The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27

IGnL LnlS nOur A.-Not Ln&L aW aware
of.
Q.-Have you any doubt2 Al have
none.
Q.-Oo you now call upon him to produce
all he has and tell all he knows? Al do.
@By Mr.. Cleveland-Have you reason.
in the light of recent disclosures. to doubt his
fidelity to you during those four years? A.
The impression made by him during the
four years of friendship was SO strong that
my present surprise and Indignation 90 not
seem to rub it out. I am in thao klnd OF
divided consciousness that was In respect
to Elizabeth Tilton-that she was saint and
chief of sinners, and Mr.. Mouiton's hold upon
my confidence wass great that all that mas
come now affects me as dream.
O-You speak of remorse. fear, and
despair. Al suppose Il felt them all.
Whether l was justified in, so feeling Is
question. When lived In indianapolis there
YVES an old lawyer there named Caloin
Fletcher, New England man of large blain,
who stood at the head of the Bar. He was
Methodist Christian man He took pecu
liar fancy 20 me, and he used to come and
see me often when was young minister,
and would see him great deal. He would
make many admirable suggestions, one OF
which was that he never admitted anybody
was to blame except the party who uttered
the complaint. Says he: hold myselfre-
sponsible TO. having everybody do right to
me. and if they do not do right it is because
do not do my duty. And now,' said he,
Gin preaching during your life do you take
blame upon yourself, and don't you be scold~
ing your church and blaming everybody. 1t
is your business to see that your folks are
right" Well, it sank down into my heart,
and became spring of influence from that
day to this. Ifmy prayer meetings do not
go right it is my fault If my people do not
came to church, am the one to blame for
their not coming. If things 60 wrong in my
family find the reason in myself | have
forseen quarrels in the church. and if l had
let them alone they would burst and break
out; but acting under the advice thus given,
and doing my own duty, have bad no difio
Guilty in my church.
Gan anonymous letter to the committee
from free lover, says that you have reser..
walton in your philosophy which would ena'
Ole you to say Il had no wrong conduct with
Mrs. Tilton," having il your own mind a
belief that what you are charged with doing
was right. What are your ideas on this sub
iect? Al am rot versed in the philosophy
and casuistry of free love. stand on the
New England doctrine, in which l was
brought up, that it is best Tor a man to have
one wife. and that he stay by her, and that he
do not NEEDLE with his neighbors' wives.
abhor every manifestation of the free love
doctrine that I have seen in theory. and
abhor every advocate of the free love doc
trine that have known.
Odd you ever know anybody Wao took
hold of it seriously who was not ruined by it :
A-No, sir; provided they were susceptible OF
ruin. have had women write to me that if
did not send them $40 they were ruined, and
wrote in reply that they were ruined be-
fore.
Q.-You speak about having sent Mrs. TIL
ton copy Of books. Was that an act OF
courtesy specially to her? A.-No; gave
them out to friends. Wien one book would
come out would give copy to FRIEND,
and so on. have not been a great distribu-
tor ofmy own books-only in cases where it
would be real pleasure, and from an init
nation that il would be so.
MEETING THE WuODHULLs.
Q.-Are you cleAr in your recolec ion
that you never met the Woodhulls more
than three times? Al am perfectly clear
that is to speak to them.
Q.-State the times and places. A. -
On one OCCASION was walking with Mr.
MOulton in the general direction OF
Tilton's house, when be said that Mrs
Woodruff was going to be there. / at
first hesltated, and he said: Come in
and just see her" said: Very well -
/ went in, and after come conversation
down IN The parlors, | went up stairs into
this famous boudoir room, where she SAT
waiting, and, like spider to fly, she
rushed to me on my entrance, and reached
out both hands. with the utmost
earnestness, and said how reoiccd she
was to see me. talked with her about five
minutes, and then went down stairs. NV
second interview with her was on one
occasion when had been with some
twenty or thirty gentlemen to look at the
warehouse establishment of Woodruff &
Robinson. We were on, the steamer that
had been chartered for the occasion; and
when | came up Moulton said, "Come
with me to town" He never told me