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VOLUME X.
PLATTSMOUTH,. NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1871.
NUMBER 21.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from Telegrams of Actomp anjin Dates,
"Monday, Aug. 10. It is said applicu
tion is to be made to the British Parliament
for an appropriation of $)0,000 to pay the
debts of the Prince of Wales. . . .Several Inter
national leaders have been arrested in Flor
ence, Italy. ...A girl eight years of age,
named Ida Kurtz, w as recently burned to
death at Green Hay, Wis., while attempting
to start a lire with kerosene In the
recent races at Buffalo, N. Y., Gold
smith Maid trotted a mile in 2:15,
licinu: the fastest time on record
A Cincinnati dispatch of the Dth pays forty
five dead bodies of persons lost by the
burning of the steamer l'at Rogers had been
recovered, and all but fifteen had been
fully identified. Two known to be lost had
not yet been found, making forty-seven vic
tims in all, with a possibility of there be
ing three or four more.
Tuksoay, Aug. 11. The Tyrant Time
has been suspended by orders of the Turkish
Government, for adverse criticisms on the
tiiumcial administration of the Sublime Porte
.... Frank Moulton was before the Investigat
ing Committee about an hour on the 10th.
The latest news from the Custer Black Hills
expedition is to the effect that the
command was in good health and
spirits. A small party of Sioux were
met with on the 27th, but there had
been no lighting as yet. Since the command
struck the Black Hills it had been prospect
ing in a continuous line in the most beauti
ful valley man ever looked upon. In Custer
Valley rich mines had been discovered, both
placer and quartz digging Henry J. White
house, U. I)., LL. I)., Bishop of the Episcopal
Diocese of Illinois, died at his residence in
Chicago on the morning of the 10th, after an
illness of several days, of paralysis. Ho was
seventy-one years of age, and had been Bishop
of the diocese for twenty-three years. . . .The
Hon. (ieorge W. McCrary has declined the
nomination for Congress tendered him by the
lie-publicans of the First Iowa District.
Wednesday, Aug. 12. Great excite
ment prevails in Paris in consequence of the
escape of Marshal Bazaine from the Island of
St. Marguerite on the night of the 9th. The
details of his escape are as follows: During
Sunday evening the Marshal walked upon
the terrace with Col. Villette, his aide-decamp.
At ten o'clock he retired as usual,
apparently to sleep, but before daybreak
he had effected his escape. He must have
rossed the terrace in the dead of night.
:ind, eluding the sentinel, gained the edge of
the precipice, whence, by means of a knotted
rope, he descended to the sea. He evidently
slipped during the descent and tore his
hands, as the rope was found stained with
blood in several places. Under the cliff", in a
hired boat, were Bazaine's wife and
cousin. They received him as he reached
the water, and Madame la Marechal,
taking the oars herself, rowed directly
to a strange steamer which had been lying
ir the island since the previous evening.
They reached the vessel in safety, were taken
on board, and the steamer then put to sea.
It is thought that they landed at Genoa, as
the steamer proceeded in that direction.
Eighty persons formerly connected with the
Commune have been arrested at Marseilles
...The London Jfornhif I'unt announces
that negotiations between the powers
r the recognition of the Spanish Republic
have been completed.. ..The official vote of sixty-seven
counties in Kentucky gives Jones,
Democratic candidate for Clerk of Court of Ap
peals, a majority of nearly 00,(100 over Coch-
iin. Independent Judge Ledlie, Chairman
of the Illinois Democratic State Central Com
mittee, appointed by the straight
convention of 172, has issued a
ill for a State Democratic Con
vention to meet at Springfield Aug. 25....
Mrs. J. Miller, of Jacksonville, 111., recently
attempted to light a fire with coal oil and
was fatally burned. .. .Arguments in the
lilroad-itijunction suit pending before the
Wisconsin Supreme Court c losed on the 11th,
and the case was taken under advisement. . . .
Memphis (Tcnn.) telegrams of the 11th give
the particulars of a war between
the white and colored people raging at
Austin, Miss. The town was reported
to be surrounded by negroes who had threat
ened to attack and destroy it. The whites
were hurrying to the rescue of the belea
guered town and the besieging force of blacks
was receiving constant reinforcements. The
cause of the trouble was the shooting of a
negro girl by one Dr. Smith. Dispatches
state that he was attacked by a negro,
when, drawing a pistol, he tired at him,
but missed,, and killed a little negro girl
who was standing near, which exasperated
the colored people to such an extent that
they col'cctcd a mob and took Smith to the
woods to hang him, but were dissuaded there
from by the entreaties of some white women.
On the night of the 10th an attack was made
on a Imm! v of negroes, which resulted in the
killing of ten and the wounding of as many
more.
Thcksday, Aug. 13. A Paris dispatch
says it lias been ascertained that the plan for
Bazaine's escape was arranged six weeks ago,
and that it was entirely the work of Madame
Bazaine. His place of refuge is unknown,
but is thought to be Spain. The French Gov
ernment has been urged to demand his ex
tradition.. . .The Madrid ImiHiixlal reports
that England, France and Germany have
formally recognized Spain. .. .Goldsmith
Maid has, at Rochester, X. Y., beat
en her previous unprecedented tunc
by three-quarters of a second, mal'ing her
mile in 2:14. Not a skip was made during
the entire heat. The other heats were trotted
Iii2:l!X and 2:10....A Memphis (Tcnn.)
midnight telegram of the 12th says that latest
reports from Austin, Miss., state that peace
has been restored. The .negroes entered the
town but did no damage.... The Pennsyl
vania State Prohibition Convention, in ses
sion at Jlarnsburg on the 12th, adopted
a platform favoriu the prohibition of
the liquor traffic. he following nomi
nations were made: Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Benjamin Rush; Judge of the Supreme
Court, Simeon B. Chase; Auditor General,
Calvin Parsons; Secretary of Internal Affairs,
W. P. Cutbcrtson. A State . Central Commit
tee was appointed, with James Black as
Chairman.... An Omaha (Neb.) dispatch says
that on the SHh a company of strolling In
dians camped near a remote farm-house in Col
fax County, Neb. Two squaws searched the
house for fMd and beat the farmer's wife over
the head for objecting. The man came home,
and, seeing his wife wounded; shot one of the
squaws. Ine otlier reported the . fact, and
twelve Indians came to the house, skinned
the farmer, and cut his hands off and heart
out in the presence of his wife The Wis
consin Supreme Court has adjourned for two
weeks, when it is expected the decision in the
railroad-injunction case will be rendered..
An Independent Mass Convention has been
held at Indianapolis, Ind., for the purpose of
filling vacancies on the State ticket.
A resolution was adopted to declare vacant
the places on the ticket filled by Ebenezer
Henderson, for Auditor, and James Mitchell
for Attorney-General, who had not accepted
the nominations tendered them, and who
were acting in harmony with one of the
other political parties of the State. Nomina
tions were then made to fill vacancies, as
follows: For Secretary of State, L.
Bowk-s; Auditor, D J. Prescott; Attorney
General, Wm. A. Pecle; Superintendent of
Public Instruction, Andrew II. Graham. A
resolution was passed adopting and reaffirm
ing the platfoim of June 10, and the Central
Committee was instructed to till the vacancies
in their own number, and to correspond with
indcrx-ndcut organizations in other States with
a view to the organization of a national party
....An Anti-Prohibitionist State Convention
was held at Detroit, Mich., on the 12th. A plat
form was adopted opjKsing prohibition us
wrong in principle, and declaring that it had
proved a practical failure, and advocating the
license system, and declaring that " we will
not vote at the olls for any candidate for the
Legislature who d(K-s not openly avow himself
in favor of a license law." A State Central
Committee of two from each Congressional
district was apismntcd, with power to
select an Executive Committee The
following Congressional nominations were
made on the 12th: Independent Re
form Eleventh Illinois District, J. P. Dim
mit; Thirteenth Illinois, A. E. Stephenson;
Fourteenth Illinois, J. II. Pickerell; Nine
teenth Illinois, W. B. Anderson. Republi
can First Vermont, C. H. Joyce; Second
Vermont, L. P. Poland, renominated; Fifth
New Jersey, W. W. Phelps; Second Florida,
W. J. Purman, renominated; Sixth Georgia,
J. N Blount, renominated; Seventh Ohio, T.
W. Gordon.
Saturday, Aug. 15. The Government
of Spain has conveyed to Germany its thanks
for having taken the initiative in the move
ment for recognizing the Spanish Republic.
