Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-28

| MY. MOUltOn Inen HiNeb n Iull nlbtOfy
claim against Bowen, Of the Independent, for
damages for cancellation Of the contract for edi-
torial services, and the eettlement Of that claim
by arbitrators, reenting In the payment TO Tilton
! OF $1,000. After the above settlement the paper
known as the "tripartite agreement" was signed
! by Bowen and Tilton, and subsequently by
Beecher.
In the form in which It was hrst drawn it
bound the parties 20 say nothing Of any wrong
done ofense committed by Beecher, and fully
| exonerated him therefrom After Bowen had
signed IL, Il was handed to Tilon to sign, and he
refused He was willing to sign an sgrecment
never to repeat again the charges Of Bowen, say
ing that, II for ro other reason, ifthe matter
should thereafter ever come TO light, II would ap
| pear that there had been something between
Beecher and Mrs. Titon, and It might be used as
evidence TO the injury of himself and family, as
well as Of Beecher, and, therefore it.was not for
the interest of either Tilton Beecher to sign II
| From tho tlmo OF the tripartite covenant moth
| Ing occurred TO disturb the relations between
until the publication in Woodruff d OtqainI
| Weekly Of the elaborate story concerning the
eial relations between Beecher, Titon and Mrs
| Tilton. After that publication appeared Il again
came to the knowledge Of Beecher that Bowen
wac making declarations derogatory to his char
| tripartite covenant which was done by Samuel
Wfkeson. Beecher was not a party to Its pub
lcation, nor knew anything about II:
Another curious complication OF the relations
of the parties arose from the publication by Mrs.
teE pube that M Isabella Beeobe
Hooker, the sister of Beecher, had espoused the
cause Of Mrs. Woodruff on the question OF
! ther OF adopting her social tenets. Beechers re-
lations TO Mrs filton had been communicated to
| her. This had been made subject of communi-
| cation from Mrs Hooker to her brother and, after
| the publication by Mrs. Woodruff, Mrs Hooker
| addressed the famous letter to her brother, in
which she implored him to con1de the whole
| truth to her.
Then follows the letter from Rev Thomas X.
| Beecber to Mrs. Hooker, in which he says that
be respected Mrs. Woodruff but abhorred her
philosophy, and that she was only carrying out
! g Henry's philosophy, against which recorded
/ protest twenty and nartnd loving
| ly and achingly from him, saying: We cannot
| work together He has drifted and l have
hardened like crystal till am sharp-cornered
Mr.. Moulton saw Mr.. Beecher conversed about
| these etters at various times, and Beecher said
he was apprehensiye that his sister, in her anx.
iety that he should do his duty in presenting this
truth as she ~ n9derstood IT. and In projecting
published the truth, from which she was then
suffering, suffering, would go Into TO- his pulpit and
| cation was substantially true. Moulton suggested
that he should see Mrs. Hooker, speak to her
kindly, and exhort her not to take this course;
and that Tilton should see her, and so far shake
her confidence in the truth of the story as to In
duce her to doubt whether she would be safe in
making the statement public. In this
| Beecher agreed, and such arguments and induce
ments were brought to bear upon Mrs Hooker
which would have certainly brought
on an exposure Of the whole business. During
| the consultations between Beecher and Moulton
as to the means of meeting Mrs. Hookers inton-
tions, no suggestion was ever made on the part
of Beecher that his sister was then, or had been
| at any other time, insane. Beecher was exceed
ingly anxious that Tilton should repudiate the
statement published by woodRpll, and denounc-
ing her for its publication.
Beecher asked Moulton to say to Tilton sub
! etantally: Theodore may for his own purpose,
! come upon him on account of his dismissal from
the Union and the Independent; and on account
of the offense which committed against him he
| may take the position against me and Bowen that
he does. Yet the fact Is that his advocacy Of
Mrs Woodruff and her theories has done him
the injury which prevents his rising. Now, in
order to get support from me and from Plymouth
Church, and in order to obtain the sympathy OF
| the whole community, he must publish card de-
nyingthe allegations of Mrs. Woodruff, and un-
less he does it he cannot RISE" He also said the
came thing to Tilton in Moulton's presence.
