Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-05
PLYMOUTH.
DIR. Storrs Tells What he Knows.
TiltOn Bids the Committee Fare
well.
He Says he Has Removed the
Matter to the Courts.
Supplementary Statement of
Mrs. TiltOn.

Supplementary Statement of
Mrs. Tilton.
A Repors. that Beecher Requests
MOultOn to Testify.
Dr. Storrs.
NEW YORK, Aug. AT the meeting of
the Plymouth Church Investigating Com
mittee last evening, letter was presented
from Rev. DR.. SlorTs, in which he stated he
had no personal knowledge of the matters
which came before the committee; that he
had seen the statement signed by Mrs. Til
ton, and referred to in Mr.. Carpenters state
meniS, and in Mrs. TiltOn's testimony of
Friday evening, which contained . graFe
charge expressed FL these words son a Ger
tain occasion MIR. Beecher solicited me TO
become wife 10 him with all that is i'm
piled in this relation. This proposition /
communicated 10 my husband But on
account OF 4 lack of personal knowledge,
| DR.. Storrs expressed the opinion that it
would not be necessary Tor him 10 appear
before the committee.
The Sage Writes To TiItOn.
The BrO0kiJa argus says: The follow
| ing Interchange of letters took place yester-
day, between Mr.. Sage, Chairman of the
notwithstanding Committee, and The
Odcre TlltUn
BroOklyR, july 3I.-Theo. Titon, Esq:
Dear Sir-l am instructed by the commit
tee to state that the letters and documents
referred to in your statement presented to
/ us have not been delivered, notwithstanding
| your several promises 10 furnish them. IS
| your statement III the absence of the docu-
| inentS is deprived of its greatest force, We
| think you should desire to place them in
our possession, and desire TO impress up
on you the importance of delieering them
TO us at your earliest convenience. Very
truly yours, ii. W. SAGE,
Chairman.
TiltOn 10 the Sage.
Brooklyn, dug. 3.-Mr. II. .NSage,
| Chairman of the Committee: Nv Dear
Sir: have just received your note of Ju-
ly 81, four days after date. Unless YOU ac-
cidentally mis-dated it, the communication
should have come TO me several DAYS AGO.
This leaves me 70 recall a similar dilatOri-
ness in the delivery Of your original note,
first sImoning me to your committee,
which received only four hours before 1
was 10 appear, and vet the summons bore
date Ofthe day previous. But let these triiles
pass. Your note Just received surprises
me by its contents, for you seem TO have
forgOu en- that On the las. day of nv ap-
pearance before your committee l carried
to your meeting not only all the documents
which quoted in my sworn statements,
save those in MOulton's possession, but
many more beside, making An interesting
and important exhibit, vital to my case and
destructive 10 yours. All these papers l
puTpOsed TO lay before you. But no sooner
had began to read them aloud in your
presence, than one Of your attorneys
stopped We I'm the Reading,
and proposed that | shonld save the com
mittee's time by referring these papers TO
one Of your members Dion. John Wins
lOw.) iiiesced in this suggestion ald
retired from yUIr committee with the ex-
pectatiOn Of a speedy conference with Mr..
NinslOw. Perhaps it was my proper duty
TO have called on Mr.. WinslOw, but as the
whole committee had previously set the ex-
ample of calling in body on other parties
to this controversy, / took il for granted
that Mr. WinslOw would repeat this precs-
dent BY doing me the honor TO call al nv
house, at which he would have been a
welcome guest. While waiting for his
coming, was called upon instead by DO
liceman who arrested me and carried me, 1t
thirty minutes notice before Justice RileEs
court to answer q charge of libelling Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, against whom | had
not spoken libel, but the truth. Up to
the time Of this arrest, had employed no
lawyer, not needing any. But finding my
self before police court, and not under
standing the motive of nv arrest. request
ed my friend Judge ;. ID. Morris to an
sweI for me in 4 technical proceeding in
which knew net how to answer properly
| for myself. Twice already have been be-
| fore this uneX pected tribunal. and may be
| called before il third time on Wednesday
next. Meanwhile nv counsel, to whom /
have inst shown your note, instiucts me to
lay no papers or remaining testimony be-
fore your committee, nor to hold anv fur
ther communication with you in any form,
except to send YOU this present and final
| letter containing the reasons for this step.
These reasons are the following:
l. You are 4 committee Of Mr. Beech
er's friends appointed by himself. expected
to act in his behalf, assisted by attorneys
employed exclusively for his vindication,
| holding secret sessions inaccessible TO the
| public, having no power to compel wit
neSSes, giving no opportunity forthe opposite
side to crOss-examine such as voluntarily
| appear, publishing or suppressing theirtes-
| timOny as Won see fit, and so far as nv own
experience goes, asking me no questions
save such as were irrelevant 70 the case
| and emitting TO publish in your imperfect
and unjust report of my testimony all that
was most pertinent 20 my own side Of the
| controversy.
,. The daily papers of Brooklyn and
New York have been
ArtfuIIy Fed,
| day by DAY with crumbs of fictitious evi-
| dence against my own character, as if not
Beecher but | was on trial. Perhaps |
have little right to hold your committee
responsible for this daily misrepresentation
which may come through the malice of 9TH
ers, but the result is the same as if you
had designed it, and the result is this, viz:
expect no justice from your tribunal since
you cannot compel witnesses to testify or
from your reports as they do not give i'm
partial reports.
3. ] cannot resist the conviction, though
1 mean no Offanse in expressing it, that
your committee has come at last to be as
little satisfactory TO the public as to myself
and that your verdict Cif you render one)
could not possibly be based on he full facts
since you have no power 10 compel wit
nesses or to verify their testimony by oath
or sifC by croSs-examination.
For these reasons which ought to have
moved me earlier, | have at last instructed
my counsel to proceed at once at his discre-
| tion to carry my case from your jurisdic-
tiOn
To a Court Of Law,
/ and in view of this instruction from me he
! has in turn instructed me 10 hold uOfurther
| communication with your committee ex-
| cept this present letter Of courtesy in which
| have the honor TO bid You farewell, in
doing which allow me TO add that the res
poets which | am unable to entertain for
your committee as a tribunal / cannot help
expressing for you each and all as indiyid-
uals. Truly yours,