The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-23

3it as the saviour require locksth Of th'
eye and the heart. g N ever, before could / 81.
i this. hen you yearf1 toward me With tru!
Feeling be assured ~ ttlc srieda purifeas AK
restored love Of IL y. El1zAngrfI e, g
Mrs. Tllton followed the above letta viii
&,!f RsaTTLToNi no Mr.. TmToS.
sasJuiy 4, 1871 .-oh I my dear husband
may you never need the discipline Of betnt
mtsied by,a good woman, as ! was by q goot
man. ss.Is s.i8 ... * a 80
No sdate] Il would mourn greatly If MI
life was to be made known to my father
His head would BIO bowed indeed to thu
grave" +1y
"[No date1--Do not think my ill.health ]:
on account Of my sin and its discovery. My
sin and life record have carried to mJ
Saviour. No, my prostration Is owing to the
/ suffering I have caused YOU srs..
/ MRS. wooDHULL'si SCANDAL.
Fourteenth. That about one year after
Mrs. IHIton's confession, and about half Q
| year after Mr.. Beecber's con firmation of the
| same, Mrs. ". G.. Woodruff, then q; total
stranger to Mr.. Triton, save that he had been
presented TO her In d company OF friends
few days previous, wrote in the World, Moa.
1 day, May %, 1871, the following statement,
| namely:
"Iknow OF one man, public teacher OF
eminence, who lives in coDcnbinage with the
/ wife of another public teacher Of almost equal
eminenee. All three concur in denouncing
offences against morality. I shall make il
my business TO analyze some OF these lines.
.&" VIcToRIA &. Woodruff.
| "New York, May 20, 1871"
L NV do ~rs . No ION IF ho q
card In the World Mr.. Tilton received from
| Mrs. Woodhull request to call on impera
tive BUSINESS at her office, and on going
thilher copy Of the above card was put in
| his hands by Mrs. Woodruff, who said thai
|fhe pafties ffefeeffTed to therein were the Rsr
| Henry Ward Beecber and the wife of T1ieo-
/ dore Tilton. Following this announcement
Mrs. Woodruff detailed to Mr.. Triton, with
vehement speech. the wicked and injurious
/ story which she published the year follow.
| ing.
| Meanwhile Mr.. TiIton, desiring to gusrs
| against any possible temptation to Mrs
| Woodruff to publish the grossly distorted
version which she gave to Mr.. Tilton, and
which she afterwards attributed to him,
sought by many personal services and kind
| ly attentions to influence her to such good
will towards himself and family as would
remove all disposition or desire in her to
aflict him with such publication. MIR
| Tllton's efforts and associations with Mrs
| Woodruff ceased in april, 1872, and sis
months afterWards-viz., November 2, 1872 :
she published the scandal which he bad
tlabored to suppress. - 49,
rFifteenth.-That on the third day there
after the Rev. Thomas X. Beecher;o of Elmira
l ~ " rurnto a fpIious 20 - -.
"Eimtra, November 5, 1872 -Mrs.f Wood
huh only carries out Hepry's philosophy
against Which recorded my protest twenty
wears ago." Rs@
F.: s1 = a.HE TRIPART1TE COVENANT.
fGaSixteeuth.- That in May, 1873, the publ
fatioh By one Of Mr.. Bsecher's partners Of Q
tripartite covenant between II. c. Bowen
/ Fl. W! Beecher, and Theodore Triton led The
tpress of the country to charge that Mr.. Til
lion had committed against MIR. Beecher some
| heipeuS wrong which Mr.. Beecher bad par
doned, whereas the truth was the reverse
ITO remedy tbs lalss public Impression Mr.
'Moulton requested .Ar., Beeeher to prepare
suitable card, EslIeEing Mr.. Tilton Of this in
justice. In answer to this request Mr. Bee
Pc1er pleaded bis iehl barrassmenfs which pre-
vented bis saying anything without bringing
himself under suspicion. -;
Mr.. Triton then proposed to prepare acaro
| of his own, containing few lines from the
recently-quoted apology, for the purpose o.
showing that Mr.. Beecher. instead of having
| had occasion to forgive Mr.. Tilton, bad occa
sion to be forgiven by him. MIR. Beechel
then wrote letter to Mr.. Moulton, which
ful in appealing to Mr.. Titon's feelings
Mr.. Beecher said in it, under date of Sunday
morning, June /, 1878:
Mr.. BEECHER TO Mr.. MoULToN.
nny Dear Frank: am determined to
make no more resistance. Theodore's TEN.
perament is such that the future, even il
temporarily earned, would be absolutely
| worthless, and rendering me liable at any
| hour of the day to be obliged to stultify all
the devices by which we saved ourselves. Ii
| is only fair he should know that the publica.
ton of the card which he proposes would
leave him worse off than before. Theagrce.
ment, viz: 'the tripartite covenant was
made after my letter through you to him,
viz !: sthe apology was written. He had had
it for year. He had condoned his Rife's
| fault. He bad enjoined upon me with the
utmost earnestneSs and solemnity not TO be.
tray his wife, nor leave his children to a
blight with such man as It. T. THERE'S no
possible salvation for any that depend upon
him. With strong nature he does not
know how to govern it. There is no use in
trying further. have strong feeling upon
me. and it brings great peace that am
spending my last Sunday and preaching my
last sermon"
The hopelessness Of spirit which the fore
going letter portrayed on the part OF It's
writer led Mr.. Titon TO reconsider the ques-
ton of defending himself at the cost OF pro-
ducing misery to MIR. Beecher, which deter
minaton by Mr.. TiltoD, to allow the pre-
vailng calumnies against himself to 60 IN
answered, was further strengthened by the
following note received by MN TWO Gays
thereafter from the office. editor OF Mr.
Beecher's paper:
OLIVER JOHNSON TO THEODORE TILToN.
"12S East Ttoelfh street, June II, 1873
NV Dear Theodore: May tell you xankiy
that when l saw you last you did not seem
| to me to be the noble young man who IN
spired my warm affection so many years ago
You were yielding to an act which could
not help thinking would be dishonorable
and perilous, and although it Is easy for me
10 make every allowance for the circum.
stances that had wrought you to such frenzy,
| vas dreadfully shocked. My dear Theo'
dore, let me, as an old friend whose heart is
wrung by your terrible suffering and sor'
| row, tell you that you were then acting igno'
| bly, and that you can never have true peace
of mind till you conquer yourself and dig
| miss all purpose and thought OF lnJuring the
man who has wronged you.
"Of all the promises our lips can frame
| none are so sacred as those we make to
those who have injured US, and whom ws
have protested 10 forgive, and they are sa
| a.ad i1,st in nrnnnrtinn as their YiOlatlOI