The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-08-12
Beecher-Tilton
earns ISyEsTieATIos.


aud Immediately proceeded 20 Brooklyn
and the cottsge Of Theodore Tiiton.
sect in ny card. srd, being resolved with
eo1f;eousy expressed my desire TO obtain st
cnce whsleves 10 might be willing TO give
The Caicsgo Tribans. BE seemed puz.
slsd AZ trs,, but, AFTER, . while, proceeded
10 speak q the mental rack he Was going
thro1sh, and assured me shat, u / would
resura II ~ hc1r, l sheuld have the Gay
sn6 nigh. IA 1is company. l went i'm
rletis Eslv - the heuss Of Frank Moulton,
uocr I well knew. Moulton was very
s1sy revising his statement Then 1
went 70 the office Of Judge Morris.
rlTcSs TREATMENT OF HIS wIfs.
TIE topic that has been latest under dis
eusion with certain gentlemen was Mrs
Tilton's alleged statement that her hus.
band had neglected his home, locked his
wife in room, lived sparingly, etc. This
affected T,lton's pride and made his
friends feel indignant. To refu,e the
statement, l WAS shown by Mr. Tiltons
counsel the correspondence between the
wife and husband from 1866 down nearly
TO the date OF the discovery OF the adul-
terry. l read it with sensibility, admira-
ton an1 wonder. That home was truly
! ido0l. Tho insidious entry of Beecher
into II, tho husbands apprehension, tho
wife's infatuation, their correspondence us
to this intruder, and, finally, the struggle
in q bysteric nature between ber pastor,
who had put her soul in leading. strings
and tho groom of her youth, was perfectly
visible.
Said ] TO Judge Morris: "Uive me
these letters. They are needful, that tho
world may understand you both. l will
print them in q distant city, SO that they
may slowly find their way back here with
such delay as not 10 affect the main Issue
on the spot
Judge Morris, Mr.. Tilton's counsel, fsv-
ored the request. secured the whole of
that remarkable correspondence. Not
Aoelard or Hsloise ever wrote such let
tiers. They are tho quintessencs Of love.
As literary compositions they are no lees
valuable than rs perfect opponents of the
two and actors 10 this damnable play.
WITH MR. TILToN AND HIS COUNSEL.
Mr. Tilton, Judge Morris, and myself
then took II carriage and drove to the sea-
shore, six miles distant. We were gone
all that afternoon. i put lawyer and
man vi der a. close an examination as WAS
compatible with our relations aud my
knowledge of Tiltons nature. Mr. Tilton
never Atnched. Mr. Morris heart was in
his defense. Such story, go related, 1t
would be impossible for me to repeat. The
substance of 1t shall give you. We re-
turned to Brooklyn, and Mr. Tilton and
mysoli sat up till midnight, still lsboring
over the same theme, and finally were the
only two tenants of the cottage, except
Katle. the old servant-maid. We retired
about | o'clock, and arose and break
tasted together. Though in this darkencd
house OF woe, desolate of wife or chill
dren, 1 never felt under more peaceful
protection for the purity, the sorrow. and
the bravery of the man who slept in the
very chamber where he had listened to
the dread onfassion Of guilt permeated
tho place. His conversation all day had
been Of sweet and lofty sort, scarcely
Ike anything worldly ever heard Ths.
part Of the public with measures him by
the false orbit Of Beecher Is not swai o of
the mans height.
AiR MoULToS SAID TO ME-
another day: "8ath, L cannot speak OF
ANYTHING material 10 TO what l shall have
TO saw, but this ! tell you rs between
Beecher and Iilton in their behavior I'M
der fire, Triton is infinitely the larger,
more soIf-reliant, more reliable man. i
never heard him lie, and Beechor has been
lying during tho whole Of this contro.
yersy. He began 1t with az act Of troach-
ery, confessing his adultery with Eliza
beth 10 me, asked mo to walk with hun
round to Tiltons house, and going In
there, the usband be absent he ertorted
from Elizabeth II retrsction OF her comics
sion. With this in his pocket, no walked
back to my house and then asked mo &c
| walk to his, ard while talking despair and
contrltiou all the way, he stu hsld tha'
piece of paper in his pocket
Said to Mr. Moulton ais II true that
you got that back by presenting pisto
ut his head ~
He said: "No but AS soon ~ Theo-
| dore told me that Elizabeth had acknowl-
edged writing that retrac,ion. L went
! round to Mr. Beecher's and insisted upon
seeing HIM, and l said You are Affect
ing to be making n covenant to keep
perpetual truce, and yet Mr.. Beecher, you
are already intriguing. shall go out oil
this office Of mediator, unless you Instant,
surrender the paper lilo has no mora
pluck How can he have, living such
life2"
"Ihen," said to Mr.. Moulton, "yor
cannot see
AWAY or ESCAPE FOR BEEcHERV'
Said Moulton: "Ho may escape tho pom
| allies, but not the facts. i think TIM
council will whitewssh him, and tina
Plymouth church will take him back
but have hoard from his own lips thin L
TO revolt at" iorbear TO send you th'
language which Moulton repeated to IN
ms having come from Mr. Bsecher'
lips, both on account Of its exceeding
dizziness, and because the ladies referre'
to have been in no way connected Will
tho Tilton case
l asked NJ MouIton; "Will you pu
these stories in your evidence
mo, IL line. said Moulton, except the
letters bearing on tho Beecher-Titoi
case. pray the Lord l may never b
put through this ordeal in any othe
case. Why, / have fed the city, bidde
myself, labored to the last minute TO ge
these people 10 stand aloof and save tn
world a horror and, when am cstcbin
4 1t on every side for this sacrifice, Nj
Beecher writes me letter and makes m
answer public in order to appear to estsl
. lish point for him. That resolved IN
to make my second answer public.
e BEEoHER's HABrTUAL TREAcHERY.
n since this crime cannot avail with me, nc
will SEQ him further trsmple on Thee
( dore Tilton, when he had drsgge
through the fires of hell already
Mr.. Moulton further said that Beech,
q had long ago said to him "Til.on eom
no more to church let US edge him on
drop his name You must act with me
"ln another respect," continued Mou
ton, "Beocher has lied He gave me b
solemn word that since the discovery