The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-07-02

| removed Tilton from the editorship Of the
Independenf, and subsequently from the
Brooklyn Union, and has since bounded him
! down as much as possible, and tainted him
! in regard to this Plymouth Church scandal
TiltOn says himself: Il have long borne
unjust aspersions am public man, and
find must, in justice to myself, undertake
my own defense" Mr.. Bowen's purpose
seems to have been to exasperate Tilton, to
drive him before the public with the scan.
dial, in vindication Of himself, thus to bring
disgrace to Beecher and ruin to the Chris.
tian Union. When to this is added the
jealousy of few ministers who are efisious
of Beecher because his fame has thrown
them into the shade, and whose objects in
life have reduced themselves to one grand
end-to put Beecher out Of the way at all
hazards-yOu have the secret of the whole
scandal-the hidden elements which keep i,
in perpetual efiervescence
HISTORY OF THE SCANDAL FROM THE BE-
SlNNlSo INllI NOW fhASES
MATTER HAS AssUMHD-THE 'OFFENsE''
OF Mr.. REEcHER-INTERvIEws WITH
COLLATERAL PARTIES, Ecr.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
The affair known variously a. the Wood
hull Tilton, the Woodruff Beecher, the
Bower Beecher and the TiltoI- beecher scan
dsl has been matter Of come years stand
-, - h. ~nA s.os,loe ~
the United Slater. During that period OF
press attention, or mairly matt n,ion to the
subject, the circles, social and churchly, OF
all communities in this country, have been
punciured with sllegationr, statements, in
quirMs, arguments, gossip, born Of every
grade Of rOoiii y and vice Of which the hu-
man mind is capable, and all relating to the
many named tut single topic. There has
been no hon.e in which the English lam
gusge is epoken, in which the subject has
not been dircussed and, in the better MOODS
Of our nature, . prohibited theme. In one
sense all pen ons Of intelligence know il
that is they know it in its miidest scope and
import, and a. 10 the consids rab'e range OF
persons who are concerned in j.. In an
other ser sc, the great mas of men and
women do not know it, because the con-
scensus of pen Ons of sensibility not to be
hospi'able to the matter has been genera,
and the scandal itself has assumed 20 many
ph.es a. to be virtually formless. Ii hxs
been . thing which hardly thee who have
seen their interest or found their iniustry
in circulating have reduced to terms, and
the n at Of mank nd had no mind or Deces-
sity to do 90. From the letter of Mr.. Til
ton, elsewhere publnLed, it is plain that the
rubject has followed the rule OF all ''c:rcu.
lated" and unexplained scandaie; II has
gaths r, d pervt rsiOn and mend.ci'y on the
gruts me ps OF gossip, and ign france has
united with malevOleDce 10 magnify the
proportion. A history OF the various shapes
which this matter from the incel ton of ie-
ports about it. has tsk.n, will BE- both most
intellis cot and accurate, if the order Of time
he made the order Of narration. 1t will be
ZEN that pursued IN that order the story
Lessons and dimini-hes as 10 exact size snd
substance is peared; and that the increase
Of volume chic h it has RECEIVED has b en-
impaired not by the truth, but BY the Vita
tons With tb. truth ha. suffered, No the
upclassified data Of the affair have teen ex-
chan .ed in the commerce of convena:io
and in the dinrnal multi ri icat on Of new 3
paper.
Mr.. 1ilton dates the act Of his permanent
Withdraw al v aSsen eeism from Plym' u b
Church on or about January ], 1871. 1t il
then, / e says. that the first knowledge came
to him that he had suffered an oienae" at
the hanfs of Mr.. Beecher. Mr.. Eeecher
.nd Mr.. Tilnn canvsa.ed that offence, "A
his lie ter show,, and it al-o shows that there
we're fr, nix condition and acknowledgment
on one sd :, and equally frank forgiveness
on the other. At ihat time the persons
whom the wrong exclusively affected made
it 10 on terms Creditable to their manhood,
and on terms which argue that the wro' G
suffered vas Of degree WHICH compromised
neither in the opinion of the other, when
the &: st apoloeied and repented and the
other ioreave lin. Of course, however,
tbcceh the offense vss rprable. it abolish
ed the very clio n latiocs which had cut
aiftei between the men. There vas ecqusint-
abs.sfip thereafter without intimacy. One
man had suffered that 10 his pride and the
otter had suffered ihat in his confidei ce
which broke Il e charm that had made them
- father 10 an, a son TO father. Theodore
ril,on withdrew from Plymouth Church;
that was an act, a all will now admit, OF
simple eslf-res, ect and consistency. He
withdrew quietly, Without proclamation, or
without . r quest for . letter Of dismhsioD,
which would have excited inquiry and dis
turbanoe He simply ceaaed gciIg. Heab-
sen.ed him eli. He assigned no reason. No
man int. rroeated him, and his public rela.
tions TO Mr.. Beecher did not .uiIer impair.
ment. Mr. Beecher had made aitonement,
a lie writes. to Theodore 'Tiiton and his
God" The account between Mr.. Beecher
and the man be offended bad besn eettled.
The further and timul.aneous account be.
tween Mr.. Beecher and b Maker bad been
Word ITSELF There p forEivene between
that has been withdraw from the error and
SORROW Of ore man, aud the sorrow and mag.
nsniDity Of the other man, reveals picture
Of human nature at il best, q which let him
Who 10 without sin cas- the FIRST stoue.
The chsnc'er and Circumstances of that
o6ense, i've v. nslity, end the inciden.s grow
ing out o. Il ~ili appear in their prcpr
order.
FIR PUBLICATION.
Mr.. T,lton says that he vithdrev from
Piymorth church in January, 1871. For
the res: Il iha, year be edited the lsdepes-
deaf, and part OF that time. The fssier hrlf Of
that year be edited also the Brooklyn Dsily
Ussoa. EOth papers vere the properly Of
NJ. Heary c. Boven at that time. How
implicit he faith kept By Mr.. Elroe vaa,
he ooadnct q TIE papsn which Mr.. Ti.too
edited sovssd NJ. betches vill evidence TO
n n a