Connecticut western news., 1874-08-07

6o each and all Of them, shall not hes1- tate to do SO. Suffice it for my purpose now that I reply to one or more of the most glaring charges. Touching the feigned sorrow of my husbands com pulsory revelations, I solemnly avow that long before the Woodruff publica- tien, I knew him, by insinuation and direct statement, to have repeated to my every near relative and friend the substance of these accusations which shock the moral sense of the entire community this day. Many times, when hearing that certain persons had spoken i'll of him, he has sent me to ohide them for so doing and then and there I learned he had been before me with his caiumnies against myself, and so wag speeches..
 The reiteration in his statement that he had consistently striven to hide 9 these so.called facts is utterly false, as his hatred to MT. Beecher has existed these many years, and the determina- 1 tion to ruin MT. Beecher has been the one aim of his life. Again, the perfdy with which the holiest love wife ever offered has been recklessly discovered in this publication reaches well-nigh to sacrilege and, added to this, the en- deavor, like the early scandal of Mrs. Woodruff, to make my own words con- demn me, has no parallel.
 Most conspicuOusly, my letter quot ing the reading of "Griffith Gaunt. /" Had MT. Hilton read the pure character of Catharine, he would have seen that I lifted myself beside it-as near as any human may affect an ideal. But it was her character, and not the incidents of fiction surrounding it, to which re- ferred. Hers was no sin of criminal act or thought. A like '' confession ,, with hers I had made to MT. Hilton in tell ing of my love for my friend and pas tor, one year before. And I now add that, notwithstanding all misrepresen- tations and anguish of soul, I owe to my acquaintance and friendship with Mir. Beecher, as to no other human in- strumentality, that encouragement in my mental life and that growth toward the Divine nature which enable me to walk daily in lively hope of the life beyond. ( The shameless charges in articles | seven, eight, and nine are fearfully false in each and every particular. The letter referred to in MT. Tilton's tenth paragraph was obtained from me by importantly, and by representations that it was necessary for him to use in his then pending difficulties with MT. Bowen. I was then sick, nigh unto death, having suffered a miscarriage only four days before. I signed what ever he required, without knowing or understanding it's import. The paper have never seen, and do not know what statements it contained.
 In charge eighteen, letter of mine, addressed to MT. Francis Moulton, quoted to prove that I never desired a separation or was advised by MT. and Mrs. Beecher, to leave my husband, reply, the letter was of MT. Hilton s own concocting, which he induced ne to copy and sign as my own-an act which in my weakness and mistaken thought to help him, I have done too often during these unhappy years.
 The implication that the harmony of the home was unbroken till MT. Beecher entered it as 8 frequent guest and friend is lamentable satire upon the household where he himself, years be- fore, laid the cornerstone of Free Love, and desecrated It's altars 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 womanhood from the insidious and diabolical teachings of these latter days. His frequent efforts to prove me insane, weak-minded, insignificant, of mean presence, all rank in the category of heartlessness, selfshness, and false- hood, having It's climax in his present endeavor to convince the world that I am or ever have been unable to distin- guish between an innocent or a guilty love.
 In summing up the whole matter, I affirm myself before God to be inno- cent of the crimes laid upon me that never have I been guilty of adultery with Henry Ward Beecher in thought or deed nor has he ever offered to me an indecorous or improper proposal.
 To the further charge that was led away from my home by MT. Beecher's friends, and by the advice of lawyer whom MT. Beecher had sent to me, and who, in advance of my appearing before ths committee, arranged with me the questions and answers which are to constitute my testimony in MT. Beech er's behalf, I answer that this is again untrue, having never seen the lawyer until introduced to him few moments before the arrival of the committee, by nay step-father, Judge Morse and in further reply submit the following statement of my action before the com mittee, and the separation from my husband.
 The publication of Mir. Tilton's let ter in answer to Dr. Bacon, I had not known nor suspected, when on We'd nesday evening he brought home the Golden Age, handing it te me to read. Looking down its columns, I saw, with we'll nigh binding eyes, that he had put into execution the almost daily threat of his life" that he lived to crush out MT. Beecher; that the God of battles was in him he had always been MT. Beecher's superior, and all that lay in his path, wife, children, or reputation should fall before this pur- pose"
 did not read it. I saw enough with out reading. My spirit rose within qne as never before.
 Theodore, said, "tell me what means this quotation from Mir. Beech CT? Two years ago you came to me at midnight, saying, Elizabeth, all let ters and papers concerning my difficult ties with MT. Beecher and MT. Bowen are burned, destroyed; now don't you betray me, for have nothing to defend myself with"
 "Do you believe that 2'' said he.
 ''I certainly did, implicitly" I said.
 "Well, let me tell you-they all live; not one is destroyed
 If this was said to intimidate me, it had quite the contrary effect. I had clearly before with whom was deal ing. Coming to me little later, he said, " I want you to read it; you will find it 8 vindication of yourself. You