The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-27

SN' A0No bOuBut W give GuhaDeI
a good character; I have always wante
TO do 30. ! think she deserves a goo
character / think she is better tha
most OF us-better than l am. l do nc
believe, In poiEt OF actual moral goodness
barring some drawbacks, there is 10 thi
company 80 white soul as Elizsbeth't
z. Did you not so state in substance +
one Or more OF the gentlemen with WHOM
you were lunChingI
a. In substance, yes, and / state
now, but did use the phrase "that sh,
had never violated her chastity"
g Did you mot say she was pureI
q Did you not use expressions which
you Intended 10 be understood as mean.
ing the purity Of the woman!
A. | did exactly. There are man,
ways In which you can produce such al
impression, and have written this state,
ment 10 produce the same result.
MIR. Itlton was next examined In relO.
uon to Wilkeson's statement, and explic.
lily contradicted several points therein
stating that the conversation between
himself and Wilkeson was about Bowen
whose charges against Beecher It was de
sired shosld be withdrawn. Witness ex
pressed gladness 70 have this done, for he
thought every charge against Beechel
endangered his wife. When the paper wal
brought to him to sign II; It was o com,
pliment to Beecher, q rose colored state.
ment in which witness was to look up to
Beecher with fllial respect; he said ~
won't sign 1t to the end OF the world
and cut out q lew lines and wouldn't use
them; II Wilkeson communicates the i'm.
preston that witness ever wanted money
from Beecher It is false; Beecher has
communicated through Moulton requests
to witnessto be assisted by him, but he
would not take cent Of Beecher's money
II he suffered from hunger or thirst, and
said that II, directly or Indirectly,
Moulton had communicated 10 him
any Of Beecher's money It would break
their friendship. Witness complaints to
Wilkeson were that Beecher had been
unjust, not that he had not helped him.
Witness relations and feelings toward
Beecher since January /, 1871, when he
made the apology, down TO the time when
the Church began to put out It's right
hand and TO take witness by the throat,
were friendly. They were friendly In the
sense that we were-not in collision with
each other, but they were not those Of
friendship. Witness had taken Beecher's
apology and given his word that he
would not have him exposed.
Q. Is 1t your sentiment that 1t Is an
offence for which one man can apologize
TO anotherp "
A. l know there is q code of honor
among gentleman. Aman cannot condone
such an offence, but l can't see what OF.
fence q man can't lorgivewhere an apology
ls made BY the person committing 1t 10
the person against whom 1t Is committed;
II man believes In Christian religion he
ought to. l sometimes iorgsve and some.
times didn't I do not know the line Of
difference.
Q. Is that your handwriting (showipg
slip oil paper on which was written III.
W. g., grace, mercy and peace, Sunday
muEllDgi i. ~ .i|
A. l remember that; one morning Mr..
Beecher met me in the street and told me
how much pleasure it gave him; / have
sent kindlier things than that 10 him. =
Q. Did you feel as you spoke9
A. did. Mr.. Moulton said two or
three times, "Mr. Beecher is in great de-.
preston Of spirits; can't you do something
to cheer him up once more" l walked to
church with him. In many circumstances
| manifested feelings OF kindness toward
him. II would be lie for me to say / had
q warm friendship for Mr.. BRecher, and
that l ielt as kindly to him as fthe offence
had not been committed. III had been
man morally great l would have blot.
ted 1t out and trodden it under foot. l
was competent, to forgive in q large de.
gree. ] torgave him in my best moods,
but at other times did not. am not q
very large man. In reply TO the inquiry
whether Mrs. Woodruff came frequently
to his house, and whether his wife didn't
protest against her presence there, witness
said that Mrs. Woodruff was three times
at his house, once 10 meet Mr.. Beecher,
MIR. Moulton made that interview, it must
have been in 1871 or 1873.
Mrs. Woodruff and her husband came 10
see the witness, and his vile expressed
Indignation against the woman. He
told her Mrs. Woodruff was too dan.
gerous q woman, and that TOO much
ol the welfare Of the family depended
on her: He told his vile the way to
get along with her, and prevent this
coming out, was to keep friendly with
her. It was fatal policy, but seemed
the only thing they could do. The
mistake was in not being friend.
ly to Blood instead Of Mrs
Woodruff. That was the blum
der. His wife always felt that the
policy was mistaken one Of trying to
do anything Tor Mrs. Woodruff. She
objected violently to his writing a sketch
OF Mrs. Woodruff. Read part Of 1t TO
her. Mrs. Woodhull's husband wrote a
biography, and wanted witness to re.
write it, because his style was more vivid.
Witness wife said she thought he would
rue the day. She was far wiser than he
was.
Q, When you say that in December,
1871, differences arose between Tilton
and Bowen, which were augmented 'by
Beecher and Mrs. Beecher, in conse.
quence whereof, and OF the wish OF Mrs.
Tilton, expressed in writing in a paper
put 10 the hands Of Moulton, WHY do Won
say 1t was in consequence Of that DIM
Guilty being augmented by Mr.. and Mrs,
Beecher that this letter was written or
this writing made.
A. Elizabeth saw that Bowen and [
were in collision. She was afraid that
the collision would extend to Beecher
and me, and she wished me, il possible to
make peace with him; that peace could
be brought about only by his knowing
what knew oi his relations with MIS-,
Tilton, therefore she wrote Q womaply
and kindly letter to him. don't remem.
Der the phrase. / remember onlv one
phrase; 1t was peculiarly hers. She sald
she loved her husband, her maiden
flame MIR. Moulton can probably recall
the whole phraseology.
q What Wgs the Rnhstance oF That