The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-08-27

porarily earned, would be absolutely worthless,
filled with abrupt changes and rendering me
stultify all the devices by which We saved our
selves. 1t is only fair that he should know
that the publication Of the card which he
before the agreement was made: After my
letter through you was written he had had It IT,
c had S f h ne nsa
and solemnity not to betray his wife, nor leave
him in blight. I had honestly and earnestly
sna the % hs w"s
wholly suit him, aud signed it. It stood
%as nothing but tsa TSse
which he did in private, when made public, ex-
cited him to fury, and he charges me with
by me. 1t was his own deliberate act, with
which he was perfectly content till others saw it,
and then he charges gricvous wrong home on
shall write for the public statement that viii
bear the light of Judsmcnt-Day: God will take
care of me and mine. When / look on earth it
see the morning breaking; but oh! that could
put in golden letters my deep. sense Of
your earnest, faithful and undying fidelity,
too, has been one Of Gods comfortcrs 1t is such
life that renewed waning faith in manhood.
Now, Frank, I would not have you waste any
as 7. T. There is no possible salvation for any
that depend upon him. With strong nature.
he does not know how to govern it; with gen
is self; with ardent affection, he cannot love
long that which does not repay but with ad-
miration and praise; with strong theatric ma
ture, he is constantly imposed upon with the idea
the way to success. Besides these he has hun.
dred good things about him, but these named
fore there is no use in further trying. have
strong feeling upon me, and it brings great peace
with it, that am spending my last Sunday and
thank Thee! am, indeed, beginning to feel
rest and triumph. The pain of life is but mo-
ment: the glory Of the everlasting emancipation
oh. my beloved Frank. I shall know you then,
and forever hold fellowship with you, and look
back and smile at the past! Your loving
After making his statement to the
Investigating Committee M. Beecher
was cross-examined at great length, and
in answer to questions propounded by
members of the committee sought to
throw additional light on some portions
of the statement made by him. AS to
why he had said in letter dated Feb. Z,
1871, "Of course | can never speak with
mission, and don't know that even then
it would be BEST" Mr.. Beechcr explains
that it was because Mr.. TiltOn
had sent him word forbidding him
to ever enter his house again. Mr..
Il. knew he had frequently wished that he
was dead, and so had Mcssrs. Tilton and
Moulton used the same expression in his
presence, because of the troubles and
perplexities in which they were mixed
up. AS to the expression in one of his
(Beechcr's) letters to Mr.. MOulton that
che (Tilton) had condoned his wife's
fault Mr. Il. said: "COndoned has a
legal meaning and a general meaning;
but | used the word as Il literary
man would use it, not as a lawyer.
If l had used it in 4 legal phrase
the word would have been ottense,
not fault" BY the word fault" he re-
fcrrcd to the complaints Tilton made in
general in respect to his wife, the i'm
preston conveyed to him (Beechcr) from
beginning to end being that he was
charged with having taken advantage of
the simplicity of Mrs. Tilton to steal her
affection to himself and away from her
husband As to the statement that Mr..
Tilton had enjoined him not to betray
his wife, Mr.. b. said it meant mot to be-
tray this whole difficulty into which his
household had been cast" In reply to
question as to what were his ideas on
the frce-love question, Mr.. Beecher
stated that he abhorred every NANTES
tation of the free-lOve doctrine that he
had seen in theory, and abhorred every
advocate of the frce-love doctrine that he
had known. He had never met the
Woodhulls more than three times in his
life. In the further course of the cross
examination Mr.. Beecher testified to
having paid to Mr.. Tilton, through Mr..
Moulton, in the way of contributions,
sums amounting to some 1000. Apay-
ment of $1,000 in one sum was made by
him because 1t had been represented to
him that the whole difficulty could be
settled by that amount of money, which
would put the affairs of the Golden Age
on secure footing; that they would be
able to go right on, and that with the
going on of them the safety of Tilton
would be assured, and that would be a
settlement of the whole thing; it was to
save Tilton pecuniarily.