Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-09-19

pSsIs ..,on replies st great lengta 70 Alr.
necuon has the following about
| THE GIRL RKssIE.
| This child came 70 my house dozen Years
ago rs q wSif, bearing the name OF Menermott
/ knowing reither father nor mother, nor rela,
| tives, nor circumstances OF her birth. nor her
| age, concerning ali whom snd which she re-
NAMED IN total ignorance for years uutil, after
| many efforts, L traced her psrentaye ard
learned that Der true name was Turner, which
This unfortunate child, when she lived in nv
family, WAS snicted frequently with Strange
| giooms, 50 that she sometimes passed DAYS to-
| gether in sullen silence without speaktas 20
| any one in the house, then bursting gayly Into
an ineessant noise; and at night she would often
| fall into species OF nightmare which would
control her 30 powerful that her means and cries
| vould alarm the house.
Miss Anthony, vho kew her well, describes
| her Though think little too rolghy)As a half
idiot, into whose head it was impossible u insil
principles OF truth"
Mr. father and mother in their Joint card, from
which have already quoted, dated KeypOrt,
n D.. August 80, ls'4, refer 10 this child as fol-
lows:
Sc ooI st The West, often INN att ii cur us
ana we vere well acquainted with her chs-a ter q;
81 such ii-con5ucf 10 ssr fniiiv. iscisdiss f.ise
hoods and tus ats 70 US that in lS7c wnon sue 1t
ON ous hOuse, we forbid her Of entering Ia again
My wife's letters used to contain frequent a.
luslons TO her troubles with Bessie, which xars
OF so yexing kind that Mrs. Tilton o, zen doabt-
60 re nghuulL OF keeping such 81 eccentric
child In the hOuSe Ter fear OF her evil inf nence
on cur children. For instance Mrs T!,too ~
letter to ne dated February 6, 1855, sPeAls Of
this trout .eso ne gtrl a. 20 lows.
Libby lsays MIS- Tiltoll c0ntiGu . - be tas oaly
cis,p ter q the Fthse q 0ur household. Saturday
a. tie t'le gins grow older che wins their ss. ans
They DO no. love her. nor e, siS8g pisass,fis
en- peTPieNed les ny children grow irritable
How much OF Mr.. Beecher's S2O10
has heeD spent on Bessie Turner, I do not
know; but 60 know that almost every letter
which Bsrsie hiss written 10 Mrs riltOn for tue
last three or four years has asked for money: /
know, slso, that this money came through Mr.
MOulton from Henry Ward Beecher; and know
stu further that the sole purpose OF Mr.. Beeca-
er's payiTg this money, and the sole purpose of
Mrs. Tilton's keeping Bessie deceived" was
because this gill accidentally overheard four
years ago the remark which she repeated 70 the
committee, and which the committee ADMIT
namely, a disclosure OF the criminal intimacy
between Mrs. Tilton aud MIR. Beecher. I must
therefore put upon Bessie the burden Of black
mail, go far at least as the school bills 90 say
the whole or large part OF tie aforesaid
- Geo.
The next step in Mr.. Beechers untruthfuI in
dictment against me brings me 10
THE MORTGAGE.
On the LIST OF May, ISIS, Mr.. Beecher deceived
his wife by Obtaining her signature TO a mort
gage on his house; and he has since attemptet
TO deceive the public by saying that the 5000
which she thus helped him raise from q Brook
Ign bank was an eXtortion by Mr.. MOulton for
G!ackmail IN my behalf. II MIR. Beecher had
succeeded in proving (Which he did not that
had used him to eKtort ~ 900 from Mr.. Bowen
and that then had levied on him (as he like
wise charged) successive assess ments amount
il TO 81 coo, lie might reasonably have expect
ed, on the basis of these two robberies Of him
by me, 10 prove me guilty, through Mr. MOul-
ton, OF third. =
/ must not forbesr to meRtion that the suy-
gestion that Mr. Beecher should contribute
money to the Golden Age came, not from Mr..
