The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-09-18
GLOBE FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER
could know nothing about It until Beecher

could know nothing about 1t until Beecher |
came to me with 1t.
did not suggest the ''device" of his pro- |
posed card to Tilton, by which he should |
repudiate the Woodruff statement. did |
not manage or suggest the "devices" of the
two letters of February Z, 1871, that |
should be made priest at the altar OF re-
Cancellation, because it appears from the
letters themselves ! was then on sick
bed. did not suggest the "device' as to
his letters to Mrs. Woodruff, for he wrote
them and then sent them to me for my ap.
prevail did not suggest the devices of
silence. or of writing to Sheaiman to send
letters of explanation to Mr.. Tiion, nor
the letter to Mr.. Cleveland, of which he
sent Inc copy nor of sending Cleveland
with his horse and buggy to hunt Carpen-
ter. III order to shut up his mouth, lest his
statement should appear $50 have come
from headquarters as Bcecher wrote me
| he had done it, Neither did | manage the
'device," since the publication of the }a-
con letter, of the proposed statement for
| TiltOn 10 make to the committee in reply
to the one which he (Rercher) was TO
make.
These all. as appears from the letters and
documents themselves, are the carnations
of Mr.. Beechers own diplomacy to cover
up the fact that he had given bad advice to
the wife of his friend upon n misstatement
of the truth as to domestic difference. Is
Mr.. Beecher to he believed when he states
ALI these were my devices = or rather,
was not his state of mind better described
by himself IN his cross-cXaminatOn where
lie is asked to eXplain--what indeed is UNI
explainabe or any other theory than the
truth of his guit-his letter of February Z.
1871? quote:
O. In your letter of the same date to Mr..
Moulton this occurs: "WOuld to God,
who orders all hearts, and by his kind med
iati0n, Theodore, Elizabeth, and | could
be made friends again. Theodore will have
the hardest task in such a case" Precise
ly what did you mean? Why that last
sentence! \. 1t is all II muddle to me, rs
don't recall the precise working of my
mind.
1t is indeed true that his mind is all a
"muddle" in undertaking TO carry through
the explanation made by his lawyers. Yet
even this poor excuse, ''that he cannot re-
call the workings of his mind, he does not
leave to himself, because in his written
statement he says: II labor under great
disadvantages in making a statement. My
memory of states of mind is clear and te-
nacious, even better than memory of dates
: and Details" and yet in his cross-eXamina-
ton he utterly breaks down upon "the
state of his mind and declares it ''all a
middle"
But it Is not my purpose, nor will it be
profitable, to push the analysis of this
/ statement of Mr.. Beecher's lawyers fur.
ther From these specimens of its incon
sistences, and from these contradictions OF
, the facts, shall leave the truth OF our re
spective statements to be judged by al
J good men no take an interest in them.
have here at first given what | an
sorry to say is prolix but faithful nara
| tive of every event and act in which tool
t part. with the documents and papers, oc-
, curing since the inception of the Bacor
} letter. And l ask the judgment of every
: candid mind upon the question of veracity
!, first herein stated, whether the Statement
: of Henry Ward Beecher before the com
| mttee-that "when that (Bacon) letter wa
r published and Mr.. Mouton, on my visitinl
7 him in reference to it, proposed no counter
operation-no documents, no help-l wa
| staggered, and when Tilton subsequent,
l published his statement, after he came Il
s this committee, when that came out nevP
D heard VOID from Moulton he never sen
c for me, nor visited me, nor did thing
Y waited for him to say or do something
: can be true in general or in either par
ticular.
u TO DE CONTINUED.