Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-25
Mr.. TiltOn's Second Statement.

The second statement of Theodore
T1lton was published in the New York
Graphic and in Chicago Tribune, extra.
on the 18th. The following is a brief
summary of this very lengthy docu-
ment, which extends over twenty.eight
columns in the Tribune;
Mr.. Titon commences by answering the two
statements OF Mrs. Iilton that he had been Tor
ten years jealous Of Mr. Beechcr's reputation and
was determined TO ruin him, and that lie had been
maltreating her for the same period of time. This
ne attempts to d9 by producing various friendly
self and MIR, Beecher down to July ,, 1870, the
date at which he says he first became aware of
the criminal intimacy between MIR. Beecher aud
Mrs Tilton and by given extraAs from his cor
respondence with Mrs. TiltOn down to the same
period of time. lie supplements this with the
emphatic statement that never until that date
July 3, 1870, did he entertain an unkind thought
or utter an unkind word to either Mr.. Beecher or
his wife.
He then gives a succinct narrative of the time
place, and manner of Mrs. 1iton's confession of
her alleged corruption by Mr.. Beecher and fixes
The date of its consummation, Oct. 10, 1868,
by an entry in Mrs Tllton'A diary !" nag Mem.
oraDle," which words she said she had Used to
mark it in her own recollection. go
Then follows letter from Susan b. Anthony
to Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, full of indigna-
ton against Mr. Beccher, both for his crime and
Tor his want OF veracity concerning it. The sup
posed significance of this letter is that Mrs Til
ton had cnniessed the CRIME to Miss Anthony,
and that Miss Anthony and Mrs. Hooker were In
correspondence concerning it as a thing about
which there could be no dispute.
He next seeks to defend Mrs. Tilton against
the charge made against her by Mr.. Beechcr that
she made the first advances. For this charge
common basencss'' Elsewhere NJ TIita1 ~ sor. "ir.
castically descnnts ON the groveling character of
one who viii accept the last extreme favor OF
woman, and then appoint committee of six to
publicly investigate her conduct,
\ series of letters of Mrs Morse Mrs. Tilton's
sions to the relations existing between Mr.
Bcccher and Mrs. TiltOn. Mr.. Ti'tOn accuses
Mrs. Morse of at one time seizing her own hus-
band by the crayat and choking him till he was
black in the face, after which he (Mr. MOrse)
summoned the family together and legally and
formally separated from her-the separation con
a letternot previously pubfshedi is given from
Mrs Tilton 20 her mother Enclosing one to Mr..
Tilton) written at Marietta, Ohio a few months
after her alleged confession. IL contains repeated
allusions to some Offense committed by her, and
speaks Of a confession she had made to her
mother, known TO her daughter Florence, which
was likely to be death-bow TO the latter.
After giving a statement of Henry c. Bowen's
accusations against Beecher substantially as
given by Moulton. Mr.. Titon gives an account of
his interview with Beecher at MoHltOn's house,
where Mrs. TiltOn's confession was disclosed to
him, and attempts to show by n comparison of
dates that at that time he had not lost his posi-
tion on the IndepeRdeEt and the Brooklyn Union,
and was not in an impoverished condition, but
was in the receipt of an income Of $1,000 per
year. Consequently, he asserts that Mr.. Beech
er's statement that he (Tiltou) was eSasperated
with him for having caused him to lose his situa-
tion and salary Is an aiterthought and false
hood.
Mr.. Tilton next labors to show that Mr.
Beecher's allegation that his despair Of mind
poignRntly expressed in his letters to Moulton
was caused by his having advised Mrs. Tilton to
separate from her husband is likewise an after
thought and d falsehood, because he never did so
advise her, but on the contrary, when Mrs: Morse
was trying to bring about such separation, ad-
yised the contrary. lie points out that Mr..
Bcecher's second and long Statement before the
Brooklyn Committee admits that he never
gave such advice in person, although his first
statement makes that the sole ground of his diff
hCulty with the Titon family. The second state
ment of Mr.. BeechcF reduces this supposed Of
fense TO a few words written on a scrap of paper
to Mrs. Beechcr, Moreover, says Mr.. TiltOn
suppOsing that he wrote those words to his own
wife, he knew that they had done no harm; no
separation took place, and there was nothing to
An extract from the records of Plymouth
Church, the original OF which Mr. Tilton says he
has in his possession, is introduced TO convict
the Plymouth Church Committee of preyarica-
tion. The committees alleged that Tilton's sole
and only charge against Mr.. Beecher down to Il
late period was for improper advances to his
wife, from which they argued that his latest
charge was n, new thing trumped up for
the occasion. whereas the church record shows
that he was cited on the 18th of October, 1873, to
appear and answer to a charge of slander-the
slander being statement by him that Mr.. Beech
er had been guilty of adultery with Mrs. Tilton.
The dates OF the utterance OF the alleged slander
are given, and the names of the witnesses to
WnOm the same was uttered.
Mr.. TiltOu's association with Mrs. Woodruff is
stated to have been begun with the concurrence
and advice of Mr.. Beecher, for the sole purpose
of suppressing the dreadful secret and protecting
Mrs TiltOn's reputation. Mr.. Titon atlirms that
ii had no other object than this, and that, right
or wrong Mr.. Bcecher shared in IL personally,
and that it involved no criminal intimacy.
The charge of blackmail is considered, and en-
phatically denied.
Mr.. Beecher's letters are then taken up and
subjected TO an analysis to show that his agonized
expressions are all consistent with one thing
the crime of adultery-and are not consistent
with any other fact pretended fact in the case.
Mr.. Tilton concludes with reflection upon the
remorse which must forever assal Mr.. Beccher
in view of the desoation he is charged with hav-
ing wrought. :" have, in times past he says,
seen him suffer from his own sef-innicted
tortures in contemplation of the very crime for
which he has now been exposed to the scOrn and
pity of the world. L know well enough how his
own thoughts have bowed him In agony to the
dust; and this is enough. Wherefore, in con
templating my empty house. my scattered chill
dren and my broken home, / thank Heaven that
| am spared the pang of this mans remorse for
having wrought ruin which not even Almighty
God can repair"