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BEOWIirVILIiE, NEBRASKA, THUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1874.
MHBIICAir PLATFOEM
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Ilowf ng is the platform adopt-
fae Kepubhcan State Conven-
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XL..S TilB republican purty
P r-c ir tiie im-i luiuccu
th dominant political organ-
f C- HP l HlltJU OVttUCT, jiuj tw-
i; i the liberty-loving inass-
h: w rid and has made a rec-
icii irvites the eentinient ana
jr 1 all history for a parallel in
nff iiumauiiy quu Cai.Bui"'b
jfffiri basis a government of the
"ior me ieu. a""i
jeeb:-A5 its several acif i pre-
the Union, in promoting ana
tb.ning a common ally to the
a goverment 01 tins repuunc
nqpj into history and elicited
proval of the reupblioan senti-
faf the age ; therefore as the rep-
Stivs of the republican party oi
ka assembled, we do resolve
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-That all honest labor should
ikeTjfipeted and receive its just re-
n 1 That we earnestly de-ire
fi&he credit of the government
be lirruly maintained in order
.he commercial anil maueiniu
eta f the country may not suner
- fluctuation in values, or by
inT in any degree that conn-
uhichnow prevails in regard
K circulating medium, which we i
: ,. " nr, rrrant lll.tnilf ll HI' W
,V1 ill IIW i.v-.. ...j. .. j
up-n metalic currency, the rec
ti inntiey or the worm.
rj That we believe banking
fir a well zunrded national system
Ski be free, and we counsel reform
jemmy in all departments of
in ." prvice, aim ruiiunii m
sAo debt In such a way and as
Lv a it mav ue uone wuuuui
Ifgni burdens upon the industries
rh That we nemanu a rigid
itiMHty in thedlsohareeof olll-
Intv on Tire Par' oi ait uuiue-
rs whether state or national,
jwMltiat a delesate speaking for our
'mSmt'im we disfavor anv sympa-
ilirlth drshonet public officials, in
nfcMLVpr capacity they may be
-pJ
Hi That while we recoirnize and
;iat the advantages derived by
son " irom a wen reuuimcu d.s-
if railwav. wo demand that
HSVjMIc highways should be ren-
4mM sibervient to the pnbho good ;
tiMMlwhlle we disavow any hostility
twrd rillwav corporations, we pro
laiii our determination to resist by
il msnc all efforts to impose op-
BKive or eshorbitant transportation
th-That taxation, to be just.
b" equally imposed upon all
s o property ; we therefore de-
-j.ti national and State legisla-
fa, Will compel railroads and all
r-norations to paj- tne same
rt on of tax as is imposed on in-
ui.-
-3th That we favor the proper
:- of the powers conferred upon
r.2ional government ty tne
t tution.to regulate commence be
ri t.ie States, and to this end we
mend that the government es-
h and operate a double track
a" ,rtm the Missouri river 10 iu
t'" seaboard.
h j That we earnestly request
o ir Senators seoure the passage
e minwj rauroaa mnn iax
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TIIE SAIIEFOOT DOT.
by wnrrTiEB.
Blessings on thee, little man,
Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan !
With thy turned-np pantaloons.
And thy merry whistled tunes;
With thy red lips, redder still.
Kissed by strawberries on the hill,
With the sunshine on thy face,
Through thy torn brim's jaunty grace;
From my heart I give the joy :
I -was once a barefoot boy.
Prince thou art-the grown up man
Only is Republican.
Let the milllou-dollard ride!
Barefoot, trudging at his side,
Thou hast more than he can buy,
In the reach of ear or eye ;
Outward sunshine, inward joy
Blessings on thee, barefoot boy!
O for boyhood's painless play,
Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
Health that mocks the doctor's rules;
Knowledge never learned at schools,
Of the wild bee's morning chase.
Of the wild flower's time and place,
Flight of fowl and habitude
Of the tenants of the wood ;
now the ground mole sinks his well
How the tortoise bears his shell;
How the woodchuck digs his cell ;
How the rohin feeds her young ;
How the orioles nest Is hung ;
"Wiwre the whltsst lilies blo ;
Where the freshest berries grow;
Where the ground nut trall its vino;
Where the wouid-grape's clusters shine;
Of the black wasp's cunning way,
Manon of his wail of clay,
And the architectural plans
Of gray hornet artisans!
For eschewing books and tasks.
Hand m hand with her he walks ;
Face to face to her her he talksj
Part and parcel oi her joy,
Blessiugs on the barefoot boy !
O. for festal dainties spread.
Like my txrwl of milk and bread.
Pewter Fpooa and bowl of wood,
On the door-stone, gray and rudo.
O'er me like a regal tent.
Cloudy-ribbed, tbe'sunset berlt";
Purple curtained, fringed with gold.
Looped. in many n wide-swung fold
Wall T,3T msie came the play
Of the pnd frog's erehestra;
And, to light the noisy choir.
Lit the fly his lamp of fire.
