The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
Beecher-T iltOn-Extracts from Tilton's
Last Letter.
[New York Associated Press pispatoh.l

New York Associated Press Dispatch.l
Among the documents which Theo-
dore Tilton includes in his long open
letter to the Rev. DIR. Leonard Bacon,
on what is commonly known ms the
Beecher-Tilton scandal" is the fol
lowing under date of May l, 1874:
Henry Ward Beecher:
SIR MIR. +. b. Carpenter mentions to me
your saying to him that, under certain condi-
tons, involving certain disavowals by me,
sum of money would or could be raised to
send me, with my family, to Europe for aterm
of years The occasion compols me to state
explicitly that, 80 long AS life and self
respect continue to exist together III my
breast L shall be debarred from receiving
either directly or indirectly, any presents or
other favor at your hands. The reason Tor
this feeling on my part you know so well that
/ will spare you the statement OF 1t.
TnEoDoRE Triton.
Tilton follows this with reference to
what he declares is fact, that, although
he had received from the Clerk OF
Plymouth Church, ON the 18th of May,
n communication announcing that his
(Tilton's) offers to appear for trial had
been read by the Rev. Mr.. Halliday,
the assistant pastor of Plymouth
Church, and submitted to an examining
committee, by whom it had been re-
iected, Mr.. Halliday had. some forty
days afterward, emphatically denied to
several newspaper reporters that such
an offer had ever been received, and
branded the whole story as false from
beginning to end. The Rev. DR..
Bacon having, in his speech, character
lied Beecher as the most magnanimous
of men, and referred to TiltOn rs q
"dog and knave," leading the public to
infer that the latter was in some way Il
creature of Beecher's bounty, Tilton
states that he called Beecher's attention
10 the ofiensiveness of the statement,
and insisted on its correction by either
that gentleman or himself. Tilton
closes his remarks to the Rev. DIR. Ba-
con as follows =" If the public have
heretofore considered my silence as in
applicable, let my sufficient motive be
now seen III the Just forbearance which
felt morally bound to show to man
who had sent me written and absolute
apology ; but my duty to continue this
forbearance ceased when the spirit of
that apology was violated to my injury
by its author or his agents. These
violations have been multitudinous, and
they threaten to multiply in future
forcing me to protect myself against
them in advance, particularly against
the cunning devices of the Clerk of the
church, who, acting as attorney, APP
pears to be conducting this business
against me as if it were case at law
Had the fair spirit, which l had a right
t. expect from Plymouth Church, at
least for its pastors sake, been shown
toward me, / would have continued to
rest in silence on Mr.. Beecher's apollo
gy, and never during the remainder of
my life would have permitted any
public word OF mine to allude to
the offense of the offender but the
injurious measures which the author of
this apology has since permitted his
church to take against me, without a
protest on his part, involving gross in
iuries to me, which have been greatly
aggravated by your writings, have put
me before my countrymen in the char
acter of base and bad mana charac-
ter which trust is foreign to nay nature
and life. Under the accommodating
weight of this odium, unjustly bestowed
on me, neither patience nor charity can
demand that | keep silent"