The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-09

l!iton, Wrlthlng III his char, never looked q
his adversary, but stared all the while at the
spectres which haunt his desolation, and which
seemed to be gliding at him and fouting him
with phrases Of the dead, unburied past.
Passing through the Valley of the Shadow of
Death must be easy to Beecher after the terri
bic experience of to-day. If he Is innocent,
was the flames of martyrdom. If he is guilty,
~ DOCTOR sYNTAx.
Theodore Tilton continued bis testizo-
ny yesterday, but the telegraph brings
very mangled report. He said:
Sometime in October or November we're
my lecturing tours, and I generally re-
turned in February or March. During
these absences / corresponded with my
vile every day almost, and she wrote me
as frequently. Handed letters These
are some letters written by my wife dur
ing my absence in 1867.
Witness denied having furnished any
money to pay Bessie Turner'S expenses
at school.
MRS. TILTON BEFORE THE COMMITTEE.
In regard to Mrs. Tilton's appearance
before the Plymouth church committee
witness said:
Gen. Tracy told me that need not
have no anxiety concerning it; that Mrs.
Illton had gone down to the committee
from Mrs. Ovington's House; that pre-
vieus to the assembling OF the committee
he (Gen. Tracy had instructed her what
to say and how to say it that he had
put the questions to her that she might
make no blunders; that she came before
the committee to deny everything say,
hoo 1<
and Beecher, and that there had been no
profession of wrong towards her, and
that there was no foundation what
ever for the scandal, and General
Tracy in making this narrative wept,
and he said, 'sNow if you take the right
advantage of Mrs. Tilton's appearance be-
fore the committee, now is the opportu-
nifty of suppressing the scandal forever.
What the General said to me made a
great impression in my mind, and said
it there is any chance OF saving Elizabeth,
heaven knows would only be truly glad
to avail myself of it. and told him would
allow him to explain to me the plan of
procedure.
He said: eHere are a number of oen.
tlemen, and they can summon who tbev
choose, and the committee will be bound
to make report on the basis of what
these people choose to put down before
the committee to the advantage of all par
ties. That was Tracy's theory, and I
told him l would cooperate with that.
Gen. Tracy then asked me what sort of a
report would suit me, and told him
would stand by any report that would
do me justice and re-instate Elizabeth.
He said, You make any kind of a report
you choose, that does not charge Mr..
Bcecher with adultery, or any crime that
prevents his maintaining his position in
the pulpit and he offered to procure the
passage of such report.
BEADT TO AffEAR AGAIN.
Mr. Fullerton here read letter from
Tilton, addressed as follows:
Brooklyn, May 4, 1874.
Rev. e. W. Beecher, Pastor Of Plymouth
Church, Rev. J. B. Halliday. Associate Pss-
tor, and Mr.. Thomas G. Sherman. C1ert
Gentlemen-l address through YOU. Of
which you are officers, the following state.
ment, which you are at liberty to com.
municatc to the church through the az.
aiming committee or in any other mode.
private or public.
This letter proceeded to say that D.
Bacon claimed plymouth Church Ind
thrown away itsopportunity by it's action
IN the Congregational Council. The lot.
ter proposes to take no advantage of this
and concludes:
l authorize you, if such be vour Meas.
ure, to cite me at any time within tn.
next thirty days to appear at the bar ~
Plymouth church for trial, on the choro.
heretofore made against me, namely ~
culating scandals derogative Of tha
Christian integrity of the pastor. and in.
furious to the reputation Of the chnrcb
Ny only stipulation concerning trial t.
that it shall not be held with closed doors
nor in the absence Of the pastor. r 20
gret keenly that the moderator h.e w.
posed on me the necessity for MAXIM
this communication, for NOTHING hit 10
cessity could entail it. The nrac+;cs1
good which I seek to achieve hv +h;s
is, that whether accenfed 40
declined, it will in either case mt sn ~
orever to the moderator's grave ch.-ra
hat Plymouth church has been denr;1eS
through me, of an opportunity to v;nd;'
;ateits pastor, or that its pastor has been
y any act of mine deprived of an onno--
unity to vindlcate himself.
Truly yours, T. Threw
People who dance never pav III. fd~
ller. 1t is those who get up the hail