New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-09

this princcly generosity OF Mr.. M0ultons should be
troubling Itself about little matters of few thousand
dollars Have mt We heard that magnificent proposition
of his that he would rather pay Mr. Tlton the S1ooo
out Of his pocket than the sghtest risk OF MI
Beechers being disturbed for moment by any agita-
tons of the Bowen matters But he knew there were no
atations of the Bowen matters that MI Beecher cared
snap Of the finger for and Mr. Beechers answer 10 MIN
was, nothing about Mr. Bowens charges or MS
affairs :" that stands hemagncent 'front.' nay the
whole body Of Mr.. Moultons generosity to Mr. Tilton
throughout this business "Hypocrisy says Mr. BurKe
can afford be magnificent in its promises for. mover
intending to go beyond promises 1t costs nothing we
they finally forced the arbitration to cover these di
culties and to get the money and they got 1t and MI
Tton could not refrain from chucke over the matter
which should the cookies OF Mr. Monltons heart
to laughter and he not in his presence be wrote
him this slip:
Spells from new friends for the enrichment or Old
And there are check and the teltale pnhoes tnst
tied that slip that paper and Franklin Woodruff seems
TO be the partner that whose careless honesty
suppose brings his crafty partners into trouble
Now, lust look what Q heavy fall Mr.. Moulton gave
Theodore with this 81 OOO and how the spos from the
new friends did go to the enrichment OF the Ola.
Mr.. Tilton had o basis OF capital ana lunos
for the support Of his Golden Age through It's
contingencies and experiments, which was Just the
same AZ II he had the money in his purse.
Moulton SO 900 by Franklin Woodruff $1,000 by Jere-
mah Robinson 81 900 by Mr.. Mason, 81 500 BY Mr.
Schultz and 81 800 by Mr. southwick. Onehaf *6oOO
had been paid and was spent, and the concern was In
want of money and this strike comes and the money
got The other s6 900 of the s12 900 he had in the en-
gagemens these responsible parties to hand him the
cash whenever he wanted it, and his only obligation TO
them was it II he ever prosperous or able
The Golden Age then situated with this $4,000 un
paid as IL il was its TILL and the moment that this
81 900 Of actual cash comes into TltOns hands, then
Moulton and Woodruff seize $4,000 OF 1t at once, and
leave only the small pittance Of $1,000 for his share OF
the spois. 1t must have gone against the grain
little that to get back Moultons 81 500, and Woorurs
$780, and Jeremiah RobinsOn's $500. which was
$780, they also had put back 800 into the pockets
Of Mason and southwck and Schultz whom they didn't
care anything about but commercial honor requires
that we shall make distinction between ourselves and
cocontrbutors, and, 80 that the duest under
standing might appreciate 1t when 1t II exposed. MI
Woodruff says to Mr. SOuthwick, "Wel, Johnny, II you
lost $3.50 by going in, you have made $50 by coming
out" [Laughter Now, you see what heavy fall
poor Tilton had his 81 OOO $4,000 that he was I'M
obligation TO return unless prosperity waited hF
bark to the haven where would be found taken right
out of him bodily before his eyes, without his sspecing
It, and he left to tide the shoa when he came 10 IT,
as best he might And how did they tide him over 1t
when CAME and these notes and this cash that he could
have relied upon, had been swept away, and they had
bagged this 81 OOO and what there was spent I
Why then Mr. Moulton says TO Mr. Beecher, See what
generous spirit contrive, to help friend Look at
this letter look at notes look at this cash see
what it is to be friend TO TtOn But then, aas, the
decacy of this being accepted at the hands OF Lady Will
compel Mr. TiltOn to decline it, and, alas alas
these generous purposes will be OF no real
service" and poor Mr. Beecher goes on,
not understanding the delicate approaches OF
n andsa IN II there
OF this money to save the las Mr.. MoutOn had
intmatedl il all il going to destruction for want of
50 600, will mortgage my house," and he brought tie
So 600 in check, which it was thought better by Mr.
Moulton should be in Bills and so there came, out OF
Mr. Beechers generosity the replacement OF the $5o
as far as it went for the $4,000 that MOuton and Wood
ruff and Robinson and their associates had subtracte
from the Bowen money Talk to me about generosity
and prncely friendship! have not seen from the De-
ginning to the end, any uchliberaty.
These original subscriptions for The Golden Age, gener
GUS il you please shared by comparative strangers
who had such duty and such coseness Of relation
to Mr. Tilton But, then, the fertile ingenuity which
should thus cunningly subtract from Bowers $1,000
six thousand of IT, and then cunnngy replace it, to the
amount Of five thousand, by this overwhelming sener
osity Mr. Beecher certainly deserves admiration and
do not hesitate to say Sir that parallel to it can be
found in admirable career of the original Sir PhAF
Sydney. Iaughter.l
THE RAGGED EDGE LETTER ANALYZED.
Now, gentlemen, will dispose of the rest OF
this letter The existence OF this letter. the existence OF
other letters that will be brought to your attention. go
far from possibly furnishing evidence Of consciousness of
Guilt in any sense Of crimnalty which the divine and
human law and the public Judgment denounce as In
famous and the knowledge or disclosure OF which would
bring defeat dshonor contempt, upon the writer-te
very existence Of these letters complete evidence tna'
there is no consciousness Of guilt and that they are
the vehicle Of expressions Of guilt, confessions OF
t of any lust construction that could connect guilt
with them Observe, they written spontaneously
and TO a person who knew what the length and breadth
what the alternative measures and character on Mis
matter were, and written to him on purpose and with
a purpose, to wit, the exphcation " him or
the utter absence Of any just sehreproach In
his (Mr Beecher's) <mnd in regard TO sefishness,
want OF aacry Of effort his part. to help the
misfortunes and dstresses Of Mr.. Tlton, al he had
abundany professed his desire to do, and as Mr. Mou
ton had strenuofsv labored to urge him 70 do. And
then the whole of this letter land is quite o
long one and all its contents have for their scope and
purpOse nothing but the representation TO Mr. Mouon
TO whom be undoubtedly did express himself as hewould
to his own heart that 1t wrong in him. MoultOn TO
have this unjust suspicion; that it was wrong in Mr. Til
ton to have idea that Mr. Beecher did not desire and
was not trying to help him. that it was wrong for Mr.
Tilton to indulge the feelings which afterward and In
few weeks at the end of March, Mr. Tt0n expressed to
Mr. wkeson, that Mr.. Beecher, who could LII him with
his little finger had shown adequate disposition
to help him. so he goes and gives all his engage
ments and all his abos, and then the difficulties that
attended him, the mpossiby, If this policy of silence
in protection OF Mr. Ttons secret in protection Of the
wes secret protection Of his own Mr. Beechers share
in the misfortunes which he reproached himself fort
that policy Is to be maintained flor all the while poor
Mr. Beecher thought all this trouble spr1ngng Of
the ground he did Mt know that Tton scattering
as talebearer these mschievous suspicions}-thc i'm
possibility concurrently with that policy Of using what
Mr. Tton might think were ready means and enginery
at hand w.t. the impulse and suggestion to this man.
that man. and the other TO aid Mr.. TiltOnt was IN
exploitation Of that subject Introduced by the wifes
letter. that Mr. Tlton did not think be was helping him