Connecticut western news., 1874-10-02
charges. What, then, IS the truth as shown

charges. What, then, IS the truth as shown by the weight of the evidence?
 Tilton's statement not only contas6s slar- derous lies against my brother, but also against my brothers wife, whom for years he has hated and believed to be the melting cause of his downfall. Some of these lies can be contradicted by my personal knowl- edge, as for example, the charges of her ill-treatment of her husbands relatives.- Like all other wives, my sster-in-law has some faults, and like other women of strong character is liable to strong preju dices and so when my fathers wife and she were uncongenial it was deemed best that separate establishment should be provided, rather than 8 permanent resi- dence in my brothers family, which he de sired. But in the last years of my fathers life his most frequent and favorite resort was to the parlor, where my brothers wife devoted herself to his comfort and amuse- ment with the most tender assiduity. As to her treatment of my brothers and sisters and others of our family relatives, they have always met cordial welcome from my brother, and at least a civil one from his wife, while some who arc his favorites are equally hers. That my brother, united to one who for nearly forty years has proved loving wife, the devoted mother of his ten children, an excellent house. keeper, an able amanuensis, a capable manager of his business affairs and suc- cessful authoress. that he with his cbival- rous protection of all his wife's interests, should be represented as going to such scatter-bralns us Hilton with complaints ot his own wife and the wish that he had such wife us Triton, is story as incredible as 1t is silly. These are specimens of the lies to be found in that statement. Tue only new matter of any consequence in this last statement are letters which persons proved to be experts in forgeries could easily mod. ify to meet their ends. The most:impor- tant one is Mrs. Tilton's letter to her moth CT, which was not put in Tilton's first statement, which he confessed he tore up, while he does not state how he obtained a |
 In co2clusion, it would seem as if noth- ing now is needed but for all decent men and women 10 act on the preceding princi- pies of common sense. As to an appeal 10 courts of justice in New York city, where the judicial ermine is represented iu leading papers as sadly sullied, every delicate wo- man and every protector of women should protest against it as involving the most serious dangers. Suppose this case brought before tribunal where abundant money could be employed 10 corrupt judges and jury and to hire perjurcd witnesses, where the most refined and respectable ladies could be forced to appear and meet the cross questions and brow beating of coarse and ribald lawyers, can anything be imag- ined more 10 be dreadeds It is 8 case in which every modest woman has personal interest, and in behalf of myself, my dear est friends ard my sex, with the words of the outraged apostle, I appeal unto Cn- sal'-tbe just and good of the common people who decide our customs, our privi- leges, our laws and their penalties. Let them use the principles of common sense and these demoralizing statements will be the last, and will be doomed with their vile authors to perpetual insignificance and everlasting contempt.
 CATHARINE E. BEEoHRR Peekskill, Sept. 9. 1874.