I was monarch; pomp and joy
Waited on the barefoot boy !
Cheerily, then my little man !
Live and langii as boyhood can ;
TuoHb the flmtj- slopes be hard.
Stubbles spread the new mown sward,
Every morn shall lead thee through
Fresh baptisms of the dew :
Every evening from thy feet
Shall the cool wind kivj the heat ;
All too soon these feet must bide
In the prison cells of pride,
Lose the ireedoni of the sod.
Like a colt's for work be thod,
ilade to tread the mills of toil,
Uj and down in oeoslees moil;
Happy If Iheir track be found
Never on forbidden ground ;
Happyif they sins no; in
Quiet and traaciieroca sands of sin.
Ah .' tha: iron couldst know thy joy,
Ere It paae, bare.oot boy !
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THE BOYS OF C02IPAXT "'
2TU3IBES II r.
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bill
ih - That we favor the amend-
t
bs providing for the election af
Vr th firntvinlft f tlieihCTiOf
country, defining a re$Jon.to
third presWntial wmWa'cop-
tng as tbgttniriiI".,i'v""":"
the national !US""111'
never to W vjoiateo.
tventh ?!i2ue presmeni s so-
, tv-r Unman policy nas tau
rrd ?Ither benefits to the
When Co. C. was organized, Jnnej
lotr. bl, and marched dowa main
street to embark on a stealer to be
conveyed toOmcba to e mustered
into the .United State service, it pre-sented-rather
an -aiimilitary appear
ance. Tliere."3 aly one man in
.lr,Tu.Uor;fthernUed-'' " " J thta.
.about rotary service, or could drill
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tiei.t, Vice-rresident, L-uueusiiueiupaaj, out alter Deing a lew
s nators and all other federal ' jregka in Omaha, learning the various
r by the direct vote-'of thepeo-,' vrt.tion. ,. tn fcft man of.
That the unwritten Wen J fect,ve as aoldiera, they were ready-
to take the field. On the 1st of Au
gust, five companies of the regiment
were sent to Fort Leavenworth to get
and arms for the regiment. Thev got the
arms, bat when the steamer reached
St. Joseph on the return trip, Col.
Thayer received orders to store the
arms for the five companies at Om-
T.s or protection to the frontier
, and we therefore demand . aha, and to report immediately at St,
?!?f.?I !? """5 f the uis with the five companies that
m? to the war department
Ih That we favor the re-ap-
tnzent of state representation
isb the enactment of a new con-
jrtlSti". at the earliest practical mo
mtmt castent with fundamental
ifcujjmni that we recommend the sub-
ion to the direct vote oi ir.e people
feoarate article, at the time the
sc'l new constitution Is voted up-
le jetlona of prohibition, local
ar.d license.
irt-cnth We approve the acts
jfibg-ess which puts tue rights of
Kgltirens under the protection of
tiwjwiat.mal authorities when they
MkfitGsa'1ed by hostile legislation or
JwfJifce violence of armed associations,
"wringer open or secret, and in view of
tffefecent outrage in the Southern
we demand the enforcement of
law that these rights may be
v and amply protected when-
knd wherever assailed; we do
KjW.'WMjrer disapprove of all unconsti-
al legislation lor ine euro of
ir mi the disorders oi society, or th
rushing through the air and exploded
a short distance form where the offi
cers were standing.
"By George," said he, "that Is offi
cial," and paraded his men.
One history says of this battle :
"Meanwhile Gen. Lyon had been
twice wounded, and had had his
horse killed under him." Lyon
mounted Sturgis' horse, "and bleed
ing from Lis two wounds, called upon
the troops nearest him to prepare for
a bayonet charge on the lines of the
enemy."
The 2d Ennsne rallied around him,
but in a moment its brave Col. Mitch
ell fell severely wounded, and the
soldiers cried out:
"We are ready to follow, who will
lead us?"
"I will lead you" replied Lyon ;
"come on brave men!" and just
at that moment a third bullet
struck him in his breast, and he
fell mortally wounded. Thus fell one
of the best generals of the age. His
campaign had been skillfully planned
and promptly carried out.
His death virtually ended the bat
tle; the Federal army retired unmo
lested to Springfield, and from there
to Rolla, the terminus of the South
western railroad. This was one of
the'hardest fought battles of the war ;
the combatants losing fully one forth
of the men engaged. There was two
young men in Brownville in 1SG1,
who fearing that the Territor3 would
not be called on for soldiers, went to
Leavenworth, enlisted in the 1st Kan
sas, and were in that battle. One of
them was wounded in the leg aud
stooped down to examine the wound,
when a second bullet struck him in
the neck, served an artery, and he
fell to the ground, a corpse. The
first Nebraskan that was killed in
that war, was, properly speaking a
.Brownville man.
"While this battid was progressing
near Springfield, the five companies
of Nebraska were quietly receiving
arms at St. Joseph, and were then
carried to Hannibal by rail, and by
boat to St. Louis.