To this Tilton answered, in substance, to Beech
er: I" You know why sought Mrs. Woodhulls
acquaintance. 1t was to save my family and
yours from the consequences of your acts, the
facts about which had become known to her
They have now been published, and will not de-
nounce that woman to save you from the conse-
quences of what you yourself have done"
After Moulton had carried to Mr.. Tilton the
paper of apology which referred to Beecher's
adultery and had received assurances that all
between Tilton and Beecher should be kept
Suiet MoaIton conveyed the e., Information TO to
thankfulness and gratitude.
Mr.. Moulton here states that Mrs. Morse, the
mothersin-law of Mr.. Tilton, who was from time
to time an inmate of his family in Livingston
street bad as r,t he had been info informed ned both by
Beecher and herself and who could not under
stand Why that matter bad been settled, and who
who had had most bitter quarrel with Tilton,
accusing him of not hayng SO carried his affairs
called upon Beecher about the relations between
Tton and Mrs, 'Iilton and who had, as Beecher
had informed him (Moultonl filed the minds Of
Mrs. Beecher and himself with stories Of Tilton's
inhdelity and improper conduct to his wife,wrotea
beb ssr Mfs psSs Of the in in
Mr. Tilton's family, and especially of neglect and
want endured by Mrs. T. She says:
Neither Mrs b., yourself, nor i can have
done anything to ameliorate her condition. She
has been for the last three weeks with one very
Indifferent girl. T.. has sent the others away,
leaving my sick and distracted child to care for
all four children, night and day, without fires In
the furnace, or anything like comfort or nourish-
ment in the house. She has not seen any one.
He says she is mourning for her SIM II this be
so, one twenty-iour hours under this sheet
however heinous. know that any change in
his affairs would bring more trouble upon
moment mot when 1 asked Mrs. B. as to your cali
there, supposing she knew it, Of course, as she
said you would not go there without her. Twas
if there was any. You say, keep quiet have all
through her married life done so, and we now
our error (sic). 1t has brought him to destruc-
tion, made me utterly miserable, turned me from
a comfortable home, and brought his own family
to beggary don't believe ii his honest debts
were paid, he would have enough TO buy their
breakfast (sc) This she could endure, and thrive
under, but the publicity he has given to this re-
taken the life out of her. l know of twelve per-
sons whom he has told, and they in turn have
told Others had thought we had as much as we
could live under front his neglect and ungoyerna-
BILE temper. But this is the death-blow TO us
both, and doubt not Florence has hers. Do you
know when hear of your cracking your jokes
from Sunday to Sunday, and think of the misery
you have brought upon us think with the
Psalmist, There is no Cod Admitting all he
says to be the invention of his halEdrunken BRAIN
still the effect upon us Is the same for all. He be-
faFOat ofh niplt Il
extremity to pray for her release from all suffer
ing, by Gods taking her to himself for If there is
q Heaven know she'll go there. The last time
she was in his house she said Here feel have
no home, but on the other side know shall be
heart bleeds over you in thinking Of your suffer
ing. Can you do anything in the matteIf Must
she live in this suffering condition of mind and
body, with no alleyiationI Sir, you or any
one else who advises her to live with him when he
doing ali he can to kill her BY slow torture s
the least you could do was to put your name 10
paper to help reinstate my brother in the Custom
House; Elizabeth was as disappointed as my
self. He1s still without employment with sick
wife and five children to feed behind with rent,
and everything else behindhand. If your wife
has adopted Lib (sic), or you sympathiZe with
her, pray you do something for her relief before
IL is too late. He swears so soon as her breath
leaves her body he win make the whole thing pub
lie, and this prospect think is one thing which
keeps her living. l know of no other. She's
without nourishment (sic) for one in her state,
and in want, actual want. They would both
deny it, no doubt, but it's true"
In reply to the foregoing Mr.. Beecher writes
short letter which contains the following: MY
course toward you hitherto should satisfy you
thatI have eympathized with your distress, but
Mrs. Beecher and 1, after full Consideration, arc
of one mind, that, under the present circum-
stances, thegreatest kindness 10 you and TO all
will be- in SO far as we are concerned, to leave to
time the reetidcation Of all the wrongs, whether
they prove real or imaginary" .
Mr. Moulton says he properly omits the
name of the young girl in the expression by Miss
Morse that "Tilton has sent -, with the others,
away" and adds that "the reason why ii was de-
sirablo she should he away from Brooklyn, as
given me by Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton, was this: She
had overheard conversation by them concerning
Mrs. Iiton's criminal Intimacy with Beecher
and she had reported these conversations to
several friends Of the family. Being young,