Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-07-30
THE HERALD.
BEECHER-TlLT0N.
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of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and
Mrs. Elizabeth r. Tilton to degrade
and destroy him in public estimation
MRS. Triton BEFORE THE INYEsTIGAT-
ING COMMITTEE.
Tuenty- first = That one evening
about two weeks after the publica-
ton of Tilton's letter to DR.. Bacon,
Mrs. Tilton on coming home at a
late hour, informed Der husband that
she had been visited at a friends
bopse bv a committee of investiga-
ton. and had given sweeping owl
dence acquitting Beecher of every
charge. This was the first intima
ton which Tilton received that any
such committee was then in exist
ence. Furthermore, Mrs. Tilton
stated she had done this by the adj
vice of lawyer whom Beecher had
sent TO her, and who, in advance OF
her appearing before the Committee,
arranged with her the questions and
anSgers which were to constitute
her testimony in Beechers behalf.
On the next day, after giving this
untrue testimony before the Com
mittee, she spent many hours OF ex.
treme suffering from pangs of cbn-
science at having testified falsely.
She expressed to her husband the
hone that God would forgive her
perjury, but that the motive was to
save Beecher and her husband, and
also to remove all reproach from the
cause of religion. She also express
ed similar contrition to one OF her
intimate friends.
RECAPITULATIoN.
Iwenty-Sec0nd-Finally, that in ad-
dltion to the foregoing facts and
evidences, other combinations could
be- adduced if needed, to prove the
following recapitulated statement,
namely that the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, as pastor and friend OF Mr..
Triton and his family, trespassed up
on the sancity of friendship and hos
pitality in long endeavor to seduce
Mrs. Elizabeth r. Tilton that by
tho artful use Of his priestiy authorl-
u with her, she being his pupil in
religion, he accomplished this seduG-
ton; that for period of year and
q half, or Whereabouts, he maintained
criminal intercourse with her, over
coming her previous modest scruples
against such conduct by investing it
with false justification as sanctioned
By love aud religion that he par
ticipated in a conspiracy to degrade
Theodore Tilton before the public
by loss Of place, business. and repute;
that he abused Mr.. Tilton's forgive
ness and Pledge of protection by
thereafter authorizing a series of
: measures by Plymouth Church hav-
: ing for their object the putting of
stigma upon Tilton before the church,
J and also before an Ecclesiastical
Council, insomuch that the Modera-
tor of that Council, interpreting
these acts by Beecher ard his church,
declared publicly that they showed
Beecher to be the most magnanimous
of men, and Tilton to be knave
and dog that when Ti:ton there
after, not in malice, but for self-pro-
lection, wrote q letter to DR.. Bacon
abiding therein to an offense and
apology by tho Rev. Henry Ward
Beecner, he (Ir Beocher) defantly
appointed Committee of his church
members to inquire into the injury
done him by Mr.. Tilton by the afore-
SAID allusion, and implying that he
CHR. Beecher) had never been the
author of such offense and apology,
and that Mr.. Tilton was a slanderer;
that, to make this inquiry bear griev-
iously against Mr.. Tilton, Mr.. Beech
or previously connived with Mrs e.
T. Tilton to give false testimony in
his (Mr. Beecher's) behalf; that Mr..
Beecher's course towards Mr.. Tilton
and family has at last resulted in
open destruction of Mr.. Tilton's
household and home and desolation
Of his heart and life.
(Signed) THEODORE TILToN.
Sworn to before me this 10th day
OF July, 1874
THEODORE BURGMYER,
Notary Public.