New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-22
MIR BErCHER,s OFFER TO RESIGN.

If is admitted that Mr.. Beecher prepared
resignation In his letter he declares that he Is Wiling
10 sacrifice himself for Tnton will not read 1t again
that be il Wiling 10 step down and out If it viii pacy
the difficulty Why please gentlemen, what spectacle
that is for an innocent who had never done anv
thing wrong whose conscience was free and clear say
inc IN Theodore Tilton and his wife, who had made
fIse charge against HIN Of improper solicitations who
had retracted and repeated that CHARGE VINO hao nor
only done that. but mad sent letter 10 MI
storrs whom he had consigned to damnation' rAI
Grating the same charge. and making 1t IN thus
far public this man in 1878, after he had come 10 the
conclusion upon the payment of $1,000 that there was
hlaclu,aj somewhere hidden in the TRANSACTION ne say
ing 10 Tire people whom he thus condemned ana disnoh
ored II it will relieve y0u If it viii be OF any service 10
vou IN step down and out I'll leave my Pul
nit consecrated 70 the service OF my Uou
which for 25 years 1 have followed WIN ue
xot,on and diligence bearing up the great interests
=, prrnouth Church and OF universal religion yet you
consultation and DISQUALIFICATION woman VINO nave
charged me with improper solicitation against your VII
tuevou nv parshoner, who makes TINS 1aiSe charge
against me-O will resign, will step down ana OUT
Won desire AL you have got TO say Is do H. al" VII
sacr,Nce myself for you" Why. the name OF all that
IA wonderful. that is an argument, proposition
addressed IN twelve sensible men, and an intelligent
.o,onuuity that Henry Ward Beecher could DO tDat
thing without a faint of guilt upon his hear why "a
fort What could Mr.. Beecher sacrifice nlseu Iori Aou
u il in Mr. Beecncf o"u lo1bo
shove his own Signature and he can't deny IT, Ihere 10
~ ,aIknc here row about gnatOn for the purpose OF
ebts. there is no squaring of for an encounter; no
sbatno of ~ jrnpefments The man Ia willing 10 step
hovn from his pulpit and 20 sacrifice himself ana al Ine
,cot interests which hung around him. and Tor what
as innocent and pure, he had done no wrong 10
Triton and his wife, why at their demand should ne step
Am from his pulpit and lay down his honor and his
d,tvf WIN gentlemen, you must answer this. what
-, have nv friends giveni BY what argument or
zion do they meet this cOncessonf Could there DE
do,er clearer confessIoni BY any word or act could
-, vrd Beecher more numbly and penitently declare
h,e Gentlemen that is fact written by MI Beecher
-h,oh can't he erased from this record IL appeals
S,actv 10 your sound and good Judgment anu IL
,c, that must be conscientousy disposed o. "nen
- 49, that fact conspiring with the other evidence
:, ,he case 10 prove adultery II cannot oe
,n.ned aside with insttention; you must 'ninH
~ n. Won must dispose OF IT, as "sica
and trutb-loving mem and, you o-
40 Il consistently with the entire innocence oi ~,
raochs, why yol have power OF logic ana ingenuity
,,concc,vable 10 me. Now, am not going 10 s'op ~
reaon upon the readiness with which Mr beecher
,stdea OF resignation when Mr.. Iiton tnreatenod
,I.Do 4, q, Svas rendered do not conceive u OF I'M
,otauos euoush The other fact lifts itself 80 iine1
,ahv ahove any such consideration, and overshado~s
ty,s, cy,nstances and inferences 50 granny that
DO not propose waste Its enecI