About that time, there was not a
train that pasped over the Hannibal &j
St. Joe road, but was fired into near
the Uhanton river. When the train;
on which we were traveling approach
ed the dangerous ground, the, musV?&
ets were loaded and the men onthe
alert for bushwhackers, but Ai vre
crossed the CharltotAa terriflosfbrni
of thunder and' 'lightning an'd Tain,
overtook us, and before it ceased we
had arrived at Hannibal.
The next morning-' a train arrived
at Hannibal, .bringing tie Iowa
Infantjgrf Ifd'beM fired into and
several men woivaded.
Every per?on is moro or less super-
iBtitious'; p believer in luck, or fate.
Thwls Nebraska was singularly for
tunste all through the war, and the
inslancsa of good fortune were so nu
merous, that it became a common top
io of conversation. At the battle of
Shiloh, our regiment was in the ad
vance in the Brigade until about 10
o'clock, and in that time did not
have twenty men hurt. The 21st In
diana then took the lead, and in less
than five minutes bad over fifty men
killed and wounded, and in every
battle that the regiment participated
in, we had the same good fortune. A
detachment of our regiment would be
sent out on, say a foraging expedition,
and return all safe, while a detach
ment of another regiment would next
day go to the eame place, and be
captured, or at least attacked.
While the 1st Nebraska and 10th
Missouri were serving together, in
Northern Arkansas, the casualties
were double in the 10th, of what they
were in the 1st, and yet the Nebras
kans did as much service as the Mis
sounans. But to return to my nar
rative :
The regiment was united at St.
Louia, and proceeded to Pilot Knob,
the terminus of the Iron Mountain
Railroad, and the southern limit of
stances, was thejpoorest kind of shod,
dy goods, and in a few days wear
looked very shabby. The Territory
of Nebraska not being able to clothe
herBoldiers, the 1st Nebraska drew
clothing from the United States, that
had been made for the regular army,
and the materials being good, and the
colors fast, the regiment had a better
appearance than the regiments that
wore Bhoddy, and we were generally
supposed to be regulars, instead of
volunteers ; so that when in Septem
berwe went to St. Louis on our way
to western Missouri, there were many
people came to see the soldiers who
wer dressed in such nice uniforms.
1
Previous to Fremont's administra
tion of affaire in Missouri, the rail
roads centering in St. Louis had not
been connected, but to facilitate mil
itary movements, he connected them
by rail. The rails connecting the
Iron Mountain and the Pacifio roads
were laid along Poplar etreet, now
this street is not occupied by the most
respectable portion of the population
of St. Louis, but the soldiers found
that they had kind hearts. The train
was stopped in this street for several
hours, and as the men were sitting on
platform cars exposed to the hot sun,
the inhabitants came out and sup
plied the soldiers with an abundance
of fruit, such as grape3, peaches and
apples. There was one large woman
"Yes, you may go at once, but you to me, made July 3, 1S70 namely,
shall not chide Elizabeth fdr confess-j that sexual relations between Mr.
ing the truth to her husband. Re- Beecher and herself had begun Octo-
member what I soy : If you reproach
that siok woman for her confession,
or utter to her a word to weigh heav
ily upon her broken heart for betray
ing you, I will visit you with ven
geance. I have spared your life dur
ing the past six months, and am able
to spare it again ; but I am able also
to destroy it. Mark me," I added,
"Elizabeth is prostrate with grief
she must hear no word of blame or
reproaoh."
"Oh, Theodore," he said, "I am in
a wild whirl."
who lived opposite where Co. C's cars
were standing, who was very liberal
with her fruit, and with words of
good cheer.
In the evening the train passed on,
jind in due time reached Syracuse,
where the regiment stopped for a few
weeks, and was then attached to Mc-
Kinstry's division of Fremont's
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THB SCANDAL.
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tracts from TiItoHS Second
siatement.
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Tlltou'8 First Jtcr-rleTr--wUh, -Beecher
to Charge IIlmHVJtK.AilTilter
Beeclier;BfcUCeSfcafon 2'llton'fl
VipSviBiaal:itlp. ,
IRSTIEETING WITH BEECHKR TO
GHABGE HJ3r WITH ADULTERY.
"TOheu 2 resolved to meet Mr. Beech
er on Friday, December 30, 1S70, 1 had
juskmade two new contracts with Mr.
Bowen, signing them only a few days
previous, from which I looked for
ward to an Income as large as the sal
ary of the pastor of Pljmouth
Church. When I sat waiting for Mr.
Beecher on that night I was in inde
pendent circumstances, aud expected
to be increasingly so for years to come.
When Mr. Moulton brought him to
me that night I had no thought not
the remotest of "financial difficul
ties," or "business troubles," or "loss
of place," for I had not yet come to
these disasters, nor did I then foresee
them. When I, as he said, "talked
calmly" to him on that night, it was
because I had previously demanded
his retirement from the pulpit, and
because the demand had well-nigh
broken my wife's heart, for whose
sake alone, and for no other reason, I
agreed with her to meet face to face
in order to inform him that I knew of ' Mr. Beecher and inyself at Mr. Moul-
MmI
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HMkTwhlch prevails in our lands.
