The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-04-04

fa,yors, but sncll things as have recount
ed are not favors. They are bestowed
only when and where the most powerful
of all motives move men and women 10
venture everything upon the cast of
single die, transforming the cool, eau.
tlous, calculating man into the hot-headed
lnconsiderate lover.
TILToN's "scHooLBoY SWELLING"
That he regrets all this have no doubt,
since Ills Imaginary palace by the Lake
OF Como did not succeed with me. That
nc regards his action as having been
,iooiisll ana wrong" have no reason To
disDclievc. told him IL was so ut the
tlne. But the attempt TO make Mr..
Beecher equally responsible with himself
for that which made it foolish and wrong
Is prcposterous and aosurd It is "A little
schoolboy's snivelling--"IIc made me do
II; If 1t hadn't have been for him I
shouldn't have done it,"
10 resort TO such an escape, and to con-
tlhue 10 pretend TO retain any OF the elp-
mcnts OF manhood, ought to make him n
laughlng-stock tor every true woman.
! have said before that | believed that
Mr. Tilton would make quite man ii he
should live to grow up.
confess to considerable skepticism up-
on that point since reading his evidence
upon this trial.
TlLroN PROTECTING TWO NAMES.
Now, what is it of which Mr.. Tilton il
ashamed in his relations with meY Does
lac know of one unlady-like act that |
committed during the time that they
were maintained, either with him orwith
anybody elset Come, Mr.. Theodore I'll
ton, what i II that causes your innocent
blood To mount your cheek and Won To
refuse To be defended for your relation
ship with mcp ] challenge the produc-
ton of a single thing. You stand before
the court aud humble yourself as lid Mr..
Beechcr before you, a. If | had been "A
contemplate creature, to associate with
whom was an objectionable sin Come.
come. Mr.. Tilton, out with the facts that
made me such thing as you would have
inferred.
You refer TO the "Tit for Tar article.
and say that il was the cause OF your
breaking with me. Was that article.
which you have fully justified by your
own course ITO yindicatc your honor"
sufficient cause for your pretended agony
about our relations: Hadn't | the same
right TO rctOrt directly upon those who
were dciaming me in the yilCSt way that
you had To rctort upon Mr.. Bccchcr be-
cause DR.. Bacon had designated YOU M
n knave aud dog:
Or do you bold because lam a woman
that have no right TO sclf-d fence. and
that must tamrly submit to whatever
any set of women may deem fit 10 saw
But why should | deal in suppositions
when have the fact that you only OBJ
jectcd to the publication of two names in
that articleg
"sIRIKE THEM OFT, AND WILL HELP
NoU KILL THE REST,
for they richly deserve it for the use they
have made OF your name" said Won. In
der the light of this fact what becomes of
your pretcnse, of your effective iudigna-
ton. of your "ioolishncss and wrong"
Tor which you refuse 10 BE- defended
What, indeed: Why. sir, they at least
point TO what Is really the truth-that the
break In our relation came from the other
SIDE oil the houNe-that II was and not
yourself who severed them.
do not intend that YOU shall falsely
add any more darkness to the cloud thai
You have already east upon my name and
fame. am the one. and not You. sir.
VINO has good ground, for complaint In
this regard.
HOC CAME TO ME- CNsOCGHT
anu pl'NNtl y OuI stTNlHr-. one after an
other. upon me, and when YOU had failed
to accomplish what you had in view you
went out to the world and said you had
bech ehtrappcd INTO doing things bya de-
signing woman, and that you now repcu-
tsd OF all that you had said or done for
her.
This Is the deepest infamy that can be
cast upon any woman, aud were Won 10
llvG thousand years aud have a thous-
ana lives, every one OF which should be !
devoted TO undOing the injury that Won
nave wrought for me, you would still fail I
To wholly repair the wrong that have |
suffered from your crratic course.
l. sir, am no creation of your consider |
5ll"h or making. or of your magnauim- |
n.y. exist aud maintain my position to- |
DAY IN spite OF your announcement.
POISON.
But you, sir, stand tcstfyino apain.t
Mr.. Bcccher-against that for which Won
liad long since forgiven him-bccausc | .
nave hot been 50 low auu vile. 50 trcach-
arous u the trust that YOU rcpD,cd in
me. a. 10 lay bare before the world what
knew of your conduct since the 22d OF
May, 1871, when. delicd almost to do so
by your unmanly course. | confess. sir
hat have hoped almost against hope
That the many brilliant talents that have
been given of God to you. might be con-
'ccrated to the social regeneration of the
-acc.
But the last vcstiee of that hope is now
zone out IN the darkness beyond where
nope exists.
VICTORIA c. Woodruff.