Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10

anu ulu not hesitate 10 Tell MS Wllt
that he regarded the marriage relation
in different light from that in which
II formerly appeared to him.
THE DEVOTED WIFE AND MOTHER
Was forced day after day aud week
after week. to listen to these views,
which wer- extremely offensIvet to her.
In the year IS60Tilton formed friend
ship with lady, whose family he had
visited in the West. He invited her
To his house, and introduced her to his
wife. His acquaintance with her made
Mrs. Morse furious, and the lady, find
ing how deceitful he was aud hearing
1 his views as tn how he regarded ladies,
/ dropped his friendship. He wrote a
letter from where he was stopping
| with this family in the West to his
wife, telling her how much happier he
was with this Western family than he
/ was ia his home, in Livingston street.
! But in 1868 his wife could conceal her
/ feelings no longer, and when spoken
! to he confessed his weakness, and hus-
baud and wife prayed for strength to
! upholi him in the future. On June
26, 1868, he wrote his wife
A MEMORABLE LETTER
! From the Hudson River Railroad, in
which he said that she was all that
man could desire; she answered this
| letter on the 3Ist and admitted in it
| her harshness, and took all the sin of
his failings ON herself
! The letter SAYS: | am the chief Of
sinners, and understand how you feel.
! We must both cultivate our respect by
being what we seem; and let us not
| have even a shadow OF doubt in each
other; though all the world disagree,
let us be as one
A letter of February 3, 1868, from
Mrs. Iilton, says: THE picture of
your dear face is ever before me,
marked as it is with your suflerings.
To love is praiseworthy, but to abuse
| your gift of influence is SIM
This, gentlemen, is the letter which
has been garbled here in this case, in
which she has been
PLACED IN A WRONG POSITION.
She was demonstrating against the
abuse of his influence over women.
He made her believe that her harsh
ness had made him hypOcrite, so
that he had hidden his feelings from
her with regard to other women.
Mr.. Tracy quoted from Tilton's let
tiers to his wife of February 9th, 1868:
| am once more man among men,
said the letter, through your ceaseless
prayers and efforts. Each of your
letters fills me with increased love for
my wife. You have the richest of all
human hearts, and
! AM PLEDGED TO YOU FOREVER.
Another letter of February Is, 1865,
| from Mrs. Tilton to her husband, was
also quoted, acknowledging the re-
ceiPt of tue former letters. Another
| letter was written bv him, said counsel,
to Mrs. Tilton on the 10th of Febru-
AIRY, answering her that " he had bro
ken his connection with this Western
! family These letters were all writ
ten in the West, and contained assur-
ances of his fidelity in her. In the
summer of that year he returned to
New York, and renewed his acquain
lance with his old associates. Another
letter, written in his office in New
| York in November, 1868, to her, says
! it is his great regret in life that he
could not see her as happy as she de-
served to be. She had the kindest
soul that ever was put in body.
TIE GREATEST MISERY TO ME,
Is that l have hearkened to others.
! The troubles are Of my own making.
! Would to God they were of my own
enduring. But your kind letter of
! this morning is very dear to my soul,
and | write this TO thank you for it.
! Another letter from Mrs Tilton, dated
! February 20, 1865, to TIlton, says how
! glad she would be to have him home
again with her. On March s, 1868,
she says to him she never saw her
| path as clear as she saw il now, and
whatever he should do she would act
as a Christian and IA mother. Not
withstanding his promise on January
20, Theodore Tilton in 1869 and 1870
was forgetting his good resolves, and
FALLING BACK TO HIS OLD HABITS.
Tilton then feared Beecher's power,
and he was continually disparaging
| Beecher. In 1868 a new paper was
started in New York, called the Chris.
! tidR Union, and in 1870 Beecher be-
came its editor. The rapid increase of
| this paper alarmed both Bowen and
| Tilton, and the latter's views became
wilder. In 1870 rumors of Mr.. Til
| toms immortality reached BOwen's
ears, and the details of the Winsted ats
| fair. The young lady was no mere
child, as he says, but was larger
] woman IMAM MIS. lllJOl, MS ItdCn-
ed Bowen's EARS, and there also APP
peared in the New York papers re-
| port that Vilton was going to elope.
Here was the reason of the woman
going to her alleged paramount for adj
vice, and he gives it, advising sepa~
ration. Would he have advised this
if he were guilty? No; for this
would not have been the action of
81 guilty man. She never told him of
her confession to her husband, and
HE NEVER KNEW OFT
Until the interview between him and
plaintiff in Moulton's house. The two
contracts of the plaintiff with Mr..
Bowen were signed on the Goth of De
cember, 1870, and on the 22d Tilton
seized the child from its mother, and
the following day Mrs. Tilton had the
miscarriage. The stories Of Tilton's
immortality had now come down on
Mr.. Bowen, as the plaintiff described,
like an avalanche, and led to an inter-
view between them as to the truth OF
these stories. TiltOn mounted his high
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