'WPwrteenth That we are in favor
mtmd most cordially invite immigra-
o our 3tate. N ebrasks needs im-
tiou that its va3t agricultural.
were with him.
Your older readers will recollect
those days. The battle of Bull Run
had been fought, and resulted in dis
aster to the national army. The reb
els were jubilant ; the Unionists de
pressed. We realized for the first
time, that civil war with all its at
tendant horrors was upon us; that ; Federal occupation.
men must lay down their lives, and
that women must Buffer and mourn ;
that wives were to be made widows,
and children fatherless.
On the evening of the 9th of August,
a steamer with the remaining five
companies of tho regiment, (Co. C.
was one of the companies,) came
down the river, and stopped for a few
minutes at Brownville. Then occur-
ed a mournful scene. W7ives parting
from husbands, mothers from sons,
and sisters from brothers, and as the
steamer sped on her way, many a
poor fellow took his la9t look at the
green hills ofjtfebraska. At daylight
the room, and almost immediately
(as Mr. Moulton has narrated) accom
panied that gentleman to my house,
where (as Mr. Beecher admits) he fell
upon Elizabeth with stroug language,
that is, full of reproach, and procured
from her a retraction which he dicta
ted to her, and which she wrote at his
command, her tremor and fear being
plainly visible in her handwriting.
On my return home that evening, I
found my wife fa? from being in the
condition Mr. Beecher described
when he styled her a marble statue
or carved monument; but, on the
contray, she was full of fears and
misery, saying that he had called up
on her, had reproached her in violent
terms, had declared that she had
"struck him dead," and that unless
she would give him a writing for his
protection he would be "tried by a
council of ministers."
She described to me his manner as
full of minded ansrer and jrrief, in
consequence of which she was at one
moment so terrified by the look on
his face that she thought he would
kill her.
She grew distracted at the thought
that her womanly and charitable ef
fort to make peace had only resulted
in making Mr. Beecher her enemy
and mine. I believe that if he had
entered a second time into her pres
ence that night she would have shud
dered and fainted at his approach.
Her narrativa to me of the agony
which he expressed to her, of the re
proaches which he heaped upon her,
and of the bitterness with which he
denounced her for betraying her pas
tor to her husband all this tale still
lingers in my mind like a remember
ed horror.
BEECHER'S CCXFESSlOtf.
Tn my sworn statement I made oath
to the fact that Mr. Beecher confessed
to me his criminal intimacy with Mrs
Tilton. I will state the substance of
this confession, which was often re
newed and repeated :
On the night of December 30, 1870,
during my interview with him at
Moulton's house, he received my ac
cusation without deniel, aud confes
sed it by his assenting manner and
grief.
In the apology written January 1,
1S71, which heEent me through Mr.
Moulton, his contrition was based on
the fact that both Mr. Moulton and I
had become acquainted with his guilt.
During the subsequent personal in
terview which took place between
ber 10, 1S6S I wished to question Mr.
Beecher a3 to the authenticity of that
date, in order to settle the doubtful
paternity of the child. This inter
view he held with me in my study,
and during a portion of it Mrs. Tilton
waspreseut. They both agreed on the
date at which their sexual commerce
had begun, namely, October 10, 1S6S,
Mrs. Tilton herself being the author-
YOL. 19 y0. 15.
sought to' placate me into forgiveness
of his adultery. When he asked me
to remember "all the other hearts that
would ache," it was becau e of the
misery which two households and
their wide connections would suffer
by the discovery of his adultery.
When he wrote to Mrs. Tilton that
Mr. Moulton had "tied up the storm
which was reedy to burst upon their
heady," it was because Mr. Moulton
had skillfully held back Mr. Bowen's
meditated proceedings against Mr.
ity, aud referring again, as she had ; Beecher for adultery. When Mr.
done before, to her diary.
Certain facts which Mr. Beecher
gave me on that occasion concerning
After these words he retired froirvfbte criminal connection with Mrs.
ral. and manufacturing resour- i next mornine the steampr nrrivori nt
MiSfoay J! developed. With an area St. Joseph, and immediately.thearms
iRssachusettsand a soil unsurpass- Werf tnbuted to the different
Co. C. was detailed to guard six
bridges of the railroad at and near
Lawson's station, about 50 miles from
St. Louis. At this place occurred
the first death in the company. The
sentinel on the bridge at the station
fancied he heard some persons ap
proaching, raised an alarm and fired
his musket. The guard jumped up,
seized their mu3kets, which were
loaded, and ran to the bridge. As
along with their
imVMe fertility, we give a hearty wel
to thedown trodden masses of the
rid, and assure them that they
ibe secure in their lives, liberty,
pertv, and free to hold aud ex-
heir religious and political opin-
lthout restraint.
enth That, relying upon the
gence or me people oi our
and properous commonwealth,
is soon to take high rank in
great family of States, we
iy renew our allegiance to tne
-which we represent, and call
'all classes and conditions ofmen
ite with us in a perpetuating the
ingsof free government in accord
with the cherished principles
h actuate and control the great
of our people.
