Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-28

| that she had told her what she haC
/ told her mother, and supposed thai
Mrs. Beecher was cooperating with
/ Mrs. Morse.
/ Quea.-Did you not complain Of Mr.
BeecheT for not aiding you to remain
/ on the IIadependeHt7
Aus.-No, sir; J would have scorned
Mr.. Tilton said that he never told
/ Samuel WiikersOn that Mr.. Beechei
/ had not befriended him In that matter,
but for being unjust TO hina, aud saying
/ that be ought to be turned ont of the
church. IN further testimony witness
said he accepted the apology Beecher
/ had made aud that he fOrgave the Of
/ feRse with a. much kindness as he
thought il possible Tor christian man
/ to assume. His relations with BeecheI
( thereafter were not friendly; neither
| were they pstile. There were relations
which Mr.. Moulton forced with an iron
hand.
Witness bsd taken pains to have il
[ appear in ali quarters that Mr.. Beeeber
I and himself were not in hostility and
I suppressed his self-rsspect many times.
! In doing il ne never stated
/ the Offense Of Mr.. Beecher to DR.. St0rrs ;
[ showed Dr.. Storrs 6. letter which Eliza
beth and himself v10te, and which he
still preserved; die not charge Beeeher
with any offense at all; Elizabeth stated
that. To the question: How was the Of
| Tense stated?' Tilton replied: SIT began
this Way: That on certain day in
the summer OF 1870 she had informed
her husband that Mr.. Beecher had
asked her to be a wife to him, together
Ill = aha
s0licitous to make il appear that she did
not accept his proposition, and happily,
those who saw il naturally inferred that
she did notseeept his proposition; It was
a perfectly correct statement; witnees
read the statement to Beecber, who Ob-
iected to il, aud witness made no further
use Of it; he, however, prepared docu-
ment on MS relations to Bowen, in
which Elizabeth's letter was stated, as
well as the letter of apology, which he
put in, not wishing to make the Offense
more than that; was sOlicitous not to
have the worst OF the csse known; this
was also read to DR.. StOUs, TO whom
witness went in great distress, wanting
COUNSEL
Ques.-And SO to get correct counsel
you misstated the case?
Ans.-Yes; it was a statement neces-
sary to be made after Mrs, WoOdhulps
statement. I was cut Of town, and the
thing had filed the country, and Mr..
Beecher bad taken no notice of it. It
was seven or eight days old, and went
to DR.. Storrs for counsel. He asked me
about the story. said: do not ask
me for that" He said: 'sGiva me some
facts by which can judge; give me that
which can be proved So I gave an
account Of my affairs very largely about
Mrs. Woodhull, and 50 on. The origin
Of that document was a seeking for
something that would put befOre the
public q plausible answer TO WOodhuiFs
tale, and conceived that by chain of
facts we might perhaps explain il away.
/ read il to BeecheT, Rnd.he burst into q
long sigh, and said that he would or
could not stand upon it. Elizabeth
burned or tore it ia to pieces.
Ques.-Why did you abandon the
document?
Ans.-Because there was no success in
it.
Ques.-Wby2 Was it not because he
did not accept it,
Ans.-Because he did not accept or
repeat it; he wanted no statement to be
made, and so the thing was buried.
Ques s-Have you not frequently as
serted the purity Of your wife?
ABs.-NO. 1 have always had a
strange technical use Of words; have
taken pains to say that she was a de-
voted christian woman; that necessarily
carried the other; il was a Ike state
ment that 1 carried 10 DR.. StOrr's; l do
not think be caught the idea Of that
statement; I do not think that it covered
the whole; l have said that Elizabeth
was a tender, delicate, kindly, christian
woman, which l think she is.
Ques.-Hsye you not stated that she
was pure2 ..-... ......
Ans.-NO.
Ques.-Hsve yo1 net stated that she
was as pure as an angelo
Ans.-No. Mr. Holiday says that
said that he asked me, in Mrs. Brad
shsw's presence, whether or not i had
not said that nv wife was as pure as
gold? mo" 1 said TO Mr.. Holiday,
"because the conversation to which you
aIlude was TINS: said, .GOand ask Mr..
Beecher himself, and he will say that
she is as pure as guld' It is an express
sion which he used.p I have sought to
give Elizabeth good character; Ihave
always wanted 70 DO so; / think she de-
serves a good cnsrscter; l think she is
better than most Of us-better than am;
1 don't believe, in point Of actual moral
goodness, barring some drawbacks, that
there i in this Company SO while soul
as Eiizsbetb IiltoA.
Ques.-Did you not State That, il sub
stance, to one or more Of the gentlemen
with WhOm you were lunching?
Ans-In substance, Yes; j state it
row, but L did use the phrase that ''she
mad never violated her chastity"
Ques.-Did you not say that Ne was
puFe2 f-r-a a..r
Ans.-No. I'll
Ques.-Did you not use expressions
intended to be Understood as meaning
the purity of woman?
Ans.--I did exactly. There are many
ways IN which you can produce such
impression, and have written this doc
umeut to produce The same impression.
Tflton was next exsp1ined in relation
TO Wilkerson's statement, and explicitly
several points therein, stat
ing that the CONVERSATION between him
self aud WilkersOn was about Bowen,
whose chaEges against Beecher, Il was
desired, should be withdrawn. Witness
expressed glsdnes; 70 have this done;
Ior he thought every charge against !
endangered bis wife; but when 4
he paper was brought him 10 sign, il I
y As q compliment TO herrose-colored, ia !
which witness was to look up to Beecher
With fital respect. He said, "I won't |
ign that 70 the end OF the world" and
eut out a few lines, and would not use
them. II WnkeusOn communicates the
impression that witness ever wanted
money from Beecher, IL Is false. Beech
er has communicated, through MOulton,
q request thai witiaess be assisted by hia,
but he would Lot take q penny Of
Beecherss money If he suffered rom
hunger and thirst, and said that II, di-
rectly or indirectly, MOuit0n eOmmuni-
Gated 10 him any Of BeecheF's money il
would break their friendship; witness
% Wilkerson was that Beech
eF had been unjust, not that he had
not helped him; witness relations and
feelings toward Beecber since January
]. 1871, when he made the apology down
to the time when the church began to
put out its right hand and take him by
The throat, were friendly; they were
friendly in the sense that we were not
10 collision vita each other, but were
not those Of fIiendship; witness had
taken Beecher's apology and given his
word that he would not have him ex-
posed.
QueA-Is 1t your sentiments that it is
an offense for which one man can
apologize to another?
Ans.-I know there is code OF honor
among gentlemen that a man cannot
seoBdOBe such All offense, but 1 cannot
200 What Offeuge, a man caUunt forgive