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

man whom he believes to be innocent, TO through
the long, tedious protraced hours and days of dis
eusson, the kindness with which you listen and the at
tention you give to words feeble mine. need
say no more am not in the habit OF making prOfes-
sions have only to say thank you from the bottom Of
my heart and shall ask OF you the continuance of the
same indulgence.
In reading one OF these letters yesterday passage
capped for which. when came afterward 10 what
had omitted felt rebuked and you will pardon for
returning 10 that letter II il that OF Mrs TltOn,
written the sth of March, 1868 aud which
to let in food Of light upon the anecedents of these
parties, and upon the interior of that household.
Nursery" All! what Is there to woman's heart that
is the nursery in which she exercises her min
israons OF love to the children of marriage and not of
lust. Nursery, Sunday Eve" And If there be a
time when mother speaks from her inmost heart it
not merely from such place but the eve of that
Sabbath day which too many of ignore, but which
the wives and the children whom love cherish the
hour that brings them nearest to God 1t not in letters
written by the side of the cradle and the
evening OF the Sabbath day. that mothers loyal to their
husbands-and especially when they write not for news
papers, but write 20 those whom they have pledged their
unalterabe love in time and in eternity-utter false
sentiments. My Beloved" March 9, 1868, six months
before that mother TO bend in anguish the boy
whom Theodore TiltOl even in his grave pronounced
bastard six months and half before the time when
this Christian and tTuehearted woman is said TO have
sought that house Columbia Nights which many have
sought who poor and in distress which many have
sought who seeking their way to their Fathers
house which many have sought errands Of love or
appeals OF charybut when she s represented to have
sought IT, sought it for the purpose Of offering her
to the vile embraces of the pastor TO whose teachings she
had listened the very day when this letter writ
ten.
MY BELOVED: All alone. save Eliza in the kitchen and
the children all asleep about me while have been try
ing TO Imagine my state when shall again live with YOU
oide6 Nc mr. rhidnrs scoidnrsi An inev- essils
tenderness has grown mp in my soul toward yO never
saw my pain a. clear as nOW-thdt Whatever you may
do or be, il becOmeth TO be the Christian wife
and mOther
DO You believe when Theodore Tilton in that better
day which, though declining had not yet gone down in
darkness when he received from his loving
and trusting wife, could have been persuaded that the
hour should when his hatred and envy toward
Henry Ward Beecher would lead him to send forth this
letter the world the SCOTS and the dersiOn
OF those who despse sentnenalism And is there any
better Illustration of the judcious blindness with which
God darkens the understanding OF those who turn from
the light of His countenance than that this man. in his
justification and defense. under the advice of my
friend Morris, should publish TO the world what rises
against him in judgment this day
Ihave said gentlemen that these the better days
Of Theodore Titon for while 1 compelled by my
Of duty to truth, TO innocence, TO my client, to
speak Of him in other than would, cannot for
get that the who is tie occasion OF the investigation
of this issue to-day is one upon whom Providence smiled
He has smiled upon few in this assembly; who
was endowed with arlOr Of genius which. if IT had
been regulated by honest religious sentiment, elevated
morality, loyalty to truth loyalty to the domestic rela-
ton. and loyalty to God. would have put him among
the in the forefront Of this generation Az he
in other days have all admired, all loved, all hon
ored him; but gentlemen, We must bear in mind
that we live in a universe governed by law,
and carrying with 1t the penalties of talssresslon No
airer spirit shone in Heaven than the angel who is
named to-day tue nstgntor OF every crime in each n-
dicment that Won try when Won send criminals 10 the
State Prison. And in his what we see in all
others, save that of Elizabeth r. TOn aud Henry Ward
Beecher gradatons by which Of purity and OF
genius 20 down. down down until they reach depth
from which there descent.