Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-19


As look back upon it the picture is
like some forms carved in marble that
had seen upon monuments in Eu
rope. She made no motion, and gave
no sign of recognition of my presence.
! sat down near her and said ELIZA
beth, Theodore has been making very
serious charges against me, and sends
me to you for confirmation" She
made no reply or sign, yet it was plain
that she was conscious and listening.
repeated some of his statement that
| had brought discord to the family;
that | had alienated her from him
that had sought to break up the fam
ilv and usurped his influence; and
then, a4 well as | could, ! added that
he said | made improper suggestions
to her and that she had admitted this
fact to him last July. said, Elizabeth
have YOU made such statements to
Linn ?n She made no answer. Ire
peated the question.
Tears ran down her cheeks and she
very slightly bowed her head in acqui-
essence. Isaid, "you can not mean
thar YOU have stated all he has chaTg-
ed She opened her eyes aud began
in slow and feeble way to explain
how sick she had been how wearied
out with opportunities that he had
confessed his own fallen loves and said
that he could not bear 10 think that
she was better than he that she might
win him to reformation if she would
confess that she had loved me more
than him, and that they would repent
and go on with future concord. | can
not give her language but only the
tenor of her representations. | receiv-
ed them impatiently. | spoke to her
in the strongest language other course.
| said to her, Have ever made any
improper advances to you?" She said
MOI l then asked, Why did you
say so to your husband ?n She seemed
deeply distressed. MY friend (by
that designation she always called
mel. | am sorry but could not help
it. What can do?n / told her she
could state in writing what she had
now told me. She beckoned for her
writing materials, which l handed to
her rom her secretary standing near
by, and she sat up in bed and wrote a
brief statement.
MRS. TILTON's WRITTEN DENIAL.
In a sort of postscript she denied ex-
picitly that l had ever offered any inn
proper solicitation to her, that being
the only charge made against me by
Mr.. Tilton, or sustained by the state
ment about the confession which he
had read to me. | dreamed of no
worse charge at that time. That was
horrible enough.
Mr.. Beecher denies all confessions
of guilt or remorse, and says:
Is it likely that with Mr.. Tilton's
retraction in my pocket | should have
thus stultified myself.
essays that when Tilton and Moul-
ton learned that he had Mrs. Tilton's
retraction the latter called upon him.
He says:
Moulton eXpostulated with me, and
| said that retraction under the circum'
| stances would not mend matters, but
| only awaken fresh discoTd between
! husband and wife and do great injury
| to Mrs. Tilton without helping me
| Mrs. Tilton, he said, had already re-
canted in writing the retractiOn made
to me, and Of course there might be nc
end to such contradictions.
Meanwhile Mr.. Tilton had destroy, &
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the confession, and Mr.. Moulton claim
ed that | had taken mean advan-
tage and made dishonOrable use o
| TheodOrs's request that / should visit
her, in OBTAINING from her written
contradiction to a document not in eX
istence. He said that all the Difficult
ties could be settled without any sucf
paper, and that ought to give it up
He was under great excitement. HI
made no verbal tire ITS, but he opened
his overcoat and with some emphatic
remarks showed pistol which after
ward he took out aud laid on the bu
reau near which he stood. l gave tn,
paper to him, and after few moment
talk he left.
Within day or two after this Mr.
Moulton made me third visit, ant
this time we repaired to my study II
the third story of my house.
Before giving the result of thi
last interview, he reviews what hat
happened; how Tilton's home ha
been broken up, how Mrs. Tilton ha
! stated and recanted charges agains
! him, believing that Tilton iutende
1 publicly charging him with this crime
. and that Mrs. Tilton's statemer
: would accompany it, denied only h
: his own word. He was gloomy an
n morbid. In this condition, Moulto
called and pictured Tiiton's conditio
: of misery, and as Beecher's friend ~
II cused him as responsible for 1t. Hel
the story ends las far as we now have
II before US, aud here we infer comes
= Beechers statements 10 Moultol
,e which he has treacherOusly paraded
the world. A later Geographic sun
'e mary tells us that Beecher takes I
these letters one by one aud explain
them, satisfactorily, we infer, from Il
ID opinions of the New York journal
$ which we give elsewhere.
! The Scandal at Saratoga.
n A New York Sun corresponds
Dr. writes as to the Beecher-Tilton scand
IN 10 Earatpua Tho f,llntUiuO l. rot "a