, 1874-08-20

influenced or interfered with your pro
ceedings or duties. I have wished th,
Investigation to be so searching tha
nothing could unsettle its results.
have nothing to gain by any policy o.
suppression or compromise. For foul
years I have borne and suffered enough
and I will not go step further. I will
be free. I will not walk under the roo
! or yoke. If any man would do me q
favor, let him tell all he knows now. II
is not mine to lay down the law of hon
or in regard to the use of other persons
confidential communications. but in SO
far as any letters of my own are con-
cerned there is not letter or document
which I am afraid to have exhibited ,and
l authorize and call upon any living
person to produce and print forthwith
whatever writings they have of any
source whatever.
1t is time for tbe sake of decency and
public morals that this thing be brought
to an end. 1t is an open hole of cor
ruption, exhaling deadly vapors. For
six weeks the nation has risen up and
sat down upon this scandal. Neither a
great war nor a revolution could more
have filed the newspapers than this
question of domestic trouble, magnifis sd
a thousand fold, and, like sore spot on
the human body, drawing to itself every
morbid humor in the blood. Whoever
is buried with it, is time that this abom-
ination be buried below all touch or
power of resuscitation.
NEW YORK, Aug. IA Beecher, in a
cross-examination yesterday, explained
how he was induced to contribute ST.
600 to extricate Tilton froEl pecuniary
difficulties. This was effected through
the agency of Moulton. In explanation
of certain letters and parts of letters
heretofore published:
Question: In your letter of that date
to Moulton this occurs. "Would to
God, Who orders all hearts, that by His
kind mediation, Theodore, Elizabeth and
I could be made friends again. Theo-
dore will have the hardest task in such
a case" What did you mean by the
last sentence?
Answer: It is all muddle to me, as
I do not recall the precise wording to
my mind, and have no vivid recollection
Of the making up of the letter or the
precise words in which I wrote it. I
cannot give reason for the sentence.
Question: call your attention to it
because criticism is made in certain
quarters that it referred to Mr.. Tilton's
marital trouble. growing out of your
offense. Isn't it going back to friend
ship? Isn't it restoration of the fami-
ly? What you ask for is that you three
may be made friends again. "That we
should all cooperate;" and you say that
Theodore will have the hardest task.
Answer: There was family that by
circumstances had been brought to the
bitterest antagonisms at time of most
profound adversely. when Tilton had
got to struggle for his livliehood, for
his name, for his position and for his
household. Everything put together,
he was in situation in which he had
got to exert himself in every way for
restoration in every manner, and the
point was that she should cooperate
with him as well as with his friends. If
she had her sorrow to bear at home, he
had his too. That is what I think it
likely may have suggested those words,
but 1 don't say that it is. because I don't
remember. Elizabeth, you know. was
at times intensely bitter against Theo-
dore, and felt that she had been the ag-
grieved one. I had been led to sup
pose that she had not been anything
like so much aggrieved as I now sup
pose she has been.
Question. In the same of the seventh
you say, "Of course I can never speak
with her again without his permission.
and I do not know that even then it
would be best, why did you say that?
Answer, Because at either time of letter
from Mr.. Bowen or in its immediate vi
cinity Tilton, az have in person, now
sent word by Bowen, though l cannot be
sure of that, forbidding me ever to enter
his house. Question, Nothing else? An
swer. No. I know I frequently said I
wish was dead and Theodore Tilton
came and said he wished he was dead,
and Mr.. Moulton was frequently in a
state in which he wished he was dead
and Mrs. Moulton said: "I am livino
among friends, every one of whom wish
he was Dead" or something like that,
I do not know but it was smarter than
that. but she put it in way that was
very ludicrous. Every one of us used
to be echoing the wish. We were teased
and plagued and I use familiarity the
phrase, wish I was dead. Question.
Outside gossip is that you referred in
that line to contemplated suicide. An
swer, 1t was not SC, my purpose was this,
1 kept as a matter of life by patient con-
tinuance in well doing. and put 10 shame
those who falsely accused me. I meant
to put down and preach down this trcu-
BILE. Of course in my dismal moods, !
felt as though the world had come to an
end. Question. You say in the same
letter, " He had enjoined most earnestly
and solemnly not to betray his wife. -
In what respect? Answer. Not to be-
tray this whole difficulty, intoywhich
his household had been cast. Consider
how it is. I fappeal to every sensitive
man and cultivated nature in the world
if any greater evil can befall than to
have a woman and wife and mother
made subject to investigate as repects
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