The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-08-05
OURSEw YORK LETTER.
NEW York, August. 4-l874
fEEcuER Triton.

EEEcnER TILT0N.
Long before this seraWl reaches
you the telegraph viii have brought
YOU the frs text Of Theodore Tilton's
statement q! the trouble between
himself ad Henry Ward Beeeher
with A.r. Beecher's reply thereto.
All can give you is the effect Of
these publications upon the public of
New York and Brooklyn, where both
parties are well known. The state
ment Of Tilton is more direct and
damaging than those closest to him
supposed it would be. 1t was expect
ed thathe would undertake TO show
that Beecher had msde an attempt
upon Mrs. Tilton, and that be had IN
vaded other homes, ell Of which he
would endeayor to substantiate by
circumstancial evidence. But his
sworn statement that the great
nreacber had actually seduced Mrs
Theodore Tilton, struck the commu-
uify ike a thunder bolt from clear
tsky. And so skillfull is the state
ment made. so carefully are all the
loop-holes closed up, that Mr.. Beech
er's best friends are compelled TO adj
NIT that it has an Ugly look and that
Tilton had cause to do as be has
done. Ofcourse the question Is asked,
4Wbv did he not right himself be
fore? Why did be not cast OF this
unfaitbful wife and drag down the
seducer at the time be made the dis
~coyerv29 If askers ofthese questions
knew Tilton and his wife the ques-
tions would not be asked at all. Mrs
Triton is a woman Of a most intense
RELIGIOUS nature, Of a ~singularly sen
sitiye nature. a woman in short, who
lives in a morbid unhealthy world,
which is pe0pled by her Imagination
with all sorts of angels and demons. A
sweet. sBirituelle woman is Eliza
beth Tilton, but her nature is SO in
tense, so morbidly religious, that she
is precisely the woman thata bad spir-
itnaI guide could do anything with he
chose TO do. She believed in Henry
Ward Beecher-sbe idolized and
w%orshipped him. he was her idea
of a perfect man-to her be was more
than a man. be was a demi-god.
With her nature she could be made
wax in the hands Of amanlike Beech
Ter.
And knowing this-appreciating
the peculiar nature Of his wife, Til
ton believed be had been outraged,
bat bad that pity upon bis wife that
kept the secret in his own bosom till
be was compelled in self-defence to
make part Of it public. 1t viii be re
membered that in his first statement
be only limited at the matter, without
going into detail. This was intended
as his warning to Mr.. Beecher's
friends to keep away from him. Had
they done so The quarrel would have
stopped there. But these friends be-
lieyed they could get possession Of
Mrs. Tilton 10 such q way as 20 dis
credit any statement be could make.
and they defed him. Mrs. Tilton
left his house and sided with his ene-
mics, whereupon Triton was driven
TO the wall, and made desperate,
made the statement which is now be-
fore the world.
Bcecber, Of course, denies every
thing. and Mrs. Tilton has followed
suit. But the public do and believe
Tilton, for there have been rumors
affecting the character Of Mr.. Beecher
in circulation for years, aud the opin-
ion is that these rumors have a foun-
dation in fact. Then the case has
been pettifogged in all sorts Of ways
by his friends. The Committee Of
investigation was selected by him
self, and the Committee have, from
the beginning acted more as his at
torneys than as his judges. tits safe
to say that Henry Ward Beecher's
F sun is sinking and IN a iew months it
viii go down forever. 1t is q pity
that a brain so large, and a soul SO
all embracing, could not have been SO
balanced as to have run on TO the
eGd. Alas. for poor humanity.
KIDNAPPING.