The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-27
TlL7oa's REJOlnDER.
Outlines Of His Forthcoming Reply
s to BeeCheT.

Mr.. Tilton has promised to make
reply to Mr.. Beecher when Mr.. Moul-
ton has spoken. 1t will be found, how
ever, that the outline of that reply is
given below. It was communicated to
friend of Mr.. Tilton's on Sunday for
publication, and is in every line indors-
ed by Mr.. Tilton as his answer to the
defense of the Plymouth pastor. It
attacks some of the incidental details
of Mr.. Beecher's statement, and only
renders it more imperative that Mr..
Moulton should explain what Mr.. Til
ton alleges he is entirely ignorant Of:
Mrs. Iilton did not make her confes-
sion as Mr.. EBeecher states it. She
made it July 3. 1870. She was not
sick or feeble; she was in perfect, ro-
bust health. She had been five weeks
in the country no one called her home,
no one expected her. Within one hour
after she came into the house she enter
ed Mr.. Tilton's room and made full.
clean confession. No conversation
called it out no allusion had been
made to the subject of the confession.
Up to that hour Mr.. Tilton had no sus-
picions of anything wrong between his
wife and Mr.. Beeeher, and this was six
months before the time named by Mr..
Beecher. The ground Of the confession
was not the sin committed, but the
wretchedness and degradation arising
from the deception practiced. The
confession was repeated to the mother
Mrs. Morse) and to others whose
names are mentioned.
Mr.. Tilton denies that he went to Mr..
Beecher to have him intercede with
Bowen. There was no need of any
lntercession. The scene in the locked
chamber was on the 30th of December.
Five days before, Tilton had made with
Bowen two contracts, each running for
live years. By the one he was to edit
the Union, by the other he was to cor
respond for the Independent, the salary
in each case to be $4,000 year. The
day after (Dec. 81 the apology was
given, Tilton received from Bowen a
letter breaking his contracts, and Mr..
Beecher did the deed.
Mr.. Tilton denies that he received
any money from Beecher. In only two
cases could Mr.. Beecher have paid a
dollar. If he paid money in either
case Mr.. Tilton knew nothing Of it.. In
the one case capital was formed for
the Golden Age. Tilton put in some
money. Frank Moulton put in from
$4,000 to $4,000. If Mr.. Beecher paid
in any money Tilton never heard of 1T
ill Beechers statement came out. The
other case was money paid for the edu-
cation of young girl sent out west.
She was waif--an illegitimate child.
She was taken into Mr.. Tilton's house
out of charity. She found out the con-
fession. 1t was thought best to send
her away for an education. Mrs. Til
ton received all the bills, and these
were paid by Frank Moulton.
Tilton pronOunces Mr.. Beecher ac-
count of his remorse as simple absurd
ity. If Mr.. Tilton ''condoned hi- wife'e
fault there was fault to be condoned.
That word applies to but one wrong.
Why should Mr.. Beecher live on the
ragged edge of remorse" for three and
half years for advice given that was
not followed? Why should he have
years of sorrow for breaking up home
which was not broken up, as Mrs. Til
toms letters clearly show?
The quotations from Mr.. Beeeher's
letters are acknowledged to be correct
extracts. But two variations are
pointed out, and these are immaterial.
In each case the whole letter does Mr..
Beecher more damage than the extract.
The printed letters of Mrs. Tilton
over the whole time from 1858 onward,
during which Mrs. Tilton was alleged
to suffer from the neglect and cruel
treatment Of her husband. The letters
are mere specimens Of love and affec
ton which Mrs. Tilton professed to
her husband. They were preserved by
herself both those sent and those re-
ceived. They are full five hundred in
number, most Of them long letters,
covering three pages, and occupying a
period from 1868 to the confession.
Those not printed are equally full and
gushing.
When Mrs. Morse received her daugh-
tcr's confession she said, elizabeth,
now look out for divorce" The idea
uduutcu luc mOlilcT, anu IIOIu that
grave attacks were made on Mr.. Til
toms character.
The trial of Mr.. Beecher by COM
mittee of his own choosing is simply
farce. The result was foreshadowed at
the start. Not many men would be
convicted in our courts if the accused
chose his own judge and jury, shut out
the accuser, and made the cross-exami-
nation a mere excuse for filing the
chinks and Strengthening out the testi-
mony. Mr.. Tilton's statement is the
complaint. Mr.. Beecher' defense is the
answer. Now comes the trial and the
proof.
The alleged virtues Of madstones
are discredited by scientific men. The
only efficacy they can have is that of
being imperfect cupping glasses, they
being generally porus coralits which
will adhere to raw wound. Still, the
Lynchburg (Va.) Republican tells q
story which is important, if true. A
Virginian whose name it gives, WAS
lately bitten by moccasin snake, and
before he could get any means of help
his bitten leg was very badly swollen