New-York tribune., 1874-09-19
MIR. TILTON'S STORY.
ANOTHER EDITION OF THE SCANDAL.

ANOTHER EDITION OF THE SCANDAL.
IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING ADDITIONS AND uLD
GATIoSs-MRs TILroN's ALLEGED CONFESSION
MADE PUBLIC IN AUGUST, 1870-MR- BEECHERd
ALLEGED oFFENsE CLEARLY SPECIFIED IN TIN
PLYMOUTH CHURCH CHARGES AGAINST Mr.. TIL
ToN-ArTACKs UPON MRS. MORSE, MISS TURNER
THE COMMITTEE AND OTHERS.
Throughout the country If rightly interpret the
public press, majority Of candid minds admit the
truth of my indictment against the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher. But many fair-minded persons, ami
mated by charitable doubt. have asked me for
some further confirmation Of the one chief allega-
ton in this controversy. Ny sworn statement, pub
lished in The Brooklyn Argus Of July 90, was not
written for publication, otherwise / wouh have
cited In it greater number of facts and proofs The
only use which / designed for that statement was
simply to read it to the Investigating Committee.
before whom I expected to confirm its charges by
such additional testimony the investigators liz
such they could be called should require. But the
Committee consisting of six trusted friends Of the
accused appointed by him for the sole purpose,
not of discovering his guilt, but of pronounc-
ing his acquittal, resented my accusation
against their popular favorite and, to pun
ish for making ii, converted their tn
bunal into star chamber for trying. not him,
but me. The questions which they asked me were
mostly irrelevant TO the case and the only part Of
my testimony that bore directly on Mr. Beecher'f
adultery they Cancelled from their report of my ex-
animation. One of the Committees attorneys said
to me, II Mr.. Beecher is guilty prefer not to
know it," The whole Committee acted on this pre-
determined plan The chief witnesses who could tes-
tify against Mr.. Beecher-nOtably Francis ID. Moul-
ton. Joseph II. Richards Martha Is. Bradshaw. Susan
B. Anthony, Francis b. Carpenter, Emma R..Moul-
ton, Henry C. Bowen Thomas Kinsella, and others
either not willing to testify or their testimony
was set aside as not being officially before tribunal
that did not wish to receive it, Accordingly, my in
dictment against Mr.. Beecher was left by the Com
mittee to stand without other proof than that
which my statement of July 90 afforded unassisted
by other witnesses. When the Committee asked me
if the statement contained my whole case,
answered no; for it was simply sue
cnt narrative, giving only such dates and
documents as thought sufficient for the Commit
tees private inquiry, and yet more than sufficient to
put an impartial committee on the right road to the
whole truth. Since the date of Its publication sew
eral counter statements have appeared, including
Mr.. Beecher's denial, closely followed by Mrs. Til
tons, both Of which were untrue; then by the Com
mittee's numerous publications Of One-sided test-
mony and last of all by a verdict based solely on
these untrutbful denals to the neglect OF all the
positive allegations on the other side; 80 tnat tue
Committee accepted the silly ictlons OF Bessie
Turner, but rejected the serious facts of Mr. Mouf-
ton, nor did they even invite Mr.. Bowen to appear
before them; all which unfair proceedings and un-
candid publications require of me, for the sake OF
some hesitant minds, reply which the larger por-
ton of the community have already made for them
selves. therefore submit the following facts and
evidences, arranged as far as convenient inchrono-
logical order, and making narrative which, as II
progresses step by step, will aim to correct and
counteract, one by one, the untrue denials OF Mr.
Beecher and Mrs Tilton and the unjust deductions
of the Committee.