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with an anger and passion to which had
never dreamed him liable, and with the
manner more of an insane than OF rational
man, began to threaten me that, If in any
interview might have with MIR. Beecher,
either then or at any other time, L should
diyulge to Mr.. Beecher what he (Bowen)
had said against him, or should intimate
that he (Bowen) had any hand in the letter
requiring Mr. Beecher to vacate his pulpit,
/ would be cashiered from the Independent
and Union, and that the police should be
called to cast me iato the streets. After
some words of indignation which uttered
in reply, Mr.. Bowen abruptly retired from
the office, leaving me in as great state of
as / had ever experienced. /
my wife and Mr. Moulton, and
afterward Mr.. johnson, of this incident,
concerning which Mr.. Moulton remarked
that it did not surprise him in the least
and then, by the joint advice of all, l de-
termned to summon Mr.. Beecher to the
interview. To this end, Mrs
T. wrote brief note, addressed to Mr..
Beecher through me, stating that she had
given me the disclosure of July ], 1870,
concerning him, and that her husband would
speak to him face to face.
On Friday evening, December 80, went
to Mr.. Moulton's house. Mr.. Moulton
went after Mr.. Beecher, and brought him.
This was early in the evening, Mr. Beecher
leaving his prayer meeting usual on that
evening, to go without his leadership. My
interview was with Mr.. Beecher alone. l
read to him my wife's letter, and said to him
what shall not here repeat. lie sat like
a statue under my brief remarks, and at the
close bowed to me and said, "This is all
dream He affected to disbelieve that Mrs.
Ttlton had written the letter, and denied
everything with n royal negative. | then
said, cit is but a few squares to my house,
go and ask Mrs. Tilton for youself whether
or not she wrote the letter" he went and
returned in half an hour. l did not see
him. Mr.. Moulton asked him what had
taken place at Mrs. Tilton's, Heremarked
that he had seen that lady; but he did moth
ing more, and left. This was about II
o'clock at night. Shortly after he left, l
left. On reaching home found that Mrs.
Titon, who was then seriously ill and in
bed, was agitated and distressed. She
said that Mr.. b., had been there, telling
her that she had pursued and slain him;
that he would be tried by council Of min
listers and his career ended, and that he was
a dead man unless she wonld save him from
his fate. She said, moreover, that, after
talking to her in this strain. and exhibiting
great and terrible feeling, Mr.. Beecher
went tc her writing-desk, and, taking out
pen and paper, brought them to her bed
side, and putting them into her nervous
hands, dictated to her what she coped-a
paper of which she could not recall the
nor, to certainty, the sub
stance and meaning. Shortly after narrat-
ing to me the above occurrence, she re-
sumed her pen and ink and wrote the fol-
lowing statement; Here follows Mrs. Til
toms letter to her husband of midnight,
Dec. 80, 1870, retracting her retraction.
The next morning in response to note
from me, Mr.. Moulton came to my house,
and, after an interview with my wife, re-
ceived from her, in writing, a request to
procure the return of the paper which, in
her agitation, she had given to Mr.. Beecher
the night before paper all the more inn
portant, for, as it is seen, she was uncertain
OF its real design. That evening, which
was Saturday, brought to me new sur
prise, closing a week of sensations with one
which fittingly capped the climax, namely,
a notification from Mr.. Bowen that my ell
gagements with the Independent and with
the Union would then and there terminate,
anu tidt uc WAS lGuuy " sctllc With mt III
full of all demands. In these words Mr..
Bowen broke these two contracts which he
had just made with me, and which were also
then week old, and to each OF which was
attached provision that it could be termin-
ated by death, or by six months notice, or
on paying forfeit of $2500;
but in no other way Mr.. Bowen thus sud-
denly laid himself liable to pay $4,000 for
I, %
with 10 per cent Of the Union's
profits due to me up to date, from May to
December 81, lS70-eight months
On the night of January /, 1871, Mr.
Moulton called upon Mr.. Beecher. and, at
gave me an account of the in
terview, which | took down from his lips in
notes; these notes, after a
lapse of two years now reopen for the first
time and digest therefrom the following re.
port 81 called at Mr.. Beecher's. He was
not at home. l left my card presently his
son came running after me, saying his moth
er knew where his father was, and that he
would so for him l went back to the house,
and Mr.. Beecher came in; he invited me
upstairs. I told him he would probably
consider it the strangest interview he ever
had with mortal man. Said l "Mr. Beech
ar, wish to tell you first how infinitely
recollect your conversation of last evening.
came to you as friend, meaning to do
you as good service as ever any friend did
to another. On our way to my house
asked you if any one had seen the letter
besides yourself, the letter of Theodore
Tilton demanding your retirement from the
pulit you said none save one, besides my
self. l asked if that one was Henry c.
Bowen. You made no reply. You recol-
lect it, do yoa not?" He said, Il do. Il do
not press any answer from you now so far
as you do not answer me, you do not re-
spond to the friendship which profess for
you,"
Here the story breaks off, and nothing
important of its remaining portions has been
except two documents of chief
Importance, namely, "the direct testimony
of Mrs. Tilton and Mr.. Beecher as to the
alleged criminality of their relations. >
MRS. TILToN's STATEMENT.
Mr.. Moulton-My Dear Friend For my hus-
bands sake and my children's, hereby testify
with all my womans soul that am innocent OF
the crime OF impure conduct alleged against
me. have been to my husband II true wife.
In his love wish To live and die. My early at
lection for him stu burns with Its maiden flame
all the more for what he has borne for my
back scandals long ago threatened against me
never approved and the result shows II una
vaillng. But few would have rlsked so much
as he has sacrificed for others, ever since the
conspiracy commenced against him, two years
ago. Having had power TO strike others, he has
lorborne to do 1t, and allowed himself TO be In
Jured Instead. No wound to Inc is so great as
the impression that he Is among my accusers.
bless him every day for his faith In me, which
sweryes not, and FOR standing my champion
against all adyersarieS.
ELIZABETH r. TILTOS.
MIR. BEECHER'S STATEMENT
My Dear Mr. Moulton promptly comply
with your suggestion of giving an explicit de-
NAL OF the stories which connected my name
originally With Mr. Tiltons. The very thought
or being Obliged to say anything TO clear her
fair fame shocks me. And fhavc hitherto act
ed under advice In refralning,
Very truly. HENRY WARD BEECHER
BROOKLYN, Dec, 80
| SOlemnly deny the scandalouS charges
made against me and Mrs. Eliz. X. Triton. Is
peclally and enphatlcally deny that there has
been any criminal Intercourse or any color of
reason for such charge. My acquaintance
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