The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-06
OF MRS. ELIZABETH r
TILTON.

last ten years, the stings and pains / had
daily schooled myself 30 bury and forgive,
ma kes this imperative duty,ss called forth
by tho malicious statement of my hus-
band, the saddest act of my life Be-
sides, my thought of following the Mas
ter contrAdicts this act of nay pen, and
sense OF the perversion OF my life-faith
almost compels ms now to stand aside till
God Himself delivers. @a.iatat 71a asrt
Yet I see in this wanton act an urgent
call and privilege from which / shrink
not. To reply in detail to the twenty
two articles OF arraignuent, shall not
attempt at present. Yet if called upon
to testify to each and all of them, shall
not hesitate to do so. Suffice it, for my
purpose now that I reply to one or more
of the most glsring charges. ao
Touching the feigned sorrow Of my
husbands compulsory revelations, l SOL
EMMY, avow that long before the Wood
hull publication / knew him by insinua-
ton and direct statement to have repeated
to evsry neal relative and friend the sub
stance of thsse accusations which shock
the moral sense of tbs entire community
this day. Many times. when hearing that
certain persons bad spoken i'll of him, he
has sent mo ~ Guilds them for 80 doing;
and then and there z learned he had been
before me with his cklumnies agsinst my
self, 80 that was speechless.
The reiteration in his statement that
he hal persist ently striven to hide" these
so-called facts is utterly false Jas his hatred
TO Mr.. Beecher has existed thesc many
years, and the determination to ruin Mr.
Beecber has been the one aim of his life /.
Again, the perfdy with which the holi-
est love wife ever offered has bsen reck-
ltssly discovered in this publication,
reaches well nigh to sacriledge, and
added to this, the endsavor like the early
scandal of Mrs. Woodruff, to make my
own works condemn me, has no parallel
Most conspicuously, ms letter quoting
the reading of Griffin Gaunt. Had Mr.
Tillon read the pure character of Cathar.
inc, he wonld have seen that lifted my.
self beside it as near as any human be.
ling may affect an ideal. But it was heI
character, and not the incidents IF fiction
surrounding it, to which referred. Hers
vas no ain of criminal act or thought.
A like confession" with hers. / had
made to Mr.. Tllton in telling of my love
to my friend and Pastor, one year before
And now add that, notwithstanding al!
misrepresentation and anguish of soul,
owe to my acquaintance and friendship
with Mr.. Baecher, as to no other human
fundamentally, that encouragement il
my mental life, and that growth toward
the divine nature, which enable me te
walk daily in lively hope of the life be.
yopd.
The shameless charges N articles z. 8
and are fcarfully false in each and everz
particular. III
The letter referred to in Mr.. Tilton',
, tenth paragraph was obtained from mt
by importantly. snd By representation,
that it was necessary for him to use in hi,
then pending dificultie. with Mr.. Bowen
was then sick, nigh unto death, having
suffered miscarriage only four DAYS be.
fore. signed whatever he REQUIRED.
without knowing or understanding III
import. The, paper have never seen,
and do not know what statements it con.
tanned. 81
In charge IS, letter Of mine, ad dressed
TO Mr.. Francis Moulton, is quoted to prove
that never desired separation ar was
advised BY Mr.. or Mrs. Beecher to leave
my husband. l reply the letter was Of
Mr.. Tilton's own concoction, which be ia.
duced me to copy and Sign as my own
an act which. in my weakness and mis-
taken thought to help him, ! have done
too often during these unhappy years. 81