Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-12
THE BEECHER-TILTOY AFFAIR.
Further Correspondence aud Com.
ment-.Letters from Beecher TO Moul.
ton DC

ment-.Letters from Beecher 10 MouI.
ton DC
New YORK, Aug. 5.-The following
letters from Mr.. Beecher to Mr.. Moul-
ton are made public to-day;
Brooklyn, July 2S, lS74.-My Dear
Friend: The committee of investigas
ton are waiting mainly for you, before
closing their labors. |, too, earnestly
wish that you would come and clear
your mind and memory of everything
that can bear on my case. pray you,
also, to bring all letters and papers re-
lating to it which will throw any
light upon it, and bring to a result this
protracted case. l trust that Mrs. NJ.
has been reinvigorated, and that her
need of your care will not be so great
as to detain you. Truly yours,
II. w. BEECHER.
70 f. ID. Moulton, Esq.
BROoKLYN, Aug. 4, 1874.
f. ID. MOultOn, Esq.
SIR: Your letter bearing date Au-
gust 4, 1874, is this moment received.
Allow me to express my regret and as
tonishment that you refuse me permis-
sion even to see certain letters and pa.
pers in your possession relating tC
charges made against me by Theodore
Tilton, and at reasons given for refusal
On your solemn and repeated assur
ances of personal friendship, and In
the unquestioning confidence with
which you inspired me of your honor
and fidelity, placed in your hands fol
safe keeping various letters addressed
to me from my brother, my sister and
various other parties, also memoranda
of affairs not Immediately connected
with the Tilton matter.
/ also from time To time addresse,
you confidential notes relating to m.
, own self, as one friend would write I
another. These papers were neve
! placed in your hands TO be held for tw
> parties, nor 10 be used in any way
: They were to be held for me. l di
not wish them to be subject To risk G
loss or scattering from my careless hab
its in the matter Of preserving docu
ments. They were to be held for m'
In so far as these papers were concern
ed, you were only friendly truste
, holding the papers subject to m
, wishes. Mr.. Tilton has made deadl
assault upon me, and has used letter
4 and fragments of letters purporting I
be copies of these papers. Are thes
;, extracts genuine? Are they garbled
}, What are their dates? What, IL any
l thing, has been left out, and what pC
e in?
r You refuse my demand for thes
4 papers on various pleas-that If l spea
4 the truth in my statement do NJ
l need them that If / make a success,
8 full use OF them it will be an injury {
r Mr.. Tilton; and that you, as I'll
, friend of both parties, are bound M
. to aid either in any act that shall IL
J. iure the other. But not desire to II
d 1ure any one, but to repel an injury a
\. tempted upon me by the use of pape
v committed sacredly TO your car,
4 These documents have been seen an
;, copied. They have been hawked fC
sale in New York newspaper Office
What purport to be my contidenti
notes to you, on market, but when
Y demand a sight of the originals OF p
n pers of which you are only a trust,
that / may defend myself, you refGs
= because you are friend of both pa
It ties.
= Mr.. Tilton has access to your depos
= tory for materials with which to stril
l. me, but am not permitted to use the
/. in defending myself. do not ask "
a to place before the com mittee any p
per which Mr.. Tilton may have give
you, but 90 demand that you fort
with place before the committee eve
paper which l have written or depo'
=, ted with you. Yours truly,
H. w. BEECHER
A SUIT FOR DAMAGES AGAINST NJ
" BEECHER.
a The New York Sun of yesterd,
A. says " Mr.. Morris, Mr.. Tilton's cou
d sci, said last evening that he should
re- once begin the preliminary procee
d ings OF a suit for damages again
ID Henry Ward Beecher on a charge
r criminal conversation with M
\ Elizabeth r. Tilton. A summons Is
J. be served on Mr.. Beecher's counsel
n day or tomorrow, and the suit will
' pressed at the first session of the s
II preme Court. The amount of damag
'd to be claimed has not yet been decid
10 upon. The suit for divorce, at IL
% spoken OF. have been Abandoned ~