The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03

Mrs. Tilton said that act was next report
ed at her house and as most people were
liable to move, she specified that her
honse was No. ia Livingstone street
[Great Laughter.
Mr.. Evarts then spoke OF the
uncertainty expressed by Mrs. Tilton as
to the crimnality of committing adultery
with Beecher, and said that if such was
the state of mind of q woman confessed
by her husband to be pure minded,
woman thirty five years of age, and the
mother of iix children, we must ask the
Maidens at the AIatr
their minds on the propriety of such ACTS
in order to avoid any difference Of opin-
ion between them and their husbands.
[ [Laughter.l Evarts then referred
to Mrs. Tilton's explanation of the
way in which her scruples were
overcome. In sentence almost as long
and involved as those which the news
papers accused him Of using since, Mr..
Tiiton was informed that the crime hsd
been committed. 1t must have been
pleasant for him to have the manner Of
it thus carefully explained. Laughter
Recess.
After Recess.
Mr.. Evarts continued his address to
the Jury. He continued to consider the
alleged onfesslon of Mrs. Tilton rs re-
peated by her husband to Beechcr. She
said that Beecher he wished TO find in
her the solace of life and help to his
mind, which an unhappy marriage
had denied at home. What became then
of the twenty-five years Of adulteries
from indianapolis down? 1t was rather
late in life for man to fall in love and
seek this alienation of his domestic
misery for the first time wnen ne had
reached the age of fiity-six; had been
the father of nine children; was II grand
father and had been faithful to his wife
since they were both seventeen years Of
age. The representations on the part Of
Beecher that adultery with him would
not be sinful were not at first believed
and yielded to by Mrs. Tlton; she said
that for years she steadfastly resisted his
solicitations and was sometimes forced to
resort even to bodily resistance. What
must be thought Of the chastity of n
woman who calmly confessed to such II
course of conduct during Il series of years?
Yet Tilton thought h. had cast the
white Robe Of Chastity
over his wife when he put such language
in her mouth Why or how Mrs. Titon
got from ia Livingston street to the
house of her tempter on the 10th of Oc-
tober, 1868 was not yet explained. Was
she carried there in her sleep? Another
part of Mrs. Tlton's confession present.
ed the anomaly of Il woman wholly pure
in mind, and free from all degradating
impulses, who deliberately yielded her
self to the proiligacy Of hypocrtical
religious teacher This was The way
which TiltOn made easy and pure;
this was the verbal protection he gave to
those acts which strike at the very heart
of the female character. Mr.. Evarts
proceeded at this point to describe what
Tilton calls his wifes awaking to the sin of
adultery. For year it had never occur.
red to her that there was anything
wrong about it, but all ut once
the thought burst upon her that
after All the keeping Of two
bed fellows might not be right. 1t was
not so much adultery that troubled her
as the thought thatTheodore did not know
about it. Sne told him all in order to
relieve her mind. This is Theodore,
reason. Can any intelligent person be-
lieve this-bclieve that womun active
in Christian work; brought up under
Christian influences familiar with the
commandments, could 80 on committing
adultery with her pastor, quite unconsci-
Gus that she was sinning2 But those
who believe Theodore Tilton must believe
this