The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-08

can afford to wait for my vindicatiOn. |
admit, after having worked in spirit of
friendship and goodwill for four years, to
be accused of reachery; but if the ACCUSE
ton comes it must be received and borne
until the proper opportunity shall present
for throwing it back in the teeth OF those
who made it.
4 Bundle OF ola Letters.
EX-Judge Morris. whom Mr.. Titon has
retained as his counsel, exhibited to II re
porter OF the Brooklyn 1,Y,ts yesterday
what he called in IN extremely sltirical
vein evidences of Mr. Tiltons lonr.contn-
ued vindictivencss towards Nh Becchcr.
After remarking, Never in all my lite
have | seen case so fortified at all points,
both great and small. us this case Of Mr..
Tiltons" Mr.. Morris showed Il letter
from \ +. Beechcr. dated October. 1868.
and bearing Lon lon postmark, in which
epistlc the writer unbosomcd himself to
his friend, Mr.. Tilton, in the most friendly
way conceivable, writing lin the conf
dcncc of love- "This letter, said Judge
Morris, ''does not show that Mr. Tiltons
vindictveness began in 1868. Now. then.
let us come to 1865. Mr.. Tlton had then
been two YEARS the chief editor of the H.
dependent, and had publicly criticised Mr..
Beechers political course towards Andrew
johnson. Mr. Tilton WAS SO panied at the
public necessity which led him, as a Jour
,ol;-f t,,, ,aln tbi., ,,,ti;n ., ,
he accompanied it with the following pr
vate letter, written to Mr.. Beechcr:
MIDNIGHT,
BRookLyN, Nov. 30, 1860,
Rec. Henry lIard BeecheF:
My DEAR FRIEND: Returning home late
to-nigh, | cannot go to bed without
writing you Il letter
Twice | have now been unwilingly
forced to appear as your antagonist before
the public-the occasions being five years
apart. After the first, ] am sure our
friendship, instead of being manned, was
strengthened After this last. il I may
| guess your heart by knowing mine, | am
sure the old love wakes instead of wanes
Two or three days ago II know not how
or why impellcd) took out OF its hiding
place your sweet and precious letter, writ
ten to me from England, containing the
affcctionate message which you wished
should live and testify after your
death. Tonight | have been think
ing that in case | should die first (Which is
equally probable) ought to leave in your
hand my last will and testament of recip-
rocated love. My FREUD from my boy
| hood up you have been to me what no
| other man has been-what no other man
can be- While | was q student. the intlu-
cnce of your mind on mine was greater
than all books and all teachers The init
macy with which you have honorcd me for
twelve years has been next to my wife
and family the greatest affection of my
| life. BY you | was baptzed-by you mar
ried. You have been my minister, teacher
father, brother, friend, companion. What
| a debt owe yOu-that can never be paid
First of all, my awakened religious life
then the development OF my mind then my
open-door of opportunity for labor, then
my quickly gathered public reputation
ali these, my dear friend, owe in so large
degree to your own kindness that my
gratitude cannot be written in words, but
must be expressed only in love. >
Moreover, if | should die, leaving you
alive, lsask you to love my children fol
their fathers sake, who has taught them t.
reverence you, and to regard you as a man
of men. One thing more. My religious cx-
| periences have never been more refreshing
and satisfying than during the last year
never had before such fair and winning
thoughts of the other life. With these
thoughts you stand connected in q strange
and beautiful way. have a belief that
human friendship outasts death. Ours is
yet Of the earth, earthly but it shall one
day be lifted up above the earth-to stand
safe. without scar or flaw, without breath
that can blot it, without fear that shall
make it tremble. And now good
night and sweet be your dreams of your
unworthy but eternal friend,
THEODORE Triton.
Coming down to 1868, Mr.. Morris adj
duced, as proof of the friendly feeling cx-
isting between Mr. Beecher and Mr.. Tilon
the inscription of a presentation copy OF
Norwood" which he quoted as follows
Theodore Tilton--
who greatly encouraged
the author to begin and to
persevere-W
the atfeclionate regards Of
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
March 10. 1868.
Mr.. Iilton's account of the excursion TO
Fort Sumter was next spoken of. 1t runs:
Finally Mr. Beecher arose and set his
strong voice into struggle against sea-
breeze that kept whisking his locks and
liapping his manuscripts, and threatened
at first TO wrestlc him down, but the man
who conquered the Liverpool mob was not
to surrender to an east wind. Manly,
| NNign and llnDnapt N 81
which, good readers of the Indepeadent,
judge ye, for here inclose it, word for
word
Here continued Mr.. Tilton's counsel,
sis an extract from an article of Mr.. Til
tons in the independent of May 0, 1867 -
Under the ensuing editorship of Mr..
Beecher-owing not only to the indisposi-
ton of the Congregational churches to ac-
cept any man for their mouthplece, but
owing still more to the emnently I'M
ecclesiastical and catholic tone OF his mind
the paper was not administered as the
organ of the Congregational churches, but
as the organ of its editor-n-chief, which is
the only proper theory for the conduct of
a vital journal, secular or religious. MIR.
Beecher had grand idea of the true func-
ton OF the religious press, Just as he has
grand ideas of other things. And the IN
dependent, in his hands, was mobile
power. With grateful pride we look back
to our joint connection with that good man
IN this journal as a golden period IN our
life and labor.
Matthew Arnold's aforementioned no.
tlce of Mr.. Beecher as a cheated bar
barian, and the defence of the Plymouth
orator II drew from Tilton Mr.. Tiltons