Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-09-12

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q mere sfterthought, made for the purpose OF
4 exp anstion merely. Beecher always tr.a.ed
this letter as his own in all the after eonversa-
| tons we had upon the subject.
| Mr.. Samuel wilkeson, Mr.. Beecher's friend
ard acting counsel, could have known nothing
| of that paper except from Beecner, as 4 had
lever told him or sny body else save Tilton any,
| thing of its contents, and both Beecher and
Wilkeson supposed il was delivered by me 10
| TiltOD, as ii was intended to be. And in his
letter hel etofore published speaking in the in
terest Of Beecher, wilkeson calls it the writ.
ten apology which he holds for the improper
advances" In Beecher's letter of June 1, $50,
just before quoted he speaks of il ''my letter
that he lTiltoDl had over year." not "a mem
Orsndum for the purposes of cOnversatiou,H
written by an unpractised writer, which did not
/ have said this was an afterthought. The
reason fer so believing, outside the intrinsic
evidence from the documents, is that when this
of the publication and speeches of DIR. Leonard
Bacon, " hich brought it on again, 1 was in con-
sultation with Beeeher upon what might he the
eject of them, and predicting that II Bacon
VT mt on e surely wOuld reopen the whole mat
ter. In that conversation Beecbsr said to me
and remember his words exactly, because ii
was quite startling proposition" Can't we
hit upon some plan to break the force of nv
letter 10 1ilton? Can't we hit upon some for m
OF / ote from you to me, in which you shall state
that that letter was not in fact a letter at all,
but simply q memorandum OF points of nv con-
veTsation made by you for the purpose of sx-
pressing more accurately my thought and feel
".
will think of that, but we must wait, [ think
until the necessity arises before determining
WHIT ought to do in that regard" He sad ,
- Will prepare such a note, aud you read liz
over carefully ana see whether or no. it il DOS
sitie for you to sign it." 1 said, d" Very we'll
prepare the note and will consider it, but as
You put the proposition now. Of course it
wouldn't be true" He never showed me suca
note If he prepared il.
BRECHsR AND MRS tuition.
MOUlton next takes up MIR. Beecher's tate
ment that after the trouble he never went
again to Mr.. Tilton's house except once or twice
and then at Mr.. Tilton's request. Mr.. Moulton
claims that this is entirely untrue, and that Mr.
Beecber renewed his intimacy with Mrs. TIL
ton. To prove this he makes various quotations
from letters already published and comments
on them, as for instance the following:
81 had no intimatiOn that he received any
correspondence from Mrs. Tilton that did not
go through my hands, and certainly that he had
made none to her, or visited her. But since the
preparation of that statement there have come
into my hands certain letters from him to Mrs
Tilton thatnOw show to me that he was unfaIth-
ful TO his promise to me, and that he kept up
his intercourse clandestinely with her, In viola
ton OF his solemn promises, his plighted faith to
the wToDged husband, to his own imminent and
deadly peril, without the knowledge of his
(Beecher's) wife-for doing all which things
there could have been bet one incentive. 1t be-
comes necessary, therefore, on the question of
VeIacity of his statement as to the renewal of
his intimacy with Mrs. Tilton, that some of these
Letters should be compared"
A LOVE BARB.
In her letter dated January -, 1871, written
TO female friend-whch certainly will not be
claimed to have been dictated by TilEon-Mrs
1iltJn says:
Nv failR ard hope are very bright, vow that am
Lf the sick bed, and dear Frank Mou,ton is friend
indeed CHe is manaEiug the case with Mr.. Bowen }
SsT, nave HT the storm and believe without
been sown broadcast. am quoted everywhere as
o 81 r. Bowen, they caused his fTilton . INN late
dsn ssiOn from both the fRdspeHfsHt AMI tue UHlon
nGihBg Of these pIsSs)ranSietg nis6t and hG dsT
troJ ght on my mtscnrriage; a Disappointment L
You know; have Tad sorrow slmosi beyond hu-
man 6G,P pa, 3D. tSe g ottf,
ready published and may be referred to. The
regularity of the language of this extract
should be noted: We find Mrs. Tilton on the
18th of December sick in bed with what she
s a'ed 10 have been miscarriage a few days
before of what promised to be "IoUe- babe you
knog"-a verycuTiOus expression from a woman
nearly forty years old and the mother of six
children, TO describe a Guild begOtten in lawful
wedlock; specially when, as Mrs. TiltOn now
asserts. the and her husband hal been freely
Quarrelllng for many months, and, Bessie Tur-
ner testihes, even TO blows.