Russia alone of the great powers has de
layed its recognition because such action
would tend to strengthen the cause
of republicanism in Europe. A Min
isterial decree embodying regulations
for the execution of the decree
for the abolition of slavery in Forto Rico has
been published ...Marshal Bazaine arrived
at Mavenee, from Balso, on the Sth and would
go to Brussels via Cologne. It is thought
France will make no demand for his extradi
tion.... Congressional nominations ou the
1:5th and 14th: Republican Ninth In
diana District, Thomas J. Cason, re
nominated; Ninth Ohio, J. M. Rob
inson, renominated; Eighteenth Illinois, Isaac
Clements, renominated; Nineteenth Ohio,
Jas. A. Gartield, renominated; First Alabama,
Jeremiah Haralson (colored). Demo
craticEighth Tennessee, J. D. C. At
kins, renominated; Tenth Indiana, Wm.
S. Hoymond; Ninth Tennessee, W. P.
Caldwell. .. .A Memphis dispatch of the
loth says the recent trouble in Austin, Miss.,
was a trilling affair. During the entire dis
turbance only one negro was killed, and no
white man was even wounded. Thu colored
men of Memphis held a mass-meeting on the
night of the lothuid passed resolutions dep
recating all violence and conflicts between
the races.
THE MARKETS.
August 14, 1871.
NEW YORK.
Cotton. Middling uplard, 17ifcJ.7c.
Lite Stock. Beef Cattle $l0.axri:).im. Hogs
Dressed, ft.3nft!MC!f. Sheep Live, $l.5Uyi.jo.
HitEAUsTt'FFs. Flour Good to choice, Sj.TO
6.10; w hite w heat extra. So. llXtib.tiO. Vt heat o.
2 Chicago, J;l.iJ(i(,l.vJ4' J ; Iowa spring, S1.34vj,l.s!6;
No.-JMilwaukcespring, $1.27S-1 . Kye West
ern and State, 'jocft si.oa. nancy w
Com Mixed Western afloat, Oats
New Western, 55f;oc.
Provisions. Pork New Mess, 2:5.2oii.50.
Lard 14'i&15c. Cheese 11 &14c.
Wool. Common to extra, 45ciic.
CHICAGO.
Live Stock. Beeves Choice, $5.K."iQ6.10;
good, 33.15.03; medium, $l.j0(i7.1.!i0; butch-
rs' stock, $:i.0tK.4.0H; slock cattle,
U.S5. Hogs Live, iijayj,.V. sueep uoou
to choice, $.ri(K(f-r.0t.
Provision. Butter Choice, 28V:;2c. Kggs
Fresh, llVil-C- Cheese New oik ractory,
15ai:5Vic; Western, UPj,VW. Pork New iless,
$'j.:J,-l.7o. Lard $1 1.20t.l l.2o.
BiiEAUSTurrs. Flour White winter extra.
$r).7.VfX,7.7j; spring extra, Sj.(K'-. j. heat
Spring, No. 2. $1.0:5.iS1.0b Corn No. 2, 03
H3Vc. Oats No. 2, :iSy,:5!c. iarley ro. 2,
$1.M(&1.0I. Rye No. 2, 73ff,72!4c.
Wool. Tub-washed, 4532c. ; fleece, washed,
40 14c.; fleece, unwashed, 31K&-WC.; pulled,
37:i!ic.
Lumber. First Clear, $50.01 KffcXl.OO; Second
Clear, $17.0tKt,J.5n; Common Boards, $10.X&
00; Fencing, $ 10.31 K&IS.OO; "A" Shingles,
$.1.25&:j.50; Lath, $2.232.375-i.
CINCINNATI.
BitEAnsTrrrs. Flour $5.105.3.Y Wheat
$1.05. Corn 64&tRic. ltye 82c. Oats HJ-IDc.
Barley fo
rnovisioNS. Tork $23.75(324. 00. Lard
13!i&15!ic.
ST. LOUIS.
Live Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $t.00
&.7.. 1 1 ogs ii ve, ?.). i rxes . '.
BnEAUsTUrrs. Flour XX Fall, $5.0&5.25.
Wheat No. S Red Fall, $1.18(1.17. Corn No.
i, M&l?.iC. Oats No. 2, 47&I711C. Kyc No. 2,
3Tr.77c. Barley-$1.05&1.10.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $il.752I OO. Lard
l:JJilPic.
MILWAUKEE.
BnEADsTl'Frs. Flour Spring XX, $5.70fff,r,.)0.
Wheat-Spring No. 1, $1.1 a 1.15; No. 2, $1.07fiJ
!.(. Corn No. 3, fi.Yfi.V,-ic. Oats No. 2, . 4:Sf6
lie. Kyc No. 1, 7!KWc. Barley No. 2, $1.01
1.0:$.
DETROIT.
BitEADsTi-rrs. Wheat Extra, $1.3"2,1.27.
Coin i'.Ko,70c. Oats 41(12c.
TOLEDO.
BnEAOsTt-rrs Wheat Amber Mich., $1.1:J'J
&l. ViM; No . 2 Red, $1.11V4Pi,1.13?. Corn
Mixed, tii',i&.i7c. Oats 12&l:Jc.
CLEVELAND.
BREAnsTurrs Wheat No. 1 Red. $1.17.1.11;
No. 2 Red, $1.111.12. Corn 7J&73C. Oats
42(&llc.
BUFFALO.
Live Stock. Beeves $5.00(77,6.05. Hogs
Live, $.35&7.SO. Sheep $1.005.25.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeves Best, $ti.0O(?..60; me
dium. $-.2.V(7,5.T3. Hogs Yorkers, $ti.0iyr9
6.50; Philadelphia, $7.tOR.7.65. Sheep Best,
5.0Uit5.50; medium, $1.00(i,4.75.
THE TILTOW-BEECHER SCANDAL.
Statements Hefore the Committee
Messrs. Moulton and Betchtr.
of
On the 13th the Investigating Commit
tee of Plymouth Church furnished for
publication the lull text ot r rancis l.
Moulton's statement before the commit
tee on the 10th. It is as follows:
Gentlemen or the Committee When I was
last before you I stated that I would, at vour re
quest, produce such dtK-uments as I had. and
make sncn statement oi iucis as naa come to mv
knowledge, on the subject of your inquiry. I
fully intended so to do. and have prepared my
statement of facts, as sustained bv the documents.
and made an exhibition of all papers that have
come, iu any way. into my possession, bearing
on the controversy between the parties. That
st.itenienl must, of course, bear with more or less
force upon one or the other of them. On mature
retlection. aided by the advice of my most valued
friends, I have reconsidered that determination.
and am obliged to say to you that I feel com
pelted, from a sense of duty to the parties, to my
relation to the controversyand to myself, neither
to make the statement nor to produce the documents.
When I first became a party to this nnhappy
controversy between Beecher and Tiltou 1 had
no personal knowledge, nor any document in my
poesion. which would anect either, fcverv
thiug that I know of fact, or have received of
papers, has come to me in the most sacred con
fidence, to be used for the purpose of composing
and settling all the difficulties between them, and
of preventing so far as possibla any knowledge
of their private affairs being brought to public
notice. For this purpose all their matters have
been intrnsied to me. and to none other. If I
should now use them.it would be not for the pur
pose oi peace ana reconciliation, rmt to volnuta
rily take part In a controversy which they have
sei'u lit to renew between themselves. How
faithfully, earnestly, and honestly I have labored
to do niy duty to the parties, for pc;ace. thev both
know. The question for me to settle for mvself.
and no other, is. now. Ought I to do
anything to aid either party in the renewed
controversy, by the use of that which I received
and have used'only to promote harmony? On mv
honor and conscience I think I ought not ; and.
at the ruk of whatever of misconstruction and
y uuperation may come upon me, I must auhere
to the dictate of my own judgment, and pre
serve at least my own self-respect. 1 call atten
tion atrmu to the lart tnal yours is a mere volun
tary tribunal, and that whatever I do lu re i done
bv a voluntary, and not compelled, witness.
Whether before anv tribunal liavinJe power to
compel the production of testimony and Ktate-
nient of fact l shall iter prixiuce mese papers.
or give any of these confidential statements, I
rcrerve to mvself to judge of the emergency,
which I hope may never come.
