The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-14

him. With peculiar genius for blum,
ders, he fell almost At every step into
new complications and difficulties, and in
every such instance it was his policy to
bring coercions to bear upon my honor
my conscience and my affection, for the
purpose of procuring his extncation al
my expense. 20
He has said again and again to his
friends that if they wished to gain any
influence over me they must work on the
sympathetic side of my nature. To this
he has addressed himself steadily for four
years, using as lever, without scruple,
my attachment to my friends TO my fam
lily, and even my old affection for HIM
self; and circulated certain old and
shameless slanders about me, which were
really made, as now appears, to leave
him free for future operations upon me
and against ME. So long as he was, or
thought he was, on the road to a new
success, his conduct toward me was
as friendly as he knew how to make
it. His assumption Of superiority and
magnominity and his patronizing man
ners were trifieS at which
ICouId Afford 10 Smile,
and which l bore withth greatest of hu-
manity, since l still retained the profound
impression made upon him, as explained
in the following narrative, that had
been cause of overwhelming disaster
to him. Not blind to his faults, but re-
solved to look on him as favorably and
hopefully as possible, and ignorant of his
deep malice | labored earnestly, even
desperately, for his salvation.
Tries TO Feed TiItOn's Egotism.
For four years l have been trying to
feed the Unsuitable egotism, to make the
man as great rs he conceived himself to
be; to restore to prosperity and public
confidence, one who in the midst of my
efforts in his behalf was patronizing dis
reputable people and doctrines, and re-
fused when | besought him separate from
them. He aScrbed to my conspiracy the
ruin which he was pcrsistcntly bringing
on himself and which | was doing my
utmost to arrest 1t was impossible to
do anything for such man, ! might rs
well tried to fill a sieve with water. In
the latter stages of the history, he actu-
ally invented and created difficulties,
apparently for no other pur-
pose than to drive one to
fresh excrtions. Irefused to endorse his
wild views and associates. The best ]
could do was to speak well of him-mcn-
tion those good qualities and abilities,
which still believe him to possess in his
higher moods, and keeping silence con-
cerning the evil things, which ! was as
sured and believed had been greatly cx-
aggeratcd by public reports.
I Could not Think Him as Bad n
Friends Did.
| trusted to germs of good, which
thought still lived in lin; to Mr. Moul-
tons apparent power over him, and the
power of my persistent self-sacriticc.
MouIton Comes In.
Mr.. MOultOn came To me first as school
mate and friend of Mr.. Tilton, deter
mined to rcnstatc him, ! always Sus-
pected, without regard to my interests;
but on further acquaintance with me he
undertook and promised to serve his
friend without doing wrong to me. He
sale he saw how this was to be done So n
to restore peace and harmony to Mr..
Tilton's home and bring happy end of
all Misunderstanding Many things
which he counSelled ! absolutely refused,
but | never doubted his profrssed friend
ship for me after II friendship had grown
up between us, and whatever he wished
me to do | did unless it seemed
TO me to be wrong. Ny confidence in
him was the only element that was secure
in his confusion Of tormcnting pcrplcN-
tiles. To him ] wrote freely in this
troublous time, while felt that secret
Vaccinations were going on around me,
and echoes of the vilcst ISLANDERS concern
ing me were heard in the most uneX-
pcctcd quarters; when some of my near
relatives were set against me, and
The TattIe Of Crowd Of Malicious
Women.
hostile to me on other grounds, wa-
borne To my ears; when ] had lost the
last remnant of faith in Theodore, or
hope for him; when / heard with Un-
.prnkablc rcmOrsc that everything had
done to stay his destruction had made
matters worse and worse, and that every
attempt to keep him from a public trial
involving such "A flow of scandal n has
now been let loose. had been used by him
to bring up new troubles; that his un-
happy wife was under his diCtation and
influence, signing papers, and recanta-
tons. and | know not what; that, in
short, everything was breaking up, and
the destruction from which had sought
to save his family was likely to be
emptied on other families, the church
and the community, with infinite horrors
and woe for me; that my own in
nOcence was buried under heaps and
heaps of rubbish, and nobody but
my profcsscd friend, could save Us accord
ING 10 his assurances, that he could still
do 50. ! gave at least so much faith a 10
maintain under these terrible trials the
silence which he cnjoined. Not until
Mr.. Tilton having attempted through
Frank Carpenter, 10 raise money from
my friends, openly as-ailcd me through
a letter to DR.. Bacon did / break that 81
lcnce, save by simple denial ofthe
-landcrous rumors against me- a year
before.
An Investigation Immediately De
nanded.
When on the appearance Of the first
open attack from Mr.. Tilton. | immcd =
at"lv. without consulting Moulton, called
for thorough investigation with a com
mittee Of my church. am not rc.pon-
sible for the delay in the publicity or
details Of that investigation. All the
harm which have 50 long dreaded and
have so earnestly striven to avoid has
come 10 pass. ! could not further pre-
vent it without a full surrender Of honor
and truth.
The Time for yindIeatiOn has Ar.
rived.
The time has arrived when | can free
Is speak in vin6l alton Of myself ] labor
under great disadvantage in making Il