Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-18
BEECaER.
"Coming Events Cast their Shadows
Before''-What Beecher Kas TO
Say Touching the Great
Scandal
TiltOn viii Net Implicate Ills Wife, but
viii Prove Beeeher q Liher;ine,
and IncuIpate Other
Women.

New YORK, July 1.-THE Brooklyn
Eagle says: "AIr. Beecher's statement,
although not yet officially before the
committee, is IN the hands of his friends,
and will be submitted as soon as Tilton's
is put in. Gentlemen who have seen it
speak Oft as a frank, straight forward,
manly document. Beecher addresses
( himself, Ia detail, to the Tilton case, ex-
plains the nature Of his trouble with
Tilton, denies that he ever made an i'm
pure intimatiOn to Mrs. Tilton, and
concludes with an unequivocal denial Of
sll the other ISLANDERS which have been
set in motion against him. He
acknowledges that Mrs. Tilton COM
planned to him of her husband; that she
spoke OF bis infidelity, and cited in
stances; spoke of his going with strange
women, and proved that her statement
was true; and finally begged him (MT.
Beecher) to advise her, as a man and q
minister, what to do. Beecher, after
long deliberatiOn and considerable hesi-
fancy, advised her, if she felt that she
could not reclaim her husband, to leave
him. After time, Beecher felt that he
had made mistake in giving this adj
vice. He thought that perhaps, if left to
the impulses Of his own generous nature,
lAbDA FVAlu &uauQtn Ak1t ElIduEc
women after whom he had been run
ming, and return to the peace Of his own
household. In this condition Of mind
done, promised to extend TO him the
right hand of fellowship in the future,
and to bury the past utterly.
Tilton's forthcoming statement will,
it is said, disappoiut the public greatly.
The suppositiOn has been that he would
undertake to prove that Beecher had
done him grave personal injury; that he
would specify that wrong and adduce
evidence OF its reality. Now it is under
stood he has resolved to remain reticent
in regard to his own family, but will go
into the general scandal. In other words,
he will attempt to show that Beecher
outraged not Mr.. Tilton's but some other
household. He reasons in this
way: My opposition is that Mr..
BeecheT Is not a fit man to
occupy a christian pulpit. What Beech
er has done to me is my own affair. The
public interest is properly in my main
proposition, and in support of it / sub
NIT the following This document,
there is good grounds for stating, will
affect the character of two other women
besides Mrs. Tilton. The consistency of
Mr.. Tilton's position will be best judged
of by the public when the statement ap-
pears and its contents are compared
with his promises, The article states
that when Beecher reduced his state
ment to writing, he submitted it to a
friend, with the remark that it was the
paper he intended to lay before the COM
mjttee. That the friend to whom
the statement was submitted, read it
carefully, and returned it TO be reported,
saying TO him, advise you not to
present that paper to the committed
Mr.. Beecher asking the reason of such
advice, the reply was: Because TiltoD's
statement will shiver it to pieces That
on further consultation and comparison
OF views, Mr.. Beecher determined to fol-
low the advice Of his friend. That, ac-
cordingly, Mr.. Beeeher's statement was
not presented to the committee last
night. That instead of the statement
Mr.. Beacher sent note to the commit
tee, in which he announced that he had
not prepared any evidence to be submit
ted to that bOdy.n