New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-26

already to tho grave due to YOURSELF 1t duo TO
Elizabeth, that human being shall Know these HALL ~
| except u.s. She charges you with this" Oh you can
| 400 how the oily tongue OF MoutOn moved
she charges you with this, Mr. Beecher; she charges
you with 1t: she loves you In hcr hear-in her hearI
You think not. know 1t; Ikn0w It. She loves your
little finger than she loves the body OF Theodore
Tilton Don't 60 near her. 1t will only kndle tho flame
to brighter heat Don't talk to others. II you trust
you dearest friend you nvosntariy trust his wife, who
her friend who trusts her neighbour and all trust
the community Don't you go with that story to Bena-
| min F. Tracy. Tracy will know 1t, and so will Tracys
wife. Don't you go with 1t to John j.. Hill.
II John L. Hill knows 1t, no Is faithful
| to You, but Plymouth Church will know IT,
Trust this whole matter to me. Mr. Bcccher believe
you TO be innocent but you havo done Theodore Tton
great wrong Trust 1t to me- know the man. He has
nfmties he is jealous when he is aroused his pas
sions are ungoyernablc but leave 1t to mo, and will
control them II all else fails, will grind him to pow
der But what you to do Is to deal with him In his
own spirit lie Is q magnanimOus man he is generous
man take the whole blame yourself and he will for
give YOU and be q friend than ever he was be-
fore" Under Just such influences these Mr. Beecher
led first to feel the deepest anguish and remorse at
the wrong Of which he had been the unconscious nsru
ment and then express in the warm and burning Ian
guae OF large and generous heart the regret nc felt
| at the wrong even to Theodore Tilton.
But, to proceed. Mouton held Beecher in this
! position. and he knew it. The inquiry IL, how he
| used his power over him and how no intended to
| use it. Now, If regard tho term blackn'aa In
| Its moral sense, there is room for dispute that
Francis D. MoultOn was blackmaler. II he believed
Henry Ward Beecher TO be an aduerer, he now falsely
pretends he did. all men will agree that he was black
mailer. What! Adultery, and money paid for it, and no
blackmai He admits that he told Beecher Of Theodore
Tons threats. Is the exOrOn OF money by threats not
blackmaill He admits that no obtained the money he
admits that he gave it to Mr. Tlton he admits that he
concealed tho fact that he received it he refused to
take the So 900 in the form Of check to his ORDER be-
that would expose his agency in the transaction
He exaccd it in bills and concealed, the books
Of his rm he himself admits tho fact that the money
| came from Mr.. Beecher. He broke into
| violent rage when Gen. Tracy incauOusly al
| luded to his knowledge OF tho fact that TiltOn
| had received tho money He denounced Mr.. Beecher
for disclosing it to Mt Tracy on tho false assumption
that Mr. Beecher Gen. Tracy'S informant When he
found that his partner Franklin Woodruff was the man
who had disclosed it, he denounced Woodruff to his face
for betraying him to Tracy. Mr.. Woodruff afterward
came to Gen. Tracy to reproach him for telling Moulton
of this harmless and innocent fact Why all this wasted
| rage il there was no blackmaili He went further
indeed you yourselves saw Francis d. MOultOn,
| In your presence, In communication with tho
then xamining counsel whom he questioned Gen. Tracy
this interview with Woodruff and as to whathe called
Gen. Tracys apology for berayng the secret Of black
mail IL Moulton not conscious that he had obtained
this money from Mr.. Beecher by treacherOus cunning
and contrvance, why did he object to receiving In the
form of check to his Order Why, after the Inves
tgating Committee called did he Mr.. Beecher
through Gen Tracy that II he said anythn about
that $1,000 he should deny that he ever received it
Why did he tell Gen. Tracy, learning that he
| knew it, that Mr. Beccher must deny it,
and that he himself should deny it
nv no found hat Gan Tracy nOt
Mr. Beecher either to deny suppress the fact in his
statement and after he found that Franklin Woodruff
had disclosed the fact imprudenty to Gen. Tracy did he
attempt soften Mr. Beechers statement Of the fac
What did he dol All the appeals Of Gen. Tracy to his
manhood and his honor to suppress tho infamous state
mcnt which had been prepared at Narragansett fail but
in view of the fact Of blackma he came to the concu-
sion that after all it better to suppress that state
which had been the labor OtwO weeks parturitiOn
ami to publish short statement which Mr.. Beecher
should think under all the circumstances was satisfac
tory, that Mr. Beecher had committed an Of
Tense, but it had received q suitable apology ;
that the ocnse not Of such character as to involve
his honor his purity and that the church
should dismiss the inquiry But, mark you, the man who
put in to mslcad and entrap Mr. Beechcr
had In his pocket the other statement prepared by him.
self and by Gen. Butler charging Mr.. Beecher with adu
terry, and containing the documents to which he had
refused Mr. Beecher access Again. when he finally pub
fishes his statement he pretends in it that he has
made change IN It, even TO the extent OF single word
since it originally written before he introduced the
other statement but you judge OF the probability OF
the pretense from the fact that in its published form
there reluctant and enforced admission Of the pay
ment OF the money with lame and impOtent attempt to
explain it as little private rOguery Of his Ownor the
benefit OF TiltOn it Is true, but without thought
the part OF Tt0n that the money came from Beecher
And yet, that Theodore TiltOn-whO suspected
that the money came from Mr. Beecher-fnds his way,
on the Lords Day, just before the services Of
| Plymouth Church, to the Of Columbia flights,
near the house of Mr. Beecher, puts his within
| Mr. Beecher's, and proceeds to say to him, how he
Theodore, loves him. and within few weeks after
by his own concession he has laid on the stand OF
Plymouth PLATFORM where Mr.. Beecher Is to meet it at
| the opening of the service, the message, Grace,
| mercy and peace. T. T." But Of course, he didn't
| know where this 5000 came from; and it was
mere speculation of Frank Moulton to re-
| mburse himself for his benefactions to Tlon.
| and no and Beecher had agreed that Tilton never
| should know anything about it, Doubtless
| Tton thought that this $1,000 in greenbacks coming
down upon parched and thirsty land. down from
Heaven, that brought down upon that ladder do
scrbed in his Biography of Mrs woolhu, by of the
descending angels of FREQ love, and who very naturally
had committed the precious charge to tho hands OF Frank
Mouon messenger. Or perhaps he thought it gift
brought by the hand Of that child mentioned in the Wood
hull Biography, Of whom Theodore Ton, his own
SIGNATURE certified that the In the free love
sion had raised child from the dead though he did not
believe that Lazarus raised by the Redeemer of man
kind! Wherever tho s. 900 FROM Theodore would
not give note for dollar Of the amount. He could not
trust even the chvarous MOuon with his note for tho
first thousand dollars Of the money he sends back Moul
toms check scornfly with the message, cannot bOr
row what cannot repay"
Moulton, deferrng to the sensblites Of his friend.
sends him back the check and the man who refuses to
give note for the money pockets the check, and appro
PIRATES to his private OF TiltOn did not
| know where the money came from. 1t would not have