The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-16
THE SCANDAL.
Continuation of Tiiton,s Gross. exafii-
nalIAu.

of Tiiion's Cross, exaiiii-
nation.
New YORK, Feb 15.-The Brooklyn city
court room con tanned the usual complement Oh
spectators this morning. All the counsel were
in their places when Judge Nelson ascenueu
the bench. Tlton resumed his place on tne
witness stand, and his cross-examinatlon was
continued by Mr.. Eyarts as follows:
cannot say if the statement that MI. beecn
er preached on Sunday to dozen or more OIL
his mistresses was in my publication OF the
True Story; l Go not remember saying II MI.
Beecher resigned l would shoot him on the
street; what L did say was that if he published
his letter of resignation which reflected on my
family would shoot him on the street, and
most assuredly would have done so; am GER
tain did not write my wife's letter of Dec. z,
1872 neither aid [ draft it, it was written by
her after consultation with me as to the phrase
ology of part of it; the writing of my letter to
DIR. Bacon was caused by the impression put
out that L was a knave and dog and that Mr.
Beecher was the most magnanmous OF men ;
In my letter TO DR.. Bacon took care to speak
in complimentary terms OF my wife, and at the
same time indicating her with myself; dld
not have any impression that it cast an lmputa-
ton on my wife's honor or that OF the family,
but it was written with the object OF selt-v.ndl-
cation; do not know if Mr.. Beecher was re-
sponsible for the church gathering, but think
which he might have governed; think III the
letters he sent to the council OF Plymouth
Church he vindicated himself at my EXPENSE
1t was, | think, an unmanly action; Or. bacon
used it to fling at me like an arrow at a marx
those slurs on me could have been prevented by
him but they were not; one evening prior to
the council L met Mr. Beecher, he told me that
he could control Plymouth Church in its ac-
ton; that he held it in his hand, and that its
members would act in the matter as he desired; L
wrote two letters to this council while IL was III
session; L told the investigating committee that
| was warned not tu produce the letter and pa :.
pers before them, and as L was Without COUNSEL
| would not submit them.
Mr. Carpenter and Mr.. Tracy Think said
that it would be safe to produce them; this
was at my first appearance before them, L
promised to produce them, and did so at sub
sequent session; the proceedings OF this COM
mittee when l was before them were not secret.
They were published in the Brooklyn Eagle; on
the night of the day when my sworn statement
submitted to them was published was in Del
monicos in New York; it was published by MIR.
Augustus Maverick on his own responsibility
and without my knowledge, desiring TO obtain
my vindieation in the eyes OF the pubic.
The court then took recess.
After recess Tilton resumed the stand and
continued:
The birth of my youngest child was the list
of June, 1869, and the death OF my son faul &C.
Cured on Jan 26th, 1868.
Mr.. Shearman then read letter from Hilton
to Mrs. Tilton dated Hudson Riyer Depot, Jan.
26, 1868, declaring that she was all to MN tnat
a wife could be, and denouncing himself Tor MS
conduct and suspicious OF her as a .White ea
sepulchure containing dead mems bones. He
thought he had the sweetest family that God
ever gave to a man. Another letter was dated
Pittsburg, Jan. 30th, 1868, referring to letter
from Mrs. TiltCn that p. M, that he was more
cheerful, and the knowledge of her loyo to him
L. klpr. In
than he deserved. Another sentence OF the
same letter stated that his love went out IN a
great stream to his children and great portion
of it to her.
Mr.. Eyarts announced that this finished the
cross-eXamination of the witness.
Direct Resumed.
Ex-Judge Fullerton then rose and opened the
redirect examination.
The witness replied. The various letters re-
ferred to in this examination were, think, re-
ceived about the respective times they were
dated; could not fix the date of Mrs. Hilton
going to Marietta, but think it was IN the at-
tumn; met her at the carriage on her return
from Marietta and escorted her to her nome; l
was notified of her arrival by letter; the child
which L sent to her mothers for was born in
Sept, 1860, and sent for him in Dec. 1870.
She returned from New Brunswick few
days before her sickness; she left my house IL
nally on the 18th q. July, after her appearance
in the morning, and l was greatly surprised
when she told me she was going to the Owing.
toms; had no intmation up to that moment
that she was going to leave the house; think
it was either on July 9th or Sth that she APP
peared before the committee; | did not know
of the existence of the committee then; Mrs.
Tilton was an extremely sympathetic woman,
willing to vi, Id to the influence of others and
ready to take advice; knew Elizabeth when L
was ten years old; we became confessed lovers
at sixteen and were married at twenty; when
she came to her downfall L found that she was
wrapped up in her religious belief and sinned
when in trance, at her teacher S bidding.
My protest was published in the Independent
after the publication of the Cleveland letter.
The point of difference between Beecher and
myself was that in the year 1866 Beecher and J.
were members of the Republican party and the
Independent was one of its mouth-pieces. Mr..
Beecher's Cleveland letter was an offence
against the party. In that letter he recon-
mended the restitution of the Southern states
into recognition without making any condl'
tions for the negroes. He wanted the Southern
states to come back without conditions and we
wanted them to come back with condition,
namely, the electoral franchise OF the negroes.
The witness recognized a paper shown him as a
CODY of the protest and and it was read IN evil
dence by Mr.. Fullerton. The writing OF the
protest, continued the witness, did not break
up the friendly relations between Beecher and
myself.
MIR. Beecher's part in the woman's move
ment was very marked. He was one of the
first men to take part in movement. Mrs. III
ton was also active IN the movement and 1t was
she who in degree inspired me to take the
part did. AS to marriage | hold that it is
the union of one man and one woman for life
for better or for worse in calm or storm, not
only for life but perhaps after, and as to di-
vorce 1 hold that this state is behind the other
states as to reasons for divorce. In this state,
there is only one cause for divorce and in other
states there are other causes. hold that II a
man negects his wife or refuses to maintain
her or is habitual drunkard she is entitled to
a divorce. l thought the civilization of man,
kind demanded that our code OF divorce Should
be changed to the New England code, giving
divorce for various and satisfactory reasons. In
New Hampshire if a man remains from his
wife one year she can obtain divorce, but a
man married to a woman here might remain
away seventy years and his wise could get no
divorce. l never advocated the doctrine of free
love