The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-07-02


rae. 10 ,ke later ,.sp-r The contIar' .-s q
suddenly sbrngat.d 10y Mr.. BOWL, sth We
b. li.ye that Mr. IL on afterwsrd cot NJ.
B,w in exempLr: c,mfenfa'ien Tor That
ahffg
The Is, If Js-u,ry. 1872. ab,m year
after Mr.. Til oG's retirement from ymoun
Church. found M. Tilon LAT large" .,
journals. He in,meda ely began 10 lay
IN. 70 u is,ion. for is pse-eni paper. the
Goloea .ir. re emil loyed the ~inter End
spring u,,.. h. la establishing that journsl.
sud he t,ok rn :ctive part in lcraiure
pendine that j .urEa,'s launching, except :
na,t. IL a, receives full snd re4uir d and pa
th~,ic exclamation in III, letter. :,
Itaens th.t Mr.. Tilton did ro', rs sid.
reveal 10 anybody, Immediately after his
vi,hdrawal from Plymouth Church, his
re,.,nr for that st.r. He says tie reasons
W. re not known TO three Peross other than
the p.stor and III msef. and Mr.. Francis d.
Moulion, their mutual friend. His aheebt-
eeism of a year, however. b came rOticed, a.
vss 10 he expe ted from his prominence IS
| a mar, bis rominence in the society, and
the =. ,,ions # closest intimacy which had
exi.ted between himself and Mr.. Beecher. |
| That seton was construed IA it pleased any |
body who noted it TO q n-irue II. IL was
variou- " attributed to moral and theology
cal lati udinarianism on Mr.. TihOn's part.
This he repels in his letter. To
one or two close frisn!s, whom Mr..
| Tilton rlust have Communicated the fat BY
the Law. Which compel the strongest MAJ TO
.hare b s g.iefs or die. Mr.. liltCn's friend
hip, will serve to indicate those persons
win some pr b ,bil ty. His closest bus nefs
and d rsonsl friends were Henry G. B0sen
and Oliver johnson, respectively the owner
and msnaging editor Of the Independent. Mr..
Jol .on wae, and is, the trusted friend OF
Nr. Iil,on, and ia now the managing editor
of the Christian Union, Mr. Beecher's papr
He has obviously kept faith With both Til
ton and Beecher. Whether Henry Z. Bow
en- kept such faith may be inferred from the
career and character OF that man. 1t was to
thes~ ps r.ons, Bowen and o liver Johnson,
that Mr.. Tilton il credited With having
most probably communicated sn outshadoW-
iIe OF the rea, ON vi he had broken od re-
laIior $ with TIE chur,h # Iii, boyhOod and
manhood. After q communication OF the
kind TO some one, that some one made this
frit ndiy and discreet use Of the onf1dehtisl
disclosure, he detailed ito MIS-. Victoria
Woodruff. Nv Til on had in the mean
time gone to Cincinnati, MAY %. 1872, and
par;it ipated in the LOninst on Of the late
Horace Greedy. Mr.. Tilion was, and II, IN
advocate If woman suffrage. Mr.. Greeley
was an opponent of il. Mr.. Tilton THOUGHT
that rect nc La. ion, Of which Mr.. Greeley
was the ex ponenf, was then the national NJ
cue, and that woman suffrage was not. The
G. untry was alive to the first snd ineTf, for
the time, to the second. He therefore sup
ported Mr.. Greeley, protruding retOnciiia-
| L. he h.fi IN
conviction on woman sufr ige, but simply
keeping his views IN the subject in abey-
snce, until r.concil,atio va, made an i'sne
| in a national canvass He accepted Mr..
Gr eley because of his re6Oati iaion views,
and in spite of his arti-woman suffrage
views.
The nomination of Greeley, howev'r. IL
Ger d I'll tie woman sufirsgis'-. a..
70 then Vic.orii G. Woodhu Sn~ ih,er-
pre- ID Fit IN support Of Greeley a, in6del-
iiy to 1.-THE cause" Mesnwhle, rs said
somebody had re- led to her q version OF
what Mr.. Tilton had communicated in con-
idence about the relations b<taeen him and
Brecher. Woodruff was at this time equally
| ins ns.d 10th against Beechsr and Tilton.
