The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-28

articles of arrsignment, / shall not attempt.
at present, yet If called upon to testif to
each and all of them / shall not hesitate to |
do so. Suffice it for my purpose now that |
reply To one or more of the most glowing |
charges touching the feigued sorrow of nv |
husbands compulsory revelations. / sol |
EMMY avow that long before the Woodruff |
publication, knew him, by insinuation and |
direct statement, tohave repeated to my very |
near relatives and friends the substance of |
these accusations, which shake the moral |
sense OF the entire community to-day. |
Many times when hearing that GER |
tain persons had spoken i'll of him he
has sent me to chide them for so do
ing, and then and there learned
that he had been before me with his calum-
mics against myself, so that was speechless
The reiteration in his statement that be had
"persistently strived to hide" these So called
facts, is utterly false, as his hatred to Mr..
Beecber has existed these many wears. and
the determination to ruin Mr.. Beecher has
been the one aim of his life. Again the
perfidy with which the hottest love wife
ever offered has been recklessly discovered
in this publication reaches we'll nigh to
sacrilege, and added to this the endeavor
like the early scandal of Mrs. Woodruff to
make
NY OWN WORDS
condemn me, has no parallel, most conspic-
uouslv my letter quoting the reading of
personal character of Catherine, he would
have seen that / lifted myself beside il as
near as any human being may effect an
| ideal. But it was her character and not the
/ incidents OF hctlOn surrounding it to which
| referred. Hers was no sin of criminal act
| or thought. A like confession with hers I
had made to Mr.. Tilton, in telling of my
/ love- to my friend and pastor, one year before,
and now add that notwithstanding all the
| la aFlrEa aroff ions ell II
| owe to my acquaintance and friendship
with Mr.. Beecher, as to no other human in
strumentality, it is that encouragement in
my mental life and that growth toward di-
| vine nature which enables me to walk daily
in lively hope of the life beyond. The
shameless charges in articles seven, 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 representations
that it was necessary for him to use in his
| then pending difficulties with MIR. Bowen.
I was then sick, nigh unto death, having
suffered a miscarriage only four days
before. signed whatever he required with
out knowing or understanding its import.
The paper have never seen, and do not
know what statements it contained. In
charge is letter of mine, addressed to Mr..
Francis Moulton, is quoted IL prove that /
never desired a separation, or was advised
by Mr.. or Mrs. Beecher to leave nv hus-
band. reply that the letter was Of Mr..
1ilton's own concocting, which he induced
; me to copy and sign as my own, an act
! which, In my weakness and mistaken
thought to help him, have done too often
during
; THESE UNHAPPY YEARS.
The implication that the harmony of my
home was unbroken until Mr.. Beecher en-
tered it as frequent guest and friend, is 1
oh OFT fIa olOlI
T he, himself, years. before laid the corner
stone of free love and desecrated its affairs
Up TO the time of my departure that atmos
phere was not only homeless but impure fo
my children, and in this effort and throe O
agony | would fain lift my daughters and al
, womanhood from the insidiOus and dia
bolical teachings of these latter days. HI:
3 frequent efforts to prove me insane, weak
minded, Insignificant and of mean presence
all rank in the category of heartlessness'
sel6shness and falsehOod, having its climax
{ in his present endeavor to convince the
world that am, or even have been, unable
to distinguish between an innocent and q
r guilty love. In summing up The whole
matter l affirm myself before God to be in
! nOcent of the crimes laid upon me; thai
, never have / been guilty5-of adultery with
III. w. Beecher in thought or deed. nor has
he ever offered to me an indecorous OF
improper proposal. To the further
my home by Mr.. Beecher's friends and by
> the advice of lawyer whom Mr.. Bsechel
mad sent to me, and who, in absence of my
! appearance before the committee, arranged
with me the questions and answers which
, are to constitute my testimony in Mr.
Beecher's behalf, l answer that this is agar
> untrue, having never seen the lawyer uEti
: introduced to him,
: A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE
e the arrival of the committee, by my step
father, Judge Morse, and. in further reply
/ submit the following statement of my &C
! ton before the committee, and separation
$ from my husband: The publication of MI
: Tilton's letter in answer to DIR. Bacon 1 ha
= not known of nor suspected, when OF
e Wednesday evening he brought home tn
1 Golden Age. handing it to me to read. Look
ing down its columns / saw we'll nigh wit
blushing eyes that he had put into execution
q the almost daily threat of his life, tina
. he would live to crush out Mr.. Beecher, tina
" the god of battles was in him, that he had al
a ways been Mr.. Beecher's superior and al
n that lay in his path, wife and children or rep
q utation if need be, should fall before thi
purpose. 1 did not read it / saw enoug
:, without reading. Ny spirit rose within m
: as never before? Theodore L said
" tell me what means this quotation
J. from Mr.. Beecher. Two years ag
: you came to me at midnight say
" saying. Elizabeth, all the letters aud paper
l. concerning my difficulties with MIR. Beeehe
/ and Mr.. Bowen are burned and DESTROYED
II now don't you betray me for I have moth
u ing to defend myself with" HDid you be
lieye that?'' said ne. 81 certainly did im
! plicitly,'' 1 said. ,"Well, let me tell vol
. that all live; not one is destroyed If thi
, was said to intimidate me, it had quite
n THE CONTRARY EFFECT.
IS L had never been so fearless, nor seen S
! clearly before, with whom was dealing
: Coming to me little later, he said, "I wan
4 you to read it. You will find it Yindica
e ton of yourself. You have not stood befor
/ the community for five years as you d
= now.' Reused still further by the wicked