,:
JOB WORK
ivery description done
d's Maohine Shop.
at Look-
loots and Shoes for men, ladies and
lldren, atL. Lowman's.
com
panies.
Those were gloomy days. The dis
aster at Bull's Run had encouraged
the Rebels. Price bad invaded South
west Missouri with a force of nearly
20,000 men, while opposed to him was
General Lyon, with less than half
that number, but believing that a re
treat without a battle would be worse
than a defeat, he determined to at
tack Price, and during the night of
the 9th of August, marched from
Springfield to Wilson creek, 12 miles,
ana ien upon the confederates at day
light of the 10th.
The rebels were surprised at the
audacity of the attack, and it is re
ported that aid de camp went to a
Brigade commander and told him to
parade his men, for said he, "the
yankees are upon us." The Brigadier
looked at him in surprise, and asked :
"Are you-in earnest? Is that-ofS-
they
guns at trail arms, some man's gun
was accidentally discharged and the
bullet struck Robert Gibson a broth
er of James Gibson in the back of
the head, coming out at the front and
tearing away fully half of his fore
head. He must have died instantly.
We buried him on the bank of Big
River, and when I last passed there,
there was two graves instead of one,
and the bridge guards had enclosed
them with a neat fence.
While at this place the measles
broke out in the company, and in a
short time fully one quarter of the
men were down with the disease. As
there was poor hospital accommoda
tions, some of the men became very
sick, and though none died of the
measles, they left the men In such a
condition that they were not able to
endure the hardships of a-soldiers life
and severer were discharged.
There were several deaths from
other diseases in the course of 12
months afterwards, but every one of
these men that died, had had the
measels at Lawson's station.
The mo3t of the troops called out in
'61, ferc clothed by their respective
his intimacy with her, and to say to
him that, for the sake of this suffer
ing woman and her children, I would
withdraw the demand upon him to
quit the pulpit and flee the city, and
that Mr. Bowen should have no ally
in me in his proprosed war against
the pastor.
As God is my judge, I solemnly
aver that that interview did not de
scend to points of finance, but on the
contrary, touched only two points:
First, Mrs. Tilton's ruinK which had
come through Mr.JBeecher; and, sec
ond, Mrs. Tilton'B safety, which
must come through Mr. Beecher and
myself.
In that interview, from a little
memorandum in my hand, giving
dates end places, I recited to Mr.
Beecher Mrs. Tilton's long story as
she had given it to me in the previous
July, and which she'had, on the pre
vious day, reauthenticated in her note
of December 29th, which I had put in
Mr. Moulton's hands to be the basis
of his summon"? to Mr. Beecher to
meet me for the conference. No ex
traneous subject did I introduce into
that single-minded recital,; for only
one theme was in my thoughts ; and
in order that no intruder should in
terrupt me, or that Mr. Beecher
should retire before hearing me, I
locked the door aud put the key in
my pocket.
After I delivered my message, I un
cial?" anda3he spoke a shell came I States. This clothing, in many in
"Now that we understand each other
you are free to go. If nny harm or
disgrace come to Elizabeth or the
children, I shall hold you responsi
ble. For her sake I spare you, but if
you turn upon her, I will smite your
name dead before the whole world."
When I ceased speaking he besita-
ted to leave his chair, but sat with
bowed head, and with eyes riveted to
the floor. At length, looking up into
my face he said : "Theodore, I am in
a dream I am In a Dante's Inferno."
I pointed to the door and said again,
"You are.free to retire."
In going out he stopped on the
threshold, turned, looked me in the
face, and asked with quivering lip
whether or not I would permit him
to see Elizabeth once more for the
last time. I was about to answer "No,
never ;" but remembering my wife's
grief, and her expressed wish that
this interview could have taken place
in her presence, I felt that she would
be better satisfied if I gave him the
permission he asked, and so I eaid,
ton's hoti-e a few mornings afterward,
Mr. Beecher in set terms spoke to Mr.
Moulton and myself of the agony and
remorse which he had suffered within
the past few days at having brought
ruin and blight upon Elizabeth and
her family. He buried his face in his
hand3 and wept, saying that he ought
to bear the whole blame, because from
his ripe age and sacred office he was
uupardonably culpable in leading her
estray. He assured me that during
the earlier years of his friendship for
Elizabeth hd and she had no sexual
commerce with each other, and that
the latter feature of their intimacy
had been maintained between them
not much over a year and less than a
year and a half.
He said to me that I must do with
him what I would he would uot-re-sist
me, but that if I could possibly
restore Elizabeth to my love aud re
spect he would feel the keen edge of
his remorse dulled a little into lesser
pain. Heaskedmeif I would permit
the coming pew renting to proceed,
and said that if I insisted on his resig
nation he would write it forthwith.
