Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-09-26

e New York, Sept. %, 1874
TnToN's SWORN STATEMENT has been
published since our last, and like every
Thing that has to do with this affair is
enormously voluminous, making some
10 columns in the daily papers. Not
@ithstanding its importance, therefore, we
are. unable TO publish it. Il reviews the
report of the Committee, and meets the
statement of Beeeher before that body.
Ii gives many new facts and documents,
and lis arrangement and presentation of
old ones, takes on force that carries
conviction TO many VINO nave been COM
United ON the Beecher side of the ques-
tioH.. Il is the sheerest folly TO talk about
in the invention and connecting of such
story. The thing is hardly to be conceived
as within the power of man or devil
When we consider the matter in this
light, and also of that in the absence of
motive for doing it, the conclusion of
Beecher's guilt seems inevitable, We
recapitulate below the points, in Mr.. Til
toms second Indictment. and leave the
public to judge how far he has succeed ed
in overthrowing the conclusions of the
Committee, and answering Mr.. Beecher's
statement:
l. Mr.. Tilton began by refnting
the two statements of Mrs. Tilton,
that he had been for ten years jeal-
GUS of Mr.. Beecher's reputation, and
was determined to ruin him; and
that he had been maltreating her
for the same, period of time. This
he does by producing various friend
ly and even affectionate letters that
passed between himself and MIR.
Beeeher down to July. 8, 1870, the
date at which he first became aware
of the criminal intimacy between Mr..
Beecher and Mrs. Tilton; and by,
giving extracts from his correspon-
dence with Mrs. Tilton down to the
same period of time. He supple.
ments this with the emphatic state
ment that never until that date, Ju-
ly 8, 1870, did he r entertain an un-
kind thought, or utter an unkind
word, to either Mr.. Beeeher or his
wife. @ asea r efed,o ifu 3sd
2. He then gives a suecinct narra9
tive of the time, place, and manner
of Mrs. Tilton's confession of her Sc
duction by Mr.. Beecher, and fixes
the date of its consummation, Oct.
10, 1868, by an entry in Mrs. Tilton's
diary. GA Day Memorable which
words she said she had used to mark
it in her own recollection. TO a5@a
3. Then follows a letter from Su-
san B. Anthony to. Mrs. Isabella
Beechers Hooker, full of indignation
against Mr.. Beecher, both. for his
crime and for his want of veracity
concerning it. The supposed sig-
nifcance of this letter is that Mrs.
Tilton confessed the crime to
Miss Anthony, and that Miss An
thony and Mrs. Hooker were in cor
respondence concerning it. as thing
about which there could be no dis,
pute. ..e.,., '-..,,,.. s.9,sfg ~ ,.ad
4: He next defends Mrs. 7Tilton
against the charge made against her
by Mr.. Beecher that she made the
first advances For this charge, saws
MIR. TiIton, 81 brand him as a cow
aid of uncommon baseness.p Else.
where Mr.. Iilton. .decants with burn-
ing sarcasm on the groveling charae-
ser of one who will accept the last
extreme favor of woman, and then
appoint committee of six to public
ly investigate her conduct.
5. The character of Mrs. Morse,
Mrs. Tilton's Mother, is disclosed in
series of letters. Mrs. Morse's let
ters> contain frequent illusions to the
relations existing between Mr.. Beech.
er and Mrs, Tilton. nv re -rI
= 6. The most important document
not heretofore published is aletter
from Mrs. Tilton to her mother lin.
closing one to Mr. Tilton), written
at Marietta, o., a few months after
her confession. This letter is
heart-rending document. and no one
can read it without being moved to
pity for the anguish of soul in which
1t was composed. 1t contains re-
peated illusions to her offense, and
speaks of confession she had made
to her mother, known to her daugh-
ter Florence, which was likely to be
a death-bloRSto the latter.
Z. After giving a statement of
Henry C.Bowen's accusations against
Beecher substantially as, given by !
Moulton, Mr.. Tilton gives an explicit |
account Of his interview with Beech
er at Moulton's house, where Mrs.
Iilton's confession was disclosed to- |
him, and shows by a comparison of |
dates that at that time he had not
lost his position on the Independent
and the Brooklyn Union, and was
not in an impoverished condition,
but was in the receipt of an income |
OF $4,000 per year. Consequently,i
that Mr.. Beecher's statement, that |
nc VcliVOh) was exasperated with |
MN Tor having caused him to lose
his situation and salary, is an after
thought and falsehood. h.. En- d.
8. Mr.. Tilton next shows that |
Mr.. Beecher's allegation that his
despairof mind, so poignantly ex-
pressed in his letters to Moulton
was caused by having advised Mrs