The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-08-15

-itpOu-bLdG Size was q OdlQE. anu
cnle1 OF sinners; and Mr.. Moulton's hold upo1
my confidence was SO great that all that ha
come now affects me as dream.
Ruinous Defence.
BY: Mr.. Winslow. DIN your letter of Feb
oth' 1917, you speak of the possibility of ruin
GUS defence of you breaking out. How could
there De any rulnous defence of you?
people, full of church zeal and personal par
Ilsan teeling, knowing nothing of the facts, ant
compelling this whole avalanche of mud to de
scend upon the community, might have beer
rulnous think now as l then felt.
| vi would be injurious?
| A-Where you would say injurious, L woult
| say ruinous.
| Remorse, Fear and Despair.
| Q-You speak of remorse, fear and despair
Al suppose I felt them all. Whether
was JUSTIFIED in so feeling is question, Wher
lived in Indianapolis there was an old lawyer
named Calvin Fletcher. q New England man
OF large brain. who stood at the head of the
bar; He was Methodist Christian man. He
| took peculiar fancy to me, and he used to
come and see me often when l was young
minister and would see him great deal. He
would make many admirable suggestions, one
OF winch was that he never admitted anybody
was to blame except the party who utter the
complaint. Says he, II hold myself response
Die Tor having everybody do right by me, and
tney DO not do right. 1t is because do not do
my duty; and now," said he, sin preaching
curing your life, do you take blame upon your
selr and don't be scolding your church and
blaming everybody. 1t is your business to see
that your folks are right"
Well, it sunk down into my heart and became
spring of influence from that day to this. If
my prayar meetings do not go right, it is my
fault. Ii the people do not come to church.
am the one to blame for their not coming. If
things go wrong in my family, I find the reason
in myself. have have foreseen ouarreIs in the
church, and if had left them alone they would
Dnrst ana ofeak out, but acting under the adj
vice thus given and doing my own duty, l have
had no difficulty in my church.
DenOunces Free Love.
Gan anonymous letter to the COMMITTEE
from "free lover" says: "You have reser-
walton in your philosophy which would enable
you to say, I had no wrong conduct or relations
with Mrs. Tilton,' having in your own mind a
belief that you are charged with doing what
was right. What is your idea on this sabiect9
Al am not versed in the philosophy and
casuistry of free love. L stand on the New
England doctrine in which 1 was brought up;
that it is best for man to have one wife and
that he stay by her, and that he do not NEEDLE
with his neighbors' wives. L abhor every man.
Hesitation of the free love doctrine that [ have
seen in the theory, and abhor every advocate
of the free love doctrine that have known.
Concerning the woodhulIs.
Q.-Are you clear in your recollection that
you never met the Woodhulls more than three
times?
Al am perfectly clear, that is, to speak to
them.
Q-State the times and places.
A-On one occasion was walking with Mr..
Moulton in the general direction of Tiltons
house when he said that Mrs. Woodruff was
going to be there 1 at first hesitated, and he
said: ''Come in and just see her." said,
every WELL" went in and after some conversa-
ton down in the parlors, 1 went up stairs into
this famous boudoir room where she sat wait
ing and like spider to a fly, she rushed to me
ON my entrance and reached out both her hands
with the utmost earnestness and said how re-
joued she was to see me. L talked with her
about five minutes and then went down stairs.
My second interview with her was on one oc
casOn when had been with some twenty or
thirty gentlemen to look at the warehouse es-
tablishment of Woodruff & Robinson. We
were on the steamer that had been chartered
for the occasion, and when 1 came up Moulton
said, "Come with me to town." He never told
me there was to be any company, When l
came there learned there was to be something
in New York in the evening and that there
were to be there number of literary ladies'
among whom was Mrs. Woodruff. / was plac-
ed at the head of the table near Mrs. Moulton,
I think on her left. Mrs. Woodruff was next
to me or else she was first and was next, l
do not remember which. At that table she
scarcely deigned to speak to me. l add. essed
lew WOruS W ueE lOI pUlittucSo S1ho uuEiuS lub
dinner, but there was no sort enthusiasm be-
tween us.
