Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-26
SCAN. MAG.
Another IDstallment Of Theodore
Tiitpn;
He Accuses Beecher of Seeking
to Buy His Exile.
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Choice MOrsels for Scandal MOngers,
NEW YORK, June 25.-Among the doc.
uments which Theodore Tilton gives, in his
long open letter to DIR. Leonard bacon. on
what is. commonly known as thelSeecher and
Tilton scandal, is the following, under date
Of May /, 1874:
Henry Ward Beecher-Sir: Mr.. F. b.
Carpenter mentions to me your saying to
him that, under certain conditions, involv-
ing certain disavowals by me, a sum OF
money would or could be raised to send
me, with my family, TO Europe for term
of years. The occasion compels me TO state
explicitly that so long as life and self-re-
spect continues TO exist together in my
breast, 1 shall be debarred from receiving
either directly or indirectly any presents,
or any other fayors at your hands. The
reason for this feeling on my part, you
know so well, that l will spare you the
statement Of it. Yours, truly,
THEODORE TILToN.
Tilton follows this with reference to
what he declares a fact, that although he
had received from the clerk of the plymouth
Church, on the 18th of May, comnunica-
ton that his (Tilton's)
Offer 20 Appear as . witness
on trial had been read by Rev. Hall, second
assistant pastor of Plymouth Church, and
submitted to the examining committee, by
whom it had been rejected, Mr.. Halliday
had, some forty days afterward, emphati-
cally denied TO several newspaper reporters
that such offer had ever been received, and
branded the whole story as false from be-
ginning to end.
Rev. DIR. Bacon having in his speech
characterized Beecher as the most magnani-
nous ofmen and referred to Tilton as
A Dog and Knaye,
leading the public to infer that the latter
was in some way a creature of Beechel s
bounty, TiltOn states that he called Beech
eTS attention to the OfeusiveneSs of the
statement and insisted on its correction 10y
either that gentleman or himself. TiltOn
closes his letter to Rev. DIR. Bacon as fol-
lows:
Ifthe public have heretofore considered
my silence as inexplicable, let my suffi-
cient motive be now seen in the Just for
bearance which felt morally bound
TO show to man who had
sent me a written and absolute
apology. But my duty to continue this
forbearance ceased when the spirit of that
apology was violated to my injury by its
author or his agents. These yiolati ons
have been multitudinous and they threaten
to multiply in the future, forcing me to
protect myself against them in advance,
particularly against the cunning devices of
a clerk of the church, who, acting as attor-
ney, appears to be conducting this business
against me at if it were a case al law.
Had the fair spirit which had a right
TO expect from Plymouth Church, at least
for its pastors sake, been shown toward
me, l would have continued 10 rest in ST.
leDce on Mr.. Beecher's apology, and never
during the remainder of my life would l
have permitted any public word OF mine to
allude to the OfenSe or the offenders. But
the injurious measures which the author of
this apology has since permitted his church
to take against ne, without protest on his
part, involving gross injury to me, which
have been greatly aggravated by your writ
ings, have put me before my countymen in
the character of abase and bad mana cha
racter which / trust is foreign to nv nature
and life. Under the accumulating weight
of this Odium, unjustly bestowed on me,
neither patience nor charity can demand
that keep silent.
Mr.. Beecher is on his farm at Peekskill.
and to-day the children, teachers and friends
Of the Plymouth Sunday-schoOl 90 there to
congratulate their pastor on the occurrence
Of the Glst anniversary of his birthday.