Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-06-11

MR.. EvARTs SPEECH CONTINUED.


THE ABSURD STORY PUT BY TILToN IN MS WIFE
MOUTH.
This is the husband reproduction of what
he alleges was an interview between the
guilty wife and himself, on the occasion of
his becoming first informed of the guilt of
the wife, and when he had had no suspicion,
up to the moment of the interview. Now
see how the wife begins
81 told Mr. Beeoher that in the early part OF July,
previous To that Interview, Mrs. Tllton had
come home unexpectedly from the coan,
try, anu had said to me that the object oil
her return was to communicate to me a secret which
had long been resting on her mind Ikea burden
several previous casions come almost to the point
of making such II statement to me-"
&" Statement" no confession, no notion
that she was going to make n confession, but
Il statement.
that she had until then, having been restored
to health
Wei, she had been in health before
But she had never upon being restored to health,
been brought quite to the point y. courage 10 make
the disclosure
Now now was there ever n cooler adul-
teress lying by the side of the husband in the
marriage bed, introducing the
shameful narrative that burns into the soul
of woman, and that 4 woman whose "eyeS
flashed fire. at the presence of Woodruff?
All Mr.. Tilton, you can invent speeches Tor
Tiltons you cannot invent them for wo-
men.
THAT before she would announce To ne what the
secret -"
You see it was not anything of hers. nor
had he suspected that she lai anything to
do with it
She exacted from me pled.e that i would DO
no harm to the person concernin. HON the secret
was 10 be fOd.'
4 - unilateral' secret, obviously, for it
related only to one person-no connection
with this living soul and body that lay by
his side.
And furthermore that would not Communicate
to that person that she had made such a reveiat On
10 ne-because she said she wished 20 uiorm him Of
that revelation herself
Gentlemen, not much Of confession,
certainly-that word don't occur not much
notion of a Consciousness Of guilt on her
part, Of sin, of unehastity, of pollution Of
body and Tilton was as cool as she.
Il had given to her this pledge Ny word Of
honor that would neither disclose her secret what
ever itmisht be. nor would inlure the person con-
corning whom the secret was 10 be told
s. they keep you see, gentlemen. Now,
we don't talk about these things-the I'M
possibility Of such beginning, not in res
pect to the memory OF words, but in the
very impershable principles Of human ma
ture and human character, puts 10 flight all
solicitude about believing anything that
comes after. Well, now We have got some
third person about whom something Is to be
told which has not started tear OF sob on
the part Of the wife, nor has it agitated a
suspicion or a doubt on the part of the hus-
band. And then She goc~ ON just As coo.ly,
and now, listen;
That she then said to me that it was secret be
tween herself and Kew. Henry Ward Beecher.'
Well, she put in his full title, 50 that there
might be no mistake of person, and then, to
guard against any further DEMONSTRATION,
She adds, " her Pastor" Mr. and Mrs.
Tilton knew Mr.. Beecher. and they knew
that he was the Pastor of Plymouth Church,
ard when an agonized wife, under the pow
er Of an accusing conscience, i going 10 tell
of her seduction, her prostitution, bow
would She tell Of ii She would humble
herself in the pillows of the bed and with
~obs. with tears, with disheyeiel hair, tell
the sad tale Of her shame. She would not
put in d" Rev. Henry Ward Beecher' and
nv Pastor as the first thing she said On
the subject Now-now. see how she re
calls To him jus; see how she talks to him
there that night '' Tharas was weliawa
titt j. "Hdt sHt SAN@ /" i''Hi H' N'h
Say he was aware of it, bat She say SO. |
Now
" A. yen are we'll aware my husband ihers bad /
,s.en NJ lci.-.1 , ,i.i hen P.,,r
,,-t.. D., rs,,ll .. Biz mind tho mono
raj TRAITS anu features oil TINS business anu /
these relations 50 that it won { seem impruh- |
able 10 him that She has committed aIuite- /
~ with q man in tho moon
That,h.. friendship. contrary To- uy e,g,e-a- /
ton sud belief
-. '''
., - ~ ''s' 80 ~ I. f..r ,.'-. H.,
love-
See how tie climax rises with Rhetoric
that lel,r.-. L, the r.,s-i,n~ Of tie heart
..7a..,.. t.,., ,.,- s.,,.l .,,.,,.,,- ,r,, t..
sexual .nt.mac, Aad begun shortly after tie ies,h
o. Af- SON Faui'-
Well that'- queer way OF -pcakng OF
little Paul % the father" t1 -uu Paul.
That she bad been IN tender i-are % m MI
consequent upon thai berel'euen.
Now, yoa know having got at tAe ilci OF
the adultery, It is 70 be made respectable by
connecting il naturally with sentiments and
feeling and the situation Of woman :
mind that tends to adultery. ot c'ur-e You
must have the approximate situation making
Inc aiul'trI haluTl.' anu any ',lIt '@h Sue
that a mother having lost a child. turns heT
...... g.. 81 ID. .,. g ..,. a., ,lr ,,-
ders.anI tbat That being Granted. il Is in
min ?, re,.,,, o-,iost the r.s+ However
.ha docs rea-on II Il little tuo-,
" That she has received muca G a-' AZ % our "
inst shade" On our home from heI A''l thAt .ie
had made a visit 70 DIS house "i.4' sle Was SUI
uilerins rom that sorrow
All in the name of the dead Paul that tins
adultery Is justified.
Ana that there on TIE m.h day o.. October.
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