New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-10
MIR. TILTONS GRAY HAIRS.
We'll. gentleman. both my learned friends,

We'll, gentlemen, both my learpeu IriehuS'
with sort of exution that they have discovered some
thing Of contradiction between somebody anu lh'oo..
Tton some which would rest upon better
and more satisfactory authority than Bessie Turhc'
both of our learned friends have expaated largely upon
the incident OF the gray hairs. Mr. Ihton wneh no wa"
recalled az to conversations had with Bessie
made the incidental remark lit was not called ior py
auv aueston,-but made remark, at any rate, tcsuheu
to the fact that at the tme when Miss turner spoko
tbese wherein she represented him To say
"Ohi Bessie my gray hairs coming with sorrow 10
the grave most ridiculous and absurd imputaoh Oh
remark-Mr TIton said: Why. had no gray hairs ~
that time!"
Mr. FullertOn-He denied saying SO at hrst ana tneh
added that
Mr. Reach-IIe denied saying 90, Of course, first, and
then added the remark that he had no gray hairs Ana
Mr. Porter comments upon 1t rs most striking evidence
of depravity Well, suppose Mr.. Tlton made nstaAo
about that He was referring to past times I'D wr'ns
to his wife, Suppose he had said Old age mas crcp.
upon us since then suppose he had saii Tho inrm
ties of years. darling have Overtakon u.s. ana YET NC
hero stalwart and strong and friends would nave
said It was o clear instance OF deliberate perjury
CI,aughterl Why, Mr.. Ton was speaking, as we sohc
times say. believe jus.ifably, In somewhat pocto
sense You SOC, according to our learned irchus no "
rrepressible rhetorcan. When no gets talking or writ
ing. wby. there ia no end to it-lturnlng to Mr.
Eyartsl-like some other people that know
of. (L.aughterl II Mr.. Titon had happened-these
gray hairs being few. confcssedly-they are no'
very numerous nOwif he had happened 10 fnsahe .ho
time when they appeared 1t would not have been any
very severe condemnation Of his integrity that ne had
made mistake on that subject. And 1t Is little re-
markabc that two such eminent gentlemen as Mr. Por
ter and Mr. Evarts should mako so much OF crcum
stance Of that kind and arragn man upon subject OF
that character as "wth his hand upon tho Bbic IN the
presence Of Almighty God tesfying to such goddess
lie as that" (Laushter They must be In great exrom
ity for material Now the truth Is Mr. Tton really haa
no gray hairs at that time. And suppose you imagine
for one moment that his wife being-lturning to Dr. III
toni isn't she older than youf-his wife being TWO
years older he. that gray hairs had overahen ncr
q little the soonest, and that this delicate and sicKy
woman should have found gray hairs creeping upon her
head little earlier than Mr. Tton. and that In this lot
torwrng to his wife, referring to old times and events
and to passage Of the years filed with their incidents
of love and Affection with children gathering about them
suppose that Mr. TltOn had sad referring 10 Ills WIGS
gray hairs, Why gray hairs have come upon lis since
then" would 1t be any very great onense either 10 tut
or propriety And that Is just the fact This letter py
no means asserts that Mr. Tilton was gray them what
over events came that household whatever change
I'm condition or circumstance affected that wife or that
husband when they comforting In tho intimacy OF
their relations they might well speak OF any change or
the belonging to tho two, and OF
that circumstance or change as overtakng them or