Again"t my wu-li, as 1 never have been in sym
pathy with a renewal of this conflict, a part of
these documents have been given to the public.
u so tar as connuence iu reirunt to them lias
ceased, it i but just, therrfore, and due to the
parties that the whole of those documents, por
tions of which only have been given, shall be
put into your hands. In response to the thrice
renewed refpiot of the committee, I have,
therefore, copies of them which I produce here
and place in the hands of the committee, with
the hope aim request that, alter they have been
examined by them, they may be returned to me.
if anv controversy shall arise as to the aiithen-
tU ity of the copies or of the documents, ou that
JMUill l puail uoiu iii,icii opeu in rn-un.
Willi this exception except iu defense of
honor and the iiprightnes of my course m
all this unfortunate and nnhappy husiuess, the
purity and candor of which 1 appeal to tne con-
i-cieiiees of Ixth parties to sustain. I do not pro
pose, and hope I may never be called npon here
after, to speak, either as to facts, or to produce
any paper that l nave received ironi eitner ot
luo parties involved herein.
FllANCIS D. MOCLTON..
During the cross-examination an at
tempt was made to induce Mr. Moulton
to modify the determination indicated
above, but without success. Copies of
the letters referred to were presented t
the committee and one of the members
was authorized to authenticate them by
comparison with the originals.
Mlt. BEECHEIi'S EXPLANATORY STATE
MENT.
On the 13th Mr. l'eecher appeared be
fore the committee and gave explicit,
comprehensive and solemn denial of the
charges made by Theodore Tilton against
him, and made a detailed explanatory
statement of the facts substantially given
below :
Mr. Beecher said that four years ago Theodore
Tilton fell from one of the most prominent posi
tions in America, and became the associate and
representative of Victoria Woodhull and her
cause. ISy his lolly ne iuii necome naiiKrupi in
reputation, occupation and resources. 1 he brier
outline of the interior history w hich would follow
was the history of his attempts to employ Mr.
needier to reinstate mm in business, restore nis
reputation and place him again upon the emi
nence from which he had fallen, lie could, in
the light of recent developments, see that Mr.
Tilton is and has been from the beginning of this
difficulty a selfish and reckless schemer, pursuing
a plan of mingled good and hatred, and weaving
about him a network of suspicions, misunder
standings, plots and lies to which his own inno
cent words and acts, and even his thoughts of
kindness, had been made to contribute.
That Mr. Beecher was blind so long to the real
motive of the intrigue going ou around him, he
said was due to the multiplicity of his public en
gagements and the complete surrender of the
afluir into the hands of Mr. Moulton. He was
only too glad to be relieved from considering the
details of the wretched complications, the origin
and fact of which remain, iu spite or all friendly
intervention, a perpetual burden to his soul. It
was plain to It i tit now that it was not until Tilton
had lu Ik-n into disgrace and lost his salary, that
he thought it necessary to assail him with charges
which he pretended io nave nau in iiiuiu lor six
mouths. The alleged domestic otlense was very
la-ilv and quicKiy put asiue in oiuer mai ne
might, through friends, he used to extract from
Mr. Boweu 7.000. -Mr. Tilton then signed an
agreement of peace and concord, w hich was ac
cepted by Mr. Beecher as sincere. He believed
that the modifications of that agreement insisted
upon by Mr. Tilton were really made to give him
an opportunity for future operations npon and
agninst him (Beecher).
So long as J lltou was, or thought he was, on
the road to success his conduct was friendly.
iut w hen, w ith a peculiar genius for blunders.
he fell into new complications and difficulties, it
became his policy to bring coercion to bear upon
Beecher" e honor, conscience and affections for
the purpose of extricating himself at his expense.
lie was not mum to iiuona lauiis, niu re
solved to look on him favorably and hopefully.
lie had been for years laboring earnestly and
desperately for his salvation, and had been try
ing to make him as great as ho conceived himself
to be. To return to prosperity and public confi
dence one who patronized disreputable people
and doctrines ; refused to separate himsell from
them, and ascribed to Beecher a agency the In
creasing ruin w hich ne was persisieuuy oriumng
upon himself it was hard to do anything lor
puch a man. lie might as well have tried to till
a sieve with water, lu the latter stage of their
historv Tilton incited and created dithculties ap
parently for uo other purpose than to drive him
to fresh exertions.
In regard to Mr. Moulton's connection
with the affair Mr. Beecher said:
Mr. Moulton came to me first as the schoolmate
and friend of Mr. Tilton. determined to reinstate
him, I always suspected, without regard to my
interests: but on further acquaintance witn me
he undertook and promised to serve his friend
w ithout doiii-i wrong to me. He said he saw
clearly how this was to be done so as to restore
u-ace and harmony to Mr. liltons home, and
irinir to a happy end all misunderstandings.
Many thinifs which he counseled I absolutely re-
iiiK-fV but T never doubted his professed friend
ship for me. after friendship had grown up be-
ivveeu us, ana w uaiever tie wisiieu me in u uiu,
unless it seemed to me wrong. My cojifldeuce in
It i in was the only element that seemed secure in
this confusion of tormeuting perplexities. Tohim
I wrote freely in this troublous time, while I felt
that secret machination were going on around
me, ami the echoes of the vilest slanders concern
ing me weie heard in unexpected quarters. When
some of my near relations were set against me,
and the tattle of a crowd of malicious women.
hostile to me on otlier grounds, was borne to my
ears; when I had lost the nisi remnant oi laun in
Theodore, or hope for him; when I heard with
unspeakable remorse that everything l nan uone
to stay his destruction had made matters worse
and worse, and that my attempt to keep him from
a public trial, involving such a now ot scandal as
has now been let loose, had been used iy mm io
bring up new troubles; that his unhappy wife
was. under his dictation, signing papers and re
cantations, and I know not what; that, in short.
everything was breaking up, and the destruction
irom which. 1 Had sought to save tne ituiuiy was
likely to be emptied on other families, the church,
the community, wit h infinite horrors of woe for
no ; that mv own innocence was buried under
heaps and heaps of rubbish, and nobody hut my
PIUILSfl II II K Ull II Ultll U . , ...
lis assurances that he could still do so I had at
least so much faith as to maintain, under these
terrible trials, the silence which he enjoined.
Not until Mr. Tilton, having attempted through
r rauk Carpenter to raise nionev from my lrienns.
openly assaulted me in the letter to Ur. Bacon,
did I break that silence, save by a simple denial
of slanderous rumors against me, a year before.
when, on the appearance of the first open attack
from Mr. Tilton, I immediately, without consult
ing Moulton. called for a thorough investigation,
with a committee of my church. I am not re
sponsible for the delay, the publicity or the de
tails of that investigation. All the harm w hich I
have so long dreaded, and have so earnestly
striven to avoid, has come to pas.. I could not
further prevent it without a full surrender of
honor and truth. The time has arrived when I
can freely speak in vindication of myself.
.Mr. JScecher continued ny stating mat ne la
bored under great disadvantages iu making his
statement. His memory of dales and details was
not as clear and tenacious as memory of states of
mind, and now. with the necessity of explaining
actions and letters resulting from complex influ
ences, apparent at the time he found himself in a
losiuoit w nere ne Knew ms innocence fiiiuiiub
n-iiii? able to prove it with detailed explanations.
He was one nrton whom trouble worked inward
ly, liiakingTiim outwardly silent but reverberating
in the chambers of his sonl; and when at length
he did speak, it w as like a pent-up flood and
pours without measure or moderation. He in
herited a tendency to hvnochondria. and in cer
tain mood 4 of reaction the world becomes black.
and he saw despairingly. If he should speak as
he felt he should give raise colors and exaggerat
ed proportions to every thing. Some of his let
lers to Monlton reflected this morbid feeling
With the above preliminary review, Mr. Beecher
proceeded with his narrative:
Mr. niton was nrst known to me as tne re
porter of mv sermon. When, about 18H1, Drs.
Bacon. Storrs and Thompson resigned their
places I became editor of the Indriifndriit, to
which I had been from its start a contributor
One of the inducements held out to me was that
Mr. Tilton should be ray assistant and relieve me
wholly from routine office work. In this relation
1 became very much attached to him.
