The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27

friendship? A. / cannot tell you, but Il
was some time afterward The transl
tion was made during the consultations
which they held as to how Mr.. Bowen
should be managed So as to 90, as tney
said, Justice to Mr.. Tilton. Once or twice
he said to me, when | TOLD him some
thing, "There, that is the right thing |
recollect that on ore occasion | made a
confidential statement to him about some
matter that they never could have found
out otherwise, and he said q don't recci-
lect the words; only have recollection
of the impression that was made on my
mind)that l never should regret putting
confidence in him. 1t sprang from some
statement that I had made. He gave to
ken of his pleasure at my trust in lin, as
if to encourage, as it were, full trust,
and he said that [ never should regret
having put confidence in him--which 1
shall regret to the day of my death.
Q. In the cuorse of your conversation
when the sO-calle6 apology was written,
did he say anything to you to the effect
that there was nothing about the case but
what an apology might cover? A. He
made the impression on my mind not only
that Mr.. Tilton had been greatly injured,
but that Mr.. Tilton was saturated with
the conviction that was using my whole
power against him. When my disclosure
Of my real feelings was made to him, he
listened with a kind of incredulity, as If
I was aching part. But when | shed
tears, and my voice broke. and walked
up and down the room with unfeigned
distress, he seemed to be touched and
finally he said. snow, if that is the way
you feel, if Mr.. T'ilton could be made to
see it, this whole thing could be settled. "
@. If you used the words "He would
have been better man in my circum-
stances than I have BEEN" what did yon
mean by them?" A. l do not know,
I'm sure. The conversation ran on ny
pothetically in respect to the betrayal OF
friend in all hour Of emergency, in re-
spect to undermining Mr.. Titon just at
the time when Mr.. Bowen and all the
world were leaving him, in respect to a
want of fidelity. And there is one thing
that you are to Dear in mind-a thing
that have never mentioned to any OF
you, aud that had very strong influence
upon me. | never can forget kindness
done to me- When the war broke out
my son went into Brooklyn regimen,
and after being seven months in camp at
Washington, he plaped series Of pranks
on some of the officers and got himself
into great trouble, and Col Adams rec
ommtLded him to resign, and he came tc
me. Well, it broke my heart. l had bat
one boy that was old enough ITO &c
that l could offer to my country, and ]
told Theodore, who was in the office with
me. He made the case his own. Mr..
Tilton has great deal in his upper ma
ture. If he could cut into, and his lower
nature could be separated from the upper,
there is great deal in his upper nature
that IS capable Of great sweetness and
beauty. At any rate, he took up my case.
He suggested himself that the thing to
do would be to get Henry transferred
into the regular army. He said that he
knew Sam: Wilkeson, "a correspondent OF
the Tribune, who was at that time in
Washington, and had great influence, aud
that he would 60 right on that very night,
ard secure this thing. He did, without
a moments delay, start and go to Wash
ington, and he secured through Sam
Wilkeson, from Simon Cameron, then
Secretary of War, the appointment OIL
Henry as Second Lieutenant in the Fourth
Artillery service. | have felt ever since
that in the doing of that thing he did mt
most royal service. have felt 1t ex-
quisitely, and there has not been time
when have done anything that hurt
Tilton that that thing has not come back
to me; and when it seemed as though ]
had in all hour of his need and trouble
stepped aside, and even helped tc push
him down I have felt it very acutey.
@. Here are three letters written or
February 7. 1871. I am not quite sure