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ruined to save him, because, as the story
was first told. no young girl was ever Gifted
from her bed and carried screaming to his
own" by a ruthless ravisher and remained
pure, especially as the witness nowhere
suggests that ne was interfered with.
The checks which he produced before
the committee, which are not published,
will be seen, have no doubt, to have been
payments on her account, as their dates
show them to be six months apart, as her
half-yearly bills became due, with perhaps
a single exception. Let mc say to MIR.
Beecher that if he will apply to the princi
pal of the Steubcnville co. schools he can
find out just how much he has paid there,
and Mrs. Tilton can tell him what became
of the rest of the supposed two thousand
dollars. All this matter Of the support Of
this girl was arranged by Mrs. Titun and
Beecher, Tilton doing nothing about it,
and portion of the money was paid to Mrs
Tilton herself as appears by the following
letter, extracted from my published state
ment.
"TUEsDAY, January IS, 1878.
DEAR FRANCIS Be kind enough to send
me $50 for Bessie. | want to enclose it in
| tO-morrow's mail.
yours gratefully, ELIZABETH"
Would not ingenious truth have required
Mr.. Beecher to state that this large sum
was paid FIR this young girls support in
order to relieve him from his difficulty and
prevent the exposure of the recital of his
own acts, which she had heard in the fam
| lily in the neighborhood where they were
most likely to be taken up? Did he not
know the facts? Will anybody believe him
when he intimates in his examination that
he did not know? Is it possible that he new
err asked his dear friend Moulton where this
money was going to, especially as he is
careful to instruct Monitor to ''feed out
the $1,000 to Tilton? Instead he puts for
ward the phrases "Aloney has been OBJ
tanned from me in the course of these al
fairs in considerable sums; but did not at
first look upLn the suggestions that | should
contribute to Mr.. Tilton's pecuniary wants
as savoring of blackmal"-th putting the
amount OF the $1,000 and the $1,000 in his
statement as if they went together to Tilton
for the same purpose.
In order to give color to this allegation
of blackmail, trumped up after the charges
again st Tilton of forging letters and insan-
I ity had failed them, Beechers lawyers make
the following report of the conversation of
July in answer to 4 question prepared for
that purpose,
80. Did Moulton ever question you in
regard to this matter, whether you had ever
|
anxiety in your mind about it? A He did
net many weeks ago, among the last inter-
views l had with him.
Q. Since the publication of that Bacon
letter? A. Yes; think it was on the Sab
bath day after the appointment of this COM
mittee. l preached but once on that day.
and on the afternoon of that day he saw me
and said to me in conversation You have
never mentioned about that $4,000 said:
Yes, had, to one or two persons. l men,
toned to Oliver johnson for one, because
he was saying something to me one day
about what some Of Tiltons friends were
saying, and l incidentally mentioned that
to him, which he never repeated, suppose
to anybody Moulton said Il will never
admit that l shall deny it always"
In regard to this statement Beecher is
wholly mistaken, if he does not intend to
falsify. l remember that pant of the con-
versation very WE'LL and what | said on that
. occasion to him, which was: General
Tracy, your counsel, says that you must
never say anything about the payment OF
any money on account of Tilton. because
that will go very much against you. Have
you ever said anything?" Beecher replied:
''Only to Oliver johnson, who will keep it
to himself and 1 never will say anything
about il to anybody else" That was all
that was said upon the matter of keeping
silence about tina, monly.
HOW TIE MONEY CAME TO DE PAID, AND
WHAT WAS DONE WITH IT.
Now when the fact is seen that | espec
, ially and exactly set forth, as well the
money paid Mrs. Tilton and for Bessie's
f support as the $1,000 in my statement pre-
pared for the committee, without being
called upon to do so by anybody, and while
: I supposed it rested wholly between Beech
err and myself, and Beecher himself says it
did wholly rest between him and Johnson,
I why should have at the very hour that l
r was looking forward to the probability OF
making my statement before the committee
that l have made, stated to Beecher chat
! never would admit it to anybody? | frank
~ confess that l never had told it to any.
5 body, not on Beechers account, because !
thought the advance of $4,000 to the Golden
. Age was an act of nobleness and generosity
' on his part, and so said in my statement,
and my only desire to keep it secret was
: lest it should get to Tilton that he was un-
I der obligations to Beecher. 1t never Oc-
I Cured to my thought, under any circum
stances whatever or in any fern, that it
could enter into the imagination of man
l that this was an extortion of money from
' Beecher. On the contrary, he knew that
, myself had advanced sums in aid of Tilton's
b enterprise who had never accused me of
$ any improper intimacy with or advances
toward his wife. My partners had subscrib-
v cd and advanced money for the purpose of
;. supporting the Golden Aye. Many other
i prominent citizens of lyn had done
the same thing, and l had no thought that
t Beecher was doing anything other and diff
= ferent from what the rest of US were doing
: except that he had perhaps. an addition
n al personal motvo-to sustain an enter
| -. Oh al and tin attlt
r of which were looked upon as an honor TO
a journalism
@ 1t will also be observed upon a careful
examination of Beechers own statement,
: although attempted to be concealed by am
g biguous phrases, that the sugg tsted pay
ment of 5000 first came to me from him,
II and was not made by me to him. and that
: part of his statement which relates to what
G told him in regard to the kind friend who
It had made an advance TO Theodore Tilion
f in cash and notes would have been quite
; nearly correct if he had added the rest of
d the truth which then told him-,hat Til
y ton had refused to receive that advance
d from tic party offering to make it; and that
Il also told him at the same time that Til
ton, was sure would not take any money
, from him, and therefore it was arranged be-
:. tween us that 1t should be given to Tilton
" in small sums as coming from me, as had
y already made him like advances. Nor did
:, the amount of $1,000 which Beecher sub.
~ scribed seem to me at all eXtrayagaut for
I" him to give. Having been for many years
!. in the possession of a reputed income,
. from his salary and literary labor, OF from
>, forty to fifty thousand a year, and having
!" apparently reasonably economical hahi
= OF living l supposed him to be au
~ very considerable if not larsr ilf4.e.
70 | from his almost necessary UcnuulurO0r