My third and last interview was at Moulton's
house. She had addressed threatening letter
saying she would open all the scandal if did
not preside at the Steinway Hall lecture, and
in reply to that Mr.. Moulton advised that in
stead of answering her letter 1 should see her
and say without witness what had to say.
She brought with her her subject. 1t was in
type, and my policy was to let her talk and say
little, which did, and she went on saying:
You know you believe SO and SO, and said
nothing, and SO on from point to point until
said at last, "Mrs. Woodruff L do not uader-
stand your views; have never read them
thoroughly. AS far as l do understand them
do not believe in them, and though am in
ings is thing seldom do for anybody, and I
shall not do it for you because lam not in SYM
patty with your movement"
Q-Has Mrs. Woodruff any letters of yours
in her possession?
A-Two, 1 suppose unless she has sold
them.
Q-Upon what subject?
A-She enclosed a letter to me with one for
my sister, Mrs. Hooker, inviting me to be
present at the suffrage convention at Washing
ton. To that letter replied briefly in the neg
alive, but made few statements in respect to
my ideas of woman's voting.
The other letter was just before her scandal
lous publication. She wrote TO me a whining
letter saying that her retormatory movements
had brought upon her such odium that she
could not procure lodgings in New York, aud
that she had been turned out of the Gilsey
House Think ard asked in very significant
way to interpose my influence or some other
relief for her. To that letter 1 replied very
briefly, saying regretted when any suffered
persecution for the advocacy of their sincere
views, but that must decline interference.
By Mr.. Claf1iu-These are the two letters,
the signatures of which she showed to MIR.
Bowen and myself. 1t was reported that by
these letters you was to be sunk $4,000 faith
that knew of the existence OF the letters and
that was all they contained. Bow en- made the
journey clear down from the country on pur-
pose to 60 up there.
Odd you ever meet her at Titon's2
A-The first time l ever saw her was at
Tilton's.
Odd you ever meet her there at any other
time?
A-Not that recall If saw her I am per-
fectly sure would know it. 1 remember her
well on account of the tIanscendant descrip-
tien l had heard of her and because of Mrs.
Rockers feelings towards her. Mrs. Hooker
regarded her as Joan Of Arc would vision of
the Virgin Mary.
Q-Can you tell US what become of Mrs.
Woodhull's threatening letter?
AIR. Moulton opened it,
The Alleged Hmproprieties.
Q-N0W as to what occurred In your
library and his bed chamber: refer to the
occasion in which he said you touched his
wifes ankle, and were found with a flushed
face in the bed chamber of his house?
Al do emphatically deny that either of
these scenes ever occurred.
Gu one part of your statement you say
thai in December, 1870, you heard of many inn
moralities of Tilton, and that you believed in
their existence. In large part of your state
ment you say that you had been subsequently
deceived with belief that Tlton was not in
fault in respect to his moral conduct. How do
you reconcile these two statements?
A-Because when the matter came TO me
from Bowen, and through the visit of Titon's
family, was under full purSuasion of these
things. One of the very first things to which
Moulton and Tilton had addressed themselves
was to dsabuse my mind of this belief concern.
ing Tiltons moral conduct. Tilton alluded to
the subject of his own purity with circum-
stantiai and historical statements, and Moul-
toms conduct specially tends to convince me
that all the allegations against Tilton respect
ing sucJ matters were false
Odd you admit at any time to Mr.. Moul-
ton or Mr.. Tilton, or to any other person, that
you had ever had any relations with Mrs. Til
ton, or ever committed any act with, or SAID
any word to her, which would be unit for a
Christian man to hold, do or say with the wife
Of his friend, or for father to bold, do or say
with his daughter, or brother with his sister?
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