Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-09-19

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wo9Idn you think g c d ever did strike any one
fee the deepest sympathy with al the parties in-
Tah S0f m % .t m Sse I s0s s dsssr ss4 1stT TSDs
wonli fsin tsse her In my arms, with n precious
hiie her away from the wicked gaze Of men.
For q cultivated man, at whose fee, the whole
world OF men as we'll ss Of women sits i1 love and
reverence, whose moral, intellectual, social re-
so oveTowins with soaI CaoG Tor hin 10 so or 81
cert the BODY Of one or dozen Of his reversnt sni
De- s.H-o"a Eho .taH say Is a0f'
Ny pen has faItered and staggered. It would not
ssGy shTts ea 4sIs n s1s Mr.
reply 70 mine ssaioe bow cauId .6e m.Ie that ae ,n
Nal IN ihe lswtsaon telegram. Referring 20 q re-
| she says: Dear Susan. had supposed you knew
enough OF papers 10 trust friend Of twenty years
ized the stsi.men, made in The Lev issoa paSerSi
simply said never used the language Mrs. WOOD.
clothed in refined language at least, however DIS.
tS my nsys siS tP. Rs PGs &
know Tosld save vietoria from prison IshouId feel
sussn ali the honor there !. among nor SomsnkiGi
| snsi not tun tefore am sent. but when the time
lido do not propsss to shelter man when = womans
| Now, my dear Mrs Hsoker I wish ven wers with
me night 70 rejoice with me tina, Mrs stsntsn is
| deierpned to stand firm to truth. ought not 20
my eGpa6ts p or rather Of my bel.ef; Mrs Stanton
IergJmsn, s1d said to ber Wby mother. 70 ySa SSs
mIsht IS vel have told them the whole thing was
| No, MRS. Hooker; cannot now. any more than
sst winter comply with your request 10 reveal Mrs.
| T'swhcle story:
sI Your brother will ye. see bis Ou and lie. us
nope Nc viii De able 70 prove himself al we the
sness thst others shall suffer for weakness
fhs has no new theories, then he viii surely be
to admit either that be has failed TO live
the dilemma be may choose will oSledee either
weakness or wickedness, or both.
The above letter from Miss Anthony not SHh oniy
indicates that Mrs. Tilton confessed her sexual
intimacy with Mr.. Beecher, but shows also that
this intimacy was brought about, not because
las Mr.. Beecher dishonorably charges In ais
statement,l Mrs. Tilton ''thrust her affection
| on him unsought," but because he himself was
the aggressor apon her love, honor, and good
name. know full well from Mrs. Tiltonis
truthful story-told me at a time when she
could have had no possible motive TO deceive
that Mr. Beecher made the advances. which
she for long time repelled. 1t was he, not she.
who iDstgated and achieved the criminalityb be-
tween them. 1t was he. the revered pastor, who
sought out bis uustful parishi0ner and craftily
spread his tolls about her, ensnaring her virtue
and accomplishing her seduction. Mrs. TlltOn
| was always too much of a lady 70 thrust her af-
/ fection upon Mr.. Beecher or anv other man
"unsOught" And Yet Mr.. Beecher, after hav-
ing possessed himself Of a woman at whose feet
he bad knelt for years before her surrender, has
| finally turned upon her with the false accuse
tlon that She was has tempter, not he hsrs:-for
| which act on his part brand him as a cowari
of uncommon baseness, whom all manly men
| both good and bad, should equally despise. i
shall never permit him TO put the blame on this
| woman. "She is guitless," he said in bis
| apology. He shall never take back that word.
| He well knew that the motive TO guilt did not
come from this gentle lady's pure and cleanlv
mind. L repeat here what said before the
mmittee-and what shall believe to the end
| Of my life-thst Elizabeth Tilton is woman OF
pure heart and mind, sinned az ainst rather than
sinning, yielding only TO strong mans triumph
over her conscience and will, and through NJ
wantonness or forwardness of her own.
