New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-22

the wayside before reach the consummation. We
shall then look back with exceeding great JOY to all
more holy than has Yet come upon earth Again bless
you for your letter Ahectionately and faithfully yours
oh, my dear brother fear the awful struggle to live
according 70 law has wrought an absolute demOrahza
Of @ whon the sar
ment Is truth and the specks are the fasehood.
read i to YOU but will COPY it lest You have forgotten
Its character: .
"MY DEAR BELLE / was sorry when met you at
not 70 have had Longer s Ss ysp s1S1t
deed shall be out Of town. do not want You to lake
my sympathy WITH S: YOU fPoSsSy
together than any Of family cannot give reason
ment thank you for your letter. or some things I
neither alk riu De talked '''h For love and
sympathy / am deeply thankful. The only help that
can be grateful to me or useful is silence and sencins
on all day may %ss for s.s9 Bae
lore me- and do not talk about me or suffer others 70
in your presence. God love and keep you GOD Keep
The undcrscoTnr is hs own, and when read in that
he migs, xii hneif my mind flew back to this
tence, which suggested suicide TO me the monen rea
1t: Living or dead, my dear sister Behe tore me- anu
Now, Tom, can't you 20 to brother Edward at once
told you; and when you have coonseed togetneer as
brothers should counsel also, and come to me you
love. At of course, shah keep silence, but
truth dsarer than al things else and n he e w
ing TO q lie "God help us all" Yours IN ioVe'
Ifyou can't come TO me- send Edward I lam utterly
alone and my aches for that woman even as Tor
own flesh and blood and 40 moi and ABSOLUTELY
power foreign 10 herself TO these strange
r,ftrsth as She UNDERSTANDS it~,ways befrend
the poor and outcas and bring low only the proud tne
hypecrites IN high places. Toe word about meeting at
Mrs Phelps house j have added 10 the copy II you
see Henry tell him OF this
The reply to this letter by the Rev. Thomas X.
Beecher to his sister is as follows. and needs but
single remark-the thought of a good man as to the
value of testimony in this case ! refer to the last
sentence of the postscript. This produced marked
Int"
REV. THos X. BEECHER TO HIS SISTER
ELMIRA, Nov. 6, 1872.
DEAR BELLE To allow the Devil himself 10 be
crushed speaking the truth s unspeaKably cowaay
aud contemplate. respect at present ddrised, Mrs
woodruff, while abhor her philosophy. She only car.
ries ont Henrys philosophy against which recorded
my protest twenty years ago. and parted lovingly ana
achngly) from HIM saying, We cannot WORK together
am sharpcOrncred and exacting. cannot help him ex-
am ss fnps1y ace
of expedency and In his cry OF progress ana tne
nobleness OF human natuTe has sscrced GEAR Sfse N.Y.
my pulpit. my home, my church, ana my purse ana
heart at his service. OF the two, woodruff is my
hero, and Henry my coward, as az resent adrsed But
protest against the whole batch aud all its belongings.
1 want no antsavery; am not anti family. But. as /
years whenever assault slavery because Of
its aominatlons shall assaii the Church, the State,
the fan,iv and all aer institutions of selfish usage
the 70" eanI Sa o tse ercs as ye
and am glad OF IT, When the storm-iine includes me
shall suffer as Christian saying; Cease ye Irop
Don't write to me. Follow the truth, aud when you
need me cry out Yours, lovingly,
PSI am so overworked :.nd hurried that see upon
10
and suffer %,tn YOU You are in tight place Bue nav
ing chosen your principles can counsel you to De true
have been apart from all of you except in love THINK
you all in the wrong as 70 antafopoUgy amH
sake. Ny suffer will come in due time In THIS
world al Christians shall suffer triDnlation. So eat
comes say hereunto were we called But repeat
Ps.NI unseai INV letter to inciose print and add :
You have proof yet OF any oense on Henrys part
wife. Moaton and Co are witnesses. Even Mrs. stan
ton can only declare hearSag So II you move, renem
Der that you standing uncertain information and
we shall not probably get the facts and Pm glad
of IT, Ii Mr.. aud Mrs. rlton are brought into court
nothing will be revealed Perjury for good reason Is
with advanced thinkers no SIN
1t Will be observed in the letter of Mrs Hooker
that she speaks of having refused to 90 to Europe
with her husband, and that she remained at home in
order 10 protect her brother in this emergency of his
life. 80.
Italy Nov g. 1871 which tends to show that all this
matter had been discussed between Mr.. Hooker and
his wife long before the publication by Mrs. Wood
hull Iextract so much from the letter as refers to
this subject. The remainder is kindly communi-
cation of an absent husband to loved wife, about
wholly independent matters which have nothing to
do with this controversy. 1t is produced, marked
"NS"
MR., HOOKER TO HIS WIFE
FLoRENCE, Sunday, Nov. 8, 1872.
MY PRECIOUS WIFE: i h,ps were not panied by
what wrote on Friday about the III. W. b. matter
cannot look upon any other light and IT is relief
10 speak mind right out about 1t and then let
little The only mitigation Of the concealment Of the
thing that can think OF is this-ans it seems to me
that ths or Of TIE Of
both Mr.. T. and his wife required IT, or seemed to- and
close it, but took the advice OF few Of his leading
friends In the church. and was overrued by Them they
THIS would take Off what from the hypocrisy OF the
but leaves the original crime as open TO eondem-
quest keep me informed of all that occurs, and
see G by an extract from re Boston advertiser that Mrs
W. has employed two Boston shwyers ut gives
and Woman s'Jom nal. that It looks if the ex.
posure Is near at hand / want TO say one word
after the H. matter becomes public without being
exactly responsible for it, that yon have kept friend
publish the story, you having learned its ruthand
that is substantially the fact as have understood 1t
and that you up going TO Europe with me TO
be and comfort ii. when the truth came out
you expected it to do in the OF the Summer This
will give the appearance of sesacrifce TO your aha
ton with her. and will explain not coming abroad
with me-a fact which has very unwife-like look.
know that you will otherwise he regarded as holding
Mrs WIS views, and that shall be regarded living
in some discOrd, aud probably 10y many people,
ing her principles 1t would be great relief
is TO have your relations to Mrs w. explained in this
way SO credit.aa To vonr hear. aaeio s snt hall the
untruth IN 1t that there has been all along In my pre-
tended approval OF Mrs. Woodhhlfs course and yet
people think me an honest man. have lied enough
about that the character OF average man,
have probably damaged myself by 1t.
After Beecher had seen these letters of his sister,
Mrs. Hooker, be came to me. in trouble and alarm