The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-13
BEECHER- -TILTON.
What George Alfred Townsend
Learned at Tllton's House.
What MOultOn Said to Him Con.
Cernirg the Great Scandal.

Friday night, took breakfast In Nev
York, and Immediately proceeded t
Brooklyn and the cottage Of Theodor
Tllton. I sent in my card, and, being rt
ceiVed with courtesy, expressed my desir
TO obtain at once whatever he might b
willing to give the Chicago Tribune. H
seemed puzzled at first, but, after a whit
proceeded to speak ol the mental rack h
was going through, and assured me tina
II would return in an hour I shoulI
have the day and night in his company
| went Immediately TO the house Of Franl
Moulton, whom l well knew. Moultol
was very busy revising his statement
Thence l went to the office Of Judge Nor
ris.
WITH Mr.. TILToN AND HIS COUNSEL.
Mr.. Tilton, Judge Morris, and mysel
then took carriage and drove to the
sea'shore, six miles distant. We werC
gone all that afternoon. l put lawyel
and man under as close an examination
as was compatible with our relations snC
my knowledge ot Tilton's nature. Mr.
Tilton never tlinched. Mr.. Morris hear
was in his defense. Such q story, so re
lated, It would be impossible for me Ia
repeat. The substance Of it l shall give
you. We returned to Brooklyn, and MIR
Tilton and myself sat up till midnight
still laboring over the same theme, ant
finally were the only two tenants OF the
cottage, except Katie, the old servant
maid. I'VE retired about I o'clock and
arose and breakiasted together. Though
In this darkened house OF woe, desolate o.
vile or children, l never felt under more
peaceful protection; for the purity, tht
sorrow, and the bravery OF the man who
slept in the very chamber where he lis
tened 10 the dread confession OF guilt per
meated the place. His conversation al
day had been Of sweet and lofty sort
scarcely like anything worldly / ever
heard. That part OF the public which
measures him by the false orbit OF Beech
er Is not aware Of the mans height.
Mr.. MoULToN SAID TO NE
another day: "Gath, cannot speak ol
anything material as 10 what shall have
to say, but this l tell you as between
Beecher and Tilton in their behavior un-
der fire, Tilton Is infinitely the larger
more selfreliant, more reliable man. j
never heard him lie, and Beecher has
been lying during the whole OF the con-
troversy. lie began it with an act oi
treachery, conlessing his adultery with
Elizabeth to me, asked me to walk with
him round TO Tilton's house, and, going
in there, the husband being absent, he ex
torted from Elizabeth retraction Of her
confession. With this in his pocket, he
walked back TO my house and then asked
me to walk to his, and while talking in
despair and contrition all the way, he still
held that piece Of paper in his pocket"
Said 10 Mr.. Moulton: SIS Ii true thai
you got that back by presenting pistol
at his head 2"
Ho said "No; but as soon as Theo-
dore told me that Elizabeth had acknowl
edged writing that retraction, went
round TO Mr.. Beecher's and insisted upon
seeing him, and said: You are affecting
TO be making covenant to keep perpetu
al truce, and yet, Mr.. Beecher, you are
already intriguing. I shall go out Of this
office Of mediator, unless you instantly
surrender the paper He has no mora
pluck. How can he have, living such 6
lile" ~
"Then," said l to Mr.. Moulton, "you
cannot SEQ
A WAY OF ReoAPR FOR BERcHER 2"
Bald Moulton: Ale may escape the
penalties, but not the facts. l think this
Council will whitewaah him, and thai
Plymouth Church will take him back
but / have heard from his own lips things
10 revolt.at." ! forbear TO send YOU The
language which Mr.. Moulton repeated tc
me as having come from Mr.. Beecher's
lips, both on account of its exceeding
tllthiness, and because the ladies referred
TO have been in no way connected will
the Tilton case.
! asked MIR. Moulton: "Will you put
these stories in your eVidenceH"
mot line" said Moulton, "except the
letters bearing on the Beecher.T .Tiltor
case. pray the Lord / may never bI
put through this ordeal In any other case
Why, l have fed the city, hidden myself
labored 10 the last minute to get thesC
people to stand aloof, and save the world
. horror; but, when I am catching 1t on
every side for this sacrifice, Mr.. Beechel
writes me letter and makes my answer
public in order to appear to establish {
point for him. That resolved me to MAKE
my second answer public.
BRRcuER's HADTTUAL TREACuRRY
since this crime cannot avail with me, moi
will l see him further trample on Theo-
dore Tilton, whom he has dragged through
the fires Of hell already"
Mr.. Moulton further said that Beechel
had long ago said to him: "Tilton come!
no more to church; let US edge him out
drop his name. You must act with me- ;
I'm another respect" continued Moul
ton, "Beecher has lied. He gave me hi!
solemn word that since the discovery ht
had not had communication with Mrs
Tilton. Now read this, which Theodore
discovered hidden in the pages OF Mr.
Beecher's Life oi Christ" his prGsenta
tion copy"
Then were shown various
BURNING LOVE LRTTRRs,
revealing the deep Illicit love OF preach
er for another mans vile thinly con-
cealed under Scripture phrases -blas
phemies, taken in this connection-bu
yet, apparently, the hysteria Of love. Il
one written from his sisters house, ht
begs Mrs. Tilton 10 write him some com
iorting letters, and then says, the word
being deeply UNDERSIGNED, "You can
admitted here." There was another, say
ing: "Come Friday night, as l IaR b
GpGy all The fore part Of nerl wxk."
There were no signatures to any O
these.
"Now." said Moulton, "put these letter
BY date in conjunction with this one from
Mrs. Tilton, where abe says we mus
soon meet, get consolation, and have nest
htdin1l uWhV QAthb aaid Mnultor