The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-07
THE BEECHER-TILT0N SCANDAL
Mr.. NOuifOn TO Mr.. Becchcr.

40 REMsEN STREET, BROOKLYN, Aug. 3.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECnER:
My Dear Sr:-ln all our acquaintance
and friendship have never received from
you Il letter of the tone of yours of Aug. A.
It seems unlike yourself and to have been
inspired by the same ill-advisers who had
so lamentably carried your private affairs
before a committee of your church and
thence before the public
In reply let me remind you that during
the whole of the past four years all the
documents, notes and memoranda which
YOU and Mr.. Triton have intrusted to me
have been so intrustcd because they had a
reference to your mutual differences. |
hold no papers, either of yours or of his,
except such as bear on this case. You
speak of memoranda of affairs not i'm
mediately connected with Mr.. Tilton's
matter" You probably allude here to
the memoranda of your difficulties with
Mr.. Bowen, but these have direct refer
encc to your present case with Mr. Iilton,
and were deposited with me by you be-
cause of such reference. You speak also
of letter or two from your brother and
sister, and am sure you have not forgot
ten the apprehension which we entertained
lest Mrs. Hooker should fulfil a design
which she foreshalowed to invade your
pulpit and read TO your congregation con-
fession of your intimacy with Mrs. Tilton.
You speak of other papers, which | hold
"subiect to your wishes. | hold none
such. nor do | hold any subject to Mr..
Tiltons wishes. The papers which | hold,
both yours aud his, were not gwen to me
to be subject to the wishes of either of the
parties But the very object of my hold
ing them has been, and still is, to prevent
the wish of one party from being 'njnr'-
..-.-., ~a,,,ievu against the other
You are incorrect in saying that Mr.. Til.
ton has had access TO my depository OF
materials on the contrary have refused
Mr.. Tilton such access. During the prepa-
ration of his sworn statement he came tc
me and said his case would be incomplete
unless | permitted him the use of all the
documents, but | refused and all he could
rely upon were such notes as he had made
from time to time from writings of yours
which you had written to me to be read to
him, and passages of which he caught
| from my lips, in shorthand. Mr. Tilton
has seen only a part of the papers in my
| possession and would be more surprised tc
learn the entire facts of the case than you
can possibly be.
| What idle rumors may have existed il
newspaper offices | know not, but they
have not come from me.
In closing your letter you say, II do moi
ask you to place before the committee any
papers Which Mr.. Tilton may have giver
you but ! do demand that you forthwith
| place before the committee every pape
which | have written or deposited will
you In reply can only say that | can
not justly place before the committee thu
| papers of one of the parties without doing
the same with the papers of the other, ant
| cannot do this honorably except either by
legal process compelling me or else by con
sent in writing, not only of yourself but o
Mr.. Tilton, with whom | shall confer OF
the subject as speedily as possible.
You will, trust, see a greater spirit o
justice in this reply than you have infused
into your unusual letter of August 4.
Very respectfully,
FRANCIS ID. MoULToN,