Angust was mv vacation month, bnt my family
repaired to mv farm in June and Jnly and re
mained there during September and October. My
labors confining me to the citv. I took mv meals
in the families of friends, and from year to year I
became so familiar with their children and
houses that I went in and out daily almost as iu
mv own house. Mr. Tilton often alluded to this
habit atid urged me to do the same by his house
He would olten speak in extravagant
terms or his wile s esteem and aliec
tion for me. After I began to visit hi!
house, he sought to make it attractive, lie urged
me to bring my papers down there, and use the
study to do my writing in. as it was not pleasant
to write at the ollice of the Inilritftvlent. When
T . - - T - . 1 1 I 1.1. I . T ir! . . 1
x wfiiL io x.u'"iaim iu i c .tit. i uion iooi lem
Jiorary charge of the Independent. On my return,
paved the way for him to take sole charge of it,
mv name remaining for a year, and he then be
coming the responsible editor. Friendly relations
continued until 1SW, when the' violeiut assault
made npon me by Mr. Tilton in the 1 ndenendent
on account of my Cleveland letter, and the' tem
porary discontinuation of the publication of my
sermons 111 tnat paper. Droke on my connection
with it. Although Mr. Tilton and' I remained
personally on good terms, yet there was a cool
ness between ns on all matters of politics. Our
social relations were verv kindly. and
as late as 1S63-9. at his request, 1
sat to Paee some fiftr times for a nor
trait. It was here that I first met and talked
with Moulton. During this whole period I never
received lrorn .vr. liiton or anv member of his
family the slightest hint that there was any dis
satisfaction with my familiar relations to his
household. As late, I think, as the winter of
Pi!(, when going upon an extended lecturing
tour he said. " I wish you would look in often,
and see that Libby is not lonesome, or does not
want anything." or words to that effect. Never,
by sign or word, did Mr. Tilton complain of my
visits to his family, until he began to fear that the
Iudentfidtnt would be taken from him; nor did he
break out into violence until on the eve of dis
possession from both the papers the Independent
and the Brooklyn Vnum owned by Mr. ltowen.
Iliiring these years of intimacy iiiTilton's fam
ily. I was treated as a father or elder brother.
Children were born; children died; they learned
to love me aud to frolic with me as
if I was one of themselves. I loved them and
I had for Mrs. Tilton a true and honest regard.
Mie seemed to me an affectionate mother, a de
voted wile, looking up to her husband as one far
above the common race of men, and turning to
me with artless familiarity, aud w ith entire con
fidence. Childish in appearance, she w as child
like in nature, and I would as soon have miscon
ceived the confidence of the little girls as the un
studied alfectiou which she showed me. Delicate
in health, with self-cheerful air, she was bound
less in her sympathy for those in trouble, and
labored beyond her" strength for the poor. She
had the charge, at one time, of the married
women's class at the Bethel Mission School, and
thev perfectly worshiped her there. I gave Mrs.
Tilton copies of my books when published. I
sometimes sent dow n from the farm flowers to be
distributed among a dozen or more families; and
she occasionally shared. The only present of
value I ever gave her was on mv reluru from
Europe, in lHfsi, w hen I distributed souvenirs of
my journey to some fifty or more persons, and to
her 1 gave a simple briMich of little intrinsic value.
So far front supposing that my presence and in
fluence was alienating Mrs. Tilton from
her family relations. I thought. on the
contrary, that it was giving her strength and en
couraging her to hold fast upon a mau evidently
sliding into dangerous associations and liable to
be immersed by unusual self-conceit. I regarded
Mr. Tilton as in a very critical period of his life,
and used to think it fortunate that he had giwid
home influences about him. During the late
years of our friendship Mrs. Tilton spoTie very
mournfully to me about the tendency of her hus
band to great laxity of den-trine in religion and
morals. She gave me to understand that . he de
nied the divinity of Christ, the inspiration of the
Scriptures, and 'most of the articles of the ortho
dox faith; while his views as to the sanctity of
marriage relations were undergoing constant
change iu the direction of free love.
In the latter part ot July. 1ST0. Mrs. Tilton was
sick ; and at her request I "visited her. She seemed
much depressed, but gave me no hint of any
trouble having reference to me. I cheered her
the best I could, and prayed with her just be
fore leaving. This was "our last interview he
fore trouble broke out in the family. I describe
it because it was the last, and its "character has
a bearing npon a later part of my story. Con
cerning all my other visits it is sufficient to say
that at no interview which ever took place be
tween Mrs. Tilton and mysellfdid aiiythingocrur
which might not have occurred with perfect pro
priety between a brother aud sister between a
father aud child between a man of honor and
the wife of his dearest friend. Nor did anything
ever happen which she or I sought to conceal
from her husband.
- Some years before anv open trouble between
Mr. Tilton and myself, his doctrines, as set forth
in the leaders of the Indjtendeiit, aroused a
storm of indignation among representative Con
gregatioiialists in the West, aud, as the paper
was still very largely supposed to be my organ. I
was written "to on the subject. In reply 1 indig
nantly disclaimed all responsibility for the view s
expressed by Tilton. This led to'the starting of
the Adrnnce in Chicago, to supersede the Inde-
pendent iu the Northwest ; and Mr. Bowen was
made to leel that 11 Hon s management was seri
ously injuring the business; and, Tilton may have
felt 'that his position was being undermined
by opponents of his views, with whom
he subsequently pretended to believe I
wfrs iu league. ' ague intimations of his feeling
hard toward me I ascribed to this misconception.
I had really takeu no step to harm him. After
Mrs. ri utoii s return from tne vv est. in iiecemner,
1870, a young girl whom Mrs. Tilton had takeu
into the family, educated and treated like an own
child her testimony. I understand, is before the
committee w as sent to ine w ith an urgent reqnest
that 1 would visit Mrs. liltou at her mothers.
She said that Mrs. Tilton had left her home and
gone to her mother's, in consequence of ill-treatment
of her husband. She then gave an account
of what she had seen of cruelty and abuse on the
part of her husband that shocked ine, and vet
more when, with downcast look, she said that
Mr. Tilton had visited Iter chamber in the night
and sought her consent to his w ishes. I immedi
ately visited Mrs. Tilton, at her mother s. and
scceived an account of her home-life, and of the
despotism of her husband, and of the management
of a woman whom he had made housekeeper,
which seems like a nightmare dream. The
question was whether she should go back or
separate forever from her husband. I
asked permission to nring mv wne to
see them, whose judgment in all domestic rela
tions I thought better than my own, and accord
ingly a second visit was made. The result of the
interview was that my wife was extremely indig
nant toward Mr. liiton, and declared that uo
consideration on earth would induce her to remain
an hour with a man who had treated her with an
hundreth part of such insult aud cruelty. I felt
as strongly as she did. but hesitated, as I always
do, at giving advice in favor of a separation. It
was agreed that my wile should give ner mini
advice at another visit. The next day, when
ready to go, nhe wished a final word; but there
was "company, and the children were present ; and
sol wrote on a scrap of paper: " I incline to
think that your view is right, and that a separa
tion and a settlement of support will be wisest,
iiiid that, in his nresent desperate state, her pres
ence near him is far more likely to produce hatred
than her absence.
Mrs. Tiltou did not tell me that my presence
had anything to do with this trouble, nor did she
let me know that in the July previous he had ex
torted from her a confession of excessive affec
tion for me.
Ou the evening of Dec. 27, 1371, Mr. Bowen. on
his war home, called at my house aud handed
me a letter from Mr. 1 llton. It was. as nearly as
1 can remember, in the following terms:
"Henry Warii Beecher For reasons which
vou explicitly know, and which I forbear to state.
1 demand tlnit you withdraw from the pulpit and
quit Brooklyn as a residence.
"IIIEOIIOKE 1 ILTON.
I read it over twice, and turned to Bowen and
said: "This man is crazy. This is sheer in
sanity," and other like words. Mr. Bowen pro
fessed to he ignorant of its contents, and I
handed him the letter to read. e at once fell
into a conversation about Tilton. He gave me
some account of the reaswns why he had reduced
him from the editorship of the Independent to a
subordinate position of contributor, viz.: that
Mr. 1 iltou s religious and social views
were ruining the paper; but he said
that, as soon as it was know n that he had so far
broken with Tilton, there came pouring in upon
him so many stories of Tilton s private life and
habits that he was overw helmed, and that he was
now considering whether he could consistently
retain him on the Brooklyn I'nion or as chief
contributor to the Independent. He narrated the
story of the affair at Winsted. Conn., sonic like
stories from the Northwest, and charges brought
against Tilton in his own office. Without doubt he
believed these allegations, and so did 1. 1 he other
facts, previously stated to me, seemed a full cor
roboration. We conversed for some time. Mr.
Bowen w ishing my opinion, it was frankly given.
