Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-09-14
M0ULT0N-S STATEMENT.
Significant Letters OF Mrs. Ifltou and


VII. Beecher.
In Moulton's last statement, following the
passage printed in Saturdays STAR quoting
Mrs. Tilton's letter written while she was sick
in bed with what she states TO have been a mis-
carriage a few days tef0re OF what promised 70
be "lOre-bGbe, you know occurs the follow
ing statement as to hitherto unpublished but
very significant letters OF two Of the principal
actors in the drama:
''within Fix weeks Of her getting off her sick
bed, arising from thst confinement, where
Beecher says she lay white IN ar bic with eyes
closed as in = trance, her hands on her bosom,
palm 70 palm, like one in prayer, she writes the
INVITATION TO BERcHER,
which / received from bis hand:
MrDsAR FRIEND: Does your heart honnd 70.
yards all ss IL use02 SO does mine. Z az RyS-G
agaS n did not dare 20 tell yoS ill vas sure, eu,
n hs- ooyensnted With me never again TO leave.
gladden. on to know his, and not 70 trouble or
imhhrrsss you 10 Gny Icdy, now write. Of Jurss
wait for the hey ond, when dear Fesnk says may
once again 60 20 old Plymouth will thank the
There can be but one meaning in these
phrases under such circumstances. al am my-
self again. did not dare 10 tell you tiH lgIs
sure, but the bird has sung in my heart these
-four Ceeks, and he has covenanted with me
never again TO leave. Spring has come,'" &c
"of course, should lake 10 share CiH y1a my
joy"
/ assume it will not be claimed that Tilton
extorted from his wife tbis letter. Was this 50
significant hint to come "when she was all
right answered? The reply to that question
will be found in two notes to Elizabeth from
Beecher, the shorter one enclosed within the
other. The first is as follows:
BBECHKR TO MRS. TILToE.
The blessing Of God rest upon youl' Every
spark Of Ii sht and warmth in your own house will
like spring fs,ci up N winter, and save me an in
ward rebound toward lite 40 one can ever know
Ssa TSsre s5 There
the barren sand there wa the alter nation Of hops
only it might lead 10 the Promised Land l-or, IN
M ses, shall die on the border, Yylr hope and
to restore aud rebnid at home, aud while doing il
to cheer and sustain outside Of it smother who s0reT
nobis as few are able to i've and in another WoTs
the emancipsted soul may utter thanks
send me letter OF true iRtca1dnsss sicJ-the out
cone Of your inner Ife-it ,cokd b safe, for am
Row At bone here with my sister, aud is permitted
you Isle and will be exceeding refreshmsLt TO
me, fer your heart experiences often Ike bread
moral nature. Msy not oh RS phrtske?
This is in Beechers handwriting, bat without
direction or signature, but the note enclosed in
pencil tells US the direction of it, as the words,
"Your note broke like spring upon winter, - tell
also TO what note it was in reply to, because that
quotes the words of Mrs. Tiltons, "Spriug has
come" asking him to "share her iOy," she
being call right now. The enclosure is on 9
slip of paper marked D (but which do not pro-
duce here, reserying it for presentation before
another tribunal.)
Was there ever q palmer case of renewal of
intimacy, TO say the least, than this? Mark also.
amid the prayers TO God contained in the longer
note Beecher's suggestion that Elizabeth cau
write him now "1cih safety" because he IS IiU
ing alone cih his siSter-f. e., has toife is d1cdyr
WHAT Mr.. BEECRER's COUNSEL SAY OF TgK
NEW CHARGES,
The latest statement of Mr.. Noulton is the
signal for a new start for the reDortoriai inter
viewers OF the New York and Brooklyn press.
and to sally forth to make a bUttou-hOldlng
raid on the Tom, Dick and Harrys of Brooklyn
Heights, in order to learn their views on the
Plymouth moral mud-throwiDg.
A reporter of the Brooklyn n. W Eagle
called on Mr. Tracy, enc of Mr.. Beecher',
counsel, on Saturday, with the special object to
obtsin an explanation of that portion OF sir
Moulton's state temeBt in which he charges Mr..
Beecher with adultery with a woman other than
Mrs. TiltOn. Mr.. Tracy said the lady referred
to by Mr.. Monitor is Mrs. Edna Dean Proctor,
and the publication of her letter by MOulton is
ore of the most atrociOus and iamuiup ont.
RACES that he had ever known 10 be perpetrsted
The lady referred TO had a business difficllrv
with MIR. Beecher fourteen years ago, and out
of that difficulty there was a very sharp and
angry correspondence on ber part with MT
BeeCheT. She spoke harshly and severely OF
him TO others-to her friends; but Mr.. Beech.
er's letters showed that she had misapprehended
his action, ard lille she accepted his explana-
tions and resumed friendly relations VITA him.
she never quite felt that she hal not been
wrOnged in that matter. This note, which H.
now published relates to that matter and 70
that only; and was a simple statement that she
entertained q fourteen years atterward, when the
toward Mr.. Beecher, growing out OF that trans
action.
The note itself clearly shows that it could have
no reference to such transaction as it IS now
brought forward for and used by MIR. Moulton
Mr. Beecher turned this lady's private letters
with others, over TO Moulton for safe-keeping
and now MOultsn attempts to wrest it from its
true meaning and TO make it evidence to prove
a transaction which never existed, and which
never had any foundation in fact. No imPro-
per relations ever existed between this lady aud
ReacheT.
pecially intimate terms. The friends OF this
lady, some days ago, hearing of the use MIR
Moulton was about 70 make OF this letter. caused
to be made TO him afull explanation OF its mean
ing; and Mr. Beecher's correspondence, which
occurred IL years ago. relating TO this matter
and fully explaining it. was shown TO MIR. Moul-
tons intimate and confidential friend, aud the
injustice and outrage OF such a use as is now
made of that note was clearly pointed out 60
him. That this information was conveyed to
Moulton, and that he fully understood it, his
own statement clearly shows, because he refers
to the efforts OF bis friends to save her from this
great outrage, and that he knew and under
ton TO conceive of a crime blscker than the one
Moulton has committed on thi lady.
MR.. MoULToH ON CHANGE
Mr. MoBlton, in the course OF Saturday after
noon went to the New York produce exchange,
and was Immediately surrounded by a pumerous
crowd, all anxious to see person who had
gained so much notoriety. He seemed to have
good many friends on the floor, and yet there
were not few others who thought il would
have been quite rs we'll if, at such a conjunc-
ture, he had kept himself in the hack ground.
ABATToIRs FOR CITIKs.-The sanitary CON-
mittee Of the New York board Of health has re-
oemme nded the board to take the necessary pre-
lminaIy steps toward the removal of the busi-
ness OF slaughtering from the city limits, and
the concentration thereof in suitable location,
and in properly constructed buildings. The
proposed ordinance in relation 70 the sub
1ect is not TO 60 into effect until some dist ant
day, probably July 4th, 1876, and will REQUIRE
the business OF slsughterins to be carried on 10