New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-28
Tilfon.

It grieves us to couple two such names as
those Of Mrs. Victoria Woodruff and of DR..
Leonard Bacon. But it is the pleasure of
Mr.. Theodore Tlton that we should be con-
PEELED to do 90. Two years ago Mrs. Wood
hull published Mr.. Tilton to the world as
cuckold. Two months ago DR.. Bacon, IS
Mr. Tiltou can never have done with telling
us, published Mr.. Tlton to the world IS "a
dog and q knave." And now comes Mr..
Tiiton himself before an investigating COM
mittee in Brooklyn to prove himself q
cuckold, with the shamelessness of dog
and with the cunning Of q knave. These
are plain words Dean Swift would have
used them in q less imperative case. But
no case more imperative ever passed be-
meath the remorseiess scourge of that stern
executioner. The statement now made
public bv Mr.. Tilton of his domestic life
and troubles is simply an outage not upon
his own family only, but upon the very
| idea Of home itself; not upon his own wife
only, but upon womahOod and the marriage
bond. Plain men reading it will be tempted
to esteem Daniel E. Sickles in the COM
parison with this man, . gentleman and .
| man of honor, and to regard adultery as q
venial otfense in comparison with this mans
| leprous and loathsome vindication OF hts
| conjugal rights.
! With the nominal subject matter of tEis
! revolving paper we DO not propose just Row
| to concern ourselves. The questions OF
1 Mrs Tilton's guilt or innocence and of Fir.
| Beechers guilt OK innocence have now Tor
| the first time been distinctly raised by this
statement in such wise rs to make it inpera-
tive that they sheuld be settled. But this.
not because Mr.. Tilton now for the first
time, after months and years Of dark in
| rendo and malignant insinuation. plainly
charges Mr. Beecher with the seduction OF
his wife. Firsthand witness to the charge
though he claims to be, Mr.. Iilten is a
! worthless witness, for Mr.. Tilton hes writ
entertained, nothing can be believed
nothing can be affirmed or denied on the
evidence of q man who exults to show tina,
1 with him nothing is sacred, netther his
plighted word nor his protested religion
! nor his self-respect as a man. nor the nup
tial chamber Of his welded wife. He claims
indeed, like Mr.. Sickles, to have wrune
from his wife confession OF her guilt
| claim which his wife, be it remembered
most strenuously rebuts and repels. But
is not recorded that Mr.. Sickles, after ex
tracing a confession from his WI fe fell upol
| the neck of her seducer, and with Christian
| tears and tenderness fOrgave and EN- bracet
him as preliminary to pistoling him sud
denly to death in the public street on tn
Sabbath afternoon.
= ~ But as to M. Tilton W
| need no further evidence than bis own. 81
stands before US now by his own act naked
shameless, and unabsshed. Or rather b.
does not stand. for that Is the character
istic attitude of manhood; but squats be
fore US, leering, obscene shape. kOprc
phagOus and foul. beslObbering with tear
Of dramatic selfadulation the letters of tn
woman he had sworn to love, honor, ant
cherish, and spelling out with gleeful, gloal
ing emphasis to the ribald crowd the sylla
bles of woman's whispered tenderness, t
enhance the picture he would paint OF hi
own magnanimous moral beauty, and o
that woman's wretched lapse from toyalt.
to him and his great heart. 1t is simpl.
EOrrible.-New York World.