The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-20

insurance Companys building. He was
flushed and sullen. There was hitch IN
the money payment. He said abruptly that
he would not sign the agreement; that 1t
would have to be altered before he would
sign it; Kindling in anger as he talked,
he said in the negotiation Bowen had
been well taken care Of by Mr.. Clatiln
and Mr.. Beecher; well taken care of by
me; but he had been left out in the cold
with the money due from Bowen unpaid.
| combatted this fancy kindly and
tried to soothe him and hold him to the
arrangement he had made, but he
flew out wild and declared with the 'ut-
most passion that he would never while
he lived sign a paper that should disable
him from pursuing Henry Ward Beech
er, and he demanded Il copy Of his para
graph in the tripartite agreement that he
might alter it. 1madc out a copy for him.
and he sat down at table and began to
scratch and interline it, but he rose up
and carried his work away uncompleted.
Before he left gathered from what ~
said that Bowen had refused TO pay the
full amount of his claim and that his law
suit would have to. go on; but the full
amount was paid within day or two
thereafter and the tripartite agreement
was executed. Not the one | drafted
and was accepted by all the parties, but
modification of that.
II used my last copy ofthis instrument
in my testimony before the committee,
and can now only say that Ill the por-
tions- Of the agreement which are itall-
cized were omitted from the agreement
finally executed. The efficacy OF the
covenants | aimed at was lost, and the
compact defeated. Tilton in modifying
his paragraph backed out Of his disavowaI
of his imputations of Bccchcr, and his
admissions that they were untrue, and
carefully secured himself the largest lib
crty to pursue the great preacher forever
with inuendocs Nv testimony before
the committee shows the changes in the
tripartite agreement Us originally drawn,
and which with all the parties to it, he
he heartily approved, and had promised
to sign. 1t also shows my earnest re-
monstrances against permitting these
changes to be- made, and my warnings of
the mischcvous consequences that would
immediately follow.
"Thc followingare the omitted portions
of the original agreement: j, Henry e..
Bowen. know nothing dcrogatory to Mr..
Beecher's reputation, as a clergyman or u
man, and expressly disavow the charges,
irnputations and inuendoeS imputed to
have been made by me and set forth in
II letter written to me by Theodore Til
ton, on the lst day of january, 1871, II
copy of which letter is hereto annexed,
and declare that those charges, impu-
tations and inuendos, are without any
foundation in fact, to the best ofmy knowE
edge and belief. |, Theodore Tllton, re-
turning of my free will to
man whom | have rcvcrcd and loved H.
n father. thus renew and confirm my
faith in Henry Ward Becchcr rs Il
grandly good and generous man. ], too,
disavow each and all of the imputntlons
and charges in the said annexed letter
repeated and contained, and any and all
other imputations upon his character
and conduct, which have been said to
come from mel disHvow and covenant
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