The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-22
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Co,-.ga IN Announce His COnvfc.
,ious 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 as
fast as they can be procured. send you
the article he wrote. When abandoned
by all their friends, he and his wife went
10 the West and stayed for years, crushed
by calumnv and abuse. To-day they are
esteemed more highly than ever, and he
is in a position of great public trust, III
Providence. You can perceive my stu
alton at a glance and by all that l have
suffered and am willing to suffer for your
sake, beg you to
Confide to Me the whole Truth,
then can help YOU, as no one else in the
world can. The moment that l know
this matter as God knows it, He will help
YOU and me to bring everlasting good out
of this seeming evil. If | could say
truthfullv that | believe the
story TO be a base fabrication
of Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton's imposed upon
a credulOuS woman, q mere medium
whose susceptibility to impressions from
spirits in the flesh and out of IT, are to b.
taken into account always, the whole
thing dies. But lift 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 this
morning, and was about writing to You
to suggest it when your letter came. l
will write to YOU AS sister expressing my
deep convictions that this whole subject
needs the most earnest and chaste dis
cussion. That nv own mind has long
been occupied with it, but Is still
in doubt on many points that have OBJ
served. For yearsreading and thinking has
been performed on this and kindred sub
iectS. and nov the time has come for You
10 give the world, through your own
paper, the conclusions that you have
reached, and the reasons, therefore, if
YOU choose. l will then reply to each
letter. giving the womenS views, for
there is surely "A men and womrn's side to
this beyond everywhere else, and by this
means attentiopwill be diverted from
personalities and concentrated on social
philosophy the one subject that now ought
10 occupy all thinking minds.
1t seems 10 me that
God mas Dee" W SrrR"rS ''r ~
and YOU also, for years and years. |
send Won reply | wrote to DIR. Todd
long ago, and which l could never get
plblished without my name, which, for
the sake of my daughter, | wished to
withhold, although Godkin. of the N0tioW
Holbrook, ofth HcraId, and Healthward
Of the independent, and every mother L"
whom | have read it, all told me it was
the best thing ever written on the Snb-
iect, and the gentlemen said they would
publish it if they dared To. Mrs. --
urged me L. give my nanc and publish
il and said she would rather have writ
ten it than anything else of its length in
The world, and if il were her she would
print il without hesitation. send also
!, COPY al II letter | wrote John Stuart
Mill on his sending me an early copy Of
his "Subection Of Woman and his
reply. | am sure that nearly all tn"
thinking men and women are somewhere
near vou and will rally Ia your support,
if YOU are bold, frank and truthful in
stating vour conversation. Mrs. Burclgh
told DIR. Claiming that she was ready to
avow her belief in social freedom, when
the time came; Sh" was weary under and
glad of reprieve, but should stand tru"
Ia her constituents when she must. My
own conviction is that the one radical
mistake YOU have made is in surprising
l.. ,,,,,.h ahead nf tIput
and in daring 10 attempt to lead. W hen
YOU have anything I" conceal, do not,
pray Won, deceive yourself with the hop"
That the love of your church, or amy other
love, however divine, can compensate for
the loss of absolute truthfulncSS to your
own mental convictions. | have not told
you the half have suffered since Fcbru-
arv. but yuu can imagine, knowing what
my husband is To me, that ii WAS no com-
mon love | nav" for You, and for truth,
and for ali mankind, women ~ well H.
men, when decided t. nearly break his
heart, already lacerated by the course |
had been compelled to pursue, by
sending him away to die, per-
haps without me at his side.
[ wish YOU would come here in the even
ing sometime To the Burton cottage, or
will meet ysu anywhere in New York.
You appoint, and ut any time.
Ever Yours, BELLE.
Read the letters from John and Mary
in the order have given them. | will
send these now, and the other documents
| have mentioned another day, waiting
ill know whether You will meet me.
On the third of the same month Mrs.
Hooker addressed Il letter 10 her brother
the Rev. Thomas H. Beechrr, which |
produce, marked No. Il.
Mrs. Hooker To Rev. ThOs. Il. BePcher.
Please return this letter To- me when
You have done with it.
HARTFORD, SUNDAY, Nov. 3. 1872
DEAR BROTHER ToM-The blow has
fallen, and | hope you are better pre-
pared for it than YOU might have been
hut for our interview. | wrote d. II sim