The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-05
Chr 8utland Daily Glubs.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1874.
from the New York Graphic, July 2s.
a Personal Description of Mrs. Til

ton.
Mrs. Elizabeth II Tilton, whose name has
become unfortunately conspicuous in con-
nection with the great Brooklyn scandal,
is lady of about forty years of age. She
is under medium height, with black hair and
eyes, face that is interesting though not
beautiful, with an expression that indicates
unusual sensbility and sentimentaity rath-
er than intellectual force or refinement.
Her appearance is modest and her air Pc
culiarly sincere and confiding. Her man
ners are easy and natural, with simple
grace which is more pleasing than what
passes for elegance in polite society. Her
prevailing mood is profoundly serious, lit
up with occasional CLEANS of JOY and some
times breaking into beautiful playfulness
AT times, when her feelings are pleasantly
excited and her face CLOVIS with expression,
she appears really handsome at other times
when depressed or wearied or unexcited,
her eye is lustreless and her face is dull
and unattractive. She is good house
keeper and an excellent mother, devotcdly
fond of her children, and doing more for
them and spending more time in reading to
them and talking with them than most moth
ers. Her tastes and habits are domestic,
sentimental and religious rather than as-
thetic or literary her reading has not been
extensive, and her favorite pictures are val
liable for their sentiment rather than artis-
tic excellence or imaginative power. She
has had seven children, four of whom are
living. The eldest is daughter of more
than ordinary maturity of mind and force
of character. She resembles her father
mnch more than the other children-so much
that she would be recognized as his daugh-
ter by those who are familiar with his fea-
lures. Her home, on Livingston street
was once peculiarly attractive and charm
ing by affection that filled its rooms with a
climate of summer and fragrance as of
blooming roses it was tastefully furnished,
graced with exquisite pictures, made poetic
by the disposition and arrangement of its
contents, and the ideal element visible and
palpable in every apartment 1t seemed
to realize the ideal of home.
OF Mrs. Tilton's
MARRIED LIFE
it is obviously indicate and unbecoming to
say much. She was naturally religious,
and united with the church when young
and had Il class in the Sunday school,
She was attached to all persons of relig-
ious cast of mind, and particularly friendly
to her pastor, to whom she seems to have
gone for counsel, and on whom she leaned
perhaps more than was well for either
The last evidence of her religious sincerity
is furnished by the fact that her husband
has defended her so long, and by his en-
platte statements before the committee. If
she has sinned, he contends, that was
through the binding of her conscience and
the misleading of her mind, and he acquits
her of guilt while he accuses her of crime.
Il have taken pains to say that she was a
devoted christian woman" said Mr.. Tilton
on examination; ga tender, delicate, kind
ly christian woman. Hers is one of the
white souls"
'There are great many women who
look upon q man with sense Of worship I;
Elizabeth never did that; Elizabeth is the
peer of any man at the same time she rev.
ore"""-' e zoe not vanity-it was rever-
slly woman 1 taken regarded H Mr.. Beecher as
good woman taken captive. Elizabeth was
in a sort of vaporous-like cloud. She was
between light and dark. She could not see
that it was wrong. She maintained to her
mother in my presence that she had not
done wrong; she cannot bear to do wrong
a sense of having done wrong is enough to
crush her she naturally seeks for her own
peace a conscientious verdict; she never
would have had these relations if she had
supposed at the time that they were wrong
Elizabeth never does anything that at the
time seems wrong; for such large mora
nature, there is lack of certain balance
and equipoise; she has not a will that guides
and restraints but Elizabeth never does a
any time that which does not have thu
stamp of her conscience at the time upoI
| it. / think she certainly spends hours oil
her knees some days. | don't suppose
day ever passes over Elizabeth that the sui
if he could peep through the windows
would not see her on her knees"
Testimony like this from
AN ACCUSING HUSBAND
invests the character of the wife with pc
culiar interest, if not with mystery. 1t
hard for majority of people to compre
bend such complexity. But it is not diff
cult to see that such woman as he ha
described could hardly enjoy his eccer
tricities of belief, his intimate relation
with reformers of all kinds, his severe crit
icisms of the church she regarded as S
sacred. She naturally recoiled from niue
that he loved and wanted to hide her fac
from the pictures he hung on The wall hi
friends she looked upon as the foes of rt
lgion, and the more firmly he set his fac
towards freedom the more resolutely sh
hid hers in the traditions of her childhood
He says, "She would not let the childre
have playthings on Sunday. John {
Whittier called at our house on Sunda
night at Mr.. Greeley, and met Mr.. JOIN
son; and it almost brok Elizabeth
heart to think the best man
in New England, whom she reverenceC
should have appointed Sunday night 81
never received visitors on Sunday III
change of religious views twas a grei
source of tears and anguish to her; 81
SAID to me once that denying the divnii
of Christ in her view nullfied our ma
riage almost and think next to the so
row of this scandal it has caused that W
man to sorrow more than anything else
she has suffered because l cannot look II
on the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lord Goo
| think her breast has been wrenched wi
il.
Perhaps, in tracing the history of IL
case back to its origin, it will be foul
that intellectual and moral incompatible
was at its core and root. She could n
follow linn. and he could not stay wi
her His course filled her with ankle
and led her to look for sympathy and q
,. vice elsewhere, Thus the door was ope
ed, and the word waits 10 know whetl
the one who entered it was faithful she
herd or n wolf.