The daily Argus., 1874-07-23
TILToNs STORY CONCLUDED,


OTHER LETTERS OF MRS. TILToN. -,
Mrs. Tilton followed above letter Will
these: ,.,a
July 4, lS7I.--Oh my dear husband
may you never need the discipline oi peins
mislead by good woman as was Wy
good man.
would mourn greatly if my life was t
he made known to father. His head would
be bowed indeed to the grave.
No date:
Do not think my ill-heath is on account
of my sin and its discovery. My sins and
life.record Ihave carried to my Savior. NO
my prostration is owing to the suffering L
have caused you.
wooDHuLL's DISCLOSURES.
F1urteenM-That about one year after
Mrs. Tilton's confession, and about halt-a:
wear after Mr. Beecher's confirmation Of
the same, Mrs V. G. Woodruff then a
total stranger to Tilton, save that he had
been presented to her in the company OF
friends few days previous, wrote in the
World Monday, May %, 1871, the follow
ing statement, namely:
| know of one man, public teacher OF
eminence, who lives in concubinage with the
wife of another public teacher Of almost
equal eminence All three concur in de
nouncing offences against morality | shall
make it my business to analyze some Of
these lives (Signed),
VIcToRIA G. WooDHULL,
New York, May 20, 1871.
wOODHULL TO TILTON
On the day Of the publication OF the
above card in the Wor7d 1ilton received
from Mrs. Woodruff request to call, on i'm
perative business, at her office, and on going
thithcr a copy of the above card was put
into his hand by Mrs. Woodruff, who said
that the rarties referred to therein were
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and the
wife of Theodore Tilton.
Following this announcement Mrs. W oOd.
hull detailed to Tilton, with vehement
speech, the wicked and injurious story
which she published in the year following.
Meanwhile, Tilton, desiring to guard against
temptation to Mrs Woodruff TO publish
the grossly distorted version which she
gave to Tiiton, and which she afterwards
attributed to him, sought by many person
al attentions to influence her to such good
will towards himself and family as would
remove all disposition or desire in her to
afflict him with such publication. Tilton 5
effort and association with Mrs. Woodhull
ceased in April, 1872, and six months at
terwards, namely: Nov. ,, 1872, she pub.
lished the scandal, which he had laborcd
to suppress.
fVteenh-That on the third day there
after, the Rev Thomas *. Beecher, of Ell
myra, \. Y, wrote as follows:
ELMYRA, Nov. 3, 1872.
Mrs. Woodruff only carries out Henry s
philosophy, against which | recorded my
protest twenty years ago
THE TRIpARTITE AGREEMENT.
,Srteenh-That in May 1873, the pub
lication by one Of Beecher's partners Of a
trpartite covenant between II. G. Bowen,
H. W. Beecher, and Theodore Titon led
the press of the country to charge that
Tilton had committed against Beecher
some heinous wrong which Beeeher had
pardoned, whereas the truth was the re
verse.
BEECHER HOPELESS.
To remedy this false impression, Mr..
Moulton requested Beecher to prepare a
suitable card relieving lilton Of this in
Justice In answer to this request Beecher
pleaded his embarrassments, which pre-
vented his saying anything without bring
ing himself under suspicion. Titon then
proposed to prepare a card of his own, con
tanning few lines from the recently quot
ed apology, for the purpose Of showing
that Beechcr, instead of having occasion
to forgive TiIton, had occasion to be for
,,,ro, k,, hin, Raoolnr than ,rr,ta LOT
ter to Mouton, which, on being shown to
tons feeling Beecher said in it, under
date of Sunday morning, June |, 1873:
Ny DEAR FRANK; | am determined to
make no more resistance. Theodore 5
temperament is such that the future, even
if temporarily earned would be absolutely
worthless, and rendering me liable at any
hour of the day to be obliged to stultify
all the de 7ices by which we saved our
selves. 1t is only fair that he should know
that the publication Of the card which he
proposes would leave him worse off than
before. The agreement, viz: The 1ri-
partile Covenant, was made after my let
ter through you to him, viz; The Apollo
gy was written lie had it a year. lie
had condoned his wife 5 fault. lie had en-
joined upon NE with the utmost earnest
ness and solemnity not to betray his wife
nor leave his children to a blight.
With such man as I. I. there is no pos
sible salvation for any that depend upon
him. With a strong nature, he does not
know how to govern it. d.
There is no use trying further. | have a
strong feeling upon me, aud it brings
peace, that | am spending my last Sunday,
and preaching my last sermon.
TILToN ADMoNIsHED.
The hopelessness of spirit which the
fore going letter portrayed on the part of
its writer, led Titon to reconsider the
question of defending himself at the cost
OF producing misery to Beecher, which de-
termination by Tilton, to allow the pre-
vailiDg calumDies against himself to 90 Oun-
answered, was further strengthened by
the following note received by him two
days thereafter from the office of the ed
itor Of Beecher journal:
12S EAST TWELFTH STREET, june T. 1873
My DEAR THEODORE: May | tell you
frankly that when | saw you last you did
not seem to me 10 be the noble young man
who inspired my warm affection so many
years ago? You were yielding to an act
which | could not help thinking would be
dishonorable and peTflious, and, although
II is easy for NE TO make every allowance
for circumstances that had wrought YOU to
such frenzy, | was dreadfully shocked.
My dear Theadore, let me, as an old
friend, whose heart is wrung by your ter
rible suffering and sorrow. tell YOU that
you were then acting ignobly, and that You
safas. I'm