Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-04-14
He Exposes the Forged and Garbled
Letters and Explains the Others.
IFrom The Cincinnati Commercial.

IRON the Cincinnati Commercial
BROOKLYN, April G.-The most in.
teresting features of to-day were
Beechers's explanation of his misun-
stood letters and phrases, Beecbers
absolute denial Of ever having engaged
in any scheming with Mrs Woodruff,
and of all the stories thereabOut told
by TiltOn and Mouton, ami Beecher's
account of his efforts to give Tiltou
pecuniary and business assistance.
When asked about
THE FAMOUS WORD "NEsT-HIDING,n
In Mrs Tilton's letter, he said that It
was not his word in any sense or way,
that he had never seen it before, and
that he understood it to mean simply
her hiding of her demostic troubles in
her household.
When asked about the meaning OF
the notorious phrase, true inward
ness" which was underscored ia one
of his letter to Elizabeth, he replied,
after reading the letter, that it was an
expression by which he meant to give
her to understand that she should
write to him about her inward relig-
ious experiences. When asked about
| the letter in which Mrs. Morse spoke
his desire to be called her son, he said
the words arose from the fact that
when Morse was in trouble he told her
to confer with him just as though he
were herson.
Mr.. Beecher explained other passages
in these three letters, and the general
drift of them, giving them a meaning
wholly different from that which the
Tilton party has attached to them.
Beecher's letter to Mrs. Tilton, APP
pointing a meeting with her on Friday
night, referred to her coming to his
regular Friday night prayer-meeting.
Mr.. Evarts sand he proposed to take
up every interview between Beecher
and Mrs. TiltOn, and every piece of
paper that passed between them. In
regard to his pecuniary relations with
Tilton, Beecher told of his desire to
help him in his necessity, the PROPOSE
ton to pay off mortgage on TiltOn's
house, of the assistance given to Bessie
Turner, and of a few other points, but
he did not repeat the larger monetary
transactions which came along after
these, and which will he approached
hereafter.
1t was the closing hour of the day
when we got to the opening incidents
in the history of the scandal publica-
ton by Woodruff, ard TiltOn's opera
tons with her. Beecher pointedly de-
MED the truth of all Tilton's testimony
regarding the
Woodruff BUSINESS,
so far as il referred to himself, and
Moulton's testimony on the same sub
ject was also emf hatically contradict.
ed throughout. at is false,p he ex-
claimed once and again. ~ never
proposed any mode, method or ma
chinery for the care of her." Beecher
never had anything to do with her,
except so far as she intruded upon him
and so far as he listened to eulOgies of
her by Tilton and Moulton, He told
OF the first time of meeting her, which
was at Tilton's house, and of the sec
ond time, which was at MOulton's
house, and of the third time, when she
came to him. The language on the
subject sworn to by TiltOn and Moul-
ton was read aloud, sentence after SEN
tence, and he cOntradicted each and all
Of them in the most positive and
Welghty manner.
This case is certainly full! Of the
most fearful perjury, by one side or
the other. If, in the end it be not
clearly proven, so that justice may be
done to the innocent party and to the
guilty perjurer, oaths will become a
mockery, and the last bulwark by
which private rights have heretofore
been protected in a Court Of Justice
will have been Frustrated.
There was a long and severe argus
ment, lasting nearly an hour, between
the counsel, at one time to-day, as to
permitting Beecher to recount an ins
terview between himself and Mrs.
Tilton. When the Court at last add
mitted the acts, but not the couversa-
ton. Beecher neatly and rapily con-
densed the whole interview into these
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