New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-20
HOW THE LETTERS WERE SPREAD BROAD
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Now. gentlemen, without stopping to discuss
these probabilities further WISH in order 10 enable you
To look NJ this as should be looked at to call to mind III
the first place the oath # this man as to the CONDITION. OF
ba home pror To the alleged act OF the seducer wish
then to compare il with another record more Fcllape
record made by his wifcs hand and by ms own III me
confidence Of conjugll affection which he has since be-
traycd to the pubic by act Of nfamy aud dshonor
bui which properly before you, and which now rises
,nst him 70 condemn his false swearing De told you
You will remember, that down to 1S6s his home-l 90
not of course his language for 1t would take me 700
long 10 70 through with in detail, but you remember
the general effect OF this home was one OF an guar ana
unaoyed purity and domestic peace; his wife loving
loyal faithful devoted his children tender, beauti
tif,,l. af.ctionate; their relations harmonious.
loving mutually devoted; all light within
the dwelling, all peace there, no jar, no discord
such a home you and feared was lmpOssiOe
while he giving the narration OF IT, We had READ Oh
it in and in poetry II has happened 10 me 10
have "A bright and happy home and presume mas hap
pencd 10 OF you; hut the home in which the sun
always shines and coud appears, the home in which
All n light aud darkness descends, the home IN
which all is music and harmony never broken the home
that we only in that and better land 10
which Henry Ward Beccher was endeavOling to guide
this wife and children while he was endeaVOrlg U"
stab them both NOw let refer TO what Will not lsead
gentlemen 10 these letters that passed between Them
events that what she the confidence OF conugaI
affection was 10 I've published on the house-tops, ana
photographed in The Ner York Graphic, and thrown 10
he winds by Frank Mouton. and exposed IN all It's
nakedness by Theodore TOn 10 the cold harsh conmei-
fairies of the world who look very differently upon
letters from what they do who write Them YOu remem-
Der Them and thniwith all my respect and adnlira-
ton for nv honored friend Judge MorrisI think he
wronc il IL IL true that he misled Theodore TtOn
Every one may sometimes be wrong; know
aIn too often. and / fear he was then.
When Theodore said 10 Morris. 81 have broken open
closet and got my letters She did MT take them Of
have got all her letters it would MT do 10 publish them
though; that would be too they not intended
for publication, and it won't do" Judge Morris says
We'll. now Theodore, YOU are wrong. Justice should
stand though the woman fall Down with i'll Up with
the letters! Give them TO the pubcw "Wel, don't
like to have people think did it," Oh where Gath
Which Of those letters Is the best have published -
Well don't understand from the narration whether 1t
was my friend Judge Morris. his client down and
marked these you them, with red marks. There's
a good one. That don't read well. There, that
viii do put that in No better leave that out. That
one won't do at ALL All there Is that will do mark
that There another that will do. Well, there is
part that would do, If IL not for that
COMPOUNDED other part Of the sentence Well, strike that
out" That il struck out. Now, is don't read quite
right" Well, just all up the sentence make II read
these garbed letters made to the foul
infamous purpose, culed out with view 10 falsehood
were sent cut TO the world and them not OF course
Theodore but other people who write In exactly his STYLE
communicate with The Springfield Republican. and The
Chieago Tribune, and - - and The
Ne~ until finally nnd that instead Of there
being one Theodore Tilton, We have forty Theodore
Tiltcns and all writing for the newspapers. and all
writing down Mrs. Tilton and Henry Ward Beecher.
Gentlemen those the stratagems and policies which
John Milton says Truth don't need, and which Error
resorts 10.
MRS. TILTON'S LETTERS AND THEIR LESSONS.
But, now, let US take these letters, even as
lar have been able get them My friends on the
otter side right in order TO determine the truth oil
this accusation In order To comprehend the evidence IN
it, true bearings you need tn 10 back a. they did 40
back interior that home ~ IL existed before the
aIivgc, se,urtiuu and deba and,