The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-19

the way Is darker than death, / do heal
t"the still, small voice" which brings to mt
peace lies experience has never
before brought me. No, my depression
Is owing TO the suffering have caused
you and will cause those | love II
the future. II the spirit Of for.
giveness does not exercise tho sniri,
OF hate, and add TO this the revelations
you have made oi your fallen condition
witness Of which am daily. This It L
that breaks my heart. How can | bul
linger at my praying at the thought oi
you. Oil do avoid all stimulating drink
My darling you know many heariache
would have been saved, only you knew
not what, or how the cruel word said,
have Jailed in my duty to you from lack
OF courage TO speak Of these things. Al.
low me 10 advise with you now my dear.
ly beloved, for surely ! am your bes,
friend, and Tor the sake Of our precious
born and unborn, ! tell you that since |
have been conscious OF wronging you,
needed only to know that, and always in
everything, ! utterly forsake the wrong.
Repent before God alone, and strive 10
bring forth fruit worthy Of repentance.
Will you, for the added reason Of your
souls sake, do the same? Iieel that you
are not in the condition OF mind to lead
the Woman's Suffrage movement, and
implore you to break away from II and
from your friends Susan, Mrs. Stanton,
and every one and every thing that helps
to make conflict with your responsible
tiles as q husband aud father. Nv life Is
still spared. My heart never yearned
over you more in sorrowipg love than
now, but there must be q turning to God
that will lead you to forsake forbidden
ways, 30 that the sources and springs Of
your lie shall be renewed ere shall feel
i my duty TO return. l have gained a
little, and with this small addition of
strength my first impulse Is to fly to you
and comfort you in these new distractions
which come to you through your business
and It's threatening changes. l have long
felt, dear husband, that you did not fiji
up your responsibilities toward the Inde
pendent as its religious and chiet head.
Oh that you could be made to sec and
leel the amount OF good you might do for
Christ from that pulpit Oh, my babe
would leap in my womb TOR Joy did your
soul but awake to love Goa and serve
him with the iervor Of the early days |
AS look out from my retirement here
those are my thoughts and desires.
l shall mourn II there seemeth to
your sore and sching heart harsh
word. l will pray Gods spirit to follow
the written line; and 80 1t will not, can.
not offend. l do not hesitate 10 return to
Brooklyn and renew my homo work.
Far be 1t from me to shirk my duty. On
the contrary, TO have agsin the privilege
OF being with my entire family is the am.
bition l feel to gain in health here. For.
give the long letter. Good night.
Your DEAR WIFE.
p. S.-Both your letter and Theodore's
came together concerning your inter.
views with Joseph. You will see that
by reading or showing this letter to any
one you disclose my secret. Its because
l trust you, dear mother, that I send you
this that you may know my spirits
completely towards you both. have
been told to confide not in your mother.
Bot l reply, 10 whom on earth can con.
tide. | think itpre.eminently wise or us
10 destroy our letters respecting this sub
ject, lest Flory or some ono should pick
them up. DARLING.
This letter he says was written in view
Of reports she had received from her
mother Of his behavior, the character Of
which may be inferred from her admoni-
tions, and the letter, he submits, could not
have been written under his dominating
influence. He calls attention to the diff
erent tone Of this letter and others from
which hc gives extracts written subse-
quent to the alleged confession from those
written previous 10 1t and heretofore pub.
lished.
He then devotes largo space 10 the
business troubles between himself and
Bowen, and repeats an account OF the
conversation between them when Bowen
charged that Beecher had confessed TO
him numerous adulterous acts, but pro.
duces no new facts in this connection.
He declares Beecher's claim that his
ofiense against him was advising Mrs. Til.
ton to separate from him was untrue, and
cites Mrs. Morse's letter to Beecher de-
nouncing him for advising her to live
with him as proof OF the lalsity of this
claim. The story Of Beecher's interview
with him December 80, 1870, when Moul.
ton brought Beecher to Tilton's house
Beecher's alarm and contrition, his inter.
view with Mrs, Tilton, and the securing
Of the retraction, is repeated in detail, and
Beechel's version OF 1t denounced as
false. The declaration of the Committee
Of Investigation that the original charge
brought against Beecher by Tilton was
improper solicitation" and not adultery,
He disproves, by citing records OF the Ply.
mouth Church, which show that in 0c-
tober, 1873, VIM. F. West, a member OF
Plymouth Church, filed charges and
specifications against Tilton, a copy OF
which was served on him, and which aver
that on August, 1870, be stated 10 Mr.
Andrew Bradshaw that he had discovered
criminal intimacy between bis wife and
MIR. Beecher; and that afterward, In No.
vember, 1872, he said to Mr.. Bradshaw
that he retracted none o! the accusations
he had made against Beecher. In this
connection he refers 10 Beecher's claim
that Tilton owed him gratitude for
keeping him from public trial
in the Church, and says that
Beecher's efforts to prevent trial were
to save himself, not Titon. BO denies
the assertion oil Beecher 10 regard 10 his
iree-love notions, and explains his con.
nection with Woodnull, by stating as
heretofore, that !, was to prevent her from
publishing the scandal, which by some
means sue had got hold oi, and asserts
that all did for her was commanded and
advised by Beecher.
TIE CHARGE OF BLAcKMAlL
made by Beecher against him, he relu,es
at great length, and in reply to the asser.
tlons OF his wife, instigated be declares by
Beecher, that In the winter Of 1870 ii
they were 10 poverty, he declares that he
had at that time several thousand dollar,
to his credit in the bank, and owed moth
ing, and that Beecher knew II and In rofn,