New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-05
THE BEARING OF THE LETTER on THE
CASE.

And now, another letter introduced by the
plaintiff following this by only five six days in
terval written from the place, and being. no doubt
th first communication after this Catherine Gaunt Let
ter. Reading
MY DEAR THEODORE: had expected you all day yes.
terday and to-day But your letter put into my
hand instead. feel the bterest disappointment. But
we are both in Gods hands. and hear Him say by
my hearts intense yearnings, Return 10 the love OF
your youth" On my dear husband, may You not need
the tirther discipline of being mised by good
as | have been by good man. rejoice III your happy
face and peaceful mind, though am not ID any ~lse Inc
cause II will Gods GIFT alone If ever your face iu-
mines or heart throbs. with thoughts of me " AS for
me. will wait on the Lord thank you IOf the suner
ings of the last year
Turning now, to the conclusions produced In her MIND
and expressed in the Catherine Gaunt letter:
You have been my delverer. Destroy my letters nor
show them 10 mutual friends The fear Of ths would
prevent writing my Utmost SELF
So that Moulton had come 10 the mutual friend Of
Elizabeth Theodore, well az of Theodore and Mt
Beecher Now gentlemen, it ~ undoubtedly very hard
that Mr. Beecher should be judged az ALL either by the
Catherine Gaunt letter by this letter which were let
tiers in which had act, in which he was not passive
IA the recipient OF which he had no knowledge, and
which simply constituted portion OF the manner IN
which this husband and this wife deal with Their own
relations and with the best manner OF pleasing one
another by their forms and manners OF stating theln
have shown you enough the Elasticity Of this womans
heart under the toueh OF tins mans dominion have
shown you enough of the srangeness of its own opera
ons when caught currents OF impression and or ac-
ton unsuitable to the quiet devotional spirit disturbing
10 the practical charitable abOrs OF pious woman, III
the ordinary conditions OF life. and with measure OF
intelligence no doubt considerable and OF education no
douht ADEQUATE and of practical knowledge which he
longs to quiet and pous families in Brooklyn not so ex
ensiye as that that gained in other and larger expe
riences Of the world. it is hard that this KIND OF
evidence should be brought 20 bear upon Mr. Beecher
The first letter introduced doubt for its exhibition
but we do not thereby ndorse 1t as being correct ex
.rt,. in r nnnpC
view of what on intimate inspection would be shown TO
he the relations Of husband and the wife Enough
for us-that letter purges at all possible suggestion
of there having been any improper relations between MI
Beecher and the wife beyond this confusion OF affections
and this division and disturbance of allegiance Now
drew from Mr. Tilton, the crosse examination, that
when he was using this letter when he was publishing H.
e kpe nerfectly well that there adultery on the
mart Of the wife Catherine Griffith Gaunt " he knew
there was an abundance the part OF Griinth tAe nus
band And yet he published that letter, mutlia'ed IT,
fasifed it, produced an impression throughout 'ns
land in the newspapers that that was confession OF
adultery and that only from the morality OF TINS
writer Of fiction that his wife had found out that adui-
tarv was an impurity and an improperly 1t Is good
thing TO have husband especially 10 nave hin repio
sent YOU the rest of the world ana tnat ID 'he way
this husband has represented his wife throughout TINS
land with the perfect consciousness that he mao mutt
lated her letter. and that he had deceived the unreadhg
nulic into an impression that Catherine Gaunt had
onened TO her the Of carnal pollution, which had not
seemed to her to be a sin before.
Now let us how any OF these other letters OF tne
wife naturally and honestly carry any impression against
h -, resnect of the relations between herself and Mr.
Reeher These are the letters that passed ON her part
from the 9Th Of March, 1871 the second ON the Zst Oh
nr and the third on Sd Of May OF that year. Dur
inc this perod of the and the success at restored
relations between Mr. Beecher and Mr.. Tton and Mrs
Triton 80 far as the husbands wishes were concerned
and so far as it possible that there should be any re-
naval goiug beyond as 1t not going beyond SYM
natbv regard and pity the part OF MI Beecher ana
something IN the nature of compunction regret and SUI
fering ON the part OF the woman The reason these leu
they were brought Moulton-the reason these
letters have been used either by this husband or ny MS
faithful fpaend Mr. Moulton or any advisers OF tnes
has been in hope Of inspiring some vile ana hhy s
nicion of so.,roque or a double meaning have de-
nounead that once in the course OF the observatons
have had the honor 10 submit to you, and don't think
that any renewal of that construction VIII
ha nresented TO you here. II indeed during
this trial there has disposition to take that view
Now the letter of 9Th of March Is just month after
the three letters the 9TH OF February which passed
between these three parties In the nature Oh "fen
rcsoratiou and which win be brought to your attention.
however very briefly, they are sufficiently IN your
minds Waiting month. the wife writes 20 Mr. Beecher
Ny DEAR FRIEND: Does your heart bound towards MI
as II usedf , ,.,..
-nt seems 10 be a quotation made Ia previous huers
.ar Irannah More and nobody suspected Hannah
More OF pruriency ,.,
60 does mine. I myself again nnderseor,ed,h 81
did dare 10 tell you Inih ! W. sur and ~ bas
eo, n,, .ied with never again 10 IehNe-
t,s,rh ,trtstions) has come Because ' tahis or
W." l'le,, y1u 10 know this and not 10 trOuD'e "
49," v.n IN any way now write. OF cou.S
should Lie " share with you my JOY pa' %"