The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-24

sent me to chide them for so doing, and the
and there l learned he had been before m
with his calumnies against myself, so that
was speeches.
The reiteration in his statement that he ha
perSistently striyen to hide these so-calle,
facts is utterly false, his hatred of Mr.
Beecher has existed for many Years, and tn
determination to ruin Mr.. Beecher has bce1
the one aim Of his life. Again, the pertid,
with which the hottest love wife ever Offered
has been recklessly discovered in this publica
ton reaches well nigh to sacrilege, and, added
to this his endeavor, like the early scandal Of
Mrs. Woodruff, to make my own words con
denim me, has no parallel most conspicuous,
my letter quoting the reading of Griffith
Gaunt
Had Mr.. Tilton read the pure character o.
Catherine he would have seen that | lifted
myself beside it as near as any human being
may affect. But it was her character, and moi
the incidents Of affection succeeding it, to
which l referred. Hers was not sin Of Grim
inal act or thought.
like confession with hers l had made to
Mr.. Tilton, in telling Of my love to my friend
and pastor; and | now add that notwithstand-
ing all misrepresentation and anguish of soul,
owe to my acquaintance and friendship with
MIR. Beecher, as to no other instrumentality,
that encouragement in my married lite which
enabled me to walk daily in lively hope of
the life beyond.
The shameless charges in articles 7S and 70
are false in each and every particular.
The letter referred to in Mr.. Titon's tenth
paragraph was obtained from me by importu-
nifty and by representations that it was neces-
sary for him to use it in the then pending
difficulty with Mr.. Bowen l was then sick
nigh unto death l signed whatever he re-
CURED without knowing or understanding its
import. The paper l have never seen, and
do not know what statements it contained
In charge eight letter Of mine addressed
to Mr. Francis Moulton, is quoted to prove
that | never desired a pardon or wished
separation, or was advised by Mr.. or Mrs
Beecher to leave my husband l reply the
letter was one Of Mr.. Tilton's own. He in
duced me to copy and sign as my own act, and
which in my weakness and mistaken thought
to help him, l have too often done during
these unhappy years
The implication that the harmony of the
house was unbroken until Mr.. Beecher en-
tered it as a frequent guest and friend is a
lamentable satire upon the household where
he himself, years before laid the cornerstone
of free love, and desecrated it up to the time
OF my departure, so that the atmosphere was
not only goddess, but impure for my children,
and in the effort and throe of agony | would
fain Lift my daughters and all woman loved
from the insidious and diabolical teaching of
these latter days.
His frequent efforts to prove me insane. or
weak-mlnded, insignificant and mean presence,
all rank in the category Of heartleseness, self
shness, and falsehood, having its climax in his
present endeavor to convince the world that
mn or ever have been unable to distinguish
between an innocent and guilty love-
In summing up the whole matter, Mrs. Til
on says, | affirm myself before God to be in
locent Of the crime laid upon me, that have |
never been guilty of adultery with Henry |
Ward Beecher, in thought or deed, nor has he |
'ver offered to me an indecorous or improper
To the further charge that was led away
rom my home by Mr.. Beecher's friends, and |
~ the advice Of a lawyer whom \ r. Beecher I
lad sent to me. and who in advance of my
ppearing before the committee arranged with |
ne the questions and answers which are to
Constitute my testimony on Mr.. Beecner's be-
alt, | answer that this is again untrue,
aying never seen the lawyer until introduced
o HIM few moments before the arrival of
he committee, by my step-tather Judge
Iorse
She says she saw well nigh with binding
yes that Tilton had put into execution the
imost daily threat of his life that he lived
} crush out Mr.. Beecher that the God of
attles was in him: that he had always been
Ii. Beecher, superior, and all that lay in his
ath wife, children, or reputation if it needed
G should fall before this purpose.