The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-09-24

continued to shield both parties for Tie nxs
Of one. But when Mr.. Beecher and Mrs.
Tilton made public league saainst me,
and, in the face CT the whole community,
de6ed M to tell the facts, was either fore
ed to accept their joint challeoge, or, by de-
Ginning i. to deserve the contempt Of man-
kind; That this il my answer; and candid
men and women will acknowledge it to be
Just.
Next. l have an equally plain answer to
tLose critics Who condemn me for having
conmitted, ~ they say. = biunder in
coNDoNlxe MY wIFE's FAULT At FIRST.
And my snswer il: lam perfectly sillirg
to accept this condemnation from all Who
choose TO offer if,-whsther from FOES or
friends. Before God, held that did right,
and not wrong. in forgiving An srrirg VIC
man who went astrsy through = powerful
temptation No regSt beelouds my
mind for this forgiveness Of nv
Wi.c,-Which, am suis.
shall look back TO from my dying bed with
pleasure, not with pain. forgsvethi gen
tie aomsn because | loved her; / forRave
her for her children's cake; | fosgave her
because despise the public sentiment which
condones sucn faults in rem, ard then COM
pels men to punish them in women; i for
gave her because, even after her grievoCs
error, ahe sill remained \ vcmsn, loving
right rather than v, ong, and seeking good
rstier than evil; forgave her because !
tenslerly remembered that Chri.t himself
forgave similar fault in . more wicked vo-
man-ard who was to seorn the Law Of his
great example? No criticism Of my forgiv-
enes OF Mrs. 1ilton can prick me with any
paDg. II all the acts Of nv li.e hsd been
40 righteous ~ ihis good deed Of chsritv-
albeit tOvsrd womsn Who has since but
poorly requitei me for i'll would now be q
better man than en-.
XVII. l have only to add that know no
words of measured moderation in wh:ch to
characterize fifty Mr.. Eeecher's recent treat
men, Of this broken hearted lady, whom
HE HAS FLUNG
against the wall Ct Plymouth Church and
dashed to pieces. First he instituted . pub
| lie committee 10 inquire into her adultery
| with him, whereas he ought TO have pro
tected her sgainst ibis sxpcsurs; then he
bsckoned her away from her husbands
house, making her very fight bear witness
| to her guilt; then he suboIned her to give
false testimony asainst her husband, vith .
view to destroy him before The world; then,
With unparalleled bseensss, he turned upon
| the companion Of his crime and accu-.d her
Of having been the temper rather than the
nmped-declaring that sic had thrust her
| affections upon him unsoush';" then he va
rously indicted her for what he called her
needles tYe,chery II her friend and pos
tor, expressing his doubts whether to call
her las he says "a saint or the chi, fest of
sinner" arguing tas he says again that
she must be either corrupted to deceit. or
20 broken in mind "a to be irresponsible"
debating with himsslf las he gays still fur
ther) whether he should not "pour out his
indignation upon her and hold her up To
contempt" and then, after making all these
contsmptuous references to her in his pub
lrhed statement e prompted his COMMITTEE
to render verdict sganst her, in which
| they declare her conduct toward Mr.. Beech
er, even on their own theory Of
her innocence, to be utterly inGetensible;;' -
and Las. of all, be permitted bis own Journal,
the Christian Union, to igmaiize her M Q
"poor, weak woman" whore testimony VA,
81 no value either for or against the man
2ho had tempted her I, utter her fall che cd,
in his own behalf.
All this base and brutal conduct lv Mr..
Bsecher prompts me TO speak Of him in
fier,e and burping words But forbear.
, "Vtngeance is mine. will repay, saith the
Lord" have become so used to sOrrows
, in my own life tina, l cannot wish for their
, infection upon another msn, not even on nv
worst enemy. ! will no, ark the public ,c
visit On Mr.. Beecher any greater condemns.
, ton fer the desOlation which he has brought
upon those who loved, trusted. and
served him, than ! have in past time.
feen him suffer from hls owl
! self.inAicted fortunes, in contemplation
Of the very crime for which he has Eow beer
exposed to the scorn and pity Of the world
j know we'll enough low his own Thoughts
have bowed him in sgony to the DUST AMI
this il enough. Wherefore, in contempla
ting my empty house, my scattered chill
dren, and my broken home. thank HEAVIER
that am spared the pang OF this mans re
morse for having wrought ruin which no
even Almighty God can repair,
THEODORE TILToN.
| BROOKLYN, Sept. l6, 1874.