Year: 1875

Thus much gentlemen, for the letters while he
was West and for the OF fidelity to his marriage vow
which he gave after that conversation OF January So Al
the Summer however, he has returned to his home n e |y
OF NewYok Old associates have come around hm ana ne"
temptations have oyeraken him. and he finds that the reo


on January cannot bold out through the ross OF Novem
ber He is stricken again with humility with ieeng OF
worhlesnes with inability TO resist these temptations and
moved by letter which he received from his WIFE, written III
the studio in NewYo at his Office, the Sd day Of Noyen
ber he replies to her in the following manner shall not
dwell upon this letter gentemen-I shall not stop to comment
upop Il at present The duty OF that will be reserved until the
final summing up this only alude to it now as the
closing letter this remarkable correspondence in the year
1868: A., q ,oeo


My DEARY Your kind and loving note falls SO pleasantly on
NV spirits that would Immediately home this afternoon
were il not that have engaged to go this evening


There much sunshine pouring INTO my niue once az % @


THE sunshine he there Iefers g s@ppOs Is the sunshine
that from the note of his wife IN the h ,s INTO
and remain within my cold and crne @ @ hear do M, scr cons
tuted make you happy as you deserve TO pe ou
have the best of inenons-and the worst OF success


The cause much trouble at home my general anxiety
about everything Latery worry more OF less concerning
every matter which touch have hardly ten minutes Gay
of uninterrupted free from care Tins may seem an
statement but the painful truth feel as if were grow
ing old before my time. Lights that used TO burn Tm me
have been uuenced Hopes faded ambition is Killed


As cannot bear to see any expression OF pain
regret your face cannot DrnS ysei 70 speak " you
mary any subject connected with OF our sorrow
| pVpu


grave for his crumbng clay Every auon to the subject has
| been pang through my heart. -


and are and eai be- shut within myself because can
not open my mouth to concerning them without giving you


body you jar at touch and am apt TO touch you too


As for nv own character at the time Of Paus death
what 1t be and how far short OF It am myself
Morhessness sedshness degradation and wckedness At
time expect to recover from TINS oqg % od qsPonu en out
into peace been overthrown and before rise must
be made feel like AneuS that strength comes from touch


But the chief OF all my miseess this that mpart them to
others Let me say with the utmost feror Of protcstaon
that neither you the children nor the house nor the
servant anything that is within gates-not one alone
sg5f oyigieataS share IL my troubles Those troubles


lch they are are OF my own maSng ma would 10 Goa tsey
upon ohersupon yourself and the children THIS iact ha
BSt yoar kind and tender words pcnced in the studio this
morning very precious TO mesweete than honey IN the
honeycomb write this letter on purpose to thank you for
| them God bless you eyermOre.


Lovingly yours,


now read gentlemen another letter in this correspondence
written by the wife, February 20 1868 in which she betras her
fears OF renewed difficulty and dissatisfaction, on his return
| home: 49, ~ ,ooo
Ny BELOVED and hearsck for your com
panionshp tonight that hesitate 10 write lest my mood may
depress Won Yet cannot wish you home for am persuaded
You are happier where you While long to be with


am haunted continually with fears that your Ghee ace VIII
soon hadOwcd and the dear head droop This thought is
agony 10 me and spent many hours since your absence
| weeping because Of 1t. -,


would fan make path smooth for your feet in other
words direct the children and the household that they minister
harmony only, but knOo 1 cannot and an" qffeidF


Again she says to him, on March Sth 1853;


"NuRsERY. Sunday eve, March s, 1868


Ny BELOVED: All alone Eliza in the kitchen. and the
children all asleep about me- while have been trying to i'm
agne when shall again live with you and behold
yOur precious form This think have decidedno more
chidngs scoldnys An inexpresble tenderness has
soul towards never saw my path as clear as
noy-that whatever be, Ii beconeth TO
be the Christian wife and mOther The full meaning OF those
words when developed from nature mpotent as mne most
thoroughly understand. II may lead children nOW 10 an
intimate love and in God, He manifestng Himself TO
babes He has promised then TO this great source OF happ
strong bodies be added, Will nsk intellectual training ana
knowledge"


Notwithstanding the promises made January % 1868 and the
promises complete reformation which often repeated in
the correspondence following that interview it is clear from
correspondence and particularly from the letter of Nov


1863 upon his renm TO NewYork, and falling again
under the influence of old associates and subjected anew to
temptations felt himself unable TO keep the VOWS he had
made the January previous This made evident from the
correspondence of the parties during the years 1869 and 1870
Difficulties were hickenng around him. Of his dssoute
life filed the a-t impossible for ton to conceal any
longer from the world the life he lived In Decen-
ber 1870 the which had been so long gathering,
burst upon him. struck him in every quarter He found his
business relations imperled and his home shattered
As early as 1866 Tton began to shadow forth In TIE hd
dent MS religious social They bred discomfort every
where particularly in the Northwest.


Mr. TILTON JEALOUS OF RIVALRY.