I did not see how he could maintain former rela
tions w ith Mr. Tilton. The substance of the full
conversation was that Tilton's inordinate vanity,
his fatal faculty for blundering for which he had a
genius and ostentatious independence in his own
opinions, and general lmpraciicanieuess, wouio
keep the Union at disagreement with the politi
cal party for whose services . it was published;
nu now, added to an ine reveiaiions oi utese
promiscuous immoralities, would make his con
nection witn enner paper laiai to us interests, i
spoke strongly and emphatically, under the great
provocation of his threatening letter to me and
the revelation I had just had concerning his do
mestic affairs. Mr. Bowen derided the letter of
Tiltons which he had brought to me, and said
earnestly that if trouble came of it I might rely
on hi friendship. I learned afterward, in the
lu rt her quarrel ending in 1 ilton's peremptory ex
pulsion from Bow-en's service, that this conversa
tion was told to Mr. Tilton. I believe that Bowen
had an interview and received some further infor
mation about Mr. Tiltou from my wife, to whom
I had referred him.
Although I have no doubt that Mr.'Vilton
would have lost his place at any rate. I have also
no doubt that my influence was decisive, and
precipitated his final overthrow. v hen I came
to think it all over I felt very unhappy at the
contemplation of .Mr. liiton s impending disas
ter. I bad loved him much, and at one time he
seemed .:ke a son to me.
It now appears that on the 2flth of December,
1ST0. Mr. Tilton. having learned that I had re
plied to his threatening letter bv expressing such
an opinion as to set Mr. Bowen finally against
him, and bring him face to face with immediate
ruin, extorted from his wife, then suffering from
severe illnesn, a document incriminating me.
and prepared an elaborate attack upon me. On
Tuesday evening, December. 1S70. about 7 o'clock
Francis D. Moulton called at my house, and with
intense earnestness said : " I wish you to
go with me to see Mr. Tilton." I re
plied that I conld not then, a 1 was
just going to mv pravcr-meeting. With most
positive manner he said: " Yon must go. Some
body will take care of the meeting." I
went wilh him. not knowing what trouble had
agitated him, but vaguely thinking that I might
now learn the solution of the recent threatening
letter. On the wav I asked what was the rea
son of this visit : to which he replied that Mr.
Tilton would inform me. or words to that effect.
On entering the house Mr. Moulton locked the
door, saying something about not beiug inter
rupted. He reonested me to go into the front
chamber, over the parlor. I was under the im
pression that Mr. Tilton was going to pour ont
upon me hi auger for colleaguingVith Bowen,
and for the advice of separation given to his wire
I wished Mr. Monlton to be w ith me as a wit
ness, but he insisted that I should go by myself.
Mr. Tilton received me coldly but calmly. After
a word or two. standing in front of me w ith a
memorandum in his hand, he began an oration.
He said in an unfriendly spirit that I had
sought his downfall; had spread injurious
rumors about him; was using my place
and influence to undermine him; had
advised Mr. Bowen - to dismiss him
and mnch more that I cannot remember. He
then declared that I had injured him in his family
relations: had joined with his mother-in-law in
producing discord in his house; had advised a
separation; had alienated nis wne s anecnons
from him; had led her to love me more than any
other being; had corrupted her moral natnre and
taught her to be insincere, lying and h;. pocritical :
l naa nude wicked
reached this I had
I taught her to be insincere, ly
j and ended bv charging that
1 proposals to ber. Vutil he
listened with some contempt, under the impres
sion that he was attempting Io bully me. But
w ith the last charge he produced a paper purport
ing to be a certified statement of a previous con
fession made tohim by his wife of her love for
me. and that I had made proposals to her of an
improper nature.
He said that this confession had been made t
him in July, six mouths previous; that his sense
of honor and affection would not permit any such
document to remain in existence; that
he had burned the original, and should now
destroy the only copy; and he then tore the
paper Into small pieces." If I had been shiK-ked
at such a statement, I was absolutely thunder
struck when he closed the interview by request
ing me to repair at once to his house," w here, he
said, Elizabeth was waiting for me. and learn
from her lips the truth of his tories, in so far
they concerned her. This fell like a thunderbolt
ou ine. Could it be possible that his wife, whom
1 regarded as the tv-ie of moral goodness, should
have made such false and atrocious statements?
And yet, if she had not, how would he dare to
send me to her for confirmation of hi charges?
I went forth like a sleep-walker. I believe that
Moulton went with me to the door of Tilton's
house. The hoiisekecH-r the same woman of
whom Mrs. Tilton had complained seemed to
hare been instructed by him; for she evidently
expected me, aud showed me at once to Mrs.
Tilton's room.
Mrs. Tilton lay upon her bed. white as marble,
with closed eye's, as in a trance, and w ith her
hands upon her bosom, palm to palm, likeoucin
prayer. As I look back upon it, the picture is
like some forms carved in marble that I had seen
upon monuments in Europe. She made no
motion, and gave no sign of recognition of mv
presence. 1 sat down near her and said:
Elizabeth. Theodore has been making very se
rious charges against me, and sends me to
vou for confirmation." She made no re
ply or sign, vet it was plain that she
was conscious and listening. I repeated some of
his statements, that I had brought discord to the
family; had alienated her from him; had
sought to break up the family and nsurped his
influence; and then, a well as I could, 1 added
that he said that I made improper suggestions
to her, and that she had admittedthis fact to him
last July. I said: "Elizabeth, have you
made such statements to him?" She made no
answer. I repeated thequestion. Tears ran down
her cheeks, and she verv slightly bowed her head
in acquiescence. I said: " Vou cannot meau that
you have stated all he ha charged?"
She opened her eyes and began in a slow and
feeble wav to explain how sick she had been; how
wearied out wilh importunity; that he had con
fessed his own alien loves, and said that he could
not bear to think that she w as better than he;
that she might win him to reformation if she
would confess that she had loved me more than
him. and that thev would repent and go on with
future concord. I cannot give her language; but
only the tenor of her representations. I re
ceived them impatiently. I spoke to her in
strongest language of her course. I said to her,
"Have I ever used any improper advances to
vou?" She said "No." Then I asked, "Why
'did von sav so to your husband?" She seemed
deeply distressed. " My friend (by that designa
tion she almost always called me). I am sorry,
but I could not help it. What can I do?"' I told
her she could state iu w riting what she now told
me. She beckoned for her writing materials,
w hich I handed her from her secretary standing
near bv, and she sat up iu bed and wrote a brief
counfc'r-statcmeiit. In a sort of postscript she
denied explicitly that I had ever offered any im
proper solicitation to her. that being the only
charge made against me by Mr. Tilton or sus
tained bv the statement about the confession
w hich he had read to me. I dreamed of no worse
charge at that time that was horrible enough.
The mere thought that he could make it, and
could have extorted anv evidence on which to
base it, was enough to" take away my senses.
Neither mv consciousness of its utter falsehood
nor Mrs. Tilton's retraction of her part in it
could remove the shock from my In-art. Indeed,
her admission to me that she had stated, under
any circumstances, to her husband so wicked a
falsehood, was the crow ning blow of all. It seem
ed to me as if she was going to die, that her mind
was overthrown, and that 1 was in some dreadful
wav mixed up in it. and might be left, by her
death, with this terrible accusation hanging over
me. I turned like one in a dream to Mr. Moul
ton's house, where I said very little and soon
went home.
it has been said that 1 confessed guilt and em
pressed remorse. This is utterly false. Is it
likely that, with Mrs. Tilton's retraction in my
pocket. 1 should have thus stultified myself?
On the next day, at evening, Mr. Moulton
called at mv house and came up into my bed
room. He said that Mrs. Tilton, on her hus
band's return to her after our interview, had in
formed him what she had done, and that I had
her retraction. Monlton expostulated with me.
He said that retraction, under the circumstances,
would not mend matters, but only awaken afresh
discord between husband and wife, and do great
injury to Mrs. Tilton. without helping me. Mrs.
Tilton, he said, had already recanted in writing
the retraction made to me, and of course there
might be uo end to such contradictions. Meau
while Tilton had destroyed his w ife's first letter
acknowledging the confession, and Mr.
Moulton claimed that I had taken a mean
advantage and made dishonorable use
of Theodore's request thai 1 should
visit her, obtaining from her a written contradic
tion to n document not iu existence. He said
that all the difficulties could be settled without
any such paper, and that I ought to give it up.
He was under great excitement. He made no
verbal threats, but he opened his overcoat and,
with some empalic remarks, showeil a pistol,
which afterward he took ont and laid on the
bureau near w hich he stood. I gave the paper to
him. and. after a few moments' talk, he left.
