New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-02
THE DEFENsE's THEORY OF THE COMPLAINING
FRIEND LETTER.

And, now, / want to call your attention TO this
Letter TO a Complaining Friend" and ask you why was
that this policy Of silence broken within very few days
afcr Il made Here IL letter to Complaining Friend
which oonfessedly fiction Theodore Tton tells You from
witness stand that received letter from Com
planning Fendh he tells you that he wrote letter to
Complaining Friend" he tells you IL fiction In
by him. be published by him. concerning this
daL Now, why III viii read the letter, gentlemen
[Ssading:1
my CONTAINING FRIEND: Thanks for your good letter Of
bad advice You say How easy it IL 10 give the lie TO the
wicked story, and thus end IL forever ! y
have read enough call your attention the Letter gentle
Now 60 foot Of the letter and chow you the
threat that is in 1t. laeadngl
Moreover, after ALL the chief victim OF the public dis
pleasure myself alone and ong ih- il ppy the
shall try with patience 10 keep answer within my own
breast lest it shoot forth like thunderbot through other
hears"
lie has told you the letter before you remember that this
woodhnA scandal be answered except by publishing the
"Tne Story thereby ntin ins that he has got true story
publish tell the world he mas got true story to pubish
referring to the scandal in December and not denying IT, and
closing the letter with he should speak would
send hunderbol through other hearts ask you why was
this le this confessed lie this lie OF letter Complain
ing Friend when he had received any such letter
and answered such letter. Why was It invented
published this except menace to the friends
Mr. Becheri For tell you, this connection,
gentlemen that shall show you that at the Union League
Beecher this newspaper enterprise and said that that
only Of suppessng the scandal friend OF Mr.
said him. III Mr. Beecher cannot stay in his pulpit
in the face OF hs scandal why il will be still for him as
journalist lie will expose himself to attack from every
quarter and how 10 it going to benefit Mr. Beecher by get
ting ont VI the pulpit and getting into newspaper
Says friend: I'VE take Of that, We have got
possession And Of course il Henry Ward
Beecher headed great business enterprise in which the
Theodore Ton and Theodore Tlton himself were
Interested they would Xxi by publishing the documents
against Mr. Bcecher and thus creating scandal And The
suggestion they had the documents which they would
publish suggestion that if the scheme did not 90 on
they might publish And desire impress upon YOU gentle
men, ht here the identical documents which
this lend Of Mr. Tton talking about in the City OF New
York in December 1872, which houltOn and Titon had
emny agreed condition Of the rparte ement in
April lS burn and destroy They had not burned them
they had preserved hem in violation Of their covenant treac
erous and now they using them and Boosting VI their
posseon as Of and Of intimidation TO Henry
Ward Beecher
lam desired by my associate to call your attention. gentle
men, 70 the fact the very day which this letter to The
Complaining Friend il dated is the very day that Mr. Tton
mad drawn out his last dollar Woodruff and RObnsOns
strange coincidence Ths progress IN H. you Will see
IA , OF the most remarkable Of any thar has
ever seen brought before of justice But that game did
not succeed and Mr. Beecne dd 20 into newspaper en-
terprise, but ne stayed in the pnpit