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gether with the draft of an answer which
he said he proposed to send to Mrs. Morse.
Her letter is herewith produced, marked
~" and Mr.. Beecher's draft of reply,
marked "V, and are as follows:
MRS. MORSE TO MR.. BREcHER.
Received January. 81, 1871; received
from II. w. b. January go, 1871.
MIR. Beecher-As you have not seen fit
to pay any attention to the request l left at
your house now over two weeks since, l
will take this method to inform you of the
state of things in Livingston street. The
| remark you made to me at your own door
was an enigma at the time, and every day
adds to the mystery. "Mrs. Beecher has
adopted the child" "What chld?" l ask
ed You replied, elizabeth"
Now, | asked what earthly sense was
there in that remark Neither Mrs. b,
yourself nor l can have done anything to
ameliorate her condition. She has been
for the last three weeks with one very in
different girl. 7. has sent-with the 9TH
ers away, leaving my sick and distracted
child to care for all four children night and
day, without fire in the furnace or anything
like comfort or nourishment [sic] in the
house. She has not seen anyone. He
says, "She is mourning for her sin" If
this be SO, one twenty-four hours under his
shot think is enough to atone for life
long sin, however henious Lsicl / know
that any change in his affairs would bring
more trouble upon her and more suffering.
did not think for moment when l asked
Mrs. b. as to your call there, supposing
she knew it of course, as she said you would
not 90 there without her.
was innocent [sc1 of making any mis-
np1pr standing if there
keep quiet. | have all through her mar
ried life done so, and we now see our err
or sic1. 1t has brought him to destruction,
made me utterly miserable, turned me from
a comfortable home, and brought his own
family to beggary. | don't believe if his
honest debts were paid he would have
enough to buy their breakfast [sicl. This
she could endure and thrive under, but the
publicity he has given to this recent and
most crushing of all trouble is what's taken
the life out Of her / know of twelve per-
sons whom he has told, and they in turn
have told others. / had thought we
had as much as We could live
under from his neglect and ungovernable
temper. But this is the deathblow to us
both, and l doubt not Florence has hers.
Do you know when l hear of your crack
ing your jokes from Sunday to Sunday, and
tulllh VI tie iilsSiy sOu nav oiOubhe uPoh
us, think with the psalmst, 'there is no
God" Admitting all he says to be the in
vention of his half-drunken brain, still the
effect upon us is the same, for all he's told
believe it. Now he's nothing to do, he makes
target of her night and day. am driven
to this extremity; to pray for her release
from all suffering by Gods taking her him
self, for if there's heaven l know she'll
go there.
The last time she was in this house, she
sara, mere 1 feel have iiU itOnie, but Oh
the other side know shall be more than
welcome" Oh, my precious child how
my heart bleeds over you in thinking of
your sufferings. Can you do anything in
| the matter?
Must she live in this suffering condition
of mind and body with no alienation? sic
You or any one else who advises her to
live with him when he is doing all he can
to XII. her by slow torture is anything but
friend.
I don't know if you can understand
sentence I've written, but I'm relieved some
what by writing. The children are kept
from me, and have not seen my dieing
sc1 child but once since her return from
this house.
l thought the least you could do was to
put your name to paper to help reinstate
my brother Gin the custom house, Eliza
beth vas as much disappointed as myself.
He is still without employment, with a sick
wife and five children to iced, behind with
rent, and everything else behindhand.
1T your wife has adopted Lib sic or yo :.
sympathize with her, pray you do some
thing for her relief before it is too late
He swears so soon as her breath leaves her
body he will make this whole thing public,
and this prospect, l think, is one thing
which keeps her living. know ofno other.
She's without nourishment sic1 for one IN
her state, and in want-actual want. They
would both deny it no doubt, but it's true.
BEEcHER TO MRS. MORSE.
"Mrs. Judge Morse: My Dear Madam
| should be very sorry to have you think
/ had no interest in your troubles. My
course toward you hitherto should satisfy
you that have sympathized with your dis
tress. But Mrs. Beecher and l, after full
consideration, are of one mind-that under
present circumstances, the greatest kind
ness to you and to all will be, in so far as
we are concerned, to leave to time the rec
tificaton of all the wrongs, whether they
prove real or imaginary
1t will be observed that in the letter OF
Mrs. Morse she says Tilton has sent
with the others away. | purposcly omit
, the name of this young girl. There was a
, reason why it was desirable that she should
| be away from Brooklyn. That reason, as
given me by Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton, was,
this She had overheard conversations by
them concerning Mrs. Tilton's criminal in
timacy with Beecher, and she had reported
these conversations to several friends o.
the family. Being young and not knowing
the consequences of her prattling, it seemed
or tho safety Of tho families
that she should be sent to a distance It
school, which was accordingly done.
She was put at boarding school at thu
West, and the expenses of her stay there
were privately paid through me by Beecher
to whom had stated the difficulty of hav
ing the girl remain in Brooklyn; and h
agreed with us that it was best that sh
should be removed, and offered to be at thu
cost of her schooling. The bills were sen
to me from time to time as they became
due a part of them through Mrs. Tilton.
FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME.
JAN. r.
My Dear Mrs Tilton-The story that Nj
Tilton once lifted me from my bed and car
ried me screaming to his own and attempte
to violate my person is a wicked lie.
Yours truly, -*+N-.
While this young lady was at school sh
did inform friend of Mrs Tilton, Mrs p,
of the stories of the family relations. Thes
stories were written to Brooklyn, and cam
to the knowledge ofmy friends, creating a
impression upon their minds unfavorable t
Mr. Tilton, and might possibly lead to tn
re-opening of the scandal. /, therefore
took pains to trace them back, and foun
that they came from Mrs F., to whom tn
school girl had told them. |, therefore
y called upon Tilton and asked ifthese storie
could not be stopped. Soon afterward h
= produced to me letter dated the 9Th c
n November, 1872, written by Mrs Tilton
o with note to me on the back thereof, to di'
, abuse Mrs +. s mind as to the girls disclC
sures. The letter is here produced marke
= "Y."
70 MRS. TILroN TO MRS. +.
~ ~ BROOKLYN, Nov. s, 1879.