Within a day or two after this Mr. Moulton
made the third visit, and this time we repaired to
mv sttidv, iu the third story of my hon.-c.
Before speaking of this interview it i right
that 1 should allude to the suffering through
which I had gone during the previous day. the
cause of w hich was the strange change in Mrs.
Tilton. Nothing had seemed to me more certaiu
ditringall mv acquaintance wilh her than that she
was singularly simple, truthful and honorable.
Deceit seemed absolutely foreign to her nature;
and vet she hud stated to her husband those
strange and awful falsehoods. She had not, w hen
daily I called and prayed with her, given me the
slightest hint 1 w ill "not say of such accusations,
but even that there was any serious family
difficulty. She had suddenly, in December,
called "me and my wife to a consultation
looking to a possible separation from
her husband, still leaving me ignorant that
she had put into his bauds such a weapon against
me. I was bewildered witn a tiounie conscious
ness of a saintly woman communicating a very
needless treachery to her friend and pastor. My
distress was boundless. I did not for a moment
feel, however, that she was blameworthy, as
would ordinarily be thought, but supposed that
she had been overborne by weakness and shat
tered in mind until she scarcely knew what she
did, ami was no longer responsible for her acts.
Mv soul went out to her in pity. 1 hlamcrt my
self for want of prudence and foresight, for I
thought that all this had been the result of her
undue affection for me. I had a pro
found feeling that I would bear any blame
ami take any punishment if that poor child
could only emerge from this cloud and be
put back into the happiness rrom which 1 had
been, as 1 thought, if not the cause, the occasion
of withdrawing her. If my own daughter had
been in a similar case my grief at her calamity
could scarcely have been greater. Moreover, from
the anger and fury of Mr. Tilton, I apprehended
that this charge was made by him, and. supported
bv the accusation of his wife, was to be at once
published and pressed against me; and ir it was,
I had nothing but hit simple word of denial to
interpose against it. In my then morbid condition
of mind I thought that this charge, although en
tirely untrue, might result in great disaster, u not
in absolute ruin. The great interests w hich were
entirely dependent on me, the church which I
had built up. the imhk wiucn i was wrning, my
ow n immediate family, my brother's name now
engaged in the ministry my sister's the name
of w hich I hoped might live after me and be in
some slight degree a source oi strengin and en
couragement to those w ho should succeed me
and above all, the cause for w Inch I had devoted
mv life, seemed imperiled. It seemed to me that
my life's work was to end abruptly.
Mr. Moulton was apparently affected by my
soliloquy, for it was that rather than a conver
sation. "He said that if Tilton could really be
persuaded of the friendliness of my feeling to
ward him, he was sure that there would be no
trouble in procuring a reconciliation. I gave
him leave to state to Theodore my feelings. He
proposed that I should write a letter. I de
clined, bnt said that he could report our inter
view. He then prepared to make a memoran
dum of the talk, and sat down at mv table and
took down, as I supposed, a condensed report of
mv taik; lor i went on sun pouring out. my
wounded feclincs over the gTeat desolation in
Tiltou" family. It was not a dictation of sen
tence after sentence, he a mere amanuensis, and
I composing for him. Mr. Moulton was putting
into his ow n shape parts or that which 1 w as say
ing iu my own manner, w ith profuse explana
tions. This paper of Moulton's was a mere memoran
dnm of points to be nsed by him in setting forth
mv feelings. That it contains matter and points
derived from me is without doubt; bnt they were
put into sentences by him and expressed as he
understood them not as mv words, but a hints
of mv figure aud letters to be nsed bv him in
conversing wilh Tilton. He did not read the let
ter to me. nor did I read it: nor have I ever seen
it or heard it read, that 1 remember, until the
publii ation of Tilton's recent documents; and
now reading iu I see in it thoughts that point to
the matter of my discourse, but it is not my paper,
nor are those mr sentences, nor is it a correct re
port of what I said. It is a mere string of hints.
hastily made bv an unpraci iced writer, as helps
to his memory, in representing to Tilton how I
felt toward his family. II more than tins D
claimed if it be set forth as in any proper seDse
mv letter I then disown it and denounce it.
Some of its sentences, and particularly that in
which I am made to say that I had obtained Mrs
Tilton's forgiveness, I never could have said, even
in substauce. I had not obtained or asked any
forgiveness from her. and nobody pre
tended that I had done so. Neither could
I ever have said that I humbled my
self before Tilton as before Ood, except
in the sense that boih to God and to the man
I thought I had deenlr tninred I humbled my
self, as I certainly did. But it is useless to
anal ve a tinner nrenared as this was. The re
mainder of mv nlain statement concerning it
will hi; its best comment. This document was
written upon separate half-sheets of large letter
paper. After it was finished Moulton asked me
if 1 would sign it. I said no, it was not my
letter. He renlied that it would have more
weight if I would in some way indicate that he
was aatnonzca to expiaiu my Kunmtuir.
took mr nen. and at some distance below the
writinz. and uooa the lower margin, I indicated
that I had committed the document in trust to
Monlton, and I signed the line thus written by
me.
A few word as to It further fate. Mr. Monlton.
of his own accord, said that alter using it he
would In-two or three days tiring the memoran
dum back to me, ami he cautioned me about dis
closing in anv way that there was a difficulty be
tween Mr. Tilton and me, as it would he injurious
to Tiltou to have it known that I had quarreled
with him, a well as to me to have rumors set
afloat. I did not trouble mvself about it until
more than a year afterward. Wtien Tilton began
to write up his case and was looking up docu
ments. I wondered what was ill the old memoran
dum, and desired to see it for greater certainty. So
one day 1 suddenly asked Moulton for that mem
orandum, and said, "You promised to return it
Io me." He seemed confused for a moment, and
said. " Did 1?" "Certainly," I answered. He
replied that the paper had been destroyed. On
my putting me question again, he said that the
paper was burned up long ago; and during the
next two years, in various conversations, of his
own accord, he spoke fif it as destroyed. I had
never asked for nor authorized the destruction of
this paper; but 1 was not allowed to know that
the diM-iiment was iu existence until a distin
guished editor ill New York, uiiliin a few weeks
past, assured me that Mr. Moulton had shown
dim the original, and that he had examined my
signature to be sure of its genuineness. I knew
that there was a copy of it since this statement
was in preparation. While I reject this memo
randum as my work, or mi accurate condensation
of my statement, it dts-s undoubtedly correctly
represent that 1 wa in profound sorrow, and
that 1 blamed mvself with great severity for the
disasters of the Tilton family.
I had not then the light that I now have.
There was much then that weighed heavily upon
my heart and conscience which now only weighs
fill my heart. An agonized family, whose inmales
bad been my friend, greatly beloved ; the hus
band ruined in worldly prospects; the household
crumbling to pieces; the woman, by long sick
ness and suffering either corrupted to deceit, a
her husband alleges, or so broken in mind a to
be irresponsible, and either way it was her enthu
siasm for her pastor, as I was made to believe,
that was the germ and beginning of her trouble.
It was for me to have forestalled and prevented
the mischief. My age and experience iu the
world should have put me on my guard. I could
not at that time tell what was True anil w hat was
not true of nil the considerations urged upon me
by Tilton and Moulton. There was a gulf before
ine in which lav those who had been warm
friends; and they alleged that 1 had helped to
irtn therein, mat seemed ijiough to
till mv soul wilh sorrow and anguish.
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Soon after this I met Mr. Tilton at Moulton a
house. Either Monlton was sick or was very late
in rising, for he was In bed. The subject of my
feelings and conduct toward Tiltou was intro
duced. 1 made a statement of the motives under
which I hail acted iu counseling ltowen; of my
feelings toward Tilton's family, distOainiiug with
horror the thought of wrong", and expressing a
desire to do whatever lay iu human power to
remedy any evil 1 had occasioned, and to reunite
hi family.
