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

patient continuance in well doing, {,
put to shame those who falsely accus'
me-" must put down and preacl
down those troubles. OF course Il
my dismal moods felt as though th,
earth had come to an end. Now il
interpreting these wide spread letter,
every body Is irTesistably tempted Il
suppose and believe things said wa.
said narrowly in regard 10 this text
instead Of considering the foregoing
state OF anguish, whereas my utter
ances were largely 10 be interpreted
by the intent % well as BY the presen
and future. Icannot interpret precisel,
az Q note of hand or . check. A maj
that Is poetical, is man oftentimc
exiravagant man that is subject :,
m00ds such ss mako me what 1 am
cannot narrowly measure his word
and get from this writing of over fou
years, in every conceivable condition
in this large correspondence, proceed
ing from q mind speaking in hypothet
ical moods aud In oil manner Of state
about everybody and everything. On
OF this mass they have got only thres
or four equivOcal things, devices thai
did not refer to me but to him and hi
whole stvle Of action.
Q.-Theodore said he was for war
and Moulton said be wss TOO. Prob.
ably hone for diplomacy?
A.-Yes.
Q.-He (Moulton) was the manager
Of this matter?
Ayes; hc represented himself al.
ways Is having all the ruin in his
hands, aud such power, that II the
worst should come to the worst, be
could compel settlement. He init.
mated to me time and again that he
had such materials in his hands re.
specting Tiiton. that, as he said once
" If Theodore does not do as say, III
grind him to powder"
Q-(By Mr.. Winslow.) The happi.
ness of the tu,ure, I understand, VA
to her the settlement and burial OF thu
scandal? @
A.-No. It was neither. II refer
red to plans BY which Tilton Was Il
get someihins TO do, got some prais,
for It and bo content. 4
Q-The devices, did that refer TO al
the plans and arrangements and stspi
that had been taken. 4
Alt referred to tho steps taken,
thus had / been left - manage thia
matter, simply myself I should have
said yes. or no, that would have been
the whole Of Il, but instead Of lhse the
matter went into Moulton's hands and
AOult0n's man that loves intrigue.
Gle had "condoned his wlfe'l
fault" What did yon mean by this7
A-Condoued, has . legal and . gen.
eral meanisg, but 1 used the word a. 4
literary man would use it and not O. 4
lawyer. II used Il in legal phrase.
ology, the word would have been On
but NO fault.
Q-In giving the word fault do you
refer to some particular act of Mrs.
Nltons7
A. I refer to complaints he made
in general In respect to her. You
know perfectly what was the impres-
sion conveyed to me from the begin
ming to the end, and that was that
had stoleu into his home, and that
had taken advantage Of the simplicity
OF his wife and stolen her affection to
myself and away from him?
@. Aud do you mean to say that
you had that in your mind when yon
used the word fault?
A. I supp0se did.
@. You cay In the same letter he
had enjoined upon you most earnestly
and sOlemnly mot to betray his WIFE,
in what respect2
A-Not to betray his whole difficult
ty into which his house had been
caught. Cousider how 1t il. IappeAl
to every sensible man and cultured
nature in the world IL any greater evil
can befall than have woman. wife
and mother made the subject of evil
investigation as II respects her moral
character; for no greater harm can be.
fall woman than 70 be talked shout
from house to house with descriptions
as 70 grade aud probable nature of Of
fense and everything about it
Next to stabbing woman dead IL Ia
talk about her virtue, and IL the pub.
lie suppose that In order to unravel
the import of those letters must refer
to vulgar phrassoloey, then they arc
living on a plane on which l do not
live. You must remember I wai
aware that In addition TO the trouble
my name, Tilt0n had also,
in fits OF his jealOusy accused his wife
Of criminal intimacy with several
gentlemen of whom I was not one
and had ascertained, or pretended to,
that all her children excepts i've,
were children Of these gentlemen re-
spectively. In his decent moods he
was very anxious to havc such accusa.
tiOns unknown. To the world, the
mere rumor Of them, would cast an
ineffacabie blight upon his children.
Nothing would have induced mo to
make this explanation but that Tiltop
has deliberately chosen the cast q
blight Of precisely the Same kind up
ON those very children, by his subse
queut course, and oil that II left to mc
is to speak OF tho abominable accusa-
ti0n with . scorn which . horrible
falsehQod deserves.
Q-You can refer to some points
which have already bsen considered
for moment. You said II have q
strange feeling upon mo that / an
spending my last Sunday and prsach-
ing my iaee Sermon Did you refer q
the same condition OF health aud mind
that you have described? !?
AL refer 70 the flct. simply, that y was my
state of MIND dnx1ne the grese Gonbie. oathouGh q
you collect a4 the lsnguase have a.ed q ssEioo.
ws!lowed " : - Of oiunpAsallillsd dtaayeaa ha1e
had stormy days and have eallerod moSe from thll
than proeanU al other cassea ~ NJ NE rat g.
getheF. Taken for years together have bad more
reliG0ua ptQuea and 0oto QFutognd Into tn
wantI md .onertn0 ot nen: elnce have become
acqoalnted nth tloune I'D Despair naxe I'D -
e r ,ss ss scs @ g cesslis I've Y:
had e 60 through % get p n y z. o. NOT. true
preosed atrunG dogtre that tho troubles OF hii
fnmilJ should not bo known, and this was AWAY
hfs mood except whan 10 fell into sfrauS(
mania. There were times when be was very fe6r
fol that ne would = sollsce e bling ont. q hax,
somebody o!tng oIs scsndaioQs ssory oo hls fam
he 90 magnsninous as still TO stay at home an
1--we with his Wtfe.
Q-Aere comes clause In which ron exprss
profound confidence In A0uitont ndolity. Doo
tAaa Cofrscsiy reprssant your own fpettnSf
J Alt does, although Aoulton VA
mot the man that should select.
thought that in that ono particular Q
fldeiity to friends he was most remark
able. ] was never mot BY An amour
Of anxiety he was not willing 10 on
counter and by doing work which
suppose was moro agreeable to hin
than 80 y1na thai 4 ~ sAafunv dyffnyep