The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-08-28

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to show it to you if he thought he
has best, and to write me what it all
ment. He never replied nor return
ed the letter to me as I requested,
but l have a copy of it at your ser
vice. In the month of FEBRUARY, af-
ter that, on returning from Wash
lington, l went to Mrs. Stanton's to
spend Sunday. At Jersey City
met Mrs. W., who had come on in
the same train with me, it seemed,
and who urged me, in a hasty way,
to bring Mrs. Stanton over on Mon
day for suffrage consultation as to
the Spring convention. Remember
| ing her assertion Of the friendship
between YOU, and of her meeting you
occasionally at Mr.. Moulton's house
| Il think this is the name). thought
l would put this to the test. I Ireplied
that if 1 would be sure of seeing you
at the same time would come. She
meant to secure you if possible, and
l fully meant to keep my appoint
ment. but on Sunday I remembered
an appointment at New Haven,
which / should miss If l stopped at
at New York, and so l passed by
dropping her a letter by the way.
! Curiously enough sister Catherine
who was staying at your house at
the time, said to me here causally
the latter part of that same week
'Bell, Henry went over to New York
to see you last Monday, but he
could not find you" OF course my
| inference was that Mrs. W, either
had power over you or that you
were secretly friends. During that
Sunday Mrs Stanton told me precise
ly what DIr. I'ilton had said to her
when in the rage of discovery she
fed to the house of Mrs., and
before them both narrated the story
of her own infdelities as confessed
to him. She added that not long
after she went to Mr. Moulton's, land
met you coming down the front steps
and on entering met Tilton and
Monlton who said: ave have just
had Plymouth Church at our feet,
and here is her confession, " showing
a manuscript. She added that Mrs.
Tilton had made similar statements
to Miss Anthony and l have since
received from Miss Anthony cor
roboration of their truth. She re-
fuses to give me particulars, being
bound in confidence, she thinks.
From that day to this have carried
a heavy load, you may be sure. l
could rot share it with my husband
because he was already overburden-
ed alarmingly brainwise, but l re-
solved that if he went abroad ,as he
probably must, 1 would not go with
him, leaving you alone, as it were,
to bear whatever might come of rev.
alations.
l withstood the entreaties of my
husband to the last and sent Mary,
in my stead, and at the last moment,
1 confessed to her all I knew and
felt and feared, that she might be
prepared to sustain her father
should trial overtake them. By
reading the accompanying letters
from them you will perceive that
from outside evidence alone he had
come to the conclusions which I
reached only through the most re-
liable testimony that could well be
furnished in any case and against
every predisposition of my own soul.
Fearing that they would hasten
home to me and thus lose all the
benefit of the journey, for owing to
this and other anxieties of business
John had grown worse rather than
hetter, up to that very time though
the air of the high Alps was begin
ming to promote sleep and restOra-
ton. 1 telegraphed by cable, "No
trouble here. Go to Italy" And
recent letters l am rejoiced to hear
Of them in Milan in comfortable
health and spirit. From the day
those letters came the matter has
not been out of my thought an hour,
it seems to me, and an unceasing
prayer has ascended that I might
be guided by wisdom and truth; but
what is IA truth 1 am further from
understanding this morning than
ever. The tale as published is es-
sentially the same as told to me, e,and
in fact it is impossible but that Mr..
Tilton is the authority for it since 1
recognize a verisimilitude, and as I
understand it Mrs. T., was the sole
revelator. The only reply I made
to Mrs. Stanton was that if true you
had a philosophy Of the relation of
the sexes so far ahead of the times;
that you dared not announce it
though you consented to live by it:
} that this was in my judgment wrong
and God would bring all secret
things to light in His own time and
fashion, and 1 could only wait. 1
added that l had come to see that
human laws were an impertinence
but could go no further, though l
could see glimpses Of possible new
science of life that at present was
revolving to my feelings and my
! Judgment. That l should keep my
self open to conviction however, and
should converse with men and es-
pecially women on the whole sub
iect, and as fast as I knew the truth
l should stand by itwith no attempt
at concealment. l think that DR..
Charming probably agrees with you,
but he has not the courage to an
nounce His convictions before act
ing upon them. He refused inter-
course with an uncongenial wife, and
for long time, and then left her
and married woman whom he still
loves, leaving a darling daughter
with her mother, and to day pays
photographers to keep him supplied
with her pictures as often as they
can be produced. 1 send you the
article he wrote. When abandoned
by all their friends, he and his wife
went to the West and stayed for
years. Crushed by calumny and
abuse, to-day they are esteemed
more highly than ever, and he is in
positions of public trust in Provi
dence. You will perceive my situa-
ton and by all that / have suffered
and am willing to suffer for your sake
I beg you to confde to me the
whole truth. Then 1 can help you
as no one else in the world can. The