He reminded me that his wife was my
bitter enemy, and would easily be
come his own, and begged that she
might not'be Informed of his conduct.
He said that he had meditated suicide,
and could not live to face exposure.
He implored me to give him my word
that if circumstancesshould evercom-
locked the door and said to Beecher, pel me to disclose his secret, I would
give him notice in advance, bo that he
might take some measures, either by
death or flight, to hide himself from
the world's gaze. He said that he
wakened as if from sleep, and likened
himself to be sitting dizzy and dis
tracted on the yawning edge of hell.
He said that he would pray nightand
day for Elizabeth, that her heart
might not be utterly broken, and that
God would inspire me to restore her
to her lo3t plSce in my home and es
teem. .All this, and more like it, took place
in the interview of which I speak, in
cluding his voluntary proposition to
mend certain ill work which he had
done in giving to Mr. Bowen fabe
reports about me.
Shortly afterward I sent for Mr.
Beecher to come to my house to hold
an interview with me on a subject
which I shrink from mentioning here,
yet which the truth compels me to
state. In June, 1S69, a child had been
born to Elizabeth R. Tilton. In view
Tilton the times, the places, the fre
quency together with other particu
lars which I feel a repugnance to
name, I must pass over, but I cannot
forbear to mention, as I have always
stated heretofore, that Mr. Beecher al
ways took the blame to himself, never
imputing it to Elizabeth; and never
till he came before the Investigating
Committee did he put forth the un
manly pretext that Mrs. Tilton had
"thrust her affections on him unsought."
On numerous occasions, from the
winter of lS7l to the spring of 1874,
Mr. Beecher frequently made to me
allusions, in Mr. Moulton's presence,
to the abiding grief which, he said,
God would never lift from his soul for
having corrupted so pure-minded n
woman as Elizabeth Tilton to her loss
of honor, and also for having violated
the chastity of friendship toward my
self as his early anu trusting friend.
Never have 1 seen such grief and
contrition manifested on a human
countenance as I have often seen on
Henry Ward Beecher in his self-reproaches
for having accomplished
Elizabeth's ruin. The fact that he
suffered so greatly from constant fear
of exposure of his crime made me
sometimes almost forget the wrong he
had done me, and filled my breast
with a fervid desire to see him restor
ed again to peace with myself. At
every effort which I made, in connee
tion with Mr. Moulton, to suppress
iuquiry into the scandal, Mr. Beecher
used to thank me with a gratitude
that was burdensome to receive. He
always put himself before me in so
dejected, humble and conscience
stricken a mood that if I had been a
ten-fold harder man than I was I
could not have had the heart to strike
him. When I wrote the letter to the
church declining to appear for trial
on the ground that I had not been for
four years a member, he met me the
next day at Mr. Moulton's house, and,
catching my right hand in both of his,
said, with great feeling, "Theodore,
God himself inspired you to write that
letter."
When, at a later period, in the same
house, he gave me the first intima
tion of the ooming council, he 6aid :
"Theodore, if you will not turn upon
me, Dr. Storrs cannot harm me, and
I shall owe my lifeonce again to your
kindness."
I could record many different ex
pressions and acts of Mr. Beecher like
those which I have above given, to
show his perpetual and never-relieved
distress of mind through fear of the
exposure of his adultery, accompanied
by a constant and growing fear that I
could not really forgive him, and must
sooner or later bring him to punish
ment. I ought to say that I sometimes half
suspected that Mr. Beecher's exhibi
tion to me of profound dejection and
heart-break were not real but feigned,
being of the nature of appeals to my
sympathies, which he knew were al
ways readily aroused at the sight of
distress. But Mr. Moulton never ad
mitted any doubt of Mr. Beecher's
real penitence, and this was one of the
reasons why Mr. Moulton sought so
zealously to shield this sorrowful man
from the consequence of his sin.
I close this section by declaring,
with a solemn sense of the meaning
of my words, that Mr. Beecher's re
cent denial under oath that he com
mitted adultery with Mrs. Tilton is
known to him, to her, to Mr. Moul
tdn, to me, and to several other per
sons, to be an act of perjury.
SUiI3IIG UP.