Tiltou "was sil nt and sullen. He plaved the
part of an injured man; but Moulton said to Til
ton, with intense earnestness: "That is all that
a gentleman can say, and you ought to accept it
as an honorable basis of reconciliation." This
he repeated two or three times, and Tilton's
countenance cheered under Moulton strong
talk. We shook hands ami parted iu a
friendly way. Not very long afterward
Tilton asked" me to his house, and said that
he should be glad Io have the good old times re
newed. I do not remember whether I ever took a
meal after that under his roof: but 1 certainly
wa invited by him to renew my visits as former
ly. I never resumed my intimacy with the fami
ly; but once fir twice t went there soon after my
reconciliation w ith Tiltou. and at hi request. I
particularly remember a scene which took place
at hi house when he talked about his wife anil
me in a very gracious mood. He began by mourn
ing his sorrow s. He was very desolate ; the fu
ture seemed quite dark. After impressing n
with hisgiaat pa-ieiice, he grew generous; praised
me to hi wile, saving that I had taken upon
mvself all the blame of past troubles, and
hiid honorably exculpated her, telling me
that his wife, likewise, had behaved
very magnanimously; had blamed herself,
and declared that I wa blameless; and he closed
his homily with increasing hope and cheer, say
ing that, deep as was hi misery, he did not know
but it would work out iu future a more cheerful
life than he had before. I restrained my smiles
at the absurdity of the thing, well content to
have it evaporaie so, and even thinking he was
generous in hi way. This seemed to me the end
of trouble. I supposed Tilton had given up the
idea of intentional wrong fin my part, and for
given my unintentional wrong. I plainly under
stand now, w hat I did not then snspoct, that my
trouble -of mind was lo he kept alive and nour
ished so that I might be used to act on my friend
in securing from Bowen the money which Tilton
claimed to be flue a compensation for his expul
sion from the two newspapers.
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Moulton lost no occasion of presenting to me
the kindest view of Tilton s character, and, on
the other hand, he complained that Mrs. Tilton
did not trust her husband or him. and did not
assist him in his effort to help Theodore. I knew
that she distrusted Moulton. ami felt bitterly
hurt by the treatment of her husband. 1 was
urged to use my influence with her to inspire con
fidence iu Moulton, and to lead her to take a
kinder view of Theodore. Accordingly, at the
instance of Mr. Moulton. three letters were writ
ten on the same day (Feb. 7. 171 . on one com
mon purpose, to be shown If) Mrs. Tilton. and to
reconcile her to her husband ; and my letter to
her of that date was designed to effect the fur
ther fir collateral purpose of giv ing her confi
dence in Mr. Moulton. This will be obvious
from the reading of the letters.
In my letter to Mrs. Tilton I alluded to the f ad
that I did not expect, w hen I saw her last, to be
alive many days. That statement stands con
nected with a series of symptom which 1 first
experienced in lH.Vi. I went through tin; I-re-
mont campaign, speaking in the open air mree
hour at a lime, three day iu a week. On renew
ing my literary labors I felt that I must have
given wav. I very seriously thought that I was
going to have apoplexy or paralysis, or somet hiitg
of that kind. On two fir three' occasions, while
trenching. I should have fallen in the pulpit if I
iad not held ou to the table. Verv often I came
near falling in the streets. During the last fifteen
years I have gone into the pulpit, I suppose, a
limiilred time with a verv strong im
pression that I should never come out oi
it alive. I have preached more sermons than any
human being would believe when I felt all the
while that, whatever 1 had lo say to my people. I
must sav it then, or I would never have another
chance to use it. If I had consulted a physi
cian his first advice would have been. " i oil
must stop work; but 1 was in such a situation
that I could not even stop work.
In 1Htt I came again into the same condition.
just before going lo England; and it was one of
inose rcnsfni w tiv i was w isiini m n. iiitio
was at its height. I carried my country in my
heart. 1 had the Independent ill charge, and
wa working, preaching and lecturing con
tinually. 1 knew I was likely to be prostrated
again. In December. 1X7I. the sudden shock
of these tumbles brought on again these
symptoms iu a more violent lorm. l
was very much- depressed in mind, and
all the more because it wa one of those things
that 1 could not sav anything about. I was silent
with everybody. During the last four year these
symptoms had been repeatedly brought fin ny my
iiitense work, carried forward on the underlying
base of so much sorrow and trouble. My friends
will bear willies that. 111 lilt! pulpit. 1 have very
frequently alluded to mv expectation of sudden
death. 1 feel that I have more than once already
Ih-cii near a stroke that would have killed or par
alyzed me; and I carry the thought with me now.
as"l have so often carried it in years before. This
trouble began lo assume the daily thought of
death a a floor w hich might open for ine at any
moment out of all cares and labors into welcome
rest.
My earnest desire to avoid a public accusation
and 'the evil which must necessarily flow from it.
and which now- have resulted from it. has been
one of the leading motive that must explain my
action during these four years wilh reference lo
this matter. . ,
It was in snch a sore and distressing condition
that Moulton found me. His manner was kind
and sincere. He seemed, how ever, to be con
vinced that I had been seeknig 1 llton a (low mail ;
that 1 had leagued with Mr. itowi-n airainst him.
aud bv advice came near destroying his family. 1
did not need anv argument or persuasion to in
duce me to do and say anything which would
remedy the iniurr of which I theu believed
I had certainly been the occasion. if
not the actual canse; but Moulton
urged that I had wronged Tilton so the
wroniT meant hi means of support suddenly
taken awav, his reputation, his family destroyed,
and that l"had done it. He assured nteof his own
knowledge that the stories which I had heard of
Tilton's impurities of lite, and which I had be
lieved and repeated to Mr. Bowen, were all falsi;.
and that Ti ton had been taitniui to in wne. i
was persuaded into the belief of what he said,
and felt convicted of slander in its meanest form.
He drew the nictnre of! llton. wronged in reptita
tion, position, purse, shattered in hi family.
where he would otherwise have found a refuge
aud at the same time looking upon me. out ot his
rieeii distress, w hile I was abounding in friends.
most popular, and w ith ample means. He drew that
piCllire; mv JiniSn:illT. uviininiir nriu mu.mhi-.-
iiiit. and Tilton's utter" degradation. I wn most
intensely excited. Indeed. I felt that my mind
was i n danger of giving aw ay. I walked up and
down the room, pouting forth my heart in tin
imsst unrestrained grief and bitterness of self
acc.'isatiou. telling what mv idea were of the
obligation of friendship, aud of the sacrcchicss
of household, denying, however, an intentional
wrong. Seeing that if I had been the cause, how
ever rcmotelv. of that which I then beheld. I
never could for-'ive mvself. and hcauiug all tht
hlniiui on mv head, the case as it then appeared
to mv eves was strongly against me. My old friend
and fellow-worker had been dispossessed of his
eminent place and influence, and I had
ronnselrd It: his family had well nigh been
broken no. and I had advised it; his wife had
been long sick and broken in health and
body, and I. as I fully believed, had been the
cause of all this wreck bv continuing that blind
heedlessness and friendship which had beguiled
her heart and had roused her husband into a fury of
ealotisv. althongh not caused bv any Intentional
act of "mine: aud should I coldly defend myself?
Should I hold her up to contempt, as having
thrust her affections upon me, unsonght ? Should
I tread upon the man and his household, in their
great adversity : i gave vent io my ieenngs w nn
out measure. "I disclaimed, w ith great earnest
ness, anv intent to harm Theodore iu bis home
or his business, and. with inexplicable sorrow. I
both blamed aud defended Mis. TiUou iu one
breath.
In 3Iay, 1871, Mrs. Woodhull advertised a forth
coming article, shadowing an account of the dis
turbance in Mr. Tilton family, bnt without
using names. It w delayed, ostensibly by Mr.
Tilton Inffiience with Mrs. Woodhull. until No
veniber, 1S.-J. During this usM-iision of birr pub
lication she became the heroine ff Mr. MoiiMoti
and Mr. Tilton. Shews made welcome to both
houses, with the toleration but not the cordial
consent of their wive. 1 heard the most cxtruv
agant eulogies umii her. She w as represented as
a genius, born and reared among rude Influence,
but only needed to be surrounded by refilled
society to show a noble and commanding
nature. I did not know much alsmt her. and,
'hough mv impression were unfavorable, her
real character was not then reallv known to the
world. 1 met her three lime. At Hie first inter
view she was gracious; at the second she wa
cold and hatigltlv. but at the third she wa angry
ami threatened, for I had peremptorily rcrncd lo
preside at the lecture she wa about to give a I.
