The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27
GU would say Injurious. I wopld saw ruinous.

You would say Injurious, I would say ruinous.
BY Mr.. Wlnslow-The learning the future.
as understand, was to procure the silence and
ourlai OF the scandal? A.-No, 1t wasn't either
ltreferred to plans by which Tnton was to get
something to do, and do ii, and get some praise
forit, aud be content.
Q.-The devices"-did that refer to all the
plans and arrangements and steps that had heen
taken Alt referred to this--if had been left
20 manage this matter simply myself 1 should
have SAID Yes" or mo-" That would have been
the whole gift, but instead Of that the matter
went into Moutons hands and Moulton is q
man that loves intrigue in such way that. so
Lady Montague said of somebody, she would not
carve cabbage, unless he could steal on it from
behind, and do it by Device, and the smallest
things and the planest he liked to do in the sham
est way. He was consulting with parties here
and there and elsewhere, and great deal Of
whispering was taking place, an finally 1t wonla
turn out that something was not going to be d ,ne
that he had said he would do, and he did not
tell me why, and | had to guess. There was
ths wide circuit of various influences to which
ne was moving all the time. The word devices, ),
did not refer to ME but to him-his whole style of
acting.
| Q.-Theodore said he was born fer war, and
Moulton was probably born for diplomacy A
Yes.
By Mr.. Cleveland
Q.-Were the plan and method by which, from
time to time, these things were managed, bv
your suggestions or Mr.. Moulton? Al made
suggestions from time to time, generally without
any effect and the essential course of affairs.
so far as it has not been forced upon US from
outside influences, has been of his (Moulton al
procuring.
i Gle managed this whole matter with Mr..
tTilton Yes, he represented himself always
as having all the reins in his hands-as having in
his hands such power that if worst should come
to the worst he could compel settlement He
intimated to me time and again that he lad such
materials in his hands respecting Theodore that
as he said once eff Theodore does not do as
; say, I'll grind him to powder"
By Mr. Winslow.-"By which we say d our
selves" this letter says-saved from what? A
From the explosion of this whole mud mass.
Ole had co2doned "his wife's fault" What
did you mean by this A.-Condone has q legal
! meaning and general meaning, but the general
meaning OF condone is to pass over, to max
peace, to overlook and Iuse the word as literary
man would use it, not as lawyer. If used it
; in legal phrase the word would have been
''ofense," not 'fault''
Q.-In using the word fault do you refer to some
particular act of Mrs. Tilton T? AR to the
complaints he made in general in respect to her
You know perfectly we'll what was the impression
conveyed to me from the beginning to tie end
and that was thatI had stolen into his house, and
that had taken advantage of the simplicity of
his wife to steal her affections to myself and away
from him.
| Q.-And Go you mean to cay you had that in
your mind when you used the word fault? A
suppose did,
Q.-You say in the same letter that he had
"enjoined you most earnestly and soemnly not
to betraY his wte"-ln what respect A.-Not
to betray this whole difficulty into which his
household have been cast. Consider how it is.
! appeal to every sensitive man and cultivated
nature in the world ifany greater evil can befal
than to have woman. wife and mother, made
!, her moral character. For no greater harm can
befall woman than to be talked about from
house tG house with discussions as to the grade
of ofense, and the probable value of the offense,
and the cause of the offense and everything about
1t. Next to stabbinga woman dead is 70 talk
about her virtue, and If the public suppose that
in order TO interpret those letters must refer to
avulgar, physical, gross indignity, then they are
Ii ling on plane where do not live. You must
remember that was aware that, in addition
tc the trouble involving my name, Mr. Tilton had
also, in fits ofjealousy. accused his wife of imi-
nal intercourse with several gentlemen of whom
L was not one, and had asserted, in the presence
of Witnesses, that all her children except thu
first were the children of those men respectively.
In his decent MOODS he was very anxious to have
such accusations unknown to the world, the mere
rumor of them would cast an inefaceable BLIGHT
upon his children. Nothing would have induced
me to make this explanation but that Mr.. Tilton
has deliberately chosen to cast blight of pre-
cisely the same kind upon those very children by
his subsequent couse, and all that is left to me
is the power to speak of this abominable accu-
sation with the scorn which such horrible false
hood deserves
Q.-fou can refer to some points which have
already been considered for moment. II have
strange feeling upon me- that 1 am spending nv
last Sunday and preaching my last sermon"
Do you refer to the same condition OF health and
mlnd that Jou have described ? Al refer to
the fact simply that tnat was my state of mind
during this great trouble, although, If you were
70 collect all the language have used at various
tlmes' 1t might produce an impression that I had
wallo"ed 10 a sea of unparalleled distress.
have had stormy days, and have suffered more
from this than probably all other causes in NV
life put together yet, taking the four years to-
gether, have had more religious peace and more
profound insight into the wants and sufferings Of
men. Since I have become acquainted with
trouble and despair / have had an experience
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