The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-24

York to see YOU last houuay, put couiu
not find YOU" Of course my inference
was that Mrs. Woodruff either had power
over YOU. or YOU were secretly friends.
During that Sunday Mrs Stanton told
me precisely what Mr.. Tilton had said 10
her. In the rage of the discovery he fed
to the House Of Mrs. - and before
them both narrated
The Story ofHis Own Infdelity, as
Confessed TO His Wife,
and of his wife, as confessed to him. She
added that not long after she went to Mr..
Moulton's and met,yo coming down the
front steps and on entering met TiltOn
and Moulton, who said 1--WE have had
Plymouth Church at our feet and here is
his confession" showing manuscript.
She added that Mrs. Tilton had made a
similar statement to Mrs. Anthony, and
have since received from Mrs. Anthony
r confederation of this, although she re-
fuses to give particulars, being bound in
confidence, she thinks. From that day
this l have carried heavy load, yon may
be sure. could not share it with
nv husband because he was al
ready overwhelmed and alarmingly
affected to be brain-wise, but / resolved
that ifhe went abroad, as he probably
must, L would not go with him leaving
YOU alone, as it were, to bear whatever
might come of the relations.
Oh, my dear brother, fear the
Awful Struggle to Live According to
Law,
has wrought an absolute decentralization as
to truthfulness, and so he can talk about
spanglss on II garment of falsehoOd, when
the garment is truth and the specks are
the falsehood His first letter to me was
so different from this. read it to YOU,
but will copy it lest you have forgotten
its character.
withstood the entreaties ofmy husband
to the last and sent Mary i'll my stead,
and at the last moment / contided to her
all that l knew and felt, and feared that
she might be prepared to sustain her
ather should trial ovcrtake them. BY
reading the accompanying letters from
them YOU will perceive that from outside
evidence alone he had come to the con-
illusions which ! reached only through
the most reliable testimony that could
well be furnished in any case and
against every prcdisposition Ofmy own
soul. Fearing that they would hasten
home To- me and thus lose all the benc-
fits of the Journey, for owing to this and
other anxieteS of business John had
crown worse rather than better up to that
time, though the air of the high A ps was
beginning to promote sleep and rcstora-
ton, tclcgraphcd by the cable: No
trouble here; go to Italy" and by n re-
cent letter | am rcjoiccd to hear Of them
i'm Milan in comfortable health and
spirits. From the day those letters came
the matter has not been out of my
thoughts an hour, it seems to me- and IN
unccasing prayer has assembled that |
might be guided by wisdom and truth.
But
What Il the Truth?
| am further from understanding this
morning than ever The tale Us pub
lishcd is essentially the same us told to
me. In fact it is impossible but that Mr.
Tilton is the authority for it, since !
recognize reri Stntjtjtudc. As | under
stand il Mrs. Tilton WAS the sole rcvca-
tor. (?) The only reply | made to Mrs.
Stanton was that if true, you had II
Philosophy Of the Relation of the
- Sexes
so far shead of the times that you dared
not aSspunce it though you consented to
live by it. That this was in my judy
ment wrong and God would bring all
secret things to light in his own time and
fashion and | could onl V wait, added
that | had come to see what human laws
were in Importance, but could get no
further though | could see glimpscS of
possible new science of life tnat at pres
cnt was revolving to my feelings ana my
that | should keep myself
open to conviction, however, and should
converse with men and especially women
ON the whole subject, and us fast as |
! knew the truth | should stand
by it with no attempt at concealmcnt.
think that DR.. Charring probably
agrees with you in theory, but he had
the.
tiOns Before Acting upon Them.
He refused intercourse with an unCon-
genial wife for long time and then left
her and married woman whom he still
loves. leaving daShing daughter with
her mother, and to-day pays photograph
to keep him supplied with her pictures rs
fast rs they can be procured. send YOU
the article he wrote When abandoned
hv all their friends, he and his wife went
to the West and stayed for years crushed
by calumny and abuse. To-day they are
esteemed more highly than ever and he
is in position of great public trust, i'll
Providence. You can perceive my stu
alton at Il glance, and by all that have
suffered and am willing to suffer for your
sake, beg you to
ConGde To Ne the Whole Truth.
then can help you, rs no one else III the
world can. The moment that | know
this matter rs God knows it, He VIII help
YOU and me to bring everlasting good out
Of this seeming evil. If | could say
truthtullv that believe the
story 10 be Il base fabrication
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton's imposed upon
II crcdulous woman, mere medium
whose susceptibility to impressions from
spirits in the flesh and ont of it, are to b.
taken into account always, the whole
thing dies. But fit is essentially true
there is not one honorable woman to
trust it to in my Judgment, and the pre-
else method occurred to me in bed TINS
and was about writing I" you
to suggest it when your letter came.
will write to You rs sister expressing my
deep convictions that this whole subject
needs the most earnest and chaSte dis
cu>>ion. That my own mind has long
been occupied with it, but is still
in doubt on many points that | have OBJ
served. For Years reading and thinking has
been performed on this and kindred sub
irctS. ana now the time has come toryou
to give the world, through your own
paper. the conclusions that You have
reached, and the reasons, therefore, II
You choose. | will then reply to cach
letter, giving the women's views, for