The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01
THE PLYMOUTH KU-KLUX.

MORE LETTERS AND EXPLANATIONS FROM
OLIVER JoHNsoN-BowEN's VIEWS OK THE
BRRTHREN-HIs STATEMENT WEDNESDAY
EVENING.
NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-Oliver Johnson
appears to-day with another scandal con-
tribution, made necessary In explanation
OF another published private and con-
fidentisl letter, this time written to Tbeo-
dore TiIton ander date of June 4, 1874.
In this letter johnson said
MY DEAR THEODORE: Let me as an
old friend whose heart is wrung by your
terrible suffering end sorrow tell you
that you can never have trne peace OF
mind till you conquer yourself and
dismiss all purpose and thought OF In
Turing the man who has wronged you. OF
all promises our lips can frame, none are
so sacred as those we make to those who
have injured US and whom we have pro-
fessed to forgive, and they are sacred just
in proportion as their violation would
work injury to those to whom they are
made. You can net paint too blaekly the
wrongs you have suffered.
Oliver johnson writes now in explans-
| ton of the above and of his desire to re-
strain Hlton from making an exposure:
Assured of Beecher's innocence of any
sort of crime, yet knew
closed would cast suspicion upon him and
subj sct him to great annoyance and pain I.
/ knew also that Mr.. Tilton's own life
| would not bear scrutiny, for he had con-
fessed his adulteries to me. In thes
circumstances, for his (Tilton'sl sake,
quite as much as tor Beecher,
and not less for the sake of
his wife and children. 1 avoided
irritating him by telling him l no longer
believed his main accusation was true. /
even pleaded with him at times on the
seeming admis zion that his provocation
was as black as he said IL
was. 1 dealt with him IS l would
with man partially derauged!'
Henry c. Bowen cnsrscterizes as an out
people last evening, and expresses sur
prise and indignation thai any body oil
Christians would attempt 10
LOCK UP FREE BORN CITIZEN
in room against his will. de is deliber.
atiDg what action he could take, if any
in order to bring the perpetrators OF the at
tempt on his personal liberty to justice. Th'
4 Brooklyn Eagle says that Mr.. Bower
declines to give the text OF mis- Statement
to the newspapers, and the Plymouth
Church committee say that they will not
|, The Eagle reporters called on Bower
, ! and members of the commitse to-day, bu
they were all firm. The substinc
of the statement. Mr. Bowen does not
claim to have any knowledge of guilt or
, Beecher's part. He saJs that he believes
him guilty, because of what be hs
heard from divers parties. The only name
} mentioned by him are Mr.. and Mr.;
Richards who, he said, told him that Mrs
| Iilton confessed to them. Another We
: man, whose name he declined {
3 give, told him. he says. tina
: in 1858 she saw Mr.. Beeche
: enter In a suspicious manner the study {
3 Plymouth Church with woman who's
Q name he also declines to mention. hi
9 informant did not say that she knee
, adultery was committed there, but she DC
' lleved It was. The third and chief cas-
D cited by Bowen was that OF
I woman who, he says, told biz
0 that she had been twice outrage
g hy Mr.. Beecher, and that substquen
!. TO the outrages, she remained Improper
I intimate with him. Who this woma
4 was, where the alleged outrage
q took place, or when tbfy took plsc
{ srs facts which Mir. Bowen declare
8 he can net be induced to disclos
: Apsrt from these three cases, the stat
% ment Is dew, ted to q defense OF Nj
IS Bowen's behavior toward Mr.. Beecher an
n the public since he become convinced
% Beecher's guilt.