The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-08-20

ment OF Mr.. Beecher in reply to Ill
toms charges has been given to the
Investigating Committee and made
public. 1t is very lengthy, occupying
with the report Of the cross
ton which followed the reading be-
fore the Committee, nearly twenty
columns in the New York papers,
This Of course carries it beyond the
limits of this paper, and we therefore
give a brief outline of the state
ment prepared by the New York
Tribune. This outline is so very
brief, however, as to fail of giving
anything like satisfactory idea of
"the completeness of Mr.. Beecher's de-
tense.
From a careful perusal of the &C
cused pastors statement and of the
facts brought forth during the rigid
cross-examination which followed,
candid reader will be satisfied:
l. That MIR. Beecher had visited Til
tons house at Tilton's urgent and re-
peated requests, and that during the
time these visits were made his rela-
tons to the Tiltpn family were those
Of Q father or elder brother.
2. That his only offense against
Tilton consisted in his having, after
consultations with Mrs. Beecher, ad-
vised Mrs. Tilton to separate from her
husband on account of alleged i'll
treatment and the installing of
housekeeper who usurped her place
and rights statements fully corrobo-
rated by a young girl adopted in the
family, witness of Tilton's despotism,
and who further stated to Mr.. Beech
er that Tilton had made improper ad-
vances to herself-and in his having
advised Mr.. Bowen to remove Tilton
from all editorial connection with the
Independent and Brooklyn Union,
which course Mr.. Bowen believed to
be demanded by Tilton's obnoxious so
ciel and religious views and by the
we'll authenticated reports of bis i'm
moralities.
n That he wcs made to believe by
houlton and filton that hc Beech
es) gas the Cause of Tilton's financial
and family difficulties bis loss of
position, loss of reputation and loss of
domestic happiness.
4. That it was in the depressed
state Of mind caused by this belief
that Moulton found him at the time
the so-called apology was written;
that Moulton represented that if TIL
ton could be persuaded of the friend
illness of bis (B.'s) feelings toward him
(T.) there would be no trouble in pro-
curing a reconciliation that, while
to write a letter to Tilton, he
consented that Moulton should report
the interview they were then having
End during which Mr.. Beecher had
reproached himself for having brought t
BARN upon his old fellow-worker,
though denying having done him any
Intentional wrong; that he refused to t
sgn the memorandum made by Moul-
Ton, as it was not his letter; that he
lid not read it or hear it read, but f
hat, upon the lower margin of the 6
asst of the three half sheets of paper r
lsed by Moulton, and some distance t
Yellow the writing, he had indicated \
hat he committed the document in Il
rust to Moulton and signed his name 1
the line thus written, doing this be- Il
ause Moulton urged it as necessary c.
D satisfy Tilton that he was author f
sed to explain Mr.. Beecher's senti- u
tents that Moulton promised to a
ring this memorandum back to Mr.. il
'eecher in a day or two, but did not 81
o so, and when asked afterwards e.
bout it stated that he had DESTROYED
|. Mr.. Beecher denies that this
contains correct re- ST
ort Of what be said during that in as
ryiew and states emphatically that Ill
, did not say, even in substance, Ii,