The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-03
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A Lot Of Worthless Gobble
about the Beecher
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dwell together in unity, and read letters
from old members OF the church, express
ing confidence in Mr.. Beecher.
A mutual friend of Messrs. Beecher and
Tilton gives this story publicly this morn
ing +: Il know Mr. lilton told me that Mr..
Moulton, having learned that Beecher had
got possession of the paper which Mr..
Tilton wrote clearing him Of wrong doing,
went to Mr.. Beecher's house to get it, |
don't know positively whether he used
threats, but | know he went with q pistol
in his pocket prepared to get the paper by
threats If necessary. l know he came
away with the paper in his possession MIR.
Beecher told me SO at the time. y, -.
Rev. DR.. Bacon says: II believe Tilton
has for three years been calculating to lay
this egg and used my lecture as pretext." "
He (Dr. Bacon) considers the committee a
poor substitute for legal proceedings and
its verdict will be unsatisfactory. He feels
no sympathy for Tiltou and withdraws his
confidence from Beecher with the greatest
reluctance. ........
The Tribune says Isabella Beecher
Hooker, who knows Mrs Woodruff init
mately, believes her stories substantially
true, and has urged her brother to make "a
public confession.
The Argus has a report iof another in
terview with Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
She says she has not the slightest doubt
that Mrs. Tllton confessed to Susan b.
Anthony, who always speaks the truth, and
that the confession was of q criminal init
macy with Beecher, which Tilton has since
charged. Mr.. Tilton told the same story
to hes ,1 Dbl lnol hnk 81 bn
Woodruff thunderbolt fell he fatty denied
having made such statement to Miss
Anthony, and she had conversation with
to her Tilton,s words. She could not
tell what testimony Moulton had to give,
but he once said after visit from Mr.
Beecher: 1--WE have had Plymouth
Church on its knees" She would not ap-
pear before the committee willingly if
every witness before that body was to be
impeached, but would willingly appear be-
fore a court when summoned. The sub
tertuges of the committee in attacking the
characters of Tilton's lady friends prove
the strength of his case. Beecher could
not boast of purer friends among the ladies
than Tilton. The latter need not be
ashamed of such reformcrs as Grace
Greenwood, Celia Burleigh, Anna Dickin-
son, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, and
Paulina Davis During recent visit to
Paulina Davis she told her (Mrs. Stanton)
that Oliver johnson confided to her the
same story as told in Frank Carpenter s
statement.
After the publication of Woodhulrs s
story, Mr.. Beecher wrote to Mrs. Tilton
the following letter, which Mrs. Tilton au-
thorizes to be used in any way to serve
truth and justice
My Dear Mrs TfltOn:
| hoped that you would be shielded from
the knowledge of the great wrong that has
been done to you. and through you to uni
versal womanhood. l can hardly bear to
speak of it or allude to the matter, than
which nothing can be imagined more pain
full to pure and womanly nature. | pray
daily for you that your faith fail not.
Yourself know the way and power. Pray
God who has been your refuge in many
sorrows before. He will now hide you in
his pavilion until the storm be past. The
rain that beats down the flower to earth
will pass at length and the stem, bent but
not broken. will rise again and blossom as
before. Every pure woman on earth will
weep at this wanton and improved assault,
aimed at you, but which reaches universal
womanhood. Meantime your dear child
ren will love with double tenderness and
the one against whom these shafts are de-
signed will hide you in his heart of hearts
| am glad of this revelation. 1t has
given him a sight of the danger
that was before hidden by specious
appearances and promises. May God
keep him in courage in the
arduous struggle which he wages against
adversely and bring him out through time
like gold seven times refined have not
spoken of myself. No word could express
the sharpness and depth Of my sorrow in
your behalf my dear, honored friend. God
walks in the fire by the side of those be
loves, and in heaven neither you nor Thee
dore will regret the discipline however
hard or severe it may seem now. May he
restrain and turn those poor creatures who
have been given oyer to do all this sorrow
full harm to those who have deserved no
such treatment at their hands. CON-
mend you to my mothers God, my dear
friend. May his smile bring light in dark
ness and his love be a pereptual summer
to you. (Signed)
HENRY WARD BEECHER,
Mrs. Tilton, in the examination last eve
ming, recounted the efforts she had made
to restrain Tilton from following strange
women. He changed entirely the views
he had at their marriage. She tried ev
cry means to remove the Woodruff party
from the house, and finally sent for the
police, when they left. She said the night
Susan b. Anthony was there the scene
was violent. Theodore appeared crazy and
she slept with Miss Anthony, but made no
such confession as the latter afhrps. She
said Tilton had long circulated stories pre-
judicial to herself and Beecher, but moth
ing more. She had not written notes al
fecting improperly herself or Beecher. but
had sometimes copied letters Tilton had
prepared for her, often MT knowing their
contents. One Of these she signed while
ON sick bed. She protested that il would
wrong Mr. Beecher and herself, but T.ltOn
solemnly affirmti hat it was for her good,
and made promise. which he immediate
ly broke, to make no use of it that would
iniure her. She told DR. Storrs how-it was
afterwards denied and all that the papers
said in crimination of Beecher and her
self MOulton has not yet returned. Gen.
Tracy to-day said he could not believe
M0ulton had gone to Europe
Theodore Iilton to-day said 10 a report