New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-05

grave matter In his sons misfortune trivial and tempo
rary and that would have been wiped out BY PRESIDENT
lincoln and oil bis Cabinet Mt moments suggestion OF
an xety this great prop and supporter OF the policy
| and tho principles OF tho thon current politics Of
| the oountry-that when Mr.. Tflton heard OF 1t
he dropped his business went 70 Washington ana inter
vened, and brought back promptly to him. the ather
agated these feelings. information that the pranks OF
had been overlooked and he was restored TO bis
position I'm the army He remembered that-and don't
think lie ever forgot done him In the world, or
failed. in his cxaggeraton Of It, to make it an occa
sion of amending gratitude Of unmeasured affection He
remembered that. and he said to himseh Well, now
have not returned that good with anything but evil
when they with these stories whether OF the
domestic difficulties and from domestic source OF OF
the business ruin that was to follow from loose imputa
tions did not send for TtOn did not say Now what
can do, what shall l dot How can you give
the Of helping you, OF aiding you
and explaining these thingsi' But assumed
that all right, and true and. unhappy acted In
the OF my interference, under the irritation OF
what should not have irtated me, this demand Of the
Goth of December believe Theodore Tfon would not
have acted toward have acted toward him In TINS
respect Well, think 1t was charitable view OF Mr.
Tilton it Mr. Beechers, but 1t was view that he
would never have taken he had been present at all the
private consultations between Mr. Bowen and Mr. Tilton
which we have had disclosed to But how ludcrous
1t seems II you are to mpute the application OF this
proposition TO condition Of Mr. Beechers interference
with the purity Of wife by seduction and adultery
think now, In reference to the seduction OF wife
and prolonged adultery with married woman, Mr. Til
ton would have acted better toward me than have
acted toward hint" The absurdlty Of Of common
sense being supposed to have framed any Of these com
Functions or comparisons upon this heinous ofense ~ 1t
is now imputed! What u natural and easy ,althoughtt
may be extrayagant and although there may have been
considerable imposition to have induced it, in reference
to the conduct for which Mr. Beecher supposed himself
TO be actually responsible Is apparent upon the reading
Well, the rest Is very general.
can ask nothing except that he will remember all the
other hearts that would ache VIII not plead Tor my
self even Wish mat were dead p, others m Sha hSe
incupated. All my thoughts are running toward my
friends toward the poor child lying there and praying
with her folded hands
Now YOU will perceive, Mr. Beecher has given yon
land shall refer to it, his views Of how much OF this In
form substance respect to emotion 10 regard
to fact Is justly mpuable to him. All ask OF you Is, To
understand that is confessedy report by Mr. Moulton
of emotional expressions intended Mouons ocn show
ing TO conrince Mr. Tuton that Mr. Beecher did nohase
him and ,coud like TO aid him. That Is the point and
that We have Of their mouths. Well, well, gen
temen has not Mr. Beecher all through this shown las
l shall demonstrate to you at the various stages
where he has resisted this policy OF slence)
that he has been ready to meet the charge
at any time II others could endure It'll Has he not
always shown that lie that investigation and ex
posure OF the state OF things in that family, and in re-
gard to that family that had been laid before him during
that week and during the preceding weeks OF December
and on the wifes flight and complaint TO hin-tlat an
exposure Of that would produce great degree OF suffer
ing, and injury, and mischief to the TOn circle and
family and he not wise in his forecast of the results
that must follow If it should be made to appear that
of repuc and OF picy In his congregation OF his
church. had under any circumstances that women's
minds and mems minds, womcn's tongues and mems
tongues would differ about made charge against
In ho1
TO corrupt wifca charge Of that arocous quality that
while it involves every degree of guilt If it be true on
part of the person charged furnishes none OF those
guarantees against its being falsely charged, either in
respect OF the husband or Of the wife. and
of the scrutiny Of fact and truth, that
would belong to charge OF actual adultery
Actual adultery charged carries the guilt and shame OF
the wife and family and the disgrace of the husband
and deals with fact concerning which external proof
can be given and will be required; but how can you
strike at the heart of clergyman conclusively as by
charging fact that is capable of scrutiny and of
being turned and to find out whether 1t Is
true or not charge that in heart In word in wicked
suggestion, in corrupting infamous intent the clergy
has made the approach while tho wifes honor has
been and the husbands disgrace does not and
the children not involvedi Well may clergyman
feel dsaycd II that is the form in which he has to meet
imputation 1t is not ground for action for dam
ages lead to judicial inquiry and cannot lead
to q judicial refutaon 1t is the most terrible form
within the region OF malicious imputatioD. impossible OF
refuaOn except by the generates OF opinion whether
it Is possibly compatible with his character, and then
they say, Well 1t is not possibly compatible with the
character OF good woman that she would change the
charge and you have all through Chrisendom, the
minds the tongues OF men and women lOosened upon
the cunning malice Of such mputation. Well might
Mr.. Beecher feel and say how many hearts will suffer,
what immense interests will be impeliled II this strange
inc xpcable emanatOn from this ruined household Is
made the subject Of public discussion And then Mr.
Beecher was under the impression, dOubngly.
as he has told you, yet not rejecting the idea,
that Mr. Tilton thought that the wiie's charge
was honest that he might believe 1t himself That
has long ago abandoned but Mr. Beecher has told
you, 81 didn't know what to believe; sometimes l
thought that Mr. Tilton was honest in the notion and
wondered how wife could have thus originated it
herself and sometimes thought that he did not believe
it," And the fact that the wife dlscaimed it, didn't
make any difference the woman that dsclamed
was the woman had made the charge SO they went
on and on.
She Is gutless sinned against bearing the transges
sOns OF another
How she gultless IL 1t not the situation that Mr.
Beecher recognized that he should take upon himself all
the blame, because his superior age and experience
should have the disaster of an injury to the nus
bands supremacy In the wfe's affections, from the en-
joyment of this intercourse between clergyman and
parshoner chaste honest religious, and Of the highest
and the hottest aectiOns In that he right in
taking all the blame upon himself and that satisfies III
but in any other view how how. anybody be guilt
less of such henous ofensemarried woman Of mature
years. and with family around heruness you accept
the balderdash Of " innocent adutcry"
"Her forgiveness have"
How had he her forgivenessi How had she forgiven
him Nothing had passed between them of that kind
nothing whatever. The question in that interview
which he had with her. Of accusation to her OF inquiry
how she came to have made charge against him when
1t was not true and Of her withdrawal Of It, and of his
final leayetaking, that he hoped nothing that