She had failed to get M. B-echtr to pre.ide
| at her meetings ON behalf Of tree love. She
thoucht Tilton had abandoned woman suf-
f.rsge BY supporting Horace Greeley. the
greet anti. woman su6rsg s, for President.
She had acute ideas about the fidelity and
sinceri;y Of men in general. She resolved
| to make an application Of those ideas.
The New York World, shortly after the
I Cincinnati Convention, in a casual editorial,
had severely criticized the abominatioLs OF
the Woodruff woman, and had tho lght il Q
eubis ct for eat.ifasti Do that those abomina
tions were as limited in the sanction they re-
ceived as in exempt 6ca,ion which they re-
ceived. MIS-. Woodruff At once wrote to the
| World that her views were genera ly really
believed, only that men we're toe hypOcriii-
cal to admit it. She said her followers sere
| gion, though they wouldn't confess il. She
| inetapced" to the World two Of hsr ''di.ci-
plee" lone the most prominent preacher in
Brook Tyr, and a leading preacher Who sat IN
der the formers minis ~, with the knowl-
edge that HE wife WAS his ps.tor's mistress,
or had been"
Til.on saw this. By precedence he knew
that il was aimed at him ard Beecher. He
wen. to zee the O,dhull woman in Broad
street. He had hardly ever sem her before.
He introduced himself. and a-ked what the
World letter meant? She replied tina, It re-
,err~d 10 him and Beechtr. T.lton asked
Mrs. Woodhul! il she knew Mrs. TiltOn.
And 81 oke of that lady in ~ warm terms
rs he now uses in his letter. Mrs. Woodruff
had net known Mrs. T,ltop, but was savage
" minded TO pub ish the story a. she under
s,ood j.. or rather misunderstood il.
1t was, of course. necessary to Mrs. Tilton
and Mr. Tilton to placate this viciCu', fear
lsss ard crazy vet able woman. 1t 10 taid
tina, she saw Mr.. 1ilton, on invitation OF her
husband, and that from them she learned
the true story. 1t is plain from this point,
how she had the pen ard brain OF Tilton at
her service. She required him to appear
with her in the public. to frequent her house,
TO writs her life, from her standpoint. This
Mr.. Tilton did to keep the woman quie', as
to keep her horrible scandal out OF the news
paper.
sacrifice, which Mr.. TiltOn made were OF no
avail. The woman broke iaith, and when
she broke it she told OF the true story, but
the one that had been retailed 10 her ny the
yiola.or of Theodore Til on's confidence.
THE wooDHULL's STORY
anpeared October %, 1872. 1t va, dated
s.esd on her papsr to November 2,
1872 What it was and stated, the public
veIl enough recall. 1t charged Mr.. Beech |
or with having been criminslly conversant
With Mr.. t.! on; sllsgsd that children, Iiv-
ing and dead, we're The fruit Of that guilty !
onion; that Mr.. Tilton was forgivinely and
approvingiy cogniz mt OF that relationship,
though Al fir-t he was nearly stricken dead
when he found il ou., and thst M. Tilt0n, |
Mrs. PauIina Wright DAVE, Mrs. Elizabeth |
c adv Stanton and Mr. and Mrs. TIL on had |
told her of these facts, and that Mr.. B echer |
had admitted them. 1t ALEC in general
chsrged that Mr.. Beecher preached on every |
sunday TO at least twenty Of his mistre<es.
The free u.e made Of Mr.. 1iit,n's rame
gave the story the only plausible circum-
s.ar tiality which it had received. The pub
lie remember the silence concertedly MAIN
tanned by all the pr-ons to the scsnd.i. 20
far a. the public was concerned. Ili-ad-
vised proceedings TO imprison the woman
followed. They were taken by Mr.. Anthony
F. Comstock, member Of the Rev. DR..
BuddinRton's church. They rerul'ei in the
eventual discharge Of the women BY Judge
Blaichford.
twas aueried on all sides, Why do no:
NJ. Beech. and Mr.. Titon deny tie whole
tkirg? Mr.. Tilton had promired Mr..
Beecher to remain publicly silent, not only
about what WIS the ca e. but al oct the whole
eut iect. the Woodhu!l.s me- ndacieus and en-
Jared &c i,ion Of it included. Mr.. Beecher
IL kS, lueolR