The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-10-02
THE Z SCANDAL.
THEoDonE TILToS's INDICTMENT OF HENRY
WARD BHECHER.

THEODORE TILToS's INDICTMENT OF HESRY
WARD BEECHER.
Tie second statement Of Theodore Tilton
in the Beecher case is published in full in the
Chicago Tribune OF tho 18th Of September,
and fills -four pages Of that paper. II is r
review OF the Brooklyn committees report and
an answer to Mr.. Beccher's statement before
the committee. Il presents quite an array Of
new facts and documents, and introduces sew
eral new namcs in connection with this ugly
and apparently intcrminsble quarrel. or
course the document is 80 lengthy that our
space will not permit OF even All abstract OF
it, and hence We present the IrS1une's brief
recapitula;ion Of the points i'll the indictment,
leaving the reader to form his own judgment
a. to how far Tiiton has succeeded in over
throwing the conclusions of the Plymouth
Church Committee:
/. Mr.. Tilton commences by answering tue
two statements OF Mrs. Tilton, that he had
been for ten years jealous OF Mr.. Beecher's
reputation, and was determined to ruin him
and that he had been mslt-eating her for the
same period of time. This he does by pro-
ducing various friendly and even affectionate
letters that passed between himself and Mr..
Deecher down to July 3, 1870, the date at
which hv first became aware Of the criminal
intimacy between Mr.. Beecher and Mrs. Til
ton and by giving extracts from his CORE
spondence with Mrs. Tilton dow to the same
period of time. He supplements this with
the emphatic statement that never until that
date, July 3, 1870, did he entertain an unkind
thought, or utter an unkind word, to either
Mr.. Beecher or his wife.
2. He then gives a ~succinct narrative of
the time, place and manner of Mrs. Tilton's
confession OF her seduction by MIR. Beecher,
and fixes the date OF its consummation, Oct.
10, 1868, BIZ all entry in Mrs. Tilton's diary,
"A Day Memorable" which words she said
she had used to mark it in her own r~ecollec-
ton.
3. Then follows a letter from Susan Is. An
thony to Mrs. Isabella Hooker, full Of indig-
nation against Mr.. Beecher, both for his
crime and for his want Of ~veracity concern
ing it. The supposed Significance OF this let
ter is that Mrs. Tilton had confessed the crime
to Miss Anthony, and that Miss Anthony and
Mrs. Hooker were in correspondence concern
ing it as a thing about which there could be
no dispute.
4. He next defends Mrs. Tilton against the
charge made against her by Mr.. Beecher that
she made the first advances. For this charge,
says Mr.. Tilton, 81 brand him as a coward of
baseness.'
5. The character OF Mrs. Morse, Mrs. Til
tons mother, IL disclosed III Il series Of letters,
seems to corr espond fully with an astounding
act attributed to her by Mr.. Tilton-that of
SEEING her W husband by tho cravat and
checking him till he was black in the face,
after which delicate attention he (Morse)
summoned the family together and legally and
formally separated from her-the separation
continuing to thisd day. Mrs. Morse's letters
contain frequent alluaion to the relations ex-
listing between Mr.. Bcecher and Mrs. Tilton.
6. The most important document not here
tofore published il the letter from Mrs. Tilton
to her mother Enclosing one to Mr.. Tilton)
written at Marietta, o., a few months after
her confession. This letter is truly Il heart
rending document, and no one can read it
without being moved to pity for the anguish
Of soul in which it was composed. 1t contains