The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-06

beecher to Dir. Moulton:
BROOKLYN, July 2s.
My DEAR FRIEND The Committee
oil Investigation are waiting mainly for
you before the closing oI their labors. ]
TOO earnestly wish tnat you would come
and clear your mind and memory oI
Everything that can bear on my case. I
pray you also to bring all the letters and
papers relating TO It which will throw
any light upon It and bring 10 result
ms protracted case. / trust that Mrs,
MoulIon has been re.invigorated and that
her need Of your care will not be go great
as to detRin you. Truly Yours,
HENRY WARD BRRcHER,
| To r D. AoultOn, Esq.
A SECOND. APPEAL.
BROOKLYN, August 4.
f. D. MoVlton, EsQ:
sIR-Your letter bearing date Of Au-
gust 4, 1874, is this moment received.
Allow me 10 express astonishment and
regret that you refuse me permission even
TO see certain letters and papers In your
possession relating TO charges made
against me by Theodore Tilton, and at
the reasons given for your refusal. On
your solemn and repeated assurances Of
personal friendship and In the unuues-
tioning confidence with which you In.
sptred me OF your honor and fidelity, 1
placed in your hands, for safe keeping,
various letters addressed to me from nv
daughter, my sister, and various other
parties, also a memoranda of affairs not
in any connection with Mr. Tilton's mat
ters. l also, from time to time, addressed
you confidential notes relating 10 my own
sell, as one friend would write to another.
These papers were never placed In your
hands 10 bo held for two parties,
nor 10 be used in any way. They were
TO be held FOR me. did not wish them
to be subject to the rick Of loss or scatter
ing from my careless habits in the matter
OF preserving documents. They were to
be held for nc. In SO far as these pspers
were concerned you were only friendly
trustee, holding the papers subject to nv
wishes. Mr.. Tilton has made a deadly
assault upon me, and has used letters and
fragments of letters purportipg 10 bc
copies Of these papers. Are these extracts
genuine? Are they garbledH What are
their dates? What II anything has been
LETT out and what put in? You refuse
my demand for these papers on various
pleas that II l speak the truth In my state
ment do not need them, and that i'll
make successful use OF them II will be
an Injury 10 MIR. Tilton, and that you as
friend OF both parties, are bound not 10
aid either In any act that shall injure the
other. But do not desire to ipiure any
one but TO repel an injury attempted
upon me by the use oil papers committed
sacredly TO your care. These documents
have been seen and copied; they have
been hawked for sale In the New York
newspaper offices, What purport 10 be
my confidential notes to you are Oh the
market, but when demand sight OF the
originals of papers Of which you are only
trustee, that l may defend myself, you
refuse because you are friend OF both
parties. Mr. Tilton has access 10 your
repository Tor materials with which to
strike me, but am not permitted TO use
them in defending myself. do not ask
you 10 place before the committee any
papers which Mr.. Tilton may have given
you, but | do demand that you forthwith
place before the committee every paper
which have written or deposited with
you. Yours truly,
HENRY WARD BERcnER.
Mr.. Moulton says he has answered the
above letters, and expresses surprise that
his answer Is not given to the public as
well as the letters Of Mr.. Beecher. Mr..
Moulton stated this afternoon that he
would go before the Committee this even.
ing.
Gen: Butler has been telegraphed for
and will be in Brooklyn to nig ght. BE will
probably act as Tilton's counsel.
DIR. sToRRs' STATEMENT.
The Tribune tomorrow will publish
an interview held with the Rev. DR..
Storrs at Princeton, Mass, relative to the
Beecher.Tilton case. The Doctor saws:
ut was . week or ten days after the
publication Of the Woodruff paper that
Tilton came TO me for advice. Some
public statement, he thought, was necess.
ary as reply, but In what form, or even
how far 1t should go, he could not of him.
self decide. Upon this point he wished
counsel; Tor this he came 10 me. az A
friend Of Mr.. Beecher.
"As Mr.. Tilton has stated before the
Committee, had not then read the t,sper
OF Woodruff, but told MIR. Tilton that /
would borrow q copy OF q friend who /
knew had one and read II If he desired.
l did this, and as agreed upon Mr.. Tilton
called again. l told him that had read
the statement with much care and that
there were four points in 1t 10 be denied.
First, that Mr.. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton
bad criminal relations; second, that YOU
discovered this; third, that Mr.. Beecher
received paper from Mrs. Tilton deny
ing that such relations: had ever existed;
and, fourth, that Mr.. Moulton obtained
that paper from Mr.. Beecher. ! did not
cay, as Mr.. Carpenter has put II, that
hsd drawn four conclusions, but that
there were four points 10 be denied, and
l was oil the impression that o sim
pie and material denial by those con-
cerned would probably bo made, and thus
an end be put 10 the whole vile story.
Mr.. TiltoD, however, said 10 me,
'supposing these points cln't be denied?'
l told him In effect that in that case a
plain statement OF the truth or absolute
silence on his part are the alternatives
open 10 him, and that It would rot ans.
wer to attempt any evasion in a public
statement, since that would not silence
the scandal but instead 1t would keen i
alive and give 1t new force. Beyond Ibis
declined to give advice unless he should
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