When Mrs. Tilton made to me her
confession of July 3, 1870, it was a
confession of adultery. When, in her
note of December 30th, following, she
said : "I gave a letter implicating my
friend, Henry Ward Beecher," it was
an implication of adultery. When,
in her second note of the same even
ing, she said that Mr. Beecher had
visited her bedside and reproached
her for having "struck him dead," it
was because she had ditclosed his ad
ultery. When Mr. Beecher cat him
self upon Mr. Moulton's strong and
faithful protection, it was because the
wretched man had been detected in
his adultery. When, during the four
years that followed the 1st of January
1571, hardly a month or week passed
which did not witness Mr. Beecher in
some consultation with Mr, Moulton,
either by letter or in person, it was to
concoct measures for concealing this
adultery. When Mr. Beecher, con
scious of his guilt and fearing detec
tion, fell often into a hopeless gloom
at the prospects of disclosure, it wa3
because the crime to be disclosed was
adultery. When, from the begining
to the end of Mr. Moulton's relation
ship with Mr. Beecher those two men
pursued a common plan in which I,
too, participated this plan was to
guard two families of children from
Beecher wrote that it would "kill him
if Mr. Moulton were not a friend to
Mrs. Tilton's honor," he meant that
this lady's "honor," like every other
"lady's honor," was her reputation for
chastity, and he relied on Mr. Moul
ton to keep the world from knowing
that this lady's pastor had soiled her
"honor," by adultery. When Mr.
Beecher requested Mrs. Morse to call
him her "eon," which she did, and
when she begged him to come and
see her, pledging herself notto allude
to her ''daughter's secret," it was be
cause this mother knew that this 'son'
and daughter had committed adulte
ry. When this mother gave this "son"
the troublesome information that
"twelve persona" had been put in
possession of this secret it was the
guilty and perilous secret of adultery.
When Mr. Beecher shuddered at the
likelihood that Mr. Bowen had com
municated to Mr. Claflm the "bottom
facta," it was becauss the chief fact
lying at the bottom of all was adulte
ry. When Beecher said to Moulton,
"can't we hit upon some plan to break
the force of my letter to Tilton?" it
was because the letter whose force he
he wished to break was his letter of
contrition for his adultery. When, in
his despair, he wrote: "Would to God,
Theodore, Elizabeth and I could be
friends again Theodore would have
tho hardest task in such a case," it
was because this "hardesttask" would
consist of forgiving a wife and her
paramour for their adultery. When
Mrs. Tilton wrote implcringlj' both to
Moulton aud to Beecher that "the
papers should be destroyed," it was
because those papers were records of
adultery. When in brokenness of
spirit Mrs. Tilton wrote to asK her se
ducer's forgiveness, it was because of
her womanly distress at having be
trayed him for his adultery. When
in one of her clandestine notes to him
she referred to her nest hiding, it was
a means of more pleasantly reminding
him of his own poetic expression for
their adultery. When her destroyer
wrote to Moulton, Feb. 5, 1S72, saying
'I would not believe that any one
could have passed through my expe
rience and be alive or sane," he con
fessed the agony of living on the verge
of public punishment for adultery.
When he said to Moulton, 'you are
literally all my stay and comfort, it
was because this brave and tender
friend was a barrier between the pub
lic and the knowledge of a clergy
man's adultery. WThen Beecher, who
was never tired of sending to this
friend such love letters as a man sel
dom writes to a man, said to him 'I
would have fallen on the way but for
the courage with which you inspired
me, it was his ever grateful acknowl
edgment to one who was saving him
from the fate which punishes clergy
men for adultery. When he bewailed
the 'keen suspicions with which he
was pressed, these were the danger
ous suspicions of a congregation to
whom public rumor had carried a hor
rible hint of their pastor's adultery.
When he feared an 'appeal to the
church, aud then a council, and prog
nosticated thereby a 'conflagration, it
was because he foresaw how the pub
lic mind would be influenced by the
knowledge of his adultery. When he
portrayed himself as standing in daily
dread of those personal friends who
were making a 'ruinous defense' of
him, it was because he feared that
their clamorous statements of his in
nocence would blunderingly lead to
the detection of his adultery. When
he cried out that he was 'suffering the
torments of the damned, he was pour
ing out his heart's anguish to the only
man to whom he had liberty to un
burden his remorse for his adultery.
When he Eaid. that he could not carry
this burden to his wife aud children,
it was because he was a3hamed to ac
knowledge to them his adultery.
When he wrote to Moulton, saying,
'sacrifice me without hesitation if 3ou
can clearly see your way to his Mr.
Tilton's safety and happiness there
by, he alluded to the sacrifice of his
gqo4 name in explanation of his ad
ultery. When he said of himself, 'I
should be destroyed, bn$, he Mr. Til
ton would not be saved, it was be
cause all that was needed for his de
struction was 3imply that the world
should be told of his adultery. When
he said, 'Elizabeth and her children
would have their future clouded, he
saw hastening over this ruined mother
and her brood the black aud awful
cloud which hangs over every matron
guilty of adultery. When he wrote,
'life would be pleasant if I could see
that rebuilt which is shattered, he re
ferred to the moral impossibility of re
constructing a home once broken by
adultery. When he compared him
self to "Esau, who sold his birthright
and found no place for repentance,
though he sought it carefully with
tears, it was because the unpardona
ble crime which this minister had
committed waa adultery. "When he
spoke in eulogy of Moulton's wife as
reviving 'his waning faith in woman
j.. .-..- ..yj. i--Ajnui'a ju .'iftior
overcome, and who afterward betray
ed him for his adultery. When the
strong woman who had thus restored
'his waning faith in womanhood,
counsiled him to make 'a frank and
manly confession of his sins, asking
man's forgiveness for it, as he expect
ed God's, and when he afterward
wrote 'that her clear truthfulness laid
him lllat all this showed how he
quailed before a virtuous woman's re
buke for his adultery. When he said
to me that I had 'condoned my wife's
faults, pointing toe to this condona
tion as constituting on my part n
pledge of forgiveness towards him, he
wrote in that word 'condone' thti
I plainest possible confession of his ad
ultery. In like manner, all Beecher's
letters, when read in view of the one
sad and guilty fact which, is the key
note to their tragic meaning, constU
tute a four years' history of a mind af-
flicted with 'anxiety, remorse, fear and
despair all in consequence of a dis
covered adultery.
