The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-15
Alt is All n Muddle TO Ne.

Alt In All Muddle TO Ne,
as don't recall the precise working of
my mind. l have no vivid recollection
of the making up Of the letter, or Of the
precise mood under which l wrote. |
cannot give the reason for the sentence.
Q,-I call your attention to it because
criticism is made in certain quarters that
it referred to Mr.. Tilton's marital trouble,
growing out Of your offense.
A.-Well, but see, isn't il going back
to friendship? Isn't it the restoration OF
the family?
Q.-What you ask for is that you three
should be made friends again? A.-Ies,
that We should all cooperate.
Q.-And you say that Theodore will
have the hardest task2 A.-There was
a family that by circumstances had been
brought TO the bitterest antagonisms at
time of the most profound adversely,
when Tilton had got TO struggle for his
livelihood, for his name for his position
and for his household Everything put
together he was in situation in which
he had got 70 exert himself in every way
for restoration in every manner, and the
point was that she should cooperate with
him ms well rs with his friends. If she
had her sorrow TO bear at home he had
his too. That is what | think it likely
may have suggested those words, but |
don't say that it is, because | don't re-
member. Elizabeth, you know, was at
times immensely bitter against TheO-
dore, and felt that she had been the az
grieved one. had been led to suppose
that she had not been anything like 50
much aggrievcd as l now suppose she has
been.
On the same letter of February 7th
YOU say: "Of course ! can mover speak
with her again without his permission,
and | don't know that even then il
would be best Why did you say
that? A Because either at the
time of that letter from Mr.. Bowen,
or in its immediate vicinity, Mr..
Tilton, as ! have the the impression now,
sent word by Bowen, though cannot be
sure Of that, forbidding me ever to entor
his house again.
Q-Nothing else?
Beecher and TiIton Express the Po.
puIar Sentiment.
A-NO; ! know | frequently said |
v;.b wos deod and Theodore TiIton he
oono 'r - soid bo wished hc wos Grad and
M"mI.o, wa. froomcntIv in state in
-"L;ah bo u,;sh,d bo wos dnod and Mr.
MnnItor said II an, }ivinc among friends
cverv ono If whom wishes he was dead :"
or something like that. do not know
that it was smarter than that, but h" put
it in way that was very ludicrous.
Every one of us used to be cchoing tnat
wish. We were vcIcd and plagued to-
gcthcr, and | used the familiar phrase,
IL wish | was id
Q-Thc outside gossip is that you re-
fcrrcd in that limo to contemplated sui
eide.
At was not my general purpose in
tho matter Of thi. whole thing
| kept Is a motto of life by patient con-
tinuancc and well doing, to put down to
shame those who falsely accused me. !
meant to put down and preach down this
trouble. Of course in my dismal mood I
felt as though the earth had come to an
end. Now in Interpreting these special
letters, everybody is irrcsistsbly tempted
to suppose that everything | said was
said narrowly in regard to their text.
instead Of considering tho foregoing
statement: Whereas nv nttcranccs were
LARGELY to bc iutcrpretcd by the past, A.
well rs bv the present or future.
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'hat Is Po''.'H'' man .'."' o'J;, t. ,."'s .
eAtra'aS"H'' man 'na' 70 srUyc'' !"
moods Sucn aS MAKE me "haI ! ""l' can,
not Narrowly measure MS "Srns' nHu !.'
from 'hlS "rillhg oi over ,u"' S'"'' ,,i. u.
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largo corresponding" P'"c''l'hE' rom Il
mlni Npcah'hG Ill h!P"'I'''''"' N'"o''''
ana IN al manner oI S'a".s, noou' ''r'!
body ana eIcryth'hg,ou' "I th'' man tN'E
nave got ohIF In1s' Ie" ',lu'EotN' ',I,n ,. g
/ heSc devices did not r'ior l" me Ou' 10
him and his whole style "i actihG.
Q-lhGCd"re Sai' no wa, I'rh L'r
S"I' |.a, anu .''','0'' Va ""' p'''"' y 49,
r. H. nsnacod this matter with Til
ton , A-Yc.: he represented himself
always a, having all the rcins in his
hands: such power that if the worst
.houId come to the worst he could com
mel A settlement. He intimatcd 10 me
time and again that he had such mate
riaIs in his hands rcspccting Theodore
that as he said once, IF Theodore does
not do as saw Tllprind him to powder"
Q.-Bv Mr.. Winslow-This | under
stand was to procure the silence and
burial Of the scandal. A.-No it wasn't
either. 1t referred to plans by which
Tilton was to get something to do, and DO
it and get some praise for It, and be con-
tent.
Q-The devices; did that refer TO all