand had we'll nigh broken my wife's
ht art; for whose cake alone, and for no 9TH
er reason. agreed with her to meet him
face 10 face in order to inform him that
knew OF his intimacy With her, and sly to
him that, for the sake OF this sufferin. wo-
man and her children. l would ~i'hdIaw
the demand upon him to quit the palpit and
flee the city, end that Mr.. Bowen should
hsve no ally in me in his proposed war
against his pastor.
As God is my judge, so!emn'y aver that
that Interview did not descend to p0iLts Of
foanc., but, on the contrary. touched only
two points: frss, Mr.. Tilton's ruin, which
had come through Mr. Beecher; and, Sec
ond, Mr.. Tilton's safety. which mus, come
through Nv. Beecher end myself.
But the most conclusive argument in the
whole s,siement-one which leaves no room
for doubt or cavil-i, that ~herewiih Mr..
Tilton di.pOses Of tie charge # blackmsil,
and the assertion of Mr. Beec! er and his
committee that the charge Of adultery Was
not con,s mpla.ed Whsn he "attact" on
BeecLer begar, but WIS irumPsd mp BY Til.
! ton aud MouliOn afttrwsId,.
This part Of lis argument MIR. T.lton take.
from tie records Of Piyuoa,h Church-re-
flute, the stat. mel I, Ct the pastor and his
committee, by the record. d their own
church. He saws:
About one-balf Of the G .mmitiee's verdict
10 based on sno,ler equally remarkable
falls ,hood, which shall $, completely tx
pose that ! believe the authors will lc-
ceive the
RIDICULE OF A COMMUNITY,
vtOm they hsve attempted 10 decs i've. The
| chief argument Of the Committee il. that
my real charge .gsis ct Mr. Heecher ~ sir-
ply improper proposal" net "adultery;"
that they never heard OF my charging him
with adultery, until trumpet up this latter
accusation - . I art Of
CONSPIRACY
which Mr.. Moul,on and we're prosecuting
asaira Mr.. Beecher With slow a fence and
for creed Of gain! Without this a,gum. Mt,
which comprises one-hslf the Committees
report, they never would have been able TO
make report at all. Bot shall rip the
argument % completely out Of the report
that that document viii at one stroke be torn
In twain. and the half which is devoted to
this fabeici alton will be cast .side ~ waste
paper.
firsf, to do no injustice 10 the Committee,
let me give them the chance Of stating their
argument in their own words, Is follovs:
I'VE believe, and propose to show,
from the evidence, that the originsl charge
vas improper advances, and that, a. time
passed and the CD ,spiracy d. opened, it was
enlarged into adultery. The importance of
this is apparent, because il the charge has
been % change, then 10th ril,on and Moul- |
ton sre conspiraiors. and convicted Of vile |
fraud, which necess arily ends their influence
in this controversy. What is the proof"
they eek, shat the charge in the first in.
staDce Vas adultery?'
I cannot undentand Except on one
Rround) how Mr.. Btecher's lawyers (since |
hey are attendants At bis church and ac-
qusinted With it, prceedinee) should have
bad the bOldneas to assume such prition as |
the above. since they must have known that |
could disprove their fallacious statement
by the tficial records Il Plymouth Church
iieelt. The one ground on which I pre-
sune they bsse1 their daring a seriiOn vas
their superstition that possessd no official
copy Of the pspers in . certain famous pre-
cedirg 10 Plymouth Church. which Mr..
Bescher. With rare hypocricy, de.cribss as
his attempt to keep me kom public trial