Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-23
TiltOn's Humiliation at the
Publication Of his
Statement.
A Letter to an Intimate Friend
Depicting his Grief.
Beecher the Recipient of Leve Let
ters by the Cord.
A Nice Man for select Tea Party.

New YORK, July 23.--Theodore Iiiton
says of the publication of his statement:
II would not have had it published for
one hundred thousand dollars. Angus
tus Maverick, friend of mine, helped
me to copy the original, and made a sec
ond copy of it while / was before the
committee. he printed it out OF friend
ship to me. When l heard of it went
to my room in the Astor House and
threw myself on my bed in despair.
Maverick is editor of the Brooklyn pa
uer in which the statement first ap-
peared, and received yesterday the fol-
lowing note:
WEDNESDAY. July p.
MY DEAR MAvERICK-From no other
person save either yourself, or my copy
list, or from the committees shorthand
writer, or from some member OF the
committee, could my sworn statement
have got into print. My heart is bowed
and bleeding at seeing these facts spread
before the world Tell me, how could
Won have taken such fearful, dreadful,
horrible responsibility without consult
ing mein advance? There now remains
no possibility of peace or silence-noth-
ing but everlasting woe. Explain your
self You must do it both to me and to
the public. Yours in grief,
THEoDoRE TILToN.
Maverick publishes this note and adds
in course of short explanation, address
sed to Tilton and the public: AS one OF
his clifton s. staunch friends, loving and
knowing him to be long abused man.
and that he still shrank from hurting
others in order to shield himself | re-
solved that this defense should be pub
liseed, and l published it. did it with
out his knowledge or consent, and | did
right, and l stand by the act as an act
of Justice to a man who has been wrong
ed and a community that has a right to
know all the facts.
A gentleman whose official business
has led him to receive and open much
Of Beecher's correspondence, said last
evening: "In Beecher's love letters
you would be surprised to know how
foolishly some women write to him.
Every once in while woman gets
little crazy and writes to Beecher to tell
him how she adores him. Letters used
to 90 to the Independent Office, and Til
ton. under orders from Beecher, opened
them. Many of them he made copies
Of and to-day has manuscripts and
names and copies of letters all con-
nected with respectable ladies who
have foolishly written to Beecher all
about their love for him. He receives
love letters by the ream and cord and
the joke of it is that as his wife takes
care of all letters that come to him she
reads the love letters before he sees
them. Mrs. Tilton's letters to Beecher
were very affectionate and enthusiastic,
and expressed deep, pervading love in
him. Mrs. Beecher read them all be-
fore he saw them, and they are all in
her possession now. When the scandal
was first raised Mrs Beecher looked up
the letters, and at Mrs. Tilton's request
has preserved them for her. You cant
convince Mrs. Beecher that her husband
is guilty of anything that Tilton charges.
She says that if all the women in crea-
ton we're to swear that Beecher had
been unfaithful she would not believe
them"