Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-17

Of her life. In reply to my inquiry, sht
said that her friend, Mrs. Ovington, hsC
told her that lady Of BroOklyn-Oni
whom she had formerly considered he
friend-had said to Mrs. OvingtOn thai
Mrs. Tilton was not q fit person for hel
to receive into her house. Here she
burst into tears. l said ali / could do tC
cheer and comfort her. At length
said: "Mrs. Tilton, I cannot reconcile
expressions that you have made to me
and my wife, that you believed Mr.
Beecher to be good man, with that
written statement which you made in
my presence" | said, 81 have nc
! right to question you, but | should
be glad il / could reconcile the
| two thiHgs.n Here che broke down
| again, and said she had 8 secret which
she would tell me before her death.
| said, every well; l do not ask you TO
tell me.n Then she said, "Oh, Mr.. Car
! penter, have committed the unpardOn-
able sin. There is no hope, no mercy
| for me-" 1 said, "There is mercy for
ALL" She then said, "Mr. Carpenter,
that written statement that made to
you and to DR.. StOTrs was a deliberate
lie." l looked upon her with inexpress-
ible surprise and amsZement. was be-
wiidered. Suddenly there came to my
recollection the repeated assertions Of
Cleveland that Mrs. 1ilton was the vic
tim OF hallucination. For an instant it
seemed a clue to the mystery. 1 said,
'Mrs. TiitOn, if this terrible thing is the
result Of hallucination tell me 80. l for
one will gladly accept such an eXplsna-
tion." She said, "No, Mr.. Carpenter, it
wasn't hallucination; it was a lie." She
asked from me no pledge of secrecy, and
l should not have given it. A few days
later l was sent for, and Mrs. Tilton
told me that all she meant to say
were the written words of her state
ment to DIR. StOrrs-that Mr.. Beech
er had never addressed to her any
such words as she wrote down; that was
all she meant to deny; she didn't mean
to deny the facts concealed by the words.
Afterward learned from DR.. StOrrs that
the correspondence between himself,
Burlington and Beecher ceased on a GER
tain day in January i'll reference to the
Congregational council; that the day
that ceased three men in Brooklyn knew
there would be cOuncil-himself, Bud
iDgtOn and Beecher-and that the very
next morning, before the fact that the
correspondence had been fruitless had
been communicated to the committee,
the very next morning Mrs. Tilton came
to aim with her statement Of denial.
MR.. BEECHER ON DIR. STORRs.
/ said 1 had been to hear Storrs's
speech; that he bore heavily on Mr..
Tilton. With suppressed passion Mr..
Beecher replied, at is Storrs's devilish
ingenuity to make Theodore and l de-
strOy each other"
Bowen Endorses Carpenter.
The close of the scandal trial is only
awaited for the unloosing of new flood
Of accusations against Beecher. A Con-
gregstional council is almost sure to be
called by Drs. StOrrs and Burlington, to
meet in the fall, and under the surface
indications are that Bowen will make 8
statement within few days. He said
to-day, in discussing Carpenters state
ment: 81 have not felt justified in
speaking myself, and if everybody had,
from the first, kept silence, it would
have spared much painful feeling; but
now the sentiment of the country, as
found in my exchanges especially in
my religious eXchanges-seems to be to
have all the truth come out, and think
that that perphaps is the best thing now.
/ find that he has reproduced events and
conversations with an accuracy surpris-
ing after SO long an interval. The varia.
tiOns from my recollectiOns are gener-
ally in unimpOrtanT Details" This IN
qualified Endorsement Of Carpenters
correctness is significant. Carpenter, in
his statement, said that Bowen had a
secret revelation involving Beecher's
moral character, made to him years ago.
have from his own lips that Mr..
Beecber made a confession to him." l
also had from Mr.. Bowen, "these dark
hints of Carpenters, Endorsed as true
by Bowen, have agitated the scandal
anew, and are variOusly interpreted"