New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-03

not doubt how sacred i was and solemn :" my WORD Of
honor that would neither disclose her secret that s
the secret wasgOing tell" whatever il might he,
nor would lure the person concerning |hoIn IL was 70
be told"
so they keep it up and you see. gentlemen, now va
don't need talk about these things, the npossibty OF
such beginning In respect 10 tho memory OF words,
but in the very impershabe principles Of human nature
and human character. puts 10 flight all soctude about
believing anything that after and when you have
q living witness and q credible man, Mr.. Beecher who
tells you that all this folly produced In bis
hearing and gives you perfectly rational explanation
OF what said to him coming from the wife, which
is perfectly consistent with this telling Of the story about
third person that didn't involve tho ves character
her conduct, TO w.t. withdrawal Of her affections. and,
you please, the further statement Of rejected addresses
when you have living witness that ties
titles along the live current OF human nature
and human conduct, you then can understand how
this witness has fixed the real traits Of any communica-
ton statement not being confession the part Of
the wife, but accusation OF another Of being some
thing 10 be told injurious TO another and not 10 excite
luminosity on the husbands part against that other
to be made the subject OF Communication TO him,
because the lady wished 10 be the medium Of cOmmun
cation TO him herself Well now, have got third
person. about whom something be told which has
not started tear a sob the part OF the wife
has it agtated suspicion a doubt the part Of tho
husband And then she goes just coolly; and
listen.
That she then said TO me that was a secret between
herself and the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
Well, she put in his full title that there might be
mistake Of the person and. then to guard against fur
Their INSTRUMENTATION, she adds her pastor" Well gen.
emen Mr.. and Mrs Tilton knew M Beecher, and they
knew he was the pastor Of Plymouth Church, and when
an agOnized wife. under the power Of conscience going
to tell Of her seduction OF her prostitution. she would tell
Of It, wouldn't shei She would humble herself In tho
Oft he and vii and audf
eed hair tell the sad story Of her sama she would
put in Rev. Henry Ward Beechcr my pastor" as tho
first thing she said on the subject Sow how she
calls TO him just how sine talked to him there that
night: THAT L well aware" that IT, that she
said to him-he don't say he aware but she said,
"How, as you well aware my husband, there had
been during long course OF years friendship between
herself and her pastor" She wies to recall to his mind
the general traits and features Of this business and rea
tOn that won't seem improbable to him that she has
committed adultery with man In tho moon.
This friendship, contrary to my expectation. had
had been In later years than friendship II Lad
been love- that IL had been more than love-"
See how the climax rises with the rhetoric that belongs
to the passion of the heart.
"That it had been sexual intimacy that this sexual in
tmScy had begun shortly AFTER tho d ath OF her
Pan-we that is queer way Of speasng Of little Paul
10 the father her Paul that hal been IN
der frame OF mind consequent upon that bcreave ment"
Now you know having got at the fact OF the adultery
1t Us to be made reasonable by connecting IT, naturally
with sentiments. and feelings. and a situation Of tie
wOman's mind that tends 20 adultery OF You
have the proxmae situation make the adultery
natural and anybody that a mother having ost
child, turns her attention to adultery. Of Ot
all understand that That being granted, ia
is in vain TO against the However does
little more.
That she had received mueh consolatlon during thai
shadow house from her pastor that she had made
visit to his house bile she was s.4 suffering from that
Sorrow
All in the name Of the dead Pant that this adultery
justified, and there the 10Th OF October-you
have the date the date Is important; must get 70
somewhere the law requires particular time and
place. and now we have got it. Only think Of IT, 81
under the nuence M conscience, and stirred by
the deepest passions OF her SEX OF nature having
the precision OF mind equal 10 that OF my learned brother
Morris in drawing this declaration Of stating tie time and
place at Mr. Beechers house the 10th day OF October,
1863 Now. il could have been for the purpose OF
having suit brought because she had eXactcd pledge,
and he had given his honor that he would do
say anything about the matter she going tell him.
Still suffering nom that sOrrow and that there, tho
10th OF October 1865 she had surrendered her body
him in sexual embrace that she had repeated such
act on the following saturday evening at her resi-
dence
queer way OF talking TO her husband, and for fear
there should be doubt they had moved from time 10
time from one house to another she adds. Z" her
residence, ia Livingstonst Laughter " that she
had consequent upon those two occasions look al the
rationale Of it, consequent upon those two occasions"
Not subsequent. Oh, no! There is logic OF connec-
ton. Well have a very good ma Kim hat IL only
the first step that costs think the steps did justify
the reasoning that the rest followed.
Consequent upon those two occasions. repeated such
At various times at his residence and at hers and Al
other places.