New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-22
on earth. he hates Bowen, but ne really loves you

What have 70 do IL 10 make peace ia ths mae~f
Next day he TO him, and that the occasion ~
the apology and talks the matter over There are only
one or two features about that that want 70 call your
attention to that on that occasion Mouon deVotes him.
self To establish to the satisfaction OF Beecher hrst VIC
entire and absolute innocence OF IheodHc tnton'
| why" says MoutOn, you know now reaene'ou'
Bowen These stories started with Bowen There mas
been something confirm him, but that Grows OUT OK
that mad woman Tiltons mother+n-law Why, Beecher'
| you know what Mrs. Morse is. There Is where ills
trouble originated she doubt, really believes I1itOn
TO the IN the world II you were 20
credit her Stories You would believe he was the verest
aduerer that roamed the free pastures OF Brooklyn
But there Is nothing in IT, Them as 10 Bessie Turner
Why Bessie Turner adopted child Theodore loves
her, and he would no think Of wrongng her than
| you would OF wronging your daughter Harriet Leo
| vile. As to Bessie undoubtedly there were
those little fondling carresses, which she wonid
never have thought anything more OF than any
daughter. any school girl, except for Mrs Morse;
but Mrs Morse put into her head that was Titons
purpose destroy her. body and soul There s nothing
in H." swell, but, Mouton, Mrs. Tlton herself taiks
about Theodore She told Mrs Beecher so and So she
| told so and about him and his irregularities
Why" says Moulton, "there Is nothing in that Don't
you know women like Elizabeth rilton Have you nos
enough OF them 10 understand them Che Ia sick
she s fancifu she is easily influenced by her mother
she nervous she is half the time in the family way
has trouble with Theodore she has trouble with her
own cnl0rcn anu the WDOle OF IL
doesn't know which end he stands half the time Why,
| her mother comes and makes her believe anything.
Then Theodore comes and he makes her believe anything
The woman means harm, but the truth about II IA,
Beecher, she is perfectly crazy about vou' "Why,s
never saw any evidence Of that" why Beecher, she
loves your little finger better than she does the whole
| body of Theodore Titon. And you see, this woman,
whose stories Theodore you credit IL just AZ ready
10 charge you yourself with act Of personal dshonor
You her AMI she reracts that; then Ion goes 10
her. and the reoanaon. You see the ground
has all slipped from under you" "We says Beecher'
81 had suspicion Of this. believed what heard
and repeated it to Bowen. told him what Mrs rlon
told my wife, and what Bessie Turner told me, and
told him this man was so tainted be reaIy
ought not 10 be connected with tAis paper
Well, you Just where II You slandered Theodore
| You have done him a great wrong You have got him
turned out Of The Independent Formal notice came lass
night. Here is q who In the receipt OF $4,000
q year from those papers and he is turned out AMI
| by your ISLANDERS. when. If YOU lad lust come and
asked him, would have explained the whole thing 10
you you had and asked me. or any friend OF
TheOdore's and then you turn on him, and, yielding
credit gossiping women, you havcdesroyed Theo-
/ dorei you have destroyed his reputation you
have destroyed Elizabeth; they have unhappy home;
you been the Of breaking them up, aud now
what have to do Is to join hands with me, and IN
some way Ut other must fully reinstate him" Now, t
Just that condition that Mr. Beecher inds himself
entering year ISL rs this true Now a. 10 that
Bessie Turner matter can very readily understand
don't anything about the gfrl the story was prob
able enough but very likely that is the true origin OF IT,
may very well be that Mrs Morse turned the story into
the girl head, that she more than she did Mrs
Ton-in view OF her charge against me- IL perfectly
evident she is broken down she is crazy there Is some
thing wrong about it, ought TO have been on my guard
about iii that have really been the occasion OF
breaking up his family; If have slandered Theodore
TitOn, who was for many years my friend II | have
| hrou mn the OF
| CATION II have permitted this poor, broken hearted
TO fasten her affections upon me TO her own de-
strucon and the destruction of her household and my
own peril, what have I to do by way Of reparationp
Now, gentlemen these are things not TO be talked
about. We feel we know how 1t would havo
affected even US. and hard men
Of the world accustomed to battle with life, to look
things IN the face treated clergy are, who are
fattered by women and praised by men; who are adj
! mred and loved; who surrounded by friends and
whose enemies kept at bay who unused TO tho
warfare of life, and Who when trouble comes are 30 per-
fecy unprepared for IT, unless it be that order OF war
for which they better prepared than We when
things happen, what should we expect OF tben
Now let a complication of affairs surround man
in our profession Of mature years accustomed to aiairs
fearless scfreiant resoute ready peace but equally
ready for war, calm selfpossessed. what theni sup
pose any such attempt were made upon man IKE NY
| friend Mr.. Beach. you could see that eye
! Of his flashing with the fire that would nos
content
But lust around this audience and say whether you
cannot see even from where you sit, Of the word
men of characterl You would DE excel Insly iiseon-
certed You would feel that this was a serious matter
| What shall do Whom shall talk wtai Ny Tnet
What! Talk 10 my wife about being charged with dls-
honoring another man his marital relations No no.
! Nv friend What Call upon him. tell aim that &C.
cupy gnomnious position OF being accused ny "o-
man. and respectable woman AT that Ii y very easy
gentlemen, for Us TO see now what we wou'u
| have done It is not quite easy TO know
what We would have done. But IL IL difficult TO see.
not what we would done, but what any other man
would have done There are twelve OF yon. One would
90 one way; another another; perhaps 10 two alike
even among YOU twelve. How would Henry Wa.d
Beecher actl Well If had in midst about 1900
Henry Ward Beeclers should have the means OF ndg
Ing because could Judge by the one acted OF how
the others would but We have no more 1000 Henry
Ward Beechers among than have 10000 Theodore
| Tiltons among lis. Iaughterl They are men greatly
unlike opposite the poles but they are men, each ~
Them who have few parallels and You cannot say WIN
absolute certainty that because you know how
Gen. Tracy would do or how NJ. Sherman Mr..
Howard would do such circumstances Won are not sure
that Beecher Ton would have acted in precisely the
same way with either OF those gentlemen. Aud yet t
seems that there OF PrOcrSiean bed which
every Beecher be made 20 1T, and Theodore Ion
fixes the dimensions OF the bed Whatever Theodore TIL
TON would have done under those unless
Beecher it, Beecher is guilty. We'll gentlemen, what
did he dot That is the first thing Did be write any
thingi Yes, he wrote something not nucA-not much.
All that he wrote that day was not those three sheets.
Frank Moul.on wrote them. The only Lines Henry Ward
Beeeher wrote so FAR as know the lst OF January.
1871 are these: II have intrrsted this 10 Mculton
! confidence IT, ". Becchcr.' That is the record 0f
/ that day Does that mean, Henry Ward Bcecher,