The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-06

all the documents, notes and memoranda
which you and Mr.. Tilton have entrusted
to me have been so entrusted because they
had q reference to your mutual differ.
ences. 1hold no papers, either Of yours
or his, except such as bear on this
case. You speak Of memoranda Of
affairs not Immediately connected with
the Tilton matter. You probably sllude
hese to the memoranda OF your Difficult
ties with Mr.. Bowen. But these have
direct reference 10 your present case with
Tilton, and were deposited with me by
you because OF such references. Yon
speak also Of letter or two from your
brother and sister, and l am sure you
have not forgotten the apprehensions
which we asccrtained lest Mrs. Hooker
should fulfill a design which she fore.
Swallowed, to invade your pulpit and
read the confession OF your intimacy
with Mrs Tilton. You speak Of other
papers which l hold Subject 10 your
wishes" hold none such, nor do hold
any subject TO Mr.. Tilton's wishes. The
papers which hold, both yours and his,
were not given to be subject to the wishes
OF either OF the parties, but the very OBJ
ject Of my holding them has been, and
still IS, to prevent the wish Of one party
from being injuriously exercised against
the other. You arc in error In saying
Tillon has had access 10 my depository OF
materials. On the contrary ! have re-
fused Mr.. Tilton such access. During the
preparation OF his sworn statement he
came TO me and said his case would be
incomplete unless l permitted him the use
oil all the documents; but l refused, and
oil he could rely upon were such notes as
he had made from time to time from
writings Of yours which you had written
me to be read to him and passages Of
which he caught from my lips in short
hand. Mr.. Tilton has seen only a part Of
the papers In my possession, and would
be more surprised 10 learn the entire facts
Of the case than you can possibly be.
What idle rumors may have existed In
newspaper offices l know not, but they
have not come from me. In closing your
letter you say: ~ do not ask you TO place
before the Committee any papers which
Mr.. Tilton may have given you, but do
demand that you forthwith place before
the Committee every paper which have
written or deposited with you" In re-
ply can only say that l can't
justly place before the Committee the
papers Of one Of the parties without doing
the same with the papers OF the other,
and l can't do this hOnorably except by
a legal process compelling me, or else by
the consent in writing not only Of your
self but oil Mr.. Tilton, with whom shall
confer on the subject as speedily as poss.
ible. You will, trust, see greater spirit
OF justice in this reply than you have IN
fused into your unusual letter OF August
4Ih, Very respectfully,
FRANCIS D. MoULToN.
MR. MoULToN TO MIR. T1LToN.
NEw YORK, August 9th.
Theodore Til,0n, Esq.,:
My DEAR SIR-1 have received, under
date Of July 2Sth, letter from Rev.
Henry Ward BeeCher, in which he ex.
presses the wish that would go before
the Investigating Committee and "clear
my mind and memory Of everything that
can bear on this case" referring, Of course,
to the controversy between you and him.
l can not, in view Of my confidential re-.
lations with you, make any statement be.
lore tho committee unless you release me,
as Mr.. Beecher has done, explicitly
from my obligation to maintain your
confidence. Ifyou express 10 me clearly
a request that should go before the
Tnvnat;1atipp Nnrprn;,ton Sn1 n,o,o -,
and all the facts within my knowledge
concerning your case with Mr.. Beecher,
and exhibit TO them any or all the docu-
ments in my possession relating thereto, l
shall In view OF Mr.. Beecher's letter con-
slider myself at liberty 10 accede TO the
request Of the committee to state the facts
and exhibit such doCuments.
Very Respectfully,
FRANCIS d. MoULToN.
Mr.. TILToN TO MR.. MouLToN,
AUGUST 8, 1874.
Francis D. Moulton, Esq:
My DEAR SIR-1n response 10 your note
OF this day mentioning Mr.. Beechefs re-
quest that you should exhibit 10 the com.
mittee the facts and documents hitherto
held in confidence by you, touching his
difference with me, hereby give you
notice that you have my own consent and
request 10 do the same.
Truly yours,
THEODORE TILroN.
Mr.. Moulton, in his his letter TO the In.
vesIigating Committee accepting the in.
vitation to appear and testify, says ::
~ have endeavored 10 avert the
calamity which has now fallen upon
all with the consent or request of MIR,
Beecher and Mr.. Tilton. have felt nv.
selfreadY sorrowingly to give all the facts
that know about the object oil inquiry
OF the Committee, and produce whatever
papers have to the Committee, and leave
copies of tho same with them If they de.
sired II, with perhaps the one stipulation,
that It was 10 give my evidence orally,
or be oss.examined, that might bring a
photographic reporter, in order that
should have an exact copy for my own
protection. Since l am now fully re-
leased from my confidential relations to
the parties involved in this sad affair, and
siuce my only proper statement must
consist OF the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth, l see no reason whv
it may not be made at one time as well az
another. But as my statement necessarily
include multiplicity Of facts and papers
l must ask little delay TO arrange and
copy them. Accordingly suggest Sat-
urday evening, August Slh, as an evening
convenient for me TO lay my statement be:
fore the committee.
[Sgned francis D. MouLToN.
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