New-York tribune., 1874-09-19

you. dear mo.aer that send this, that you may
| know my spirits completely toward you both.
haye beon told, Confde not In your mother: but
reply. TO whom on earth can eohfdei
think II predminently wise for MS to destroy our
letters respecting this subject, lest flory one
should pick them up. DARLING.
What q Ietterl The brief confession which Mrs
Tilton wrote OF criminal intimacy with Mr.. Beecher
and which referred 70 by Mr.. Moulton as hold ~
him procured tfrom him and returned 10 TO her
to be destroyed, has been falsely oallsd confession
wrung from a wife at her husbands command. But
hold against the above letter, which
daughter wrote TO her mother. and which contains
plain confession Of Mrs. Tltons guilty Intimacy with
Mr. Beecber language can express q confession all
verable because made without design and In
the absence of any other controlling influence upon the
writer the pressure OF her own conscience and
sorrow evinced In her melancholy contemplation OF
the calamity which had fallen upon her honor and her
home
III view OF Mrs. Titon's truthful confession In the
above letter four years OF what avail are her recent
denlafs to the Committeei The Committee themselves
have practically impugned ths testimony which their
attorneys prompted Mrs. Tllton make them aud
Mr. Beecher's journal. The Christan linton, soon
after the rendering OF the verdict published conspicu
editorial article purpose to put FORTH under the
stamp of Mr. Beecher's the following official re-
lection OF Mrs evidence by the Ceecher party.
The Christian Unson says:
This poor woman has been shown TO be 90 weak, so
wholly subject to the strongest outside influence at ns
moment tnat the general Public can give & Dus "s,ie NC
Beecher.
The above extract from The Christian linton invadat-
ing Mrs Tton's testimony necessarily bots out from
Mr. Beechers defense all Mrs Ttons recent denals OF
crimnalty and leaves him 10 be convicted by Mrs.
Tllton's original honest dispassonate confession Of
their mutual sn recorded In theIaboye quoted letter TO
her moher This letter. therefore, efectualy disposes
OF two principal points OF the Committees verdict
One OF these points the Committee state as follows:
rtons allegation that she Mrs IT, confessed to her
mother Mrs Morse pronounced false by the MOTHER
who testified before the Committee
Mrs Tiltons letter, above given, together with tho
extracts from Mrs. Morse's letters, show that Mrs
Morse denying to the Committee that her daughter
had made to her confession OF adultery was de-
lberate falsehoodbalf pardonable perhaps, because
uttered by mother to save her daughter The Com
mttee in relying Mrs MOrse's testimony relied ON
false basis which sinks and carries down with IL
the Committees verdict into unfathomed depthi
The other point in the verdict which the above letter
efectuay settles is the following:
"She Mrs Tiltop) say the Committee. has alwavs
denied the charge when free from the dominating nnu
ence OF her husband"
Mrs Tiltons above letter TO her mother written
free from the dominating influence OF her husband"
It was written 57s miles from her husbands presence
1t was written not at his request for his condemna
ton 1t was written reproduce 10 him the feelings
excited his wfe's mind by the contemplation or her
wrOngdong, aud to appeal to him. nom sucn Dasls'
against the moral reckessness which che then believed
that her fall produced upon his religious views and
daily life 1t was written before Mr. Beecher knew thas
she had betrayed him, and. OF course, before he had
indted his own equally agonzing "letter Of contri'
ton" 1t was written before Mrs. Titon had any idea
OF future public proceedings by Church Committee
who would ask her deny the truth In order ~ save
Mr. Beecher. 1t was written before Mrs. Morse er'
pected to be called upon to add her fasehoods to
her daughters for this purpose. 1t was written
with no suspicion these joint fasehoods OF mother
and daughter were be exploded by the countes
records OF their correspondence! On both thess
points the Committees own witnesses fasfy the Com.
mittee's verdict.
CaDdor requires me TO state that the Commttes
are correct in point. Their report says:
This unhappy woman MRS HitOn) has been the plas'
tic victim OF extorted fasehoodS.
The Committee are correct in this view. Mrs. Tilton
has indeed been the plastic victim Of extorted false
during her crossexaninaton -" extorted falsehoods"
which the Committee reproduced in their verdict az
true namely that she a victim to my "iltreat
ment," including deprivation OF "food and fire." i'm
prisonment under lock and key" and other hardshps
from which she fed for peace to the graves Oh hei
children 80 extorted fasehoods" prompted by
Mrs Tton's own mind Ct she still remains the kindly
and tender-hearted whom knew, but e1torted
from her the plastic victim" Of Mr. BeecheFs attor
news who having first used her for Mr. Beecher's de-
fense have since repudiaed the testimony which
they thus eYored from pronouncng 1t worthless
even for the purpose for which thus extoted
from +" this plastic victim"