MOultOn, but from Mr.. ThOs kinTella, editor
OF the Brooklyn Eagle, who, having made sim
liar offer of larger sum to the husband of a
wife whom be seduced. naturally felt, perhaps,
that All men VINO have committed similar
purchase with money their exemption from ex-
posuTe.
ON Saturday, before my sworn statement was
read 10 the committee, snd while the pubic
were expecting it with much anxiety,
AR. kTNsRLLA
called at my house, and IN = long and earnest
interview with me, in which be expressed ia
wsrm terms his appreciation of what he called
my high intellectual and moral character.
begged me 10 withhold from the committee nv
forthcoming statement. He said 70 me en-
pbatlcally :-'Mr. Tilton, | know the justice
OF your case; Mr.. Beecher has himself admitted
TO one his guilt; he has wronged YOU most
foully; [ acknowledge 1t all. But remsmber
that he is old man; his career is nearly ended,
ard yours hiss only inst began. IL you will
withhold your forthcoming statement, and snare
this old man the blow which you are about 20
strike him, will see that you and your family
shall never want tor anything in the world
L declined Nr. klnselic'S polite proposition.
lew weeks after.aTG, while the public were
similarly expecting MIR. Moulton's statement,
3r. Kinsellas Business partner, Mr.. William
O. kingsley, sought and obtained an interview
with me, in which he urged NE &c use my indu-
eDce with AlT. MOulton 10 secure the suppress
siOR OF has statement, as Mr. kincels had
sought the suppression of rsuse. Mr.. Kingsley
freely admitted to me Mr. Beechers guilt, not
from PERI Dnal knowledge, but only from assured
belief, derived {as understood( from MIR. Kin
sella. MIR. kingsley's argument with me was
that if Mr. Moulton's statement were added to
mine Mr.. Beecher would be "struek dead"
what. then" asked Mr.. Kingsley, CIVIL hap
pen TO sir. Monitor ana yourself? BE avlured'
be SAID, the world will rever forgive either Of
YOU for your agency in destroying Henry Ward
bFecher." a, the close OF this Interview Nr.
Kingsley expressed his sympathy with me for
the pecuDlary lost Is which he said he knew /
must have sustained, and said to me-anf be re.
pested it in Dir. MOultons preser ce-thst s'I
needed only to give him MIR. X tgenty-f1ur
hours notice and he wouid be happy Il make
me friendly token OF bis appreciation in tue
If it be thought strange that the editor of the
Brooklyn EOgte should privately admit Dir.
Beecher's adultery las Mr.. KiDsella has often
done at club.houses and card-tabies), aud thst
he should at the same TINA publicly proclaim
in bis newspaper Mr. Beecher's innocence, let
| il be smembered that Mr.. Kinseils is not the
only editor in this neigeborhoOd who. on this
question, expresses one opinion in private and
another I'm public: MIR. Kinsslls shares this pre-
negative with the editor of the New York Tri-
GARBLED LETTERS.
Mr.. Triton sums up the case in a severe ar
rsignment of Mr.. Beecher on sn the points
made against him, and says:--If L have been
thus explicit in retersting Mr.. Beecher's crime,
il is not for the sake of proving il from his let
| tiers, for have sufficiently proved it without
help from these, but only to show that did not
gdrGle these letters when pointed TO them as
proofs OF adultery; and repeat, that II Beech
er's letters have been las be says) "wickedly
Carblsd,o II is be who has garbled them. Ii is
| who have restored them 70 their true mean
ing.
CONCLUEION.
The whole circumstances attending the pub
LEGATION Of the Bacon letter are next review
snd Tilton next endeavors to defend himself
from the charge Of having condoned the alleged
| offence OF his wife and then exposed Ii to the
world.
This rehearsal of events viii now enable me to
answer two points which have been made
against me. One is this-I am asked fire.
quently: "Mr. Tilton. how could you, after
condoDing your wife's fault four years ago, pro-
claim Ii at so iPte aday?" My answer has been
Just foreshadowed, and it is this: made this
exposure, not of my free will, but from COM
pusiop; / made il because Mr.. Beecher and
| Mrs. TiltOn compelled me 20 make 1t. did not
volunteer it. 4 would gladly have continued to
shield both parties for the sake Of one. But
when Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton made pub