The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-22

the wife Of another public teacher, o
almost equal eminence, all three concu
in denouncing offenses against morality
shall make it my duty to analize some
of these lives.
TSigned.1 V.C. WooDHULL.
NeV York, May 20th, 1871.
On the day of the publication Of III,
above card in the World, Mr.. Tilton Re
ceived request from Mrs. Woodruff Il
call on important business. The above
card was put in his hands by Mrs. Wood
hull, who said, ''the parties referred tt
therein were Rev. H. W. Beecher anC
the wife of Theo. Tilton. Following thi'
announcement Mrs. Woodruff detailed
to Tilton with vehement speech, thC
wicked, injurious story of which she
published in the year following
Meanwhile Tilton desiring to
guard against any temptation
to Mrs. Woodruff to publish
the grossly distorted version which she
gave to Tilton, and which she afterwards
attributed to him. he sought by many
personal services and kindly attentions,
to influence her to such good will to-
wards himself faRd family as would remove
all disposition or desire in her to inflict on
! them such publication. TiltOn's efforts
and association with Mrs. Woodruff
ceased in April. 1872, and six months
afterwards. namely, November I'd, 1872,
she published the scandal which he had
labored to suppress.
Henry's Philosophy.
Fnteemth-That on the third day
thereafter Rev. Thomas h. Beecher, Of
Ellnira. wrote ms follows:
ELMIRA. y. Y, Nov. ), 1872.
Mrs. Woodruff only carries out Henry 5
philosophy, against which | recorded my
protest twenty years ago.
The Covenant.
.Sirteenth-That In May, 1879, the pub
licaton by one of Beecher 5 partners, Of n
tripartite convenant between He. Bowen,
II. W. Becchcr and Theodore
Tilton, led the press of the
country 10 charge that Tilton had
committed agaiIsl Beechcr some heinous
wrong. which Bcechcr had pardOned.
W ncrthS the lTulH Wis lIF i'NCle'
To remedy this false public i'm
preston MOulton requested Bcccher TO
prepare suitable card relieving Tilt0n
Of this injustice. In answer to this re-
quest Beecher pleaded that his embar-
rassrncnts prevented his saying anything
without bringing himself under suspicion.
Tilton then proposed to prepare card
of hi, own containing Il few lines from
the recently quoted apology for the pur-
pose Of showing that Bcecher instead OF
having had occasion to forgive, Tilton had
had OCCASION to be- forgiven By him.
Beecher writesa Letter.
Beecher then wrotea letter to Moulton,
which, on being shown to Tilton, was
successful in appealing to Tiltons feel
ings. Bcccher said in it, under date of
Sunday morning, June |, 1873: Ny
dear Frank: l am determined
to make no more resistance
Thcodorcs temperament is such
that the future, even if temporarily
earned would BE- absolutely worthless,
rendering me liable at any hour of the
dav to be Obliged to stultify all the de-
vices by which We covered ourselves.
1t is only fair that he should know that
the publication of the card which he pro-
poses would leave him worse off than
before the agreement viz, the tripsrtitc
covenant, was made; after my letter
through YOU 10 him, viz, the apology,
was "'''S''' ~ ,,.;c'", co,,I,. bo had
l'aa coIuo'''u "LS ,%a ,,n,n', ~ o,rnnstns".
'I 'oIo,,,,;,,. ,,nt to hntr.v hi. wifc or
ana SoicmnltE ""' !" Ucrfat Ms "''' VI
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With surh - man rs Theodore Tilton
,boro /. M nossihIc salvation for any who
Iana,d pr b;m With q stropr nature,
w 'PI'Iu Iaa, W, W.. , t,,no, how 70 Govern il
III ".'' nv "'' "
There is no Use in irving fur
thor have strong feeling
am mo and il brings rrcat
neoce that | am spending my last
sunday and preaching nv last sermon
hemonstrance'
The hopclcssnesS OF spirit Which thr
foregoing letter portrayed on vi" part "i
it, writer, led Tilton to reconsider the
question of defending himself at the cost
Of producing misery to Beecher, which
determination by IiIton to allow tn" pre-
vaiing calumnieS against himself to 60
unanswered, was further strengthened by
the following note received by HIM tw"
days thereafter from the office OF the ed
itnr Of Beechrr- journal, l2S East
Twelfth street:
June 4. 1873.
Nv Dy,R TuEopoRE:-Nav tell
Won frankly that when | saw YOU last you
didn't seem To- me TO BE- the noble young
mnn who inspired my warm affections 50
inny ago. You were yielding to an act
which ! couldn't help thinking would be
disbonorable and perfidous, and although
i !. r,sv for me to make every