Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-08-15

abhOr every advocate of free love doctrine
that have known.
Beeeher's Acquaintance with the
woodruff.
Q.-Are You clear in your recollection
that you never met WOOdhulfs more
than three times?
Al am perfectly clear, that is to speak
TO them.
Q.-State the times and places.
40 one occasion was walking with
MOultOn in the general direction Of Til
tons house when Mrs Woodruff was go
ing 10 be there. i first hesitated, and he
said, "COme in and just see her" L said,
"Nery we'll" | went in, and after some
conversation down in the parlOr, went up
stairs intOthat famous bOudOir room, where
she sat waiting. and, like a spider to a ily,
she rushed to me on nv entrance and
reached out both her hands with the ut
most earneStness, and said how rejOiced
she was 10 see me. / talked with her
about FIVE minutes and then went down
stairs But there was no enthusiasm be-
tween us. My. third and last interview
was at MoultOn's house. She had address
ed 10 me a threatening letter, saying that
OlCll al Tie cletllldl IL 4 Alot
preside at the. Steinway Hall, and in reply
to that, MOult0n advised that instead of
answering her letter / should see and say
without witnesses what had TO say. She
brought with her her great subject. Il was
in type, and my policy was TO let her talk
and say little, which did, and she went
on talking, "YOu know you believe so and
sO'' aud said nothing, and 50 from point
40 r.Dfpf until safd ar Lost fgNrc VOndftrsn
l DO not understand your views. l have
never read them thoroughly. As far as l
do understand them. DO not believe in
them, and though am in favor of free dis
cussiOn, presiding at meetings, seldom do
for anybody and shall not DO it for you, be-
cause l am not in sympathy with your
movement"
Beeeher's Letters 90 the woodruff.
Q.-Has Mrs. Woodruff any letters Of
yours in her pOssessiOn2
A.-TwO, ! suppose, unless she sold
them.
Q.-Upon what subjects?
A-She enclosed letter to me with one
from my sister, Mrs. Isabella Hooker, in
/ viting me 70 be present at a suffrage con-
ventIOn at Washington. To that letter |
replied briefly in the negative, but made
| few statements in respect 10 my ideas Of
women's meetings The other was just
before her scandalOus publication. She
wrote a whining letter saying her refOrna-
| tory mOsemSIts had brought upon her
such Odium she couldn't procure lodgings
in New y Ork, and that she had been turned
/ out Of the Gilsey House, think, and ask
/ Ing me in a very significant way 10 inter
pose my influence OF some other relief
for her. To that letter replied very briefly,
| saying regre ted when anybody suffered
persecution for the advocacy Of their sin
cere views, and that mus decline inter
/ ference.
By Mr. Clafiu-It was reported that by
| these letters You were 10 be sunk forty
thousand fathoms deep.
| Q.-Csn YOU tell US what became Of Mrs.
/ WOOdLUI's threatening letter?
A.-Mr. Moulton opened it.
The Library story.
Q.-As 20 what occurred in your library
| and ia Tii.On's bed-chamber, on which Oe-
/ casiOns he said You touched his wife's
ankle and were found with flushed face
| inIthe bed-chsmOer Of his house?
Al 10 emphatically deny that either
/ Of these scenes ever occurred.
TIItOn's Morality.
One Of the very first things to which
MOulton and Tilton had addressed them
| selves was to disabuse ms mind Of nv be-
lief concerning TiltOn's moral conduct
| TiltOn alluded to the subjet Of his own
| purity with circumstantial and historical
| statements and MOulton's conduct specially
tended tOconvinc eme that all the allegations
agains; Mr.. TiltOn respecting such matters
were false.