have been told that / endanger my success
IN the battle which | am now lighting by
making this CONCESSION to my wife's goOdr ess Of
motive. But L am determined in all this con-
uoversy to speak the exact truth in all points:
and know that no indelicscy in Mrs. TiltOn's
behavior ever proceeded from her own voluu-
tsry impulse or suggestion; but that. on the
contrary, her highly emotional religious nature
was made by her pastor the means whereby he
accomplished the ruin of his conhding victim.
take the liberty to quite here a passage
from letter by Mrs. Eizlbe Cad Stanton
to Mir. Moulton, as follows:
MRS. STANTON TO Mr.. MoULToN
,,. TKNAFLY, N. j., September 2, 1874.
DiAR FRfEND: In your fortbc 7nins statement,
brave knight to bring steel the head nf''Ths
Great Preacher" for has base oaarse thai El-q5stl
You know, better than susan or DO. the time aud
Arguments nI by which ;. be achieved bis purpose
tragedy. Sincerely yours.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON"
If any further proof were needed that it was
Mr.. Beecher who solicited Mrs. Tilton's aztec
ton, and not she who thrust hers upon him
which be says many women in Plymouth Church
do-this proof will be found In the letters which
he wrote and in the gifts which he made 10
this ever grateful but never obtrusve woman.
Touching these letters the commit tees verdict
contains the following extraordinary statement:
pondrnce nor attempts in that direction Mr.. Beech
er's letters were, as rule, opsned, arranged and
In reply to the above (as a single illustration
Of its untruth) need only say that after Mrs.
| Tilton deserted her home I found in locked
closet, hidden away beyond chance of detec-
ton, collection Of clandestne letters from Mr..
Beecher TO Mrs. Tilton; some OF them unad-
dressed to her name and unsigned by his, reveal
ing their designation only by the envelopes, and
| their authorship only by the handwriting. in
< one of these letters, printed in Mr.. Moulton's
| recent statement, Mr.. Beecher says:
My wife takes boat for Havana and Florida on
Thsrsdsy.
In another he asks Mrs. TiltOn to write to
Itwould be safe. am now at home here with my
sis er, ard IL is PerIl,nsd to you.
Aman who-taking prompt advantage OF the
| departure of a lynx-eyed wife who, "as a rule,
opens and arralges and reads his letters
makes haste to send this Information to another
lady from whom he soliclts letters, saying 1t
| will be safe now for her TO write them-such a
man cannot accuse this lady of ''thrusting her
| affections upon him unsought."
/ In IKE manner, Just as the committee have
| denied Mr.. Beecher's clandestine letters, be
himself has denied his clandestine gifts. He
| says that the only gift-tokens which he ever
made to Mrs. TiltOn were a "brooch" and ga
| copy of books" But since her recent desertIOn
| Of her home L have found great number of
| books given to her by Mr.. Beecker, sufficient to
1 make a small library of themselves collec-
| ton which never saw before, nor did 1 know
| that he had ever given them to her. A few OF
these books-msinly his own productions-con-
4 tain, in his own hand writing, inscriptions sd-
| dressed 70 her expressive Of his regard aRd es-
| teem."
Mr.. Tiiton gives the inscriptions made by
1 Beecher in about q dozen different volumes,
/ and enumerstes many other gifts "hidden away
| in the same closet TO which have alluded ;"snd
| says: "I would not here particuiariZe these
clandestine letters and surrepttious gifts except
| that the committee have boldly denied the
| letters and Mr.. Beecher the gifts, and botS Mr..
| Beecher and the committee have attemputd TO
deceive the public by the base defence that this
| misguided but always modest lady was guilty
| Of an unwomanly boldness-foriegn to her ma
ture and impossible In her action-of "thrust-
ing her affections upon him unsought."
THE MoTHRR-IN-LAw.
The ensuing four or i've columns are taken
L up with Mr. TitOn's respects TO his Wife's