Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-02-06

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lie life?
Ans.-In 1865 I came prominently be
fore the American PEOPLE.
Ques.-Undsr what circumstances -?
Aus.-It was through cur business ar
engagements, financially, with Commo
dore Vanderbilt, We then made th'
first seventy thousand dollars ever mad
by women upon the street, IN Contra
and Hudson.
Q1es.-When did ycu establish thi
Weekly?
Ans.-In Msy, 1870, soon after open
ing our brokerage and bspkiDg-hous'
on Broad street.
Q1es.-What was your original pur
pose in establishing the Weekly?
Ans.-It was simply TO disseminate
the views | had imbibed during the at
tainment Of my education, as an OBJ
server OF humsl nature and the sffairS
OF mankind IL general; and from my &C.
quRintAnee with the wrOngs Of woman
as dstailed to me by women, and cut q
my own married experience with DR.
| Woodruff.
Ques.-In the first number OF the
WeeEty did you declare your purpose?
AUs.-Yts, in the first number l pub
lished my frst Ir1nunciamento tc the
world.
Ques.-WilI you be kind enough to
indicate briefly in what way you put
| your purpose before the world in that
prOnuneismento?
Ans.-It was just this. 1 spent long
| nights and days thinking over how
should put my real desire and intention
in paper, and thought it all over.
1 fCr1wA esI haf
there was only one way that the terrible
evil relative to the propagation of the
race could be placed before the world.
There WAS but one way OF doing that, l
say, and that was to speak plRinly-use
plain words to express plain ideas-and
in doing so, found it necessary (being
a woman, and placed by society beyond
the pale Of using plain words upon such
questions) that [ should make q martyr
of myself for the coed Of my sex.
Quss.-When did you make your first
speech2
Ans.-It wss in the capitol, on the
eleventh OF January, 1870, before the
judiciary committee Of the house.
Ques.-Upon what sut jsct did you
speak?
Ans.-It wss on arguing the question
stitution as it is.
Ques.-When did you make the first
speech In accordance with your declared
purpose in the Weekys
Ans,-On the twenty.irst Of Novems
Der, 1871.
Ques.-Where was that SPEECH made ?
Ans.-At Steinway hall, New York
city.
Que5-You had become well known
snd identified with the cause which you
had espoused?
Aus.-Yes, thoroughly.
Ques Did you lose any friends before
you made that Steinwsy-hall speech?
Ans.-Oh, no; l was right in the pop.
ulsr tide of time and favor.
Ques.-You were not lecturer at that
timer
Ans.-I had delivered lectures for
charitable objects several times, but had
not lectured for money.
Ques. BY that lecture in Steinway
hall, II remember Alright, you frst. con-
fronted public opinion, and for the first
time met public assailment?
Ans.-FIom that hour fell gradually
from the hight which I had at aimed,
but am proud to say that within the
last six months have begun to recover
the ground lost, and / feel assured that
on this present tour will be able to say
when l return to New York, that /
have regained all of the pub
lie confidence that 1 had ever leopard
lied, and even more.
Ques.-You expected on the occasion
of the Steinwsy nall speech that Henry
Ward Beecher would Introduce you?
Ars.-I did most sssuredly. 1 was so
sure that he would introduce me that
waited for him until five minutes past
eight, and when Theodore Tilton enter
ed the room he asked excitedly: sis Mr..
Beecher here?' mo, he is not, heo-
dore,n / answered. "I csnnot,n he re-
piled, "believe that he is not around
somewhere" Tilton then left the re-
ception room and opened every door and
closet, saying: 81 know he is here,
for he promised me two hours ago that
he would certaisly be here and do the
hOnors Of the evening"
Ques-The failure Of Mr. Beecher on
that occasion was the cause Of your
divulging the Reecher scandal?
Ans.-NO indeed; that is where the
public made the sad mistake.
Ques.-How long had you known Mr..
Tllton at that time?
Ans.-I met him during the month of
April or May that same year.
Ques.-He had the e7ltree Of your
house?
Aus.-He had. Our salons at that
time were filed with the EiteTdti of this
country and Europe, evening after even
ing. L very distinguished man from
Europe would come to our place. /
often went home and found thirty and
forty visitors. In fact, our house was
the rendezvous of all the leading literary
characters and artists in the country
members of the house snd senate, and
prominent gentlemen in all depart
ments of life.
Ques.-Had you known Mr.. Beecher
as long as Mr.. Tilton?
Anr.-Not quite ss long, though ]
knew him quite a. well.
Ques.-Mr. Beecher was thoroughly
committed to your course?
Aus.-Yes, thoroughly, from pTinci-
pie. So was Mr.. TiltOn; they were both
educated in the same school. Mr..
Beecher was's thorough FOurierite, being
also an ardent sdmirer OF August Compte
We have often discussed our principles
from the standpoints OF those great ga
vants.
Ques-You then have reason to be-
lieve, from what you know OF these two,
Mr.. Bescher and Mr.. Tilton, that from
their social life, conversation and prin-
eiples svowed by them, that they would
support and sustain you in the course
you had marked out for yourself in the
lecture delivered at Steinwsy hall?
Ans.-I had, most assuredly, they
both having read and approved Of the
lecture before | delivered it.
Ques.-On account Of Mr.. Beecher's
failure to introduce you, you broke with
him then, did you not?
Ans.-No; ! met Mr.. Beecher several
times afterwsrd, but l lost faith ia bis
bearing. Just before the lecture he said
TO me, "I am born coward; il go on
that platform tonight, l wilt sink
through the floor, and every man and
woman in that house will then know
my relations to Mrs. Tilton."
Ques.-Then he had confessed those
relations to you previously?
ALs.-We had discussed the sfflir of
the break in Mr.. Tilton's family, on ac-
count, as Theodore called it, Of "Mr.
BeecheI's intimacy with Elizabeth"
T Here Mrs. Woodruff called our stten-
Iion to the fact that Mr.. Beecher corrob-
grated on oath her statement upon this
point, during the Tilton-Beecher trial. I
Ques.-How did you come to give to
the world in the Weekly the statement
of Mrs. Tilton's connection with Henry
Ward Beecher?
Ans.-The prominent position that /
was forced 10 occupy on account of the
work that had been done Washington
the winter before, and the people that l
was quite familiar with, appreciating
the work / had done, and compliment.
ing me through the public press-all
this brought upon my head the jealousy
of leading suffrage women Of the cities OF
New York, Philadelphia, Boston and
Washington; and before was aware Of
Ii, standing outside Of what they called