NEST HIDING.
If this stood alone il would be all-sufficent to
prove that he speaks falsely who says that
Beecher never visited Mrs. Ti}tOn except a. her
hu DdId's request after the settlement, and I'LL
nay puTi Ose, but do hot choose TO leave il in
its solitude as single act, aud therefore 1 re-
produce from my statement the letter from
MTs. Eilton to Beecher, Which bears date May
| :, 1871:
NJ Bseri.r-My future, either for life or death,
would tie happier uii brC feel that you forage
while Ol forget ire. Ia ali tn, sad campsiaa-
keep tTou Yop ali suffering; t. bss- myself alone.
! leaving yen forever iRuortut Of it,. My weapons
S5as Thst Ifsied utterly ne both kno 1 Bat
now a foTgivtross.
Perhaps Tiiton extorted this letter, TOO, from
| his wife.
The italics are those of the writer. Will
| Beecher, in bis first sermon after his vacation,
| please explain what sort of spiritual "wea-
| POM 'Rest hiding" is, with which "a poor dear
| child OF a woman" "keeps all suffering from
| her PASTOR" so as to leave him "forever ignc-
rant Of tn unless, indeed, "nest hiding is a
| carEal weapon, for in that case no explanation
! is needed. There are indications in this note
| that perhaps Beecher did not keep his appoint
| ment, and may have been the reason for its
| writing.
| BEECHRR's CONFESSIONS OF ADULTERY.
| call attention to the fact that have drawn
no differences as to the effect of these letters.
| have only compared them, shown the relations
of their several parts TO their surroundings, ex-
cept that do insist that they show a renewal of
| intimacy with his family not under the super
| vision of either TLton or myself, which is the
| point at issue between Beecher and me in this
| regard. l have avoided stating in terms the
| effect upon my mind because in my former
YeIsations, have been criticised; and disbelief
| of the facts stated has been attempted because
| l did not state the exact words and m amer of
the admissions of the fact of sexual intercourse
| with Mrs. Tllton by Beecher. II has been said
that, being ga man OF the world, - DIRE infer
| ences from his pure and unguarded expr essions
| which they did not authorize, and therefore as
to these letters have left the differences to be
| drawn by those who read them in the light
which dates and facts now throw upon them.
| But to answer this criticism in another direc-
| ton, and to show the impossibility that could
be mistaken, not seeking TO shelter myself
| under any supposed Misunderstanding, but tax
| ing all the burden of veracity between Beecher
| Tilton and myself, now proceed to give such
| portions as are necessary of some few of the
| conversations in which Beecher made confes-
| sion of adultery:
| have before stated that the first confession
| was made on the night went for the "retrac-
| tom of Mrs. Til;on; that L there told him:
| "Mr. Beecher, you have had criminal inter
course with Mrs. Triton, and You have done
| great injury to TIlton otherwise" and saw
further In my published statement: "that he
! confessed and denied not, but confessed" AS
| he did not deny this charge, so explicitly made
| by me, whatever differences L may have made
| from his words at other times, he certainly
| could not have mistaken mine at this time
| WHEN speaking OF the relations OF a man and
| woman, "criminal intercourse has but one
illegal or literary meaning" even to a clergy
| man.
1t, however, seems necessary that should &c
| still further, which do, and say that on that
| evening he confessed to me his Relations with