Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-22

e ems statements in regard to II. w. Beeehel
d were not intimatiOns Of II. w. Beeeher':
adulteries, but plain and straightforward
!, charges OF the same. III. C.. Bowen stated
that he knew four or FIVE cases of Mr.
beechers adulterOus intercourse with
: women. johnson says that Bowen plainly
A declared that Beecher had confessed his
D guilt 10 him (BOwen.) He said
D Il cannot stand il any longer" You and
owe duty to society in the matter.
Ihat man ought not to stay another week
In bis pulpit. 1t Is not safe for our families
to have him in this city.
The allesion to the widow was made by
Theodore TiltOn, and Bowen said he had
no doubt that her husbands death was
caused by his knowledge of her improper
intimacy with Beecher. | have no doubt
about it whatever.
The TrIpartite Alliance.
The suit of TiitOn against Bowen for
services on the Independent was settled by
a tedious arbitration. Tilton. receiving
Bowen's check for $1,000. The alliance
was understood 10 re.ate solely to business
matters. The following letter of one of
the arbitratOrs shows Moulton'S manner of
consent to il.
BROOKLYN, April 1, 1S72.-My dear Mr..
Clanln: After full consideration Of
All Interests other Than TheO's,
L have advised him to arbitrate on grounds
which he will explain to YOU and which
hope will accord with your wishes and with
kind wishes towards all concerned cordially,
Yours, FRANCIS d. MOULToN.
The tripaTtite alliance bound the parties
to say nothing of any wrong done or offense
committed by BeecheT, and fully exOnera-
ted him therefrOm. After Bowen had
signed Il, 1t was handed TO TiltOn 10 sign,
andhe refused. He was willing to sign an
agreement never to repeat again the charges
OF Bowen, saying, that If for no other rea-
son, should the matter thereafter ever come
\ TO light 1t would appear that there had
i been something between Beecher and Mrs.
| Tilton, and it might be used as evidence
/ TO the injury of himself and family, and,
! therefore, II was nOtfOr the interest of either
TiltOn or Beecher 10 sign it in the form first
proposed.
Appended to this covenant and made a
| part of it was a copy Of the proof sheet arti-
| cle,that TiltOn wrote for the goldenage, so
thatit might be known exactly to what
scandal it referred.
After the tripartite covenant was signed,
it came to the knowledge of Beecher, as he
informed me, that Bowen was still spread
ing scandals about him, at which he was
angered, and he proposed TO write Bowen
letter, stating the points that had been set
tied in their reconciliation and the agree
ment and the reason why BOwen's mouth |,
should be closed in regard TO such slander. |
Beecher did not write to Bowen, but a !
few days after wrote a note to Moulton, |
saying: "The real point to avoid is an ap- |
peal 10 the church and then a council. Ii |
would be congregation, and give every |
possible chance for parties for hiding and |
evasions, and increase an hundred fold this
scandal, without healing anything."l
The woodruff.
From the time Of the tTipartite covenant
nothing occurred to disturb the relations
between Beecher, TiltOn and Bowen, or
either CT them, so far as l know, until the
publication, in Woodruff & Clahin's Week
ly, of the elaborate story concerning the so
cial relations between Beecher, TiltOn and
Mrs Triton. After that publication ap-
peared, it again came 10 the knowledge of
Beecher that Bowen was making declara-
tiOns derOgatOry to his character. This
was followed by the publication of the
tTipaTtite covenant, which Beecher inform
ed me was made by Samuel WilkerSOn,
and also thai Beecher was not a party TO
its publication nor knew anything about it.
There afterwards appeared an account OF an
interview between Bowen. W. b. Claflin
and Mrs. Woodruff, published in the
BROOKLYN Eagle, in which an attempt was
made to obtain from her any letters which
she might have showing that Beecher was
guilty of criminal conduct, which attempt
failed, and Clafiin stated the party calling on
her were disgusted at the utter lack Of
what Woodruff prOfessed TO have but could
not produce.
Mrs Beeeher Hooker. Mrs. stanton,
ct ais.
IL is a matter of public nOtOriety that
Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker, the sister of
Beecher, had espOused the cause of Mrs.
Woodruff, and had been accused still fur
ther Of adopting her social tenets. Beech
er's relations 10 Mrs. Titon had been COM
mun;cated to her. This had been made A
subject of communication from Mrs Hooker
TO her brother. and after the publication by
Mrs. Woodruff, Mrs. Hooker addressed the
following note 10 her brother. which con
tains so full and clear an exposition of all
the facts and circumstances that | need not |
add a word Of explanation:
Hartford, Nor. lSt, 1S12-Dear brother: |
In reply to your words "if YOU still believe !
in that woman, etc." let me say that from |
her personally have never heard a word |
on this subject. and when nearly year
ago heard that when here in this city. |
she said she had expected you to Introduce |
her at Steinway, / wrote her most indig-
nant, rebuking letter to which she replied !
in a manner that astOunded me, |
by its calm assertion that she CON
sideTed you as true a friend to er
as | myself. / enclosed this letter TO Mr..
TltOn asking him to show it TO YOU if he
thought best and to write me what it all |
meant. He never replied nor returned the |
letter to me as l requested, but L have a |
copy of it at your service. In the month I
Of February after that, on returning from |
Washington, l went to Mrs. StantOn's to |
spend Sunday at jersey City. / met Mrs.
Woodruff who had come over in the same |
train with me it seemed, and who urged |
me in a hasty way TO bring Mrs. Stanton |
over on Monday for a suffrage consultation
as to the spring convention. Remember
NC her assertion of the friendship between
Jou. and of her meeting YOU occasionally at
krs. MOultOn's house u think this is the ,
oame,) l thought l would put this to the
eSt, and replied that if could be sure of ,
seeing you at the same time, would come.
She promised TO secure you if possible, and
| fully meant to keep my appointment, but ,
On Sunday l remembered an appointment ,
1t New Haven, which | should miss if l
stopped in New York, and so passed by,
dropping her letter by the
way. CUriously enough, sister Cath
crime, who was staying at your
house at this time, said to me here casual
" the latter part of that same week:
Belle, Henry went over to New York to !.
see you, last Monday, but could not find !.
7CU." OF course my inference was that :
Ms. Woodruff either had power over YOU
)r YOU were secretly friends. During that
Sunday Mrs. Stanton told me precisely
what Mr.. Tilton had said to her when in
he rage of discovery. He fled to the house
IF Mrs. "Blank," and before them both
narrated the story of his own infidelities, as
confessed to his wife, and of hers,
IS confessed to him. She added that not n
ong after she went to Mrs. MOulton's
md met you coming down the front steps,
md on entering met Tilton and MouitOn
who said 'we have just had Plymouth
Church at our feet, and here is his confess s
sion showing a manuscript sheet. She Q
added that Mr.. Tilton had made similar G
TO Miss Anthony and | have {
.inca yacaivad from Miss ADfbODv | q