The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-18

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ter Of every faculty he has. he Is full
without discipline; there Is on the whole
dissipating effect upon the mind by his
exhausless splendor. He raises the feel.
ings without strengthening the will, and
makes magnanimity frivolous. / do not
think him cold or deceptive when in the
iervor Of his preaching. The talent car.
ries away the utterer, himself. He has
wonderful control Of his people, the ladies
especially, because he has large animal
nature and Is emotional and magnetic.
But he has voluptuous selt-love. II you
come toexamine his many acts oil spas
modic generosity, you will find that they
have not cost him much personally.
Horace Greeley was Of another turn.
What he did for friend was his own
gift. ! often used TO be in straits for edi.
torial In the Independent, and would en-
treat Mr.. Greeley to help me out. He
would take his own time and make mat
ter for me like fellow.workman."
MAY venture to.ask what opinion
you have heldso TD F7
Mr.. BERcHRR, MORALLY z" -l.t
"That do not care to say much about
l do not dislike that man now. pity
him, but he has put me in the position Of
defending myself. 1t Is too much 10 let
him break my household up and then des.
troy my character. think Beecher lacks
the moral sense and substitutes for its re.
ligious sentiment. His conversation has
been salacious Tor years, full Of baWdy
anecdote and lingering upon sensuous
suggestions. Now, there Is Frank Moul.
ton, who will swear like trooper, but !
never heard him soil his tongue in that
way. Mr.. Beecher is coward. It takes
the whole Of Plymouth Church TO make
him bold. If he was in my position now,
left 10 his own resources, should be i'm
PEELED 10 go to his assistance. l may
honestly say, without malice, that bis
moral nature despise, and he has suffer.
ed tortures unspeakable for years, AFRAID
OF me, after l iorgave him. Why there
was not point OF contact in our careers.
Jealousy even in the family circle / never
had OF him"
"Why did you, after the many years Of
doubtful reputation Mr.. Beecher has
borne, let him come to your house and be
the idol Of your wife2"
because trusted her as II she were
child. Inever quite trusted him, but be.
lieved that her religious nature was in
vincible. Every time / held her In cor
rection she pleaded Beecher more and
more. He was her prophet, priest and
king. The fact Is, Beecher ought 10 have
married Elizabeth. She required
preacher OF some kind"
Mr.. TTLToN's FEELING FOR HIS WIFE.
About this time Mr.. Tilton, who had
been cool and fluent, stopped and closed
his lips hard, and said 10 me with evident
feeling:
George, do you think all this exposure
and uproar will ruin Elizabeth"
Said l.; Inevitably, but that will not
prevent you from doing your duty as you
sec 1t. The frat right OF man Is the pur-
suit oil happiness. You take the conse.
quences II you disagree with the public,
but you have taken the worst already. A
man who can reconcile wife who has
behaved like yours has nothing to suffer
from the public tsunt."
Said Mr.. Tiiton, with his eyes on the
floor: II do not see how we can ever
resume our relations after these cruel
revelations as 10 me, false and disgraceiul,
and put in her mouth by Beecher's law
yers. But wish l could see way to
make mankind think leniently OF her. I
could have carried her over this thing
without putting any disgrace upon her,
if she had stayed at her home. But II
was necessary to the Beccher interest
that they get possession Of her. l want
you, II you ever say anything 10 anybody
about me, TO call attention TO this fact.
ACARD WRITTEN ny Mr. TILToN.
Mr.. Tilton took card and wrote this
"Hissworns statement was never thought
ofby T. T. till after Beecher had orig
mated the Committee Of Inquiry, and
after Elizabeth had deserted her house,
and Mr.. 0vrington had published card
in her behalf, announcing that she had
gone from him forever"
l enclose the card with this SKETCH"
may hesitate here few instants TO
relate the
ABSOLUTE CONSISTENCY
Of Mr.. Tilton in nearly everything he
said, with the tide of events In this
mourniul human episode. People at q
distance, acting from strong intellectual
sympathy with Mr.. Beecher, or pursuing
blindly an original selection OF the iusti.
fed man OF the two, would find reason 10
return tosee this younger man in the des.
perate battle, presenting his case line by
line, reason by reason, document by doc
ument.
0nthe card inclosed he also wrote:
"Beecher's apology was made six
months before 7. T. ever saw Mrs. Wood.
hull"
The "apology" Is that which says that
Henry Ward Beecher humbles himself
before Theodore Tilton as before his God
and Theodore Tilton would have been q
better man than he (Beecher) Is under the
same circumstances. Does not this refer
to Tilton's msgnanimous silence, alluded
10 aboVes .H.Er
A PERTINENT QUESTION.
want to ask before closing: Who
frightened or bought the Woodruff family
at this juncture of 10 Europep
About all the Beecher family has done,
besides stealing Tilton's vile, Is to cry
Woodruff at him. Now was he 60 rich
as to pay their expenses for foreign
tour, or was Plymouth Chapel rich
enough2
And finally, how many millions Of the
American people will II take, crying
"Beecher Beecher Beecher r. as they
used to cry aBaal Bsall BAal 70 TO null
down one poor writer and keep the great
man In his placer GATH.
'This card, in Mr.. TiltonH own HANDWRITING
lI now IN our possession,-RD. TRIBUNI.