The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-06
Mr. Beecher to Mr. MouIton.

July oath.
Ny DEAR Mr.. MoULToS:-I am max
ing out a statement, and need the letters
and papers in your hands. viii you send
me by Tracy all the originals of my
papers. Let them be numbered and an
inventory taken, and | will return them
20 you as soon as | can see and compare
them, get dates, make extracts or copies
as the case may be- Will you also send
me "Bowens Heads of Difficulty" and
all letters of my sister, if any are with
you. HENRY w. BEECHER.
Mr.. MouIton to Mr.. Beecher.
Ny DEAR Mr.. BEECHER:-Your note
Of July oath is received. | will sacredlv
hold all the papers and information |
have till both parties shall request me to
make them public, or to deliver them
into the hands of either or both. or to lay
them before the committee, or | am com
pelled in r court of justice to produce
them. If | can be so compelled my re-
gret that | am compelled to take this
course. is softened by NY belief that You
will not be substantially injured by it
in this regard for all the facts
are, of course, known to YOU
Ond | am bound to believe
and assume in the statement YOU are
preparing that you will only set forth the
exact facts, and if 50, the documents,
when produced, can only confirm and
cannot contradict what YOU may state, 50
that YOU will. not suffer loss. If on
the contrary, which | cannot presume.
You desire the possession of the docu-
ments in order that you may prove your
statement in manner not 10 be COTrrO-
vencd by the facts set forth in them t.
the disadvantage of Mr.. TiltOn, should
be then aiding YOU in doing that which
cannot believe it the Strictest and finest
friendship for You, calls upon me d"
With grateful rccollcctions of your kind
confidence and trust in me, | am,
Very truly yours,
F. d. MOULTON.
Mr.. MOuItOn to Mr.. Beecher.
Ny DEAR SIR:-In all our acquaint-
ance and friendship | have never re-
ceived from You letter of the tone of
yours of August 4. 1t seems unlike
Yourself and to have been inspired by
ihe same i'll advisers who had So lament
ably carried your private affairs before
a committee Of your church, and thence
before he public. In reply let IN" remind
YOU that during the whole of the past
four wears all the documents. notes
and memoranda which you and
Mr.. Tilton have entrusted to me
have been 50 entrusted becaus"
they had reference ,to-your mutual diff
fcrences. hold no papers of yours or of
! his, except such It's bear on this case.
You speak Ofmemoranduns OF the affair
not Immediately connected with the Til
ton matter, you probably alludc to
memorandum of your difficulties with Mr..
Bowen, but these have direct rcfrrenc"
to your present case with Mr.. TiIt"n,
and were deposited with me by you be
cause Of such references. You speak also
of n letter or two from your brother and
sister,
Fears lest Mrs. Hooker would Tell.
| am sure you have not
forgotten the apprehension which We en-
tertlined lest Mrs. Hooker slould fulfil
a design which she eforcshadowed to invade
Your pulpit and read to your congregation
the confession of your intimacy with Mrs
Titon.
MouItOn Respects Mutual Confidence
You speak Of other papers which !
hold subject to your wishes. | hold
none such, nor do | hold any subject To-
Mr.. Tilton wishes. The papers which
| hold of both YOURS and hi, were not
given to be subject to the wishes Of eth
er ofthc parties, but the very object Of
NV holding them has been, and still l., L"
prevent the wish Of one party from being
iniuriously expressed against the other.
TiIton Cnnot Invade the DEPOSITORY.
You are incorrect in saying that Mr..
Tilton has had access to my depository of
materials. On the contrary | hav" re-
fused Mr.. Tilton such access. During the
preparation Of his sworn statement h"
came to me and said his case would be IN
complete unless permitted him 10 us"
sll the documents, but | refused. and All
he could rely upon were such notes ~ ne
had made from time to time from writ
ings of yours which YOU had written m"
to be read to him, and passage of which
he caught from my lips in short hand.
Mr.. Tilton has seen only part Of the
papers in my possession. and would D.
more surprised to lerrn the entire facts OF
the case than YOU can possibly be-. hat
idle rumOrs may hay" existed III news
paper offices know not. but they have
not come from me. In closing your
letter YOU say, Il do not ask you to
rlace before tho commltt"" any
papcrs which Mr.. Tilton may hav" given
YOU. but do demand that you forthwith
place before the committee every paper
which have written or deposited with
YOU. In reply can only say that !
can't Justly place before the committee
the papers ofone of the parties without
doing the same with the papers OF the
other, aud cant do this honorably eI-
crpt bv legal proCcss-comp"iIIng me
else BY the consent in writing. OF not
only yourself, but Of Mr.. Tilton, with
whom | shall confer on th" subject ~
soon AS possible. You will, | trust see
greater spirit of justice in this reply
than YOU have infused into your unusual
letter of August 4th. Very respectfully.
Francis ID. MoULTON.
Mr. NouIton TO Nr. TiItOn.
AUGUsT >.
Theodore Triton. ES2.:
Ny DEAR SIR have received.
under date of July 2sth. letter from
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. in which hr
expresses a wish that would - before
the Investigating Committee clear nay
mind and memory of everything that can
bear on this case. referring. Of course 10
the controversy between YOU and him. !
cannot in view Of INV confidential rcla-