Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-29
MRS. TlLTON'S STATEMENT

NEW YORK, July Z3.-MrS. Triton S
statement is published. She begins
with the expression that the impera-
tive necessity, which is forced upon
her to pick anew the pains and sor-
rows she had for the last ten years. daily
schooled herself to bury and forgive,
is the saddest act of her life, a sense of
the provision of her life, faith almost
compe1s her now to stand aside till
God himself delivers. Yet she sees in
the act of her husband an urgent call
and privilege from which she shirks
not. To replyin detail to the twenty
two articles of arraignment she will
not attempt at present, but if called
upon to testify to each and all of them
shall not hesitate to dos She solemn
ly AYERS that long before the Woodruff
publication, she knows the insinua-
ton and direct statement of her hus-
band to have repeated to her very
near relatives and friends, the sub
stance OF the accusations which shock
the moral sense of the entire commu-
nifty this day. Many times, she says,
when hearing that certain persons had
spoken i'll of him, he has sent me to
chide them for so doing, and then and
there l learned he had been before me
with his calumnies against myself so
that was speechless. The Federation
In his statement that he had persistent
ly striv en- to hide these 80 called facts,
is utterly false, as his hatred of Mr..
Beecher has existed these many years
and the determination to ruin Mr..
Beecher has been the one acme of his
life. Again the perffdy with which
the hottest love a wife ever offered has
been recklessly discovered in this pub
LEGATION reaches well nigh to sacrilege,
and added to this the endeavor, like
the early scandal of Mr.. Woodruff, to
make my own words condemn me, has
no parallel. Most conspicuously my
letter quoting the reading of Griffith
Gaunt. Had Mr.. Tilton read the pure
character of Catherine, he would have
seen that l lifted myself beside it as
near as any human being may affect
the ideal. But it was her character
and not the incidents of fiction sue
ceeding it, to which 1 referred. Hers
was not sin of criminal act or
thought. A like confession with hers
l made to Mr.. Tilton in telling of my
love to my friend and pastor, one year
before, and | now add that notWith-
standing all Misrepresentation and
anguish of soul, owe to my acquaint-
ance and friendship with Mr.. Beecher
and to no other human instrumentali-
ty, that encouragement in my mental
life and that growth toward the divine
nature which enabled Lie to walk dali
ly in lively hope of the life beyond.
She Explains Some OF Her Letters
The shameless charges in articles sew
en-, eight and nine are fearfully false
in each and every particular. The
letter referred to In Mr.. Tilton's tenth
paragraph, was obtained from me by
importantly, and by represent ations
that it was necessary for him to use in
the then pending difficulties with Mr..
Bowen. | was then sick. nigh anto
death, / signed whatever he request
ed, without knowing or understanding
its import. The paper L have never
seen, and do not know, what state~
ments it contained. In chargeeightee
a letter of mine addressed to Mr..
Francis Moulton, quoted to prove that
/ never desired separation, or was
advised by Mr.. or Mrs. Beecner to
leave my husband, | reply that the
letter was of Mr.. Tilton's own, which
he induced me to copy and sign as my
own an act which, in my weakness
and mistaken thought TO help him;
have too often committed during these
unhappy years. The implication that
the harmony of the home was unbror
ken till Mr.. Beecher entered 1t, as a
frequent guest and friend, is lament.
able satire upon the household where
he himself, years before, laid the cor.
ner stone of free love and desecrated it.
ID. why She Left Her Home.
Up to the time Of my departure, 81
that the atmosphere was not only god,
less hut innura for NV ohlldraI1 Nanf