New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-25
TIE EXPRESSIONS IN THE CONTRTrION
LETTER

woman whom he attempted TO ravish
TIE EXPRESSIONS IN THE CONTRTTION
LETTER.
Allow me now for one moment TO read this
paper and see whether you believe that like Henry
Ward Beecher, deliberately debating word for word,
wrote such sentences these II ask through you Tneo
dore Tiltons forgiveness and humble myself before
him as do before my God" my God" ~ If he Kept
private god Of his own and set TltOn and that god
side by side and he kneeng alternately before the one
and before the other Mr. Beecher strong earnest
blazing glowing thoughts and words but he never talks
like that MI Beecher. least, would have known. If
be had been capable OF writing such sentence that,
he would have known better than 10 end II with comma
and 70 continue 1t in these words: as do before my
God, he would have been a better man in my circum-
stances than have been" Which God or Tilton The
immediate antecedent is the Divine Being himself
There IL an absurdy in this that carries in itself ALSO
lutte conviction that this is the work either Of bunger
or knave. 81 can Tea now, do you believe,
gentlemen, that Henry Ward Beecher found Occa-
say II can't ask nothing THAT is the way
originally written. might do that, for am care
less in my forms Of speech am not trained rheOr-
clan; but Theodore TiltOn can't do il, Henry Ward
Beecher can't do IT, Judge Nelson can't do IT, my friend
Mr. Beach can't do fl form Of expression that can
not pass his lips Why, just impos ble for vet
away before the battle. Men who are trained
understand what they trained TO- They maintain their
position Men who are trained in letters understand the
OF language. 81 can't ask nothing except" Now,
that at" is blotted out DO you think Frank Mouton.
who made the mistake, discovered it, Not bit.
I will tell Won whose hand it was that ran the
pen through that "t"-I don't need TO. II can't
ask nothing except that he will remember all
the other hearts that would ache" Now, You
can see that II Henry Ward Beecher began such
tence it would have end somewhere 1t would not be
right of in that way chopped OFF like half of child
nr,1f flala Ind ~
That is the way. You have this man. you know
him; you have listened TO him eight ten days; you
have lived with him; you know his way Of talking. "I
will not plead that wont DO. That do He must
have said something than tha-what was it," Il
really don't remember TiltOn" There is the thing itself
Handing the letter the iurv, and when TltOn came
10 read that, That wont do" On! g" For myself -
will not plead for myself that is it," 50, that
written Well. OF Frank there the pen and
ink there They would have you suppose that there Tas
no pen and ink anywhere except at Henry Ward
Beechers and that that could never have been written
unless written there! 1t is enough for my pnr-
pose that there he had il. If he did
the spot shows the work OF bunger, IT show that he
did not from dictaton of Henry Ward Beecher
Again. II even wish that were dead d" Even that
presupposes something What does that even refer
toi Any intelligent scholar will say to you that
the who wrote that did not understand
language; or else. that there is omitted
." wish were dead But others must live and slf-
fer will die before any one but myself shall be mcu
pated Ard yet both these men swear that this an
admission OF adultery; that Frank Moulton took it
such that Theodore Tilt0n understood II a.
snch, and that a man who intended admit
that he had committed adultery does 1t in this way
al will die before anybody but myself shall De incul-
pated II Is unlaieTal adultery TOn don't do things
on the Divine principle he rejects that obsolete
When He created human beings even the inferior AMI
mails male and female created He them" But here Il
case of male adultery. What foolish thing it was to
create ALL wasn't itf Adam could have been the
progenOr Of all the poseiiy that has sprung from boh
according the theory of Tton You perceive gentle
men, that the language which here employed ut
terly excludes the hea that Henry Ward Beecher was
confessng adultery. If this had been his writing
instead OF the writing Of Frank Moulton. All my
thoughts are running toward my friends. toward
the poor child lying there and praying with her
folded hands" Now, observe whom this IL TO Frank
Mouton represents this being II letter 70 him VINO
had declared that night that he heathen that nc
cared for Of these things. he represents Ny
Beecher as saying 10 him. "A my thoughts running
toward poor child lying there praying with her
folded hands" have MT doubt that Mr. Beecher did,
in the OF his sooquy and his sefreproaches
speak of her But You that this man has merely
caught detached expressions. He had been admirer
OF Theodore TltOn had been worshipng him all his me-
from the time they school together and folded
hands seems 70 him To be eloquent, and lying there
was eloqueut and slnned against eloquent; and
all these phrases seemed him 10 be Just the thing THAT
Henry Ward Beecher should WRITE and that other men
should give him credit for. "she Is guilt
lcss"-au adultery in which the adulteress l.
clltcss. sinued against, bearing the transgression
of another Her forgiveness have. humbly pray to
God that He may put into the heart Of her husband 10
forgive me-" Gentlemen, you can look al that handing
il 10 iury And then will ask you II in the mind OF one
man on that Jury there remains doubt that that IT,
Was t in aerwar the instance Of Theodore TiltOn.
who saw that il was necessary 70 make SENSE Look al
tine ink Look OF the hole in which II lie crowded.
humby pray GOD that He NAV put into the heart OF
her husband forgive me- and then follows have
trusted .s IL MoultOn in confidence. II. ". BeecheI
reading Il c0ntinuousyit keeps right along He signs
II OF course you will the n which the sigma
ture l. attached 10 the bottom.
Gent.emea | have perhaps detained you too long on
this subject although that Is question which will be
discussed By NJ Evarts,. II seemed TO me 70 papabiy
asrd 10 suppose that the who that that pa
r war dictated word t1r word by Henry Ward Beecher,
and tn he read it, and that he atterwari signed IT, could
be believed. The paper itself sapposins him 10 have
cn cpEe OF writing H. does not convict him OF aiu!-
tc-v Il T. inconsistent with adultery But Use 1t for
another uyrpose Tie man who swears that Henry
W.-i R.ecie- wrot. IT lies. H is an uAtrusiwortAJ
witness; he not be believed he Is not to be b c
when he swcs Tat he Is not " be believed VIA, q