The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-24
the garment is truth and the specks are


the falsehood.
His first letter to me was so different
from this. | read 1t to you, but will copy
II lest you have forgotten its character
April 25, 1872
My Dear Belief was sorry when met
you at Bridgeport not to have had longer
talk with you about the meeting In May.
! do not intend to make any speeches on
any topic during anniversary week. In
deed, l shall be out of town I do not
want you to take any ground this gear
except upon suffrage. You know my SYM
patty with you. Probably You and are
nearer together than any OF our family. 1
cannot give reason now. am clear; still,
you will follow your own Judgment
thank you for your letter. OF some
,ciM. For love and sympathy | am
deeply thankful. The only thing that can
be grateful to me CT useful is silence and a
silencing on all others. A day l1ay come
for converse. 1t Is not now. Living or
dead, my dear sister Belle, love me-" and |
do not talk about me or suffer Others to in |
your presence. God love and keep YOU. |
God keep us all.
Your loving brother. II. W.B.
The understanding is his own, and when |
read in that horrible story that he begged |
few hours notice that he might kill him |
self, my mind flew back to this sentence,
which suggested suicide to me the moment
l read 1t. Living or dead, my dear sis
Ter Belle, love me-" and ! believed even
that.
Now, Tom, can't you 90 to brother
Edward AT once and give him these letters
OF mine, and tel him what told you and
when you have counseled together as
brpfhprS shOull 10, 4
to me If you can. 1t looks as if he hoped
to buy my silence with my love- At pres
ent, of course, | shall keep silence, but
truth is dearer than all things else. and if
he Will not speak il in some way | cannot
always stand as consenting to,a lie. God
help us ALL"
Yours in love, BELLE.
If you cant come 10 me. send Edward
| am utterly alone, and my Heart aches for
that woman even rs for my OWE flesh and
blood. | do not understand her. hut
know her to he pure and unseIii,iI. and
l absolutely driven by some power foreign
TO herself to these strange utIcrahces,
which are always in irhalf at freedom.
purity-truth as she understands it
always to befriend the poor and outcnst.
ard bring low only the proud. ,hr hypo-
critics in high places. Tie word about
|
to the copy If you see Henry tell him of
this.
The reply to this letter by Rev. Thomas
X. Beccher to his sister is MS t,lIows. and
needs but single remark Thought of
Il good man as to the value ui testimony in
this case. l refer To tie last scnirice of
The postscript. This is l'r'diiccd, marked
"N T."
| tn
ELMIRA, Nov. 8, 1872.
Dear Delle-'To allow the devil himself
to be crushed for speaking the truth is I'M
speakably cowardly and contemplate.
respect, as at present advised, Mrs. Wood
hnll, while abhor her philosophy, against
which recorded my protest twenty years
ago and parted lovingly and achngly. }
from him saying, 1--WE cannot work TO-
gether.' He has drfied and have hard
ened like crystal ill am sliirp. cJrncrcd
and eXacting. ca;irpt nr,,, i'm except
hv prayer. cannot help ..i.a ihr,url,
Edward.
In my judgment Henry is following his
slippery doctrines of eXpeticncy. and. in
his cry of progress and the n0blcncss of
human nature. has sacrificed clear, exact,
ideal integrity. Hands or until he is
down, and then my pulpit, my home, my
church and my purse and heart are at his
service. O, the two, Woodruff is my
hero, and Henry my coward as at present
advised. But, 1protest against the whole
batch and all lis belongings. | was moi
antislavery; | was not antfamily But
as wrote years ago, whenever | assault
slavery because of its denominations. / shall
a--sii tho ohuroh. the state, the raniiiy, and
: all other institutions of self usage wi
return the papers You cannot heir
Henry You must bc true to Woodruff.
, | am out of the circle rs yet, and am gad
of it. When the storm-lne includes me,
shall suffer as Christian, saying, "Cease
We from man."
, Don't write 10 me Follow the truth
and when you need me cry out. Yours
lovingly. Signed Tom.
Il. ). | am so overworkcd and hurried
5 that see upon review that my letter sound.
| hard-because Of lis senentiousness. Bu
r believe me, dear Belle, that see and suffer
e with you. You are in II tight place. Bu
l having chosen your principles can only
counsel you TO he true and take the conse
l quences.
For years, you know, have been aparI
l from all of you, except in love- think
3 you all in the wrong as to anthrNpology
! and social science But honor and love
s them who suffer for convictions sake. NJ,
T turn to suffer will come in due time In
! this world all Christians shall suffer tribu
| lation. So eat, sleep, pray, take good aim
4 and shoot, and when the ache comes say
G even hereunto were we called. But | re
: peat-You can't help Henry at present.
p. S. unseal my letter to enclose prin
r and add: You have no proof as yet of an,
t offence on Henry's part. Your testimony
} would be allowed in no court. Tilton, wife
e. ",
Stanton can only declare hearsay. So il
3, you move, remember that YOU are standing
a on uncertain information, and we shall no
S probably ever get the facts, and Pm glaC
of it. If Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton are brough
e into court nothing will be revealed Per
G Jury. for good reason is, with advanced
' thinkers, no sin.
s 1t will be observed in the letter of Mrs
r Hooker that she speaks of having refused
y to go to Europe with her husband ant
b. that she remained at home in order to pro
G tect her brother in this emergency of hi
n life.
| A letter came into my hands with tn
! others from MI. Hooker to his wife, unde
date of Florence, Italy, November 3, 1879
which tends to show that all this matte
I had been discussed between Mr.. Hooke
$ and his wife long before the publication by
e Mrs. Woodruff. extract so much iron
n the letter as refers to this subject. The re
e mainder is Il kindly communication OF al
d absent husband to IL loved wife, abou
n wholly independent matters which hav
y nothing to do with this controversy. 1t |
c produced, marked IN 81"
Z MIR. HOOKER TO HIS WIFE.
q FLORENCE, Sunday, Nov. B. 1872.
IS My Precious Wife, hope you were no
panied by what | wrote on Friday abou
n the II. w. B. matter. | am getting muc
y more at peace about the matter, but can
y not look upon it in any other light, and it i
IS Il relief to me to speak my mind right on
h about ii and then let il rest. | could nc
1t have been easy until had sworn little
l. The only mitigation of the concealment o
o the thing that can think of is this-an,
IL | il seems To me that Some eycusn OF a