If I have been thus explicit in reiU
erating Beecher's crlr;li is not for
the sake of proving it from his letters,
fori have sufficiently proved it with
out help from these, hot only to show
that I did not garble these lettera
when I pointed to them as proofs Df
adultery ; and I repeat that if Beech
er's letters have baen (as he says.l
'wickedly garbled, His he who haa
garbled them. It is I that have re-
stored them to thsir true meaning,
WHY Hr CONfJONED Tfift 1.ULT;
This rehersal of events will now en
able me to answer two pointa whieh,
have been made against me. One ia
this ; I am asked frequently 'Tilton,
how couldd you, after condoning
your wife's fault four.years ago, pro
claim it at so late a day ?" My answer
has just been foreshadowed, it ie this j
I made this exposure not of my free
will, but from compulsion ; I made it
because Beechorand Mrs. Tilton com
pelled me to make it. I did not vol-
unteer it. I would gladly haye con
tinued to shield both parties for the
(sake of one. But when Beeoher and
Mrs. Tilton made a public league
against me, and in the face of the
whole community defied .me to tel
the facts, I waa either forced to aecepfe
their joint challenge, or, by declining
it, to deserve the contempt of mao
I kind. That is my answer, and can
did men and women will acknowl
edge it to be just.
Next, I have an equally plain ans
wer to those critics who condemn me
for having committed, as they say, a
blunder in condoning my wife's fault
at first.
And my answer is : I am perfectly'
willing to accept this condemnation
from all those who choose to ofler it
whether from foes or friends. Before
' God I hold that I did right, and not:
wrong, in forgiving an erring woman
who went astray through powerful
emotion, "o regret beclouds my
mind for this forgivness of my wife
which, I am sure, I sbxll look back
to from my dying bed with pleasure,
not with pain. I forgave this gentid
woman because I krved her; I for
cave her for her children's sake: I
forvave her because I despise the
public sentiment whtch condones
such fault in men, and then compels
men to punish them in women; I
forgave her because even after her
grievous error she still remained a
woman loving right rather than
wrong, and seeking good rather than
evil ; I forgave her because I tenderly
remembered that Christ him3elf for
gave a similar feult in a'more wicked
woman and who was I, ta scorn the
law of this great example? No criti
cism of my Torgivness of Mrs. Tilion
can prick me with any pang. If all
the acts of my life bad been as rights
cons as this good deed of ohartty al
beit towards a woman who has since
poorly requited me for it I would
now be a better man than I am.
the consequences of this adultery. hood, it was because his thoughts
When Mr. Beecher wrote to me his
were then of another and weakerwo-
of Mrs. Tilton's subsequent disclosure I letter of contrition, it was because he man, whose moral nature he had
The Extraction of the Eartlj.
Prof. Dsnton, the well-known geol
ogist, takes no Block in the various
popular theories of the inevitable des
truction of the earth by burning,
freezing, bursting, perpetual darkness
or any one of half a doaen other
waj's. He says that people who be
lieve that the earth attained its pres
ent maturity in less than six thou
sand years, tatty not unreasonably
suppose that its destruction in some
of the ways specified may soon cwme
to pass, since if so womrerfni a world
had grown to it prime io ao short a
period of time, a few yeara more
might with reason efleet its destruc
tion. But when the story of the
story of the mighty pes ie learned
from science, the coneluelan is very
different. He doe? not believe in any
such quick growth.
Tracing the earth's history in tha
the great book of nature, in the oIiJ
rocks, the deaptha of earth and the
mountain summits, he concludes that
a hundred thousand years at leat
'have been spent in bringing man to
his present state," that a rnifcsb longer
period will be given to carry humani
ty to its highest ideal of excellence,
aud predicts a glorious future which,
metaphorically speaking, foreshad
ows to coming generations "a light
brilliant as the sun."
This 13 more cheering, and aids to
dispel the gloomy forebodings induced
by the prediction ef Uat Ereuoh a
tronomer who insists that the moon is
badly cracke:i arfni liable to come down
upon oar hes in great jagged frag
ments some day, aud'grind everybody
to powder while it crushes also
through the crubt of the earth and
lets loose the pent-up fires of tho
movdten mass within.