The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-31

establish the train about the only point IN ques-
ton. 1t Is persistent attempt TO drag as many
more as possible INTO the hlth ana mne. be-
heved it 10 be at the outset an attempt 10 lore
stall the judgments OF God, but | now perceive
ina He Will overrule it to His own purpose.
was away rom me scene, but could not get
beyond where the Ign ming could place the words
of Theodore TllOn Ue Gre my ewes. 1hey
scared into my soul. l saw myself held
up by him TO the public gaze "a despicabe thing,
As an intriguing treacherous vulgar and un-
truthful woman d oppod my engagements and
hastily returned to New York, my heart bleeding
at every pore with indignity and outrage, deter
mined not to rest under the insinuations. Under
this feeling wrote the letter that you nave now
published. Under IL / poured out the indignant
truth that was boiling in my breast, wrung, as 1t
were, IRON my soul by direst cruelty; wrunR
from me when had guardedly concealed 1t under
all previous emergencies. The letter was put in
type ana was to have been printed in the Weekly
But on the verge OF its publication I asked my.
self II II were right TO do this thing-if should
speak under the impulse or personal wrongs,
without regard to collateral issues. l remem.
berea the Great Counsellor; how. on account OF
these same people, mad often taken nv petitions
before Him; now, when they mad cast me into
prison and turned the whole world SO much
against me that not man could be found who
would come forward 10 turn back The IRON bolts
and act me free; how. IN the grated cell, before
our iron bed, upon that stone moor, nv daring
sister and my angel mother kneeled with me, and
whie our tears and prayers were mingled we
asked God to send US deliverer; ana how,
as We prayed our cell WAS lighted up with
spirit light and the power OF heaven oversnadOwed
us. while still small voice whispered comfort to
our troubled souls, assuring US that help would
come in time to deliver US SAFELY from all the
bered all TINS and also how wondrously IL mad
been verified; and then, with the proofs OF thu
grace aud asked that Jesus, who prayed
'Uh, Father forgive them. Tor they know not
He did come, and lie said :--"Stay thy hand my
child. All these things are committed TO my charge.
10 the fulness OF time all hidden things snail be
revealed and you snail be justified where now you
stand condemned. Waltz
have done. suffering under the stlngs OF my own
wrongs, has been brought ABOUT by the inscruta-
bic hand OF Goa without my aid, and when
thought of TINS the impulslve Condemnation That
rose TO my lips when saw this publication made
was unspoken, and IN its place SAID, MOT my
WILL out thine, o Loro, be done" For every day
l live l am more fully Convinced that the
Lord God reignetn, and that In this, to the
world terrific ordeal OF scanda, He is moving to
do OF "hs own good VIII and peasure' IN ways
That are as yet hidden rom the understanding OF
blessings to the world such as 1t has never been
vouchSaed before.
1t by these processes OF mindn that passed
from the "ferce angern and personal OUTRAGE taat
were the Inspiration OF the letter you published
to-day Ito the sympathetic and courteous. tone OF
her letter OF SATURDAY,"
But the subject matter of the letter Of Saturday
was very different matter rom that OF the for
mer. As i SAID III tnat letter, nad forgiven MIR.
Tllton Tor all the wrongs he had thought 10 90 me.
and Tor all the nnKlnd words he mad used upon the
stand and elsewhere ABOUT me, Tor had used his
name IN ways under which, have no douOt, no.
understanding fully, II at all, what were my mo-
the stand, as he has done elsewhere, shall seek to
cast odlum upon me Tor having forced min to this
encounter, although Justified in SO doing by mis-
own WORDS, as he well knew, to me personally,
why, can forgive MIN also and wait for God and
time TO place Inc right.
sty OF when desire to estabisn-was wholly
different AFFAIR from tnat OF my personal feelings
against Nj. 1ilton. 1t was lawyers trek. done
probably without the knowledge even OF Mr..
Beecher. or else the malice OF those deluded peo-
pie introduced INTO the case to be avenged for
some supposed wrongs they mad endured. At
least. 1t was Ialse In every material particular.
and was intended e., ana did. inJure Mr.. hilton
been Introduced by Mr.. rlton to crush dir.
be false, should havs done the same thing that
did in the present case. am Tor neither side as
truth and nothing but the truth as against botn
sides. and all can do publcly to get II, being de.
will be double.edaed sword snail do; and IN
30 dong leel tnat am AIDING the powers that are
humanity in this way that they neglected and re-
fused TO do IN other ways tnat would have been
more pleasant to All concerned.
Is there anything incompatible In my course in
THIS While did not publish me letter OF to-day
though refused to publish it-stlll it contains
nothing but tue truth. maze sharp and bitter TO
be sure by an outraged womans soul, and while
did puolish the letter OF Saturday there was notn-
Indeed, wherein the two refer to the same thing
the same facts are made TO appear. One was
injastce the other un s" the sprs Of
1mpersonal justice. with myself expunged. Let
the pubic mark this distinction and 1t Will be seen
by what processes ol mud" passed from one to
the other confederation "herce anger'' to
courteousness and forgiveness.
have never believed that Mr. Beecher would 20
on the witness stand TO deliberately deny the
ua 9a Of "a aS 1
Tor as ABOVE the law, as beyond the fulfil
ment OF the law. and therefore jusilfable; aud
! am sure tnat Mr.. Beecner regarded
them. 1t is not necessary 10 come within tue
Bible doctrne OF the iuin mens o. the law that 1t
SHAH al for all people a. one and the same time;
but that 1t must la Tor them VINO have fulfilled t.
urged Mr.. Beecner % stand upon the luialment
position. Miss Ca narine Beecher mad informed
me, when rlnlng win her N Central PARK, OF the
the msa SS need
Just What his home had failed t. give
HIM him. Coo knows 1t was not a mine to condemn
through what he had aone mat all concerned
would become the apostles OF the new d.spensa-
tion, as they nave been competed to become
through refusing TO do so. And 1 now say to
them, IN the language oIJesus, III the world hate
ha ed me before it hated you" Ior declaring the
truth that God had gwen unto Inc TO declare, ''lf
tore the world hateth your as IT hsth hated me
before you. But let US all watch ana pray that
1t come to US as it came to John, that '.they
hated us without u cause"
II MI. Beecher uoea ~ upon that STAND let hlm
remember 'nat the truth only can make MIN Tree.
Anything concealed beneath a lie Will aiterward
be made known upon the housetops. Well do |
remember the morning In The winter OF 1871 and
1872 upon which a carriage was sent over to fetch
me TO Mr.. Mouton's to see Mr.. Beecher, who
declared $50 the messenger said) that re would
not 20 until l came. Being absent at a
lecture, the carriage waited until | returned,
when responded to the pressing message. But
the ice IN the river de AIMED US Ulong that did
not reach Remsen street until It was so late that
MIR. Beecaer having given up my coming, nad
upon the stand, as mas been said elsewhere. that
he always tod Mr. TltOn that he must abandon.
that woman" before 1t would be possible Tor
him to be helped.
The world seems to have forgotten that my SIS
ter, nv husband ana were dragged through the
stree Is Of this city, from PRISON TO prison. until
the iron door had closed upon us for the seventh
tlme-dragged because OF the hardness the
breasts Vi these people whom God Is now pushing
through the cruciDIe oil his fiery furnace, to
purify and dt hem 10 90 the work He
nnM tnnn lonr ad ooldlm a., all anas Ss.