Sleinwav Hall. The most strenuous efforts had
been made by both Tilton and Moulton to induce
me lo preside at this lecture and to identify my
self publicly w ith M r. Woodhull. It wa repre
sented to mc that I need not. In so fining, ex
presslv give assent to her doctrine, especially
with "regard to Hie marriage relation, upon
which point she wa beginning to bu
more explicit in opposition to the views
which I. in common with all Christian
men. entertained: but it wa plau-iblv urged Hint
I could preside at Hie lecture aud introduce ln-r
upon i he simple ground of advocating free speech
and libert v of debate; but. a i understood that
she wa about lo avow doctrine w hich I abhor,
1 would not be induced by this plausible argn-mi-lit
lo give her public countenance, and, after
continuing to urge me up to the very day of the
me. ling, without any distinct threat but with the
ohvioiiM intimation that mv personal safety would
be heller secured bv taking this advice. Mr. Til
tou himscir went over to New Yolk and presided
at Ihe meeting, w here Mr. WihmIIiiiII gave vent,
as I understand, for the first time in public, to a
full exposition of her Iree-love doi trine.
Wheu Theodore, by lecturing or ot herw ise, w as
prosperous, lie w a verv iK-nial and affect ionalo
tome. Whenever he met with rebuff and wiilu
pecuniary trouble be scowled threateningly upon
me as the author of hi trouble-; and Moulton
himself seemed at time to accuse me of Indiffer
ence to Tiltou' misfortunes. It was til Ihe
miilst of complication like these, may be, that a
part of these cvciil happened. Shortly afterward,
in a thoroughly worried and depressive mood,
discouraged by the apparent helplessness of ex
tricating Tillo'n from his difficult tes, or of saving
hi family from the blight which bo baa
since In-iened upon it with , .even more
destructive effect upon it member Ihnii
I then feared. 1 wrote a letter lo
Moulton. of w hich Tilton ha given extract even
more wickedly garbled than hi othcrqiiolatioii ;
for he has represented two extract from hi Id
ler a constituting point of two separate letter
and has artfully given Ihe impression that they
were written in or after June. s',:l, w Iterea I his
letter wa fluted Feb. 5. lHT'i. lie furl her say
that this letter wa written lor the purpose of
being show n to him. I had no idea of such a
thing being done, a the letter show plainly
enough ou it face, and did not ant hoi t.e any
such ue of that letter, which wa supposed by
me to be written aud received in the most sacred
confidence. I am now informed an inspect ion of
Ihe original would doubtless reliesli my memory
concerning the circumstances, but this Mr. Monl
ton denies to me.
Shortly after the foregoing letter wa written
Mr. Tilton returned to the city thoroughly dis
couraged with the result of hi lecturing lour.
The (.olden Aye, which had then been estab
lished for about twelve month, had not suc
ceeded, and was nude 1-sIimkI lo be losing money.
His pecuniary obligations were pressing, and al
though hist (aim against ltowen for violating hi
two contract had a year previously I u put un
der the exclusive control of Moulton. with a view
of settlement, it bad not as yet been effected.
About this time Mr. Moulton. w ho was sick, sent
for me and showeil me a galley proof of the at it
tie prepared by Mr. Tiltou for the Hidden A'e,
and which has since I n published in the
i'rooklvu paper, in which he embodied
a copy of a letter written bv him
to Mr". Boweu, dated Jan. 1, 1S71. in
which be charged Bowen with making scandal
ous accusations against my moral character.
This wa the first time that I had ever
seen these charge, and 1 had never heard of
them except by mere rumor, Mr. Bowen never
having at any time said a word lo lite on the
subject. I wa amazed at the proposed publi
cation. I did not then unite rslainl the
real object of giving circulation to such slan
der. My firm impression wa that Mr.
Tilton designed, under cover of an attack upon
me, in the name of another, to open the way for
tin-publication of hi own pretended personal
grievances. I protested against the publication
in the strongest terms, but was Informed that
it wa not intended as a hostile act to my
self, but to Mr. Boweu. I did not the less in
sist upon mv- protest against this publication.
On its being shown to Mr. Bowen I said I
would think it over, audpeiliap write some
thing. This wa Friday or Saturday. The cove
nant appeared on Friday morning, and the alarm
was sounded on me iuiuicdialiiv thai Theodore
would do something ilreadliil if not restrained.
On Sunday I had made up mv mind lo w rite to
Mr. Moulton the Idler, eat bled extract of w lib h
are given in Mr. Tilton's statement.
After detailing Ids i-UVirts to prevent
Ihe scandal being made public Mr.
IJec-cht-r continued:
I was so determined to r arry out my pledges lu
Moulton for him. and do all In human power lo
save him even from himself, that I was ready to
resign, if that would stop the scandal. I wrote n
letter of resignation, not referring to the charge
against mc but declaring that 1 had striven for
year to maintain secrecy c oiiccruiiig a seundiil
affecting a family ill the church : and thai, a I had
failed, I herew ith resigned. This letter wa never
sent. A little calmer thought showed me how fu
tile it would be lo stop the trouble -n mere use
less sacrifice ; but I showed it to Mr. Moulton,
and possibly he copied it. 1 have found Ihe
original of it in my house. If I could nt
this moment remember any of Ihe oilier
Idler I have written to Mr. Monlton I would do
so. If he has reserved all my lltisioii of feeling
he must have a large collect ion. I wish him to
b.-ing them all before the committee. I should
have been glad to gel such hints as they may con
tain to refresh mv recoiled ion of fact and
sentience. J have no p ar of their full nnd lair
publication, lor. though they would fioiioiies
make a sad f-x posiire fif mv vvenknes. grief and
despondency, tln-y do not contain a line, confess.
lllg such guilt us njts been i iiatgi-ii upon lie . oi
word Inconsistent with my innocence, nor any
older spirit than that of a geiieroiiH remorse over
great and irreparable evil. l.ut, how
ever intense and numerous iiiny i:
these expression of grief, liny can
not possibly overstate the anxiety wldf fi I con
stantly tcllfor the future. lh- perils of which.it
is now clear. I flid not exaggerate; nor Hie sor
row and remorse which I fi ll, originally, on ac
count of the injury which. I supposed. I bad un
willingly done lo a in loved I ii in iv. aud. after
ward, lor Ihe greater injury which, I nine
satisfied. I had done bv mv unwise, blind, and
useless effort to remedy thai injury, only, a it
Inoved, at t he expense of my own name, Ihe
iiippines of my ow u family, and the peace of
my own Hi lire It.
(gentlemen of the committee, in Ihe note re
questing your appointment I asked that yon
should make lull investigation ol all sources oi
informal lou. l on are w it tn sses that I have in no
way influenced or interfered wilh your proceed
ing or duties. I have w i-In d t In- invest igat ion
to be so searching I hat not h ing would tinsel t le il
result. I have not hi ng to gui u by any policy of
stippn-sion or compromise. For four year I
have borne and suffered enough, aud will not go
a step further. I will be free. I will not
walk under a rod or yoke. If any uau
would do me a favor. let him teil all h
knows now. It i not mine to lay down lh- law
of honor in regard to the use of oilier peisoii'
confidential communications; but in so far a my
own writing are coucerm-d. there i not a Idler
or document w hich I am afraid lo have exhibited ;
and 1 authorize any and rail upon any living per
son to produce, nnd print, forthwith, whuii-ver
writing they have, of any source whatever. It i
time, for Hie sake of decency and public morals,
that this matter should be brought to an end.
It i an open pool of corruption, exhaling
deadly vapor. For six week" the nation has
risen up and sat flown uin scandal. Not a great
war nor a revolution could more have filled the
newspapers than this question of domestic
trouble, magnified a thousand-fold, and, like a
sore spot in the human body, drawing to itself
every morbid humor in the blisxl. Whoever i
b-iried with it. it is time that thi abomination
tv- buried below all touch or power of redirec
tion. Chinese Typography.
PniNTlNO a book in China is done some
what as follows: Two pajres are written
by a person trained to the business, on a,
sheet of thin paper, divided into col
umns by black lines, and in the epacc
between the two pagr-a are written the
title of the work ant' the number of
chapter and patre; when the .sheet lias
been printed it is folded down throuirh
this space, so as to biinir the title, etc.,
partly on each page. The sheet, "w ln-n
ready for printing", is pasted face down
ward on a smooth block of wood, made
usually from the pear or plum tree. As
soon as it is dry the paper is rubbed off
with great cure, leaving behind an in
verted impression of the characters.
Another workman now cuts away the
blank spaces by means of a sharp praver
and the block with the characters in
high relief passes to the printer, who
performs his work by hand. The two
points that he has to be most careful
about are to ink the characters
equally with his brush, and to avoid tear
ing the paper when taking the impres
sion. From a good wooden block some
15.000 copies mav be printed, and when
the characters have been sharpened up a
little it is possible to obtain ,000 or 10,
000 more impressions.
Titk best band to accompany a lady
vocalist a husband.