New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-20
MR.. TILToNs FRIENDS DESERT HIM.

T call voUr attention gentlemen, TO this Just
at this iuncture because as travel on you viii find
that every man except Frank Mouton that ever Theo-
dore Tilton leaned has become broken reed Dr.
Bacon his friend and he now boasts that the
Doctor regards him a dog. southwick was once bis
friend and Souhwck meets him eye to eye, and Axes
upon him his perjury. Cleveland was once hH frend
and benefactor and Cleveland meets him oath to OATH
Jackson s. Schultz his friend and, II Jackson -
Schultz has sworn truth then Theodore Titon has
sworn over and and to Infamous lie When
Won find that the friends OF TOn, the Jury u
vicinage parted from him when you find that FranS
Moutron once member OF the great house of Woodruff
e Robinson a man undoubtedly OF great business ca
pacty of daring energy and administrative genius az
Theodore Tion says-when you find him. after the m
cepon OF this, dropping out first OK the principal nin'
second Of the secondary firm AMI finally his connections
prolonged one month with view 70 your verdict, and
then at the end Of month was summary cut on you
can Judge what the jury of Frank Mouton's yicinaee
think OF him These stand alone One aser another,
on the right and the left hand, they have fallen
away
But whore are the friends Of Henry Ward Eo'cher.
those who have known him lie never knew until Tins
accusation who were his friends. They have multiplied
"a the sands upon the seashore Surrounded once ny
Plymouth Church. he Ia surrounded now by the repre-
sentayes Of al crceds and al churches In America and
to large extent in other lands He who la'. no friends
before except those who were among bs religious and
personal associates now finds friends from every
quarter which shows that after all be was not wrong N
that Cleveland letter for which Theodore Tton 80 de-
nounced him. From state after state day AFTER day ad
the mails come in, have expressions OF ,ratnlation
and sympathy from all quarters OF the country and Ie
odore Tilton and Frank Moulton stand alone know
the magnanmity OF gentlemen OF the press know ne
fertility OF the pen and the readiness ot dicuon which
greet lis every day we lOok al the newspapers Bat
| look at the living men Look AT tie c.s''s oi men,
business men bankers, not only Christian men, Dnt men
| fr1 bon IN
partuent Of the community. Men Themselves Of folly
and IN some extent Hcentous hvcs-eveG they denoGnee
the mean lse accUs alton against Henry ward Eeeeber
MR.. TILTON COMPARED TO THE DEITY
| R1t To 90 on with the correspondence. You
will observe here was Mr.. Oyngton, Of those
friends of thar date. Now, YOU mark tins. Tlton
gives graphic account OF the interview IN which he
showed his manhood his sick wife, by alleging that
none OF his children except Florence were eslnate,
and that she had sexual with four men, ard
| one Of the four Oyngton. Do yon believe t1as
Edward j. Oyinon found il 10 lnr'Ide upon
the marital rights Theodore Ton, with woman Tor
a wife who is like Of the prncesses Of the eartht
We have here OF the 9th OF January, 1867, IL
Illustrating another thing. that while,
was poor sick womau and married 10 hale siaiwart,
exacting man. January 8, 1857 she writes TO HIN
| this readngl
About this time every wear my vital grow poor.
and thus have endured feiOns and other erupUOns.
have nfamed cyelid andooSsnee. of the bowels
will try take better OF etched health, be-
cause the best man III the world loves ne.
Why this letter publshedi Can Won imagine any.
| thing more indecent, more mean, more ccntenptbs
than 10 publish in the newspapers OF all this land q
wifes letter in which she complains Of her iei0ns her
eruptons, her nhamed and her looS nccs OF thu
bowesi But you there il is This mans creed Il
sdmiration his unDounded and stoild egotlsm such
! that 10 get a compliment. he would publish anythug.
Well now gentlemen, this woman is said Ia have used
Language her "Catharne Gaunt Letter" which inds
Gates she adulteres She talked about her
Why, gentlemen when YOU come 10 read this letter you
know just her sin Is. Her sin that she not
! good enough for Theodore. He would home with
his magnificent Apollo person, his grandeur and his
beauty and Bessie would comb his hair MIRA Tlton
must kneel and read 10 him, and the rest muse
| gather around him. and the oysters must DO
prepared for his palate, and the decacies for his
table and because the poor sometimes got ured
she remorsefu; be complained OF her ~ suien.
not content with her lot; married 10 TINS man WIN
crown and besides she could not talk she was only 80
| high. Here was the yoke she down here and he up
there 1t never him THAI the misfortune Wa
at her end OF the yoke and not at his Well she 70
proaches herself my great bugbear and nightmare 70
that will hide my treat you u when you r.
| turn"
In the next letter OF Feb 10 she says Mr. and Ma
| Becher took tea with me last evening" II be had
another wife should fear for Beeher; We would nave
another similar suit and he would bring the same son On
proof against him that he does against MI Beecher fon
all through this letter you viii una Beicher, beehefs
| Belcher, and Oyngton, Ovington, ovington Luckily
ovugton Is across and by the time Bechers turn
comes, even II he has Q new wife, he will Seed
more aid than the oath Of Frank Moult0n %
carry q Grim. case through the corria Nows
here 10 this woman who is cherishing . sacred love
| for this dabolical seducer, - my friend saAs4
| it In the opening. 81 shall - tonight TO hsan
Mr.. Beechsr open the Frsternity course" Now 80
| Is Of those little touches Of . woman 1oe sim
this letter that there 10 no doues OF wnas sh
thought about Theodore and the womsn ous men ~
had the feeling that whatever he did " ~ rgne Sn
who had moods of senius ana also tne privness -
| tha. xsnrus. and yet we md tbD6tus WOMAN bUmhly