The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-09-26

whole or part to pay the girl, Bessie
schoel bills; and Of the $4,000 for thu
Golden Age, he knew nothing, until
Isince he sold that paper, he learned il
from Beecher and Moulton s statements.
Bessie. and the cause of her being
sent away, are described as in Tilton's
former statement and by Monitor.
The message, "Grace, mercy and
peace quoted by Bcecher, Tilton says
was inspired by Moulton, to comfort
Beecher, who afterwards acknowledged
it as greatly cheering him. The words
are from favorite text of Beecher's.
Thomas Kinsella is said to be the one
who suggested Beecher should contrib.
ute money to the Golden, Age. MIR. Kin
sella recently called upon Tilton to per-
suade him to suppress his first statement,
when, acknowledging Bcecher's guilt,
and saying he had confessed it to him,
|yet he said he would see Tilton and his
family should never want if he would
suppress his statement. Mr.. Kingsley,
Mr.. Kinsella's partner also offered to
Egive Tilton $4,000, just after endcav-
oring to persuade him to suppress the
charges.
Kinsella and the editor of the New
York Tribune are mentioned as two
editors who publicly proclaim Mr..
Beecher's innocence, but privately ad.
init his guilt.
Francis B. Carpenter is quoted as
squarely accusing Beecher Of uttering
a lie in his statement of an interview
with him.
Henry NJ. Cleaveland and Oliver
johnson are shown to have professed
respect and affection for Tilton, though
knowing all the facts upon which the
blackmail charge is based, which Til
ton then did not.
Section fifteen is reply to Beechcr S
charge that he (Tilton) garbled
Bcecher's letters by the extracts made
in the sworn statement, and accuses
Bcecher of trying to pervert them from
their. real meaning, the offense of
adultery, reiterates Mr.. Tilton, and
that alone is the keynote to Beecher' s
four years Of "anxiety, remorse, fear
and despair"
Section sixteen treats Of the Bacon
letter. He was prosecuted and abused !;
he gave Beecher an easy way to correct
DR.. Bacon's errors; he waited three
months for Beecher-and then he wrote
the letter to DR.. Bacon in his own de-
lcnse. But beecher saw from the let.
ter that Tilton was still trying to shield
his wife and, presuming upon this, he
adopted the expedient of public in.
quiry by his own committee. On the
morning Of July 18th Beecher's ap-
pointment of the committee was pub.
lished; the same morning, at 6 clock,
an hour before the papers came in,
Mrs. Tilton quilted her husband's S
house and went to Ovington's.
Both Beecher and his wife, Tilton
felt, had thus challenged him to tell
the whole, but it was not till the ninth
day after that he submitted his sworn
statement to the committee. Had
Mrs. Tilton remained with him, he
says, he would not have made it, but
when she turned upon him he had no
other course left but to tell the plain
truth.
AS to first condoning his wife's fault
he says he forgave her because he loved
her; for her children's sake; and be.
cause he despiscs the public sentiment
which condones such faults in men but
would compel men to punish them in
women.
The seventeenth and last section OF
this remarkable paper, following tbs
general tenor of the whole, arraigne
Mr.. Beecher for the ill treatment of
Mrs. Tilton by himself, his committee,
his lawyers and his paper, the Chris
tia1e Union, as to the manner in which
she is spoken of by each, and closes:
Cali this base and brutal conduct by
Mr.. Beecher towards MIS-. Tilton
prompts me to speak of him in fierce
and burning words. But I forbear.
@'Vcngcance is mine, and I will repay,
saith the Lord.' 1 have become so
used to sorrows in my own life that
cannot wish for their infliction upon an
other man, not even on my worst
enemy. l will not ask the public to
visit upon Mr.. Beecher any greater
condemnation for the desolation which
he has brought upon those who loved,
trusted and served him, than nave in
past times seen him suffer from his own
sclC-,nhicted tortures in contemplation
of the very crime for which he has HOW
been exposed to the scorn and pity Of
the world. l know we'll enough how
his own thoughts have bowed him in
agony to the dust; and this is enough.
Wherefore, in contemplating my empty
house, my scattered children, and my
broken home, I thank Heaven that
am spared the pang Of this mans re-
merse for having wrought ruin which
not even Almighty God can repair.'