New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-21
MR.. TILTONs ALIEN LOVES.

| am Wearying You, gentlemen, and yet
know you VIII pardon for reading one single letter 10
YOU because that makes yon, the jury that enables You
TO hook upon the unroofed habitation OF Theodore
Titon ginning Of the period which is before you
for investigation He writes herat time wien as he now
preends the prostitute Of the honored pastor OF
Plymouth Church. III the closing days Of the Summer OF
1863 one year after the death of that Paul whose
according to him. dedicated TO clerical lust and
debauchery He saws to her:
From my early years have loved ard loved you-you
But all past experiences OF hearts affection nave
been as nothing compared Win me nlsa ana sSi-n
Newport week that the only human beng who touches my
highest nature Is Yourself
What were those other wonany affections Of which he
speaks Hers touches his highest, theirs his lowest
This being the case am filed with distress think
that must keep you HORNED fOI the saAc OF yonT
own tranquility Of many ~ my thoughts and Of some OF
my conduct. would 10 God were "a man worthy OF
your goodness, your seidela and your snSieness OF
heart. Occasionally in some supreme hour am your
me. But you could know the inward reverence
Truc inWardnes-"-where did she learn that phrase
Ny friend judge Fullerton has brought in Norwood"
and Hannah More" and / know what beside. in
order TO teach you what that woman had in view when
she talked of true nwardncss Why had been under
the teaching of man who left upon her all such expires
sions rooted that they could not but spring up and
bear fruit and lac used it in high and noble and
general sense yet npues her adoption Of the phrase
tn the vile purposes OF her inward adultery.
But IL YOU could know the inward reverence which
have borne towards you for many days past even while
appearing be absorbed in the compaionshp OF other
ladies' and particularly az Newport am sure Won would
almost dread be lOycd-tO be so much loved by any
human and therefore nfrm and waywarD creature Ike
myself have several times tried to Keep myself from
writing Won any such letter this because ii If unlike
most Oi my past correspondence
His letters were usually not letters OF true inv ardness
bit Of sham outwardness
tits nv request that no other eye shall j, ex
cept your own.
and that letter she boarded among her secret treasures
witt, her woman's love- aud appeared again 10 the
light day until the search was made for gas, and Dy
the and oversight eerOf the new spaper man
or my friend MI Morris the injunction Of the sacredness
OF the privacy OF conjuga confession like that was
overlooked and il was forth to the world. Eaves
droppcrs rarely good Of themselves and when any
man and 50 base 10 go TO the receptacle III
which the wife and the mother keep the letters of what
she atters herself conjuga love- ana the memorials Of
her dead children and the stray locks of hair that she
has treasured memories of love, asd which she be
ueyes are 70 be reunited 10 the bodies Of The little
ones az a part OF the resurrection OF the body
in the day OF the great Judgment-when these molly
sanctities are invaded for the purposes Of vanity and
egotism and hate God would indeed be asleep he did
not override the action 70 the disgrace and dsnonor OF
the man who capable of such a proclamation.
have gone gentlemen through the weaIlsOne details
Of what has been TO you and - most painful and yet
most instructive revelation Of the unmisakable truth OF
the interior of that household Tton, oath painted
It to you in the Of the prism OF the rainbow Of the
diamond with its thousand flashing lights reflected in
the sunbeam. You have seen here the affected jealousy
the cold exaction the hard hearted imposition upon
feeble and unprotected woman, whose mother he de-
scribes as maniac and whom God had delivered over 10
his mercy You have the secrets Of that household
the wife taking herself reproach for the nndelties of
her husband who Mt elected her. the wife who felt called
by her sense duty last to 81 feel enlightened
from above My path is clear as the sun II my duty
to save you Be what you Will, do what you Will. say
what Won will my duty is 10 be a Christian wife and
Christian mother fear my indifference TO that lesson
has cost me my hope Of heaven, but my fidelity TO that
duty shall hope the hand Of God DC the means OF
rec,aming what have nearly lost"