The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-07-31
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uuCeu gFedG eNCllenent' In long
letter to the investigation Committee,
he gives as hisreasons for making the
disclosures that they are demanded
by the committee and by Beecher,
and that, as his wife had lett him, he
was no longer bound TO secresy for
her sake. In conclusion of the letter,
he says: "ThS desperate man must
hold himself only, and not me, ac.
countable for the wretchedneSs which
these disclosures will carry to his
own home and hearth, as they have
already brought to mine.' lie then
proceeds to set forth specific charges,
the substance of which is as follows;
that on the 2nd of October 1855, al
Ply ymouth Church, Brooklyn, mar~
riage between Theodore Tilton and
Elizabeth NJ, Richards was performed
by Rev, Henry Ward Beeecher
which marriage, thirteen years after
ward, was dishonored and violated
by this clergyman through the orimi-
nal seduction OF this wife and mother.
That about nine years ago Rev. Hen
ry Ward Beecher began sand there
after continued this friendship with
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Tilton, for whose
native delicacy and extreme religious
sensibility he often expressed to her
husband high admiration, visiting her
from time to time, for years, until the
year 1870, when he ceased such visits,
during which period, by many tokens
aDd attentions, he won the affection
ate love of Mrs. Tilton, whereby,
after a long moral resistance by her,
afterrepeated assaults by him upon her
mind with overmastering arguments,
he accomplished possession OF her per-
sons maintaining with her thencefor-
ward the relation called criminal in
tercourse, this relation beingregarded
by her as not criminal or morally
wrong, such had been the power OF
his arguments as clergyman to salts
fy her religious scruples against such
violations of virtue and honor. That
on the evening of October 10, 1868,
or thereabouts, Mrs. Elizabeth NJ.
Tilton held an interview with Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher at his resi-
dence, she being then in a tender
state of mind owing TO the recent
death and burial of a young child;
and during the interview an act of
criminal intercourse took place be-
tween this pastor and this parishioner,
the motive on her part being, as here
inbefore stated, not regarded by her
as criminal or wrong, which act was
followed by similar act Of criminal
ity between these same parties at Til
tons residence during q pastoral visit
paid by Beeoher to her on the subse-
quent Saturday evening, followed also
by other similar acts on various occa-
sions from the Autumn OF 1868 to
the Spring of 1870, at the residences
aforesaid, aud occasionally other
places, to which the pastor would in
Vite and accompany her, or at which he
would meet her by previous appoint
ment. That the first suspicion that
crossed the mind of Tilton that Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher was abusing or
might abuse the affection and reyer.
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