Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-08-20

band sends for the pastor that be may
hesr it from her own lips. He comes
and she tells why she said 50, and
then deniee the truth Of 1t, and the
pastor rctires.
Tilton don't talk to him, don't offer
to chastiae him or even beratc him for
his conduct. What means all this
Why we should naturally infer It was
for the purpose OF preparing way
with hush money, or the influence of
that pastor, his good Offices In behalf
of that husband. to bnild q bridge for
that pastor to walk over out of such a
scrapc. At all events 1t seems to be
way entirely foreign to the course
which a really injured man would
adopt. II is about as incxplicablo ae
Mr.. Tilton's sworn statement that he
found Mr.. Bcechcr and Mrs Tilton at
QUO time closetcd in her sleeping apart
mont, and still Mrs. Elton explained
the matter SO fully that he (Tilton) was
entirely satisfied, and yet he all
the while knowing tina. she was SO
peculiarly yielding in her nature
Commencing with that interview with
Mrs. Tilton, brought about, VIC believe
by the well laid plan Of Tilton and
MoultoD, Mr.. Beecher began the tenn
porizing which has drawn him into y
net work of circumstances run.
ming through four years, aud which
will forever render il impossible
for him Or his friends to avoid the re-
suit, that there will be tens of thous-
ands in the country who will believe
In his guilt, while other tens ofthous-
ands will distrust his Innocence, and
yet on the other hand there will be
other hundreds of thousands who will
have full faith in his virtue aud honor.
After that interview he simply made q
wrong decision in our view. He was
Immediately, approached by MouIton
az a peace maker. Mr.. Beecher then
must hsyc reasoned as follows: Tilton
is;a strong man, he has great power to
enforce his side of the case before the
public--his wife has confessed to him
of improper conduct on my part, and
though denied by her to me, she is his
wife and under his influence The
scandal at best If told will injure mo
greatly, ii will uproot tho foundations
of tho great church over which / pre-
side. Moulton offers the olive branch
and secrecy and quiet, and says II can
be forever buried. 4Beecher accepts
this course, and had the result been in
fact an honest burial Of the matter, his
choice would have been the correct one.
With honest men il, would have been
the true, the right. the christian course,
hut he failed to rightly estimate the
character Of the actors in this matter
Then followed the solemn agreement
to bury it. Afterwards came Mr..
Beccher's endeavors to aid Triton, and
the latter's kind words and renewal Of
old friendships with Beecher. Beech
or aids Tilton with money through
Mention, peace is agreed upon in the
family of Tilton, and for four years
they live together. Tiltons free-love
habits still cling to him, and he does
not succeed pecunisrily. Finally he
leaps the bounds Of common scnse, Of
deccncy, Of the lowest instincts Of the
comfnOnest humanity, and pours forth
voluntarily oyer the wide world that
simeon which burns to crisp wher-
ever its cruel tale is believed, the char
acter Of his wife and the happiness Of
his children. and added to this spreads
an immoral pest throughout the nation.
It is alleged that he could mot rest un-
der the imputations that were being
cast upon him in connection with the
stories abroad. Was not Mr.. Beechcr,
q man foreign 70 his family relations,
bearing the burden? But over and
above all this, what father worthy Of
the nsma will blast the lives of his
children to allay idle talk aflost
against himself? But has he allayed
its No. and he must have known
he could not. We arc forced to the
conclusion that hc cast to the winds
the chastity Of his wife, the good name
and happiness of his children, to tear
down one Of the greatest and most no.
ted divines in the land. What but
s'free love 2" what but the growth and
practice for years of the beastly doc
trine of indiscriminate indulgence in
the passions, which he avowed eight
years ago, could have led Theodore
Tilton to curse the world, his own pro-
geny and himself, as he has done in
the past six weeks of his ife2
The Spirit Of the Times Of this city
in its issue of August 4th quotes an
article from some anti-monop paper
and credits it to the Sigourney Nescs,