Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-08-26
MoultOn has SOmetslng More TO Say.
and Is Very Severe on Beecher,
Whom be Considers
GaIItys
lie Characterises the Great Preacher 6
Liar, SNEAK, and a Coward How
Beeeher Came TO Sin.
"Belle" as a Practical Fres-L Lover
MOultOn Play ing d" Muiual," Etc.
That Five Thousand
DOllaEs-Etc.

f. CHICAGO, August 23.-Mr. Moultol
has added to bis long sta ement som
remarkably fearless revelations, whiel
are printed this morning by the Chicag'
Tribune in 3 dispatch from its CORE
| spondent, George Alfred Townsend
Mr.. MOulton. freed from the relations o
a mutual friend, turns upon the accusing
Beecher with a vehemence hitherto un
known in his part Of the transactions
He applies to Mr.. Beecher epithet!
which fifty describe a person guilty o
what he holds Beecher to be convicted
SIMPLY ADULTERY.
He supplies the gap in the testim mony
80 long open, and that was, if the secu-
satiOn from the beginning was an adnl-
ferrous relation, what explanation or ex-
tenuatiOn did the man OF Plymouth
church offer for his conduct? 1t now
appears that at no time between Beech
er, Tilton, Moulton and Mrs. Tilton was
there any other crime mentioned than
the one. The injury of having advised
! a separation seems never to have been
discussed at all; and the suggestion that
the offense was an improper overture to
! Mrs. Tilton was simple invention to
satisfy the curiosity of other parties, and
/ by diverting attention enable the parties
| the better to preserve the secret of the
great and only ofense.
HOW NoULTON BECAME THE "MUTUAL
FRIEND.n
In explaining how he became the me-
diator between Beecher and TiitOn, Mr..
Moulton says that Mr.. Tilton had been
wearing kind of woful, wTetched face
for some time. The night drew Beech
er to see him was the night ne told me
his trouble. My heart at once jumped
! to these poor children, myself being de-
prived of as much family as have de-
sired; and l struck right out on line of
policy natural, as it seemed to me to be-
to rebuild and compel harmony. 1 had
no need of either of these men, no time
for years Of arbitration, no curiosity as
to their secrets.
ALTAR, "A SNEAK AND sCOUNDREL.
The reason I cannot make the evil
dence exonerate BeeeheT is that he
is the guilty party. He was be-
fore a libertine and q minister; he is
now liar and sneak. No word can
/ be coined until the end of eternity to de-
scribe the mans perfidy to me. By the
advice of attorneys he has brutalized
this issue to the last degree, and made
the only noble deed of years a subject
of accusation of blackman against
man whom but a week before he clasped
in his arms and called the nOblest friend
God ever made for him.
Mr.. TowDsen0-DO you mean that in
assisting Mr.. Tilton's paper surrepti-
tiOusly through you he was serving JUS
tice?
Mr.. Moulton-Yes. Isay that having
II
abusing his hospitality and household,
and then meanly having him discharged
by Bowen to keep him poor and unin-
fuential, Mr.. Beecher could do no less
in his eontrite moments than to help
Tilton's paper on its feet. He has now
sworn away that solitary act of atone
ment by calling the thing blackmail.
There is no he'll he has not aroused. II
he believes the christian religion, he is
damned man.
HOW BEECHER CAME TO SIN.
Mr.. Townsend asked Mr.. MoultOn
what Beeeher had related to him Of the
direct adultery with Mrs. Tiltou; how he
explained himself on the subject OF de-
bauching friends wife, and if it was
his conscience that cried out in such
anguish, or only cowardice for his repu-
tatiOn.
Said Mr.. Moulton, In ali his talks on
that question, he proclaimed that he had
sinned because he could not help it; that
he loved Elizabeth and was loved by
her; and that he could not feel the en-
jOyment of this love to be sin. He said
that his wife had made his home hell.
where he found neither appreciation nor
sympathy, and that she drove his rela-
tives and her own family away. She
was jealous; wrote him anony-
nous letters, disliked his popular
ity, and followed him like
Nemesis. he found pleas.
ant bower at TiltOn's house, where he
was proudly and affectionately received.
There be read his manuscripts aloud to
Mrs. iiltOn, and had the benefit OF her
criticism, which on such topics was
good; and finally perfect communion of
soul arose between them, and they fell
to the earth in the very eXaltation of
piety. Beecher said God could not pun
ish q man who led his domestic life at
home and was tempted by such a COM
fOrter as Elizabeth. He told me that
they both prayed over their sin, and
were assured that it had not the depre-
cation of heaven.
BEECHER's ADULTERoUs SISTER.
In answer to the question whether
Mr.. Beecher feared mis- sister, Mrs.
Hooker, Mr.. Moulton said: "He did.
She was no crazy woman, but bolder
Beecher than he, with equal appetite for
the world. ] Will tell you something
that will show the selfish depths of
Beecher's character. His sister was
worked up on the ides of the falsehood
of such life as her brothers., and had
resolutely resolved TO invade his pulpit
and make him show his hand. TiilOn
and myself were equally afraid for Til.
toms fsmily's sake. So Mr.. Tilton went
one night TO the house of Mrs. Phelps,
in Twenty-tbiTd street, and questioned
Mrs. Hooker as to her intentions in this
respect. She declared that she would
bring Henry to the pillnry on his own
pulpit. "Then," said Mr.. T Tlton, "I shall
make an equally AUTHENTICATED charge
against you, Mrs. Hot kerr and he
named the connection. This stopped
Mrs. HIS mouth. When Henry w.
Beecher had heard that Tilton had done
this, ne applauded his decision and sue
cess. 1t struck me with horror that q
could be willing to have his |
own sister charged with adultery in or |
der to cover his personal shame.
MoULTON AS BEECHER's ADVISER.
Mr.. Townsend-Did Mr.. Beecher ever !
make you the custodian of more than |
bis letters in general?
Mr.. MoultOn-Yes, sir. He advised |
with me about the manner of his life |
and parish He said to me twice, ''Can /
we be safe selling Plymouth church |
peTs this year?" Meaning, would the I
scandal hang over another year. He /
also advised with me as to the expedi- 1
ency, in the suspense of the scandal, of 4
buying more ground for the extension of /
church, and leaving for Eu- /
rope. expostulated against it, saying, I
" II you leave here, this thing may I
burst and Danish YOU l steadily adj /
vised him to work, as | did. " Mr.. |
BeecheT,u y said l, attend with. greater
faithfnlness than ever to your minis
teriaI dnties. Keep up your pastoral |
work. Devotion will give you sOunder |
sleep and q greater hearth So | got |
Tilton started in another paper, to keep /
him employed and get his mind out OF |
worry and irritability. Mr.. Beecher !
helped ON this, and now it is "a black |
mail.n
THE FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Mr.. Townsend-Did you ever appre-